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HOBEItr HICHKNS
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ENS the Eng
lish novelist
whose latest book
The Call of the
Blood Is much
talked about has
for a man of forty
innde a long record
as a writer Sev
eral of his stories
have made un
usual hits among
them in addition
to The Call of the Blood the story
of the Sahara desert called The Gar
den of Allah The Woman With the
Fan Felix and The Green Carna
tion with which he stirred London
about a dozon years ago As a boy he
was devoted to music though he early
manifested a distinct gift for writing
After a course at the Royal College of
Music he became a lyric writer and
produced a large number of verses
which became familiar with musical
settings Speaking of his aim as a
novelist n critic writes In spite of the
fact that Mr Illchens always seems
to wear very strong spectacles and
even then to have a partial vision we
believe that Ills genuine aim is to bo
scientific and to write the absolute
truth of what he sees
It is significant that just as war talk
has begun between Japan and the
United States the mikado should have
bestowed medals of honor upon twenty-nine
Americans who participated in
the Russo Japanese war The highest
of these honors goes to Dr Anita New
comb McGee who has been awarded a
medal of the sixth class of the Impe
rial order of the crown The other
medals bestowed upon Americans are
of the seventh class Dr McGee Is
one of the most learned and accom
plished of the ladies of America and
at the same time is one of the most
charming in face and manners Though
she has achieved so much distinction
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NUItSE IN JAPAN
she has not lost the graces of her sex
Is devoted to her family and knows
how to attire herself in becoming
gowns She is a daughter of the noted
nstrononier Professor Simon Xew
eonib and her husband is the eminent
ethnologist Professor W J McGee
She was born in Washington in 1SG4
and studied at Newnham college Cam
bridge England University of Geneva
Columbia university and Johns Hop
kins University hospital She served as
hospital nurse and practiced medicine
and when the Spanish war broke out
she was put in charge of the army
nurse corps consisting of about 2000
nurses In this position she held the
rank of acting assistant surgeon and
was the first woman to be sworn In as
an officer of the United States army
When war was declared between Ja
pan and Russia she went to the orient
under the auspices of the Red Cross
and was appointed by the Japanese
minister of war Kangofu Kantoku or
supervisor of nurses When she and
her corps of nurses reached Japan they
were received like princesses and
greeted with enthusiastic banzais by
the thousands of Japanese who lined
the streets through which they were
escorted
Charles Stewart Smith the New York
business man who is one of the back
ers of the monorail road from New
York to Newark N J was a member
of the New York rapid transit commis
sion which went out of existence on
the passage of the
utilities act and has
studied the subject
of transit for many
years He was for
seven years presi
dent of the New
York chamber of
commerce declined
in 1S94 to have his
name considered for
the mayoralty and
in 1S97 was chair
man of the Citizens
Union executive
committee in the
Seth Low eainnaien
WmMSm
chaiues stewart
He has been
smith
fied with numerous
reform movements and is considered
one of New Yorks first citizens
Mr Smith is of English descent and
his family settled in the valley of the
Connecticut in early colonial days His
father was the pastor of a Congrega
tional church at Exeter N n and
here Charles Stewart Smith was born
on the 2d day of March 1S32 His
mother was a daughter of Aaron Dick
inson Woodruff of Trenton N Jf a
distinguished lawyer and for many
years attorney general of the state Re
ceiving a sound elementary education
in his native town young Smith at the
age of fifteen set forth to make his for
tune Finding employment as clerk in
a dry goods jobbing house in New
York his progress was rapid and at
the age of twenty one he entered the
firm of S B Chittenden Co as a
partner For several years he was their
resident European buyer Subsequent
ly as senior member of the well known
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firm of Smith Ilogg Gardner he con
tinued prominently identified with the
dry goods trade of New York and Bos
ton and accumulated a large fortune
with which he retired from mercantile
pursuits in 1887
His subsequent activities have chief
ly concerned movements for the gener
