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The Green Forest tribune., 1909-01-22
lE EGl ] A BURGLAR IN BED H A By Robert Carlton Brown lH
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By Robert Carlton Brown
Copyright. by Daily Story Pub. Co.)

"Beer5teak and onions" I ordered. Rs l slipped onto a high stool in the all-night lunch-room and continued reading my paper
 Up or over?" demanded surly voice i f'om dim corner. Something in the voice seemed familiar. I glanced up.
 AS live! Not Bloke Brady" was my as:onished cry.
 "No, Susan B. Anthony. Who'd you think I was, you fool?"
 'But-but," I stammered, what on earth is a respectable second-story, old-line porch-climber like you serving hairless hash in this here beanery for?"
 Me bein' in dis sea-goin' lunch wagon ain't exactly in my line he says. But I've cut it all out. I'm good now. Why, if that there cock roach ad diamond in his mouth an was running fer that there corner this present minnit I wouldn't reach out my foot to stop him an pinch de spark"
 But who converted you? Don't tell ne with tear in your eye that it was revival, or your old mother
 Not on your life" he gurgled deep T aint good at lyin', an nothin like that could stop me. But, here we're alone; step back in tn vivisectin' par tor an I'll tell you all about it. How'd you say you'd have your raw? Up or over?"
 "Ove', Bloke," I told him, as made my way around the counter and ac companied him to the little smelly kitchen.
 You sec, 1t was just like dis" he , began, IS 1 selected soft part of the stove t. sit on. T was up against it right. Didn't have no lays spotted nor nothin', an I needed tn coin. We'll I starts out one night, with my kittie in me pocket, lookin' fer trouble. Ii was dark night; blacker'n that skill let All of sudden comes up against nice lookin' house, without light 1 stanGs off an surveys it. Then looks around quick, sees everything is
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-01-22

be there I was kinder scared, so makes high dive without thinkin' an lands on tn bed an pulls tn GOV CTS over me head.
 No sooner'n l done that makes out tn light of a candle enJerin tn room, an l begins sayin' what prayers l know frontwards an backwards, at th' same time.
 "A voice pipes up out of n dark an I feels tn lady sit down on tn edge of tn bed Tn voice is hers, an it says: My! My. Still delirious, I must tell tn doctor in tn morning. Poor man, Poor man. He'll catch his death cf cold jumpin' up an run min about tn house like this, at all hours
 'Th' voice was soothin', an l links she must be nurse, as l seen a striped dress in tn room she was in.
 Well, she sits there fer a few min | utes, an den she reaches under tn bed-elothes an pulls out one of me hands. I didn't resist. She felt tn pulse an then she says: 'Ah,' his | lever worse, lOO. " t II nave lO strap him to the bed so he cant get up an roam around tn house, or he'll never recover
 My heart was beatin' some, an that accounted for my pulse rein so i high.
 She next smooths down me pillow an then she tries to pull tn covers away from my head But that weren't no use. l hung on an finally she gives it up, takes tn candle an goes | back ter bed
 "Wheww-w, It was some relief Just like expectin ten years, an get tin only two. 1 breathed steady again an started a little laugh at how easy it all was.
 "Th' laugh died in infancy, fer just then l heard wabbly step down tn hall an l knew tn sick man was re turnin'
 Believe me, did some tall thnkin in them few seconds, an some tall movin', too Jerkin' off tn sheets, tied one around tn bedbost an tn end of that to tn other. Then, just as tn steps was comin' through tn nurses room 1 heard her jump up an say: What! Out of bed again, sc soon. Dear, dear, what shall I dc with him? I t'rows up tn window an dives out, shinnin me way down de sides with tn help of them sheets tied together.
 I'd made good me getaway. an was chucklin' ter meselt when I drops to tn ground. 1 sneaks round to tn front of tn house, still laughin', an l starts to hike up tn front walk, when tn moon comes out from under a cloud an I catches glistcn on tn side of tn front door.
 Well, me heart just done a double ! fipfiop an landed wrong side up on | tn tip of me tongue. There, bo right there, tackled on the house, was this sign"
 Brady paused in frying the steak and moistening a stubby pencil looked at me with awful eyes and printed the following sign cs ,he kitch en table,
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-01-22
 /: SMALLPOX.

