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Show t THE TOMB OF CHRIST. 1T HAS BEEN A BATTLEFIELD FOR CENTURIES. Jealous Monks Continue to Riot Over Resting Place of Prince of Peace Arrangements Made with the Sultan. London. In the one place in all the world where noise of strife should be forever hushed, and only sounds at worship be heard, men met in bloody battle recently. Crucifixes and censers were the weapons, Franciscian and Armenian monks were the combatants, and the scene of the struggle was the tomb of Christ. For a brief time the battlefield of the crusades echoed again to the sound of clashing arms, the groans of the wounded, the cheers of the victors. Hut this was not a battle of believer against unbeliever, heathen versus Christian. The contestants were monks sworn to teach the doctrines of the Prince of Peace. The bone of contention js a desire to control the sainted sepulcher. It was this ambition that brought the Crusaders swarming from all Europe, and now a form of the same desire has the monks of the Franciscan order and the Armenian branch forever at each other's throats. They quarrel over the right to sweep off the steps, and the Greeks, though they had little part in bringing the tomb of Christ under Christian control, have profited so skillfully by the quarrels of France with Turkey, that they have ingratiated themselves with the Pasha till he is regarded as their silent ally. In this last battle one sacristan had his skull smashed in with a heavy center, and a number of the combatants went to hospitals for treatment. So frequent have the quarrels been in the last decade that often Turkish soldiers have been forced to intervene. French, Greek and Italian consuls have at times been dragged into the controversies that resulted from these outbreaks. Apparently no permanent peace is ever to come to the tomb of Him who as his cardinal doctrine taught the law of peace. For the events that made the tomb of Christ a permanent battleground the devout Helena and Emperor Constantine are indirectly responsible, though the motives that led them to Jerusalem were the holiest. First Helena embraced Christianity, and then converted her son, Emperor Constantine. Once in the faith he made it his resolve that Jerusalem, City of the holiest deed in the world's history, should not be neglected. With reverent care Constantine and Helena sought out all the spots that were identified with the Holy Passion Washington Day by Day and erected on them churches and suitable memorials. News Gathered Over the spot where the cross was placed a chapel was erected, and the in sacred wood itself was retained Jerusalem by Helena and placed un der the great basilica or church erect ed by Constantine over the place ol Christ's burial. The erection Of these buildings, parFAT AND SLIM FOLKS ticularly the church, made Jerusalem a place of pilgrimage, such as it has GET UNCLE SAM'S HELP remained to this day. For 300 peace ful years the cross remained at the Basilica, and nothing but the wor shi)ing songs and prayers of the faith ful rosounded over the sacred stones. too are There In 614 warfare and slaughter came WASHINGTON and too many upon the holy spot. Jerusalem was thin people in the country, and' tin stormed by the Persian king, Chos government, through the agricultural is conducting experidepartment, ments to show them how to strike an average. C. F. Langworthy. chief of , the division of is conducting Investigations which in exelude dietary studies, digestive periments and various other things with food. V0 connection "How to get thin and how to get fat" are being experimented within a course of dietary studies at the University of Maine, at Orono, in. that state, under the supervision of Prof C. D. Woods, and at the University of Tennessee, at Knoxville, by Prof. E. C. Waite. These experiments were in full swing before Secretary Taft entered the cabinet, and therefore it cannot be camcharged even in a presidential paign that he used his influence to get the government to work on the scheme. Now is the time to get thin, the With government's experts believe. Newly Discovered Tomb of Christ the approach of the summer and its Near Jerusalem. at the National Capital nutrition-investigation- - roes II. The Christians made their bravest defense at the door of the church, but were defeated, and the tomb of the Saviour was the prey df heathen. Fourteen years ' later, Emperor Heraclius regained possession of the tomb for the Christian faith. Even the end of the wars between the infidels and the Christians did not bring peace, for the Saracen control was disputed by other heathen nations. The Mamelukes took the city The Turks recovered it in in 13S2. 