*o+oH.o+o+o*o*o«K)+o*o+o+o<.o-s.o*o+o+o+o4.o»o»o+o*o*o+o*o* C ° I Booth, the Warrior of Peace I .A t * I 8 S , * % Remarkable Qualities of the Salvation Army's Founder ana % * Chief, Whose Last and Greatest Project Is to Be ❖ * a University of Humanity—Orator of Rare * t Powers, a Dynamo In Breeches and % an Autocrat For Gocd. <* ❖ o. . ° >o♦o4* o*o + o o•> o o+o+o♦o ❖o❖ o •> o»}»o <• o<♦ o o+o♦ o+ o O*eo•>o<• o+o <• By JAMES A. EDGERTON. BY universal consent General Wil liam Booth, the founder and head of the Salvation Army, is the grandest old man in the world. Some sixty yeafs ago, when he began work in his native city of Not tingham, England, he was jeered, in sulted and made a target for decayed vegetables aud eggs. Now, at the age of eighty, lie has nearly 3,000.000 con verts, operates In fifty-four countries, has all sorts of branch bureaus for so cial betterment, is blessed where he once was reviled, respected where he was held in contempt, is received by kings and presidents with honor and by the poor with ovations and looks over a world that he lias conquered by his urmies of peace. For many weeks General Booth's followers and friends throughout the earth have been planning popular dem onstrations for his eightieth birthday, April 10, and for the announcement on that day of his last and greatest project, that of a University of Hu manity, which will train students for salvation work. This institution will have branches in various cities in all land:., New York and Chicago among the number. He Is still vigorous, is in active aharge of his immense establishment even to details, works from fifteen to r ni ■ PV - f§ : w rrt¥is sm®at~*-i pal L 1 Ffe -~© KHAEI'- iLIJb-. Jgj ■•• JKBgfe.g' ££| r g Sjsl'P;?l *" %%' "Jsw §■s-«» .. '® GEN'EKAL UILi I\ *, Hl>ol'l| ,\ i JUS ULSIv AMI OX A MOi'UH PREACHING Tun; BUILDi.V: A'ITH Sli.N "FOPI'LAH PRICES," IN MILK K.N I > WANTi: S.:i I'lOX dl ' LONDON. THK ARMY'S BIRTHPLACE. eighteen hours a day and says lie ex- j pects to lire to be 150. However lons General Booth lives, It is safe to say that his gospel of "soap, soup and salvation" will goon indefinitely and his drumbeat will still lie heard around the world. He believes in ministering to bodies as well as souls and in ranking men hap py here as well as hereafter. Ills creod is that the way to regenerate so ciety is to regenerate the individuals composing society. With political movements of any kind lie has noth ing lo do. His appeal is to the indi vidua! unit, and he uses co-operation only as a means to that end. In person General Booth is tall—over six feet—and spare. lie has a piercing eye, a nose like the beak of an eagle, a high, though retreating forehead, whir" hair nnd a whiter b<\nl. lie is nn orator of rare powers. iming a master of appeal, denunciation. Invective, flery exhortation, homely wlidouj and anec dote. lie is as ready with the pen a with the 'poken word, a tiling not. common a-:' rg oratos >-• To this unu sual ■ imbimuion K- edds MI. - I power as an organizer and : ader tliar C"i: : army said that Bootii would have man that ecu fit He, write and command cnti move tl ■ world, provided lie lies sufficient faitli, |>nri. ■ and concentra tion. Booth has all these «nd s< vera) other thin. ;-for example, boundles energy, lie works all the time and demands that others do the same, lie has no room for n lazy man. No Hespectable People Wanted. Be It known that among his other fluidities W iiliain Bootii possesses a temper With all his kindliness he Is | The Time Not Ripe. Anxious Patron—Doctor, don't you think you'd better call iu some other physicians for consultation? Family Doctor (cheerfully)—Oh, no; uot yet There Is still some hope.—New York Weekly. Endurance Test. "What do they mean by ail endur ( ance test?" "Two chaps bragging about their re- ' spective makes of automobile."