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THY . OREGON ; SUNDAY 1 JOURNAIy PORTLAND, SUNDAY , MORNING, JULY 21, ;1807. CAN AMKRTCA MATCH THTS RR TTTSH HT TSTT .FR and Poor f Remarkable Londoner vy bw j. ecus iac xvicn of tKe Worlds Greatest! City ant FinoV Time for. Art. ah. Literature-A Colossal Catering Business and the Man Wno Runs It. ;f, ..lr- , fa "6 i 0&m LY0M5. (Copyright In the United States and business man he should first be con- Oreai Britain by Curtla Brown All sldered. (tights Strictly Reserved.) "To feed every person of London's TONDON American are prone to s.000,000 who Is able and willing to pay ,v, ,,.. for It," Is his modest ambition, to quote imagine that they possess a mo- f,i own words, nopoly of all the biggest busl- Already In this peaceful conquest of " ncsses In the world. They do English metropolis he has cap ZmiSBSu' JaMBSaMBBBaaau ' ta gT -' ? Ji rj - " u . ... i 'a 'II if If FEED TZEZICfilN tOMoN. TUP WORLDS CATBEBE 5 AN JOSEPH LX0N5AT.W0ISK PAINTING Off fT-. gc wk- .. isv s" wmtm&ct In most lines, but there are some turcd .100,000 prisoners, for that is the tupondous number of the dally cus- men In London, he nover itets excited the intention of devoting my life to It, with American competition. J Herman and never gives one thn lmpresnlon that hut in vr . an . ii,i ,y,m aA , , , , . he Ih hustling,- as that Is understood , e: after lookln the tie Wymans, whose quick lunch restaurants in ids united states. I saw an lllustrn- 7'"u 'H"" i rwuiuriiii uubi- were nigmy successful In Boston, came The Idea Is almost absurd to tha aver- no facilities at Aberdeen for cooking Hon of this side of his ohuracter when needed me vastly more than did h,r8 . f ..... , . , age man. yet this little man delights in such a dinner, and London Is 600 miles visited him yesterday. "I will take art- needed a revolutionary aplrit, , , , , 7 resiaar- lust 1 o minutes or your time, no more ""u 111 "10 11 '"""a me iuiiiiiineni oi -.. .mco imuuu. I said. In 10 minutes I was standing In ,hat ned- I aw. among other things "I have looked the field over." he said ine street outside the Trocadero with 'V"1 l" '" exposmons aim trying the "absurd" answered Mr. and the "lmpossl- away. "Leave that to me, Lyone with a smile. IS General Caterer. me flay of th dinner arrived, and yt all my questions answered, and Mr. no preparation hud been made In Aber- Lyons, with equal sneed and thorough- But his restaurants form only part deen for so lare a dinner The high ness, was disposing of another visitor, of his immense business. He Is. be- commissioner wan visibly worried. Can ,. , . . . you Imagine his surprise when a special Office la Cuhhvhole Ides, a general caterer and no contract (rRn pu)led ln from London bearing 600 WII,ce -utDyn.oie. 1 at IrtA 1 0 rra frtlm - t aUl a with sa ualtnr arA ntlanlnnla on th Hlnnsf Ti m mmtmJk aKA..a U . I kl.k mn w iai u ws aj sua i. w oa.iiih ttiws o nniivu niiDii-ianio uiu .n J uiixi sJUl.B fUIU BIVU t Ilia Vll I TJ 1 1 1 W11IUI1 " w . n vs J lo'i'B T , . , . " serene confidence which Is perhaps one rc"V cooked he receIve(1 me. It ,8 Dut a cubb hola am, into the r eld 1 changed I all that Z.;T"7nVS",,Z . . w Li r. .,vj mo j'l iiiv i cBLauiiRiieq limn 4 " J rs notable exceptions, and for the chasten- tomerS of the 120 Lyons tea shops scat- V.., Ing of their pride It Is well that they tend about London and fresh ones are should hear of them occasionally. There- fT"'fh.m 1.. . . . . .... 