davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-07-04
A Just Rebuke.

tS1T was William Dean Howelis..:' said
! Chicago editor. who first rebuked
us Americans for our spread-eag leism. for
our foolish boasting. l see tllt Mr.. How
ellis has just Joined a mems society for
the promotion OF woman suffrage. Trust
him TO be in the forefront always.
Il once heard Mr.. Hnweis deliver a
Fourth of July Grafton In .iaine. The
orator preceding him had boosted a good
deal. Mr.. Howells showed tina. some OF
the mans boasts were even impious.
He said that these spread-eas lie boast
ers deserve the rebuke that the little child
administered TO the cacklng hen that had
just laid an egg. The child. angered by
the hens continuous cawk-cawk-cawl,
caWk-ca u k-cawk shook his little finger
at her and said:
You fink you're smart. But bod
made dat egg. You touldn't help but
Law irn -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-07-04

A St. Ives Fisherman.
He takes no stock in radium and doesn't know
why tn" silly folk, from London are bothern.
about an old rubbish heap.
terranean: overhead an azure sky: be
hind. gorse-clad moors ana everywhere
an air as invigGrating as new wine. Any
spot less fitted for the cult Of the golden
calf than that hill 1t would be difficult
to imagine.
Or course it is the discovery of radium
that makes ST. Ives OF news interest to
America. Therefore | have had 10 give
first place to the story OF the rubbish
heap. But this westernmCs; borough Of
England has riches far SURPRISING those
of the Old mine to offer the transatlantic
waNfarer-a banquet Of rare beauty OF
natures own providing: quaint scenes Of
by time tIaI artists rave over them, and
climate that botA In summer ana yin
ter has rare tonic properties. There are
few places in this Old land that provide
in more generous measure that complete
change. Of !ife and environment craved
by Americans vino have grown tired Of
the strenuous life.
There is nothing remotely strenuous
about st. Ives--oid ST. Ives it should per-
haps be called 10 distinguish il from the
new ST. Ives that i'll recent years has
grown up on 'he hiliv slope back Of the
ancient village for the accommodation Of
summer visitors old ST. Ives IS still
much as it was three or four hundr9I
years ago. It's ancient builders knew
nothing about arr and az little about town
planning. Nothing was probably further
from their thoughts than producing pic
turesque effects. Their purpose seems to
have been to jumbo their dwellings as
close together as possible leaving their
narrow streets and still narrower cobble-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-07-04

orns deep. ard up 10 within about 100
feet of the top Il is filled with water
And that Wate:' cannot be pumped out
and the mine explored until the new res
ervoir for ST. Ives. now well under way.
Is finished The water in the mine IS
radio active. When the mine is pumped
out i; is said that the water will be bot
tied and sold. and doubtless II will be dis
covered then that it possesses Wohderful
medicinal virtues O. some sort. though
for many wears the St Ives folk nave
been drinking il without discovering that
il had any extraordinary properties Fer
haps that may be attributed to the tact
that their drinking water passed throuGh
two other a uandoned mines or benalf
of which no claims TO radio activity nave
yet been advanced. That there is much
pitcl! bleEdc still in the mir.e itself Is GEL
tain Above the water level a virgin lode
of il has been struck. and considerable
quantities Of 1t have been brought to the
surface.
Those who are exploiting the old mine
have other projects in view beside the
production OF rat!ium. They talk of build
ing big hotel and starting hydros and
radium baths and similar establishments
such as have bossomed forth a ErZse-
biree in Bohemia whence is obtained the
pitchblende on which the world is prin-
cpally dependent for its present supply
Of radium In short. they expect to
make" ST. 1ves-make it fashionable
resort. And then it's unique charms will
be lost.
Happily there was little evidence of tie
naturalization of these various money
making schemes when | climbed the rub
bish-crowned hill at the back of the
town. Some half dozen little raw, cor
rugated iron structures. a score of labor
ers, paid something like 10 cents day.
searching the dumps TOR the stuff that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-07-04

