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roof. with the signal halyards ready rove.
to serve for fiagstaffs.
Gradually the building was altered and
patched. and the traces Of the original ship
disappeared from view. but the name Nj
sntiC was .. fixture. and people entering tho
warehouse continued to speak of coming
aboard or coming over the side. When the
city decided to expand at the expense Of
the bay. and filed in the flats and formed
Sansoms and Battery. and all the other
streets which have pat the wreck OF the
Niantlc haR 4 mile inland. the filing in
buried out Of sight the huh and channel
plates of the ship, and IL ceased 90 resem-
BILE anything that had ever fOated. When
this first building went into decay and
was condemned. the OLD ship was found to
be the sOundsst part Of 10 all. But il was
buried still deeper by the foundations OF
the large. and Tor that time. modern build
ing that took its place. Now there is
nothing OF the ship left except the name OF
the building and the old mainuast. which
runs Ut from story to story. and Is used
TO support its due share Of the weight.
Some ~ the pioneers sroutly aver that the
mdlnmtist OF the Mantle prOphesies tho
coming % gales upon rhe bay by the way il
creokS for two or thre. DAYS before the
wind comes. and that these forecasts are
much more 10 be relied on than the guesses
OF the Weather Bureau.
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STRANDED SHIPS
IN

bic to get the ships discharged; men would
never consent to be stevedores ON the beach
when they could be miliionaires at the
mines. That IS why many OF the cargoes
Were never preached except when there was
need OF something TO fill up the mudhoies
on the beach streets. No ArgOnaGt would
respect himself IL he could not tell Of the
time when he saw the streets along the wa-
ter front paved with plug tobacco in boxes.
One Of this feet. abandoned and dereiict
at her anchors. the good ship Mantle.
parted her cables in one Of the stiff winds
for which the Golden Gate is notorious,
drifted ashore or the mud Tar at the foot
OF Clay street, and found a convenient ard
Sticky berth about a hundred yards or
shore on the lire of the present S.rsoms
street. The underwriters paid the loss, for
at the current rate Of wages and the alb
sence of labor it would have cost half 4
dozen times he: worth 10 get her off. and
even then she would be OF no use without
sailors Having paid the loss. the under
writer's III turn abandoned her. and rrUba-
bly, felt in luck that they were not called
upon by some owner OF real estate 10 take
the ship away.
The presence OF the ship aided the sitting
up of the mud :iat. and in a short time il
was awash Only at high tide. and finally
dry all day long. Then II was recognized
that this was q new addition TO the front
OF the city. and some business man took
possession OK the ship and made it over into
a warehouse. The vessel was sound in every
timber, spars all standing and salts on the
yarGs, the hold as tight az a drum, and il
sfe did make rs much as q foot a month.
II was only I short trick at the pumps TO
clear 1t out. In fact, nothing could have
been better for a warehouse and general
chandiery. TIL hold made an excellent Gel
lar. the floor of the second story was sun
ported by the lower masts at the tops, the
root was fixed At the crosstrees. and tie
royal masts were left standing above the
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statesmen this country has produced VII
lam J. Stone. former Governor of this State.
has also a thin-lipped mouth. though il
