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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-16
Whale Hunt in River.
From the Seoul Press.

FIR the Se0u' IfeSS.
An extraordinary even; is reported from
Sin Anju. a railway town in North Pyong-
an province About noon when the tide
was high villagers of Wangpong Ii, Tong
Kyon. in the Kasan district of the same
province. were amazed to see big black
object swimming in the River Tailyong,
running near by.
They did not know what the monster
was and watched it's movements with
great excitement and interest. Soon after
the monster sent up {. column of water
and disappeared.
The following day at about : o'clock
TOmizo Tashiro, = Japanese railway lines
man in service at Sin Anju station. while
patroling the line was astonished to see a
whale struggling to go down stream at a
point about five cho above the railway
bridge on the Tailyong river. 1t was low
tide and the water having considerably
receded the river was only about five feet
deep The whale had evidently stranded
on shallow place and was unable to
move.
Tashiro was overioyed to find the uneX-
peoted spoil and tried to kill it by firing
at it with fowling piece he was carrying.
He fired at it eighteen times, but the
whale seemed none the worse in conse-
quence. Tashiro concluded that it would
not do to try to kill it in that way and
running to the nearest village collected
several Koreans, told them of his find and
each armed with an ak they returned to
the spot.
The whale was still there. the water
having further receded They rushed
into the stream and by striking the mon
ster ON the head with the axes they at
last succeeded in killing il. The whale
was about thirty-five feet in length and
was valued at about LOCO yen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-16

are quite alike in the ambient I'm which
their dramatic leagues have their being.
Those young men, usually with pOrtfOl oS
under their arms, who may be seen at
tending Ell maSSe some special perform
ance" of a play with modern tendencies.
and who make their professional and
technical comments between the acts, are.
east and west. brothers under the skin.
They suggest something new in the ar.
They give the feeling that those en-
thusiasts may be truthful prophets who
foreSee a period of great dram tic
achievement for the American people. Not
that II need be So There was time
IN England when everybody made
music, just as, n certain places every
body now, with us. appears to be writing
a play. Yet England. while it still pro-
duces probably the largest proportionate
number OF persons prepared to sing
mostiy badly on every occasion, never
has supplied great musical genius to
the world. Whether or not the analogy
he q scouraSinS for the American drama.
what seems To be clear is that We may
come 10 a measure of national self-reali-
Zation through our making of American
PLAYS. such as our novels, somehow. have
always failed to give us.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-16
Slaves of Machinery.
@ Cleveland Plain Dealer.

From tde Cleveland Plain Dealer.
1t is recorded of Daniel Webster that
friend presented him with a steel pen
an article not generally known in the
active days of our great oratorical ge-
MUS. Webster found It practical and eff
cient. But though 1t writes beautifully
and without scratching, he commented
Il could never learn to compose with it.
It's fiuency abstracts my mind from the
matter in hand. 1 must compose with d
quill and make a fair copy, if need be
one of the first literary men to expert
ment with a typewriter. He was enthl-
siastic about it's possibilities. but he adj
Matted that his style suffered from its
pose with And yet, few years before
that, he had said the same thing about
the fountain pen. Its novelty, It's tricks
its very independence of the ink We'll,
took his attention from his story. He
could compose better with a steel pen
or the stub of lead pencil.
1t is probable that when the inventor
of the art of writing with stylus upon
waXen tablets introduced his innovation
the poet who had previously composed
his deathless lyrics with mall and
chisel acknowledged the ease Of the new
method, but complained that no good
poetry could ever be composed by its
aid One needs the fall of the hammer
to emphasize the ictus. he would say
and the heaving of it up again to indi-
ate the arsis The caesura came when
he paused to moisten his hands
All this leads to the statement OF a
modern American versifier to the effect
that ne cannot write poetry when he Is
deprived of his typewriter. This poet
was recently left without a machine. just
at the time when he was obliged to pre-
pare some copy for the press. He made
shift with a pencil, but the result was
trifiing. II cannot write poetry with a
pencil" he apologized to his publisher.
Il have lost the knack of Ii.
One can easily understand this. An
inspiration flashed across him-the Ia
borious scrawling of it by slow and UNI
accustomed means deadened it and dulled
II. With a typewriter ne might have
caught it ON the wing and fixed it e'er
it fed
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ways did. as he never could keep bis
mind on what he was doing. However.
he got some charcoal and sulphur and
saitpeter and began mixing them together
out in the barn, and I suppose every
thing would have been AL right if he
hadn't lighted his pipe while bending
over a bushel so of his homemade
powder.
4 declare TO goodness / never heard
such an explosion. Ii shook down half
the fences of the farm and most of the
shingles fell off the house, and the well
caved in. You can imagine how bad ii
was when I tell YOU that chickens a
hundred yards away We're stripped OF
their feathers. AS for father, it was a
miracle that he wasn't killed. but he was
SO used to being blown up and run over
that he survived it, We found him on a
haystack at the other end of the farm.
Most of his clothes had been blown off
and his neck was twisted and-where are
you going?
I'm going to the cellar to read my
paper. Srowled QuGway.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-16
Ceasing to Be a City of Homes

