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Abdurrazzak, the subject of this photograph, Is a descendant of an anctont
king of Botan in Kurdistan, who in 12C2 was defeated and captured by the
Turks. He has been secretary of the TurklBh embassy at Petrograd and
master of ceremonies at Constantinople and Is now in tho military servlco of
tho czar, hoping to regain tho kingdom of Botan.
Costa Rica of tho Cuban party, land
ing him safely on Cuban soil.
Pendleton Bros, were hor next own
ers. Tho optloptlc of tho coast waB
next reported flying signals of dis
tress while making a trip from Brans,
wick, Ga., to Philadelphia.
On another trip sho lost hor rudder
off Body's island on hor way from
Wilmington, N. C, for Now York.
Again sho had to display off tho North
Carolina coast in her ruddorloss state
tho familiar signal. Again thoy wore
heeded by tho faithful policeman, On
ondaga, which gathered her in, towing
hor safely liiBldo Cnpo Henry.
Matanzas Was Some Sea Rover
in Former Days.
Yankee Darkentlne Which Went Down
Recently In 8torm Off Bermuda
Had Been War Prize and a
Smuggler.
New York. Tho old Yankoo barken
tlno Matanzas, which has succumbed
to the god of storms in her twenty
sixth year, had a picturesquely adven
turous career. Sho had more bad luck
and more good luck than almost any
other vesael along tho coast. Sho left
Newport Nowb for Cadiz on her last
voyage, and nobody thought anything
could sink her.
A hundred miles to tho eastward of
Bermuda she ran into hoavy galos that
plucked out her masts. Sho floun
dered, her cargo of coal 1,400 tons
ahifted, and Cnpt. B. H. Nubs and his
crew of nlno had Just time to leap into
tho long boat.
On the second dny In tho drifting
-longboat death took his first victim.
All hands balled night and day. Ten
days were passed in that unspeakablo
aongboat without food or froah water.
At tho rate or nbout a man a day thoy
perished. Tho absonco of tholr weight
providentially, perhaps, for Captain
Nuss made the boat more buoyant.
Four men died on tho fifth day and
three on tho ninth.
Then tho schoonor Bayard Barnes
rescued those that were left, Captain
Nuss, tho Bteward of the lost Matan
zas and one sailor. They were taken
to a hospital in Para. Captain Nuss
loft the two men in tho hospital at
Para. He came hero on the steamer
Rio de Janeiro and has gone to his
Connecticut homo.
This vessel was an unofficial smug
gler, prize of war, tanker (molaBsos,
water or oil, according to chartor),
blockado runner, mall packet in time
of war and drogher. Sho was re
paired and re-ropalrod, rebuilt, rofns
loned, now sparred, now rigged, sur
veyed and specially surveyed, and was
jstlll a good risk.
Bill Rogers, the shipbuilder of Bath,
idld an honost Job when ho shoved
ovrboard tho Matanzas. During tho
Spanish war V. D. Munson & Co.
owned her, and she was once a sailing
packet botweou Havana and Now
York.
Before the Munsons ownod her sho
carried clandestine cigars, which,
howevei, were handled by hor thrifty
crews, not by her owners. A Bailor
who had a growl because ho was left
out of the speculation gave away tho
smugglers to tho collector. He sold
sho brought In 25,000 cigars at a
time. Her mate was caught trying to
amugglo cigars aahore, and in the
galley were more smokes within a pot
of beans.
Two years beforo the Spanish war
she had been equipped with tankB of
30,000 gallons capacity for bringing
molasses She never Btopped going
light to Cuba on account of any war
at least, obe didn't wait for war to bo
declared before staying home.
In the early stages of tho conflict
in Cuban wators tho Atlantic fleot
bad to turn back tho Mntanzas to bvo
her bide. So when sho got along to
about the latltudo of Key West and
found that Admiral Sampson wanted
fresh water, what more appropriate
than that she should tako a govern
ment charter to carry Schuylkill
water from Philadelphia to tho floetT
Next sho fitted out as a mall ship to
carry code dispatches from Florida for
the Cuban revolutionists. On her first
trip In this now character she boro
Joaquin Alolna, tho representative In
CHILD GULPS DOWN TADPOLE
Diet of ,Pneumonla After Operation
Which Disclosed Conditions Sur
geons Thought Impossible.
Goshen, Ind, The elghteen-months-old
child of Mrs. Harry Wolf of Chi
cago, Is dead, following an operation
which disclosed conditions that many
aurgeoriB had declared to be Impossi
ble. While visiting her parents In Syra
cuse. KosclusftO county last summtf.
