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The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-10-11
Americas Marvels
NATURAL AND OTHERWISE
BxTT. Maxev
"THE LITTLE CHURCH, AROUND
THE CORNER"
BY T. T. Maxey

So fittingly descriptive and yet at
the same time so unusually appropri-
ate is the legend 1.-THE Little Church
Around the Corner" that its long-con-
tinued usage in referring to this quaint
and honored landmark in Little Old
New York" has all but blotted the real
name of this house of worship from
the memory of the hordes Of pilgrim
visitors who. annually or more or less
often, journey thither to 'pay their
respects"
ner," sQuatty, broad-spread and set
well back from the narrow and busy
thoroughfnre, is none other than the
Church of the TRANSPORTATION. Its
exact location Is No. 5 East 10th
street, just around the corner from
Fifth avenue.
The story Of how this unusual name
came into being. and which arose in a
perfectly natural manner. is indeed
Interesting. 1t also serves to illus
trate how, through a mere turn Of
fate, fame sometimes Unexpectedly at
taches itself to an object-in this case
a religious ediflce.
A noted actor had died. He had no
church connection. As he was widely
known. his family and friends felt
that public funeral was a necessity.
The curator Of neighboring house
Of worship was requested to conduct
the funeral service. He promptly de-
clined. adding that perhaps the rec
tor Of the little church around the cor
ner might be willing to serve" History
records the fact that the funeral was
held at 1.-THE Little Church Around the
Corner"
Following in the wake of this Incl
dent, The Church of the Transfigura-
ton was adopted as the Protestant
house of worship by the theatrical pro-
fession. Since that time, this little
church has been the scene of count
less christenings, weddings and funer-
ais. The church and its present and
past pastors have so endeared them
selves to all who have come into di-
rect contact with them that, recently,
when the present rector celebrated
his silver jubilee, letters, kilograms
and gifts from all sections of the
country, especially from actors and
newspaper men, flowed in to express
the MANY happy returns of the day"
spirit in the hearts of the senders.
20. 1873. Western Newspaper union)
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-10-11
MAMMALS BOY is sMAR1Es1
And its Odd, but Her Baby Is Alv,,,
More Intelligent Than ANY
One Elses.

Why Is It that every ones babv l.,
much more intelligent than anv 20
else'sf Look! r. burbles the ,o' Une
parent. holding aloft DR.. So and S sa.s
book on 'How to Distinguish Cb,,ds.s v
from Other Children" 1T says AT a,as. -
weeks old baby begins to notsaa
things. Little Sam was seven wss,'s
three days and two hours last n,as.
and yet he already notices."
'What?" inquired the pat,en, -
ster. 'p'i''
"Well. last night when his fo.h.
came In he looked directly at him ans
began to cry" explained the vouua
parent with triumph.
All this apropos Of a pair of n.,a,..
In this great city. remarks a New yor.
Sun writer. He came home the o,h..
night and noted his childs really .r
perintelligence. But" he said. "ha :.
growing up. much too fast. In a l,t,,a
while we will no longer have a bshs
In the house. This Is TERRIBLE
Wide eyed she agreed and sat for =.
moment silent. looking into the futur,
There she saw Junior In sailor clothe,
IN short trousers. at school, in loue
trousers at college. She saw the Latch.
key on his dresser, she regarded him Al
bis executive desk. she watched as bs
walked up the aisle and sacrificed him.
self on some unworthy matrimonI,,
altar. she held, In due time, his children
on her aged knee.
~Oh" she shrieked and burst into
tears.
juniors father sought to comfort
her, but to no avail. All was over.
Meantime Junior. in the room next door
set up loud wall for his dinner.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-10-11
Map. Lona Used In Peru.

Mapmaking goes back to the earlies,
known time. 1t was branch Of the
early picture writing practiced by saw
ages. In Tahiti, for instance, the ma
tives were able to make fairly good
maps for the guidance of explorers.
Maps with raised lines were in use In
Peru before the Conquest.
The Oldest known map is that of the
Ethiopian gold mines, dating from the
time of Sethos l, the father of Rameses
Ii. long before the time of Aristagoras
and his bronze tablet, on which were
inscribed the circuit Of the earth and
all the seas and rivers then known.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-10-11
Now He Keeps His Seat

My mother always had done her
best to teach me to be polite. and
followed her instructions with varying
success. One day, when / was about
twelve years old. was riding along
on crowded street car. A nice grand
motherly-looking old woman happenN
to be standing beside my seat.
arose, tipped my hat, and offered ber
my seat. She accepted, but. howiins
kittens, she wanted me to sit on hei
lap because I looked tired. The pas
sengers all turned around and began
to smile, so plunged the line" Ioi
the exit and walked the rest OF the
way-ExchanRe.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-10-11
Cheer the Keynote.

