Show I comiorrw CbL THE SHANGHAIED PRESS The orgy or mendacity In which apart a-part ot tIne newspaper press revelled during the siege of the legations at Peking Pe-king is not being passed over lightly In Great Britain ns though i were t trifling episode It seems to bo felt un all hands that the Interest of the newspaper news-paper business or of the profession ot journalism as you will are setlously concerned Regarded as a nionil force 1 the benellcencc of newspapers has been compromised by such wole ale propagation 0 propa-gation or evil Regarded as a learned profession the accuracy and Judgment of Journalism have been discredited Journalsm a busi Regarded ll as nothing more than nothlnE of news ness enterprise the prosperity ncwr papers Is menaced and actually impaired t im-paired by a performance which has do pjlvcd them of a large share of the public confidence The result Is that even the most Impudent offenders have been publishing columns of selfcxcul lation publshing hlo more responsible Journals Jour-nals contain many austere preachments preach-ments sometimes of a hortatory and som ment sometmes slightly Pharisaical tone toneAn Old Journalist in the London Times points out that the present scandal radically differs from ihe one of a few years ago which created an almost equal sensation On the former occasion it war proved in 1 court of Jaw that special telegrams were g largely manufactured In Fleet street by a news agency whose enterprise exceeded ex-ceeded Its honesty Actual telegrams often of-ten words and not In code were expanded len panded to one hundred or more by 4 imaginative office editors In soinu cases thrilling descriptions of battles a column long were evolved from twenty or thirty words of actual news Such Ii sophisticated stuff was distributed to the papers as having been actually telegraphed tele-graphed from foreign parts and was accepted and published by them In good faith and when the fraud was detected the papers were the readiest complainants against the manufacturers manufac-turers of fictitious news In the present pres-ent case however the falsc dispatches were at least actual dispatches They really were sent by cable from Shanghai Shang-hai to London To that extent therefore I there-fore the editors of the papers in London Lon-don were free from blame They were justiiled In printing the news actually received from correspondents whom they deemed trustworthy they did deem them trustworthy But asks this Old Journalist what about the senders of the dispatches What are we to think o a correspondent correspond-ent who telegraphs to his editor I learn that etc a mass of details that could be furnished by only an actual eyewitness and who at the same time has no assurance that his Informant was an eyewitness but on the contrary con-trary has ample reason to believe that his Intelligence Is not only secondhand second-hand but fifth hand or tenth hand having been passed along through a si rles of Orientals characteristically noted for Imagination and Invention < rather than for truthfulness To say that he was lacking In discrimination and judgment Is to state the case mildly mild-ly And yet he is not altogether to be blamed any more than his employer is nltogether to be freed from blame Tho correspondent was trained in the home q office He receIved his instruction and I his Inspiration fromhis editor And In telegraphing his precious mass of lies he was aiming to follow his instructions instruc-tions and to please his chief So the principal blame is after all brought straight hone to headquarters The real evil Is as this Old Journalist Journal-ist Justly says the mania for sensations sensa-tions the craving for something that will prove exciting make staring headlines head-lines and set people to talking and II buying the paperwithout regard or with only minor regard to whether It be true or false The Idea seems to be to tell enough tales and some of them r1 vill jTrdJiabl botrue but if not Tit tiny 1 rate tell tales For i tis better to get ahead of your rival in telling a lie i then to have him get ahead of you in telling the truth The fallacy and foolishness r fool-ishness a well as the wickedness of N such 3 rule should be ob Sous to all Certainly the effects are For It is r literally true that In respect to a certain cer-tain part of the press the fact that a paper says t thing Is so has como to bet be-t deemed prima face cause for doubting it The end of such a state of affairs Is I as Inevitable as the precession of the I equinoxes People will get tired of tho dally guess as to how much truth there is In their papers and then they vIli quit buying such papers You cannot fool all the