Evening Star Newspaper, June 12, 1897, Page 19

‘A SAVING OF MONEY To Travel Second Class on the Big Atlantic Liners. THE TRIP HAS VERY FEW DRAWBACKS Among the Passengers a Universal Sympathy Springs Up. HOW THEY CAME THERE Special Correspondence of Th Evening Star. PARIS, June 1, 1807. ECOND-CLASS PAS- sengers on a trans- atlantic Mmer have an extra topic for con- versation—how and why they happen to be there. And with it a universal sym- pathy springs up among them to con- stitute itself a solace for seasickness and the imagined scorn of AY the first cabin. I do i not remember to have hated any fellow creature causelessly prior to the second-class voyage which has so recently enlightened my understanding on this side of human nature; but, on the oth- er hand, I never felt before so broad a sym- pathy for such a heterogeneous, common- Place mob as we made, clutterirg down our second-class companionw to the sound of our second-class dinner bell. The first-class passengers had a bugler blowing on his bugie to summon them to their repasts, which—for emphasis, it seem- ed—were had at different hours from our own feeding. We loved each other at the same time we despised each other; and we were at onc in rage against the innocents who kept the middle of the boat, detesting them while we admired and envied them. One dark night, fatigued beyond com- posure and good judgment by the ceaseless churning of the ocean greyhound’s twin propellers, pounding, thumping, in the tail end of the boat, which was our own, two of us broke bounds to accomplish a most “Back to Your Deck.” furtive promenade along the spacious deck. What space! What frecdom! ‘he long covered walk, deserted by the swells—some of us called them swells—stretched out hospitably. Or were it preferable to lull the too-tossed nerves on a well-chosen bench, approximating the motionless cen- ter of the ship's high-pitching seesaw? When up there loomed the figure of a ship's policeman—master-at-arms, his title— masterful, armed with a little brief au- thority. Back to Quarters. “Now out of this. Seccnd-ciass passen- gers not permitted on this deck. Shall I tell yees again?” This experience was mercifully in the dark, upon the lonely, fearful, full mid- ocean, unlit by stars or moon. Others had more humiliation attached to such illegal attempts at strolling. One Prussian adoles- cent. with pig-headedness and masterful- ness exuding from every pore, a most pecu- liar financier in that he traveled second- class apparently to economize the price of ome two to three large botfles of cham- pagne each day, would make daily incur- sions into the forbidden promenade. Full of the courage of the bottle, he would show handfuls of English sovereigns to the dis- gusted ship's policeman, threatening to buy the vessel and discharge him for his “rudeness.” Ignoble and vapid as the in- cident appears, it was rot without its daily sclace to the timid second-class souls who, under similar cireumstances, had felt the sting of that authority’s “rudeness.” But egainst the tipsy sauciress of the Berlin youth the policeman felt his powerlessness, @nd, dreading the absurd scene's dally re- currence, would slink miserably forward @s the psychological hour drew near, to leave the task of chasirg back the boy to @ more stolid seaman. In this matter of drink, I think there Is Jess of it in the second cabin than the first. In the course of half a dozen or moré crossings, I have never fafled to witness the regulation scandals of the more aristocratic smoking room, and with but few excep- tions there has never fatled the regulation dipsomaniac, kindly furnished with as much drink as he could call and pay for, Ull, say, toward the last two days, when, just as regularly, he must be shut up in a space cabin with a steward told off to sit by him and dole out the doctor's chloral furnished free of charge, like a free lunch on shore. Then there is always that other incident. of the Mquor-fuddled tourist or Student who must lose $500, more or less, @s may be, to the transatlantic gamblers whom the bar room stewards an’ the pur- sers and their clerks must know by sight. A Strange Farce. Once it was a youthful doctor from the south, bound for Vienna to complete his studies. He was juggled cut of all his ready money and had to give an order on the purser, the custodian of a draft which he indorsed, for some three hundred dol- jars more. The smoking room habitues— the boat being five days out—convened themselves into an Indignation meeting, and easily convineed the gamblers tnat they ought to give the money back. But the Fientuckian would not receive it! Then fol- lowed a strange farce. The money dis- jorged by the gamblers was placed in the nds of a committee of four, whose tusk It then became to draw the burnt child to the fire again—for his own good. In trufh it was not hard, for there was rich red sporting blood In the young doctor’s veins. He entered the new crooked game almost withcut enticing. Delighted io win largely at each sitting, flushed with victory—for getting even with this game is always vic- tory—he bet them up as remorselessly as if his sole desire was to strip the four phi!