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The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1905-05-13
COUNTY COURT
Proceedings Of the Regular Monthly Meeting
Held at unneus Last Week.

Court convened Monday, May 1.
Following bids received on daily
balances for county depository: Far
mers u Merchants bank, Linneus, 4
per cent; Citizens bank, 3.5 per cent;
Moore & Mullins, 3.6 per cent. Far
mers q Merchants bank awarded con-
tract for ensuing two years.
Clerk ordered to publish receipts
and expenditures for year 1904 in
Brookfeld Gazette.
Following loans made from school
fund: G. W. Crist, $500; John o.
son, $1,000; John J. Hale, $500; Alice
Hale, $3.50.
Dramshop license granted to j. III.
Phillips, Linneus, and G. D. Veal,
Bucklin.
Aubery Hill sent to infrmary.
Bond of Farmers and Merchants
bank, county depository, received and
approved.
Township assessors requested to
meet with county court Monday, June
., 1905, to agree on a basis for next
assessment.
State levy for tax of 1905 fixed at
IL cents; county, 80 cents, and town
ship 8 cents ON the 800 valuation.
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the old schatchens are not unhappy.
One occurred recently in the Yidd sh
quarter which was arranged ty an old
patriarch, and the bride and bride
groom locked as happy as any young
couple entering the holy bonds Of we'd
lock could look.
The little bride was as rretty as a
colored lithograph. and her veil stood
out like a frost-covered lamp sha3o
from the white flowers on her small
black head. The bridegroom wore a
black suit and tail silk hat, and
smiled and perspired with equal pro-
fusion all through the evening. There
were pretty girls with curly pompa-
dours and little hooked noses, and en-
barrassed youths, and patr.archs, and
stout. aquiline matrons. And there
was music, with a great deal of drum
effect, and dancing, all quadrilles Of
peculiarly wooden and seemingly Joy
GUS nature, and there were strange
things to eat and drink, and a COM
plete absence OF oxygen in the room.
When the ceremony began the bride
and bridegroom and rabbi stood un-
der a gorgeous fringed canopy, with
long poles held over their heads by
some men. The rabbi talked for a
long time in Yiddish--the service took
quarters of an hour-and every
one wept, especially the brides mother,
dear soul, who bade fair to dissolve in
tears. Then the pretty bride walked
seven times around her husband-the
symbolism Is obscure and has been
forgotten by most Hebrews. And final
ly, In little hush that was rather sol
emn, on the whole, wine glass was
flung upon the floor for good luck. The
little tinkle of splintered glass sound
ed like tiny chime of bells. SO they
were married-happily, II one may
trust their faces-and all through the
old schatchen.
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rather proud of It at that. was mar
ried through a schatchen. So, also,
was that pathetic-looking woman over
there, who was recently deserted by
her husband, and is now begging pen.
nies on the sidewalk.
Her case brings us to the other
class of schatchens-the men whose
praitice of their trade makes them a
menace to the community, and whose
ill-gotten gains come to about quad
ruple what the honest schatchen makes
by his legitimate business.
The Crooked Schatchens.
These crooked schatchens have been
little talked about until lately. Their
trade has been so secret, their pre-
cautions SO complete, and their team
work" so remarkable that they have
operated almost entirely unobseryed.
Now and then the complaint OF some
deserted wife has started the police
upon scent which seemed bound to
lead to new and important discoveries,
but 1t was usually found to lend in
squirrel tracks or run up a tree"
Even now it is next to impossible
to arrest or convict a, 'swindling
schatchen." as the police call them.
The police have been at work on the
overthrow of several for years, but the
game is long and arduous one, and,
as one young detective declared. sit
would take the entire time of the force
to the exclusion of every other case
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Methods of Schatchens, Straight and
Crooked, Among Girls of the
Yiddish Quarter
ARE A MIGHTY POWER FOR GOOD AND EVIL
How They Ply Their Trade Among the limo
cent Young Jewish Maidens of the East
Side-Swindlers md Their Subtle
Methods Described.