'nT them, as one does, at almost every fore. I proprose to devote this article turn of the principal London streets, to one of them, and the remarkable they must-be almost as familiar to the man who has made such a prodigious lmCr'fan vl"'tt"' ar9 Popular success of It. W,th ,he ""yveBrimher. Joseph Lyons runa ln London what Elite Waits Turn. la hv Innr nfiAm twM tnAat rism sin I TUna l i !, I .ui.l a.sT T An lng concern In the world. There ara no But while the appeal of these tea of his most -Interesting characteristics, executes his orders, and that Is the on the ground floor of the big Troca aggregation or restaurants under one snopa is airectea mainly to people or A friend or Ms recently told me he spirit in which he accepts them places of that character were being " ,u " lcw W"B" "e,oro oegan fleeced by the men who were running operations, and America offers nothing the restaurants. The proprietors of lual to It. There are barrels of money these places seemed to think that after J b? nd. ln the catering business In neoni h nA their nfmiuinn tm.ct o t London, and I'm KolnaT to null mv hnt-ral the gate they were legitimate prey and out ?' Look what Joe Lyons has could be charged anything When I , ne! He a a decent chap too. I have mm, ana n i hand ln tha In fact, he was good enough to "Do not ask me If I can do It,' he management In America that COme any limited menna' Jnaenh T.vnna ha Tint hellnveH thnf If mnmm. nna went t T.v. tVo dallS. fHed'mVe.CA pV't" . Hand: th higher" fields of the eu- ona and said "Feed the world." h. would- J"r..t m" yur rd" a"d leave somely. His company has Just declared Unary iart. Every day sees the elite take the contract. That Is but one way RHd'v'.d.nl,nA0Af ner cent, bealdes ad- of London gathered in the lobbies of of expressing the general confidence ln Will Write Fiction illng szuo.UOO to Its reserve fund. There . . . k .L.i .miimii.H r.nihmti.. e hi. are few companies in the land of mil- waiung meir 0V-,"Tl0 - have followed all through my business Same- In "act, he was good enough to dero restaurant. In point of size It career, a large part of my success can f,lve " aoma information about condl- cannot be more than six feet long and directly to It. I have tried to "7" "" "'cur"t M, "5 give the best quality and the largest ana I have mine, but London is big flva feet wide. It contains a flat-top quantity consistent with a small price." enough for both of us. American fara desk at one end. two chairs, an umbrel- Mr. Lyons was an intimate friend of a.nJ American cooking ara better than r. r. Harnum, and he haa a great ad- ana tngiisn cooxing, as His most surprising characterl his many sldedness. Here I parently steeped in the routine tall of extraordinary business activity every 10 minutes ln the day. From this room, bare of show and ostentation ana llonnlres which can show such profits lurn lo DO seats ror luncneon. for .v- -,nrM nu. th s that. From the rank Of a small tea. for dinner. For tha Trocadero. gler who keeps half a dosen balls In tha ilni'ir?hrvA,nr-PJ!-inaJtSXiL20? probably the most famous of the "Bo- lr at the same time, for while ha Is Joseph Lyons has risen In 20 years to hemian" restaurants of Tendon- the feeding 300.000 Londoners, he is pro- 1Ti. .-V i Vii : ?, Throgmorton, the Delm'onlco'a of the vlding for the visitors to the Irish In- who declares his Intention of devoting elaboration, this wonderful man con terlng world ana today the ramlflca- . .!... w. r. " ... ternntinnoi vhihrinn at ri..hiir t ... . . , i tlona of hi. business extend thronrhout ''"Vl' ",".".,l.V,?.ru!,u.r V?.1?:. lnB T . Li a."" himself to ric-uon to the extent or turn- ' K' the vhnl, of rjrent Rrttin gainering piace or Mayrair a "bou on w .injr .uUnH.UB, ,,c iB uu- ine wnoie or ureal tin lain. shopping bent, the Birkbeck. the Blen- patchlnx a corps of waiters and pro- ln Cultivated Talents. la rack, and a constantly Jingling tele- hn. t n in i mirauon ror ine senilis or tne lata ''""" "luuntm wui u nuica 10 ac- stlo Is film vfr Lvons made three anoolntments American "King of fcumbuggery." l"clwltd.?e whe" et. thechanca HI a man an. nu.r thla llftla Inatrtlment tinA I won- 'y lnom- snail Siari Wlin One TeS- s a man ap- over this lltue lnsirumeni, and l won , taurant. but it won t h inno- h.rnr. T and de- aerea ir inai was a rair average xor rCU oamurai visuors. have several a-olnaT" "Barnum was a far-seeing man," ha said, ln speaking of his relations with aol nir. Alas, poor wymans! He spoke with Napoleonic confidence, but ln London he met his Waterloo. His first restaur- helm the Victorian Mansion and rhal. visions to a remote corn lis hotel are some