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JCUr.TJALIST AS AN ADVISER Cay ! Almost Gone Whtn H i Mad tht Confidant of , Ruler. , . U ICKX USED DY HAWTHOnrS i ODESSA YOUNG BUT LUSTY The recent appointment of Dr. 0.' K Jtforrison, the well-known English newspnpor correspondent, as Ariser to the new Chinese goirerB taeot, ia an exception which empha sizes the fact that the day it almost gone when the joarnalist ia the con 2dant of rulers. ' Of course, one rea son ia the passing of master journal $sis of the type of Delane, Blowits -W Greeley. It ia probable that none pt those men could flourish today as they did in their time, for the rea son that jeurnalism itself hal under tone a tremendous change. t When Henri de Blowita got his r famous "beat" on the Berlin treaty of 1878 it was the result of years of i Intimate coatact and - service to , statesmanship. There were "leaks in those days that 'spelled fame and . fortune for the man who caught the leakage. Famous Author .-Worked at It Whtn He Waa Surveyor of the Port t of Salem. . The desk at which Nathaniel Hawthorne worked when he was sur veyor of the port of Salem, during a period in the Polk administration, is. still in existence in Salem, ' care fully preserved by its ' custodians. Hawthorne secured the appointment as surveyor through the intervention of his Democratic friends, who were influential at' Washington at the time. Senator Fairfield of Maine was especially active in the matter, and the munificent salary of $1,300 enabled this .somewhat financially s4raitened litem ry genius of the first rank, to live in comparative comforj during his four years of in CiiinU'lKV. ;-' , ; With the election of Taylor and Fillmore the Salem Whigs conspired to have Hawthorne supplanted by an official of their own political stripe, and the result of this unnecessary' r 'j : : i j o-i Such a relationship is well-night J " uue U1 ;Vt. m.j. i , most noted native sons was his :i.t rri . j i iii'jew uuii-u iiuiive buiih wub ma S.1. - '?" Appropriately, . to rented, so to speak.' Every great! J""" iB P"! !ith kiDtM ArtBvrt KW duotion, a reminiscence of the au- tllVT niMTlW Bl IIHS aiUKV , Kit i a whose fanetiea is to disei tita to the public, and throagh the r-esi,1 a Trnowledge of it 'activities. Lvdy, indeed, doea a great piece ef ezclunve news come oat of Washing tea or, for that matter, from the European aapitala. ' .. -'777-' : t 1 All which, simply goes to show 1 (hat news, like everything else, has eome to be a matter of, system. jUnnaey's Magarine. . . ' V.1IY ' RE SHEO TiEAHS ; : I ' .. C 'V. r, f . c tj,X) Hv7 '181 Drummer I attended' a funeral in a little village the other day at which even the ' undertaker shed tears. .; V Gunner Was he a relative? . Drummer No; but the deceased ras the only doctor in the town. ,. , CHARM OF TURGENEV. "Turgenev,w says William Lyon Phelps in his essay on the novelist, "although an uncompromising real ist, was at heart always a poet. ' In reading him we feel that what he ays is true; it is life indeed; but we also feel an inexpressible charm. It is the mysterious charm of music that makes our hearts Swell and our eyes swim. He saw life, as every one must see it, through tho medium .if his own sonl. As Joseph Conrad has said, no novelist describes the world;, he simply describes his own of Salem's customs. ' The collector at the time was Gen. James Miller, the hero of LunoVs Lane, and Haw thorne's reference to the man who could say in an exciting emergency, "111 try, air," lend interest to what it really one of the most attractive portions of the book, ' Hawthorne refers to this identical desk in hia inmate- oVsufytton of the TJturiness room of the custom house. An old pine desk with a three- legged stool beside it," ,is the way he referred to this equipment. ' ' , , nui v rupiTV HiS lri -():. ' 1 LJ , ;; CONtTITUTIONAL POINT. Tho Learned Counsel Yes, tht eanstitution certainly, forbids eroel and nnusual punishments. The Plain Va Den how about ia rocK pile sentence of mine f, It ni ia cruel to put me to work, , 'cause work is do moat unusual thing Zzt could happen' to me. New ffork Globe. ; ... Dinks Old De Close is a sort of miser, they tell me. Winks-i-Yes; but there is one thing he dispenses liberally. ' Dinks