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By George Ade. 1906, by George Ade O(Copyrighr N THE morning of our hurried pack up and get away from Luxo we lost Mr. Peasley. It was a half hour before the sailing of the boat, and we were attempting to lock trunks, call in the porters, give directions as to forwarding mail and tip eveiybody except the proprietor all at the same time. This excruciating crisis comes with every departure. The fear of missing the boat,the lurking suspicion that sev eral articles have been left the lower drawers or under the sofa, the dread of o^ erlooking some worthy menial who is entitled to baksheesh, the uneasy con viction that the bill contains several o\ oreharges-*-all these combine to pro duce a mental condition about half way between plain "rattles" and female hysteria. And then, to add to the hoiror of the situation, Mr. Peasley had disappeared. All hands were neededone to boss the porters, another to round up the tippees, another to audit the charges for "extras," another to make a final search for razor strops and hot water bags (of which we had left a trail from Chicago to Cairo). Instead of attending to these really important duties we were loping madly about the hotel looking for Mr. Peasley. We a^ked one another why we had invited him to ioin the party. We called him all the names we had invented on the trip to fit his unusual personality. One of these was a "flat-headed fush I don't know what a "fush" is, but the more you study it and repeat it over to vourself the more horrible becomes the full significance of the word. Also we called him a "swozzie," which means a chump who has gone on and on, exploring the furthermost regions of idiocy, until even his most daring companions are left far behind. We called Mr Peasley a "wall-eyed spmgo," the latter being a mullet that has lost all sense of shame. Ordinary abuse and profanity became weak and ineffective when pitted against words of this scathing nature. Header, if you have a lifelong friend and you feel reasonably sure that you never could quarrel with him or be out of patience with him or find fault with any of his small peculiarities, go on a long trip with him in foreign lands. You will be together so much of the time that finally each will begin to hate the sight of the other. There will come off days, fraught with petty annoy ances, when each will have a fretful desire to hurl cameras and suitcases at his beloved playmate. Suppose your lifelong friend has some little eccen tricity of manner or speech, some slight irregularity of behavior at the table or a perverted and stubborn con viction which reveals itself in every controversy. You may have over looked this defect for years because you met him only at intervals, but when you begin to camp with him you dis cover every one of his shining faults. And how they do get on your nerves! Next to matrimony, perhaps, traveling together is the most severe test of com patibility. We liked Mr. Peasley. Looking back over the trip, we can well believe that the expedition would have been rather tame if deprived if his cheering presence. But he was so full of initia tive and so given to discovering by ways of adventure that he was always breaking in on the program and start ing little excursions of his own. He was a very hard man to mobilize. If we had solemnly agreed to get to gether for luncheon at 1 o'clock, three of us would be waiting at the food gar age while Mr. Peasley would be a mile away, trying to buy a $4 Abyssinian war shield for $2.75. And where do you suppose he was on the morning we were making our fren zied departure from Luxor We found him in the barber shop, having his hair cut' A native stood alongside of him, By Helen Grey. Specia Correspondence ^he Journal. DlENVERhaJuneofn22awakenedbyn 1' TRUSTS PLOT AGAINST FRIEND OF CHILDREN So much in terest bee i all portions of the country the movement to make national the Juven ile Improvement league which was in augurated by Judge Beniamin Lindsey of Denver, and which has for its ob ject the improvement of conditions of the child laborer in every city and in every business", that something of the difficulties and obstructions which Have been placed in the way of Judge Lind sey by enemies of the "juvenile laws will show to what extent these enemies will go in order to continue their grip on the lives of the little people. There is scarcely a trust or corpora tion in the United States that is not directly affected by the iuvenile laws. Taking the children out of the. mills, the factories, the mines, the retail stores, the fruit canneries and the beet fields, of the twenty-three states that have passed the new iuvenile laws dur ing the last four years has been a se rious loss in dividends. The trusts are not asleep. They do not sit by and see their losses without