people nil the time True U you may be able to fool some of the people all the time but not enough oC them to give a paper lhlargest circulation circu-lation in the world New York Tribune Trib-une Y 1 HEART TO SOUL r Said a womans Soul to a womans Ham I hlmll live forovcr but dual thou ar I Anil dcaplic tle Ilna today ihnt but C romiii row thoult die and to dust return But tho Heart replied to the Soul avd said Though alive today and tomorrow dead I My dny of lifo 13 I worth to mo Thy endless years of eternity For I live nml love and suffer wo Though thou llvst forever thou Cst not Ii know 1 And my day of life be blllcr or sweet U No llnal reckoning have 1 to meet Tho flowers will bloom from my dust and sing > I i I rj ipj I 3 Frcm a JHt that lived but a day wo sinlng I An l I laugh and love anil sin and say I I docs not matter tho Soul shall iniy I Matallo Brown In September Smart Set AMERICA IN THE EAST IJ 1 Should the military and agrarian party I par-ty get theupper hand in Russia an ti some think It has the upper hand al r ready an attempt would probably be i made to absorb the northern provinces v of China says Brooks Adams in the hI September Atlantic The question Is how this would affect the United Stales Evidently the United States has nothing noth-ing to gain by the opening up of Asia The United States IK now mistress of the situation the United States Is faat attaining a commercial supremacy heretofore unrivaled An Industrial movement in the valleys of the Ho hangho and Yanglso coiild only tend to her embarrassment The best thing that could happen to her would be for China to remain as she Is But the very HUCCCSS and energy of America make it unlikely that China can stay stationary station-ary an effort at development Is Inevitable Inevi-table and behooves Americans to consider whether they can safely allow that development to be wholly controlled con-trolled by others If Russia should absorb ab-sorb Shan SI she cannot organize It alone She has neither the genius noi the capital She must mortgage her property In the future us In the fast and there is a likelihood that the mort gagee will ultimately come Into possession posses-sion Even supposing n conflict between Japan and Russia In which Japan should prevail the situation would remain re-main unchanged for the Japanese are 4 both from a financial and an administrative adminis-trative standpoint as unequal as Russia i to handle such a task They would have 4 to resort to the same expedients as their jI adversary There remain the English the Germans Ger-mans and ourselves The English may probably be dismissed from consideration considera-tion their energies arc already overtaxed over-taxed and of late except in South Africa British capital has shown a tendency ten-dency rather to contract than to expand its sphere of activity The Germans on 4 tho contrary aro aggressive and arc talduE the present opportunity to occupy occu-py Peking in force Were the Russians and the Germans to coalesce to dominate ij domi-nate northern China and were the Iii countrv to he administered by Germans 4 with German funds a strain of n very serious nature might be put upon America Honco Americana must accept the I Chinese question as the great problem of the future a problem from which there Is no escape and as the solution of these great struggles for supremacy often Involves an appeal to force safety ofen In being armed and organized against all emergencies OUT OF THE GINGER JAR From the Chicago Record BRIEF BUT INTELLIGIBLE When I asked her to marry me she word answered me In a word a single little wordYes Yes or no She said Sure BOUND TO RESIST SOMETIMES Confucius teaches tho beautiful doctrine doc-trine of nonresistance Thats all right but a man cant lena another man money when he hasnt got it can he I heSAD SAD FOR THE GIRLS I I saddening to see autumn draw I nigh nighYes Yes It makes the foliage on ones I summer hals look so tacky NATURALLY Did the chemist find anything wrong with the milk What a foolish question He was looking for deadly germs wasnt hoWell i ho-Well them he couldnt aftord not to find themMUCH MUCH TO BE THANKFUL FOR What another ice bill Hang Itl I cant pay I 4 Oh Harold dont be so violent you ought to be thankful that we canafford to buy Ice Jf we cant afford to pay for i FATE That woman lecturer said It was vulgar to sneeze Well I Then she sneezed A PHILIPPINE REMINDER The chief interest in the letter or proclamation by Agulnaldo I which has I Just been made public resides In Its dale The treachery and savagery i which are so conspicuous In it are no new thing The world has long known I that the ways of Aglnaldo and his followers fol-lowers are those