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The St. Johns herald., 1899-07-08
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Barry Pain, the humorist, grows flowers and Is famous for his double snowdrops. Henry Norman farms and fusses with camera and his wife, Menie Muriel Dowie, spins.
 Phoebe Tilson" is the name of a book by Mrs. Frank Pope Humphrey, the story of life in township of Mas sachuSetts, in the beginning of the cen tury-a story we'll told and thoroughly enjoyable.
 Francois Coppee, the French writer, says: 1.-The author prefer, the author who never leaves me, is dear and de- lightful Dickens. I have read and re- read him ten times: I shall read him yet again"
 JIM. Barrie hopes to have the sequel to Sentimental Tommy" ready for publication in the year 1900. He has chosen for it so far the title, "The Cele- brated Tommy" but with likelihood of changing it later.
 One of the peculiarities of the eccen- tric Ouida is that she cannot write at a table, but always writes with pad on her knee, her ink bottle being on the carpet! It has been stated that she has written twenty thousand words at a sitting. or twelve full columns-a num- Der which staggers belief.
 Miss Elizabeth Godfrey, author of the musical novel, Poor Human Ma ture" (now in its second impression), says of herself: "I made by debut In Temple Bar with "A Green Door," the first thing 1 ever wrote for publication. It issuch an odd thing to want to know all about any one whose book chances to become popular"
 Miss Marie Corelli's favorite amuse- ment is music; Marion Crawford is a great yachtsman; MT. Crockett cycles and golfs; l. Zangwill rides on horse back; George Gissing's favorite recrea- ton is natural history; Bret Harte's one amusement Is gOlfing; w. D. Howells likes theaters and long walks; Rudyard Kipling fishes and cycles; Andrew Lang golfs, plays cricket and fishes, and Richard Le Gallienne cycles in a very attractive get-up.
 The new novel, "Windyhaugh," by Graham Travers, author of Mona Mac lean, seems to be attracting much at tention in England. It is described as the story of a modern woman, but a story which will be read by men and women alike. The heroine "carved no statue, painted no picture-she did not even write a book; but when all these things have been excluded, there re- mains that little art of living which has been open in all ages alike to the wise and the simple" It is understood that the American publishers are D. Apple ton & Company.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-07-08

With the advent of the wireless tele. graph the question comes up, who is to have control of the ether, and what rights have different individuals in it! Is the ether that pervades all space ra- diating from my land also to be mine, or will a new rule of property have to be adopted, giving the public the right to this medium? Ether penetrates all matter. Can the Wireless Telegraph Company send messages across my land and right through my house with impunlty, and can if wish put up receiver and tap their wireless service on my own land? Will I be justified in posting my land with notices: "No Trespassing in This Ether? Gan au enterprising advertiser send out a mes sage on the ether waves so that any one with a receiver on his place will get the message "Use Skim Milk SoapT Will I be able to keep pace with all the rumors that are going around" by putting up an aerial con- ductor over my house and listening to what the ether waves are sayingP Wait and see.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-07-08

