THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY - MORNING, APRIL 19, 1908.
IN A
TENT
GENIUS WHO .LEWES;.
Simple Life Nothing Could Induce Him to Live in a house 'and He' Alanclonei the, Caravan in Vtick He Roamed tlie Country Found It Too Confining
; By Hayden Church. .-." '. V , , ' , . ... " ', '. ,. .""' '.' ,';,,". V ,':-" !.' -.. V;'.' '.' ';-' 'wlT-k- ' -I?1 would b tragical thing." he said.
Charles McEvoy, -WLo If Looted Upon as Next in Line for Bernard
Shaw's.. Crown, Finds Inspiration in the Most Primitive Form of the
(Copyright by Hayden Church.) '
LONDON. April 10. Charlea Mo
- JCvoy, whd la looked on by the
Oeorg Bernard Shaw dledples
as likely to b tha coming prophat
of tha "new drama," proves to
ba about tha moat original and uncon
'; ventional young man this country has
- produced - recently. Moreover, he turn
out to ba aon of Ambroee McEvoy,
once" of Virginia, who Invented tha ub
marln mine, and manufactured many
of tha exploBlve that were need by
the confederate army. - '
. It la probable that McEvoy la tha
only .dramatist. In th world wlra"
horn la a tent. .Shortly after he left
London, soma ffve years ago, and
? moved out Into Hertfordehlre. he tried
living In a caravan, audi a a vP"'e uae,
but even thla proved too confining
for him and so went "back lo J
land" in good earnest . It may be added
that McEvoy dresses with a view to
comfort only, and that sine he went
to Hva In the country he haa subsisted
entirely by writing pseudonymous aerial
thrlllera. or "bloods aa he calls them,
for publication In boy ;paper--hls
plays not being the kind of thing from
which he expects to -make much miV
at present.. When ha makee money,
enough out of hla playa no doubt ha
will atop writing "bloods." ;
. It la doubtful, however, If ha would
eoneent to live in a house if he were
aa rich a Rockefeller, -and Improbable
likewise, that ha would be In trie least
willing to dreaa up to hla poaltlon. the
accompanying photographs give a good
Idea of hla accustomed garb (it la only
lightly more conventional when he"
visits London), and thla la quite la
keeping with hie theory, aa expressed
to me. that "juat aa a tent la preferable
to a nous, a muffler la preferable to a ,
collar, and a ault that you, can lie on
the ground In to one la which you
can't'
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uue vn vwwi' - That. letter waa po.ted one evening.
Oddlv enouah. theae ortainal view and the next morning ita author un
of McEvoy'
tha rneane
print and eventually launching him on must have looked no exceedingly guilty
. mnrv career For an article on thnt be knew In a minute who I waa:
a literary career. For an amci on n h Mm up ,t onre Md MkJ
"Collars," which the young dramatlat ,t waB i wno haj wrltten to him.
wrote aoma five yeara ago, while noml- By thla time I had become aghast at
nally learning to be an electrician, and my own presumption, so I said no and
which he aent to the London iicho,' waa c,rnde.rth ,U"..M
duly published. andH followed by other '"V, of r away, but
uc, "".""" JT"" :LT 'Mr A..r fallow- ha aald.
iln of one of the lea" Important "". ""'d
Jenta of the oaoer Kvoy. "to cut a long etory ahort. he
W confeaaedat pr.vioua to ked "to dinner that night and we
like, after which McEvoy waa given the
edltorah
departmen
thrproductlonof hh? own maiden effort n ot to be very good friend..
ne naa visum ine menire man tv -, , . ,
times, and added that most of thoaa Neighbors Again.
vlalta were made while acting aa "bud" ... ... D. .
for the regular dramatic critic of the Meanwhile both -Shaw and McEvoy
London Echo. It waa while working had moved away from Hertfordshire,
on that paper, tob. that he dlacovered the ,cen, of tneir flrgt metnc, and
that there waa a market for "bloods . ol . .
and a bare living to be made out of wr" neighbors again In the famoua
writing them if you happen to hr.v "White Horse Vale" of Berkshire, which
the . knack. For something like five no one wno n read -!, Brown'a
yeara McEvoy has earned hla bread by gchool Days" will need to have recalled
this means, and Isn t aahamed to con- t0 nlm. Jlere u u not jar from tha
fess It. becauae the aame thing waa famous "Blowing Stonea" and In tha
done for an even more extended period renter of one of the moat glorious
by Robert Louis Stevenson. stretches of country In England, that
To writ; plays had been McEvoy a MoEvoy'a famotia tent stands, and that
ambition from his earliest days, and tne yOUng dramatist lives bla Thoreau-
hia reason for electing to produce iiv. existence "exernt for mv hsna."
