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Booth Tarkintfton's Ideas
on Novels and Plays and
Americans Abroad - ASon
net on Mr. Roosevelt's De
parture For Africa.
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IT Is said that it was not entirely
desire for dollars, to be had easily
with a successful play, that led
Booth Tarklngton lo write hia
share of"The Man From Home."
The Iloosier novelist-playwright, hav
ing a lot of real American in him, was
so angered by the snobbery and the
toadyism of various alleged Americans
he met In Europe that he thought he
would "use the hammer" on them, and
lie found the stage a better medium
than book or pulpit. Tarklngton Is so
disgusted with certain things he has
seen abroad that he lias unbosomed
himself with consluerable freedom In
this fashion:
"I'm ashamed of some of my fellow
Americans. I am disgusted with the
idiocy tliut possesses ceriaiu of them
when they find themselves abroad. Un
crowned kings we have been wont to
call ourselves, and assi s topped with
the fool's cap and bells is what those I
speak of most nearly resemble. 1 speak
of that class with more money than
good sense; the class that by inference
distinguishes Itself as the socially elect;
the class we others have come to know
as the idle rich; the class that makes
hysterical attempts to misally its
daughters to the morally strabismic
and financially decrepit titular excres
cences of the old world. One may live
for a lifetime in a small city of the
'if,
BOOTH TAIIKINGTON.
United States among one's fellow conn
tryrnen, but it is not until they are
seen surrounded by the atmosphere of
strange conditions that their true na
tures appear.
"Americans whose grandfathers fought
tooth and nail for the abolition ol' mo
narchical forms and fads maybe found
prostrating themselves before a shal
low paled holder of an Indifferently
well polished coronet. Men who have
brought up their daughters In the at
mosphere of clear republicanism are
willing to barter their hard earned dol
lars and their children for a doubtful
alliance with a certain section of a
leisure class that can serve no useful
purpose in this world.
"If our stay-at-homes could see one
half of what 1 have seen they would
seethe with Indignation. For that rea
son I have written this play in con
Junction with Harry Leon Wilson. 1
do not write plays as a rule; I write
books. But there are times when books
fall of their purpose, when the best
powers of description are unequal to
the task the writer would demand of
them."
The departure of ex-President Roose
velt to Africa was the occasion for the
following sonnet from the pen of Julia
Ditto Young, author of "Barham
Beach, the President's I'oem:"
Thy country blesses thee and sets thee
free
And speeds tier faithful servant on his
way.
Nor friends nor dearer ones dare bid
thee stay.
The lons aceounts are squared twlxt them
and thee.
But all hearts question: "Ah. how will It
be.
That far homecoming? Will the can
non play
And a wild welcome sweep him up the
bay,
Or will the ship creep through a sobbing
sea?'
1 only neither hope nor fear—l know!
Tusk, fanj.; and daw shall harmless
pass thee by.
And safe ihlne eager keel shall cleave
tho brine.
There is a debt of words thou still dost
Fori: tten. trifling, but thou wilt not
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Til! Thou Irnst paid those two words,
"riistei mine!"
Charles Hitchcock Sherrill, who was
recently appointed minister to Argen
tina. is author of "Stained Glass Tours
In France." At Yale Mr. Sherrill was a
noted sprinter and athlete, and as a
lawyer In New York he has been ac
tively Interested in politics. Ills book
on stained glass tours was the result
of several years' touring in France.
Before sailing for South America he
saw through the press a now book
upon which he has been at work,
entitled "Stained Glass Tours In Eng
land."
Out of Line.
An enlisted man at tho post at Fort
Leavenworth was ordered to the range
ft>r the first time for target drill. Out
of twenty-one chances the newcomer
made never a bit.
"Oh, you dub.'" exclaimed an officer
standing near. "You've missed the tar
get every time! What's the matter?"
"Well, sir," answered the recruit non
chalantly, "the only reason I can think
of at present Is that the person who
set up my target hasn't placed it in a
straight line from here."
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Worth Reading
The Work of T. A. Daly
Ik Italian Dialect Songs and
Poems Other News and
Gossip of the Literary
World.
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There has been a flood of dialect
tales and poems, ranging all the way
from good to the worst possible. In
truth the thing has been overdone.