—Lou isville Courier-Journal. a born autocrat and can tongue lash people if they do not toe the mark. He is not a soft man. Like all those sur charged with nervous force, all those who do things, he is not complacent Some one described Daniel Webster as a "steam engine iu breeches." Booth is a dynamo in breeches. When on o motor tour of England at the age ot seventy-nine, making more speeches In a day than most evangelists make in a week, his constant command to his chauffeur was "Paster." He probably broke speed laws, but if so he did it to the glory of God. He is not a conventional man. In his early work lie held his meetings lti cheap theaters and dance halls and once over the door put up the legend. "No Respectable People Admitted Here." When asked where he would draw his recruits he answered. "From the dance halls and saloons." And lie did. He was like the master of the foast that sent out into the byways and hedges for his guests. His mission was to ihe one lost sheep aud not to the ninety and nine. Booth gives his hand and heart to the unfortunate, the outcast and the sinners He may go after them with drums, or with soap, or with beds and meal tickets, or with "the manless land for the landless man," or with doggerel songs set to dance hall airs, or with the other unconventional ways familiar to Salvation Army usage, but he goes after them. That is the great point. General Booth's beau ideal and pa tron saint Is John Wesley. There is much In common between the two— both religious reformers, both break ing away from old conventional cus toms. both preaching iu the open air and using methods denounced as sen sational, lioth appealing -to the poor, the sinful rtid the suffering; both do ing a prodigious amount of work, uot only as prr •tellers, but as writers and organizers; "joth looking personally aft er the movements they founded even to minute details, both starting a great new departure in religion. I th leered at and held in contempt in the begin ning, but gaining the golden opinion of mankind in the end Bombarded by Dead Cats. The father of William Booth w,:s a builder. The family belonged lo tile Established i him h, but at the age ot fifteen the future head of t!te Salva tion Army happened by a Methodist chapel, was attracted to enter nnd a! most ■ nt'y experienced < tivi t: !on . way he demut. Iran: ■ diatc , ! at work an 1 u . ut to ii ' - mill men •• t church. I}i the open spaces ; ' out the shops the boy enthusiast :.pp>ak>d to his grimy hearers in Impas > ned sen tences, but to the nccomt :• at of . Thee he r-sented not at all. but led ns many men as would goto the eh".p el nn.l s : with them during service It was a prophetic beginning of a ca reer that was to be spent among tlx poor and to an accompaniment of mis understanding nnd abuse. In those days of extreme youth Try This. Fasten a key to a string and suspend it by your thumb and finger, and it will oscillate like a pendulum. Let some one place Ills hand under the key, nnd it will change to a circular motion. Then let a third person place his hand upon your shoulder, and the key becomes stationary.—London Ex press. Corrected. Miss Kitty Before you were mar rted. Mrs. Blunt, did your husband bring you many (lowers? Mrs. Blunt —I didn't have any husband before I wns married, dear. Booth must have been well nigh as striking a figure as now. Tall, slight, ardent, he was on tire to carry the gos pel to the "submerged tenth," and no scoffing, indifference, hardship or ac tual danger could deter him. He con tinued his open air preaching even while gaining an education and whilo | employed nt clerical work during the day. He was warned by the doctors that his health would not stand the strain and that if he did not desist his life would pay the penalty, but he hesitated not at all. Even when a comrade fell at his side Booth went on. lie received a private education from a Methodist tutor and was or dained to the ministry In the New Connection church at the ago of twen ty-three. Three years later he was married to Catherine Mumford, the remarkable woman who was after- j ward to win the world's love as the i "mother of the army." As long as j Booth could act as a traveling evangel ist he was content to remain jfc" the j regular ministry, but when the con lerence required him to settle down to the ordinary circuit work he resigned. ! A certain dramatic scene in connection j with that resignation is yet recalled, j In the gallery at the conference sat a girlish figure, and when the dec.sion j was reached that Mr. Booth was to j give up bis evangelical work the as- j sembled ministers were not a little startled to bear a clear voice ring from . above, "Never!" It meant the cutting j off of a scant livelihood and facing • the world without a dollar, not an easy thing for a woman to do, espe- j dally since there were already little mouths to feed, but the noblest causes In tills world have been built on the ■ heroism of