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; _ ^ PHRASES YOU HEAR Expressions of Noted Men That Have Become Common. ^ "While There'* Life There's Hope," * "New Broome Sweep Clean" and Many Other Old Favorites Mark Historic Epochs. London.?No less a person than Cicero first made use of the expres- I alon, "VVhild there's life there's hope." | in a letter He wrote to Attlcus. "We I are in the Banie boat" is not modern slang, but occutb in a letter written by Clement I., bishop of Home, to the Church of Corinth in the first century. This letter is extant and is one of the prized documents of the early church. "I never put off till tomorrow what I can do today" waB Lord Chesterfield's explanation of how he managed to do so much work. "Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well," he wrote later in the famous Letters to His Son. In some of the expressions we use habitually may bo crystallized an epoch of history. Such is the motto of the Order of the Garter, "Uoni soit qui mal y ponse" (shamed be he who thinks evil of it), which was given , by Edward III. of England. Wishing to draw the best soldiers in the world to him he proposed a revival of the ! Round Table of King Arthur, holding a tournament at Windsor Castle on | New Year's day, 1?44 After the contest of arms, the guests were enter- , tained at his expense at a round table. Philip, king of France, was jealous over the interest this aroused, and forbade his subJectB to attend, at the same time misrepresenting Edward's motives. Several years later, when Edward founded the Order of the Garter, he chose a motto that seemed to challenge his rival raonurcli to think wrong of it If he dared. Later English history has not been laggard in Increasing the supply of 1 apt remarks that have grown Into everyday sayings. Lord Eldon, lord ( chancellor of England during the tlrst ! 26 years of the nineteenth century, J continually mispronounced the name of Henry Brougham, afterward to be a successor ?o the chancellor's office. j Rrougham objected to being called i Broffam, and in this regard Eldon was the chief offender. Once, after Brougham hnd made an excellent I apeech Eldon, by way of apology, pronounced his name correctly and made a proverb. "New brooms sweep clean." i The Bame expression occurs fre- > quently to different people who could have no knowledge that their thought had been given utterance before. "No ^ man is a hero to his valet" has been paraphrased by scores, from Madame du Cornuel, a witty Frenchwoman of the seventeenth century, to Dr. Johnson and Napoleon. The llrst record ! Beautiful Ne -A Is One of the Great Show Places of the Atlantic Coast?Much Wealth Here. Newport, R. I.?One of the great show places of the Atlantic coast la the sandy 6tretch of beach at Newport, R. 1? the summer home of those whose wealth is reckoned in millions and whose names stand for society In Its highest and most exclusive form. Dot Newport's Beautiful Beach. ting the heights that that border the beach in the form of a horseshoe, are the pretentious bungalows and mansions, which for a few brief months of the hot spell, are the center of the social whirl. This picture is the best made this year, and shows the famous resort as it really is today. * SHOT TOOK PIPE FROM MOUTH Fisharman Off Sandy Hook Haa Extremely Bad 8cara In Mock Battla. Naw York.?The Gleaner, a twomatted fishing smack under the command of Capt. Robert Tapper, brought a badly frightened crew to the dock at Pulton street. The captain acted a bit excited himself, and the boat looked as if It had gone through a South Sea typhoon. The block was broken off the main C*ff. the down haul had been cut # * GREAT SOLDIER M 'Bl H Br ,ys> This Is a new photograph of Gent Itulgarian army, and his beautiful ai accomplished the difficult tusk of drii Asia, this modern Napoleon is blame* of the Hulgurians and. disgraced and for the defeat of the army which but ; dorfui success. of it, however, is found in Plutarch, who states that when llermodotus addressed a poem to Antigonus I., king of Sparta, hailing him as son of the sun and a god, the monarch replied, "My body servant sings nie no such song." it was Diogenes, the cynic, who de clared that "habit is second nature." The phrase "circumstances over 1 which ho has no control" was used i by the duko of Wellington in a letter ! concerning some affairs in which he declined to interfere. Dickens also used the expression a few years later when he had Micawber write to David Copperfleld, "Circumstances beyoud by individual control?," etc. "Conspicuous by their absence" has been used on many occasions in modwport Beach riRiu ui naives, besides a lot of other things that a landlubber couldn't understand. "No," said the captain, "we haven't been through a storm?we've been through a naval battle. And right off Sandy Hook at that. I thought, with all this talk of peace, an old fishing vessel might ply up and down the coast without being tired at. but she can't. When we were about a mile off Sandy Hook, there was a shriek of a cannon ball in the air. The right side of my face felt like it does when a barber Is scraping it with a dull