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that is to be produced ought to represent
the most faithful picture ever known OF
the earths surface.
1t will be the glorification of the ex-
plorers for all the information that Will
be carried in this wonderful map stands
for the heroic conquests Of those who
dared the unknown. the peris of contact
with savage peoples, the transits of
stormy oceans the battle with arctic
cold and with tropic heat. in order to
discover new land. and give the world
knowledge OF it.
In a sense it is those who made these
discoveries that are the worlds real map
makers. for without their achievements
those who met in London would have
none of the information required for
claartng the earth's surface.
1t is proposed to give recognition in this
map to those who have performed such
notable feats for the gain Of the worlds
geographical knowledge. and in this con-
nection 1t is likely that the representa-
tives of various nations will find them
selves engaged in debates as to priority
OF discovery.
For instance it is not to be expected
that Norway will cheerfully yield its con-
tention that 1t was Lief Ericcsen, the
Norwegian. and not Christopher CO.
lumbus. the Genoese. who first reached
the new world.
There are annals and legends, there
are even recitals, fairly we'll authenti-
Gated, that prove the Norseman to have
been here centuries before the date when
Christopher Columbus. aided by the purse
of Ferdinand and Isabella, made his
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fumey Whit if you soaked EN- in Florida
water. See this bunch? Wen. you can
buy a bunch Just like this from any of
these ginneys that sell EN- on street cor
ners for two bits per bunch. Dye know
what III get a bundle for EN- when /
begin to make the late rounds of the
eating drums" Oh bone chuck. that's
all. Just one bean per bunch I don't
make a single thing on EN- at that rate.
Don't make cent more'n SD cents on
EN-. It's a shame. I'm ashamed of my
self. I'm going to out ii some day
after I've made s14.oOo,o00.
And dye see these roses? Nope. They're
not American beauties. Nix. They're just
red roses. l buy EN- for one Injunhead-
that's cent-per rose. Know what ] get
apiece for 'cm from these deadWise guys
that eat with their dolls in the lobster
plants? Oh. two for two bits. That's all.
Just give en- away at that figure. III
be getting poor peddling roses, what?
And dye pipe these orchids? Cunnin.
hey? Know what they set me back per
DIRK? Fifteen Iawsons-that is. coppers-
per one. Dye know what I squeeze the
dollar and half or two bucks or some
depends upon how purified the
gink is that I'm sticking up. If he's one
of the sauare-jawed kind and looks as
if he's got a kick located somewere
around him. why. maybe I'd let him
have one of these orks for as little as
one buck But no less.
oh. yes. it's pretty soft, but Of course
I've got to keep the head waiter creased
and good natured. But they only get a
little piece of the checkout at that. and if
l don't make at least 500 per cent on a
trayful of poses I'm there with
squeak that YOU can hear from here
to Schenectady, wherever that is.
"Of course. prices vary according to the
amount Of the grape the fall guys have
bit into. I always cop out the high fig
ures at the later hours. The naturally
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the back yard OF Pittsburg nail factory
for ten or fifteen years. doesn't ii? What?
Do you mean to tell me that you busted
that plano only yesterday afternoon and
that these antique layers OF dust and
CRIME have accumulated since then?
Look a-here. you don't have to carry the
thing quite SO far as ali that, you know.
I'm credulouS kind Of soft mark and
| II swallow almost any old thing in rea-
son, but please don't try to get by with
such whoppers. busted 1t yesterday after
noon. did you, and-well. here. just look
at this muck adhering to the end of my
finger; the piano looks as If it had been
left nesting in the open air at the foot
of Mt Vesuvius for a dogs age.
"Oh, well. you must think I'm an awful
muff TO swallow such big ones as all that.
Now, when were these dining room win
dows washed last? Just look at EN-!
There's dust and muck and gum on 'em
an inch thick. Don't you sort OF feel once
in a while as if you'd like to look out of
the window? l do, anyway, If you don't.
HoW's thatc Oh. you don't have to get
sarcastic. you know. Nobody has ever
said that you ought to wash the windows
yourself. But it wouldn't be cruel and in
human to expect you to have somebody
else wash em. would it? | wonder why
I'm going down into my nankeens and
digging up s. week for a housemaid.
anyhow? Would you feel like having a
lunacy commission appointed on me if l
suggested that it wouldn't kill that mu-
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tation and self-searching that Miss
Swuppkins decided to keep diary. Miss
Swuppkins was quite aware Of the diff
Guilty of keeping a diary conscientiously
and IaboriousIy every day for entire
year.
