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who had come to the annual reception. Although there was the stamp of the
American woman already upon them in the Instinct for refinements in taste
and dress, yet there still remained some of the accent of the old mother
tongue, tempered with the easy and picturesquely slangy idiom of the new
mother tongue.
“These,” continued Miss Matthews, “are some of our girls. Os course
they are scattered all over this big continent. Look at this little card. We
give each girl one of these when they leave us to enter employment or travel
to their distant relatives in the west. You have no idea how they treasure
this card. We are continually getting requests for new ones when the old
ones are worn out or lost. They never forget us.”
PRESIDENT GOMEZ’ BIG JOB |
Notwithstanding the statement of
President Gomez of Cuba, that he
would soon put down the rebellion
against his government, there are
well-informed Americans who think
the Cuban president has a really big
job on his hands.
One such man, who recently re
turned from the island, said that the
chief trouble with the Cuban govern
ment is that it doesn’t understand
economics and has no desire to do so.
Any person who arises with a sugges
tion to check the reckless expendi
tures is quickly squelched. More than
anything else Cuba needs some one
to curb this throwing away of public
money and the United States will
have to put some one .in Cuba to do
that very thing in the neau- future.
The budget must be prepared under
some systematic plan of making neces
sary expenditures for the public good
and not under a general plan of dis-
tributing money for the benefit of ,
those in office. The Cuban treasury is practically empty now and the country
has‘little to show for it.
A good deal w r as expected from Gomez. Now fifty-six years old, he is
the son of a wealthy cattle raiser. When he was a mere lad he took up arms
against Spain and demonstrated his courage and capability. He was inaugu
rated enthusiastically and it seemed for a time as if he would have the whole
people, save a few disgruntled Moderates, at his back. But there were sore
spots in the new administration that were not easily cured.
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eons for its adoption his belief that more than anything else it would tend to
promote friendship between England and the United States. ,
His country has been amazed repeatedly by his audacity, his politftal
Inconsistencies, his dynamic energy and his unequaled power of self-advertise
ment. Not for one moment has he been lost to the public eye.
YUAN SHI-KAI MAN OF ACTION |
The most hopeful sign that the new
order of things in China will be bet
ter than the old is the rise of leaders.
For several decades the Chinese have
tried to arouse themselves from their
lethargy, so as to become a wide
awake, modern people. In all their
struggles upward they have bewailed
the lack of^Jeaders. Time and again
during the last decades it has been
said: “China has no great men, no
leaders.” The revolution brought the
leaders.
Pre-eminent among these stands
Yuan Shi-kai, a man who, though
trained in the old school, is neverthe
less a modern man. He is thoroughly
Chinese and understands the capaci
ties as well as the needs of his peo
ple. He is eminently a practical man.
He is not a theorist, but a man of
action.
Li Yuen Hung, the vice-president, is
the real hero of the revolution. He is
the man who can arouse the enthusi-
asm of the people for the much needed reforms. He received his training in
Japan and learned there to be thorough, painstaking and conscientious in all
his work. Any reactionary movement would find In Li Yuen Hung a rock
against which it would hurl itself in vain.
Dr. Sun Yat Sen. who originated and planned the revolution, is more of a
foreigner than a Chinese, having spent many years of his life abroad.
‘lt’s a long time to think back,” said
Miss Alma Matthews, the “Angel" ot
Ellis Island, “and one’s mind is over
flowing with memories and stories. I
just don’t know where to begin. I
began work here for the Women’s
Home Missionary Society of the Meth
odist Episcopal church in 1886, and
have been here ever since.
“Just now we deal with girls only,
but years ago we often had to care
for boys too. When I first began work
we used to meet the immigrants at
Castle Garden. Those were dreadful
times. Runners from all the lodging
houses, mostly dives, waited for the
gates to open, and when the dazed
immigrants were turned loose they
pounced on them like wolves, and we
had our work cut out for us. But New
York soon woke up to the situation
and changed all that.”