I4.I..J.K L. . . 11. .iiv. ...... . ... . ' . - : -
meanwhile provea to have been char
acteristic. He had found that he could
make a hare living by writing boys'
"serials" at a beggarly rate "per thou,"
and he believed this to be tte only
: : - m "&FYm
r waa III ' ID I? fU'WIJICO K I
fc.- v;'.i,-s ' ; I view or
CHAKi.'B.S MCEVOY WRITING
i urtnrlal tnattira were expectedly found himself face to face
r . U V., . 'th Shaw at the railroad station,
a Of hie flrat gettliu Into ,.j ,uppose,,,' said McKvoy. "that I
as he saya, "of which Thoreau never
would have approved."
Wantage, the first home in England
of Richard Croker, la the town nearest
to MCtvoy i camp, ana here his mother
lives in an old mill that waa alao the
kind of writing that he could do Juat young playwrighfe home Just before
w ..Jr. ',v "....- w - ,iR iuuk w me simple lire auogemer.
uralneaa' of hla atyle. McEvoy dlacovered thla plctureaaue old
"You eee, I can do them without any piaCe aoon after hla father'a death, la
effort, except that of the wrist" he lsofi nri tn iiv tv..r. forthwith
aald eameetlv. "and that would not be and when Bernard Shaw, in hla turn. fV"1
the case If I had to be 'literary' and decided to leave Hatfield he came to J' 12
clever. I am aura that to be brilliant Wmtt at uvn,', 'lr
one has. to do trlcka, and that In my took ud hla abode at a vitim rlo minding the van
cae artificiality would result. When by. vicarage close ,hey took hlm at n
course he eoull not succeed In pamig ready as' ahowtng McEvoy In typical j rLATi:
seir orr ns oiic or them; he la too garb, and aava that a linen collar tern-
. but ,v toi'l litem that he hum Dorarilv reDlaced the neck-cloth ahown
minding' the van for a "genf nnd in tne picture It was thua that the tire fit Is on him he will work fever.
If America knew how her nM vtrn
are living and dying all ovrr l:ini.
TO'tr country people seem to think a
good dwil; I wonder If they ever thlnx
of thatf
The meaning nf those words la that
Ambrose McKvoy. ' the .' greatest, vr
, ha pa. of the Inventive ganluaa aha
ranged themselves on the aide of tho
southern atates. who was the friend of
Lee and Htonewall Jackson, and the
author of a score of srntlflo dim-over
lea whose fame Is world-wide, ended hla
dsys In comparative poverty thr
thousand miles from tha land he adopt
ed as s boy. Apart from Its last chap
ter, however, Ambrose McEvoy's lt.'o.
story is aa romantic aa a novel. It
seems that the Inventor of the suhmar
ine mine came to Baltimore, Maryland,
with hla parenta from County Wexford.
Ireland, as a child In 1128. When he
wss only sixteen he ran away from
home and embarked for Cuba, but ws
wrecked on the coast of Virginia, near
Cape Henry. He made his way to Nor
folk and eventually waa adopted by a
wealthy family there. Later on he
Joined the militia, and waa on of the
force who raptured John Browm Ha
waa, aa he told hla aon, on of the few
who were permitted to . vlelt th abo
lltlonlat in hla cell, and talked with
him there on such varied toplca aa re
ligion and the stage. Then came th
Outbreak of th war. when McKvoy ws
one of the first to throw In hla lot with
the south, and eventually he -reached
the rank of captain and numbered Le.
Jackson and Moseny among hie- Inti
mate frlenda. Another of hla acquaint
ances, by the way. waa a phyaician
named Whistler, who alao served wltti
the Confederate army and this friend
ship led to a later one between Ambrose
McEvoy and the physician' famous
brother. James McNeil Whistler, whlcli
lasted for over forty year.
McEvoy's first Invention waa a fuse
to be used in shells, and was shown by
the young soldier to Le. "Go and Be
Brock," was th general's ' terse com
ment, the reference being to Colonel
Brock, who now Is head of the Virginia
Military Institute, and who then waa
In charge of th ordnane department of
the Confederacy. Brock Instantly aaw
the merit of McEvoy's Idea,' adopted It
forthwith, and shells of the typ sug
gested thereafter were turned out In
millions at the Richmond arsenal. It
was many months later that McEvoy
turned hla attention to tha problem of
submarine mlnea, which ha solved aa
brilliantly. . .
Another Invention.
Ambrose MoEyoy cam to England at
the end of th war, married and set
tled down. Aa tha only man who knew
anything about aubraartn mines, he did
not lack for attention from th British,
admiralty, and England Is defended to
day by hla mercurial circuit closer. An
other of McEvoy'a later Inventions was
th "Spar" torpedo which remained la
general use until th advent of th
"Whitehead." and the famous "Elswlck
sights" were alao devised by him.
It seems unlikely that the full story
of the British admlralty'e dealings with
Ambrose McEvoy would make pleasant
both amusing and tragic In the way refused by "My Lord a" and finally '
they react on one another." adopted after the patents on them had
Vo you mean that a plot Isn t Bsen- run out. and of similar breaches of :
"JJi ... faith. Apparently the reaulta were dlt-
Of course a plot la essential, but astroua for the Inventor. Ordera came
i.ot the impossible kind of plot, with to him from other countries. It la true.