of brigands and assassins as-sassins That such ways were adopted I I deliberately at the beginning of his insurgent In-surgent and murderous career Is a matter mat-ter of no surprise Nor will more than a passing smile be evoked by the smug profession of high culture patriotism honor and humanity with which he closed his bloodthirsty screed The date however Is significant I is well to be reminded of It again and again X Is I January 9 1890 That was nearly a month before the actual beginning begin-ning of hostilities at Manila I was eleven days before the Filipino Congress Con-gress at Malolos formally authorized Agufnaldo to begin war against the United States whenever ho was ready to do so I was while friendly negotiations negotia-tions were still in progress between the United States officers and the Tagal leaders At such a time Agulnaldo was deliberately plotting not only revolt but treacherous assassination and was Instructing his followers In methods of I warfare so savage and Inhuman as to be unworthy of any people professing to be even half civilized Since such were Aguinaldos plans and Intentions on January 9th what becomes be-comes of the wretched antllmperlal 1st pretense that peace and good faith I were observed until February 1th and I that hostilities began on the latter date only through the wanton aggressions of the United States troops In opening fire upon the Filipinos I is well we repeat In the Interest of the sImple truth of history to be reminded again that nearly a month before the fighting began at Mania Agulnaldo was planning plan-ning and ordering the treacherous kill lug of American soldiers by disguised I I assassins and a general attack upon I them with boiling water redhot Irons petroleum soaked torches and all the devices of utter barbarism Y Tribune Trib-une MANNA FROM INDIA The Biblical story of the supply of manna In Che wilderness will be Ct widerness WII suggested sug-gested to many minds In the report from India that a substance has been discovered exuding from the bamboo forests In he Central provinces I Is I shown by David Hooper In Nature that the existence of such a substance was known to the ancients and Is mentioned men-tioned In some botanies although it Is I 1 not recorded by medern travelers Says Mr Hooper The Ktrange appearance or manna on the stems of the bamboo wnH reported re-ported last March by the divisional forests officer Clmnda Central provinces I prov-inces and notices of this prenomenoh have boon published In the local papers pa-pers The bamboo forests of Chanda consist of Dendrocalamus atrlotus the male bamboo a bushy plant from twenty to thirty feet In height and affecting af-fecting the cooler northerly and westerly wester-ly I slopes of Central and Southern India In-dia This is said to he the first time In the history of these forests that a sweet and gummy substance has been known to exude from the trees The gum has been exuding In Rome abundance abun-dance and It has been found very pain i table to the natives In the neighborhood 1 neighbor-hood who havo been consuming It as a food The occurrence of the manna at this season Is all the more remarkable Flnce the greatest famine India has known Is this year visiting the country and the districts whore the scarcity is most felt arc In the Central provinces TE DEUM In celebration of thc deliverance of tho I prisoners of Peking August 1W I Theyre safe Their way was bounded By Death In dreadful mien While still their camp surrounded A splrltbaml unseen n A shield of blazon glory Gods love did Interpose Where waved the banner glory Uplifted to their toes 1 III JI I Unfurl the standard Chrlstlanl Yes rilso it with 1 about Before tho hordes Fhlllallan The slaves of dream and doubt IV Repeat tho song of Moses Who from tho shadowhind I Whore the dark Sphinx reposes j 1 Lid forth his chosen ban V 1 Glad Miriams cymbals clashing I Svwll cadence Davids psalm Deborahs song olitlushlng Dcborhs gonJ outla3hlng Shall wako the slumbrous palm I 1 VI We In our modern lyre I Will find sonic hidden chord To sound with heavens own choir Tho glory of tho Lord VII t To him whose way Is shrouded 01 But who through day and night Ills purpose keeps unclouded I The victory or Right VIII To him In holy rupture IOuI paean shall ascond Unloosed tho heathen capture God our Eternal Friend I Julia Ward Howe In Christian Herald CRUEL ATTENTIONS Among all the horrors of war humorous humor-ous situations often occur An English En-glish army surgeon In South Africa tells an amusing story of an Englishwoman English-woman of high rank who was engrossed en-grossed by the charms of amateur nursing One morning on approaching the cot oC a soldier