razor?something took the pipe from my mouth. Before I had timo to realize what had happened, the whole boat trembled from a tremendous shock. "The shell, which came from the Fort at Sandy Hook, had grazed the end of the main gafT, and had cut the down haul In halves. And it had actually knocked the pipe from my mouth, for I found myself chewing the broken stem." BABY WITH A RARE DISEASE Kansas City Physicians Puzzled by Strange Case?Very Young Child. Kansas City.?A case rare eVcn to tho older physicians of Kansas is attracting the attention of members of the resident and visitir.g staffs at a hospital there. A baby one month old has suffered half its little life with streptococcic polyarthit is. which translated into less technical terms means an inilammatatlon of joint ravatles caused by germs known as strep tococci. The disease produced in joint cavities by these germs is not so rare among older persons, and UBitnlly is not very difficult to cure. There is un anti streptococcic serum which is generally used with good effect, but In this case the wonder of the physicians Is the age of the infant. Five places are Infected. Two weeks ago the disease started in the baby's ' right shoulder and spread to the knee, wrist, the Jaw nnd a place on its head. The baby has been li\ hospital only one week, but it is much improved, and there has been no further spread of the disease. Fhysicians say it has a fighting chance of recovery if it can stand the long strain of eradicating the germs with the Benim. It Is not known when Infection was started and no trace of the disease has been found In the Infant's parents. The baby no longer cries and Its temperature is about normal. It nurses regularly and Is in all respects, outside lta ttrange and unaccountable disease, en- , , tirely normal. n/ _ ADE A SCAPEGOAT ral Savoff. commander-in-chief of the id charming daughter. After iiaviug ling the Turks from Europe hack to J for the present unlooked-for losses discredited, may be court-martialed 1 little while ago he led to such wonern oratory. It was first used by Tacitus In relating that in the funeral procession of Julia, niece ot Cato. sister of Hrutus. wife of Casslus. many of the images of the most famous families In Home were seen, hut "Cassius and Itrutus shone pre-eminent be lauae uicir images were not dlsplayed." "Those who live In glass houses should not throw stones," was said by James 1. of England. when Ills favorite, the duke of Buckingham, complained that a mob had broken his glass windows, which were at that time a luxury. "Mind your P's and Q's" is said to have been taken from an old French phrase at the time of Louts XIV. PERRY'S SHIP, THE NIAGARA Commodore's Famous Old Flagship as She Looks After Being Raised From Lake Erie. Fair-port, O.?Perry's old flagship, the Niagara, rebuilt after having been raised front tint buttom of Lake Erie where she had rested for almost a century, came through the storm which buffeted and threatened to send her to the bottom, victoriously, and with the old watchword of Perry. "Don't | : ~ I I "'^'? ' *" ' ^8^-^asvw* 5-? -ril l < ,. .-. v _ ,N ?<$ ....-^ - <. >Jy? Niagara, Perry's Flagship. (Jive ?*p the Ship," flying from her main spar, arrived at Kairport, O., towed by tiie U. S. training ships Wolverine and Essex. In the mouth of the Clrand river a big reception was held and thousands inspected the old vessel. Tfl crci/ ciikii/rm mriKMinr iu oi_i_r\ oumr\ci>? incMdunc Efforts Made to Recover Millions of Wealth in the Navarino Bay. London.?A company ban just been incorporated In London called the Navarlno May Salvage company, to recover the treasure In the May of Navarlno, on the west coast of Greece, where 63 Turkish and Egyptian ships of war were sunk by the allied fleets of England, France and Russia, la 1827. Of these 63, 43 have been located and buoyed, and as the water Is very clear and no deeper thun 50 feet. It la expected that a rich harvest will be reaped. Many of the ships are known to have gone down with specie and Jewels on board, but aside from that the guns and other things which can be recovered wltbcut much trouble have great value. FIGHT PISTOL DUEL AT A 60-MILE CLIP i Mystery in Revolver Battle Which Took Place Between Occupants of Speeding Autos. Hoip'wisrh. in.?Mystery surrounds j t revolver battle which took place bef PtMl the orrlltllllts of two ulimnHtlcr I automobiles the other night, and the I police are conducting a city-wide : search for the participants in the affray. It is believed that a kidnaping might have been responsible for the exciting chase. Policeman George Jones was standing at 100th street and Avenue E when he heard the revolver shots coming from Ewlng avenue, a block away Two automobiles flashed by at > speed of 00 miles an hour. The llrst car contained two in mi and three women and the second contained three men Jones ran to Kwing avenue. where spectators of the shooting ci ^ c x t V&,., Fired at the Pursuers. said that just ns the first car reached 100th street ;i man in the front car stood up nod flreil three shots at the pursuers Some said that the tire was returned by those in the rear car. hut Jones