Part 9. MAGAZINE SECTION. he Centre Democrat, BELLEFONTE, PA. THURSDAY JULY 19, 1906. BRIDE AT SHIP'S HELM. wweraivi? IN DARING OCEAN RACE, wee Twenty-Eight Foot Yacht Braves Dangers of Gulf Stream and Treach- | June erous Waves Off Cape Hatteras Winner Received $500 Lipton Cup. | 650 Mrs race of Gauntlet, with at the wheel, in the contest for which Thomas Lipton offered a| S500 cup. After miles, Thora finished daring sloop Robinson a ocean the Lund second Sir 3s The course of the race e tended from Gravesend By, New York Harbor, to Bermuda. Mrs is the two months’ bride of George Robinson, the owner of the boat was a daring race for each of the thr small yachts that competed, but so for the Gauntlet, she the smallest of them all, be feet long from bow to gtern Tamerlane, which won the feet long and the yawl Lila, All of the craft | he B Yacht Club. For eight days th boats were at the mercy of wind and wave, much that the yawl Lila was compelled to put into Norfolk har bor to itself from w ‘le the smaller ya 3 to its task. They had to cross tl stream miles off Hatteras, the the Experienced \ surprised that not wrecked on the way. BUT TV Mrs. Rol but ever used to Robinson Ww. becnuse ing only 28 The yawl cup, was feet rooklyn od elong to t 80 850 gave ht 150 stormiest spots on yach t) Tiel e littie or founders VENTY ir in YEARS ¢ son is only 0 several seasor teen-foot knockabou mer headquarters lower New York she is athletic and a craft and is on the t all the same to “One of the riage on April 17th,” said Mrs son ing in the that I should go in this co tried to dissuade me a fev | irried, but I made him Although bottle et, water conditions of our mar Robin before start “was race nteat n (seorge we were mn hig promise the chief mate you will, of the Gaunt] idea that I may superintend things be fogs I get through achting is not new to me. [I sail knockabout for years in the lower 1 I learned to swim because I was © fzed so many times that I had to lenirn. “Mr. Robinson and myself are to stand watch together, while J. L. Dun lap and H. Higgins, the remainder of thé Corinthian crew, will alternate in keeping watch, Steer? Why you don’t suppose I'm going A passenger I can, and am going that a good navigator STUMPED PROFESSIONAL SALTS Professional aghast at the Corinthian t ir "i per was predicted fr Lila lost the start and » 0 be ? to, d 1 ust o everything t do gallors sto f the Ol Tr courage w lertaking Nigaster The shortly after nao} § " CAL 1 onus ym her outside vawl X-1 proposed to accompany the vacht it was with eon wual she wu. Mefusal to permit her to gtart, threatened to disqualify the boat, and all appeals were in vain, At last the committee yielded and permit. ted her to start, The Tamerlane Hamilton, Bermuda, at 3 o'clock 3rd. while the Gauntlet did not arrive until 24 hours later. The result in doubt until finish this boat, as the Tamerlane had to al it 16 and 10 n owing the difference in their | at finished the course at was the of tiny hours inutes ength low 0 - a wnyuL ld JAP, BARON ROSEN ENTERTAINS THE FIRST JAPANESE AMBASSA~ DOR TO AMERICA, Cordial Diplomatic Relations Estab- lished Following Bloodliest War in Modern History-Count Aoki the Guest of Honor. That social ceremonies follow peace conferences was demonstrated the other evening, at Washington, when the Russinn Ambassador and Baroness Thomas Jefferson's Bible, | The Jefferson Bible, with its fu! red Morocco binding, | tr | House while it was a single forgotten volume reposing under and key at the 8S mian Insti Nov been photo numerous made no little ouble in the iiths some enterpriging busi the Jefferson | a well-known ced] that it could ne would write | ember of Con Who For Next President? world of course fol an n 11, ated The are In you grammatic thoroughly lowing terse swer to our candidate 7" Taft—My candidacy is a weighty problem, and there is a heavy respon- sibility attached Cannon—1 will Bryan—The third is the shall not get oft of ith my friends. Shaw-—1 have always universally considered myself a strong candidate Hobson—Of con ted 1hil Falrbanks You'll realls nmminge sunning up Ww Appres expressions query, “Will be if 1 do v lucky trial communication I Ww rse, 1t 1s an office of respo ties . GCPoaY ge. w. A Robinson Thora . Mus Robinson. Lunda Hook, and had to put back for a new spar, which was immediately prepared to permit her to restart the following Tuesday. The Tamerlane's would be an unfair advantage to con tinue In the race, and she, too, back. The people of the littl Gauntlet did not see the accident to the Lila, It is supposed, for