seems a trife full by comparison with R-y-
ans. The slight downward slant exists in
lis lips. also, as it does in Croker's.
Carter Harrison OF Chicago has n rer-
fecuy straight mouth Of somewhat severe
lines. The fullness OF his lips removes tn.
severity 10 q great extent. but. the general
lines of his mouth seem more Indicative of
the business man than of the politician.
That business capacity and party leader
ship are closely connected, however. would
seem indicated by his record.
John i. Aitgeld has a straight. moderate
ly full-lipped mouth of a distinctly opposite
type from that of Carter Harrison. In con-
recticn with Harrison it may be mentioned
as a rather curious coincidence that both he
and Croke who come from large cities.
have rather full lips, while the tendency OF
politicians from the smaller towns and
country is toward thin lips.
Adlai +. Stevenson has a firm mouth. but
it is SO effectUally concealed by his short,
dropping mustache that an idea of his char
acter can only be formed from the lines Of
his chin. James J. Jones has a similar
mouth. with more OF a droop To the cor
ners. and in his case even the chin il con-
cealed by the beard.
David :. Rose. Mayor of Milwaukee. was
dfotHeF inquire at lHS convention, with tne
mouth of a business man rather than of Il
politician. The expression of his lip is that
possessed of a 1nancier rather than a pol
itician. though the same connection exists
between the two, as in Carter Harrison's
case.
Charles A. Towne of Minnesota. nominated
for the vice presidency by the PoFulists.
| has a firm mouth of the general appearance
of Il scholars. the shape of the lips no; be-
lying this. David B. Hill possesses u mouth
! inclined to fullness.
Charles 5. Thomas Governor Of Colorado.
has a thin upper lip, with a heavier lower
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If Noah had lived in days as teeming
with enterprise as the present no doubt his
ark. left high and dry by the rece,lins
waves. would have been turned TO some
commercial account. for its great roominess
would have suggested its excellent fitness
for a storehouSe.
The recent terrible food at Galveston car
ried inland vessels that it would have been
impossible to drag from the waves to the
sands. and there they stand. silent yet en-
phatic testimonials Of the awful strength
of the tidal wave that bore them inland.
Doubtless in days to come these stranded
vessels will he put to some use never
thought of when they were designed. and
It'll" children playing about them will be
told stories of once upon 4 time when
the storm that swept over the island ear
ried the ships over the terror-stricken city.
In Front street, New York, there IS a
building which rests upon the wreck OF a
beached ship. The story of this ship is
well known to Old New Workers. and the
building still preserves the name q! the
ship.
In san Francisco. where none may aspire
to rank in the pioneer or 'forty-niner"
class unless he can distinctly remember
"NN1 cdihe UP 10 montgomery
street. which. relatively to the present
pier and bulkhead line. represents a dis
tance much farther inland than Front
street in New ~iork-there is another strand
ed vessei-holse. AT the time when Mont
gcmery street had only one side. being in
reality the beach. the bay of San Fran
cisco was crowded with all sorts of ships
lying idle for the simple reason tina: all
hands and the cook had skipped out for SUIT
ter's Fort and the mines. IL was imposs;-
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ROM SONNETS TO THE
RROWNTNGS

