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Ip and Down In Gotham Town peraen of the Danish university u come over next fall and amuse the Columbia boys, and be has promised to do so. « t >••••••••••••••••••••••••« • “ According to Mark Twain, who, in spite of his lack of humor, is believed (Copyright. 190S, by American Press Asso to be a trustworthy authority on geog ciation.] raphy, the three streets in the world One day soon after the close of the Fifth Avenue Fascinating. but Not to Be most famous are the Appian way, civil war, while in Savaunah. Ga„ I Broadway and the board walk at At drifted into u secondhand bookstore Explored Without Caution A Friendly lantic City. Jacobus Itamm is not at in search of something with which Interchange - Pie and Finance. one with him in this opinion. to while away the time during an en •‘Where is the Appian way?" he de forced sojourn in that city. While A New Kind of Man. manded when I quoted the author of there the proprietor told me this "Innocents Abroad.” story: (From Our New York Correapondent.] For reasons neither here nor there i “One day »during the summer of Fifth avenue baa a did not enlighten him. Nor was it nec 1863 Tom Clark, a man whom we wide reputation essary, for he proceeded without pause knew to be opposed to secession, but both at home and to sing the praises of his favorite thor who had always lived here and pro abroad as a gen ougbfare. posed to stay, he said, at least till eral observation "The board walk!” he snifTed con the Union was restored, came into ground. Those temptuously. “Even Coney Island’s i this store and began nosing among who visit Gotham Surf avenue has the board walk stung do not delay long to a whisper. I wonder if Mark Twain ! iny books. He said he wanted some thing for an old aunt of bls who took in getting there, knows that in 1802 one of my fore and those who fathers was offered lots as far north , no interest fu anything except religion, have never been as Fulton street for $20 apiece and i I had Baxter’s ‘Saint’s Rest,’ Ilead- outside the city wouldn’t buy, the old nincompoop! In i ley's ‘Sacred Mountains,' ‘Pilgrim’s limits are equally those days the name of the street was I Progress’ nnd several others the names conscious of the not Broadway; It was called Main j of which I have forgotten. He told thoroughfare’s ir road Then It was known as Hoog ! me that he would like to take the lot resistible charm. Weg, or Highway, and afterward as ' to bls aunt, let her pick out those she It is a region in Heeren street, which meant street of fancied and he would bring back the which something the masters. The board walk, indeed!” rest, fiaylng for those he kept. I let him take all he wanted, and he went is continually go nwny with them. In a few days he ing on. Those who Perhaps the most human thing about came in and ¡»aid for all except ‘Pil go there to see things are disappointed J. Pierpont Morgan is his affection for grim’s Progress,’ which lie returned, rarely. Now, the seeing of those things in apple pie. It may not answer to the saying that his aunt had a copy and volves some risk. In these degenerate, description of a grand passion, but cer had read it through many times. ‘Be Lombrosian days one may traverse the tain It is that the great financier cher sides, ’ he add<>d, ‘tlie book is too heavy Bowery front Chatham squure to ishes a tenderness for apple pie that is for an old woman to hold anyway. Cooper Institute, even at midnight or as genuine in Its way as was the pref The covers alone must weigh a pound.’ “Soon after this a mulatto came luto after, in the most prosaic and unInter erence of Abelard for the society of the shop, handed me a scrap of paper Heloise. At precisely 12:30 every work- •sting security. There was a time when Chinatown was au uncertain re in; da .', uhi h means all days except with the words ‘Pilgrim's Progress' Sunday, the Mor written on it and asked if I had the gion to explore late at night, but it has ia n office boy pro book, saying that his mistress, who lost its excellent reputation as a pos ceeds to a nearby lived on a plantation between here sible thriller, and the present rectitude lunch room and and Augusta, had sent him for it. I of its ways and byways is positively Invests a dime of showed him the book, but he said lie di gusting to him or her who is in the l»ig promot couldn’t rend and asked If there were search of the otherwise. The ancient er’s fortune in a i any pictures In It. I showed him pic glory of the Five Points neighborhood mammoth pleceof tures of the giant Despair. Apollyon, has departed forever. It has been cap apple pie, which the Celestial City and other illustra tured and stripped of its old time «institutes the tions. which satisfied him, for his mis naughtiness by the most peaceable and great man's mid tress, it seenn'd, had told him that in law abiding colony of Sicilians that day meal. * this way he might Identify (he book. •ver preferred polenta to starvation. One evening, at He paid me $10 for it in Confederate On* might remain in the sectlbn for a li 1 s New York money less than a dollar in green wefflt without molestation, and during home on Madison backs—and took it away with him. all^hat period iff- would probably wit Somehow or another the darky ex avenue, Mr. Mor ness nothing more exciting thnn an oc gan and a few cited my distrust. While 1 had been casional verbal and gesticulatory con