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tumorous grpartmrnt. Turning the Tables. "It happened at a well-known savings bank. An aggressive looking woman sailed in to open an account The clerk put her through the usual string of questions, name. age. residence. and finally family. "Anj brothers?" "Yes, four," was the reply, and tht clerk recorded the genealogies of tht four. "Sisters?" proceeded the clerk. "Seven," answered the womar wearily, and was forced to relate tht life histories of the seven sisters. When the clerk had at length written down the residence of the seventh sister the woman straightened up Now, look here, young man. I'm ? busy woman and you've kept me hert half an hour answering your questions before your bank would condescend to take my money. Now I'll ask you a few. How many times has th? president of this bank failed to be indicted?" The clerk dropped his pen. dumbfounded. "How many times has he been in jail?" the Amazon continued. The bank clerk still stared in amazement. "How long is it since the last cashier absconded?" Here the woman tlung her questions so rapidly that the clerk could not get in a word edgewise. The inquisitor paused a moment foi breath, and the clerk pulled himsell together. "Madam, I assure you. our cashier Is a Sunday school superintendent." he replied crushingly. "Oh! is he?" exclaimed the woman. "Why didn't you tell me that before? Then I don't open any account in this bank. Good day," and the Amazon stalked out.?New York Times. The Noise of One Hired. Jacob H. Schiff. on the way to Egypt on the Caronia, was criticising in the smoking room the tenor singing of a young man who gave, all by himself, a little musicale every night after dinner. "With a voice like that." said Mr. Schiff, "one is apt to meet with extrathe hymns and responses with a ferordinary experiences. "I have a friend with a voice like that, a young broker. For his Christmas holidays my friend made a little tour of New England, visiting many quaint old houses, many picturesque churches. "One Sunday he went to church in Salem or Gloucester or some such place and lifted up his tenor voice in fervor and force mat mane me congregation stare. "Pleased with the attention he attracted, my friend threw back his head, puffed out his chest, and. abandoning the last vestige of restraint, sang with all his might and main. A high note was approaching. He collected his powers to meet it. They were staring now?well, he would give them something to stare for. '.Vhat a giorious thing this congregational singing was! He must have mora of it every Sunday on his return to \ow York. "A heavy hand fell on his shoulder. He turned with a start and saw the sexton, an old. bent man, glowering at him. " 'Here, young feller, hold your noise!' said the sexton in a wheezy whisper, audible all over the building. 'We pay people to do that here.' "? Washington Star. A Happy Solution. There had been a long-standing difference of opinion in the Plunkett family concerning the dining table. Mrs. Plunkett maintained that its legs were too short and ought to be lengthened at least half an inch. "It doesn't fit our chairs, Jared, and you know it," she contended. "When we sit down to this table we're too high above it. You could have pieces of wood glued on the ends of the legs. That would be easier than to saw off the ends of all the chairlegs." "I don't agree with your proposition at all, Cordelia." said Mr. Plunkthinb tho tahld in?t rip'ht Hut I'm willing to compromise the mutter. You have been wanting a hardwood floor in the dining room for a long time, haven't you?" "Yes." "Well, we can have that kind of hardwood flooring that is laid on top of the old floor. That will raise the entire surface three-eighths of an inch or more, and that will raise the table, of course, just so much. How will that do?" This seemed to be a fair proposition and without a moment's hesitation Mrs. Plunkett accepted it as a satisfactory compromise.?Youth's Companion. Ax Kxaspkkat i x<; Mamma.?The small boy's mother was the only one who sat unmoved, while the small boy himself?most unwelcome addition to the informal afternoon tea?gleefully galloped around the circular table, daintily spread with silver and china and towered over by a cutglass lamp. "I s a squircus pony!" shrilled the infant Joyously, as he tossed his flaxen locks and twinkled his besocked legs with ever-increasing speed. "Mercy! He'll have the lamp over!" shivered a nervous young woman, as the human gyroscope stumbled over the edge of a rug. clawed at the table for support, then triumphantly continued circling. Conversation froze on pallid lips as they sat awaiting the inevitable crash. Only the voice of the small boy's mother rippled along serenely. The nervous young woman could stand it no longer. In sheer despair * - ?(..., \ m.Kllw.l/1 in* Silt* vtmurrii. .IK. MU(|I? . . pardon me?your dear little buy"? The lady addressed stared blankly, then grasped the situation. "Malcolm." she said sweetly, "Malcolm, dear, run around in the opposite direction, darling. Miss Vinton's afraid you'll make yourself giddy."