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OA ENT DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF LABOR, COMMERCE AND EDUCATION. YOL. I. SPENOER, N. C WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 11, 1908. NO. 46. i IP I? Q ( j HE PEN CER RELIGION President Roosevelt Says It is His Own Private Concern PEOPLE SHOULD NOT INTERFERE The President-Elect's Religions Be lief, Declares the President, Is Pnrely His Own Private Concern; a Matter For' Which He Is Re sponsible Solely to His Maker, and Not a Snbject for General Dis .enssion or Political Discrimination. Washington, Special. "Secretary TatVs religious faith is purely his vn private concern and not a matter for general discussion and political distrimination, " says President Roosevelt in a letter he made pubHc in which he answers numerous cor respondents. The President says he deterred the publication of the letter until now to avoid any agitation likely to influence the election. The letter follows: November 6, 190S. My Dear Sir: I have received your letter running in part as follows: ''While it is claimed almost uni--versally that religion should not enter into politics, yet there is no denying that it does, and the mass of the voters that are not Catholics will not support a man for any office, es pecially qt President of the United States, who is a Roman Catholic. "Since Taft has been nominated for President by the Republican par ty, it is being circulated and is con stantly urged as a reason for not vot ing for Taft that he is an infidel (Un itarian) and wife and brother Roman Catholics. If his feelings arc in sympathy with the Roman Catholic Church on account of his wife and brother being Catholics, that would be objectionable to a suffi cient number of voters to defeat him. On the other hand, if he is an infidel, that would be sure to mean defeat. I am writing this letter for the sole purpose of giving Mr Taft all opportunity to let the world know what his religious belief is." 1 received manv such letters as jours during the campaign, express ing dissatisfaction with Mr. Taft on religious grounds;: some of them on the ground that he was a Unitarian, and others on the ground that he wa suspected to be in sympathy with Catholics. I did not answer any of these letters during the campaign because I regarded it as an outrage even to agitate such a question as a man's religious convictions, with the purpose of influencing a political election. But now that the campaign is over, when there is opportunity for men calmly to consider whither such propositions as those' you make in your letter would lead, I wish to in vite them to consider them, and ' I have selected your letter to answer because you advance both the ob jections commonly urged against Mr. Taft, namely: that he is a Unitarian and also that he is suspected of sym pathy with the Catholics. Ycu ask that Mr. Taft shall "let the world know what his religious belief is." This is purely his own private concern, and it is a matter be tween him and his Maker, a matter for his own conscience; and to re quire it to be made public under pen alty of political discrimination is to negative the first principles of our government, which guarantee com plete religous liberty, and the right to each man to act in religious affaire as his own conscience dictates. Mr. Taft never asked my advice in the matter, but if he had asked it, I should have emphatically advised him against thus stating publiclv his religions belief. The demand for a statement of a candidate's religious belief can have no meaning except that there may be discrimination for or against him because of that be lief. Discrimination against the holder of one faith means retaliatory discrimintion against men of other faiths. The inevitable result of en tering upon such a practice would be an abandonment of our real freedom of conscience and a reversion to the dreadful conditions of religious dis sensions which in so many lands have proved fatal, to true liberty, to true religion and to all advanced in civili ation. To discriminate