al good
The late Dwight L Moody held n
high place In the esteem and affection
of millions of people and for his sako
as well as for her own Mr Moodys
friends honor and
venerate his widow
who Is spending
the evening
of life In the home
of her son and de
voting her energies
to carrying out the
plans for Bible
study and evangeli
zation her husband
formed Her son
directs the famous
schools for Chris
tian workers at
Northfleld w h I c h
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the late evangelist Instituted as a part
of his scheme of revival movements
Her days are rendered full of content
ment and happiness by the constant
evidences of the great good accom
plished by the helpmate whose memory
she so deeply reveres
F A Busse Chicagos new mayor
had been complimented by a reporter
on the direct terse quality of a state
ment he had given out
I am a believer In brevity said
Mr Busse smiling The fewer words
you say a thing in the stronger and
mora striking is that things effect
Once 1 knew a man who hated the
Swiss
Why Jake I said to him one day
you astound me You hate the Swiss
yet here you are married to a Swiss
wife
Yes said Jake thats the rea
son
Literary circles have been interested
In the story that George Sylvester
VIereck nulhor of Nineveh and Other
Poems and dramatic editor of Cur
rent Literature is a grandson of the
German emperor known as William
the Great and a full cousin of the pres
ent Kaiser William He came to
America twelve years ago settled In
New York did
newspaper work
for a time and
graduated from the
College of the City
of New York Not
long since Leonard
Button Abbot de
livered a lecture on
socialism in a
Brooklyn hall and
Yiereck who was
in the audience
took issue with
him attacking the
socialistic doctrine
An old German
the audience
took offense at something in the young
mans Impassioned speech and prefaced
a defense of socialism by making
statements as to Yierecks ancestors
He began by telling of the beauty of
Edwina Yiereck the actress who was
the toast of Berlin fifty or sixty years
ago At the time of the revolution of
1S4S the future emperor of United
Germanj fell deeply In love Avith her
He was then only a prince The at
tachment between Wilhelm and the
beautiful actress was of long dura
tion and all Germany believes today
that to them was born a son Louis
Yiereck the father of the New York
poet As long as the elder Wilhelm
was alive Yiereck is said to have re
ceived an allowance regularly from
the imperial government on account
of his parentage This has not been
continued by the present kaiser
Andre Autard who makes John D
Rockefellers wigs is a plump and ele
gant Frenchman who has a shop in
the best quarter of Taris ne was
talking of the heavy duty which Mr
Rockefeller had to pay on his last wig
It was sharp practice said M Au
tard in the fluent English that he
learned in London It was like the
way I was treated in my apprentice
ship
When I was learning barbering I
applied for a post in London The pa
tron engaged me at a certain wage and
at the end of our talk he said
Of course it Is understood that you
speak both French and English
Yes sir I responded quickly and
Dutch also
We have no dealings with Dutch
men here said he therefore I will
take one third off that salary
W B Easterly was one of the most
important of the witnesses for the de
fense in the Haywood trial in Idaho
as he contradicted some of the most
material parts of the testimony of
Harry Orchard Easterly for instance
denied that he ever
talked with Orchard
as the latter alleged
he did about the ex
plosion at the Inde
pendence depot in
which so many men
were killed He said
of Orchard He
mined a little but
he was quite a fiend
at card games He
seldom worked more
than a month at a
time
Easterly asserted
that during the Crip
W B EASTERLY
ple Creek strike days there was never
any talk of violence at meetings of the
union except by a visiting member who
proved to be a detective in the employ
3f the Mine Owners association The
abor leaders themselves always coun
seled peace
GUM ARABIC
Tho Two Classes Amberliko and
Bleached and Their Uses
Gum arable which forms one of the
more Important minor exports ot
Egypt is really tho sap from a special
kind of tree which grows from three
to five yards In height whole forests of
which are found in the Kordofan prov
ince and also near Gedld In the Whito
Nile province The natives are free
to collect the gum The season during
which the trees yield their sap runs
from December to May Prior to gath
ering the crop the natives prepare the
trees by slightly cutting the bark In