1517 by the valor of Sultan Selim. The son of this leader, Soliman, built the wall that now surrounds the city. At last, being unable to occupy the home of the scenes of the Holy Passion, the Christian nations made an agreement with the sultan by which they ceded his right to control, but got in return permission to worship there, and to have the sacred basilica in charge of Christian priests. But even this has not brought peace to the tomb, 'and strife and hatred still reign where only love and worship should be. SAVES FORTUNE FROM WAGES Massachusetts Man Lays By $10,000 save money. He saved a certain portion of his wages, no matter whethfrom Meager Income. er they increased or diminished, and Boston. Octave Girard of Ware, when some of the children grew large Mass., boasts of a fortune of $10,000 enough to go to work they added to his savings by paying board money. Mrs. Girard aided greatly in buying raw wool, washing it, carding it and , spinning it into cloth for instead of buying material from the stores. She also knew where and how to buy provisions, and a carefully tended market garden lessened the expenses of living. Mr. Girard has made only one investment, but that was a successful one. He bought a piece of property for $900 and sold it a few years later for $1,500, but he , has not cared to make money in that way since. He has preferred to stick to his principle of systematic saving. COvtxKirltNT green vegetables the path of the fat man who wants to reduce is made easier. To fat ones the government says: "Eat little, sleep little and drink less." i'o the thin man it says: "Drink all you can, eat all you can and sleep as much as you can." The thin man who wants to get fat must eat and drink 'everything that he can stomach. He mtfjl eat plenty of most potatoes, bananas ancj bread Important, he must drink before and alter his meals. The experts say it is principally what a person drinks and not what he eats that makes him fat. Fat is mostly water, it is asserted, and the inore water or other liquids a person stows away the more likely he is to gain weight. Above all, a thin person who wants to spread out must sleep ten or eleven hours a day. A nap after each meal is offered as an excellent inducement On the for fat to come and stay. other hand, the man who is trying to lose weight is advised that he keep moving after a meal to thwart the dread adipose. SWELL THE SOCIETY BARS BELMONTS PERRY Trophies of the Chase Arranged Ingenious Form. in OCTAVE GIRARD. San Antonio, Tex One of the most (He Saved $10,000 Out of Wages of remarkable trophies of the chase is $1.25 a Day.) a settee which adorns the front galof a home in this city. It Is after working 27 years without miss- lery never were that for a wages ing day more than $1.25 a day. During this time Mr. and Mrs. Girard have brought IS children into the world and cared for them well. They have lived thriftily, but not in a niggardly fashion, and Mrs Girard's housewifely skill has done much to stretch her husband's income over such a large family. For the last few years Girard has been a coachman in Ware, but he has now retired to enjoy a life of ease. Systematic saving was Girard's Ho was born In Canada, and rule. in his youth was much Impressed by the fact that the old folk usually were considered incumbrances if they had Unique Settee Made cf Antlers. He says that while the no money. young people took care of their par made of the antlerr of deer and elk ents, it was a burden for young mar- shot by the owner. These antlers are ried people, who had a right to their among the most perfect specimens to The settee is own lives and who had trials tOfltl be found anywhere. of their own to face without having wide enough to hold two persons and to take on the support of the old has a back that rises six feet above He resolved that no one need the floor. The antlers are bolted to folk. take care nf him In his old age. He set her and so arranged as to form a hustled to the United States with this comfortable seat. Only antlers are Idea In his mind, and arrived In Wor used In the construction of this setcester. Mass., with only ten cents. He tee, even the seat being formed of walked to Grafton, a distance of M smaller specimens. The arrangement miles, to get a job. and worked for of the settee Is ingenious to a degree a shoemaker for several .years. Then that makes It an object of deep Inter- It was made many he shipped on a whaling vessel and est to visitors. wen' around the world. When he re- years ago as a curious and effective manner of preserving the trophies of turned he married I former sweet-heain Canada an MUM down to the chase. - "I see." said the Burlesque Queen, "that they have caught another gentleman burglar " "Gentleman burglars," replied the ward man. "as a rule do not exist, for this icason; a gentleman would not be a thief, and a man possessed of the qualities that go to make a successful cracksman couldn't be a gentleman; but since Belle w played Raffles, every time they land a fellow who wears a clean collar and cleans his teeth and nails they announce Another Society The. last real gentleman Burglar. know of was the one that crack Georgie Lindsay got some years ago. "When Georgie was playing in the Casino she created quite a sensation with her flaming red head, enormous eyes, little hands and feet and the king's ransom of jewels which she habitually wore, plastered all over her so that she looked like a jeweler's showcase. Everybody knew her and knew her sparks, and it was a sure bet that sooner or later she would be robbed. "She lived in a little bijou house in Bensonhurst. One summer night she woke up and heard some on scuffling around the roo"i She spoke and the intruder came up to her bed, and, turning his lantern (the thief's electric light wasn't invented then) on her, told her to shut up or he'd blow her roof off. Georgie Porgie was as as the Ice Trust. '1 won't move,' says she. Go ahead and get what The fellow looked at her you pretty sharply, made a threatening gesture with his gun, and went, to work looking for the sparks, while Georgie lay in bed, the covers drawn up to her nose, and watched him with big eyes, like a naughty child who has just been punished and put to 1 ' "He couldn't find them, and he came hack to her bedside. 