?Woman's Home Companion. The Most Poi.itk exoi.isjiman.?Mr. Disraeli, after one of his best speeches, left the house with Mr. Montagu Corry. "I was wondering." Mr. Corry afterward confessed, "what a great orator would talk about just after a successful speech. 'Corry.' said Mr. Disraeli. 'do you know how to get into a cab? Very few men know. I was in Vienna once when 1 was a young man, with Prince (lortschakoff and another Englishman, a military man who was there on the same business. " 'A royal carriage was there to conduct us. When we came to it. the Englishman walked straight up to it, and got in with his hack to the horses, flortschakoff said to me. "That is the politest thing I have ever seen an Englishman do. ? Life and Letters of Sir Richard C. Jebb." ittisccllanrous ileatlinp. ! WITH NEIGHBORING EXCHANGES. r News and Comment Gleaned From Within and About the County. 1 CHESTER. Lantern, April -'4: The Southern Kx- , press company has recognized the long and faithful service of Mr. C. H. Brennecke as its agent here by retir- ; ing him on pay. The company will continue to pay him a salary but i makes no further claim upon his ser- 1 vices, and he is at liberty to engage * in any employment he may feel inclined. It is a rare thing that a man serves a corporation faithfully and acceptably and at the same time is so courteous and accommodating to its patrons. We have no doubt that the ; express company has been saved money and trouble here purely on account ; of its patrons' consideration for Mr. Brennecke and his good olfices in ad justing cnnerences Deiuie mcj 6icn ?.*, serious proportions. He invariably acted as the mutual friend of employer and patrons. He worked : neither by the clock nor by the book, . and did whatever he could for the in- ! terest of employer and accommoda- : tion of patrons. We congratulate Mr. ] Brennecke and commend the express j company Mr. Robert Brice of Evans, had a horse killed by a Southern train one night last week. Mr. j Brice had put the horse in the pasture and some one passing through , the pasture left the bars down and [ the horse went out and was grazing I along the track when the train came along and killed it Miss Florence Caldwell returned yesterday afternoon i , from a visit to her sister, Mrs. \V. S. , Hall at GafTney, and other relatives , in Yorkville Messrs. W. It. and < Pinkston Nail had a hair-raising ex- | perience yesterday morning which ( they do not care to have repeated. Mr. Pinkston Nail awoke about 3.30 i o'clock and heard the steps of a man t ad\anee a few steps into his room, j He kept perfectly quiet and the would i be burglar perhaps thinking no one < was in that room turned and went in- t to Mr. VV. R. Nail's room. Mr. Pink- l ston Nail then quietly arose, turned t the light on in his room and got his i pistol out of a drawer. Knowing the < pistol was out of order, he armed him- r self with a pair of tongs and slipped across the hall to his brother's room, i and reaching in he turned on the light t and found himself face to face with f the burglar. The latter threw up his ? hands to shield his identity and Mr. i Nail went at him with the tongs and f broke them over his head and arms, t By that time Mr. W. R. Nail awoke t and came to his brother's assistance 1 and the man, seeing he would be over- 1 powered, ran down the stairs with Mr. j Nail close behind beating him with j his piece of tongs. The man on i reaching the floor grabbed a chair and J raising it said, "Stop, young man." c Mr. Nail halted a second and then the 1 man ran through the sitting room and c out through the window through i which he had entered. The Messrs. I Nail were close behind him and in the t struggle his outer shirt was left in the 1 room. One very peculiar thing about t ?- Via wn? in his nitrht ( UIC UUt &1UI M MO .?v .. ... w clothes and barefooted. Policeman > Williams, who answered the call, ar- t rived on the scene soon after the t would-be burglar left and was able to track him to the new school building, I where it seemed he dressed himself i and going down to Saluda street he ? came up to Main street and his track > was lost about Mr. Owen's store. There ' is some suspicion who the guilty party ' is and the police are working up the 1 case but no arrest has yet been made. < The man was white and clean shaved i and the only mark on the shirt that t was left was a laundry mark. An ex- t amination of the local laundry books ( showed that there was no number to i correspond with it at the laundry \ here. Some one, likely the same man, * was heard around Mr. H. S. Hyman's, i only a few doors farther along the street the same night, but he failed ! to get in. 1 LANCASTER. I News, April 25: Under the call of s their chairman, John D. Dye, the Re- T publicans of Lancaster county held < a convention here Wednesday in the * colored school house. Delegates were 1 elected as follows: To state conven- I tion, to be held in Columbia next 1 Tuesday?John D. Dye. J. D. Satter- *' white; alternates, A. Hudson, J. C. 1 McDonald. District convention, ' which meets in Rock Hill, May 5, ' M. D. Lee. F. R. Massey, L. Watts; ' alternates, J. C. McDonald. A. B. McKenna, J. L. Blackmon. There was ' a lively contest for the positions.... ' Dr. J. H. Eager, financial agent of the ' Babtist Theological Seminary at 1 Louisville, Kv., delivered an intensely ! interesting and scholarly address in ( the First Baptist church here Thursday night. His subject was "Sun- } shine and Shadow of Italy." Dr. ' Eager was a resident in Italy for sixA ?