to whom one had given especial attention she found him with his eyes tightly closed and a piece I o paper pinned on the sheet on which was written Too ill to be nussed today to-day Respcckfully J L WHERE HE SPENT SUNDAY My husbands favorite anecdote says Mrs Blouet In Answers is one that turns upon his favorite subjectthe I amazing Ignorance of one nation concerning I con-cerning another He tells the story In I this way Being Invited to take part In n meeting meet-ing convened In n church in an Important Impor-tant American town for the purpose of discussing how Sunday should be spent I consented to gonat to tell tho meeting meet-Ing how the lay ought to be passed but to say a few words about how it Is spent In Paris The proceedings opened with prayer after which followed an anthem When It was over an Influential Inhabitant of I the town rose and ascended the pulpit stairs I From that commanding eminence he proceeded to attack all nonSabbata rians specially singling out my compatriots com-patriots I spent one Sunday in Paris and was shocked at the sights of low immorality everywhere II had never heard my poor dear country pitched Into so The speaker glared at me as I sat quite harmless In my pew 1 When he had said his say I was asked to speak and never did I feel more eager to be heard I Having reached the exalted rostrum I told the congregation how sorry I was that their townsman should have had such a bad time In Paris but I thought that had h6 sp6nt Sunday In some respectable place he would have been spared all those shocks Pulling a very long face and picking out Mr Johnson for such was his name with my eye Where did my friend spend that Sunday In Paris 1 asked In the Louvre that Is I ciowded with Parisians of all grades every Sundayhonest folk who feast their eyes on glorious creations crea-tions of the great masters He would have seen no Immorality there rhere are concerts every Sunday afternoon where music by tho best musicians Is listened to with rapt attention by 1 masses of quiet respectable Parisians A Did our friend patronize one of these concerts he would have seen no Immorality there Where did he go We all know that great whites have I their black spots and If you make careful care-ful Inquiries you can find them oU nol no-l I doubt It is evident to me that our t friend did not spend that Sunday Ill I church though we hnvo churches in l Paris Whore did he go I came down from the pulpit while about twenty men forgetting 1 am afraid that they were In church rose I In the seats and asked My Johnson where did you go Three years later I again visited I that American city and J was told that I Mr Johnson decided to try for election I to the Senate and one day after he had I been addressing r meeting of the elcc meetnG I I tors these latter were asked If there I 1 were any questions they would like to put to the candidate From a hundred pair ot lips a once came tho question I Wheic did you spend that Sunday in I Paris I NEW UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE Socall universal languages are still appearing but the supply seems to exceed j ex-ceed tho demand The latest according accord-ing to Science calls itself LJolak In English En-glish the blue language or the language I lan-guage color of heavens An English clrculai Issued from Paris Informs the reader that the Joint new language is the Joint production of Leon Bollack and Raoul de la Grnsserle The following extract from the circular is I interesting and yet devoid of entertainment entertain-ment mentTo To give to all the possibility of receiving re-ceiving news from whole the world and of all understanding them without any translator trnslntor To give to all the possibility of crossing cross-ing whole the world and of making I themselves understood without any interpreter In-terpreter And a more generous Ideal may be reached owing to the coming of an International In-ternational language which letting remain I re-main the native idiom of each one I would become the unique foreign language lan-guage for all I Is Indeed obvious to understand that this facility of comprehension be tweecn persons of different nationalities will forcibly raise a holy communion o thoughts and of pacifications paccalons among peoples dealing together HAD THREE OTHERS I I kinder does a man good to hear r folks pralsln one of his children observed ob-served the little old man who had Just boarded an Alexandria electric car Yes a father likes such things replied re-plied the man addressed They say my son Joe Is the best boy In the whole place continued the old man as a smile lighted his face Yes Hasnt made a kick In the last two 1 years yearsNo I No I Got