the sloop kept right on in her sea-smashing trip to Bermuda. | | navigator i for me seeing the Lila's plight, decided that it] pose | Hearst—I1 i put | | | | if every man were such a man as you | to get that Roosevelt fellow out Roosevelt—Didn't 1 say all along that there would be no third ten After what's happened 1 sup- believe It now, have enough capital to command lanbor, ROOtes = you'll —-— Heaven On Earth, Be such a man, live such a life, that beauti- | $f Russi | those the i | Rosen gave a dinner to the Japanese Ambassador and Viscountess Aokl While the historic Portsmouth Peace Conference wus concluded many months ago, and, politically, Japan and 1 then resumed diplomatic rela- tions so abruptly terminated at the commencement of the Russo-Japanese war, this function marks the resamp- tion of social intercourse between the representatives of these great nations. Farm Notes, Chorce Fiction, Current Topics. Jurgls laughed at the discontent every- where manifest. “They are not men,” he exclaimed. What of the “speeding up” practice of the packers? It was but play to him to keep abreast of the fastest, He was working to wed Ona, They were all cheated shamelessly by the sharks which infest the great packing district; they could not speak English and they were at the mercy of these parasites. But as new obliga tions arose in the buying of a small, worthless house, sold them by an unscrupuloug agent, ete, etc, but smiled grimly, confident in his strength, energy and great love for Ona. “I will work the harder” he says. And then came a misfortune, Ona, a mere bloom of a girl of 17, had to go to work-—temporarily. Then a young er child, Then Jurgls had a fateful day, after many months of faithful and herculean service for the great corpora tion In the melee of a wounded bloody floor and sprained his ankle. Did the packerg give him a short fur lough with pay while he was recover- Although Viscount Aoki only ar rived in Washington a few weeks ago interest has been wanifested in the personal relationship considerable since BARON ROSEN, it tl would sentatd the and exist between Ves of congueror quished The high well masks who van art of diplomacy, that so the Innermost thoughts of rise to the heights of an | ambassador, doubtless viewed the so- | cial Intercourse between Baron Rosen and Viscount Aoki as most natural, | But to the uninitiated the part of the } taken by } Rosen— host Oone-aron wo acted as peace envoy, wl Russia's lent peculiar glan The treaty of pead and Russia marked the cl ] liest wars of ir to the oocasion. ¢ bloom 1 hr , Geep in that n had never upon plane exactly as thougl been waged. ¢ I" hose who were ost interesting the Min Mins present at this social function were ster from the Netherlands and vin Swi the Counselor of Embassy and Mme Miyoka, Count and Countess Secken dorff, Baroness Elizabeth Rosen, the charge d'affairs of Spain, Sefor Don Luis Pastor: Baron Schlippenbach, and Prince Koudacheff, of the Russian | Embassy, nderen, Japanese — THE JUNGLE. Sinclair's Story of the Awful Methods of the Beef Packers. No more powerful or terrible book has been written in recent years than The Jungle,” by Upton Sinclair. It seems Incredible that such depth of human misery as the author relates could be permitied even by the mos! money maker or the oulless corporation; or, on the other hand, that such vileness and filth in preparation of human food could ¢ permitted; yet most of Mr. Sin. lair's statements are from personal knowledge and observation, visiting the great packing plants, as he did mostly In disguise Moreover, his statements have been abundantly cor roborated by President Mr. en llous most the report, containing descriptions of deg | radation, flith and food pollution, too vile to print in a newspaper The hero of Tue Juxorr Is Jurgis, a | great, broadshouldered Lithuanian, who gloried in work, for the mere sake of it, even If he had had no incentive { In the far forests of Lithuania, where he and his father had lived all their Hives, children of nature, Jurgis had heard of free America, and that as much as $10 by a willing laboring man, in the great | city of Chicago. And after many argu ments and much discussion, he | sweet blithsome lass to whom he was betrothed, and her mother and several children and relatives, to emigrate to splendid America, where a man may not always remain a peasant, but where he has a chance to imnrove him- self and rise In the world. Ten dollars A week was an unheard of fortune The three yachts that contemplated | sng every life a life like yours this |The peasants of Europe