against a thorough ly upright citizen because he belongs to scrro particular Church, or be cause, like Abraham Lincoln, he has not avowed his allegiance to ?ny Church, is an outrage against that liberty of conscience which is one of the foundations of American life. You are entitled to know whether a man seeking your suffraee is a man of clean and upright life, honorable in all his dealings wTith his fellows, and fit bv qualification and purpose to do well in the great office for which he is a candidate; but you are not entitled to know matters which lie purely between himself and his Maker. If it is proper or legitimate to oppose a man for being a Uni tarian, as was John Quincy Adams, for instance, as is the Reverend Ed ward Everett Hale, at the present moment chaplain of the Senate, and an American of whose life all -good Americans are prond-then it' would be equally proper to support or op pose a man because of his views on justification by faith, or the method of administering the sacrament of the gospel of salvation by works. If you once enter on such a career there is absolutely no limit at which you can MHIAFT'S legitimately siop. So much for your objections to Mr. Taft because he is a Unitarian. Now, for your objections to him because you think his wife and brother to be Roman Catholics. As it happened, yiey are not; but if they were, or if he were a Roman Catholic himself, it ougjht not to affect in the slightest degree a;iv man's supporting him for the position of President. I believe that this republic will en dure for r any centuries. If so there will doubtless be among its Presi dents Protestants and Catholics and very probably at some time, Jews. I have constantly tried while Presi dent to act in relation to my fellow Americans of Catholic faith as I hope that any future President who hap pens to be a Catholic will act to wards his fellow Ajaaericans of Protestant faith. Had I followed any other course I should have felt that I was unfit to represent the Ameri can people. In my cabinet at the present mo ment there sit side by side Catholic and Protestant, Christian and Jew, each man chosen because in my be lief he is peculiarly fit to exercise on behalf of all our people the duties of the office to which I have appointed him. In no case does the man's re ligious belief in any way influence his discharge of his duties, save as it makes him more eager to act justly and uprightly in his relations to all men. The same principles that have obtained in appointing the members of my Cabinet, the highest officials under me, the officials to whom is entrusted the work of. carrying nut all the important policies of my ad ministration, are the principles upon which all good Americans should act in choosing, whether by election or appointment, the men to fill any of fice from the highest to the lowest in the land. Yours trulv, THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Mr. J. C. Martin, Dayton, Ohio. SPORTING BREVITIES. Wheaton was the first Yale man to kick a goal from the field in a game In five years. Pat Powers was re-elected presi dent of the Eastern League at their annual meeting. J. D. Ligktbody (American) de feated A. J. Robertson (English) in a 1500 metre race at Stockholm. "Pop" Warner, the Indian coach, said the Penn-Carlisle game was the hardest fought one that he had ever seen. W. K. Vanderbilt was invited to act as referee at the Savannah race c-n Thanksgiving Day, but declined on the ground of ill health. Pietri Dorando, of Italy, who made so gallant a showing in the Olympic Marathon race recently run in Eng land," is coming to America to com pete here. Coach "Hurry Up" Yost, of the Michigan eleven, has had Terry Field strung with huge incandescent lights, and from now on the Wolver ines will be put through nightly prac tice under artificial light. There will be a Cy Young room in the New Union Hospital being erect ed between Dover Canal, Young's home, and New Philadelphia, Ohio and the expense of equipping the room will be borne by the famous ball player. Five of Pennsylvania's best ball .players