religion three months ago and Is stlckln right to it like i dog to a root 1 skassly uelieved that Joe would ever take to religion and Im awfully glad of It They say hes truthful and honest J and quiet and they wouldnt be afraid to send him downtown alone Is Is n manufacturing establishment that your son Is connected with 1 Kinder that way though they call It the penitentiary You dont mean that hes in State prison I U exclaimed the man Right that sir was the reply and will be for three years more and the way they go on about how hard he I j works and the way they praise him for i I his goodness of heart Jest makes me feel Ito I-to wish that my other three boys would I I glt up and do suthln for themselves to i be talked about Washington Post CHINESE MILITARY TRAINING One of the textbooks studied bv Chinese Chi-nese officers Is the Suntse wheh Is about three thousand years old The characteristic feature of this work on Chinese military art Is Its Insistence that the General ought before everything 1 I every-thing else to study ruses some of I which are not strictly connected with war The student of Suntse Is told to negotiate with the enemy and while you aro discussing l the situation massacre massa-cre him sow discord In his camp Intercept Inter-cept his provisions and soften his heart by voluptuous music and the sight of beautiful women As to military measures meas-ures the Chinese General receives the following advice l you are ten times more numerous than tho enemy envelop him If you arc five times more numerous numer-ous dispose your army so as to attack him on four slden If you are only a lit tic stronger content yourself by cutting your army In two on the principle of reserves and If you are weaker than the enemy try to secure cover Dewet must surely have been 1 diligent stu dent of SuntPos military counsels London Chronicle GLAD HB WAS LOCATED I A party of young men were taking I dinner t low nights ago at a fashionable I fashion-able cad when one of them who is I somewhat of a Jester called the waiter and said I I John go and call Main If a woman wo-man answers it will be my wife Tell her that I Instructed you to say that I am in the police station for a few hours and will not be home for dinner Say to her that the possibilities arc that I shall not be at home tonight Understand Under-stand me sir I John winked a couple of times In a knowing way bowed deferentially and suggested Supposln I Supposing nothing sir If she asks I who Is talking tell her it Js the turnkey I at the central station and shell never know who told her the He leThe le-The waiter shambled away and lwa wag presently seen to be having t good deal I of fun with himself The Jester In ferred that It might have something to do with his case and called him over Whats amusing you John Z I Wouldnt like to tell you sir at leant right hero t lr guess theso follows understand Let er go Missus says to tell her husband she is glad he Is so nicely located for the nlghL She knows where he Is for once Cleveland Leader CRANIAL DEFORMATION I The ethnology of ancient history de ducted from records monuments and coins Js a subject In which M Charles de UJfalvy has made some Important investigations In 1Anthropologle tome ix he has published a memoir on the White Huns The Huns artificially deformed their heads so as to greatly Increase their height deformation rele vee of Broca They were nearly re lated to the Iloa of the Chinese annals which name Is merely the origin of orlSh1 the word Hun to the Yetha of the Chinese who must not be confounded with the very different Yuetchl and to the White Huns or Ephthalftles of Byzantine and Armenian authors rho Huna kings of India practiced the same cranial deformation as Is shown Slm by their effigies represented on their COllage COll-age Tho Ephthallties practiced poly andrlc customs and their women wore special horned headdresses Traces of polyandrlc habits as well as of theso extraordinary coiffures are still to bo met with after more than twelve hun dred years in certain regions ot the old Ephthalltlc empire Nature A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY Lobelia I I The voice of Mr McSwat was high pitched and Imperative yet had a note I of vague alarm In It What Is it Bllliger I cant find my neckties Your neckties Theyre scattered allover over the bureau I dont want the ties I wear every day I mean tho others I What others The the ones Ive worn from time to time you know and put away as good as new them How should I know anything about themDo Do you mean to tell me Lobelia you dont know anything about aa box of neckties I have kept for years In this second drawer What a fuss you are making over a