- " ? '1 ' ? 4 L/\??,tiinrUltf fomillor teen years uuu is uiiiinugii^ .ibmuhui with its history and its institutions. His Lancaster audience was charmed with his remarks, and those who fail- 1 ed to attend indeed missed a rare literary treat One of the most dastardly of crimes, that of assassination, was committed in this county j last Wednesday evening. As Mr. J. B. Sims, a well-known farmer of the creek section, was returning home ' from Lancaster, where he had spent . the day. he was fired upon from ant- ( hush by some unknown person. The weapon used was a shot gun loaded with duck shot, the load striking Mr. Sims principally on the left side of ' the body, the shot extending all the way from the hip to the face, one entering the side of his nose and another the cheek, but the most of them hit him about the stomach and chest. He was walking and had his coat off lying across the left arm. which garment probably saved hint front instant death, as it was struck i by a number of the shot, thus breaking their force. The shooting occurred between six and seven o'clock at a point just beyond Gills creek on the , new cut road, about three miles from town, and within 1 r?0 yards of whore , the late Hampton Stogner was fatally shot % by Mr. Sims on the 3rd of last ] February. Mr. Sims was ascending ] the hill beyond the creek and when opposite a narrow strip of bushes or , woods on the left side of the road, in which the assassin was concealed, he was fired upon. Mr. Sims fell when . i shot, and as he did s > he heard his | assailant running awav. The wound- | ed man got up again and tried to , walk, hut soon sank to the ground , and called for help. His cries were j heard by Mr. and Mrs. Albert liob- f erts, who live nearby, and they ( > promptly went to his assistance. Just j i after they reached Mr. Sims the Revi E. O. Thompson, the well-known ( young Baptist minister, came along 1 ill his buggy. The unfortunate man was placed by Mr. Thompson and Mr. Roberts in the buggy, and then taken by Mr. Thompson to the home of Mr. Lafayette Kennington in the neigh- I borhood. where medical and other ' (Mention were given him as soon as possible. Dr. U. <1. Elliott, of Lancaster. was summoned and at once went to the wounded man's bedside. , The next morning Dr. Elliott and Dr. I R. C. Brown went out to see Mr. Sims, and his condition at the time was such that they apprehended his 1 wounds would prove fatal, there being evidences of peritonitis. It was thought that the intestines had been perforated. Later in the day, however, Mr. Sims rallied and showed decidedly mo?-e favorable symptoms. He was reported better yesterday and it is now confidently believed that he will recover. He will be removed to his own home as soon as his condition will warrant the change. A vigorous effort is being made by Sheriff Hunter and others to identify the perpetrator of the foul deed. The night okAAtino- "Fiotaiit\r Sshpriff 1. T. Hunter. Chief of Police W. B. Cauthen and others went to the scene, and again Thursday morning. Sheriff Hunter notwithstanding his enfeebled condition from long sickness, made two trips out there Thursday. Investigations show that the party who did the shooting was standing behind or at a large tree about 12 steps from the point in the road ' where Mr. Sims was shot. Leaves and twigs on the bushes intervening show the effect of the shot. A man's tracks, made by about number seven i shoes, were around and about the tree referred to. Similar tracks were found in some cultivated land nearby. ' As yet there are no tangible clues to the guilty party, but no effort will be spared to discover him and bring bim to justice. CABIN JOHN BRIDGE. Made Famous By Erasure of Name of Jefferson Davis. By the introduction in the house yesterday of a resolution by Representa- 1 live Carl in of Virginia to restore the mine of Jefferson Davis, secretary of tvar, to the great stone arch which ' forms a part of the Washington aqueluet. and which is commonly known is Cabin John bridge, interest is re- ' rived in the circumstances of the cut:ing off of the name, which circum- ' dances are somewhat shrouded with riystery, writes Zach McGhee to the ' Columbia State. Mr. C'arlin's resolu:ion calls upon the war department to 'urnish information to the house as to ' ho mithoritv of the cutting off of this 1 lame and the