A writer on the subject Of nome
economics says this of the real home
worker: The woman who makes an
art of her homekeeping-whether ~
be In some roomy town house, SUI
urban bungalow or a tiny four-rooin
apartment-recogn the value u
the small accessory, whose mission ID
not alone to beautify but contripu,e
to the air of homelike comfort that is
SO necessary to contentment. sne
knows that convenient tables, cheei,
full lights-that do not cast frinSe'
shadows when one reads-softly snau
ed candles and mirrors, proper!
placed. make awkward corners places
OF nvable comfort, the while they eA
press her Individuality.
Ranchmen-You need one Of our
books Of blank bills of sale. Ver'
handy. Just like q check book En-
ables you to take bill Of sale OF any
animal right where you buy It, fo'
sale at either of our Offices or any
bank in the county.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-10-11
SUNDAY NIGHT,MUsINes
By c. T. RAWALT

ELSEWHERE we reprinting the opinion of a
great savant touching the probabilities of general
smash of this old world of ours and the establishment
of So far his prognostica ations to have
been pretty accurate and perhaps he has the right dope
on the next ten If nearly sight of the
best fireworks display for thousand years 1t would
be we'll worth dying for to such catacysm he
prophesies and it is than probable that most of
would die while passing through the experience There
certain things that carry out the logic of his
ment The world is in state where angry God might
well consider widespread destruction desirable. The
bible which Bryan insists must swallow from "kver
to kiver assures that when the world gay
before he sent flood that drowned all the people except
chosen few (probaby those who lived in the high hs)
Sure it is that this old earth had ague fit good while
back and swallowed up Atlantis That might we'll have
caused Noas flood Oriental legends tell of tidal wave
which might we'll have been caused by the seismic
disorder which the of the Pacific far inland
drowning simply millions of people If Ignatius Donnelly
right about Atlantis sinking in the pond, and he
makes it very plausible then at that time the American
continent, north and south born Just think of it!
Old lands sink from sight and worlds arise from tire
waves In such convulsion Palisades pushed
the depths of where they had formed for
the deposit of washed boulders and volcanic
Forced up by pressure that squeezed btumnous
deposits anthracite and metamorphosed lime
stone into the lovely marble Yule creek Great Crea
is nature and she played strong hand when
this small section of America made. We sincerely
hope Dr. Mobiles is off his dates Ten years is
risky for us to last see but would like to finish
watching world being born. 1t would give us a
write up whale of birth notice if we hap
pened to stay out of water long enough.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-10-11
A LOUISIANA man, aft

LOUISIANA man, after being arrested, fned and
prison, is reported have sold his
pay his fine He then escaped from jail stole the car and
drove home. There lot of possibilities in of
such determination and Candle
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-10-11

FROM reports it like the whiskey commission
of Gunnison county failed to make McWiiams their
goat he acquitted in the last week. It's
bad that when get positions of public that they
defeat the ends of justice by suberfuge
lawyers and courts Sullivan is still running free, but
they getting close, his moonshner fined pal
try sum on the plea of guilty-North Fork Times
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-10-11

EVERY citizen in western Colorado will doubt be
pleased to learn of the splendid increase the
ment of pupils at the Western Colorado College Gun
nison Right there is for people
to the east slope ucation-North Fork Times
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-10-11

1T will soon be time for kind of bond
be brought out for the people fall 1t would
not like election if there kind of
issue the people could vote taxes-North Fork
Times
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-10-11

THE News Champ chortles gleefully because some
additional delay has occurred in finally removing the
mssioners Have patience Henrietta The -toothed
comb of the courts will yet remove your parasites
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-10-11

1T is really too bad that Gov. Sweet does please
the old standpat Democrats of Denver and else
where in the state. They did not assist in nominating
eecting him No anyone else of being
at this time other than Gov Sweet Gov Sweet
is entitled to another if he it, other
than he sbanded Shoups Ranger pests which will
the state million dollars more-Center Post
Dispatch
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-10-11