investit ate in a practical way. That Is
the mission movement. There are tens OF
thousands of US business men who are
giving regularly toward the Introduction
o. Christianity among the heather. We
want 10 know what our money is doing.
and whether it wi pay us to continue
giving or not You are an unprecedented
observer and we should like to know what
you think.
This desire TO know the truth about
missions is not confined 70 our business
men. 1t j. live question to the thirty
two millions who belong to our various
..urch organizations and 20 every sun
day school and religious body through
out TIE whole United States.
! am glad tC have this country rs my
first field for such investigation. The
Koreans are row doing more than any
other nation along such lines. Our mis-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-07-04

biz poor Take that If DR.. Bunker. near
the east gate in Seoul. It consists of one
room cf abou. tie size of a parlor III an
american fiat and 50 small that only 1O
men can be crowded down upon The floor
Al al the services III that church the
doors and windows are full and many
must stand outside. 1t has three meet
ings every Sunday morning. There IS
one for boys, which lasts from TO
10: then one for men. from 10 to IL
and after that third service for the
women. DR.. Bunker tells me that II,
people all give. although they are OF the
poorest class Of Koreans. and that many
Of them cut down their food in order 10
give to the church. They Will eat
spoonful or so ess rice at a meal or per
laps eat half the meal amount Oh one
day every week. The collections Of the
congregation amount to about 81 per
Sunday, ard this is made up of coins
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-07-04

1t was probably treated with the same
sort of facetious skepticism that SINH
lar yarn. coming from America, would
receive here. But now that the existence
of the most infinitely costly of all min
erals IS vouched for by that distinguished
scientist Sir William Ramsay. the I'M
slightly rubbish heap has become an OBJ
ject of serious interest To denounce its
pretensions to hidden wealth as humbug
would be tantamount to applying the
same epithet to Sir William which would
be exceedingly libeious-over here. any
low.
Sir William Ramsay is credited with
knowing rather more about the mysteri
ous laws-of-nature-de flying substances
tnan any other man in England. VIVA;
lie says about radium- goes. Tic was in
terviewed the Other day about story
from America that comparatively cheap
substitute for radiun had been disCov
cred there which ALSO wrougk miracles
OF healing. He said there was nothing
in il. And that settles it. SO far as the
British public IS concerned.
TIE big rubbish leap is the accumu-
lated refuse Of the Trenvorth copper
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-07-04
" Q

worth from one fourth Of a cent to a
nickel. The church has already saved
$50 toward Il new building, and il Is
Cow aiding mission churches outside.
Last Sunday DR.. Bunker baptized one
woman VINO was seventy-nine years OF
&c.
At Pyengyang there is Presbyterian
church which has twenty-five hundred
regular attendants on Sundays and twelve
hundred at the prayer meetings during
midweek. One of it's members is q mid
dle-ased woman who walks ten miles iii
from the country twice "A week rain or
SHINE. Think of wa king forty miles
Wee.E to preaching and prayer meeting.
That IS what she does
IN interesting feature OF the Christian
movement here Is the Bible study classes
which are carried on regularly in differ
ent parts of the country al certain times
of the year. These people are anxious TO
study the Scriptures and 10 have them
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-07-04

yields radium worth 100000 an ounce.
were all the indications above ground of
the realiZations Of the dreams of wealt Il
begotten by the discovery of rad.um
Close at hand a couple of donkeys were
browsing contentedly. Rosy-cheel7ed chill
dren were playing before some old stone
cottages. From the base OF the hill
stretched the quaint old town; beyond
that lay the Atlantic, as blue as the Medi-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-07-04

alone NAV WELD that much worth of RAJ
dunn. What they may obtain from the
mine Itself is predetermined. Sir William
RAMSAY says that a Weld o. tWo-tnirdS
of an ounce-ratIer more. l believe, than
now exists in the whole world and worth
at present prices more than S5an,G0a-nlay
be looked for annually in TIE near future.
On what he bases that expectation |
don't know. The mine is only 2o1 faith
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-07-04
CIR WILLIAM RAMSAY

