The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 2, 1904, Page 8

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Frip-on the Congo. WILLIAN 5 CHEES Tréve Exftomr: and fitate 3 ria & Gime:| gt . 3903 Bowles. ). lfaving ‘Brazzaville our: newiy } ded to'the Eunwake, | B. ted steamer, I miade slow . progress.. up . through nley . Pool o.the channel bevond. Herp: - the' river marrows and: flo throughi & cinhyom of Temarkable depth The sounding e js o sounding-it: ad :-goes down, . :down, ‘and: never| schés hut if-is no wondes, for after| R the canyon one Sees the Tivert wider untit-at the islands: hgar Balobo s Lk an-fnland lake, thirtesn: miles| vide: ‘Here are-1o bée found greaf he i f. hippos. - hundreds. of ihem 3 hemseives on -sandbanks and flbating | in the water’ © in a-whife @ croce-{ he water Hiipdrn crawls int ad, A bird: dike- the fiirlew warns him of 1l approack of an and hé crawls off without ask- any questions or’ skowing-the least | Sity = 5 | T §'to what the danger may be. | »pilot and:gesieral man i, although Commandant.| Ain was on board, togetier with-an | ofiver,” Mr;- Balley: of} mi, had Tieen. up-ihe Cdngo and the] management devoited upon’me.| F . M ol her th while had .t fourtern: Séngalese rd'that had helped e na-1 duidd ] iy bt the boat. For- weod-cotters’ fo furnish| tuel we'had 4 gang of promisiuous na- | v 0 different and while aghore aftér wood 1 weuld go ui after. gaine., - There were plenty. 'of | aioes; ‘hippos and some eiephants, 1) ®ay nothing of @ wiA ducks and guineas. The hipipos dre very wid here, | th ghe a great Jdeal; and| sust-stick fheir boses out ot} and blow like whale, “and fe gaod for another. twen- | \der witer, They g6 to. thé | water they ottom and-walk around-or lie down,.2as | it- suits. them. = Thé hippos: Were are } dangerois and “have kflled : a’ great| ¥ hantérs who have-beern out on-a] sure ierstand | and- @id not lives in 1he Wvater miost d -8 seldom: seén on” Jand. large ‘and weighs. 1 tons, some ‘even v small in comparison, | legs and vertebra. He iz 1 water “and appes much -out of place on-jand -as a erpe dile, “although he can “Fapi on- share. - Whiére he has 1o fixed time {or land- or water; but in. the man-inhatifted countries he | hides”in.the bush while on land; i vomes to._the water ‘early .in the even- ing 15 -eat the swamp. 'grass \.hir-h‘ grows-along-the banks toms of -the rivers. 1o hunt him. and on-the bot- Night is-the time} A el We ‘were needing a hippo-badly for provisions, when- the. second evening after. getting into the channel: 1. gét close.enough to a big feliow :to:get.a shot at -him and took his.tail to camp,]. The “Africans ‘became .wild -with- ex- citement and nearly sank our canoe.in their squabbling 1o seé Which of themn were 1o go »ad help cut up the.ani- | mal. “They all wahted 10 -go, for: cui- ting up a hip - is.a grand frolic. They were “good . natured, . however, . and each was showing ‘his teeth from ‘ear 10 ear at the prospect of burying them in-‘an. abur “ance of meat. ~After a little ‘scolding. most of - them shoul- dered their axeés to-cut wood and ‘we went -off _to float the hippo's: carcass Aown stream 10 a sand bank. ~He was soon on board in pieces and each na- tive: had about 100 pounds of flesh. That night the camp preserited -a queer- appearance. - Each native had his fire and his rack and-was hanging his meat in chunks of one-pound each over the fire to. smoke. The next day our boat was loaded with: provisions of all kin for our men had traded their smoked flesh to the natives as we passed_the village of Chambiri for bananas, -manioc, chickens, peanuts. | tobacco, in fact, everything the natives had. " They also bought pots to cook in apd ‘there was-a