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which had spoiled the climax of his tale,
Raffles needed knowing as / alone knew
him for a right appreciation of those last
words That they were no mere words
know full we'll. That but for the tragedy
of his Italian life that life would have
sufficed him for years If not forever I did
and still do believe. But 1 alone see him
as / saw him then, the lines upon his face
and the pain behind the lines. How they
came to disappear and what removed them
you will never guess. IL was the one thing
you would have expected to have the OPP
posite effect, the thing indeed that had
forced his confidence, the organ and the
voice once more beneath our very win
dows:
Margarita de Parete,
era a sarta d. e. signore;
Sc pugneva sempe ddete
pc penZare a Salvatore!
Mar-ga-ri,
perzo Salvatorei
Mar-ga-r,
Ma L ommo cacciatoreI
Mar-ga-ri,
Nun ce ale corpa tut
Chello CHI fattO, fatto, un re parlammo
cchieul
simply stared at Rallies Instead of
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deepening, his lines had vanished. He
looked years younger, mischievous and
merry and alert as 1 remembered him of
old in the breathess crisis of some madcap
escapade. He was holding up his finger;
he was stealing to the window; he was
peeping through the blind as though our
side street were Scotland Yard itself; he
was stealing back again, all revelry, ex-
element and suspense.
81 half thought they were after me be-
FORE" said he. THAT was why l made
you look. 1 daren't take a proper look
myself, but what a jest II they werel
What a JestW
do you mean the police2" said I.
1.-THE police! Bunny, do you know them
and me so little that you can look me in
the face and ask such question? My boy,
I'm dead to them-off their books-a good
deal deader than being of the hooks! why,
n I went TO Scotland Yard this minute 10
give myself up they'd chuck me out for
a harmless lunatic. No, 1 fear an enemy
nowadays, and - in re~roc II the some
time friend, but I have the utmost conf
dence in the dear police"
Then whom do you mean?'
THE Camorrav
repeated the word with a different IN
tonation.s Not that I had never heard Of
that most powerful and sinister OF secret
societies, but ! failed to see on what
grounds Raffies should jump 10 the con-
cluslon that these everyday organ grinders
belonged TO 1t.
'It was one OF Corbucci's threats" said
he. "If I killed him the Comorra would
certainly kill me. He kept on telling me
so. II was like his cunning not to say
that ne would put them on my tracks
whether or no."
He Is probably a member himself"
obviously, from what he said"
but why on earth should you think that
these fellows are?" / demanded as that
brazen voice came rasping through a sec
ond verse.
81 don't think II was only an idea.
That thing is so thoroughly Neapolitan,
and ] never heard II on a London organ
before. Then, again. what should bring
them back here?"
/ peeped through the blind in my turn,
and, 20 be sure, there was the fellow with
the blue chin and the white teeth watch
ing our windows and ours only, as he
bawled.
"And why?" cried Rallies his eyes dane
ing when l told him. why should they
come sneaking back to us? Doesn't that
look suspicious. Bunny doesn't that
promise a lark?'
mot 70 me-" / said, having the smile for
once How many people, should you
imagine, toss them shillings for as many
minutes OF their Internal row? You seem
10 forget that that's what you did an hour
agoT'
Rafies had forgotten. His blank face
confessed the fact Then suddenly he burst
out laughing at himself.
Bunny" said he. you've no magma
tion and 1 never knew l had so much! OF
course you're right. / only wish you were
not, for there's nothing should enjoy more
than taking on another Neapolitan or two.
You see, / owe them something still.
didn't settle in full. ! owe them more than
ever I shall pay them on this side Of the
Styx!"
He had hardened even as he spoke; the
lines and the years had come again and
his eyes were flint and steel. with an hon
est grief behind the glitter
G1nd Of Ninth StorY.)
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A ChanEe of Mind.

