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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-04-19
DIR. JOHNSON IN FLEET STREET.
Landmarks of the Great Bear of En-
!fsh Letters.


That "a tavern chair is the throne OF
human felicity is one of the best known
OF the Jonnsonian aphorlsms. With sucn
sentiments it is prouable that the doctor
occupied that regal eminence upon every
possible occasion, and of necessity often,
which - as Boswell admits - was
his favored thoroughfare. Leigh
Hunt .conjectures that. in all like
lthood he mad seen the interior OF every
house OF call in the neighborhood. and
as he lived ''thereabouts'' for nearly
| hve-and-thirty years it is more than pos
sible that Leigh Hunt is right.
Yet his name Is not definitely connect
ed with many Fleet street taverns, ana,
oddly enough two Of those with which
he Is most popularity associated are not
mentioned by his biographer. The Cock.
! for example, now transferred to the
southern side of the street, and still pre-
serving an ancient oak fireplace Of the
Johnsonian epoch, Is not alluded to-. But
| a delightful old hosiery with paneled
rooms and "sanded floor that grits be-
meath the tread" appears to be able to
Justify claim not ADVANCED by hswell.
objections" had in his youth conversed
with Fleet street tradesmen who had fre-
1uently seen both Johnson and Goldsmith
IN the house, and who well remembered
that DR.. Majors seat was always in
the window and DR.. Minors ''on his
| eft hand The table and the room .
says Reddmg In 1855, ARE now as they
we're when / first saw them, having had
| The curiosity to visit them recentIy''-a
| testimony hard to be gainsaid. 5
| OF the taverns named by Hawkins
there is the Devil by Temple Bar. where
took place that memorable symposium in
which Mrs. Charlotte Lennox was regal
ed with laurels and '.hot apple pye,'' and
kept awake all night to celebrate the app
pearance of her first novel-"Harriet Stu
art" Then Boswell mentions the Mitro.
where he first supped with his mentor.
upon which occasion, what with the port,
! the orthodox high church name of the
tavern, and the presence Of the great
man, he experienced, as he well might,
"a variety Of sensations accompanied
by "a pleasing elevation Of mind beyond
what he had ever before experienced .
But these are the only Fleet street tav-
| erns we can remember. Old Slaughter :.
| in ST. Martins Lane, the Crown and An
Choir, at the corner of Arundel street,
the Fountain, in the Strand. the Turk
Head, id Gerard street, the Kings Head,
| in Ivy Lane the Queens Head, in st.
PamYs church yard-an these were be-
| yond the limits of that highway of let
tiers which the doctor preferred to the
| Vale Of Tempe. u. ss
But. wherever he dined or supped, he
certainly lived for many years IN Fleet
street. It was at No. II Cough square
happily still existent-that ne resided
from l749 to 1859. and did the major part
] 5nf hss SunrL hAfnra he Ues nonaiarad.
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under, his care declare tnaI their CLASS -
largely sustained by such women A
spiritual deflement. destructive of mar
riage, is found in these facts, for which
men are almost entirely responsible.
Besides these causes there are many
Others too personal in their nature to be
preached even in as frank discussion of
frfacts as this paper has undertaken. An
honest man, church member, the secre-
tary Of a legislative committee in state
where divorce proceedings were intrusted
to the legislature told me that he had
heard thousand divorce cases. In all
most every case, as he heard 1t fully and
freely set before his committee, there
seemed to be a just ground for divorce.
He said however. that many of the true
causes Of divorce were never published
In newspapers. The newspaper reading
public consequently often estimated the
grounds of divorce to be more frivolous
than they really were. Many women land
two-thirds OF the divorces in the United
States are granted to women) petition
for divorce on less offensive grounds than
they might in law set forth. They do.
this to protect their name and their chill
dren, and to create as little publicity as
possible Ink n :.
Children are desired by the poor not
only to satisfy natural affection and to
complete the family circle, but because
CQeY are SOURCE u lucOHc duU yCdI
eventually provide for their parents old
age. It is no uncommon thing In cotton
spinning districts to see middle-aged men
throw up their jobs and spend their days
in idleness, supported by the wages of
their children, which they receive quite
as a business man who has retired on
competence would receive his interest and
dividends have. been shocked many
lines at the funeral. Yes, what bad
luck; how hard it is on us. Tom is taken
away just as he was beginning to earn
something for u.s. Such glimpse into
the sordid heart of human sorrow shows
us tragically that spiritual development
must always wait upon economic reform.
E..Desertion, not divorce, is the recourse
Of the poor. Bigamy is the crime of the
working classes more than Of the rich
nave never personally known ulvorcla
person in the working classes. I have,
however, known countless cases Of
bigamy-
There is another side to this recourse
of the poor to bigamy as release from
marital unhappiness. The inconspicuous
lives of the poor alone protect them.
Flight from Europe to America, or from
our Eastern states to the West, lis suff1-
Gent to change working mans world.
He cannot often be followed-his family
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Is ~ l. ~. r r
has no money for long journeys He IS
not important enough to become the sub
ject of newspaper notices. He really
lives in world out of sight, below the
world of free travel or international ac-
quaintances and Of the worlds daily
news. st - =, -
The, fact I have just mentioned is in
tstructive. For it shows that there is not
"a superior morality among the poor, but
that the rules Of the game are not under
stood or observed. They will not go
through the forms of legal release when
they cannot endure legal ties. They
take matters into their own hands and
break the rules like children. All this is
Interesting to the evolutionist. 1t is qui'e
as he would expect. The method or the
working people in regard to marriage and
divorce, instead of exhibiting higher
type of morality, actually exhibits q
lower type-it is a survival.'-Rev. Percy
S. Grant, in Ainslee's. zF
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Johnson, wouio ouCaslvnu,lly u,svvu1z,e VA
returning from worship at ST. Clement
Danes. Here his ''Seraglio,'' as he call
ed it. attained the full limits indicated
above, Miss Williams retaining the
ground floor and Mrs. nesynoulins assum-
ing the supremacy CT The kitchen. which
supplied those mot inelegant dinners
Of his latter days to which Hawkins re-
fers. Johnson's books and study We're on
the 1.-TWO pair of stairs floor;;'' and in the
Dec. 49, 1884, at o'clock in the evening,
he died. Francis Barber. his black serv-
ant. and Mrs. Desmoulins, who were in
breathe, went to the bed and found him
dead. Seven days later. a little after
noon on the goth. at hearse with six horses
and accompanied by twelve mourning
to Westminster abbey He had not many
mourners of distinction, but it was some
thing to be followed graveyard by Burke
and Reynolds.-Austin Dobson in London
Tatt1er. - ..~,..zt 80 Il safSE
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w1nterbottom,s clever schere..

