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MauAzINE supplement to
IfWfj wvl ft «4UiutiNT TO
The Rockdale Reporter
AND MESSENGER
41*.
imk’khale. .mii.a.m county, Texas, Thursday, ji nk it.
_ . .n<rn nAATAD AT TUt r FI A KIT
tfANf\cn*in#viuii f%i i ml i nuii i
P^rD’U-T Sherwood-INmD of Sow
_ v gone to Europe AO the b«*d
JVfVicSi hospital unit on Iho ftp-
^ * . j f dnvihint shot
««* and !f anythin* AhouW bap
"• w this banker and doctor the
jvttj states would mourn the k>aa
SVdaa «ho has been for yeera
!Lre In public movement* It ta
JJwrprtsins that he Is giving his
^p.,^ to France, for tn that coun
lifi r
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k A
rw pnIpA
oated. first practiced
ard became a leader In
D(?4ic'nr
c welfare matters
^ [Voter Sherwood-Dunn was born
j, R„$hford. N Y and after study lug
la tti<> N>» York university took bis
de#!>es at the University of France,
besaa practicing in Paris and was
Barr.ed there to an American girl
Hr »*s a member of a committee that
revised the laws governing the ad-
mission of foreitn students to the uni-
vers :y and prevented the threatened
exclusion of Americans. Later he
wjs one of the founders and
UNSPOILED BY RICHES I ftSf^TEfWJ! 1111 III
IIIIIM
ONE MAN OF WEALTH WHO RE-
MEMBERS LEAN YEARS.
directors of the Society Tor the Prevention of Cruelty to Vntmais in Pans
Seine time after he returned to this country a group of bankers invited
him to join with them in organizing the Century Trust company, and he
became its secretary. As a result he became generally interested in the
banking business and in 1907--8 he was the president of the European-A mer-
1 ican bank He sold his interest in it in 190S and removed to South Carolina,
where he was largely interested in the banking business
■ . .'-■VOvXVlVs Yv..Y*fjy.
r>m> Oo»ur nr Calima
PAPAL SECRETARY OF STATE
Italy's participation In the Euro-
pean war necessarily involves to a
certain extent the Holy See and the
pope, and makes more important than
usual the papal secretary of state.
Cardinal Pietro Gasparri. who holds
that high office, is a man of undoubted
ability and long experience iu church
and diplomatic affairs.
He was# born at Capo valla: ta <11
Cssita. in central Italy, on May 5.
1S52 In his younger days ho taught
theology in the Pontifical Roman
seminary, and canonic law at Propa-
ganda Fide; and he was barely twen-
ty-eight when he was appointed pro-
fessor of law in the Institut Catho-
l'.que of Paris, where he spent in schol-
arly pursuits nearly twenty years
in LS98 he went back to Romo to
receive his appointment as apostolic
delegate to Peru. Bolivia and Ecuador;
along with the title of archbishop of
Caesarea "In purtibus InfldoUum " His
American delegation lasted four years
and was crowned with satisfactory results In every way. He was then made
secretary to the congregation for extraordinary ecclesiastic affairs.