James Dalrymple OF Glasgow, the expert
on municipal street car ownership, was
comparing In Cleveland the public with the
private operation OF water supplies, gas
works and kindred utilities
when private hands take hold Of these
things" said Mr.. Dalrymple, they run
them beautifully az first. The people at
first are highly pleased. But with time $
passage the popular pleasure wanes; II
changes to vexation and 10 bitterness; and
that" said Mr.. Dalrymple, reminds me
OF a recent happening in Glasgow.
There was a Glasgow man to whom his
wife said
Donald. next Thursday is Heien's birth
day. She will be II years old. Give me a
little money. please. to set birthday pres
ent for her
''The man. as he took out his purse said
ENORMOUSLY:
How the deuce are you able 10 remem-
Der so exactly the dates OF all our chill
dreu's b!rthsF
Easily enough, the woman answered
our first child was born on January H.
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Wiling To ray TOT lNs
The following anecdote is told of Cen
eral Gilman Marston, once famous New
Hampshire lawyer:
General Marston was attending court at
Dover. when a young attorney made a
motion that was denied by the court. The
young man demonstrated against what he
thought was the wrong ruling OF the judge.
So vehemently did he demonstrate that he
was fined so for contempt OF court. An
older attorney took the matter up and he
was fined a similar sum. Stll another, who
thought he stood little better with the
Judge, enGeavored to straighten the mat
ter out, but he. too. enriched the Golfers
of the state by paying a ten spot" for
contempt
General Marston was then seen to rise
IN his seat and advance to the clerks desk.
Taking hts long pocketbook from his pocket
he took out two SO bills and laid them on
the desk.
What is that for?" said the court.
Il want you 20 distinctly understand"
said the general. 'that I have just twice
as much contempt for this id court as
any man here. and l am paying for it,
Boston Herald.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-09

j. NJ. Barrie Is as shy as a school girl,
says a writer. Let a pretty girl look stead
lastly at Barrie for FIVE minutes and II
she can catch his eye he will exhibit about
the same symptoms of distress as man
who has swallowed a fish bone. Constant
activity and contact with the world seems
20 be powerless TO cure him Of the shyness
which is developed the moment he talks
with good looking woman. Only the other
day a young actress who had been rehears-
ing In one of his plays and directly under
his eye pleased him 50 much that he asked
her 10 luncheon. She couldn't go that day,
and the refusal embarrassed him, but he
plucked up courage and asked her again
the next day Another engagement inter-
fered but on the third trial the girl ac-
cepted and was pleased TO think that she
was TO have an hour OF delightful intel
lectual entertainment Barrie ordered the
luncheon and as the dishes were brought
on he looked up and looked into the girls
eyes. From that moment he was absolutely
speechless. He did not utter one word
during the meal and after II was over he
was just able 10 gasp out: shall We re-
turn 10 the theater?" and offer his arm.
Then, as a sort OF relief he hunted up the
stage manager and talked 70 him at the
rate Of ninety words a minute for half hour.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-09

The kindness and generosity Of Colonel
Robert G. Ingersoll won for him many
friends who could not but deeply regret his
opinions. Among them was Henry Ward
Beecher.
In the study OF the famous preacher was
an elaborate celestial globe, which had
been sent him with the compliments of
some manufacturer. on It's surface, In
delicate workmanship, were raised figures
OF the consultations and Of the stars which
compose them.
The globe struck Ingersoll's fancy. He
turned II round and round, examining II
with admiration.
This is just what I want" he said;
who made it2"
who made it, do you say, Colonel?'' re-
peated Beecher. "Who made this globe
Why, nobody. OF course; it just happened. -
Philadelphia Record.
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Some Tersely Told Tales Both Grim and Gay

10 settle with a passenger injured in a
wreck on a southern railroad, in which a
coach had rolled down an embankment.
The passenger had several ribs and a leg
broken, a scalp wound and internal in
Juries, and the railroad man stood ready
10 have paid him $500 for release.
When asked what he thought would be
right, the injured passenger, an Arkansan,
said:
"Wall, stranger, that was a pretty long
fall They tell me that thar car must have
rolled about sixty feet. l think / ought to
get 81 a foot anyway. "-Philadelphia
Ledger.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-09

An Irishmap, who was painting a house
green, dropped a bucket of paint. A woman
passed just after the paint bespattered the
sidewalk and she inquired: What does
this mean?" small boy who had seen
the accident said
de bloke up dere had a hemorrhage."
An Englishman to whom the old joke
was told, exclaimed:
Positively absurd! Any one ought TO
have sense enough 90 know that the blood
Of every man In red. even II he is Irish" -
New York Times
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Horrors of War.

The old gentleman I'm the smoking-car
was declaring vehemently that. in his
opinion, war was disgrace 10 civilization
War" he exclaimed. lis an abomination.
a blot on the universe!" Upon which he
rose and left the car.
1.-THE old man seems to feel pretty
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A Come Down.