Impossible situations that dr.imatlst but t was Intermittently, and by the
heretofore have provided. There must time Charles McKvoy waa twelve, the
be a sequence of events, so long as they wolf had looked In mors than one at .
are llkelv events; thouah not likely In his father a door. And aa a conse
tne sense of belnc Inevitable. Don't for- quence, the young author of "David
get that the stage la the stage from Ballard,"- who had hoped to go to
which we alwaya expect excitement, Cambridge, was compelled to relinquish
stimulation. Interest. Every play must that dream and go into hla father's bus
have a story which is carried forward lness aa soon aa he left school. .
set by act, and It all must be finally Ambrose McEvoy la the original of
settled when the people go home. Anthony Undershaft In Oeorr Bernard
The theatre la
and flemand. and
I read over my "bloods.' however, I can
see that whatever else they mar be,
they at all events are written simply
and naturally."
Shaw Helped Him.
McEvoy declares frankly that th
play which haa "made" him never
would have been written had it-not
been for Bernard Shaw, and It la like
aa not that the younger man never
would have done as he did, and sought you
th acquaintance of th elder, had h Ing
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uui uuuqiii, uikuvviuu uio.1 inn were or von
.i-.uf.A- irt.1- ji . u
hvbi iiviriiuuii. i in uikuvvii wee
"It was while Shaw waa at Wants
said McEvoy, "that I sent hlm my
play and asked if he would read
It waa a farce comedy to say that I:
the hero broke his neck. Well, a day
they took him at his own valunlir.n. hnd young playwright wai
m let him share their life and help them finally I ran him to ear
f7". with their shows. other day. and subm
lire Thus McEvoy spent practically tho bombardment of unwe
1 Jl entlr- limm.F n 1 OA ft mr,A ln - 171 k.( whtnk 1 ,
a matter of imi.I Shaw's play, "Major Barbara" iMr. Mc
"V"' -or.""pLT Evov died In 106. but aom time befor
fleeted the Intellectual nroa-reee of the then hla younger Bon had met and mad
waa a farce comedv to aav that in it "nl,r" eummrr or jvo, ana in mis Trey j-iis nai, wnicn it wouia iaae an aumor-
. h.m h-,.1,. hi. ...I. Vir.ii . j- n aiso gatnereo tn . material for
.TO.?? !' from dwn tlllduskV foVgeUlng he fople 1 am glad to say that w. hav. W'rA
playwright and the Inventor of the sub
marine met once or twice ana it was
these meetings, and the occasional
earth In London the has a stomach. id at the' end find him- m"" ?' , Pop'a now who want
hmln.H him in a .- j .. . .. . . hoiiahlful nlava. and maninri ara nn
falnt "nouajnuui mays, ana managers are one
u.y uhc iryiiiK in nci ifiem. J3UI II IS
Thus McEvov snent nractlcallv tha bombardment of unwelcome Questions. ' .
- . . . . "T . : . . . . . . . . . " " . , -. ... xneee meeiinKB. a in ini occaeioniti
A fixed belief that "real people" are libli ii is mv Irish temoerament which references made by Charles McEvoy to
. a h .w. eiDiy it is my irisn temperament wnicn ., ...i,,. hinh 1mA Khiv i
T. .".' maaes me disuse to see anything rorced i.w. imKmu arrnw " i hia i.i
ho Uvea what Mc- Uoon nv one I don't like to aa im. tak Ambrose McEvoy for hla model
-ii ..i t. upun uny one. i aon i iiae to see im- .),.- Hr.wln. tha "miia, nt amln.
his ltv on the humors of aarb. like Ita
nr t wn artar-a-i 1 a 1 uw 1'iay, . .'i. uenirn or ma iiin'i." wearer, 10 nescnoe anequateiy, reaiiy
Shaw iiklnr m to mm. J ... hi of which you are lik.ilv to b' h-arlng looka more like a pancake. Indented
and when f mot the?2 he ?ece?vtd mi ?n- Whe!1 Khaw hnC r'' Jav1'1 :' '"d provided with rim than anything
with acorn received me ard . h, ..Th,s mil,t bo rted.' else, and Ita owner twiddled It thought-
and he promised lo jrny the incce to fully between hla handa aa he talked.
A Do,'.,. 0...,V I"? 'once or ine . -ta-j aoci.ny trt onv
not often encountered
wrlght or novelist
Evoy scornfully describes as "the liter- nrUonment forced on a ooor iinfort in whn drawing the "maker of explo-,
ry life " was one of the motives which SIT i.uS2 ,S 2Il "kmI". -Ives" as a foil to hla Salvation Army
i at a im a in Harnp r
the drama tint hmm In chooslnr hin unor
thodox existence. "How much of rtal nn Vn'ArMinmpnV
I. 1- II. Daaka a.
rorceo to cnurcn. and it la aa bad to see " im .,.i,V Th-J. ii an ..