declared lie heard only three t shots. Unfit ears continued at terrific speed toward Chicago, and Jones tele phoned 'o the South Chicago police to have the 02nd street bridge swung , open to prevent the autoniohilists from proceeding further. The bridge tender refused to open the draw, hut stretched the chains across arid stopped twenty automobiles. Jones was unable to Identify any of these. EEL DRAGS BOY INTO WATER Fish Puts Lip Fight and Young Fiuherman Only Is Saved by F riend. i Hastings on Hudson. N. V "Joe" Williams, twelve years old. was at tacked (lie other day by an eel when fishing in the Hudson river. Williams caught the eel Just hack of the head He thought it was exhausted, hut the eel was very much alive. It slapped Its 'all around Williams' legs and knocked him off his feet mid lie oml the eel f*?l! into water three foot deep. A companion of tiio fisherman managed to got liim out of the water with the eel's tail still around Williams' right I?-g. The eel weighs f> yoimds. Is :t feet long and 3 Inches in diameter at the largest part. BEANS COOKED BY LIGHTNING Truck Farmer on Outskirts of ths National Capital Almost OutSurbanks Burbank. Washington.? A farmer in Wash ington's outskirts has rontrlhuted the j latest aid to a reduced cost of living, j lie is William Williams, a trucker, who went out to gather some string ! hrans for the family table the other : day Much to tils surprise, he dlscov- | | ered that they were deliriously cook- [ ed He thought for a time that he ' had out-Burbanked Burbank, but a little reflection divulged the reason. In planting he had placed wires between the poles, and during a recent storm lightning struck the wires and ' cooked the beans. Boy Slays Wolf In Fight. Santa Fe, Kan.?In a fierce fight j with a woir. nay Ward. aged twelve i years. son of Charles Ward, was vietor After a seven-mile chase he seized the thigh bono of a dead animal and battered the vicious beast to death. Beyond Her Income. London Queen Mother Alexandra Is sa'd to have been living beyond her Income of $r?00.000 a year; has lost in some speculative investments and her atTairs had to be straightened out. He Watched the Man. New York.?Policeman Godfrey tfchlett is minus a gold watch and ; chain Ho stayed on an elevated train to watch a man and the man in leavi ln? tho train copped tho valuables. Knew the Call. I Now York.?An attendant in the of, flee of Deputy Police Commissioner said "come seven" and seven policemen charged with shooting craps in a ; dormitory lined up for a hearing. I i Twenty-one New Animals MMM. WASHINGTON.?Twenty-one new animals have Just arrived nt the National Zoological park in Washington from (Jieza, Egypt, where they were purchased by W. II. Blackbourne, from Captain Stanley Flower, director of the Government Zoological park. The shipment includes three Arabian camels, two elephants of the form that occurs it) the Sudan region, three Hatnadryas baboons, two cheetahs. three lemurs, three Circassian goats and three Arabian, one Korin and one dorcas gazelles. Nearly all are representatives of species not before included in the Washington zoo, and the cheetahs will be the only animals of this sort in the park. Tlmr.. la nt - - ? ? .... iii uni) uiie eiepliant. a male from India, and as he la some forty or fifty years old, the two now members of thla family, which are practically babies, will be valuable accessions. One of the elephants is about four years old and Eleven Dogs and a Crow WHKN the lire bell sounds nnd tho engines and trucks go dashing up the street, nearly always there will be seen, running and barking before the steeds, a playful and Intelligent dog. There aro 11 such mascots In the local lire department, and they are just about as proud as can be; for In a day or two Tax Collector Rogers will issuo to them, without cost, bright, new, glittering tags. These dogs are the most intelligent and best trained canines In tho city. They are faithful to their masters, and, needless to say. the firemen love them. There are Tom. and Rags, and Hell, and Nell, and Jack, and Teddy, nnd Hubbies, and .Nig. and Hillikin, and Nell, and Minnie. Among the most Interesting of these Is Jack, a blackand-white bulldog, belonging to Engine Company No. 7. in R street Northwest, between Ninth nnd Tenth streets. And Jack has a companion? a black one, and a very strange one, too- a crow, named Jerry. Now, some persons would naturally conclude that there was not much peace in a place where a crow and a bulldog were put together?that Is, not until after some feathers had cemo out and some crow had disappeared?but such is not tho case at No 7. Jack and Jerry are tho best Takes His Vacation in /this is th\ A ft KERN ribbon of grass edges each Hldo of a double ear track up Capitol bill way. There are big, leafy trees that make shady spots for children to play under, and always?nearly always?there Is a breeze. Every morning a man comes with a splint rocker and a pipe and props | himself under a treo. Ho gets there ! about the timo the birds are awake and stays until a small boy comes and takes him away. That means break- | fust As soon as that Is done with the