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[LONG INJIOLY CiTY American Resident of Jertiualem for Many Years. -M. M. Whelan F st to welcome British Troops When They Entered? fe Was Representative There || of the BibJe Society. (I Although it is a year since Allenby's ^victorious army entered Jerusalem, and the greatest Christian shrine in vflhe world was wrested forever from vthe clutches of the infidel Turk, one of the most striking episodes of all those that marked that entry has only recently become known. To Americans this episode is of especial interest, since it came as the climax of perhaps the most picturesque -of all the many services that have been rendered by the allied nations, and to humanity generally, by individual Amorirana frrmi ftprard and Brand IWhitiock dovTQ, since the beginning of the war. For nearly three years, or from early in 1915 until the deliverance of Jerusalem In December, 1917, one of the oldest and most famous of British ! organizations remained in unblissful ignorance as to what had become of ( Its "depot" in the Holy City. ThiS/organization is the British and Foreign / Bible society, which like its great sister organization in the United States. b exists for the purpose of distributing f cat? UWU DUU amuug Vliiicwauo ... -every part of the world, j In February, 1915, or soon after I Turkey threw in her lot with the cen1 tral powers, the Bible society's depot \ io Jerusalem, which contained many l;- thousands of volumes, had to be aban . doned hastily. The workers there were brought to Egypt on an American ^ i-Jnif nntil nilitD rA P waiMlll*. FIUUI uiai uat< uuui <ju><.v . >r cently uothing whatever was known re I garding the fate of the depot or its * contents. It was assumed that both 1 had probably been destroyed by the i Turks. But then came a letter from [. the society's secretary at Port Said in| closing one from the commander of [ the London Scottish, the first British I regiment to enter the Holy City. In i this officer's letter the striking story ! was told of how a venerable American \ -resident of Jerusalem, by name M. M. i Whelan, came iorward spontaneously # f *fter the abandonment of the Bible jf society's depot, took up his residence * tlierein and. courageously "carriel on" | fs its custodian. ^ "It may interest you to know," this ; officer wrote, "that as I entered .Teru! -salera with the first troops. I was met f -by a quaint old American-, named Wheal rlan, seventy years of age, who told me & he represented the Bible society, and presented me with a beautiful copy of ? the Scriptures." ? Beyond the fact that M. M. Whelan } is a naturalized Irish citizen of the ? '3Jnlted States, and that he had been } living in Jerusalem for several years i before the war, littie is known by tne I' Bible society at present regarding the v \ -picturesque character to whom it owes so great a debt of gratitude. It is not , -even known from what part of the - United States he comes. The society r "has, however, received a photograph ^ ?of its venerable American benefactor, ; which shows him to be a trnly patriarchal type. if ffc Germany Has Lost Mexican Trade. jf All the drinking glasses and most of the jewelry sold in the Salinas Crnz ! district of Mexico are of American , manufacture, according to a recent res'' port from Norton F. Brand. United i States consul at Selinas Cruz. E'rior to the war all the jewelry and glassl ware were imported froin Germany t and Spain. The war has eliminated f Germany entirely from the Mexican f markets and the activity of American : business men has been so great that i imports from Spain have been mate' j-ially reduced. But Mr. Brand warns American manufacturers that the goblets and ; tumblers they ship to Mexico are too small. The tropics are a thirsty clime ; and Mexicans drink deeply. Mr. Brand ! declares if American merchants do not -send in larger glasses, their wares will, 2be driven from the field when European supplies are again available aft-. er the war. He urges upon American t Dlisiness uieu uie uecessiij vi niuu.vmg w the needs of the Mexican trade. j New Orleans French. ! JjE "Negro troops from Louisiana have Sa linguistic advantage over other B American soldiers. Many of them, jjf through living in sections where E French still is spoken, are more or E less--familiar with the language of thi? g land when they get here. But they js have thair difficulties, nevertheless. S "It's dis way," exclaimed one. "Ah Jj, ^aik FVpnch puhfeckly, but not de kind Jdey talk in dis country. You see. Ah learned French from mah fathah?de pure, classical ole New Orleans Trench?an' dey don't speak dat kind ?obah heah."?Stars and Stripes. I 1 fTB n d(l V/auov. ^ "*We sent the flower of our young s manhood against the Huns." ; a "Yes, and all the Huns say they v were v;ild flowers." ! jf Unpatriotic. I "Why did you change your hoardfit ing house?" 