circumstances of it. He 1 >xpects to follow this up with a bill to ' estore the name. 1 Cabin John Bridge is on the Wash- ! ngton aqueduct, across a little stream, 1 i tributory of the Potomac river, about :even miles from Washington and only t few hundred yards from the Potonac. It was when built and until a 'ew years ago the largest stone arch in he world, being 420 feet in length, with 1 t span of 220 feet. It was begun in 1856. while Jefferson Davis was sec- f etary of war, Franklin Pierce being | resident. On a small stone on the far ide of the arch about half way up the tames of President Pierce. President j refferson Davis, secretary of war, and ne other were inscribed. Who realy designed this bridge is a matter of lispute. A writer in Lippincott's magizine some years ago attributed it to dr. Rives, grandfather or some such dative of Amelia Rives, the novelist, >ut this appears to have been a misake, the real designer being Gen. (then , 7apt.) Montgomery C. Meigs, after vards secretary of war. It appears tlso to have been Gen. Meigs who had he names carved on the bridge. Cabin John Bridge is one of the leasure resorts and sight-seeing points ibout Washington, though it has been ecently turned over to the negroes, ( nade into a pleasure resort for them. . M?r many years it was one of the nost popular resorts about the city, . >eing a beautiful location, at the end 1 f the car line and on the aqueduct , oad. which is a famous automobile horoughfare. A nice hotel was there, vhere the best Maryland cooked spring chickens could be had, all sorts of nerry-go-rounds, whirligigs ferrls 1 vheels, doll babies to throw at, and i <uch things were there, and until the 1 llustrious town Marshal Collins got >usy other various and sundry things '< ire said to have flourished there. The 1 edoubtable Collins .converted the < lace Into a nice place for Sunday school picnics, but somehow the reve- 1 lues fell off and the place was abanloned. It is still a point of interest ' or tourists, though, the sight being ' his bridge. And the most interesting art of tlie bridge seems to be the ' outdated tablet which makes people 1 isk whose name was cut off. Indeed ! iiany have said that the name of Jef- ' "erson Davis is more conspicuous by ' ts absence than it would be by its ' presence. ' Various attempts have been made to ' lave the name restored. not before 1 lowever, by an act of congress. Dif- ] 'erent ones, always southerners, have 1 requested the war department to do ' something about it. and numerous I luestions have been asked as to who i lad tiie name cut off. It has been I supposed by many that Edwin M. Stanton, tlie irascible and bitter sec- i etary of war had it done. Others . lave thought that President Lincoln 1 limself had something to do with it, while the viciousness of Thad Stevens i <? which is usually attributed such ; ids. has come in for its share of cen- < aire no doubt. i Now it happened this way, and so far I is I know, this has not been printed ? aefore: The Washington aqueduct, in- < eluding the bridge, was for several t\m wofho nnntrnl 1 > fU I VIUI lllf) UIV ?U| MMMV. V x ^x,..?.w? lot of the war department, which had '< its hands full of other matters, but of | the interior department. Caleb Smith ' >f Massachusetts was a short time, i 1861-62, secretary of the interior. Soon tfter he came into office, not long after the bridge was completed, flalusha Brow of Pennsylvania, who had been ( speaker of the house, having visited i the bridge, came back fiery mad and told Smith that the name of Jefferson Ha vis was on the bridge and that it might to be cut off. Smith ?iuite agreed ind ordered a young man by the name nf Mclnt.vre, to do it. Melntyre got a , chisel and mullet, climbed up on a lad- < iler and cut off the name. There nev- 1 cr was any official order issued, and there is no official record of it. Smith : had no right to order the mutilation of the tablet, except that same right by I which the present speaker of the house, < your Cncle Joe, for instance, adjourns the house without recognizing a demand for a vote, the right of might. Cncle Joe has the gavel, and that , young man Melntyre had the chisel. , The name can not be restored as it was except by making stone letters ] imi cementing them on. which would < he a difficult task. A new tablet could | he made, but very few hereabouts care < very much about it. Confederates, de- | icendnnts <>f Confederates and of Confederate sympathizers of which the } ?reat majority of people in Washington ( consist would rather leave the mutila- > ion there as a monument to the vi- j iousness as well as the stupidity of ( heir enemies. , PENALTY OF DISHONESTY Han Who Is Let Off Does Not Always Go Free. CONSCIENCE A RELENTLESS ACCUSER. Just as Virtue Is Its Own Reward, So Also Vice Carries Its Own Punishment?The Law and the Higher Law. Bailey Millard In Saturday Evening Post. A disgraceful thing had happened, and the old financier was unspeakably shocked and humiliated. His