o mated souls. that through the blissful
Geeps
or heaven on heaven wing your ethereal
way.
Know We how love on earthly shores to-
day
For your true sake his feast in triumph
keeps
Know We how all the world Of lovers heap,
IL sarlands on the living words that aye
line molly passion of your VOW shall say
iii song itself to graz oblivion creeps?
The alpha and omega of the heart.
Inc perfect scale. to its first note returi.-
ing;
Each fond detail. each jot of life or art.
burningi
Marion Pelton Guild In the Atlantic.
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r CTER Shown in the Mouths of Demo-
cratic and Republican Leaders.

WRITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC.
No feature of the human countenance SO
clearly indicates the character and temper
ameEt of a person as does the mouth. In
extremely ancien. writings the lines OF the
mouth are described to indicate character.
while to-day the shape Of the mouth and
saw is the first thing mentioned in describ-
ing q strongly marked face.
The mouth is not an unfailing index to
character, however. and many exceptions
occur to the rule that temperament can
be determined therefrom. \ notable exam
pie was Charles Fox, the great English
statesman, whose mouth showed only the
sensuous side of his nature. the firmness
ard decision which were his strong points
appearing in the squareness of his Jaw
alone.
Other notable exceptions occur in the lead
Ing political parties. men Of opposite dis
positions having the same type of mouths
in some instances. AS u general rule. how
ever. it will be found that public characters
live up to the temperament indicated. as
generally accepted, by the mouth. As ex-
amples. the leading men in the late Demo-
cratic convention may he taken. All those
who We're most earnestly and infiexibly IN
favor of the tenets OF their party and were
known to be men of un;linching resolution
We're possessed Il most without exception OF
the style of mouth generally accepted as
indicating these characteristics. This was
especially true of Bryan. with his thin,
straight lips. and also of w. ID. Oldham, his
hpominator.
b. Richard Croker has a strong mouth, but
on a different cast from Bryans. The cor
MATS of his lips are slightly turned down
.rr his lips are fuller than those of Bryan,
the strength of his character is most
s..Ssrent in the shape of his jaw, which
MAJ be taken e a type of power.
o. methin lines OF Bryan's mouth show the
trees L American mouth, this cast of lips
80 been possessed by most OF the great
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lip or rather irooring corners. James u.
Richardson. Congreyr man from Tennessee.
had perhaps the pirlsautc~t mouth Of all
those IN The convention. His mouth was Il
typical Southern one. in which .irmncss
WIS blended with genjaIty.
The most notable figures at the Rerubli-
can Convention We're. Of course. Mckinley,
Roosevelt and Hanna. The thin mouth Is
apparent In both Mckinley and Hanna to "a
marked degr"", Hanna having perhaps the
coolest expression about the I'ps. Rposr-
velt's mouth has the tendency to fuIIress
already mentioned I'm connection with The
politicians who hail from the larg1 r cities.
but more resolution expressed IL his lines
than NcKiniey.
Another ease in point IS that Of T!mnth. +.
Woodruff. Lieutenant Governor ~ Nov
YORK. He has the thiCxer lipS Of the dwell
er In n large city and the general express
Ion Is more that Of the politician than Of
the leader. Matthew :. QUAY. the political
leader. has the cold. calculating mouth
which one would expect him to posses.
Thomas c. Plat has Il mouth which II
would be hard To describe. ITS lines might
mean anything. and there Is no feature OF
IL which indicates one phase Of his charae-
ter more than another. This effect is prom
ably heightened by the beard he wears.
John Davis Long. tie New England can
didate Tor the vice presidency. has Il good
natured month Of rather fun lines. The
same may be said Of John Pfentiss Dolliver.
! the Congressman from Iowa. charles q.
Dawes Of Illinois has Il rather weak mouth.
as has Edward Oliver Wolcott. this last
effect being brought about by the fuilrrss
OF Wolcotrs lips. C1auncey NJ bepeV's
mouth is well known and needs no descrjp-
! ton. Charles Dick Congressman from
Iowa. has a rather full mouth of uncertain
! character.
There were several other notable ch.rlc-
J ferS IN tho gnN~NansfnF NEhaEA r1AEr.hz nFA
50 shrouded by a bushy growth of whiskers
that their real character could not be de-
termined- A case in point was that Of
Charles II. Grosvenor, Congressman from
Ohio, he possessing facial adornr1ents of
the Rip Van Wrinkle type.
II is notable that while the characters Of
the Democratic leaders are plainly inoica ed
in their faces. there Is considerable di1izul-
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-10-21
CUTTING
MEDAL
AEhT."

