I'nuaual
Scene at (oiiRrtia Held
(aiu bridge, En if la n d.
SQUtfl A'^RICA
HOW RIOTOUS CHINAMEN ARE SUBDUE«.
SERMON IN E3PERANTO.
THE GREAT CONTEST FOR THE ATLANTIC PASSENGER TRADE.
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The esperanta congress held in Cam-
befclge,
En gland,
recently,
which
■brought together 1,300 representatives
pf more than twenty nations, was the
¡occasion of a sight which the world
had never witnessed before. This was
the pnauehing uf a sermon am! the con
ducting of the entire Church of Eng
land service in esperanto, the universal
language. These devotional exercises
were held at Great St. Mary's, the uni
versity church.
The preacher was Bev. J. Cyprian
Rust, who had translated into esper-
Hito all the hyBins that were used.
The scene was truly Impressive, Here
was an Englishman talking in a lan-
FROM LIVERPOOL.
The rate-cutting Inaugurated on the western passage across the Atlantic affects only the first and to a leaser
extent tli> second-class passenger, 'this picture deals with the third-class passenger, who is not affected, and whose
fare varies from $27.50 to $.’13.75. It shows a typical motley assortment of emigrants from all parts of Northern
Europe who make the passage through the great British port. They are about to board a White Star liner at the
great landing stag ' at Liverpool,
THE PARADOX.
riirra grows a weed, ho gossips tell. •
’l\> wound the hand that lightly plucks;
But bind it with a proper spell,
A im ! poiatm from the vein it sucks.
’Twas Cupid’s self that threw th* dart,
<«•»• ma th» simple for my smart.
. WtiM sroeais are high, so «me« tell.
And billows crumple all th? main.
But fli»» benrgth the angry swell,
And thsu wilt .find it calm again. ■
Since, lev», thou art a troubled st*.
M.» only tefuge is in thee.
chapman. Holy Writ doth tel!.
f’miaid treasure in the earth <s>nc«l»d
But all ha had lie need« must sell
Er» t» might have the precious’field.
Hine«» thou has cost me all I own
«» Lovei what ride s have I known I
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I What Sam Did
Th«- tnHi In the store wnt<hed the
young farmer iixsl«t his wife into th«*
re*iwi'table-lookliig buggy outside, H r-
range the packages, spread the laprobe
gem-roualy and carefully over the
young woman’s knees and then, him
•elf uncovered, drive away.
“Clayton's goin’ to take r><>d care o’
X that thers- wife o' hi*. ’ comment««! the
•b»rrk<*I«*r.
"»'oollah of him." declare«! Washiug
♦on H«n«wk.
Tie’ll get tired o’ w.-ishln’ up that
♦mgw o* hls’n after a while n coti-
eliaie the ole waggins good enough to
«•oiue to town to t u|
Baker, sagely.
“'(’purse he will." h greed Hancock.
“He’ll have her' out to th«* wood pile
■plittln' stove wood. Iik<‘ ns not. I’ve'
knowed that to' happen, too."
Biker had the grace to loot; embar
rnss.il when til«* storekeeper snickered.
"There’s wus* tilings than spllttin' a
l«>etle mite o' wood now an’ then for a
women," he said. “Anyway. Clayt’s
wife'll take all the care lie kin glv«>
her an' then u «*« m 1 more. If lit* ain't
washln’ th«“ dishes for her afore long
I miss my gu«*ss. Slit* don't llke.no
kind o’ work none too «veil, sin- didn’t
■a a gnl."
"Ain’t :t great hand to cook, they tell
Die." said the storek.s-per. "Most any
one o' tile other gals couhl lic it her out
when It mine to fixin' lip « meal. Seems
like Clayt 'ud have took 'Lisbeth or
Birdie If lie wiw set an’ bound to mar
rv Into the fnm'ly. This mi’s mighty
slack ffioutlied. by all n<*counts> 1
could ha' told him sulkin' on thet score
If he’d cum to me an’ ast me."
“Why didn't you tell him. anyway?"
asked Marvin Parsons
"It's a pity she's si ack-mouthed." ob-
servetl Ili'iico-k. "It's them kind o'
wlmtnen that gits to talkin’ about their
neighbors after a while. An’ it’s a fun
ny thing that It's alius the wlmmen
Hint does that. You might set in this
■tore When Rufe an’ Sol here Wl • si- ot
In' ofT their mouths year In an’ year out
an’ you'd never bear them say a word
agin' anybody not if you waa stone
deef. But when a man see« a feller
In danger o’ blightin’ his life by takin’
up with a gal that's ornery an' no-ac
count be ain't doin’ no more than
what's his dooty to give him the right
kind o’ warnin’. If a feller's got good
sense he'll erpheshlate a word in W*a
■on o’ that sort an' won’t git mad
about it. Anybody’s apt to be a mite
keerle* an' unthlnkID' in the matter o’
efioosln’ a gal when he’s young. I bet
there haln’t a married man here but
what’ll say that’s so"
The storckec|»er nodded Involuntarily
And Hancock grinned.
