Part 19 (1/2)

If he has not waited too long, he finds himself within the chahest court, clad in long, black robes, file slowly into the room from an antechamber at the left

Every one within the room has arisen, and all stand respectfully at attention while the justices take their places Then the voice of the court crier is heard again:

”_Oyez, oyez, oyez_! All persons having business with the Supreme Court of the United States are adive their attention, for the court is now sitting”

Then, after a slight pause:

”God save the United States and this honorable court!”

The justices seat themselves; the attorneys at the bar and visitors do likewise The Supreenerally held to be the most powerful tribunal on earth, is in session

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(_Collier's Weekly_)

JAMES WHITCOMB BROUGHER, A PREACHER TO THE PROCESSION

BY PETER CLARK MACFARLANE

Iest playhouse of New York and of the New World! Ihts to the last row in the tope uprising, seine it thus, and then strip the stage; take away the Indians and the soldiers, the elephants and the ca hoofs of horses, and all the strange conglomeration of draers are accustomed to panoply their productions Instead of all this, people the stage with a chorus choir in white s, shock-headed preacher; but leave the audience--a regular Hippodroine all of this, I say, and what you have is not the Hippodroreatest play in the New World, nor any playhouse at all, but the Teeles, California, with Jaher, DD, in the pulpit

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(_The Independent_)

THE LITTLE RED SCHOOLHOUSE A ”FAKE”

What the Country Schoolhouse Really Is, and Why

BY EDNA M HILL

The schoolhouse squats dour and silent in its acre of weeds A little to the rear stand tretched outbuildings Upon its gray clapboarded sides,blinds hang loose andsashes sag away froe the vestibule door turns away from lopsided steps, while a broken drain pipe sways perilously from the east corner of the roof

Within and beyond the vestibule is the schoolroohts fro sizes and in varying stages of destruction A kitchen table faces the door Squarely in the h pine floor stands a jacketed stove A much torn dictionary and a dented water pail stand side by side on the shelf below the one blackboard

And this is the ”little red schoolhouse” to which I looked forward so eagerly during the su but a tu district

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(_New York Tribune_)

THE ONE WOMAN OFFICIAL AT PLATTSBURG