Miss Swuppkins. additionally. possess
ing, as she did and does, sense OF
humor, was quite familiar with the hu-
nervousness of such a task, as viewed
from the angle OF the comicalists.
She felt that certain thoughts of more
or less intimate nature which frequently
occurred to her in the course OF the year
would he worth putting down in per-
sorally conducted diary, not necessarily
for transmission to any possible poster
ity, but for the satisfaction which she
might derive in future years from look
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forenoon last, as he Iounged AROUND IoUh-
ing for something to find fault with.
That's why ! say that you're a mystery
to me- You battle me. l can't I'M
derstand you. ! never have understood
Your system. and l never will under
stand it. Now, just look at that pic
ture over by that window; why. it's
almost upside down. Huh? The wind
blew it out of position? OF course. the
wind blew it out OF position, / didn't
say, did I. that Bluebeard or Cinderella
or Mother Goose or Little Boy Blue or
somebody sneaked in here in the middle
of the night and turned that picture up
side down, did /? And II the wind
through the window blew the picture up
side down. I suppose it wouldn't take
your life's blood or anything like that,
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When l finally reached the receiving
teller I passed my note in to him. and
the receiving teller. a decidedly civil
young fellow. opened the note and read
it,
Then he looked at me. after which he
read the note again, with sort OF
puzzled expression on his face this time.
l didn't why the receiving teller should
be puzzled over simple 2 matter. But
puzzled he was all right.
so he rang a bell and the uniformed
man who'd directed me to that window
appeared.
Show this gentleman to the Office of
the cashier said the receiving teller to
the uniformed man. at the same time re-
garding me with a pleasant smile. and
the uniformed man led me down the
passageway and took me behind a rail-
ing. where there was a handsome gray
haired gentleman sitting at a desk.
The handsome gray-haired gentleman
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received me cordially and invited me to
be seated / handed him my note. which
the receiving teller had returned to me,
and he leaned back in his chair and read
it carefully. Then he too looked puzzled
after he'd read the note second time.
Then he looked at me pleasantly over
the tops of his spectacles.
'Ahem. said the handsome gray
haired gentleman, not disagreeably, but
in nice. banker-lke way. Might Ter
inquire. Mr.. Runquil. without seeming to
be unduly inquisitive. to hover
large a-er-a balance you would usually
be carryng?"
We'll, that was a civil enough question.
nothing inquisitive about it.
Why, sir, said I to the handsome
gray-haired gentleman, I am opening an
account with a matter Of some $3.50. but I
shall no doubt make some additions to
that within the next few months, and
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but We have only about 1000 depositors
on our books. and these 800 depostor.
aggregate balances amounting all the
time to A matter of one hundred ana
ninety millions of dollars
DO you see it, That was about
enough. | saw the light then. Ia drift
ed into a millionaires bank on the care
less credentials OF a business manager
who'd written me that note of introdu..-
ton no doubt while in a thoushtIcss
mood.
The grayhared cashier acted bully
about II. He recommended a fine bank
to me one that combines perfect re-
sponsibility with the necessary facilities
for handling accounts like-er-yours
Mr.. Runquill.' he expressed it. But for
all of that cashiers niceness. | walt, a
out of there into the cold gray liept
OF Wall street feeling a good deal ike
a human caterpillar"
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$50: so ! decided that I'd bank it.
way that in order to put money in
bank you've got to be known and you've
got to give your pedigree and look re-
spectacle and all like that. And hated
to approach a bank without any sort Of
credentials.
so I went to the business manager OF
certain New York magazine which oc
casionally prints pieces that l write. and
asked this business manager for the
magazine what I'd better do.
Simplest thing on earth said he
I'll give YOU a note to our bank
We'll. that sounded pretty good to me.
He wrote me the note and l started for
the bank a good deal tickled over how
easy the little depositing proposition had
been made for me.
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ing such a diary over and comparing her
1909 point of view with her more mature
angle of vision.