with him or her business dealings OF
so delicate and intimate nature. The
type? Come with me to Riverton
street, and stand on the corner where
Norfolk crosses 1t. Watch the girls
go by. They are pretty in a gentle
foreign way. They wear their hair
low on their necks and very loosely ar
ranged. One and all have white worst
ed shawls wrapped about their slightly
bent shoulders. Their figures are full,
their steps heavy. They have the hall
marks of the working woman, the
beast of burden writ large upon their
patient faces and STOPPING backs.
One in seven has bright ribbon in
her hair or a string of colored beads
about her throat. Only one in 80
wears a hat. They move quickly,
casting swift glances, half shy, half
bold, at the men they pass. Their
lives are spent in shops and factories,
gaining a meager living. They never
come in contact with men; they have
np time. Romance has no place in
tneir crampeo, crushed destinies. Love
is not known in their hearts, any
more than JOY is known to their lives
They are the plodders, the workers
the women whom the gods have for.
gotten. And these are the natural
prey of the schatchen.
Advantages Of the System.
Perhaps prey is the wrong word
after all, for when the schatchen is
ION the level" and plays straight
game" his Office may be most useful
valuable and beneficial one. and often
he carries away from Yiddish we'd
ding the good wishes of the two con
tented young persons whom he has
united The legitimate schatchen is a
necessary factor in Yiddish life of the
lower strata. Without him these
girls would find no husbands, and the
men of the vicinity would go to other
districts for their wives. Also, there
would be much more immortality. The
schatchen forestalls the natural mat
ing proclivities of young people ant
ties up his clients in pairs, firm ant
fast with knots that hold the couples
in comfortable bondage for good and
al.
One and all Of these girls, whom w
see passing and repassing on all sides
wish husbands. They save their earn
ings for the purpose of massing del
adequate to make good showing
with the schatchen and win a satisfac
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If you wanted to put the thing through

