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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Signal, 1899-2-9, Page 3t "TAE JOYOTJS COMRADE." By L ZANG WILL, "Well, what are you gaping at? Why don't you may something?" And all the impatience of the rapt artist at beiug interrupted by anything but praise was in the outburst. "Holy Moses!" I gasped. "Give a man a chance to get his breath. fall through a dark.auteetaimtlesa alt►• cycle, stumble round • , and, smack, a ciure• of oriental sunlight from u u ..•utiu canvas, the vibration and glow ut a group of joyous figures reeking with life and sweat -you the idealist the meeker after nature's beau- tiful moods and art', beautiful pat- ternst" "Beautiful moods?" he echoed an• telly. "And why isn't this • beautiful mood? And what more beautiful pat- tern than this -look, this line, till, Weep, this stoop here, this clinging ot the children round this mase -all in a flow-balauoed by this man of cool shadow? The meaning doesn't Interfere —with the powers, yea ehenspfu Ob, so there 1s a meaning! You've become an anecdotal painter I" "Adjectives be hanged? I can't talk theory in the precious daylight If you can't see" - "I can see that you are painting something you haven't seen. You have n ot been in the east, have you?" "11 I bad, I haven't got time to jaw • bout 1t Dow. Come and have an ab- sintb at the Cafe Victor in memory ot old Paris days -Sixth avenue -soy oft the boys will tell you. Let me see, day- light till 6 -half past d An 'voir, ate 'vole!" As I went down the steep dark stain "Same old Dan," I thought "W hr. would imagine 1 way a stranger In New York looking up an old fellow struggler on his native heath? 1f I didn't knoll', better, '1 nilght fancy his tremendou, success had given him the same opinion of himself that America has of bim. But no; netbiug will change him -the same furious devotion to big canvas moa be baa quietly planned bid picture, the same obstinate con,irtfon that be it seeiug something iu.tbe only right way And yet aemething has changed him. Why has his brush soddenly gone east: Why this !saw kind of composition crowded with figures --ancient Jews toot a been taken with piety and L be going henceforward o.teutatioualy to proclaim his race? And who is the cheerful central figure with the fine open faoe? 1 don't recollect any such glen• in Jewish bhstory-or anything so joyous Perhaps it's a study of mod era Jerusalem Jews, to show their life is not all Wailing Wall and Jeremiah. Or perhaps it's only decorative. Amer - lata 1s great on decoration just now. No, Se mid the picture had • meaning. Well, I ball know all about 11 tonight Anyhow it's s besutifnl thing." "hams old Den," I though$ it•a more decisively as, when I opened the door of tbe little cafe, a burly, black bearded figure with audacious eyes tame at me with a grip and • slap and • roar of welcome and dragged me to the quiet corner behind the billiard tables. "I've jest been opaltsing your ab- sinth for you," be laughed as we eat down. "But what's the matter? You look kind o' scared." "It's your inferno of a city. As 1 turned the oorner of Sixth avenue an elevated train came shrieking and ram bling. and • swirl of wind 'wept screeching round and round, enveloping me in a whirlpool of smoke and steam, until, dazed and choked in wb.t seemed the scalding effervesoenoe of a oollieion, I bad given opal' hope of ewer learning what your confounded picture meant." "Abel" Ile took • oomplacent sip "It staid with you, did its" And the light of triumph, flushing for an instant his rugged features. showed when it waned bow pale and drawn they were by the feverish tendon of his long day's work. "Yee, It did, old fellow," Iadd affec- tionately. "The joy and the glow of it, and yet also some strange antique simplicity and restfulness you have got into it, I know not bow, have been with me all day, oomforting me in the midst of the tearing, grinding life of Chit closing nineteenth Dentary after Christ." A cations smile flitted soros Dant face. Ile tilted his chair back and rest- ed bis head against the wall. "There's nothing that takes me sr Much out of the nineteenth century after Christ," he amid dreamily, "W this little French cafe. It waft. me book to my early rtadent days, that lie somewhere amid the enchanted 'niece of the youth of the world, to the rent• fol toil of the studios, to the careless trips tD quaint, gray Holland, or flam- ing, devil may cure Spain. Ah, what scenes shift and 'baffle in the twinkle of the gas jet in this opalescent liquid -the bot shimmer of the arena at tin Seville bullfight, with its swirl of cob,' and movement; the torchight prooeawiou of pilgrims rowel the church at Lonrdee, with the one black nun praying by her- self in a shadowy ogrner; the love) valley of the rouble where the tinkle of the "beep bells mingles with the Lu- theran hymn blown to the four winds from the old chnrch tower; wines that were red; ennebine that was warm, mandoline." His voice died away as to exquisite reverie. 