time of feasting. We were ten days in getting to Bun- &2,.a village at’ the mouth of the “San- ga. The Bungas were in- great: ex- excitement . over . the killing of- a French hunter, Louietair.” Loujetair's headquarters were at-Brazzaville, but he -had lately come: here ‘on a’ huni- ing expedition. "He had Jost his -gun, stolen by a Bunga slave.. Louietair | had gone to the chief and -talked ] threateningly to' him.. “Thé_chief an- swered very independently. “and triea } to.bluff him, whereupon he knocked | the chief down with the butt of his gun. “A slave came 1o the chief’s res- | cue and ran a.spear through Louietair. from the back, killing him: ihstantly. L=, preier used-the adminisirator - paw, and made fln-_ (-h)e be! | his jwnpi‘ if ‘he aid nn( L mands. | submitted. Tdaughter for hmrs-xlr ‘ah@-afior pféllow ds he'd flm\fll i miany. {that of South An {ihe Fsurés a_commerce: for vears 10" come. Ads.opf headway. { Finally ‘hing up-and -dowi, ‘|'water and lie dowh oh.a sandbar. jt3 wasl'\l\ucovll: gmm and. his doughty opponert which now The .Goternment ‘captured the slave and shot. him- and ordered the . chief to- pay many thousand brass rods, " .goats and chickens as a fine.. He had not_paid when I was there and there wae much talk of burning the. village -and exmmlnlult the Bunm Two more dlyl. IM we were at_Ler- zngah, situated at the lower mouth of wifo . The th'h at flrsl I(Iuspd laJ her up; Then Tollowed several days - in ‘which the. inter- i By of diplomatic war; The chief, had knov such. instances of: hurnefl The avecks the quirage 1haked out.: The ministirator and was.sfi him. B S A Here af Terangah we brai the l\hvbm!g—ul and ¥ age \\'vdrh 1 -know both Fivers erd to. efid, .and ‘although mp Mobang { hag: many plares: whe! 3 reviral ‘Migsissinpis [and has. not the s thousangd mm# \lnbmgui s oniy ‘A 1rlbmn Ln«u( Congo.-- Théré .= mich low hanks of ihe Mobdngai, and much tim berland-coyered with i heavy f Bné aosas, rabber’ viné-istabundant end ‘in-; Aleng " the moiith: of \'hls r‘nwr are t-plains of-paliis, ance:af fruit, so delicious of the élaphant, and when i thl!L“ are 1o -béi are-miany :islands -in th thrée o four abreast, miles . fong, " and ] low: ihere ate. sand tanks at] the headlands-and. the side§ of mese‘ istands and alony the shore, The Mobangui-divides the Frénch anid | Belgian -Congo. territory. - The’ French | warer [Congp 18 on: the lnt( hasd bank g‘nm: ] up- Fiver i It was msg;nfi;'en mp up ms bedutiful-: river; - with: green;. dotted -sith “island: rlear v\s.ter‘l streteHing- dway -bey 2 to ‘what? It was experiences -in. reading: m { going in-imagination on-an. exyedition | S¥iih'the ancient: Greeks or Romass. -~ There sveré ‘na Tocks ‘on-: the lowet:] river; it was ‘all sand-.by so_we hugged -the shore qs"do_s;-- 10 keep-out of the currént; There were numerous - mankeys-in the “freps, the. ]'uzr' Black’ 2nd white variet with] four fingers on the’ hards, the. - Then -the gorilla and chimpadngee- are hére,.and -occasionally ofie- ‘woyld see ux before . we . caught sight of him, and geé back-into the'bush crying. “The' Rippos Tow umet- ous,.and it.was no trick to Kilt- therh. They had not been sheét' at’ much, an ‘were ¢uzious to see what ' that big mon-: humbs missing, | ster” was :that puffod an (‘hurnéd the, water 0. had an e herd: of €lephants were:bat sand vards ahead and were \\sdmg ap stréam as fa Fire up das We \uu]rj we _cpum mal\a ,nu { We: had -our, guns réady for ‘action, but could. not get cinse enough. they. -tadk 1o deep watér: tehed: them, through our glasse: Their backs were the -only -pari visible above-water ex- | ept about blghl inches ‘of {he point of « co we _would bob under Tike-pumpkins floating, and thelr heads would & to keeb got, their feet on.the bottom .. they ‘Wwilked alopg. ‘for some distance |:! with their bodies under the water and | unl\ their 1runks. out. Coming_ {6 the shore “theéy walked alung until - th feund an incline and thén they disap- i peared -in ‘{he ‘bush, During a whaole mortal. hour ‘we had. been keved up 1o thé highest piteh of excitement; with.a longing ta 'get out.and pu=h the -(eams ef.on fasier. At {hig point’ the’ river was aveér a] mile wide. 1 took to our canoe with | some natives, and when we had crossed | ; the river we saw an elephant enter the | k) thought 1. wounid .investigate. dusk and growing rapidly: Qarker. - We floated down ajong . the. bank- to lhe‘ saridbar and found that betseen it and | thie shore was a.déep canal: This canal was very narrow, not pver tiventy-five | feet wide. T wanted to get in-between the bank and the elephant; so we'head- ed. the canoe ‘into: this chamnel. On.! swe .went, - watching’ the. animal- lying | in the water across the sandbar. We were gliding noiselessly -down, . when the canoe struck something, apparent- Iy a log, and the bow shot away up out of the water. It was a large canoe; weighing twbd tons or more. *‘The bow rested " a-few moments’ ululpended in the air, nd then the “whole canoe commenced to- shake. and “trémblé as if ain eprthquake had-siruck us; then it | was lifted bodily out of the. water. Something started to Tun,-.and the| canoe -fell back into the water. Then all the snorting and fuss a hippo ever | ‘made was rehearsed ‘there. . The big |. fellow, didn’t lose much time getting up on the sandbank, where he ran for | some twenty stéps and then furned | around and looked at us, snor(ing like | a steam engine all the time: - By, this | | 1 time my men were getting back “into |, the: canoe.'- They had -taken to thé| water at the first alarm, and before I could regain my equilibrium it was al over, - The-old hippp was no. more surprised. Lhan we. were a8 he frolicked i about on he sandbamk. I was almost |- tempted: to put_a-ball fito- him for ‘making so much disturbance, as I was | afraid- that'he would .disturb’ the ele- phant. - He ran for the water after col- lecting his senses and went,to the bot- tom,-and fora while leut was quiet. ! ‘T got wp-on thé eléphant closer and | closer and it kept getting smaller and smaller, and as I tppro‘.ched. feeling like “Alice in Wondériand,” he dwin- dled intp.a big bull bnflnlm T killed ‘him without his knewing-what struck him. He had been fighting and’ his the Mobangul. Here was a Frerch ad- | body was raked by his antagonist's ministrator. with two or three Sene- | lrorns until there was not a patch of galese soldiers. He was having I6ts of | hair an inch square on ‘either of his trouble. He had just discovered that|sides. He was a sight. i I nrght have hig interpreter had gone to an adjacent had the hippo if the men had not been native village, picked out ove of the|fooled into mistaking a buffalo but the compact organization of | mwammmmmuu-mu@mt i iy ’anv seaport of 50000, inha\b‘nams 30 s possible ' .regxstry bv ng 1084 tons 1 argumen 4 mérchant.- marin ‘the: progress. any” $ We - men; for it: hay fallen. to the lot of Few Amencans + ic life ; m i _there. are: cenam -grave- wch {he Slav thal, Sfrive-as, hc ma\' ha\c escaped couceal- - ‘to “be. a -stable fetreat as a last Feseurce," tnvaded as well: Prochfiahom of a rich (‘uvml mpro\ émems brfiuge l'mll a spIeu.