The civilized world looks on aghast at the cruel and arbitrary methods by which the Bear that walks like a Man is Russianizlng Finland. Some twenty years ago Finland was part of Swe,- den and when the severance came the constitution that was adopted was cOn- flrmed and has since been confirmed by the oath of every Czar of Russia on hts accession to the throne. This constitu- tiOn expressly stipulates that no law relating to life, liberty, property, taxes, religion, education, military service CT any form of local government can t.e enacted without the hearing of the Diet of Finland and the sanction of all the four chambers of that body. Yet in the face of this solemn guaranty the Car has arbitrarily changed the constita- tiOn and deprived the Diet of that cOun- try of all effective control. The Council of State at St. Petersburg is hereafter to legislate for Finland and the Diet of that country is to have merely a con- sultive voice." Protests and petitions have gone up to the Czar in vain. Tne members of the Government went up to St. Petersburg and were denied Sd- mission to the Czar's presence. The rape of Finland is complete.
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leading his company. He was sent to the rear-to the hospital-and Sister May was given charge of him.
 He had not much pain, only he was blind. Treatment appeared to have no effect on this; it seemed likely to be a long business. The days began to hang heavily. Then came the old story: "Love in idlenesS."
 Hospital sister do not cease to be women when they take up their work. Sister May was just as susceptible to love as though she had been a silly young thing of IS, though, in fact, she was 10 years older.s And he? Pity be ing akin to love, the recipient of pity runs a double risk. Her voice was soft and musical, her touch was sooth- ing, her care of him seemed first moth erly, then sisterly, and then
 @ So it was that by easy stages they drifted into that strange attraction which the world calls "love."
 And her one fear was that some day he might see again. The surgeon said it was just possible, and was advising a consultation with the world-famed Prof. Augenwirte of Graefrath. She prayed against the possibility, for in her own eyes she was plain-nay, ugly past redemption. Yet, though she could not realize it, her too large mouth and prominent teeth, her irregular nose, and all the fancied imperfections of her
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The terrible fire in fashionable New York hotel recently recalls the lesson of story recounted some time ago. A man had been washed overheard fyom a vessel during a storm so fierce that his rescue seemed impossible. A tim orous, seasick "landlubber," whose sear of the water had been the Scorn of the sailors, leaped overheard, caught the man by the hair. and supported him Gill help came. The hero, though inordl- nately timid, had schooled himself ln mind and will against such a possible emergency. Residence in hotel CT an apartment in some form and at some time will possibly come to most read CTS. They cannot too early master a few simple rules, which may save the loss of limb or of life. After engaging & room the occupant should at once learn its situation in respect to halls, stairway and elevator, and note wheth- CT there is a f1re-escape. If there is, and only a rope is provided, the direc- tiOns for its use should be studied. He should remember that a towel in his
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Our conspicuous countrywoman, Mrs.
 Anna George, who emerged from cer-
 tain judicial proceedings in Canton,
 Ohio, amid the splutter of fireworks
 and the explosion of bombs, at once
 announced that she would take the lee
 ture platform with discourse on wom-
 ans rights. It would appear that Mrs.
 George is much more in the mood to
 discuss woman's wrongs, and this opin-
 ion is strengthened by a conversation
 with a reporter, in which the lady says:
 want tc say that my misfortune and
 bitter results should be warning to de- signing men. Oh, if I could go into every home and tell each wife, sister or daugh- ter, and warn them against trusting any man with their virtue! 1 would warn them to bS careful of their associates to guard themselves against this tempta- tion that dragged me down.
 This, says the Chicago Post, is most excellent advice, and we hasten to give it our mnEt cordial support. The more we consider Mrs. Georges carefully chosen words the stronger are our con- victions that a woman should exercise the utmcgt caution in the disposition of her virtue. There is, we believe, a very general sentiment in feminine circles which acts measurably as preventive of the rlisfortunes and bitter results so eloquently portrayed by Mrs. G scrge but we have no doubt that the lads's emphatic warning will greatly stimulate this sentiment and demon- strate the utter futility of yielding to temptation. But as to the other propo- siion, tne invasion of every home by Mrs. George, we have a few unchival- rous Iaisgivings. While we yield to none in our admiration of Mrs. Georges good qualities we must reluctantly say that we are not quite prepared to see her walking up the steps and pulling the doOrbell. It seems to us2such is our unmanly suspicion-that the spec tacle of this new champion of woman's rights sitting in the midst of our wives, and sisters instructing them as to the proper feminine conduct would be somewhat disconcerting, and we think-to borrow the adequate ex- pression of polite circles-that any young woman approached by Mrs. George with suggestions as to moral behavior would be justified in burst. ing into tears and calling cab"
The St. Johns herald., 1899-07-08

A woman is lot easier to hunt do wn than a mosquito.
 Marriage to the average man is a luxury; to the average woman it is only a necessity.
 When one girl speaks of another as "So sensible" you will notice her nose always turns up.
 A man never really loves a woman till he loves her too well to try to teach her to play whist.
 At certain periods every girl has so many soul-yearnings that she has hard. ly room for a square meal.
 The prophet Elijah ought to have let the boys alone; then they would have grown up to be bald-headed them selves.
 If there is anything at all in the transmigration theory, it is probable that every woman has at some time been cat.
 No man has any real idea ot the length of a minute till his wife makes him wait ten of them before he takes of mustard plaster.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-07-08
THE SAD STORY IT TOLD.
Cuzzfs First Glance In a Looking
 Glass In Fifteen Years.

