The Jimplecute (Jefferson, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 29, Ed. 1, Saturday, January 12, 1907 Page: 4 of 4
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The Begums
Carpet
t By Mrs M D Croker
Copyright by Joseph B Bowles
Mrs Mills was a mystery to the
cantonment There had never been
a time to my knowledge when Beet
apore had not been distinguished by
the presence of this benevolent elder-
ly woman
She never offered or accepted hos-
pitality never paid or received calls
and lived alone on the bank ol the
liver In a little rungalow just out of
the cantonment whose bright red roof
made a picturesque feature amidst
its great garden ol bananas and beau-
tiful fragrant orange trees
It happened one evening In the
rains that my sister and I deluded
by the promlse of a lovely afternoon
set out for a walk We were over-
taken on our way home by a terrible
thunderstorm
Let us run Into Mrs Mills for
shelter I cried She cant refuse
to allow us to stand on her veranda
Oh if it were anywhere else
said Cissle whose face was ghastly
She was a desperate coward in thun-
derstorms
See there she is And she is
beckoning to us And I opened the
gate with alacrity for I had descried
the tall figure with an umbrella over
her head
You are just in time said Mrs
Mills as If our appearance were an
everyday affair Come in come
In Cordially motioning us towards
the sitting room
Wo accepted the invitation prompt-
ly What I beheld filled me with
astonishment The furniture was of
tho plainest and cheapest bamboo
the bare walls were washed with blue
No One Came Near Me for Hours 1
coloring but the floor was entirely
covered by a magnificent Persian car-
pet which must have cost hundreds
of pounds
Mrs Mills noticed my admiration
It must have been very expen-
sive I remarked
Oh yes it is partly made of silk
It was a present She paused for a
moment and stared at me in her odd
way and then continued I wonder
if you would like to hear how I
got it
itYes
Yes very much indeed I an-
swered
Well It Is the story of my life
Here she paused whilst the rain pat-
tered mournfully
You must know she began In-
deed you do know that I am coun
tryborn I was reared and educated
at Klddirporo school near Calcutta
My mother was a native lady of good
blood She ran away with my father
an officer in the nrmy His name was
Montford I never saw either of
them they died when I was mo young
to remember and as far as Im aware
Ive no relations
When I was about seventeen I was
married to Mills an engineer on the
railway He was a clever young man
very hard working and very fond
of me and I lived in Calcutta oh so
happily for six years He was
drowned in the Hoogly on just such
as afternoon as this might be He
left me a widow of threeandtwenty
with two children and I had to cast
about to earn their bread and mine
Jim was a great favorite and as I
had some interest I got a post a curi-
ous one youll say I was appointed
to visit zenanas and ascertain that
the government pensioners were alive
to > draw their pay and not having it
made over to substitutes after their
deathHow
How could that be 7 I inquired
Ill try and explain You see after
the mutiny tho English government
took the King of Delhi and sent him
away to Burmah There weie all his
family to be provided for hundreds of
retainers and relations penniless and
beggared and to all these toe govern-
ment granted a pension paid
monthly Regarding tho men it
was siniple they applied person-
ally for payment They couU
be seen Not so the women
above all the princesses of the royal
house and their pensions were large
It would be easy to say a princess was
alive and draw her income when no
outsider ever saw her face and she
might be dead for years There had
been a good deal of mismanagement
and cheating anion great and small
When a pensioner died half the money
went to his net of kin when the Dext
of kin died a quarter of the sum went
to his heir and so it expired Well
one day the secretary of my depart-
ment sent for me and said very se-
riously
Look here Mrs Mills You must
bo most particular In visiting the de-
scendants and next of kin of the old
Begum Sonabee in Lucknow She is
failing fast Her pension Is a fine
one and half of it goes to her grand-
daughter Have you ever seen her
Xo 1 replied I had not I had
seen her two sons beautiful boys I
had visited the old Begum regularly
She liked me we were good friends
but somehow I had never once en-
countered her granddaughter Either
she was ill or sho was away visiting
her own penpls up in the Punjaub
And this has gone on for fivo
years he said and he was angry
That Is not the way to carry out your
duty Your duty Is to see these pen-