- anthropists of their last dollar. ‘The poker of the second class is not like this. There was a poker game on this trip, five-cent ante, five-cent bet. with a vo- racious kitty. Its harmless nature, how- ever, may be divincd when it ts learned that the returning Maine man, cleaned out in South Africa, made a two-dollar bili, prescnied to him out of secret charity, last three days. Yet he calculated that he had two dollars’ worth of drinks out of the kitty im that time. Our only alcoholic seemed to be the Berlin bud, whose violent preference for sweet champagne, I fancy, scandaiized our Americans—all ludicrousiy faithful ‘to American tradition—far more than his mere love for the cup. A Good-Natured Lot. ‘We were humble folk, although we Je@ged all things, incontcstably humble, to the point of not ridiculing or even genteel- ly Geprecating the presence among us of Bine anaemic, sad-eyed, cheerless British elusion suitan-like rooster of a tenant In @ braid and @ most The only disparaging against this latter reaily obj dividual, atmost the there was no seasickness. Sprawling lux- uriously, his hairy head propped by « sis- ter’s shoulder and his long biue legs suj ported by a stool, he drawled out that he would stay there and not go down to tea. “The tea will come to us,” magnificently, I bave said that we were humble folk; yet when upon thet extre topic for con- vorsntion already noted—as to how and why each happened to be traveling “‘sec- ond”—the gentility of each and all came out distinctly. The case of the Maine young man fresh from Johannesburg tife golden was as cleariy justified as any. A Specimen Case. Arriving at the gold ficlds with nothing, he readily obtained employment that per- mitted lim to pay his lodging and three meals a day. After three months of that life, an impassioned appeal to the old folks down in Maine resuited In a draft for a hundred and fifty dollars; whereupon he quit the stone-breaking and dirt-digging that had reduced his flesh some twenty- three pounds and began buying horses at the Cape or elsewhere, to drive them up and seil them at a fancy profit in the flelds. Fortune smiled on him. He virtu- ously sent his parents back their hundred and fifty plus another hundred, with which to buy his good oid motker and nice sis- ters each “the handsomest black silk dress procurable.” On the next trip his horses died, to the colt, stung by some fly, A friend in temporary luck—he says all luck is temporary there—bought him a second- class ticket back to Maine. And now his great preoccupation was to wonder “‘if they had bought those silks yet!” I hope, for the girls’ sakes, they had. Among us chere were many who could have afforded to travel first-class better, perhaps, than more than one of the nat- ty ivurists of the envied promenade deck, returning from a European splurge, which one will not begrudge them surely. In- deed, an extended residence abroad has ccnfirmed this to the writer, that an idiotic hopefulness permitting such unwarranted splurges is one of the most glorious traits of the American character. The mass of American tourists really have no business to be touring. We of the second-class were not so, many of us being wiser, but none of us happier. Intimate conversations re- vealed it. The conscientiousness of merit could not palm the lascerated amour prepre of the American, grieved by a hate- ful economy. “First-class or bust!" would seem to be the motto of America. ‘The Berlin youth, over his costly sweet champagne, could not possibly have been made to comprehend this American yearn- ing, had any one taken the trouble to ex- pound it to him. An utter stranger to the Evropean breast, the European looks on it as fraud and ostentation. To such an one question would be purely of fact. Sufficient Accommodations. Were the second-class accommodations sufficient? Undoubtedly yes, no worse than those of a country hotel or a middle-ciass city boarding house. The second cabin dinner menu on our ship for the date of May 14, 1897, being neatly printed on pink cardboard, read as follows, while its prom- ise was fulfille® minutely by the dinner: Puree of pea soup; boiled codfish, shrimp sauce; corned beef and cabbag Toast chicken; mashed turnips; boiled potatoes; lettuce salad, with dressing; apple ple; ice cream; crackers end cheese, and oranges and coffee. Man does not live by bread alone, of course; so much depends on how the bread is