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George Deports
for Business
THB TALE OF A SUBURBANITE
By CHARLES BATTEU LOOMIS
(Author cl '"Cheerful Americana' 'Mlnerinj's
Manemra," fccj
lOspTricU, m, kr Joaapk a aie.
Cranfleld la a pretty little park-like
hamlet about 30 mile out of New York
on the New Jersey A Suburban road.
. Not very far from tbe station on one
iof the side streets is a smallish but
comfortable white house, and In that
white house with Its honeysuckle com
pletely covering the walls lives George
Harlls, his wife Eilen Harlls, and
thetr two children, Harry and Eleanor,
whose ages are somewhere between
8 and 12.
George Is In business in New York,
and he Is a good average American.
Ellen, his wife, Is slight and pleas
Ing-looklng, and mentally she Is more
than a match for her well-meaning but
Irascible husband.
It is George's custom to take the
8:02 train for New York, and it Is
that habit that is one of the causes
of the three gray hairs in the head of
Ellen, his wife.
Behold the bedroom In which George
and his wife are sleeping. Outside
the sky Is dark and lowering, and it
lids fair to be a rainy day.
A Utile silver traveling clock is
ticking on the bureau. It evidently
has no alarm attachment, for it is 25
rnirutes past seven by It, and George
and hiB wife are still peacefully sleep
ing, lulled thereto by the darkness, and
tin heaviness of the autumn air.
The clock strikes the half-hour, and
Mrs. Harlls wakes and looks at It.
: "George I George! she cries. 'Hurry
and get up! It Is half-past seven.
You'll miss your train."
A Miore Is the only response. George
was up late the night before at the
housa of their next-dnor neighbors, the
Chlvvlnses, and he Is compressing
eight hours' sleep into six.
'George! Breakfast must be ready.
Get up."
Mrs. Harlls nudfees George, and he
rises wildly up to a sitting posture.
"What's happened?"
"You've overslept. That's all. Don't
talk, but get dressed, unless you want
to be sensible and take the 8:30."
"And have the old man sarcastic at
my expense?" says George, jumping
out of bed and emptying half the con
tents of the pitcher on the washstand
and the rest on the floor.
"You might think you were office
boy, instead of Junior partner."
"If you're talking to me, I don't
hear you," says George, vigorously
splashing water into his ears and eyes.
"Where's that confounded towel?"
"Right in front of you, as usual."
George, his eyes full of water,
snatches at the towel and pulls down
the splasher.
"Oh, If you aren't a bull in a china
shop when you're late," says Ellen.
"Why in the world didn't you call
me at seven, anyhow? . I'll have to get
HE SPRINTS ALONG.
an alarm clock like 1 used to when I
was e clerk."
"Like you used to Is good. As you
used to is better."
"well, look here, if you think I
have time for one of your grammar
lessons, I haven't. Where's my tooth
brush? Confound it all, there's never
anything in place where I want it!"
"Take it out of the cup like a
good little boy. and don't tret blind he.
cause you're late."
"Whose fault is it I'm late?"
"Fault of the weather, dear. Really,
bridge lsn t good for your temper."
"Oh, I know I'm cross, but I haven't
time to be anything different. Good
temper takes time. Where's my col
lar button?"
. "Now, George, do be original. Even
If. y0" re suburbanite, don't go
hunting for a collar button. Here it
is, where you put it. I have to be
head and hands and feet for you when
you're late."
"Well, It's lucky you have the head
and LanJa and feet- I'm not kicking
at you, but I wish I could get up at a
seasonable hour for once in my life
and not have to gobble my breakfast
and rush for the train like a man in
a comic paper. It a undignified."
"That's what I always say, dear. But
if you'd talk less, you could hurry
more. It's twenty minutes to eight
now, and the breakfast bell has rung."
."Well, that's a wonder. It would be
jutst like Ann to have breakfast lato,
and make me miss my truiu In spite of
my hurry."- Makes me sU'k, the way
t-hi jjas of delaying crenlifast."
"Will, but she hai.n't done It this
morning. . There, now, here I am
rviiJv. and you're not. As It'u Satur
day, I'm going to let the children
sleep. It's a pity I'm not taking the
train Instead of you I'll go dowa
and get your coffee ready.
"That's all I'll have time for this
morning. First thing you know I'll
be down with dyspepsia. If only w
bad an alarm clock."
