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THE BOSTON SUNDAY 5. 1905. 5 DRUMMER ON A CAMEL 1 POEMS YOU OUGHT TO KNOW. Seffs New England Shoes In Egypt and India. Traveling: Salesman, Representing Haverhill and Brockton Concerns, on a Three- Year Trip Around the World Has Sent Home Many Oroers for Foreign Buyers in the Boston Market, Whatever your occupation may he, and however crowded your hours with affairs, do not fail to secure at least a few minutes every day for refreshment of your inner life a hit.

of Charles Eliot Norton. No. 1559. LAUS DEO. By JOHN G.

WHITTIER. The title, ef Mils poem Is Latin, and means to Tim resolution on the amendment of the constltntlon abolishing tdarerf was on Jan 31, 1805. lines were composed by Whittier on hearing the balls ring on that oecastoi, and, as he said himself, Wrote Itself, or rather sanv Itself, white the bells The se.tg of Miriam was mw by her In celebration of the escape of the Jews out of Ttgypt. ye to the Lord, for he bath gloriously," etc. Exodus xv, 21.

is dona! Clang of bell and roar of gun Send the tidings up and down. How the belfries rock and reel! How the great guns, peal on peal, Fling the Joy from town to town! Ring, 0 bells! Every stroke exulting tells Of the burial hour of crime. Loud and long, that all may hear, Ring for every listening ear Of Eternity and Time! L. E. PHIPPS SELLING NEW ENGLAND SHOES IN INDIA FROM A BACK AND WITH AN ARMED GUARD.

B. PHTPPS, mounted on a camel, his lines of samples from and Brockton shoe shops In front of him and an armed guard behind him, has traveled through Egypt and India selling New England footwear. Most of the salesmen of the present day are practically confined to certain eections which tiiey cover for the bouses they represent. This, however, does not apply to Mr Phipps, who, when he returns, will have been around teh world twice. It as shortly after he attained his majority that he became a traveling salesman, and for two years he was engaged in a tour of the far eastern cauntries for New York general exporters.

He came home in 1904 and immediately began preparations for his second trip, starting off early in the present year. The first trip proved beneficial, and while at that time he only visited the Important cities in the Orient, Mi Phipps in planning his second trip decided to maae his travelings more extensive and cover all the selllements as well as the large cities and towns. this object in view he added many lines to his lists, and his variety of camples Includes autos and boots and etc. American shoe manufacturers have long been casting eager eyes at the opportunities afforded by the market in the far oast, but it is only in recent years that they have done any business with foreign concerns. This has until 2906 been confined to orders by mail, but with the success attained by Mr Phipps, it is probable that other salesmen will now follow the lead and find a market for American footwear in all the countries In the far east.

The English, French and Austrian shoe manufacturers have reaped the harvest in the past from the trade of Egypt, India, China and Japan, but with no tariff the American manufacturers have learned that they can pete with those countries in producing shoes, and it was only the imposition of a tariff that prevented American concerns from acquiring an extensive trade with Australia. When Mr Phipps last year returned from his first trip around the world he sought out shoe manufacturers who wished to sell their products in the orient, and he selected three concerns who manufacture high grades. One of these firms wras Hervey E. Guptill of Haverhill, another was Preston Ketth of Brockton, the third being C. P.

Ford of Rochester, Y. The three concerns realized the advantage of displaying their goods through a salesman instead of relying upon mail orders for shoes, and the reports that they Wave received from Mr Phipps and the orders that have already been placed, simply verify the predictions that Mr Phipps made regarding the market for American shoes in the far east. Starting out last January Mr Phipps first visited Egypt, where he soent the spring and toured all the important places, He next Journeyed to India, where he has been all summer. After visiting all the settlements there he will continue on to China and later visit Japan and the Philippines. He figures that ha will not complete this trip as quickly as his first trip, yet he expects to be home within three years from date of departure.