Former Congressman II. 81. George
Tucker OF Virginia tells a story Of a Viz
ginian who had been INDUCING too freely
in the flowing bowl and who had become
overconhdent OF his own greatness. Look
ing around at his companions, the Virgin
ian boosted. Gentlemen, / can lick any
man Ia Richmond" Nobody took up the
challenge. and the Virglnian returned to
the charge. Gentlemen" he said, II can
lick any man in the whole state OF Vir-
ginia." The words were hardly uttered,
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-09
Not for the Record.

A fruit grower Of California was giving
testimony before the senate interstate
commerce committee and mentioned par
ticular kind of orange.
That is the best orange grown" re-
marked Senator Cullom.
1T is" responded the witness land
Senator, you will get box Of oranges for
saying that"
you will md In this little book" re-
marked Senator Clapp, when the laugh
subsidized, the names and addresses OF
every member of the committee"
Don't let this go into the record" said
Senator Kean, who was presiding address,
ing the stenograp Observation-Disclosures Post.
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A Tribe Late.

A quack doctor whose treatment had evil
IDENTIFY led to the death Of his patient was
examined sternly by the coroner
What did you give the poor fellow9"
asked the coroner.
'Ipecacuanha, sir"
You might just as we'll have given him
the aurora borealis," said the coroner.
We'll. sir. that's Just what I was going
to give him when he died. "-Clevsland
Plain Dealer.
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second time. His new mate was senti-
mental and a little morbid She could
not resist asking her husband now and
then II he loved her better than he had
loved her predecessor.
"She would say;
"Do I more than I'll Jeans place in
your heart, JackT
"'Are We sure we're no regrettin Jean,
ladder
Jack. do We love me better nor herr
The man bore several OF these exami-
nations patiently. Then he ended them
once for all with a gruff'
TAX ma word for IT, Betty, II Jean
was Twin ye wadna be here New York
Tribune
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strongly on the subject" said one Of the
passengers. HAS he lost some near rela-
tive through war"
Yes" answered a friend, his wifes
first husband, "-Harper's Weekly. !
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the narrator said, before a tall. lean, sin
envy man from the western part OF the
state gave the boaster thrust that sent
him sprawling on the floor. Like owen
Wister's nameless hero, this Virginian had
a sense Of humor, and as he picked himself
up he turned to the group and drawled,
Gentlemen, I'm ready to acknowledge
that kivered too much territory buffalo
Commercial.
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He Got II.

on the day following the railroad wreck
near Harrisburg recently while a party Of
newspaper men were waiting in one OF the
companys Offices awaiting news, word
came that some OF the railroad claim
agents had already settled with and Sc
cured releases from some Of the injured
passengers.
That called forth a story OF the expert
ence OF q claim agent who had been sent
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-09