Tx WILLIAM NAMoA
- Says He Has Obtained
Radium From the Refuse OF
An Abandoned Copper Mine
at St. Ives in Cornwall-An-
ticipates a Yield of 100000
Worth of the Infinitely
Precious Mineral Annually
That Will Be Only Two
thirds of An Ounce, But 1t
Is Probably More Than at
Present Exists in the Whole
World-Quaintest Old Town
in England Threatened With
Boom That Will Destroy
Its Unique Charms-A Place
That Americans, Weary OF
the Strenuous Life, Will De-
light In-Where You Can
Do as You Please, Dress as
You Please and Take Life
Easy.
r IVES Cornwall. June -. 1909
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-07-04

a%d 'h-ir stations cover the country. The
f-otestantS ara divided into presoyterians.
Mstho.!ists and AlYg!icans. The PEesby-
TEXANS represent both sections of the
church in the United States, north and
south. ard there are also small branches
o. the SAM determination from Canada
and Australia Oar Methods. Episcopal
churches, north and south. are carrying
or q great work and the English have 4
we'll managed mission II the head Of
which is bishop. In addition there are
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-07-04

tST before | left
W a sslingtou | a s I
summer to start on
this trip across tie
Pacific one Of our
e a d / II & bankers
said TO me:
Il u nd erstand
you are going out
to describe the
a Weakening of Asia.
There is one thing
/ wish YOU would
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-07-04
Advantage of Work.

nAVlD BELASCO. at a dinner ar the
- Plaza, was complimented by an
actress on his youthful looks.
We do keep young, we artists said
the famous playwright and manager
You know our secret? II liz that we are
so busy we haven't time to grow Old"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-07-04

sionaTies went 10 the Japanese first, but
.[orea has today more converts than
Japan ard propcrticnate!y many times
more than China. which mas been exploit
"i hy the churches for scvera, genera
tons.
The Christian movement is ore OF the
vita, elements Of the reorganization
III this country. A great revival is
taking place among the people. and more
than thirty thousand converts have been
added 70 the church within a year. There
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-07-04

IT from which the costly mineral is obtained.
place. which is so grateful to Jaded
observation-disclosures they say There Is
nothing else they can dos And as the
fish have been scarce of late years, they
have had hard time Of it.
Catching fish is also the chief occupation
of the sea gulls which abound here. But
when their fishing is poor the gulls often
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-07-04

0NE Hundred and Fifty
~ Thousand Converts "A
Native Congregation and Its
Twelve Hundred Members
How Money Talks = Bible
Study Glasses A Woman
Who Walks Forty Miles a
Week to Church-The Y. M.
c. A. and Its New Build
ings Given by Wanarnaker
Medical Missions a. Their
$4,000 Patients.
Copyright. 1899, ly Frank &. Carpenter,
Special Correspondence OF The Star.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-07-04

y a hill just back
of this ancient,
uuaintest and most
picturesque of Eng
lish towns is q
huge rubbish heap
that is said to be
worth a fortune
because OF the
radium i'm ii. When
that statement was
first made and
cabled to America
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-07-04

