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This is my permit" he replies, tapping
his Bible.
But you must have a permit from the City
Hall !" says the officer Of the law.
That's mans law" rejoins the little
Christian: Gods is sufficient for me-
He reads a text from the Bible and starts
TO talk, and the policeman takes him under
arrest and marches him of.
SO il goes, from one end Of the Mall
amused and assume q pleased super ority
as they pass from group n group. But
most Of them are earnest listeners.
Each speaker has from 10 to $50 men;
women and children in his audience. In
London the audiences are mostly men
though the speaking there takes place in
sight of the church plra1s. Tbs Boston
audiences have oorne from all parts Of this
city, but mostly from the crowded tenements
and homes Of lower Boston. All the week
they nave spent in tho shops and mills at
combining employment. Sunday il their
day to rest, to zee their friends and to form
what estimlte they may Of public life.
Many are such new Americans that they
are unable to read the newspapers; n the
public speaking on the Common is their
only means Of increasing their knowledge
or moulding their views of national and
foreign affairs. The whole aspect OF these
various outdoor con gregations Ia such as to
rouse deep thought. Certainly the speakers
find appreciation in the hearts and minds Of
their hearers.
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1872 named McAlla," writes Mr.. Hughes.
were those of Mr.. George NJ. Maoaulay.
alderman of Coleman Street Ward, in the
city OF London, who was captain of the
Blackheath Golf Club in the veal 1893, and
WHO is frequently mentioned in the minutes
Of the Knuckle Club, Of which he was elected
a member in November, 1889. 40 that there
can be but little doubt that the bow in ques-
ton was a gift from him to the latter CLUB
A second bowl has on two sides of it a
goling figure. with the motto wi ct Arte."
The jugs are alike in style. They are Of a
creamy white color, with dark blue orna-
mentations. having lids surmounted by
kylins and each will hold nearly a gallon.
Two are inscribed in front "Blackheath
Golf Club Treasurer's jug" and the other
two "~Blackheath Knuckle Club Jorum
jug"
Such old bowls and jugs, OF different
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BIG KANSAS PRODUCTS.
COrnStaIk rs Feet High Apple That weighs
q Pound Great Leaf.

Laurence correspondence Topeka Capital.
W. A. Lauderbach, who lives on the bottom
land Of Baldwin's Branch. near Lake View,
went out into his cOrnfeld. cut the tallest
stalk Of corn from a hill In which there were
six stalks Of corn. tied it to a pole to keep It
from breaking and brought II 70 this city for
exhibition. The stalk is fifteen feet high.
II bears but one ear there having been too
many stalks to the hill to make heavier beLr-
ing possible. That one ear is fifteen inches
long and II Is just nine feet from the ground
10 the bottom OF the ear. Think OF having
to use a nine foot ladder to gather the corn
this year,
G. p. Miller Of Lone Star brought in Ave
apples, the largest OF which weighed over
one pound. The total weight OF the nve
vas nearly Ave pounds. Mr.. Miller did not
know the variety Of the fruit. They are tho
largest home grown apples shown in Lawrence
this summer
Mr.. Miller has a tree ten year old loaded
with two or three bushels OF this fruit. He
says the tree began bearing at two years
old and the fruit was very large from the
first. 1t has BONE so much fruit IL has never
What is probably tie largest leaf eyer
on the lawn Of the Lutheran parsonage OF
this town. IL 10 the leaf OF a Calladium ele-
phanta, or elephant ear. and the Rev. e. Il.
Stauifer raised the plant with an eye TO having
following description Of the plant:
Largest leaf 4 feet 8 inches long. , feet I
inch wide and II feet 9 inches IN circumfer-
en0e. Il has three Of these large leaves
leaf is coming out which viii be the largest
yet. The plant stock Just above the ground
measures 10 inches In circum ference.
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with the Manchurian army since the begin
ming OF the rough house over there, and
it's going to grease home like a Shanghai
pirate junk in a yellow squall on the Yellow
Sea. This is the place where you've got to
come early to avoid the rush.
.If you'll give ms the honest Injun mitt
on it that you'll slap in-well, say couple o
hundred-on il, I'll han you the name
Of the Orneriest looking Angora that ever
did a turn turtle and fooled EN- all. String
ing along7'
my gay lad looked p~etulant and peevish.