son had just slunk out of his presence after admitting that he had dipped into the funds of a trust company in which he was interested and had misappropriated fifty-thousand dollars, which he had sunk in the "Street." "They have discovered the shortage at the bank," the young man had said. "They suspect me, and I'm in for it. Can't you see the manager and head 'em off? If you don't, they'll land me in jail." The father had looked his son harshly out of his gray-browned eyes and said: "That's what they ought to do. You should be made to take your medicine: but for your mother's sake, and for the sake of my business reputation, I'll seek the bank people and find out what can be done." And so now, before putting on his hat and going to the bank, the old man was sitting alone in his private office, leaning over his desk, chin in hand, thinking. It was the most gloomy hour of his life. In this terribly depressed state he thought of many things?of his son's extravagance, of his gambling escapades, and how his mother would grieve if she were to know of this latest and greatest misdoing. But there was one vital, one essential thing that never occurred to the old financier, and that was that he himself, in his long, predatory, business career, had, over and over again, come so closely within the limits of the law and, over and over again, had so overstepped all moral bounds in his eager clutch for gold, that if there was anything in heredity, as all students of biological phenomena declare there is, then this son was but the blundering follower of his father's ethical code. But this idea did not enter his head. One grat element in the situation dominated all others?the likelihood of his son's prosecution and of that far greater evil?publicity. Yes. he must go at once and "square the thing up." He ordered his auto and in five minutes was at the bank. "I'm awfully sorry," said the manager, "but the affair is all out of our hands now. A warrant has just been issued for pour son's arrest. The surety people insisted upon it. It's too bad, but we bad to do it." Arrest! Never?though he had richly deserved it a score of times? bad this worthy manipulator of shady bond issues, stock-watering jobs and other piratical schemes, been arrested. "Oh, but you can recall the warrant," he pleaded with the manager. 'I'll square it." He produced his checkbook. "I'll square the whole imount and interest this minute. You mustn't prosecute him you know." "Very, very sorry," said the maniger. "But, you see, the surety company who bonded him wouldn't stand for it. It's an object to them to prosecute. The moral effect, you know. It's a matter of business with them." "Hang the moral effect! He's got :o be let off, do you hear? If you ivon't do it, I'll go to the president, *?-? ! oil fhn /I i if nPPftSSarV." The Rich Man's Way of Saving His Son. The old man left the bank in a rage Tor having wasted his time on a mere manager, and sought the president, who was an old business friend of his. They had stood in together on many i deal. The president hemmed and flawed. Yes, he would be glad to jblige him. But it was a hard case to straighten out. The surety company? "Oh, come with me to Mac's office," urged the anxious father. We'll fix it up with him." Mac was the president of the surely company, and, when the matter was laid before hi/n, he, too, was very sorry. Of course, he had something to say about the "moral effect," and that it was really against the rules of he institution and all that; but, if th shortage were made good at once, he would waive these considerations. 1 was made good. The president telephoned to his manager to recall the warrant and stop all proceedings, and the old financier went back to his ofliee, lighter of heart because of the removal of the blot, but still in a thoughtful mood. "It would have served the young rascal right if he had been sent to jail," he said; "but we simply couldn't have that." So the young rascal, instead of being sent to jail, was sent to Kurope to join the select company of exiled sons of wealthy Americans?the luxurious refugees who fly over the continent in the swiftest touring-cars, yet can never run away from the pursuing wraith Df hereditary habit. Of course, everybody in the business world came to know of the hushed-up affair about which nobody was supposed to know a word; and none was shocked, because the young man had ilone just about what all the wiseheads had predicted he would do. The professional point-giver, who had profited by the young fellow's dishonesty, eager for another chance at him, started the usual saying that what he had done was "more an error of judgment than a breach of faith, " and when this wise apothegm had gone the rounds for a few weeks, with the usual expressions of sympathy for the young man and his family, and when, niter a year, me nau-iorgouen ana lime-vindicated prodigal returned from Kurope, he was given a high-salaried place in his father's employ, where he is being taught safer