In travelling through Egypt and some parts of India he has been obliged to use a canal, with his pack strapped to the back. It was necessary for him to employ armed guards to accompany him on his slow and tedious camel journeys, while on, his other journeys he has used an automobile. Mr Phipps had written home to the firms which he represents that the roads in India are better for motor-car riding than those in this country, and that the people of the Orient are as much interested in horseless vehicles as Americans is shown in the purchases of American-made machines by Indian tentates, one of the latest to buy being the maharajah of Kolopur. Isadore Hornstein of Cairo, Egypt, has lately been in the Boston market buying shoes, which he will sell In the land of the Ptolemies. He bought many shoes, and he arranged to get Bpecial lines of shoes.

On account of the hot, dry climate of Egypt women want very light shoes. Most of the peo pie gp barefooted. Imitation of American shoes are made in Egypt, but they are very poor. Egyptian shoemakers work 14 hours a day for from 40 to 50 cents. Peter Balkus was also in the Boston market last month.

He is a banker and tanner in ancient Athens, and he ships goods to Turkey and Egypt, as well as all over Greece. His brother, Apostles, Lynn shoemaker, is his business partner. The Balkus brothers came to New England from Greece several years ago. Peter learned the tanning trade, while Apostles took up shoe manufacturing. Peter worked in Peabody and in Ayer.

One day he bought a line of American leather-working machinery, and took it back to Greece, where he set up the first modern tannery In ancient Athens. Debbas, Khourani Co is another firm engaged in pushing American footwear in the Levant. They are located In Beirut, and they are both manufacturers and importers. Mr Khourand first got his ideas of a modem shoe factory when he visited the Chicago fair. Now he frequently visits the New York and Boston markets in search of new lines of goods Missionaries and travelers say that there are good opportunities for American trade in Turkey and Egypt, and consular reports give the addresses of several firms that would like to handle modern American goods.

In some parts of the Holy Land people are still wearing the same kind of shoes that they wore before the time of Christ, chietly coarse, clumsy slippers with a sole made' of one piece of raw -hide and uppers of red morocco leather. WOMEN WITH FEDERAL JOBS. of Them Times as Many Men. It Is more than 40 years since Gen Spinner found places for a few women in the treasury department at Washington. He was then treasurer of the United States, and there was a great dearth of eligible employes in consequence of the drafts made upon the young men of the country by the civil war.

Gen Spinner proposed the employment of women in place of men, and tho idea which he started has gone on almost uninterruptedly since, but not to the extent that Is popularly supposed. By the last government report it appears that there are 122,000 men in the federal service of the government as clerks, bureau chiefs and messengers. receive $850 a year of whom or less. There are 11,250 -women and girls in the federal department, of whom 6363, somewhat more than half, receive less than $720 a year. Of this number 2000 are in the post- office service, 1150 in the treasury department, 1500 in the bureau of engraving and printing, 1000 in the Indian service, 650 in the government printing office, 209 in the war department, 950 In the pension office, 86 in the navy department, 797 in the department of agriculture and 19 in the.

department of Less than 10 percent of the federal employes are women, and a great majority of them hold minor positions at small pay. An outcry was made after the close of the civil war by those who feared that by the employment of worn- fair chance of livelihood In Washington, but the fact is that the number of men has Increased very much more largely than the number of women in federal departments during the last 25 York Explain, Please! Mrs McSosh-rDo you mean to.tell me. sir, that you were sober when you came home last night? i Mr my dear. Mrs will you explain whv you filled the refrigerator with coal and put six shovelsful of ice in the Leader. Let us kneel i own voice is in that peal, And this spot is holy ground.