'And the east?' I said slyly. A good natured •mile dissipated hie Qslteions dream. "Ah, ym.t" be said. "My east was the Tyrol.' "The Tyrol 1 How do you mean?" "I see 701 won't lM ms oat of that may„ "Ob l There's a dory. is therer' "Oh, well, perhaps Dot what you lit- erary chaps would eat I • /bull No lovemaking fn it, you knew." "Then it ere wait Tell me shout your picture." "lint that's mixed ap with the Wary „ Didn't i Pay you had become an an- atidert•1 smile?" "It's no laughing matter," be said gravely. "You remember when we parted et Munich a year ago last apriug. you to go an to Vicnua and I to g•• Will to Americo? Weil, I bad a sudden fancy to take cue last European trip all by myself, and started month through the Tyrol with a pack on my back. The third day out I fell and bruised my ttgvesely aid ` > my lift a mountain town till moonlight And I tell you 1 was mighty glad when I limped. across the bridge over the rushing river and dropped on the hotel sofa. Next morning 1 was stiff as a poker, but I struggled up the four rick- ety flights to the local physician and being assured I only wanted resit I re- solved to take it with book and pipe and mug in • shady beer garden on the river. 1 bad been reading for about an hour when Ave or six Tyrolese, old men and young. in their gray and green costumes and their little bats, trooped in and occupied the large table near the inn door. Presently I was startled by the sound e f the zither. They began to sing songs. The pretty daughter of the house came and joined in the sing - Ing. I put down my book. 'The old lady who bad served me with my mates of beer, seeing my in- terest, llama over and chatted about her guests. Ob, no, they were not villagers; they came from four hours away. The slim one was • schoolteacher, and the dicker waa • term: and sang in tbe chorus of the Pas'ao spiel. The good looking young man was to be the St. John. Passion play I I prioked np my ears. Vibe)? Where? In their own vii lege-three days hence -only given once every ten years -for hundreds and hundreds of yeare. Could strangers Get it? What should strangers want to Inc it for? But could they see it? Clew's*. This. sem indeed a stroke of lack I bad always rather wanted to see the Passion play, but the thought of the fabioo• able Oberammergau made me sick. Would 1 like to be vorgestellt? Bather. "It was not ten minutes after this in- troduction before I bad settled to May with St. John, and clouds of good American tobacco were rising from ■ix Tyrolese pipes, and many an 'ant lhr Wobl' was baeying the pretty Kellner inn. They trotted out all their repertory Of quaint local songs for my benefito..lt� sounded bully, I tell you, out there with the sunlight and the green leaves and the rush of the river -and in this aroma of beer and brotherhood I blessed my damaged tbbgb. Three days hence! Just time for it to hal. A providential world, after all. "And it was indeed with a buoyant step and • gay heart tbat`i set out over the hills at sunrise on that memorable morning. The play was to begin at 10 and 1 should just be on time. What t walk! Imagine it! Clear coolness of dawn, fresh green sparkling dew, the rued similes np and down, round bills ap cliffs, along valleys, through wood where the green branches swayed In the moruing wind and dappled the gran• fantastically with dancing sunlight And as fresh as the morning was 1 fel, the artistic sensation awaiting me. 1 Iwuog round tbe last hill shoulder, my the quaint gable. of the first hoose peep ing through the trees, the obarob spire rising beyond, then groups of Tyrolea oonverging from •11 the roads dipped down the valley, past the quiet lake ap the bills beyond. found mysel caught in • stream of peasants, and presto, was rucked from the radian day into the deep gloom of the barnlik theater. "I don't know bow it is done u Oberammergau, bat this Tyrolese thin; waaa strange jumble of art and naivete of talent and .upidlty. There was fall fledged stage and footlights, ant the scenery, some one said, was pekoe, by • men from Munich, but the player: Were badly made op; the costumes, correct, were ill fitting; the stage basalt_ lighted, and the flats didn't ' tine. Some of the actors had gleams of artie tio perception. St. Mark was hematite to look on, Caiaphas had a senile of elo cohort, the Virgin was tender toe sweet, and Judas rose powerfully to hi g reat 20 minutes' soliloquy, but the balk of the players, though all were earnest and fervent, were clammy or self conscious. The crowds *ere stili and awkward, painfully symmetrical, like school children at drill. A chorus of 10 or 12 ushered in each episode with song, and a man further explaloed it in bald