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FINE BORN ON TROLLEYCAR
Passengers Are Put on. Shades Drawn and
Doctor Sent For.

Mrs. Gussie Hollender, aged "a. Of 1851
Eighth street, Manhattan set out yesterday
for an outing in Queens county. On car
of the Grand street and Newtown line
she became i'll and several women in the
car went to her aid. At their request the
conductor put the other passengers az the
car, the blinds we're drawn and the car was
sidetracked.
A hurry call for an ambulance was sent
to the Eastern District Hospital, but before
the ambulance arrived large crowd had
gathered and four policemen were necessary
to handle it.
When DR.. Cohen appeared Mrs Hollender
gave birth to bouncing boy baby. At the
request of the woman he removed her and
tbe child TO her home in the ambulance.
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PLENTY SWIM.
Mr.. MODERN oft Little Hard to Pull Out
OF the River.

or the River.
A tall man wearing silk hat and sack
coat walked up and down the pier at the
foot of West Nineteenth street yesterday
afternoon, stopping women and asking
them what time 1t was. One OF the women
told Policeman O'Connell about it and he
started for the man, who thereupon jumped
of the pier into the river. Olaf Boordsen,
a Norwegian bargeman, went after him in a
rowboat and got him. Then the rescued
man upset the boat. O'Connell got another
boat and got the two. The tall man was
sent to Bellevue. He said he was James
McDermott, a drummer.
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TOO Rich to Sell Papers.

hsbARRF, Pa, July S.-Rowland
n, -.u who has for many years sold news
H.. 80 az the Carbondale railroad station,
vii, sN the business last night and
u, M en'oy an income Of between $4,000 and
Nsvsv. year. His father, Lawrence
o. M, a tanker and real estate owner
III xin c'ty died couple Of weeks AFRO and
teres, A recently probated. leaves The ~
dfen vi tbs large estate to his four chill
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-10
Municipal Ownership Convention Threat
cncd.

A. j. Boulton, the Populist candidate for
Governor at the last campaign, made the
announcement yesterday that arrange
ments have lecu mace to call 4 convention
rext month Of 6elefatos from all the labor
u1i,rs il Greater Now York 10 CiscGs'
ways and nlcans Of ali,a.ing for muricirai
ownership.
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LIVE roPIcs ABOUT rowN.

There ia one house in Sterling place,
Brooklyn, that promises some surprises to
the first burglar that attempts to enter it.
Upon opening the front door the visitor is
confronted by a. Calling gun In perfect
working order. At the top Of the first
fight OF stairs is one-pounder, and at
least a dozen other pieces of artillery occupy
unexpected places throughout the building
Every part of the residence suggests trouble
for the unwelcome. The occupant is an
inventor Of explosives. and he explained to a
visitor that he had never counted upon the
formidable looking ornaments as of protec-
tive value. THE real protection he ex-
planned, Lies in the things unseen"
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4 Soldiers Odd PROPOSED