.Tier. vciv ueciarea insi ne aoesn i ae- ii. hi. - - . - ririanr rfunn Tor neiievina' mar ir ine
wnen produces tua play attracted so tik.r.i.i ! niti-nmfnrr " , ,a- V" J"VZ" """. w.. "''r.rI 7 .' 1" forced on people. 1 should dislike Im- ..r,oi lz.iia-a . t..
a 4 1 a . a-.w. -.,w. " II :t V I Tl riKIITlH H Ud II in e Vffli IlaFU in 1 1 L- t . iLl-L. aU-a al . i- vuiia sUe,UVs va. awwva-
"My good man." ha aaid. "what do " "V' . K'- J"' marked that if he finds a well-cooked rl,.h aurro.inded hv hi. own " u"T.' ,l" -,V""Jl ."'.V not decided to Invent riots for plays in-
mean by wasting my Urn. in m.k- had no dlf?S,'ln tA.Tn otTV. 5? rraWrJ! '71 TXr'A:
read such rubbl.h a. that Dl,y Tt0S.,r!r" el"?wri!"- Si.dlun lt: aKnaP.o "were' thoTe"! mwhe"! ?,SS th9 pUj" th,t prar .MrJmi
ours? What On earth do you BUD- ventlonal atudv a onr.iit litm en'th. 5ut ?or th reat hla existence la a truly Worked In my father'a shop and used to Y O a Ior lo"n- would not have dlsdalnod. For Val-
people care whether a man Ilk. ofth blood I and the rlTcm- STZZn un 717". Th?seVePhoVo? p'eZl.I Need No B DuH- SSS bTuUarnlne which
breaks his neck? Such nennla ventlonallty with convention vlctorl- i. . ..,.-i .,i, . .vi.u . "or.1 "'.people i ...i..m. ... i. ,nn., m,.i.
to break their neck.7" ous. for. of course. McEvov would do VL" r,'""":r T." .V" lo Pul on lM l8e- "It la folly, too. to talk of educst- u. . 1. ..i-h'i..:r
sald-Mcfcvoy. "all the time I ln unexpected thing. It IB to be pro- vmini dramatist oocunlea It from one . .-jb Ina them." ha went on. "Thev a.ra ha- for It were hla father'a leracv to tha
twinkle In his eye. ao I was not p?Sy Mctw r"P' week's end to another and without re- ln "vlu ,n educ,ted by what hapnens in their yu" man. The result waa a conglom
surprised when he aald. 'But "ftpry th eatre. which Is making a ape- Knrd to the state of the weather. In "David Ballard" there was com- tTJl. , , pn" " tn,p Jratlon of apparatus, complete bul for
really sent for vou tnr waa cUlty of McEvoy playa. u. n. . ,i a k. ..h.j ,n fvia uaJiara mere was com- jives. y0u can educate a man to this w. ....ni.f hin tha iro,iit hih
mad by McEvoy shortly after he had p0B
eacaped from London and rone to live that
at hla father'a cottaae In Hertfordshire, ought
Shaw, who makes a point of spending But,'
as much time ir. the country aa possl- raw a
ble, was living at Harmer Green, close wholly
by, and McEvoy saw and recoanlxed what 1
mm at the ran wav station which both aav mat this ninv. iri,h.H aa i, i-
used for their infrequent trips to town, tells me that you have oowcr in you Life Not a Pose.
To the boy who waa writing plays now go tnd write a picy rlout peo
In fields and on hillsides Shaw reore- pie m their homes!' " Charles McEvoy
seema rather afraid k-- a ..m . nniA k... tli.
aented the "master" and the temptation So McEvov wrote "David Katiarrf" ih.t hi. n,u., r i. ... ,.,1 .. '.v... ,. u.ir.:
to try to know him waa too strong to He started it in his room in the ml,!, thnu-rh 7 it ... 7i r . Z membcra to U wnlc he oulte often
be resisted, so after much hesiUtlon but soon afterward the "call of th wild'' no"ht fP0"' ,orJt w" I could 1,rtr 9 he ,iways has an am-
McEvoy wrote him a letter, which, he got too strong for him and it was tn"n d t0 ret him to talk about It. and an bitten to do a lo bSt quite often awnds
T"J" "" iia.w iiiii rauHi iu " ""i ui . larinx. r or mo:i:os even nnroer joo TO ret nis consent to hla dav on horseback niluA or in
that. It bcrins with moraine- coffee, paratlvely little of what Is commonly extent however, that you can convince Ambrose McEvoy had not worked out.
