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THAT FAT WOMAN FROM SAM
DESCRIBES THE FIRST SECTSOH Of Ttf
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ThU I the nrt of m erie of let
ter by the wife of a wealthy and
prominent htiine man of Nan f-'ran-rUr-o.
nbo ha Marled to rlnom
aavlirite the glb. An foreshadowed
Uy the1 Initial n of her trip, thn
letter will he neither conventional,
nor dull, nor purely Informutlve and
deorriptlve. "1. J. K." travels with
her ee vtide open and area the
humorous a well a the eriouj wide
of life.
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4(f -'N'T make your nose red. you
I M sdly. Haven't you a ticket from
San Kranckieo around the world
to San Francisco in your pocket, and al
though leaving home, aren't you starling
for home this minute?"
It was the riKlit moment for a loving
arm to Jerk one out of the blue?, for the
big rolling doors of the Pacific Mall
freight house had slammed shut, closing
fr.mi view a particularly interesting bunch
of faces and waving hands.
Th fin Oriental liner was headed for
the Orient, and the cheerful voice of my
fri-nd was saying "Brace up and come see
t fi bout-load of jolly guys wlio are fol
lwlry us to the Golden Gate."
They were on a tup. wig-wagging prl
vai signals to the Vice-Corn modore of
the San Francisco Yacht Club, a distin
guished member of our party. And they
sang, with great cheerfulness and dandy
good voice. "Money, boy, we hate to see
you leaving."
A ft r passing the Golden Gate there was
the pilot to put over our ship's side, and
t: snap h;rn with a kodak as he lit In his
jancir; little boat.
The Farralom-s came next, sticking up
through the ocean like a rocky backbone,
and then we set southwest for the long
drive to Honolulu.
' Nobody sick. The Pacific a calm a a
bay. and the water ae blue as the Indigo
rinse for the best napkins.
Seventy-two hours off San Francisco,
and still on good terms with one's stom
ach is a delightful surprise to a few of
ii who admit experiences with nial do
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' Goodness, but li s comfortable to roll up
narmly in one's steamer chair and sr
NEW YORK THEATRICAL MAN EXPERIMENTS WITH AERO
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XBW YORK. Nov. 25. (Special.)
V. Willt.ints is a theatrical man who
lixvs nt-jr New York and who has
spent a gi.at pnrt rf the Inst Summer
e P'Thtiti ti Mg w liii an aeroplane. Re
cently he was to hae tried It out at
Mnrrts I'arK. but the meet, held by tho
Aei on ut tc;t Sen-lei y. was a fixxle, and
th motor which was to hs-e been sup
plied him w:is not the-re. Mr. Wtlltamn
lias d-srguii jn aeriplane which dif
fers niatTiatlv from tho Wrtirht and
the French models. In the first place, he
be I ie t-s in t-ropnir.g t iie Freneh tal I
a nort of box kite hanging at the rear
of tli. a-'ro;.l;ir,e bet'au.-e he beliees
it will c.tuse the head of the areoplane
to drop and th- m;icim;e To rush to the
icround tn cse It it- s -ended from a
considerable height. He does not think
It necess-arv t balance the machine.
Then he ha.- provided that the center
4i t grarlty shall he below the planes.
Me thinks thst if F-imian had hung his
weight and that of his machinery be
low t he planes ins lead of hi-1 ween
them, ho would have insured the ta
bility of his machine. Finally he does
not believe in the superposed p'anes.
His machine has a series of four sMs
of wines or dcoMe planes set tundern.
Mr. WilH.ims has flown a model bm.t
on tbejte lines, but he has not heii
off the r-round yt with his fulf-sized
machine He has now suspended his
xpr.nienti for the Winter.
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the sHpphire waves break off their -white
tops and to watch for the fragment of
rainbow the sun flashes upon the spray as
it falls.
And goodne. again, but its fine to
sit at a beautiful table with an exem
plary young captain at the head and a
few of the eartti's best alongside.