(hd avay - rulkmed epu}em:c But-now..the ‘ci ieng than i ther “is a group| Jljows between Ihc big city; which ii* n - thie Iul'kxdcs and’ in“the . them; is .going ‘to” ) :treeh almort patkm are ‘to, be opened from- th' stmwl téd by these tmer- the (,o(ernmenf a d ni -thl("lN mr we: af l\e Brnznlram > porf, whether ) m rdw matenah, xood or manwfacmred i goods. - It appents ”ho“uer‘ v,h;n jve: are by nn meins getting © our. sha ¢ man nierchants are captuting .the marLel<, Mu—le we are doing \omparatr\e.)vl\othulg in Lh: v\ay of compchtmn it be'in the v bation, .Ir\ Pcp- 7 l:adc of |he mted S.mu is hardly’ visible. o Rig. I haye seen the flagd on only threc or. fonr schuon- ers: Az Sahm dm—mg the . last ear: ‘there ha: been- 1 Vessél, a'ld thu net d hrge onr, th cap nc\'c{ obtam it so long as, we re]y on forc;gn higs té: do our carrying-for’ fis. - Here then is another 0! prosper rtu- Assl red of . the: dcepe<t and best vus‘hcs ‘of his éo.mtry n pub- a great ;hampmn- PR cmen!s now xln pro- greis in ‘the Eas: whmh seem’ tn' be bnngmg Japan and R ‘to-a mnfllct ~The nng has been ex: amméd “by dxp]omauc C\’pcfts aof Europe, the & supremacy ovér: Eastern’ Asla ‘iS5, con,cedtd to be the stike.nf the bagtle,” and i .there remain$ only the final wi ghmg in-of ‘the ¢ombatants before the =trugglc is joined. : It |- this careful measufe 6f the respective weights 6f the attracts the aftention of the ‘intereésted’ <p=ctatm’ await the sct'.mmgl nevitable conflict (it would ‘seem’ that. Russi ond’ the power- of stri who could eas:ly put the . J..p be- cing a %mglc effective’ blow, bus sesin -the condition of merit. SR Russia: has a. superia(’ navy and a larger army' her Fesources mav dppedr te be boundle France .mady’ seem great force .of trained men already in Manchuria,. The trans-Siberian rallrmd insures an -opgn and.speedy’.com- ‘munieation with, the hase of supplies. She has. all .of ‘China overaiwed: "But what of the morale of this seem. ingly’ solid drmy; liow stands that unooun‘ied and de- spised estate.fram ‘which the army, thé. supphc fund are dm“n—the ‘people? “Until ‘this year 1 _have treated “the talk of a re\'u]u- tionary spirit as moonshiné,” said a high Russian noble to the Vienna correqpondent of the: Ltmdon Times, “but on: returning, to Russia. thrée months ago I was s!ruck by ‘the change on. the faces. of the people durmg the last year. The peasants and the workmen l|ave a tcowling éxpression; they are nor longér respentful a large proportion of them have lost their religion and ‘nearly all seem filled by a revoluuonuy spmt 8 hope that T may be a false prophet, but things T hawe seen’ and heard in .Russia thxs year lave destroyed ‘my ophmlsm The Arbeiter Zen(ung. a German paver of authonty, | has recently. printed columns _upon the spread of the socialistic and revolutionary propiganda in Southern and -Central Russia. "At Riesan the revolutnonary leaf-. | lets have been found upon so many workmen that ‘the thé war| | prisons are overflowing and the work of. transportation midable warship for servu‘.e on-the lakes. of suspects . cannot be carried on fast enough. The Poles have circulated threats among the soldiery fhat if the ‘people are- fired upon ‘there will'be bloody retribu- tion. Following the attempted destruction by dynamite of the house of a public’ school dxmetor in the province of Rizan, stidents and tax:hers htve been arfested in a lump and exiled. Not only has the spirit, of u-rui aufit the’ ‘people, - army has been seditious charac: |1 In ihe bay r-the 1mmedxate upbm]dmg of the American |’ |.and tfie Iol 0. 'the m;asumn- At first glance : |(-’r advocatmg the- a-bolmon of permancut armlgs and ';nppcals to-"the -officers in the ‘name “of socialism. were, ier'} ismissal tJ|efc is contrastpd (he fiery unammuy o( <p rit I'g rs the J_panese to*awaut “the’ cormng strugg e mt’h a.n .