"H-!' l cried, starting up from my seat on the stove
 "Yes, that's what it was, all right" he agreed An there I'd been rollin' about in that there smallpox patients bed fer ten minutes"
 Why am l workin' in dis here bean ery?" he goes on, kind O sad-like Say bo, de games too eXcitin'. De wages is all right, but de risks is get tin ter be somethin' fierce It's a blame sight safer to be fryin' saul sages. No, I didn't get tn smallpox; but l got tn most life-sized scare that ever come to me. an I think it'll stay by me fer awhile. There's your steak, bo; yes, Is cents, that's right. It ain't much money, but it's pretty safe, an there's others that ain't"
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-01-22
The True Missionary.

There is third figure, very different from either. Kipling has written with l sympathetic insight the story of the officer in his struggle to beat civiliza- | tion into the savage half devil and half child" The Sergeant What's-'Is- Name" of the mission field has yet to find his interpreter-or her interpreter, for the sergeant is just as often a
 woman
 Life at an African mission station is very much the same throughout the continent. The day begins usually with the call of the bell at sunrise in the summer and an hour or two before that time in the winter, for in the mat ter of early rising it is the white man who must adapt himself to the native habit. After brief sunrise prayer the boys and girls of the school are mus tered in the courtyard; they shoulder their hoeS and it is away to the corn field or the sweet potato patch. Stand ing in TOW at the bottom of the field, they lift their heavy hoes far above tIlclT HcduS dllu UIluS llcLl uOWu WIlu force that sends the iron blade far into the ground, lift them again and let them fall with rhythmic regularity
 As they do so they chant in a slow, heavy monotone, which is their near est approach to singing, any incidents in their life that may be uppermost in their minds-the ripening of the corn, the marriage of the chiefs daughter or any of the happenings of the day. Sometimes the work lags and needs the constant impatient She shani' (hurry) of the white teacher. The African holds theory quite the opposite of Darwin's; he believes that monkeys were evolved from race of lazy people that loafed leaning on the handles of their hoes, until the useful implements grew into tails, to the everlasting shame of the loafers. Breakfast consists of one of the three staples, sweet potatoes, squash or corn, either as mush or on the cob. It is eaten from platters at bare table with quick lunch effect, rather a test of discipline, for the native loves to squat on @ straw mat and take his time about chewing. No greater dis courtesy can be offered a native than to interrupt his meal. But the school bell is memorable.
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-01-22
Missionary's Garden Necessary.

Meantime the boys are engaged in the work of the farm or in building or carpentry. The pastor of the station is fortunate if he has a white man to assist him in experimenting these branches of the work. More likely he, in addition to his cares as pastor, is physician and magistrate, his own farmer, gardener, builder, architect and furniture maker. The farm must provide food for the boys and girls of the school. The garden must supply fruit and vegetables for the mission ary's table, for he soon learns that he cannot keep his strength long if,he at tempts to live as a native He must have variety of food and, incidental ly, tablecloths and napkins. A noted African traveller has said that white men die in the tropics not for want of the necessities of life but for want of the luxuries. Besides, his house and garden must be an object lesson in civilized living quite as important as his preaching.
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-01-22
New Deity in Africa

Ekokombi, calling himself a deity has appeared among the Congolese of the Mongo and Ngombe and created great excitement. He has issued a command that all charms and fetishes be destroyed or otherwise got rid of still in possession of these they will be tortured or killed by some of his messengers. This has taken such a hold on the minds of the people all over the interior that strong as is tl:eir belief in the potency of their charms, they have in most cases de stroyed them.
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-01-22
MISSES HOG; HITS HIMSELF

cracked. The stout hickory handle bent as it imparted motion to the steel head. The shaft whistled through the air, there was dull ir4iec1; Si. was over.
 Will Shorb sat up and called in a weak voice for water His fingers wandered up to his head, from the side of which protruded bump about the size of turnip. In the far corner of the lot stood hog; it was entiresy unscathed, which was more than could be said for Will Shorb had missed the animal and had hit himself on the head-Indianapolis S:af.
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-01-22