Shortly after CuzZi's rescue by Gen eral Kitchener, when the latter entered Omdurman, the long suffering man said:
 During my 15 years imprisonment never saw mirror. and gradually all interest in my personal appearance faded completely away. When it be- came sure that an expedition was on it's way to Omdurman. began to live again. When at last the cannon began to thunder and the wild cries of the battle penetrated the city. laid my .word ready, determined, should this last hope be destroyed, to put an end to my life When finally the noise Of the cannon ceased and the victor Kitch- ener stood before me, congratulating me on my release. I thought l should suffocate with emotion.
 ''The next day I made my toilet in an officers tent and held in my hand the first looking glass had seen for 15 years. looked curiously at my ref1ec- tion in it and started back. had gone out into the world a young, active strong man, and the image which now stared at me was that of sick, hollow eyed, wrinkled, broken man. Never did all that I had suffered enter my mind with such strength as at this moment. and wept, wept like child-the first tears in 15 yearsl
 ''The day after was made a prisoner saw my wife die, but my grief was too great for the relief of tears. My child was torn from me and died of starvation far away, and could not weep. suffered deprivations and il treatment without sign of weakness. but now, before this small looking glass, I was overwhelmed. The pain of all that had lost seemed concentrated in the grief stricken features reflected in the mirror. At one glance saw the story of my sufferings."
The St. Johns herald., 1899-07-08
HEARSE DRIVING.
BIen Steadily Employed at It Tn the
 Larger Cities.