She determined. too. to let nothing
whatever interfere with her daily entry
in her diary. In fact. she vowed that she
would write down her regular entry every
day or night in the diary in spite Of every
imaginable obstacle.
She planned that. In case she went to
party or theater and came home
sleepy. she would even go to the length
of dashng cold water on her face. in
order to keep her awake long enough to
enable her to put down in her diary all
of the incidents and thinks and things
that had occurred to her during the day
and evening and part of the night up to
her bedtime.
Miss Swuppkins smiled as she thought
of the ridicule with which her attempt
at keeping a diary would be received by
her relatives and friends when she told
them about that intention.
She was quite ready to be twitted by
them. She took the twitting into consid-
Grafton as part of the game. Everybody.
Miss Swuppkins knew, VINO announced his
or her intention Of keeping diary was
bound to be chaffed and guyed by all
hands, and told that the thing was a joke
in its very nature, and that the thing
couldn't be done because it never had
been done, and was simply a downright
imbecilty and foolishness.
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"'Some flowers for the lady. siro' is
what / hand him.


what hand him.
MY. but amt they pretty! says the
doll right then. making herself my plug
ger from the jump, and she begins. while
I bend closer, to paw over the blossoms
on my tray.
Dye want some, kidd the fall dub
says to her in a kind Of fabby. feeble
way. He's got frozen grin on his chart
and he'd like to hand me a kick on the
shins: but I can't help that.
GRACIOUS. but aren't these orchids
one Of the lavender orks. say. and sort
of resting it against her cheek.
Well, you'd better pin couple OF EN-
on yourself. says the drop dub then
they? he asks me.
Only two apiece I say to him
Right then l can almost hear him
hollering 'P'leece!' inside Of him, but he
only gives little sort Of gulp and
says to the doll:
How many dye think you'll be want
ing. KIDD
This is the place where I bunch four
Of the orks together in a graceful hand
full. and hold EN- out in front OF the
girl
If you want corsage bunch. miss. >
] say to her. these are about what you
want
my. but aren't they perfectly dear.
squeaks the doll then. How many are
there here? Four? Well, these ought to
be enough and I hand her a pin to stick
EN- on her dress. and it's all right
Have you got change for a tenn the
drop dogan asks me then, between his
clenched teeth. He'd sick the Black Hand
on me In holy minute IL he only knew
how to go about It,
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ELL. l suppose
you'd stick around
and traipse through
these rooms for a
thousand V e ar $.
wouldn't you, with
out ever noticing
or caring t h q I
every blamed one
Of the pictures on
the walls hang
crooked?" grouched
Mr.. Grump Sunday
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pulled upon her one after the other: all
OF the Joemillerisms on the subject OF
diary-keeping were hauled out and shot
at her.
However. Miss Swuppkins didn't mind.
She really meant to keep a diary for
herself during the year 1909, you know.
and so she wasn't sensitive to the twit-
tings which she knew in advance would
be inevitable, anyhow.
New Year day, 1909, was a gay day at
the Swuppkins home. Miss Swuppkins
went out riding during the forenoon and
in the course of the ride she had a num-
Der of thoughts which she considered
would be appropriate for use in the diary
which she was about to start. In the
evening a great number of friends of the
Swuppkins family dropped in, and. in gen.
eraI. the day and evening were full of
incident and diary material
Miss Swuppkins did not in fact. reach
her room until quite few minutes after
midnight.
But the thought Of her diary was in
her mind all night: it had been in her
mind right along all day; ever since. in
fact. she had made UP her mind to keep
a diary during the year 1909.
4 =
So. getting herself nicely fixed out In
a neglige, Miss Swuppkins, just as de-
termned as ever not to renege as to the
diary thing. sat down at her little desk
and spread out the diary book in front OF
her and took a-hold of her nice new foun-
tain pen and began to write in her diary
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FEW days before
January I, 1909,
Miss Tottie Ethel
dreda Swuppkins,
an estimable, av-
erage young lady
of this city. made
up her mind that
she would keep a
diary during the
year 1909.
1t was only after
considerable cogi-
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probably I shall carry a balance Of
well, say. 5000 or 500 right along
THE kindly cashier with the gray hair
fairly beamed upon me.