sioners so as to swear to tneir iden-
tity You must bo resolute dont al-
low them to hoodwink you or wo
sha hove to get some other person
to deal with them and you lose your
fine post
Yes and I would lose my bread
and my children would starve I knew
that and I resolved to be determined
when I went to Sona Begums
I went home and asked a neighbor
and a friend to have an eye to Dora
my dear little girl She was 11
Ernest wasat tho ilartlniere college
Then I drove away to the palace very
determined Indeed I felt that I had
everything at stake and I would never
leave till I had either seen this prin-
cess or her dead body
I had an immediate audience with
her highness and told her my errand
civilly and as pleasantly as I could
She at once flew into a terrible pas-
sion She was the fattest woman I
ever saw and I thought she would
have a fit Her face seemed to swell
her eyes nearly jumped out of it and
her voice oh it was just one long
scream
All I said was Brins me to see the
Princess Motee only for one moment
and I go otherwise I stay here al-
ways
I was hustled away into a damp
low room looking Into a courtyard o
the ground floor and left there alone
No one came near me for hours but
they peeped and whispered outside to-
gether I remained there all night
and I ate some bread and got water
at the fountain in the court but I could
not sleep for the rats and for the
fear that someone would come and
strangle me you see I was alone
one woman combating a hundred
The next morning I was again
taken to the Begum and she was now
all good nature and affection But
this is foolishness she cried Take
this and she offered me a splendid
diamond and emerald belt It is for
thee if thou wilt depart and say that
all is well I have seen her highness
the Motee Mahal granddaughter of
her highness the Begum
But that would be false I an-
swered stoutly I do not accept
bribesThen
Then accept hunger she scream-
ed Hunger and death
With this threat ringing in my ears
once more I was hustled down to my
quarters below where I remained for
three days almost starving Once an
old hag crept In and whispered The
end is near Huzoor the end is at
handBut
But what end My end
As I was thinking of lying down
on tho fourth night I suddenly saw a
glimmer of light and a pure whito
woman In rich native dress entered
with a lamp In her hand She was
tall slight and delicately fair
Dost desire to see me sho asked
with a look of surprise In her blue
eyes The Motee Mahal I Inquired
Yea
The mother of sons and grand-
daughter of the Begum
Yea Art content
Her face was pale and colorless
from lifelong seclusion but her hair
was a sandy shade she had a dimple
in her cheek and was the type of En-
glishwoman one sees by scores
Then the Begum sent for me and
said Now behold thou hast seen
the Pearl Princess Motee What of
her
She is a Belalte which Is En-
glish I answered boldly more En-
glish than I
Yea and since all Is known I will
tell the truth My daughter now
dead had no children though she
wearied the shrines with her prayers
At last a child was born only a girL
Nevertheless she was happy but be-
hold in a moon it died and she was
as one distraught Therefoie I sent
messengers and found a babe like a
pearl and put it in her arais and she
nursed and loved it as her own It
was the child of asoldier gone to tho
war the mother dead She the Prin-
cess Moteehath oknowledge of this
She believes herself to be of my race
Knowing how stern and foulish are the
pension rules I hid her for 1 love her
as mine own Nay she is my own
suckled at my daughters breast
When thou tellest the tale be wis
Speak not of the white woman with
yellow hair but say Lo there was a
mistake and there will be no claim
otherwise the Sircar will be wroth
with me and I Io e my pension If
thou wilt hold thy peace 1 will send
thee the richest carpet in India as a
reward not a bribe 1 desiie but
peace and death
The Begum kept brr word and
sent me the carpet The government
gave me a pension of 200 rupees a
month and here I spend the fag end
of my life There now tho rain has
stopped I sent over for your carriage
and here it comes
ABOUT THAT CRAPE BAND
Mourning Symbol Out of Place on the
Arms of Gentlemen
It is astonishing how many persons
both men and women who gle every
other Indication of culture and refine-
ment are seen on the streets nowa-
days wearing crape bands on their coat
sleeves says the New York Herald
This form of mourning was originally
a military one the British officers cap
with Its ridiculously low crown not
admitting of a band When he boasted
a decoration the medal also was cov-
ered with crepe
From the military the sleeve band
descended to the coachman and foot-
