The sun., 1908-12-20

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OF briefness which might he copied with
advantage.
There was the usual Saturday night
Club dinner. followed by the usu.-s Sstur-
day night slngsong, Mr.. Lowell arrived
rather late In the proceedings and saw
at once that to reply at length TO thetoast
OF his health would tend rather TO bore
than brighten. SO this was all he said:
a learned friend Of mine once told me
that oysters possessed the power OF
reason, and when I asked him why he
said II was because they knew when to
shut up
He then resumed his seat amid hearty
laughter and cheera-
Itmigbt be added that the Savage Club
has salutary rule OF no speeches at its
Saturday night house dinners. The rule
is only broken when u Is desired 10 pay
a signal compliment TO some highly
favored guest;
The uncertainty of the situation in the
near East naturally has its erect upon
the Stock Exchange, and the diplomats
OF Europe are al deeply concerned But
the trouble is not limited to these and
other important people, Smithfeld Mar
ket IL upset.
Smithheld cares nothing for the map
OF Europe and the balance Of powers,
but it does want 10 know IL Servia IL
going to send turkeys to the English
market or not. Until this question Is
settled the ruling prices Of turkeys dur
ing Christmas week cannot be settled.
Great Britain is practically Servias d
only customer for her great turkey trade.
The upheaval which followed upon the
murders Of the late King and Queen OF
Servia almost put a stop to breeding
but in the early part Of the present year
II was resumed owing 10 the improved
conditions of the country.
The present disturbed state of affairs
has again upset the turkey proposition
at Snithfeld. If the Servian turkeys
come the prices Of other varieties will
fall from three to four cents pound
and dealers are getting anxious about
arranging their contracts
| In the Russian religious journal CerkoG
CThe church, Russian Bishop, who
signs himself 'The Humble Hermogenes,
Bishop Of Saratof. thus addresses Tolstoy'
20 thou aocursed Russian Judas. worthy
OF btterest scorn; thou that hast stified
in thy soul all that is holy all that Is pure
and noble; thou that hast hanged thyself
like dreadful suicide. on the withered
branch of thine arrogant reason, thy cor
rupted talent; thou that art rotten even
to thy soul and to the very marrow of
thy bones, and that. with the reek Of thy
moral and spiritual rottenness, infectest
tho air our best intellects breathe, curse
upon thee. vile cheat. possessed Of the
Evil One. A curse upon thee. that, by
the poison Of thy corTupting art hast
ruined and consigned to everlasting death
so many souls OF thy weak and wretched
countrynaen.'
"The Humble Hermogenes- in exercising
his pretty gift of cursing is apparently
reviving the custom Of the anathema,
solemnly pronounced against the enemies
OF the Church and country, which long
formed part OF the rites of the Russian
Church, Every year on Friday in Holy
Week the priest stood before the altar
and proclaimed the names OF those whom
he declared accursed; among them were
Mazeppa. Byron's hero. a seventeenth
century Cossack chief who revolted
against Russia. and Napoleon Bonaparte
After each name the priest cried three
times, aAnaphimal Anaphima! Ana.
phimal' In modern times the list Of the
accursed ones became SO long that the
ceremony was suppressed.
The phenomenal success which the girls
OF at least one London theatrical oom-
pany have recently had in securing noble
and mostly wealthy husbands induces
Lady Violet Greville to examine the causes
which contribute to marriages between
peers and actresses. Writing in the
Graphic she thinks the principal factor
il perhaps the glamour Of the footlights
and the fact that the actress's beauty is
made the most of; secondly, the enormous
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