Show howe about an affecting letter sentiment our courts f 0 dell bell syndicate WN service by ED HOWE 7 LATELY saw paw a note sent by a 1 merchant to a patron which read dear air reference to our books show that you have for some years paid your bills promptly in our grumbling about patrons who are very slow or do not pay at all we feel we should express appreciation app of your long continued fair ness I 1 have not in a long time seen a letter affecting affects ng me more agreeably should there not be more appreciation for mentho come somewhere near doing t their heir duty to themselves their fam families illes and their country I 1 often think of the loneliness of my position to in religion I 1 almost never meeta meet a man who agrees with me one I 1 can sing hymns with and call brother As aa it a hypocrite I 1 I 1 think I 1 am above the average but have never seen any sense in exploiting it I 1 am rather disposed to hade my hypocrisy tand and be ashamed of it I 1 have havel found it best to be honest with sentiment of all kinds it Is easier than to pretend a lot of thin things s there la isi no practical warrant ray for I 1 judge religion as I 1 judge everything else i and as I 1 say above am very lonc lonely ly A rather notable lawyer called on me lately ile he visited london a few months ago and told about a sensational national sat ional tonal murder case there the crime was committed after his arrival he was in and around london not to exceed two or three weeks and by the time lid he left the murderer had been arrested convicted and hanged an appeal to the highest court had also been made and considered and decided in dua form I 1 do not know a reputable lawyer who Is not ashamed of our courts many of the judges and all the people are yet we do nothing about it as we do nothing about our disgraceful political system our banking system or racketeering or or bombing we shout higher ideals than the people of other nations and submit to actual performance not existing among the indians before we christian I 1 zed z ed t them he m reasonably respectable people are largely in them the but theado the they ydo do not uso their power the mistaken irresponsible incapable v vicious are in control it la Is said russia Is ruled by less lesa than 2 per cent of the peo pa pie e that Is about the percentage liere here we piti tend we are devoted to the old flag our homes our families actually we dally assault and insult all three A certain town built a really remarkable mark abla court house and city hall A beautiful a structure truc ture a stranger said to a citizen el yes the citizen replied but it busted the town and county it reminds me of the war etwas it wag a flue fide gesture bu how it cost I 1 A newyork new york magazine recently made fun of us because or of our squirming about the bonds be fore you le leave town you should seq see some of our school houses I 1 tear fear we shall get in trouble oy oyer over er the school house bonds too 0 0 occasionally ft a written sentence Is so wise and true as to be worthy of a place in the permanent ht philosophy or of every stirly intelligent and honest man I 1 know of no american who may be credited with a greiter greater number of such rare exhibitions than abra abia ham lincoln and the sent sentences elices I 1 admire were cast in almost perfect form nothing con be taken from them nothing added without harm yet lincoln was not a professional writer ile he almost never mever went to school of young men of today not one in a hundred had as poor a start as lincoln of all americans of large equip ment I 1 regard ralph waldo emer eon on is AS perhaps the ablest writer lacking emersons enormous tech education edu catton lincoln was timid i and wrote sparingly sparl n i gly I 1 can point out many specimens of folly in emersons writing none in un coins he intended for the publio some of tits his private love lettero were foolish but these were intend ed for the ire fire and no one should be criticized for folly in love for e A traveler says that when an american picture play is presented in germany the lingering lin jering kisses hisses the bravery of the western heroes the nobleness of the heroines at tract whistling from those in the audience the germans are fun of us is 1 have we ne not reached an age when we should recover from some of the conspicuous follies which attract contemptuous criticisms in older countries 0 0 I 1 know an old man who Is and lately went to see him lie he lives in the house of n relative as there lg Is no other place for him and he Is not very welcome there ile he told mo me tits his greatest terror Is the radio which Is always going the radio ls a quite wonderful invention and very creditable to the gentlemen who worked out its details but there li Is a lot of mischief in it few of out oui politest POIl test people realize mike |