éagén_'tcss_almost anjouitting. to,_impetiosit Bas. talked !Amenc.m sélub, brated ocabuhrv m cbmpcxll_ A ‘men ruzardlees QA mrty aflrhahons immd in_ the Twent-y-sevenrh Dwxsmn of the m’fantry % t ha seen “the frgnz- of the Comsiock {all ‘the fnancial crashes of the last Htwenty-five- . | mare ornamental - One Hero. There (q one chararler of the s(reets vho deseérves for himself a special niche in:§an Francisco’s temgile of eelebrities. Hé is .a friend- of ‘the mroney- _eharigers, ‘a° familiar- figure o . the treet where (stacks soar and mrmnes lost in-the straké of a pencil. He témént inthe: 70's, been.through ars, and )et remained to ee’ nearly all "of fhe -old. mohey nrlncas into 1h~rlr _graves. ‘A heany old: xoul Is \hiq’ nncien.t Day - will. sée. him spat on Lalifor- Jm.and day ‘ou s.:mdlng at the L 1Hd "~ street,” edd)lng flood of “the. mune)~get!c"s Fog, :‘mn [ su‘nthe are all the-same k2 ‘The. same. q\).slcal half-sniile Inst: curls the corners of his"satur- \His bme’ e)e—lhe leu one: ,\ rengurnkfxble hlszory has thls e}d enfléman "could you only.” win:® i shipyard on. the . de, in Svotland. At an early agef he. took ‘o tite -sea. :Though virtually than useful in the the': ship's erew,: kgfl omplamem 3 | n hor beam ends, ‘and in.a m\.nu!e he was' afatal wreck. ‘ait ot - the ‘put to :sea- in the long: t, Iez'l\m'g our’ hem alone ‘on' the frea _a:bout {ne broad Pacifi their -duty; ‘rope if Mf, Bryan tw cnd a ledder est emcd by a' o) suderable postion of - wunbr men had’. bem feft to eI his- nay about Euacd 1 5 ‘ g ¥ appreuated Qhe fact 1hat bome puxi ics and pamsan diy ns ‘aré - not to "bc talked abont uiries- abbul their hca.fth al] mformatmn was- the envy -6f |‘erowd for-Mr. Br; CS(\OH ave. been - rcspondtd to Evelf:y\i"hete hi ife. 6( Elurnpé‘ ¢ with 4 king, lwt n. | t’hag h Wldtst doof 10 the. mdgwt oppcrmmty for man since the 3 d\\eh s becamc nnmad nd tive “noiads became et Pnl] um f'&pt{\tnce’g -or mrn. But to Egypt: for who k.nows bux 1hg $ph-m= wou!cr ka.\c %or Lhe answer? At:damahons of the splendid mum‘ph modpm ngi ‘meering whith gave té the §ou£hern Pacific; Company .the Luein cm off are shll rmgu-rg- in our - eats, et thc g:ant trestle” has begun to settle into’the trcacherous q-md of the lake. - Whit “aitful ‘hazard to himan life Jutks . in’ the murky dépths -of this inland sea. Thc radroad om- Ipany, in all ity Iustory, ngver had a niore se::ous prob< lem than fl'ns, the prdblem - of mazking H'us shnrt “cfits across’ the conunent~ flf)solutely above suspnénon uj' weakness?, e For the wery “laydable. ‘purpose of safe- k,eepmg,A Bakersfield woman p.aced more than $j000 in green backs in - her oven the other day’ and then,. with that charming, nbsenbmlndedness chzractenstlc of “her s:x, + fit the fire in'the stove. ' She ds now qualified to,give a expert opmwn on the scnsahon of havmg monzy to} bnrn. : . The minis'ér Jof ‘San Francis ha\e announced that !.hey intend to inaugurate a “holy war”-in the city tor its’ moral hetterment and the clennsmg of -its dark phces. Thls is admlrable. '[he worthy gentlenien . nia.y conr- mence anywhcre and. end anywhere and' do some zood Why ndt try to mdve ‘the dives -off Market, nr..ct and out .of* the view of decent men? i —gal Canldl, eollrary to. the spirit of an agreement betwecn the Uhited States -and" Great Britain,. is bmldmg a for-' It is becont- ing-more. evident every day- that if Canada, be not disci- plined by- slum phteuhl rebuke she will: have to bé sub- tnmed to a httle ne:shborly but ‘strenuous advn-.e. Ex~0nngreuman Glover, unmindful and conmmuo“ qf the prowess of .the militia of his State, defied the citizen saldiery the other day. and was them. Mr. Glover’ nmmlymum all trtumm. whether: of tongue -or on ‘thls ‘helvless wreck: . At last his 3 Wafer-logged " afaft was -sighted - by a.’steamér, -and.: still post; the fig- | -they sam \nsh ho had :tayed Iomzer