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, tells the world her laws are
made to be enforced Last Sunday no one was allowed
to play cards. domnoes, croquet golf The golf play
important citizens decided it has gone beyond
Joke and will test the matter in court The way
prove laws is to enforce them How long do you
the Volstead law would last If it only possible
but extremely for the "better class get what
they want.-Walter Brisbane.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-10-11

ACCORDING to the daily papers, Paul p Prosser
electrified the Denver bar by declaring that Governor
Sweet is the mouthpiece of the Socialists" What the
Governors latest offense was not definitely stated
Nether is clearly pointed out that Mr. Prosser is an
expert diagnostican the doctrines socialism But
may be taken for granted that until candidates for
United Senators from Colorado chosen elected
defeated Governor Sweet well as few other pron,
lnently spoken OF gentlemen in state will be every
thing not worth while.-Castle Rock journal -
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-10-11

RETURNS coming in the county fairs and
without any exception, far have yet observed,
they have lost money Grand Junction had great fair,
that credit to that county, and appears that
the guarantors will have to put up about 500 of their
guaranty 1t is to genius to show how to make
fairs pay their else they will inevitably be aban-
doned We anxious how much deficit the State
Fair Shows.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-06-08
APPLES PLENTY
IN n. Y. NEXT
FALL
Department. Of Agriculture Re-
port Indicates Full Crop
rs in Prospect.
!. By TOM EVERRITT.
r,oan.nnnllfan News service.

Unless particularly unfavorable
conditions Of some sort arise in New
York state during the next few
weeks, an over production Of apples
next fall is likely, according to a re-
port Of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture, which gives an
outline Of the agricultural situation
in that State.
The report indicates that the
farmers of New York State, falling
in line with those Of the rest of
the country, and probably spurred
by the same necessity. are bending
their. efforts. towards. more forward
methods OF production in order to
trim off the improbable edges of
their industry. It says in part:
''The prices OF New York dairy
products are considerably better
than last year. 1t seems possible
now that the prices which producers
receive up to midsummer will be
not far from 40 per cent above 1922.
Grain is higher. Cows are going on
the pasture a few days later than
usual. The average dairyman will
pay high feed bills for those few
extra unusual days.
Farm labor is very scarce and
wages are rather high. About az
much productive work is being done
as usual because the weather has
been favorable for outdoor work and
farmers are neglecting all unpro-
ductive work and increasing their
efforts in every possible way to
make the usual paintings. Reports
from the State Bureau of Farms and
Markets Indicate that more than the
usual. amount Of spring blowing has
been accomplished, with very little
likelihood OF there being a marked
decrease in the average Of many
crops"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-06-08
$1,000. OFFERED
FORPROOF Of
EVOLUTION
Rev. Or. Alternately Challenges
Dr.. Van Dykes Acceptance
Of MateriaIistic Theory. :

ASHEVILLE, N. c., June s.
DR.. Henry Van Dyke was chal-
lenged by the Rev. Or. Arthur T.
Alternately to produce one fact prov
ing materialistic evolution Of man
out of lower order of species offer
ing 81 900 to DR.. Vandyke If he could
meet the test. DR. Abernathy, for
merly pastor of the Richmond st.
Christian Church, was a recent can
didate for mayor of Asheville on the
Democratic ticket. The money is
on deposit with an Asheville bank
awaiting DR. Van Dykes reply.
-, DIR. Abernathy's telegram follows
Noting your Endorsement of evo-
luton I have deposited with an
Asheville bank $1,000 to be paid you
or any other Biblical infideI, who
will produce one single fact proving
materialistic evolution of man out
Of lower order of any species of IT'S
particular kind or any other refuta-
ton of McCann's humiliation OF
monkey theory"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-06-08
SAY ROCHESTER STUDENT
HAS THREE LIVING WIVES

ROCHESTER,. N. Y, June g.
Lloyd Smith, chemistry student at
Mechanics Institute here, is held
by the !, police on a charge OF
bigamy. Smith. it is charged, has
expanded the proverbial love tri-
angle into g foursome by taking
as his wives Dorothy Bull of To-
rento; Jennis Freeman OF New York
City. and Lila Habertson OF North
Rose. All the attractive girls were in
court. Dorothy Bull, second mate,
comforted him in. his cell at police
headquarters.
Smith, il is said, borrowed money
from his Toronto bride to pay for
his wedding to Lila Habertson.
MY husband claims he does not
remember much about marrying
the second woman, but says It
must have occurred when he Dor.
rowed the money from me-" Mrs.
Dorothy Bull Smith was, quoted as
saying. I'm
The accused man was gassed
while serving in France.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-06-08
7-Ft. Boa Constructor
Returns After
Wandering
y CosInopolitan News Service,