numerous places The sap then ex
udes solidifies In the shape of large
and small lumps and is afterward gath
ered by hand such gathering being
done lefore the rainy season com
mences
There are two main classes of gum
amberlike and bleached In the latter
the gum Is merely exposed to the
strong action of the sun generally in
Omdurman while In the former in
stance it is allowed to retain its nat
ural amber color The confectionery
trade is perhaps the principal purchas
er of gum arable though a very large
number of other Industries chemical
works printing and dyeing mills let
ter press printers and so on are inter
ested In this product of Sudan Chica
go News
PAYING THE PENALTY
The Way Beckmann Begged Frankels
Pardon Before Witnesses
One day Beckmann the comic actor
was induced to take off a well known
newspaper editor Frankel by name in
one of the characters he was repre
senting in Berlin lie performed his
task so cleverly that at the close the
audience broke out into loud calls for
Frankel The journalist brought an
action and Beckmann was condemned
to go to the house of the insulted par
ty and there beg his pardon in the
presence of witnesses At the hour ap
pointed Frankel sat in the circle of his
family together with a number of re
lations and friends who had been con
vened for the occasion waiting the ar
rival of the delinquent ne tarried
long and half an hour had passed in
weary suspense when at last the door
opened and Beckmann put his head In
and asked
Does Mr Meier live here
Oh no answered Frankel Ho
lives next door
Ah then I beg your pardon said
the actor and hastily withdrew hav
ing thus acquitted himself of the im
posed penance to the groat annoyance
of Frankel and the inlense amusement
of the assembled witnesses London
Tit Bits
Posters In Paris
French law gives the authorities of
every village and commune complete
control over posters No one Avrites
our consul general Is permitted in
France to deface streets and public
places with crude ostentatious an
nouncements of his business or other
subject Billboards are infrequent in
Paris and are generally built perma
nently into a wall where they are tax
ed according to their superficial area
When a building is in construction and
board screens are erected to shield the
public from dust and other annoyance
such temporary screen will soon be
covered with posters of amusements
and other business but each poster so
displayed has been previously submit
ted to the authorities a license obtain
ed and each sheet bears the canceled
revenue stamp according to its size
A Long Swim
A tramp has beaten all known rec
ords by swimming twenty seven miles
in thirty minutes He did not mean to
do it Ho merely tried to steal a ride
from St Louis to Chicago on the rear
of a locomotive tender When the
train started he fell over backward
through the open manhole into the
wnter tank The noise of the train
drowned his cries for help and he was
obliged to swim until the first stop
was reached at Alton When taken
out he was nearly dead but the engi
neer was so unfeeling as to call his at
tention to the fact that the water was
only four feet deep and he might have
stood up The conductor also unfeel
ing asked him for his ticket but the
tramp said he had not come by rail
but by water Youths Companion
Strange Bequests
In his will Stephen Swain of the
parish of St Olave Southwark gave
to John Abbott and Mary his wife
sixpence each to buy for each of
them a halter for fear the sheriffs
should not be provided and John
Aylett Stow left tho sum of 5 guineas
for the purchase of the picture of a
viper biting the hand of his rescuer
to be presented to an eminent K C
as a reminder of his ingratitude and
Insolence Grand Magazine
Not Like a Woman
Have you interviewed that female
criminal
I have tried to
Tried to
Yes but she refuses to talk
Refuses to talk Head your article
Man In Disguise and make it three
columns on the first page Houston
Post
Chance to Prove Himself
She I would never marry a man
who was a coward He About how
bravo would it be necessary for him
to be in order to win your approval
She Well hed have to have courage
enough to er propose Chicago News
Rats according to a government bul
letin eat 100000000 worth of grain
annually and yet in spite of rats and
rates the farmers manage to do pretty
well Kansas City Star
BOHatManfiwX
Toads Hatching Places
Every tiny toad lays a stupendous
number of eggs A scientist received
11545 eggs from one toad a necessary
fertility since the chances of an egg
developing Into a toad are less than
one in a thousand Within two weeks
after the eggs arc laid the young tad