Yet now and then appears a dialect
book so true to nature and so charm
ing that it makes up for the many
dreary performances in the de-formed
spelling line. One of these good ones
Is T. A. Daly's "Carmina," just issued
by the John Lane company of New
York. Daly's songs In Italian dialect
have gone through the press of the
entire country. He does not make the
mistake of being always humorous,
though he Is a humorist of parts, writ
ing skits on the Philadelphia papers.
Many of his Italian songs owe their
popularity to a tender pathos.
The author's official name Is Thomas
Augustine Daly, but he Is known as
Tom all over Philadelphia and among
the writers of humorous columns from
New York to Los Angeles. Most of
these young men who brighten the edi
torial pages of our leading dailies are
members of an organization known as
the American Press Humorists, the or
ganization whose prize Joke was ad
mitting John I>. Rockefeller to mem
bership. Of this aggregation Daly was
at one time president, and when the
joke writers had their annual conven
tion at the Bellevue-Stratford In Phil
adelphia he carried off the honors so
well and did such a lot of entertain
ing that they have since loved him only
second to their pastor emeritus, Kobert
J. Burdette.
Mr. Daly Is editor of the Catholic
Standard and Times, in which much
of his best work has appeared. In
reality he Is an American Irishman—
that describes it better than the hack
neyed Irish American—which makes
his success in Italian dialect all the
more surprising. He has already is
sued one book under tile title of "Can
zoni," which, with his work in the
newspapers, has put him far and away
in the lead of ail Italian dialect writ
ers in tiie country. Ilis fame is by no
means confined to the one Held, how
ever, as his verse in straight English
and In his inherited Irish dialect is
also widely copied.
The high esteem in which Mr. Daly's
glimpses into the life of our American
Italians is held is shown by the fol
lowing appreciation from the pen of
Julian Hawthorne:
"His Italian studies," says Mr. Haw
thorne, "are really marvelous. These
Italians have a captivating and inter-
T. A. DALY.
estlng life and character of their own.
only awaiting proper Insight and
knowledge and human sympathy to be
recognized as a valuable national pos
session in our life as well as our liter
ature. Mr. Daly brings to his task
precisely the sympathy and Insight re
quired. His art. like other tine art.
eludes analysis. The thing is done,
the effect produced, but how perhaps
he himself could hardly tell. The
spelling, like that of Thackeray's
'Jeames Yellowplush,' Is In itself a
work of genius. liut the secret is not
all there. The little stories or themes
of the poems are charmingly apt and
characteristic, but neither do they
quite account for It. Somehow we
are made to feel the very nature and
way of thinking and feeling of the
persons whom lie presents; not their
national peculiarities merely, but their
individual ones."
Thirty years ago Miss Elizabeth
Stuart Phelps, now Mrs. Ward, wrote
"The dates Ajar." As It gently op
posed the stitT church notions of
heaven then currently held it excited
somewhat the same antagonism that
mother Mrs. (Humphry) Ward aroused
ten years later in "Robert Elsmere."
Mrs. rheips-Ward has been publishing
in H.uve. liazar a series of articles
explaining Iter present theories on im
mortality and the future life. She
asks who now expects the orthodox
heaven that shone In the mental eyes
of our grandmothers or yearns to
stand In a row with musical ghosts
around a throne? If "The Gates
Ajar" appeared as a new publication
now. the author asserts that It would
scarcely excite remark. Who antici
pates a white robe, demands Mrs.
Ward, and a palm branch and a
hymn book, but who, on the other
hand, does not anticipate the restitu
tion of lost things?
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An effort Is being made to build a
suitable memorial church on the site
of the original Shlloh church, on Shl
loh battletield. now one of the most at
tractive of military parks, says a dis
patch from Adamsvllie, Tenn. It was
on this very spot the bloody battle of
Shiloh was begun on the morning of
April 0, 18(52. It Is the purpose to build
a memorial church to cost not less
than SIO,OOO. The names of all con
tributors will be recorded in a perma
nent register and kept on exhibition In
the church, which will be open to nil
visitors red tourists.
World's Fair in a Forest
Ideal Location and Meritorious Features of the Alaska-Yukon
Pacific Exposition to Be Held at Soattle —The Show
That Will Be on Time and Open the
Door to a New World.
By JAMES A. EDGEPTON.
OF expositions there Is no end.
