The Buffalo Sunday Morning News from Buffalo, New York • 17

17 BUFFALO SUNDAY MORNING- NEWS: NOVEMBER 21. 1909. GLIMPSES OF THE BUFFALO OF EARLY DAYS. ST. JOHN'S NEARLY COMPLETED.

1 -VC TT i'l iA i 1 4i -k ll' i IS ja -IJ v-r- IIP" of the ladies who appeared in costume, ly and he feels that he has given the day a bad start, When M. gets off the train he is directly behind a fat lady with two children and a birl-cage. One method of playing this trick is to force his way rudely past the party, muttering something about "brats." the other is to go slowly and exchange smiles with the children when there is finally room to pass them. If M. chooses method 1, before he has walked five rods further he feels in, representing residents of Buffalo 75 years ago.

has had a good sleep and is wide awake and alert; takes as fast as M. can talk and never asks to have anything repeated. M. says: good, Miss S. I wish we had more of your kind in this place Or, Miss S.

has danced until 3 G. and yawns at the end of every sentence. After repeating practically an entire letter for her, M. snaps out: "Send in Miss X. If I have to dictate every letter twice I'll be here until ST.

JOHN'S NEARLY COMPLETED. wnmwM'nm'V'm gvwwv--- wpwwwtfwit-'-'V: 1 1 'f cathedral in New York City, which Is finest edifice of Its THE OLDEST TREE. Many In America Show Slarna of Extreme A by Growth. The most ancient living thing on earth is a tree. Exactly where that tree stands is a mooted question, foi many localities lay claim to it, but there have been scientists curious enough to investigate the various claims of the so-called "Old Green Tree of the Mississippi Valley," which stands near the river in Le Claire, Ia.

Its trunk is more than 100 feet in circumference, and its branches shade a circle of more than 300 feet. It was an ancient tree when the first white man stood under its branches, and haa a place in the traditions of the Indian tribes of the Mississippi Valley 1 Some KARMA ON THE JOB The Doctrime That we Get What is Coming to Us Illustrated in Practice. (Frank Andrews Fall, Id the Nautilus.) Put In everyday English, Karma ia the law that whatever you have coming to you ia bound to eatca up with you sooner or later, and you can't sidestep it. It may be good, or it may bad, or it mal be a little of both, but it will find you, no matter how many times you have moved away without leaving your new address. And whatever it is, it wilL be exactly what your own actions have made you deserve.

Not an ounce more, nor an ounce less, nor a fraction thereof. Some people call this law Nemesis. Some call it by other names. Some don't call it at they need to. It comes without calling.

Some people say they don't believe in it, and some scoff at it. But the law goes right on, minding its own business and saying very little. Probably the majority of thinking people agree on this much that somehow or other things are to be evened tap in the long run; that we are all going to get out just deserts beforo the final gong sounds, if there is any. So suppose we let the word Karma stand for that idea, and go ahead to (Bee how the thing works out in the realm of modern business. The principle that we are punished by our sins, not for them, is pretty evident anywhere, but if you want to see It working hard and fast and all the time, just take a look into the average commercial concern.

For qvick returns in this Karma business, commend me to the marts of trade. Ioe8 it work any more quickly there than elsewhere? Well, probably not, but somehow it seems easier to see It work there than In other, places. And the purpose of these paragraphs is to serve up a cross-section of a business day in the average office, shop or counting room and to try to trace th thread of Karma running through it The proper way to begin a play is to ring up the curtain upon some servants dusting furniture. This one begins with Mr. Manager brushing his hat as he starts from his home to the office.

It may be that a little Karma Is working from the night before, for Mr. Manager has a headache, and looks at his hat as though he expected to find it too small for his head. Uu-fortunate the man who starts a day's work a hangover. Well, if M. has taken care to allow plenty of time, he makes his way comfortably to the train, enjoying the trees and birds and sunshine en route.

