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Fort Pierce news. (Fort Pierce, Fla.) 190?-1920, 1909-06-04

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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-05-06

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~ 81 -
2 We walked back to the squirets resi-
{ dence, wondering the while wheth er
there were two Shaws, and ether he
had any difficulty in throwing off
either of his masks. ] asked him If he.
Siid most OF his work here. 70
sst.I come here as often as II cam - he
T said .5 Butt can write anywhereT+in a
d train, in the house, or
Son a. door step. II, when 1 was young
a had wei ed for q. Ice place 10 Write
[ lin should never have done any work
Am i an early riser Not too early.sl
catch the 9 d clock trai IN = ~ "
On leaving, T. onfessed that my re-
gception had been a, bit Of surprise II
thought you kicked interviewers right
aout Of the village told him. He
laughed am not such terrible per
son as some people think he said. If
The aboring Villagers n Of Ayot8 St,l
E Lawrence do not know George Bernard
Shaw They only know Mr.. Shaw, who;
lives in that new house Just in the
turning of6the lane there. Il spoke to-
4one worthy man and asked him IL he
knewswhat Mr.. Shaw did for a living.
He does something in London. i
Think he said but dashed If know
what. He doesn't tell the likes of u.s.
But / do knowtias he's a darned good
sort. My wife was very Ill and he sent
her some eggs and Mrs-F Shaw ca lied
and made the rnissus feel quite we'll
/ again. OF course, it isn't for met ask
him about his trade, Is it?',
$500 q ~ FRANCIS HOPKINS; -
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Stives OF art and literature like Sir Her
bert Tree, Sir Arthur PHI. ero. and Sir

IS
stiyes OF art and literatut eB like sir Her
bert Tree, s. thur Pi zero, and Sit
q eniy Lu and eininen "a cie len i1A
men did not cost heir recipients q
cent. But the titles handed out to
were all paid for III, good hard cash.
Tlie price of the knig hthoods may be
averaged at So 600 each and that of the
Sbaronetcfes. wi ic Ii. W llile only carrying
the prefix SIR, like the knig hthoods
are transmissible to the sons Of the
holders. would be about " SIS, 600. s1 In
some cases poll tical services We're con-,
Sstdered and a lower price was accepted
but there are a number of cases in
which the entire absence OF any claim
to distinction indicates that the price
must have been a good deal above the
average.
1t must not be supposed that the
Liberal party has any monopoly of. the
sale3of honors. The. Tories, too, have
& a ii 5unenYiable record In this respect,
although It iss perhaps not quite SO bad
as that OF the party viii ch processes to
stand for the progress of democracy
and to despise all heredi tary titles.
which talks of abolish ing the house Of
lords and does its best to recruit its
numbers even faster than they are re-
&duced by death and the lapse of old:
titles! Peerages have no regular value
8sins lie market, They have been bought
for as little as $50, 900 Though in.
these cases the purchasers had some
sort OF N claim fol. services as well-and
they have cost as high as $3.50, 900. ~ i
am specLing now of linary baronies
the lowest grade in the peerage which
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. il
Edward also reserves to himself the
right to confer peerages and knight
hoods without consulting. anyone. and
most of the honors bestowed on distin-
guished soldiers and sailors are given
at the kings own Initiative. He, has
also instituted a series of orders
which are jealously guarded from the
cieapening process of politics or fa-
xoritisn and an M. v. O. - or On y D.
VI. = is valued more highly by those who
really know the meaning of such things
z than the right to be addressed as Sir
John" or My Lord. The simple LETT
tiers represent achiaveme while the
little may represent only the transfer
of a, certain sum of money, not always
earned in the most honorable way.
1t was Benjamin Disraeli Lord Dea-
consfield. who said cyntcally that
everyone with an income of $50,000 q
year ought to have a seatin the house
Eof lords. Disraeli, although cynic,
/ was a Conservative to the backbone,
/ and he spent his life defending the
{ privileges of the old arjstocracy at
which he sneered. The Liberals who
are today doing what they can to put
his cynical mot into practise are the
descendants OF DIsraeli's old enemies,
the Whigs.