made; but he would be diffi- cult, indeed, who should complain of the above repast, considering Its raw material alone. It is gene: enough, even, for the venerated first-class table. And, as for its cooking, please to remember that the cooks, the ovens, the store rooms and the refrigerating compartments are identical for each. The boat !s American—though built in England; but the captain and the barber are the only two Americans; sa’ the chef—a French word, meaning “chief,” not “cook,” heureusement—is English, too. His works sp2ak for him, or, correctly, for his school and race. In this English cuisine there are only two satces, their base being one and the same. To a certain quantity of flour add @ sufficient quantity of water, the mixture being beaten smooth to free it’from those lumps which do not impair its usefulness to the bill-poster, but might legitimaiely be reproached at a fastidious table. Is it to be a fish sauce? Add anchovy or shrimp paste, procurable in bottles. Or is it a sweet pudding sauce? Add sugar and va- nilla or other pure fruit extract, likewise procurable in bottles. Soup ts accompiish- ed without the wasteful boiling of beef or the incumberirg stock pot. There are ex- tracts of beef which give to soups, gravies, stews, ragou' and so forth, an appeti: ing zest and relish which please the pal- ete, aid digestion and produce “that feel- ing of contentment” which 1s printed in italics in the advertisement. And there are salad dressings to replace the laborious mayontr al: bottled salad dressings, al- weys ready, always good, always alike, pre- pared with 2xtreme care from the choic- est, purest and freshest condiments. At the Table. This first-class second-class food, you know, came to the table very much as we did. We came cluttering down avalanche- like, to burst unsteadily Into the long floor- Pitching, heaving, rolling, pitching dining room, with a boisterousness, later on hab- itual, that had legitimate beginnings in the bluff and braggadocio of dissimulated sea- sickness working on an unartificial people. It would seem that there are always three times as many men as women traveling second class; and this characteristic, most marked on the present trip, may go toward excusing those whose high spirits moved them to vault over the bench hacks to seat themselves, close-packed, at the long tables. Even the first-class passengers are not spared the long tables; only they are seated at them in individual revolving chairs, and not along a long bench, whose back, in very truth, must be leaped over or crawled under by all such as have not reached their places in a due moving-up in order. So came we to the table; and so, I have said, the food came. Unlike those of the first class, scarcely any of us drank wine with our meals. That characteristic sound upon the sea, the pop- ping of the champagne cork against sea- sickness, was absent. Again unlike those of the first class, we were not wont to Second Class. Inger at the table. Course distinctions there were, truly; but the very stewards seemed to divine the unbecomingness of meal consisting of three parts—a rushing to, a scrimmage and a rushing from—a young man with long hair, a thick-set frame and a fraternity pin could say, as he was overheard to say to an intelligent foreigner in quest of informa- yee you have a good idea of col- heeding them. tion A Monumental Gain. times are over, {a the peies f a first-cabin of lead to'an tncsease of These are the inconveniences of travel- ing second class across the ocean, almost the only inconveniences, to be weighed against the monumental gain of something like some $00 cash, now that the companies have come to a new understanding. Time was when $60 passed across the counter for a first-class passage would not be re- —_ by the majority of lines. Second- passengers t themselves iranaterred ts Brat by paying £2 tom Thor migh: to pay is eee ee voyages? THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1897-94 PAGES. He 2 i Ha . And something of STERLING HEILIG. —_———_ STORY OF A $1,000 BILL. an equalizer! A Great Bank Robbery by Which a Oar Conductor Profited. From the New Haven Leader. The recent attempt of young*King to get away with $30,000 from the Boylston Bank has drawn forth some incidents con- nected with that institutton’s previous ex- periences. The following one given us by a New Haven man is connected with the robbery of about 1869, when some $100,000 was lifted from the bank's vaults by an elaborately worked plan. The method by which they worked, hiring a barber shop next the bank and running it for several months, while drilling through the division wall, is familar to the press; but a little a which is not generally known is is: On the night of the robbery the late Con- ductor “Hez” McKinney of this city