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Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1901-05-16
A UNIQUE CHARACTER.
London Has Pastor who Has Served
Without Salary Az Yeara

London Has Pastor Who Has Served
Without Salary AZ Years.
The forty-third anniversary of the
commencement Of the most remarkable
pastorate in the world has Just been
celebrated in London, says the Chicago
Tribune. 1t is remarkable because the
man has presided over the destinies of
the church for nearly half a century
has never drawn n cent of salary for
his services in all that time This most
remarkable of ministers Is the Rev.
p. Schnadhorst, man of independ-
Ont means, who in 1858 dedicated his
life to the uplifting of the poor in the
East End of London. The church owns
large building on the Roman road In
North Bow, where almost every kind
of religious and philanthropic work
is carried on. On Monday, for instance
a savings society meets under church
auspices, and residents of the vicinity
are encouraged to deposit their pennies
where they will be safe and at the same
time draw good interest. Mr.. Schnad-
horst is married and he and his wife
give UP all their time to the work Of
the church in it's various branches.
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"Mach..vell,.n. unav.r.

The editor of the Century breaches
lay sermon in the May number of
that magazine on Doing Good that
Good May Come"
There are always plenty of people
Machiavellians unaware-to uphold the
doctrine that states must be unscrupu-
lously selfish; that they are not to be
hound by the code of private morals.
There is always q temptation even
with the most honest and fair-minded
men upon whom executive responsi-
I,ility has temporarily devolved, to
seize and hold every advantage in the
supposed interests of the community.
They do not wish it said, after their
stewardship has expired, that through
them the community suffered loss, that
they were guilty of letting go an OPP
portunity of benefit for the people
whom they represented Enough in
fluences, moreover, are always at work
to make a deviation from principle
seem not what 1T is, but simply man
ly stroke of craftsmanship.
Now, we hold that 1t is wrong for
statesmen, wrong for governments and
wrong for nations to put themselves
in the position of even seeming to act
on Machiavellian lines. And for this
reason: The action of the government.
being necessarily influenced by MANY
interests and many reasons and many
motives, cannot easily be defended
from a charge of selfshness. and 40
may stand forever suspected not only
by the word at large, but by its own
people. should 1t apparently depart
from the straight path. In such case
its influence for good Is DESTROYED
abroad. while Generalization spreads
over the body polite at home.
American statesmen, therefore.
should be sustained by public opin-
! 81 Ir,<I 49,.
They should be upheld even in taking
risks in right doing; they should be en-.
Outraged not to do evil in hope that
good may come, but to do right. and
right only, that good may come. They
should be made to understand that a
nation not only should do right. but
should not allow any public miscon-
ception as to the Justice and the right
eousness of its action. And they should
tell their public servants that tha
stewardship of principle is vastly more
important than the Stewardship of
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The MAN WHO NEVER
KISSED A WOMAN
Chicago Half Disposed to Take the
College Professor Ser
iousIy.
VIEWS OF PROMINENT PEOPLE
Ch.uncey Depsw Want. missionary
Movement to Rescue tho unfortup.tc
VIEWS OF PROMINENT PEOPLE
ch.uncey Depsw Want. a Missionary
Movement to Rescue tho Unfortunate
Washington Opinion Is That IIe
Should he in Museum.