 In smaller cities and in the country the hearse driver may between times drive other vehicles or engage in some other work. but in a city of great popu- Iation like New York, where. in the natural course of things. many deaths occur daily and where many hearses are used and kept constantly employed. hearse driving is a regular occupation There are many hearse drivers in the city who have been thus steadily em- ployed for many years Only careful and skillful drivers are employed in this capacity.
 The letting of hearses is long estab- lished custom in this city. Many livery men own from one to a dozen hearses and let them tI sextons and undertak- CTS. Perhaps half of the undertakers of the city do not keep hearses. but hire of the livery owners. So it commonly happens that in answering calls from one source and another the hearses owned by the hverymen are constantly employed. It might be that all the hearses owned in a stable. whatever their number. would be called for day after day and week after week. as regu- larly as so many carriages or other vehicles might be. and so it comes about that hearse driving is here a steady occupation. just like any other.
 While hearses are commonly driven to and from the various cemeteries in and about the city. they are sometimes driven out of the city to various nearby cities and towns. eHearses have been driven to greater distances. but they are not often driven more than 12 or 15 miles aWaY=New York Sun.
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herself to drink in the sweets of hi! passionate words; they would at any rate be a lifelong remembrance, ever though on his return he should cast hel off.
 The operation was successful beyond his hopes, and in few weeks he was rushing back to his love-eyes shaded it is true, but with the certainty that in a short time his sightAwould be fully restored.
 "I want to see Miss Johnstone," he said to the orderly at the hospital en. | trance.
 Miss Johnstone, sir? WhichY' "Why, the nurse."
 "Yes, sir; but there's two of them.''
 "Well-er-she's very good-looking. I did not know there were two.
 "Oh, yes, sir, there's two. But I know the one you mean now"
 And he was shown into the waiting room.
 "Gentleman wants me? Who can it-" Then the door opened. He started forward.
 "NIy lovey' he whispered. "I knew you were beautiful. 1 have come back to claim you."
 Sister Kate drew back, startled. For the moment she could not imagine who this man was with the shade over his eyes could be. In that moment he had drawn her to him, and was wildly pouring out his love.
 In that moment also the door again opened, and Sister May, looking in.
 She faltered. and stepped back, the beating of her heart choking her for the minute.
 "Stop, sir!' said Kate, regaining her senses. "You must be MT. Hamilton?'
 Yes" he answered, amazed, releas- ing her.
 This frivolous little voice was not that of his love. This over-frizzed hair, these shallow eyes were not beau tiful at the second glance. What had he done?
 "Are you not Miss JohnstoneY
 ''Yes, Kate Johnstone"
 Kate? And is your sister,"
 Cousin"
 'Is she not here?"
 'Yes," said Kate, with a smile. "Stay here. 1 will fetch her."
 "Why, May, you there" she whis- pered, on finding her at the threshold, and wondering if she had seen or heard. Here is Mir. Hamilton. Come"
 ''No, neveri 1 will never see himr' she panted, between her heart beats. Nonsense! He has come back on purpose for you, and his eyes are all right"
 "Yes, and he expects to see a pretty girl like you!' retorted May, bitterly. Look here, May, don't you be fool! Go in; he is waiting"
 But Hamilton had already grown inn patient The door opened and he saw them both.
 Here she is," said Kate.
 "Ahr' he said.
 Sister May looked. down, trembling. Are you May Johnstone, my dear nurse?" he asked, his voice full of ten. derness and love.
 "Yes," she whispered.
 Kate had disappeared; they were alone.
 ''My darling, I have come for you." he said.
 "But-you can see now?"
 She looked up recklessly and their eyes met.
 "Yes, thank God; can see my lover' Then she surrendered herself.-Chi. cago Journal.
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Admiral Dewey declares that under no circumstances will he be a candidate for the Presidency next year, for he is a sailor and has no politics, and Dewey prOfesses himself totally ignorant of party intricacies and affiliations. Sev- eral times in the history of the republic the army has furnished an incumbent for the Presidency. Not so the navy. And it is a remarkable fact that, on the whole, the army men who reached the chief magistracy by party nomination had never been affiliated with the par ty which nominated them. Andrew Jackson's selection to the Presidency came before the methods of nomina- ton now obtaining were in vogue. He was defeated in 1924, to be triumphant ly elected in 1928, not alone because of the glamOr of his military renOwn, but because of a deep-seated conviction in the popular mind that he had been de- frauded in 1924. Zachary Taylor was taken up by the Wings in 1848, not be- cause he was Whig, but because of his availability as a candidate growing out of the great reputation he made in the war with Mexico. He was the owner of slaves, yet received the cor dial support of Northern opponents of slavery. Great as is the predilection of the electorate of the republic for a military hero, Scott, who won laurels in both the war of 1872 and the war with Mexico, was beaten in 1852. In 1868 Grant had no more historical iden- tity with the Republican than with the Democratic party. He was no more identified as politician than is Dewey. Yet it seemed natural to the whole country that the Republican politicians of that year should take him up as their leader. He was willing, as twenty years before Zachary Taylor was will ing. Dewey is not willing, and without his consent no party would venture to nominate him.
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Ladies wishing to add to the com fort of the audience would do it by re- moving their hats" This was printed as a poster in London concert-roOm. Despite the appeal, the nuisance does not appreciably abate. MT. Birrell once . begged a class of schoolgirls to be gen- tlemen. Many of their mothers, unfor- tunately. might profit by his paradox.
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A "horror social" is the latest freak among society ladies. Each lady is eX- pected to bring a resemblance of what she most dreads. Empty pocket books and dead mice are common cOntribu- tions
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Another burglar has 5een caught who posed, when in private life, as a com mercial traveller. Strictly speaking, the title Is not altogether amiss in sig nificance. The burglar travels, and no body supposes that he travels for his health
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It is not believed that there is any thing in wireless telegraphy that will make it any easier for nervous ladies to open telegrams without a thrill of apprehension.
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Dewey says that Farragut showed him chow to do it. How Farragut would have rejoiced to know that so great an opportunity awaited so apt a nunfIf
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Germanv's Youthful Crimina's

