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it A -X THE LUCKY PURCHASE! The foreman looked frankly dis gusted. "I think it's a lot better to let him go quietly, and at once. Per haps the other fellpw had better go, too. But it's all around by now, I haven't a doubt. That 'con' can't live it down." "You seem to think that% I shall keep him on,' said the superintend ent, laughing. "Perhaps it will not be the best thing. But really, Swift, what I want to do is to take time enough to find out what is the wisest course, considering the man himself.' You know that he is a good work man." "Yes, Mr. Rowland, none better." Early the next morning Daley came to the office. He was a big, black bearded fellow, neither young nor old. He had a slouch, and eyes that locked up their own secrets. The superintendent studied him in tently, but invisibly he liked the man at once. "Daley," he said, "your foreman says we have no better workman on the job." Surprise glimmered a little in his eyes, and was banked at once he had expected a very different salute. "Now, Daley, I like you myself," and I believe that you have had a hard sort of a fight since you were a boy." "Yis, sor, Oi hav," the man replied, fully on guard. "So have I," said the superinten dent. "I had to leave school and take care of my mother and sisters. I did all sorts of things. I was awfully tempted to go wrong, but somehow I didn't, though lots of bet ter fellows that I grew up with got of the track. Some of them worked back again, and some did not try quite hard enough. "Thin," said Daley, with a little twist in his voice, "ye think a man tfyat runs crooked can get on the track again?" "I do of course I do," the super intendent replied. "There's none knows it, sor," said Daley, 'but I served me time for theft. Folve year it was. An' mo wife died. Oi hov a 'bhoy in school, an' he is that innocent about it all. Nivir cu'd I tell him. Now, it is loikly ye'll fire me. Noine toimes this lasht two year thot has happen'd. I kape on at it bekase of the bhoy." The superintendent did everything his own way he was ever a law unto himself He rose, drew a chair close, sat down by Daley, put a hand out on his. "It's all right, my friend. You' ought to be a happy man, because when you did wrong, society found you out, and made you pay the price. You have paid it fully. No one has any right to stick outside expense charges on you, Mike." Daley looked at the superintendent. Something new and more 'wonderful than words could describe came up out of the depths of his eyes, and gazed at Rowland. Its name was Hope. "My friend," said the superinten dent, "I mean it all. Go to that shelf, and borrow any books you want. Come •in and talk them over with me. You have 'ability now study hard, and climb up." He shook hands with Daley and sent him ^ack to his work with the request: "Please tell Mr. Swift to come in at noon." Mike Daley went out, in a sort of trembling rebirth, and entered the world of men. "Twicst he called me his friend, twicst!" he whispered under his breath. Swift came in at noon, and the su perintendent took him into the Inner office, looked at him thoughtfully, questioned ,within himself where to begin. "I want to tail you about some- Of a $62,000 stock of merchandise for $34,000 cash means A REAL SALE at this store of Fall and Winter Clothing, Shoes and Furnishings. Here are just five of the hundreds of bar gains in Men's and Young Men's Suits and Overcoats we are offering, made from the best fabrics, and have a style that only the genius of masters can create and incorporate in clothing. Men's and Young Men's Suits made to retail at $10.50— at Men's and Suits—worth $28.00, at $5.75 Young Men's $14.50 $10.50 Over coats, at CUT PRICE STORE 123 West Superior Street "He is a jail-bird, that fellow Mike Daley. Served time for theft. I only heard of it tonight. I'll fire him in the morning." The speaker was the foreman of a construction crew, and the listener was the superintendent. A big com pany was building a reservoir, which involved roads, mills and all sorts of things. "Now, Swift, I know just how you feel about it. Suppos# you say noth ing more, but send him to me. And how did you pick this up? From one of the new men?" "Yes." "Well, send the 'ex' to me in the morning, and send the fellow who told you in the afternoon. I want to try an experiment." THE MAN WHO HAD GONE WRONG BY CHARLES H. SHINN. $5.75 $9.50 $14.50 $20.00 Over coats, at $28.00 Over coats, at Money Cheerfully Refunded thing which happened a great many years ago, Swift, back in Hartford. There was a boy there who became dissipated, fell under the influence of a bad woman, and—and, Swift, he finally stole quite a lot of money. Then his older brother, who was your own father, came along, and paid the money, hushed it all up, put the youngster at hard work out west, and made a splendid man of him. "All that is gospel truth," said Swift, "but how in heaven's name did you know about it?" "The man he stole the money from did not keep his promise not to tell. It became known to a number of people. 