are likely to be declared in eligible to represent the university on the baseball field. . Londrigan, Spring, Twitmire, Porte and Schulz are the players charged with playing professional ball. At Chase City, Ya., in the national beagle trials, class A, for dogs, all ages, over thirteen inches and not over fifteen, the winners were: First, Thornfield Rye, Gill and Cronmillan; second, Otho, Waldingfleld Beagles; third, Nordley Tip, Nordley Beagles; Reserve Fiddler, Somerset Beagles. FOREIGN NEWS NOTES. British railways in 1907 killed 1117 persons and injured 8811. A British blue book says that on January 1 last England and Wales had -928,671 paupers nearly a mill ion. China by, imperial decree orders that the punishment for manufactur ing morphine needles shall be banish ment to a pestilential frontier. Statistics published by the munici pal poor relief fund show that the cost of living in Paris, France, has increased eighteen per cent, since 1905. Greece has a beet sugar factory turning out twenty tons a day. Sugar retails in Greece at eleven cents a pound. The import duty is five cents a pound. Pauperism in London. England, continues to increase. The number of paupers on September 6 last was 118,954, against 114,577 on the same day in 19 07. Jamaica, West Indies, now has a monthly steamship service with Gal veston by the United States Shipping Company. The sailings will increase as business develops. By reason of the falling off in its American trade the last ten months the Austrian Shipping Company, known as the Austro-American Line, will not pay any dividend this year. Scotland's fish catch in 1907 was 9.078.059 hundredweight, worth $15, 425,525. The industry employed 94;773 men on 10,365 vessels of 141, 385 aggregate tonnage, worth $23,' 640,561. Denmark's beet sugar production this season is only 110,250,000 pounds, a decline of 34,177,500 ponndo from that of the season 1.906 $7. Two companies with seven fac tories do all the business. The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway has completed 675 miles of track trom Winnipeg westward. The race riots ouc west prove, to the Atlanta Constitution, that this old country is pretty much the sane everywhere. CONDITIONS BETTER Healthy Showing in Earnings of AH Railroads RECEIPTS PER MILE INCREASED Commissioner Lane Says Railroada Revenues For the Year Ending in June Broke All Records. Washington, Special. In the opin ion of Franklin K. Lane, Interstate Commerce Commissioner, the rail road,"' industrial and financial condi tion of the country is improving rap idly. "It is a fact," said he " hard ly believable, but nevertheless true, that the iotal operating revenue per mile of railroads for the year ended June 30th, 1908, exceeds that of any other year in the history of railroad ing in the United tates except the one year of 1907. The average ope rating revenue per mile of line per month for the 226,000 miles of rail road reporting to the commission was $894, for the fiscal year of 1908. This was less by about $61 than for the year 1907; but it was more than any preceding year, and was $118 per mile per month more than in the year of the last presidential election. As I predicted, a local car shortage even now exists! Condition rapidly are becoming normal and prosperous." Graham Confessed Sentenced to Death. Concord, N. C, Special. Will Gra ham is a self-confessed rapist under sentence of death. On the 18th day of December Graham is to be hanged until dead, Judge Ferguson having so sentenced him after the evidence had been taken and a verdict of guilty reported by the jury. Judge Ferguson addressed the rowded court room, showing how the law finds the guilty one and ad ministers justice in the case where the law is allowed to take its course, and in giving the negro a fair trial carried out the ends of justice. He also commended the members of the negro race for the fidelity and the manner in which they gave tesimony against the prisoner and did all pos sible to bring out the truth. -The- closing hours of the trial were tragic and pathetic. Thursday night Graham