of the big restaurants or Wales for some publ But the most amailna- thin, .knt "Oder tne thUmO or this wonderful I t- luncuwn, ins aaoisianis i nut me most amasing thing about tie man. of several hundred are ' d Mr, Lyons la that while building ud thla Stranae aa it mav aeem Mr T.vnna and sandwiches and cakes to the 80 stupendous bualnesa he has found both . nothing incompatible in his dual .00 spectators of a football match at organization and direction, Mr. Lyons time 'and inclination to cultivate hta T2l" ,nl CB'erlng for rich and poor at Crystal Palace .and he Is feeding the has kept steadily at a youthful bent for time ana inclination to cultivate his the same time. For Instance, upon sev- passengers at all the stations of the painting to such good purpose that a t i ..wn uou aid nuia ij A-jxtii - aaiiL miicu. aim Liirrii fin iripn HnnTnnr stni g out three romantic stories a yer. jJ,- r p,,she9 it. way to don I went to hlra and proved to him nat had a still shorter life. Then tha r or Bcouana hven wun tne aid or an aoie couaDora- the front everywhere. Me is a jew. mat I could give and was giving the K i .1.,7Vj ; T k . lc or private tor that would be a task in itself worthy sllghtlv bald and wears jewelry. On the b(SBt valu, for the money hereabouts man'2 abortlvt Tentfrnrla'a'"" Wy" 5 the number the whole time of a man who gives his little finger of hi. right hand two ring; " ' . ".J. ... " , man ' abortlve nterprlsa. ispenslng tea h r,r..v..HUr n..,.,." i. wtth Hiamnnd. of hewlldar nr size and He saw the ultimate advantage to his that all. for durlnir all these veara of color arrest one's attention; from the show and gave me the contract for the t-USTOmerS Are Different. IO10S or a oihck ne a aiarnunu pin ui iwuini oi nis visitors. !,, ... i...i v m equal brilliance vies with them for the "Fifteen year, ago I started these Such plaoeB re tfounA to fal1 nar. notice of the visitor. He is affable, lm- tea ahoDS about London. Todav I have he said. "The Englishman Is a very several of his landscapes have found mensely affable, and, waving me to the upwards of 120. employ more than 10,000 different person from tha American In their way to the walls of the Royal better of the two chairs In the room, an- people In connection with them and feed tne matter of his meals Tha latter wuiiikmc9s iu uu aiijiiiius tfuv.uuv ijunaonera aaiiy. ai me same , talents in directions remote from trade eral occasions Mr. Lyons has catered London, Chatham & Dover railway, and commerce. He has solved the prob- 'or the klnz and the Prinoa of Wales. . , . . li.l . . . . and vet so well doea ha unrieratanH tha Snme Uninue t .on rrn rta noHAmv ' on nnni- .. .it v. .. . . nmm rA h a n. tem wiuiii nuinva bo many Amen- ,-,,., " V. VT"-" ",7 "'L.T" " .L I" -L. "ii L. .i.Vii .T " Z . , v.T. v... : "JT " . . . ." T " . iiv.. flv. nln.itu ..!,. hi. i ...., . , . . . "... i ....... ' uiai ii in uy sen- . , , , , , . . . . Binaii uuruun ui me increasing numDer 1 11 worm no '"uiu iui inc. uuio l imvo uvvii pri auiinny acquiring my d . ....B can DuaiiiBBB men vi now 10 maae a Dig eral choice the caterer to a lr na.i Mr. Ijyons well Known Willingness to man nj anwrA nnaitlnm altnoat ha. hi .uim . I ,r - . m " -. " v i . . " ntiu " ....... i. tt 1 1 1. luana ail IIIOII . v ......... . .... ,,u.w..v.. ... - "n ..mv ...b v. ...i i iv aim nuu v niihui... i ' . ivauir ii&a IWIU UK them and snowed an the Popular until today I have almost a the front steps. The Englishman SDenda 1 th. Atall. nf h I H , . . . " oa I .. , I. , ki. . I J "'d v. " w v.- . . "".vii. j miiiuiM in ruLing ma moot aim urs I asked Mr. Lyons If he contemplated minutes in picking his teeth. We do extending his chain of tea shona and not' like to eat ouleklv hare, and th States. restaurants to other cities of England. so-called quick lunch has no attractions London is a rieia large enough ror to the average man. we eat slowly and ii pu.i.k th. . ; 'j '""n i i a k,,j. r,,,. . .. iwiiuuu huuiciicb. i uu mni in uiinura, no aisiu. me moat aniDnioua oi mn, ne an- sparingly in me miuaie or ine aay, reaa- Rttl.eln- Ah J1?,"8. dramatlc. au: Dennets and Chllds string of restaur- ,n Aberdeen, can you provide a dinner wltn Bch.a multiplicity of contract. . t r.f. .k v,, v.n swered with a lauah. "There are S OOft - In thS naner or a book the whlU w MDet tHura od i. a w r and the duties which they must entail. 