box of old rags What do you want of It anyway I want to put a few of these In It You dont know what youre talking about madam when you call thor a lot of old rags either I want to know where they are arG Tel you neednt go to rummaging through any more of those drawers You wont find them there I can tell you that The wrath of Mr McSwat assumed a I lurid ghastly character I think I have certain Inalienable rights In this house Lobelia Grubb Mc Swat he said And among these is the right to keep my neckties in my l own way subject only to the Constitu tion of the United States and the statutes In such cases made and You neednt tell the neighbors about it Before Id make ail that racket over 0 lot ot old wornout neckties Who told you they wero old and wornout Didnt l you hear me say din tinctly they were Now you know Bllllgor McSwat you havent worn ono of those old tics aie tcs I for years and years Whats the use Then you do know something about them I thought sol Why did you try deceive me Why did you tel me ly Thats right Accuse your wIre of rlo lying lyingDidnt Didnt you t l me yon knew noth ing about them No sir 1 said nothing of the kind lobelia Wife of my bosom Look me In the eye Where are those neck tesVhwlml Whwhat do you want of them 1 asked Mrs McSwat rather feebly I simply want to know what has become be-come of them She put her handkerchief to her eye 11 thlhlnk its Just as mean Whats mean 7 Here Ive slaved away day after day making something nice Lobelia where are those neckties I Bllliger I have ma 16 them up Into the loveliest crazy quilt A crazy quilt he yelled Thunder and Ben Franklin Woman do you know l what you have dono I was nothing but n lot of old Mr McSwat became tragic Mrs McSwat he exclaimed In a deep bass voice II have been making n maltng collection of artistic neckties for ten years Some of them coat me over a dollar None of them loss than 50 cents i You have ruined a unique unequaled original 75 collection of lies I 0 Bllliger why didnt you tell me To make a SI 1 crazy quilt Why didnt you tell Me Husbands and wives why will chide c-hide things from each other Chicago Tribune PREPOSTEROUS DEMANDS Mr Bryan Is moat disingenuous in his attempt to put the responsibility for the Tagal outbreak upon the United States Government and the American soldiers In order to make political capital out of the Philippine Insurrection Insurrec-tion he is j compelled to distort and fal sjfy the historical facts from the day of Deweys victory to the present time President McKlnley has briefly stated the indisputable facts regarding the Filipino outbreak in his letter l of acceptance ac-ceptance Not only does he present proof showing that the insurgents were never given any recognition as allies but he also shows that long l before I Agulnaldos arrival the local leaders had determined to turn their arms I against the Americans As early as July 1S9S Admiral Dewey cabled to Washington Mcrrltts most difficult problem will be how to deal I with the insurgents under Agulnaldo who have become aggressive and even threatening toward our army Thus the Tngals were threatening tho Americans I I Amer-icans In the midst of the Spanish war before Manila had surrendered and before be-fore the protocol was signed When Manila was oaprured on August Uth the Filipinos took no part in the attack but tried to follow the Americans Into the city with the Intention of looting It Ag lnJldo claimed that he had the right to occupy the city He demanded i certain palace for himself and the cession of l all the churches In Manila He also demanded a part of the money which he thought the Americans would I take from the Spaniards as spoils of war Above all he dashed the arms of the Spanish prisoners All these demands I de-mands were refused Would Bryan I have granted them From that time forth Agulnaldo devoted de-voted himself to planning his attack on the Americans Bryans pretense that I there would have been no hostilities If Congress had declared the intention of giving Independence to the Insurgents will not stand analysis Agulnaldo did not wait to see what Congress might do He did not wait until we had ended the Spanish war but demanded immediate possession of the Islands Before tho peace treaty had been ratified In the Senate tim Filipinos forced hostilities I by an unprovoked assault upon American Ameri-can s6ldlera Papers recently captured I from the rabel archives demonstrate that this attack was carefully planned for weeks before It occurred Nothing but complete surrender and evacuation of the Islands even before we were I through fighting the Spaniards would have satisfied Agulnaldo Would Bran Br-an have accommodated him In that impudent