told Captain Brown, of the local militia, that, he wanted to talk with a preacher, and at his request Captain Brown brought Rev. T. F. Logan, a Presbyterian minister, to whom Graham made a full confession. New Orleans Cotton. New' Orleans, Special. Cotton: Spots opened Saturday easy and closed steady. Good middling being reduced 1-16 and middling fair 1-8. Middling unchanged at 815-16; sales on the spot 2,000 bales and 3,200 to arrive. Futures opened quiet at a decline of 2 to 6 points under the influence of disappointing Liverpool cables. Later the market sagged off still fur ther under the bearish into-sight statement, the active position reach ing a level 9 to 10 points under the previous day's final quotations. At this point numerous cable messages from Livelpool and Manchester were received stating that the cotton mill lockout had been settled and prices quickly rose 20 to 23 points, at which level they were at a net advance of 10 to 14 points. At the closing the tone was called steady and prices showed a net advance of 5 to 7 points. Closing bids: Nov. 8.85: Dec. 8:78, Jan. 8.75, Feb. S.76, March 8.78; Ap ril S.81 ; May 8.83. MARYLAND'S VOTE SPLIT. Indications, Based on Official Returns Are That Taft Will Receive 2 and Bryan 6. Baltimore, Md., Special. Calcula tions of the official returns from Tuesday's elections, not finished nntil Saturday, show that the electoral vote of Maryland will be split, Bryan getting six of the electors and Taft two. On the popular vote the vote cast for the elector receiving 'he highest number Taft carries the State by 561 votes. His elector poll ing the hiehest vote received 116.471 and the highest Bryan elector 115, 910. Daughter Dead; Mother Injured. Clarkesburg, Special Mrs. Joseph Fetta and her 14-year-old daughter were" fatally injured by being ran down by a Baltimore and Ohio pas senger train. The daughter died while being taken to a hospital here and the mother is not expected to survive an operation performed after the accident. Mill Employes Get Full Work. Pawtucket, R. I., Special. Tfce thread mills of the J. & P. Coats Company, in this city, employing 2, 500 hands, resumed a full time work ing schedule , on Saturday, .according, to an announcement posted in the mills. The mills have been running on short time since the financial de pression of last fall. LEGISLATIVE PERSONNEL Those Who Will Constitute' the Next House and Senate of Our State Lawmaking Body. Raleigh, Special. Practically com plete returns give the membership and political complexion of the North Carolina General Assembly for the 1909 session as follows: House. Alamance Dr. J. A. Pickett (R.) Alexander Will Linney (R.) Alleghany R. F. Doughton. Anson T. C. Cox (D.) Ashe T. C. Buie (D.) Beaufort Frank B. Hooker (D.) John F.. Latham (D.) ? Bertie A. S. Roseoe Yd.) Bladen G. D. -Perry ip.) Brunswick C. E. D. Taylor (R.) Buncombe Zeb Weaver (D), R. J. Gaston (D), both re-elected. Burke T. L. Sigman (D.) Cabarrus H. S. Williams (R.) Caldwell M. N. Harshaw (R.) Camden J. C. Cook (D.) Carteret C. S. Wallace (D.) Caswell Democratic. Catawba Killian (R.) Chatham R. H. Hayes (D.) Cherokee T. C. McDonald (R.) - Chowan W. S. Privett1(D.) Clay R. E. Cranford (D.) Cleveland R. S. Lovelace (D.) Columbus J. G. Butler! (D.) Craven E. N. Green (D.) Cumberland J. H. Currie (D.) John Underwood (D.) Currituck Pierce Hampton (D.) re-elected. Dare Charles T. Williams (D.) Davidson T. Earle McCreary (R.) Davie A. T. Grant (R.) Duplin J. A. Gavin, Jr. (D.) Durham Y. E. Smith (D.) Edgecombe Hugh B. Bryant, . (D.) Dr. M. B. Pitt (D), re-elected. Forsyth S. E. Hall (R), J. T. Stimpson (R.) Franklin Dr. R. P. Floyd (D.) Gaston D. K. Davenport (D.). N. B. Kendrick (D.) Gates Lyeurgus Hofler (D.) Graham Democratic. Granville A. W. Graham (D.) Greene J. A. Albritton (D.) Guilford Thomas J. Murphy (D.); Dr. J. R. Gordon (D). re-elected. Halifax A. P. Kitchin'(D). H. S. Harrison (D.) Harnett N. A. Smith. (D.) Haywood H. R. Ferguson (D. Henderson J. S. Rhodes (R.) Hertford David C. Barnes (D.) Hyde J. W. McWilliams (D.) Iredell Z. V. Turlington (D), M. u. romnn (u.) Jackson J W. WyaJMsHUk 1 W. H. Clumpier (R.) Johnston Democratic. Jones John C. Parker (D.) Lee D. A. McDowell (D.) Lenoir E. R. Wootcn (D.) Lincoln H. D. Warlick (D.) Macon Higdon (R.) Madison Republican. Martin Harrv W. Stubbs (D.) McDowell Price (D.) Mecklenburg W. G. McLaughlin (D). W. A. Greer (D), W. C. Dowd ((D), latter two re-elected. Mitchell Republican. Montgomery Robert T. Poole (D) Moore I). A. McDonald (D). Nash J. C. Braswell (D.) New Hanover George L. Morton (D), re-elected. Northampton Dr. M. Bolton (D). Onslow E. M. Koonce (D.) Orange T. E. Sparrow (R.) Pamlico J. B. Martin (D.) Pasquotank S. N. Morgan (D.) Pender Joseph T. Foy (D.) Perquimans Ernest L. Reed (D.) Person F. 0. Carver (R.) Pitt Cotton (D), Cox (D.) Polk J. B. Livingston (D.) Randolph Thomas J. Redding (D) J. Rom Smith (D.) Richmond M. C. Freeman (D.) Robeson W. J. McLeod (D), Mar shall Shepherd (D). Rockingham Davis (D), Witty (D.) Rowan John M. Julian (D), D M. Carlton (D.) Rutherford L. C. Dailey (D.) Sampson J. T. Kennedy (R.), B. H. Crumpler (R) Scotland T. C. Everett, (D) Stanly Campbell (R). Stokes J. M. Tagg (R.) Surry R. T. Haymore (R.) Swain Republican. . Transylvania George W. Wilson (D.) Tyrell Democratic. Union R. W. Lemmond (D), Ney McNeely (D.) Vance B. H. Perry (D.) Wake A. L. Cox (D), J. W. Hins dale (D), E. T. Scarboro (D). Warren T. U. Kodwell D , re elected. Washington Republican. Watauga Smith Hageman (D). Wayne J. E. Kelly (D), J. H. Mitchell (D.) Wilkes T. N... Hayes (R) and A. Caudell (R.) Wilson George W. Connor (D.) Yadkin Republican. Yancey D. M. Buck (D.) Senate. First district (Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates, Hertford, Pasquo tank, Perquimans) N. R. Jphnson (D), A. S. Godwin (Dj. Second (Beaufort, Dare. Hyde, Martin, Pamlico, Tyrrell, Washing ton) V. Martin (D), F. P. Latham (D). Third (Bertie, Northampton) B. S. Gay (D.) Fourth (Halifax) E. L. Travis Fifth (Edgecombe) L. V. Bassett (D.) , , Sixt (Pitt) Blow (D.) Seventh (Franklin, Nash, Wilson) k Ben T. Holton (D), J. D. Dawes K , , r.. - - - - - ? Jones. Lenoir. OnBlow) J. W. Bui ton (D.) V- Ninth (Wayne) J. L. Barham CD.) Tenth (Duplin, Pender) Edmond Hawes .(D.) Eleventh (Brunswick, New Han over) B. G. Empie (D.) Twelfth (Bladen, Columbus) 0. L. Clark (D). Thirteenth (Robeson) D. P. Shaw (D)- ........ Fourteenth (Cumberland) y. K- Nimocks (D). Fifteenth (Harnett, Johnston, Sampson) Ellington (D), Peterson (D.) Sixteenth (Wake) W. B. Jones (D.)) Seventeenth (Warren, Vance) H. T. Powell (D.) Eighteenth (Granville, Person) J. A. Long (D.) Nineteenth (Alamance, Caswell, Durham, Orange) J. L. Scott, Jr. (D), J. S. Manning (D.) Twentieth (Rockingham) Wray (R) Twenty-first (Guilford) J. A. Bar- ringer (D.) Twenty-second (Chatham, Moore, Scotland, Richmond) A. S. Dockery (D), Jonathan Peele (D). Twenty-third (Montgomery, Ran dolph) J. A. Spence (D.) Twenty-fourth (Anson Davidson, Stanly, Union) J. A. Lockhart (D.) Hawkins, (D.) Twenty-fifth (Cabarrus, Mecklen burg) H. N. Pharr (D), P. B. Means (D). Twenty-sixth (Rowan) Whitehead Kluttz (D). Twenty-seventh (Forsythe) Ex- Judge H. R. Starbuck (R.) Twenty-eighth (Stokes, Surry) Republican. Twenty-ninth (Davie, Wilkes, Yad kin) Wm. Lee (R.) Thirtieth (Iredell) Zeb V. Long (D.) Thirtv-first (Catawba, Lincoln) J. D. Elliott (D.) TMrty-second (Gaston) W. T. Love (D.) Thirty-third (Cleveland. Hender son, Kutnerlord, rolK) mcu. nay (D), John C. Mills (D.) Thirty-fourth (Alexander, Burke, Caldwell, McDowell) J. C. Sherrill (R.) S. A. McColl (R.) Thirty-fifth (Alleghany, Ashe, Wa tauga) R. L. Doughton (D.) Thirty-sixth (Madison, Mitchell. Yancey) Republican. Thirty-seventh (Buncombe) J. J. Britt (R.) Thirty-eighth (Haywood, Jackson. Transylvania, Swain) A. M. , Fry (D). Thirty-ninth (Cherokee; Clay, Gra ham, Macon) West (R.) World's Visible Cotton Supply. New Orleans. Special. Secretary Hester's statement of the world's vis ible supply of cotton issued Saturday shows the total visible is 3,617,900 against 3,280,124 last week and 3,- 371,95S last year. Of this the total of