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gy,. P l( '• iS ' i" i <. " » » V ~'V *•«•*« Vinii >1 -«•. ,A*fX<L,i '? 3*i;S •itopi ON THE TRAIL AMERICAN-MISSIONARY IWUMwAM Br WILLIAM T. ELLIS for tl>« MwJ AairiaiJwrMBU b Trm*«Sn« Around th« WorM for thm P«m if ImiilisiillBS lis ft • wlm 11 Fcdfdta MinteauT froas a Pars!? DUinterwIei S«sI»t and NoaSctuiia Standpoint. Illustrated with Drawinira and from Photograph*. A Critic of Missions Finds l̂ any Surprises fihanghni, China.--What sort of is the missionary, when seen on %is native heath? China is the beet $lace to make answer to that question, 0hr here are to be found the greatest variety of missionaries, from the •Chimi inland lay worker, with zeal as Ills chief equipment, to the eminent .author and scholar and cousellor of ••talesmen, such as Dr. Arthur H. Smith, of the American board, Dr. W. A. P. Martin, of the Presbyterian 'fcoard, or Dr. Timothy Richards, of the ®ng!ish Baptist society. Between these extremes range all sorts and •conditions of men. The American conception of a mis- *«ionary is a man with a book going HBut among the natives preaching, preaching, preaching, always and everywhere preaching, "as a dying 'Kan to dying men." In experience -«ne finds very few of these flaming «SDspel firebrands. It Is rather unex- .pected and disappointing to discover missionaries plodding along a routine way, pretty much as does a clergyman *C£ home. The Missionary'* Big House. Of necessity, since he early learns >fhat he must look upon himself as an •expensive piece of board property, rthe missionary must take thought for <• comfortable home and physical sus­ tenance. Thus arises that much moot- ••d question, the missionary's resi­ dence. Times without number it has •%©ea charged that the missionary In a palatial house, and sub- tttstg on the fat of the land, with an «rmy of servants to minister to his erauita. Ifeere Is some ground for this crltl- imported clothes, to "get along" as it is for his brother clergyman at home. No little scrimping and saving is necessary to "make ends meet;" the missionary's salary is on the average abdiit a thousand dollars a year, and even in China or Japan, one cannot live like a prince on this sum. As to Missionary Haloes. • Now I come to a delicate question^ which long investigation of the sub­ ject causes to appear more serious than might at first be supposed, namely, the question of the mission­ ary's halo. The great bulk of church people who give thought to the mat­ ter at all have become accustomed to think of every missionary as a saint and a hero. He is praised-and prayed for as Christianity's knight errant, "without fear and without reproach." "Our noble missionaries" is one of the stock phrases of religion. The man or woman who engages in foreign missionary work is commonly regard­ ed as a person of peculiar scantily and chivalry and devotion and sacri­ fice and courage. In a word, he is in­ vested with a halo all his own. Occasionally I have met a mission­ ary, usually young and second-rate, who takes himself quite as seriously as his friends at home take him, and who, well aware that he is one of the noble army of martyr spirits, goes about wearing his halo with all the self-consciousness of A girl with a new Easter hat. Most missionaries, on the other hand, feel foolish because of the false attitude in which they are thus placed by their idealizing ad­ mirers at home. Some of them have used quite unmisslonary forcibleness of speech on this point They say CHINA'S THREE OLDEST MISSIONARIES*. On the right Is the Rev. Or. W. A. P. Martin, of the Presbyterian Board; .In the center Rev. Dr. Griffith John, of the London Missionary Society, on *Ute left with hand to beard is Dr. Hudson Taylor, founder of the China In- "land Mission, who died recently. •eisnt. But first let me say that, in . j»eommon with most others who have investigated the subject, I do not he- llleve in an European's trying to live .y't«us natives live. The China Inland Scission early adopted that method, v^nd it has been obliged to maintain a • hospital and sanitorium, and to in­ valid-home a *arge percentage of Its workers. As a consequence, the prac­ tice of conforming to the native life | ts less general even in this organiza- !