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Show THE GOOD LOAN SHARK COMING. I , tot 'Do you believe In a real, actual Jfr burning hell?" asked a suburbanite '5 ft recently. -, ' 5J "I am compelled to," was the reply. JiJt "I can figuro out no other way of dis- I 7S posing of a certain man who has been jjff lending money, to a poor woman in ' fe my flat and charging her 400 per ' lit cent for 1l" jfc And now comes the good news at j fJe last that a movement Is on foot In 5 ' New York to put the bloodthirsty chat- SS tel shark out of business. After a ctl quiet investigation that has lasted i ffa three years, the Russell Sago founda- t" tion, is encouraging a plan to eatab- i'.jjj Hsh a remedial loan society which ',,S will beat the sharks at their own . 'jj; game. It will probably bo modeled O5 after the Provident Loan society, ' j' (which all orthodox pawnbrokers Ks curse) and will be In operation within i a very few months. " g This new society will enter the sea 'Kg that has been hitherto monopolized JK by the chattoL shark the fellow who Uj lends you money on your piano or i other personal property that cannot H be taken to the pawnshop, and who w S charges you a rate that may be as ; )St low as 120 per cent a year In some S cases, and has risen as high as COO wp per cent In other cases. This loan - p society will lend you just as much : K! money on the same Kind of sccuritv : pS and. will charge a rate of lnteros't s that will not be a hardship It will ' jJ make it unnecessary for you to do w business at the old stand and even M the shark business cannot thrive in I jj the presence of such ruinous competi- , j tion. as that. Edgar Allen Forbes In i M Plarper's Weekly. a |