but no less dishonest methods of making away with other people's money. Wealth a Protection Against Punishment. Here we have the man who is let [iff. in the big financial and commercial centres all over the country they will tell you that there are a great many of them, and that the more wealth he has accumulated, or is surrounded by, the less likelihood there will be of his ever being punished for Ills crime. Trust-violating sins, as we have <een in many newspaper pages luring the past few years, are ?o plated with gold that often he strong lance of justice is not iven pointed at them. We have had tinny examples of this, looming like the Bartholdi statue, in both the railroad and trust company plundering^ where the looters feel so secure in their looting that, when a valiant president utters a protest against them, the colossal, yet self-assured, righteous malefactors compel the unwitting sympathy of much of the business world by what virtually amounts to the plea that unless they, the said malefactors, are permitted to keep their feet in the trough, there must he panics and planetary disturbances. As if we, the most lenient people on earth?a natural-born race of "corneous," as every shady promoter, every man with a scheme, every bucketshop broker, every wire-tapper, bookmaker and shell-game operator in the whole country knows?needs any further instructions in the gentle art of how to be held up gracefully and smilingly, how to turn the other cheek and to encourage our defrauders by letting them go scot-free and scatheless! The man who is let off. I wonder if the people realize to what a tremendously, and to what a viciously, wide extent he is let off. Take New York, where the money is and where the predatory band flocks at its thickest. Nearly every day one sees headlines parading the sickening fact that a trusted manager has embezzled so many thousands of dollars, or the officer of a bank or other institution has misappropriated so many hundreds of thousands, or, what is just as felonious and more degrading in its effect, that a man of "high finance" has put through a shady bond issue on a real or paper railroad, or so irrigated his stock as to make two or more shares grow where one grew before, and thereby garnered millions. How many of these men are convicted and sent to prison? The great mass of them get off, and nearly all, with occasional exceptions, are still doing business at the old stand. "I fear that the tendency not to prosecute is growing," admitted the officer of one of the big New York surety companies to me the other day. "Of course, this is dead against our own office principles; but, where the amount of our bond is made good, what can we do against capitalistic clamor that the case be dropped? There are many men in high positions of trust in this city today whom no surety company would dream of bonding. How are they bonded? By private individuals of great wealth with whom they have direct business dealings, and who, for their own peculiar reasons, are willing to take the risk. Wherever it is possible we don't wait for a man to become dishonest before we strike him off our list. "We always regard the son of very Hnh nnrpnts with snecial distrust. We watch him carefully and, as soon as he exhibits sporting tendencies, which most of them do sooner or later, we eliminate him. We will have no hard drinkers, no gamblers. We do not prefer men who belong to dozens of clubs or fraternities, nor good fellows generally. Such a man is not a good risk. Very often the more friends he has the weaker he Is morally. He relies upon them to help him out of trouble. He rallies them to his aid to make up a deficit. That kind of tiring is bad for us. Our policy, which should be the public policy, is to prosecute; and misguided friends and relations often make it hard for us by helping such a man, and really, though they don't seem to know it, they are compounding a felony. "What proportion of defaulters get into public print? A small one?not thirty per cent. What proportion of public defaulters go to prison? Not ten per cent. Even where a man is prosecuted for embezzlement, the tendency of the jury is to let him off. The yearly losses of all bonding companies would be much smaller if there were more prosecutions. Besides, we want to see the malefactors in jan Decause they deserve it. But too many of them are let off." i he Big Thief Too Often Escapes. In New York, as is shown by the records of District Attorney Jerome's office, the big thief nearly always goes free. Of 3274 cases of grand larceny ?under which head come the embezzlements?in the years 1905 and 1906, there were only three cases of conviction in which the sum named in the records was fifty thousand dollars or over. The great mass of other convictions was for the stealing of sums ranging from one hundred dollars to one thousand dollars. Your big thief, even where the law lays its hands upon him, gets offl;your little thief is likely to go to jail. But even the