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Arkansas ladies' journal. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1884-1886, 1884-12-27
WALT WHITMAN.

we cannot but regard Schiller with rev.
SlSnce when he writes for his brave men
such words as these:
LIS true that I can save you from the
S vpp,eSSorS power, but another's aid must
s s.'Slo you from the dangers of the storm;
' anu yet It's better far that you should fall
n w. U0d'S hands than into the hands Of
IaA'" ' "fWa -" aau
- lS great regard for womanhood has
v;1 I' nln dear to all, He never strayed 50
con, ss from his loyal manhood as to mis-
,,n. ,'' ! ner friendship, nor did he ever
b, ' 1o ner to feel that She had compromised
Dnt %N'ra ifshe sought his guidance or
N, ' W.: and never made her serve as
u, . yJS'' OF jest, because his mother
Arkansas ladies' journal. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1884-1886, 1884-12-27

l,,top Ia. the extract given below, from
'hter v cJp' ma Miss vannah is young
ptn r.,o'' a'e Of Maine has been the home
men and many marked literary characters
women of genius as we'll as Of
Arkansas ladies' journal. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1884-1886, 1884-12-27
Hae Hre and Auoad.

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Edwin Arnold has written Christmas
poem for the Current, of Chicago.
Mr. and Mrs. +. Marion Crawford have
arrived in Paris on their wedding tour.
Hon. George Bancroft now takes long
daily walks instead of horseback rides.
A copy of the suppressed edition of the
Bulwer letters was recently sold in New
York for $500.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-08-23

the arms OF aliberating sword" and the Figaro
described the monument OF Quinet as IAN
equestrian statue in a sitting posture"
Ii is not proposed to narrate here how Sir
Boyle Roche accomplished the feat of writing a
letter with sword in one hand and pistol
In the other: how on one occasion he heard
nothing but silence; how he refused to give his
autograph in note which he signed; or to allude
to the many facetious doiDgs and sayings of that
great bull king; but few examples of lingus-
TIC incongruitles may be picked from the utter
ances OF Hibernian orators of the present day.
for Irshmen are noted for their liability to per-
petuate amusing plumbers.
Speaking in the house of lords in 1882 on the
arrears of rent Oreiand) BILL an Irish peer said:
My lords, you will drive the Irish landlords off
the face OF the earth. and they will have to beg
their bread from door to door" What follows,
uttered by one of the members for Wicklow in
the lower house. is not less ludicrCus LAS
long as lrelaId.' he exclaimed, sis silent in her
wrongs, England is above all her cries" An
Irish member informed Mr.. Speaker that ''whie
three-Iuarters of the outrages Mr.. Foster had
reported were totally unfounded the other half
was grossly exaggerated" and Mr.. Moore, NJ.
F.. in the course of an Irish debate. said that.
until you reform the wOrkhouse. SO that man
may go Ill without shame and come out de-
graded woman. you will do no good Mr..
Parhel, when cOnversng with an American
reporter. is stated to have said "The Irish
party must light the coercion bill step by step,
with what shreds Of liberty remain to them UNI
der the powers with which. in future, the al
ready 0mnlpOtent speaker will be armed" Mr..
OConnor Power once informed the house that
since the government have let the cat out of
the bag, there is nothing to be done but to
take the Dull by the hOrns;" and another Irish
man told the same august assemblage, when re
1errlng to the Irish prevention OF crimes bill,
that If they imprisoned the agitators they
would make the agitation greater STILL"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-08-23
AMERICANS NIALEGNED.
An Incident Showing that We Take
Time to Rest.