"I've been asking you to get one ever
since we moved out here. Be sure to
get one to-day."
"Well, run along, and don't delay
me. Oh, hang It all."
"What's the matter now?"
"I didn't shave yesterday, and I've
got to shave to-day. I look like the
devil."
"No, dear, your evebrows are too
straight for that"
"Huh! Where's my razor?"
"In the usual place, my dear. I put
It thsre every day."
"Oh, you're a wonder, aren't yon?
That's what It Is to be well brought
up."
George Is already lathering his face
and rubbing it in, and while his wife
goes down to expedite matters he be
gins to shave.
"Ellen! Ellen! Never mind that
train. I've cut myself."
Ellen from down stairs says:
"I'm Borry, dear; tut do you want
me to go and tell them they needn't
stop at Cranfleld this morning?
There'll be others to take It, you
knov."
"By Jipps, ten minutes of eight! But
I will take it." (He looks at himself
In the glass.) "Bleed! Go on bleeding.
Where's the absorbent cotton? Ellen,
Where's that confounded absorbent
cotton? What are you doing down
stairs, anyhow?"
"It's in the bathroom. Hurry, dear.
I've broken your eggs in a cup and
peeled your orange, and your coffee's
getting cold."
George prances into the bathroom
and upsets a bottle of arnica while he's
getting the cotton.
"Can't you keep that coffee hot?
What do I want of h lot of cold cof
fee? I look fine now. Say, Ellen, I
look fine with that absorbent cotton
on.'1
Silence for two minutes, and then
George rushes downstairs, three steps
at a tune, and, stepping over the back
of his chair, seats himself.
"That's elegant, dear."
George has filled his mouth so he
cannot speak, but he pantomimes elo
quently, and looks at his watch.
"By Jipps, I'll make It yet! "
He tastes his eggs, and makes a
face.
"These eggs are cold as a stone."
"They were warm when Ann brought
them in, dear."
"Well, how many times have I told
her not to bring them in till she hears
my foot on the stairs? Breakfast
ought to be something to look for
ward to, and it's a nightmare."
Ellen draws a long breath and
says:
"If you got up at seven, you'd have
time, dear."
"Suppose I need the sleep?"
"Take it at the other end."
"Well, when Is a man to have a good
time? Working all day In the city,
evening's my only chance."
Ellen pushes her hands out at him.
"Eat, eat, dear. I want you to catch
that train."
"Glad to get rid of me, eh?"
"Well, you're not lovely when you're
In a hurry, you know."
George elevates his eyebrows and
shrubs his shoulders. He looks nar
rowly at his wife.
"Tnat coffee would have been all
right, Ellen, If you hadn't poured it out
so long ago. Well, good-by."
"Good-by, dear. Aren't you going to
kiss me?"
"Not this morning, unless you catch
me on the way to the train. Remind
me to-night. Hold you in my lap, and
kiss you "
"Don't talk so. Ann will hear
you."
George laughs, leaves his napkin for
his wife to fold, and rushes from the
house with two minutes in which to
make the equivalent of four ci',y
blocks. His hat in his hand, be
sprints along, overtaking two other
sprinters whose wives are throwing
Kisses to them from the front door.
Hurried as he is, ho yet reflects that
Ellen threw him no kiss, and he
comes to the conclusion that he must
be a bear.
As the three men make the two plat
forms of the last car. George pulls out
his note book and writes down these
items:
"One alarm clock.
"One pound best chocolate mixed."
And then he slews and melts
through tbe beautiful country to New
York, and the office boy knows as well
as if he had been told that George
Harlls overslept.
The Wrong Inference.
Prof. Barrett Wendell, of Harvard,
lightened with an anecdote an Eng
lish lecture.
"There was a certain Instructor," ha
said, "who was always impressing
upon his students the need of perspi
cuity. "A young man came to him one
day to get back an essay that had
been submitted.
'"A very good essay,' said the in
structor, as ho returned the paper,
'but, Mr. Smith, you Bhould write al
ways so that the most Ignorant person
can understand every word you say."
"The young man looked up anx
iously. " 'What part of my essay was not
clear to you, professor?' he asked."'
N. Y. Tribune. r-
What Saved Him.
"Did his presence of mind save him
wh'Mi the smash-up occurred?"
"No; it was his Absence of body;
he had taken another tain." iouff
Un Post. - . .