Chicago special: Chicago is inclined
to take Prof. Crook at his own word.
The only hesitation is on the score of
oaths. 1t appears to some like an UNI
usual stretch of the long bow that a
man OF 81, of normal tenn
permanent, should never have used a
swear word" in his life.
The professors conduct for eight
years at the university corroborates
all he has said of himself. He asso-
ciates with no women, and rarely
says anything to the softer sex, out
side OF his classes.
Mrs. Potter-I believe the professor
is truthful man.
Gertrude Potter Daniels-Professo
Crook is the greatest example of self
denial have ever heard Of excepting,
of course, several of the primitive
Christian saints. l believe him
Ellen M. Henrotin-I believe all Prof.
Crook said of himself, but have mis-
givings about the swear words. Saint
~ and angelic indeed must be the
character that can refrain from men
tally or verbally using big, big ID
some time in this strenuous age.
Prof. Frederick Starr, Chicago Uni
versity-Women are the foes to prog
ress. I do not drink, smoke or kiss
women, because l believe that the
man who does Injuries his value as a
scientist; One time when had
loupe Indians in the noun
tains of northern Mexico for
nearly four months, and had just man
aged to ingratiate myself by means of
brides and presents. they gave big
shindig in my honor. At the opening
ceremony of the occasion l was sup
posed to drink to the health of the
T. - 4. A.. y.
as a mark of esteem and harmony be-
tween me and the tribe. l agreed to
taste the 'pulque,' or rather whisky,
but when 1t came to the other cere-
mony balked, and nearly lost my life
in consequence-and she was pretty,
too. Prof Crook is a truthful man and
a thoughtful student.
Opie Reads Not,ons.
Opie Read-The surprising thing is
that bachelor university professor
should classify kissing with profanity,
smoking, chewing and drinking, or
that he should pronounce it a frivolity.
There is nothing frivolous about kiss
Ing. The experience of humanity down
through ages proves 1t to be one of the
most serious things of life. In Kansas
City few weeks ago a man was fined
$1,000 and six months imprisonment
for kissing. A mob on Ashland ayen-
ue in this city. chased man up three
flights Of stairs, out on the roof,
through window, and compelled him
to jump twenty feet to the street be-
low-simply because of a kiss.
In British court not long ago the
decision in q breach-of- promise case
for 100000 damages hinged upon a
question of one kiss. Kissing, either
In the abstract. or in the concrete,
should be approached with hesitation,
elaboration and circumspection, with
careful regard for circumstances
and opportunity, and never in light
or frivolous mood.
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IN the grasp Of the doorman it fell on
the policeman and fastened its teeth
IN his leg. The man seized the poor
little beast by the legs and beat its
brains out against the steps.
The outrage Of that night" says
Ems, became, in the providence of
God, the means of putting an end to
one OF the foulest abuses that ever dis
graced a Christian city and a MAIN
spring IN the battle with the slums.
as 1af as my share in it is concerned.
My dog did not die unavenged."
week after Roosevelt was made
president of the Police Board Riis took
him one night down to the Church
Street Police station. The lodging
room was then just as it had been
twenty years before. Riis told Roose-
Welt the story of his night there and
the death of his dog, and as he told it
the face of Roosevelt hardened.
I've been fighting for twenty years
to have those awful lodging rooms
abolished" said Riis.
TN stamp them out tomorrow" said
Roosevelt SaVagely.
And he did 1T. The little dog was
avenged.
Riis was peddling books-not very
successfully; he had not eaten for two
days--when a friend told him of place
on local news association.
AsAAso 1Pl'lACo LUZ lIle pOSlIlOn ana was
engaged. One of his assignments that
day was to write up luncheon of the
Old Guard at the Aston house. He had
rot eaten for three days. but he did
then.
From that time until he resigned, a
few months ago, Riis was police
Headquarters reporter. He went back
to Denmark after he had saved q lit
tie money and married there. Last
year King Christian I. conferred upon
him the gold cross of the Order of
Danebrog, thus virtually knighting
him.
About ten years ago Mrs. Riis gave
him some daisies which their children
had picked out at Richmond Hill and
suggested that he could give them to
poor children in the tenement house
district He did so, and wrote a para
graph suggesting that other people do
the same.
From this grew flower mission,
which has flourished ever since. On
the day of his silver wedding, March S
last, the new house of the Kings
by Bishop Potter at No. so Henry
street.
I'm the name of God and oil his
children" said Bishop Potter, this
house shall henceforth bear the name
of Jacob A. Riis."
Mr.. Riis' hair is heavily frosted now,
but he's as full of vim and push and
go as ever, and never loses heart.
ut will come right in time" he says.
CAN we have to do is to help things
along the best we can, and make that
best worth something to the cause Of
good"
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in mine. There was at least a man Of
letters in the family, though he came
by road not down on the official