making all the op position possible to the work of Judge Lindsey. It is no longer politic to $ openly oppose him, for Judge Lindsey is become too popular. He is inde pendent of the political machine and when he wants anything he appeals directly to the people and gets what he NA SIZEU brushing away the flies. The barber, a curly Italian, had ceased work when we came in, and, encouraged by the questions of Mr. Peasley, was describ ing the Bay of Naples, pointing out Capri, Sorento, Vesuve and other points of interest, with a comb in one hand and a pair of scissors in the other. This barber had made an indelible im pression on Mr. Peasley, because of his name, which was Signor Mosquito. Mr. Peasley said he didn't see how anyone with a name like that could live. We lined up in front of Mr. Peasley and gazed at him in withering silence. He was not feazed. "Talk about oriental luxury," he said. "Little did I think twenty years ago, when I was measurin' un bleached muslin and drawin' New Or leens syrup in a country store, that one day I'd recline on a spotted divan and have a private vassal to keep the flies off of me. To say nothing of bein' waited on by Signor Mosquito." I tried to hold down the safety valve of my wrath. We have just Held a meetings and by unanimous yote we have decided that you are an irresponsible fush, a night-blooming swozzie and a vitrified spingo," I said. "Thanks," he replied. "I'll do as much for you some time." Are you aware of the fact that the boat departs in twenty minutes," asked No. 2. The boat will not leave its mooring until Peasley, of Iowa, is safely aboard,'' he replied. Why is it that you fellows begin to throw duek fits every time we have to catch a boat or train? Kindly send my luggage aboard, and as soon as Signor Mosquito has concluded his amputations I shall join you.'' Judge Lindsey, Father of Juvenile Improvement League, Constantly Menaced by Interests That Profit by Their Grip on Lives of the Little People. fr fr fr Words failed us. We hurried to the boat, feeling reasonably certain that he would follow us to Assouan by rail. When it came time to cast off, Mr. he is doing. The efforts of the trusts are directed to in-juring his reputation and to disparaging his work, both in secret. One has some idea of the power of the trusts in seeing them hold onto the children in the cotton mills, not withstanding all the malodorous investi gations of the twelve-hour tasks of the little day and night workers. The chil dren are still in the cotton mills, but no one can draw his dividend from them without smelling of the blood of the children. wants. .But it is not a simple thing i mill that took their little children, too. The Hatred of the Trusts. It was his fining and imprisoning the owner of the Denver cotton mill that first brought down on Judge Lindsey the hatred of the cotton trust, and was the beginning of the organized effort to stop his career.* The cotton mill at Denver -employed hundreds, of little children It was so far frdm the cot ton fields that the children's work was an important item in offsetting the cost of bringing the cotton to Denver. The children born in the south suffered ter ribly in the northern winter of the high altitude, with their long hours of day and night work fed as they were to the lowest stage of vitality on food that paid its dividend to the company stores. The "mill marriage" of the south, so far from home and acquaintances, was not prevalent and the immature moth ers were that much more tied to the in Whic Illustrates to Ade and Others the Futility of Hast/1%! Tells the Folk! at Home of the Superiority of Iowa to the Land of the Pyramids and Ancient Tombs. Peasley had not appeared, and our irritation was gradually softening unto a deep joy. The warning whistle blew twice, and then Mr. Peasley came down the bank, carrying a Nubian spear eight feet long over his shoulder. By the time he had arrived on the upper deck the gangplank was drawn and we were swinging in the current. He bestowed on us a cool smile of triumph and then removed his hat. His hair had been given a shellac finish and smelled ^ike the front of a drug store. "Signor Mosquito is well named," said Mr. Peasley. "When he got thru with me he stung me for 15 piasters." Fpr^several hours we refused to speak to him or sit near him on deck, but finally we needed him to fill out a four-handed game of dominoes and he was taken back on probation. While we were engaged in a very stubborn session of "double nines" we noticed that most of our fellow passengers, and "BOYS, IT'-S flUNDAYI' especially those of English persuasion, were making our little group the target for horrified glances. Some of them actually glared at us. We began to wonder if dominoes was regarded as an immoral practice in Egypt. "These people keep on looking at us as if we