Ell.
"N'sse. | ulster work over on Market
street. close 10 Eighth. That's righJ-you
remember me-, don't You, Shorty, when 1
ulster work over there? An while, o course,
l amt saying il myself, Yet there amt 50
very many meat cutters can put nee on the
bum. at at.
But l goes inter the Meat Cutters Tour
nament an l lose. On the square and prop
er. too. The Dutchman had me skinned. 1t
was up 10 me an him. an he beat me to II.
But yet. al that. I'm game for any Old
thing. Thar how I seen my rival get beat
out o his medal. An l wasn't d hi, sorry.
neither.
"A Chink done it.
"How's that? Well. I'll tell you. Y'see,
there was a LAME guy on the corner, run
the 'Owr Iunch wagon. Micky Was the
name he went by.
Well, one day Mieky comes to me an he
says: Say. l seen YOU when you lose out
on the tournament an I've got . scheme
fer you ter get square
what IL is?' says I.
Cough up fer a cdn. an I'll spring it,
SAYS Micky. So ! coaghed.'
whats the hardest thing to DO in meat
cutting asks Micky.
Get the medal says i.
Rats. says Micky. Dat amt wot I
mean. Where does the crafty-handiwork
come inr says he.
well. / don't know nothing more down.
right difficult and harder to make a good
clean job out Of says l, nor trimnin. a
shoulder o pork
Has the man with the medal got any
coin: asks Micky.
Sure" says 1. But that don't cut no
Tee with me. All I'd like TO lay my hands
On is that medal
"Oh. OATS easy says Micky, because
he talks that way. Dis and dat, you know.
How is IL easy asks I.
I've got a dark horse Says the lame
guy.
peach, too. Tit Chink l was teilin' you
about.
We'll. We fxed the match up. an the
medal D~utchnian showed up ON time. Twas
a Sunday morning, an the winner was to
a all the shoulders that Was cut In a
slip lated time. A key o beer WAS What
bet against the medal.
We'll. the Chink, he showed up all right
cause M!ckSd fetched him along. The
Odd Man held the watch himself. an the
Chink didn't do a thing but trim three
shoulders TO the Dutchman's two.
The Dutchman had all the best OF 7,
when 1t came to tools. But the Chink oidn't
have nothing but one of them big knife
cleavers they use. That was All. An he
didn't leave IA fngernaifui o meat on a
single bone. neither.
Three shoulders to the Dutchman's two.
Think o that! Wouldn't that set You
crszy7
But. o course. Micky hadn't never told
me who the Chink was, or I'd have SAWED
Say, he was the cook in a Chinese res
taurant on Eighth street.
Any old time sou can lose one o them,
Why. one o them would he more liable IA
leave bone in the meat than meat ON TN.
bone. An<hats what. as "A meat cutter. I
cali cutthg medal meat"
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STEALING
A MANS
TRADE.

and loaf around
whenever work Was slack with him at his
own trade of tailorin'. Course. he Was u
friend of the boss's. and 1 didn't have
nothin' to say about il. OF Id have told him
something.
"Well. he'd been coming in pretty reg lar
for two or three weeks. ana ! noticed he'd
use to watch NE and the boss pretty cloS
what we was doing. So one day he up and
says, L b'leeve l cud make a pair o Shoes
Just like that-confident like.
$50 the boss answers him, and says.
well, go ahead. Why don't YOU"
so the little tailor, he says. Al 1t needs
Is care and patience that L can see. Course,
heather is a little different from cloth, but
Il sou wasn't a good customer OF milne for
. long time now. and I didn't feel like it'd
be stealing a mans trade. I'd make them
Ehces.'
The boss didn't say nothing; he only
smiled and sent the kid out for the beer.
And after We drank the beer the little tailor
makes a bet with the boss that he could
make as good A pair of shoes az anybody
e the boss'd lend him a pair O. lasts and
2 awl.
$50 next day little old Bandy-legs goes
down TO the ieaTher-house ana buys the
stock for them shoes he was going to make.
snd We didn't see nothing of him for about
Eve days.
And, say, talking about stealing a mans
trade from him. just wisht you could
have seen them shoes when little 'Bandy'
gets 'em done. He came in the shop with
'em. and me and the boss knowed there
vas something wrong with 'em when he
first came in.
Now maybe you fellers don't know how
. shoes made. There's some that claims
to be good shoemakers don't know much
more. I'll tell you that. Anyway. 'Bandy'
had went to work and forgot about the
~grocye-or maybe he never knowed-that
sou got to allow for in stitching the sole
on Course, when i shoes made you draw
the upper on over the last and stitch the
4nsole on with stitches that's about two
sixteenths long. That there's enough to
hold 1t all right, and then when you go to
put the sole on you got to cut a little
groove all around and allow for that. When
1t comes to sewing the sole proper on.
twenty-five stitches to the inch Is pretty
fair sewing. but dosgone me IL that little
old tailor hadn't gone to work and sewed
thirty-two. But the worst part about it
was, he hadn't allowed for no space be-
tween where he'd sewed the insole on aud
where he sewed the sole. So, of course.
them microscope stitches o. his'n didn't do a
thing but play the dickens with them two
sixteenth stitches Cut 'em clean to pieces.
And when he went to pull the last out it
ripped the stitching. as I said. clean all
70 pieces.
so when he came down TO the shop he
had 'em with him and he asked the boss
what could be done to save EN-.
"'Bout the only thing you kin do says
the boss. is 10 go TO work and peg 'ern.
Maybe they'n hold that way says the boss.
Well, l went to work and begged 'em in
Tor him, and Old Bandy sends the kid out
with the can for the beer and some good
cigars what he'd lost on his bet with the
boss. and everything was all right.
But III tell you one thing right now, you
can rubber all you're a mind TO, but you
rant steal no mans trade"
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QUAIRAIN.