II you wanted to put the thing through
quickly"
The swindling schatchen has two
possible methods of procedure. It de-
pends upon his nerve as to which he
adopts. II he be a brazen specimen
he will advertise himself frankly as
a schatchen, and bring as many men
and girls together as possible, ask
ing a commission for his services. The
men are always picked from his own
band, and the same man will marry
and rob half a dozen girls before he
decides to leave town and try a new
field of activity.
The other method is more subtle,
and infinitely more dangerous. Here,
broker, the trusting girl and the black
leg prepared to marry as many wom-
en- as he can conveniently pauperize in
limited space of time. But in this
case the marriage broker Is less co3r-
ageous, and hides his nefarious trade
behind the screen Of some legitimate
and blatently advertised business.
Employment Agencies.
The favorite cloak of these schat-
chens is an employment agency"
They have large signs, front offices,
desks, ledgers, and all the costiiest
paraphernalia.
To them come girls In search Of
work-most of them foreigners just
from the other side. The girls names
are entered, their looks and savings
are estimated, and the willy employ
ment agent talks matrimony, the COM
forts of home and being settled for
life into the girls ears.
The girls who are amenable to the
agents reasoning find husbands speed
lily for the coming. their small earn
ings are taken away, and Immediately
afterward they are deserted and en-
tirely without funds. They may ap-
peal to the police, but the husbands
have gone, and who can touch the
agent? He knew nothing about the
mans disreputable character, OF
course, and had nothing to do with
the matter beyond introducing one
young person to another.
Bands Work in Unison.
As has been said before, the team
work." or concerted action, of these
matrimonial bands is rather extraor-
binary. The interdependence Of the
members is OF necessity tremendous,
and the men all stand in with one an
other SO successfully as to drive the
police and the plain-clothes men fran
tic The best chance for the force
comes when some one man, to save
and square himself, peaches" on an
other, and so destroys little OF that
perfect harmony In the organization
OF crooks.
Sometimes, of course. broker cheats
one OF his men. or man goes back on
the broker and fails to give up the
promised share of the plunder OBJ
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New York.-On the great East side
OF this wonderful metropolis, wneIe
the innocent foreigner naturally drfts
on his arrival in America, to seek his
brother countryman, the schatchen
finds rich field for plying his trade.
The schatchen pronounced shot
ken), better kaown as marriage
broker, is one OF the most curious sur
vivals of ancient. orientalism which
one may find in many days travel
He is busy, prosperous man, with
a good business and large following
of clients. and he has developed his
ancient and picturesque trade along
the modern lines of commercial Amer
lea, but withal he remains the schat-
in young men and maidens, the inde-
fatigable, serene, otsequious, popular
marriage broker.
In the heart of the ':rogues' dis
trict," where the criminals of all
classes are wont to gather, is where
the schatchen finds his hest work
ground Here 1t is that he plies his
trade and wins his gains, rightful or
otherwise. And here 1t is that his
good faith brings queer pathetic.
manufactured happiness, even as his
treachery brings suffering and shame.
For good or for i'll, he is curious and
mighty power in the Yiddish quarter,
thus schatchen, agent of matrimony,
broker in men and women, buyer and
seller of lives.
Business Brokers"
In older days and older lands the
schatchen wore the dull red and
green and russet robes of the orient,
he jingled with chains and ornaments,
or slipped on silent feet into the
dwellings of the east: in this city he
has a card printed stating that he
deals in real estate, and Is also a
business broker"
Business broker" means but one
thing in the part of town particu-
ularly, affected by the schatcnen.
Everyone knows what his business is,
and he carries on an excellent trade.
The schatchen is almost invariably
of one type. He is rot very tall; he is
bearded; patriarchal and intensely
Yiddish. He walks silently and
watches every chance passerbv with
eyes that are both furtive and keen.
He slips in and out Of places almost
without making his presence felt.
When he speaks it is with a marked
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tatined from the newest wife. but this
does not help the police. No COM
plant will be- made, OF course, for as
may be readily be imagined, in no
walk of life is the glass-housc .es-
son more forcibly illustrated.
The men who belong 70 the bands
and lend themselves To the vile
schemes for betraying and robbing
young girls are all of peculiar type.
Shifty eyes, weak chins, evil mouths
they look and are ready for any job
that may offer itself-the lower the
better.
Escape Comparatively Easy.
But no crook has ever beea so care
less as to prepare job without first
arranging to ''get away" Many Of
the employment agents" have maps of
the city with the "get aways" all duly
marked. The city is so large. and the
districts are so distinct and separate,
that whenever he finds IL too warm
in one locality, he simply moves on
to another. and all traces of him Is
lost. The aforementioned map has
estimates of population in various dis
tricts, and all sorts of valuable in
formation. Its usefulness in an en-
ployment agency seemed rather OBJ
scure. but perhaps the agents are per-
sons who like to be well informed on
all subjects.
One Happy Marriage.
But all weddings brought about >by
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The Blessing
at Bethel
OUR BIBLE STORY by. the
"Hiahway and Byway" Preacher
"A Vision Between the Lines Of Gods
Inspired Wori.l
Gn

Scripture Authority.-"so Jacob came to
Luz, which is in the land OF Canaan, that
Is, Bethel. he and all the people that were
with him. And he built there an altar and
called the place El-beth-el; because there
God appeared unto him. when he fed from
the face OF his brother. But Deborah
Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried
beneath Bethel under an oak; and the
name OF It was called Allonbachuth. And
God appeared unto Jacob again. when he
came out of Padan-aram and blessed him.
And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob;
they name shall not be called any more
Jacob. but Israel shall be thy name; and
he called his name Israel. Gen. 356-l0
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tory mate. There is not girl among
them who will not go to the schatchen
in time. II she has not already been
there.
There is a young couple. She is
dressed In her best, and he looks in
'tensely sheepish. They have just met
each other through the schatchen. In
a week they will be man and wife. It
sounds risky, does 1t not? Yet they
will tell you down here that there is
about the same percentage Of happi-
ness in these queer broker manlfac-
tured marriages as in unions where
choice. romance, and other considera-
tions have part. That man over
there carrying a baby, and, looking
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desire to please, but with strangers he
is cautious and slow of tongue.
He has no regular ONCE as rule.
but Is apt to use upon his card the
address and telephone number of some
influential friend-the alderman Of
his district. or. n all else fail. the big.
gest saloon keeper OF the neighbor-
hood. He slides In and out of his
adopted headquarters by day and
night. insinuating himself into conver-
sational groups or listening sharply to
the talk OF others about him.
Types Of His Clients.
His clients are practically all Yid-
dish. A Jewish schatchen would never
trust Gentle sufficiently to have
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IS. this Is the very
spot, and there Is
the stone which /
set for a pillar aft
er my vision that
night" and as ia
cob spoke his face
beamed with an
appreciative light
and after q long
silence, d u r ! n g
which his y e $
drank in the old
familiar scene, he
continued, enthu-
siastically: And
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Man Was Mailed.