narrative. The acts of the play proper were interrupted by tableau:: vivant. of Old Testament scenes from Adam and Eve onward. There was much, yon wee, that was puerile, even ridiculous, and every now and then some one would open the door of the daaky saditorium and a theft of mon• shine would fly in from the outside world to remind me further how un- real waa all this glnnmy make believe. Nay, during the entr'acte I went out like everybody else and lunched of sausages' and beer. "And yet, beneath all this critical conerinnxnere, beneath even the artiste consciousness that could not reeled jot ting down ■ face or • wane in my gkntehbittnk, i mmething engines was hap peeing It, the depths of my being. The play exerctaed from the very first m wtraugo magnetic effect on me; deepit• all the primitive humoreof the player-. the simple, .nhlime tragedy that discs gaged itself from their anoonth but earnest goings on began to move aml even oppress my and. Christ had been to me merely • theme for artiste; my sterile* and travels had tamiliattsed.rn' with every possible conception of the Man of Sorrows. I had .wen myriads of Madonnas narging him, miles of Mag dalone* bewailing him. Yet thewnrrnwe I had never felt Perhaps it was my Jewish training; perhaps it was that n one of the Christians I lived with had aver believed In him. At any rate, here for the fire time the Ohrlwt story tame bottle to me as a real, living fact; some- thing that bad ectnally happened. I saw Ibis simple ane of the people -made men simple by my knowledge th.t this a ressetattvs waa • baker--mnvtnp amid the anolent psausit► and .he. life elf Galilee. 1 saw him draw mall sod women, saints and sinners, by the magic of his love, the 'ample sweetness of hie Inner 'wahine; I saw the euuahioe ohauge to lightning as he drove the money changers from the temple; 1 watched the clouds deepen ea the -trage- dy drew on. I saw him bid farewell to his mother; I heard suppressed "ober all around me. Thou the havens were overcast and It seemed aa if earth held Its breath, waiting for the supreme mo- ament They dragged him honor* Pilate; they clothed him iu scarlet lobe and platted big crown of thorn. and spat on him; they gave him vinegar to drink, mired with gall, and he so divinely tweet and forgiving through all. A hor- rible oppression hong over the world. I felt choking; my ribs pressed inward; my heart seemed 000trscted. He Was dying for the sing of the world, he summed up the whole world's woe 'and pitifulness; the two ideas throbbed and fused in my troubled soul. And 1, a Jew, bad hithaeto ijaored hitt What Werititfagreetwilesee simple panels gobbing all around, if they knew that I was of that hated race? Then something broke in me and I sobbed, too -sobbed with bitter tears that soon turned sweet In strange relief and glad sympathy with my rough brothers and sisters." He paused a moment and nipped si- lently at his absinth. I did not break the silence. I was moved and interest- ed, though what all this bad to do with bisglowing, joyous picture I could only dimly surmise. He went ou: "When it was all over and I went out Into the open aur, I did nut 01e_thr sunlight. I carried the dusk of the theater with me, and the gloom of Gol- gotha brooded over the sonny afternoon. I beard the nails driven in; I saw the blood spurting from the wounds. There was realism in the thing, I tell you. The peasants, a ocu.tomed to the painful story, had quickly recovered their gay- ety and were pouring boisterously down the hillside like a glad, turbulent mountain stream unloosed from the dead bend of frost. But I war spill ice- bound and fog wrapped. Outside the Gastbaua, where f went to dine, pay poop. assembled, an organ played, some strolling Italian girls danced gracefully, and my artistic self was aware of a warmth and • rust-: But the Inmost me was neck deep in eR:"s with which the terribly pounded steak they gave me, tranduleot!y overlaid with two showy fried eggs, seemed only In keeping. Si. John came in, the Christ, and the soboolmaster-who had conducted the choir -and the thick tenor and the supers, and I congratulated them one and all with • gloomy sense of dishonesty. When, as evening fell, 1 walked home with Si, John, f was g loomily glad to find the valley shroud - pun Slettad shat the mountain; every. when vague, drifting bulks of malari- ous mist. 1 .ought to pierce them, to find the'rud.uape. the cheerful village, the warm human life ue.tltug aide: God's heaven, but saw only, way be- lowt.ati`,t1-r+ipgh • tunnel out betwixt mist and rebunttie, • dead Inverted world of booms and trees in ■ chill gray lake. 1 abuddered. Au Indenusble apprehension possessed rue, something like the vague di•cotutort of m (thwme. Then almost in.tautly it crystal -timid in. to the blood ourdliug suggestion: What it this were divine obaatiaement? What U all the outer and inner dreariness that bad so steadily enveloped me rinds I witnessed the tragedy were punish. meut for my disbelief? What if this water were really holy and w7 salla!