took charge of his “owl” train at Springficld. Among his passengers he noticed particular- ly three or four well-dressed men, though they did not evidence any connection be- tween them and were not seated together. One of these men had no ticket, and saying he was going to New Haven, produced a_ bill in a. casual way to pay the fare. McKin- ney was phased at the size of the bill—a erisp $1,000 bank note—and said he would have to hand him the change after the next stop, Hartford. At Hartford he got the money, and as the train started, went through the car to the seat that his man occupied, to square accounts. He identified the passenger carefully, and started to hand out the money. The occu- pant of the seat however, appeared not to Tecognize him, gave a blank stare of amazement at the mass of money, and pro- fessed to have no knowledge of it, having just got on at Hartford. Though McKin- ney insisted on the identity and urged the man to take the money, he stoutly refused. When collection of tickets was made this Pessenger produced some small change and paid fare to Meriden, where he got off the train. The other men left the train at dif- ferent stations. At the end of the trip McKenny reported the occurrence at headquarters, and while refusing to hand over the money, suggested thee tt be put e papas and advertised, whic! e himse! fo claim wi made for It. es After a long wait the railroad company undertook to claim the money, but McKin- ney didn’t see it in that light. He paid over the fare from Springfield to New Hi ven and retained the rest, being supported in his action by legal opinion. When he had allowed a considerable further time for any possible claim, McKinney used the money in nicely furnishing his home. No clue could ever be found as to the source of the money, but of course the conjecture was that the bill was probably a part of the bank's funds; that the passenger hand- ed it out by mistake and, discovering it when too late, decided to let ft all = er than leave a trail. zm ee —————+o+_____ GOOD SIDE OF WILLIAM IL. Interesting Glimpses of the Emperor in Private Life. Private Letter to tha Springfield Republican, The press of today is so full of absurd anecdotes illustrating the insanity of the German emperor that we are coming to look upen him as the monster of the nine- teenth century. Surely his attitude toward the Grecian question seems most surpris- ing to American christendom, but the game which the European powers are playing is not opened by “American leads,” and we cannot be expected to understand it yet. William II fs still in private life a very human man, as numberless incidents which have come under my own observation go to prove. As a boarding school girl in Ber- lin, I was imbued with something of the romantic admiration with which a large class of his people regard him. Our daily walk was always on the streets where he most frequently rode or drove, and when fertune so favored us that he passed by, the sedate line of maidens walking in boarding-school style, flew even into the middle of the street, and under his very horses’ feet. His good-natured, amused smile was sufficient reward for the weary days of waiting when we had not seen him, and the cool, green Thiergarten could not notice us from the dusty street where he might pass, On one occasion there was great exclte- ment, for a friend of ours in a neigh poring school was invited to take lunch with the royal family. Her brother, a Iteutenant in the arm: had done the emperor some small service, for which he had shown his appreciation in various ways. The royal carriage waited before the school for our cemrade, and she drove away, more fright- ened than delighted. But she came back in bigh glee. She had been the only guest at luncheon with the emperor, empress and princes. No servants even were in the room, and Eltel Fritz had to jump down and fetch the napkirs which hed deen forgot- ten. All the afternoon she played with the princes, and the emperor chatted with them a long time, “swinging his legs trom the arm of the sofa” on which his wife eat. He even went to hear the baby say his prayers, and was quite like any happy father. In those days there was no lovelier sight in Berlin than the young emperor with dear old friend and counselor,Pastor From- mel. The snow-white hair of the beautiful old man fell about a face rarely spiritual, and at the same time keenly genial. His kindly face and dignified deference before the young ruler was met by the respect and love of a pupil for his most revered master. No one who has seen these two together can believe that William II is ut- terly lacking in respect and admiration for spiritual forces superior to his own. By the death of Frommel this winter the royal family lost one of its most trusted friends. The