7l v " . t r", ted States not 000 people here, when I am feeding all eat very much less than tha Americans, fn the same wav Trw M i?a. S"rEf" n,New York and you will "Certainly,- replied Mr. Lyons, one would Imagine that Mr. Lyons woulj pald a vlelt t0 the United State, not who can affora to for ,t j wU"J be ana tne portlon, BerTea !n tha Americai; d stlnctlon are unloue Rut if ii t'..8-016 to form some Idea of the pe- Quietly . be rushed to death, yet despite the fact common a thing then as It is today, .atlsfled. restaurants. If placed befora our custo- oistincuon are unique, nut it is as a rullar position occupied by Mr. Lyons. "But," said Lord Strathcona. "we have that he Is probably one of the busiest All this time I was studying art with At one time Mr. Lyons was threatened mers would sicken them by their slsa.- till ;lthniit hafinmlnv a mnnAvmal Ii..k.i' i . . k " i Vi" "l nungermg ljonaon. Me contends undertake anything In the catering Una lire work. Poetry has also occupied the fore I had finished u:ai:iiiii7. ao iui iu ua miinn bu tar mat the aflma nrlnnlnl iinai-ll no- . .. .. .IA r .hi. .,.r..li. . utw.i. I,...,!.. nesaTcedtnh?1. W terti, for .11 station. o llfSand that "2,"'" " "n 1Q" c0- awa in one of th.d7.wer. of hi. Sesk bus n.w." " P f lures are accepted at the best exhl- success In one means success in all. MTi Strathcona, high commissioner at home is an unoubllshed tlav which at nfesslonals And now h. h. In f u.1 io. W 0,its.,der such state of af- for Canada, came to htm recently and may yet brace the censorious ink of the Visited United nounced that in collaboration w ih EL f Vh-1" .u""""i"n,i. V? J" - "I entertaining 2.500 guests " cs ana make it. bow to a TOLSTOI PREDICTS FALL OF AMERICA F amous Russian Says De- wauwuww wi viihcu jidica as more jx.apia a nan inai or jome JLyouma a raiiure uation. Here his criticism of the lead ing men of all parties was quite as sweeping and much less courteous than hnd been his characterization of our N A REMARKABLE Interview with monplace almost before it was uttered, and so it seemed right that our pun- c I refm stances that will speak for you polltlcal l n America. Then for Btepnen Bonsai, in the New York "Who beside, your silly futile politl- wnment should be tempered with mer- but I confess I see none." uno ratnl n,s ,ron mooa reiaxea ana Times. Count Leo Tolstoi predicts clans say. you sr. great and strong? I Zr FHJ0" .VJ'SsL Pf""68' ,?S M i..i xt: :a.a relenting, he said: "No. no. forget that that America will soon fall, "far rrant vo war. rt .r,H m ,w. T,n h.- 7i.ir ' ." ih. "w " fad the. temerity to say that. They I thnt America will soon fall, "far grant you were great and strong in th'e up his claim. .nd your people at the! " ' are not all bTd men I iriv not tmt TV more rapidly than Rome fell." He days of Emerson and Thoreau. but today R. have time and a-ain sanctioned with an acrobatic mental jump noewly misguTded Mf course, as If is opposed to the duma. on the ground you place your trust in armies and ln theft 1 bose there are extenuatlng the count returned to the Russian sit- yoG must know, the vital phase of our of the "failure of representative arov- tha ( v,. i. in .i- i "- " 1 situation In Russia Is the land ques- N STORIES OF NOTED OUTLAWS Two Have Earned Fame on Account of Their Spectacular Deaths, and Another Because of the Skill With Which He Haa So Far Baffled the Police Officers OMANTIC stories have been ap- 1st. who during the last six months. pearlng ln the continental news- has been pursuing a vendetta which ha or ine raiiure or representative g;ov- the treasure that is In vour vaults. ernment ln the United States." Great and strong! Oh! I think not. A "I have no hope ln this duma," said nation, like an Individual, Is only strong the count. "I have no hope in any form by the faith that Is ln It. and today I parliamentary government, rarua- fear the faith of America I. ln the al- tarlsm means simply poulticing oyer mighty dollar. A man's work is the re- orasjres. i am against ine auma pe- - , , , , causFparllamentarism is not an instinct TVi" 0' a .man "?"