and. had‘ extended - hls tour:] uke in this strange fale to ‘Ban Frapdisco. - After many - ¥ici: umes ‘Re’ wis .béfriended. bs “a”cigar id.. was. brought. to lodge n.: f!on ‘of Wis:ghov. -And" there yow can ey h&m -every day, rain-. or Thr' I’Z. dgc’s End. ore thap an l'nur ha had been and down-ifi fromt of ihe sa- | ntrance: ~ ¥rom a ‘point about] et-{o. ibe léft of the doatr of| jn ‘palace 10 a point about twenty | lhe rlgh[ of Xh@ door h" “.alksrl His! manner indxcated tha; Re'was, very mnérvous..and - fhe . -people iwhd ‘watehed Him §triding up.and doivi weré | eply. wagering that he had an-etigage- ment. ‘It. must be with" a, womxn, But'-the wtse rmm said_“no? and tog ‘all ths ‘hits. -He éven offered odds, and hen . the nervous .individual, “just .as Borns anrd whistles announced that W n-nr had": nfrlved Bolfed into. T win,”” Re ‘said. “I }ma\\L yIvia's guv\n was- beml(uhmg " AnH ‘fushionpd of rihbon and. l’a(‘!, g mau‘e of puffing and stitching. - osé and. curiy-cue grace. F ph-in het ghape; .1 had power €0 foil. ft—. . s ' escape! | ‘tre«u \'s € l.l-nted 'u-h amlier-in_shive. axd in shade, ’l.?w sunllgh hDW. '.enderlv glln:el‘l rau on.tite locks of the maid! t was: rapturé to eye. them very migst of ‘the |1 ar was: up: He ju.q( ‘ordered |- ¢ and came o this country during the Civil War.” Small .Fronitage. nother of thig city’s: freak prop- erties had just been sold. coasisting of | the strip of ground having 2. frontage ' of four-inches on the west side of Sev- enth avenue, seventy-five feet south of . Fiftieth- street, -and ex!endinl back to a depth of ninéty feet,” says a New York paver. “The sellers are the estate of Elizabeth M. nkling and the buyer John' J.: Mahoney. . Mr. Mahoney is not | the owner of adjoining pronerty—that to the south being.held by the Century Realty Company and that to the north by Morris B. Bronner. ““The:price paid- for 'the little strip Has net been made public;, but it is said that the figure makes-all of the recent high' records.in the Long Acre district ook like the provérbial 30 cents.. The motives of ‘the puichaser in the trans- ‘actioh. are not altogether apparent:to- ‘real estate men. “The strategic value of - the parcel would-arise only. in the event of the property: both. north-and south of it “caming into -one ownership, . in which event; of v-nursé‘ this lttle strip wauld . prevent ‘theé erection .of a_ éon- © tinuous- structure’ along the: entire.BHock That this state. of affairs will no means certain.” fromt. Ever exjst.is by Eondon Street:Cries. The profest against:streef naises-is becoming so genétal and urgent that probably to:the fext generation 8¢ Lon- dohers . street: cries. Will ‘b matter af history Ta these of our forefathers affivted with - sensitive. nerves * London. must have beeh ‘a cify of perpetual torture. “There is nothing: Which mors aston= ishes a forvigner or frights a country squire than-the cries of Longden, ' 'wiote Addison - in- the Spectator. : Thase - oid London street venders had mugiéal éars and voices. however, unlike the modern . stréet hawkers. -But: their humber . was Zppalling. . Among the long-list of criss vere.to be’ found the following: New-laid -eggs, six a groat. Craeck ‘em-.and ‘try ‘em. - - Any trine; . or aedt’s. foot, or calf's foot. or trotters, ‘ho!: Heart, liver or lights. Buy-any wax or wafers, or: fine writ= Fing ink. -.‘Lity-white vinegar. .Good, fresh.sassage. Four paifs.-for' & shilling, good Hol= nd- socks. Aniy corns:to pick? Any -work for the cooper? -Any woed to cleave? % ny huts or-capd. to dress? 3 w River water. Erery héusehold article: seems to have n hawlked abeut.