• lege had brougbt.ome grizzly nemesia?" "You believed that?'."„ "Not really, of mutate but you, al an artist, mast nnderrtand bow one dallies with an idea, plays with amood, works oneself up imagivatively Into a dramatic si cusum. 11atg,,gmw upon -ag-iti1; Bksthe deck, afraid of the ghosts he doesn't believe in, 1 grew nervous" "I dare say you hadn't wholly reoov- ered from your fall, and your nerves were unetrung by the blood and the nails, and that steak bad disagreed with you, and you bad bad • bad uight and you were morbidly aueaay abnot annoy. ung the old woman and all those chunks of mist got into your spirits. You are • child of the sun." "Of course 1 knew all that, down in the ceiling of my being, but up stairs, all the same, I had this sense of guilt and expiation, this anxious doubt that perhaps all that greet, gloomy, medi reset bualnees of saints and nuns and bones and relics and miracle• and icon. and calvaries and °elle and celibacy sod horsehair shirts and blood and dirt and tears was true after alit What If the world of beauty I had been content to live in was a otanbo .bow, and the real thing was that dead, topey turvy world down there in the oold gray lake under the reeking mists? I sneaked back into the house to nee if the streak hada't dried yet, but no, it loomed in telltale ghastliness, a sort of writing on the wall, announcing the wrath and visita- tion of heaven. f went ont.:ide•again and smoked miserably on the little tenth. Gradually I began to feel warm- er; the mints seemed clearing. I rose sod stretched myself with an acbe of luxurious languor. Enot nraged, I stole within again to peepLattlta„gk.., $,) was dry -a virgin wal innocently white met my delighted gate. I opened the window. The draggling vapors were "till rising, rising; the bleakness was merging in • mild warmth. I refilled my pipe and plunged down the yet gray bilL I strode past the old sawmill, skirted the swampy border of the lake, came out on the firm green, when, bing, Mtn, br-r-r 1 • heavenly bolt of sunshine smashed through the raw mists, scatter lag thea like a".boeab .W -ba bonsoe' rim. 'Tben with sovereign calm the sun came out full, flooding hill and dale with luniinons joy; the lakh shimmered and flashed into radiant life and gave back ■ great white cloud island on a stretch of glorious blue, and all that golden warmth stole into my veins like wine. "A little goat came skipping along with tinkling bell, a bores at grass threw up its heels in ecstasy, an oz lowed, • dog barked. Tars of exquisite emotion came into my eyes. The beau- tiful, soft warm light that lay over all the happy valley seemed to get into them and melt something. How unlike those tears of yesterday, wraeg out of me as by some serpent coiled round my ribs! Now my ribs seemed expanding -to bold my beart.—nd all the divine joy of existence thrilled me to a reli- gious rapture. And with the lifting of the mists all that ghastly medieval nightmare was lifted from my soul. In that meted moment all the lurid tragedy of the crucified Christ vanished, and mly Christ was left the simple fellow- ship with man tied beast and nature, the love of life, the love of, love, the love of God. And in that yearning eaten my picture came to me -'The Joyous Comrade.' Christ -Dot the tor- tured God, bat the joyous comrade. the friend of all simple souls -the joyous comrade with the children clinging to They were not Int/agent ed in mist and a starless haven sagging, over a blank earth. It seemed an end - len up hill drag to my lodging, and, though my bedroom was unexpectedly dainty and a dear old woman -St John's mother-metapborioally tucked me in, I slept i11 that night. Formless dreams tortured me with impalpable tragedies and apprehensions of horror. "In the morning, after a cold spong- ing, the oppreetion lifted a little from my spirit, though the weather still seemed rather gray. 8t. John had al- ready gone off to. bbs field work, his mother told me. Sbe was so lovely and the room in which I ate breakfast so n eat and demure, with its whitewashed walla, pure and etainlew like ooantry mow, that I managed to swallow every- thing but the coffee. Oh, that coffee! 