are about one hundred and fifty Thousand
native Christians. and there VIII be W.
hundred thousand before many months.
This land has all 10 d. a population OF
less than fifteen millions and o tEcse
on. in every hundred has pro!essed on"
religion If similar success could DC
had in Japan that country Would aa.e
ave hundred THOUSAND Christians: i u
China. It would have four mliiions' ana
;. in India, three mi lions or more
You remember the wondorfu! work
which ives done by Edward Erere.;
Tiale's plan OF .'Ten times one Is ten
he endless chain principe IN "hlcs-
r,.c,., one ENGAGED - ilitar-s. ."n othe-"
II making tie world better. TIE same
.htr-. although not -! 3 :.unlt:.cal sea =,
= going on in Korea. TIE converter M
,i2es are different from us n u 2; aS
=. II az thty adopt Cnrist ithit% t:,ey 70
cut and try 70 convert t3eir tFIcrcS 'tfu
..ci~h bors
Indeed. the mission movement IS ncs
being pushed h the natives themselves
under the direction of our MISSIONARIES.
Native churches are being built by naive
cont ributions III all of the cities. ana
there is a Korean congregation III everT
large village. The Protestant organlza-
lions already number something NE
1ot,sAD adi:erentS, while the Roman CATH
olics count I1.uio Koreans. The Protest
ants have go native preachers and go
Sunday schools with about 10000 nm,
women and children as regular attend
ants TEsre are NOR. grown people fha =
children in the Sunday schools. and al.
ere anxious to learn about the new re-
.:glon ana what ii can do for them. Their
are $40 self-supporting day schools. run
by the churches, and altogether D.oto y
10000 gold dollars were spent upon such
schools last year When Il Is remembered
that the Koreans are one of the poorest
peoples on earth. ami that they live from
ham. to mouth these gifts are surpris-
Ing evidence of their faith.
But first let me tell you about the foreign
missions which are operating in Korea.
There are four, each with a large staff OF
American or European workers. The
Roman Catholics are French Jesults.
They have been here for more than d
century and have fully organized
churca At their head is a bishop, who IS
assisted by a large staff of priest and
nuns among whom are Koreans. The
Catholics have q cathedral in Seoul. !:
stands on a hill overlooking the rest O:
the city. and il is by tar the larges:
church building iii Korea.
The Protestant missions are all WorkinS
together. They have about 10 American
and European men and women employed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-07-04

come ashore and may be seen IN large
numbers following the plough and COM
peting with the crows for the worms
turned up. The hint seems lost on the
fishermen. or on the powers that be who
might help them TO help themselves
There is lots of land ound St. Ives that
might he made available for small hold
ings. and with an acre or two OF ground
fisherman and his family would not find
il difficult 10 tide over bad seasons.
The hshlns industry. as conducted here,
is doomed. Boats with tanned sails look
fine In pictures. but they cannot compete
with craft. however ugly, driven by steam
Or motor engines. And American admir-
ers of the primitive and picturesque
should. therefore. come here before tie
inevitable change lakes place and the
old order givcth way Ia the new.
There is naIch to be seen in this part OF
Cornwall even better worth seeing than
the old town itself. Cornwall Is unique
among English counties Fertile fields
and valleys it has, but il is in the main a
rugged region. a land of granite hills and
windswept moors. And II IS in the little
district between St. Ives and the Lands
End that its beauties are most lavishly
displayed.
Nowhere else in the 'delectable
duchy'" writes Folliott Stokes, the man
who knows Cornwall best and loves her
most. will you find a grander coastline,
wilder, more picturesque mdorland. or
such wealth OF prehistoric villages.
cromechs and stone circles. This Is the
sanctum sanctorum of the Cornish Celt.
He:e You will find him still clinging 70 his
granite hills. still listening to the song OF
the sea and the moan of the nOorland
wind. The same dreaming. mystic crea-
ture as his forefathers, who reared those
mighty cromlechs whose massive outlines
still so impressive'y cut the skyline of
the hills, and besides which our oldest
cathedrals are but as yesterday"
Grand and interesting as this coast is"
he writes in another passage, the moor
land behind it is in some ways more i'm
pressive. The ocean winds have given It
an ideal, health-producing climate. and
the soft south borne on the bosom OF tho
great gulf stream has clothed its rocks
and tors with tapestry Of many, colors.
and given 1t a wealth OF natural flowers
not to be seen anywhere else in England.
Here. # anywhere. the jaded city dweiler
will find that health Is "A greater boon
than wealth. and that happiness-that
will-o the Wisp--is nearer to him on these
rolling hills than in the streets and pleas
ure palaces OF the metropolis"
The American IS assured of a warm well
come from Cornish folk everywhere.
America is for them the land OF promise.
Since the decay of their own mining In
dustry they have gone there in large
numbers. Hardly family is to be met
anyw mere that has not a relative in
America. But the charm of their own
Wild land calls them back when they have
made their little piles-anJ often before.
Nowhere else In England are to be met
SO many people who have been TO America
and worked there. And that adds some
thing to tie unique delights which Corn
wall possesses for the American So
journer. CURTIS BROWN.
Copyright for America and Great Britain
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-07-04