American cotton is 3,092,900 against 2,741,124 last week and 2,- 565,082 last year all other kinds in cluding Egypt, Brazil, India, etc., 525,000 against 539,000 last week and 806,876 last year. LABOR NOTES. The linen industry in Ireland gives employment to about 70,000 people Durine Anenst 320 neonle were in- iured in industrial accidents in Can- adn and lis Hiprl Yorkshire (England) Miners' Fed- eration is continuing its crusade against non-union workeries in the collieries. Boston (Mass.) Cigar Makers'! Union has levied an assessment of $5 ' on eacn inemDer to advertise tne blue label. Delegates from the Bricklayers' and Stonemasons' Unions met at Guelph, Canada, to form a provincial association. The American section of the boot and shoe workers' international body now uu.5 mure man iuu,uuu in us t emergency fund, according to" report. Sacramento, Cal., wishes to have a labor temple, and has sent to each union a copy of the plan to raise funds for the erection of the struct ure. Union men of Walla Walla, Wash., will ask the Board o Education to submit to the people at the next elec tion the proposition of free text books. The Massachusetts State executive board of Steam Engineers' Union de cided upon Lowell as the place, and Sunday, December IS, as the date for the engineers' annual State conven tion. The Finnish Legislature has passed the bakers' bill, which makes eight hours a legal day's work in all baker ies throxighout Finland. The same bill provides that night work in bak eries shall be prohibited. The various branches of the Society of Amalgamated Carpenters and Joiners have been notified by the Uni ted States district secretary that the minimum amount for tool benefits has been fixed at $1.75 and the maxi mum $105. MARKET DUCKS. The Pekin ducks are without doubt the most desirable kind for market purposes. Hardly any other variety is kept in this part of the country, Although a few growers keetp Indian Hunners because of their prolific -laying qualities. But the market for duck eggs is very limited, all the -roflt being in the production of green ducks for the market American Cultivator. THE SAVING MAN, Wlio Wants to Convert Every One to Parsimoniousness... That friend of yours who, after years of unimaginable grubbing and scrimping has saved up a couple of thousand dollars isn't he the nuis ance though? Oh, you know him all right. Know him, because, not content with saving himself, he wants you to save. He pleads and expostulates with you to save. He demands you to save. He bullyrags and bulldozes you to save. You don't envy him his hard wrung couple of thousand at all. You're glad he has got it. You don't, how ever, feel that a couple of thousand saved up with such a bitter effort would do you, yourself, any good. You don't want savings wrenched out of the ordinary comforts of life in that way. And if you had the couple of thousand a still, small voice tells you that you'd be pretty liable to blow it within a month or so anyhow. Therefore you are content that he shall go on having his saved up two thousand and some odd bones, if he'll only keep still about it, if he'll only take away that noise he ma'ces about why you ought to get on your saving clothes. But he won't. Nor, sir, he will not. He refuses to. He's going to keep right at you about saving. He's going to force you to see the advantages, the benignities, of saving. He's going to put it square before you. He's going to make you save. He has a thousand ways of tackling you. He's with you, for example, when you buy a couple of cigars for two bits. "Rotten extravagance," he 6ays to you as he sinks his teeth into one of the two Jor a quarter smokes v "Per fectly rotten. Where d'ye expect you'll pull up if you keep tight on hurling your dust away like that? I know, but I won't say. I'd hate to say. Doggone it all, I will say it you'll pull up on the poor farm, that's where you'll pull up. Idea of chuck ing in twenty-five cents for two piffing smokes. You must be crazy! Look at me. I smoke stogies. Get a hun dred of 'em for a hundred cents. And they're every