emperor always received him very in- formally, and an amusing story is told of the old man’s once leaving his silk hat in the ante room while talking with the em- peror. Young Eitel Fritz mistook it for an opera hat, and when unsuccessful in mak- ing it shut, he sat down on it, which flat- tened it quite to his satisfaction. The em- peror coming out with Pastor Fromme! at just that moment, caught the young mis- chief-maker in the very act, and he had to make a most humble apology, while a ser- vant was sent out for a new hat. There are countless stories of the sim. plicity and beauty of the emperor’s home life, which the Germans love to tell. The man as we know him from our newspapers is a purely American creation. If we must condemn many of his public acts, why de- light in imagining him to be a monster of absurdity? 200 Geologist for Detective. From Harper's Round Table. * Some years ago, on one of the Prussian railways, a barrel which should have con- tained silver coin was found, on arrival at its destination, to have been emptied of its precious contents and filled with sand. Professor Ehrenberg, being consulted on the subject, sent for samples of sand from the stations along the different lines of railway through which the specie had pass- ed, and by means of his microscope identl- fled the station from which the interpo- lated sand must have been taken. The sta- tion once fixed upon, it was not difficult to hit upon the culprit among the small number of employes on duty there. NEW JEWISH FARM SCHOOL AND ITS FOUNDER. TO TEACH FARMING Opening of the Jewish National Agri- cultural School. TTS PURPOSE 8 NOBLE AND TIMELY From a Suggestion Made by Tol- stoi to Rabbi Krauskopf. THE COURSE OF STUDY Written for The Evening Star. OMORROW the national farm school will be opened with appropriate ceremonies, and Mon- day its first session begins. This remark- able institution is lo- cated near Doyles- town, Pa. twenty- five miles from Phil- adelphia. It consists of a farm of 122 acres, on which a commodious school building” has just been erected, besides large barns, ‘spring house and farmer's dwelling. The“Jand‘is of that fertility for which Bucks ‘founty has been long noted, well-wooded and well-watered. No better location could: have been selected, for it offers all of the advantages of a model farm and is near ong of the largest markets in the world. © +2 The purpose of the national farm school is both noble ‘and timely. The association which has foufded it was formed by Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf §f Philadelphia, one of the most progressive of American religious leaders. He accounts for the origination of the idea, While walking over the grassy slopes of the farm, ds follows: “You know I went to Russia in 1894 to inquire into the condition of the Jews there, hoping to per- suade the czar to ‘permit the removal of the Jews to the interior, where they might engage in agricuftural life. I found that impossible, but in conversation with Tolstoi he said: ‘Why don’t you attempt work of that kind in your great land?’ This gave me much food for thought when I returned in the fall. I talked the matter over with my friends and resolved upon founding this school.” But Dr. Krauskopf did more than this. He started to raise the necessary funds, and to this end lectured all through the country, from Philadelphia to San Fran- cisco, and from Boston to San Antonio. In this way he has raised some $25,000, besides having almost 1,000 members paying an- nual dues of from $5 to $10 toward the running expenses, and when the school is opened it will start without owing a dollar, with every convenience and modern appli- ance for scientific farming. The aim is to make this a training school for young men and women, fitting them to become prac- tical and scientific agriculturists. While primarily intended to reach the Jews and lead them back to agricultural pursuits, the school will be non-sectarian, admitting those of other creeds who seek the train- ing there offered. In no sense a local move- ment, it counts its supporters and found- ers all over the United States and Canada, oe aking it even more than a national school. A Four-Year Course. The pupils will be accepted only after showing considerable proficiency in com- mon school work. The projected course of atudy is to extend through four years. During the summer months, from April 1 unt October 1, the pupils will be taught practical farming. They will take part, under the guidance of the superintendent, al the work done upon the farm. Dur- ing the six winter months they will be taught the theory of farming, and all that pertains thereto, such as chemistry, botany, geology, etc. There will also be a general course of education as part of the winter