When all the preliminaries are over
( and the happy mans name has ap-
{ be thought that he had finished paying.
There are still the fees, however, to he
paid for the patents of nobility which
rang from about SIPS to $5, 600, accord
ing to the dignity conferred. About
the only honors which carry no such
which are conferred by accolade by
the king in person--that is, by touching
on the shoulder with sword. Iffthe
recipient of q lSnighthood Isl abroad sor
( is prevented by Illness from attending
to receive the honor, then he is enti-
tied to a. patent but he gets 1t free OF
all charge. Az 81 81 81 4 II
While the Liberals care moving
heaven anGs earth for. money for the.
approaching campaign the Tories are
having no trouble at all in getting all
( that they ask for. A week or two ago
a side show organization known as
I the Anti Budget Leaguesbw was formed
country for the express purpose of de-
nouncing the new taxation. Walter
Il Long, who will be one OF the leading
men IN the next A Tory scabtnet was
chosen chairmanSandShe sent out "a cir.
scular to the chief Tory producers:
Within a week he had received $350.QQ0
and 1 am told that not a penny of this
amount had any string to 1t. S Il X
1T Is a fact of course. that most of
the wealthy supporters Of the Tory
party have already got titles which
are mellowed by age and are not de-
sirous of adding new ones to their col-
lection. They are really alarmed at the
trend of the new taxation which they
regard as socialistic and they fear that.
tits only the beginning of general
attack on the privileges ofstheir4cla class
They are lighting for their existence
with their backs against the wall and
they have the support of a large Sec!
ton Of the business men of the country
who although normally inclined to
range themselves with the Liberals are
afraid of the association between the
Liberal politicians and the avowed So
T cialists. JOHN SCOTT
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comfortable seat cannot be found

sif q comfortable seat cannot be found
for them, and they are In 81 hurry for
delivery of the goods they are advised
that Il large subscription to some we'll
known charity will go a long way to-
ward justifying their elevations. Some
big subscriptions to King Edward s.
hospital fund for London are accounted
for in this way, and some of the pro-
yincial hospitals and art galleries owe
their existence more to the desire of
their founders to shine among men than.
to their possession of a large supply of.
1.-THE milk OF human kindness. Il
To do the king Justice, he does not,
+ like this sale by the rival political man.
ayers of titles which are supposed to
proceed from him as the fountain OF all
honor, and he has on more than one oc-
Bcasion protested strongly against GER
tain names which have been submitted
ato him. Once or twice he has protest
led successfully, notably in the case of
ia great South African firlancier who
was said to be willing to give "a blank
check to anyone who would help him to.
be addressed as My Lord. Another
case in which the king held out for a
long time was that of a great publish
ing potentate who was shrewd enough!
{ to enlist the aid of Mrs. George Keppel,E
the kings most intimate woman friend
Mrs. George succeeded where the poll
Eticians and wire-pullers had failed and
her client got his title. The story goes
that Mrs. Georges bank accoun was
gswelled by nearly $3.50, 900 soon after
this incident.
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Nearly Lost His Life
For the Sake Of Realism

was going on well, but after a while
they went to work in another field.
Taking advantage of their absence.
ltherese proceeded to tie her small
sister to the tail of a COW and then.
beat the animal to make It run. When
the parents, hearing terrible screams.
fushed up and stopped the COW, the
child was dead with a fractured skull.
The mothers grief and despair, were. so
great that she has lost her reason, and
she Is to be placed under restraint. :, II
DuEIs ON SIGHT. s8.