The English postal authorities lately
had living parcel committed to them,
and promptly and safely forwarded 1t
to the desired destination. A dweller
in the island OF Guernsey wished to 60
to the neighboring island of Sark as
expeditiously as possible. He accord
ingly presented himself at the post
Office and asked to be sent as par
eel. He was accepted as mailable. A
tag was attached to him and a ,messen-
ger detailed to go with him. y, The
postage charged was FIVE shilllngs and
tenpence.
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"Painters.v

Artist Tin the Adirondacks) Many
painters around here?
Guide-Oh. we shoot one occasionally.
Puck.
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Preferred Her weekly Salary.

He-Will you marry me?
she-No; but will be tyTevr''er ?
you.-Town ToIics.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1905-03-31

K IL was Ill 10 DC without q heart and
have only lump of gold that must
always stand between herself and
the man she lovedl
He is rich now" said Margot
and she was careful that she did not
meet him again. She spent much
time in planning that her WAYS
might not touch his.
In the evening she sewed still,
and she was sewing when Jane Greet
came to her with the news which
she thought so i'll.
"Oh, you were wise woman, Mar
got" she said, ''to keep away from
such fool. No one but fool
would lose all his money in going Sc
curity for such man as John Stan
tor Is. David is rich man no more.
Every penny that he brought back
with him is frittered away and all
else that he had besides. Be thank
full, Margot Greet, that you are not
my sons wife in anything but
namew
She went away, red eyed and
furious old woman, but Margot sat
on like one stunned.
Then she arose and put away her
sewing. She did not set it on the
little table, as she always did, but
rolled it up and, with a curiously
impatient gesture, set it away in old
James drawer.
''That's finished WITH" said she
Yet the sewing was not nearly done
Afterward she put on her hat, and
the shawl which she usually put over
her head when she ran out she
crossed upon her arm. She cast ono
look around the little room and to-
ward the staircase where Jane had
disappeared. Then she opened the
door and went into the street.
That was curiously quiet, and
there was fog. 1t was but one
short year since Margot Greet had
quarreled with her husband and
gone away.
She found her way through the
streets and around the corners lust
as surely as he had done, but she
was not unconscious of the way she
wound. The consciousness of that
shook her through and through and
would have shaken her still more
had she but had a heart left with
which to feel.
David's pane made little disk OF
light, which greeted her kindly, yet
it hurt, for it reminded her of the
yellow gold in her breast.
But he was singing, this time in
the light, and she paused to hear:
Sing me TO sleep and let me rest
In all the world loved you best
Nothing Is faithful, nothing true.
In heaven or earth but God and you
1t was not true, that song of Da-
vid's. She had not been true to him
or faithful, but she would be now.
Tears came into her eyes, and as
they ran down her'cheeks something
broke in her breast and melted away.
David's light smiled kindly at her
as she opened the door and stepped
into it, leaving the fog and gloom.
David" she said simply, 81 have
| come V-Black and White
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1905-03-31
Gonzales. ssalIion. OF salmon,

Alaskan salmon canneries work only
for short time-ln June. July and the
early part OF August-and they make
little impression upon the run OF fish
Countless millions OF salmon still es.
cape the nets and traps and press up
the rivers to spawn and die. Nature
Is here singularly wasteful In her meth.
DDS. or these myriads OF fish none
seems to return to the sea again after
spawning. eff evidence of this be re-
quired." says a writer. "a walk along
the shores OF a lake or the river banks
In autumn will soon convince the un-
believer since the sight OF the dead
salmon and the awful smell arising
therefrom will soon drive him as far
as possible from the spot. In one river
we computed by the numbers passing
our camp during the day and night
that there must be already millions of
fish In the lake. Over one shallow the
salmon were running in countless thou
sands. As they forced their way up.
with fms and tails out OF water, they
made n noise like small waterfall"
And yet not one OF these fish lives to
return to the sea.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1905-03-31
Limited Bathing F.c,,,s,..,