were a happy band of burg- lars," said Mr. Peasley. "We think we are traveling incog, but our repu tation has preceded us. Then we heard one old lady ask an other if there would be any evening services in the dining saloon, and Mr. Peasley, who was reaching into the "bone yard," suddenly paused with his hand up and exclaimed: "Sancti fied catfish! Boys, it's Sunday'" It was. We had been sitting there among those nice people thruout the calm Sabbath afternoon playing a wicked game of "draughts," After two weeks among the Mohammedans and other heathen, with every day a The first day Judge Lindsey was sure his new juvenile laws would hold he sent a loner list of old offenders to the police asking for arrests. Scarcely a name ori the list was not of a man or woman who was "taken care of." Such a terfipest as set in! The police refused to make many of the arrests. Judge Lindsey sent out the newly created of ficers of the ."juvenile court who have power to arrest anyone contributing to the delinquency of children. John Jerome, owner of the cotton mill, was one of the men brought into court. He came with a smile at the joke. No one had ever so much as spoken openly against the conditions at the mill. He was a man at the head of every subscription list, a man re puted to be very,charitable his fam ily one of the most prominent socially. He was known in every* city as a genial clubman with plenty of money that he spent freely. He did not like being brought in with saloonkeepers and wom en of the lower world. Hevasked to see Judge Lindsey privately in his chambers. Judge Lindsey consented. "What do you want me to pay you to stop this process agaipst mel" he jssked Judge Lindsey when they were alone. "The full penalty of the law," was the reply, for his insinuation was an added force against him. "Man, you will ruin me!" Mr. Je rome replied, seeing the young, judge was not bluffing. With tears he plead ed the iniustice to his family, he begged to pay any fine, to even close his mills so it might be done secretly. I do not want to be unfair/* said the judge, "but you have been warned over and over. You have defied the law so long, you and men like you, be ljeve you are superior to the law. I cannot let you QM^'J^W^ Neither did he. The cotton mill is closed. John Jerome is in a suicide's grave. Many of the cotton mill chil dren of Denver have gone back to feed the vampire in the south. Many 6f them have been in school, since their {ivelihood. arent turned into other channels for Judge Lindsey is reaping the reward of public|M^adoration trust hatred. 4 and He never moves, day or night, that a spy is not watching him. No friend working day and the English Sunday a dead letter, we had l'ost all -trace of dates. Mr. Peasley said that if any one had asked him the day of the week he would have guessed Wednesday. fr "fr fr This unfortunate incident helped to deepen and solidify the dark suspicion with which we, as Americans, were re garded by the contingent from Great Britain. If our conduct had been ex emplary we could not have cleared away this suspicion, but after the dom ino debauch we were set down as hope less. The middle-class English guard their social status very carefully, and you can't blame them. It is a tender and uncertain growth that requires looking after afi the time. If they didn't watei it and prune it and set it out in the sunshine every day it would soon wither back to itB original stalk. Did you ever come across a bunch of melancholy pilgrims from the suburban villas and the dull-gray provincial towns of dear old England! Did you ever observe the frightened manner in which they hold aloof from Germans, Americans, Bedouins, Turks and other foreigners? They fear that if they drift into friendly relationship with people they nleet while traveling, later on some of these chance acquaintances may look them up at Birmingham or Stoke-on-Trent and expect to be enter tained at the foundry. A lage majority of our fellow passen gers from Luxor to Assouan were of el derly pattern. We estimated the aver are age to be about 83. Mr. Peasley said an irreverent thing about these venerable tourists. "Why do these people come all the way to Egypt to look at the ruins?" he asked. "Why don't they stay at home and look at one another?" We rebuked him for saying it, but somehow or other these rebukes never seemed to have any permanent restrain ing effect JUDGE BENJAMIN LINDSEY, Whom the Trusts Hate and Would Destroy. vrrcvf er t,t rt v rtt evtrrt who takes an interest in his work,'who does not feel the effect of the trust hatred. He receives anonymous let ters threatening his life every day. Certain stories are circulated diligently, and'turn up wherever his name is men tioned. Three probation officers have been attached in his court. The first and the second, both, were convicted and