in mine. There was at least a man Of
letters in the family, though he came
by a road not down on the official
map"
Riis came to America.
He found work with some other inn
migrants at Brady's Bend Iron works.
on the Allegheny river, Pennsylvania.
Then the Franco-Prussian war broke
out and young Riis came back to New
York to offer his services to the French
consul, for he wanted to fight Germany,
the enemy of Denmark in the Schles-
wig-Holstein affair.
The French consul treated the Dane
like tramp, and Riis pulled his nose.
After that the young man had hard
struggle. He found work here and
there, but for a good part of the time
he lived like tramp.
One night he slept on gravestone in
New Brunswick. Here is how he tells
the tale in his autobiography.
Il turned down side street where
two stone churches stood side by side.
A gate in the picket fence had been
left open and went in, looking for a
place to sleep. Back in the church,
yard found what sought on the
brownstone slab covering the tomb of,
know now, an old pastor of the Dutch
Reformed church who died full of wis
0OIn ana grace.
II am afraid that was not overture
dened with either. or might have gone
to bed with full stomach, too, instead
of chewing the last Of the windfall
apples that had been my diet on my
two days trip, but if he slept as
peacefully under the slab as slept on
1T he was doing we'll. had for once
a dry bed, and brownstone keeps warm
long after the sun has set. The night
dews and the snakes and the dogs that
kept shifting and growing half the
night in the near distance, had made
me tired of sleeping in the fields. The
dead We're much better company. They
minded their own business and LET q
fellow alone.'
In the winter he was back again to
New York, with nothing to do and with
only linen buster for coat. A kind
hearted French cook at Delmonico's
downstairs restaurant gave him rolls
and meat bones through window.
one night he was driven by a storm
to seek shelter in the Church Street
Police station and was herded i'm O
foul lodging-room with other homeless
ones. The little black-and tan dog
that had made friends with him was
not allowed to enter
While Riis slept he was robbed of a
little gold locket he had fastened about
his neck with a string. 1t contained q
lock of his sweetheart's hair
He complained to the sergeant that
ne had been robbed, and was called a
thief and abused and thrown out by
the doorman and kicked down the
steps.
His little dog had been waiting out
side patiently. When 1T saw its master
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mand. but the glut is not so great as has
been made out. According to the most
age will not be more than 20 per cent
heavier than last year Moreover, it is
expected to prove i'll the main of SUI
perior quality. In fact. there is no obvious
justification for the extraordinary fall in
prices, and the crisis is due in some meas
ure to mere panic. This panic has been
brought about in part by the dearth Of
casks. There is such "a lack of casks that
In some districts the receptacle is as valu-
able as the contents, so that il you have
two casks you can get one of them filled
by giving the other empty to the grow
err, There is a similar scarcity of watts.
tuns and all other receptacles. The ma
jority of the growers are not in a posi-
ton to store their wine, except in years
In which the yield Is only moderate. II
The crop promises to be heavy they fore
see that they Will be at loss how to
stock it. and they are in a hurry to sell
before the vintage. This is what has hap
pened this season, but on such a scale as
TO cause a panic.
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red, and he laughed loud and heartily