which he makes after he has risen and called "action." the dramatist netting Mm that a play that deals with real life To hl" aon then, whoa early appren-
Hiarieu a lire, ana inereaiier emDracee
Jiav back aa aoon aa It had dropped pn end a "cnrav.m on Dartmoar ws the publication of th
un, ine uu. etna una anew s permis- ms name, una m en I ominy Tolk photographs, taken by a
his effects mainly from what h h:m- a a .i. k. uceanip in nis.iatnerssnops now sionq
... . , . , . , . j :, ., " w mm- in gooa stesa. reu tno iasa or
stlf terms "the clashing of real charac- dulL breathing th breath of llf ln Ambros
ters." "You see, that Is my conception The story of his father'a career aa re- McEvoy'a unfinished schemes. int
nf a a-nnd nlflv " he said "and what I Iated to me Dy Charles McEvoy proves without the secret this at nrst looked
of a good piay. ne said, and wnat t () dramatc that j w,8n u M fc, impoBaIbi-, After weeks of work, how
oclieve. in large measure, the play of glven nere jn fun. it has a pathetic ever he discovered a solution which,
slon to come to see him.
accomnanvinor fraatlna- hi va nn .tha nannrama nf t he future will be. It will be a life- ending, however, and this drew forth practically made the whol Invention
friend of his. the "downs." and doesn't set a stroke like study of a group of personalities, a rather striking commentary from the his own, and so the Chilean government
of the roal were hia companions. Of One of them has been referred to al- done. On the other hand when a crea- all thinking their own thoughts, and young author of "David Ballard."
got Its apparatus completer
STRAY TOPICS FROM NEW YORK
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EW YORK. April 10 An old ble on automobiles. A crowd of young- vou a eood ahlne
woman over 80 yeara of age. aiers gainer on in raanionaoie Kiver- them off to the
who had lived th lif. of a ".'. r'' -J " ,'"uV"7"hV
crowd ' of listeners who seem to have
notliins- in the world to do. Also do you
know that New York is the only city In
the countrv . that permits these fakers
He would hurry to monopolize the sidewalks? It always
hospital where ha reminds ma of clrniia dav ln the roun-
wyuiu my u(i mr iwu or inree monms. try.
In 20 veara the hoothiaok hna hann In .. v
w inacmne ine noepuai io iimes, ana on an aver- In a suit for divorce brought by a
hermit for 20 years within only ed the bettlna atarta,
p. half hour's ride of Broadway, passes you w.u hear various exclama- age has spent three months each year young woman of 24 against her 72-year-
st week leaving an estate worth ; .',".. ..,"! VhI " a irtiurca oone.
0
A GOOD HABIT By John A nderson Jayne
N'E of the best habits that a young of satisfaction that comes from the has formed th habit of thrift wfll tld
man ran form la that of savin a Knowledge mat ir ne is taken in no win film over many a hara place, and gtv
man can rorm is maioi saving not a,together b, dependent upon his others confidence ln his ability to get out.
certain part of hla earnings regu- fraternal society, his family, his friends of debt If once he has been compelled to
tn
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. aiea wet wees leaving an esiKT worm even a nalr
12,000,000. When her husband died 20 shouts another:
years ago he made her promise that nines over seven
fJlve me the coin."
'I've got a full house.
larly., From the very first, when or the cold charity of the world. go Into it. Among th many good thing
he has made arrancements with It Is a certain and sure fact that not Jnal may o saia or a young man tner
old husband, a mouth organ and the ,Qfhr and mother in the home, or with tV. on ln this world can be rich. J none better than to yofWra!:;'H;
good old tun or "Home, Sweet Home ' . ' V ., . tenner does every one want to oe rich. ! ""urieiy. inuueiry ana
A prominent visitor tn Welt etraot ri.nrai na t-. v.ie m'hui tnr nm. his landlady, as to what he shall pay r,, i'rv man run it h will fnrm siiiih thrift" These thinara malt mora read
If! ShOrt. thfV tlUV thn lt hr AaV Wit liril"b hv tha mimKas ninth iTka a.... h.,k. 1 KAH Vi a a-a- a.t- - 1 atA. Ul. V,av .kA..t.1 a. kuKU U. K mhan t-AuKU 11 V f OF 81lnOnS thttn On mttV 4 m. 0-1 n at
she would not sell their little farm in P0!"!.on the numbers on the back of of people In the financial district who asked tho young girl to marry him. had i, ,w. ki- iie t m.t anme- overtakes him. as it must overtake all. That on can save even on small sat-
the Bronx, and aha kent her word. But iS.fh.. iTi? u elom.eru or, ch"nce, aeemed to have nothing to do. It was told alluring stor es of Immense wealth " " " V he wl1' b able to wtrd ott mucb of Its rea ts proven in tnese facts. Cor-
1 i!v T, 7uP , .v i?f th.er.i7?lth the nove'ty. makes it a. h i first visit to Gotham and ha had but a few days of married life disclosed th'"K. e It ever so little, away from his unpleasantness. It is a truth that goes neltus . Vanderbllt out of very small
with the rapid growth of New York the most exciting game. always been under the Impression that the fact thai hla nnlv nnaaeaalon wee weeklv or monthlv waaea. It's a fine without disputation, manv of the bltier earnings, saved until he had 13.000 ln
farm was eagerly sought iy real estate Aiih,ih h v. T .. every one was on the Jump from mom- an old mouth organ. "Night after thing to be able to wear a necktie that things that come to ua along with our Jdy cash. John Wanamaker had for
Although he haa been a "coo" B0 In till nltrht in tha famnm iirui k. kii.,i '..m -v.- ii i. .,ii.h in ita rninrimr a vmi that la trnnhiaa ronoori hv tha irnnwiaHa-a r.t hla first oav but 11.20 tier week. John
, i -, . . . .. . m,nvu,ii ikn tinm Lcn n. - frnn nil mr I
alThouah their offTr. wer. verv Till' lhfSXTr Farleyrefusis where mllliSn change hands eery" day! lie' in bed and play" "Home! Bweet beautiful in ita constVuction?or a" suit ihe truth that had It not "be'fo? - Rockefellef still has' th;iittta bank
although their orfers were very high, to retire or take a snap inside Job. Al- "No matter how busy the times may Home" and never was a song more out- that s nobby and a hat that Is up to travagances ln the past the trouble jf book that represented his first savingi.
