The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-30

the CITY since she came to It. bride,
/ in the 'T0s. from Croatia. She had
not been on the street cars even for
| sixteen years, and, of course had
J never ridden on the elevated road It
! is hardly possible to imagine what the
outing meant to her.
Chicago and New York are leaders
/ in the fresh air. work, while Buffalo
| indianapolis, Washington aid Cleve-
/ land each have a well organized and
efficient summer outing plan.-Annie
e. S. Beard. in the World Today.
TribulatIons of a PIliIanthropist.
An Elderly Philanthropist who was
walking home late one night from his
club passed a prosperous-looking
apartment house and noticed a man
in evening clothes lying motionless on
| the sidewalk FIRST aid to the in
jured.7 murmured the Philanthropist,
as he shook the invalid gently.
MON. jes' takin' rest" said the
Non, jes' takin' rest said the
/ sleeper Where do you live?" pur-
sued the z. 2. "Thish 'partment
house. thir' floor 'front.' This was
rather a large freight order for the
old gentleman. but being willing to do
good he put the invalid on his Shout
der, bore him laboriously to the third
| landing, found his room and tossed
him into a large curtained bedQin the
front of the apartment.
The Philanthrophist Immediately
went downstairs and out into the
street And the first thing he saw on
the sidewalk was, apparently, the
same man he had Just carried upstairs
lanthropist, leaning over the man.
Where do you live, my dear man %
'Thir' floor 'front.'" replied the fellow,
almost inaudibly. So the Philan-
thropist picked him up. groaned up to
the third floor front and again dumped
his snoring burden into the mysterious
canopied and curtained bed. And for
the third time he went out into the
street, and for the third time found
what appeared to be the same man in
the same place, lying in the same attr-
tude. Where do you live?" he asked,
trembling with excitement. ''Thir'
floor 'front.'" said the man, very faint
~ Il must be going insane!'' groaned
the r.. P, as he rang for the janitor-
Janitor, for heavens sake tell me,
how many young men are living in
your third floor front?'' he gasped
IVAN. and he do be the divvil's
own" said the janitor- rs he trip
lets?' was the next question. He is
not We'll how does it come then
that 1 have carried this fellow upstairs
to his room twice, put him into that
curtained bed to the front, yet each
time find him here on the sidewalk be-
fore I have time to get downstairs p
Where did We say We put him in
his room %
why. I put him in that large cur
tanned bed to the front"
well, yez poor old ijuti" said the
janitor. pityingly. "thot amt no bed
thot's a window!'-Wallace Irwin, In
Success Magazine.
How Henry Hyde Started the Equitable
Sc one cold March night in 1859. he
called upon Frederick S. Winston at
his home. His reception was not
cordial. Winston, Of course, had al
ready learned of his scheme; and that
any one, especially a Mutual employe.
should contemplate founding q rival
company he regarded as little less than
an imDertinence- He informed Hyde
that he did not favor the scheme; and
that, moreover. any one even meditat
ing such a plan could not retain his
position with the Mutual Life. Hyde
met this defiance in the proper spirit,
and asked how soon his resignation
could be accepted.
That brief interview tremendously
affected American life insurance. For
giveness was not Henry B. Hyde's most
striking characteristic; and the be-
havior of Frederick S. Winston. on this
occasion, he never forgot. Winston
himself little imagined how much hu-
initiation and annoyance he had thus
prepared for himself. Hyde had orig
inally intended to work, in a measure
at least in cooperation with the Mu-
to crushing It. For years he pursued
Winston and his company; got millions
of business that would naturally have
gone to It; and ultimately wrested
from it its leadership in American life |
Insurance. The one striking fact in
the life insurance situation for the last
fifty years has been the rivalry and
hatred existing between these two |
companies. Even now a Mutual official !
bristles whenever the Equitable is
mentioned; and to a loyal EQUITABLE I
man the Mutual's name is still !
anathema. Winston, always ungener- |
Gus and INSCRIPTIONS, at once began I
his attacks. He even refused Hyde a |
letter of honorable dismissal; and went |
personally to the young mans hackers |
in the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian !
church. advising them to have nothing |
to DO with young Hyde or his company. |
HYDE was organizing It. he declared, |
only for the purpose Of selling out to I
the MutuaT.-From 1.-THE story OF Life /
Insurance." by Burton J. Hendrici, IN /
McClure's.