In France it is not safe Tor. a news
paper reader to say, in public at any
rate, Il dislike LIE NIatin;;" ..Les Figaro
bores me- or otherwise to express an
unfavorable opinion of any journal. BY
so doing he is likely to find himself
forced to engage in mortal combatswith
one and perhaps more of the outraged
representatives OF the journal he dis
likes This was discovered the other
day by M. Francois Flaneng, the fam
GUS French portrait painter. While din
ing at a restaurant with friends he was
rash enough to remark aloud that he
didn't like a certain daily. per. There
upon a. stout man at a ia BILE near by got
up and siad II write for that paper,
Here Is my card; mys seconds will walt
upon you M. F'larneng refused the
card The other man sent his seconds
all the same to exact repatriation, this
time for double insult. firstly to the
paper which he serves and secondly to
himself as a private person.
fs NJ. Flamens duly appointed seconds
but luckily commissioned them 70 say,
in the first place, that he really liked
the paper, far from hating it,ias lie had
remarked in his haste. In the second
place, that he never had had the least
intention Of insulting tho gentleman
who threw Gown the glove for it, whom
he had not the pleasure of knowing.
Under these circumstances tho four
seconds declared that the honor of the
daily paper and that Of the gentleman
who writes for il We're satisfied, and
thus NJ. Flameng was saved from be-
ing challenged by the remaining mems
.bers of the newspapers STAFF in Sic
cession, Otherwise there is no knowing
whether he might not have been called
out eventually by the foreman, the
scornpositors, the linotype men and tho
office hoys. surprising he had survived
al, tlta earlier encounters.
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Il forgetting amid these heavenly sur
roundings hat he is a socialist. We
are two miles from the main road. We
get mo dust from m tor cars. People
do not come this way unless they
want to, and SO we are left iundisturbed
and happy were among the
church ruins. rs M
SQUIRE AS tlA8 7IJID II.
81 Beautiful & exampl lie L Of fourt nth
century archite cture, comm nted the
squire 4. q Look a t the remains of the
fine old timbered roof. CsVls get up
+ there and screech. See the beauty OF;
that fragment of ornamental ion. Pityi
some! fool laid violent hands on 1 "a
That's the. Manor House over there;
he continued pointing. to what q
Thought was an elegant Elizabethan5
mansion set in extensive grounds. In
the old days lit was the rectory. That
was at a time when livings We're given
ito the sons iof rich noblemen, and
much money was spent In building
magnificent mansions as reetories.,
Nowadays only poor men are rectors.
They cannot afford the eup-keep of big;
houses, and so they. have to take in
dodgers. " s
This contraption is the temple built
lin place of the i14th century church,
The door is locked, so we cannot enter
sLyde was buried there and his wife
over there-the church dividing the
two. That's a good joke of the rec
tor s. isn't it n ~. u.
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ltlAlRDEG ssLOOAStSIt1ErP Att Il
George Bernard shaw In the flesh
does not look the overwhelmingly SUI
perior person that imag ination drawn.
solely from his writing al1y$ to-
The newspaper IS painted him. His
brown. we'll trimmed and del icately fine
hair, whiskers, and noust che are turn.
ing white, and through his flat-topped,
steel trimmed spectacles his bright, in
tellectual eyes shine clearly. He looks,
rather like quiet, thoughtful. and
very earnest country gentleman-thef
type of studious man who goes about
with lnagnifying glass and a little
hammer chipping bits off palaeozoic5
rocks. YOU would neverss suspect him of
being the author of RS. Warren'sl
Profession, "Candid Ida, Z, and other surl-
pleasant, plays, a vegetarian, and a
socialist. He was not even wearing a.
red tie. ~ + &
And he does not roar like a lion nor
bark like dog. He actually has a.
human Noice-a soft musical voice en-
Eriched with a slight touch of his native
Irish brogue. One second after i en-
tered the room George Bernard Shaw
came right d oWll from his sky-s ping
pedestal. His first words We're ~ You
will have a cup of tea, won't you !? The
maid is Just getting IT ready ' # Fancy
George Bernard Shaw talking about a.
cup of tea like that, expected him
to ask me next to play checkers with
him.
After tea we talked about B1ancos
Posnet,. and the author fired off some
Interesting stories illustrative of the
quaint eccentricites of the English
method of censoring stage plays.
MUST PLAY THE RULES.
.Redford, the censor said Shaw lis
really a modest, well-meaning gentle
man, but he has to conform to the
rules OF his office. 1t is not a question
of morals a al. Y OH can put as many
naughty women as you like in play
and it will pass; but if you introduce
ANYTHING which isgcontrary to the rules
then 1t Is banned.