( ROM the Philadelphia inquirer.
Perhaps the extent to which Philadel-
pla is ceasng TO be a city of homes, in
the old familiar sense of the expression,
not &c nerally real zed. Yet no one can
walk through the principal streets of any
residential neighborhood without noticing,
f he keeps his eyes open, the signs of
the change VIII CHI is proceeding.
For one thing. he will be impressed with
the number Of houses announced to be for
sale or Tor rent, and another thing he
VII observe is that in every direction
apartment houses of q more or less pre-
,entious character are beng constructed
and that dwell, ngs are undergoing a
transformation to adapt them to the
.eeds of preference Of the ste adi1y and
rapidly increasing number of those who
want to live in rooms suitable for what is
called light housekeeping, which gen
orally understood to mean bre akfaSt, ana
perhaps lunch home and dinner out.
Now there have been apartment houses
n Philadelphia for a long time. 1T Is.
perhaps. twenty-five years since the hrst
of these was erected, and others Slowly
followed, chiefly in West PHI iadelphia. at
irregular intervals. But the accommoda-
ton which these provided hardly came
within the reach Of people OF only mod
crate means. They were designed for the
relatively Well-tO-do, that is, for persons
W tn a minimum income oI iouf OF IN =
thousand a year. and only such could
afford to live in them Things are diHer-
ent nOW. There are more apartment
houses of the handsome, elaborate, luXu-
rous. expensive kind than ever but these
no longer monopoize the field Today
there are scores of buildings, chiefly In
West PHI ladelphia still. but not there eX-
clusiveIy, where comfortable and con-
ven;ent suites of rooms can be obtained
at all kinds OF prices, and their number
is increasing every day.
philadelphians used to despse the idea
of living in rooms on a fiat. They prided
themselves upon not being in this respect
as New Workers. are. and upon being able
10 obtain and TO support and actually to
own ar independent residence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-16
Abdul's Treasure House
Inc Wide World Magazine.


III was only specially favored travellers
VINO could obtain permission TO view Alb
dull Hamid's treasure house i'll Stamboul,
and they had To be prepared 10 spend
d bout s." in baksheesh This was more
eXcusable, perhaps, when ore considers
the extensive ceremony and the nuiner-
Gus officials required for this sight. The
high treasurer had to attend III person
with some thirty underlinss.. who ranged
themselves with folded hands in two rows
outside the first door while he solemnly
removed the seals and turned his key.
Immediately within this door was huge
iron gate. such as might protect a fort
rcsS Even when you were at last let
loose among the giittering gems YOU were
still accompanied by ViSilant crowd OF
attendants. WHO watched your every
movcincft-aDd PROBABLY one another rs
wcll-lest You should suddenly break open
a case ard cudeaVor To purloin some %!
the Jewels These, however. under the
new regime. have mostly been sold Tor
the benefit of the national treasury.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-16
Wolsey's Tower.
don Evening Standard.

Wolsey's Tower, in the grounds 80
Esher place the residence of Sir Edg u !.
Vincent. which derives it's name FROM
the fact that Cardinal Wolsev after nj;
disgrace retired there, is to be repaired
at the request and cost OF Sir Edga /.
Vincent by the Society for the Presegva-
ton OF Ancient Monuments During re--
cent excavations made on part of the site.
of the old house the foundations wers
discovered of long narrow building run
ming from the right OF the tower toward
the River Mole, and it IL thought tilal
this was q bachelors lodging.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-16
Ignorance of the Bible!
From she Boston Herald.