Other nations says the Detroit Free Press
love to picture Americans as rushing up and
down with SO much steam that a funeral pro-
cessiOn cannot check business tor an insta Mt
1t claimed that eat too fast, sleep too little
rush too hard, and that young men of % are
all broken down with the excitement OF bust
ness
At 1 o'clock the other afternoon boy about
IL years OF age halted on the southeast corner
Of Griswold and Larned streets and flung down
his coat and yelled:
"Hey, there-let 'er Gomez"
Before he had spit on his hands at least tif-
teen people came to a stop. In about two min
utes another boy had flung down his coat
on the northwest corner of the same streets
and yelled:
"LOOk Out-she's coming?'
BY this time the crowd had increased to 90.
The last boy threw a ball to the first, and the
first boy threw 1t back 1t was simply throw
and catch. 1t was a sight common as nail heads
In the sidewalk There was no slight of hand
nothing thrillng-nO chance for accident, and
yet % people came to dead stop for ten min
utes. Among them were lawyers who had
cases on call. bank messengers with their port
follos, wholesale merchants. and indeed all
classes of business men were represented A
policeman finally came up and asked one after
another what the matter was. but no one an
swered. He ordered the boys off and they had
taken a seat on the post Office steps sixteen
minutes previously who slowly rose up, brushed
the dust, and observed to friend:
well, I've got to 90 to the bank and get
$4,000 to pay our men off this afternoon and
guess I'll loaf along
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-08-23
Fifty Cents a EreCkle.

Clara Belle at Long Branch.
The Long Branch manicures have added new
department to their business-that of freckle
painting. The most fashionable young women
this summer are those with auburn hair and
golden beauty spots. The suns rays are power
less to produce freckes on most compleXions
1t was said that the effect could be accomplished
for delicate compilations by the application of
mostened sand just after rising in the morn
ing. So many young women got to using sand
that bath-house keepers did a thriving business
for time by selling fine white kind, and the
sign, ''Freckle Sand for Sale Here" met ones
eye very frequently The results were not sat
isfactory and the treatment now has been al
most wholly given up. The yearhing for
freckles. however was so great that the mani
cures were almost forced into doing what
nature could not accomplish They have be-
come so skilled at the art that the only thing
about their work that suggests its artificiality
is the fact that the freckles are so much more
delicate and picturesquely disposed than one
ever finds them on the blooming countenance of
mlkmaid. The charge is SO cents freckle.
One treatment. with careful management can
be made to do for three days. An aggressively
fashionable young woman, however prefers to
have her freckles painted newly every day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-08-23

ether Odd Experiences of n Photo.
grapher.

81 suppose" said Cincinnati photographer
to 2 Times-Star man. '.when | was learning
my trade in a country town of this state, l had
an experience wont forget until death. The
boss had gone out for days hunt. Bust
ness was slack and he knew the other boy and
myself could run the shop. l had made a few
tintypes and considered myself a natural opera
tor. To run the gallery for a day was bliss, and
l was anxious for a sitter; before o'clock got
everything cleaned up, bath and plates in
order. and sat in the front window awaiting
customers. An old man came in at II a. m. lie
was right from the country: had mud on his
boots. and all the other testimony. He was
'gOin west TO his darters and wanted a picture
to take with him, you know | knew all about
it and soon had him in the chair the iron clamps
behind his ears and the camera gun aimed at his
gray head He was quite nervous about some
thing and asked me to wait. i want my picture
drawed off to look like this he said as he
pulled tIntype OF young man from his poe
kct. The same pose like, you know he said.
he told me that it was his son who had been
killed at Stone river. He was dear good boy.
he was said the old man, with a weak voice
and sigh-'and I'll soon be with him.
II got him in position while he still held in
his hand the dead boys picture. Invent through
the usual ceremony. telling him, All ready
now. right STILL and as took the cloth from
the table turned NY back to prevent any en-
utlldSSintlit Ill thirty SeCOUuS L sdiu. 'luaC
will do He never moved. You NAV rest
now | said. but he sat still and held the
precious tntype as if wrapt in thought Think
ing that lie was deaf, l touched him ON the
shoulder. Still lie did not move and noticed
a fixed stare in his eyes. He was dead. He had
died in the chair and had the negative of
dying man. OF course | got help and sent word
to his friends. The doctors said he died of
heart disease. i developed his picture and
started as saw the face of a dead man look at
ME from the cOlodiOn coating. 1t was ner-
vOus day for me can tell You. and have al
ways been careful with old people.
Talking about love affairs in photographs, I
had a funny experience some time ago. A
woman, handsome and determined. had pic
ture made holding pistol to her head. as if
about to commit suicide This she sent to her
lover, who was probably getting tired of her.
Underneath the picture she wrote IT you don't
| will He understood 1t had its effect. for i'm
two weeks made grOuppicture of them both,
and she was attired as bride"
women have their yagaries, even for pic
tures?"
well. should say so. To them the picture
of a lover is very dear. A young woman who be-
came infatuated with drummer had me print
picture of him on the flesh of her arm. We can
photograph on flesh very nicely now. and made
a good print. | fixed it thoroughly and she
went away happy. month later she came
back with bushes and wanted it taken Off Her
lover had turned out to be married man. and
Of course she hated him for his cruel deception.
However, she wears it yet, as told her to let it
wear or"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-08-23
HOT SUMMERS IN HISTORY.
Thermometers Burst. Meat Cooked in
the sun md RiverS Dried I'D.