me similar iniunctions. But il was of
no use. Unless the nurse objects l
can't do So, said the colonel, who fairly
enjoyed the rage of the inspector. There
We're no other walks except the one pre-
viously mentioned, so the old fellow
took TO sending her out in a beat to a
little tslet just outside the harbor. But
/ managed by a liberal present of naval
rum to the native boats crew to go
likewise. and had many a trip with her
to the cay; but in her presence I was
as a mute-I could not ask the ques-
ton I was so anxious to put Then
these trips were cut short; the general,
finding out my ruse, confined the walks
of his nurse and children to the hospital
grounds, and I bitterly reproached my
self for the timidity which seemed so
strange in one of my profession.
Il was thinking thus (for 1 could get
no communication by letter or otherwise
10 reach herr while awaiting the arrival
of the ration boat with the bread from
Kingston, when an idea struck me
why not send a letter in her loaf?
used 10 call 1t her loaf, because the
generals rations for himself and family
amounted to two pounds, and as each
woman was allowed half pound I had
a special loaf made for her. and knew
she received IL ! ran over to my quar-
ters and penciled a short. hasty note to
her. II ran thus:
Ny dear Mary: VIII YOU marry me ?
I can get leave from my colonel, defy
the general, and leave al once
Il rolled up the paper. made a hole
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with my pencil, rammed 1t III the loaf.
and closed the aperture. I waited
AN orderly approached: The colonel
wants you at once and I entered his
room with some trepidatioa. What IS
the meaning OF your sending such ra-
tions as that out?' he queried, pointt}S
TO a loaf on the table which had bean
cut in half. In the middle vas a huge
cockroach.
II recognized the loaf at once-it was
the one had sent which contained my
letter I didn't know that insect was
in it when I sent it, I said. .Enr that
this note was in 1t when 1t vas re-
turned and with a laugh the colonel
threw down a folded note. It co5tained
only a few words: of course VIII mar
~ you. but why didn't you ask ne be-
fore"' She has been sharp enoush to
devise a plan to answer your letter she
Will make a good wife. You have my
hearty good wishes said my chef.
Thirty-two years of a fairly happy mar
ried life have followed the propeaI
made through such a strange medium
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Wilberforce. He took five wives. He
led in the wild dances and fetish prac-
tees of the ultra-savage. Back In the
jungle where he was born, surrounded
by the subtle influences Of heathenism
the carefully educated young savage
broke through the artificial civilization
of his education and simply reveled in
the practices Of his ancestors.
At least that IS the view the local
missionary board take of it. His sons
deny IL As a matter Of fact little is
known of his life since his break with
his church. Little $ known of his
death. Private adviccs from one Stullts.
a missionary stationed at Freestone,
West Africa mention it as having oc-
CURED az the tribal settlement there.
No date 8 given. none of the Circum-
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the devil has many particular places
where he frequently makes his appear
ance on earth, and on the selection OF
such an abiding spot by the medicine
men, with their various rites and prac-
tices. the chiefs set It aside as ''pur-
row.
So far as the white people ara con-
cerned. Ehe organization generally lets
them alone. as the head men have dis
covered that the British execute sum-
mary vengence for any injury done. Yet
their attitude IS distinctly hostile.
There have been no serious uprisings
since the great one in 1898, when eight
missionaries of the United Brethren
church lost their lives. and the W1lber-
force family narrowly escaped.
It has been a picturesque career. ana
is one that offers a rare study IN psy-
chology- In something less than fifty
years it swings completely around the
circle. from heathentsm to Christianity
and back. 1t is a curious commentary
on civilization and progress that a. man
having tasted It's joys should prefer tbs
simple life, the primitive ways Of West
African savagery.
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Read IN Smoke Puffs

exactly limtd. but lis generally easy
10 bluff him. The man who bites his
cigar pretty hard, but twists il about
IN his mouth and chews 1t more or
less, Is not quite so slow nor so easy
10 handle lie is tenacious, too, like
the first man. but not so seif-ceutered
not such a trampler Of other people S
rlghts-in fact. he's higher order OF
The man who can't keep his cigar
AEhlcd is apt to be a sentimeutalist
nut he's jolly and companionabie too,
IN many cases, and well worth carry
ing matches for. He's not given to
HiTtatlons unless he's pretty much in
earnest and he's the sort of man YOU re
apt 70 IeeI sorry for afreTWard if you
ma ne meant more than you did.
hat the man who wears his cigar
AT q heayen-pointing angle is vain and
toHcelted goes without saying but
ne not always as weak as that i'm
pies. He's sometimes the sort that
MAKES ms boast good, and If he chcws
tne end OF the Tilted cigar ne is 10 be
ciassed with the tenacious family. If
you want 70 please him and sway him
10 your will give him plenty of ad-
mlIatlon ana let the idea Of what you
want appear 10 come from him.
Its equally a matter Of course that
the humdrum, commonplace. practical
man always cuts of the end OF his
cigar with much care. always sees that
u smokes evenly, always has matches
and is always conscious Of his expen-
sIVe enjoyment. lie may have. other
attributes. to be sure. than that Of
Ing-care, but it's harder TO see them
through his smoke He's apt 70 be a
/ tiTesOme stickler for the COnVentionaIi-
/ ties. but he may be a pretty good fcl-
low, too. Only, If he's selfish, his sell
ish1ess Is Of a most mean and unat-
tracttye sort. You see ] don't profess
10 have the science down fine vet but
such rules as I've given are reliable
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Married in America.

