Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-08-08

NEW YORK, August 7.--There IS a proverb almost forgotten in this part of the country that |" Honesty is the best policy In spite of the over. whelming evidence to the contrary pre- sented by ninety-nne per cent of oui -milIionaires and politicians there are still a few unsophisticated poor devils left who steadfastIy believe in the truth of this ancient proverb. Causes which tend to corroborate the truth of this supernatural maxim, hap pen just often enough to keep the prov erb from becoming altogether dscred- ited
 One of these cases happened here the other day when a poor brakeman on the Long Island railroad found in one of the coaches a woman s handbag con timing $30,000 worth of jewelry and money and turned his find over to the office of the railroad company. The valuable property belonged to a veal thy woman who was so favorably inn pressed with the honesty of the man, that she arranged with the officials of the railroad not only for handsome re ward for the man, in the form of cash and complete outfit of clothes, but also for the offer of life position with salary of $l00 month to the honest fellow. He accepted the cash and the clothes, but declined the offer of a lite position, saying that $l00 month was not an inducement for an ambitious young man. He hopes to advance in his chosen profession and hopes to earn a great deal more than $l00 month. It may be added that the young man, who seems to be of the right kind of stuff, has advanced one big step al ready toward the aim of his ambition, by being promoted 10 the position of collector The railroad management ev- idently thought that man of such tried honesty was a good man for the position of collector
 Men of finance, and some who are not but would like to be, were cruelty disappointed the other day when the papers published story under date of Cleveland, stating in the headlines that John D. Rockefeller in an address be- fore a Sunday school class had given golden advice concerning the best in. vestments. Such advice from man like the oil king could not but be of the greatest value to all who would Iii n th .Fnt ri..h h,p tI,, z sible, but rich at all events. One may imagine the disappointment of the read CTS when they found Mr. Rockefeller had advised the children to do some thing every day to cheer others and told them, in all seriousness he con sidered that the best investment they could make. This remark might have impressed many as cruel joke, when they recalled how the distinguished speaker throttled a rival company one day and raised the price of oil the next day, had not Mir Rockefeller added the open confession that somehow or other he could never remember the truths once learned, at the proper moment That explained a great deal in MT. Rockefeller s career
 It is incredible how cruel and inhu. man some persons can be notwithstand ing the persistent efforts of the $. F. C. A. and other similar organizations The other day the manager of shirt waist factory in this city, where about two hundred young women are em- ployed, posted a rule prohibiting the women the exercise of their tongue. He might as well have ordered them to stop breathing and it was quite nat ural that all of the women went on strike against the enforcement of the rule against talking.
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 A boy of seventeen years was taken into court here the other day by his parents to have his sanity inquired into. The parents stated that their son had become deranged by the reading of socialistic literature, but, of course this serious charge against socialistic liter, ature is entirely untenable and was prompted merely by the parents ignor- ance and prejudice. It was merely q case of confounding cause and effect. The magistrate knew better, of course, -