'Here,' said he. 'you get up and give me those diamonds, and don't you make any noise, "So Georgie stepped out of bed in her pajamas and crossed the room barefoot, and dug up the sparks from under a lot of skirts and frippery, and handed them over. Now, a good cracksman, having the stuff, would had have beat it; but Georgie-Porgisized him for an amateur, and so 'May I light a cigarette, Mr. Burglar?' says she, with an adorable lisp. Thank Have one yourself?' And the you. dub took one, and she began to talk to him. You know Georgie could be a brother to a prince or fellow to a beggar, and they had quite a conversation. She asked him why he was In that business, If he wasn't afraid, and all about it, and he got quite interested in her and began to tell her the story of his life and try to justify his mode of life to her, and Georgie-Porgisat on one foot and listened and they got quite chummy. " 'Let me mix you a cocktail,' says she, and she led the way into her -room and mixed one for him and one for herself. He had enough sense to keep an eye on her and not let her from in front of him, and she, with her baby face and lisp, kept her eyes At last open to catch him offside. some lingering remains of sense whls pered to him it was time to go. " 'You must go?' said she. 'I really can't say I am pleased to have met you, but it has been a most interest ing experience.' " 'Good evening,' says the gentleman burglar, a la Raffles, '1 am sorry that I should appear in such a light, and I can say I am charmed to have met or' has developed that the Perry have suffered a rebuke in their attempt to 'break into" Washington society. Mr. Belmont has been rejected as a member of the Chevy Chase Hunt club, and this action has brought to a climax a sensational social situation. The fact that there has been all tor and winter a social campaign against Mr. and Mrs. Perry Belmont into which all their New York connections the other Belmonts, Sloanes and Asters have been drawn, makes this social tempest of wider propqr tions than those which are ordinarily discovered in teapots. What is, perhaps, the most curious part of the situation lies in the fact that Mr. Belmont is an active member of many culbs far and away more exclusive than the Chevy Chase. He is not only a member of the Knickerbocker, Manhattan, New York Yacht club, Metropolitan, Army and Navy. s IT Jockey club. Turf and Feld. Coaching club, and similar organizations in this Country, hut he is a member of the leading room at Newport and was line of the two Americans elected to the Paris Jockey club. To cap the climax Perry Belmont is president of the Allied Hunt club, of which the Chevy Chase organization is a subordinate member. The divorce records of the Belmonts is believed to have something to do Mrs. Belmont with their rejection. was formerly Mrs. Henry T. Sloane. Utwe sesured a divorce from he-I1899, and she was married to Belmont the day ''the'' decree was granted. Perry Belmont also has a divorce record. He married a Miss Sarah Whiting when he was a young man. and the two went to Paris on their wedding trip. Mrs. Belmont came back alone and secured a divorce. A baby was born after the divorce was granted. WRONG MAN, BUT HE WAS PLEASED WITH THE SMOKE thei.-clothes- REMARKABLE HORN SETTEE. Guarantees everything you luy $W them StUfftOtioa or your money haek. It In cheaper to deal with us. for you take uu ehaii m. Raffles Proved to Bo No Match for Gecrgie. bed.. mm, ) Here and There The Old 1862 House THE GENTLEMAN BURGLAR the numerous employes of AMONG of the government departments in this city are two men whose names, though they differ in the way of spelling them, are not altogether unlike in the manner of their pronunciation. Both of them have the good fortune of being close friends of a prominent druggist, and the elder of the two has frequently obtained from the medicine man a supply of medicated cigars, which he finds to be of value in giving him relief from a catarrhal affection. Recently he called on the druggist and requested him to have prepared for him a box of the cigars. After a few days, not having received them, he wrote a note inquiring as to the cause of the inattention and received word in reply that the medicated stogies had been sent to his office several days before. The next thing was a call made at the drug store by the man with the -- MRS. wil iHr II VON ('LACSSKN. who all the way from Stockholm to upset 1'ncle Sam's diplo IDA M prepared matlc corps because Minister Graves would not present her at King Oscar's court, even when Oscar, whom she had "jollied" at Wiesbaden, was "ju crazy to see her" got as far as the at (he White House with waiting-rooher complaint the other day. She couldn't even get as far at Secretary Loeb, who sent an assistant out to meet her and direct her siw There ly to the state department. upon Mrs. von Claussen retired from the White House, after leaving a com mnntcatlon requesting that the presi dent appoint a commission to Inquire Into her' sanity before