•» <tion than formerly. A white man can- j -tiot live as a yellow man, and keep OSiis health; serious and costly mis- V'ruakes have been made by missionaries • v*. ¥t\t y-t: Attempting to do so. As to the wear­ ing of native dress, little need be •aid; most missionaries in the in­ terior do EO, in order to appear incon­ spicuous, and because Chinese clothes «re comfortable, cheap and easily ob- •tained. There are disadvantages in Hiving a hundred miles from a button. Nevertheless, in many cases--by no means in all--the error is made on the side of failure to conform as close­ ly as possible to native style. My own 1 .judgment has affirmed the criticism smade to me in numerous specific cases, that the dwellings of the xnis- wlonaries are entirely too sumptuous .y ' for persons of their vocation. Rightly p^i.V.w wrongly, the church and the world ' Associate the idea of sacrifice with the anisslonary's calling; the natives, too, , -quickly come to see the apparent dis- pjV*. -crepancy between the preaching of jBeif-denial and the practice of material luxury; some of the most serious strictures upon the missionary's style fc'ia • ©f living have come to me from native IT/f; , preachers. Often, I am convinced, the • fljaL.fault lies directly with the boards at •:|;i'^liome; some missionaries have lament- . ^ "!^Sjj,«d. in my hearing, the elaborateness and impressiveness of their residences. They deplore the contrast between i :«!$,' their houses and those of the wealth- Jest natives. The missionary, they reason, should be the last person con- ! sRpicuous for evidences of worldly po­ sition. The theory that it is neces­ sary to "impress" the heathen is ut- ^ ;> terly fallacious; the disciple cannot j't * Improve upon the spirit of his Mas- • cter, the lowly Nazarene. ,ri. ^ inside the missionary's home one 4 *wsually flndB manIfe8t evidence of m^painstaking economy. It is aB dlffl- «»ilt for the missionary, living, as he '*•' most, on imported foodstuffs and «rearing, for part at the time, at least, that they are neither extraordinary saints nor heroes, and that they are not living lives of physical hardship and sacrifice; those who really have hardships say nothing about them. That In reality they do not correspond to the image of themselves ever being held up in sermons, speeches ' and articles, no one knows quite so well as themselves. If permitted to speak frankly, they would say, as many have said to me, that they have fewer ma­ terial discomforts than the average home missionary or country pastor; that they are ordinary men and wom­ en, with all the limitations of human nature, who are trying to do one sort of Christian work, which, whatever its glamour when seen ten thousand miles away, is in actuality beset by all the difficulties and discourage­ ments of religious endeavor at home, besides certain other hindrances due to the non-Christian training and be­ liefs of the natives. They would plead for a little less romance and a little more reality in dealing with the for­ eign mission propaganda; for neither they themselves, nor their work, can measure up to the enthusiastic por­ traiture^ of uninformed supporters. A Motley Assortment of Missionaries. It 1b impossible to speak of "the missionary;" human nature does not lend itself to generalizations. Mis­ sionaries are almost as various a com­ pany as editors or doctors or lawyers. An honest critic cannot unqualifiedly approve or condemn "the missionary." Even at the risk of shocking many readers, let me say that I have met missionaries who are as incompetent as the bitterest enemy of missions represents all missionaries to be. I have met others who are so small that they may be classed as negligible quantities. I have met unmannered missionaries, lazy missionaries, cow ardly missionaries, gluttonous mis­ sionaries, bad-tempered „ missionaries, avaricous missionaries, bigoted mis sionaries, eccentric missionaries, sel fish missionaries, and even, in two cases, 1 know missionaries who have been cast out for gross immorality. There is scarcely a charge which has been made concerning missionaries as a whole that I have not found true of individual missionaries. Let those who know little of the facts on the field rush Into qualified defense of all missionaries as worthy of halo**; Cannot do id. Yet, In perfect fairness and frank­ ness, I can Bay of the very large ma­ jority of the "hundreds of mission­ aries whom I have watched at thelf work, that they are thoroughly hon­ est, competent, self-immolating and devoted