1 bad to nibble at a bit of chocolate I car- ried to get the tante of it ont of m7 mouth. I tried hard Dot to let the blues get the upper band again. I filled m7 pipe and pulled out my sketchbook. My notes of yesterday seemed all faint and the morning growing so dark that I mould warmly see them. I thought I would go and sit on the little bench outside. As I was ,auntering through the doorway, my head bending brood- ingly over the sketchbook, like this, I eanght sight out of the oorner of my eye of a little white match stand fixed upon the wall. Meohsnieally I put out my left hand to take a light for m7 pipe. A queer cold wetness in my fingers and a little splash woke me tothe sense of some odd mistake, and in another instant I realized with horror that I bad dipped my fingers into holy water and splashed it over that neat, demure, 'pothole, whitewashed wall." I could not help limping. "Ah, 1 know, one of those pocelain things with a crucified Savinnr over a little font! Fancy taking heaven for brim- stone I" "It didn't neem the least bit fanny a1 the time. I just felt awful. What would the dear old womau m7 to this profanation? Why did people have whitewashed Walls on "Minh sacrile- gious stains were luridly vielble? I look- ed np and down the hall, like Montt when be slew that Egyptian, trembling lest the old woman should come in. How could I make her anderetand I was so lgnot'aM of Christian custom sl to mistake a font for a matchbox? And if I said I was a Jew -good heavensl- be might think 1 had dome it of fell de- sign. What • mond to the gentle old cantors wbo bad beth so swat to mal I amid not stay in right of that aeons - lug streak. I most walk off my unman - nese I threw open the outer decor. Then I "toed still, paralysed. Mon.trovs, evil looking gray mina were clamped at the very threshold; sinister, formless re, "4 tattle apinah woke me to the genie of some odd sl/at-Pe." him and the peasants and fishers listen- ing to hie chat; not the theologian 'pinning barren subtleties, but the malt of genius proteattng against all forme and dogmas that would replace the di rent vision and the living &infamy; not the Man of Sorrows, loving the blank - meal of endergronnd 0111s and scourged barks and spxiww skeletons, but the Inv• et of warm life and warm sunlight and all that is fresh and simple and pare and healthful " "Every man maker his God in his t wo image," I thnnght, teen touched to jar him by paying it atond. "And an, runt since, off and on. I have worked at this human picture of bim-'Thu Jnycroe Oomrada'-to re- store the trate Child to the world." " W hfch yew hope to convert?' "My business is with work, not with neolta ' Whatsoever- thy /mei g0does to do, do it with thy eatellk't Whitener, any single Laud, even the. wHlgbtlrbt, d, le this great weltering world/ Yet, without the hope and the dream, who would work at all? And so, not with- out hope, yet with 110 expe(trtam of a wiraule, I give the Jewr a Cbrt.t they can now tempt, the Christians a Christ they have forgotten. 1 rebuild for my beloved American a type of simple man hood, unfretted by the feverish lost for wealth or power; • simple lover of the quiet moment; a sweet buman soul never dispossessed of itself, always at one with the essence of exietenoe. Who knows but 1 may suggest the great ques- tion, What 'ball It profit a ,nation to gain the whole world and low Its own soul?' His voice died away solemnly, and 1 beard only the clink of the billiard belle and the rumble and roar of New York. A Capital by Accident. Natal. never tnteuded Berlin for any- thing but a provinoial town. It has been made into the capital of a great oposidro -dallbsstely,.,of maltos atoll. thoogbt, Irba.: In' fact, been victim- ised by favorable circumstances. To the stranger there 1' nothing abdut it that faaoiuetee, nothing that excites the imagination. It has neither the archi• teeterel beauty of Vienna nor the reck- less gayety of Paris; neither the vast- ness that surrounds London. It is a sprawling commercial towu in the mid- dle of a sandy plain. A muddy and moat melancholy stream wanders unob- trusively through the center of the city •s if rather ashamed of itself. To the north and south are forester of pine and plains of sand; to the east and weet art plains of sand and forests of pine. FINE POINTS OF 60111. How to Make the Swing From Start to Finish. DEFECTS 1N PLAY TO BE AVOIDED. Striking Style e1 liaataed'a Creek Golfer -• Tle • Perfect Swing De- scribed by Jobe D. Dwae-•-Dee't Re 1e a Merry. One of 'the ternin•tiona of golf is the element of uncertainty which entereinto the game. Seldom does a player go nut sn the coniwi that • new situation doer not •rises. Lays are seldom alike. The winds change so frequently, the oondltion of the ground varier so greatly, and the ball gets into ouch queer and difficult p,, onions that ewch stroke adds same charm to the enjoyment of the player. ..