she proceed further.'f . a, Is muc h In earn proclaiming her'lfriovance. and believes that what she regards as an Insult to heiseli ,uis ,in Insult to the whole American people. She declares Mrs.' Voti'Claus'cerl- .st In - dining- catarrh, who was disposed to be in-- ' dignant, and the porter who had been dispatched with the cigars was called He said that he took them tc up. the office and handed them to a mes you.' senger, who promised they should be "He was at the door then, and foi delivered without any delay. They one minute he turned his back to her had not been, however, and it became "So nice of you to say so,' lisped necessary to investigate the mystery Georgie-Porgiand quick as a flash An explanation came next day she snatched a Moorish dagger from when the other friend with a name a panoply on the wall, and drove It sounding like that of the sick mar hard between his shoulders. Simulcalled on the druggist and thankeo taneously she gave him a violent jolt him for what he thought had been In the back with her knee which drove a present to him. He wanted to find him through the door and slammed where he could procure another box the door and locked it. He gave a as he had used all of these. There horrid hiccough and she heard him was a peculiar flavor to the tobacco, thrashing round like a hen with its he said, that he liked very much. He head off, then he didn't know they were medicated fell down the stairs and Georgie threw cigars until the druggist told him, and open the window and yelled, 'Fire! the matter was set straight by the Murder!' and so on. other gentleman being promptly sup"In a few minutes she heard the plied with his catarrh remedy, and dumpily clump of a cop's boots as he then they all enjoyed the joke. name running. The unfortunate Raffles was lying at the foot of the stairs. Georgie's servants were afraid to go down, bo Georgie went herself and let the policeman in. Poor Raffles lay NEW YORK WOMEN OUT groaning with the knife sticking in his back, and in a broken voice begged SCALP AFTER ENVOY'S them to pull it out. 'I'm dying,' he groaned. " 'Not. a bit of It,' said Georgie cheeras she extracted the knife and fully, she will return to Sweden and Le did some first aid work with wet towpresented to the king. els. 'You'll live to do ten years.' "Mr. Graves stated a deliberate un "And he did. The doctors pulled truth when he said did not offer him round and he got ten for that job. evidence of an invitation to be He didn't mind the stretch so much, sented to King Oscar and that I did as the way she fooled him. not have the proper credentials," de " 'That little devil,' says he to me. 'I clared Mrs. Von Claussen, when thought there was no more harm In show the dispatch from Stockholm her than in a kitten.' to the effect that Minister Graves had "Lots of people thought that about written an open letter explaining Hit Georgie-Porgie,said the Burlesque "He knows I was In Queen. controversy. vited to be presented to the king, an he says what Is false when he state Saw the Ballet. I had nothing to Indentlfy me. I had So you went to the Uncle George a cablegram from President Stir's ot and saw the one ol the leading trust companies ol theater this afternoon, drama? How did spectacular grand New York." like it? Mrs. Von Intimated youSmall Claussen Nephew (who spent last sum strongly that perhaps Mrs. Graves mer at a fashionable seaside resort) was jealous of the gowns 'Mrs. Von In the Oh, It was awful nice! Claussen wore, and that that fact middle of It a whole lotRight of stylish might have operated to prevent br ladles came out and danced In husband presenting an American vU young dresses N. Y. Weekly. bathing Itor b kl e, I " to the Swedl "SESTABUSH E MAIN ST. SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH. PATENTS Protect your ideas they may bring you wealth. Patents, Civeats, Trade Marks and Designs quickly obtained. Information furnished free jpon application. Harry J. Robinson AT LAW AND SOLICITOR OF PATENTS 102 MERCANTILE BLOCK, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH ATTORNEY Mrs. Longworth in Society. Mrs. Alice Longworth is taking her place as a hostess in Washington society and her Tuesday at homes aro becoming one of the weekly features It is an opeD secret of the capital. that Mrs. Longworth has political am- bitions for her husband and, perhaps, she is not far wrong in believing that one of the open doors to political preferment is to be found in the social observances for which she is so well Btted. $30 California & Ret. Salt Lake Route. Drydock Cut Out of Rock. At Port Florence, on the shore of the great lake Victoria Ny: aza, which is the chief source of the Nile, there Is a drjdock cut out of solid rock by natives who had never before dona much serious work. The dock is 250 feet iong, 48 feet wide and 14 feet deep. It is 3,700 feet above the level of the sea, or nearly three times the altitude of Lake Chautauqua. (30 California & Ret. Salt Lake Route. Task for Court Crier. 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It has to be read by means of a magnifying glass and ont is given with this tiny Dible (or 55 cents Sunday Magazine. Cunning and Ignorance. Cunning always has been the offensive and defensive weapon of Ignorance. "Match cunning with cunning" only as a last rejort. John A. Howland. 1 |