However, the little frail woman, who tnougn J-ariey, in his half century of be." he said, "no matter the hour of th raged. I coudn't stand it anv longer." date. But better than all these la the today would have been of less moment James A. Garfield, on $18 a month and
generally wore an old fashioned sunbon- fervice has had many opportunities to day. every faker who Is crying his The divorce was granted and th old consclenceness of a bank account how- and more easy to bear. . food, saved enough money Jl carry, hlm.
. . T - . . r- i l ' . ----- " " t. ? irienas uoon wnoni ne can nenenn- in -.-a-v. ,.
for she had difficulty in getting sum- "" nw. xiis wora at present, now
clent money to pay her taxes, the old ever, is not strenuous for he patrols one
farm, with its little white house, how- of the small parks, where his chief
ever,, remained Intact, ln spit of th work consists of breaking up games of
ract mat tail city ouuaings were erect- wanuee nu caimma stray ooys wno
ed near It. After SO years of fighting refuse to go to school,
off persistent purchasers, which ln- For years Farley was In Central park
volved several lawsuits, the eccentrlo where he saved many children from
old lady died without any near rela- drowning In the bi? lake, but he Is
tlves to whom she could leav her little proudest of the fact that he once shook
farm valued at 12,000,000. . iincoin. in nis long term
moment."Kof adversity" "A frtlnd In t .thT alemental principle-
need la a friend indeed." is true. But u'h.t ... " J'.lrVir w"!
illt.L'L1..!.?0.?"" can outhfuVXa!aan ti Sfr.ufLJl'
iic wnn me ainriiiB BiriH nis 111 IS . .i.r: T.TY 'f
AVE you ever considered stature Or listen again to Isaac Watts, on th galley, and so as captain he. who bank account Jhat4has grown Jrom " V'
as a factor in th great llf or the .smallest men physically among had been the prisoner, came 10 pon. -v .- -""i' rhrTtt aVhTh.- word thrift . , . . 7 " : "
game of success T V
SUCCESSFUL LITTLE FOLK By John And erson Jayne
H
the English poets:
It requires mind to accumulate great But greater than th money that a
wealth and distribute It wisely, not .'J y.oung man can save is the character
Physique. ' ence. It not alone gives a man courage tLB lMlng'.m'tWHn'
It requires mind to write such poetry, in time- of trouble, but It also weaves "Mines,-, greed, ar to b.-abhorred,
-1 . ,..t. , -n thai It ,t li. .... . . - . but nrudanca and raraf ninaaa In svnn-
a new wrinkle wa. snrima- nn. of one black mark aaainat him. and thii ' Th mind's th standard of the man." "iV,V.li"'Vtr"ZrS
th clerks In the marriage license bu--J for beting five minutes late durlna; i ,v. 'a' ,i ta . Tha hot nt ,..., i. it tha physical bulk in the presence of mind biUty. withTut which no a power In th com-
reau the other day. when In payment th bllsxard of 1888.. , .The facts In th case do not Justify ...p , t l.?l!'e' '"J '-S dwindles to Insignificance. through llf s
him power and ability, "it s the mho- Character is. not of the body, but of , iJouotiess it ; 1 -a 'goodj thing, 'or Z;U)rJL, XZU
jruiiiifi
, Sometimes you think that un
less a man has been given a
of service the veteran "cop': had but great big body he cannot maka a sue-
the conclusion.
"Wer I. so tall to reach the pol
', Or grasp the ocean ln my span,
I must be measured by my soul.
The mind's the standard of the man."
in spit of th fsct that opera fol- !. Big people are apt to b slow and rent solid n unlit v nf nnuin. manhaod the mind and heart. Great men phyil- rather a pleasant thing, for
Way. siuggisn m the movements, as well as developed In th school of life. cally ofttimes have great passions that man to be abl to dress In the way that
for a license the applicants handed out
100 'pennies of the mintaae of 1908.