Lord forgive us! What are we, That our eyes this glory see, That our ears have heard the sound! How they pale, Ancient myth and song and tale, In this wonder of our days, When the cruel rod of war Blossoms white with righteous law And the wrath of man is praise! For the Lord On the whirlwind is abroad; In the earthquake he has spokenf He has smitten with His thunder The iron walls asunder, And the gates of brass are broken! 1 Blotted out! All within and all about Shall a fresher life begin; Freer breathe the universe As it rolls its heavy curse On the dead and buried sin! Loud and long LFt the old exulting song; Sing with Miriam by the sea, has cast the mighty Horse and rider sink and drown; hath triumphed It is done! In the circuit of the sun Shall the sound thereof go forth. It shall bid the sad rejoice, It shall give the dumb a voice, It shall belt with joy the earth! Did we dare, In our agony of prayer, Ask for more than He has done? When was ever his right hand Over any time or land Stretched as now beneath the sun? Ring and swing, Bells of joy! On wing Send the song of praise abroad! With a sound of broken chains Tell the nations that He reigns Who alone is Lord and God! You Ought to Know" cannot be bought in book form. The first poem ever printed under that title in any publication whatever appeared in the Boston Sunday Globe, July 28, 1901. One is printed every day. The separate works of most of the authors can, of course, be bought at all book stores.

GOOD THAT MEN DO. The Protestant Episcopal board of foreign missions has already received sufficient funds this year to meet appropriations of $810.000 and leave a surplus for a reduction of last indebted- a crisp new $5 bill which she said a kind gentleman had given her for the tickets. A convict member of the Utah Stale Prison Christian Endeavor society is saving his monthly tobacco allowance of 25 cents, and sending it to aid in rais- jn Wash ngton ing the quarter-centennial memorial fund. He contracted the tobacco habit old, and has just The delegates appointed by 15 states, at the instance of Gov Pennypacker of Pennsylvania, have decided to hold a after Feb 15, 1906, to further the interests of a movement looking to uniform laws to regulate marriage and divorce. Tiie meeting will be when eight years abir it.

declared New and the Old. did you spend; the said the old friend. "Very answered Mr.Cumrox. mofher, and the girls to, staid with a fine lot of old and girls men were deprived of a MOUNTAIN PEAK NAMED AFTER AN EDITOR. jjP i 7 iri i jRjsrjvyxjvcsrz? Dr Edward Everett Hale years ago that the public should address itself to tho establishment of home in every neighborhood, so near each home iiftt no one need feci that his wife or child had been sent into exile, because at the first sign of difficult or dangerous illness she hi-3 been removed where she can benefit by the best science of the time.

He now goes a step farther by saying; think it would be a good plan if every large and well-to-do church in a great city had its own hospital with an established staff of physicians and nurses. I should be glad if, in connection with every such large church, were its own homes for old men and old A proposition to establish a training school for nurses in Constantinople is meeting with favor from donors in America, and there is strong prospect that it will be carried to success. Mr Lelshman, minister to Turkey, indorses the project and declares that "no greater humanitarianism of philanthropic enterprise could be undertaken for that In one of the camps where Russian prisoners were held by the Japanese a Russian language school was opened, the teachers being Japanese officers and the pupils illiterate Russians, mostly from Port Arthur. At first only 60 attended, but this number rapidly increased to 1000, and in a short time many of the scholars had made such proficiency that they were able to write letters to their homes. Charles G.

Whiting of Springfield has Just been honored by the renaming of the most interesting peak In the Mt Tom range after him. It has always been known as Mt Minus. When plans for developing this mountain range Info a state reservation are completely carried out Mt Whiting will be the of the entire tract. At present this peak is almost inaees- sitole. It is the realm of marvelous of tmip rock, and there aro many gigantic specimens of the stairway and columnar forms.

A few feet irons the top is a terrace from which an immense perpendicular of trap rock emerged, and is slowly separating ite telaste vprisbt columns are called. Such needles can be seen strewn along the road 400 feet below, some of them 30 or 40 feet long and four or five feet thick. Mr Whiting has thoroughly, explored this region and has written enthusiastically of it. He has been in sympathy with making the range a state reservation, and his efforts have aided greatly in bringing this about. He not only knows the wonderful formations to be found on the peak, but lie as no one else does, the plant life that grows there, for flowers of wood and field are his particular hobby.