- w " ASHINGTON. = The M heroes of the dark
 ~ continent are not all
 " W mighty hunters and ex-
 V plorers. The hardest
 fight that is waged for the opening of the continent is not a fight in the open with wild beasts or howling savages while the world looks on and applauds. Rather it is a grap- bling in the dark with shadows, the shadows of spiritual gloom that loom so black and yet are so elusive to the grasp. It is fight for the spread of light in dark places waged by men and women unused to physical hardships and with breeding that renders them peculiarly sensitive to the spiritual wear and tear of their work It is a fight without fanfare, without an audi ence, and too often without immediate results.
 If President Roosevelt accepts the invitation of the Methodist Missionary society to take part in missionary work while travelling through Africa he will have thrown the weight of his influ- ence in the scales for cause particu- larly in need of such help. In the same way as the presidents declamations against race suicide unquestionably have helped domestic life, so perhaps he can throw some light on a phase of civilizing work peculiarly misunder- stood by the majority of white people at home and abroad. It requires no great stretch of the imagination to get a vision of the president preaching a eommon-sense religion to a black au- dience, just as he has preached do- mesticity, fearlessness, strenuousness and great many kindred virtues to the people in America. But it requires an intimate knowledge of the African character, it's keen sense of authority and position, it's veneration for "big chiefs of whatever country, to gauge the tremendous influence his words would carry.
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-01-22

wages, but in addition he has also to pay to the treasurer of the Lazy club about five cents for coming late.
 If he is late more than once or so during a week everybody is aware of the fact, and the second or third time he makes his appearance after start ing time he is greeted with terrific combination of noises produced on any available material by his fellow workmen.
 At certain periods the accumulated funds of the Lazy club are divided, not among thc1e who have produce |
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-01-22

tain English firm the workmen year or two ago originated what they called the Lazy club. It was entirely their own idea, which for obvious reasons has received neither recognition nor financial support from the manage sment, but has been a most excellent means of reducing the number of late cOmers
 Whenever a workman is more than five minutes late after time he finds the gate locked and he is not allowed to enter until the half hour is up. This half hour is deducted from his
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-01-22
WENT BACK ON HIS SONG.
Exasperated Composer Glad to Prove
 Words Were False.

George Christie, nephew of the noted minstrel man, and himself a well known composer says that he never was sorry but once that he helped write song
 When Bert Fitzgibbon came to him with the lyric of a song called You Cant Stop Your Heart from Beating" young Christie most enthusiastically set to work to put music to it, but now he's sorry. It happened this way Christie occupied the adjoining room to newly married couple who were very much in love.
 The husband had learned Christies song and all day long he sang it to his bride. In the morning before break fast his accordion plaited tenor voice warbled You Cant Stop Your Heart from Beating for the Girl You Love" After lunch it was the same and as a good night solo he rendered it.
 The last straw was added to the camel's back when the bride learned the song and the love-struck couple sang the song in barber shop harmony This was too much for Christie and he left the hotel, sorry that lie had ever written the song.
 Passing a neighboring drug store. an idea struck him, and he entered and purchased a bottle of carbolic acid. Wrapping it up in neat pack age he presented it through the bell boy to the honeymooners with a note that simply read:
 This will stop your heart from beating. Use it,"
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-01-22
 Great Aid to Missionaries.