servants of a great ideal. This applies to men and women of all de­ nominations and bodies--Roman Cath­ olic and Protestant., churchman and independent; and to all the mission fields which I have thus far investi­ gated. In quiet modesty, and with self-denying service, these men and women are patiently seeking, against great odds, the conversion of the peo­ ple among whom they dwell. Their lives are the best recommendation oj their message. On the whole, they are persons of more than ordinary ability and refine­ ment; the charge may be rejected, practically in toto, that missionaries are incompetents who have been driv­ en into their field by inability to se­ cure a livelihood. So eminent an au­ thority as Dr. Arthur H. Smith as­ sures me that there is no class of pro­ fessional worker, except only the col­ lege professor of whom so high a standard is required. The number of missionaries of in­ dependent wealth, who give liberally to the foreign mission work of which they themselves are a part, is a sur­ prising revelation to an investigator; and at once an evidence of the confi­ dence of these persons in the mission­ ary enterprise, and of their own dis­ interestedness in pursuing this voca­ tion. The Troubles of the Missionaries. Nevertheless, there are certain trials of missionary life worth noting, apart from the difficulties inseparable from any kind of pioneer work. The first of these, which bears most hardly in the beginning, is the separation from family and friends; as the^years soften this, and the foreign field becomes home, there ensues, usually, the great­ est trial of all, separation from chil­ dren, who must be sent away to be ed­ ucated. This Is the heaviest burden borne by the missionary. Very little is said by missionaries in China about the danger from mobs, although all the older workers have thrilling stories to tell when you get them to talking upon this topic.1. When Natives Get on the Nerves. Another price that must be paid for life amid an alien people is the fact that the natives gradually wear upon the nervous system of the missionary, who as a rule, is a person of more than ordinary culture and of a sensi­ tive temperament. Gradually the na­ tives do get on a foreigner's aerves, to a degree incredible to one , who spends his days with people of his own color and speech and manner of life and thought. The whits men who are in the east for their own advant­ age usually arrive speedily at the point of detesting and despising the native, even to the extent of abusing him, if he be a Chtnaman of a Korean; they also abused the Japanese until the lat­ ter would stand it no longer. While on this point of the character and calibre of the missionary, the tes­ timony of a British war correspondent with whom I traveled into the famine district of China, is worth quoting. When we started out he was bitterly prejudiced against missionaries; thought them "no good" and a crowd of mischief makers. Upon his return, after meeting many missionaries, he wrote a glowing tribute to their char­ acter, their disinterestedness and their efficiency. Well do I recall his astonishment one evening at the dinner table of a missionary, far in the remote interior, when he found the little company of missionaries quite as cultured, as cos­ mopolitan and as brilliant as himself. He did not know that two of the young woifien present bear one of the most honored names in Virginia and Pennsylvania, and that they received their "education in one of Philadel­ phia's most fashionable schools, and moved, as was their right, in the most select circles in the Quaker City. Yet here they were, hundreds of miles from anything that could be called civilization, spending their lives cheer­ ily for a horde of dirty, ungrateful and uncongenial Chinese and serene in the confidence that they were making the best possible use of life. It was of a member of this same missionary com­ munity that my British friend said to me later, "Mr. Patterson is the finest man I have ever met anywhere in all tfie world." (Copyright, by Joseph ©. Bowles.) Curing White Plague. The medical authorities agree that one of the greatest achievements of their science is the establishment of the fact that consumption Is prevent­ able and curable in Its first stages. As a number of the annual victims of this "white plague" is counted by the thousands In each "large city--In Chi­ cago last year nearly 4,000 persons were carried olf by It--the knowl­ edge that light, airf ^hygiene, proper food and rest may sa^e a majority of the patients is manifestly pf the ut­ most value.