What is that? Winks His pessimistic talk. HORSE SENSE. "Why is it th;it the dog is always referred to as the most intelligent animal?" ; ' '"Htv-iuse he knows how to get a I good living without doing any work, replied the horse. New Or leans Tkayune. - WITHOUT HER. "He said he couldn't live without "He aeems to bo doing it all light- -i:; ! "Thy, aho married him?" -I know, hut she's a club woman." Ortat Commercial Cantor of 8outhern ,, Russia Has Ovor Half a Mil u. Hon Inhabitants. Odessa is one of the youngest of European cities only a hundred and twenty yeara ago Hdji Bey, little Turkish settlement, nestled on the' cliffs that overlook the harbor and dozed under the sultan across the Black . sea. ; The lone arm of Ewwia reached out and took it, aad planted' there, upon ' the plaieaa overlooking the bay, the beginners of a commercial city that now holds be tween five and six hundred thousand The revolution in France soon sent refugees scattering over the world and noble names came to Odessa, flnd one may read them still on street corners -Daribas, Richelieu and Langeron. Later Englishmen came and brought ships To carry nway Russian grain;. and then the Crimean war swept across ' this friendly relation. ' But the English stayed when the war had passed, and then Germans came,1 and afterward Americans, with 'reapers ' and plows arid steam traction engines, to help the Russians lo 'jprow more richly the grain that the English and the German ships carried out to the world. Last of all came tho Jews, and they cut the business so fine that the English starved and gave up; so the business of exporting to day is mainly in (he hands of the Jews. A few hardy Germans and English are left. Sydney Adamson, in' Harpers Magazine. ALL EXPLAINED Lady How long were you in your last place?' , t. Girl Jisht a month. ' " Lady Indeed? What waa . tht trouble? Girl The 'trouble waa, ma'am, that I got sick an' couldn't l'an ooner. ENOUGH PLENTY. NOT HIS CLASS. rwhy should that author have an WomobCe?" ': ..': Why shouldn't haf - r . Eeoiuse he's a hack writer." ' NO TIMI WASTia The dog you sent here thia zoom bj bit at us and then ran away." He evidently determined he would show a ease of snap and go." PALPABLE HINT, J think a woman orjht to make atr clothes match her means." Dear me! Are your zoecna aa narrow as that?" NICE DISTINCTION. Hubby, am I aa dear to you aa when we were courting?" "Not as dear, wifey, but more ex- f entire." Casey Do pu iver play cards, O'Brien r t O'Brien (a gardener) Faith, no! Oi get me full av handlin' spades in the daytoime. Boston Evening Transcript ' ' 1 WNVf, "I 'permit-my wife to 'run out bouse exactly to suit herself." ' "Why do you drag in. the word permit?" ' - AFFLUENCE. v "Is she richr ' . V "Heavens yes! A specialist rets $10,000 a year for doctorina; key ' CRAMPED FINANCIALLY. . "Why don't you keep a car, Pil linr; t; ;.:"'. .; - "Well, for one thing, rd hate to beg my gasoline from door to door." PITY TI8, TIS TRUE. . Greene Some day Ta going to have a chicken farm. Brown (who had) On yom hands! Puck, CIVIC JEALOUSY. Squire Durnitt (of Ijonelyville) Tliey Wl me you felt that earth quake in your town th' other day. It didn bother us none. Uncle Welby Gosh (of Dreary hurst) Should say Hot. Tlicr' hain't no woy 0' gittin' to your blamed little village 'ceph travelin' by dirt road, an' no decent earth ouake would take th' trouble to de MIS JOEL Tfere goes a man who vac orxa pulling down a salary of, $15,C0O a year as a baseball player. , "What ia he doing now?" j t' "Serving as a horrible example foi those who think they may as well spend their money aa fast aa they get if v . VARIOUS STRATA. Tm dirzinjr a veil ia nrr hacS Struck water yet?" - Not yet.; I expect to sirib hoopakirta by tomorrow noon.' ' TRYINQ TO PLEASE. "I told Will I would like to tea him kiss me." 1 "What did he do?" "Did it before a looking glass." IN THE CONSERVATORY. "Don't say anything nbirT Bo member, walls have ears." "Yes, and I notice' all around are rubber plants." . . ., SOME PUNISHMENT.' ' "What punishment did thai de faulting banker get?" ?I understand his lawyer charred him $40,000." . AMSlOUOUa. 1 "Can you stake me off to rood dinner?" 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