Since our initial one at Phila
delphia in 187U we have held
them at Chicago, St. Louis, At
lanta, Omaha, Nashville, Buffalo, Port
land and Jamestown. We Americans
have the exposition habit. It Is a good
habit to have, since it Indicates that
we are alive. These world's fairs may
be described as the flowers on the
plant of progress. After a period of
growth we blossom out, so to speak,
and Invite mankind to come and see
us in our glory. Moreover, these fes
tivals of industry bring us together
and get us acquainted. They unify
our life, impart to us a common spirit
and stimulate us to a healthy emula
tion. The pessimist who grumbles
that the era of expositions is over la
a calamity waller and not a prophet,
lie needs an injection of the sernm of
construction. He has failed to catch
the American spirit. The exposition
has a legitimate place In our life and
has come to stay. We are becoming
more and more a nation of travelers
determined to see the world. These
fairs congregate the world for us In
one point and show it to us In minia
ture. Instead of requiring us to visit
distant lands, they bring the distant
lands to us. The mountain comes to
Mohammed. Expositions furnish a
cosmopolitan viewpoint, a universal
education. They are panoramas of ad
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vancement, the progress of the world
done into tabloid.
It is fitting that the latest of Indus
trial festivals is to be held on the
shores of the Pacific atid that it is to
be not a memorial of the past, but a
prophecy of the future; not hung upon
yesterday, but on tomorrow. For It is
around the Pacific that tlie world's
greatest civilization is to form. That
has been apparent for fifty years. Dur
ing the last half century an awakening
of new life has touched all the lands
bordering the great ocean. Around the
gigantic horseshoe from South Amer
ica to Australasia It has progressed, as
though sonic world spirit had planned
it from behind the scenes. It freed tlio
l<atln American republics, threw a
restless population into California, Ore
gon, Washington and British Colum
bia, found a golden key for Alaska,
stirred even ice locked Siberia and
dead alive Korea, transformed Japan,
broke the slumber of ages In China,
carried American enterprise into the
Philippines and applied the most ad
vanced theories of government to Aus
tralia and New Zealand. The same
magical breath of life blew upon the
island gardens of Hawaii. Now comes
the climax of all this advancement iti
the construction of the Panama canal.
To this new Pacific civilization the
Pnitcd States is the key. Through the
Monroe doctrine and the canal she
dominates South and Central Amer
ica. Iler spirit Is more in western
Canada than that of Britain. She
owns Alaska. It was she that awak
ened Japan and maintained the integ
rity of China. She controls Hawaii
and the Philippines. She has burnished
the model and the democratic spirit
for the governments in Australasia.
The New Pacific Empire.
The Alaska-Yukon-Paciflc exposition
at Seattle is meant to symbolize all
this. It is more than a mere fair; it
is the visible sign of a great idea, au
open door to a new world. It says to
mankind: Here are the future high
ways of commerce, the coming theater
of history. Here the east and the
west join hands to form the world's
greatest civilization. The circle of
Object of Hygienic School Car's Trip.
Professor Snow oft lie Stanford uni
versity recently left San Francisco on
a campaign of sanitary education.
Professor Snow is traveling In a pri
vate car equipped by the state, and he
expects to spend several months In the
rural districts. The car is filled with
models showing farmers how to care
for their homes, barns, food, water
drainage and general hygiene. This
is the first time In history such work
has been undertaken so thoroughly.
progress is complete. It has passed
from east to west about the earth to
reach Its highest statement where the
ends meet." It Is perhaps a happy
omen that this new and greater civili
zation Is to be called the Pacific. It
may well be pacific In a double sense,
and tile thousand years of peace may
reign upon these shores.
The forthcoming exposition has In
spired tho "Chinook poet" to sing. He
has one verse to each of the words In
the hyphenated title, ono to Alaska,
one to the Yukon, ono to the Pacific
and one to tho exposition. They are
perfectly good verses, that to the Pa
cific being worthy of quoting. The
"Chinook poet" Is not the first bard to
sing of the seas. Ityron In a magnifi
cent apostrophe commanded the ocean
to "roll on,"and it has been rolling on
ever since. The late Algernon Charles
Swinburne wrote of"The North Sea"
in numbers sufficiently grewsome to
send shivers down the spine of an Ice
berg. In it lie had death and the sea
"holding converse of desolate speech."
That would not apply to the Pnciflc,
however, for here life and the sea hold
converse of jubilant speech.
1 did not mean to compare the "Chi
nook poet" with Byron and Swinburne.
