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Show THE JOKERS" ORIGIN New Religious Propaganda Thai Is Making Much Headway in America HOYLE NOT INVENTOR OF FOUR- TEENTH CARD. "Introduced to Hi Attention by a Plainsman Shrewd Invention of a to Deat Four Ace When Himelf He Held but Three.' Mean Hecldcnts Broadway and Fifty iuar have ftr fonu time pant each Sabbath morning attracted heuj a by ka!elducopic proceiolon of many complexions and persuasions wending toward a demure brown stone building at 226 West Fifty- ighth Street, which Is down on the city map as Genealogical hall. This weekly procession has nothing to do with the Scribes and Pharisees. Nor Is It a Sunday morning gathering of Shakespearean phlb osophera searching for sermons In stones and books In babbling brooks. None of tin so was represented In the pilgrimage to the demure hrownstone house a Sababth ago. They were devout pioneers of a new and no less remarkable than numer- eighth Mrt-e- t - his pilgrimage to Acre entertainingly describes the Master as follows: Imagine that we are In the ancient house of the still more ancient city of Akka. which was for a month my home. The room in which we are faces the opposite wall of a narrow paed street, which an actlu man might clear at a single bound. AUoe Is th bright sun of Palestine; to the a wall right a glimpse f the old and the blue Mediterranean. As we sit we hear a singular sound arising from the pat ciuent thirty feet below It faint at first and Increasing. a murmur of human voices. Wt open the window and look down. it is a noteworthy gathering. Many of these non are blind, many more lions to the to come him. Tluy crowd lip a little sistcntly. He pushes them back and lets them pass him tm In S.ll. ll pi genii) by on by one. As they come they hold their hands extended, lit each op jalm I ! j he places some small coins, lie I. now them nil. He caresses tlum v.lth Ids hand upon the face, on the shoulder, on the head. An aged ne gro who hobbles up be greets with u!m kind!) Inquiry; the broad face hunks into a sunny smile, his white It t It glLtrnilig against - - sa. n i.l l I,, I i.ii i ix l!ri I, Ik al-- Xx ll l ii.i lln- - into. of llg, iii -- i U I - i !t ltd II hKi I Will tu Hu- b tl 1 1 Jok at-ou- t . ili'l.'lil il hi I Ih.ik lii Ml kiT Utili k no lltn I'l III tiitll Itll IK m.lll tt.u iuikii i i lii- ii Uiiir, inJ Iil I . - ti uli- t, I v . i 1 1 nii nl Sul- ili'll -- in lit till X he.- nxx, ii, j - lii I InmiiiIiii ) l.i i tt i . xi In i t mi Ik i uiiii in luix Ihii-- i xxtin il.illiiU xx il xx tlu. !x -. i Inxx w .i 1 - 11111,4 i;ii4 il llu- 111 I xx 1 a tin i nr 111X1 lu-i- hioxxliig. aliU lln-l- i hi llu Uliili i xx. fton-- - a!lir taking iln I'm i.unp.g. 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Ills hand: Some day at this season, if you are ltiv and il. tmiz.li aiming t might at William, and. prnelalmlng xxliat ha advised of the place and time, you hold, ih o, nod tin- gaining at an may see the Akka poor gathered at at d. taking in. aii s and a Jnkor xn a winone of the shops where clothes are Said lluoohand at nikor. William ning sold, receiving cloaks from the Masmallod tho Soaker) tho Ii.i lul would xxlu. ter. Upon many, especially the most InCftn and crippled, he himself places It vxas in tin rough and gory days that saw tin Pi oniior's glory, and "txvas the garments, adjusting them with his I Inis, so mns tin story, that tho jokir own hands and stroking them approvcam to ho attention by ft ingly as If to encourage the wearer. Introdinod in toxin's invention of a slimwd plainsman's There are five or six hundred poor in moans to hoat four ares when himself up time. Akka, to all of whom he gives a warm And intin master erafter said in exeiy paek thereafter must lie one garment each year. ! xx - x 1 l i - pl.ii-i-- - s - hi-tl- xx dii-x- In-I- - win-ma- t I la-i- x ically successful religion which, since 1898, has thrown its occult enlightenment into many corners of Dark America and Darker New York a religion which within forty years has illumined for 9,000,000 human beings the path which leads to Acre and to Him Who Lives There. Acre is a Syrian seaport sixty miles from Beirut. By the Babists it is pronounced and written Akka. Those who have seen and absorbed the teachings of Abbas Effendi believe that Just as Mohammed lived and died to save and sanctify all Mussulmans, and just as the Christ suffered the crucifixion in order to accomplish the same Christian purpose, the Master at Acre