BERKELEY, CAL, june B.
Folks of this section today are
going about their various ways
with newly-found peace of mind.
For Cleopatra, vagrant 7-foot
boa constructor, has returned
to her evening pork chops at
the home CO Charles Keller,
local poet.
A sassy cottontail rabbit
coaxed Cleo into a test of
speed some ten days ago and in
the resultant chase she evil.
IDENTIFY lost her bearings. An
exhaustive search participated
in by the police force and
venturesome residents failed to
reveal her hiding place.
Evidently firing of the life
of vagabond, Cleo was seen
early this morning wiggling
her weary way toward home.
Several scales were missing and
her tongue was dragging.
Leonard, twelve-year-olds son Of
the poet, promptly staked her
out in the yard, hanging q win
dow weight on her tail.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-06-08
PARENT AND SON
GRADUATESOF !.
Penn STATE !.
Mother Also Taught in College
and viii Go After Masters !
Degree.

STATE COLLEGE. Pa; June s.
The unusual situation of a. mother
and son completing their college
course in the same year and at the
same institution is to be found at
Pennsylvania State College this
spring. The list of graduates just
made public contains the name of
Mrs. Susan A. Porterfield, while her
son, d. Henry Porterfield, has com
pleted all but three credit hours and
will be- eligible for his degree fol-
lowing the summer session.
The Porterffelds have been living
in State College several years and,
in addition to Henry, a son was
graduated at Franklin and Marshall
College in 1914, and a younger
daughter will enter the local high
school next autumn. Not only has
Mrs. Porterfield taken the dual role
OF mother and student, but she has
occupied third role, that of teacher
in the romance language department
for the last two years
Mrs. Poiterfield will receive the
bachelor of arts degree on June IL,
in the course in modern language
and literature. Henry is winding up
his work in the landscape architec-
ture course. He is a veteran of the
world war. When he eutered Penn
State his mother did likewise.
Mrs, Porterfield was recently
elected to membership in. the Phi
Kappa Phi honor society. This
summer she hopes to do some spe-
cial work at Harvard and starting
next autumn win work for her mas
ter's degree at Penn State. Henry
has been most active in dramatic
and art work, having been q mem
Der OF the Penn State Players for
three years, and has taken part in
seven major plays.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-06-08
IS WASHINGTON YOUTHS
GRADUATE AT ANNAPOLIS

Fifteen Washington boys were
among the 4O4 members of the
graduation class at the Naval
Academy at Annapolis. Commence
ment exercises were held at the
institution yesterday.
Washington graduates were:
William Thompson Pearce, son Of
Mrs. W. H. Pearce, 1905 Keokuk
street, Chevy Chase; William Con
rad Lemly, son of Col. w. b. Lemly,
United States Marine Corps; Mel
vile Bell Grosvenor, son of DIR.
Gilbert Grosvenor, Sixteenth and
M streets northwest; Stanhope Cot
ton Ring, son of Commodore J. A.
Ring, retired; Elliott Bowman
Strauss, son of Rear Admiral
Chevy Chase, son of Rear Admiral
j. V. Chase, now at Long Beach,
Cal; Edwin Milrick Graham, son
of E. c. Graham, 1900 Connecticut
avenue; Alfred Clarence Olney, jr.,
son of A. G. Olney, .Drummond
avenue, Chevy Chase;- Francis Lee
McCoilum, jr., son of Mrs. William
Q. Bohrer, 100 East Capitol street;
Graham Newell Fitch, son of Col.
g: 0. Fitch, United States Army,
24OO TwANtieth street northwest;
Howard Seyland Young, son of
Mrs. M. B. Young, 1916 Seventeenth
street, northwest; Murvale Talcott
Farrar, son of r. w. Farrar, 314
Clifton Terrace east; Charles
Samuel Walsh, son of Mrs. Charles
Walsh, 1910 Maple View place east:
Guy Morton Nicely, son of DIR. GUY
M. Nicely, 1909 Fifteenth street
northwest; John Paul Barker Bar.
rett' son or Mrs. r. S. Barrett, 404
Duke street, Alexandria, Va.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-06-08
HARDING P Ut 5
AWAY FEzFOR !.
HARD WORK
President Has an AccumuIa-
ton Of Business Piled Up
During Festivities.