I merely meant to show that he hadl
precedents for lifting his voice In song
to the ocean. lint perhaps he Is one of
the poets who need no precedents, one
of those who sing because they have to
or because nobody stops them. Ilere is
what the "Chinook poet" does to the
Pacific:
SCarth's grandest ocean, rolling unseen of
men
For centuries—a nameless mystery!
Balboa from the heights of Darlen
Saw far away a wrinkled, saiiless sea.
Ocean of peace, the world's highway to
be.
What tongues the glory of thy reign shall
sing?
What prophet shall foretell thy destiny!
What honors may not future ages bring
To thee, O everlasting oceanic king!
•'The Show That Is on Time."
The popular name for the Alaska-Yu
kon-l'acitic exposition Is tbo "A.-Y.-F."
In view of this fact. It Is fortunate
they did not set the Yukon first. For
one thing, our friends the Japanese,
who are to have a prominent part hi
the show, might have thought that
some of our Swedish Americans In the
northwest were trying to make merry
at the Jap name. Whatever its official
title may be. however, the affair will
be known as the Seattle exposition.
Seattle has made It and Is entitled to
the honor. One of the meritorious new
features of the enterprise Is that It
has not asked the United States gov
ernment for a cent, while the other
expositions have yelled for loans from
I'ncle Sum or appropriations outright.
Seattle is financing this affair herself.
In one day she raised $050,000, or
Sir.o,o»> more than the management
had called for. That is the Seattle
style. During the past ten years It has
grown faster than any city of Its size
on earth. With such a town behind it
the exposition cannot be other than a
success.
Another grateful departure in the
A.-Y.-P. is that It Is going to open
actually on the opening day. Some
other expositions have opened when
they were half done and did not get
ready to appear properly in polite so
city till a month or two later. Seattle
nas advertised this as "the show that
will be on time." That settles the
matter, for Seattle makes good. When
President Taft presses the button on
June 1 he will start the machinery 'n
a completed plant. That Is assured,
for it is practically completed now.
This houso will be bullded before the
Bright and Hot.
"Bmlth got off a bright thing the
other day."
"What was it?"
"A lighted cigar some one had care
lessly dropped Into the chair he sat
on."—Lonion Fun.
Disgusted.
Loafer the First—l thought this yere
unemployed fund was for charity.
Loafer the Second—So It is, ain't it?
Loafer the First—lt ain't. It means
work.—London Sketch.
date for the occupant* to move In. It
will start right and depend on that
fact to help It finish right.
Still another Improvement over past
expositions is the fact that many
buildings are to be permanent. They
will be turned over to the State unl- .
verslty, on whose campus the fair Is |
held. This saves a useless waste and
shows good business judgment. One !
of these permanent buildings Is that of
forestry, which is to be made wholly of
logs from the gigantic trees of the
northwest. Most of the other build- !
ings are In the French renaissance
style. That of New York state Is a
facsimile of the home of William H. ]
Seward at Auburn. There Is also to j
be a fine statue of Seward, the man j
who purchased Alaska at a time when I
the wise blockheads of the day grinned I
and called It "SewW'd's Iceberg." Peo- j
pie who look far ahead are always de- |
rlded by those superior worldllngß who
i cannot see an Inch In front of their
noses.
A Temperance Festival.
A fourth upward step made by the
Seattlo fair Is that it Is t« be "dry."
The stale law provides that liquor J
shall not be sold near the university, j
and the law will remain in force, j
though it Is not because of the statute j
alone that intoxicants will be prohibit- j
ed in and about the exposition grounds, j
The new departure will be a recogni- '
tlon of the great and growing temper- j
ance sentiment throughout the coun- i
try. Thus the enterprise Is to be made '
a prophecy of the future in more ways
than one. The experiment will be
watched with Interest, and friends of
temperance will doubtless see that the S
fair does not suffer because It has de- J
i throned King Alcohol and banished !
blm from its domain.
Every exposition has had its mid- j
way, where the barker barks and Co- 1
ney Island shows are in evidence. In ;
St. Louis this was"the Pike." In 8e- j
attie It Is to have a name still more j
original, "the Pay Streak." Any one i
who has ever traveled the midway and ]
has seen the dimes and quarters melt- !
lng through ills fingers will recognize j
' the appropriateness of the title,
j There are to be many other novel- j
ties. For one thing, a Siberian village
I will show to civilization a really primi- I
j tlve people. The human race Is sup- i
posed to have had Its earliest home In |
Asia, and it can readily be Imagined I
that these Siberians have not changed J
their modes of living since the distant
days of the first man. They live In
tents, kill their game with rude weap
ons, allowing none of the blood to es
cape, pray to the devil and propitiate
him with blood offerings and slay
their own hopelessly sick, aged and
' cripples. The village that has been
j brought to Seattle had one child born
| since Its advent. This young Sibe-
I rian and others will be features of the
| village.
| Another unique feature Is a fox
farm, the exhibitor being a tnau who
| has actually started such a farm, on
I which foxes are bred for their furs.