man and has long been the recognized
servants mourning when there was a
death in the masters family Then
the costermongers adopted it because
it was cheap When one of Arrys
friends dies the purchase of a black
coat Is out of the question so he puts
the band of crape around the sleeve of
his old coat and lets it go at that
The well todo New Yorker who un-
wittingly adopts this custom is first
cousin to the parvenu who invests in
a coat of arms and picks out one with
a bar sinister because ho thinks it
looks just the thing
Some Famous Be s
The story from Tokio that JoJoOOO
had been wagered that the battleship
Satsuma would not be successfully
launched brings to mind some freak
bets of other days
The English noblemen or a century
ago used to spend a great part of their
time in making wagers of the most ec-
centric character
For Instance in 1770 before the
days of rapid transit an earl wagered
that he could find a man to travsl
from London to Edinburgh and back
in less time than it took another peer
to make a million dots
Sir George Liddel laid a wager and
won it that he could make a journey
to Lapland and return bringing back
with him two native women and two
reindeer within a specified time
In Unequal Contest
A susceptible and delicate mind Is
broken In the frightful struggle of pas-
sion against opinion Madam Ancs
19
Farmers CoOperative Union
Of America = =
Gea scared right now of the mort-
gage and stay scared until next Au-
gust and then you will tie sare lor
this year
How is tho garden spot by this
time It is not going to be long un-
til the time for planting gardens All
respectable Union men have a garden
Keep your dues paid but If you
must neglect something It would be
absolutely better to let the dues go
than to miss the meeting
Now that the schools are all open
again it is a good time for the fathers
and mothers to get acquainted with
the teachers and do something to help
make the schools better by sympathy
it nothing more
Dont let a meeting of the Union
take place without your being there
There is something for each of us to
do at all meetings and we cannot do
It by proxy besides proxy meetings
are mighty poor help to those who are
represented by proxy
Those fields that were overrun this
year with poultry of any sort were
free from holl weevils The poultry
made a good crop and the cotton made
a good crop at the same time and the
cotton patch is a mighty hiindy place
for the joung fellows
The pig is a mighty good thing to
plant heavily on all sorts or faims He
Is the boss mortgage lifter and it
has been ascertained that properly
cured he makes mighty good filling
for the smokebouse and from there
it Is a short route to the table See
Well how have you started the new
year It is your duty to live this year
as if you knew that It was to be your
last It may be your last and if it
were to be there is no doubt that It
would be your best So make it the
best any wav
The success that has been attained
by the use of the split log drag in
many places in Texas and In Mis-
souri where It was first used In the
making and keeping i of the public
roads in fair condition at all times
ought to Inspire every Union to take
up the matter and put the log to work
every time it rains The thing Is so
simple and so cheap that it ought to-
go like wildfire
The handling of the cotton crop in
tjie sensible way is not yet an ac-
complished fact Much progress has
bpon made All sensible people wno
have watched the good work done by
the Union are gatified at the advance
made It Is this class that realizes
the tremendous amount of COOPE-
RATION EDUCATION and UNION-
IZING of efforts that yet remains to
be done
Cooperation education and union
of effort along the line of sensible
packing of cottons one of the es-
sential things that ought to engage
the attention of all the Unions this
year Several years ago a movement
was put on foot to introduce the use
of heavy cotton wrapping for cotton
bales It was proposed to use the
cheap and dirty grades of cotton for
this purpose Considerable of this new
packing was used for a year or two
but it seems that the matter has been
dropped There is no reason for using
any other sort of packing because
this sort of stuff ib right at hand in
the cotton field and after the coarse
cotton lugging lias been used as a
wrapper for the bale it is available
for packing the finished cloth at the
mill Give this matter some attention
at your meetings and get it into prac-
ticable shape and help the market for
your cottou
There Is no sense in building 00
000 court houses for the official class
and for the comfort of the lawjers
when you have to pull tho cotton to
pay for them through the mud belly