At one of the fresh air homes by the
sea, where New York tenement chill
dren are taken for a few days OF every
summer, young woman stood one day
beside n little fellow who sat digging
his toes In the sand as he watched the
other youngsters splashing in the surf.
Don't you want to go into the wa
terf' she said TO him coaxingly.
mo, ma'am," he answered.
You're not afraid, are your Don't
you battle at homer"
Eyes, ma'am," he answered proudly.
II get an all-over every week In the
washtub.'
"G'wan" said bigger boy who had
run up dripping and shivering just In
time to hear the little fellows answer.
''Yez means the dishpan."
Whichever the boy meant-and he I'M
doubleday meant one or the other-he
is no worse Off than hundred thou
sand other children OF the tenements.
There are districts in New York where
among $500 families there are but thir-
ty-six baths, where in a single block
there are as many as 500 families with
out bathtub OF any sort.-Outlook.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1905-03-31
An Isolated Colony.

One of the most isolated colonies of
civilized human beings on the face
OF the earth is that on the island of
/ Tristan d'Acunha, which lies almost
midway between the Cape Of Good
Hope and Cape Horn. This lonely
island lies in such a position that II
misses both eastern and western ships.
and the islanders receive only the rar-
est visits from a whaler and occasion
ally from British warship. The In
habitants number about seventy and
are descendants OF sailors, castaways
and handful Of soldiers left on the
island when 1t was garrisoned by a
company of British artillery during the
time OF the great Bonaparte's exile at
st. Helena When T. G.. Kerry, a
British capitalist, visited Tristan
twelve years ago he found sailor
named Green installed as the chief
man. The islanders have no laws,
church or money, but they have plenty
OF cattle and raise potatoes and even
grapes. Grain they cannot raise. as
this island is infested with rats. The
people are coarse skinned and rather
childish in manner, but very honest
and Woodworking.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1905-03-31
POPULAR VOLUMES.
In England After the bible Com
Prayer and Hymn Books


Prayer and Hymn Books.
Ask any of your friends which he
supposes are the. most popular and
profitable books in the world, not IN.
Guiding the Bible, and II is about 10 to
that he will only name two right out
Of the first six. and it is almost certain
that he will not correctly name the
first one OF these at all.
Passing by the Bible, the existing
book that has been most profitable and
that has had the greatest circulation,
though the two things are not quite
synonymous, is the prayer book, for
, this volume has been In circulation
for over two centuries, practically as il
Is today, and it is known to be now
selling at the rate of over 1000. 600
copies year. 1t is quite impossible,
as will be easily seen, to say how much
money 1t has brought in; but. putting
1t at the low estimate OF $4,000 a year
throughout its entire course as an alb
solutely certain average, we get the
enormous sum of 100000 as clear
profit, which Is probably not more than
third of the actual profit.
The next most profitable volume now
extant Is Hymns, Ancient and Mod
ern." The recent opposition to the new
edition, which is just appearing, OF
this famous hymn book has let us into
few facts about it's profits and circu-
lation. The copyright OF Hymns, An
cient and Modern" belongs to a few
individuals, and the book is used in
over 10000 churches, and more than
100000 copies of it are sold annually.
These copies vary in price from 10
shillings down to sixpence, according
to style of printing. binding and
whether containing the music or not.
But perhaps q fair average price to
take for our standard would be that
OF shilling. and, calculating on such
basis, we find that the income from
Hymns. Ancient and Modern" Is at
least over $4,000 year, of which
probably one-half is clear profit.
The third most profitable book known
is Moody and Sankey's Hymns" Few
OF your friends would ever place this
volume in its proper order IL asked to
make odt list OF six such books, as
before mentioned. Yet the fact re-
mains that Sankey's hymns have a ire
mendous sale and enjoy popularity all
over the world. Without taking into
account their American sales, which
have been astounding, it was admitted
by the English publishers OF these
hymns some time back that the profits
had then exceeded f25O,OOO.-Pearson's
London Weekly.