AZ; S35t..some time ago q play was written
about a woman who was pa ssionately
Y devoted to her husband and children
One day he was brought home dead
from Il saw-lnill )! He had got entangledS
In the machinery and was cut up into
hundred small pieces. The shock to
the wife was SO great that she gave
birth to a child which was deformeds
sand an idiot and other pleasant
things The woman made up her mind
TO kill the child. but before doing this
murder she took a cup of water and
schristened the child according to the
rites of the Church of England. Fhe
censor was, at his own request shown
how the christening would be done.
He said itswould not be allowed unless
.,,,,,,6.,. ltriflin1 Observation-Disclosures had
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tft,l H.
is the title always granted, Of course
when a man is elevated to the house
of lords. The record price paid in re-
cent years was that disbursed by the.
present Lord Michelham, who contrib.
uted $500. 900 to the Tory campaign,
chest in 1905 Just before Balfour went
out Of office. "A few months before he
had received a barOnetcy which 1t is
said cost him nearly $50, 900 and he
liked nit so we'll that he insisted on
going step higher. Before that he
was Herbert Stern, an eminent ] ewish
banker in the city of London, although
in the kingdom of Portugal he was en-,
titled to style himself Baron Stern.
Portuguese honors are cheap. however.
and do not rank in the market with
those conferred by King Edward.
Z CONNECTION CONTINUES.
This peerage created q commotion
which has not subsidized yet. Lord
Michelham is the son of q Jewish
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lspecial correspl1ondence.l

-
Halles, the big central market
- of Paris. 1t is a competition
OF men with abnormal strength to be
elected permanently as the strong men
of the market" #
III The Hailes is a large iron building
covering more than 20 acres OF ground,
the structure being divided by covered
streets AS feet high and so feet wide.
Before > a. m. the competitors began
to arrive at the main entrance and
Notwithstanding the unreasonable hour,
crowds OF spectators We're there to Wit
ness the novel; competition which was
TO begin exactly at 8 and did not fin
ish until nearly H.. After the arrival
of the judges the applicants grouped
themselves around the starting point
and waited for the word to begin.
Each candidate must show his ability
to carry, without resting, a huge sack
filled with stones weighing 45o pounds
for As yards. No sign of strain must
he apparent, nor may the men totter
under their burden. Some of the COM
petitors got no farther than a few;
steps; others who had accomplished the
feat We're disqualified because the eff
fort left them exhausted. When a cam
didate did succeed in his task to the
satisfaction of the judges, he was
greeted by the crowd with wild yells
of approval.
Men from every province of France
entered for this contest. which oc-
ours only once in every two or three
years. When death or continued sick
ness depletes this body of men who
are employed for the heavy lifting at
the sIalles, then the trial takes place.
The corps consists of 81 men.
DUTIES OF THE STRONG MEN.
The duties of the strong men the
only name ever given then1-are to I'M
load the sacks of flour, cases of cheese,
boxes of fresh sea fish and other pro-
dtice coming to the market, but the
final aim of each man is to handle the
grand fruit. This is the last great
stepping stone in their work, salaries of
from 500 to GOO francs a year are paid.
It is not a munificent sum for an
American Workman n. fhut for France 1t is
colossal.
Giants in stature, broad shouldered,
big boned, a great muscular Develop
ment, skin toughened by exposure, one
can only compare these men to superb
Percheron horses. They are fully orr
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money lender who came from Frank;
fort some years ago and made a for.
tune in England. It was the elder
Stern who secured the Portuguese e title.
with which his son was not content.
Usually some pretense is made that the
peeragc p Is conferred for conspicuous
service to the state although II is
often hard to define what the service
SIS. In this case there was not even
the pretense. The Balfour government
created the peel, and sat tight, saying
nothing 1t was consoled no doubt for
the chorus of denunciation which fol-
lowed. by the size of the check pock-i
eted by the treasurer of the party
fund.
