Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-08-18

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NANTUCKET, August Is, 1883.
Nantucket is decidedly one Of the most de-
lightful places on the Atlantic coast for q sum-
mer sojourn. 1t is q verltabe haven OF rest to
the aristocratic soul desiring TO escape the vui-
gar herd, for this charming island is twenty-five
miles from the mainland, and too much on the
line for that greatest Of all summer ahomina-
lions, an excursion" crowd. Both here and
at "Sconset, the greater number OF summer
residents live in cottages, small almost all of
them are. but then privacy Is one great point
gained, and taking meals at a hotel gives one
the pleasure OF a house with none of the bother
Of catering. Modern hurry cannot be said to
thrive on an island where the town crier is IN
important and necessary institution. and where
frequently in winter news from the great outside
world cannot be obtained for week
The Hon. Charles O'Connor has said: " In nv
opinion. between June and September, Nam
tucket has no equal in the world for a cool aud
healthy summer resort, and shall make II my
permanent home" In support OF this assertion
he has "salted down" over sixty thousand dol
lars in a cottage and library. and there the
eminent jurist lives with books for his comJ,an-
ions. visitors he Will not tolerate. and I'm this
hermit home the chidless lawyer is spending his
last years. He only demands books and soil
tude, and has plenty of both. He has willed his
library and house to the Catholic priests, to be
used 10y them as a retreat On another point of
the island, some distance from any hahitation, lie
prepossessing cottage only differing from It's
neighbors In having its grounds iealously fenced
In at every point. To this house there come q
constant succession OF priests, seeking relaxa-
tion from toll in heat-burdened cities They
keep apart 50 from the madding crowd" being
sufficient unto themselves, and are In turn sue
ceeded by other tonsured black-robed figures.
who as quietly play their part In the drama OF
life on this spot Of earth.
HOW "NAN-ToOK-rT"
The beautiful Indian legends concerning
Nantucket have been supplanted by a story
worthy of a century SO practical that It's children
repudiate Santa Claus and demand proofs OF
Cinderellas life. This iconoclastc tale is TO the
effect that white settler hundreds of years ago
gave as a dowry to his eldest daughter. Martha,
the land now known as "Martha's Vineyard" to
his sons other acres, and to one especial scape-
grace the island Of Puckernuck. "A loaf of
bread; SO when Nan, the youngest daughter,
was about to become a blushing bride there
was only this island left for her; but, nothing
daunted, "Nan-Took-lt,' and Mans descendants
have kept II to this day. To Offset this tale is
the fact Of q deed dated 1869, from Mayhem &
Son. of London, giving 1.-The island Of Nantucket
for ESQ and beaver hats. to Is original pur-
chasers," whose names are called every day
There is an old distich that '.by the Ire Pol and
Pen, you may know the Cornish men," and If YOU
call man here Coffin" and that fails to bring
him, then try 'Starbuck" and ''Folger;" IL he
answers not, then you may safely set him down
as stranger, certainly not one TO the Man.
tucket manor born; for these names are The
names OF the island, numbering their owners by
the hundreds. l was shown the house, near the
Sherburn Hotel. where the present Secretary of
the Treasury, Charles J. Folger. first opened his
eyes upon this world Of gadness and Treasury
notes
Miss Baker breaches at the Congregational
church, and delivers good sermon, too; she gets
$500 year, and earns her salary for the wear
and tear upon her nerves preaching to the sum-
mer sinners, leayened by the usual average of
Christians, must be something that no male
preacher can appreciate.
CLUB WITHOUT DUDE.
The swell club here does not have one dude
on its list, and its building could not hold q
rushlight to Viewpoints casino. but il is Jolly all
the same. 1t is composed of aged citizens re-
tired captains Of fishing vessels. and some few
outsiders, who have spent sufficient number
of summers here to be Identified with the inter-
ests OF the island. They meet i'm long, narrow
room. decorated with small table and stove In
the center of the apartment; chairs are pushed
sti1y against the wall, and the Inevitable sand
box is convenient, to which all contribute dur.
ing the evening whiled away i'm listening to.
conversational sails when a Washington man
begins an anecdote, and religiously believe all
farfetched stories anent the national capital
Crime can never obtain firm foothold in this
bracing air. as the jail I'm years has held scarcely
a prisoner. and the last one sent a message to
the selectmen that unless they adopted some
measures to keep the sheep out Of the prison,
darned If he wouldn't walk away some orn-
Ing! AS Nantucket is the postal station the
mail is carried to Sconset distance of miles,
by a special messenger, whose fee is one cent
for every letter carried either way So We let
ter-writing males. who have charming friends at
Sconset, take notice, and make your billet-deuX
heavy and few, else she may have occasion to
remark that her pennies have been squandered
on trashy epistles.
Among the Washingtonians who are or have
been at Nantucket and Sconset this summer are
Mr. John W. Thompson and family: Mr.. VIM.
Thompson and wife; Mr.. Henry A. Willard and
family; Mr.. w. F. Mattingly and family: Mr..
VIM. Ballantyne and family; Mr. J. Ormond viii.
son and family, who have Miss Birdie Fox.
daughter Of II. G. Fox, OF your city, as a guest;
the Misses Lottie and Evie Clark. daughters OF
the supervising architect of the Capitol, and J.
Delmege Trimble, of Washington, have been
guests Of Mrs. III. A. Willard. Mr. and Mrs. E.
b. Hay are also here, and Hon. Matthew G.
Emery, wife and daughter; John Sherman, the
real estate agent, and family, and Second Assis-
tant Postmaster General Richard A. Elmer and
wife. kPT
HOW was wan HD1StR1Oute0 On the
Earth!
This period, long as it appears, is very short
as compared with the myriads of ages of geolog-
ical development that preceded it, and repre-
sents only the last and the shortest OF the geo.
logical periods. The question arises, How has
the human race been able to spread itself over
the whole surface of the globe? Is it the pro.
duct Of different and independent origins in the
several continents, or have all men sprung from
a common cradle "mother-region2" On
this point students are divided, Agassiz holding
that men were created, and Carl VOgt that they
were developed, at different centers and Qua
trefages and the theOlogans maintaining the
unity Of their origin The fact is left that man,
the same in all the essential characteristics OF
the species has advanced into all the habitable
parts of the globe and that not recently,
and when provided with all the resources
that experience and inventive genius could
put at his disposal, but when still
young and ignorant. It was then that,
weak and almost naked, having only just
got fire and q few rude arms with which to de-
fend itself and procure food the human race
conquered the world and spread itself from I
within the Arctic Circle to Terra del Fuego,
from the Samoypd cOunfrv IN Van niemen'a