blamed bit as good as these two for a quarter things. Fel low gets used to 'em. I'd rather smoke stogies now, in fact, than these fool things. Think what you could do worth while with that two bits. Why, it's the interest for a yeafen a five dollar note at five per cent. You're bughouse, that's all. You'll never have -anything. You'll die a bum.. You hear me.a-talkj.n'." You tell him mildly that It V all right that if you're destined to die a bum, as he says, why, you'll be able to cast back and reflect upon the fun you've had. But he snorts at that. He snorts, in fact, at virtually every reason you give as to why you desire to blow in your own coin after your own ideas of coin blowing. He's one of the busiest little snorters we have, as a simple matter of fact. Or maybe he'll get at you with ref erence to the clothes you wear. "How much did that fool Willie off the pickle boat suit of clothes that you're sporting set you back?" he asks you. You mutter something about sixty five bucks. "Sixty-five iron men for that mess of togs that makes you look like somebody trying to make a hit with himself, hey?"' chops that friend of yours who has tucked away some sav ings. "Well, I'd like to have a peek " luc ui uwu uuuex.me violet rays, that's all I've got to say Sixty-five bones for that suit, eh? ;Well, it is to laugh. It's to laugh to , think that there's a man on earth so : pinheaded. Say, you see this suit tthat I'm wearing now, don't you?" You do. You don't tell him what you think it looks like because you don't want to hurt his fPiine-B Well," he goes on, "d'ye know how many summers I've got out of this suit? This is the fourth sum mer! Got it in the summer of 1905, and I've been banging around in it every summer since. And what d'ye think 1 paid for it? Hey? I paid ?11.9 9 for this suit of clothes, and I'll get still one more summer out of it. And if it doesn't look every bit as good as that sixty-five buck suit you've got on I'll eat my linoleum lid, that's what I'll do." That's the way the saving friend keeps right on barking at you. He hears somewhere or other that last night you dropped eighteen simoleons playing poker. He holds you up the minute he meets up with you. "So you're tossing your kale at the ! snowbirds again, hey?" he says .at you. "Thought you were going to flag that poker stuff, hey? Didn't you tell me you were going to stick all of the poker money henceforth into that building and loan association I was telling you about?" You tell him yes, you had intended to get into that building and loan as sociation, but that you met up with a bunch of fellers that had a little poker fiesta on hand and that you only sloughed off a few dollars, any how, and that you had a lot of fun at it and therefore you're not kicking, and so on. But that doesn't take him off of you. Sometimes he takes another tack. "Say, how old are you getting to be nowadays, young fellow?" lie in quires of you. You tell him. "Uh, huh," says he. "Well, you're not exactly the kidlet that you used to be, are you? Not the Infant prod igy that you were ten or fifteen years ago, huh? 1 can see the gray boyt beginning to peek out of your hair a'. the sides and there's a crowsfoot or two beginning to show up at the cor ners of your eyes. And I understand that you're living right up to every cent you make. That's showing a fine set of brains for you, isn't it? Are you aware of the fact that in these days of competition a man has got to get together at least the foundation of his little pile before he's forty-five or so or stand a hundred to one chance of never getting anything at all after he's reached that age? Hey? Don't you know very well that a man gradually becomes less productive, sort of loses out, after he reaches the age of forty? That the demand now adays In all lines of endeavor is for the younger fellows? Well, then!" You tell him that you're not feel ing decrepit at the age of thirty seven; that you expect to be swing ing right along at the old game for quite a spell yet, and so on. But nix. He won't have it. "I say," he declares