After two years' hard work, having found it advisable to allow himself
some relaxation, he took a vacation, traveling to the Holy I .and in company
»iil: Mon.-gnore, afterwards Cardinal IViai. and returned quietly to bis
work soon after The purple cloth came to him one year later, with the
consistory of December 16. 1907, not as the perfunctory conclusion of a
bureaucratic career, but as an early and well-deserved recognition of very
particular and brilliant mertL
GIVE A NICKEL TO SUFFRAGE
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Occupying a prominent place In
I the Washington headquarters of the
Congressional Union for Woman Suf
I fraco and pointed to as a "horrible
example is a nickel donated at a
suffrage street meeting by Congress-
t'-un Thomas Heflin of Alabama,
’whom th. women style the "arch one-
**- *'•’ suflfr.H'io in congress." An in-
ores’tt g s’ory « told in connection
Mill. Ii.a
One
Vi.. i piece. vira
j do,\ M-ss i’.s o Hill, one of the lead-
speakers for “the cause." was
. conducting a mooting at a Pennsyl-
I avenue corner, and a large
| °‘"n"5 ha'! ^'Hooted to listen to hor
[eloquent pious Vmong her hearers
v'.'ie K " bi’,i< vpd ,n the cause
i tJtbeiently to contribute libel
j sho called for financial
| . *no’’ *he organization. Just
| ..' ' " er" ; "~‘dlr,g ... vr iheir cash
' ' <- o«igressman Hefiin with
friends and soctr.o «hat n.,.,
[2* °V.he Alab*»‘* statesman
Th.* ! ,0 OUe °* *he collectors, saying. "Take that for luck
I placed <n Th? "ns moun**d 0,1 a bit of cardboard, properly labeled and
of font r '‘u! <uarten*. " here It takes rank with the antisuffrage speech
ongresstnan Rowdlo of Ohio, also mounted and labeled
liberally
as-
J**1 insim
WILD BEASTS HER CHUMS
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Lady Mackenzie, who recently re-
turned from Africa to take up her
residence, for the present at least, on
her ranch In Montana, is an interest
ing person in more ways than one,
For some years she has been known
as ono of the most fearless and
si tiled of big game hunters, and her
trips to Africa especially have re-
sulted In extraordinary "haws of ele-
phants. lions and other large and
fierce animals.
Always when she travels tally
Mackenzie carries with her some pet
wild boasts, and callers at her apart-
ments are sure to be met by some of
these startling chums She enter-
tained sixtv guests recently at Dcl-
hionico’s in New York, and the diners
were amused by the antics of lion
cubs, wildcats and other lively ani-
mals. some of which were so strenu-
ous that more than one dinner Jacket
was torn badly.
w , Tho menu was an elaborate one 1
tk« ,, slufr«<l eagles eggs, roast black bear, rhlnoceroa tongues. Eg.'p
1 id served iu cocoaauu and other edible*-
...
Th*r..
YEN the beginning of the voy-
age naa a spice ot exeiieuseui
about it With the exception
J^gJ of the leader of the expedi-
tion. not one of us had ever
been in Serbia before; nor, indeed,
had we more than the vaguest no-
tions regarding the country and its
people. Some of us, moreover, like
myself, had no experience whatever of
hospital work, so that the whole ad-
venture seemed as undefined and
shadowy as any lover of romance
could desire, writes John \V\ N. Sul-
livan in the Illustrated London News.
We started at midnight, but none of
us were in bed. The rumor that we
were presently to pass through an
area of floating mines 'aid by the Ger-
mans, combined with the natural ex-
citement of leaving England for au in-
definite period, effect-ally bauished
sleep for the time being And we were
to have a convoy! As a matter of
fact, the convoy was t very tame af-
fair. We occasionally saw a sniud e
on the bortzon which we were in-
formed was one of the escorting cruis-
ers, and sometimes two or three vi-
cious looking destroy* r& would come
near enough to be seen; but apart
from these transient appearances the
convoy, from the spectacular point of
view might just as well not have
existed. It left us at Gibraltar, and
from there till Malta it was no longer
necessary to have lights out at uight.
From Malta to Salonikl the weath-
er was bad, and. except for two days'
respite at Atheus, the time was speut
in enduring violent internal upheav-
als succeeded by spells of sad medita-
tion. Hut from Salonikl it is merely
a day's train journey to Skoplje -or
L'skiib, as the Turks called it when
It belonged to them and at Skoplje
our hospital is situated.
A Serbian train is never In a hurry.