From sHe Boston tferaiu
Well known playwright was recently
reading a play TO an equally Wen known
actor, and mentioned as part OF the text
>the name of Ananias. Who he? said
the actor. Il never heard OF him, and. II
never did, the audience is likely to be
equally ignorant.
1t is no exaggeraIion to say that when
Mr. Roosevelt bestowed upon his famous
club the name of. this celebrated historic
character many Intelligent and well edu-
Gated people rushed to a biblical concord
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-16
A Nation of Playwrights?
from Scribner's.

The witty person who remarked that
the correct form of national salutation
for an American at the present should be,
How goes the fourth act of your play?"
might also have observed that the inter-
est in dramatic things that has of late
become no noticeable is thrown. some
curious side lights on American charac-
1erist .cS No one who has had the Op-
portunity of knowing is in doubt as To
the genuineness and. at certain points.
the almost comiCstl intensity of the in
tercst Evanston. Ill. and Boston and
cambr dge. Mass, NAV be as unlike as
one chooses in some respects. but they
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-16
The WHITE BLACKBIRD
Copyright, 1912, by Little, Brown & Co..
HUDSON DOUGLAS.

same night | made my unlucky barge in
with you, Capt. Dove: and ! hadn't even
the time to bury her ladyship, my dead
WIFE decently before I put off to Your
Ship
He drew skeletonlike hand across MS
sunken eyes and biinked at the blazing
logs on the hearth before him.
And now you know where the Tca.
Lady Josceline Justice Is. said he
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-16

Mrs. JohnSon-Her husband done
collected three wash bills dat was due
her an eyaporated 10 Baitimo'.
Mrs Jacason-llow : he dom IN
Bsltnuo'I
Mrs Johns1u-She feckous he's
starving He done sent her picture
postal sayin', Il wish you were here.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1913-08-08

corner, and seated herself beside
Jakey.
Say. now" Bob demonstrated, pull
ing his mustache deprecatingly. 'ev-
erybody knows | wouldn't see dog
hurt if it could be helped. I'm Jakey's
friend, and I'd be yours, Fran-hon-
estly-if l could, But how's a school
to be run without authority? You
amt reasonable. All we want of you
is to be biddable"
And you'll" cried Fran to Abbott,
beginning to give way to high pres
sure, Il thought you were a school
teacher, not just, but also-a some
thing very nice, also a teacher. But
not you. Teachers all you are, just
rules and regulations and authority
and chalk and abe and def"
Abbott crimsoned. Was she right?
Was he not something very nice plus
his vocation? He found himself des-
perately wishing that she might think
so.
Fran. after one long glowing look at
him, turned to the lad in disgrace, and
placed her hand upon his stubborn
arm Have you a MOTHER she
asked wistfully.
'Yeh," Inumbled the lad, astonished
at finding himself addressed. not as
an ink-stained husk of humanity. but
as an understanding soul
II haven't" said Fran softly. talk
ing to him as Ii unconscious of the
presence of two listening men. but
had one, few years ago-and. oh, it
seems so long since she died. Jaksy-
three years is g pretty long time to be
without a mother. And you can't think
what -blindest, spoilingest, can
diest mother she was. I'm glad yours
is living. for you still have the chance
to make her proud and happy.
No matter how fine l may turn out
do you reckon I'll ever be admired by
anybody. Jakey? Huh! ] guess not.
But il were, mother wouldn't be here
TO enjoy it. Won't you tell Professor
Ashton that you are sorry?"
Fran" Abbott began.
Fran made mouth at him. II don't
belong to your school any more" she
informed him. Mr. School Director
can tell you the name of what he can
do to me; he'll lind it classified under
the Els"
After this explosion, she turned
again TO the lad: Il saw you punch
that hoy, Jakey, and l heard you say
you didn't and yet It was a coed
punch. What made you deny it!
Punches aren't bad ideas. II could
strike out like you did, I'D wait TIL
saw man bullying a weaker one. and
Id stand up to him" Fran leaped
mynlsively to her feet, and doubled
ter ARMAND I'd let her land! Punch.
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YOUR MIND ON YOUR WORK
Can Shut Out of Mind All but
One Thing.