DOG one IT, he said. munching the
end Of his lead pencil and spanking at a
fly on his cuff, I can't beat 'eml There's
no use in my trying
But this one l stuck in encoura gingly,
is a gumdrop that can't lose if it
Il could sec the light Of a heap big de-
termination shining in that gay boys lamps
and then he out with it.
Look here, old mas he said, | ending
over to me c~onfldentially, L know / can't
beat EN-, and I'm going to quit. Why,
say, shucks, I've lost twelve dollars to-day.
I'm going to quit. that's sure. But look
here. Nv got a season badge here that a
friend Of mine whose wife die and he
couldn't use it gave me, and it's worth well
say, dye want to buy it2 Whatn you
gimme for it?'
THAT wound up my day Back to the
marked down meadow for mine tomorrow.
l know when I've got enough O. high life
in that three buck corral"
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do not pass the hat around when they
preach.
Along the Mall there are very few
preachers who do not ~criticIse the churches
and their work end the religion of their
next door n~eighbors. A group of -four men
an American, q japanese. n regro and
an Ind n. hid the old time religion
and shouted out how happy they were
from being s,ved. The man next to them
lifted his Voice and yelled:
Happy The Apostle PaAl said. oh,
miserable man thzt ! am and yet these
fellows are happy when thousands all
about them are going down to rerdi-
ton"
Some Of them are old men and women who
preach the Bible literally, and some are
young men who rave remembered their
Creator in the days of their youth. Some
Of them are hale and hearty, but most Of them
have forgotten the body in the search Of
the spirit.
A long, lean, hungry looking individual
whose frame was meant for a giant towers
a foot above the crowd. He knows the Bible
from Genesis to Revelation, and speaks
such language as only a man who knows the
Book can. In a fine, soft voice he tells how
he trusted to God for his daily bread, and
an English sailor shouted: ..
you don't look like you get much. gov
ernor."
A miserable little man with a huge Bible
comes out to preach and q huge policeman
asks him for his permit.
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the voice OF the Socialist your poor, old
aged mother" he repeats, takes care of
you by washing thedirty linen fer the pluto
GRATIS family l.
Not far IRON This gifted orator ia a group
Of Irish-Amerieane. They rave come with a
miniature speakers stand, not content to
talk fromthe level of their fellow men. They
are "agin" everything, from Teddy Rose
welt TO John Mitcheli-who could have won
the coal strike had he not gone Republican
or sold OUT 80 $
Most Of tbe speakers talk well, but one
fellow gets wound up in a word picture
which he rant u~ntangle.
You come here, - he says ito this 'beauti-
full spot on h elovety Sunday afternoons and
you admire the threes. an most Of all you
admire the oak threes; an you look at the
oak three and you admire the green leaves;
an in the fall them caves gets brown and
they withers; but they still cling to the
threes; an the snow an the hail of the
winter comes. an the icicles forms or them
threes till you'd think they'd pull the
branches out by the roots, but them leaves
still cling to the threes--" and in his en-
thusiasm he forzets the application Of the
illustration and 10 hurriedly succeeded by
the star performer, who concludes a brief
grafton with:
do you love your wife and your little
onesF Then vote for the labor candidate
at the next election. II you love your
glass Of rum better, then sell your vote
TO your ward heller"
Within fifty feet Of the Irish-Americans
a stentorian voice suddenly breaks upon
the air waking a acora of alaApars living in
the shade Of the trees.
Come hitheri" IL shouts, Some hither
and hear me. I've a new message"
we can hear you all right right here,
old man." shouts a man from the grass,
sitting up and rubbing his eyes.
But a good crowd quickly gathers about
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far removed, and not infrequently in Italian,
French, German. Polish and Russian.
The passing throng leads down shady
walks past the Fairgrounds to the Charles
street mall, which separates the Common
from the public gardens. As you approach
the mall your eye is caught by large and
small groups Of people gathered in the wide
roadway at almost regular intervals
You thread your way through hundreds
OF PROSTATE l~gures-just as in London
parks-up to one Of the crowds, and a mans
voice rises clear and high above the scraping
footsteps and the chatter of passersby.
The speaker is a Socialist who would take all
the money from John D. Rockefeller and the
Gar and start all babies in the world on an
equal footing.
He tells bow John Jones's babe is born to
a life OF toll and misery while the child Of the
millionaire drops into the lap Of luxury and
ease. And Why he says, why should
my innocent child be doomed to suffer be-
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ITALY'S FINANCIAL STROKE.