"Seward's Iceberg."
lvriia is the greatest spectacular fea
| ture of the exposition Is a gigantic
: cyclorama <• 112 Alaska. The enterprise
I was originally started to exhibit to the
i world the possibilities of Uncle Sam's
arctic possession of the Yukon valley
j both "ii American and Canadian terri
tory. The popular idea of Alaska is a
land of "cold aud gold." As a matter
of fact, it is a country with great pos
sibilities in agriculture. It is no far
ther north than Finland, and the cli
mate Is even milder than In the ex
treme north of Europe. It Is now real
ized that some day "Seward's Iceberg"
may be the l»ome of prosperous mil
lions, and It is for the purpose of has
tening that time that the A.-Y.-P.
was originally planned. Then the Pa
cific Idea was added, aud all countries
bordering the great ocean were Invited
to participate. It will be a strange
blending of tho polar and the tropic, of
the Eskimo and the Tagalog. In it the
American people will be given an op
portunity to become acquainted with
"tho little brown brother." There will
be a Philippine exhibit such as never
has been beheld at any other fair. This
is likewise true of Hawaii, a section of
one of whose famous parks Is to repro
duced. Japan here will give by far the
fullest display of her industries and
life ever beheld at an exposition. In
cluding not only the wonderful Nippon
of today, but that even more romantic
Nippon of the old days of the samurai.
Essentially all the Pacific countries
will be represented, as well as most of
the American states and some of the
European nations.
In a scenic way the location of the
fair Is ideal. It Is located between
two lakes, giving it more than a mile
and a half of water front. It Is liter
ally a fair Id the forest, the buildings
| arising in a picturesque manner among
' the giant trees of the northwest. After
a visit Charles Dana Gibson, the art
ist, enthusiastically declared it"the
I most beautiful exposition ever plan
-1 ned."
The Mountain Climbers' Convention,
j In the near distance arise the three
great peaks Mount IJainier, Mount
! Baker and Mount Constance. One or
I the other of tiiem is in constant view
j from all parts of the grounds, thus
| furnishing a combination of water.
| greensward, forest and height' to
charm the iover of nature. When to
this are added the noblest effort of the
architect and the pleasing effects of
the landscape gardener one can begin
to understand how It must have struck
the creator of"the Gibson Rirl."
No exposition is now complete with
out balloon races, and Seattle will
t«ave her speed test In the skies. A
yet greater novelty Is a convention of
the world's most famous mountain
climbers, who have been Invited to
come from all lands and scale Seattle's
three great mountains, one of which.
Mount Rainier, la among the tallest on
the continent.
C«use For Regrat.
"I licked the stuffln' out o' Dick
Smith this mornln'."
"You biid boy! Aren't you sorry for
itr
"Yessum—nwful sorry. I Jest found
out that he's i»oln' ter have a birthday
party tomorrow." —Cleveland Leader.
In the Toils.
"Were you ever sent up Inn balloon,
Sam ?"
"No, sah. I's been sent up several
times, but never In a balloon, sah:"—
Yonkers Statesman.
DAY OF OUR MOTHERS'
Whole United States to Honor
Them on Sunday, May 9.
GO BACK HOME IF YOU CAN.
White Carnations Will Bo Worn by All
Observers—Sponsor For Celebration
Is Mies Anna Jarvis of Philadelphia.
Touching Appeal of a Mother Long
ing to See Her Boy.
Mothers' day, the second Sunday In
May, will be celebratad this year In |
every section of the United States.
This year for the first time the deeds
of our pioneer mothers will be given
official recognition by the military of
the United States. General Edgar
Allen, Jr.. commander In chief of the
Sons of Veterans, has been the first
officer to recognize the merit of the I
demonstration and has issued orders
to bis comrades for R general observ
ance of Mothers' day.