curriculum. Dairies, greenhouses, hpt- houses, ete., will be erected, and all the branches of farming will be thoroughly taught. A superintendent and his wife, who have been at the head of a similar in- stitution, have been engaged, and there will be no delay in putting the school into active operation. Seventy-five pupils have already applied for admission, coming from the homes not only of the poor and from orphan asylums, but from the families of ministers, lawyers and merchants. The school is to be conducted on the co-oper- ative plan. The pupils will be supplied with board, lodging, clothing and tuition at a fixed charge, but they will be pald for every day's work done. At their gradua- tion they will be presented not only with a diploma, but also with a deed for a plece of land (to be donated by the various states, railroads or individuals) and enough money of their own savings to assist them in Inning. life independently. In this way each pupil not only supports himself while studying; but also prepares to start out in life with ground to stand on and more than a dollar tm his pocket. The farm Nes adjacent: to aszcelebrated seed farm, with which arrangements have been made Permitting the !pupils of the farm school to visit it constamtly dnd take part in the im- portant work done: there, of raising seeds for flowers and plahts. This will not only be the seed school for the pupils, but the farmer, head gardener, fertilizer, orchardist and live stock man will constitute a part of the faculty ofithe:national school, giving instruction during the summer in practice and in theory:by lectures during the win- ter. A stock farni adjoins the “ farm” on anbdther'side, and it, too, will serve as an iauxillary of the “National Farm School.'0 «« Its Exdelient Equipment. The accommodations prepared for the school are both .comfcrtable and modern. The house ts built substantially of stone, @nd 1s 120 feet long by 90 feet deep. The Teoms nre airy and spacious, furnished neatly and comfortably. The furnishings have been donated by i:dividuals from all over the country. One gentleman furnishes the large sitting room at an expense of rie Scotch houses a tor price. ‘THE FAME OF OUR GREAT COMPULSORY SALE e ‘as these great values slip th highly ‘appre ‘tion. Ble g their Sagers: Are pouring in from all parts of the country! Sunay ciate these exhibitions of confidence in our bustueas at Rut HOME FOLKS sbould take heed and pass into the hands of strangers. C,MEN'S CASSIMERE PANTALOOHS 98¢ MEN’S SUITS. Cutaway frock Wool plaids, stripes, checks and neat sae eee te 1235, dale. MEN'S SUITS. coats, strictly all- only. | Were $13.75, Sack coats, all-wool tweed, brown and gray, excellent all men. Sale Clay Worsted Sut Moe and black cher and tan sbetlands. cai cate them at any bargain (2) 49 cent advance on $1.98 | ME 50 Wort! Black Serge Sults, navy blue, Har- hairlines, Scotch and tweeds. it it business sults for h twice the price. Quoted Dargai . thibet cloth, brown, gray ‘dupli- house our You (CVC FURNISHINGS. $2.98 $3-98 $ 4. -48 $648 Le § Don’t ask us to go into detail—that’s beyond the $500, another attends to the library adjoin- | limit. We must content ourself by giving POINT- ing. One lady senas dozens of towels, an- | ERS: other sends the linens, and still another | 4ply Linen Collars, 15¢. the kitchen utensils, The house, facing the scuth, looks out upon beautiful, rolling | 4-ply Cuffs. fields of grain. The Reading railroad runs | String Ties, 2 through the farm, offering excellent facili- | BALBRIGGA: ties for shipping, while on the north and east the cold winds of winter are shut off by dense woods. Five acres of orchards and natural, 50c, Pereale Shirts, Te. Madras, soft bosom, Silk Suspenders, 50c. ind. ‘SI hirts, $1.25 kind. kind... SS Be. are already there, and the farm Hes ready for the eager brains and ready hands of its pupils. The affairs of the school are to be administered by an executive board. In ad- cuton , there is an “auxiliary national When asked if he thought that the Jews would take up his idea end send their chil- dren to the farm school, Dr. Krautkopf re- plied: “The love of agriculture is innate with the Jew. Disraeli’s prophecy is being fulfilled now that the laws of the nations are permitting Israel to return to the fields and vineyards. Let the Israelite but come im contact with mother earth and he feels his old love reawakening for agricultural TRUNKS, SATCH ANUVACTURERS’ PRICES. CTOR E. ADLE)R OUTFITTER TO MEN & BOYS, VW! 923 pursuits. In Palestine the colonies are| 92S thriving. At Odessa I saw a great and flourishing agricultural school for the Jews. In the interior of Russia 30,000 Jews have} _Je10-3t turned a treeless, stoneless, waterless wil- BOYS’ LONG PANTS SUITS. Sles 14 to 19 twenty different varieties. prices range upward from. Aboot $)-00 $ 1 -75 Immense stock. A wilderness of styles and patterns. AN broken 9 )-00 lots have been gathered up and divided into three groups. Big bar- galus here, 62° 98° BOYS’ SHORT PANTS SUITS. ‘The markings are. CHILDREN’S SUITS. 