Her Debt on a 3 ia Per Cent Basls-A
Financial Rehabilitation.
From Mc Eclectic MGaaxine.

An event of first rank in the history OF
European public debts is the financial re-
Mobilization of Italy as registered in the
successful conversion OF her I and S per
cent. rentes to n 80 basis. or the total OF
81 $50, 900, 600, only S7Io,OOO Of the securi-
ties we're presented for redemption, in
stead of conversion.
In January, 1904, Italian rentes were
down to - on the Paris Bourse and Premier
Crispi had admitted tnat Italian hnanoes
were in pretty bad shape. Step b. step, in
little more than twelve years, the work OF
regeneration has proceeded.
A 10 per cent. tax on the interest coupons
forced a considerable conversion Of the
5 per cents to a. The budget was cut ruth
lessly. A surplus began to appear and the
kingdom STOPPED borrowing.
Three years ago Italian currency reached
par of gold. When a few weeks ago the
conversion plan was preached German
holders Of Italian Fentes began &c sell and
the purchases were made for Italian ac-
count in proportion.
When the conversion went through the
Italianrrentes we're found 10 be held largely
in their own country. This feat Of rehabili-
tation was accomplished at a time when
European money markets were under heavy
DPay ylro. ID.
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~ TRIES HIGH LIFE.
The Cheap Field Tout Tries to Interest
Seeming Men Of Fortune in
His Race Tips.

Split Finney, the cheap field tout, the
other afternoon joined the crowd in the
main enclosure at Sh~eepshead Bay He
hoped to find business better and the de-
tectives less ubiquitous there than in the
cheap corral, where he usually seeks to
invest the capital OF others. It appears,
however, that he didn't do any good.
You can take them three buck coughers
in the big yard if you think you car use
EN-, he remarked gloomily to his bunch that
evening. ME for the walters and the piano
movers and the cops and motormen on
duty in the bargain price lot again.
you can figure on the horny mitts and
the rough necks having 81, anyway, in their
kicks when they go to the races, but you
can't put that kind Of dope on a whole lot
Of these make a fash Alcwyns that dig up
three one spots to nudge through the main
gate.
Il didn't side alongside anything that
looked like a ~pushover to-day till they
were pretty well nigh due to go to the web
for the third race. Then l fell into a busy
looking smudge who was making a lot Of
pencil motions on his programme.
He wore a dark green, pin striped. long
tailed cutaway suit had a pair Of field glasses
slung modishly over his wadded shoulders,
and all Of this with his white spats looked
like the ready to me. Fact is, l was
straid he might have got two or three
hundred down on something already, 80 /
went at him like a dinge stable hand cooling
out a winning horse after a cup race.
'Sh-sh!' says l, stepping alongside Of
bin and giving his elbow a little pinch.
-"nt look at me at all, but keep right on
"aessing up your programme with that
PENCIL, SOS none OF emil get hep.
I've got the slumberer in this sprint
that's. going to dream home. Nobody
inside the fence ever heard Of It before,
but it's going to sink down to the tape
like a red fox from the coop.
They've been greasing the joints OF
this one and holding It out for the correct
day; and this Is the day. II IL don't cop
kovitch I'll push a peanut with a toothpick
from the Battery to tho ~park-that's how
strong il is with me. I'm a-tellin' you.
Are you there OF in the neighborhoodg
The warm spud looked at me out Of a
pair Of big, round, blue lamps.
BY Jove, old chawp,' says he, are
you weally in a~irnest, y'knawT'
'Nothin' to II, says l, feeling sure that
] had the half Nelson on him. Like macin'
Uncle Ned for the price OF a Noah's Ark
Youth be soaking two hundred In on IL,
did you sayg'
The green diked Algy handed me that
Earl Of Pawtucket stare Of keen disap-
polntment then. and says he:
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s''Pon me waird, old fellah, I'm haw'bly
sorry that l cawn't avail meself Of your
kindness, y'knaw, but l just discovered,
pom honah, y'knaw, hat ! left me pairse
in me rooms, and"
"Oh, / was on my way. After all that
bozzology, and the field all lined up, and
no chance to spin another one-say, /
looked through the netting into the cheap
corral and l saw five or six st. Regis hashers
there that I could have sent to anything l
mentioned. and every one Of EN- with 3
high as nine aces in his roll.