It proceeds with leisurely dignity
along its s agio track railway, taking
1.1 hours to travel ISO miles, and thus
affording one plenty of time to study
S rbhm scenery. The Yardor, a river
which resembles a tumultuous stream
ot' pea-soup, accompanies tho railway
throughout its entire length. At in-
tervals we crawl cautiously and almost
imperceptibly over high wood bridges,
the Yardar boiling beneath and tho
bleak, bare mountains enclosing one
on cither side. Stationed at regular
distances along tho line we see a
little thatched mud hut. and stand
ing beside it a motlouless Serbian
sentry. ni.p,.ren«ly quits alone in the
surrounding desolatin'.. It has a
sei'eri!!" this Serbian scenery••
we gradually lose the holiday feeling;
we become serious and a little de-
pressed.
Arrival at Uskub.
With the fall of dusk we light our
candles, sticking them on projecting
parts of the carriage (l have not got
the grease off my uniform yet), and
open our bags of provisions. Fortu-
nately it is a warm day. for there
Is n,> heating or lighting apparatus on
tho train. \V» finish our tueai, talk
a little, and sloop a little, until pres-
ently the train clanks slowly to a
standstill. We have arrived.
Skoplje or I’skub has, as we dis-
covered later, more points of Interest
than most Serbian towns. It is bi-
sected by the Vardar, one side being
Turkish in population and buildings,
and the other side Serbian. The con-
trast is realty very interesting, and
in some ways Instructive. Hut at first
one had no opportunity of seeing the
town, the hospital claimed all one's
attention. After working twelve to
fifteen hours every day. one has little
leisure or Inclination for sight seeing
The walk (in high rubber boots!
through the nemlllquld streets of
U-kub from the orderlies' sleeping
quarters to the hospital, and the
view of the distant mountains from
the hospital windows, was for »ome
..ole acquaintance with this
On the other haud,
one gained quite a good insight into
‘he vuaittvitrf oi iuo oci uiau , cop 1c
from the patients in the wards.
They are a curious race. That they
are brave and efficient fighters is
shown by their records in this and
other wars; but it is more interesting
to note what ono might call their
peace qualities. The first thing which
strikes one about the Serbian patients
In a ward is their extraordinary volu-
bility and cheerfulness. They turn
everything into a joke. Including death
and disfigurement. Their seuse of
humor, like their sense of honor, oc-
casionally differs markedly from that
of an Englishman. With respect to
tho latter point, it may bo mentioned
that their two national card games
are so extremely simple as to be en-
tirely uninteresting when played
properly, go the Serbs cheat contin-
ually. The whole art of those games,
as played by the Serbs, consists in
their more or less dexterous methods
of cheating.
Intelligent Foik, Bui Ignorant.
The- are a quick, intelligent people,
yet remarkably Ignorant They soou
master tho workings of any pi.ece of
apparatus if they see it a few times.
It was often quite amusing to hear
their perfectly just comments on their
i own temperature charts. On the oth-
| er hand, a man who had been tilted
j with u glass eye complained most bit-
terly because he could not see out
ot it.
Their high spirits and ready Intelli-
gence. combined with a certain care-
| Ions improvidence, have caused one
I writer to refer to them as "the Irish
I of the Balkans," In appearance they
are dark and usually handsome, the
men being, on the whole, distinctly
more good-looking than the women.
It is not difficult to acquire an ele-
mentary knowledge , f the Serbian lan-
guage. which is probably the simplest
of tho Slavonic tongues; and the Serbs
display their usual quickness tn recog-
nising one's linguistic limitations, and
in confining their conversation to the
i,w words one has acquired. They love
argument and repartee, although some
uj their jokes make a modest orderly
devoutly thankful that the word sister
has not troubled to extend her Knowl-
edge of Serbian beyond about six
words.
My first Sunday In the wards was
marked by a rather curious experi-
ence. 1 Mas engaged in dressing a
wounded log when an extraordinary
figure itppeared before me, carrying
i;i his outstretched arms a little tray
from whence a heavy smoke was ris-
ing. This smoke he very solemnly
u:\vl deliberately puffed into my face,
and then turned to honor the patients
with his attentions. The sight of
the men crossing themselves sudden-
ly brought home to my bewildered
mind the fact that the man was a
Russian priest in full dress, and that,
in obedience to some rite, lie was
puffing incense on each in turn. It
was too late for me to cross myself,
so i nodded and smiled agreeably at
the priest, who seemed perfectly s»tis-
fied with my behavior, to uiy great
relief.
