The Emerald Mystery and Yusuf's Honest Return
In a market dispute, Yusuf returns a purse found by the boy without opening it. A Cadi judges that only Ebn Aziz would claim an emerald if present, while Yusuf’s honesty is supported by witnesses. The verdict returns the purse to Yusuf and clears the boy as the rightful finder with the emerald lost by the merchant. A week later Yusuf leaves with a camel, content with his reward.
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Erin
Yusuf
Ebn
Allah
Cadi
Ebn- Aziz
Ebn-Aziz
Effendi
Dadi
Eben-Aziz
The Little Poet on the L in The Spectator
A three or four year old girl on a Sixth Avenue train car captivates fellow passengers as she sings in a dreamy trance, her mother smiling. The Spectator notes the moment as a pure, rising poetic ecstasy akin to Shelley and Keats, witnessed by all but one spectator who cannot resist touching the child.
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Spectator
Sixth Avenue
Shelley
Keats
Nightingale
Twenty-third Street
How History Is Made.
A Home Herald column examines how claims become certainties in historical interpretation. It parries arguments about Assyrians and wireless telegraphy with a vivid anecdote of a little girl singing amid a public incident, illustrating the fragility of dreams and the ruin of poetic vision.
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Home Herald
Who Loved Mamma Poem from Washington Star
A short children’s verse shows Nan Jack Bill and Bess declaring love for mamma. Bess proves faithful by helping with chores all day and at bedtime, while the mother muses which child loves her most.
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Podpoghooolo
Washington Star
Golden-Haired
Nan
A Bird Nest Duet by Our Dumb Animals
Two brown winged birds choose a doorway to build a nest and sing love songs. They gather straw lint and grasses while the narrator feeds them crumbs. They stay busy through rain and shine in waterproof brown suits, never moping, always hopeful.
Privileges of Monarchs Across Nations
A survey of royal prerogatives shows strict bans and special rights. Scarlet liveries belong to the English crown, left-ear earrings to Abyssinian royalty, and only the Shah may drive white horses with scarlet tails in Persia. The German Emperor alone may smoke a Havana with a green and gold band, while in Russia only the Czar may drive on public roads at full gallop. Siam selects top sapphires annually at no cost, and Madagascar bans kite heights surpassing royal flights. Ancient China guards Seven Tea Mountains tea with death penalties for commoners.
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England
Abyssinia
Persia
Russia
Siam
Madagascar
Seven Tea Mountains
Tonquin
Timekeeping by Kernels and Bottles in Remote Lands
The Liberia natives use candletree kernels threaded on palm rib to mark minutes, lighting the top kernel and letting each burn successively to time intervals. Black cloth markers along the string indicate divisions. In Singar, Malay Archipelago, a bottle-sand device measures time by transfer every half hour when bottles are swapped.
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Liberia
West Africa
Singar
Malay Archipelago
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M. G. Kyle
Assyria
Egypt
Mamma
Jack
Bill
Jill
Bess
Little Bess
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