red, and he laughed loud and heartily
at the delicious memory. Don't ask
me just how 1t happened. 1 don't
Know, but 1 know it did happen, and
that is one of the sweetest memories
OF my life. All, what a pretty girl she
was, and how her eyes stirred some
thing in me!
1T was the old story of Eve and
the apple. 1t always is. The RICH,
sort of young fellow can't resist the
forbidden fruit, and Eve doesn't want
him to-
The conditions and the provocation
must be right for a kiss. The girl
must like the fellow little 1t must
be moonlight, or something like It, II
never happens in broad open sunlight
never. unless it is at picnic in the
woods. They get out alone together
and he tells her she's the most divine
creature in the world, and means ii
every word. His eyes show he means
IT and his manner shows 1T. And her
dancing, mischievous eyes show tina,
she likes It, whatever she may saw,
Then there is the touch-and the kiss.
Every fellow can tell you about 1t II
he will-that is. every one besides
Crook.
ut is very late for Crook to begin,
He can never come the way of bliss
that every other man has come. He c;A,
never enjoy the challenge from the
fouguish eye of youth. Now he must be
the aggressor. Still. 1t is not too late
for even sinner like Crook to repent
and reform.
Girls Must Save Crook.
HE must be saved. The girls must
do it. They owe 1t to the sex to wipe
out the stigma of this man getting w
and proclaimtng he has never once
Rugged or kissed a girl. 1t is a direct
reflection on all the women Crook has
ever known. Even now the portals OF
heaven are open to him.
II have heard of men abstainins
from tobacco and whisky because their
parents maybe, had been horrible ex-
amples of their effects. They have seen
the rheumatism, govt worthlessness,
poverty that have come from these and
have wisely abstained. But how a
man can deliberately abstain from
hugging and Kissing a pretty girl Is
more than human man can understand.
Yes the girls must save Crook. He's
lost valuable time, but 1t is never toe
late to mend"
Abraham Gruber, who has written
many beautiful poems on the joys Of
OSCILLATION. says words are too weak to
describe Prof. Crooks folly.
II can only say" said he, that he
can never take high rank in our navy.
1t is hopeful to note spirit of disap-
probation in his class, which encour-
ages me to feel he will find it hard to
inculcate' his abstemious principles"
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fore considers his pension sufficient to
keep this broken vessel from coming TIC
the ground. If one could go through the
whole list. what a story might be written
anent each item.
There is no hope of the Casino being
closed-nct even during the summer-bai
ii people would only restrain their pas
sion for gambling for another five years
as they shaved themselves capable OF
dong the winter of SO and 81, the divi-
dend will come out zero. and the bank
will be broken, not in name only. but
also in deed.
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packages and piles 81 coin.

Ter may send q committee ini
vault at any minute to count i
rency. This is frequently done.
also customary to take the bust
one of the tellers out of his hang
out notice and verify his CASH.
are ordinary business precautit
Man Who AIakcs Up the Bun,f.
Down in the basement of thd.
ury in the issue division, of WIFI.
Sample Is chief, is the man who.
up the bundles of money VIII
eventually into the vault clerks.
His is another position in whic.
sonal integrity alone stands b.
the government and the loss
money. John Barnes held this.
for thirty-thre years and died
harness. For thirty-three years.
dollar printed for the government
INTO his hands, was packed by
sealed and labeled His salary
Sl,4O0 a year for the thirty-three
of his service.
John Brown, Mr.. Barnes succ
is negro who has seen many ye
service and is trusted by his EN-.
He stands in a wire cage, ser.
the notes into packages of uniforr
puts them through hand press,
reduces the package to it's smalle
mansions, ties, wraps and seals it.
one can watch him. but Their.
countless opportunities when tt
straction of 81 package of notes al
substitution of blank paper wou
an easy possibility. The notes &C
the vault to season. and they
not be removed for many month.
fact, the substitution might not b.
covered for year. When John L
is handling notes of small denol
tons he put up only Sl.5OO,OOO in d
But the amount might easily be
100000, and in the day of $4,000
1T might have been ten times as
Every time new treasurer tax
flee the cash in the treasury is C
ed. This takes months. The cou
of the coin in the vaults is by w
and the bags are put on the scale
taken to and from the valuts b
borers. They and the clerks VIII
pervise the work are not bonded
the attempts to steal any of this
nave been few and unimportant
course there have been t'.efts frol
treasury. The most famous occ
In 1879, and is known as the Hs
was clerk in the cashiers office.
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100 MUCH WINE.
The Bottom Has Fallen Out Of the Market
in France.