"SPITE UMBRELLA" DID IT
War HaB Disproved Some of Sir Percy
Scott'o Theories Regarding Naval
Warfare Radius of Undersea
Craft Is Increasing.
Landlady Kept It and Had to Pay $102
as Result of Court Pro
ceedings. Anthony, Kan. Tho famous Harper
county umbrella, which has boon In
litigation for several months, becaino
tho undisputed property of Mrs. Mary
Schoeneman of Harper a fow days ago
when a Jury In tho district court as
sessed hor two dollars for tho property
rights attached thereto, together with
tho costs in the case, which have
mounted to $100.
Mrs. Schoeneman Is tho landlady at
a rooming house in Harper. Mrs. Lll
Ho Smith, with hor daughter and two
grandchildren contracted for a room
with tho Schoenemans. Mrs. Smith
Bays tho contract for tho bod for four
was 50 cents. Mrs. Schoeneman says
it was 75 conts.
Mrs. Smith would pay only 50 cents
whon sho loft, and It was accepted.,
biio rorgot her umbrella. Mrs. Scho
onoman held It for tho 25-cent bal
ance Mrs. Smith sued. Tho JuBttco court
gave hor a verdict for $3.50 and $7
attornoy foes. Mrs. Schoeneman ap
pealed to a Jury and It found again
for Mm. Smith and Mrs. Schoeneman
paid the costs and quit.
PLANNED UNIVERSAL GOWN
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London. It is a year since Admiral
Sir Percy Scott published his famous
letter on tho uso of tho submarino in
warfare
The chief points ho put forward
wero:
Submarines havo entirely dono away
with the utility of ships that swim on
tho water.
No man-o'-wnr would dare to come
within sight of a coast adequately pro
tected by submarines.
If by submarines wo closo egress
from the North sea it Is difficult to
see how our commerce can bo much
Interfered with.
With sufficient submarines about It
would not bo snfo for a fleot to put
to sea.
No fleet can hido itself from tho
BUbmarlno's eye, and tho submarine
can deliver a deadly attack oven in
broad daylight.
With a flotilla of submarines . . .
I would undortako to got Into any
harbor and sink or damage all tho
ships In that harbor.
Thoro wero many replies to the let
ter. Lord Sydenham admitted that
tho submarine would undoubtedly lm
poso new risks on largo ships in cer
tain wators, and If favored by chanco
would obtain occasional successes. In
remarking that submarines could not
sorve all tho purposes demanded of
ships It Is noteworthy that Lord Sy
denham anticipated that warfare con
ducted by submarines alono must lead
to "piracy."
One of iho ablest of Sir Perry
Scott's anonymous critics, signing him
self It. N said:
"Wo cannot regard tho torpedo,
whether carried by tho battleship,
the destroyer or tho submarine, eith
er as a decislvo or a primary weapon.
At tho most it introduces an element
Into naval warfare equivalent to that
which ambushes, surprise attacks, cut
ting out expeditions play In other
kinds of guerrilla warfare It will af
fect grand tactics profoundly, but In
no sonso incalculably, as its use can
seldom If over prove of doclsivo ef
fect." This Boemed to bo tho opinion of
tho great majority of navy men. Win
ston Churchill said In a speech that
many believed a blow might be struck
beneath tho water "which will bo fa
tal to the predominance of great bat
tleships at any rate in tho narrow
seas. . . . That tlmo has not
como yet, and tho ultimate decision
of naval war rests with those who
can place In the lino of battle fleets
and squadrons which in numbers,
quality and homogouolty, in organiza
tion, in weight of metal and In good
shooting nro superior to anything
thoy may bo called on to meet."
Sir Percy Scott, In reply to hla crit
ics, opposed Lord Sydenham's asser
tion that submarines would need a
parent ship and suggested that their
rango of action was increasing. As
a matter of fact it is now believed
that tho German submarines In addi
tion to what supplies of oil and oth
er necessaries thoy can get from dis
guised ships aro using submarines of
tho old types as tendors and bring
thorn to tho surface for tho purposo
of transferring supplies.
Admiral Bacon said in a letter:
"Tho Idea of attacking commerce by
submarines is barbarous." Sir Percy
Scott ovldently considered this objec
tion would havo no wolght in the oyos
of the QermanB, and replied:
"Our vulnorablo point Is our oil and
food Bupply. Tho submarine has in
troduced a now method of attacking
theso Buppllos. Will feelings of hu
manity restrain our enemy from us
ing It?"