•”8 fur’s fakin’ a word o’ good ad
vice kindly's concerned. I reckon
there’s the many a man would tell vou
that If »MictXNly'd come to him tn time
an* let Mm know what he had a right
to exjiect from the gal lie «rus thlnkln*
o' marrying’ he’d never have married
the gal he did." resumed Hancock.
"There's some what does git warned In
time. I rlckerleck right well when a
cousin o' mine. Sam Hancock, thought
o' hlfvtiln' up with n gal he'd met up
yrilk vtM w> ww • y>m»t btvk.
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seen the gal an’ tuck her buggy Tidin'
once or twice an’ he flggered td him
self that she wus jest atiout the finest
young woman that ever set a foot on
tills green ajrth. He couldn’t make out
that she'd got a fault or a blemish.
Slic’d fjlhis acted that away whilst he
wus around, so how wus ‘ he to know
any dltfrunt?
"There wus one thing, though, an’*
that wus that Sam had a mighty level
bald on him for as young as he wus.
He'd slip up on a trade wunst In a
while, but -he never slipped up twi«*et
the same way an' he'd made a-many
trades by the time lie wus 20 years old.
No. Sam wasn't nobuddv’s fool.
"Well, there wus a feller lived nefgh-
l«sr to the gal's folks, name o’ Ren
Crittenden, an’ he knoweil Sam an' he
know«*«! the gal. He figgered that Sam
wus a likely boy an' that it wusn't
right for him to stand back an’ keep
his mouth shot when he e’d do good by
openin' it. So he goes to Sam one day
an' he takes him' out behind the barn
for a conf'denshal talk.
“ ‘Sam,' he says, ’I- allow yon know
that I'm A friend o’ yours an’ that I
liain't a troublemaker or a stir-strife.
I've got suthln’ to say to you an’ If I
sav It I, don't want for you to git mad
an' prance around on'your ear.’
“‘Certainly not.’ says Sain, ■If
you've got anythin' on your ml nd you
say It.’
Ben.
“'It's nbout lterthy,'
HUJ’S
"‘I hain't goin' to
Sam. ’What about Berl
“ 'It's this away,’ says Ben. ‘I
wouldn't say nothin' at all If I thought
OLD COINS NEW TO HER.
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you'd had the chance to know for your
self Jest what kind -of ii gal sue wus.
But you haln’t. an' I have. I hir«*«l
out to her paw all through one hnrvest
•in’ 1 know what I'm talkin’ abo«t.
Thnt gal'* mighty shif less, Snni Jest
shlf'less/
“ 'Is thnt so?" says Sam.
"'I wouldn't tell you If it wusn’t so.’
says Ben. 'An' 1 wouldn't say’ nothin'
-against her neither if you wusn't a
friend o' mine. She'll shirk off an’
leave her mammy'to do the work if she
kin. an' if she can't she'll Jest about
hn'f <!<> It.'
•' 'That's too bad,’ says Sam, lookin'
thoughtful.
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•' “Ifiie meals she cooks hid sicken
you.' says Ben. 'Hnrvest time n feller
hafn't partickler. but they sfekene«! me
An' when she’s around the house she
ain’t slicked up the way she is when
she go«*s to a church soshubble, I tell
you that.'
“'Sho!' says Sam.
“'Yes. slree, an' her temjier haln’t
none o’ the best. I seen tier belt her
young brother one day an’ knock him
endwnya. If you take my advice, Sam,
you’ll dror off.'
"Sam studied a moment nn' then he
got up an' shucked his cont. Ben look
ed «town his nose. ‘You ain’t mad, are
you?" he say*
"'No.' says Sam, ■ spiffin' on his
hand* '1 haln’t mad n mite, but I’m
J«*st goin’ to waller you around n s|»ell
to tench you to mind your own affairs
nn' to quit tattlin' on gala.’ An’ with
that lie lit In an' dene It."
“Did he marry the gal afterward?"
Inquired Baker.
“Uo'se he did," replied Hancock.
"Why wouldn't he?"
"Yon «»Id lie had a heap o' •ense.”
urged the storekeeper.