literary and ar at the other end of the store I had flict between rival dealers in domestic tistic friends were caught sight of him turning the pages and imported macaroni. discussing epi of “Pilgrim's Progress” as though lie Not so with the Fifth avenue. He, taphs. Finally was reading it. When I joined him sb« or it—not to show sex discrimina each member of ( asked him if he wasn’t deceiving me tion—who would see it as it should be the company pro about not being able to read, but he seen must do it at the risk of bodily MIDDAY MEAL. ceeded in turn to denied doing so with all the voluble injury, maybe worse. Within the past few years there has been a genuine quote the must striking and appro “Fo de Lords!” and “On ma wo’d of wild western holdup by daylight in priate tombstone inscription he could honahs!" for which the colored race the vicinity of the Waldorf-Astoria. remember. When it came Mr. Mor are noted. However, I didn't care Only a few short months ago pedes gan’s turn he declared that the most whether he could or couldn’t read, and trians on the gilded highway were pathetic and expressive thing of the five minutes after be had gone I for kind that had ever been brought to his got all about him. There were a few Yankee prisoners attention was the following tribute of a dlsconsolatb husband to his wife, of war In tills town at the time who who lies buried in the neglected little had been captured the autumn before at a idg fight that had occurred on the cemetery of a Maine village: “She was good and true, and she railroad between lure and Charleston. was the best piemaker in Somerset Thej’ were confined in the jail that had always lieen used for criminals. county.” Captain Dan Mobray, a popinjay, had Professor Guglielmo Ferrero, the charge of them, and he boasted that If eminent Italian historian now on a any Yank could break jail when be I visit to America, has been making a was in command he was welcome to compelled to dispute the right of way remarkable character study of Presi do so. He had a theory that most es with a huge boa constrictor, nnd only dent Roosevelt. The professor, is very capes of prisoners are effected by some last month an elephant in search of enthusiastic over his researches in this one smuggling in to them articles to adventures emerged from the Hippo direction and believes that he has dis assist them in getting away, so he drome jungle and gravitated jubilantly covered a new species of man. “He wouldn’t let any one get near them to the Fifth avenue. has some distinctive fentures which 1 without being first starched. But all these possibilities the hold have never before observed in man," Despite Captain Dan’s precautions up, the ser|M»nt and the frisky elephant the learned young Italian told the stu one fine morning when the guard went —are as nothing dents who flocked to Ills lecture ut Co to feed the prisoners he found every compared with a lumbia university. “For one thing, his mother's son of them had gone during new danger frankness Is amazing. He confessed the night. Al) the bars necessary to which confronts thnt ho was a barbarian, although be their escape had been sawed through. the frequenters was born In New York. This seemed When Captain Dan came to the jail of the gay ave and saw what had been done he liked nue. Recently a to have had a fit. He summoned every bright red wagon one who had had access to the prison on which the leg ers—there were only two or three per end “Dynamite” Hons in all—and questioned them close is displayed In ly, but gained no clew. Never was a large letters has man more puzzled. He cursed and made Its appenr- swore, jind if any of the Yanks had ance. From its remained I think he would have tor dashlioard f 1 u t- tured them to make them tell how the ters nonchalantly tools had been smuggled into the jail. ■ little red flag What bothered him most was that he on which Is in was satisfied that no person who had scribed the sug visited the prisoners had done the gestive caution, smuggling. A few eatables had been "Danger!” This seut tn, but they had all been so care sensational vehi fully examined that by no possibility cle threads its incredible, but Mr. Roosevelt soon could they have contained tools. From way gingerly made It clear to me. Almost before something I heard during the talk down the long he had spoken a word I realized that I about the escape I got on to a clew. thor oughfare, What I heard was this: Only one ar winding in and out among the other was in the presence of n man who was ticle except food had been sent to the traffic and meeting no obstacle of any of a type which 1 had never believed prisoners. A pious old lady living up kind. Nobody has even stopped the could exist. Here was a union of two the river had sent them a copy of Bun driver to ask whether or no it really opposite nnd antagonistic tempera yan’s “Pilgrim’s Progress.” But the bears a consignment of explosives. I ments a rough primordial energy and book had been well shaken nnd care viewed It the other morning from the the highest intellectual development exercised that nothing should be con top of n motor bus, and I confess that possible to mankind.” The Columbia hoys have methods cealed between the leaves. It was not I descended from my perch and t<s»k to peculiar to the student body whereby suspected that the book had contained a side street. they signify their acceptance or re saws or files. The only