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NEGROES' ABBEY

SERVICE

Dance Tribute at Statue of Lincoln.

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A CURIOUS SCENE.

Numbers of negroes went to Westminster Abbey to attend a special service for them-the first of the kind ever held there and afterwards paid homage in strange fashion before the statue of Abraham Lincoln in Parliament Square,

It was a curious scene. Lincoln stood in front of his curved stone chair and smiled benignly as usual. There was a brand new wreath of mauve and white "everlasting flowers at the broad base of his statue. It had just been placed there reverently by a negro from Lincoln's own country.

STILLMAN DIVORCE

CASE.

BOW BELLS IN DANGER.

End of Long Action in Walls Cracked and Roof

United States.

After years of litigation, scan- dal and untold columns of news- paper publicity and sensation, one of America's most famous divorce cases came to an end when Mrs. Ann Urquhart Stillman obtained a divorce from Mr. James A. Still man, the New York banker,

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APATHY OF THE PUBLIC.

Unless funds are immediately. forthcoming, one

most of the famous churches in the British" Empire will have to be permanent- ly closed as the only alternative to its collapse, says the Morning Post.

Immediately after the decree of divorce was delivered Mrs. Still- The church of St. Mary-le-Bow, man married Mr. Fowler Me home of the world-famous "Bow Cormick, a grandson of both Mr. Belle," has long been in desperate John D. Rockefeller, Sr., and Mr. need of money. Five and a half. Cyrus McCormick of the great In-years ago the bells were silenced ternational Harvester Company.. on their being found to be crack- Both the trial of Mrs. Stillman's ad, and an appeal was launched divorce suit and her marriage to for $15,000 with which to have Mr. McCormick were kept most them rehung and the church itself, secret until after they had occur repaired. Yet such is the apathy of the public that so far only £2,800 has been contributed.

red.

A fortnight ago it was discover-

The red in the walls of the church, and that a large portion of the ceiling over the South Aisle was in a dan- gerous state owing to the ravaged of the death-watch beetle and rot caused by frequent leakage of water.

But the nows of the marriage A group of ebony-skinned men from America, the West Indies, of Mre. Stillman and Mr. Mc- and South Africa stood bare-head-Cormick recalled the famous Stilled that serious cracks had occur ed in front of it. They wore white man case of a decade ago. duck trousers and blue coats domestic rift in the Stillman across which white and mauve family apparently had been patch- ribands the colours of the Ordered up, after, for four years, Mr. of the Elks they represented-Stillman had sought in vain to In their obtain a divorce, paming as co were slashed, broadly. hands they held Panama or straw respondent an Indian guide whom

Mrs. Stillman employed at her The City Surveyor, was at once hats..

estate in the Canadian woods. summoned, and an exhaustive, ex- amination of the whole edifice was carried out. In the subsequent re- port, which has just been issued. it

Famous Words.

Dr. Harold Moody, tailer rather Ithan the rest of his fellow negroes and wearing a frock coat, briefly related to them the facts of Lincoln's life, told them of his struggle to emancipate the coloured man and ended with the famous words "With charity to all,"

Then a party of negroes clasped hands round the statue, danced with long steps and sang "Auld "Lang Syne." Other negroes standing outside the enclosure joined in. It was a chorus of musical voices.. A few coloured women stood with the men, and now and again a curly headed baby peeped shyly from behind his mother's skirts.

Nearly all the negroes who at tended the special service are work ing in London,

Mra. Stillman's new husband is the son of Mra. Edith Rockefeller McCormick, a daughter of Mr. John D. Rockefeller of Standard Oil fare. His father is the son of Mr. Cyrus McCormick, who in vented the reaper and who aubse quently built up one of the coun- try's greatest' industries.

JUMBO'S DECLINE.

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"Artist From Trunk to Tail."

was stated that cracks and fsauros. were general over the whole building, that the east wall was leaning outwards, and that it' was essential that repair work ahould be started without delay. The total cost for those repairs which were found to be absolute- ly necessary, together with minor.] alterations, was estimated at be tween £3,800 and £3,500..

"Certain portions of the church which have not been inspected Did Mary, the 24-year-old, two since the days of Sir Christopher and a half-ton elephant, die of Wren, who was the architect, were love-sickness or from injuries re also surveyed, and it was found celved when the coach in which she that dry rot has so far affected the was travelling to fulfil an engage- roof beams that the roof itself ment was involved in a minor col- will be threatened before long.

This question was debated Mr. J. Kemp, one of the Many of the worshippers who Ifsion? went to Westminster Abbey in- in Court in Paris when the ele-churchwardens, stated: "The dam- quired why a few rows of stalls nearphant's owner, M. Grossi, claiming age to the roof and the walls be- choir had been railed off, that death was due to injuries, came apparent overnight. Great Presently they knew the reason. sought damages. Mary had a big gaps were noticed in the rooâng About twenty-five negroes, men, reputation as a harpist, saxophonist of the South aide which made it women, and children, came in, walk-and juggler with hand-balls, be imperative that the roof should be ing slowly from the main door. sides her natural trumpeting. thored up without delay. This They were special representatives "She was an artist from trunk to was done, and we are now wonder- others were scattered through the tail," said M. Grosel, but after the ing how we are going to ac- collision she lost all desire to excumulate the funds for those re- hibit, her talent declined and she pairs which are obviously neces died,"

the

abbey.

which Their leader wore mauve and white.

Band of Pilgrims. The distinguished negroes carried

The railway company's counsel wreaths, of lilies and mauve irises pleaded that Mary was a notorious matched their ribands.eurasthenic and called evidence to an apron of prove that her injuries were of One of them the slightest and were not reapon bors a large lettered banner, but sible for her death. The real this he was asked to fold up...

Some of them had never before been in Westminster Abbey. As they heard the silvertoned choir- they raised their boys" voice heads in awe.

A shaft of broad yellow light bronzed their black faces and gave them the profundity of Epstein statues.

After the service and a short sermon the negroes gathered up. their wreaths and formed them- selves. Into a band of pilgrims to be conducted through the abbey.

Not far from the grave of the Unknown Warrior their guide stop-

cause of Mary's fading away was because she was tired of her arti. ficial loveless life

-Bary,

Ours is one of the poorest of the City churches our income is only £550 a year, barely enough to Pay the expenses of maintenance— and our only Kope is now either to borrow, from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners or to make a fresh appeal to the public.

If the money is not forthcom M. Gross! rejoined: "She has al- ing, and forthcoming quickly we ways shown a high-minded satis-shall have no alternative but to faction in the sacrifice of her close the church.”- normal life to her art

Judgment was 'reserved.

CONVICTS MUTINY,

Five Killed Before Outbreak Quelled.

fond, July 9.

upon opening all the cells and liberating the occupants. The alarm having been given, the main prison guard opened fire on the mutineers, who had already escap ed beyond the prison walls and a severe fight ensued, in the course. of which Ave convicts were killed and a score of persons on both sides were wounded,

Order was finally restored after the arrival of reinforcements, and,

ped and fadicated a stone on the A dangerous mutiny is reported foor. Here lay Livingstone, the from a convict prison near Hliven great African explorer and misin south Bulgaria, where a group sionary. One of the wreaths of convicts returning to their cells it then being discovered that. found resting-place on this stone; from their daily walk, suddenly numerous prisoners were missing, then

Lord Macaulay was honoured attacked and overpowered the troops invested the town to prevent in a similar fashion. They linger warders and took their arms, there their fight.

ed by the grave of Wilberforce, who brought about the emancipation of the regra in the British Empire,

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