Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 183, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1913 — CHARITY. [ARTICLE]

CHARITY.

Stealing for otmrrty ia at least an unusual plea in a erturinal court The thief who steals to keep hlmeeif or his family from starving is so common that the circumstances must be more than ordinarily hanrowing if the tale ever gets outside too courtroom. The very novelty of the case of the bookkeeper who took more than <6,000 of hie employers* money in order to give pfctdcs for orphans and outings for toe aged, and to pay for surglcaJ operation* on children, has undoubtedly resulted to Me advantage. But toe charitable Instinct in this case, observes too New York Tribune, appears to have had a peculiar .twist, toe culprit's letter to. toe judge indicating that it was diluted with considerable egotism and love of praise “I stole to be danced as a good fellow,'* he writes. His disbursement of his employers* money brought him honors and presents from hie fellow members of a fraternal organization. He wanted to make a show. His fundamental desire was not wholly different from that of toe embezzler who spends the money he has stolen on chorus girls and champagne, though the ways in which he manifested it were vastly lees dtocredltaMe, Truer charity was exhibited by toe employer who came to his relief and offered to give irim back iris old place, toe friends who made up a part of toe defalcation and toe judge who Inflicted a very light sentence.

Men are always longing for ths happy days of childhood, and so are women for that matter. It seems to us, says toe AtcMeon-Gfobe, tola Is largely due to too fact that It Isn’t a common human characteristic to be contented. As a matter of feet, children have as many troubles, and those toat seem as large as toe ones that beset their elders. If you ever knew a man who didn't sigh for the callow days of youth it is equally certain you never saw a boy who didn’t want to grow up and vote and have a barber squirt lemon juice on Iris chin. The sooner you get over this longing for what you can’t accomplish toe greater will be the sum of happiness you will extract from what you can. And toe rule holds good whether you are bribing for toe days toat were or building Impossible castles in the future.

The United States District Court at Trenton has decided against the Hudson County Water Company In its attempt to convey water from New Jersey to Staten Island, holding that unless Congress should assert superior right under the interstate commerce clause of toe Federal Constitution the State of New Jersey must be regarded as sovereign master of toe rit uatlon. As toe best authorities declare toat the New Jersey water is not needed on Staten Island, no hardstrip will be Inflicted by tota logical assertion of state righto.

It was a hundred yearn ago that the first Portland cement was produced. The Cement World celebrated the anniversary by tanning an elaborate centennial number, giving the story of the original Invention and the founding of the great modern oemeat manufacturing Industry. The Inventor was Joseph Aspdln, a bricklayer of Leeds, England, who originated the name “Portland cement,** and to whom King George IV gave the first letters patent ever granted tor Portland cement, In 1824. In recent yean a rival ctahnant for the honor of the original invention has appeared. The law goes as fiar m posaCbte to prevent the exposure of the Innocent and hedpiess to danger, but It cannot reach the footoardy, who expose not only tbedr own lives, but those of their children In theta* own enterprises. K oan only be hoped that eventually men and women win approach the water with doe realization of the fact that when they embark upon it they are necessarily venturing into danger, and take the proper precautions. Hereto a pretty problem: Two negroes went Into the shop of a jeweller and asked to see a watch. He Showed them one, of which be said afterward: “It was worth |B, but I Intended to charge them 915.** The negro grabbed the watch and escaped with it. How much did the jeweller tarn?