"Just before the prices went up on the
fourth sprint I picked out another one.
He was ~scrawling the names Of the jocks
on his programme in front Of the board,
and he looked as IL he might have got in
good on hat u. p. thing a while ago.
''Guv nor, ; says l to him, pretending to
mark the jocks on my programme too, as
l edged alongside OF him, it doesn't make
the diff OF one-eighth Of 1 per cent. of for
cash what jock rides this one o. mine. He
could streak home by his solitary II the
secretary and treasurer Of the Fat Mems
Club rode him and he had a bale O. hay
in each saddle bag.
This is the orange marmalade Inc the
lGInOn HlbTlD8 ucs duu 10 II Sail NO"h W bHC
string like a Cingalese tea bark scuddin'
before a typhoon. It's the pap and the
paste, and il he doesn't fetch the Cuttings
home to dad I'll eat two quail a day for
twenty years and pretend l enjoy 'em. You
see it now, don't your
The duck with all the clothes and things
fit to wrap up took it all in like some butt
inski that'd married a rich skirt listening
to what his dad-in-law had to say about
things, and when he opened his trap ! had
the bunch that he was going TO ask me
what book l thought he'd better get a couple
OF thousand down in. That's where /
needed a new hoptOi again.
Well he said, pushing his Leghorn
back and scratching his front hair, tina I
certainly sounds good, but the trouble 10
l can't find my man.
"'Sh-shl' saysI. Idon't want you to find
him. I don't want you to tell him anything
about IL. This Is ours and nobody else's.
What dye want TO find him forr
well says he, signing like Kyrle Bellew
doing that Romeo junk at the foot Of the
balcony, 'y'see, there's a friend OF mine
down here-at least, he told me he was COM
ing down ~to-day-that owes me ten dollars,
and II 1 could find him and get the money
from him, why, I'd
"Ibeat Il away from there, horneted again.
1t made me lonesome to lcok at McGrath's
IS cent ham sandWiches-cheap for 'em,
isn't IL. when you say it fast3-as l whizzed
by TO nave a peek at the race. and me with
nobody down and another ten minute spiel
wasted on a three flush thai looked like every
button on a number and keno.
~But I never got anything working the
repine dope, and so I was there with the
hawk lamp after some gosling to tie on to
the fifth race. l picked out a plain looking,
quietly dressed smudge this time, being
some balky over these sad and gay dogs
that looked like they carried gilt printed and
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the mighty voice and discovers q
giant OF more than six feet, carrying
200 pounds, without an ounce OF TAT \
a mar Of Drawn and bone. He wears
a fat gray hat like that Of a Quaker
and a long blue coat Of quaint cut.
His beard and hair are both long ana
his hair is done mp in a knot like a
woman's. He is supported by a row
Of men similarly dressed n long
haired, and two women in gray gowns and
poke bonnets. n a negro.
The stalwart speaker carries a
walking stick and stalks up and down IKE
a Gagged lion as he talks. why are you
fellows all runts-dwarfs? Why are your
puny children sick and diseased? why
is the nation deteriorating? Because o
don't obey Gods laws. The body is not
given you TO desecrate."
He speaks plsiriy, this man, and knows
life, and there is no scofing from his hearers.
A hrlf wittsd boy. with a large head and
an emacilted body. pushes through the
crowd talking to himself and grinnlng
stupidity.
Look at that poor creature!' says the
preacher. Probably his father was a
drunkard."
A photographer starts to take a photo
graph Of these long haired men, but one
Of them rushes up and says:
None Of that None Of th1t!'
The photograp her asks why not, and
the long haired mar quotes the Second
Commandment, Thou shalt not make
to myself any craven image nor the
likeness Of anything that is in heaven
above or in the earth beneath or in the
waters under the earth
These men are Christian Israelites,' a
small sect Of people living in the suburbs
of Boston, who keep the Commandments
literally. They hive 10 churches, except
one little room, and they boast that they
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SEETE SOCIALIST!

cause his father perchance is honest, while
the son OF yonder plutocrat is elected to con-
troll vast millions-becauss his father chooses
brotherS, I ask you. why?" he concludes
with his arms extended in appeal.
He is a striking figure. this shirt sleeve
orator. His face, by avoiding a chin and
prolonging the nose, runs to a point. His
hair is straight and tingeI with gray, his
eyes red and beady, and his cAeek pulled
out with a wad Of tobacco.