'That scoundrel ought to have been thrashed," cried Swift, in rage. "Certainly," said the superinten dent, going op to draw the deadly parallel with the case of poor Daley, and finally sending him out a firm ally in the cause. Before Swift left the man who had told on Daley came in. The superin tendent neglected him a while, watched and studied him, then sud denly turned loose: "Malby," he said, "how long did 3'ou serve?" "Six—no, sir. Never!" "Where was it?" said the superin tendent, overriding the denial. The man told him, yielding to the inevit able. "That's where you heard of my friend Mike Daley, then?" "Yes." "Well, don't you feel just a little mean about all this? Mike is a bet ter man than you are." Malby began a series of voluble protestations and explanations. "It was an accident it won't happen again." The superintendent turned to Swift: "Send this man to the other end of the reservoir. If he talks any more about any of his fellow workers on this job, fire him quick. If he be haves, give him just the same sort of a square deal that the rest are hav ing." "Come on, Malby." said Swift. —The Public. THE VAMPIRES. (As suggested by the painting by Philip Burne-Jones.) A fool there was and he made his prayer (Even as you and I!) To a rag and bone and a hank of hair (We called her the woman who did not care). But the fool he called her hl9 lady fair (Even as you and I!) On the years we waste and the tears we waste And the work of our head and hand Belong to the woman who did not know (And now we know that she never could know) And did not understand. A fool there was and his goods he spent (Even as you and I!) Honor and faith and a sure intent (And it wasn't the least that the lady meant), But a fool must follow his natural bent (Even as you and I!) Oh the toil we lost and the spoil we lost And the excellent things we planned Belong to the woman who didn't know why (And nojv we know she never knew why) And did not understand. The fool was stripped to his foolish (Even as you and I!) Which she might have seen when she threw him aside— But it is n't on record the lady tried So some of him lived but the most of him died— (Even as you and I!) And it isn't the shame and it isn't the blame That' stings like a white-hot brand. (It's coming to know that she never knew why) (Seeing at last she could, never know why) And never could understand. —Rudyard Kipling.. V"t ". Malthus, the great economist, said that the time would undoubtedly come when it would not be possible to supply the world with sufficient food because, while the population was growing in geometrical propor tions, food could be produced only in arithmetical ratios. How was he to know that a famous president of the United States would one day seri-. ously discuss the question of race suicide, and that another man, whose name has become almost equally fa mous, would invent a wonderful har vesting machine which has revolu tionized agricultural life and prac tice. The problem of the city is by no means a modern one. Nevertheless, the factors which make the city of the twentieth century possible are of recent origin. The same causes which account for the rapidly grow ing American cities are responsible for the growth of the cities in for eign lands, for the problem of the city is world-w,ide. The modern city is the product of the newer civiliza tion. It is the out growth of econom ic and social conditions from which there is no turning back. In 1800 there were six cities in the United States with a population of 8,000 and over, as follows: Philadel phia, New York, Baltimore, Boston, Charleston and Salem, these cities having a combined population of about 200,000, or less than the total population of Portland, Oregon, which ranks twenty-eighth among the cities of this country. In 1910 there were 2,405 places of 2,500 inhabi tants or more in the United States, which were counted as "urban" or "city", having a combined popula tion of 42,623,383, or 46.3 per cent as against a rural population of 49, 348, 883, or 53.7 per cent of the total population. Men live in cities because they can drain vast areas of surrounding farm lands of their products. Petty's 35 mile limit no longer holds. London today eats grain which was grown in Manitoba. The- milk supply area of our. great cities covers several hun dred miles. SERIES ON AMERICAN SOCIAL AND REUGIOUS PROBLEMS—THE PROBLEM OF THE CITY BY CHARLES STEUZLE. It requires a fool or a philosopher to prophesy what a generation may bring forth, and one may be about aa trustworthy as the other in the matter of venturing an opinion as to the future of the city. It was a titled statistician who reasoned th?it a city's food supply could not be brought from a greater distance than 35 miles, bec&use this was the