If be has made a late and lazy start, he has to hurry, And the charms of Nature make no appeal. The final dash and the leap from the platform of the last car set his head to thumping wild vi I ttl kit ik li i- i-i i i-i ST. JOHN'S NEARLY COMPLETED. 1 6 rl 1 across the street Thus they play their All day M. meets people.

All day Karma acts, and apparently in the main it acts instantaneously. Some of its fruit will ripen for months or years, or possibly for incarnations. But enough matures in. the circle of a single day to make a thoughtful busi ness man take notice. And perhaps that is the reason why one finds all the time more and more business men who are absolutely on the They are taking notice.

They are learning by experience. They believe that in the long run they get exactly what they earn. They are in tent on the long run, and in that they set a good example for those of us who prate of eternity and immortality. while we offer our lives a daily sacrifice to the earthly and the temporal. PAID 150O FOR GYPSY GIRL.

Father Bays Child Bride for Nine-Year- Old Son. "Joe" Adams of the St. Louis gyp sies, telegraphed his brother, King Alek, of Chicago, to prevent the mar riage of Spero Nicholas, nine years old, and Mary TJbonlwich, twelve years old. He requested that Mary be sent back to the St. Louis camp, from which she was taken by her child lover.

Spero came from Chicago recently and became smitten with Mary. The boy's father went to Ulanzo Ubonl- wlch, Mary father, and handed him $1500, telling him it was to buy Mary for his son. The betrothal was an nounced and Spero and Mary boarded a train for Chicago, where the boy in tended showing his fiance to his rela tives. King "Joe" declares that Spero in tended to marry Mary forthwith and that she was crying when he led her from her father tent. The father, who has the $1500, denies Exile.

It comes to me often In silence, When the firelight eputtew low When the black, uncertain shadows Seem wraitbB of the long ago: Always with throb of heartache That thrill each pulslve vein, Coraee the old, unquiet longing. For the peace of home again. Im sick of the roar of cities, And of faces cold and etrange; I know where there's a warmth of welcome, And my yearning fanelee range Bark to the dear old homestead, With an aching eense of pain, But there'll be joy In the country. When I go borne again. When go borne again! There's muelo That may never rtie away.

And it eeem the hand of angela, On a myotic harp, at play. Have touched with a yearning eadneas On a beautiful broken strain. To which Is my fond heart wording When I go home again. Outtlde of my darkened window In the great world' crash and din, And elowlv the au'um nhadows Come drifting, drifting in. Sobbing, the night wind murmurs To the eplaeh of the autumn rain; But I dream of the glorious greeting When I go home again.

Eugene Field. 4. street last week. The exterior of the beautiful Episcopal ST. The Beautiful Episcopal Cathedral in New York City Well on Road to Completion Will Need Immense Endowment.

The diocesan convention of the Episcopal Church of New York has been held this week in the crypt of the cathedral of St. John the Divine and one day the cathedral itself was thrown open to the inspection of the delegates. These pictures, made directly afterward, are the first pictures ever published of "the interior of the great cathedral. They show incompleteness but they give a good idea of what the cathedral will be Hkfc when it is completed. The great altar is almost finished, but the statues on it are of plaster, to be replaced later by statues of marble.

Only pieces of the final marble work are complete in the ambulatory. Stonecutters are still working on the columns and completing the angel figures about which there has been so much controversy. It Is planned to enclose what is technically known as the crossing the space between the granite pillars and to use this for a church. This will provide space for a congregation of 2000. It was hoped to hold the Christmas services in this temporary church, but lack of endowment will may interfere with this plan.

The Edson and Coles endowment funds amount to $500,000. The present income of the cathedral is about $24,000 a year. It is thought that at least a milliona'ol-lars' endowment will be needed to maintain the church. "Wild Swamp Potatoes The swamp (Soianum comereonl), which grows wild in Uruguay, haa lately l-eec -cultivated in France, where It ha pro- (1 Ultra iauci.1 wiwi variety At characterized by extraordinary frofit, aDd the production of large aerial tubers in the axil of the leaf stalk b. German potato growers, however, find the new variety so aimilar to the long-known variety Paulsen' Blue Giant that they are Inclined ih.