--Chicago Record-Herald. HOW TO MAKE SILHOUETTES. Another Use to Whleh the Amateur Can Put His Camera.-- Photography In all branches Is truly a most absorbing occupation. Each of us who own a cam­ era is constantly experimenting, and every one of us is delighted when something new is suggested for such experiments. To use a camera in making sil­ houettes select a w i n d o w f a c i n g north if possible, or if used only at times when, the sun in not on it, any window will do, says the Photographic Times. Raise the window shade half way, remove any white curtains there may be, and in the center of the lower pane of glass paste by the four corners a sbeet of tissue paper that is perfectly smooth and quite thick, as shown In the sketch at B. Darken the rest of the window, shut­ ting out all light from above and the sides. - Place a chair so that after being seated the head of the subject will be before the center of the tissue paper, and near to its as possibles and when looking straight before him cis face will be in clear profile to the camera. ,• Draw the shade* of all other win- dows In the room. Focus the camera carefully, getting a sharp outline of •the profile on the screen. Do not stop down the lenB, as this makes long ex­ posure necessary, and the subject may move. ' A Correct exposure depends, of course, on the lens, light and the plate. But, remember that a black and white neg­ ative is wanted with as little detail in the features as possible. The best plate to use is a very slow one, or what is called a process plate. In developing get all possible densi­ ty In the high lights, without detfil in Getting Ready to Make Silhouette*. the face, apd without fog; Printing is best done on contrasty development paper with developer not too strong. The ideal silhouette print is a per­ fectly black profile on a white ground. With a piece of black paper, any shape in stopping off print may be made as shown at C in the sketch. THE PROPER USE OF NAILS. One of the simplest details in cor­ rectly driving a nail is almost ignored by the ordinary workman. When a flooring or sheathing board is drawn in place the nail is set slanting and ariven as shown in Pig. 1. If the board be lifted from the support about three- fourths of an inch, drive the nail through until it strikes the studding or out of the line of the same fiber ot wood. The Illustrations Pigs. 4 to 10 show some examples of incorrect nail­ ing and some methods that are more nearly correct. Another point in locating the posi­ tion for the nails, especially near the end of the boards, is this: It should be remembered that the danger of split- fueeme* Way Jktmi XtM •f " M / i j a atteiWki SM§ ifntawto Mmtm*' BU Method of fUciag Niite Flf.6 A IttUer Way tacomclly KaM WHO Fig. r. rig. I?. Advantages Of Locating Nails. joist, then finish driving the nail, tak­ ing along with it the board, as in Fig. 2, and the results are much better, says a correspondent in Wood Craft. To drive a nail in a confined pl&ce where a full swing of the hammer can­ not be obtained the full force of the hammer can be obtained by moving the arm ahead at the time the blow Is being struck, as in Fig. 3. The location" of nails should be placed staggered or zigzag, so as to be A HANDY COAL BIN. One Suitable for Small Quantity of Coal Can Be Easily Made. Where small quantities of coal are purchased at a time the Usual way is to put it in a corner of the basement, a stall in'the barn or on the ground. I ting the board is limited to a well-de­ fined field, the extent of which varies with different kinds of wood, but the general shape is about the same as in­ dicated by the dotted line in Fig. 11, which is supposed in this case to apply to a board one inch or less in thick­ ness. A represents the ares, of risk, B the field of safety--so far as the split­ ting of the board is concerned. Fig. 12 shows a variation to fit another condi­ tion. ALUMINUM POPULAR. Production of Metal Does Not Keep . Pace with Increasing Demand. Combination Coal Bin. A good plan is to make a bin con­ structed as shown in the illustration. The dotted lines show how the bot­ tom of the bins are made sloping to­ ward the doors, says the Popular Me­ chanics. One