But there Isn't anything, really, the
matter with having a clean, attentive,
trained Chinese waiter behind one's chair,
who looks fitted in his pastel blue robe
and cap to match. When he brings you
an extra dry martini and a plate with
an overcoat button on It, you sit up and
take notice that the button is made of a
two-inch round of toast with caviar on
top, you then smile with justifiable amia
bility at the goodIooking American across
the table, who is captain of the battleship '
Vermont, which he Isjoining in Maniltf.
When the Ah Bows, and the Ah Bahs
lean the mnu cards, nicely, aslant,
against the Jans of chutney, everybody
takes on a "glud-I'm-here" expression,
and everybody's teeth get juicy in antici
pation of the delicious entrees of curried
rice with omelettes, or rabbit or chicken,
besides which one takes broiled squab or
chicken, or braised snipe, or fried East
ern oysters, or deviled crab, or marrow
bones on toast or ragout of goose or frog
lctrs. If you dandle at table long enough,
you will see the waiters get the crumby
off the cloth In an entirely new way that
takes about half a jiffy.
Two of them lift the 5-yard long cloth,
with the usual amount of crumb, nut
shells and raisin-stems upon it, to which
is added one dessert plate.
The cloth is Hfted from the table into
the aisle, holding it taut. The little plate
slides of its own weight to the center of
the slightly sagging cloth, and rests there
while the crumbs, by a magic manipula
tion, run down and get nicely into the
plate. One edge of the cloth Is then
p w u Vifz close to the carpet, and the crumb
laden plate elides gently on the floor.
The captain, noting my interest, ad
vised me to try my hand, but the crumbs
must have heard I was coming. They
didn't behave well. They dashed down
my end of the cloth and hit the plate
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-AMERICAN SliVSK. COJKIS
UNCLE SAM'S VALUABLE LIBRARY
N the State. War and Navy building.
t Washington, U. C. are three of
the oldest and most complete libraries
anywhere. They afford interest in a
hundred and one different ways other
than the. mere fact that they contain
books. They are the archives of the
State. War and Navy Departments.
Best known of these Is the library
of the State Department, on the third
floor, wherein the original draft ana
the original slgneu copy of the Declar
ation of Independence, the Constitution
of the I nlted States, and the Articles
of Confederation. lire kept. This library
was found fd by Thomas Jefferson in
179. and consists of 65.100 volumes
and :."( pamphlets. nd-now is a part
of the division of rolls and library.
The division might well be called the
successor to the committee on foreign
correspondence established prior to the
definitive treaty of peace of 1782 and
the adoption of the Constitution of the
Cnlted States, for until recently it was
the custodian of the papers and jour
nals of th Continental Congress, the
papers of Washington, Jefferson. Madi
son and others, which have been trans
ferred by executive order to the library
of Congress.
In the library of the State Depart
ment are kept all orginal acts of Con
gress, all treaties to which the United
States Is a signatory power, all proc
lamation? and executive orders, all
paper? relating to the various claims,
commissions, arbitrations and boun
dary surveys.
Th original draft of the Declaration
of Independence is on exhibition to
visitors, but the original signed copy
of that document and the Constitution
and the Articles of Confederation are
not. Corrections made by Franklin
and Adams can be seen tn the original ,
. m a
draft, which is In Jefferson's handwrit
ing. It is in a perfect state of preser
vation, and rests in an open safe with
rn engraving of Jefferson and his plan
of his tomb beside it.
Tn the same locked safe with the
Deolaratlon is the Constitution of the
United States. This famous document
Is in a perfect state of preservation, in
spite of the fact that it Is only thirteen
years younger than the Declaration of
Independence. With It Is kept the or
iginal journal of the constitutional
convention of 17S7. Other papers In
the same safe are Madison's debates
and the original drafts of the various
amendments to the Constitution and
the ratification thereof by the states.