deep to the mules Dont do it get
good roads first or at least insist that
there shall lie an een and symetrlcal
development of roads with the public
buildings Thats common sense and
common sense is a tiling that is need
kled freel > luto all sous of politics
ed on the farms and should be sprin
Dont let the speculative fever that
is rampant over this country now on
account of tho imusuafcindustrial ac-
tivity get joi into the sprculathe
swirl It is a mighty thin line bctvcnn
the speculator and the camnlpr and
there Isnt any linp between the gam-
bler and any other sort of a thief
Get scared right now of the mort
busy with the crops and help the good
woman and the girls with fixing the
front yard so it can be made into a
flower yard All decent people want
decent surroundings
WATSON AND THE UNION
In his Jeffersonian Dec 20 Tom
Watson gives his ideas of the Farm-
ers Union and the policy he will pur-
sue in regard to it in the following
language
In my judgment the Farmers Un-
ion promises to be the most power-
ful and beneficial organization of the
agricultural producers that we have
had since Dr Macune and Lon Liv-
ingston sold out the Farmers Alli-
ance
From the outside I will do all that
is possible to aid the Farmers Union
It is bettor for the order that I do not
join it
If I should become a member of the
Union the peanut politicians and the
Southern Railroad editors would howl
piteously
With one accord the noble unself-
ish friends of the farmer would
cry out
Watson wanls office He will lead
the Farmers Union Into politics
Thus the leaders of the Union
might be put on the defensive and the
growth of the order checked This
must not happen I would not for any
consideration umuariass my loyal
friends C S Barrett and R F Duck
north
No I do not wish to embarrass
myself
Let me help you from the outside
my friends
With the Jeffersonian I can cheer
you on and hold up your hands From
henceforth the JefferMinian will have a
Farmers Union department
In other ways still I can aid you
I can attend some of your con-
ventions and mass meetings and ad-
dress the people
And I will
Thus 3ou can get all the benefit
of my earnest sympathy with your
organization without giving the poli-
ticians and the subsidized editors any-
thing to howl about
FARMERS JOURNAL JOTTINGS
No man can hold cotton who has
nothing but cotton to hold Tenants
on farms as a rule have nothing but
cotton and it is not really theirs at
gathering time It is likely that moro
than half the cotton in the south i3
made by tenant labor It is the dis-
tressed cotton we hear about This
brings us face to face with landlord
Ism and tenantry and land monopoly
and speculation
Everybody is always ready to speak
out in general terms against specu-
lation in the necessaries of lfe but
few are talking out against land specu-
lation Yet land is the one great
prime necessary of all life
We hope to see the day when tho
man who would buy land for the sola
purpose of selling it again for more
than he gave for it will be frowned
upon as the arch enemy of the most
sacred interests of human beings
Leave liquor alone It enriches
your capitalist masters and rendera
you a more easy prey for them A
mind dulled by liquor cannot put up
much of a struggle for liberty Ap-
peal to Reason
COOPERATOR CLIPPINGS
Lets rely on ourselves
Put a warehouse wherever It is need-
ed this year
Lets go to work with the New year
to build grander and stronger than
everThere
There is plenty of work for us all
to do Lets be up and doing with a
heart for any fate
Let us not think that the other fel-
low will help us If he does our think-
ing he will certainly getyour money
We must defend ourselves
In times of peace prepare for war
There will be a great warfare In tho
marketing of the next crop Get ready
for it
Let the warcry of tho Farmers Un-
ion from this day forward be Ware-
houses Grain Eleiators Cold
Storages
Education agitation co operation
By these the farmer will win his eman-
cipation and throw off the joke of
hondige now on him
Industrial development is ever on
waid rnd upward Controlled market-
ing is the next great step to taks
Lets prepare ourselves and take it
A perfect understanding of the prp
ducers means everything to them
Prices will be stable and certain when-
ever we get ready for the change
Do you believe that our cause is
just If so go to work for it in a
business way Do not expect the other
fellow to help jou Rely on jour
self
If the producers are to be free and
independent American citizens as they
should be they must themselves
strike the blow They must chaiigo
the present system of marketing
Let us not charge tho other fellow
with what we do ourselves It is no
