SILVER SERVICE FOR BATTLESHIP FLORIDA
Free with
Mother's Oats
THE $10,000 silver service for tho battleship Florida, tho gift of tlio people of Its narae-stnto, va3 presented
to the olllcers of tho vessel recently at Pensacola. The popular subscrlptfon for its purchaso was Increased
by a generous appropriation by tho legislature.
LONDON'S
Striking Feature of Night Life in
Soho District.
Gambling Is Protected In the Tender
loin of England's Capital
Thirty-Two Card Faro a
Favorite-Game.
London. Tho lid Is off In tho no
torious Soho district of London. In
tho last few months dozens of gam
bling Joints and oft color night clubs
havo opened and they are doing a
wide open business without police in
terference. It may bo explained for tho benefit
of those unacquainted with London
that Soho is tho Tenderloin of tho city.
Situated In tho heart of tho west end.
Its broad streets abound in theaters
and restaurants nnd arc at tho same
timo Tenderloin promenades. Inspec
tor Schmlttberger viewed this Btream
ono night in company with a reporter
and exclaimed. "Geo! Wo wouldn't
Btand this for a minute In Now York."
Back of these broad thoroughfares
aro hundreds of mean narrow streets,
tho hotbeds of tho Latin anarchists
nnd tho abiding placo of tho scum of
Latin and Teuton Europe. On tho
police records Soho has a bad namo.
and ono Scotland Yard inspector in a
police investigation held a fow years
ngo said that ono of tho streets In
Soho from tho criminal standpoint
was tho worst in London.
It is practically an unknown dis
trict to tho real Londoners, who are
only acquainted with Its boundaries of
theator land or who. perhaps, pone
trato a small way into tho district In
tho search for the cheap yet excellent
restaurants which abound therein.
Gambling Joints nnd off color club3
hnvo always existed In this district.
About a dozon years ago London was
wido open, but then a moral wave
Bwept in, tho pollco got busy and tho
lid was put on and sealed. Sovoral
spasmodic efforts to pry tho lid off
havo been mado Ineffectually since
then, but a fow months ngo tho word
went around that, provided thero was
no shouting tho word from tho house
tops, and provided certain formalities
ZOO ELEPHANTS LIKE BEER
Nelly, Aged Eight. Gains Fame as
Champion Drinker of Amber Fluid
In London Zoo.
London. Tho elephants at tho zoo
now drink beer. It Is as a special
mark of confldenco that tho elephants
on their rounds with tholr children
passongors nro allowed to stop at the
refreshment kiosks to seo If thero 1b
anything for them In tho alcoholic
lino.
All tho ends of bottles, all the un
linished glasses go to mako up this
special allowance, nnd each of tho ani
mals knows when it is its turn, for a
half-gallon or so.
Tho champion drinker is, and to say,
a lady elephant, named Nelly, eight
years old. Sho took a bottlo ot Bass
from tho hand of tho correspondent,
while Jess, aged flvo, and Tho Lodger,
aged eight, looked regretfully.
But, perhaps tho most accomplished
of all Is tho anonymous Afrlcnn ele
phant farthest up tho row. Tho keep
er hold a tlt-blt beforo him. "Get
round!" ho said, and Jumbo gravely
performed a series of stops all around
himself in perfect waltz time. "Now
rovoroo!" said tho keepor, and Jumbo
"roversed."
Somo pieces were dropped In tho ln
closuro Just out of his roach. "Blow
thorn to tho gentleman," said tho
keoper, "and ho'llglvo them to you to
oat." Jumbo blew Uko n wild hurri
cane and tho bucuit went flying
acrosa tho floor, and was duly re
trieved. Then camo tho best trick of all. A
man throw a penny Into tho stall
Jumbo heard it drop, fished for it,
found it, nud gravely returned It, not
to tho ownor, but to tho keoper!
LID IS OFF
wcro observed, business could bo
done.
Now there aro dozens of places
whero tho tiger can bo bucked. Ad
mission is not difflcult to any of theso
places If ono knows tho ropes.
Baccarat and other poker aro play
ed. Tho poker Is of the continental
variety, played with 02 cards, all be
low tho soven being eliminated. Tho
valuo of hands In this game Is some
what different from tho 52 enrd gamo,
as three of a kind beat a straight and
a flush beats a full house.
Faro is tho great and tho favorito
gamo at all these Joints. Again It is
tho Gorman or continental variety, not
tho American, that is played.