women. Life Often Endangered. Out of the ministry and also out of a livelihood. Booth began preaching in an old tent in a Quaker burying | ground. The tent, which was donated, was ripped to pieces in a storm, after which meetings were held in cheai halls, In parks or in byways aud alley- I ways. The work was in the worst sec- | tlon of Liondon, Whitechapel, and the young preacher's life was often endan-; gered by the hostile mob. The cause throve on persecution, however, and j in 18G5 in a literally God forsaken part! of the great city called Mile End J Waste the Walvation" Army was start ed. It was not at first called by that name, but was known as the Christian mission. Booth hod a happy faculty j of coining phrases and in 1577 penned the line. "The Christian mission Is a volunteer army." Then he erased the word "volunteer" and in place thereof wrote "salvation." Tlie name stuck and was the real inception of the army as it exists today. There was no preconcerted plan of adopting it, but rather a spontaneous growth. In a short time the leaders were called "captain." Kooth himself became the j "general." a uniform was adopted, drums, bugles and marching columns were brought into requisition, and a new era was started in religious prop aganda among the poor. In 1579 the War Cry was started, which now, with kindred publications ! of the army, is printed in twenty-one ; languages and circulates over a million copies a week. In ISSO the cause took on International scope by Invading America. The nest year it was carried into France. In ISBS the purity cru sade was started for the protection of. young girls. In 18S0 General Booth made his first trip to the United States and Canada, holding 200 meetings in three months. In 1890 appeared his most famous book. "In Darkest Eng land and the Way Out." During the same year was founded the celebrated Iladleigti Farm colony, a system which the army has extended over the earth. Then India was invaded, and the In dian banking system was inaugurated to protect the poor from extortionate rates of Interest. There followed the establishment of homes and employ ment for Armenian refugees, the naval and military league to work among soldiers ar.d sailors throughout the world, homes for fallen women, shel ters for waifs and strays, prison gate homes for ex-convicts, servants' homes, hospitals, factories and workshops, bureaus for temporary and permanent employment, poor men's lawyer de partment, bureaus for tracing lost and missing friei.ds, food depots and shel ters for the destitute, free beds and finally the anti-suicide department. A Ln:versal Traveler. Whatever may bo thought of the re ligious methods of the Salvation Army, its social work merits and re -elves uni versal praise. Behind all these benef icent activities stands the prophet like figure of William Boolli. Auto crat he inity be, but if so he is an uu tOC'l'ilt for gin-d :m 1 one u iio lias done more to s;>i".:d sell' reliance and sell respect among tlio.se who m ■ 1 needed botii lie 0 qualities than ■uy oilh-r one man of his time. .Not only Ins institution, but the 11111:1 himself, is known iu well nigh every lan.l ben<- tii the sun. in the prosec > tiou <1 his w r'; fie ii:is been :t uniM 1 - ti A , lea and Europe many times and Bai and ev. 11 .. iputi. Tile dt\ uu iib life 'v;.s to stand In the lloly Land. Which lie did some years a I.and li had .stepped out of the Old Tetanic; ■ his are -ill turned over to lelf Till i- the \v::rtv>r of peace, tlm 0 in: " ■ho | r -IKS in deeds. w!« carrit;e v spel to the poor. Take him all in all, I know of no more in spiring figure in modern times A Thackeray Story. A correspondent of London Notes and Queries contributes this anecdote of Thackeray: Thackeray once desired to succeed Cardwell a* M. P. for the city of Ox ford and when returning from his can vass said: "What do you think, Card | well! Not one of your constituents j ever heard of me and my writings." ! lie prefaced "constituents" with a stronglsh adjective. Strange, if true. They must have i been starving In the midst of plenty. Eliot as an Envoy! Qualifications of Harvard University's Greatest Head, to j Whom President Taft Has Offered the Ambassadorship to England—Snapshots of the Distinguished Men He Has Been Asked to Succeed. | By JAMLS A. EDGER.TON. IT is welcome news that in appoint ing American ambassadors to Eu rope President Taft intends to