1 attar Iim fnnrvAntlv nr to viiiun mi designedly, been exploited tn Franre ae a novelty. luwr nuir "i uromlnent Englteh potato grower. The two BM ho (Mil AQriK DBVe vmvw at the experiment station of a Swedish soci- eiy ior me they appeared to be Identlcel in foliage, (lower and tuber. The swamp potato, bow. evef proved Ice productive than the old Blue Giant, and Its most etrongly empha-sized peculiaritlee, antipathy to lime and nreference for marshy eoll, could not be de- experiment planUtlon in AtDnCBO, The Silent Stase.

The coming of the moving-picture performance has depleted the ranks of unemployed actor aaye William Allen Johnston In Har-nr'e Weekly. There are no stars ameng the performers from whose rehearsal the films are taken. Each actor man, woman, child or animal receives five dollars a day. "The expedition of the thing, the rapid imprerlaation of the performers, seem very remarkable to a layman. The etage director groups hie men and mark with a piece of chalk the limits within which they art to aot the scope of the camera." Not Yet.

Bat Soo. Mistreas Is that young man I saw you with yesterday your lover, Ellen? Maid Not exactly my lover, ma'am. He walks out with me, but It ain't got to waistln' yet! Tit-Bits, 18'' w. I I IT-" tit-- which will be, when completed, the ORDERS DOGS CREMATED TOO. Aged Woman Directs That Her Petal Be Burned and Their Ashea Mingled With Her Own.

Mrs. Sarah Slaughter De Lorme, an' aged artist, died in her home. In Berk-j eley. Cat. leaving-' her neighbors In-; structions that her two pet spitz dogs! be chloroformed and cremated with her.j and the ashes mixed with those of her-! self and her nephew, upon his death, I aand strewn on the hillside.

Dr. J. Edsoji'Kelsey. for many years' her physician, has been entrusted with the task of seeing tnat the two dogs are sacrificed, and John Streighiff, an undertaker, has been given the commission to cremate their remains. Neither will state whether he will carry out the request.

Miller Write a Bad Flat. Joaquin Miller, the "pcet of thai Sierra" writes a hand that is as bad I as Horace Greely's, or worse. The secretary of a San Francisco club ia responsible for the following story, from' the San Francisco Call: It seems that the club desired to! have the poet address the organization) at an annual affair at which an elab-j orate program had been prepared. The secretary addressed a letter to! Joaquin telling him of the purpose of; the jinks and requesting his co-opera-i tion. He was scheduled for a recita-; tlon.

In due time there came an answer, from the, poet It was in his own hand, and covered four pages. In vain the secretary poured over the manuscript. He turned it over to the president, the board of directors, and the members' in turn, but all failed to decipher the scrawls. The question before the club was "Has Miller accepted or has ha1 declined The secretary finally took the mat-, ter into his own hands and addressed' the following note to Miller: "My dear Mr. Miller: Your letter, received, but I have been unable to determine whether you have accepted' or declined our invitation.

If you wlllj hft nresent on the date mentioned! will you kindly make a cross on th bottom of this letter! it wm Impossible for you to appear, will youi kindly draw a circle? In due time the letter came back but the secretary could not decide whether it was a cross or a circle. I The Sinarer ot Beauty. The poets of power and pawlon Are leaders and lords In the van: They help us to forire and to fashion. They teach us to plot and to plan. Oh they are the strong one, the umltem.

The eeere and the prophets of wrath. Who eurnmon the sworrie of the fighters To clear lor our progress a path! But what shall be said of the slneer Wbone song has no purpone or plan? ij The bard who is only a briner Ot joy to the spirit of man? Shall he he deeptaed and neglected A ueelep or vicloua or vain? Shall be be rebuked and rejected, And silenced with acorn and disdain? Ah, do. let Urn slug, let him flina; ue His xong without purpose or art; The lark doe not etir us or sting us; And yet he te dear to the bcart. All pralee to the poets of dufy Who rouse ue to wnpsile with wrong, But here's to tie eloper of beauty! And here's to the Hit of his song! DenW A. McCarthy, Beaten Silver Flits; 404) Yearn Old.