Shortly afterWard he married a most
highly respected cOlOrcd woman of Day
ton, Ohio They had four chiIdren-two
girls and two boys The boys are now
at Otterbcin University, WesterviIle,
Ohio, and are regarded as particularly
promising students. His wife and his
two daughters he took with him back
to Africa. where he went full of mis-
sionary zeal. For while he was very
successful. He came back to this coun-
try and made Il lecture tour, raising
funds for his work in Africa. In June.
1898, there came a report that he and
his family had been massaCred. Later
II was found they were held for ran
som. and the missionary society paid
$l18 for hem-presumably in blue beads.
or red calico, or secondhand silk hats,
or something of the sort.
But all this time the Influences Of
heredity were at work within him. The
veneer of civilization was wearing off
The African savage was coming TO the
surface, and the educated Christian
minister was sinking out of sight. 1t
was a sad shock 10 the hopeful clergy
men who had educated him. who be-
lieved that they had made of the little
black savage an educated. intelligent
Christian, when the announcement came
that WilberfOrce had reverted TO the
faith Of his fathers. He was a rene
gade, an apostate. He had accepted the
invitation of his tribe TO take up the
position to which his birth entitled him.
He had become chief Of a tribe of devil
worshipers. He had heard the cali of
the wild, and had hardened TO it.
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The story Of his latter days might
furnish a theme for Rider Haggard-
picturing of how much better d savage
one can be for having tasted of civil
1zation; OF how much worse joyously.
riotously heataen for having known
Christianity; and the tragedy of
the wife and daughters. of the highly
esteemed colored woman of Dayton
Ohio, who married "Dr" Wilberforce. a
shining light among her people; of her
simple pride in his position, her inno-
cent satisfaction in the trappings of
eminent espectability-wha of her.
with her lord and master chief of the
devil worshipers, and herself one of
half a dozen savage wives
The devil worshiDers to whom Rev.
Mr. Wilberforce is said to have attached
himself are members OF the organization
known as the Purrow This is a great
secret society of considerable antiquity
that has spread from Egypt TO the ma
tives of the west coast and to some
extent into the interior of Africa.
Their meetings are held in a great
thicket, when such a place is accessible
Among the beliefs inculcated is that
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in its top and muttered the menacmg
and cabaltsttc words Two dolIars!'
TN take it," signed Miss Leeson.
sinking down upon the squeake iron
bed.
Every day Miss Lesson went OUT to
work. At night she brought home pa
pers with handwriting on them, and
made copies with her typewriter. Some
times she had no work at night, and
then she would sit on the steps of the
high stoop with the other roomers. Miss
Leeson was not intended for skylight
room when the plans were drawn for
creation. She was gay-hearted and full
of tender, whimsical fancfes. She was
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! constellation Cassiopela It is nearly of
| the second magnitude, and its meridian
passage is"
oh" said the very young Mr.. Evans,
Il think Billy Jackson is a much better
name for f."
Same here" Mr.. Hoover, loudly
breathing defiance to Miss Longnecker.
Il think Miss Leeson has just much
right to name stars as any Of those old
| astro1oEers had
We'll. reallyr' said Miss Longnecker.
| Il wonder whether It's shooting
| star" remarked Miss Dorm. Il hit nine
ducks and q rabbit out Of ten In the
l gallery at Coney Sunday"
He doesn't show up very well from
down here" said Miss Lesson You
ought to see him from my room, You
know you can see stars even in the day
time from the bottom Of a well. At
night my room is like the shaft of a
coal mine. and it makes Billy Jackson
look like the big diamond pin that night
fastens her kimono with
I'D like to see our sidereal friend. Mr..
Jackson, from such point Of vantage,
said Mr.. Sl1idder.
Lets all go up and have look at
him." laughed Miss Leeson. None of
the rest of you enjoy the advantages of
skylight room
With little cries and gfggIes of ac-
quiescence, the whole stoop clattered
upstairs to Miss Lessons room. Miss
Longnecker and Miss Dorm were prom
inent in the rush. for they foresaw pos
sibilfties in the pursuit Of astronomy.
Miss Lesson lit the lamp until all had
packed themselves in the little room.
Then she turned out the light, and they
were in inky bIackness. Miss Long
necker suddenly cried out: We'll, real
lyi" without any visible reason for do
ing so. Down through the skylight Billy
Jackson turned upon them his bright
full, blue, unwinking eye. And then
the door was opened and downstairs
again they scurried It was no more
than a piece of light frolic such as
amuses the drifting transients in hired
homes.
There came a time after that when
Miss Lesson brought no formidable
papers home to copy. And when she
went out in the morning, instead of
working, she went from Office to office
and let her heart melt away in the
drip OF cold refusals transmitted
through insolent office boys. This went
On.
There came an evening when she
YEARLY climbed Mrs. Parker's stoop at
the hour when she always returned
from her dinner at the restaurant But
she had had no dinner
AS she stepped into the hall Mr. Hoov-
er met her and seized his chance. He
asked her to marry him, and his fat
| ness hovered above her like an ava
lanche. She lodged, and caught the
balustrades He tried for her hand, and
she raised it and smote him weakly
in the face Step by step she wentsup,
| dragging herself by the railing She
passed Mr.. Skidder's door as he was
Ted-inlSing a stage direction for Myrtle
| Deiorme Miss Leeson) in his (unac-
eepted) comedy, to "pirouette across
| stage from L to the side of the Court"
| Up the carpeted ladder she crawled at
| last and opened the door of the sky
| light room.
! She was too weak TO light the lamp
| or TO undress. She fell upon the iron
| cot, her fragile body scarcely following
the worn springs. And in that Erebus
! Of a room she slowly raised her heavy
eyelids, and smiled.
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as 4 Christian in an American
University He Answered the Call Of
the Wild and ReIapsed Into
BaTbarisn and POiyga72y.