Thirty-two cards aro used and no
box; tho banker dealing out of hand.
Thero is no elaborate layout; in most
cases four matches sufficing. Theso
aro. laid In front of tho dealer and
each end of a match represents a
card. Tho bets are mado by placing
the money at tho end of the match
which represents tho card backed. It
13 a straight proposition to win or
loso, tho punter betting that his card
will win. tho banker that It will loso.
Thero aro no furbelows of coppering
bets or naming tho sequenco of the
last card.
This gamo of faro as played In Lon
don Is of excessivo simplicity and of
excessive crookedness. An export
dealer can mako tho cards do almost
anything for him. Tho majority of
punters aro very sharp eyed and with
a gang of regular players tho attempts
at crooked playing nro infrequent, but
lot a tenderfoot butt Into tho . game
and ho has no cbanco to win.
Tho proprietors of the Joints don't
run the gamo. Tho hank is put up nt
auction, ns at baccarat, the man will
ing to put tho largest amount of
money taking tho bnnk. Tho proprie
tors mako their profits by charging
so much an hour for tho bank, tho
prlco varying with tho size of tho
bank, tho minimum being $10 an hour,
pnyablo In advance
Tho popularity of this form of faro
Is widespread throughout tho Latin
and Teuton population of Soho, and
at tho blggor of theso gambling clubs
thousands of dollars nro won and lost
nightly.
Open Schools
Chicago Buildings Thrown Open to
Public for Dancing, Picture
Shows and Games.
Chicago. The board of education's
plan for turning the schools over to
tho peoplo for social amirSoment on
tho winter ovenlngs was inaugurated
hero. Four school buildings wero
openod between 7:30 and 9:30 o'clock.
At each thoro was a largo audlenco,
nnd at each tho cxperimeat proved a
success.
In launching its Innovation tho Chi
cago school board's object was to do
something that will counteract tho
ovlls of tho dnnco hall and the Im
properly managed moving picture
Bhow. HundredH of hoys nnd young
girls who otherwise would huvo had
to seek recreation In the streots took
part In tho fostlvltiea.
Workers of tho Juvonlle Protective
league, under tho supervision of tho
principals, had chargo of tho young
sters. Tho snme official chaperons
will ho on hnnd each Monday and
Thursday evening, tho olllolal ".social
center nights," from now until spring.
Tholr Instructions aro to ho na incon
spicuous as 1h compatlblo wlthl good
ordor and with ovoryhody'a havlns a
good tlmo. Pollcomon havo been as
signed to each school to maintain or
der If It Is necessary.
At thrco of tho schools' thero was
dancing. It was stated by somo of
tho principals that tho Boclal center
plan would not bo a success In tholr
districts unlcBB dancing Is permitted.
At all of tho schools thero wcro games,
gymnastics nnd music. Preliminary
steps wcro taken also to organtzo
A hordo of American grafters and
crooks got In tho habit of resorting
to n certain night club. Scotland Yard
kept tho gaming under survcillauco
and planned to dlsposo of them by
raiding this club, which would furnish
a decent excuse In court to ask that
each of tliein bp sent to prison for
thrco mouths as a suspicious charac
ter. In addition to being fined lor bo
Ing In a gambling Joint. Thlrty-flvo
of theso "International merchants," as
Pat Sheody was wont to designato
them, wore thoroughly enjoying them
selves when tho word wns passed to
get out quickly and quietly In twos
and threes.
"Don't rush out In a bunch, as thero
Is half an hour," said tho tipster.
Half an hour later tho pollco de
scended on tho place, but tho birds
hud flown.
BIRD MAKES LONG FLIGHT
Member of Arctic Feathered Species,
Found at Sagaponack and Is
Identified by Zoo Expert.
Now York. Gordon B. Babbitts, an
operator nt tho Marconi wlroloss tele
graph Btatlon at Sagaponack, N.
picked up from tho rond near tho sta
tion a llvo bird, bndly woundod, or a
species so raro and unknown In that
locality that no ono could namo it.
It wns acnt for identification to tho
Zoological Park In tho Bronx, whero
It was declared to bo n dovolcle, or
Greenland dovo, also erroneously
called tho "llttlo auk," a bird of tho
arctic regions.
Only on very raro occasions, and
usually in midwinter, has this Bpccloa
straggled as far south as thin const,
but in tho arctic It rangoa northwest
ward as far as Molvlllo Island of tho
great arctic archipelago.