recognize character rather than cash. As an earnest of this purpose there could be no more fitting choice than that of Charles William Eliot to be our representative at the court of St. James. In England and in Europe generally Eliot Is recognized as "the first American citizen." At home we know him as the man who has applied democracy, liberty and individuality to education. He has been more than the greatest president of our greatest university. He has been the leader of a new departure in our entire educa tional life. Higher yet, he has dared to say what he thought, to be moved In his utterances by motives of truth rather than expediency. The thing for which In the beginning he was most criticised, "lack of tact," is the very quality for which In the end he Is most praised. There are cases In which "lack of tact" implies the pres ence of honesty, candor and truth. I)r. Eliot is seventy-five years of age, forty years of which time lie has been president of Harvard. He Is a tall man, with broad shoulders and deep chest, and despite his age is in well nigh as good physical condition as when in the old days he was one of the crack oars In the varsity crew. He is an orator of the highest type and has a peculiar bell-like voice that haunts the hearer. He is concise, us ing no more language than is neces sary to convey his thought, yet his characterizations are peculiarly apt. He has been said to lack the sense of humor, a stricture hard to believe since he tells a good story. The fact proba blv Is that he hns a humor all his own. K". ' ■ J ~ <,- '■*' \?'. A E&t,v. •,..•■ :'.• i _^j 2 .^■■•^•'•>->&: , ;^:n L'II.YULKS \Y. 1'.1.10i, I'IiKSIDIiM OK li.VUV Altl> L'MVI.USITY but that it Is rigidly suppressed in Ids public utterances, llis common sense, sanity and geniality could hardly be accounted for on any other theory. He has been called a twentieth century Puritan, a charge rather to his credit. Denunciations were frequent during his early days, as \vas to have been expected of an outspoken reformer, but gradually the criticism ceased, and at last he was hailed as America's great est educator, living or dead. Remem bering Horace Mann. Mark Hopkins and others, that is a proud title. Father o? the Elective System. Taking the best and most advanced ideas from r.iropcnn institutions. Dr. Eliot built an Amerh a i university. He did not believo that an educational system could be transplanted from the old wtvld to the new. but that we must develop along our own lin s. Me only i:t> Is; '\l that we profit ly forci-.u experience and adefpt the most up to date and enlightened metln ijs. One of the till' g# he fought lin st sU'cnnou- ly was the idea thai ministers i m;t be niade ci'',K>_- . p. . :i!s . h . ~id that ■ ne u :• ' i as well that mini tors, without aoy s; ;.ii preparation. be ]>!:■( d i i i,'. ' :•* i 1* I; y ollii-e: or ): *s pltals or rent iudnstries. lie took sectarianism „ n t of the s bonis. lie made attei dan.v ii< ornlng prayers ' • 1 called the father • 112 the elective sys tem. lie h.si-ited th:tt the «. ar • of study must be adapted to the indivld tin I. not t lie inoi" i It' the oursp <■' •study. He ! Illed t• e <":< :■ ling .• ; • i of tinlfc 'r.ii;;,' in edti.-.i;! .n. lie bronwh: in the r I'dern 1 • .s. ■ :■ » and thin;.-.- of t'.M • • due Interest In i ue of the enforced ela- si al conn •■. 'i'luv-■ things lie did ■ ' . r r II "vnn\ but. through Hai" aril's . :ft: 112. r the whole c untr; . and not on!.' for the colleges, but f< r the public schools. All these victories were not won Lapland Reindeers. In April the Lapp lets his reindeer loose to wander as they please, and when the mosquitoes begin to abound, about midsummer, he collects his herd simply by catching one deer, fitting it with a bell and trusting to instinct, which leads the animals to gather into herds for protection against the mos quitoes, to do the rest In a cool sum mer. when mosquitoes nre few, this instinct does not come Into play, and it is almost impossible to bring the reindeer together. without buttles, and the battles were none the less real and none the less fierce because contested on the fields of thought rather than on the fields of carnage. And all the time he was leading them President Eliot was Just as brave and outspoken In regard to the evils In public life as he WHS con cerning the evils of the educational system, lie opposed graft and corrup