Ho added:
"To exterminate submarines 1b a
difficult task. An easlor task would
bo for tho enemy's submarines to ex
terminate us by stopping our supply
of food."
Ho pointed out the probability that
tho enemy's submarines would not
go out Into the high Bens to And our
food ships. "Why not wait at tho
mouth of tho Thames, or any other
port, where ho will Unci them coming
out llko railway trains?"
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Mies Joaslo RosBtleld of New York
was awarded tho $150 prise offered
through Mrs. Mildred Johnston Lan
don by the polymurlol committee for
hor doalgn for a gown for women
that can bo suitably worn on all oc
casions. Tho gown is especially do
signed to bring freedom and comfort,
without any loss of effoctivo lines,
to both body and pocketbook.
Coins Worth $2,200 Found In Ruins
of Author's Home In New
York.
Poeksklll, N. Y. James Hooper,
while digging out tho ruins of a
burned homestead at Tompkins Cor
ners, near Peoksklll, thought he had
struck a gold mlno. He began picking
up all sorts of American and foreign
gold coins. Beforo ho finished his
day's work ho had found 357 coins of
various kinds, but all of gold. It do
volopod that Thomas Upp, an author,
who lost his life when tho homestead
burned some tlmo ago, had kept a
numismatic collection. This account
ed for tho discovery of $2,200 in gold
In the ruins.
Sentenced to "Eternal Sobriety."
Jamaica, N, Y. Mrs. Margaret As
kins, charged with neglecting hor chil
dren, was sentenced to "otornal so
briety" by Magistrate Miller. Sho ac
cepted tho soutenco and promised to
abldo by it.
Mrs. Wolf pormltted tho baby to drink
hydrant wator. Within a abort tlmo
tho infant became sickly and lost
flesh. Treatment for Indigestion was
given, but It did not reach the seat
of tho trouble. Then an X-ray exami
nation disclosed a black spot on tho
stomach, and an operation resulted
In a frog weighing inoro than half
a pound being taken from tho Infant.
Doctors who operated said thoy be
lieved that when tho child drank hy
drant wutcr at Syracuso a tadpole was
taken Into the stomach, and that tho
Robbed the "Cop."
Elkhart, Ind. While- Abraham
Poarco, a policeman, slept In hlB home,
a thief with pliers turned tho koy on
tho Insldo of tho door, entered tho
homo aud got $100 worth of Mrs.
Pearco's Jowolry.
frog developed and lived on milk,
which waB given tho patient In largo
quantities. Following the operation
tho child Improved rapidly, aud com
plete recovery was practically as
sured, whon pneumonia developed,
causing death.
T&fe &1CK Zf fi&ed; MZmZJJZ
ROOABLY no American city has quite
tho marked Individuality that Boston
ttnnnta nt nr,t. . I. I. nt...... n
Zjy ress and improvement has done but
Ks 1 Httlo to obliterate Its picturesque as-
I'uulo, lut iuuii uiiiiquui mile uiu uuiy
thankful One of them, Edwnrd M.
Bacon, has written a book about It.
He calls It "Rambles Around Old Bos
ton." The publishers are Little,
Brown & Co.
Wo wero three a visiting Englishmen, the
ArtlBt, and Antiquary, says Mr. Bacon. The Artist
and Antiquary were the gossiping guides; the
Engllshment the guided. The Englishman would
"do" Old Boston exclusively. He had "done" tho
blond of the Old and Now, and now would hark
back to tho Old and review It In leisurely strolls
among Its landmarks. He had asked the Artist
and Antiquary to pilot him companionably, and
they would meet his wishes, and gladly, for the
personal conducting of a stranger so saturated
with Old Boston lore as he appeared to be
could not be other than agreeable.
Beyond the few measured historic memorials,
the landmarks he especially would seek were
many of them long ngo annihilated in thoso re
pented marches of progress or of Improvement
common to all growing cities, or effaced in tho
manifold markings over of the topography of the
Old Town, than which none other in Christendom
has undergone more. Still, If not the identical
things, tho sites of a select number of them could
bo Identified for him, and their story or legend
rehearsed, while the Artist's poncll would repro
duce yet remaining bits of the Old Jumbled with
the New.