bin may be used for hard coal and the other for soft coal, while the space beneath the bottomB of the bins will make a place for wood or kindling and^a door can be pro­ vided for. A spout of suitable size is made on each coal bin door, which prevents the coal from dropping on the floor and stijl have a supply in the spout. OIL THROUGH CORE OF WATER. Aluminum Is Increasingly used In machine construction, as in crank cases and gear boxes for motor cars, for paneling inglde of underground rail­ way cars, for electric wire, and for new alloys, pigments, and metal plat­ ing; and the aluminum cell as a light­ ning arrester has proved to be a val­ uable addition to lightning protecting devices. During recent years the price of tin has been very high, and since adequate new supplies of ore have been discovered, substitutes for tin must be used in manufactures. Aluminum is regarded as probably the most available substitute for tin In the great majority of uses to which that metal is put, owing to the di­ minution in the price of aluminum, the practically limitless supply of the raw material, and the favorable physical properties of the metal. As the pro­ duction of aluminum is cheapened, says Scientific American, so will tho uses for it Increase. The demand steadily keeps ahead of the suppfy. A New Gam. A new gem has been discovered by prospectors in San Benito county, Cal. It is described as a clear, transparent, blue stone, with violet tints in the deeper colored portion. It surpasses the sapphire in brilliancy and rivals It in color, though it is not so hard: being about as hard as chrysolite and harder than moonstone or opal. Under heat it turns bright red, but on cooling resumes its normal color. It has been given the name of Benito, from the county ts which It was [Wi-ty. * S•; "'1y'T y-' Why Rifled Pipe Line Transmits the Oil Faster. The Becret of the more rapid trans­ mission of oil through a pipe line proves to be water. The 256 miles of eigth-inch rifled pipe of the Southern Pacific will transmit 23,- 000 barrels of fuel oil each 24 hours. An exhaustive series of experiments has demonstrated that after a small per cent, of water has been added to the oil, and the necessary pressure ap­ plied, that the whole will develop a whirling motion, and that the water being th? heavier will seek the out­ side of flfe pipe, thereby enveloping the oil in a thin film of water acting as a iubricant between the oil and the pipe, and thereby greatly reducing the friction and allowing the core of oil to glide through the pipe readily. 11 A Record Month. August broke the 1907 shipment roc- ord of the lakes by the movement of 6,806,810 tons. This is at the rate of over 50,000,000 tons for a season of eight tnootitt." y The Hotel Age. The multiplication of hotels In New York has not resulted in an oversup- ply of accommodation, as many old- line hotel managers have feared. The latest notable building is the new Plaza hotel, which opened on Septem­ ber 23. A few years ago a large modern hotel was erected on this site, but the owners saw possibilities for Improvements, and so the old 'Plaza hotel was razed to the ground and the new one built; the cost, Including the scrapping of the former building, is about $12,500,000. The success of the investment seems assured. Asphalt from Trinidad. During 1896 the United States im­ ported 77,194 short tons of asphalt from Trinidad, This material is ob­ tained from a p tch lake, and as It is removed the supply ' is replenished from subterranean sources. ESPERANTO GROW. VIGOR OF MOVEMENT FOR ;igi|*?4IV6ftSAL LANGUAGE. •' Progress Mad* In This and Other Countries l;i* Developing a 0«t». " ' mon Medium of Communi­ cation. The Esperanto movement Is gaining strength every year. The development of the universa]! language and the numbers of those who are committed to the mission of placing the language upon a practical and commercial ba­ sis grow apace. This was plainly and forcibly indicated at this year's In­ ternational Congress of Esperantists Just held In Cambridge, England. It is estimated that there are up­ wards of 500,000 loyal esperantists thronghout the world, a goodly pro­ portion being found in New York, Bos­ ton, and other large cities of the country. Dr. L. Zamenhof is president of the international organization. Un­ der the nom de plume, Dr. Esperanto (a name, by the way, which signifies "hope") he