tion in municipal government as vigor ously as he did abuses In college ath leticß. lie approved civil service re form as ardently as he did the idea of freedom of choice In education. He lashed the trusts and the labor un ions at the same tlmo, the one for restraint of trade, the other for pre venting the employment of nonunion men. lie helped form the National Civic federation for adjusting ques tions between capital and labor. lie favored the general education board, negro education, tariff reform and lim ited woman's suffrage. Our Highest Type. There is no posing about Charles William Eliot, no effusiveness, no play for popularity. On the other hand, he is not cold, but human and kindly. In his presence one feels the greatness of the man, but also feels his Innate dig nity and reserve. Despite his long years of service, he Is a poor tnan and lives simply. He believes In life In the open and in dally exercise. He has no forms of dissipation, cither mental or bodily. Such a man as our representative to England would be an Infinite credit to the nation. He would typify us at our best. He is an Incarnation of the gen ius of Americanism, the democrat in theory and practice, the product of lib erty In Its highest statement. There would be no aping of foreign manners with him, no ostentatious display of wealth, but a saue, intelligent and courageous advocacy of our institu tions. Eliot is not only a fundamental democrat, but knows the reason for the faith that is in him. lie would be a fitting successor to the long line of distinguished men that have represented us at the court of St. James. It has been because of the character of these men as much as from the natural ties that link the two peoples that American ministers and ambassadors to Groat Britain have come so ch.se t>> the*Englls!i heart. It is a fact for congratulation that our representatives enter Infinitely more into the popular consciousness than'do those of nn> other country. Indeed, most of them have become a part « 112 English national and social life, wel come In the homes, invited to dinners and functions of all sorts adopted, in short, into the family. They have b ■ n prized 112 r our • akes and for their own. In their ran!: 4 have been men after ward pre Mi l ;vice p.'e idents, seeiv tarlcs nf state, r.j n i. :inent in letters, men of wit who could coin phrases and shine a after dinner speakers. A Celebrated lir.e. The list sounds li' e a leaf t >rn from the bo >k of fame. It start with the greatest of our dip! mats. Benjamin Franklin, who iv :■ . r.tcd t'; • cobe. : >s before the Revolution. So .» tb • names of those that followed are al most as Illustrious .lolm Adams. John Jay, Thorn:,\ rim !•i v. iti.fus Kino James Monroe, Willi mi hiUney, Joh:i ijuincy Adams. Richard p.r.-.h, Alb rt Gallatin. James I'.arl . nr. T. ' . M • Lane, Washington Ir\ln\ Mariiu Va i Buren, Andrew Stevenson. Edward Everett. George Bancroft, Abbott Law rence, Joseph R. Ingrcrsoll. James Buchanan, George M. Dallas, Charles Francis Adams, Reverdy Johnson. John A Straight Tip. Johnnie (to new visitor)—So you are my grandma, are you? Grandmother —Yes, Johnnie. I'm your grandma on your father's side. Johnnie— Well, you're on the wrong side, you'll find out!— Philadelphia Bulletin. No Applicants. Lincoln, sick with varioloid once, turned a grim face to his doctor ono day and let a rueful smile appear. "Do you know, doctor," he remarked. "It's an ill wind blows no one good? I've got something at last that the office seekers don't want." lothrop Motley, Robert C. Schenek. ! Edwards I'lerrepont, John Welsh, James Russell I.owell, Edward J. Phelps, Robert T. Lincoln, Thomas F. Bayard, John Hay, Joseph H. Choate aud Whttelaw Reid. Of these th? three Adamses, Jay, Monroe, Gallatin, Irving—who was mere charge d'af faires and acting minister—Van Huron. Everett, Bancroft and Motley (the his torians), Buchanan. Lowell, Lincoln, Ilay, Choate and Reid, the present sfni bassador, are too well known to re quire further description. Thomas Pinekney of South Carolina was n Revolutionary soldier, governor, con gressman, minister to Spain and can didate for president. Rufus King of New York was a member of the con stitutional convention, United States senator and twice candidate for vice president. He was minister to Eng land eight years in all, from 179(5 to 18015 and from 1825 to 1820. William Piukney of Maryland