! A man's soul of the Russian people. And then, why '"'!" EX11"", 01 ms mytw. ine su should we try to graft on to our instltu- Pr,t I t hfiH; h ?f.h0urBS I.do not k?? tlons something which is a well-known P, thln tla.t .tne rude 'ma6'es of ths and an acknowledged failure ln all coun- I"d'an", of .wh'ch.v.you 8poke aFe m0,r.9 tries? Look at your own congress and ,ra,ef"' deUv than your rushing rail state legislatures. What an evil work ZiY u Md our never-resting factories, they have wrought! In their midst Y. 1 ".a .t enTslavd the freest people, thrive envy and party hatreds, and At least the Indians had some vague among your people they have sown the Ldea i eternity and of a God, and with dragon's teeth of malice and all un- htrmJ1'n' ""fff", trle,d to. ln.cor" charitableness. You Americans had a ?or,ate, i!i J5"1 y0u tn1nk only of ilme new and beautiful land, out of which and .f, men- vour fathers sought to realize a heaven Dla earnestness thecoiint now ros upon earth, and how has it ended? In and forgetting his well-nigh fourscore no port of the world ts class srr arrayed ""'y"fivW u5 and down h,s atudy against class. You have reproduced Eu- wl.,n, tne stride of a young man. ropean conditions in their most exagger- .r.L'r"1' r,iy' prosperity: ne repeatea. ated forms, thank, principally to what TVnat a shameful plea that Is which you call representative government and yolT American platform makers address T . .i 1 0 ,, . . TO thA Vfltara Thai. An .n.. 'TXT. tim 1 Hiiuimi un 1 hiiiimki vrtii nail nnrr . . . otlsm. Abuse of Patriotism. "Oh, how I hate that word! You Amer icans use It and misuse It all the time. Thev do not aav 'Wa will give you an honest, righteous govern ment.' but thev sav. "We'll make von all fat and sleek. If you vote for me you will have a double chin!' And no one arises to sav. 'What will your full dinner palls profit rou if while gorging your bellies you loss your immortal I really believe that this idea which the soulsr " Then the count stopped and subtle men who rule you for their own ad at the photographs which adorn purpose, c patriotism has don. more Kmr i .... wi n0 mui viuuoi nenrv ueorge ana me late isrne.t HOw- than ha. our church ln Russia with all srd Crosby. its shackles and chains, mental a. well n , , , ' B" as physical. You have tried popular de- rtl" r orym. veloprnent ot the Individual? f ha state 0hr I thank you for what your eoun- cannot ba stronger than its weakest link. ,, .r.,. .v.. . A. ,, you must build up the individual before trjr na" e,ven th rld in tha lives you build up the state, and If you do of these men. I thank you for what "WWSte zu Jve u" ,n th; past- TBut ,or duma? And you cay the people In tne future I have mr fears. I see no America take Interest, In it, too! Thu one to follow in their footsteps." There little good s legislative assembly like were tears ir. the count's eres as he the duma might do under conceivable spoke of his love and affection for circumstances Is as nothing to tha avll .,. , It is suro to do at present. One can th"e erat Americans. Of Mr. Bryan's say, and I surely will say, but little that visit to the farm he spoke with gratl ls good of our present government ln tude. But for the rest of our states Russia; but certainly It is more favor- h. i . 4V.. v able to tha development of the perfecf mn h ade-lt culte lar-that they man than was that of Herod and of re outside the Tolstolan pale. a And yet under their rule he ,'The fall of America!' he continued. , and In spits of all obstacles ha "Whan t . j.f. . . ght bis lesson, countless genera- " ; irZ,:. " t ItTLiT ..,, ."t ons and minions or individual, have .iV.;" i. - '.'v:'.'