III France.
Paris Correspondent Pail Mall Gazette.
The wine growers of the south of France
are rending the air with their lamenta-
lions. They avow that ruin stares them
IN the face. A farthing pint is the price
fetched by this years vintage and with
wine at a farthing a pint 1t cannot be
grown at profit by very long way
Needless to say 1t is not we'll known Bur-
gundies and Bordeaux that are thus to be
purchased dirt cheap, but the wines of
less famous strains, produced in the
Herault. the Aude and the Gard Some
thing like Il half of all the wine grown in
France comes from these three depart
ments. and. without this abundant and
always inexpensive supply, the wine mer-
chants of all countries would be hard put
to 1t to offer their customers the thin
nish "Beaunes'' and the more or less
passable ciarets, which they retail, with
the aid of pompous labels, at prices which
cannot be unremunerative even when an
nounced as popular.
The present slump in the wine market
Is probably unprecedented. Prices are rs
per cent lower than those of year ago
Last season the wine growers disposed of
their crop at 20 francs the hectoliter; they
are now getting 5 francs, or francs at
the outside. and there are cases in which
the hectoiter has fetched only 2 francs.
at which rate bottle of wine would come
to less than u farthing. The causes of
this state of things are none too clear
There Is perhaps more wine on the mar
kst than Is required to meet the de-
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"1he Most Usefu1 Citizen Of Neu York;
ls@1 Remarkable
Rf re Naa.s y y

New York World: When Jacob A.
Riis, reporter, author and reformer,
went to Europe last year he took with
MIN general letter of Introduction
from Theodore Roosevelt, then govern
or OF New York. The letter was en-
crossed on parchment, signed by the
governor, attested by his secretary,
and bore the seal of the state. In it
Mr.. Riis was called the most useful
citizen OF New York.
whether the supes lative should be ap-
piled to Mr.. Riis may be matter Of
opinion, but there can be no doubt
that he has been useful citizen.
OF late Mr.. Isiis has been so crowded
with orders for magazine articles and
books that he has had to give up his
newspaper work but he says:
have been reporter for nearly
reporter. love the work. When feel
sluggish all have to do is to go down
into. Park Row when the evening is
coming on, the people are going home,
the boys are crying 'Extras!' and the
face of the city hall clock is lighted up.
Then my blood tingles. my enthusiasm
comes back and ache to get out on a
story.
There are two things which 1 think
I may say l was largely instrumental
IN bringing about-the abolition of sta
tion-house lodgings and the razing of
Mulberry Eend and substitution of the
park there. 1t was because was re-
porter and never let an opportunity Slip
to write about those evils that they
We're abolished"
1t was in his study in his pretty home
at Richmond Hill. L. l. His sweet
faced wife, who is the heroine of the
autobiographical love story he is now
writing for the outlook, had come in
with coffee for him and his guest She
smiled at his enthusiasm, and he met
her smile half way and answered 1t
in kind.
Their silver wedding was in March.
Silver wedding! Humph!" he writes
in the autobiography. "She isn't a
week older than the day 1 married her
not a week."
But there is home full of children
Just the same out there at Richmond
Hill, and happy-faced lot they are.
born in 1S49 at Ribe, on the river Nibs,
Denmark His father was a school,
master and he wanted Jake to be lit
erary man, but the boy rebelled. He
chose to be carpenter.
Not till thirty years after" writes
Riis. did l know how deep the wound
was I struck my father then. =
1t was in 1893. when saw him for the
last time, that found out, by chance
remark he dropped when sitting with
my first book, How the Other Half
Lives in his hand.
AS for me, would have been repaid
for the labor of writing a thousand
books by witnessing the pride he took
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Explained.

Philadelphia Press: This" said the
drug clerk. lis most wonderful hair
remover. It's our own preparations
We'll, give me a BOTTLE said the bald
headed man. But. say. come to think of
IT. why don't you use it? You are pretty
bald yourself
Il can't use it. You see I'm the Be
fore Using clerk. The After Using
clerk Il out at lunch. You should see
him.
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III. ren.,on L,,t Of Monte e.r,o.

May Ledger Monthly: Monte Carlo, the
,rost famous gambling place in the world,
has very curious pension list. Here are
inscribed the names of the men and wo-
men who have lost their fortunes at the
tables and who are allowed small sums
daily for the rest of their miserable lives.
This practice, which was inaugurated by
Pere Blanc In his paternal care for the
decaves. Is also being dropped out as the
pensionnaires die out. The pensions now
paid range from 81 to s. a day. according
to the amount which has been lost at
the tables and the social position of the
recipient. For instance. tall Scotchman
who is n familiar figure upon the Prom
enade dc Anglais In Nice receives two
louis (ubout So per day. He lost mil
lion and q quarter at roulette. He has
stu s;nau income. and the bank, there