Tho dovcklo Is about tho slzo of n
teal duck, plump of body, black abovo
and whlto underneath, and tho feath
ers of tho forehoad extend far down
over tho beak. Thoso who aro prono
to predict long nnd sovoro wlntdra
from tho nctlonB of animals will read
ily accept tho appoaranco of tho dovo
klo on this coast, far In ndvanco of
winter, as n sure Blgn of cold wcatlii
er.
Good Business-Investment.
"Politeness nnd civility aro tho best
capital over Invested In business."
P. T. Barnum.
Are Success
dramatic clubB. At ono Bchool thero
woro moving pictures.
Tho celobrants ranged from M to 20
years old. Tho schools, however, nro
to bo opened to tho fathers and moth
ers. Efforts will ho mado to form
both men nnd women's clubs.
Luck in Saving Horseshoes.
New Ila.ven. Picking up horseshoes
and saving them hna brought Mrs.
Adolph Miller of this city a fortuno
or $&u,uuu, accoraing to hor state
ment Mrs. Miller haB JuBt received
news from Hnmburg, Germany, that
by tho death or hor uncle, Adolph
Rholf, a German officer, alio hnB been
left $50,000 to do with as sho pleases,
nccordlng to tho wording of tho will.
All Mrs. Miller has to do Is to go to
Hamburg and get tho fortuno.
"It all comes from saving horse
shoes," said Mrs. Miller, ns sho point
ed with prldo to a row of them over
tho front door of her residence.
"It Ib an old Haying that for each
nail in tho horseshoe you will receive
somo tlmo In your llfo $1,000. I do
holiovo that, for I found it to ho true,
ovory hit of It. I havo about twenty
shoos now nnd that makes about fifty
or Blxty nails.'
Rats String Wires.
San Diego, Cal. John Klncald, fore
man for tho San Diego Qna and ElcO'
trio company, tried rats in laying
wires in conduits. By putting cheeso
at tho end of a stretch of vitrified pipo
he found tho rata would draw through
tho conduit string, to which ho had at
tached tho wlro ho deulred to lay,
Doctor Chokes a Rabid Dog to Death
I COULD
oo TH'S
ALL PAY
veterinarian of tho health depart
ment, Is nursing a couple of Bltghtly
strained wrists that havo bothered
him n little since tho day when ho
wu:i obliged to uso nil tho strength
that wns in thorn to strnnglo n rabid
Boston bull terrier that was getting
ready to prosont tho doctor with au
attack of hydrophobia.
Tho health dopartmont got a hurry
call on tho phono from Mrs. Anna
Hatch to tho effect that a mad dog
had takon possession of hor npnrt
ment, and as she had loft some dlshos
cooking on tho stove, sho would bo
greatly obliged If boiho one woro sent
at onco to romovo tho intruder.
Dr. Ackerman was given tho aBBlgn
ment, and when ho got to Mrs. Hatch's
placo sho told him that tho dog had
issionary Work
IIICAGO. A great rollglous move
ment haB boon started In this city
by tho Presbyterian Church Extension
board, nnd Its oxamplo In llkoly to bo
Imitated In other big cities of tho
world. Tho Extension board has ask
ed for 1,000 volunteora to carry tho
message of tho Gospel to tho nntlveB
of mnny dlstnnt InudB to followers of
Confucius, of ZoroaBter, of Mohammed
and of mnny pagan gods. Thoso work
ers nro asked to glvo their tlmo with
out recompense, other thnn tho con
sciousness of work well dono. They
are expected to enter Into dark plnceB
to spread tho light, bravo pestllenco,
honl tho sick, and establish places for
physical and mental recreation, whero
nothing but drudgery nnd enro 1b now
known.
But with all this thero aro fow dan
gers. None of tho vomnteors win do
eaten by cannibals; none will bo
staked out on tho desert snnds to dlo
of heat and thirst; nono will bo cruci
fied, burned nt tho ntako or Impaled.
For all will do tholr work right hero
n Chicago.
Modern Industrialism has brought
all tho world to Chicago. Almost every
religion under tho Bun Is represented
horo, nnd it will bo tho work of theso
volunteers to Chrlatlnnlzo tho resi
dents nnd especially tho children-
of tho Persian colony, tho Chluoso col-
Boys Risk
Lives
HELP
BROOKLYN, N. Y. Jack London
probably novor Jieard of Eddlo
Deorlng of Brooklyn or "Darky Sam"
of Coney Island, but they desorvo to
tnko rank with somo of tho heroes that
London has mado famous, for they did
somo extraordinary Btunta in rescu
ing flvo men from tho launch Sterling
of Astoria, which gdt Into Borloua
trouble off tho old Iron pier just be
foro sunset.