'Er-just so. just So, said he. twid-
ding his thumbs. We feel complimented.
Mr. Runqull, We really do. that you
should have come {" us. And 1T is UNI
fortunate--er-really unfortunate that
we are SO utterly lacking facilities for
taking care OF accounts of such a char
acter
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a few years
ago, by 8 o m e
strange and un-
D r e c g d e n I e d
chance, l had got
hold of a matter
of $3.50 all at one
and the same time,
that pi e &C of
money certainly
did look big 10
me, said a man
who writes pieces
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- OIAASt hthS III
had a talk with
Bio o e + S I e n.
Bloonerstein Is a
we'll fitting name
for him, for he is
one of the flower
felierS"-a name he
bestows upon him.
self-Who p e d d ! e
cold-storage violets,
roses, orchids. car
nations, gardenias
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England has its present day contributor
to the worlds geography. Lieut.. Shack!e-
ton.
His recent voyage to the ahtartic re-
gion onened I'D a wealth of information
concerning that section, and made him
a national hero
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II must admit that I was a bit stalled
to note the great size of some Of the de-
posits he was receiving. Why. fellows
were lining up there in front of his win
dow and giving him money by the grip
full. But ] had my note in my pocket,
and 7 remained complacent enough with
that consciousness.
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Well. the bank to which l had the
note was way down in the most impress
sive part of Wall street. ! asked the
uniformed man who was standing around
there where I'd find the receiving tell
er's window. and he pointed that win
dow out to me. l got into line and
watched the receiving teller take in
money.
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way. no corks to half Of 'en. and the
whole thing looking like a steamboat
burned to the waters edge Here's
bottle of carbolic acid without cork.
It's a wonder i don't pick that up for
my moutilwaSh some time or other and
burn my face off.
Whats that? I lost the cork out Of
the carbolic acid bottle last week, did :?
Oh, certainly. Everything that's out Of
whack around here I'm solely response
BILE for. Surest thing you know! l
might have known you'd pull that on
me. But Til tell you one thing: I'll
expect to see these bottles in here fixed
up in some decent kind Of array when /
get back here tomorrow evening. l can
stand a heap of dirt and disorder. but
drawn.
And say. just look at the condition
of this spare room, won't you? Just
come over here and take a peek through
this door. l suppose you haven't even SO
much as looked through this spare room
door for six months or so. have you?
Just look ut things scattered all around
every which way in here. and green mold
on everything. HoWS that? | got the
spare room in this condition while l
was ruTlmaging around for an old docu-
ment at the bottom of one of the trunks
last Saturday afternoon? Oh. of course, I
did 1t. I'm the guilty wretch, always
and forever. Ha, ha. You have got the
ma gnif1cent chronological mind all right.
AS simple matter of fact, it was away
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these peddlers" he SAYS to his Tottie.
The scientific sharps are saying that all
kinds of diseases are spread by flowers
that are kept i'm gummerno plants like
these tenement houses and things
Dear me. what lovely roses chimes
the doll almost before the lockmitt has
got his spiel out OF his chart. and then
lie has to come across and ask her how
many of EN- she wants.
yes. and l trap a lot of EN- who do
the big eats thing with the girl before
starting for the theater. There's some
sense about the proposition of getting a
girl some flowers to wear to the theater.
and even the gluey digits have to see
that: for some of 'em try to make their
escape when first they pipe me Off in a
distant corner OF the restaurant before
! reach their table.
But of course. I'm hep to all those
curves. When I see one of 'em, after
piping me and my tray. begin to fiddle
and to look around for his waiter to bring
him his hat and coat and his dolls wraps
why. I bear right down on that one like
as II he was the only customer In the
dump.
Won't you have some flowers for the
lady to wear to the theater sir?' I pull
sort o blocking his way as he helps her
on with her coat and rattles around
"'Aint got time says he. trying to
give me that g'way motion and saying to
me under his breath. 'Aw beat it. won't
you?'
by this time he's got the girls coat on
and she has turned around to look at my
posies.
why. what lovely violets" she sings.
beginning to paw 'em.