confessed that they had become, impli cated in organized plots against him. The first one, after an adult delinquent had *been warned by the court, would go to the man and compound bis offense and give him protection for money, us ing his authority as a court officer. When Judge Lindsey found it out he made the thing^public and the man dis appeared. The probation officer put into his place, after a year, was caught in a plot to get Judge Lindsey to visit a certain disreputable place and during his visit the place was to be raided by Our boat arrived at Assouan one morning accompanied by a sandstorm and avcold wave. The Cataract hotel stood on a promontory overlooking a new kind of Nilea swift and narrow stream studded with gleaming bowlders of granite. We liked Assouan because the weather was ideal (after the sand storm ran out of sand), the hotel was the best we had found in Egypt and there were so few antiques that sight seeing became a pleasure. Besides, after one has been to Luxor anything in the way of ancient temples is about as much of a comedown as turkey hash the day after Thanksgiving. Here, on the border of Nubia, we be gan to/get real glimpses of Africa. We rode on camels to a desert camp ot hilarious BiBharins. They are the gypsies of NubiadresB their hair with mud instead of bay rum and reside under a patch of gunnysack, propped up by two sticks. On the hills back of the town: we saw the barracks where the English army gathered itself to move south against the Mahdists. We were invited xo go out in the moonlight and hunt hyenas,\ but did not think it jright to kill off all the native game. The big exhibit at Assouan and one of the great engineering achievements of modern times is the dam across the Nile. It is a solid wall of granite, a mile and a quarter long, 100 feet high in places and 88 feet thru at the base, arid & looks larger than it sounds. We went across it on a push car after tak ing a boat ride in the reservoir basin, which is/watert.o lons1 Baid contain 234,000,000 gal- *4jjji This estimate is cor rect as "nearly as we could figure it. The dajn is about four miles above the town^ "We rode up on a dummy train, withjsars almost as large as Saratoga trunks, and came back in a small boat. We shot the rapids, just for excitement, and after we had caved in the bottom of the. boat and stopped an hour for re pairs we decided that we had stored up enough excitement, so after that we followed the more placid waters. The black boatmen had a weird chant, which they repeated over and, over, keeping time with the stroke. It w^s a -combination of Egyptian melody and American college yell, and ran as .^follows: !_2T *T,-*V Horaykj i He He, '^^H&pl Hep! Horecy! Hep' HeoL_.H_oray! Vv All rightl Thank youl 4* 4* This effort represented their sum total of jSnglish,wand 5proud of Jit, they were ver and liked it toothay is, the first million times. After that the'charm of novelty was largely dissi pated. Many people visit Assouan on ac count of the kiln dried atmosphere, which is supposed to have a discourag ing effect on rheumatism and other a3- ments that flourish in a damp climate. Assouin-is as dry as Pittsburg on Sun day. It is surrounded by desert, and the suh always seems to be working overtime. The traveler who does much rambling out of doors gradually assumes the brown and papery com plexion of a royal mummy, his lips be come parched and flaky, and he feels like a grocery store herring, which,, it is believed, is about the dryest thing on record. We did love Assouan. Coming back from a camel ride, with a choppy sea on gazing thru the heat waves at the tufted palms and the shimmering white walls, we would know that there was ice only a mile ahead of us, and then our love for Assouan would be come too deep for words. 4* 4* 4* Burton Holmes, the eminent lecturer and travelogue specialist, was lying up at Assouan, naving a tiresome argument with the germ that invented malaria. He had come up the Nile in a deep draught boat and had succeeded in find ing many sandbars that other voyagerjj had overlooked. Just below Assouan the boat wedged itself into the mud and could not be floated until thirty KX^^fi^x^m^Kr^^^immnmmxmlthe police. Dr. James, Judge Lindsey's physician, discovered the plot and the probation officer confessed and impli cated about everyone who was close enough to Judge Lindsey to be of use to his enemies. Perhaps the greatest rnprry to his -work is done by the stories circulated to discredit it. Judge Lindsey has sent 193 boys to the reform school during his six years as juvenile judge. Every boy went to the reform school without an officer: each boy carried his own carfare and his own commitment papers. One boy went to Buena Vista, a whole day's journey from Denver, and delivered himself to the warden at the reforma tory, as he was too old