trouble to speculate on the markets
tf we do a we have always done
As They Each Saw It
Two women met on the street cor-
ner on a cold day when the wind was
playing havoc with skirts and tresses
The first had her head tied up in two
veils and several yards of fur were
wrapped about her neck On her feet
were fine spun silk stockings and lit-
tle patent leather pumps Tho other
wore a big floppy hat with no veil
and several Inches of her neck showed
abov the flat collar of her lawn waist-
coat but her feet were incased la
heavy shoes and cloth gaiters
Arent you awfully cold queried
the first looking at her friends bare
neckNot
Not at all responded the other
witli a glance at the fest of the first
but I should thing you would freeze
to death
Wealth In Oceans Depths
It has been computed that there are
2000000000 in gold and jewels at
tho bottom of the sea on th route be-
tween England and India
MAN MADE IN THE
IMAGE OF GOD
Sunday School Lesson for Jan 131907
Specially Prepared for This Paper
LESSON TEXT Genesis lS63
Memory lerses 26 27
GOLDEN TEXT God created man
in his own image in the image of God
created ho him Gen 1W
SCRIPTURE REFERENCES Man as
the Child of God is made tn the image
of God v J6 Gen 51 96 Col 310
James 39 The offspring of God MaL
210 Acts 1725 2S Psa 1003 1 John
31 2 A little lower than the angels
Psa S5 6 Made to have dominion v
29 Psa 86 The many places where God
Is called our Father Passises showing
h w the moral Image may be restored
as Rom S14 Matt 59 1 John 32 10
Comment and Suggestive Thought
V 27 So God created man He
toraed his body but he created his
spirit made in the image of God he
put into man something that was not
In the world before Breathed Into
his nostrils the breath of life This
means more than the inbreathing of
animal life Seeing that our author
speaks of an inbreathing by God only
in the case of man and not in the case
of animals it would seem that in It Is
meant to consist the specific preemi-
nence of man over the animals that
which in vs 2G 27 is called the image
of God 1 e that by this inbreathing
affecting man personally is meant the
communication not merely of the
physical but at the same time of the
mental vitality of man the communi-
cation of the spirit Dillmann Male
and female created he them both
alike are made in the image of God
both alike are his children How he
made them is told in the second story
Gen 2IS 2124 It was not good
that man should bo alone None of
the animal creation not even the high-
est ape was near enough to him to be
his companion and the mother of the
new human race No man could de-
velop into his best while alone Either
It would be necessary to create a
woman in the same way as Adam wa3
created or in some other and better
way to supply the needed companion
The Dominion of Man
V 2S And God blessed them by
giving them children and dominion
and noble work and food It would
be a blessing a happiness to live The
joy of God himself was bestowed
upon his children Bo fruitful As
God delighted in his work of creation
so that the morning stars sang to-
gether and all the sons of God shout-
ed for joy Job 3S7 so he would
have his children blessed in filling the
earth with people And have domin
ion over the fish and
every living thing These are by na
ture subordinate to man and by his
higher nature man would have the
power to benefit the lower animals
supply them with food and care and
give them a larger usefulness and a
higher and happier life than they
could hae without man This is true
of ail weilcarodfor domestic animal3
today Mans relation to tho beasts
is that of Providence says George
Adam L Jith And subdue it Bring
it under cultivation master all its
forces possess themselves of Its re-
sources subject it and all that It con-
tains to their use This man is grad-
ually learning to do in tho advance-
ment of knowledge and tho progress
of science and the arts Green
Marvelous as has been mans con-
trol over the forces of nature beyond
seers vision or poets imagination yet
man has even now attained to but a
small portion of tho treasures of his
kingdom a few grains from the har-
vest a few drops from the measure-
less ocean But as he regains the
image of God he will gain his domin-
ion over all nature For It Is written
on tho history of tho world that only
so fast and far as man becomes filled
with the spirit of Christianity does he
hold dominion over animals or make
the earth his servant
V 3 And God blessed the seventh
day Made it a blessing to man one
of the greatest blessings ho ever be-
stowed endowed it with a treasure of
grace flowing forth from the rest of the
Creator Delitzsch This institu-
tion though like other institutions