~ .f E. s rs
And now. darling. it only remains Tor you
to sqH when ssFSEz ~ rs7 5HT{ 49,
1u& At thfs moment the automobile. which
had reached the top OF the hill, started down
me re- other s... ode With fTtghtful velocity.
It failed to work. $500 f.sst+5sE ss z-7@-' 80.
He shut on TIE power
Il was too late.
E1ade. n 81 81 s.1AS.ea
L. At fas FOOT OF the inclire there was a sharp
t1rn6 the left. = -
Herr the automobile left the turnpike and
ran down the e7nbankment, throwing the
you g eouplersout and landing them in a big
Never mind. darling,''s exclaimed the youth
WIZ a with hat. gone. collar loose at one end,
and eost ripped up the back. was presently,
sagaged in digging sand out Of the hysterica1
1aaden. mouth this is one time that the
eous of true love ran smooth even il II
"a get g BIT Of q jolt at the end Of the run.
Cyrus Winterbottom. z she saad, half an
hous iaters as they were journeyinE toward
h y IN farmers wagon. II believe YOU did
I the whole thing on purpose 50 you could have
Journal. -
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NJ. Letorey, a French architect, has applet
the captive balloon to the cleaning or decorate
ing of cupolas. high roofs, towers and monu-
ments. The balloon can be raised or lowered
from wagon by a windlass and it can be
steadied by stays from the side of the envelope
It has'tw platforms or ''nacelles," one on the
top the other under meath, and these commu,
nicate by ladder up central tube. The
balloon scaffold," as it is called, might be
useful and safe in many operations such az
now require steeple Jacks.
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HH4


Nobody understands me!' cried the
poet. despairingly., IT shall starve!c !
|: 7 For it was against the law to beg, and
authors readings. H ~. 4. T*s.
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CompensatOr