In the bright little parlor of the
Home at No. 9 State street, New York,
there were young women and girls
There is good reason for the keen
interest felt in this country in the
recent cable dispatches to the effect
that Winston Churchill bids fair to be
Asquith’s successor as premier of
Great Britain and leader of the Lib
eral party.
Half American, as he is through
his mother, the present Mrs. George
Cornwallis-West, who before she be
came Lady Randolph Churchill was
Miss Jennie Jerome, and who is the
daughter of the late Leonard Jerome
of New York, his every political act
has reflected his friendliness to the
United States and his high regard for
American political institutions. His
induction into the highest political
office in Great Britain should mark
the beginning of even closer relations
between the two countries than now
exist. Almost his last political utter
ance in justification of the Irish home
rule bill passed in the House of Com
mons offered as one of the prime rea-
BALLOON BUILT TO CROSS THE ATLANTIC
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DESPITE the failure of Walter Wellman’s attempt to cross the Atlantic In a dirigible balloon, Melvin Vaniman.
one of his assistants, will try to accomplish that feat this summer in the dirigible “Akron.” Our photograph
shows the “Akron” making a trial flight at Atlantic City.
TELLSOFAUDIENCE
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Pen Picture of Pope Pius X.
Shows His Kindly Nature.
Little Girl at Vatican Who Feared
Pontiff’s Admiration of Her Bam
bino, a Replica of the
Infant Christ.
Rome. —A delightful picture of Pope
Plus X., illustrating his proffoundly ge
nial nature and exhibiting his love of
childhood, is given by John Savile Judd
in an account of an audience with the
pope, one of those gatherings to which
large contingents of the faithful are
admitted. Among those waiting in
the audience chamber was a little girl
of perhaps six years old; she stood
next to her mother, who held on a
metal dish a figure of the infant Jesus,
wrapped around as the Italian pea
santry w*rap their children today.
“The effect of it,” said Mr. Judd,
“was rather as if a doll had been
stuffed into a white satin embroidered
pincushion and a cardboard halo add
ed. But the care that had been taken,
the reverence in the care to produce
a bambino worthy of a blessing, was
beyond all reproach and abundantly
evident, since the big eyes of the little
girl were constantly raised to the dish,
and now and then a little hand reached
up to touch it as if to make sure that
it was still there.
"Suddenly a chamberlain made a
sign for all to kneel and Pius X. en
tered, followed by a clerical chamber
lain in a purple cassock. He walked
slowly along the side of the room on
my right and the eight people in the
row that he would come to last were
motioned to stand.
“I scarcely saw his face at first; he
walked as an old man would walk, his
head bowed. He is seventy-seven
years old. Straight, soft and nearly
white hair came an inch over the col
lar of his waste cassock. He gave
such person his hand; each kissed his
ring. He stroked the curly head of
a boy in a sailor suit.
“When he walked down the row op
posite I still could not see his counte
nance, for the kneeling figures were
facing me and he bent to each of them
ministering.
"Then he turned to the row at right
angles to me and came to the woman
holding the metal tray with the bam
bino in her hand. He touched the poor
embroidery work as if in admiration.
COLUMBUS BORN IN SPAIN?
Village Near Madrid Is Said to Be rhe
America Discoverer’s
Birthplace.
London. —The Madrid correspondent
of the Daily Telegraph telegraphs:
"According to a provincial newspaper,
the Correo Gallego, which quotes the
eminent Galician historian, Sepor Gar
cia de la Riega, who has devoted many
years to studying data relating to the
birthplace of the discoverer of Ameri
ca, it now appears that Columbus cer
tainly was not born in Genoa, as has
always been affirmed.
“Riega says he possesses documents
proving that Columbus was born at
Porto Santo, a small village near here.
“Riega is a person of considerable
authority and formerly was in the
colonial office.”
HE HUNG ON SPIKE IN WELL
Superhuman Acrobatics Finally Re
leases Impaled Man—Collapses
After Reaching Safety.