When at last the pressure of the
work grew less, and we . ud au hour
t ' spare, we made straight for tho
Turkish quarter of the town lnn-i-
m< raldo people, sheets of incredible
narrowness and tilth, at all inclina-
tions to the horizontal; hovels, crazy-
looking little shops, . ud mosques It
was fascinating and bewildering; but
we went there seldom and never
stayed for long, because, evou more j
titan the other quarters of that dis-
ease stricken town, the Turkish quaT
ter was the home of the dreaded ty-
phus.
time our
part of Serbia.
Delicate Anemone.
Anemone means "windflower." and
is so called because It is so delicately
poised that It sways with the slightest
ntollou of the air.
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Mm
Delights in Extending Helping Hand
That Would Havs Meant So Much
to Him When He Wae Get-
ting a Start.
The man who was doing the talking
has an income of fifty or stxty thou-
sand a year—dollars, not cents—the
result of some thirty-odd years of suc-
cessful business in New York. He
came to this town when he was about
eighteen and during the first few
years he was not in the same class
which he honors today. Indeed there
were moments when he was perilous-
ly close to the bread line, but he stood
by and won out in the end. relates the
New York Times.
"When 1 first came to New York."
he was saying, "prospects were not
rosy and there were times when I was
tempted to give it up and go buck to
the farm, but I'd get a full meal by
and by and put temptation behind me.
"During the first five years I was
associated with half a dozen or so of
young fellows about my own age and
of equal financial standtug. At the
end of the first year I had a steady
job with a future to it anu um<« •«.-«*
easier, but we did not live tn a fash-
ionable neighborhood and we knew
all the table d'hotee and other bohe-
mian hangouts in town, and our so-
ciety doings were confined to those
localities. Well, as the years went by
and we began to find our places in the
sun we drifted apart, some of us dy-
ing or disappearing and the others,
including myself, getting Into the
money class.
'“Now and then I see one of them,
or hear from another, and every one
of them says he got all he wanted of
that kind of life and never wants to
come near It again But 1 am not
that way at ill. I like to talk about
the leau times and very frequently 1
go back among the Joints and nothing
pleases me more than to set a bunch
around me of the beginners and the
has-beens and tfie never-will-bes and
pay for their dinners and their drinks
and cigars and loan them a dollar or
two if they need it, ami they most
&U do.
"I remember how 1 would have liked
that sort of man around when I was
making my stArt, and 1 know that to
all intents and purposes they are the
tame now as they were in my early
days. It does nu’ good to be remind-
ed of iho lean years, and I know <t
does the lean chaps good for me to
mix with them and give them a small
look-in on my luck.
"And by the same token I don't
have as high regard for my old com-
panions as l would if they came down
fronig| their high places and went
among the low again. I’m giviug a
dinner to ten regulars tonight at a
50-cent table d'hote place and 1 in-
vited two of the fellows who used to
he glad to eat that kind of dinner, but
they declined my invitation.
"Will 1 have a good time? Well,
you can bet I'll have a better time
than if i put on my glad rags and
went uptown to dim' with my high-
toned pals of other days."
No bother to
get summer
meals with
these cii hand
Vienna Style
Sausage and
Potted Meats
Just open and serve.
Excellent fof sandwiches.
Insul on L.-f-by J ai
jjotir gnxtr t
Libby, Mc Neill & Libby, Chicago
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Your Ylctrol* an*l Line!*
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Sim. So!. C.O.U. or-
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season. a»J«ol
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our N^AtvtfuL detfcchabio I*.brur*
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Your ,*oi*vlion.
Fo.io froo to
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T'ont* posiMld to iuAiuN»rx. S«*o*l for jvuiic' 'an
CUlU'dSK, S|>nnf«k>Ul Oaltfoua, N Y
SOLDIERS WHO WEAR VEILS
British Troop* in Southwest Africa
Have to Conduct Campaign
Undec Difficulties.