Neither Eddlo nor Sam could Bwlm,
but when they saw tho launch drift
ing helplessly In tho rough sea about
a half mllo off Bhore, and Bnw tho oc
cupants waving their nrinB nnd shout
ing for help, they did what heroes ubu
aly do In bucIi cases llko that. Thoy
took n long chanco and camo out of
tho adventuro soaked to tho skin, but
with flying colora.
The. first thing thoy did wnB to try
to get a boat, but according to tho
story told by Deoring thoy vlaltod
A Plague of Rats
WINNIPEG, Man. Tho brown rat'
has reached Winnipeg. According
to tho statistics of tho dopartmont of
agriculture of tho province thoro is
an area of 00 miles long abutting tho
United StnteB on Its northern frontier
and CO miles wldo In which tho rata
havo made their apponrance.
Mr. Golden, tho deputy minister, es
timates that tho damago dono this
year by tho brown rnt Is $1,000,000,
and It will proportionately incroaso un
less tho pooplo genornlly awaken to
the RoriotiBncHH of tho situation.
According to tho deputy mlnlBtor,
tho rats in tho province movo in a
radius of 15 miles each yoar, and ho
has compiled mnny valunblo stntlBlicn
relating to tho rat. Two yoars ago
tho department conducted n Borioa of
Investigations and produced virus that
It was thought would eliminate tho
post. Thero was oulto n considerable
amount of Interost at first, nnd many
applications wero mado for tho virus.
lloportB Indicate that thousands of
rats wero destroyed by its uso, but
that public interest lagged after a
whllo, and no systematic method now
4 r...r-v
& mi) 2&mA
crawled Into a closot, thnt sho had
Bhut tho door and hnd locked tho cren
turo in.
Dr. Ackorntan unlocked tho door nnd
whistled. Thoro was an Instant re
sponse on tho part of tho Boston bull,
which had bb much froth on Ills faco
as adorns tho top of a summer Bchoon
or at Coney. The dog'a mouth was
wldo open nnd his biting apparatus
was in flno order.
Tho veterinarian mot him hnlf way,
nnd with a knack learned by long ox-
perlenco, grabbed tho boast tightly
about tho neck with both hands. Ho
prossed both thumbs carefully on tho
Jugular vein nnd tho windpipe and
hold omgrlmly, urged on by tho frlght
oneil screams of Mrs. Hntch, who
pleaded with him not to let go.
It was all over In loss than flvo
minutes, nnd the dog wns stretched
out on tho kllchen floor In a perfectly
hnrmloss condition. Tho romntns, froth
nnd all, wero sent to tho rosonrch lalP
oratory In Mnnhattan, and a report ro
colvod by tho Brooklyn olllco of tho
health department confirmed Dr. Ack
ormnn's diagnosis that tho dog hnd
rabies.
in Chicago's Slums
eWVJ PLENTY OF
WORK FO
MISSIONARY
ony, tho Arabian colony nnd all tho
other colonloB of foreigners which
go to mako. up tho cosmopolitan city.
Tho nppeal for workers to labor in
this Hold Is mado on tho ground that
unless American Christian Ideals gov
orn tho lives of tho foreign born, tho
IdcalB of Americans will In n gonorn
tlon bo supplanted by thoso of Europe
or Asia, bccauBo tho children of for
eign pnrentngo far outnumber tho
Amoricnn born nnd will in a genera'
tlon outvote them.
Already thoro nro on tho staff of
tho extension board G80 voluntoer
workors, whllo CO others nro omployod
na exports In conducting tho various
klndB of work ovnngollstlc, Blblo
study, gymnastic, night Bchool classos
In manual training, Bowing nnd Eng
lish for thoso omployod during tho
day, and klndorgnrtons for tho chil
dren In tho dnytlmo. Thoro Is a vast
flold for tho work or tho missionaries
in tho congostcd districts or tho city,
whero tho bulk or tho aliens llvo.
to Save Fishermen
nearly every pavilion from Balmor's to
Stcoploehaso Park without success.