was a member of congress, United States senator, attor ney general and minister to Russia. From Rush to Bayard. Richard Rush was the son of Dr. Benjamin Rush and a noted author as well as statesman. He was at differ ent times attorney general, secretary of the treasury and acting secretary of state, candidate for vice president and minister to France. James Barbour of Virginia was United States senator and secretary of war. Louis McLane of Maryland, like Rufus King, was twice minister to England, once from IS2O to IS3I, again from 1845 to 1840. He was also United States senator, secretary of the treasury and secretary of state. Andrew Stevenson of Vir ginia was a member of congress and speaker of the house for seven years. Abbott Lawrence of Massachusetts was a Boston merchant, who founded the Lawrence Scientific school and was the grandfather of Abbott Law rence Lowell, the new president of Harvard. Joseph Reed Ingersoll was a son of the famous Jared Ingersoll and was himself a noted citizen of Phila delphia. George M. Dallas of Pennsyl vania was United States senator, min ister to Russia and vice president of the United States uuder Polk. Reverdy Johnson of Maryland was United States senator and attorney general. Robert C. Schenck of Ohio was a ma jor general In the civil war and one of the most brilliant men that ever sat in congress. Edwards I'lerrepont of New York was attorney general of the Unit ed States. John Welsh was a Philadel phia merchant who was prominent in furthering relief measures during the civil war and in promoting the Centen nial of 1870. Edward J. Phelps was a professor of law at Yale. Thomas F. Bayard was our first ambassador to Great Britain, our representative prior to 189.'! having been known as minis ter. Bayard came from a famous Dela ware family and had been United States senator and secretary of state. Everett and the Greek Idiom. The one other president of Harvard who has been our representative to England was Edward Everett, the fa mous orator and secretary of state. So high a value was set on Everett's scholarship across the water that the two great universities of Oxford and Cambridge once submitted to him as umpire a dispute over a Greek idiom. He decided that both were wrong. Charles Francis Adams was offered the presidency of Harvard at the very time Eliot was elected, but would not accept it. Adams rendered the most important service of nil our ministers to England. Ills term extended from 1861 to 1808, covering the stormy days of the civil war. it was due to him and to Lincoln's patience and sagacity that war between the two nrtlons was averted. Perhaps the American minister most popular In England was James Russell Lowell, the brilliant poet, essayist ami after dinner speaker. Lowell himself was a Harvard man. having been pro fessor of literature there for many years prior to his entrance into the dip lomatic service. So great a vogue did Lowell have in London that he reflect ed a glory or. his successors and brought the office itself into notice. From I.owell down the average British clubman can tell you the names of nil the American ministers, though lie might have difficulty in remembering the name of even one from any other country. • Edward .1. Phelps was likewise pop ular in Enpland because of ill-; scholar ship, bis character and his ability as a speaker. Robert T. Lincoln was in t as brilliant a wit as some of the otlii rs. but was re-peeled for Ills per ... •! oualiilt = "ml for the ricM"i'y if ' i-: father. Th mas r. Bayard wis the dignified statesman and trained dlf. mat. 11 v:s John Ila how • \ : -\' fame nearest t* reviving the ry if Lowell, in the i.iout'is of Engl In-' •" (lie names of the two ere 1 ikeO AI" . • in brilliancy, In the sj arkle of (!■ Ir conversation, in Hair literary quality mill in m'lm I i:\-.hip, England thinks < 112 them not as U reUrners. Imt as her very own. It is w'aol' wlllil 1 the truth ' say that Lowell and Hay are reniem lw-;s: ii..f 'ill. . , 'in ■' i-issador: hip Is reinein' erei: be ir •< 1." th.:n. WhlJe Low ell CM eilcrt : • a p t, Hay wrs I ; sup. rl> r as a ill; ' -m 1. - 1 • | , . . Considered « • covplet • unless the speech. This IS r. .v t; eof men that Dr Eliot I! 1 tic ecd. It Is but •' '-oye.l by I :iaril to the Unit. I Stan la set ding > ripe 11 • holar as .1 T ryce to reore-ent her nt Washii: should l>e reciprocated by our sendin-: to her the one man who has done nv. s lo advance scholarship among si; ranks of our people. Horrible. "Thai was tin awful disaster. Ther. was only one survivor. Isn't that ter rible?" "Fearful. What a bore he'll be!"