Regular Annual Visitor Cat Northern summer
resorD--Your lake here seems to be dwindline
Proprietor-Yes. a little. But there are two
more breweries in the neighborhood than there
were last year.-Chicago Tribune. &"
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Charles Becker.

ers' Association to restrain him from
crime. This story, which has just
been put into circulation in San Fran
cisco, is denied by the Pinkerton
agency, through whose efforts Becker
was caught few years ago after re-
frauding the Nevada bank of San
Francisco out of $4,000. The Pinker-
tons are the agents of the Bankers
association. That organization, they
say, has no salary list, and while
Becker might be willing enough to
take the money, there is not the slight
est possibility of his getting it. The
story, say the Pinkertons, is pure fic-
ton, and, moreover, has not even the
merit of being new. 1t was origin
ated four years ago, two years after
Becker was convicted. The forger
then announced that he and the bank
ers were "go1ng into partners" and
the story then published was substan-
TALLY the same as that which is in cir
cuIation now. Becker is one of the
cleverest forgers in the world. For
many years he has worked independ-
emily, with partner, or with a com
pany, and he has f1eeced numerous
banks in European and American
cities of sums ranging into six figures.
His last big job was the swindling
of the Union Trust company of New
York out of 1900.
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Third-The United States owns the
chief way stations of commerce on
that ocean, the island ports of call
which are important in an ocean of
such vast distances.
Fourth--The United States controls
the best and nearly the only prac-
ticable route on which to lay sub
marine cables across the ocean-an
important factor in a consideration of
its commercial possibilities.
Fifth-At Manila the United States
has an extremely valuable distribut-
ing point for commerce for all parts
of the orient.
Sixth-Nature has given to the
North American continent great and
remarkable advantages for commerce
across the Pacific ocean-advantages
which must continue to exist as long
as the continent and the ocean con-
tinue in their present relation.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-09-06

Much indefniteness exists in the
use of the word cyclone Prof Davis
of Harvard remarks that violent whirl-
winds are occasionally formed in thun-
derstorms. They are seldom more than
a quarter of a mile in diameter; they
drift along with the thunderstorm in
which they are formed. usually in an
easterly direction. passing by in a min
ute or two These whirling winds are
strong enough to blow down trees and
overturn buildings Violent local
storms of this kind are often called
cyclones, or prairie twisters, in the
Mississippi valley, but the name tor
nado is to be preferred in order to dis
tlnguish them from the much larger
and less violent cyclonic storms
When violent whirlwinds of this kind
occur over a water surface a watery
column is formed in their vortex; they
are then called waterspouts.
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attach his new iron cover, and
w-r-r-r-rhd all the way through it.
And all the while Tom Lamkin
stood leaning over his own fence,
smoking his pipe, and watching us,
and saying-nothing.
Finally, after Johns work was all
completed, it occurred to me that pos
sibly I might strike that same vein of
water again.
So / went little above Johns
spring, just as he had gone above
mine, and began to dig; and I hadn't
dug long before the water began to
"gush' and "gurgle" with the same
impetuosity as ever; and I soon knew
had been watching me, and his own
spring at the same time, that 1 had
stolen the whole of that blooming
spring back again.
Well, l transferred the iron paling
and cut granite from my first spring
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-09-06
Superstition of Hindoos.

One difficulty arising from the con-
tact of Englishmen and native races
in India is due to the natives belief
that he must neglect all business on
the great washing days when all
faithful Hindoos must battle in the
sea- The head of an English business
firm In India recently received the fol-
lowing note from an employe who had
failed to appear for work: Respected
Sir-I respectfully beg to bring to
your kind notice that had about eight
months ago vowed a solemn vow that
would perform certain ceremonies
and have fine bath in the sea- am
afraid the deities might visit me with
tenfold calamities than before, and
perhaps 1 may be also reduced half
my size 1 therefore shall be highly
obliged to perform the above-mention-
ed rights"
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The warship Adams has been or
fered to cruise among the island pos
sessions of the United States in the
Pacific and GUST Japanese and others
who have settled in the islands and
ire working their pearl fisheries and
sther resources. The sovereignty of
the United States in the Pacific and
The reasons for American domination
we're tersely given by o. p. Austin,
chief of the bureau of statistics of the
treasury department, in a recent ad-
iress. Mr.. Austin says 1.-The Pacific
Is, and will remain, an American
ocean," for the following reasons:
First-The United States has a
greater coast line and more and bet
ter harbors on the Pacific than any
other nation.
Second-The United States has
more railway lines to serve as land
carriers for that commerce that all
the other countries put together.
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soudan Opening Tor Trade.