8 to 8 years. Only a fow of "em. Ail cotton tweed plaids and checks. ARATE” BICY All wool—trom ... ALSO SWEATERS, HOSE, Cars. HATS AND Cars. ——____. FELT, It's just as you may: 98c. DERBY and FEDORA HATS. All fashionable shapes and colorings. STRAW HATs. Every shape and quality. 2%, 48. up. ELS & VALISES. Seventh Street N. W. CORNER MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE. (7 OFFICE COATS, fast black, S0c. kind . 927 929 derness into fertile fields. In the Argentine republic thousands of Jewish farmers are thriving. In New Jersey the Jewish colo- nies are gradually taking root. And it is the object of our school to prepare leaders for colonies to be established on more fruitful soil, and in better ways. It is the solution of at least a part of our social question, and if we cannot take the men and women from the sweat shops, we will at least so teach some of their children as to direct their energies along better lines. I have no fear for the future. With the support of our generous people all over the land for the founding of our school it will in time become self-supporting and be the mother of Jewish farm schools all throvgh the United States.” ——__. Where's Mother? From Good Housekeeping. Bursting in from school or play, ‘This is what the children. say. ing, crowding, Mg and small, On the thresboid fu the ball— Joining in the constant ery, Ever as the days go by, “Where's mother?" From the weary bed of paln ‘This same question comes again; From the boy with spurkling eyes, Bearing home his earliest prize; oin the bronzed and beanled son, Perlls past and honors won: “Where's mother?” Burdened with a lonely task, One day we may yainiy ask For the comfort of her faci For the rest of her embrace; Let us love her while we may, Well for us that we can say: “Where's mother?” Mother with untiring hands At the post of duty stands; Patient, seeking not her own, Anxious for the good alone Of her children as they cry, Ever as the days go by: “Where's, ther?” Lonelyville Thoughtfulness, From Puck. Mrs. Isolate (of Lonelyville)—“There 's a scissors grinder at the door, Ferdinand. Have you anything you wish ground?” Mr. Isolate (thoughtfully)—“No; but tell him to go next door, to Mr. Hermitage’s. I want to borrow Hermitage's lawnmover to- morrow, and it needs shafpening terribly!” —+ee. The Ultimatum, From the Indianapolis Journal. Pale and proud, she stood before him. In fact, she had him in the corner and he could not depart. + “Do I get a 87 wheel?” she asked, and tin her tone there was a threat veiled, even as the quinine may be masked by the liquid softness of the rock and rye. “No,” said the wretched man, in des- peration. “Then,” sald she, her voice as hard as the inside of a ball-bearing, “I shall see my lawyer today. I will buy that wheel out of the alimony.’ are AS His Malady. From Puck. Man from Red Dog—‘‘What caused Pole- cat Pete’s death?” Alkali Ike—“Throat trouble.” “The result of exposure?” “Nope; result of hoss-stealin’.” tips,” generous enough to give to porters for walt- say, COLORED ROGUES ON PARLOR CARS. OMclals of the Companies Tell Their Side of the Story. From the New York Press. Palace car porters are being resisted. not only on Pullman's, but on Wagner's and other railway coaches used by luxurious travelers. And they are being resisted in their imperative demands not only by the travelers, who are long sufferers, but by the owners of the cars,who have discovered that the public isn’t as complaisant as It was. Last week the New York and New Haven porters were incorporated at Albany; last week, also, the Pullman quested their employers to increase their wages. As a matter of fact, the Pullmans are the last to put a check on their porters. Other similar companies already had taken a resolute stand against their aggressions. porters re- According to a complaint sent in to the ing on them. porters petition that they shall receive an increase of wages. the porters say, remuneration, which most of the passengers were Pullmans, it ts in work rather than wages that the palace car porter feels a deficiency, He makes objection to the recent rule of the Pullmans requiring that the conductors, not the porters, shall collect the pay for food and drink and smoke in buffet cars. deprives them of commonly called In lieu thereof, the Pullman As usual, there is another and quite as in- teresting side to the story. This other side holds the porter up to view as humorisis have pictured him—a modern Dick Turpin— the evolutionary eastern successor to the road agent of the west, extracting