make a few the trip lay at anchor off the Brooklyn dock all morning’ with thelr owners and crew busily at work nreparing them for thelr severe test. On board the Nttle Gau ‘let, Mrs Thora ound Robinson was as busy as the rest mak. fng things shipshape about the boat Until the day hefore the race no one took seriously her statement that she | earth would be God's Paradise ~Phlil- lips Brooks, Honduras has a debt of about one hundred million dollars or about $1,800 a head, There are three hundred million British subjects In Asia, {cents a day 80 they all went to Packingtown, and the first day that Jurgle stood In line being altogether the finest specimen of a man in the yards, he was backon. ed to by the boss and elven a job, He went home jubilant. Two other mem- bers of the family, one a great strap ping woman, also got jobs at once. { INE; repre ! Roosevelt's | special commission, whose confidential | In| A week was to be earned | had | | prevalled upon his father, and Ona the at least they held his place for him? Neither, He returned to work, not very strong looking through pain COUNT AOKI and worry, the boss sized him up at a glance and there was no work for him in Packingtown, and Ona, whom he had married meantime was about to be come & mother, Then is recited in Tur Juscre, a tale | gradual and heart-rending downfall | of in the wearing out by inches, of a strong man. Jurgls gets a job in the terrible fertilizer vaults where his head nearly splits with the poisonous dust and the stifling fumes of ammonia. His father dies from the effects of the awful the slimy wet in work, ankle autiful the once to the and Jurgis, powerful % strong spirit broken | y and irrisistible power becomes A great gaunt, t of his former self. he story a tale of the gradual extermination of a splendid, virile European family, ground to death by a “System.” by a pitiless monopoly, which cares no more or not as much for its workers than it does for the arcasses of the animals it converts in to food. Incidentally the description of this process is sufficiently revolting to turn the stomach of the stoutest beefeater, Oh! could Jurgis, and Ona, and the ‘speeding which he Ona the up” and Las be to blithe young bride succum.s | hateful “System’ man that he Is, |} by the brutalit {of the bosse | hollow eyed | 8, Dex gh is YH rest of them, with their frugality and their brawn, and their love of life and | work, and joy of a home, have gone into some rural district to work out | their salvation, what a different story would have been Tur Juxoix. Some other name for the book would have heen necessary What If could have gotten a dozen acres, or five acres of good land somewhere and bought it for what they squandered uselessly for their house in Packingtown-~they were turned out and the house resold the first month they falled of payment what a different history woud have been told by the author! What if the great packing trust, in-| stead of killing men and women, should | provide that its employes could live on they Jurgis | steer running amuck, he slipped on the | lish | says an acre of ground each, or a half acre out on the great fertile prairies of I1linols, quickly reached from the stock yards by a modern trolley, so that when they were of necessity, perhaps, “laid | off” for a period of a week, or six| weeks, or on “half time" they would have a plece of rich land which they! could till and raise enough potatoes and corn and beans and cabbage to keep them from starving to death. But the packing trust—Mr. Ogden Armour and other millionaires and multi-million alres—~would make less money; It would decrease its dividends perhaps several per cent, and that Is not to be | thought of. By getting the best out of a man, all there ia In him in a few short vears, this unnamable Thing can turn him out and get new blood. It is evidently most profitable to “speed a man up” to the wrecking point and then get new men. This process of trfMMeking In human life, coupled with the abominable and polsonons adultera tions and use of diseased animals which Mr. Sinclair describes at first hand, enables Mr. Armour and the others to make very satisfactory ner contares of profit—to pile up millions of AlvidenAds a vear, | Tt fs nll a very great story, Thr Juxate If not a beautifol one, and well | worth the reading simnly that the | render mav learn something about the | stuft we eat, and at what cost of suf. fering it is produced. BACK T NAPOLL | | | MENT OF REAL | tAYED IN 4 § PLAY. v STORY OF A FR LIFE AS Poi NEW ST Showingthe Op: gration Law who Attempt t can Portals, An