The mar who makes good is the
man who can shut out of his mind all
but one thing. An unsuccessful prin-
eipal of school once said that every
teacher ought to be able to do three
things a. once. OF course. he was
wrong. The teacher who does one
thing at a time and does it we'll is
giving the pupil the best possible OBJ
ject lesson in concentration. We
have to learn to think clearly amid
distracting noises, to go forward on a
strait and narrow way without diver
sions and excursions that waste our
time and our substance, and to keep
at work regardless OF the tired" feel
ing. the spring" feeling, and whether
the fishing is good or not. When the
soft breeze comes in at the window
We stiffen the moral fiber against its
alIurement. We must pin our atten-
ton firmly to the turgid and dry
geometry OF a legal brief. or the ser
ried figures of the daybook. or the
busy system of a mercantile establish
ment. ana let every other thought
await its turn at the end of Office
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AnesthetIzed Rejection Sir.

Elizabeth Jordan said that with all
the manuscripts the late Margaret E.
Sangster had occasion to return, not
one ever carried heartache with it.
She saw everyone who wanted to see
her, receiving all callers. She was
greatly interested in young writer's.
And when they had no writing gift,
tactfuily she would set them going on
in some other direction. Perhaps some
woman who had brought her poor lit
tie efforts to Mrs. Sangster could bake
sweetmeats, though she couldn't
write. Then would Mrs. Sangster
work around among the club veonen
she knew until she got sufficient or
ders for sweetmeats to give thar wo
man employment Christian ae:s!I
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FIND VALUABLE OLD VOLUMES
the "lyf of our Lady"-copies
Are Rare.

London.-The British Museum has
just secured two copies of the only
two leaves known of the so-called sec
ond edition of the ''Lyf of our Lady"
by John Lydgate, printed by Caxton
about 1884 in folio.
Some time ago the librarian of the
st. Bride Typographical Library, Mr.
r. A. Peddie. discovered among a col
lection of pamphlets and other papers
originally the property of William
Blades a bundle of early printed
leaves and fragments of leaves wrap
ped in a leather binding from which
the boards had been removed. On in
vestigation it was discovered that the
whole OF the printed matter was from
Cations press and the binding itself
was from his workshop. There we're
thirty-eight leaves OF the Boethius'
printed about 147S. and there appear
ed to be little doubt that the binding
originally belonged to the Boethius
and that the careful disintegration OF
the boards had resulted in the remain
ing fragments.
Among these fragments these SIX
copies of the two leaves before re-
ferred to were discovered. One lear
was still pasted on the binding the
Iyf of our Lady" contains ninety-sh
leaves and there are eight copies no"
known to be in existence.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1913-08-08

connection with life-something in 1t
mixed up with love and friendship and
Justice and mercy. Wasn't sillyi /
even believed just fancy! that you
might really teach me something about
religion. But, no. It's all books. moth
ing but books"
Fran" Abbott reasoned, "if we put
you In a room where you can under
stand the things we try to teach. if
we make you thorough"
Il don't want to be thorough" she
explained. Il want to be happy. |
guess all that schools were meant to
do is to teach folks what's in books,
and how to stand in a straight line.
The children in Glass A, or Glass B
have their minds sheared and pruned
to look alike; but l don't want my
brain after dnybody's pattern"
You'll regret this, Miss" declared
Clinton. in a threatening tone. You
sit down. Do you want the name OF
being expelled"
81 don't care very much about the
names of things said Fran coolly;
there are lots of respectable names
that hide wickedness." Her tone
changed: But yonder's another wild
animal for you TO train; did you come
to see him beaten?" She darted to the
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1913-08-08

light, with which it was confused bv
mariners many years ago.
A year ago the scheme of a 1ocal
land company to acquire the light
house was defeated by the hue and crv
that was raised by citizens of Scituate
and patriotic societies all over the
country. In the town meeting last
March the town raised $1,000 for the
purchase of the lighthouse.
The story of the heroic Bates girls
may be found in many of the histories
of the Bay state. The two young
daughters of Aaron Bates, the light
keeper, lived with their father on the
then lonely strip of beach half mile
from the village of Scituate.
One day when their father was in
his fields Nile from the lighthouse
a British man-o'-war came in and an.
chored half q mile off the shore. The
boatloads of sailors started ashore
The invasion of Scituate was undoubt
eddy prevented by the two girls, Who
taking from the wall a fife and drum
which had been carried by their grand
father in the revolution and on which
they had frequently practiced, they got
behind a sand hill and struck up
Yankee Doodle" to such good effect
that the sailors returned to the ship,
which sailed away The girls have
been called the American Army Of
Two"
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SYNOPSIS.

