Show howe howe about an affecting letter sentiment our courts E boll bell syndicate servia by ED HOWE f LATELY saw a note sent by a I 1 merchant to a patron which read dear sir reference to our books show that you have for or some years paid your bills promptly in our grumbling crumbling about patrons wh who are very slow or do not pay at all we feel we should express appreciation of your long continued fairness I 1 have not in a long time seen a letter affecting me more agreeably should there not be more appreciation for men who come somewhere near doing their duty to themselves their families and their country I 1 often think of the loneliness of my position in religion I 1 almost never meet a man who agrees with me one I 1 can sing hymns with and alid call brother As a hypocrite hypo cirl t e 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 and be ashamed of IL it I 1 have found it best to be honest with sentiment 0 of all kinds it la Is easier than to pretend a lot of 0 things there is no practical warrant for I 1 judge religion as I 1 judge everything else and as I 1 say above am i cry lonely A rather notable lawyer called on me lately ile he visited london a few months ago and told about a sensational sat ional murder case there the crime was committed after his arrival lie he was in and around london not dot to exceed two or three weeks and by the time he left the murderer had bad been arrested convicted and hanged an appeal to the highest court had also been made and considered and decided la in due 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 bombing we shout higher ideals than the people of other nations and submit to actual performance not existing among the indians before we christian laed them reasonably respectable people are largely in the majority but they do not use their power the mistaken irresponsible incapable vicious are in control it is said russia Is ruled by less than 2 per cent of the people that Is about the percentage here we ve pretend we are devoted to the old flag our homes our families actually we daily assault and insult all three A certain town built a really remarkable court house and city hall A beautiful structure a stranger said to a citizen yes the citi zen replied but it busted the town and county it reminds rue me of the war it was a one gesture but how it cost A new york magazine recently made fun of us because of our squirming about the bonds before you leave town you son should see some of our school houses I 1 fear we shall get in trouble over the school house bonds too occasionally a written sentence Is so vise u ise and true as to be worthy of a place in the permanent philosophy of every fairly intelligent and honest man I 1 know of no american who may be credited wit with h a greater number of such rare exhibitions than abraham ham lincoln and the sentences I 1 admire were cast in almost perfect form nothing can be taken from them nothing added without harm yet lincoln was tint not a professional yet lincoln was tint not a professional writer lie ile almost never went to school of young men of today not one in a hundred had as poor a start as lincoln of nil all americans of large equipment I 1 regard ralph waldo kmer emer son as perhaps the ablest writer laking lacking emersons Kmer sons enormous technical education lincoln was timid and wrote sparingly I 1 can point out many specimens of folly in writing none in lin coans lie he intended for the p some of ills his private rite love letters were foolish but these were intended for the fire and no one should bo be criticized for folly in love a A traveler sa says ys that when an american picture play piny Is arese prese presented I 1 t d in germany tile the lingering kisses I 1 L the bravery lor the western heroes the nobleness of the heroines attract from those in the audience andi ence the germans tire are making fun of us have we not reached an age ahen when we vve should recover from some of the conspicuous follies whdeh attract contemptuous criticisms in older countries I 1 know an 0 old id man who Is ill anti and lately went to see kim him lie ile lives in tile the house of a relative as there Is no other place for him and he be I 1 Is not very welcome thele lie ile told me in e ills his greatest t terror Is the radio is always going the radio Is a quite wonderful invention live n it 0 n and an d very creditable to tile the gentlemen who worked out its details but there la Is ft a lot of mischief mi in it few of our politest POIl test people realize |