The National tribune., 1909-01-14
WASHINGTON

been something Of a mystery. and only
lately explained. 1t seems Caruso, IKE
most Italians. very superstitious, has
been rendered very unhappy OF late by
a certain woman soothsayer, who told
him he would soon lose the oearesl
thing in life to him-his wonderfu
voice-and this prophecy mas SO AZ
fused to sing on several occasions when
he had been advertised to do so, fear
ing he may lose his voice at once un-
less very careful about using It. ihe
reason why he puts so much stress upon
what this woman told him Is that two
years ago he went to consult her, when
she told him he would soon lose his
wife. He did lose her, as all VIII re-
member, and was rid of bad wife In
the losing, for she eloped with her
chauffeur, taking with her all the val
! uabies belonging TO her husband she
possibly could. While the great tenor
was gathering in the golden sheckles
at the rate OF s2,500 a performance,
she. in her beautiful palace on the out
skirts of Florence which he had pro-
vided for her, was conducting herself
in this unseemly fashion. AS the sooth-
sayer happened to hit 1t in this instance,
Caruso is convinced she is also right In
her last prophecy, and so, altho a
noted specialist has pronounced his
throat all right, with nothing in the
world the matter with it, he refuses to
be consoled. and is only half convinced.
The religious movement started in
Cleveland recently is spreading some
what to other places. At meeting
held in that city, and attended by rep
resentatives of three societies, 1900
people, amid sobs and prayers, pledged
themselves to live for two weeks as they
believed Jesus Christ would have
them. One Of the 1900. a
woman stenographer of Cleve-
land, who started to carry out her
and keep her position, for hardly any
letter dictated to her contained the ex-
act truth. Had she called her employ
er's attention to this, refusing to write
anything but the truth, she would have
been politely Informed that she was a
fool and might go, and she could not
afford to lose her place. But possibly
Jesus Christ would not have looked at
the matter Just as she did. The COM
plexity of life, the difficulty in sepa-
rating the good and bad, which are so
mixed and mingled, are fully appreci-
ated by our Saviour. who only asks US
TO do as well as we. can, to avoid do
ing any wrong action from choice, and
to try by our example to make the good
CT us live a great deal more as Jesus
Christ would have US II we really
wanted to.
Richard Croker, the one-time Tam
many boss, now making visit in this
country, is going into chicken raising
he says Ireland is virgin soil for that
sort OF thing, so to speak, and he is go
ing to have the best chicken farm in the
"auid country" He has been making
a study of the meter during his stay
here, and has visited several of the
most successful chicken farms He
went over one In New Jersey the other
day where he saw an incubator which
matches out $4,000 eggs at one time, and
he thought it was great He particular
ly admired some perfect leghorns, and
II all goes well he hopes to start his
chicken farm with these handsome
fowl. having shipped $50 OF their eggs
carefully selected and a large incubator
to his estate in ireland. Mr.. Croker
says he will not give up his famous rae
ing stables when he goes into the chick
en- business. but will run both. AS
whatever he does he does thoroly, to
the sorrow and undoing Of many politi-
clans in the past, success will probably
follow his efforts in the interesting pur-
suit of chicken raising, as 1t has most
of his undertaking..
Those who think John D. Rockefeller
lacking in galiantry must guess again."
The Oil King nhas been too busy all