He lias a wonderful amount of information about the game also that can be found there, and te tea ttekte ate eawtaeUir the beauties that may be enjoyed by the public when the peak is made accessible. Mr Whiting is literary editor and one of the editorial writers of the Springfield Republican. Some time ago he published a book called 'The a collection of essays and poems, which made him eligible to the mostly of New York literary men. Mr was born in St Albans, Vt. in 1842.

He married Eliza Rose Gray, a native of Dalton. Mrs Whiting is secretary of the Union relief society, the'principal charitable organization in Springfield, His sister, Margaret Whiting, Lh well known as one or the originators of the famous Blue and society of XhMSteU. The Methodist deaconess home in Portland, Me, will open a night school for Italians early in November. A reading room for these people has been kept open through the cummer, and a nurse has been added to the working force at the mission. It is also proposed to open a dispensary for Italian women and children.

At Atlantic City last week the manager of one of the amusement places there offered a percentage of his receipts on a certain day to the Philadelphia pasteurized milk fund for sick babies. At. a drug store where the society had tickets on sale a rather pathetic Incident occurred. A frail little girl returned two tickets to the clerk, for which she had paid 50 cents that morning, wttn the request that he sell them over again. Somehow, she had figured out chat it the tickets were sold twice the starving ones in the tenements would receive twice as much benefit.

In order to arrive at that happy conclusion she was willing to spend her entire allowance, and even forego tho pleasure of seeing the show. The clerk attempted to show her tiiat unless she sold the seats to someone who otherwise would not think of buying them there would be no particular gain for the milk society. When he told her that if he sold them to persons who came into the store to buy tickets, her tickets would prevent the sale of two other tickets, she took her seats back, and went out on the streets from hotel to hotel until jmiA steak Ate wttmmte oterttx An example of political squareness is seen in the fOilowing open letter to the Me, Times; To the Editor of am told that petitions are being circulated in behalf of one of the candidates for the position of collector of the port of Bath, a position for which I announced my candidacy several months ago. As I Rave been informed that our esteemed fellow citizen, Hon John O. Shaw, is also a candidate and as I understand that he is just at present unable, on account of to make a personal canvass in his own behalf I wish to state that I shall not solicit the support of any republican of Bath, either by petition or letter, for the present, but simply request that they will meet me in a spirit of fair play and refrain from signing any petition at this time.

Trusting that Mr Shaw will soon be able to be about once more and to conduct his own campaign on an equal physical basis with me I am Yours respectfully S. Crosby. Some one who doubted that gambling, as a business, had been driven out of New York, asked Dist A tty Wiiliam Travers Jerome the other day, if he believed it was impossible to find a gambling house in the city. might today, In some out of the way was the reply, if I heard of you Jerome is an idealist, but he puts his dreams into action. Recently an acquaintance suggested that his ideal was too high, and the instant answer was, put it too high for the American Clark university, Worcester, is offering to teachers this season three courses of lectures on Saturdays during the entire school year, by Pres G.

Stanley Hall, Prof Carroll D. Wright and Prof W. H. Burnham, respectively. Surgeon Gen Suzuki of the Japanese navy, declared at the international Y.

M. C. A. convention that he had been a Christian 20 years. His son and then his wife were afterward converted, and now the whole family hag followed in their steps.

No people are more celebrated for their love of beajuty than are the French, and the government keeps pace with their artistic tastes. In Paris each little crook in street has Its tiny park, its trees and ilowers, its benches and refreshing shade. Each "three are has Its miniature park, its electric light, its fountain and reposeful quiet. The people appreciate these favors, and even the loafers affect an ajr of eminent propriety. The authorities of Berlin, Germany, have adopted, as an experiment, a woman protectorate for drunkards.