— Cleveland Leader. Disenchanted. "Do you believe in the superhuman?" "I used to, but I don't any more." "Why?" * "I married him." —Chicago Record Herald. No man knows the weight of anothui man's burden.—Pliny. WEARY OF 000 NAME Why the Egijs Will Be Ecks Soon as Easter Is Over. FOUND THEIR CASING IRKSOME Restaurant Man Asked Court to Free Him and His Wife From Unrelished Jests of Facetious Friends—Says He's "Done on Both Sides All Right." At this season of the year, with eggs leading the batting order at ev ery breakfast table and in a great many homes playing three games a day, it seemed particularly apropos that Mr, and Mrs. Ulricli Egg of New York city should ask Supreme Court Justice O'Gorman for permission to "lay" Egg aside and substitute Eck. They gave so many eggeellent reasons that Justice O'Gorinun granted the re quest the other day and set April 21* as the date on which they might tear off their presant shells. Then they will bo dropped Eggs. Most persons get tired of eggs about Easter, hut when you use the same Egg for thirty-four years, as Egg has done, it is bound to become monoto nous. Mrs. Egg has been wearing the name about three years, and she re cently admitted she was only waiting for the opportunity to scramble out from under it. Not that their friends have grown tired of the Eggs, but the Eggs feel that they have furnished the comedy for their friends just about long enough. liotli are perfectly good Eggs, but say they are almost cracked from listening to the feeble jokes cracked at their expense. Each has a splendid sense of humor, and this Is the only thing that has pre vented them boiling over 011 more than one occasion. It didn't help matters any to have Egg in the restaurant business, and in his petition to the court asking for permission to shed hla name he set forth a list of aunoyanees which proves that he has Job looking like a nervous bridegroom at a churcU wedding. Mrs. Egg presides over a fashionable dressmaking establish ment, and she couldn't recall a slngl» Instance where her name had helped her any. She is a handsome woman and laughed merrily while her hus band discussed the situation with a reporter. "I've been in hot water ever sincje I've had the name," said Egg. "Then you must be hard boiled by this time," said the reporter. "I'm done on both sides all right," laughed Egg. "In Switzerland, wliero we come from, the name is pronounced Eck, and, besides, It has a different meaning." "How did you conie to marry your husband?" Mine. Egg was asked. "I was always fond of Eggs," she said, "and I guess that had something to do with it." "I'm pretty much of a nest egg," was Egg's next contribution. Here his wife gave her Egg a nudge that threatened to break it. "Are there any small Eggs?" asked the reporter, joining in the cackle. "Not yet," came in chorus. "Guess if we did have three or four children we'd be known as the half dozen Eggs." "1 think I better beat it." said the reporter, "before I'm whipped to a froth." "Won't you have a little refresh ment before you go?" asked the boss of the house. "If it's all the same to you I'll have sherry and egg," said the reporter. "Make mine an egg shake," laughed Mine. Egg. "Do you think you're going to like your new name?" I"It will be bard getting used to it. for awhile, but anything is better than Egg. I tried the new one 011 several friends today, and they thought I had the hiccoughs." After wishing Mr. and Mrs. Eck as much prosperity under their new name as they have had under the old one the reporter withdrew, feeling as though lie had been poaching on their good nature. They live in a line brownstone "crate" and have the con fidence of all their neighbors, which is more than some eggs can boast. •Inst one paragraph from the petition to the court answers Shakespeare's* query as to what's in a name: "That hh present nan.- of F.ga causes him 1 nd his wife a great deal of trouble ill " aanoy.m and liumllla -9 1 ' ul i Wilds and acci::<• :t ill bo facetious . ask : ■ i!' • v !1 < noitgli : 3 bard ■•!' >■ 1 i'e.i < : fried r£• ram iill |'„ . r V!. -r i one side or both - or whether be is only 1111 omelet. 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