will unite true believers of every race and religion under both the cross and crescent. In other words, they believe Babism is the evolution of all religions of the past and as such is designed to carry on the torch of moral, physical and spiritual civilization. This- is the story of the extraordinary One at Acre as gleaned from several followers in the congregation. Myron H. Phelps, of the New' York bar, in a recent written account of - are paie, emaciated, or aged. Some are on crutches. Some are so feeble that they can barely walk. These people are ranged against the walls or seated on the ground, apparently in an attitude of expectation. For what do they want? Let us wart with them. We have not to wait long. A door opens and a man comes out. He is of medium stature, strongly built. He wears flowing, robes. On his head is a light buff fez with a white cloth wound about it. He is perhaps sixty years of age. His long gray hair rests on his shoulders. His forehead is broad, full and high, his nose slightly aquiline, his moustaches and beard, the latter full though not heavy, nearly white. His eyes are gray and blue (an unusual color in Syria), large, and both soft and penetrating. His bearing is simple, but there is grace, dignity, and even majHe esty about his movements. passes through the crowd, and as he goes utters words of salutation. We do not understand them, but we see the benignity and kindliness of his countenance. He stations himself at a narrow angle of the street and mo- light-colore- d His room is small ami bare, with only a matting on the stone floor. Yet. while he is a prisoner, his jailers hive become his friends. The Governor of the city, the commander of the army corps, respect ami honor him as though he were their own brother. And how' could it be otherwise? For to this man it is the law, as it was to Jesus of Nazareth, to do good to those who injure hint. Have we yet heard of any one in lands which boast (he name ot Christ who lived that lift? Such is Abbas Effendi, the Master at Akka. Babism or Bahaism may be roughly condensed as making for perfect comradeship. He Who Lives at Acre has personally informed Mesdames Ihoe-bllearst of California and E. L. of New York, as well as Miss Britt ingham. Attorney Phelps, Chairman Hoar, and Prof. Edward Granville Brown of Cambridge University in England that his teachings are evolved from many other and older religions, from which, be it ventured, they differ little except in laying stress upon certain passages of both the Bible and Koran with regard to brotherly love. Briefly, Bahaism teaches that the universe exists for the purpose of individualizing the Eternal Essence; that is, for the purpose of creating in that essence centers of consciousness and intelligence which shall know themselves and It. Behai is It. His book of laws recommends, in conclusion, that mankind shall select one language and one character for those that exist, and adopt them as a means of communication,, to the end that the whole world" may become one land and one home. New York Times. e Get-sing- er n eaid. nannd for Laughter, and be kept there Kept then- in riiinmuiiii'd t Ion of shrewd that a quirk draw Sandys deelaratinn and three aees made a hotter hand than four. J. W. Foley, in New Voik Times. . - Useless Information. The following incident occurred in a Kansas City court room. A German saloonkeeper was on trial and had been sworn. One of the attorneys began to question him: Mr. S. , whore is your place of business? What for you ask me such foolish dings? You drinks at my place so many dimes That has nothing to do with the . State to the jury case, Mr. S where jour place of business is. "De sbury! de shury!" cried the old German. "(). shimmy! Every shent lemon on dis shury has a sliring of sliust like a marks on my cellar-doo- r rail fence! The court here interceded on behalf of the counsel, and in a calm, dignified manner requested the witness to state the place of his business. Oh, excuse me, your honor, said the witness; "you drinks at rny blace I dinks you knows so many dimes. I fery well vere keeps mine blacw. Ambiguous English. Have you ever tried to explain the various meanings of some of our English verbs to a foreigner? asked a lady' who employs many servants. My German maid went to the drug store the other day for some headache medicine and returned very much 'puzzled. 'The man say Yiil you take it, or she reported. Eef shall I send it? he do not send it how can I take it? |