to go to Golden and his offense was too serious. The records prove this to be the fact, yet the story is circulated everywhere that it is untrue. Holds Court at Night. Another story that is diligently cir culated is that Judge Lindsey is very delicate physically. The fact is that he tries more causes on the county court docket than are tried by all of the federal judges in the same division put together, and his decisions are sel dom reversed. Besides this, he does all of the iuvenile work, which is extra and outside of his regular work. It is usual^for his court to meet at night as well is during the day* In the recent election causes he held court every night for three Weeks, frequently sit ting till 11 'clock. The only vacations he takes, even for Sunday rest, are his lecture trips, on which he has made as many as five addresses in one day to people who are interested in his work and{ are people who think. Judge Lindsey is slight and look3 delicate, but he is capable o more work than any man who is associate^ with him. a nervous wreck and is suffering from nervous prostration,' for no voter is willing to trust state interests to a man phygicallyj^ncapable of bearing the burden. In the large cities one of the most important factors of successful juvenile work by the courts are the factory 'inspectors. The law forbids children under from 14 to 16 years of age, vary inc in different states, to work in places natives, summoned from the surround ing country, had waded underneath and "boosted" all afternoon. When it came time to pay the men the captain of the boat said to Mr. Holmes: "What do you think? They demand 8 shillings." "It is an outrage said Mr. Holmes. "Eight shillings is $2. Even in Amer ica I can get union labor for $2 a day. There are thirty of them. Couldn't we compromise for a lump su_a of $Ou I "You do not understand," said the captain. /'We are asked to pay 8 shillings for the whole orowd. I think that 6 would be enough." Whereupon Mr. Holmes gave them 10 shillings, or 8 1-8 cents each, and as he sailed away the grateful assemblage gave three rousing cheers for Mr. Rock efeller. When we left Assouan we scooted by rail direct to Cairo, and in a few days were headed for home, by way of Italy JVance ana England, all of hem seeming painfully modern after our so journ fe Egypt. It is- customary in winding up a ser ies of letters to draw certain profound conclusions and to give hinjks to travel ers who may hope to follow the same beaten path. Fortunately, Mr. Peas ley has done this for us. He promised a real estate agent in Fairfield, Iowa, that he would let him know about Egypt. One night in Assouan he read to us the letter to his friend, and we borrowed it: Assouan, Some time In April. Delos M. Oifford. Fairfield, Iowa, U. 8. 0. My Dear Giff: I have, gone as far up the Nile as my time and the latter of credit will per mit. At 8 g.m. tomorrow I turn my face toward the only country on earth where a man ^can get a steak that hasn't got goo poured all over it. Meet me at the station with a pie. Tell moth er I am coming: home to eat Do I like Egypt? Yesbecause now I will be satisfied with Iowa. Only Tm afraid that when 1 go back ana see 160 acres of corn in one field I won!* believe It. Egypt is a wonderful country, tnft' very srqft#*#^.it*~4%e. _Jt is about as Wide tte 1e tw*frthou square, but it seemed'to'ma at least 10,000 miles long, as we haVe^teen two weeks getting up to the flnstf cataracts'Most of the natives that are injurious to the health mor als of the child. Such places include all sweatshops, the laundries and the mines. It takes the small boys out of the messenger services all over the coun try, where the most lucrative branch of the work' takes the boys into places that are immoral. The young boys must be replaced by older boys at high er wages. In the glass factories the price of the cheap bottles that druggists use, one of the important branches of the business, is fixed with the cheap labor of chil dren's hands as an item. Children are fbrbidden to do this work because it kills them off quickly, and their cheap labor must be replaced by more expen sive adult labor. The glass factories are feeling the cut iu dividends, for it is not easy to raise the price of cheap fongs das bottles that has been fixed so During the last Illinois legisla ture, workers for the glass trust in the lobby got the appropriation for fac tory inspectors cut so low that prac tically there are no factory inspectors possible with the money allowed. Judge Lindsey has been working for monthB to have friends of children in other cities take up the work and make a national movement of it, and he has at last succeeded. The meeting which was held in Chicago on June 9. at which Miss Jane Addams of Hull House and others assisted, was an entire success, and from the National Juvenile Im provement league/which was inaugu rated at that time. Judge Lindsev ex pects great benefits to the children everyw*neTe. i, ,1 ii OPPOSE TAX ON mis :M ______ i#m Frencrrf Dealers Jn Arms 'Against Pro- f,} po*ed import Duty, NeV"5^_^lBfcrld Special -Okble fiervioev Copy right, .1MB, by the New York Herald. 