WE rail at Time and Chance. and break
our hearts
1" make the glory of to-day endure.
Is III" sun dead because THE day departs"
And are the sums of Life and Love less
sure:
Richard Hovey in the Bookman.
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" In reading the cuuntenance of many 81
II" Republicans. Perhaps the reason is
that Republicans have more to conceal than
Democrats.
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WRITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC.

"%eIl. you fellows
car, talk about ami
mails all you're a
mind to-" said the
bartender, who. be-
coming Interested. had
come from behind the
bar and stood with
his two hands on the
back Of a chair. "TN
admit there's lots OF
funny things ahOue
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WRITTEN rnR Il sunday REprRLLc.

Yes. speaking about
game" said the met
al hnisher. there's
some mighty funny
things might be told
In connection with
game.
Twenty years ago.
when ! Was a good
Deal younger than I
am now. and a good
dea. Of a dare devil,
taok uya, mopayy
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WRITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC.

We'll. talking about
economy aut cooks
and one thing and
another. said the
stationary engineer,
Il used TO make II a
habit 70 go hunting
every year.
Sometimes II would
Re In Canada-you
know I'm d Canuck.
born and ralssd-but
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WRITTEN FOR THE sUNDAY REPUBLIC.

Talk about stealing
a mans trade said
the ~sh0emaher, "a
funny thing happened
up al the shop ! used
I. work at on Frank
lin avenue one lime.
There was one OF
them reglar little
b.ndy-legged taiicrs
used 10 come ia there
ana loaf around
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wTIrTEN FOR THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC.


oh. ] don't know"
said the butcher. Il
never exactly seen no
body steal robody's
trade, but | tell yoH
what | did see once. I
seen a meat cutter
lose his medal. what
he got for cutting
meat. too. What do
you think Of that,
aps
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WRITTEN FOE The srr:nAy nEPuBILc.

The most fun ] ev-
er had was when I
was carpentering up
around Farmer City.
In Illinois," said tho
carpenter. "And you
fellows talking about
game and stun like
that puts me In mind
OF the time l used 10
train a game rooster.
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caught in that fashion. Consider how awkward
his position would have been at the present
moment II he hadn't been able to discard the
department store issue when he found that 1t
wasn't according to his fancy. The liberty or
choice which Mcclure comedies to Stanchneld
presupposes ample opportunity to make up
his mind. Perhaps he hasn't made 1t up even
yet. Just now he appears to think well OF the
trust issue. but he may not wish to stick TO IT.
and we hope there is no reason to doubt that II
it dsagrees with him he will get rid of 1t with
out moments hesitation.
1t is not exactly our affair, but we insist that
Stanchfeld shall have a fair show under the
rules laid down by the chairman of his own
Executive Committee. In addition 10 the issues
which he has already tried there are several
which he ought at least to take look at before
making his final decision There, for example.
is the income tax issue, which Mr.. Bryan says
was inadvertently left out of the platform, and
which might prove upon examination TO be pos
sessed of all the essential attributes Of para
mOuntcy. AS to that his friend and former
partner the Hon. David B. Hill, may be able TO
give him valuable suggestions If he is not other
wise engaged. With so many issues lying around
loose it would be exceedingly foolish on the part
of Stanchfeld to permit himself to be unduly
hurried.