little offender's chances are good?better than two to one. For of 11,037 cases of grand larceny reported by the chief clerk of the district attorney of New York for the seven years ended December 31, 1906, there were 6,637 cases acquitted, discharged or dismissed, and there were only 4,400 convictions. The fact that there have been a few more convictions for embezzlement in 1907 than in the previous year in nearly all the large cities, is merely the result of there having been a much greater number of embezzlements, and does not mark a growing tendency to prosecute, as some misinformed writers seem to think. Any person who speaks with full knowledge of the situation will say that there is no such tendency, save in the cases of boodling public officers, and those of the trust officials who have been fined for receiving railroad rebates. How many presidents of trust companies who have loaned millions of their depositors' money to themselves are now languishing in prison cells? And here it is well to note the significant fact that not three months after the occurence of the deplorable affair in which the son of the financier whose troubles were related in the beginning of this article was sent to Europe, instead of to jail, for stealing fifty thousand dollars, a young collector in that same financier's employ, who had helped himself to a hundred and fifty dollars of the firm's money, was convicted and sentenced to four years in the state prison. How do you, reader, who luckily live a thousand miles from Wall street, suppose that such examples of the making of fish of this big crime and flesh of that small one are regarded by the sleek gentlemen who do business there? Such a man solemnly told me across a tabic in a cafe the other day, when I discussed the matter with him, that it would have been a keener disgrace for the high-salaried financier's son to have gone to jail than it was for the collector. "How keener? I asked. "Are they not both human beings, presumedly endowed with like sensibilities?" "I admit that they are both human, and it is natural for you to argue that both are capable of about the same degrees of suffering, according to tem perament. But just consider the <1 if- h ference in their situations in life; how far reaching would have been the p consequences In the case of the young c financier and how limited those In o the case of the collector! By going o to prison the millionaire's son would t have disgraced not only himself, his a father and mother, but his father's business associates and those of his c awn; and think of the matter of pres- t tige Involved on the side of the finan- j clal misdoer! The collector had no > prestige to lose." j Such is actually one Wall street < point of view! It naturally follows a f long course of training in the devious methods of the market. It is the fruit ( of that tree of abnormally luxuriant 1 growth of which to eat is to make one i lose one's sense of ethical proportion i and of wholesome old-fashioned copybook morality. Once the man of high 1 finance has admitted that the disgrace i is all in going to prison he admits what 1 has been vicariously stated for him a 1 thousand times over; but when he holds that the disgrace is keener be- > cause the disgraced man is rich and in- 1 volves other rich men in his downfall (bear in mind that by "downfall" is i not meant the crime, but the punishment of it), he has entered upon a < hopeless phase of the philosophy of fl- i nance, and we see that our moral train i has carried us past our station and ' dumped us out in the dark. This is rather a long and perhaps, brutal sen- i tence. but it states the case; and what i is the good of mincing matters? i What my financial friend said in elu- 1 cidation of his position?which is that f of so many of his fellows?was charac- < teristic. J "You speak of human suseeptlbll- 1 ity," lie said. "You want a eompar- ? ison. I<et me tell you something: I ( happen to know that the subway tick- I et-sellers of New York are all under 1 bonds of three to five thousand dollars t each. They are, for the most part, t honest, high-moraled men. but there t are also many dishonest men among c them. Why? Because the' subway t Is a great whispering gallery, and up ? and down the length of the big tube . runs a constant undertone among the q men who handle the money?over two thousand dollars a day at some of the big stations?as to how this or that fingerer of multitudinous nickels has 'beaten the company.' In the course of time, these whisperings and ( this discussion come to have their effect upon many employees. The 1 company becomes a colossal cash * register to some of these men and e they are imbued with a single idea? 