.,,"'". to follow in his footsteps, bet no " w-i.2,.ff'L "I nnA nai ever Kiiainea niH nerriicc mn.n s- . . . - . w hood. 80 ws seek to alter conditions fSitoSa and ihi wTth of ouT'na.h" cauh.rwV,findir,.f."r 1 'UPPSe tMt cause ws nnd easier. w wep, punLhe,,. j cannot but Prosperity Pie. Shameful ,X . . , .rt'th.tt .kS .'""Zr'rtr'J. - orwi and EffiSMSa .csrirnT"w.r.T,ied iwat-r Tolstoi pounced upon my com- . or of misguided 'or wicked men. v " ' . ' , I'.'-,' in , TzK -I . itT ,Ari -A k. 1 J! f ' 1 1 t ni-A It l r amara rr- inat thnaa VdVia vAAat . papers during tha past month hi8 trlal wnen ne waa captured soma concerning three notorious brig- years ago. He hid ln the woods and ands; two of them have earned .f,lelds; an,d .nly emef"el To to " - " ' " " " " " a" " - iik;n --ii a. - . . 1 1 1 II O ITLtlSUV OUIUBVIIO WUU TV SMS "JUtP" any more than those that say nay. dare ciuui 01 meir Bpectiicuinr CPrned In his trial. Soma he missed, to approach it In frankness nnd sin- deaths, and the third because of the skill several he wounded more Or less se cerlty. There Is but one solution of wih which ha hna ao rr haffieri th rlously. One man he maimed for Ufa the land question In Russia as well as w'l.n Wh'cn far baf"ed the only a week befora his own end cam.; elsewhere whlcn can be regarded an police. One of the three was a Maygar, because he believed him to ba a .py of lust and ecultable and final an far as named Savanvou Sonkn and hla flelH of the Carablnlerl. Finally he waa hrona-hf anything can he In this world, and operations lona- m wbji tha Cnrnathian to bay through the Carablnlerl shadow- mountain district with its vague, lonely road and Inaccessible retreats. Twenty five year, ago he was the scourge of the country. He became such a nulsanco at last that a small army was sent out to hunt him. He fell Into their hands by acc.ldent, and was sentenced to lm tlor, and yet no man, much lens a party, not those who say yea to confiscation xnai is, or course, mo lann laws as preached ln their modern form by Henry George." Shadows Lengthening'. Then, with Impressive earnestness, "Forgive me if my Judgments have been prisonment for life. In prison he be ing the women who were supposed to be his sweethearts, and who visited him In his fastnesses at nightfall. A pitched battle was tha result, and Par is! is said to have fired (1 shot, from guns and pistols before ho waa killed. Gufsseppe Salomons Is a Sicilian. H. Is still at large, though a hundred Cara blnlerl are looking for him. Ha also proclaims himself a vlotlm of the law". harsh or have seemed so. Only re member you live in a lighthouse set upon a hill and that in the last few years it has seemed to many watchers that the light which was once the joy and hope of the world, whose rays -.'.viMa' . ,v.'..y..,..l,f.v.',,1,'..J,. - '-W- ., . t... , v 'v1''? k-ev f -pi Jl day and night. came softened ln spirit. Ho was re leased after 22 years' confinement, and returned to his native village, where Injustice, seeking revenge. He says ha he started to make his livelihood aa a wa the victim of political spite, "Tha herdsman for his brother. His wild ca- good God," he screamed to the specta- reer as a Jobber had been made tha tators in court on his conviction, ought subject of a whole library of stories to maka the earth open up and swallow and memoirs ln Oermun and Hungar- thse false witnesses." However, ha penetrated Into the uttermost arto of 'an- took his punishment quietly. On being the earth, was sbout to be overwhelmed He atJonu0e mn 'n n r',,lect,on .? tnes liberated, after 10 years' Imprisonment, in shadow. I pray that vouno- Amiri and rend thfra over ,,n1 "yer w,th avld- his very first act was to shoot dead tha fn tv 1 1 1 in. 1 11 that 1 1 rrV. . j r Ity. commenting on their literary merits official whom he held responsible for It la tha fi. , t0 his friends and correcting their his- his prosecution. When the man died " public figure, He had hoped he would linger for soma After a while, time ln the torments of remorse and Kan to oall on 1 m. the fear or Judgment. Bine, them Ha. and