and on that day you gave me a necklace
OF diamonds and rubies. Our second was
born on June 2. and on that day you gave
me a needle case worth sixpence. Our
third child was born on October q, and
that date is firmly fixed in my mind
through terrific rumpus that you made
about a milliners bill Buffalo En-
ruirar
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UnErnciOus Speech.
HAT speech" said Bird s. Coler,
anent a political address, was
ungracious. II reminds me of a
Scots speech TO his wife,
'aTha Scot had rnalaried for the
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delicate picture on mar
row kakemono that will
be hung behind single fower-stem; carving
grim mysterious Buddha out of a few inches of
ivory; writing a deathless poem in less than
score of syllables.
If we examine the little picture carving
poem we soon shall see that the Japanese artists
do not work on this minute scale because their
conceptions are small, but because their art is
subtile-fnshed and fine. They have chosen these
limitations deliberately and have accepted X
IRENE brevty and compression their supreme
law of form. They have carried selection and
exclusion to the farthest degree known in
all art
While extreme brevity is the most obvious char
acteristic of this form of Japanese poetry do not
wish to be understood holding the opinion that
this is its greatest charm that it is the foundation
of its only claim to originality. The virginia. orig
inality of the Japanese poetry cannot indeed, be
questioned. While Japan has been, perhaps, the
most reckless of borrowers and never has hesitated
to appropriate whatsoever alien things she found
her suited to her needs she has kept her
poetry clustered and chaste. 1t has not been
crushed beneath the weight of "barbaric pearl and
gold
Japan borrowed her writing, half her language,
and nearly all of her institutions religions and
civilizations but her songs at least, have come out
of her bosom. Even the Chinese traditions,
which fetter all customs and learning in the Empire,
have here no authority. Although Chinese words
form the bulk of the language of business, of daily
intercourse among the educated, and even of prose
literature, they are outlawed in the demesne of
song. While a few of the present-day writers
using Chinese words somewhat freely, as in the
style known as the shi1-tai-shi new form poem),
there are not it has been asserted dozen foreign
words in the entire range of the national poetry.
The full significance of this will be appreciated if
remember what enCrustaton of Romance
words rests upon the poetry of England and
America.
There three extremely brief poetic forms in.
Japanese: the tanka, consisting of five lines that
make thirty-one syllabes the dodoitsn of four lines
that make twenty-six syllabes; and the hokkn of
three lines Of these the hokku is the brief
est and the most popular. 1t has the twofold
honor of being the shortest poetic form in all lit
erature, and the true national poetry of its native
land. It's music fleeing as a wood birds melody
is heard wherever Japanese is spoken. Its great
popularity is due, perhaps, to the with which
the little poems written, remembered, quoted
and applied to almost every incident or SEN
timent
Every Japanese carries a sheaf of them in his
memory, each embodyng for him and for all of
his countrynen and countrywomen the spirit of
some familiar and beloved scene in Nippon, the
climax of heroic action the soul of some great
beautiful passion. The seventeen syllabes of the
hokku have expressed in immortal verse every
emotion known to the Japanese heart, and every
aspiration and every glory of the Empire. This
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mere breath of song is the chosen vehicle OF ex-
preston of the greater and of the lesser poets.
Emperors and mobiles, statesmen and warriors, the
learned and the illiterate and of friends and
lovers, all have found solace exaltaton in the
melody of this small lutte" The composition of
hokku is considered necessary accomplishment =
of the primal and essential graces of life. If
beautiful image thought arises in the mind,
the Japanese strives to seize its precise spirit its
very soul, and to imprison it in hokkn. The
hokkn is the song of Japan. Has any other poetic
form in all literature had such exalted honor?
Tennyson speaks of jewels fireworks long, but
he required many more than five words to fashion
the gem in which this beautiful phrase occurs.
Yet Basho able to express the idea in
two words. Tennyson's full thought is:
Jewels five-words-long
That the stretched forefnger of all time
Sparkle forever.
The immortal phrase of Basho, which is too
plete with meaning to be shut within the compass
of short English sentence, is fn-eki ryn-ko. The
meaning is that in order to be literature the sub
ject-matter must be of enduring interest and the
style must be that best suited to the age in which
it is written.
The poetess Chiyo wrote an exquisite hokkn,
perhaps the most familiar to foreigners of all Jap
anese poems, in exactly five words:
Asaeao nj
Tswnbe tordrete
Morai-Btidsu.-
The mornng-glory has seized my well-bucket. Gift
water!)
Sir Edwin Arnold, the diTuse, used forty English
words to translate these five Japanese eight
for one
The morning glory
Her leaves and bells has bound
My bucket-handle round.
| could not break the bands
Of those soft hands.
The bucket and the well to her | left
Give water, for ! come bereft
Some brief explanation of the principal charac-
r l,o1x~
appreciation of the few poems l shall cite in the
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original. There is neither
rime nor rhythm, neither
accent nor stress. The
hokkn is read with a slight
recitative effect, an almost
imperceptible rise on the
first and second lines, and
a decided fall on the last
line, The japanese find
the poetry in whatever
rhythmic effect lies in a
fixed number of syllables,
in the truthfulness and
beauty of the image or
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: l'.~x~,.e1 - recitative effect, an almost
1N%Ss yRI 1mpercept1ble rise the
49, first and second lines, and
decided fall the last
~ line. The Japanese find
~ ~ the poetry in whatever
spga1 rhythmic effect lies in
n IA llEgEEsE. III fixed number of syllables,
~ - in the truthfulness and
beauty of the image or
thought and in the exquisite choice of words
inevitableness of epithet and phrase Keat wrote
that all that necessary for the singer to
know that beauty is truth, truth beauty"
But Basho anticipated his thought, in the phrase,
Truth is the marrow of STYLE by more than two
centuries
So fine subtitle, is the spirit of Japan, that
brevity may be said to be Japanese invention.
Each hokkn must paint single picture make
single comparison contrast, express single
thought or sentiment give utterance to a solitary
cry of pain joy exaltation, inprison some
hauntingy beautiful suggestion. These little poems
often written small slips of paper and attached
to the boughs laden with white cherry plum
blossoms, with the red autumn-eaves (mromijD;
and those who to view the flowers and the
leaves may also read the poems. Like chary nature
they limit themselves to a single bird-rneody to
a single hower-hue.
Here is simple miniature by the master-hand
of Basho, greatest of hokkn writers and the promu
gator of its laws:
Chinaakt yuu
kdtd-de nj hdsdmu
Hidi-gani.-
(She wraps up rice-cakes while with hand she
restraints the hair upon her brow)
Another famous hokku by Yamazaki Sokan, pre-
sents to the imagination picture that suggests
the waterfowl" of Bryant
Darkly painted the crimson sky,
Thy figure floats along
Koe nakubd
Sdgi koso yukt
Hfto-tsnrdne.-
(Bu for its voice, the heron only line of SNOWY
Tba rtN ofta coll he I'D
of the Dragon-fy,' have written thousands of
hokku to this beautiful insect which they name
tontbo. l give favorte:
Tonrbo
Mo va iri-f
Issekdi.-
Dance Dragon-y, in your world of the setting sunD
as we'll as for its cherished beauty In every line
there are two contracted syllab1es, reducing
the rugged curtness of the hoRku by four sylableS
making only thirteen in all, instead of seventeen
The mysterious note of the cuckoo has stirred
every poetic nature, and to ancient Japanese
poet to Wordsworth, the coy singer
No bird but invisible thing
voice, mystery.
The Japanese, hearing the cuckoos note amid the
deep silence of the evening, has this quaint fancy
Hito koe aUai
Tsuki ga malta ka?
Hototogisu!-
"a solitary cry Is it possible that the sang: All
the cuckooD
All of Wordsworths beautiful poem many times
longer than this tiny gen. is held in germ in these
few syllables.
The Japanese themselves doubtless prefer those
hokku that present to the imagination or to the
W. ~>------s
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s h O r. t e S t
Hg@ I'd q NJ 6
Nbshh
Truth is the marrow of
style.-BdSh0.