"Not regardin’ them matter«." said
Hani'ock. "No mnn has. But there
wasn’t no more wrong about that gnl
than there Is about any gal. fin' I reck
on they got erlong about a.s well aa
most, tier an' Sain- mebbe better."—
Clilciig« I wily News.
Cent«.
Sptirjreon
Ruse.
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guage which men of more than a score
of different nationalities could under
stand with perfect ease, though many
of them understood no other language
Wave the tongue to which they were
¡born.
When the congregation joined the
Cambridge choir In singing the hymn ;
“Now, thank we all our God,
With hearts and hands and voices”—
the effect was Inspiring. The espéran
to version of the hymn commences
thus:
“Nun estu DI’ laudata.
Per manoj, vocoji, koroj.”
Pope Plus X sent his special blessing
to the Catholics in the'congress, and
¡at the Catholic church the Abbe Rich
ardson of Brussels, Belgium, addressed
■his congregation In espéranto after tile
¡usual Latin mass.
At the same time Rev. W. Selblo
preached a sermon in espéranto at the
Congregational church. ’
“Mi estas carmita viu renkonti" I«
one of the phrases most frequently
used by esperantists, It means “De-
lighted to meet you.”
Historic Oak In 'I'eiM.
When Öen. Zachary Taylor came to
Texas on his way to Mexico during the
Mexican war he landed at Rock[>ort on
a point adjacent to the Bayview Hotel,
says the San Antonio Express,
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then marched his forces up to where
Fulton now stands and halted there
before going on to Corpus Christi.
When Taylor’s army halted Gen. Tay
lor camped beneath the shady boughs
of an oak that is still standing senti
nel there. This oak is over’eight feet
In diameter'and Is probably the largest
oak in Texas. It is gnarled and bat
tered. Vandals have built fires against
'it that have almost! oaten Its heart
out, but still the leaves iyr«> green upon
Its branches and its friendly shade is
■ought by the hundreds who frequent
the locality. It is king qf a grove of
large and stately oaks. One peculiarity
about these and other trees in this lo
cality Is that the prevailing wind has
bent their branches so that they lean
toward the northwest.
While I was there I found children
scaling the old oak and jierched ui«’ii
Its long and waving limbs. They made
a playground of the locality and their
merry laughter was mingled with the
music wafted through the trees from
the old Hall bouse, where women were
playing <^n a violin and piano the old-
time southern melodies so In harmony
with the acene.
Spurgeon, the famous English divine,
once passed a. stone mason whit, after
each stroke of
« his hammer, t-ursed and
swore.
Mr. Spurgeon ¡aid his hand
on his shoulder and. looking
him, said: "You are an adept
ing. Can you a «so pray!
With another oath lie
very likely."
Holding up 5 shillings, Mr. Spurgeon
said if lie would promise never to pray
he would give if I in that.
"That js easily earned," said the
man. with a fresh‘oath, and put it in
liis pocket. When Spurgeon left the
man began to feel a little queer. Wh*en
he went home his wife asked flint what
all*«! him. and lie told her. "It is Ju
das' money," said the man. and on a
sudden impulse he threw it into the
tire. The wife found it and took it out
and discovensl who had given It to
him. The man took it back to Spur
A Needwil Oglclnl. -
geon, who conversed long with him,
In'an Interesting paper M. Moura
warning him, and at length was the and M. Bouyer relate the extraordin I
means of saving him. He iieeanw an ary care which Emperor Nero took of
attached member of tils flocit.
his voice, At night Nero lay on his
back with a thin plate of lead on his
Retail*) Ion.
stomach. lie abstained from fruit ant!
A man who was * guest at one o« nil dishes which could hurt his voice.
the summer resorts In West Virginia In order not to damage the purity of Its
tells of a wedding ceremony Le wit sound he ceased haranguing the sol
nessed in tin- town near by.
diers and the senate. He attached to
Tlie minister was young and easily his service an officer flpeclally deputed
embarrassed. It was the first wedding to take care of his voice. He talked
he had ever undertaken. The prospec only in the presence of this singular
tive bride aud groom were both young official, who warned him when he
er and still more easily embarrassed spoke too loudly or forced his voice, I
than he.
and. if the emperor, carried away by
When the minister had tinlshcd th» some sudden fit of passion, did not
service and muttered a few kindly but listen to bis remonstrance. It was his
baiting words to the young couple he duty to stop hl9 mouth with a napkin.
had Just united, the bride looked at
Modern Medicine.
ldm, blushing, but confident.
A ■loader aod Soma AdSgcw,
'Thank yer," she said cleariy.