- There were ven= ders -of .wheat, starch, “toasting irons, candlesticks,: shaes, garters, figs; tape; Buitons, :hat cases, cockles, 'Herrings, ‘| thackerel, eval, ete. .And then there was the- ‘watchman, .who ¢riéd - the: time évery haif-hour from 8 te: 6 o'clodk in. March, -and for:loriger or shorter pe- ringlét or twist: migl h pn.scmi by | Hér t-hveks had lh color of noaches That. 1ightly. ‘the summér hath kissed, o‘x- “the hue of a rose: that-beseeches: "Ehe: moon. haif. hid hy-a mist. the liné of their cur Fhe-shy, haunting lLister beneath As’ bright -xs. the wild _spray “dashes 5 A Soft as the dew arf a wreatli Her dvlightfully perilous glances Extqrted mYy, rapturtius sighl lhem berhaps. u\ere 3 were Her beauty was. ever befors me, - nt. star In the night; * Mwere well. to . deplors me, ike a Sharpshooter hidpen from Sigh 11.4rmoi” were, useles: ut elfin, Por none can -be faghioned- by -art And, lacking the sort te put self in, S A % was shot.- through- lhe i Smart Sef. mple Ocean’s corresponden -'clllms thal u lineal descendént of’ King David . ¢ ryt.ly'-dlpd in‘P)_m-&lphlA “The st ry' “Mrs. Gustav Lip- me,” She lived with ve -chiidren on"Dias -Throvgh ~tho ml.ty | her husband -an | mong-. uld trace Rer kinship to the distin- -guished’ Jewijsh family . Abarbanel ‘whose- relatibushin to' ‘Dayid is un- dpu'h(sd and® whose uhle\'emenu throughout Europe are: matters of. his tory. Mrs. Umheutt. whrise maiden ‘name Was Bertha Neumann; sprang from’ that hrnheh of - the family of ‘which’ Don "'Isaac Abarbanel, Prime. Minister Jn Spain in 1492, was the kead. During -that time; when persecation against, the Jews began as a Tesalt of the change in the religious views. of Rerdlmnd ard Isabelld, Don Tspac was eblimd to flee with his 'less favorgd brethren: The family scattered,. m. tling in various parts of Jsaac afterward became Prime mnm in Italy.” The grandfather of the dead ‘woman was Rudolph Hitsch Abarbane!, one of tHe foremost rabbis of promptly sliot by |-in the last century. The city-of Gretz, | friends. 115 nn:" whére he died, gave him a public funeral, mmww draped in mourning. ‘ -;en 1904 &re MpecceTv. hlm m three roun | The - originat of “Lady Eountiful” was reaches of sacred history this woman 7 rlods. nocorfllnl to’ the séason: Maides in your smotkes; Topk well to yoiir. locke: 3 Yonr five, ‘and-. yoor - light, 29 Am flve you good-night o- o’ clsck London D-uy News: ?In.m'ers 0 Qnmc:. nom,w NUMEKALS sm : 3 The Romarn numerals for * YQ(- NG CORBETF——Suh‘crler m _Young -Corbett’s first record fight was With Hert Carter.in 1897, . ne_dqm 5 : D.. City. erd R LADY Bou\nflfl.-fl a..lady of ‘that wame in - the "nnu'- 5 Stratagem.” by .George. D. Farquhar, - 'wrnten in ro., Er i 2 crowned Sunday, xuch 27, ues' Queen- -Anne, Sunday, March' 8, 1702; ‘George - . I, Synday, August 1, 1714, md Geor:eu, Sunday, June 11, 1727 * BANLS—S.. S Citg.” Tht name’ lull is derived from “banco,” a bench erect« éd in the marketplace for the exchangse éf money. - The first was established in. - Italy" in 808, by to' Lombard _ Jews, ‘somé of _whom settled: in unhrd- street, London, England. ‘CLEAVE—A. O..S.. City. There is.. a.word in the English laaguage that. has twe directly opposite It is the word “cleave.” - In"m it mgpans to adhere, to stiek to, to be at- - tached to: as in Job xxxviii clods cleave fast- together,” and im. ‘Matthew xix:5, “For this cause shall a. mar leave father and mother and shall cleave.to his wife.” The original Anglo- - Saxon word was clifan. In the other uu-tlmumtodlfldo mnn-m- ¢ “As" when -orie cngulh and cleav wood,” and in Deut. xiv:i, “Every beast that parteth the hoof and cleav- eth ‘the cleft into two eh-. The - Townsend’'s California glace fruits ana S0c l pound, in d st.. above ~ to. BT E

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