oracularly, "that if you're ever going to have a place to lay your head by the time you're forty-five, you've got to begin right now to tuck a hunk of your earnings away. You ought, as a mat ter of fact, to've begun long ago. And? you can't save by indulging your self in every blamed caprice and whim that you happen to think of. You have got to make sacrifices if you expect to save. You've got to grind. You've got to put your nose down to it. You've got to be able to say No. no! You've got to be able to stand by and see the other pinheads blow ing in their money without experi encing any temptation to go and do likewise yourself. You're listening to me, aren't you?" Of course you are. You wouldn't dare not to listen to him. But you tell him that, really, you don't feel as if you'd be any happier if you did manage to accumulate a few thou sands of dollars. You try to pass it off by being a bit humorous. "What 'ud be the good," you in quire of him, "of my scrimping and saving to get hold of a few thousand dollars, and then to have a milk. wagon zephyr along and hit me on the wishbone and send me over to Oak Hill, and all like that what' ud be the good of my saving if that kind of thing were to come off?" This makes him positively furious. He says that that observation proves that you are an utter fathead. He has all the insurance figures on & man chajgtcjes. tp.ljvei .doped ouamL at his flfl'grer's ends, and fie "tells iron that at your age, thirty-seven, why, you've got such and such a number of chances out of such and such a number to go right on living until you bury the last member of this year's baby crop. He jumps upon you for trying to fetch in that milk wagon and tells you that the grava defect of your character is frivolous- ness. The very fact that you'de be gin to talk about milk wagons and wishbones and Oak Hills and things when he was trying to lead you to your duty your duty to your family as well as to yourself why, that very fact shows that the grave defect of your character is frivolousness. It Bure is. He's sorry to see it, too. He's noticed it for years, but he never wanted to say anything about It to you. Sad nuisance, this saving friend of yours. Sad, really. Because you can't come right out and tell him to take that noise away. He's always. a good, solid, well meaning sort of a chap, you see, and you know very well that he sincerely has your in terest at heart. If you tell him to forget that stuff and talk baseball, he'll be offended. There's really nothing that you can tell him that'll stick, anyhow. The only thing you can do is to keep right on apologizing to him, year after year, dozens of times each year, for spending your own hard earned money the way you feel like spending it. It sure is orful, Mildred, how many otherwise good people there are in this world who suffer from atrophy of the imagination and things. Washington Star. The Hold of "Gospel Hymns." Human nature being what it Is, and the liking for pathos being so widespread and ineradicable, the "Gospel Hymns" as a whole will prob ably remain popular, and even in crease in popularity for a long time to come. The people who sing them with such zest would not appreciate the delicacy and refinement, in thought and expression, of the few great hymns. For these honest folks the trivality of the music, the cheap ness of style, the shallowness of con ception and the cloying sentimental ity are exactly what lend charm to the "Gospel Hymns." New York Post. Animal Sympnlliy. Immediately in front of my house Is a small paddock, in which there have been feeding a pony and four cows. In a tiny clump of grass and buttercups there is a willow wren's nest filled with young. Though all the grass around is closely cropped, this little clump remains absolutely untouched. Am I wrong tn believing that birds have some system of com municating their whereabouts, and that the larger animals show consid eration and care for the weak and helpless we. too often, desnise, and set at naught. Country Life. The diamond cutters of Amster J&iu arp in distress for lack of work.