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...Patience, perseverance were the virtues he most prized. To a youthful job-seeker he said: "Never look at the clock." Of inventions, he remarked: "You can't give it to them too fast...
...Fred V. Williams. Day after his arrival he was formally installed in old brick St. Thomas Aquinas Church, which is now elevated to the rank of Cathedral (congregation: 1,100 families). From its porch he could look across the street to El Cortez Hotel, where lives many a divorce-seeker. Five blocks away is "Gamblers' Row"-Douglas Alley and Center St. Eight blocks away is the Reno Court House, where Monday "wash-days" are held...
...need his warning that his tale "is in no way to be trusted by the seeker after facts;" it is romance from the word Go. The peaceful African village where the four Negresses lived was a good imitation of the Garden of Eden; the Portuguese ship a floating specimen of civilized corruption. The Negresses were surprised, captured while taking a siesta on the dunes. When they had become fairly used to their shipboard surroundings they were given clothes; one of the priests began their education. He taught them to repeat, parrotwise: "Jesus Christ, son of a Virgin immaculate, died...
Thinking quickly, Agent Parke paid no attention to the fallen President but rushed past, seized the assassin by neck and wrist and held him, shouting: "This is the man!" until relieved by policemen. Assassin Guiteau was a disappointed office-seeker whom both Garfield and Elaine had ordered kept off their premises. He had wanted, apparently, a consular appointment...
April 22, "Building a Self Governing Church:" April 23, "The Seeker Movement;" April 30, "An Outburst of Mysticism of Many Types;" May 1, "The Common Man Arrives." The lectures will be open to the public...