invented the language. He objects to the distinction, univer­ sal language, as it was farthest from his purpose to have the new language become the common tongue of all peoples. He* prefers to have it known as the international auxiliary lan­ guage, as It is intended to simplify commercial and political intercourse between the nations. Perhaps the greatest impetus which Esperanto has received took place at the congress in Cambridge, Englatid. Fourteen hun­ dred delegates representing twenty- live different countries were present. To attempt to describe in detail the events at this congress would take col­ umns of space. It may be mentioned here, however, that every big country was represented by a man of promi­ nence and at this congress Esperanto received its first official recognition by a European power, the delegate from Belgium having been officially assigned by the ministry of military affairs to represent the Belgian min­ istry at the congress. The American delegates who attend­ ed the congress are enthusiastic over the practical use to which they put their knowledge of Esperanto while in Cambridge. Professor Viles, of the Ohid State University, had only a reading knowledge, but he declares that he found, within a few hours, that he could use the language in con­ versation. Professor Viles also brings back word that Lord Roberts, the fam­ ous "Bobs" has just accepted the hon­ orary presidency of the British Es­ peranto association.. Although the leading centers of the Esperanto movement are in France, England and Germany, the people of the United States are rapidly becom- , ^ ^ t '4, tng intefib'ted in it.' Tfiree years ago. ?,'? it was virtually unheard of in Ameri-'-^i ca. Now there is a national association .. . and more than forty-two local socle- ties and clubs affiliated with it, tlie " f total membership list running well into the thousands. The national society, or the Ameri- can Esperanto association, as it is -, ?.' now known, was formed on March 16^ of the same year at the home of Mr. Vj Matchett, who organized the first so-^"^ ciety. The members of tip two so-jF^l cieties already in existence and other '"i ^ Esperantists residing in Everett, Med- ford, Brighton and neighboring towns succeeded by united effort in ing the national association upon MS: z>& MAX r̂ ufxyr permanent basis. They were soon joined by Esperanists and Esperanto clubs in other states. Although few of the business men • of New York have made practical use as yet of Esperanto, Dr. Talmey President of the New York Esperanto society, is confident that those who are affiliated with firms that handle a great deal of foreign business will soon be forced to take up the inter­ national language. In an interview re­ cently with the writer he said: "The American Consul in Breslau, Germany, has just written the govern­ ment to advise our merchants to eith­ er learn Esperanto or secure represen­ tatives with such knowledge if they desire to hold foreign trade. This message was published in the Finan­ cier, and I understand it has spurred some of our merchants to inquire about Esperanto. , "I agree with the Breslau consul, for I be!!«ve that the day is not far distant when foreign merchants will transact much of their international business through Esperanto." OLD ROMAN ARENA DUG UP IN HEART OF PARIS AND COMPLETELY RESTORED. Will Be Utilized as a Placs for Open Ahr Theater in Which An­ cient Dramas Will Be Given. * Heaviest Chain. Probably the heaviest chain ever made has been turned out by an English firm for the Japanese govern­ ment. The common link* weight 200 pounds apiece, and the end link 300 pounds. The cars which run through the new tunnels connecting Manhattan with Long Island will have doors on the sides, thus Insuring quick loading and , - . . ,,, The things of a bygone gge have a fascination for the people of to-day. The ruins of former centuries are being uncovered and explored, and in some cases where the circumstances warrant are being restored. This is true in Paris at the present time, where steps are being taken for the restoration of the remains of the Roman theater, which were unearth­ ed Just before the Franco-Prussian war, but which have for years been desecrated by a terminus of the Gen­ eral Omnibus company of Paris. Up to the time that the omnibus company took possession of the pic­ turesque spot in the Rue Monge, it was the pride