the devil worship, which was the faith
OF his fathers. and he died as he was
born. West African savage and "a
hereditary chief ana high priest Of the
devil worshipers,
Forty-five years ago the Rev. Daniel
FIickinger. missionary for the United
Brethren in Christ, was in Africa on a
missionary errand. To the chief Of one
OF the villages he visited a little son
was born. The white stranger was ask
ed to name him. and he gave him his
own name reinforced by that of the
good Bishop WiIberforce, and prayed
that he might grow up a power for good
III the land. And mis- father was proud
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PHILADELPHIA


personal idiosyncraaies of smok-
ers, as they serve TO indicate character.
and hnds 1t as interesting and as full
OF science as the reading of character
in handwriting or by any of the other
numerous methods, says the Phuadel-
phia Record.
You can use this science" says the
man even before he has been intro
duced 20 you, by watching him smoke
on a hotel porch or similar place. The
signs are sometimes obscured by the
emotions under which the smoker hap
pens TO be laboring at tile moment, so
you want TO catch your subject when
1t is in a normal condition.
THE specimen who grips the butt
Of its cigar tight between its teeth. not
taking il out much even when il talks,
is of the tenacious family. He is also
aggressive and determined to get what
he wants, regardless Of the rights Of
others. IF you have tete-a-te1e fir
tation with this sort Of man beware of
making him want 10 kiss YOU unless YOU
want him 10, for once the desire gets
into his head he'll never stop TO learn
what you think about it,
"On the other side is the man who
smokes slowly and takes his cigar out
OF his mouth frequently 30 turn II
around and look at IL. He Is q good
fellow, but q little slow. You can do
a good deal with him. not because he
is weak but because he is open TO
arguments and impressions, He's not
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THE WASHINGTON TIMES. SUNDAY AUGUST 90 1865

lover may sigh, but he must not puff.
To the train OF Momus are fat men re-
manded. In vain beats the faithfuIfest
heart above a ffty-two-inch belt.
Avaunt, Hoover! Hoover, forty-fve,
flush, and foolish, might carry off Helen
herself; Hoover. forty-five. flush, foolish,
and fat is meat for perdition. There was
never a chance for you. anyhow, Hoover.
As Mrs. Parker's ToomeTs sat thus
one summers evening. Miss Leeson look
ed up into the armament and cried with
her little gay laugh:
why, there's Billy Jackson! I can see
him from down here, too"
All looked up-some at the windows of
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Romance Of q Star Worshiper and An
Exceedingly Matter-Of-FaCt Young
Hospital Surgeon.