Even if the president should not take an active part in the work, he un- douhtedly will visit the mission sta items, and the mere fact that a chief of such higness that the full scope of the African imagination hardly can , take in his orbit visits familiarly with the missionaries will give a very help full prestige to them in the eyes of the natives. Respect for his own chief is the bone and sinew of the Africans code of morals and is, in fact, one with his religion Combined with this is a surprising penetration into the who s who" of other nations. It takes an African native something less than i've minutes to know who is the real thing and who merely masquerades tn the borrowed feathers of authority. The hostile attitude toward missions sometimes taken by individual white magistrates often has done incalcul- able harm to the work of the mission ary, because these magistrates in the native eye are invested with dignity as the representatives of the great white chiefs ''pesheya" Con the other side-meaning of the ocean). The coming in person of one of the great est of these chief to the house of their own "nmfundisi" (teacher) will neu- traIize the unfriendliness of any resi- dent magistrate.
 On the other hand, President Roose- welt in his writings certainly will touch on the practical side of a work of such significance as that of the Christian missions. The question of the capacity of the African native for civilization must be answered at the mission stations if 1t is answered at all
 Missionaries have opened the coun- try to white men, and the chief high ways penetrating the African conti- nent still are called missionary roads," When Livingstone's house was sacked, his books torn and scat tered to the winds and his medicine bottles broken in revenge for his championship of the natives against the aggressions of the border ruffians, this disaster was the impetus that drove him to his real work as an ex- plorer. No one ever has accomplished more with fewer resources. To the last he remained always the mission ary, travelling among the natives as one who sought only their good and had nothing to fear from them. All the world knows how Livingstone's work became the inspiration of Stan ley's career and resulted ultimately in the real opening of the dark continent.
 Even before Livingstone's time his father-in-law, Robert Moffat, travelled
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-01-22
Annoy Anti-Noise Crusader.

Mrs. Isaac l.. Rice, the anti-noise crusader, is the wife of the president of the Holland Submarine Torpedo Boat Company. She sold her beauti- full home on Riverside drive New York, because the tugboat captains, against whom she began her anti-noise war, took special delight in footing their whistles at all hours of the night whenever they passed her house.
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-01-22

children, Is no puzzle at all to them. It
 was thus their own kings lived when
 they were in their glory. In the same
 way the agricultural figures of speech
 in the parables of Christ fit right into
 their own speech. Their favorite books
 in the Bible are those that abound in a picturesque imagery such as the Apocalypse, the Book of Job and best of all-The Song of Solomon.
 It is very different thing when it comes to learning a foreign language and mastering the intricacies of gram
 mar, arithmetic and geography. Gram
 mar might as well be relegated to the
 outer darkness at once. When you have taught an African native the diff ference between verb and a noun you have taught him about as much as his mind can grasp. On the other hand, the children learn easily foreign
 words and expressions in a parrot-like way. A young native who has worked for white man for month or two has no difficulty in calling his breth- Ten black deyil'' and damn nigger."
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-01-22

them, it should be noted, but among the entire staff equally Thus the late workman is made to pay the early corners for his laziness. The last dis tribution was just prior to bean feast" and funds accumulated during 12 months were distributed, amount ing to over seven shillings a head System.
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-01-22
HAVE FORMED LAZY CLUB.
Plan of English Workmen to Dscour- age the Habit of Being Tardy.

One of the best assets of manu- featuring plant is the interest of em- ployes, and when this develops into friendly rivalry it's value is many times increased Frequently work men will adopt methods spontaneous ly that are of great assistance to the firm.
 In the engineering shops of cer'
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-01-22
Harsh Language an Obstacle.

As for arithmetic, it is not easy to learn the multiplication table, when to say nine times eight" yc | have to let out the following mouthful of sound: "Tata isishiyangalolonye pinda nge sishangalombili." But the natives have an adjunct to difficult enuncia, ton, sort of first aid in the language of the fingers. Beginning from right to left, the little finger means one, the left thumb means six, the left forefin- ger seven. and so on. If time or energy fail you, you simply wag finger, or if wag two fingers, and the deed is dor e. Your breath is saved
 The white woman teacher in a school of eighty or a hundred natives is likely to find o&Fen if she has one or two native assistants, that her position as the motor nerve of this too, too solid mass of African flesh is wearing, to say the least. The industrial part of the work is not so difficult as the purely intellectual. It is not so hope less task to make the African native fashion something with his hands as to make him grasp anything with his brain. The women have learned in their native handicrafts such as straw plating deftness of touch that make them fairly apt in the acquisition of the domestic arts of sewing, cooking, baking, washing, ironing and cleaning.
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-01-22
Bible Images Familiar.