poles begin to appear and feed first
on their gelatinous envelope Next tho
slimy deposits common to ponds and
swamps are attacked Steadily grow
the young wrigglers until their bodies
enlarge to the size of thumb nails by
the end of June The long tall now is
absorbed and the legs develop They
begin to hop on the bank and disperse
never to return save in the breeding
season It Is at the spring of the year
that the toads awake from their win
ter sleep below the rocks and scrub
They often have been literally frozen
stiff but they return to life as healthy
as ever and on the first balmy night
migrate toward the nearest breeding
pond Usually this is the old home
stead where they were born for the
toad is a domestic animal and will
travel a mile or more for the sake of
returning to the place of its hatching
Chicago Tribune
Trying on Furniture
When you go to buy a suit or furni
ture nowadays in one of our depart
ment stores you dont have to specu
late as to how It will look In your room
nor whether it -will fit In or not As
soon as the salesman sees that a par
ticular suit has met your fancy he calls
for a porter or two and turns thein
loose In one of several rooms fitted up
around the main showroom setting
them at work removing all the furni
ture in It Then the suit that you seem
to be hankering after is placed in ap
propriate positions in this room and
youan see at a glance just how the
bedroom or parlor or dining room will
look If you buy that particular suit
There are a dozen of these smaller
rooms around the main showroom and
as each one is decorated in a different
manner it Is easy to pick one out that
approximates the scheme of your room
at home Like many modern ways of
selling goods it is expensive in the be
ginning but it pays in the end for this
plan of showing goods seldom fails of
its intended effect New York Press
A Widow Who Vas Calm
A lawyer was entertaining dinner
guests recently with stories from his
personal experiences
A woman came into my office one
afternoon and said she wanted to see
a lawyer on a rather important mat
ter he said She was very prim and
self possessed
What can I do for you I asked
Well she said in an easy tone
my husband was hurt in the wreck
the other day
I noticed she was dressed in mourn
ing but from her indifferent tone I
gathered that it had no connection
with her husbands accident
Was your husband badly injured
I asked
Yes she answered in the same
quiet voice He got his head cut
off Kansas City Times
The Talmud
The Jewish Talmud has come down
to us only through the heroic efforts
of the Jews themselves and the In
trepid service of John Reuchlin Its
reading was condemned by various
edicts of emperors and kings its cir
culation was prohibited by popes and
theologians Twelve thousand copies
of this monumental work were burned
at Cremona in 15G0 and a similar fate
befell 5000 copies of the Koran by or
der of Cardinal Ximiues on the taking
of Grenada by Ferdinand and Isabella
Boston Post
Conquered St Peter
A Boston clergyman tells how a wit
ty Irishman stood before the gate of
the other world asking for admission
says Lippincotts Magazine St Peter
refused him however telling him he
was too great a sinner to enter there
and bade him go away The man
went a little distance from the gate
and then crowed three times like a
rooster St Peter at once threw open
the gate and cried out Come in Pat
Well let bygones be bygones
Dont Vabble
There is one sort of man that there
is no place for in the universe and
that is the wabbler the man on the
fence who never knows where he
stands who is always slipping about
dreaming apologizing never daring to
take a firm stand on anything Every
body despises him lie is a weakling
Better a thousand times have the repu
tation of being eccentric peculiar and
cranky even than never to stand for
anything Success Magazine
Kiplings Response
The Cantab the Cambridge univer
sity weekly once asked Rudyard Kip
ling to contribute to its columns In
response came the following reply
There once was a writer who wrote
Dear Sir In reply to your note
Of yesterdays date
I am sorry to state
Its no good at the prices you quote
They Both Pitch
Which is the greater marvel the
crack baseball pitcher or the circus
man The baseball star to be sure
pitches a ball with wonderful facility
but the circus man pitches a tent
Boston Globe
Never Touched Him
I hate work said Languid Lewis
I dont see why rejoined Humblo
Harry Its a safe bet dat work nev
er done youse no harm Chicago
News
Mount Morgan Queensland Aus
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