Father Francis Gomez, vicar of Ea racoa, Cuba, who Is in this countrjj collecting money for his missions, hn given to the fie v. John J. Dunn, di rector of the Society for the Propaga tion of the Faith, an ecclesiastical flas of beaten silver which Is 4u year old. Father Gomez al gave a brass ablution cup bearing the dato 17G7, tram th w. ss a i The beautiful main -altar Is darting pains in his conscience, and Is convinced that the day Is out of joint But method 2 leaves him in a glow of good feeling which lasts well into the busy forenoon.

Office now. Mail opened? Yet; was on the job promptly this morning and has everything ready for M. when he arrives. M. smiles and A.

leads back from the same suit. Or No; A. stopped to watch a dog-fight; nail not ready; M. frowns, If he doesn't put it more emphatically, and A. feels that the prospect of that raise at the end of the month has gone glimmering.

M. pushes button and Miss Stenographer comes In, to take dictation. S. A HAPPY 'f-M 1 now under course of construction, and kind In this country, careful measurement, demonstrated conclusively thai it had lived for not less than 5150 years and it lives today. But even Humboldt was wrong; in his premise.

(It has recently been proved that there is a tree in The new world which, of a verity, has lived to "a preen old age," for It antedates the scriptural flood about 2000 years! jJThis Is a cypress tree standing in me province of Chapultepec, Mexico, with a trunk 118 feet and 10 inches in circumference. This has been shown to be fas conclusively as these things can be shown) about 6260 years of ago. Nor is thls4 so remarkable when one stops to think that given favorable conditions for Its growth and sustenance, the average tree will never die of old age. Its death is merely an i accident Other younger and more vigorous trees may spring up near it, and rob Its roots of their proper nourishment; insects may kill it; floods or winds may sweep It away, or the woodman's ax may fell it If no such accident happens to it a tree may flourish and grow for century upon century and age upon age. MlsBouri Observation.

When a woman len't able to answer the telephone, she'e awful sick. The fool thinks he can encape trouble, but the wine man knows it can't be done. He only hopes to make the best of all the changes that come. Including the hard luck changes that he didn't want. We hear of a school ma'am who gets croes whenever she doesn't have on her old shoes.

Coluirbii P.trk lt Sunday, the tatier in thri; class. At work on one of the angels in the decorative work. i well on the way to completion. midnight." And so Karma keeps on sawing wood. Mr.

B. Comes in. He 1b a valued customer but a grouchy one. He has a complaint, as usual. M.

remains good-natured, even under great provocation. He finally clears up all the difficulties, and lands B. for a big order which had been hanging in the balance; Or M. fights fire with fire, and meets complaint with the spirit of a quarrelsome bulldog. Both men lose their tempers and M.

loses the order, which B. immediately takes with great ostentation to a rival house GATHERING. W'ijfr' 1 (t. of Mj3 -lie htr home on Hoyt dating back long, long before the first white face was seen on the shores of the Western world. There are certain yews In England that were stalwart trees when Caesa landed on her shores.

More than a century ago a scientist named Decan-dolo proved to the satisfaction of hotaniats that a certain yew standing In the churchyard of Fortingal, Perthshire, was more than 2500 years old, and he found another at Hedsor, Bu-clas, which was 3240 years old at that time, Humboldt refers to a Vgantic bao bab tree in Central Africa as the oldest organic monument In the world. This tree had a trunk 29 feet in diameter, and Adanaon, by a series of WINNING THE SEMI-PROFESSIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP. Scrimmage In the football gdme between the Niagaras and the Caienovias at dentally, the cemi 8'imj of thoae who attended the costume j. In honor.