ZANE AUSTEN has left
a delightful and fade
- less portrait of her
self as working with a fine
brush ION a little bit, two
inches wide, of ivory" 1t
is thus that nearly all the
japanese artists work:
painting an exqu1s1tely
delicate picture on a mar
row kdkemon0 that will
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-03-23
rne Oldest church.

The Oldest Christian church in the
world is ut Rome. Not far from the
great Church OF st. Maria Maggiore, in
q street bearing the same name, is the
much smaller Church Of st. Puentiana,
which tradition rs We'll as the opinion
Of archaeological experts declares to be
the most ancient of the Christian ed
itices OF Rome.
About the middle Of the first century
q certain Roman senator named Pu-
&s@s @: : a5fsa on .}ais Spot Tie
was a Christian convert ana, ii is said,
q distant relative OF Paul, The apostle,
who lodged with him from A. D. Al to
80 and converted his two daughters,
PraZates and Pudeltiana. For the re-
Gri3us uses of htaaseIf and guests he
built q small chapel in this house, and
when lie died in SO and his wife a
year later his daughter added a bap-
Gstery, GAe plans for which were drawn
by Pins, the then bishop of Rome. In
course OF time a church was erected
on the site Of the original house Of
Pudens and consecrated by the bishop
in los or 145.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-03-23

Il remember, said an old naval OH
Ger, hearing Of ~ incident on board
OF a ship which WAS commanded by a
religious captain who would not allow
The mate ~ use profane language OF
violence toward tie crew ara where
the work and discipline were carried on
mere By moral suasiou than by force,
with the result that things went very
slowly. Tie men Gid not ,iu.ap to the
braces or Ropes, and tie general work
OF tie ship vg&s slow.
While at anc,scg cue day in the har-
Dor Of 10 Two OF the s]lilors, leaning
over The raj, We're watching work SO
ing On On board Of another &y.ip IN
eh0red Close to tleZ, where tie oDpo-
site system prevailed. The nj Gu that
ship Vas lcrid VIII lie language of tie
mate, and lie men were, treatel wi.a
q violence that was far from necessary.
but the work went on quickly. The
sails were iilIled IN The yaads brlcca
IN { smart and seau&nlike manner.
As they listened to the ~splphurous or
ders OF the mate III OF t44 sailors Oh
the good ship remarked sententiously
TO The Other;
Bill, dye see now what it is we
want aboard here? We want a little
encouragement"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-03-23

ae guessing or estimating contests which are
Our contest is q test OF skill in counting
wins. Itdepends upon you. There is no
your counts IN at once.