capable of abuse has nevertheless
operated on the whole with won-
derful efficiency in maintaining the
life of a pure and spiritual religion
Prof Driver in Hastings Bible Diet
And sanctified it Hallowed it
Set It apart for sacred uses Made 11
a holy day taken out from among the
common days and devoted to God
having a special relation to a holy
God Dillmann
Some such institution was essential
to the moral and religious develop-
ment of man tho means of cultivating
his higher nature and hence to the
best progress of his civilization
physical and mental
The two great essential foundations
of mans progress and true prosperity
were ordained at the very beginning
the family and the Sabbath These
two primeval institutions kept sacred
and wisely used are the remedy for
most of our social and moral evils
The Sabbath is the opportunity for
caung for tho spiritual nature the
highest and noblest part of man
Practical Points
The same God who breathed life
into the dustmade bodj still breathes
into the soul defiled by sin dead in
sin the new life of righteousness and
heaen by his Holy Spirit
The reason hero given for tho Sab-
bath is repeated in the fourth com-
mandment to enforce and illustrate
the duty of Sabbath keeping
I The glory of man is that he is made
in the image of God Herein is hope
joy life and immortality
1 The revealed fact of our origin en
ables us to know what we need to
know snout God our Father
HERMIT WOULD NEVER BATHE
Committed for Insanity Is Forcibly
Given His First Real Wash
After battling valiantly for some
three hours with fon itrong men
Jake Fox who for more than GO jears
has shunned water as though it were
some poisonous fluid to touch which
meant instant death is unwashed no
longer To his great indignation aged
Jake has been forced to bathe says
the Portland Ore correspondent of
the New York World
For three score years or more Jake
Fox erstwhile trader and wagon
maker dwelt in peace on the sunny
banks of the Calapoya rher at Al-
bany Ore Although he lived upon
the vast bank of the stream the trap-
per had no use for the liquid contents
of the brook and declared an effectual
boycott on aqua pura for cleansing
purposes
His abode was a cabin in an iso-
lated spot near the edge of the vil-
lage and he was an object of terror to
the youngsters who used to pass that
way and of disgust to the more clean-
ly neighbors thereabouts Many in
effectual attempts were made by the
good people of the town to prevail
upon Jake to remove at least a few
coats of the dirt which was the ac-
cumulation of years but he would
have none of it and turned a deaf car
to their pleadings
Their attempts were as unsuccessful
as were those of the townspeople in
their effort to get him to bathe Ho
would draw himself up to the full
height of six feet three inches and
with a scowl of disapproval mutter
imprecations and stalk away This
whim did not last so long as did his
antiwater crusade for in the last
few years of his life he was pre-
vailed upon by a friend to sit for a
photograph
The photographer printed two of
the pictures and putting one care-
fully away showed the other to Jake
With a scowl of rage the old trapper
who by this time had repented his
move seized upon the bit of paper
and tore it to shreds then shattered
the photographers plate He did not
know of the remaining print which
is the only existing picture ef him to-
day
Eventually tho lonely old man show-
ed unmistakable signs of losing his
mind The authorities began to fear
that in his disordered brain ho might
rewve the old days of Indian fights
and some night sally forth armed to
the teeth and do his neighbors dam-
age lie was adjudged insane and
sent to the asylum at Salem Ore
Hero it was that his superstition of
years his horror of water was to be
broken down
When he arrived at the institution
the attendants looked at him in dis-
may They had seen dirty mortals
before but neer one who could
equal this one They rushed him to
the bathhouse and here after three
lliours of the hardest struggle they
had ever experienced Jake Fox was
bathed
The old man was heartbroken and
the same battle is experienced once a
week which under the rules of the
institution is the interval of the
bath of each patient and there seems
little hope that during his life he
will give up and submissively take a
plunge of his own accord
WASHINGTON President Roosevelt ha3
taken heed of the criticism in congress of his so
called message habit and there Is fair promise
that hereafter he will not so freely communicate
his views to the legislators on topics urged upon
him by enthusiastic champions of proposed re-
form Mr Roosevelt is not sorry that senators