From the London Standard
People who are already complaining Of the
heat while this summer is scarcely month DID,
says the -TIIenae Steele should remember the
extraordinary weather Of former years In 627
the heat was so great in France and Germany
that all springs dried up; water became SO scarce
that many people died OF thirst In $40 work
in the fields had to be given up: agricultural la
borers perssting in their work were struck
down In few minutes so powerful was the
sun. In 993 the suns rays were SO fierce that
vegetation burned up as under the action Of
fire. In 1000 rivers ran dry under the protracted
heat. the fish were left dry in heaps and putri-
fed in few hours. The stencil that ensued
produced the plague. Men and animals VEN
turing in the sun in the summer of IG22 fell
down dying. the throat parched to a finder and
the blood rushing to the brain
In 1882 not only did the rivers dry up, but the
ground cracked on every side and became baked
to the hardness of stone The Rhine in Alsace
nearly dried up. Italy was visited with terrific
heat In 1l39; vegetation and plants were burned
up. During the battle OF Bella, in 1900 there
were more victims made by the sun than by
weapons; men fell down sunstruck in regular
rows. The summer of 1877 was also severe:
there was an absolute dearth of forage In 1903
and 1904 the Rhine. Loire and Seine ran dry
In 1915 the heat throughout Europe became
excessive. Scotland suffered particularly in
1875; men and beasts died in scores. The heat
in several departments during the summer of
1905 was equal to that in glass furnace Meat
could be cooked by merely exposing it to the
sun. Not soul dare venture out between
noon and p. m. In 17lS many shops had to
close; the theaters never opened their doors
for several months. Not drop of water fell
during six months.
In 1858 the thermometer rose to 1852 In 1719
the heat at Bologna was so great that great
number of people were stiied. There was not
sufficient air for the breath, and people had to
take refuge under ground. In July, 1893, the
heat became intOlerable. Vegetables were burned
up and fruit dried upon the trees. The furniture
and woodwork in dwelling houses cracked and
split up meat became bad in an hour. The rivers
ran dry in several provinces during 1S11 expe-
dents had to be devised for the grinding of corn.
In 1922 protracted heat was accompanied by
storms and earthquakes; during the drought
legions of mice overran Lorraine and Alsace,
committing incalculable damage. In 1882 the
heat brought about cholera in France: 20. 600
persons fell victims to the visitation in Paris
alone. In 1916 the thermometer marked 1852
in the sun. Finally. the summers of 1859, 1860.
1869, 1870, 1874. etc, although excessively hot,
were not attended by any disaster
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-08-23
The Euuit of the Age.

The fault Of the age IS a mad endeayor
TO leap 10 EcithtS that were made 10 climb
BY burst OF strength or = thought that IS clever
We plan To OuJylJ and fOresJau Time
We Scorn 10 walt for the thing worth having:
We want high noon at the days dim dawn:
We md 40 pleasure IN telling and saving
As our Ioreiathers did IN The good times gone,
We force our roses before their season
To bio m and blossom that we NAV wear
AID then We wonCcr and ask the reason
That perfect buds are so few and rare
We crave the gain, but deSpise the getting:
We want wealth. not Is reward, but dover:
ARD the strength that Is wasted IN useless frettng
No1ld tell = forest or build q tower
To coye: the prize yet 20 shrink rom the winning;
To thirst Tor glory, yet fear the fight
Why. what can &c lead TO at last bur shining
To mental l8nguOr and moral blight?
Better The old slow way OF striving.
accounting small gains when The year is done
III Il 70 Use our forces all IN tontriving
Lid 10 grasp iOr pleasures Ne have not won
ELLA WHEELER.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-08-23
The Deserts. Between Cairo and Khar.
tOuul.