Y For the benefit of the American papa
who may wish to hear his daughter
called .sNry Lao y,,.'s and at the same time.
have the choosing Of HIS son-in-law, it
may be SAID that hese little affairs
are usually arranged with the chief.
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snsrial clp1respnnae !cn.l

y GoNDoN, July 20 - lever devil Is
Bernard Shawl! He is the only Y Y
dramatist who has counted since
@ shakespeare,s day, Same sort to! 81
brain, with a whip Of a tongue and
zen like u sledge- hammer
i This remark was mace e to me at the
! dinner table recently by a literary sage
i and q conlpe tent critic. j T sounded like
! shaw on Shaw! From this you may
possibly appreciate the natural fear
which experienced at the prospect OF
meeting the parsonage face to face:
VAS afraid he would talk much above
my understandings that his every word
WOULD be a book, and every, sentence a
library.
Bernard Shaw has two houses one In
the heart of London erlooking the
Thames, and the other, at Ayet st.
L Lawrence, in the heart of Paradise as it
+ j to be found In HEREFORD shire. He
lives in the country one. and merely
4 resides In the town place. a saw him
IN the charming country retreat where
he really lives, arid where he does most
Of his work. 1T is a house which has
no striking external feature. "A new
brick and plaster structure, 1t Is in-
tended for utility and comfort rather
u than for an architects MASTERPIECES.
There are no curtains to the windows.
There Is no knocker on the door. rs a
ring OF an electric bell brought a neat
y dressed maid, and I entered spas
cious hall, costly furnished and adorned
5 with silk scrolls, relics of a recent visit
+ 70 Algeria, and bearing characters
Which probably even Shaw cannot read.
THE PARsoN WAS THERE.
u was nshered without delay into the
drawing room-and there was George
4 Bernard Shaw. He rose and greeted mo
Win sunny smile and n hearty hand
snake. Tall. and as we'll proportioned
as an athlete, he looked the soul of
eeneality as he stood there in a khaki
colored knickerbocker suit, with a
Il Norfolk Jacket. He introduced me to
Mrs. Bernard Ssr.te, a pleasant and
kindly wor@,, eJ.4 tnen he presented
Y me 70 paison IL the Church of Eng
iiand-the rector of this old-worId Wis
lase parish.
sha@ be It Remembered, had just
4 peen accused of being a blasphemer..
t sle mad written a play called 1.-THE
showing up of Blanco Posnet. land the
! eAaln1iner of plays, an old gentleman
MO bushes more than any other man
U england, had declared 1t to be unit
70 De produced on an English stage pe-
3 cause IN 1t Shaw had introduced the
erect of Gods influence on a set of
,p,,ackguards. And this man Shaw, this
olas phemer. was actually acting the
nartSof host to the Rev. J. N. budding
Z .ol' rector of Ayot ST. Lawrence. The!
rector Is In danger of being reported.
70 my lord the bishop of the diocese.
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whip of the pa rty in power. This func-
ationary as a rule holds no public office,
He is like the ld-fashioned American
boss in that respect, and in the fur
ther detail that his word is law with
the rank and file of the party. Nominal-l
5ly his Job is to see that the members.
of parliament who profess the faith of.
his party are on hand to vote when re-
3quired but really he runs the party
machine. When the party Is hard up.
he casts his eye over its wealthy ads
herents and a little conference In one
of the smoking rooms of the house OF
commons follows. If satisfactory
deal is made the name of the person.
selected appears in the next list of
those whom the king delighteth to hon
or.
Sometimes all the persons who are.
3.seigible'' for honors are not to be
found among the ranks of the members
OF the house of commons In that case
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TEACHERS ND SUMMER EX-
CuRsIoNs EAST.

Chicago and return $40 90. st. Paul
and Minneapolis. s52. 100. Dates of sale
August 18th. t4th. Sept. 9th. nth,
final return limit Oct. 31st. Diverse
routes via the Chicago < Northwest.
ern Ry. For particulars address
G. "A. WALKER, General Agent.
IS West End South. Salt Lake City. Utah.