Billy Bunker; “We are sorry that
shore kind o' yer to congratuli
your able technical article on ’How to
an' as long as you haven’t •■'«■
Serve a Golf Ball’ should have apjieared
marrltsl ylt maytie we'll have a
in print as How to Curve a Moth Ball,'
som«- day
to
retaliate.' IL
but your handwriting certainly Is atro
Weekly.
cious. It Is true that tha curving of a
moth ball may sound ridiculous, but It
can't lie expected that the moth ball
editor would hang around continuously
In older to have little pu*les of this
sort referred to hint. Why not take ad
vantage of the lull tiefore the game
ojiens and secure a few valuable lessons
on the art of Nerving » typewriter?"—
There is not Mug n woman enjoya get Cleveland Plain Dealer.
ting so much ns a letter from
Wfh. but w»inu»t bare
married woman that ia s.a.u,,»
®i dnc-e* Is often Jollity go «.* lu aretl. i tear*
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How little is known by the general
public of the United States coins which
are not now current was shown the
other day In ini uptown restaurant,
says the New York Times, when a coin
collector in a spirit of fun handed to
the cashier in place of a nickel one old-
fashioned bronze two-cent plts-e and
three small eopper-niekel “flying eagle"
cents.
, The cashier, a young woman oi
about 1*0. looked disdainfully at the un
familiar coins, and then refused to ac
cept them, saying she had never seen
any* such money as thnt before; that
she didn't believe they were “good,"
and didn't projHise to accept them.
The patron protected that the coins
were genuine, and pointe«! to the in
scription "United States of Americil,”
as a verification. But the young wom
an remained unconvinced, and summon
ed the manager. He, too, was dubious
about the authenticity of the pieces,
looked them over carefully, and said
be had never seen anything like them
before. He finally told the cashier to
takf I hem anyhow, and he would re
lieve her of all resisnisibllity in case
they turned out to be spurious.
The last two-cent piece was issued
by the United States' mint in 1873,
while the flying eagle cents were struck
only In 1856. 1857 jind 1858. Nearly
25,000,000 eaj;le cents and more than
44.000,000 two-dent pieces were coined.
To collectors it is odjl that in a pe
riod of fifty years this vast number
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of coins should have disappeared to
such an extent that the present genera
tion never heard of them.
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BUST.
K«-fn<-e<l to Tnlie 1-Crnl Pl«««
By means of a water-gun, which is a gigantic fire-nozzle traveling on a
high platform, obstreperous coolies in the mining compounds are spe«»dlly
brought to submission. The water, while free from danger. Is as effective »s
bullets. By the new policy now Instituted In the 'rand all of the Cblngmen
at present th«re are to be deported when their present contract |ierl«sls expir«-
and no more will be permitted to land. At the eml of the present year 16,000
will be deported.
FAMOUS LIFE ROMANCE.
IHvoree tends «lie Hnsly Marrl»«« uf
Mrs.
Mrs. Yerkes-Mizner is again .Mrs.
Yerkes, having secur«*d a decree of’ di
vorc«* from her second hustiand, Wilson'
Mlzner.
Iler sudden mariage to "the
latter and her sp«*edy divorce have add
ed a sensational denouement to a famous
life romance. Mrs. Yerkes was Mary
Adelaide Moore, -the daughter of a
chemist. She was th« se«*on<l wife of
Charles T. Yerkes, the multi-million
SOME VACATION YARNS.
aire, banker anti traction magnate. At
the time of h«!r marriage Yerkes was a Xi«« Steals lrl«ih froAl Wink—■*(•«<
broker in Philadelphia. When his firm
lu Hark with HI* Troat.
failed it was found that he *vas tn debt
The vacation weather has .brought
to the city for bonds sold on account. out r«*oord breakers In nature freaks,
Neglecting to make the city a pre says the Port Jervis (N. Y.J corre
ferred creditor, he w as sent to jail, but spondent of the New York World. A
subsequently released and the Sentence . boarder at A. D. Barnluirt’s house.
declared illegal.
Beaver Kill. Sullivan County, had
He made a fortune out
been whipping the streiun without su<-
Cooke's failure and went to
cess and while «landing idle on the
There he exploite«! street I
bank lu* saw a mink crawl out of the
Istught nlwvspapers and mat
water with an eleven-inch trout In its
flit* municipal government to a degree moutih. He at umv grasped the situa
that th«> town became unhealthy as a tion and a moment later the trout. Th«*
residence for himself an«! his wife. mink was so startled ’that' it «Iropped
its prey and flej back into the water,
This is the only trout the man caught
that day.