Gen. r. f. Colston late of the Ecyptian gene
raj staG, says in the September Century"
opropos Of the difficulties opposing ''the Rescue
OF Gen. Gordon: The Arabs divide their
deserts into two kinds. The first is called 81
jetd or q Jerrye, meaning mountain or wilder
ness. In this kind of deserts there is more or
less vegetation. always very scanty; but yet it
is there that the Bedouins roam and raise their
fiocks and cameis. Gazelles and other game are
also found. The desert between Berber and
Suahim Is chiefly OF this kind. The other sort
Is called the dtnlOOr, and it is impossible to i'm
agine anything more barren and Gesolate 1t is
literally nothing but sand and rocks Not a
bush, not q blade of grass ever grew there. and
consequently no animal life at all, not even in
sects. They are like oceans which you cross
on your desert ship but where 1t is death
to tarry. The ostrich and the hyena
cross them swiftly by night. These at
mOors are generally from eight to ten days
across, with one group of wells in the middle
Such is the Atmoor of Shigre, which / crossed
in nine days. and that of KOrosko In seven 1.-TWO
days less chan the usual time). Only one group
OF wells is found halfway, which is called
n1ourG-bitter. None bat camels and Bedouins
can drink its water. Travellers always carry
enough Mtg water 70 last them across It is
the only desert where no guides are needed, for
the track is perfectly marked by the skeletons
'of ca1nels and cattle. which. as l counted them
average sixty to the mile on the best parts Of
the trail and four hundred on the worst
Thousands OF camels and oxen perish there
yearly The latter are driven from the Upper
Nile. scGntily watered once in fOrty-eight hours
on the march, and a large proportion Of them
die on the way. The hyenas and yultures,
which are the only denizens of the atmoor, pick
their bones clean before the next morning and
the fierce sun heat dries the hides and bones.
so that the stencil OF carriOn never taints the
desert air."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-08-23
A Marriage that Did Not Hold.

At midnight on October 81, 1883, William
Alexander was accosted as he was going from
his work in the paper mill at Corinth, N. T., by
deputy sheriff and told he was wanted at the
hotel, the Central house. Arriving at the hotel.
Alexander was ushered into the sitting room
and then informed that he must marry Miss
Carrie Bennett Alexander demonstrated. but
justice of the peace entered the room and told
Inc couple 10 stand up. ana tney were married.
home, one mile distant. The following day he
informed counsel what had taken place. and
soon proceedings were begun to have the mar
riage set aside, as Alexander claimed it was il
legal and fraudulent. Alexander has lust re-
ceived decree issued by Judge Barnes setting
aside the marriage
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-08-23
The Travels Of a Little Steamer.

From the Spokane Falls Chronicle
remarkable feat is now being carried out by
. young Englfshman representing a party of
English capitalists who have acquired a large
block of land from the British Colombia govern
ment in the exquistely beautifullOwer Kootenai
valley, lying just over the northern confines of
Idaho, where the international boundary line
separates the waters Of Pend d'Orele lake and
kOotenai river. This pass, traversed by a mar
row Indian trail, which winds through the
almost impcnetrabie forests that clOthe this
great spur Of the Rocky mountains, known as
the Clarke's fork range, has never been passed
by a wagon and now steamer, the hull built of
teak in one piece, is to be spirited across this
mountain barrier for distance of forty miles.
A large force of Indians, belonging to the
kootenai tribe race that has as yet remained
perfectly untouched by civilization, and who have
never seen white woman, have been engaged
together with 10 or IL white men to help in the
work. The little steamer has seen much travel.
Built last year on the banks of the placid
Dee, that washes the Roman walls of beautiful
Chester, one of Engands oldest cities she
made summer trip to the rock-bound coast
OF Norway. where her owner explored some of
the most inaccessible fiords of that picturesque
coast, bent on salmon fishing and bear hunting.
Brought back to England she left Liverpool
safely slowed away on the deck of the POLYNESIA,
one OF the ocean levathans, May 81 Landed
at Montreal she was placed on the deck of one
OF the large propellers running from that point
to the western extremity of the great lakes.
Duluth, when, after passing through some $50
locks that makes navigation through the long
chain of great lakes possible and after q narrow
escape from being wrecked on hidden rock,
On which the propeller struck one dark night
heavily, she safely reached the latter port. when
she was Immediately placed on fiat car on
which. after being placed in bond to enable her
to pass through the United States, she began
her long transcOntinental journey of 1 500 miles
over the Northern Pacific line to Sand Point or
Lake Pend d'Oreille.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-08-23
The Appearance OF a Sun Spot.