The members of the service, who uniformed, are generally sent out in pairs, and assigned to different of the city. When an intoxicated person is found, he is assisted to his feet and to the nearest station, or if unfortunate person cannot walk, he or sha Is literally carried to a. place of shelter. Chicago has a new owned and managed by but dividing all but 3 percent of prof- 11a mxnam tte dapesltam POWDER HULKS IN HARBOR. Stored in Their Holds Are Enough Explosives to Blow Boston to Bits, But Never Has There Been an Accident in Putting Their Cargoes Aboard or Taking Them Ashore.

TWO OF THE POWDER HULKS. 4 A NCHORED off the state lands at South Boston are three veseBls that attract the attention of travelers on steamers passing up and down the harbor, who ask why the craft are there and what they are used for. Perhaps one man in a dozen can tell, but his information generally stops with the statement that they are powder For many years, indeed, from time beyond the memory of the oldest inhabitants, these grim, gray craft and their predecessors have swung at their moorings off South Boston. It has been tho custom for so long in Boston to store explosives afloat that no one recalls when the first vessel was anchored off the fiats to receive them. Old sailing vessels have always been used for these floating magazines until lately, when one of the manufacturing companies dealing in explosives in Boston, through an agent, placed a modern boat, built for the purpose, in the little fleet.

The other two craft in the present fleet are old coasting vessels, shorn of their spars, hut otherwise much as they were in their earlier days. To fit them for the reception of explosives a platform was built in the hold, and the hatches and deck are made tight. With that the hull is ready to receive its burden. It is a mistake to suppose that the vessels are literally hulks, for their hulls must be sound and tight. A leaky vessel would be of no use for the storage of powder.

The vessels are kept in good repair, being painted as often as necessary to protect them from the weather. Their mooring gear is strong, for they ride at anchor all the year, and must weather the storms of winter without anybody on board to give them scope when the winds begin to Formerly the powder fleet was anchored nearer the shore, but a coal company's docks, when extended some distance into the bay, came so near to them that they were taken out 1000 feet from their former position. The place where they shall He is designated by the harbor master, who selects the berths of all vessels anchoring in tho harbor, whether temporarily or permanently. Although powder hulks" have stored In their holds enough explosive to blow Boston to bits, there has never been an accident in putting their cargoes 011 board, or taking them ashore. The ships are really floating warehouses, and they are visited almost every business day by a powder tender sent down from town when explosives are wanted.

The large dealers in explosives cannot keep their stock ready at hand, as other merchants do, but must keep it stored in a safe place, in accordance with the law and oity ordinances. When an order is received for powder or dynamite a boat is sent down to the powder fleet and the boxes containing the required explosive are loaded on it and brought to the city. On being landed they are inspected by a fireman, in accordance with the regulations governing the handling of explosives in the city, and are shipped to their destination or the railroad, by special team. A tender employed in carrying explosives from the powder fleet to the city is in control of a firm of forwarders who have been in the business for years, and have never had an accident. They comply scrupulously with every requirement of the law, and with their experience, risk in handling the explosives that come ashore from tha powder fleet is reduced to a minimum.

Dynamite forms the greater part of the explosives stored on the powder fleet. This was not so in tho olrl days, when only powder was kept 011 the vessels off tho flats. Today the various high explosives known to the public as dynamite have largely taken the place of powder for blasting purposes. As dynamite is not easily exploded, except under specially favorable conditions, such as a synchronous combination of concussion and spark, or fire, the danger of handling it on tho vessela is very slight. In fact, the cargoes of "tho powder are not primarily more dangerous to handle than so many boxes of soap or canned goods.