8 "My landlady got too enthusiastic j I about this food conservation." Its Meaning. j| "What !s elastic currency, pop?" p "It !;*, ,ny Christinas money this year, ton. It had to keep stretching to cover ? everything." OH, YES, "THEY ALL CO IT" Characteristic of Mrs. Hobbs Showed She Differed in Mo Way From the Rest of Her Sex. *T>oes your wife ever?" That was as far as Hobbs pot when his office mate. Nobbs, broke in: "Yes, she does." "What do you mean?" "Anything. I don't know what particular feminine idiosyncrasy you are going to ask about, but whatever it is, she does it. They all do it." "Well, what I was going to say? every night after supper my wife wants me to read the news to her. She says that's the least I can do, as she hasn't time to read anything any more. Well, that's all right. She gets in her little sewing or knitting chair and the children take op their usual positions on the floor, with their paper dolls and one thing or another, and I take the easy chair and the paper and start on one of the most thrilling stories. Before I get a paragraph read, she sends the eldest girl out for a glass of water. Then two or three lines more and the little one is senr upstairs iur the scissors. Then the children get in a fuss about the paper dolls ana my wife breaks in a8 peacemaker and keeps up a barrage of conversation to get them straightened out, all the time telling me to go right ahead with the reading. Sometimes, right in the middle of the most interesting part of the article, she will get up without a word and go out to the kitchen to get something she wants or to attend to something she's forgotten and if I quit reading she'll ask me what I'm stopping for." "Yep?they all do it," said Nobbs. "But that isn't what makes me mad, particular. It's this: Sometimes when I think she isn't paying the least attention to what I'm reading, I try to catch her. I'll quit all of a sudden and mtlio nca mn Hr?n*t tnnw fl Oa%V 9 w lia L o tut UOV>? J vw v?v? ? .. ? word of what Tm reading. And blamed if she don't call me every time and come back with the last paragraph, almost word for word. It beats me?" "Me, too," said Nobbs. "But they all do it." The Horseshoe Won. The print of a horseshoe in soft earth will always have the power to stir a young Missouri soldier, even if he lives long enough to forget the sounds of war. "I don't know yet howi I went through a shelling on Friday, the 13th, without getting hit," writes Lieut. Lawrence Settles of Fayette, with an artil lery company of the Eighty-ninth division. "The Roches had been putting over a lot of high explosives. We had been digging in at night, keeping in shallow shelters all day and trusting to luck. 1 know one thing, however?a little jest about the superstition of the old horseshoe saved ray life once on that day. anyhow. "My sergeant and I picked out a low fold in the ground fur temporary shelter and were proceeding toward it, when I saw the print of a horseshoe in a shell hole. " 'Well/ I said, 'as this is Friday, and the 13th, sergeant, let's sit on the old horseshoe.' "Wp or^nt in and a minute later the j low fold we had first started for was blown to the winds. That was one time, you can bet, I was not ashamed of having been superstitious." Art to Be Recovered. One of the arts which must be repaired after the war is the art of conversation. A subcommittee in the ministry of reconstruction might look into it. It will be to small purpose that we have reclaimed thousands of acres. achieved rne cjuxeusiup ui ?uuicu, improve*! the art of cooking and performed many other unexpected feats, if the genial reflection of all this, and indeed the very stimulus to action, is dried up or muddy. The link between cookery and conversation is a notorious and not a freakish one. It is the chefs aim to set us free for ideal pleasures. We must talk at meals, but we need not talk about our food. we nave an ueeu uuuig uim tuv iuu^. ?London Times. Furs From the Arctic. Capt. Louis L. Lane, a veteran of the Arctic trader and miner, is on his way to northern Canada as an advance scout for a vast chain of fur suonlv stations to he operated by a Boston firm. More than $1,000,000 worth of choice furs annua My will be shipped to Seattle, Wash., from the company's stations and then distributed throughout the country. "We have 28 fur stations along the Athabaska, Peace and Mackenzie rivers and expect to establish 25 more," said Lane when he departed. "From the mouth of the Mackenzie the furs will be shipped around Point Barrow ^ ? *? ?l- ? ? -i? o rn/\ r to seatne, a uisuurce ol ?vj<hj ixiucs. j The Long Arm. The war has furnished many strange coincidences. Here is another. A young officer came home" on leave and brought his fiancee a piece of a shell fired by the Germans, but which had ! evidently been among ammunition cap- i tured from us. He thought it would | interest her, and it did, for she was able to identify it as having come frOm the munition worus in wnicn sne worked. It interested her still more when she found her own mark on it. I | " Their Revenge. "The Yanks in Russia must be hav| ing great fun." "In what way?" I "la hearing the Russian correspond-' j entx worry over the English and Amir-, ICttD M. HAD GOOD POINTS HotiTempered Woman Evidently Not Altogether Bad. Surely No High-Priced Lawyer Could Have Surpassed Pathetic Plea of Husband Which Won Her Her Liberty. There was a negro family living in Bowling Green. Ky. The wife 'ad a notoriously ungovernable temper, usually taking it out on her husband, fhy. .rton OnH Intvl V ("ill tlllS OC* * UU niw UICCA UUU v.. casion she struck him with a skillet, inflicting a wound so painful and dangerous as to necessitate his having tc be taken to the hospital for treatment. The neighbors, knowing the violent temper of the wife, and the cruel treatment she had inflicted upon her husband for sucn a long nine, were so outraged they could endure It no longer, and procured a warrant for her arrest on the charge of assault with a deadly weapon. The husband sat through the trial, giving rapt attention to its every detail. The case was handed over to the jury and after very brief deliberation it brought in a verdict of guilty. 