Properly our initial ramble was within the nar
row bounds of the beginnings of tho Puritan cap
ital, the "metropolis of tho wilderness," hanging
on the harbor's edge of tho little "pear-shaped,"
behllled peninsula, for which tho founders, those
"woll-oducatod, polite persons of good estate,"
took Old Boston In England for Its name and
London for its model. The Lincolnshire borough
on tho Fltham was to bo. Its prototype only In
nnmo. Tho founders would havo their capital
town be" to New England In Its humble way what
London was to Old England. So Boston' was
builded, a likeness In minlaturo to London.
This London look and Old England aspect, wo
romarked, remained to and through the Revolu
tion; and In a shadowy way remains today, as our
guest would see. It was indeed a natural family
likeness, for, as the record shows, Boston from
tho beginning waB the central point of tho most
thoroughly English community In the New World.
Thoro was no infusion of a foreign element of
consequence until the end of the colony period
and the close of tho seventeenth century. Then
tho French Huguenots had begun to appear and
mingle with the native Puritans. But while early
in the province period this element became suffi
cient in numbers to Bet up a church of its own
and to bring about some softening of the old
austerities of the Puritan town life, it did not
impair tho English stamp. These French Hugue
nots easily assimilated In the community, which
welcomed them, and In time these competent
artisans and morchants, the Bowdoins, the
Fanoulls, Chardons, Slgournoys, Reveres, Moll
nouxes, Qreonleafs, became almost as English, or
American English, as the rest. Nor was tho
stamp Impaired by the Infusion of Scotch and
Irish Into tho colony In Increasing numbers dur
ing the latter half of tho seventeenth and the
early eighteenth centuries; nor by tho floating
population of various nationalities naturally
drawn to a port of consequenco, ns Boston was,
tho chief In tho colonies from tho outset. Those
floaters coming and going merely lent variety
and plcturesquenosa or brought temporary trou
bles to tho sober streets. Up to tho Revolution
tho population remained homogeneous, with tho
dominating influences distinctively of English
lineage When with tho Revolution tho English
yoko was thrown off and tho "Bostoneers" tore
down every emblem of royalty and every sign of
a Tory and burned them In a huge bonflro In
front of tho old statehouau aud afterward re
nnmod King Btreet "State" and Queon street
"Court," they could not blot out Its English mark.
And well Into tho nineteenth century, when In
1822 Boston emerged from a town to a city, tho
population was still "singularly homogeneous;"
It camo to cltyhood slowly and somewhat re
luctantly after ropeated attempts, tho first early
In tho colony period. Edmund Qulncy In his
fascinating life of his distinguished father, Joslah
Qulncy, writing of tho municipality in 1823 dur
ing Joslah Qulncy's first administration as mayor
he was tho city's second mayor observes: "Tho
great Irish and German emigration had not then
set In. Tho city was eminently English In its
character and appearance, and probably no town
of Its size In England had a population of such
unmixed English descent ns tho Boston of that
day It was Anglls Ipsls Angllor moro English
than tho English thomsolves. Tho Inhabitants of
New England nt that tlmo wero doscended, with
scarcely any ndmlxturo of forolgn blood, from the
Puritan emigration of the seventeenth century."
As tho foundors and settlers brought with them
all their boloved old homo characteristics and
would transplant them, as was posslblo, In tholr
now homo, so wo find tholr earliest "crooked
llttlo strootB" with old London names. So tho
ourllor social life, grim though It was with lta
Puritanical tlngo, Is aeon to havo boen old English
In a smaller and narrower way.
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And today, as we ramble about the shadowy
precincts of tho Colony Town, we chance de
lectably here and there upon a twisting street yei
holding lta first given London name a London
like old court, byway, or alley; a Londonish foot
passago making short cut between thoroughfares;
an arched way through buildings in old London
stylo. So, too, wo find yet lingering, though long
since In dlsgulso, an old London fashioned under
ground passago or two between courts or one
time habitations suggestlvo of smuggling days
and of romance. Such is that grim, underground
passage between old Providence court and Har
vard place issuing on Washington street oppo
site the old South Meeting house, which starts
in the court near a plumbing shop and runs along
side the hugo granite foundations of the rear
wall of the old Provlnco house, seat of the royal
governors, now long gone save its side wall of
Holland brick, which still remains intact. This
passage must havo eluded Hawthorne, else surely
It would have figured In one of his incomparable
"legends" of this rare place of provincial pomp
and elegance. Then there was, until recent years,
that other and more significant passage, opening
from this one, and extending under the Provlnco
house and the highway In front, eastward toward
the sea. Gossip tradition haB it or some latter
day 'discoverer has fancied that by this passago
some of Howe's men made their escape to tho
waterfront at tho evacuation. Others call It
smuggler's passage. In that day tho water camo
up Milk street to tho present Library square and
southward to old Church Green, which used to bo
at the Junction of Summer and Bedford streets.