Fran arrives AZ Hamilton Gregory's
home IN Littleburg. but finds him absent
conducting the choir at camp meeting.
4Ss2e repairs thither I'm search of him.
laughs during the service and is asked to
leave. Abbott Ashton superintendent of
schools. escorts Fran from the tent He
tails her Gregory IL a wealthy man.
pillar OF the church. Ashton becomes
greatly interested in Fran and while talk
leg leave OF her. holds her hand Snd IS
sss,sn by Sapphire Clinton, sister OF Rob
eg1 Clinton. chairman of che school hoard.
G-an tells Gregory she wants home
with him. Grace II oss, Gregory's private
secretary. takes a violent dislike to Fran
Fran hints at A twenty-year-oid secret,
ard Gregory In agitation asks Grace to
leave the room. Fran relates the story
ot how Gregory married a young girl at
Springfield while attending college and
then deserted her Fran is the child Of
chat marriage. Gregory had married his
gr4sent wife three years before the death
% Trans mother. Fran takes a liking to
Mrs. Gregory. GregorY explains that
vito Is dead. Fran agrees to the story
frs. Gergory insists on her making her
home with them and takes her to her
arms. The breach between Fran and
Trace wtdens. II Is decided that Fran
must go TO school. Grace shows persis-
tent interest In Gregory's story of his
fsead friend and hints that Fran may be
~ tnposter. She threatens to marry Bob
Clinton and leave Gregory's service, much
80 the latter's dismay. Fran declares that
che secretary must go. Grace begins nag
9ing tactics in an effort to drive Fran
from the Gregory home. but Mrs. Greg
sxy remains stanch in her friendship.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1913-08-08
CHAPTER x.-continued.

Miss Sapphire was highly gratified.
4 wish you'd talked this reasonable
AZ first. IT'S always what people don't
see that the most harm comes OF. I'll
give a little tea out here on the We
randa. and the worst takers In town
will be in these chairs when you bring
fran away from Abbott's Office. And
I'll explain It all to 'em, and they'll
know Abbott is all right. Just as I've
always known"
Get Miss Grace to come" Bob said
sheepishly. She doesn't like Fran,
and she'll be glad to know Abbott is
doing his duty by her. Later. I'll drop
in and have bite with, you"
This, then, was Bob's> idea" that
no stone might be left unturned to
aide the perfect innocence of the su.
igerintendent. He had known Abbott
Ashton as hare-legged urchin run
ming on errands for his widowed moth.
sr He bad watched him through stu
tious years. had believed In his fu-
1zre caree--and no, no bold adventur-
ass, though adopted into Hamilton
®0ry's home. should be allowed to
spoil Abbott's chances of success.
In his official character as chairman
NJ the board. Robert Clinton marched
with dignity into the superintendent
9fsice, meaning TO bear away the wilt.
ri Fran before the eyes OF woman.
Abbott Ashton saw him enter with a
aense OF relief The young man could
not understand why he had held
Grams hand. that night on the foot
artdge. Not only had the sentiment
If that hour passed away, but the in
servtew Fran had forced upon him at
ens close OF recent schoolday, had
lispired him with actual hostility 1t
sssemed the irony of fate that a mere
child. stranger should. because of
ssnseless gossip, endanger his chances
at appointment reappointment
Raich he felt certain was the best
9sfssible means OF advancement. why
mad he held Fran's little hand? He
S1ad Deyer dreamed of holding Grace's
~-ah. there was hand, indeed.
Has she been sent DOWN." Bob
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TOWN TO BUY LlGHTVoIcr
scituate to Acquire To,..
which Two Girls Scared Of '''
British invaders.

Boston, Mass.-The old o
light, located on the Sand HiIIs e S
ate. scene OF the exploit of Re ,5.I'a-
and Abigail Bates. who dn~in 9Dscea
war OF 1872. scared OF a Britisb the
by playing the fife and drum vim sup
come the property of the tow WI De,
scituate when the town purcbas n o.
from the government. -a4es Il
The old stone tower, from wbiob !,
lantern has long been removed ,le
lain idle on the end OF the Sand II TSS
since the establishment Of Minis ms