Classes and recitations and more particularly lessons to be prepared of fer more violence to the native preju
 dices. He likes to hear the Bible stories or stories of other countries and to read them for himself when he has mastered the combination of letters in. to familiar sounds. The oriental images of the Bible are perfectly familiar to him. The idea Of the patriarchs of the Old Testament living in tents as cattle men and yet being really kings, which is such puzzle to city bred white
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-01-22

Many a girl who is looking for a husband may discover that even after she gets him she may spend most of ner Ame looking for hi>%
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-01-22
Wise Words.

Cotton: Next to acquiring good friends. the best acquisition is that of good books.
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-01-22
The New Way.

The New Way. He-Darling, all is over between IS. She-Oh, George, this is so Abruzzi. Punch.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-11-02
TERRITORY WINS
IN SCOTT CASE
School Teacher Fails to Recover
the Years Pay She Claims
Was Due Her.

Mrs. Nettie L. Scott has lost her
suit against the Territory which she
instituted TO recover the $500 she
claimed was due her for the year s
work as principal of the Holualoa
School which she has never done, hav-
ing been transferred by the board of
public instruction. The opinion of the
supreme court that decided the matter
was by Chief Justice Hartwell.
In rendering the judgment, the court
says, "Under the rules and regulations
of the department, "a teacher may be
transferred from one school TO another
when il shall seem that the efficiency
of the department viii be promoted
thereby The court has no power TO
review the action OF the department
in transferring teachers unless perhaps
10 inquire whether the action WAS taken
arbitrarily, or as II appears from tho
evidence 10 be the case, in good faith, -
The reasons for the transfer 10 which
Mrs. scott SO objected are given In
the notification she received from Su'
perintendent Babbltt after refusing 10
accept another priueipalsbiP The lot
ter II as followsi
''DouT Mndamei-This 10 10 formally
notify you that after the hearings ru'
gurdng llolualoa school given your
solf ana Mis-, Maydwell aud humorous
friends OF both, the decision of the do
parimeni ~ public iutlfualian was, ~
you we're orally bottled on september
7, that the beat Interests "a the depart
meui demand chat yuu he transferred
20 come other school,
ii'fhp department . pallap sas based
pg0n Yuuf pWn statements concerning
ilo school aud Yogf wefh Tiers Nv pnn.
opal ~ hfe Yean lhfIe aha NJ y0ul
school an assltlapl lfsehf considered
The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-11-02
AGONY OF WRECKED CREW

GALVESTON, Texas, October 9.-The
steamship Winifred, Captain Jenkins,
came across the waterloggei schooner
Kate FeoIe, early this w'ek, in the
gulf 500 miles from land.
Phe schooner had been adrift for
twenty days. For sixteen days the
crew had been without food and for
several days without water.
The schooner was bound from Mobile
to Matanzas, Cuba. A day before the
oil steamship picked up the wreck, $50
miles out of its course, one of the crew,
Carl Rudolf, died. Another sailor, Will
Behrman, was washed overheard
The schooner sailed from Mobile Sep.
tember 49, was struck by a hurricane
In the gulf September 10, disabled and
waterlogged after four'day fight with
the storm,
A few cans of tomatoes aud corn were
ished from the water filed cabin. The
water supply was ruined,
September 20, six days without water,
the crew caught about eight quarts OF
rain water In cans aud managed 10
make this do about four days Three
Of the crew had TO be tied 10 tho
deekhouse 20 keep lhem FROM eousam'
ing all The water,
From September 20 the meH we're
without food oT water, Five of them,
Y is feared, may never fully recover
FROM tho experience.
For several days before rescue they
had hNoa eating barnaeles peTAped ffom
lhe sldos NJ tho schooner BY three OF
lhrif associates, ihe ulhera belpg TOO
epak "a DO tbs
10 ada 20 lhsiT gufsglpgs ihp men
las ieaf tleemsll pass pliAln bsllina
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