'How can we beat it?' When this idea of beating the company gets into ' the head of a man, you can readily ' understand where it will lead him. r And it is the same on the elevated j roads and the surface lines, and not only in New York but in every other great city in the country. It Is a sort * of game, this 'beating the company,' < and the men who engage in it become f reckless, defiant, insolent." f "On the other hand," I suggested, "you have in Wall street bigger men 1 engaged in a bigger game, no less 1 dishonest, but who regard being jailed as a deep and lasting disgrace, j and who claim, in nearly every case, the privilege of being let off." "Oh, you don't see the point!" he ' declared petulantly. "Lett's talk about something else." But I am convinced that I did see the point and still see it, and the point is that the same reasoning is no longer applied by too many to the dishonest man who handles other 1 people's dollars that Is applied to the ] man who handles other people's nick- j els; that the dollar man is protected i and upheld by an ingeniously wide- ? spread and constantly growing sym- t pathy among his fellows and a public t that fears panics and accepts many f things rather than to undergo them, ' while the nickel man receives no such f sympathy. Of course, this is only a new way 1 of restating an old condition, but it is t a condition which has of late years become more and more far-reaching 1 and deep-seated in this country. In England and Germany the man who is let off is a rare being and he Is let off only for a very good reason. . But wealth, position in society and in | business, and particularly the position in which the defaulter is able to implicate others not yet found out, poor reasons as they are, are often reasons < enough on this side of the water. The * culprit goes free and continues to hold up his head, as much as to say, ^ "I'm a part of the financial system of ] this country and you can't down me." j Is not some part of that insolence al- 1 leged by my Wall street friend as being the property of ticket-choppers j and nickel-rakers reflected here, or s have the men of those humbler walks ? of life a monopoly of it? Did you ' mark what the surety officer said j about the rich man's son? "We always regard him with dis- \ trust." Is it strange, therefore, with * this feeling in the minds of the most J conservative of business men, that, ( when the son of the millionaire makes a man of himself, the world ? regards him as a novel and curious I ? spectacle? In rare cases the man of finance t who violates a great trust and is let t off does not make a man of himself. c I know of an example where a reckless scion of plutocracy who made N away with nearly two hundred thous- v and dollars and sunk it in "the Street" managed, by strained effort, ? to rally his friends about him, to secure loans to the amount of his embezzlement and to beg off his threat- j ened prosecutors. Straightway, that particular gilded youth awoke, went ? west, and engaged in a legitimate lumber business, where he prospered, paid up and has been as honest as they make 'em ever since. 6 But, as a rule, this standing by a r defaulter is a sorry business. It bol- s sters up boodlery. But in a high and worthy sense? a sense in which mere priggishness c has nothing to do?the men who go s u to jai! receive no worse punishment * than those who keep out of it. Aside j from newspaper stings and storms, A and public criticism of all kinds, jj which sometimes cause fatal mental t anguish, aside from the mere matter u of conscience (for that, in time, may '1 become callous), consider the fate of ^ the financial malefactor who is never (j prosecuted. Never prosecuted? He 1< is prosecuted every day, every hour of his life, by that steadily fattening n and always coarsening demon of de- 1 generacy that is slowly pulling him down. The fact that he may not be ^ conscious of his miserable fate, or tl that his friends in the same pirate's t< boat with him overlook it. argues ' nothing. His depravity is there, and every discerning eye can see it, and Sl can see, too, that his sins will be vis- u ited upon his children even unto the third and fourth generation. v So that the man who is let off?be s ie multi-millionaire or bookkeeper? ? not let off. He is "let in" for a lunishment as bad as that of the anient stocks. He is caught, and the iftener he escapes from the clutches if our absurd system of penalty, the ighter is he gripped and squeezed nd strangled. In this connection I am reminded >f what old John Muir, the moun- ' aineer and nature-lover, once said to 1 ( i multi-millionaire. The financier ( vas on board a steamer, and had i lust heard Muir, who is no respecter ' >f persons, discoursing on the evils of ; treat wealth. "Yes," said the financier, at the i dose of it. "but every man wants to 1 )e rich?to be a millionaire. You , vant to be one yourself. Mr. Muir, : ind you know it." The old mountaineer, who is satisled with a diet of dry bread and tea .vhen off exploring Alaskan glaciers, ooked at the multi-millionaire out of lis frank gray eyes and said: "No, I can honestly say that I don't ,vant to be one of you men of milions." "Why?" asked the financier incred- ! ilously. 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