trav eling distance of cattle, and that this fact would set the bounds of a city's growth." Sir William Petty argued that if London continued to double its population every 40 years, while England doubled its population only once in 360 years, obviously the men on the farms could not possibly sup ply the city with provisions, as in hiB day, it required one man on the farm for every man in the city. The trou ble with Petty was that he based his conclusions upon the supposition that all the factors involved would remain as they were. Tljis is a common fault with many modern socialoglsts. Whatever other causes there may he—rand there are many which we cannot enumerate—the social factor is one of the most important with ref- AT THE LYCEUM SOUSA HERE SUNDAY. After having received the praises of the greatest critics throughout the world, Sousa and his band found the keynote of popularity sounded by a writer in one of our prominent west ern cities, who said, in reviewing a concert: "While the regular numbers of the program were excellent, every one of them, it was the encbre num bers which provided the real thrill of the evening. They were made up of the works of Mr. Sousa which swept the country in a wave of tremendous popularity from time to time during the past years. It is safe to assume MISS VIRGINIA ROOT With Sousa's Band. that when the "Stars and Stripes For ever," "King Cotton," "Manhattan Beach," and "El Capitan," were played, some festive occasion was re called, an occasion which had been rendered gala through the giving of these same numbers by some other band. No organization, however, can play Sousa's music like Sousa's own, and a veritable tempest of applause greeted the conclusion of each of these favorites, recalling happy days in the past." The same John Philip Sousa, the same Sousa's band, and the same three soloists, Miss Virginia Root, soprano, Miss Nlcoline Zedeler, violinist, and Herbert L. Clarke, cornetlst, who made the tour of the world, will be here, at the Lyceum, on Sunday mat inee and night Oct. 20. THE LABOR WORLD erence to the development of the city. The city'-provides 'better.. educational facilities than does the country. Rre reation life is more advantageous. Standards of living1 are higher. The hours of labor are shorter. There is a better opportunity for social life, tfhese have a strong tendency to draw the country man to the City and to keep' the city man ther«. The cities will unquestionably dominate the nation. What is to be the character of the city in 1920 when It will govern all the people? What will happen when the city„out-votes the country? It seems almost Incredible that the grossest forms of immorality should be protected In the first city in America through unscrupulous police officers who are commissioned and maintained to eradicate the evil, but have permitted a corrupt ring to ga)n control of bur municipal life. The average cltisen isViconcerned only when the evil Bom^thow creeps over into his lot. He Is"not at all inter ested even though the corruption is eating out the heart of the city's life, provided that it does not seem to Injure him. This is one of the gravest perils of the city. We have permitted land specula tors to build our cities for us—men who are Interested in their own gain and nothing else. The greatest feerll of the city Is not the tenement dwellers. The greatest peril is the smug, self-satisfied middle-class, which is quite content with itself and with things as they are. They act as clogs in the wheels of progress These are the people who must be aroused to a sense of their own personal re sponsibility. "OUR" WILSON SPEAKS ON LABOR'S PROGRESS DUBUQUE, Iowa, Oct. 17.—Con gressman W. B. Wilson, familiarly called "our" Wilson, delivered an ad dress in this city last week. Mr. Wilson is chairman of the la bor committee of the house of repre sentatives, and delivered one of the most interesting addresses ever given in this city. Information relative to the achieve ments of the labor group in congress was a revelation to the people not di rectly affiliated with labor organiza tions, and even to union members, they, too, being agreeably surprised when Mr. Wilson enumerated the number- of measures favorable to la bor which passed the house of rep resentatives. Those who heard Mr. Wilson's ad dress were unanimous in their opin ion that he is one of the big, broad, and able men in congress. SECRETARY MORRISON CHEERS STRIKERS WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.—Secretary Morrison of the American* Federation of Labor, addressed a large meeting of the strikers against the piano manufacturing factories in New York city on Oct. 8. For some time the officials of the Piano workers have been organizing these, employes, but the companies refused to enter into negotiations with the organized -men, and the strike is now in progress. 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