of Baron Haussmann, who found delight in the ancient ruins, although he made no practical use of the place. Now it is proposed to revive it in a manner most aesthetic. Some time ago the omnibus company was dispossessed and the ruins com­ pletely restored, and at the present time M. Camille de Sainte-Croix, the dramatic author, has obtained a con­ cession from the city of Paris which will enable him to give open air per­ formances there of old Greco-Roman plays similar to those conducted at Orange, Beziers, Champigny, Nimes, Aries, and other places which have Gallo-Roman remains. The theater in the Rue Monge dates from the third century, and was built by Roman soldiers whose camp occu­ pied the place where the Odeon and the universities now Btand. In 1870, when the Rue Monge was pierced and these Roman remains were unearth; ed, the archaeological societies of France helped to form a company to restore and preserve them. But they never went further than the sweeping of the only part of the circus that was» exhumed. The Franco-Prussian war Interrupted the work, and the pot­ teries, coins, arms and sculptured or­ naments found in these remains were taken to the Carnavalet museum. The remainder of fhe circus is still un­ earthed, and is covered - by the red- tiled station of the General Omniums company. Thirteen years later the city awoke to the necessity of making some use of the material excavated, and the ruins were repaired and a square was planned with trees upon the borders. But the effort ended there. The present arena is In three parts --the stone steps to the left, the ter­ races to the right, the hemicycle cut by the omnibus company's wall--a wall, by the way, which is most ad­ vantageously situated for the uses of the present undertaking, as it gives acoustical properties of much the same importance as 'at Orange, and will permit of lyrical performances until the way is clear for grand spec­ tacular ballets. The stage, with its orchestra, dressing rooms, scenery, costumes and accessories, will be built at the foot of this great wall. A velum in four parts, fixed with decorative masts, will protect the stage and , the. spectators from sun or rain, at the same time intercepting the view of the neighboring houses. The principal entrance, afcx yards wide by fifty long, leads from the square to the arena. The audience will be seated in a circle facing the wall in the original distribution of places on the stone steps to the left and the terraces to the right, covered with removable wooden benches, and, in the shape of a fan upon the ground of the arena, covered with a slanting flooring in wood with seats at various prices. In the Asylum. Now Jonas was in a padded celt,. But Smith, he had an added Insanity--eo mad was he He had his brain-cells padded! --Puck. THE PRISONER WAS FINED. Mb -WAgi She was a New York Irish girl ih court as the prosecuting witness against a prisoner arrested for dis­ orderly conduct, and the court w».a getting at the true state of the case by asking the usual number of entire-, ly relevant questions. w "What did the prisoner do? he in­ quired, after the preliminaries had KoAn flAttlfd "He coom alahng by th' area pwhere Ol wor shtandin' an' begin to address remar-rks to me," replied the wit­ ness. "What did h« say?" • "He said 'Good avenlnV" "There was nothing very tad to that, was there?" «But, sor, there wor no lnthroduo- tion pravious. "Oh, yes, I forgot that.' "So did he, sor." "Did you speak to him when he spoke to you?" "Yis, sor. Oi towld him to gwahn about his business.' * ana i "Did he do so?" i: •- A ' . * ' - J to me." "Did you talk to him?" "No, sor; not wld politeness, sor." "What did he do then?" "He shtood over closer, sor» u' takin' me chin in his hand, wid tiis t'umb in wan cheek an' his fingers in ^4\ th' other, he held me face up, sor, an thried to kiss me." "Oh, he did?" "Yis. sor; he did." "And what did you do then?"^ "Oi jerked me hid away, sor, towld him Oi wud hov him arrlstefl fer personathin' a policeman, sor." "Ten dollars and costs!" interrupt- & ed the judge, while everybody laugh- • * ed except the witness and the police- man.--Judge, /iVf ' In Chicago. s Mr. Wabasn--I'm going "tnrt W""igef • a divorce, dear. Mrs. Wabash--Well, pleaae hurry back. • "Don't worry; I shall." "But I can't help %rorryiiBfc^h "Why?" "Suppose you shouldn't get thft da •Of c® ?1tYonkwra' 3 ;.V%' •d!