He lisps. and greater grows his difficulty
with his words, tIlhe turns from his audience
and from the box on which he stands and
spits a stream upont the grass behind. Then
he volleys forth a new blast Of argument.
"The success Of socialism in the world
depends on the downfall Of the Gar. Capital
in Russia and capital in the United States
Of America are one and HI same. They
are united, my brothers-in league, in
league he Kisses. And we-and we
alas, TO Heavenl-we are all divided
A well dressed listener laughs, Thu
Socialist is quick to take a IL from his
audience.
Look at that man. he shouts, pointing a
long finger at the scoffer. Look at his
clothes and pity him. The rich garments
on his weIfed back bespeak the guilty
~aristocrat, hard OF heart n stuffed with
the good things you and me produce with
the sweat Of our brow"
"Where do you work. shouts some one.
Here, right here this is my work, my
friends. Call this a free country! Why,
you are worse slaves than the negroes in the
South before the war; What man Of you
is not owned body and soul by the magnate
he works for2'
Not me- shouts a youth, Il amt never
done no work. l wouldn't work for none
Of EN-"
Then no doubt, my friend, your poor,
old, aged mother here there is pathos in
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n Boston Common and that under the
Aarbla Arch are indeed counterparts.
In both places there are Socialists,
preachers Of the Gospel, labor leaders, tenn
perance advocates, Jews, political reformers
and sometimes anarchists, all expounding
their views to all who will listen. Once
in a while arrests are made, for the speakers
sometimes fan themselves into a fury OF
passion and preach sedition and rebellion;
but only at anarchy are they suppressed.
Visitors to Boston always see Bunker
Hill and the old Powder House. Often
they 60 to Lexington and Concord, with all
their literary and military landmarks.
Sometimes they see Salem and Danvers,
famed for witchcraft.
Tn birthplace Of Israel Putnam and the
old homes OF Hawthorne and Longfellow
are visited. Americans go to Boston, as
they ga TO England, to see historic spots.
but there is one place in Boston which they
seldom see, and which is we'll worth seeing.
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RosroN, Sept. Sin 81 lite CT foreign i'm
migration. which constantly threatens to
swamp the Pilgrim population. New Eng
land still retains many Of the customs and
much Of the feeling Of old England. The
Fast seems TO hav grown and developed
along many Of the same lines as the mother
country in spite OF tho quantity n diver
sitv If the raw material it has had to assim-
ilato
" Asr the Puritans lott old ENGLAND little
free -peech was tolerated there, but to-day
the Hyde Park demonstrations Of Sunday
morning are VIGOROUSLY the most liberal
IN the world, In Boston it has developed
along similar lines, until the Sunday show
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This IL Boston Common, the
Hyde Park Of BcRton. To
zee the Boston OF to-day all
at once so to the Common on
a brig ht Sunday afternoon in
summer.
Throngs Of people crowd
the Common, and Bostonians
OF all sorts and conditions
are to be seen standing and
sitting and lying on the grass
all over the great open space.
Tho conversation one hears is
sometimes in good Americ an
but more often in Irish not
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Explicit Directions.
E.nm thc Lnndnn Trihrnc.

From the London TriOpnc.
A tourist Just returned from "A holiday IN
Ireland tells OF An Inscription which he sav on
a stone at tho edge Of n small river In County
Cavan. II read: When this stone II ont OF
siQht IL IS not safe to ford the river"
This reminds one OF a nm ger post erected Dy
one OF the surveyors of Kent roads some years
ago. on which Was Daintcd: This ~ the
bride path 20 Favershann.. II you cannot reao
this keep Ic the main road"
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A FIND OF OLD GOLF CHINA.
ROWLS AND JUGS THAT RECALL
JOLLY DAYS OF OLD.
Then GOInnE Was n Preliminary TO Eating
and Drinking at the Green Man Inn ON
Observation-Disclosures OF London Golf
and Golfers or the Eighteenth Century.

Golfers in England are talking Of an
interesting find in old golf club china. II
consists Of some bowls and jugs, described
as Lowestoft and probably made in China
and painted in England.
The pieces are six in number and we're
used by members Of the Blackheath Golf
Club, which dates back to 1908 and is the
senior Of all golf clubs. Until 1874 the club