-•itegxnlieg the beat mourner of—swim/Oft the club, opinions dither. John Bell, Jr., Tile Protean Kaiser. The emperor of Germany receive. and oongratnlatea °Moen' and fauction .ries just promoted, foreign embasea dors, German princes and members of the aristocracy, chatting with each a minute or two. Frequently be changes his uniform six or 'even times, having enough uniforms of all nations, grader and arms to clothe a small army. Sup- pose the son of an artillery general comes to announce the death of bis fa- ther. The kaiser, to honor the memory. of a valued officer, dons the uniform of s general of artillery. He makes the costume fit theoomplimeut For'foreipu i embaaeadors or attaches be wears some uniform or decimation conferred on him by the sovereign of the dignitary n Femoa• l■ 1111• Lime. Walter White, for many years amidst - ant secretary of the Royal society, gave in bin journsle many amusing and witty 'perches and sayings, 'ome of which he •heard at first hand. Among those re- peated to him by other people wa.a bou- mot made by nun of the founder' of the Atheneum club of Loudon. When the Athenaeum club was first -Clnkii as Drgtnt that.no man should be admitted wbo had not in some way distinguished himself in lit- erature. Sion alter be proposed the Duke of Wellington, when some one said, "The duke has never written a took." "True," replied Croker, "but be is a capital band at reviews." gime. Feminine Nature. "You don't seem to be attracting as much stteution as some of your cow mdes," said the bystander to the soldier boy. "Hang it a11," he' •naweted, "Pace kept my uniform tow clean." Por 11's the toughest looking .molal that draws the daintiest girls -Cleve. land Plain Dealer. MYSTERIOUS LIGHT AT SEA. Mr** $teaterees Didn't fnd.reta■d It, bat ole Prl.ee of s1 Knew. The Prince of Monaco has been knr,wn dace 1885 as an enthusiastic student of the sea and its various forme of life He renally spends hie glimmers in the study of oceanographic problems, and his cruises have on some ncraxions been extended almost to the coapts of Ameer- ica. He del-vere a Torture before the Royal Geographical society in London in which he told this incident One afternoon. while in the bay of Biscay. he tank the trap in which he collected epeccmena of sea life. 11 went to the bottom in over 12.000 feet of (rater. and an night approac'he'd he fan tened -to the wire attached to it an 'lee uric buoy sod thea_ stood off a mile or so. It did not happen to oeenr to him that he was right in the track of admin ere plying between, northern Europe and the Mediterranean. bnt he was re minded of the fact later An he end his I4 sailors were watch . Ing with a good deal of satisfaction thp swaying buoy with its brilliant ill mination a atesiner'n lights tame into view It was aor:n evident that the steamer wee onions to know the mean ing o/ the illnrnination. for elle alters' her comae and inside for the light Sha knew that no fishing boats came amt se. far from pend and to determined t.c, solve the mystery Up she came to within a qnarter of a mile of the tinny slowed np for a minnteand then start, ed ahead. perhaps a little chewe tel at the incident that had lured her ,u-veret miles ont of Loaf' course She had hardly got away when as ere end steamer ,-ante into view• end .he ton. bore clown neon the lighted buoy The marine- on the prince's veer el nn derstxxl by this time that the illumine tion wan probably believed to be evi dente of a chowder Jnet x. the princes steamer wee moving np to explain mat ter. she was nearly nun down by one of the large liners in the oriental trade. which had ale() left her conrw• to render what a/ffiiitxnre she could The emelt was very heavy. and the minae Garai x collision as the three •easels xppreched the light like moths aronnd a candle He therefore veered off and the other v.mmele. after .tandlnr by tor a few minute.. went on their Way and probably never learned the carne of that night's illnrnination at sys. But the Incident gave the prince. • pointer He eerefnlly refrained there atter from exhibiting him electric buoy ori any of !h0 much traveled ocean routes( apeaklag •dvu.dlr. The Oahu One --Ain't mad, are pone' The Oieierle one -Yon Doan "en gry," sir t Only dogs get mad The Calm One -Oh, nol 1 meant 'toad "-New York Journal. In pmpnrtlon to iia afro, a fly walk. shit as tinea sx fast as • man BALL'! Tett 'west. the Eugli.h player, haw a famous swing. John 1) omit' has this advice ,for the amateur regarding the swing: "I'lace your feet so that they, with the heed of your club, (Orin a triangle. Your left foot sho Id be a1ou,et at right angles to the di rection you want the ball to go. Stand neither so for front the ball that your anus Rare straight nor yet so near that the hat dle'totithee c ;bYllbRy: 'Tf176Ibtf iU',h14 ung s shorter grip, should be slightly bowed. Stand with your feet well apart, but not unn,tufortably so. This completes what is called 'eddnaaing the tall.' "The two moat Important things to re- member are: To keep your head to the same place the whole time during the Ewing just as -If It was fixed in a vice. You must regard your head as the pivot of your swing. Neither turn your head nor else 1t up. You must keep stooping, without rounding your beck, and with your head down the whole time during the