4 Fire on board the vessels having dynamite aboard, probably would not explode their cargoes. Neither would collision be likely to explode the dynamite. In fact, the dynamite vessels have been run into several times without serious consequences. Agents of dynamite manufacturen contend that'the stuff is harmless under ordinary, and often under exceptional conditions. One instance cited to prove this is that of the schooner Emmti Gott, which caught fire a few years ago in Salem harbor, with a deckload naphtha and a hold full of dynamite.

The naphtha burned, but the dynamite did not explode. Tne cargoes of "powder come principally New Jersey and Delaware, by water. carrying business is done by coasting schooners, some of which engage in the trade. Their captains have no fear of the explosive, and some of them prefer it to other cargo, as there is profit in carrying it. Nona comes by passenger steamers, as they are not permitted to carry explosives in their cargo.

On arriving here the explosive is put direct aboard the storage vessels, to taken out as wanted by the distributing agents of the manufacturers. PREACHER OF GOSPEL FOR 72 YEARS. With faculties retained to a remarkable degree and physique well preserved, Rev Sedgwick W. Bidwell, for 72 years preacher of the Gospel, is passing the sunset of his days at the of his son, Frederick Bidwell, in East Middlebury, Vt. Mr Bidwell is in his 95th year.

His memory goes back with the history of three generations to the battle of Plattsburg. He distinctly recalls hearing the boom and roar of the cannon during that famous fight. The venerable preacher was evidently destined for the ministry, for he relates with considerable pleasure a little incident which occurred at the age of five, which showed the tendency of his mind and heart. At the close of one of his first days in school the little fellow invited his playmates to gather round a nearby knoll. He climbed a stump and preached to them.

At seven, he says, he declaim the English reader with promptness and won a prize of for committing a selection to memory. Rev Mr Bidwell is a native of Starksboro, Vt, where he was born Dec 6, 1809. His parents were English and were among the first settlers in the town. Young Bidwell worked on the farm and want to school with the rest of the boys in the neighborhood. He grew up strong in body and mind.

The hard knocks only served to strengthen him, and to build the foundation for his long life of service. His school days were over at the age of 18, and during the winter terms of 1830-32 he taught the district school. During this time he relates that there was a religious revival in' the town, and that he gave his heart to God at a meeting in his own schoolhouse. A' year later he attended the Hinesburg academy, and the same year was admitted into the Methodist church on probation for six months. Subsequently he joined in full connection.

In 1834 he was given a license to life of this aged saint. Two of his sons were hanged, not for crimes committed, for they were as brave and good as he, but for other reasons. Emery S. Bidwell enlisted Sept 5, 1861, in Co 5th Vt volunteers. While fighting for his country at the battle of tho Wilderness he was shot through the body and was taken prisoner.

After 20 days he was sent back to Burlington, but returned to the front as soon as his wounds were healed. While out foraging he was captured by guerillas and hanged. Elgin W. Bidwell, a younger son. took his own life at the tender age of 11 years.

The boy was found dead in the barn one Sunday morning when his parents returned from church. His mind had become affected by imaginary trou- bies and he hanged himself. WORE A BEARD AND WAS JEERED. RACE OF HORNED MEN. preach by tho.

presiding elder. Young Bidwell then 25 years of age. During the nearly three-quarters of a century that he has been serving his churoh he has preached in 22 different towns in Vermont and New York states. As far as known he is the oldest living Methodist preacher in this country, and perhaps in the world. On Nov 15, 1838, he married Miss Evaline L.

Smith of Monkton. Upon her death he married in 1851 Lucinda Aurora Tupper of Middlebury. During his long career in the ministry he has officiated at more than 100 funerals and at 829 weddings. Rev Mr Bidwell preached at tha Methodist church in East Middlebury not long ago with great fervor and to the entire satisfaction of a large congregation. Two tmgks tte Lolos Wear Their Hair in Unicorn Are Warriors.