(II THE METROPOLIS
BT. OECTBGE'S CHURCH A GREAT
CIVIC INSTITUTIOH.
DR. RAINSFORD A FIGHTER
Vascular Man of Splendid Physique
Trinity One of Greatest New
York Land Owners Work
of "The Bums' Friend."
BW YORK. That
?lv I Dr. W. 8. Rains
IP I I ,ord. ff In
i r 1 KrIt. really
vn urn great
work l.n St.
George's church,
seems almost in
credible to New
Yorkers who have
known faim as the
strongest, stark
est exponent In
the city of Muscular Christianity.
Dr. Rainsford is a fighter. He never
did a more characteristic thing than
when he opposed as a waste of money
the building of the $10,000,000 ca
thedral of St. John the Divine. It
Btands on a hill, aloof from the dense
people, unfinished and likely to be so
for 50 years, though men of other
creeds have helped build it to the
glory of the city. Rainsford said that
what New York needed was not a ca
thedral, but two great Institutional
churches,
In a way New York has thoso
churches. Dr. Greer's, on the great
West side. Dr. Ralnsford's on the
greater East side. The money of the
Vanderbllt's is behind Dr. Greer's
work the work he began; of course
he is now bishop coadjutor. As for
St. George's, on Stuyvesant square, the
6ite of Peter Stuyvesant's farm, in
1883 it was dead. Its people had gone
uptown, a great wave of Immigration
had come in. Other Protestant
churches were moving northward. St.
George's sent to Toronto for a young
Englishman, not easily beaten. He
looked the field over, and said:
You must make the seats free, dis
charge all the committees except the
vestry, so as to leave me free hands
and give me $10,000 a year for three
years for parish work, to use as I see
fit."
The "new rector began his work, as
he has said since, by preaching out in
three weeks seven of his 14 families.
After 23 years ha has left his par-,
islr with 8,000 people preached into
It, and with new ideas of the Bcope
of church work instilled into a large
proportion of the other congregations
of the -city. St. George's has become
not only a religious, but a civic force.
The activities of its parish house,
built by J. Plerpont Morgan, of its
girls' club, its men's club3, its library,
billiard rooms and gymnasiums, its
schools and classes, Its dramatic so
ciety and its boys' battalion, which
sent 50 volunteers to the Spanish war,
have stimulated similar growths all
over the city. Dr. Greer's old church
on the West side, Grace church, under
Dr. Huntington, and scores of smaller
churches have paralleled the secular
activities that have made St. George's
a great civic institution.
A Vigorous Irishman.
HE man who has
done this work is
of no ordinsry
typs. Of Irish
descent, Dr.
Rainsford began
his career as a
street preacher In
the slums of Lon
don. He is a man
of splendid phys
ique, big and mus
cular, advantages
Which be nnnA nut
to use by knocking out a bully for
wife-beating. Weeks after, when set
upon by a gang of Whltcchapcl row
dies, he recognized on the edge of the
mob his late assailant and supposed
that he was in for a beating.
"Let 'em all come!" said the bully,
ranging himself beside the young mi
slonary, back to a wall. "Me an' you
can tyke on th' whole bloomln' hout
flt, Rainsford."
From London Rainsford came to
New York, where he campaigned vig
orously as a street preacher, and wen
his first hearing at St George's. From
New York he went to Toronto, later
returning to begin here at 40 what
proved his life work. His frank rec
ognition of the need of recreation, even
of excitement in life, as evidenced by
his advocacy of the Sunday opening
of saloons and the sale of beer In cof
fee housfis have scandalized some peo
ple, but there are few who do not
hope that the suggestion to rebuild
as a memorial to him the. beautiful
openwork towers of St George's, dam
aged by Are, does not mean his per
manent retirement.
Old Trinity's Children.
N A WAY St,
George's Is an
outshoot of Old
Trinity parish
When it moved
to its present lo-
L-c J H fj cation it "sold the
T. J J 4 Old St. Oeorirp'a tn
Trinity and was
Itself at first un
der tutelage of
that greatest of
American par
ishes. Trinity la
out of the greatest New York land
owners. It ranks In this regard c.-'t;r
tho AatOi'3 and the Goclets. but ahead
Iff
km-
of Sailors Snog Harbor. Its hnma
site and churchyard ard worth $15,
000,000 as real estato, overlooking
Wall street as they do; hut worth so
much more for an Inspiration? and a
break in the sordid monotony that
they will never be put to baser uses.