In his notice General Allen says: "A ;
great movement has been Inaugurated
to do honor to our mothers. Our
mothers are our best friends. No day
has ever been set aside for the honor
ing of their heroic deeds and memory.
You will do honor to yourselves, your
fathers and your mothers by observ
ing this event in an appropriate way.
No word of mine can ndd to the many
laudable reasons why we, as Sons of
Veterans,' shouid honor this event.*'
The sponsor for this celebration is
Miss Anna Jarvis of 2031 North
Twelfth street, Philadelphia. The first
effort to call the attention of the entire
United States to the proposed celebra
tion was made one year ago. Like
many home products, It received great
er recognition In other parts of the
country. Throughout the south and
w T est the idea spread with wonder
ful rapidity until mass meetings and
public demonstrations of other kinds
were organized and held before large
audiences.
Necessarily of a sentimental origin [
and meaning, til© celebration assumed
Its most significant aspect in the state j
prisons and penitentiaries. The grim
walls of Leavenworth. Cherry Hill,'
Sing Sing iiml Nebraska prisons lost j
not a little of their sordidness, and !
hearts that had not been otherwise j
accessible were touched, maybe only
for the Instant in some cases, but even 1
the shadow of the mother thought that '
fell left an Impression that prompted I
the men to look forward to the cele
bration this year. More than that, j
white carnations—the symbol of the j
day and that which it celebrates—are !
to be given to the men. Letters from j
prisoners to governors of their states '
asking for just an hour's relief from j
the discipline governing them have i
met with approval, and services will '
be held in ilie stone corrid< rs and in j
the prison yards.
Miss Jarvis has been the recipient of '
many touching letters. In a feeble j
hand that spoke volumes of sorrow j
and trial a woman, who simply sign-1
ed herself "His Mother," told a typical j
tale of a broken heart. In her letter !
this woman praised Miss .larvis for ;
her "godly thought" and said: "I have I
a son and- three daughters. They are
all good to mo. I want for nothing, as
I need but Igtle. 1 am very feeble,
and I kuow that I have not much
longer to live. He writes to me, and i
when he gives me an address I write
to him. He is so kind to me. He sends
me money and everything, but will not
come home. He Is wandering all over
the world, and I want him to come to
his home if only for one utght. If I
cotild only see him and tell him how I
love him I should feel that all the good
ness that Ood intended for me in my
old age was mine. Ido not want his
money. I am saving it all for him. '
But, oh, if he would only come to me I
before I die I should be so happy!
Please pray for my boy with me and
ask that he lie sent home."
In this spirit, which surely appeals
to every man and woman, wear a |
white carnation on the second Sunday
in May and keep in your heart the
thought of your mother, no home if
you can. if you can't, hold silent com
munion with her. for her thought will
surely be of you.
Miss Jarvis' original Idea embraced ;
the simultaneous observance In every
part of the world of the love and rev
erence which all men and women owe
their mothers. The white carnation
was especially choeen because of Its
whiteness, which stands for purity; Its
form and fragrance, representing
beauty and love; Its wide field of
growth and lasting qualities, symbol
izing charity and faithfulness nil a
true mother's} virtues.
Savages.
In the New Hebrides are many Is
lands whose Interiors have never been
visited by Europeans, for the simple
reason that to attempt to do so would
be to court certain death at the hands
of the treacherous and vindictive na
tives. A little to the north of Assam,
too, almost within sight of the tea
gardens and the pretty bungalows of
the planters, is the country of the
Padamltes, wherein no white nan has
dared to set his foot for at least 500
years past.
Punishment and Crime.
"She seems to b© having a pretty
good time now that sho and her hus
band are separated," whispered the
three girls In the corner as she en
tered the room.
"I don't blame her." said one, *'He
beat her, didn't he?"
They looked her over again.
"Well, 1 don't blame him for boating
her," the third declared, "If Rhe dressed
Uke that. That red Is awful."—Ex
change
A Dangerous Subject.
Professor Henry Druuimond when »
boy discovered that he could hypnotize
people. At a birthday imrt.v a little
girl declined to play the piano. Drum
mond happened to catch her eye ano
said, "Play." To his surprise she ros.
at once, went to the piano and played
At another time he hypnotized a bo.
and gave liini a poker for a gun
"Now," said Druiuuiond, "I'm a pheas
ant. Shoot me." The boy did so, an>
Drummond fell to keep up the illusion
whereupon the boy, seeing the "bird
move, was about to hit it over the hea
with the poker. The hypnotlzer ha
just time to stop the magnetized sports
man.—Pearson's Weekly.