awing. Even after you haver - the hall you should sti'1 tee looking at the ground where the tall has left. Beginner. are u.n apt to look forward jest as they are etriking. Never rise up until the ball is well away. "The second important point la to keep your eye on the side of the tall, the plane you want to hit. Beginners aro very liable to look abstractedly at the whole ball; that means the top. This has a tendency to make you hit the top. "flaring taken up your position or 'ad- dressed the hall,' the next thing to do Is to Ewing the club Mask to your- neck. In doing this d.'a-rihe the quyarter of a circle round the right tont, the right feet being the center of thaicircle. -Dont thin foo, great a hurry to raise your club. The club head should leave the ground reluc- tantly. Make as barge a circle as porlble when swinging. Beginners are too apt to curtail this circle, and the rei.ult is a sledge hanuner stroke which finishes In the ground. "Turn your body from the hlpe without turning your head. Drop your left 'boul- der and raise your right elbow so that the upper part of your arm 1s on it level with the top part of your right shoulder. Drop your left elbow down toward your waist. Beginners are very apt In swinging beck to rise up or sway to the side. It I. Im- possible to be at all (ertaln if you do this. "Bend your left knee Inward, heel out. Only bond one knee at time. Your left heel should now be off the ground. The object in the knees Is to tel the hips turn zoore freely. Swing your club Opted the tet'h: of your neck. "The shaft should now bo horizontal. and alnx,st, but not quite, touching the back of your neck. The 'note,' or extreme end of the hid, should bepointing tnwari the ground and your left wrist ifhould le bent under. The grip with your right hand should now be almost entirely with your forefinger and thumb. Cramp tights still with your left Land. 'Swing the club Mack until you can get the turning In of your left knee and the raising of the club to be one motion. "Never m'-Ihg track feet, as the ohjer In swinging back Is to get way on the cruh If you seeing tack too fast, all your strength will Ise wilted in going back. whereas, you want to gather your strength for the stroke. H,•rnember all your power has to be reserved until jnat as the club I. coming to the ball. "It le well cat first to make a pause at the end of the swing heck to assure your self that you /save done everything right. although when you are striking at the ball there should he no pewee. When making the purse, think if your head Is in the game plane as It sins when you were sal dressing the hall. See, too, that you'liev," all your eye on the side of the hall. Your left hip, too, should he facing the bell. "Ilring your eh,b down to the hall one.• or twice to iatIsfy yourself that you have pot rieen up In swinging hack nor yea swayed your body- to the side. Rath hoar you bring your clash to the ground your left heel should go down to Ile original position. Ile cnre•fui In swinging back ' that you do not go over on the right part of your foot. After a tlmo you willdevolop what is technically described M the 'pre Itminary waggle.' th1. rnnsistsof swing Ing the chili backward and forward once over the tall. Then place the club band down behind the ball before taking the Anal swing. "The finish of the swing should be ex actly the reverse of the swing track, the right heel now being turned outw',t'il, right knee knee fur•uul lir, left elbow up, right wrist under and the shaft almost tonehl ng the left pert 01 the iu'•k. Ifo not be In ten great a hurry to look w hen. the bell ham gone." '.JUST A BAD COLD, A sharp stinging pain i in the back- you think it dcwon't amount to any- ' thing -be ail right in a few days -but it doesn't get all right -kidneys are not doing their duty, and the poisonous matter that i they ought to remove a going all through the sys- tem -causing rheumatism, gout, dyspepsia, head- aches, backaches -all bora of ills DOAN'S KIDNEY PILLS Cure the dietaae by removing the cause. W.D. P.ppham Talbot St , St Thomas(�u• ata. "1 h.ee iur a long time be.) neo 5 Dark •od" k,dppey th nt••• Ily b.,14 w . ea atf-aiateemnrl 1. that naliaa lest deem.l h•.1 • ate Itati gI in . v P1115, and [hap have taken the .nfneee apo pain trunk nu backnd enabled tea to straighten up without pun or ditteulty." Price sac. a boa.3 for 5t .t, all dadaist*. The Doan xidaey It Co., Toronea t. 11DOOAA*.N' l\BT/TVrI. GODRRICH MECHANIC.' *i.NTITI LIRRARY AND Ick: i ROOM,'eos of Bast street and Sgmly la l Open from (10 a P.n...u'a from 7 for PA. Alk)UT 3000 VO..'s IN LIBRARY. Legatee Doller, weekly and Ill. rated Paper Msgsstnes. tie., on 7 ISHMUNIS$HIP 1'II-MET ONLY •1.N Granting free us. of Library and Reading R..n. r--• Appllea'1ta • for wmbefilifii received -bg • y�gn las room. cIJL, oRNK, R. AAIll TO:: Secretary. tkederieh. it tsh M &ts�e.tare. Where Oar I.a .fast►lee. "There tipoeitivily thedomhest man I ever waw Why, that fellow doesn't know anything." "And yet he 1. chief a/miltant In his wife's intelligence office." -Chicago News rare and at.ge. ale fired him with a steady stars Wbtob the mama, as 1t dawned on his eonaMoaenea., made him wish that the gale were lass 1sA•ady.