Poverty Does It.
"Thomas Nelson Page, since ho mar-
ried a rich wife, hasn't written a line.
Kipling practically stopped writing as
soon as he accumulated a fortune. Sir
James M Barrie, once his plays made
him wealthy, ceased grinding out any- j
thing except a one-act trifle per an-
num. It's tho same thing with Hall
Caine, too."
The speaker was Hrvant Cullen, the
English critic, editor and publishers
reader. He resumed;
"l.acR 01 ca»H—10 iuc wmw grc«t .
cause of progress. The world moves
because, most likely, it can't pay
tho rent."
One of the hottest places where the
British are fighting is in German
Southwest Africa, where General
Botha is in command of an expedition
agulnst the enemy. The habitable part
of German Southwest Africa lies in
the center of a sun-scorched, water-
less. shadeless desert of shifting sand,
and General Botha's men have to carry
everything they need, for nothing
whatever can be obtained from the
country, not even fodder for the ani-
mals.
The sand penetrates everywhere,
and the heat of the suu is so terrific
that all the troops fighting with Gen-
eral Botha have been served out with
veils and "goggles," Without them.
Indeed. It would be Impossible to get
along at all, and. as it is, hundreds
of the Boer burghers, though hardened
campaigners, have been so blistered
by the sun that they are in hospital.
The heat at midday is 12- degrees
In tho shade and the "shade" is v
sweltering tent. Many ot the troops
pass that time of the da> with noth-
ing on but a sun helmet and a pa.r
of boots.
Qualified.
Lawyer—Have you formed any opin-
ion ?
Jury Talesman No. sir: 1 was on
the case at the previous trial.
Have No Time for Booka.
Apparently the output of war books
has been as extensive on the other
side of the channel as in London
Over twenty different publications
were found on a stand outside a shop
In the Boulevard des Ballons, and.
judging from the gloom of the propri-
etor, none of them was selling partic-
ularly well. Incidentally, tho sale of
novels had practically come to a stand-
still.
Eligible an a Graveside Orator.
“When 1 die.'* said Noyes B. Hre'v-
more. "I would like Tennyson J. Daft
to make a few remarks at mv grave.
A man who can write such ambigu-
ous poetry ought to be able to deliver
a well sounding fuucrnl oration with-
out roally exposing my true history.'*
—Kansas ^tty Star.
Chicken Patties.
Patty cases may he houghi in city
bakeries, and will save time and trou-
ble iu pripariss this dish. F*'r ,h",r
filling cut up cold chicken Into tubes,
with sliced canned mushrooms and a
teaspoonful of chopped onions. Make
a white sauce, and add the mixture of
chicken and mushrooms, with season-
ing of salt, cayenne pepper and a few
grains of mace. Serve in heated patty
cases.
To Clean White Sweaters.
White sweat*’!** or chinchilla coats
may be easily amj inexpensively
cleaned by placing them In a pillow
slip and sprinkling then with ten
v cuts' worth of plaster of parts Shak -
well until the garments look white
then remove, hang out of doors and
heat the remainder ot the powder out
Sawed-Off Sermon.
What a happy old world this might
be If his Satanic majesty never cared
to wander from his own fireside.—Id-
dlanapolts Star.
There are 91.898 organized worker*
|R Missouri, of whom 3,936 are women.
Whole-Whest Bread.
Dissolve a yeast cake In two table
spoonfuls of tepid water. \d«l a pint
of milk to a pint of boiling water
and let stand until lukewarm. Then
add the dissolved yeast, a teaspoonful
if stilt and 'nough whole-wheat flour
to make a thick hatter. Beat this hat
ter for about fifteen minutes. It will
become quite soft and liquid Add
enough flour to make a good dough
Turn it on to a hoard and knead a ew
minutes. Return to the pun and let
rise until it is light. About three
hours is the usual lime.
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