Allentown, Pa.—As John Dougherty
was chasing a chicken he ran across
an old well 80 feet deep, whose cover
ing crushed beneath his weight
By rare luck a rusty spike in a
beam, which did not go down, caught
in his coat, and he was enabled to
grab the beam.
Nobody was about and his cries for
help were unheard. He hung by the
rickety old beam for ten minutes,
when, by the exercise of superhuman
strength, he managed to perform ac
robatics which landed him on top of
the t crosspiece. He then crawled to
safety, so unnerved that he collapsed.
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He asked a question, evidently ‘Who
helped to work it?’ for he stooped to
the little girl and petted her on the
cheek.
"Then he took up the bambino and
asked another question. The mother
got red and made an expression of
acquiescence. But ‘No, no,’ came from
the little girl. He had surely asked
‘ls this a present that you have
brought for me?’ At the child’s 'No,
no,’ he turned round and threw back
his head and laughed.
“What a humorous laugh! I never
knew that a man could laugh so sweet
ly. He looked old no more. He has
teeth set far apart, ‘lucky’ teeth. And
his eyes have the kindly wrinkles
about them and love of children in
them. There, too, was the understand
ing that found ready answer in the
great eyes of the child. /
“She smiled back at him; it was a
joke about taking her bambino; she
had known it all the time; she could
trust that face, now grown so calm
and grave as he bent down to her that
she might, kiss his ring.
“Then the pontiff passed to the two
rooms beyond for a few minutes and
came back to us. He noticed specially
as he passed a girl of fourteen, and he
stopped and spoke to her, as if to
make up for having made no exception
before.
"The audience was over. We rose w
our feet. I looked back along the cor
ridor which led to the private apart
ments, the dining room for the food
that costs him but five francs a day,
the bedroom with the camp bed, and
I caught a last sight of him. He was
talking to a chamberlain covered with
orders and decorations; he was telling
a little story. I saw him shake his
head and put out his hand. He was
mimicking the little girl saying, ‘No,
no,’ and I saw his gentle, whimsical
smile again.”
HUMGR IN PRISON SENTENCE
Man Sent to Jail for Beating Wife
—Mercy Asked as ts Mother-in-
Law.
4 Pittsburg, Pa.—“For beating his
wife, guiKy as indicted; for beating
Ills mother-in-law, recommended to the
mercy of the court.” On this verdict,
returned in court recently, Joseph No
jedly, a machinist, was sentenced to
pay the costs, a fine of 6% cents, and
serve 30 days in jail.
Truant Officer Wins Boys
$
Goes at Them in an Entirely New Way
and They All Think Him the
Best Ever.
Phoenixville, Pa. —One of the claims
made with much pride by the local
school authorities is the almost com
plete absence of truancy, and those
who know give much of the intelligent
activity of the town's truant officer,
William S. Armstrong, and the popu
larity he has won among pupils. There
is probably not another truant officer
in the state who has such a record of
achievement in his line as has Officer
Armstrong, and for five years he has
worked with singular effectiveness.
Truancy used to be much in vogue
among Phoenixville schoolboys, and
the new truant officer started in to
break up the growing practice. Speak
ing of his early experience, and de
scribing his methods, Officer Arm
strong said: “I did not go about my
work In the ‘hammer-and-tongs’ meth
od. I went to work quietly, got ac
quainted with the habitual truants, vis
ited their homes and sought out their
. haunts.
"1 talked with the parents, and tried
to arouse in them some interest in
their boys’ school work, and asked
, them to give some sign of interest and
encouragement to the boys.
“I learned the location of all the
, favorite swimming holes, the nut
groves and the most popular resorts
, where boys would go to play or hide. I
visited .the swimming holes, not only
■ on school days, when necessity de
, manded it, but on Saturday And holi
days for the purpose of joining them
FINE START, BUT TAME ENDING
Plenty of Action at First in Story
From London, But It
Fizzled Out.