The mission of the Russian Greek Church
IN Seoul. the Young Mems Christian AS
soci1tion and the Salvation Army, whose
advance guard came last fall. All of
the larger missions have schools and
hospitals. and all have many native work
crs- AS ] have said. the movement has
50 advanced hat the most of the foreign
-crS are now employed in directing native
christians. who have become the chief
element III the evangelization OF the coun-
try
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-07-04

mine. that was shut down in 1876. For
over half a century il has existed. an
Ugly scar on the face of a lovely land
scape. which has Yielded slowly TO ma
lures healing handWork. When the
mine was worked great quantities
Of pitchblendc from which alone radiunl
is obtained, were found among tie copper
ores. But science then .ad not even
dreamed Of the existence of radium and
rs wonderful properties. The pitch
hende was found to depreciate greatly
the value Of the copper ores with which
IL was mixed The miners were. there
fore, ordered to chuck it aside whenever
they came across it. This they did. never
SIspecting the value Of what they were
throwing away. with the result that when
the mine was abandoned great quantities
OF ptchbende We're mingled with the
other refuse at the pit head dumps.
From this pitch hleHde Sir William Ram
say has extracted radium hy a process OF
his own. which is said To be far more ex
peditiouS than that commonly employed.
lie declares the stuff 10 be fully equal in
its productiveneSs to radio active ma
terals and uranium compounds TO any
pitch hlende WHEN ever came under my
notice from any part of the world. On
the basis of the analysis he has made Of
the specimens submitted to him every
ton of il. lie says might he expected to
yield quarter granme Of radium. \
quarter gramme isn't much-no more
than little pinch Of salt. but at present
prices it IS worth Sl2...G0
From the rubbish heap about forty
tons of pitchblende have been obtained
thus far. and barely half of ii has Ne;
been overhauled. Before the mine was
shut down 100000 worth of copper was
taken from it. Some of the sanguine
capitalists who have got hold Of it think
it quite possible that the rubbish heap
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-07-04

Iab.aers at - roatS d! fItalhI out Inc. =
From this il will be seen that the st. Ives
ART colony is a fourishi.g one. Al the
present time il includes several American
artists. Among them may pc nentioheu
pan, Doueaarty OF New York. Lowell
Dve. Of Boston F. II. Shill of Phlladei-
I,nia. j. 5. Bristol OF New York, A. q.
Pa2oit, c. CT. Symons, j. y. Barlow, +.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-07-04

n. IVES. Cornwall. June p 1909.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-07-04
Scout.

Copyright. 1902, by Frank q. Carpenter
SPECIAL Correspondence Of The Star.
New-York tribune., 1909-06-27

taught IN these classes included basketry, book
binding. chair Gaming. economic cooking, dressTnak-
ing, elementary carpentry, embroidery, cord work
sewing, shirtwaist making and weaving. One bad
" crippled boy Of ten years learned chair Gaming
quickly that he soon hung out sign al his door
for chairs cane and by the time he had received
nine lessons he had caned four chairs on orders
that had been given him
Hand work IS Of great value for crippled children
because It gives interesting occupation that keeps
their minds from dwelling on their condition, and
furnishes pleasant physical exercise that strength
ems their bodies while at the same time they are
gaining elementary training in handcrafts that will
help them to become self-supporting when neces-
sary
Crippled and blind men and women from sixty to
eighty years old have been members OF some Of
the free classes OF this society, and they have some
times done good work. one Of sixty, I'll with
loconotor ataxia. was considered hopeless by the
doctors. He did poor work at first, as he could
hardly his hands but he kept at Il and steadily
improved until he became an expert basket weaver.
Meanwhile his health improved so much from his
work that he became able TO walk occasionally.
which he could not do before.
Free manual and domestic training classes
given by the Peoples University Extension Society
wherever they are needed throughout the city. One
Of the largest departments of the work OF this
society is supplying free lectures by physicians to