The Soudan is shortly to be thrown
open for trade and agricultural pur-
poses, and already hundreds of Greeks
are around Khartoum eager to snep
up the choice pieces of land which
they will sell later to the leisurely
Briton- For energetic young men
with little capital there are endless
possibilities in the country, which pos
sesses q healthy climate During last
winter grants of twenty-five acres of
land around KhartDum were made to
persons showing they had SUFFICIENT
capital for building purposes--Lon-
don Express-
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NOT A SUCCESSFUL DIP.


BaId-Headed Man Did Not Appreciate
BARRIERS Offer.
A droll incident occurred at q re-
cent church bazaar. The vicar of a
certain parish invited each of his par
ishioners to contribute something for
a monster lucky tub" and, as may
be surmised, the prizes unearthed by
the enthusiastic clippers" were of a
distinctly unique order.
On one evening of the festival a
pompous old gentleman-his Uranium
was as destitute of hair as a billiard
ball-strutted up, paid his three-pence,
and, after carefully adjusting his eye
glass, plunged his hand down to the
bottom of the tub.
A large crowd assembled round him,
all very anxious to get peep at his
prize.
His chagrin may be easily imagined
when he found he had drawn an en-
velope containing local hairdresser's
business card, upon which was in
scribed:
Zone free haircut and shampoo.
The card had been contributed in
good faith by an impecunious, albeit
witty, wielder of the razor.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-09-06
CAMERAS IN WAR TIME.
French Military Men Recognize Their
Possibilities.

French Military Men Recognize Their
Possibilities.
To France probably belongs the
credit of using the camera for war
purposes in a most satisfactory man
ner at a time when it was of the
almost Importance. When Paris was
beseiged communication with the out
side world was had only by means
If balloons and carrier pigeons The
dispatches sent by the carrier pigeons
we're photographed on small films,
which could be attached to the feath-
ers of the birds, and in this way
single bird could carry thousands of
words. Likewise the aeronauts who
lowered over Paris used the camera
for photographing the different posi-
lions of the Prussians. These photo
graphs were the first ever taken of
In invading army from a balloon.
Profiting by this experience, the
French army and navy have increased
their carrier-pigeon and balloon SER
vice. Several hundred officers in the
French army are expert photog-
raphers and every engineering corps
carries with it complete Photographic
outfits.
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DYING IN AN ALMsHoUsE.
Pathetic Fate of Grandson of Rober,
Fulton, the Inventor.

Rich in ancestry and poor in the
worlds goods is the condition OF
Palmer Fulton, a grandson of Robert
Fulton, who launched the first steam
boat on the Hudson river in 1907. A
few days since this unfortunate de-
scendant of the great inventor was
found dying from starvation in a
howell in Shelby, a small village near
Bucyrus, O., and much against his will
was taken to the Richland county
a1mshouse. Fulton is a quiet, unas-
Stunning middle-aged man, having been
employed at the Shelby tube factory
for the last seven years, but constant
sickness has made him a destitute.
His uncle, Joseph, died recently in
New York, and he has been investigat-
ing the disposition of the fortune, but
his efforts only met with failure.
He has a brother residing at West
Salem, O., but forbears revealing to
him his miserable condition, and will
allow the almshouse to hide his mis-
fortunes.-Utica Globe.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-09-06
LOGIC OF THE SABBATH.
Writer in NinsIee's Pleads for One
Day Of Rest.