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John Dnllett, of N«*w York, and John
Hoag. expert anglers, ’went fishing
th«* other «lay lit Lew Beach, Sullivan
County, and caught, the largest front
landed so far this year. It was twenty-
two inches long and weighed four
1« inuls and two ounces. It. was hooked
in its t hroat'with a «snirmon snell hook
bai-ted with n milinow and it took near
ly half nn hour to hind the monster,
as th«“ fishermen bail only ii five-ounce
rod Htid very light tackh“. At first
tljoy Thought it jvns an cel. but when-
they lighted a lantern, wthich they
dropp«sl into the river, and then Juui)>-
eil after the trout, they ■u«‘c«s“ded in
getting it on shore in the dark.
Isaac Brasington, of Bridgeville. Sill- .
livan County, y<“Sterday morning heard
Mrs. Yerktxt went to New York, built a rumpus in bis poultry yard an«! he
a palace on 5th avenue and tried to found -a weasel there. Without any
break fnto society; Mr. Yerkes, weht thought other than to save his «thickens
to Iximlon and captured franchises for he caught the weasel In his right hand
undergroun«! tuls's, constru«-t«*«l electric and was badly bitten. He didn't let
railways anil heaped up more millions ill*, though, until he lirnl choked tho
mid more scandal. He estranged his life out of th«“ little fellow.
Robert E. Dnbler. of Pike County,
wife, who remained in New York and
surrounded herself with a circle of has a dog that is great on killing
friends, none of whom was aid«* to snak«*s. While he was working In the
open th«* charmed door of social r«s*og- fields yesterday the dog cam«* upon a
nitioti. Her hou«e bts*ame the Mecca of bla<:ksnnke. which lie pronqitly 8hook
artists ami writers, politicians and rail to ple<x“s. Soon th«* dog began to bark
Mr. Dubler llfte«! the
way officials, and her entertainments around n roek
were lavish. Suddenly her truant hus- stone atsi found three more snakes.
band returned to Ainerica to die. A Th«“ «log dispatched them all.
WIill«“ th«“ children of a family nam-
beautiful w.ard watetwd over his last
e«l
Itovetaky at Pwono were playing
moments ami shared his dying hour
with the rightful •pouse. Yerkes left near the house th«“y enme upoi it a tw-ar
his wan! a palace in New York ar><] n cub not much bigger than a ground-
huge fortune; his wife, a Ilf« interest hog. Tin* cub followed the chlldn-n
to the liouse. It Is presum«*d that the
In many millions.
It was Just after Christmas day. baby wandered away and met the fate
disolHslleiH-e of imirenta.
1!*st. that Yerkes «ll<xl at a New York that follows
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hotel. In a little over a month the
Rurnl Dell*hta.
tongues were set a wagging by th«* an Out in the country under n tree—
nouncement of the ri«-h widow's suihleri A l>ook in my hand in the place for me.
marriage to the young California mln«* Close to old nature that's where I'd be,
pros]»s*tor and gentleman of fortune. Away from the crowd, all alone aa«i free.
Wilson Mlzner. The ceremony was s«*-
eret, ami was not revealed until two Out in the country under a tree—
I feel a dern slt«*rter. or is it a fl<w?
days *ft«r it occurr«*«l.
The pajiers hummed with the affair, Seo *11 the nnts and the «pider, g«*» !
but within a week were obllge«l to Here coniek the lod bull back to l<am
for me.
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print the nows that the "ixxilng” Mix-
—Cleveland Plain Ilealer.
m«t had already t>cgun to ask samlly
Bscnlpatrd.
for money. KuOors wnfte«J»out <>f th«*
The regular patron wr«s Indignant M
liortals of tin- art pala«-e that Wilsoh
demMidtxi a <*ol million* that's all. the Walter aplllrsl the soup.
"You're tipsy!” ha exclaimed.
8<“pnratlon fol)ow«*d and th» six-foot
“Couldn't tie on your ti|is Sac?"
brhlegroom went tmek to the mines.
fob.
Mrs. Yerkes-MIzncr. too. dlsnp|>eare<i. •I hiik I«'«! the waiter; at least not
but the «lire«-t!ons Jaken by tile «♦ «•brlated •• to ltU[Wde tils w««ntai pNbfr
Lrauged couple were twit ttoe
It ♦•MA TlUMklfcfcia LHonr.
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was said that Mizuer tried to effect a
rtKxincillation. that he again an«l again
bombarded his wif««'s atiod«* in Chicago,
but her love had <x»ol«*<). She su«*d for
divor<-e. but the papers suddenly dis
appeared. Vague hints of the return
of the dove of peace wafted around tha
public prints, only to vanitffi in thin
air. The divorce went «in— Misner
went to Europe and to his whilom wife
was restored her erstwhile name. -
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