Your hand creDt to your throat, you
gasped, you looked up as from a we'll
and breathed once more. Through the
glass OF the little skylight you saw a
square of blue inffnity.
Two dollars. suh," Clara would say
in her half-contemptous, half-Tuske-
geenial tones.
One day Miss Leeson came hunting for
a room. She carried a typewriter made
TO be Iugged around by much larger
lady. She was a very little girl, with
eyes and hair that had kept on grow
ing after she had stopped, and that al
ways looked as If they were saying;
Goodness me! Why didn't you keep
up with us?'
Mrs. Parker showed her the double
parIors. In this closet" she said. @'one
could keep a skeleton or anaesthetic or
coal or--''
But I am neither doctor nor
dentist. said Miss Lesson, with
shiver.
Mrs. Parker gave her the increduious.
for those who failed TO qualify as doc
tors or dentists, and led the way to
the second floor back.
Eight dollars?" said Miss Leeson.
Dear me! I'm not Hetty if do look
green I'm just poor little working
girl. Show me something higher and
lower"
Mr.. Skidder jumped up and strewed
the floor with cigarette stubs at the rap
on his door
Excuse me. Mr.. skidder," said Mrs
Parker, with her demons smile al his
pale looks. I didn't know you were
in. I asked the lady TO have look
at your lambrequins.'
They're too lovely for anything" said
Miss Lesson, smiling in exactly the way
the angels do.
After they had gone Mr.. Slkid1er so-
very busy erasing the tail. black-haired
heroine from his latest Cunproduced
play, and inserting a small. roguish one
with heavy. bright hair. and vivacious
features.
Anna Heidi jump at It." said Mr..
Sllidder TO himself, putting his feet up
against the Iambrequins and disappear
ing in a cloud of smoke like an aerial
cuttlefsh.
Presently the tocsin call of Clara"
sounded 10 the world the state Of Miss
Lessons purse. \ dark goblin seized
her. mounted a Stygian stairway, thrust
her into vault with a glimmer of light
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two. But Miss Longuecker. the tall
blonde who taught in a public school
and said We'll, really to everything
YOU SAID, sat on the top step and shifted.
And Miss Dorm, who shot at the moving
ducks Mt Couey every Sunday and work
ed in a. department store. sat on the bot
tom step and shifted. Miss Leeson sat
on the middle step, and the men would
quickly group around her.
Especially Mr.. Skidder. who had cast
her in his mind for the star part in a
private, romantic Cunspoken) drama in
real life. And especially Mr.. Hoover,
who was forty-five, fart, flush, and fool
ish. And especially very young Mr.
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skyscrapers, some casting about for an
airshlp, Jackson guided.
that star" explained Miss Lesson.
pointing with a tiny finger Not the big
one that twinkles-the steady blue one
near it, I can see it every night through
my skylight I named It Billy Jackson. -
We'll. Teallyi" said Miss Longnecker.
II didn't knew you were an astronomer.
Miss Lesson
-'Oh. yes said~the small star gazer,
Il know as much as any of them about
tha style of sleeves they're going to
wear next fall in Mars"
We'll, really" said Miss Longnccker.
the star you refer 10 is Gamma, of the
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NH made in a very peculiar
manner-fancy! in a loaf
of bread" says British
soldier writing for q London paper.
Moreover. 1t was answered favorably
through the same medium. | was a
staff quartermaster sergeant of the COM
missarIat corps and was stationed at
Port Royal, Jamaica, and one of my
duties was the issuing of provisions to
troops stationed there. Port Royal
also contains the naval hospital and
dock yard, all OF which came under my
charge The town itself was a wretched
place, containing only few dirty stores,
and all the Europeans looked to me for
| their daily supply of bread and meat.
During my stay there arrived from
England a young woman to act as nurse
to the children of the inspector general
of hospitals. and she lived in the naval
hospital. which adjoined our barracks,
daily taking exercise with the young
sters round Steamer Point: and il was
under the foliage of the coco palms
made her acquaintance. pointed out to
her the beauties of the sea, showed her
the sharks we caught, talked about my
being pensioned and having Il little
house in Devons nshire-anything every
thing but what / wanted to say. | was
fairly head over ears in love. but [
could not find courage TO tell her so.
although l thought there was no doubt
she returned il.
We'll, | missed my chance. The old
general forbade her speaking 10 me, and
tried to persuade my colonel to give
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deeply human and sympathetic. once
she sIet sAfr Shidder read to her three
acts of his great (unpublished) comedy,
ITS No Kid; or. The Heir Of the Sub
way"
Y ~
If nature had ever peeped down into
the skylight room and mad seen Miss
Leeson there she would have exclaimed
Well. well, here's something wrong,
There ought 70 be a rniser or a poet
or a wiretapper in that stuny, dark
girl like that" -.----..-- 1909
There was rejoicing among the gentle
men rOoTners whenever Miss Lesson had
time to sit on the steps for an nour or
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thetlc or coal or"

Evans. who set up a hollow cough to in
duce her to ask him 10 leave off cigar
cites. The men voted her the funniest
and jolliest ever" but the shifts on the
top step and the lower step were i'm
placable.
I pray you let the drama halt while
Chorus stalks to the foetlights and drops
an epicedian tear upon the fatness of
Mr.. Hoover Tune the pipes TO the
tragedy Of tallow, the bane OF bulk, the
calamity of -corpu4ence. Tried out,
Fa1staff would have rendered more ro-
nance to the ton than would have
Romeo's rickety RIBS to the ounce. A