Wrfter IN kinSiee'8 PLEADS Tor One
Day Of Rest
As a psychologist, I believe In the
Sabbath day. One day in seven should
be kept holy from work and sacred to
mans primitive paradise of leisure.
am no Puritan pietist or even Sab
batharian in any severe sense, but
hold that this is one of the greatest of
all human institutions and that the
command to keep it as day of rest
is written in our physiological con-
situations. If need be, it may be kept
in sleep, mans great restorer. Mon
day our nerves and brain must be re-
freshed, and we must start a new
weekly rhythm on a higher plane than
we closed the old one. The mental
scenery must be changed. The brood
er's overthought must have enlarged
our plans and given us both momen-
tum and direction. What form the
rest cure should take differs perhaps
for each person. / go to church, but
my neighbor should perhaps spend the
day in the fields, with children, in
music, in books, but for all there
should be peace, tranquility, repose,
surcease of worry and relaxation. In
no land should the Sabbath be so hall
lowed as in this land Of hustle, ten
sion and Americanitis."- Stanley
Hall, in Ainslee's.
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Knew What They were.

DR.. Henry Van Dyke tells the fol-
lowing story:
A well-known professor of literature
at an American university was talking
with his wife one morning at the
breakfast table about the relative
merits of prose and verse as forms OF
expression His two children, Walter
and Maud, aged seven and six, respec-
lively, were sitting quietly and ap
parently paying no attention to the
conversation, when all at once the lit
tie girl looked up inquiringly and
said:
Papa, what are proes, anyway"
Before the father had time to an
swer the boy spoke up, with a sups-
rior smile:
Prose? Don't you know what
prose are? Why, they're those little
animals that go around without feet"
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A Name to conjure With.

Writing to the Indian Telegraph, a
Bengalese correspondent says:
1.-THE great ability of his highness,
Maharajah Chandra Sham Shere Jung
Bahadur Rama, prime minister and
marshal of Nepal, as the supreme ruler
of such an Independent territory, may
be well estimated by the fact that the
emperor of China has lately been
pleased to confer on his highness, the
rare title of Thung-ling pimmakokung
mang-shang."
The maharajah's cognomen is now
probably his highness Chandra Sham
Shere Jung Bahadur Rama Thung-
Eng-pimmakokung-m
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Youth In Hiob Position.

One of the youngest of the British
officials in South Africa is Major Her
bert Darling, commissioner of police
at Bloomfontain, who is only % years
old At 18 he managed mine in west
ern Australia At 20 he was captain
of a west Australian contingent in
South Africa He looks younger than
he really is, and in the early days of
the war, before his GOODNESS and bray
cry were recognized, he was known
among his associates rs Baby Oar
ling
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and arranged them as art1Stically as
knew how around the second. John
watched the proceedings, bombarding
me with numerous explosives while
the work was progressing, and of
course 1 let him lombard. And Tom
Lamkin stood leaning over his own
fence, smoking his pipe, and watching
us, and saying-nothing.
Then John began to wake up and
show signs of activity. Hardly was
my work completed before he spat on
his two hands, grasped his spade firm
ly by the handle, and, with the same
determination as before, started in to
steal that spring back.
And he made his work count, too.
Hang me if right up in the corner
of the Tense close to Tom Lamkin's
land and mine, that i'd cross-grained
Ishmaelite didn't strike water again:
and when he did and 1 inspected my
own spring, the water began to gurgle
less and less until finally it died out
and stopped altogether.
/ knew it was then or never with
me, SO, grasping my spade, 1 darted
into my own corner of the fence and
began to dig dirt, too.
Holy smoke! how the soil did fly
1t was mud and water flying here.
mud and water flying there, mud an6
water shooting in every conceivable
direction, and with John and myself
right in the center of attraction.
And in the end, to serve US both
right, Tom Lamkin, who at divers
times had been leaning over his fence,
smoking pipes and watching us, and
saying nothing. went to work on his
own land, found that same channel.
cut it off, dug a ditch up over the
hill and down to his own premises,
by the expression on Johns face, who
put in a ram, and took nearly every
drop of that blamed water right over
to his own house.
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and soon was very rich. AS the fam
lily of children grew up in luxury their
mother began to look about for suit
ole matches. The first great match
was when Mrs. Wilson succeeded in
wedding her eldest daughter to Ogden
of Manhattan. Mrs. Wilson's second
daughter married the diplomat Mich
ael Herbert. Orme Wilson, the eldest
son, married and Astor, and Grace
Wilson capped the climax of her
mothers matchmaking when she mar
ried young Cornelius Vanderbilt. Rich
ard T. Wilson, Jr., was recently mar
ried to Miss Marion Mason, Boston's
most beautiful belle.