HONOR FO3 HEROISM
France to Fresent Gold Medal to
San Francisco.
STRICKEN CITY THAT REVIVED.
French Ambassador to Deliver Latest
Medal In Series Marking His Coun
try's Friendship For United States.
Will Commtmorste Sister Republic's
Grief and Appreciation of Courage.
M. Jusserand, the French ambassa
dor to the United States, has written
to Secretary of State Knox a letter
tehii'g of a gold medal which Franco
wishes to present to the authorities
In San Francisco to commemorate
France's '.rief o*wr the earthquake and
fire and her appreciation of the hero-
Ism of the resurrection of the city fol
lowing the disaster.
The ambassador tells of receiving
from the [ T nlted States government a
medal commemorating tie old Franco-
American al ii'nee just at tile time the
fire was destroying San Franci •<>. At
that time the ambassador expres.il
the hope that one of the next medals
to be struck and added to the series
exchanged between the two countries
would be on account of the San Frar
elsco earthquake. The ambassador
says:
"The words which I spoke thus spon
taneously and under the influence of
the emotion caused by that event turn
! Ed out to agree so exactly with the
sentiment of my country that the gov
j eminent of the republic at onee appro
priated them as its own. it conse
quently decided to justify them wlillo
| at the same time the Inhabitants of tho
devastated region wer-- 0:1 their part
setting ritxjut to rest' re th.'lr city to
its original beauty with the very en
ergy and success which It bad been so
; easy to predict.
) "In conformity, therefore, with th®
wish which I toofc the liberty to es
-1 press u medal Is to be added to the
| series of those whfch have marked
from time to time ever *nee the earll
! est days of American Independence thfv
i persistence of the sympathies which
| arose at the very beginning between
our two countries—from the medals
which commemorated the epoch of tho
! alliance and of freedom down to the
: one which a popular French subscrip
tion enabled to be struck on the tragic
' death of Lincoln and to the one finally
1 which the American republic offered
! to my count ry.
: "This medal was ordered by tU«
j French government of Louis Rottee,
J winner of the ancient prize of Koine
: aud one of our h"st known medal de
| signers. On one side Is allegorically
! represented the eli "112 San Francisco
j laying aside its sin "d and Issuing
i forth from the ruins, wire on the oth
' er Is France presenting n branch of
laurel to America. The inscrlptit i calls
! to mind that the medal la offerer', to
the American people and the city ot'
San Francisco as a token of sympathy
and admiration by the French repub
lic.
"A single specimen In gold has been
struck, and I have received orders
from my government togo and deliver
it In parson to the authorities of Sail
Francisco I therefore appeal to your
excellency's kind offices In Informing
the raid authorities of the ln. truction**
which I have received. It is my inten
tion. if suitable to them, to start about
the middle of next mouth and to d(*.
liver the souvenir to them between tho
20th and 25th of May."
Old Wheel of Fortune,
In the village church of
Bear Pont-Croli, In western Brittany,
In a very good specimen of the now
rare "wheel of fortuue." It is made ot
wood, with a row of bells on Its outer
rim and pivoted between a couple ot
rough beams, altogether very primitive
workmanship. By means of a cord at
tached to a crank the wheels can Li
made to revolve and set all the bells
a-jangllng. I have often heard that
the peasants believe that it has mi
raculous power of healing when rung
over the head of a sufferer who has
placed a sou ia the box to which the
rope is padlocked. 1 received remark
able confirmation of this belief, foi
while making a photograph a well to
do sailor's wife and her husband came
into the church and looked round. The
woman asked me If I thought there
could be any truth In this belief, as
her child was very backward in learn
ing to talk. Her nurso, who came from
those parts, had advised her to bring
the baby and ring the bells of Comfort
over his head, when he would be sur«
to talk. As she was passing she had
looked into see if it was worth trylngl
—London Chronicle.
Bird Sanctuary In Town Corimcn.
The growth of the garden < ity, Letch
worth. In England, threatens to driv*
birds to more secluded spots To pre
vent this the directors propose to con
vert Norton common. In the center of
the town. Into a bird sanctonrv Here
weeds, grasses, berries and fruits of
various kinds which are nleasing to
birds will be cultivated, and part of
the common will bo fenced In for nest
ing.
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