An explorer of this passage tho engineer of the
tavern which now occupies the site of the Prov
lnco house orchard" (a genuino antiquary this
englneor, who during service with tho tavern
from Its erection has delved deep Into colonial
hletory of this neighborhood) Bays that Its outlet
apparently was somowhoro near Church Green.
Its was closed up In part in late years by build
ing operations, and further by tho construction
of tho Washington street tunnel.
Tho peninsula as the colonists found it wo re
called from tho familiar description of the local
historians. It was a neck of land Jutting out at
the bottom of Massachusetts bay with a fine
harbor on Its sea side; at Us back, the Charles
river, uniting at its north end with tho Mystic
rlvor as It enters tho harbor from the north Bide
of Charlestown; Us whole territory only about
four miles In circuit; itu less than eight hundred
acreB comprising several abrupt elevations, with
valloys between. Tho loftiest elevation was the
three-peaked hill In Its heart, which gave It Its
first English name of Trlmountaln, and became
Beacon, on tho river side; tho next In height, on
the harbor front, wore tho north and south promon
tories of a great covo, which became respectively
Copp's hill and Fort hill.
Tho town was begun round about the Market
placo, which was at tho head of tho present State
streot, whore Is now the old Btatehouse. About
the Markot placo tho first homos wero built and
tho first highways struck out. Thence meandered
tho earliest of thoso legendary "cow paths," tho
lanes from which evolved tho "crooked little
streets" leading to tho homo lots and gardens
of Bottlers. State streot and Washington streot
wore tho first highways, tho one "Tho Great
Streot to tho Sea." the othor "Tho High Wayo to
Roxberrie," whore tho peninsula Joined tho main
land, perhaps along Indian trails. At tho outsot
tho "High Wayo" reached only ns far ns School
est rcp- ckzj!&p& a&&:
and Milk streets, whero Is now tho old South
Meeting house, and thU was early called Corn
hill. Soon, however, a further advanco was mado
to Summer, this extension later being called
Marlborough street, In commemoration of tho vic
tory of Blenheim. In a fow years a third street
was added, toward Essex and Boylston streets,
named Newbury. The "sea" then came up In tho .
Great cove from tho harbor fairly close to the 4Q
present squaro of Stato streot, for high-water
mark was nt tho present Kllby street on tho
South side and Merchants row on tho North aide.
The Great covo swept Inside of these streets.
Merchants row followed the shore northward to
a smaller cove, stretching from where is now
North Mnrket streot and the Qulncy market (thd
flrst Mayor Qulncy's monument) nnd over tho
Bite of Fanoull hall to Dock square, which be
came tho Town dock. Other pioneer highways
wore tho nucleus of the present Tremont street,
originally running along the northeastern spurs
of tho then broad-spreading Beacon hill and pass
ing through the Common; Hanover street, at first
a narrow lane, from what is now Scollay square,
and Ann, afterward North streot, from Dock
square, both leading to the ferries by Copp's hill,
whore tradition says tho Indians had their ferry.
Court street was first Prison lane, from the Mar
ket place to the prison, a gruesome dungeon,
early sot up, whero now stands the modern City
Hall annex. In Hb day it harbored pirates and
Quakers, and Hawthorne fancied it for the open
ing scenes of his "Scarlet Letter." School street
took Its name from the first schoolhouse nnd tho
first school, whence sprang the Boston Latin
school, which felicitates itself that It antedates
tho university at Cambridge and "dandled Har
vard college on lta knee." Milk street, first "Fort
lane," was the first way to Fort hill on tho harbor
front. Summer street, first "Mylne lane." led to
"Widow Tuthill's "Windmill," near where was
Church Green, up to which the water camo.
"Cow lano," now High street, led from Church
Green, or Mill lano, to the foot of Fort hill. Essex
street was originally at its eastern end part of
tho first cartway to the Neck and Roxbury, a
beach road that ran along tho south shore of the
South cove, another expansive Indentation, ex
tending from tho harbor on the south side of
Fort hill to the Neck. Boylston streot, originally
"Frog lano," and holding fast to this bucolic aj
pellatlon into the nineteenth century was a
Bwampy way running westward along the south
side of Boston Common toward the open Back bay
the back basin of the Charles thon flowing up
to a pebbly beach at the Common's western edge
and to the present Park square.