singular part of this matter was that the prisoners The plan now in vogue in the United jection of a statement, It may have the “Pilgrim's Progress” States of exchanging university pro been only a remarkable coincidence, had tnken with them. fessors with those of foreign schools but at this |M>int a little more than After the close of the war I learned is turning out to l>e a great success half of the professor's audience groan the secret, It aeetns that after the es The movement was startl'd last April ed audibly. cape one of the Yankees was concealed “if all men were like this man,” con when Chancellor MacCracken of the for a time on the plantation of Tom tinued the fluent historian, “ we should University of New York gave a series Clark. Clark's daughter Helen fell in of free lectures at the University of succeed In creating an eternal civiliza love with the fellow nnd he with her. 1 tion exposed no more to the decay that Copenhagen. The getdal chancellor Six months after the loss of our cause a peaks no Danish and the blond and destroys all other civilization." this Yankee came down and married The student body cleared its throat intelligent student Issly of the Danish Helen Clark. Wife here he told the school apenks no English, but that and did the Columbia yell. It was the story of how* ho and his comrades go* didn't seem to stand In the way of the professor's first experience with this their tools. < lark, who was rank Un general hilarity of I he occasion. As an time honored institution, but a man ion. took home the “Pilgrim's Prog entertainer Chancellor MacCracken was who Is writing a history of fifty vol ms” on purpose to put saws into tin a ten strike. The Danish youth had umes. five of which are already com thick covers. He didn't dare send th« never before seen anything of the 1 pitted, does not lack courage, and he book direct to the prisoners, expecting kind, nnd It sort of prepared the way : did not lose consciousness. “If I am that such an act would implicate bin\ for an even more novel sensation, two saying anything out of the way,” he He brought it back to me an<( induce^, lectures by President Nl holna Murray said appealingly, “you must ascribe It an old lady to buy it and send it to th« Butler of Columbia. Now. at home - to my difficult.v with the English lan prisoners. When she consent'd Clark, thnt Is, on the Columbia campus the guage." The student body can be gen not willing to rely on an ordinary mes president had never l>een suspected of erous on occasion, and It composed It senger. got one of his sons to make up being a humorist, nnd his success In self nnd behaved like a perfect gentle for a darky, buy the book and carry |i Denmark came as a surprise. Preal- man until the end to th« jail. denr Butler invited Professor Otto Jer 8TUYVE8AKT BROWN NOEL WEBLEY BATES. 11 Roaring Muselea. “If a writer wrote of roaring mus cles, you would laugh at Mm. Joints crack, the stomach thunders, but mus cles, you would say, don't roar. That ■4 is your mistake. They do." Tin- speaker, a physician, put his finger tn his ear. "I hear a muscle roaring now.” said he. "Try it, and you, too, will hear the sound And to prove that it Is the sound of a muscle, put a plug of wood : in your ear instead, and you will hear nothing. “Contracted muscles give out a roar ing sound. Relaxed muscles are si lent. This fact is of use in diagnos ing certain diseases. The stethoscope makes the muscular roars audible, and those strange voices proclaim the pres ence of such diseases as tetanus, men ingitis or strychnine poisoning, while silence on the muscles' part is, so to speak, a sullen admission of the pres ence in their midst of atrophy, degen eration, puralysis."—Buffalo Express. i I It Is Well. It is well to carefully cultivate tastes. Ruskin says, “Tell me what you like and I will tell you what you are.” It is well to study human character. Bodenstedt says: "In the face of ev ery human being Ids history stands plainly written; his Innermost nature steps fortti to the light. Yet they are l he fewest Who can read and under- stand.” It is well to “brush up against the world." Goethe says: “Talent forms itself In secret, Character is the great current of the world.’ It is well to be never cast down. Elizabeth Barrett Browning says: T 1 71 T First class Passenger Fare. Freight Rates, L 1 $7.50 $3 on Up Fre jht J. E. 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Dr. Bryce of Winnipeg has examined a large number of these Interesting struc tures and is of the opinion that they were built by the Toltecs and mark the course of the Toltec immigration i from the south along the Mississippi and Ohio to the great lakes and the St. Lawrence, along the Missouri and along the Mississippi proper to the Ratn.v and Red rivers. This would make tin* earliest mosnd date from I abont 1100 A. D. Boston Herald. His Strong Point. r/ This steamer u new, is strongly built and fitted with the latest improv i r* will give a tegular 8 day service, (or ¡¿isjeiigcis and freight, between the Coquille river, Oug< n, Let no one till his death Be called unhappy. Measure not the work Until the day’s out and the labor done. Who the Mound I Tlie New, Elegantly Fitted au<l TINNING AND PLUMBING A SPECIALTY Our Assortment of Hardware, Tinware and Edged Tools is Most Complete. BANDON STEAM LAUNDRY Washing a £ i First Class Laundry Work Guarantaed. 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