hour at Elli harbor, is full « The newly arrive he has changed | his outlandish about him, tions of the lommi t Affects Those nter the Ameri- and in New York miles and tears, mmigrant, before aative with and still pally interesting. His meetings irtings are full of a childish exulx ce and abandon He is never icturesque or pathetic as whe # bas just doubt fully intrusted self to the great machinery of a land and law. He hasn't beer ach on the this immigrant a fragment of his life finds its way there in a one-act play called “The garb, bo bundles IT an ®t RO stage Land of the Free by W. C. De Mille, which was seen re ly Va Ald Society mati ibed by the Times as workman down but to find out further de ta | th his 1% not stron; The nothin Then The Italian through the gates “Na, na, w ® he boat sight of once t a nll aii at catches Signore, she comea last She getta lame back and two baby Ah—Dio! Maybe she missa da boat Alb! Vedete Maria mia Ecco-—Vedete ecco~—Alh mia moglie-—ecco!” In smother instant, the frail wife, In ber Neapolitan costume, little and the two children, with their bags and | bundles, are 211 in their father's arms, while the officer goes off to make his report. With shoulder, f “Ah ! thank God!” To which the Americanized Luigi sponds: “il, a, Euglish we live In he M ¥ head Aria wusband! husband's Italian you her breathes on in I see " mn again but now talks We B Americans and Mulberry street. | gotta d little room for my Maria an’ Fabio an’ Tessa." ! Maria marvels at Luigi's great sal ary-—45 lire— until Luigi Is forced to explain: “Yes, yes: In Neapoll it Is 45 lire but in New York It is only $9, not so | muche.” Then In quick, excited phrase he draws roseate pictures of a future in which peanut stands and prosperity walk band in band Presently the officer returns. He draws Luig! aside. His face Is kind, but his words are terrible. It appears that the little wife does not come up to the requirements. She is not healthy. | She has no money, and Luigi has only that $0 a week. It is not enough to support a family. The wife must go | back to Naples. It Is hard to make | Luigi understand, Maria, hearing nothing, plays happily with the chil | CATrTIsSsima, all good q i | bring lon nine dollar week. | You leta | The English dren. The poor husband Is stunned. “Napoli! B8he go back to Napoli! No, no. Ah, Dio Mio! You don’ under- stand,” he goes on, wistfully, “I work three year an’ sava da money to her to me, Your boss he can- nota send her back-——we live all right I take her away. me go—eh?’ . “It's hard on you,” says the officer “but it's the law.” Lulgl scorns the notion. “Law? You taka my wife away; | you senda my littlea boy and girl back it Is da law. {roe 1 Naj an’ you say na. America is a country. I pay for her to comea to me, 1 don’t steal, so whata de law got to say?’ But threats, tears, reasonings are all In vain. Luigi at last stealthily offers the bluecoated official $7, his all, wrapped up in a handkerchief, as a bribe, The officer frowns and says firmiy: “l cannot. 1 [ can't help you. every “Every wide with day? Ah, Dio! pd da heart! oll, to N Nl, didn't make the law. We have to do this day.” Luigi's eves grow “You doa this every Every day you breaka goes to Maria, wakes her in his arms, and explains brokenly what Jeta you stay—Maria -We musta y wil wo stilla wa In the h aited long g face of her tearful dismay he +» cheerful. he ¢ now, I mal A’ Wee, 1blo an’ Tessa, ’ vercome. ? Alone?’ she sobs, ruth ruil 1, “Not and turn Luigi em- is sobs, don’'ta cry— fifteen dollar peanut stand, an’ home. Then you come iin to stay. Don’ta cry—you goa to the Made Napoll. Ah, Dio! We have waita three year an’ 1 must senda you back. Maybe next year 1 send for {you again.” As they pass out of his sight his {volce falls him and be falls sobbing against the gate, The author is said to have got his {idea for the piece from a newspaper paragraph read at the breakfast table deseribing In three lines a case of the sort. * braces them between h “Don’ta ery, carrissi I soon make twelve, week and bura da I keep da little en ir in * * * Robert Paton Gibbs, who played studied his type with the help Neapolitan who has been long igh away from home to know the salient characteristics of his own people. The extra wome . who fit so well into the picture are caretakers of the Hudson theater “We used to rehearse the plece every now and then down in the coal cellar,” explained Mr. Gibbs, “and these two {women used to come and weep over it. Live Heallhily. Horace Smith, Poet. Born 1779. 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