Washington's finest collection of rare
old engravings and naval records is
kept in the archives of the library of
the Navy Department as part of the
naval war records. Thousands of val
uable engravings, paintings and photo
graphs are on file in this library. Most
of them Include portraits of prominent
naval commanders in the history of
the United States, pictures of vessels
that have fjown the Stars and Stripes
and Ci-il War photographs. This col
lection is equipped almost to complete
ness, and will be invaluable In time
to come. Every craft that ever flew
the Stars and Stripes as a unit of Uncle
Sams navy has Its picture in this gal
lery of naval history. It Includes a
photograph of the battleship Maine in
Havana harbor, taken on the afternoon
of the day of the explosion. One rare
old engraving made October, 1693,
shows the Dutch fleet under Tromp in
its victory over the Spanish and Port
uguese fleets under Ocquendo. Another
engraving made in shows a de
lineation of the naval war of the
Venetians against the Turks at the
Dardanelles.
In addition to the 5000 engravings and J
SHE HOPif;D
WHILE SUn
i pictures In the Navy Department Library
is a collection of 40,000 books, which In
eludes some of the rarest volumes In
Washington. John Paul Jones own per
sonal men.oirs. in French, dated li8, are
on The same shelf with a naval history
of .Portugal. 1n Latin, printed in the days
of Queen Kllzabeth of Kn gland. X text
book used in the British navy more than
years ago. known as "Sea Dialogues,"
printed in Indnn In 16S8. tells of the early
methods of tiogging and keelhauling in
the king's navy. Every flag known to
navies and rommerce Is pictured and de
scribed in a book printed In Dutch in
1886 as a reference book In the Dutch
navy when that nation was one of the
foremost seafaring nations of the globe.
A minature volume much treasured by
Librarian Stewart is a nlstory of H. M. S.
Royal George, bound In wood from the
remains of that ship, which sank In the
harbor of Splthead. England, while being
painted in 1772. Dozens of old books on
naval warfare grace the shelves of Mr.
Stewart's office. Anyone interested in
ancient but crude naval manners could
spend weeks looking over such volumes
as "Manvaletto de BombesU," printed in
Venice in 385o as a history of ordnance.
Volumes on buccaneers are as numerous
as they are Interesting.
Other tomes in this collection are official
gazettes of Madrid. Manila. Havana and
Porto Rico in almost complete series for
the last 30 years of the Nineteenth cen
tury, and 23 orderly books of the Ameri
can Revolution, besides a large number
of printed rosters and office reports in
connection with the early American wars.
There is also a 'set of albums of the
Spanish-American war prepared by the
"War Department, which are the only
original ones outside of four private sets.
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Recent geologists have confirmed the
statement of Louis Agassis that the whole
of New England was once covered with
an Ice ap a. mile thick.
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INTO THE CTfiUNK.
CONT - TNU - ED TiETiSSRCH:
with a bang and started uphill on Ah
Bow's side.
I got them Into the plate all right,
but they wouldn't stay put
I resigned my position in the work
ing part of the diningioom.
There are three of us in one state
room. I have the lounge. The two
charming gray-haired ladies with me
have confessed that they intended mak
ing themselves so disagreeable to the
"fat woman from San Francisco" that
she would move. Nevertheless the day
the chance came for me to move they
begged me to stay, fearing "the devil
they didn't know" might be worse.
The first morning out I was awak
ened by a heavy soft body caroming off
the pant of me that lapped over the
edge of the berth. A few moments later
a Baedecker and a Jinricksha tour
through Japan whacked me on the legs.
I Hfted my head and saw the little
lady from the top bunk looking for
something In her steamer trunk. She
had taken the tray out and the trunk
and tray covered all the .floor space
so she stood with both feet in the tray
while she searched the bottom of her
trunk, then she hopped Into the trunk
part while she continued her search in
the tray. I laughed.