Adjoining the Chinese prefecture of is a deep gully barred by a river which no Chinaman Is. permitted to pass until he finds bail for his good ccnduet in Loiodom. The Lolos are a slim, well-made race, with oval reddish-brown faces, high cheek bones and pointed chins from vhich the beard has been carefully plucked. They are far taller than the Chinese and indeed than any European race, but their marked peculiarity is the horn. Every male adult gathers his hair in a knot over his forehead, and then twists it up in a cotton cloth so that it resembles the horn of a unicorn.

This horn is considered sacred, and even if a Lolo settles in Chinese territory and grows a pigtail he still preserves his horn. The Lolo man's principal garment is a wide sleeveless mantle of red or black fedt tied about the neck and descending almost to the heels. The trousers are of Chinese cotton with felt bandages. No shoes are, worn, but a ccnical hat of woven bamboo covered with felt furnishes a head covering as well as an umbrella. The Chinese divide the Lolos into two classes, which they call, respectively, and the first the nobles and the latter their vassals and retainers.

There is also a third class of captive Chinese and their descendants, called practically slaves, who are tattooed on the forehead with the mark of their tribe. The Lolos never marry except in their own tribes, captive Chinese women being given to their jaondsmen. The marriage of a Black Bone is a time of great festivities and many banquets. The betrothal is celebrated and ratified by the present of the husband to the bride's family of a pig and three vessels of wine. On the wedding morn the bride is richly dressed with many ornaments.

She is expected to wepp profusely, whether she feels so inclined or not. In the midst of her tears the relatives and friends dash in. seize the bride, the best man carries her out of doors on hts shoulders, she Is clapped on a house and hurried off to her new home. Women occupy a high position among the Lolos, and a woman chief is not unknown among the tribes. The birtii of a girl is more highly esteemed than that of a which is somewhat strange among oriental people.

The women take part in battle, but are not assailed by the male warriors unless they some form of cutting weapon. The Lolos do not usa firearms, but crossbows and 24-foot spears, headed with spikes five or six inches long, Thoy never kill any one who submits and offers to provide a ransom, nor do they make captives of old persons; but young men and women, cattle and salt they earry off wholesale, and if resistance is offered they destroy ail the growing ork Herald. Among odd gravestones is one in Leominster, which bears a portrait carved in marble, and the following inscription: for wearing the These few words give but a fainfi clew to the unique persontlity wrho had this unusual memorial of himself chiseled on his monument. Joseph Palmer died in Leominster, Oct 30, 1873, at the age of 84. He is not mentioned in the town history, yet tradition has many interesting stories to tell of him.

It is said that he gloried in espousing the unpopular side in any controversy and posing as a martyr. Early in the 19th century it was fashionable for men to go smooth shaven, so Joseph Palmer determined to wear a beard, not because of its beauty, but to assert his right to be contrary if ho wanted to be. Men and boys used to jeer at him, much to his gratification. Once a crowd of fellows seized him in a hotel in Fitchburg and started to cut off his beard. He attacked his persecutors with a knife and wounded one of them.

For this deed he was summoned into court, and he ever afterward felt himself a much persecuted man for sake. According to one of the older resf- Shallow-Minded. can't deny that ha is a broadminded is, but If mind breadth it certainly has no Stray Stories. PALllER'S TOMB, STOXK of Leominster. Mr Palmer was much interested in the transcendental philosophy founded by Amos Bronson Aleott, father of Louisa May Alcott, well-known writer of stories for children.

It is said that Mr Palmer contributed toward the purchase of Brook farm, and, -when tho community to an end, the property passed into Mr possession. Costly Gift for the President. de biggest, I said the old darkey, I give him ter de President when come." be orter be, suh; I hope date him, for it took six dogs en seven niggers two days ter ketch him, en I had to pray a whole week for grace ter keep fum him Constitution. Getting Nerve. on, we can get a few cocktails out of Bender this do you know he is going to stop In any know it.

His wife sent him downtown to exchange some hairpins she bought, and he will have to get up tremendous nerve before he ever ventures up to the bargain cago.