Prof Langley. of the Allegheny observatory
will contribute to The Century series of popu-
lar illustrated papers on The New Astronomy"
His first article III the September number treats
OF the spots on the sun, and of one of the spots
he says: ''There We're wonderful fern-like forms
in this spot too, and an appearance like that OF
pine boughs covered with SNOW; for strangely
enough. the intense wilderness of the solar sur
face, III the best telescopes, constantly suggests
cold. | have had the same impression yvidly
in looking at the immense masses of molten
white iron in a great pudding furnace. The
salient feature here is one very difficult to see
even in good telescopes. but one which is Of
great interest 1t has been show n i'm the pre-
viOus drawings. but we have not enlarged on it
Every where in the spot are long white threads
or flaments. lying upon one another. tending
in general sense toward the center. and each
OF which grows brighter toward its inner eX-
tremity. These make up in fact. as we now
see. the penumbra or outer shade and the So
called cry stat is really affiliated to them Besides
this Oh closer looking We see that the inner shade
or uHtra. and the very deepest shades. or nuclei.
are really made of them too. We can look into
the dark center. as into Il funnel, to the depth
or probably over i've thousand miles: but as far
as we may go down We come to no liquid or
solid floor. and see only volumes of whir!ing
vapor; disposed not vaguely like our clouds, but
in the singularly definite fern-like flower-like
forms which are themselves made of these fila
mPnts. each OF which is from three to five thou
sand miles long. and from fifty to two hundred
niies thick, and each of which Gas we saw in the
first spot) appears to be made up like a rope, of
still finer aud finer strands looking. in the rare
inStants when irradiation makes an isolated one
visible. Ike thread Of gOsSamer. or the finest
OF cobweb. These suggest the fine threads of
spun glass; and here there is something more
than mere resemblance OF form, for both ap-
pear to have one casual feature in common cue
to yiscous OF sticky fluid; for there is lnuch
reason 70 believe that the solar atmosphere
even where thinner than cur own air, is ren1-
cred viscOus by the enormous heat. and owes to
tins its tendency to pull out in strings. in COM
mon with such otherwise dissmilar things as
honey or melted sugar. or melted glass;
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-08-23
The American of the Future.

Joseph Edgar Chamberlain contributes a
paper tothe September Century on THE Foreign
Elements in our Population, " in which he shows
the tendency of immigrants Of the same race to
mass in particular states, giving to those sec
lions special foreign character But in con-
clusion he says: ''Supposing the entire mass to
be fused. the Celtic and Teutonic blood. the
Latin and the Norman would be mingled in
much the same proportions as they were in the
veins Of the original English settlers. The
American OF the future, supposing present forces
to continue, and all white elements to fuse
equally, would be almost as much an anglo
Saxon as the American Of 1920. We have SEEM
however. that the races are not distributed
evenly and that certain types are likely to be
locally predominant. at least until a long pro-
cess OF INTERPRETATION shall have welded the
mass into n substantial likeness. The WiScon-
sin man of the near future, for instance is
likely TO tie almost German while the New
Engiandcr (still supposin" all elements to COM
bine) viii be at least half an freshman But in
the meantime ali come to speak a single dia-
leCt: all wear the same cOStume all come under
the assimat!ag influence of an intensely active
Internal commerce. and all continue to ac-
custom themselves 20 diversity of views and Or
CARNATIONS in religion without strife growing
out Of such diversity or q thought OF social SEN
aration on its account. May we not assume
that such state OF affairs will tend to make the
people single and homogeneous nation. i'm
spite OF local diversity Of Origin!