'Parte, une -H.The members of the Association of Paris Art and Curiosity Dealers are rising up against the new tax which trtr French government is xeported to be considering. It is proposed to levy on objects' of art imported into France a duty *or 20 per cent ad valorem, and it Is said the treasury Would benefit to the extent of about $8,400,000 a year. The art dealers declare France has so are farmers. The hard-working te_uuy gets one tenth of the crop every yeas and If he looks up to see the steamboat* go by he Is docked. All Egyptians who are not farmers are robbers. The farm ers live on the river. All other natives live on the tourist I have seen so many tombs and orypta and family vaults that I am ashamed to look an undertaker In the face. For three weeks I have tried to let on to pretend to make a bluff at being deeply Interested In these open graves. Other people gushed about them and I was afraid that If I didn't trail along and show some sen timental Interest they might suspect Hmt was from* Iowa And was shy on aoulfol ness. I'll say this much, howeverI'm mighty glad I've seen them, because now I'll never have to look at them again. Egypt Is something like the old set* tieryou'd like to roast him and wi| him down, but you hate to jump on any thing so venerable and weak. figypt i is so old that you get the headache ~f trying to think back. Egypt had gone- *""**ji thru forty changes of administration and I was on the down grade before Iowa was staked oet. The principal products of this country, are Insects, dust, guides and fake curios. I got my share of each, I am glad I came, and I may want to return some i day, but not until I have worked the sand out of my ears and taken to two or three county fairs. I have been walking down the main aisle with my hat In my hand so long that now I am ready for some thing lively. Americans are popular In Egypt, during business hours. Have not been showered with social attentions, but I am always comforted by tha thought that the exclu sive foreign set cannot say anything about me that I haven't already said about it. Of course, we could retaliate in proper fashion If we could lure the foreigners out to Iowa, but that seems out of the question. They think Iowa is In South America. I shall mail, this letter and then chase It all the way home. Give my love tsTeverybody, whether I know them or not Tours, PEASLEY. Jl'^ty?* P^erves. Not a comprehensive review of the fruits of our journey and yet fairly accurate. fThe End.1 many objects of art that she exports more than she imports and that the im poitjon of such a duty would simply lead to reprisals. Moreover the leading dealers have branch establishments abroad, conse quently they would send new purchases to the countries where no duty Is levied and not to Paris. In conclusion the deal ers point out that it would be extremely difficult to estimate the value of the ob jects of art brought into the country. SUNDAY ENGLAND Protest by an Archbishop Against DMH^ cratlon of the Day. Special Gable to The Journal. London, June 28.For generations the British Sunday has been known all over the world as the most desolate of ail days. London and other big cities have taken on the aspect of a desertedTviQage. but the advent of so many Americans and visitors from the continent and also the frequent excursions to Germany* France and Belgium has somewhat al tered all this. Archdeacon Sinclair, the famous Lon don preacher, has just come out with a tirade to.the effect that there is no more Sabbath in England that we have adopt ed the continental Sunday and that the British Sunday is now a national scandal. He blames the rich more than the poor. He declares that the thousands of Sun day excursions disturb the quiet of the peaceful villages near by that the river Thames is as crowded with pleasure seekers as a fair, that the servants work harder on account of the luncheons and dinners given by way of entertainment that the railway3 work overtime, that there are in London sixty-seven theaters and muste halls giving "sacred" concerts, and that in fact, Sunday is a day of rest lessness Instead of a day of rest. He has started a movement for the preservation of the old-style Sabbaths The archdeacon has so frightened th public by his movement that an organ ized opposition movement has been start ed called the "Anti-Puritan league." Its membership is increased mightily, and Its committees of management number some of the most distinguished and influential people in England. i 5S 2 !$S i