She was very much disturbed and
hoped she hadn't waked me, and begged
pardon for forgetting I wasn't a lounge
as she removed her library. I said: "I'll
get even with you for calling me 'that
fat woman from San Francisco'; you ;
CARUSO REAPS A GOLDEN
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NEW YORK. Nov. 2S. (Special.) This is the famous fWOO-a-night tenor
Enrico Caruso, who returned to sing at tho Metropolitan. Opera-House this
season and to crowd that auditorium with a rapt raLherinr of men and women
every time he appears. The "golden notes" of Caruso pass, current In the
operatic world like the golden nuggets of the Klondike in the world of
finance. Tenors come and go, but no rival of the sreat Italian has ever ap
peared In the last live years, and lie commands whatever txorbitant price he
wants to demand for his singing. It is said lie receives 40.000 a year as
royalty on the "records" which he makes for the phonograph. He earns
altogether $250,000 a year. Much of this he puts away, though he has not
the saving disposition of the tenor of the American Opera Company, who
cooked his ir.eals over an olX stove and washed his linen in his hotel room.
will be sorrs when I go to the captain
and show him the blue marks you've
made on my shins."
To laugh over inconveniences that
cannot be helped is a safer way to
travel than to scold.
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Being prisoners on the boat. It Is in
teresting and natural to visit the parts
available, and the afterdeek is a lively
place, where the Chinese passengers,
numbering 200, have a dozen gambling
games in progress.
They spread their mats upon the deck
and sit upon them; they shuffle and
deal dominos with red and white spots
on them and they rattle a bowl full of
American and Chinese silver coins in
true speiler fashion.
It is perfectly easy to lose money on
all their games.
It Is quite startling to notice, sudden
ly, that one Is leaning against a pile of
Chinese coffins stacked up six or seven
high.
All the hopelessly sick Chinamen
start for home hoping to get there,
alive, with their bones which must be
buried in China to Insure their spirits
rest.
Three poor fellows have already giv
en up, and their embalmed bodies are
In three of those coffins, one cannot ,
guess which three.
To look down upon the ship and se
from the elevated compass stand is a
joy never forgotten.
There is the round world of sky and
water meeting at the horizon, and in
the very middle of everything Is the
splendid ship thirty thousand tons of
pulsating steel plowing through four
hundred miles of water every day.
Three hundred busy officers and men
working and watching faithfully.
Naked stokers, glistening with sweat,
250 tons of coal during the 2 U hours.
Happy, careless first-class passengers
chat and sing and promenade, watching?
the flyingfish by day and the phos
phorus by night.
This morning at 7 we are close to the
Hawaiian Group and the sun throws
deep sITadows in the gulleys, bringing
out strongly the unevenness of tho
rocky pile.
Hope and the Job eeker.
Detroit Free Press.
Tea, sir. I'm living in hope, banking on
promises made,
Hoping by night and by day that a plum
on my piate win be laia;
I went to the front like r man. T can-
vassed my ward, end to end.
There are hundreds of xnn I can name I
persuaded to vote for my friend.
And, now he has something to give, 1 am
haunting his office all day.
I want a political job and I 1 nig for po
litical pay
Next year I'll have money to burn, at" east
I am honing I will.
In the heat of the flsht I was there, I
argued while others stood still.
His cards I was proud to give out, his
pictures I nailed on the walls.
And I stood In the rear to applaud when
ever he entered our halls:
It was valiant service I gave, now h
ought to throw something my way.
I want a political Job and I long for po
litical pay.
J don't say for sure that I'll land, hut
I'm hoping I will, and perhaps
My name he will put on the list when
dividing political snaps;
I'm hoping he'll send for me sion, I am
hoping he'll say unto mo,
"I want to do something for you, what
job -would you like It to be?"
I'm dogging his footsteps by night and my
friends have gone to him to say:
I w&nt a political job and I long for po
litical pay. .4-. I
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