The clerk was about to resent having so lows lipon opera and - play uoon
tnucn "chicken feed showered, upon there is no amusement that attracts slow-moving mentally
him, when the young isdy broke in and old and young alike so much as th Rarely have men possessed Of a sow
tnl film nnt tn ha anarv hAranaa thnv -aIiwiim tr.v. tl.. . i . j . . 1 . . , .
would buy them back. Th prospective num St Bailey's circus has hn hninina- oresslons unon th wnrtd
husband then proceeded to buy them forth In ; the Madison Souare Oardan Think at the neoDle of vou r aonnaint. Byron, whose poetry will abide for
.naca. : jna saia w f lnrenaea jo ma in spite or th fact that there ar ance wno have "done things." - . 4r. was a man or -very small statu-, , th smaflness of his Mature anv
have the coins which he staid for the naarlv a s ni,i.. . .m .. ur.i ha... n... i .1- ami mu,uJ in. mAAiUnv, i.,h.,.-.t cauae ot cn Hmiipeaa 01 niB aiaiure.
posed and level-headed men.
Ahraham T.tnnin w.- - Mln,i. prevent them from rising to their full- a cultivated taste may. demand
' cv- est estate, small men controlling tneir mere is a. Detier tnine- than that
iii uiaji. oui nis- greaiesi - general - z- r.. . u. ,.... 7. ahia tn bn. iW.t v.Ta rr
Si ORTECTS TO C0KSETS.
,m mail, tsui ma gnrftiest ,
im- (Grant), was of ordinary stature.
s a better thing than that, to b
w miuw ' iiitti wiirn nam 'Iirih 1
by whose side they are but pigmies. come , he pan still continue to dress Amalia nf Pnrtiiffnl Attrlhnfrs Her
Let no one be discouraged then, be- "r""" Ji". 'y"hout feeltna . Vvtm.itM
. Vji rvuiiucnvo II1H.L comes-. a a- ijlukvt iv wucwv ...in i. ,
license mad Into a belt for his bride.
i w ... u.iwo. ? uiujrou new lorK. me oig. nous has wre, me ievv-pouna-ana-over men. As "'",l ""iV "wwunir wauuvo.. . anvthlna save th littleness of -ciousnesa or th fact that he is "'not .
' ' been filled at every performance. Tha rule,, they are only ordinary In. stat- Keats and Shelley, together with nf, and that -can b ovweome keeping up to his former standards! An
liir.t? question excitement runs as high ln Gotham over Averaging about five feet,, eight . and Shakespeare, were not above VhrouVh? persistent study and heroic man ever regrets having formed '"1 taste ln
ctels high up lit . the circus, as U does in a, ma town. In height, and weighing perhaps average tn he Ight, but how -they Pt uay ana nerotc the habit of saving, thougbmanv regret ar never
a million unem-t Rarely hav they bean tHe tail six- f"d Possessed in addition a clubfoot iWTRurswd bcaus " "ugh nnkmptnss in drtw Ud eon
"Did h us a brick?'
that some - of the official
the hoard ftf education have heen-trvfne- whara It la th. ..u ... .i . . v J a K.i i . t 1 r. fl nnn..iii. ir.... aM.ii.. ..I- -lnvtia1.H .luiv thai,. ' nllna
to answer with regard to 'the inspector year. One of the -curious facts "about tnan that mak great uccess. v " tallty all -th world knows. He who llveswell, rives to
of masonry, upon whose shoulders for the Hrcus this year is that -tbev were Alexander, tho great, was a"' small " Tou-think of Julius Caesar, and you er a square deal, defends
some unknown reason devolved the task not allowed to exhibit their "friAra" aa Ud .insignificant .appearing mu. So think? of an Imposing man with great and refuses to be debased
or selecting pianos- f or th prthllo in other years, owliig to th protests of lo was Napoleon. . head, . massive : brow and all the rest wrong, lives i a aingiy me and "hau aay of xtravagancroutsld ahow aiiS iHef.'
schools. Just now the mason qualified certain societies. great philosopher; of ancient ' Jhat makes th ideal physical man. yet receive kingly honors. You can bank exaltation of ththlMs tha
h i. ; ,(,-. -r ,.,. , Alexandria, a man wnos" logic t . and -racievar .tnat ne was mean ana " -".u - , fashion f for the hour anrt ann .- .L iiii
A hnntW.v Wh i- K.i. . vl OhlloaoDnv commands attention Insignificant in annearann. - v : i,aw ; . ? . ' Boon, . pas ; ered Bhe
held the world's record for broken bones Btudents. was. only on foot, five Inches Of th Apostl Paul, th greatest
l. i . .. . . id li niiniHr ii f a.Kar ,,va rn Tha evuirp miin .iravn tn mnr in, r.nr nr'd.