1 The old darkey husband rose aim said: "Marse Jedge, I don't reckon nothing a ole nigger could say would make much diffunce, but I would lak to say a word before you send the 'old 'oman to the penitenshy. She's always been a good mother to the chillun. all the neighbors will tell you that She i washes and scrubs and sews aou mends for 'em, and keeps 'em clean and nice, an when they's sick she sits up with 'em at night And, Marse Jedge, I jest want to ax you if you won't let her go by the house and see the chillun befo' you send her to the penitenshy. They's at home all alone right now, cryin' they po little hearts out and It would do 'em good, and the ole 'oman, too. if she could just go and kiss 'em good-by befo' she was ? 1 19 put In the penitensny. By this time the judge and the spectators were in tears and the judge , said: "Gentlemen of the jury, I haven't passed sentence yet and if you want a few minutes to further consider this case, I will be glad to grant it." The jury retired and in a few minutes returned with a verdict of "not guilty." Sailor Values Churm. The king and queen recently received at Windsor castle the Australian, New Zealand and South African press delegates now on a visit to Great Britain. His majesty spoke warmly of the gallantry of the Dominions troops, and exchanged recollections of his empire tour of 1001. When Mr. Pirani of New Zealand mentioned the name of Maggie Papakura, the Maori guide who conducted the king round the hot springs wonderland of Rotorua. the king recalled her at once, and was interested to learn that she is now in England. The New Zealand delegates found that Princess Mary knew all about the pre-war Maori prophecy concerning the battle-cruiser New Zealand?that she would go into action within a given number of years and would be hit but escape serious damage if her captain wore a Maori tiki (greenstone charm). The first part of the prophecy came true, and so up to date has the second. The captain does not forget to wear his tiki. Passed by Sentry. A colonel of a colored regiment coming in about 10:30 was duly challenged by the sentry, and responded: "Colonel , officer of the camp." - The The sentry tried his best to pierce the darkness, gave it up, and finally said : "Look 'eah. man, yo-all ah de foth man what's done tried to make me think he's Cunnel . Go way wid dat stuff." The colonel pretty warmly reaffirmed that he was Colonel and demanded immediate admission. The guard, unabashed, told him to step up so that he could see him. The colonel wnlkpri nn to him 16 a rage, and you can imagine his consternation when the sentry took hold of the silver eagle on his shoulder. looked up at him with a grin on his face and said: "Oh, Lawsy! Tis de ole bird, ain't it?"?The Bayonet. "Flu" Marketing. Marie, who was three Thanksgiving. was out trying her new mask. Passing a grocery, she decided to buy some bananas. Mother, not having worn her "flu" protector, sent Marie in to make the purchase. Mother saw the grocer pulling off tons of bananas, it seemed. At length, when there was nothing left but the stalks, Marie h&nd ed the grocer her little pocketbook coru taining one solitary dime. "How many bananas did your little girl want?" asked the grocer as he came to the door. "Ten cents' worth," replied mother. "She told me she wanted a peck," said the grocer. Cecil Rhodes' Dream Realized. The early completion of a funnel under the Straits of Gibraltar, which, in * ?xi? r\ a*. connection wiui uie iuuuci uuui i?uvci to Calais, will practically complete an all-rail connection between Cape Town and London, will more than realize the dream of Cecil Rhodes of a Cape-toCairo railroad. The necessary links along the Barbary coast will be simple matters when the intervening waters have been spanned. England is taking hold ?t>f the Gibraltar tunnel in a way that mean a the soccers of that gigantic enterprise. ? women as secretaries. Since Mr. Lloyd (ieorge made the innovation of appointing a woman secre tniy, the example of the prime minister has been followed by some of his colleagues in tin- cabinet. One of the three private secretaries to Mr. Bonar Law, the chancellor of the exchequer, having left recently to become deputy chairman ol" the board of inland revenue, the chancellor has decided to economize man power and at the same time give formal recognition of women's growing etliciency by making Miss E. M. Watson one of his private secretaries. These appointments of women civil servants to confidential posts in the entourage of the members of the British cabinet are highly popular among women workers generally who appreciate the honor tiius done to their sex. Yellow Fever Mastered. Reports from Ecuador indicate that Doctor Noffu'ch.. the famous Japanese scientist, who is at present in that country. ha? isolated the bacillus / which causes yellow fever, and has ! prepared an anti-serum conferring immunity on those exposed to the disease. The discovery is being tried out on Ecuadoran troops in the fevery interior. The conquest of yellow fever is one of the important achievements. In the Canal zone the first steps were taken; the fever was banished by sanitation. But proper sanitation is an extensive proces^ and is impracticable in sparse ? ; ly semen regiuns. o?? wiui ^..rguchi's discovery comes to give a needful coup de grace to the old villain, yellow fever. Their War Aims. The Boclie was a typical wide foreheaded Boche. with big horn-rimmed spectacles and a lager rotundity. It *as possibly that rotundity which had prevented him getting away with the others when the British troops scared )fT the German party that was trying Jo cut their wire. He was a valuable km onAL'n TTn<rlich 1 i L" ynMUItTi , IUV, L *74 lit Opviw. I>?v a native. He had been, he told them ? professor of German in England fo: many years.?Capt. R. F. VV. 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