HereK then, on tho levels about the Groat covo,
In the form of a crescent, facing tho sea and
backed by the three-peaked hill, tho town was
established.
The first occupation was within the scant ter
ritory bounded, generally speaking, on the east
side by Stato street at the high-water line of
tho Great covo; northerly by Morchants row
around to near tho site of Fanoull hall; north
westerly by Dock Bquare and Hanover street;
westerly by the great hill and Tremont Btreot;
southerly by School and Milk streets; and Milk
street again to the water, then working up toward
tho present Liberty square at the Junction of
Kllby, water and Batterymarch streets. Soon,
however, tho limits expanded, reaching southward
to Summer street, and not long after to Essex
nnd Boylston streets; eastward, to tho harbor
front at and around Fort hill; westward and
northwestward, about another broad covo this
tho North cove, later tho "Mill cove" with busy
mills about It, an Indentation on the north of
Beacon hill by tho widening of the Charles river
at its mouth, and covering the space now Hay
market square; and northward, over tho pe
ninsula's north end, which early" became the seat
of gentility.
No further expansion of moment was made
through tho colony period, and tho extension was
slight during the Provlnco period. Bencon hill,
except Its slopes, remained till after tho Revolu
tion In Its primitive state, lta long westorn reach
a place of pastures over which the cows roamed,
and the barberry and the wild rose grow.
The foot of the Common on the margin of the
glinting Back bay was tho town's west boundary
till after the Revolution and into the nineteenth
century. Till then tho tide of tho Back bay
flowed up tho present Beacon street, some 200
foot abovo the present Charles Btreot. Tho lown'B
southern limit, except a few houses toward Mio
Neck on the fourth link of the highway to Rox
bury (called Orange streot in honor of tho house
or Orange), was still Essox and Boylston streets.
Tho ono landway to tho mainland, till after tho
second decade of the nineteenth century, remained
tho long, lean Nock to Roxbury. Tho only water
way, at tho beginning of tho town, was by means
of ships, boats, afterward by scows. No bridge
from Boston was built till the Revolution was two
years past.
So tho "storied town" remained, till tho cIobo
of tho historic chnptor, a llttlo ono, tho built-up
territory of which could easily bo covered In a
stroll of a day or two.
From its establishment as tho capital Boston's
history was so Interwoven with that of tho Colony
that in England tho Colony camo early to bo desig
nated the "Bostoneers," and the charter which
tho founders brought with them, and for tho
retention of which tho colonists wero In an
almost constant struggle, was termed tho "Bos
ton Charter "
Steals Auto; Can't Run It.
Roslyn, N. Y. Bocauso ho could not
operate It, a thief who stolo Mrs.
Goorge E. McLean's new automobile
was forced to abandon tho machine
after going half a mllo.
TOOK DELIGHT IN ARTIFICE
Doctor Johnson's Comment on the Pe
culiar Characteristics of Alex
ander Pope.
Somo of tho cleverest oplgraramatlc
hits against a man lacking In direct
ness of Epecch, manner and purpose
wero thoso mado at tho exponso of
Alexander Popo by one of hla not un
friendly biographers, tho famous Doc
tor Johnson, without referenco to
whom It seems almost impossible to
dip Into tho literary history of the
times In which ho lived. Tho charac
ter of Popo wbb not wldoly different
from that of somo men who had gone
boforo him, und It is poBslblo that
after him camo men whoso characters
resembled his, though, of course, bis
talents were tboao that aro not dupli
cated in a century and perhaps not
In centuries. Somo points In bis
atrango character, a perplexing blend
of goodness and badness, as defined by
Doctor Johnson, would seem to fit
some of tho small politicians of the
present day, If not also some of the
mou and oven women In social life.
Doctor Johnson, while discussing
the person and habits of tho bard of
Twickenham, to which placo Popo re
moved from Chlswlck after the liter
ary and pecuniary success of bis
"Iliad" and "Odyssey," wroto:
"In all his Intercourse with man
kind he had great dollght In artifice
and endeavored to attain all his pur
poses by Indirect and unsuspected
methods. He hardly drank tea with
out a stratagem. He practiced hla
arts on such small occasions that Lady
Bollngbroko used to say ho played
the politician about cabbages and tur- i
nips." 4,
Naturally a Fighter.
"He la some white hope, Isn't ho?"
"Indeed ho is, but ho doeBn't de
servo any apodal credit for being auch
a fighter."
"Why not?"
"His mother named him Montmor
ency and kept his hair In ringlets un
til bo was fourteen. Ho had to ficht
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