Thoso who owned boatB refused to
loud them. They roturned to tho spot
whero tho bont was plunging in tho
waves, and found an old Hat-bottomed
rowboat, half burled in tho Band. With
two boards as oara thoy paddlod out
to tho Sterling. Two trlpa woro mado,
nnd nil handB, oxcopt Cnpt. FlBhor,
who docllnod to abandon Iub craft,
wero takon to tho beach. Finally tho
pollco boat camo to tho scene and tow
ed tho Sterling to Astoria.
Captain FIshor had taken out a fish
ing party, including Charles Borklns
nnd JuIIub Gubo of Manhattan, Albert
Potoraon of Brooklyn and Loulu
Gron of tho samo placo. Tho sixth
man was Gcorgo Edwards, who acted
as onglneor. As they woro making
for homo tho mnchlnory broko down,
tho boat began to loak and tho en
gine got frozon up so thnt it would
not work.
Deorlng said ho was glad to havo
boon nblo to help In the work of res-
cuo, but ho would not go through tho
experience ngaln for $1,000.
"Not ono o' tho blokes oven Bald
'thnnk you,' " was his comment oa
tho behavior of thoso who had boon
aavod by hlmsolf and "Darky Sam."
Afflicts Winnipeg
seems to ho followed by tho farmers.
Minister Golden conducted somo In
tcrcstlng experiments nt Gretna, I
town a fow mlloa from tho frontier of
tho United Btatos Inst yoar, to dotor-
mlno tho amount of food tho rat
would consumo a day, and at tho camo
tlmo to tost tho vlruB. Tho rats woro
caught and ono of them rccolvod nn
Injection of tho virus. Within two days
it died, and tho other rnt, not having
boon provldod with food, proceeded
to dovour Its dead comrndo. Within
24 hours it had consumed all of tho
dead rat with tho oxcoptlon of half
nn inch of tho tail, and It succumbed
within a fow houra to tho polflon
which had been Injected into tho other
rat.
Jdamace.
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AT THE STATION HOUSE.
Judgo Why did you club this man
bo Boveroly?
Olllccr Out of sympathy, yor honor.
IIo's a poor lonely old bachelor who
has nobody olso to club him.
No Claim for Reciprocation.
Jack Beeves tells this on Follx Mc
Carthy, who used to drlvo a night
hack beforo ho retired to tho presi
dency ot a refectory, whero tho goods
nro sold from tho wood:
"I didn't Boo you nt Murphy's fu-
nornl," said an acquaintance to Mc
Carthy. "What's tho reason you didn't
go?"
"Why should 17" returned Mo-
Carthy, somewhat touclflly. "Sure,
Murphy nlvor attended my funeral."
Now York Telegraph. .
IN MATCHTOWN.
Fortunately no Faith Was Required,
For 8ho Had None.
"I had no faith whatevor.'but on the
ndvlco of n hnlo, hearty old gontleman
who spoko from experience, I began to
ubo Grape-Nuts about 2 yoarB ago,"
writes an Ohio woman, who says aho
Ib 40, Is known to bo fair, fo.nd ndmlta
that sho is growing plump on tho now.
diet.
"I shall not try to tell you how I suf
fered for yoara from a dorangod atom-
ach that rejected almost all sorts of
!ood, and dlgosted what llttlo waB forc
ed upon It only at tho cost of great
distress and pain.
"I wna treated by many different
doctorB and they gnvo mo many dlffor
ont medicines, and I oven Bpont Bovor
al years in oxllo from my homo, think
ing chnngo ot acono might do mo good.
You may Judgo of tho gravity of ray
condition when I toll you I was somo
tlmoB compollod to uso morphlno for
weeks nt a tlmo.
"For two years I havo eaten Grapo
Nuts food at least twico a duy and I
can now say that 1 havo perfect
health. I havo takon no medicine Id
that tlmo Grapo-Nuts has dono It nil.
I can oat absolutely anything I wish,
without stomach distress.
"I am a businosB woman and can
walk my 2 or 3 milea a day and feel
hotter for doing bo. I havo to uso
brains In my work, nnd It is romnrk
ablo how quick, nlert and tireless my
mental powers havo become." Namo
given by Postum Co., Battlo Crook,
Mich.
"Thoro'a a. reason," and It la explain
ed in tho llttlo book, "Tho Road to
Wollvl.llo," In pkga.
Kver rend tlie ubove letter! A new
one nppeura from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full ot huuiaa
Interest.
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