With the closing of the annual
convention of the Mystic Shrine,
President Harding today laid away
his red. fez and returned to the
affairs of state after four of the
most strenuous days since he has
been in the White House.
During the convention, the Chief
Executive has had little opportunity
to attend to- pubic or private BUSH
ness, having been an active parCcl-
pant in the meetings and features
of the organization OF which he
Is the most distinguished member.
Through the long siege of re-
viewing parades and greeting per
sonaliy thousands of visitors, with
many of whom he shook hands, the
President bore UP well, enjoying, as
he remarked to a friend today,
every minute of ii"
He had asparticularly happy after
noon when Ohio Shriners, about
1000, were guests at reception
on the White House lawns. He was
just plain Warren of Marion,
Ohio, to these home folks, as he
walked about the grounds arm in
arm with friends with whom he had
grown UP.
Mrs. Harding, feeling better than
at any time since her long illness,
remained close with the President
during most of his attendances at
Shrine features.
At the opening parade, which
marchd more than four hours under
a. broiling sun, the First Lady stood
at attention practie Rlly all OF the
time. Then, despite orders OF her
physicians, she arose and saluted the
flag with each of the no Shrine
patrols in the colorful four-hou-
night parade. Wednesday. This, too,
though that afternoon she had re-
ceived Ohioans with the President.
1t is estimated that the President
and Mrs. Harding saluted the flag
1900 times during the three parades
that featured the convention.
In addition to Ohio delegations,
the President. shook hands with
numerous other Shrine populations
and groups of friends from all over
the country who called to pay re-
spects and offer well wishes to the
First Noble Of the Land. He shook
hands with about 10000 visitors In
four days.
Il
Fat home in the history of the
White House was held during the
convention. All week the Mansion
has been open to Shriners and
their families. More than $4,000
persons already have visited all the
rooms in the White House except
the private suite of the President
and Mrs. Harding.
The President, great lover of,
band music, and himself formerly
a cornetist In the Marion town band,
has been serenaded all week by
Shrine musical organizations. Every
few minutes bands marched through
the lawns and played for President
and Mrs. Harding on the front
porch Of the Mansion.
1t has been typically "home week"
at the Mansion and few people in
Washington have had a better time
than President Noble Harding and
Mrs. Harding.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-06-08
LIFE IN MOSCOW
NORMAL FINDS
WRITER
Miss Lucita Squires Says
Most Stories OF Russia
Are Untrue.
BY r. A. WRAY.
Internatlonal. News servIce.

LONDON, June 8.-Miss Lucita
Squiers, of Hollywood, noted scena-
rio writer, who returned recently
from a six months stay in Russia.
presents an entirely different picture
of conditions to those usually
brought back by travellers.
Miss Squiers has been working
on a reconstruction film Of the
Russian famine on behalf of the
Society Of Friends. Accompanying
her was Captain Williams. who did
the picture work on Shackletons
last voyage.
They Travelled on a courier train
to Moscow, and, says Miss Squiers:
LAS far as comfort was concerned
/ might as well shave been in a
Pullman car in America. The trains
arrived and left on schedule time
and were clean and comfortable.
There was no restaurant on the
courier car, so we took food with
us, but / found restaurant cars on
some of the other trains, and one
could always buy food at the stop
ping places.
,Kavazie Dvir Hotel, When. ] ar
rived there In December l had to
do my own cooking on a primus
stove, but by the time ] left in May
was having delicious .folr-course
dinners sent up to my room. There
were several hotels with public
restaurants
"A typical menu consisted of beet
soup, with whipped cream, served
with crisp wheat cakes. The service
was quite up to, the standard Of any
'ffrst-class Europeaa hotel, and one
could have as many baths as one
wished. The price of board and
lodging was about 81 day. Most
of the visitors were foreigners
Americans, Danes, Dutch, English,
etc.
"One afternoon, when / was
having tea with Bishop Blair and
Senator Wheeler of Montana we
were visited by singular peasant
poet. He sang to us and / think
he would have continued all night
II we had not stopped him. He told
us he was very pleased with his
new American friends and we were
very much like his relations.
The streets of Moscow are still
crowded with sleighs and caravans.
There were great ruts in the streets
during the snowfall and one day
was upset in a sleigh. The driver
remarked: The streets of Moscow
are like the Balkan mountains