at last he was missing for several lomono's life has been tha ordinary ona days. Search was made and he was of a brigand. He Is said to ba a most found dead in one of his favorite hid- daring fellow. Ha meets In disguise lng places, with the best of the books the Carablnlerl who ara chasing Mm about him neatly stacked at his side and carouses with them; then he sends and the big cavalry pistol, with which them on wild goose chases to look for he had blown off the top of his head, htm 60 miles from where lis 1. frolng to rrnnnri in Ills hand be. His crownlnar evnlnlt waa in writ. From the New Orleans Times-Democrat The second brigand, released from his own memoirs and have them pub- . The only double-barreled cannon ln prison last autumn, was Francesco Par- llahed in a Blcillan newspaper. the world' Is on. of the historic curlosi- ' 1 ' tleao At hens. Georgia. , . ...... ' . . . mere is a tusiory of unique Interest lengin. v ami n i""i""j " iotuou miu a 1 iar oemg mounted their falhers lit, and it has become the to,rllia.1 'nnjeuracies. He light of the world a. well as yours. It e1 , Mtn?,r, a" ,a r'at would be a dark world without it " ?nd reveled In his glory. ut " however, his fame began PECULIAK CANNON Only Double-Barreled One Athens, Georgia, Is at . "tong wun mis old cannon. Besides being the only double-barreled shooting Iron" of its kind ever invent ed1, it was conceived with a peculiar Idea by the inventor. John Gilleland. a member of the Mitchell Thunderholts. a local military' eomnanv inrin th It was touched off with great ceremony. wa placed in the little park on College One of t tie balls got out a little ahead , . vvpvbhu ma- r eaerai Duuoing, of the other and the devil and Tom whera It now stands one of tha most Jones were to pay. It had a kind of Interesting- relic, of, tha civil war. circular motion, ploughed up about an - 1 ' . " acre of ground, tore up a cornfield Women Librarians ln British Colon I p. fl nrt tha nhaln . , Count Leer Tolstoi. --------vvui uaii uui 111. Uiunru Ki'" h ""l"1 " o -aa v.icat . ,1 war. The Mitchell Thunderholta waa n hroke the two balls going in different - rrom the London Standard. company composed of men too old for directions. One of the balls killed a Lady librarian, ar. not jriiich la svU BuiivB service in. me rield and was or- young cow in a aistani neia, wnue the, der.ca In London, but the hava mr,. ganlzed Durelr fnr hnm a i.v,. imnr-u. rtown a rhlmn enca in jonaon, put ine? nave a con- MC Gillelaild tha Invonl,,, K.1I.T..H . loir cuhlll. Th that with a cannon of the double barrel derbolts who went out to witness tha B'es. t. u iT fm mow down Yankees test scattered as tnougn the entire Tan- The municipal library in nearly evsrr br the hundred. vi. w.j ki. .. i,. rm hoH turned lna. in ..ii- " ""un.ia, jiuiary i nearly Try cast at the Athena foundry and T when it j " ' " Australian our .try town I. in chart, of finished it was hauled out to the ot. The one test was enouah to ronyrnn. L,ady- J Sydney t her. ara 11 ladi skirts of the city, where a test was maue. to rank a it n 9 . . . .. . . j . . - . . tacheT t7 r.w' n kIK '"U.S ZlKSZJXZ "..W1! - One of them.wa. recently i.M for an char,.. ThW ball. wTrrmm Int foTthi. pSTpi bln 11 ' 0V Au.ra TnT'tir T 'l the cannon rood and hard. It was thA ited except in state campaigns. Several wai eourhid ia Pm'n" ' -i - taventort iJaa that when the cannonA .ar. ago the old canrVon dIsaPPenre,t eorw Silredlth liTn ' wa. firad th. chain would stretch tautWrom In front of ths city hall, and it TkenJ and '1 hack' rZ nd cut down everything within its wa. found in a Junk shop, iron, which for, and Scott 1 n ' ganueo: purely for home defense. other knocked down a chimney fron Z7Z T'k," " "T. " T meniDera of tha-Tnun- 8 &-MwMAi&.Ma.m9.ULjitJkiim.Baia-. X ' evi Ity MiMiwun wiumrf ivwn ia id cnarg. or The nna test was tnanth tn mii.w a lady. In Sydney there are 11 ladi the fnvento? that hlS.Wr " Kovornment librarian., an, Ida. One test was entirely sufficient cannon was more disastrous to, the rn.'SnHdf "llffln '. J" 1