Come on says the lockmitt. clSpping
on his Id and grabbing for his cane or
umbrella. We're late now. Let's see a
piece of the first act anyhow, eh?'
why. it's only ten minutes to 9. sir.
| rap in then, and say. I s'pose he
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u magazines

for magazines and newspapers ana
things, formerly of Washington, but now
resident in New York. BY an even
more curious chance, there wasn't any
thing that really needed to do with the
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".You see, Mr.. Runquill.' he went on.
our institution here is-er-Of q sort
OF special character. 1t Is used as
depository by-Well. perhaps l should
put it in a more clear manner. / say II
to you quite in confidence, Mr.: Runquili.
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coming shorter and shorter all tho time:
and how finally. at the end Of January.
1909. Miss Swuppkins gave utterancc H.
the sputter: ''Oh, the nasty. horrid old
thing Is such a bother thai il makes my
life miserable thinking about il. ard I'm
going 10 quit il. 80 there. now
But IL isn't going to end that WAY at
all.
Miss Swuppkins, at the end of two
weeks. still was keeping up her diary
and sticking mighty interesting rradiu-
into ii. too: and she kept ler diary M
right Oh through the entire Year Of 1Hs,,
no matter where she happened 10 be.
nor how difficult the job OF keeping II
up was. She kept il up willie In thr
mountains and while at the seashorc, and
even while she was i'll in bed for week
She didn't shorten the entries, but,
in fact. found trouble in getting every
thing she wanted To write in the space
allotted under each date. When 1Gss
ended last week Miss Swuppkins had
a. valuable and complete record of her
life and thoughts during 1909 tucked
away in her neat writing in that diar..
and, in addition, she had purchased an
other diary hook exactly like IL. only
lettered 1910 on the cover instead Of 1.Ari.
for use this year: for she is going 10 keep
her diary up this year, too, and probably
for the remainder of her life.
CLARENCE l.. CULLEN.
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Special Correspondence OF The Star.
NEW YORK. January :, 1910
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1910-03-10

the straight and narrow path"
Few cases of unlawful rebating
have been reported to the COM
mission within the last few years.
The State, War and Navy De
partments also have their secret
agencies not only in this country,
but abroad. Their work, however
is confined to a system of conf
Dental reports based upon matters
of particular interest to their re-
spective departments.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1910-03-10

| Brooklyn Tabernacle March GAS
Tor Russell preached twice here today.
His discourse on inferno" was deliy-
cred in BrookIyn's largest Auditorium.
the Academy of Music. which was
overcrowded. 1t was estimated in ad-
vance that this subject would draw
larger crowd than the Tabernacle
would accommodate. The other meet
ings of the day were he'd in the Taher-
nacle. We report Pastor Russeli's dis
course from the text foregoiug. as fol-
lows
1t is difficult TO please every body.
The duty of Christian minister is 10
seek chiefly TO please the Lord -Lrt
the words Of my mouth and the mcdi-
tatious of ms heart. be arcouryfIa IN
thy sight. o Lord. my STRENGTH ana INV
Rr7eam.r" las.Iu xix H. Our min
istoriaI friends ..,.1 10 he arro,rd hes
cause we preach the .8.ri...." or
Christ. I'm substances their sentiment
il: Brother er 3D. rn YOU NOT know
tha. i'm the a..a..r, fo.f~ of orr
day d.rt.a.t g.. t.f.r.a br .....,r...f
ministers of all denominations. Ia-
stead as Jou perceive from f a new.
paper oaargrrn's It is nar quite
the thing to discuss ...i.aL scientific
ana so biological doctrines You ~h.a.d
give t.' r....- lectures ou subjects
Ike the S" Democracy. R#n.1
Transit H Bwo.ivn. from 'h" tos.
Many snail rGu % and tr3, Female
Suffrage; The Boys Er.aade, The Best
Novel Of the l"lr. The Narrow Way
of tie Bic. ilder; VIII the Comet
Sweep 'Ar Earth With IL Tail: Can
Football. survive. e,e. or "..asLuaa'iv
for effect ."jly rake b" rich on bet
ter housing for the poor. or uo.4inr the
Trusts fer soaring prices of food Such
topics as these Brother Russell inter
est the Christian public I'm our da-
And The puuii. ruu-s ttute our PRINCIPAL
cou.rrpr9fipus whom w.. ltet. nt.,, I.r.......
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