and representatives have criticized his message
writing proclivities He knows all about the sharp
remarks that have been made and has read some
forth the congressional
of the newspaper articles setting
gressional comment on messages multitudinous
and overlapping He Is glad that the comment
has got Into print because he believes it will ba-
the means of ridding him of a burden
That members of congress according to their
dispositions have found fault and made merry
documents from the White House to tie
over the steady stream of public
capltol since the present session began gives MA Roosevelt the opportunity
to quit writing and to refuse to yield to the urgings constantly being pressed
this subject or the other Messages
upon him to send a special message on
will come hereafter only when the public usage and the public service de-
mand The president realizes that his too free use of the presidential mes-
sage to call attention of congress and the country to needed legislation de-
preciates the value of his commendation He realizes too that few read his
long pronunciaments who do not have to
HOW SHAW GOT HIS REVENGE
Not long ago when Secretary Shaw of the
treasury went out to Pittsburg to look over post
office sites the Pittsburg people became real
angry with him because he did not approve some
plans and did approve others and slapped him on
the wrist
The secretary came back and bided his time
When Leslie M Shaw is biding his time he is a
fearsome thing It is one of the best things he
does He bided and bided but finally his time
came Pittsburg is all torn up over this post
office site business and a committee from all the
commercial and financial bodies of the city wa3
appointed to come to Washington and pursue the
matter with Mr Shaw
This committee consisted of 30 of the leading
millionaires and was made up of such of the lead-
ing men as could be spared from their divoroe court duties and could be
dragged home from New York They had a six hour session with the secre
tary that closed about six oclock at night Then the secretary got oven
He reaped all the BIDES he had sown
When shall we continue Mr Secretary asked one of the prominent
millionaires
Tomorrow morning at 730 oclock said the secretary sharply
Revenge Is sweet The millionaires staggered out Into the dusk and
went to their hotel They scrambled into bed early leaving calls for 530
and six For once it was known where 30 Pittsburg millionaires were at
midnight
Next morning at 730 the 30 Pittsburg millionaires filed into Secretary
Shaws ofllce rubbing their eyes and stumbling over the charwoman There
was Secretary Shaw at his desk chipper and pert
Good morning gentlemen he said I hope I see you well
You be blanked blanked said 30 Pittsburg millionaires in hoarse asides
But the secretary did not care He had wreaked his terrible Denison
Iowa vengeance on the Pittsburg millionaires and he was content
P S But he had to get up at six oclock himself
COST OF LIVING AT CAPITAL GROWING HIGHER
Foreigners stationed here at the legations and
embassies declare that the cost of living is great-
er in Washington than In any other capital of the
world Officials and congressmen who are In
Washington from all parts of the United States
complain that the cost Is greater In this city than
in any other of the country Statistics gathered
by the bureau of statistics of the department of
commerce and labor despite the consistent Re-
publican effort to have it appear through this
bureau that the average wage Is going up and
the average cost of living going down now are
permitted to show a considerable Increase all
through the country In the cost of living
Residents of Washington need no statistics
Only a very short memory Is needed to establish
the fact that the cost of living In the capital has
gone up at least 50 per cent In the last ten years The various propositions
to boost the pay of government employes which are pending in congress are
explained by these conditions
Take the congressmen on 5000 a year A certain member of the Mis-
souri delegation elected in 1904 under circumstances that made him a con-
spicuous figure came to Washington with a family of three besides himself
He went to a certain residential hotel of good class but not the most ex-
pensive and the best figure made to him was 400 a month for himself and
family As his salary exceeds the sum by less than 40 he had to look elsewhere
and now lives very modestly more modestly than a prominent man should
at an outlay of 275 a month He is a man who has always lived excellently
at home and moved in the first circles on an income that averaged 5000 a
year
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