said fie was ".'small
as a "musical exoert" has not been ex
plained, but the fact remained that sec-
ona nana pianos or th- "tin . pan" va
ln men-
From Tit-Bits,
Queen Amalia has the most ..wonder-
dress, and Farla cosiutm-rs
though- many regret are never tired of sounding her praise.
time her majesty believe
easy matter for a woman r
feet-fitting gown without ilm
his broth, ioitfyhad At th same
the right from many lips, -while the word." vi It Quite an
y .tn" Klail thtt'I did" Arn.rtr.W kunj I. ,v.i. i
. .... . . ---- -w. - ..--v. c.i, .it i. mo inwuiitu. aieo re-, tt . - ,a . .r, -- -" . . . i j- , w . .
nnr-en u'uanv paid " Tor new lnstru-cently after having fallen In a cellar P,e 01 fllr rarfl treat in the per- nav Known, it . la
ments. The maaon-wiuslclan was sus. way .and broken both leas The boot. on ' Lucius, a great tenor singer, who. " stature, , with
pended for a period, of 0 davs without black he'd hi. .t.n.u ..j could sing like a nlahtlnaale, and .-wim ling." .....
pav out in scnooi world Is still spec- waa considered one of the characters Tof eniy S3 incnea tail., , . , tJ ..Bjtaiur may
tilattna- as to whether he usert - hrllr tha nai,rhh....7J tho areatest wrltep'of ' Kna-llal. tha tim betna
- .--. .-- i.-x.s iiwu, - t imir vcr wan e
Even in Those Days.
Roentgen rays wer odtn-ov-1
a tight-iat-ed -lady piiof.-
way.-jv ;..,. .-'.v. v-j i v i". , graphed in order to demonstrate
'Its going" to ' tak a strong character entlflcally to the ladies of hr court
W IUIIB IU5 nauu or aaving money from, the evil or ine pruciK-e.
a amall tnnma w.t I i . ' . . . . . ,..,. hum t-arv r
a8. 22? ! When Colnmbua arrived he hearda great ftu" .lB,"e 7: 11 an be don,' Her very . practfesj i i
: cnatter
High up in the tropical trees.
ere are ao manv altiiram.nt. '". tha advancement of her ' anil
tractions for a young man nowadays aiders that nursing la one uf tin- i
or trowel In testlna som nf the Inetru
Whatever waa tha
m.uer ,-wnnt m oones, they were
R .?t'-S r.t' lobelia! 'Pa.TwhatSTsh ma
that the Enalish neonle havaTever n wavs th. thSusht-afterward. ' er - ' ' f ... --.wi?"ln-. 1 "m ?"7e!' -ji V.7.. ii tH. i"" ,
ment that .rant int h. iaha i. ".'.-a:. - K.i;;r. .. " ""..".'t.l""r liiMd wi. .matt mr,J nfnm.H .t-tV.t M ind ' la t h ' a.t.t" i hino- t ha, "i- what-curious sonnds are these? v ., .'!Tt lnBl in tne years ie-sna
t . -.! votii ... ..utj a nng, ne wuu n ne reenna Tine ,r . ' - -v. "-.-, -t. . v r.: -i? r t.i. .,.,,., , . -
nis supervision. . ' .. , snd a patron would be on the stand whose " was no wno gave to our literature -'" worm. - wnen juiiub taesar was
. : '"'I' . snofs tie wiahaH mo iienini trum: r . .- .. wy no cap i urea oy pirates, sna
"Honor and fam from nr,- nlti- . ihr0wnJ.?..f.h1'!"-. ?h -V
i. ' JIT, . -V-' !lfhtfullyftot rrls marvelous tales.'. '
The smell ho vs of Oolhant have d
v'sed a new poker same that-(a en poo
shoes -he wished to make particularly
aiun-r. ; ien suaneniy one of his arms
wouia ran dangling at his side. , "There
ie-tr.t it bids fair to supercede tha goea an arm,'r he would aav cslwiv r Act well your narL there - all - hnnnr ii!aur 71. 'I? fveious taiea. Then
old aprlng gam of marbles. They gam- W what come, of gf &i-y0W V"U ' , ' hoaor SlVft&U Vmm.n'dTf
. a- ivuiue a annii nave anmethlna, tn ahnnt J.lsoon.
acrlhe" ""ru ,w for my Industry." ' , t ' ' Above sit Queen Amalia la r,
Columbus called out his auards: j."a: e"n .-y money on a small or preaenma ...a ;'-"..
soon found out It waa awild 'VZ ,'AAnv; admitted, or '"''"V,, ' 7.'. J . ... ..
And
-But be
monkey tribe
. Selling souvenir postal cards.
. , v , From th Chicago News.
with familv hll.lr.n .r..irn.. mmi ar. an untlrll if ,
go in debt, must for the time live be. And to s.i.-h nnrHt .
yond his means. But the fact that ha beautiful X;-jrs i