Trinity owns $150,000,000 worth of
land that la commercially need, how
ever. It owns shops, factories, stores
some of the liquor stores tenements
some of them had tenements; but for
this the church is little liable, as lta
land is leased for long terms. It sup
ports nlns churches. Including bean
tlful old 8t Paul's, with iu Christo
pher Wren spire and its grave of
Montgomery, facing the river and the
sunset and turning its back on Broad
way. Trinity helps support a dozen
other churches that are entirely Inde
pendent of Its management, and as
many missions. Even this does not
exhaust the money. 8o it makes year
ly appropriations to different hospitals
and to a variety of othef good works,
whose extent Is known only to the
staff and the vestry. The Trinity
properties lie mainly on the West side
of Broadway, covering what was long
known as tbe Queen's Farm, because
Queene Anne, almost two centuries
ago gave It to the church. This has
not In the past been a very attractive
quarter of the city, but with the new
tunnels under the Hudson, the chances
are that Trinity's Income will double
In a comparatively short time.
What work such a man as Dr.
Rainsford was 20 years ago could do
with such a church as Trinity will bo
20 years later on!
The Old Mission Preacher.
HERE has Just
died a man for
whom Dr. Rains
ford had the
greatest rever
ence and affec
tlon. Mr. Had
ley, the evangel
ist, had never a
title in divinity.
He called him
self the reformed
"Bum." It was
the literal truth.
He was a reformed drunkard follow
ing in the footsteps of a nian worse
than merely a drunkard. "Jerry Mc
Auley's mission" has a conspicuous
sign on Water street. At night it
blazes with electric light. Jerry Mc
Auley was one of the toughest char
acters in the old Fourth ward when
he became converted and opened this
mission for sailors 30 years ago. It
was to Jerry McAuley that Hadley
dragged himself fresh from a drunk
ard's cell, when he had literally
dropped from a fine mercantile posi
tion to starvation. - In helping him
McAuley helped his successor, for the
former tough did not live more than
four years longer, and the former
drunkard followed him as superintend
ent with as odd a crowd as ever won
success on the roaring water front
It was literally this. "Never despair
of a man while he lives." A man
could Impose upon Mr. Hadley a dozen
times, go to. him for help and pawn
his gifts or spend his money for rum.
The door was never closed. There
was no lecturing, no restraint, no
questions, no comments, no promises.
An escaped convict could come Into
the place, pick up anything he fancied
and walk off with It. By-and-by he
would be apt to stop, however. It
would dawn upon him that there was
no limit to Hadley's patience.
Results? Nobody knows. A few
people some 73,000 have spoken in
Hadley's meetings, and announced
their determination to live cleaner
lives. Nobody knows how large a per
centage of tbe army have done so.
Nobody seems to trouble much about
that. The work will go on. It is
easier to find a successor for a Had
ley or a Jerry McAuley than it Is to
find one for a Rainsford. Simple
goodness Is not rare.
Politicians Take the Hint.
HURCHMEN are
not the only givers
in New York.
Politicians have
taken the hint.
During the recent
and long delayed
cold snap Tim
Sullivan started
giving away shoes.
He was helped by
Little Tim, Joe
Dunn, Ed. Spar-
enberg, Kraus the theater man and
others of bis lieutenants. .When tho
little act of nefgbborllness had been
completed, the. weary clerks who were
tallying, counted up some 4,500. pairs,
with woolen socks to match when these
were found' lacking. After tbe first
few hundred the socks were invaria
bly lacking. Men would stop outside
and take them off, carefully putting
them In their pockets. If an appli
cant was doubtful whether his Bhoes
were not to entitle him to another
pair, he would borrow a very poor pair
from a friend In a near-by saloon.
"Everything went;" the men did not
need to be so fussy. Tim bad on his
blind spectacles. Few of the recipients
threw away their' old shoes. There
was a reason! Before night was old
hundreds of pairs of brand new shoes
were in pawn and their owners had
tire price of several satisfying drinks
and shoes as good as they started thrt
day with.
What's the use? You would never
catch Tlra Sullivan asking that pessl
uilstlcal question. And perhaps he's
right. Mr, Hadley would never ask
what was the use, either. There U a
hint in Tim's method, though If you
were to go too closely Into his ways
of getting the money he spend i !")
geuurously yon xnUtht to h-sa edlftVd.