-Obsoloaall .mm rarsea• CARE OF WOMEN'S NAM. K ee, It close sad V.. at raw Hslrpl.e as P•taibl.. To kat the hair in good condition it Is absolutely Dere .,wry not only to brush it wltb clan Inushee and great regular ity, but certainly ones 1n twa'veeke to give It a thorough shampooing rid that every particle of dost may be removed from It Th. soh, fluffy tont of tote hair bss and Its aaatiful glom after being sham- pooed. shows how grateful it 1s for the treatment gives it. Etperieme though sometimes a tiresome teacher. bap taught tae• 10A1 obs. IOU .Way las Asanes *0. aealp a•d the hair 1e. 10 ape very bot water made "sono .udy" with tar soap; oes a nailbrush. upon widen the soap has own rubbed, to scrub the scalp thdr oughly, and after every tart of the scalp Is washed rinse the balsa and had with baths of water, the first Ming the tem- perature of that used for washlpg rube hair, and the Iasi ordinarily cool, the bales between having been gradually graded. To get such a bath for the hand It Is only necessary to hold one's bead over the basin and have the water from a me. ill pitcher poured over It. Ree _bath thw .. -MOS-Or of tea e ringing the bait until It 1s quite tree from aoapsodx, and aat11 the water Is as clear as before It went over the head. When the bale to shampooed it 1s win to put on • loose wrapper that cannot be Injured either by water or soap I do not ad•ine tee os. of • fan In drying the bale, as It has ban found to give malty women severe colds, nor as 1 recommend the loose TnrkL.b toweling for rubbing the hair, since It 1s apt to leave fluffm of white cotton •Il through 1t; but for the first rubbing um • thick. hard Turkish towel, and after that rub the hair and tbe bad with ordinary towels which have bean made hot for this purpose You will be ear prised to sec bow quickly ind oomfort- abiy the hair dries Do not put the hair op until it le perfectly dry, or It will re main damp for a long tlm• and ole• • elms. mouldy and altogether undeelrable smell about It. Use as few hairpins as you petdbly an. -Huth Ashmore In The Ladle.' Hoiue Journal. A ((.'.,I 11.Ing. "Iloilo, Banka," said bis friend, ' What are you doing bare?" -Oh, I'm In the Insurance business." "Fire or We" "Neither," rid Banks, calmly, and as be did not brace himself to prove It, nor [make n lunge at the other mane Dation- bola, his friend's curiosity was aroused. "H 'az! what kind of a sp.cle. 5.;. 700 added to the genus." be Inquired, hum- bly. "Well," said Henke."vclth the grarlty of • man wbo has jti.t given hie last quarter to a philanthrnplet, "It Isn't the bright tilde of an cid thing turned ever. It is something di'unetly new A good thing? H'en' it doesn't even need to be paehed along"' "Well." said him friend. "you don't happen to have a picture of It in your pookeD ' "No," said Banks "Rat i'll tell you. It Is • policy that positively insures against the mating of creditors when you are broke; against the man wbo wants to borrow your umhrella for five minutes; against the candid frIend who tells you bow much were you look than you feel; against the man who wrong to get a corner on your time without paylog for 1t, agalu.t the shark, the fish story, the chestnut, • ainst the mother -In-law, and other Hine annoyances of home: against the man' wbo knows it all; against-" "'Hold on, there," broke In hie friend, wildly. "That'll do, -make me oat • policy for $60,0ilu." mama Dialect ..te,rlee. Th• southern dialect coetinuee to re- veal its go•lotna.• Mr. 'Torre, has re- corded this Florida dialogue: 'What time might it her" "Six o'clock." "Lan' :skeet 1 didn't know 1t was es sone as that," ' "Soon" in this ossa probably meant early. He has •Ito pot on record the answer of the North Carolinian who was asked 11 be hail been at the Worlds Fair. "No; flow's] for /bwent, but I dIdb'1 glt 80 go " I have lately hard • bit of genuine noire English whieh may do to go with these examples. A young lad• of my aaivalntanee ems vIsIting at a hones where • eolnred lad wax kept as a sort of boyofall work. After she had been there • day the overheard • converrtlon be - twain the crook end this boy. "How 110 you like the cemp•ny?" asked the cook. "1 like her right well." .•1d the boy. "1)n you think the's pretty?" "Seel," geld the lad.'thrra1A'1 's•oklg„ prosy, but she' dew well 'nougb wear due ain't no bets" at'" The riven In northern Russia were f roten last year before the end of OM abee relWeeWritMettly 1 fOR M N AND WOI , 'tet! Br. Ward's Blood & Nem Pills. • 1 1