London.—A gentleman and his wife,
occupying a villa at Ilford, deciding to
leave home for two or three days,
asked a neighbor to keep an eye on
the place. The vigilant neighbor, act
ing upon instructions, that night ob
served a light in a bedroom of the
presumably unoccupied house. At the
moment that the light was noticed it
was extinguished.
Accompanied by a policeman, the
neighbor made forcible entrance
through the scullery window, and
quietly the two men made their way
to the bedroom. The light of the con
stable’s bull’s-eye disclosed the head
of a man in bed, and the constable
promptly drew his truncheon. As
promptly the occupant ot the bed
sprang out, and a desperate struggle
commenced.
Simultaneously a lady dashed across
the room shrieking,, threw open the
window, clambered out, and began, at
considerable peril, to work her way
around the balconies. A second con
stable, passing at the time, thought
that the lady ■was bent on suicide, but
those inside the house dragged her
back into the room, and the facts be
gan to assert themselves.
The captured invader of the empty
house was the occupant, the lady was
his wife. Their holiday arrangements
had suddenly been changed, but the
neighbor had not been informed of the
altered plans.
Happily no Injuries resulted from
the encounter with the constable nor
from the lady’s dangerous escapade,
and the actors are now endeavoring
to appreciate the joke.
RATS MAKE NEST OF MONEY
Firemen After a Blaze Discover SSO
In Ceiling of New York
House.
New York. —Fire Commissioner
Johnson has sent to the treasury de
partment for redemption SSO in bills
of the denominations of one, two and
five dollars, which firemen discovered
hidden in the ceiling of a house in
Pearl street after a fire. Rats had
formed a nest of the money and all of
the bills were chewed by the rodents
and otherwise mutilated.
The money, after it is redeemed by
the treasury department, will be
turned over to the firemen’s pension
fund unless it is claimed by Jacob
Meyer, who owms the house.
in swimming and getting netter ac
quainted. 1 have grown to know all
of the 'live wires’ among them inti
mately, and I think they are my
friends.”
KICKED FOR KISSING BRIDE
Youth Bids Goodby to His “Cousin,”
and Her Husband Takes
Offense.
New York. —A smacking kiss and an
irate husband’s boot delayed the de
parture recently of 3,000 passengers
for five minutes. The Kronprinz Wil
helm was ready to sail at 10 a. m. and
all but one gang plank had been haul
ed ashore when a young man still
aboard decide’d it was time for him to
say goodby to his friends.
In the party of his relative were
three men and seven women. As he
pressed the hands of the men he
passed along snd kissed each of the
women. In this manner he made his
way toward the gang plank, where
three young women stood. t
The youth glanced at t^em and
caught hold of the prettiest'girl, gave
her a smacking kiss and said:
“Goodby. little cousin, see you when
you come back.”
The girl’s chagrin and surprise was
no greater than his when he found he
had kissed another man’s bride, and
that his cousin was some distance
away. The bridegroom's anger was
great. Catching the youth by the
shoulder, he gave him a shove and a
boost with his foot and sent him head
long down the gang plank to the pie,
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DANGER OF EATING
TOO MUCH MEAT
MEDICAL REPORTS SHOW THAT
PEOPLE WHO EAT A GREAT
DEAL OF MEAT ARE SUBJECT
TO TYPHOID FEVER.
The death rate of. typhoid has been
10 per cent for many years. Even if
the patient recovers, there is danger:
A weakened constitution, languidness,
loss of energy, and other ailments di
rectly due to the effect of typhoid.
In a majority of cases typhoid fever'
is directly traceable to an inactive
liver which has refused to purify the
mass of meat particles left undigested
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FOR SALE—I2S A. BRADFORD CO.. FLA.;
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horses, mach., etc. GARDIN, Bx.3l9, Chicago.
FOR SALE OR TRADE—4O A. IN* DE SOTO
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