im-pudent demand At no time since Dcwcys arrival ot I Manila could the United Slates have honorably entertained the demands of tho Malay dictator who wanted tho I t i = Inlands for himself To havo conceded any of his demands would have boon to abandon the islands to the brown desperadoes who are still burning and robbing small towns In tho outlying provinces ot Luzon To havo outying up Manila and the archipelago to theso halfcivilized plunderers would have been to mafco the name of tho Unltdl States anathema throughout the civi lized world There would have been nothing like it in history Yet this is what Mn Bryan still proposes to do If I he la elected President Chicago Tribune A BUSINESS PROPOSITION Agent Like some awnings mum We ill and fix cm cheap Housewife dont want awnings They keep out the sun and wo get lit It tic enough sunshine here as i is Agent You need never use cm mum Theyll roll upNew York Weekly TO ACQUIRE GOOD SPEECH A good vocabulary Is acquired by reading good books as well as by hear lug the talk of those who express themselves them-selves In the speech of educated people peo-ple writes Margaret E Sangstcr In the September Ladles Home Journal Thought lies back of speech and the more subjects Interest us the more command ot language we shall have In which to describe them They who read scientific books will have a grasp of scientific terms They who discriminate discrim-inate nicely and use the very best word to say what they have in their minds will consult a dictionary and see wjiat are the similarities tho contrasts ot certain words will choose as among gems the flawless ruby or crystal will not be satisfied except with the exact word which can express precisely tho meaning they wish to convey Threading Th-reading of good authors lifts our vocabulary vo-cabulary from meanness and meagerness meager-ness to nobility and splendor enriches our speech with words which are llko a beautiful embroidery on the garment of daily life and furnishes us with allusions al-lusions quotations and phrases which are jMctureSque apposite or convenient for lllustrallon MOTHER OF THE IMMIGRANTS Probably no two women in America come so close to I varied personal history his-tory as Mrs Regina Stucklen chief inspector in-spector of the womens department at the barge ofiice and well known J as tIm Mother of the Immigrants and her assistant sistant Miss Taylor No church In all the metropolis solemnizes many marI mar-I I rlages as the barge ofilce and no matrimonial matri-monial agent on earth arranges 89 I many wedding as does Mrs Stucklen and beneath the majority of these there is I a saving proportion of romance that leaveneth the whole heavy lump Thus there are compensations even In the most arduous tasks and amid surroundings sur-roundings that are repellent to a refined re-fined feminine mind Personally with great benignity and with signal absence of official fussiness Mrs Stucklen regards the want oe all the women She learns not only whence each comes but whither each wishes togo to-go and what each proposes to doOC the struggles with the great problems r of existence In all countries and in all grades of social life Mrs Stuclclcn knows enough to fill volumes The Mother of the Immigrants Is a woman of strong personality calm firm and sympathetic under most trying situations situa-tions and to the wouldbe bride who has arrived a stranger In n foreign land to meet her promised husband aho Is at once counselor witness and friend As about 300 marriages tako I place annually at the barge office or directly under its auspices one solemnization solemn-ization for every working day of the arand a Mrs Stucklen Inquires into in-to the intimate history of each matrimonial matri-monial affair sho has more than an ordinary or-dinary opportunity study this Interesting Inter-esting side of life Whither they go and how they prosper after leaving irr guardian care the Inspector has little opportunity of knowing whether to found honorable and prosperous families fami-lies or to fail and fill tho paupers I grave Barely 1 per cent of them ever I retains enough grateful memory of her services to Inform her But there are rewards In knowing ones duty well I done and If there Is n seeming Ingratitude tude on the part of brides and grooms like it Is because the Government I and the barge office as one of Its Institutions tutions Is a thing of odium to the average aver-age Immigrantthe thing from which I he fed when he forsook his native his Und valleys and the sorrows and tribulations tribu-lations of the detention pens the Immigrant Immi-grant seeks to blot from his memory I us Speed speedily in Ainslces as possible1 John Gllmer |