In Germany 45,251 persons under Is years of age were convicted of crime or misdemeanor in 1897. Of these 22,54I were sentenced for theft, 7.537s for vio- lence to the person and 3,667 for fraud.
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If every man who falls in love with Miss Helen Gould is to be arrested, the bachelors might as well be assessed at so much a head without further cere- monr.
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If the colonies of Australia federate under the name of the United States of Australia, as has been suggested, it will be no longer possible for us to monopO- lize the abbreviation U. s. A. A rival .ry for the use of 1t would show that our federal system of government is having many imitators, and as com pliment would offset any inconveni- ence that might result.
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A rascally engraver engaged to coun- terfeit money is like any other rascal. The better the impression he makes the more dangerous he is.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-07-08

Another case of the marriage of pro- fessional thieves in jail. From a social point of view this sort of thing is open to serious criticism.
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PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY

Many a pointer is given to an indi- Vidual at times solely that he may not go to the dogs.
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As soon as a singer does fairly well on a church hymn she begins to reach out with step ladders for the high notes and makes 8 failure
The St. Johns herald., 1899-07-08

Rudyard Kipling says the hardest work be ever did and the hardest he ever saw done is that of work on a neWSpaper
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The organization of a company to control the trade in peanuts cannot be called a grand-stand play.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-07-08
e HE silent stars looked dowr

2 pAl
 through a clear, still night upon = a host of sleeping men. The brigade had advanced by forced marches, aud now lay within two miles of the dervish camp. To-morrow's dawn would see the assault. Two of ficers stood together, talking in low whispers, for it was of the utmost i'm portance that the enemy should be taken by surprise, and the orders as to silence were strict.
 Buck up, old chap; you'll come through all right. And if not, what does it amount to? You've got no wo- men folk to bother about"
 ''No, thank heaven! It is in times like this that one is glad never to have married-like poor old Harcourt."
 "Why poor?'
 "I was thinking of his wife. shouldn't care to be tied to an ugly woman myself"
 '"Thats all rot, Hamilton" retorted the other, 'I don't believe it matters a row of pins, so long, of course, as she isn't repulsive or underbred?"
 Think sop
 "Yes. The most unlikely women sometimes attract most"
 "Well, old chap, Pm precious thank full I've no thoughts of woman to bother me tonight. I shall try for a lead tomorrow, even if 1 have got the route; we've a good chance of being first into the Zareba."
 "We will give you race for 1t, any how. But we'd better try and get a sleep, for this awful heat takes it out of a fellow"
 The two went to their separate posts. And as he lay, sleepless, the thought came to Hamilton that 1t was some what lonesome to think that no .wo- mans eyes would fill at the news of his death, and he looked upward at the stars above him, wondering where his soul would. be tomorrow.
 The shadow of death lay upon him, as, at times, it does upon the bravest soldier; he would fight none the worse for it in the morning.
 
 The sun had risen.
 In the previous short half-hour of dawn the assault had been delivered; the dervish forces had been driven from their mtrenchments, and now the black, grinning "Gippys" were fra ternizing and triumphing with their laughing and chaffing white comrades. Backward, across the half-mile of plain, the surgeons were busy. Away to the southward could be heard the sounds of pursuit, as the British Lancers chased the flying Bagara.
 
 A field hospital at the front is not q pleasant place, neither can it be de- scribed in cold black and white. War correspondents, as readers of the daiIies have no doubt noticed, judic- iously avoid more than the mercst men, ton of such places.
 There were some ghastly cases, and both surgeons and assistants had been worked hard. But the pressure was over, and at last there was time to at tend to the wounds which were not deadly.
 "Now, Hamilton. let's seew said Surgeon Major Murphy, approaching an officer who lay motiOnless on stretcher-who had so lain half an hour at least. The doctor looked his patient over, gave low whistle, and beclloned to one of the orderlies, who at that turned his head.
 Look, see, Dawkins, here's a bad case! He must go back to hospitalp' Bad as that, doctor?" asked the mo- tionless man, faintly.
 "'Tis so! Now you keep quiet" Lieut.. Hamilton had been totally blinded by the explosion of a shell in m earthwork as, well in front, he was
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Every American scheme that has been tried on the Filipinos has been successful, excepting the war balloon.
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There are some men who never show a willingness to help man in trouble unless his house gets on fire.
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Time seldom adds to the value of pictures painted by Hone.