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r Mexico, Mo. ,
Full line of Staple Drugs and
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v - ep uiwMsnnnmpBMR
Mi
Wise Cow.
Th Cow was about to Jump ores
the moon.
"By tbe way," said the Cow, "I thin
I'U wait a moment."
."What forT" asked the Little Do.
"Why, perhaps I can carry a slgr
m m hank- olallncr that I wear Jum
gem Bouncer's rubber hoels."
' Which 'goes to show that the wis
Cow was Imbued with the modern
Ideas of progreswive advertising. Ch
cago Dally News. -
Sudden Loss of Faith, s
Dr. Pill (at medical meeting) What's
the .matter with Dr. Physic to-night?
He appears to bs In a terribly bad humor
nothing but Impatience, Irascibility,
and slurs every time the wonderful
progress of medical science is men
tioned. .
Dr. Powder He has had rheumatism
for six weeks, and all his brother
physicians who were called in only mada
It worse. N. T. Weekly.
Behind the Scenes.
Old Lady My boy. is It your father
who writes so many smart sayings of
children?
Small Boy Yes, ma'am. .
"I suppose he always encourages you
to talk,"
"No,-ma'am. He threatens to thrash
me If I even whisper when he is writing
his smart things the children have said.'
Cassell's Journal.
Generosity.
"What made you refuse to answer
questions in that investigation?"
"My dear sir," answered Mr. Dustln
Stax, "I am of the people you read
about whose time is worth several
hundred dollars a minute. Isn't that
a sufficient contribution to the occa
sion without throwing in valuable in
formation?" Washington Star.
The Present .Theory..
"This bulldog," said the fancier, "la
an ugly looking brute, but he can't fight.
While this one (Indicating No. 2) is just
the opposite."
"Give me the ugly looking one," said
the purchaser. "I want him for protec
tion, and this is the age of bluff." De
troit Free Press.
Reversed.
Parent (who has received news of hla
son's death in the far west) And how
did poor William meet his death?
Western Friend He didn't meet it at
all, sir. The boys had ter chase him ten
miles before they could catch him and
put the rope round his neckl Casseirs
Journal. - .
Where Officers Congregate.
Towne I understand your new house
is only a few doors from a saloon.
Browne Yes, it's great!
Towne Great? I should think you'd
object to that.
Browne Not at all. It's aprotectlon;
It draws the police. Philadelphia Press.
What a Pity.
"Why is it that so many people do not
care for Shakespeare?"
"My dear sir," answered Mr. Storm
lngtoh Barnes, "It is a physical Impos
sibility for me to show everybody in the
world Just how Shakespeare should be
played." Washington Star.
Hymn and Him.
Tess Aren't you going to choir re
hearsal to-night?
Jes No.
"You'd better. We're going to give
that new hymn a trial.''
"Can't I'm going to give a new him
a trial myself. "Tit-Bits.
Better Than Nothing.
Gloomy I tried to borrow some
money yesterday, and all I got was
sympathy. .
Cheerup You're lucky! I tried to
borrow some money yesterday, and all
I got was a frost! Detroit Free Press.
Franklin Amended.
For want of a nail the shoe was lost.
For want of a shoe the horse was lost.
For want of a horse thp rider bought an
automobile. N. T. Sun.
, TEXTS CHIVAXBY.
Slgnor Fattoro Ladles, will you
have some seat? Chicago Daily News.
Hot Times. '
"By the way," asked tho visitor,
"when was Philadelphia Bettled?"
."Huh!" grunted the native, "it ain't
settled yet. The city party's still
shakla' things up.". Philadelphia
Press.
Capital Punishment.
' "He pleaded guilty to the charge of
bigamy."
What was his sentence?" :
"The juugo gave nun nve hours In a
room with his five wives." Houston
Post. , .
"Financially.
"A fellow must be embarrassed, when
he meets a member of tlje royal family."
"I should say so! -. I met four kluge last
night and I am euibarrass-ed yet."
Houston Post.
JJovel Effect
Khk'krr--Si) Joih;b hiiii a now Moa
for opera? ....
- Ikjcl.ti' Yes; his notion. Is to Lave
tho bonne tliig ami pio fiuit tulJi.
N Y. Sua. ' '