man Is hack under a tree with a morning paper. And there, in the comfy ! coolness of crash trousers and a china j silk shfrt with no collar and a leather thong belt to keep himself together,: he smokes and reads and talks with ? in>t;v?T Happens niong. until the j small hoy who bosses him shows up < at lunch time and pilots the way to borne across the sire-t. All afternoon, I This Limestone Lion Has IT is surprising how many animals you may discover If you hunt them among the cornices and balustrades of Washington houses. A limestone lion snarls at you from the front of 18.12 I street. It Is a big three-story and basement house. The porch entrance and the first story are of limestone and the higher stories of red brick, with limestone courses. On the east side of the front a bay window starts from the top of the basement and extends up two stories. Much of this bay window rests on the lion's back. Perhaps that Is why ho appears so fierce, for the window Is an overload for a lion, moro reDowned as a beast of heraldry than as a beast of burden. That bay window would be more than a load for a mule, though brick makers and stone dealers too often show a disposition to make a mule haul enough brick and stone In one load to build such a bay window. The Hon rests his front paws rum v "v ??? for the Washington Zoo Htands five feet six Inches, while the other, the female, is six months younger and is only about four and one-half feet in height It is estimated that they weigh about 700 and 900 pounds respectively, and yet the cuii mil iuuiv une u pygmy oeside the solo representative In the park, which weighs In the neighborhood of 11.000 pounds. African elephants nre usually priced by dealers at from $3,500 to $5,000 each, but these cost considerably less, having been bought from the government at Gleza. Arrangements for the housing of the new arrivals has been under way for some time at the Zoological Park. Mr. Mack bourne, head keeper of for some time at the Zoological park, made a special trip abroad for the purchase of these animals, say all his charges are In good health, having proved good sailors cn voyage. From Boston the animals were shipped, all of them boxed In strong crates, except the camels, which were forwarded loose. In stock cars, to Washington. The new additions will bring the total number of animals or individuals in the park to about 1,500, a slight Increase over the number at this time last year, although the total number varies annually through the death list of the Inmates. Special Pets of Firemen of friends, and play with each otaer day after duy without ever getting Into a scrap. Jerry was presented to tho firemen about a month ago by a friend, and la now possibly three months old. Tho crow's wtngH were clipped at first, but now It Is unnecessary, for Jerrv Iotm his homo, aiul hus no intention of leaving unexpectedly. The bird does Just about us It pleases; tiles around the neighborhood, struts proudly up the street, makes visits to the neighbors, and plays with pigeons, cats, and dogs. Hut alas! with all Its precoclousness. the bird Is a kleptomaniac. The other day one of tho firemen took off his collar and necktie and laid them on the window sill. Jerry came along, grabbed the gaudy tie, and soared skyward. Tho fireman has been looking for the neckwear ever since. Nearly every day the crow goes on plundering expeditions In the neighborhood, seizing any edibles he can lay claw to. Rocker on Capitol Hill until dinner, the man reads magazines and smokes and dozes, and moves his chair to a fresh shade-spot whenever the sun gets around to him, and, once in awhile, takes looks at the grass and white clover and dropped oak loaves through a magnifying lens. In the evening he comes back to the trees with a coat over his shirt and a collar and tie. And a cigar. Later on, his wife and the small boy come over for a visit nnd the neighbors drift out with chairs and camp stools, while odds and ends of children play all around. After they have laughed and chattered the clock around to bedtime, the wife and small son and the neighbors and the babies drift back to where they came from, but the man stays on nnd on?until ho has the night to himself. Tho sky full of stars and tho bits of cool breezes, and the silence, nnd tho dnrkness?streaked now and then with whizzing cars. What about it? Oh, nothing, only? Tho man is taking his two-week vacation with pay. Hefore this, he has nlways gone to Atlantic City and come home broke, and so dead tired from ovorstrenuous efforts to enjoy himself that ho couldn't got in working trim for a month. This year he figured that what he most wanted was a rest. Top can't get rest at a seashoro resorta 24-Hour Steady Job on the stone side of the entrance staircase. Tho writer has seen that overloaded lion many times and always extends his sympathy to him. He seems always tc say that it is bad enough for a self respecting lion to be cooped up In a zoo as an exhibit for weak mortals to gaze on, but to have a steady Job. twenty-four hour* holding up a atone bay window and without even a chance that aome mouse may gnaw him loose, la a ^ worse fate. 3B| m