a reve- nue not only from passengers, matically skinning their employers, thus managing to live well on the normal wage of $25 a month. This, of course, is the corporation side of the story. but syste- and “This is the way the porter worked It,” one whereon pocket the money. would supply the buffet said the eastern superintendent of a palace car company (not Pullman's) yesterday. “The company $100 worth of wines, and foods when he left New York for a run to Boston. At the end of the run he would turn in the money received. There would be only $35 or so in return for $100 worth of stock supplied to him, although it was known that the train had been patronage was him with, liquors, cigars large. “What was the explanation? We found that when we had supplied three high grades of cigars for passengers, from the leading house in New York, the porter substituted cheap cigars. You would call for a 15-cent cigar and the porter would bring you a G-cent cigar or worse, which he had brought aboard with him, and he would pocket the 15 cents. It was the same with wines and whiskies. Instead of banding out the stock furnished by the compary he would hand out a cheaper grade frcm his contraband supply, and If twenty-five small drink flasks of whisky were put in his buf- fet all but a few would be returned un- toucted—he had refilled the first empty flasks from a bottle in his pocket and had kept the money he received. bought “That is why the companies operating runring buffet cars. palace cars make the rule that conductors should collect the money for meal, wine and tobacco checks. We wanted our pa- trons to get Just as good stuff as we pro- vided for them. There is no profit for us in It is done simply for | she was friendless a the convenience of the ssengers. third-class stuff is turntshed at niaseeae prices the passengers know ft, and it hurts our reputation with travelers. By having the conductor take up the money for buf- fet checks the passengers are assured that what they ordered is the genuine thing. It deprives the porters of no tips to have the concictor do this, Passengers know that conductcrs are not allowed to receive tips, and, if any tips are passed, they go to the Spee erga! the meal or brought e wine. is is perfectly ali concerned.” Teel understood ry “And, anyway, the porter makes a ‘ thing’ out of it, does rer mies “Indeed he does. As to his hours, they are arranged this way: One train, for in- starce, leaves here this evening for Toron- to. It arrives in Toronto tomorrow fore- noon, and the porters have until late in the afternoon to rest. Then they return to New York, arriving here the following forerccn, after which they have a rest of a day and a half. They work the same hours as the rest of the crew.” ———_+e- Dresses as Lawyer Fee. From the St. Louts Globe-Democrat, There ts a young lawyer at the Four Courts who has made something of a rec- ord for himself in criminal cases, and he flatters himself he can, from the faces he sees in the prisoners’ pen, pick out those which are deserving or in which the ac- cused is innocent. He was in court the morning of a young women’s trial, and her face and great eyes of blue told him ta time when friends He saw her, talked were friends indeed. with her and then told her he would de fend her case. She smiled a sweet. sad smile, and he felt he had been paid for any | effort he might make towa ! | innocence. Cd The chivalrous attorney made a plea thi won for him the admiration of winer ie yers and the extreme attention of the judge, and she was acquitted. Hastily Fema k her savior good-bye, she hurried rem the court room. A dozen rey followed, but she shrewdiy escaped them, and the little woman has not been seen about the grim walls of the basttle since. But yesterday the attorney received the following letter: Dear Sir: I do not know whether you busy lawyers remember all the cases you try, but I hope you have not forgotten me. You defended me on a charge of shoplift- ing (how I hate to write that word; it brings up sq many bitter recollections) nearly two months ago. I feel that I am greatly indebted to you. I have not been able to pay you because there has been sickness in the family. I think you ere a married man, and I have two new, nice silk dresses which could be made over to fit your wife very cheap. Of course, if you are not married you would not want them, and I will send you your choice of a cameo, ruby or emerald scarf pin or ring. Let me know through a personal. Thank- ing you for your kindness, 1 am yours, sin- cerely, | Mrs. EDWARDS. The lawyer has almost lost confidence in his judgment of human nature. From the Philadelphia orth American. Mrs. Peck—“If I had my life to go over again I wouldn't marry the best mar alive. 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