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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-10-18
AZ Last.

When on my day 81 life the night Is falling
And, ia the winds from uu-unEcd spaces blown
i hear far voices out 81 trknCss calling
My feet 10 paths unknown,
Thou who hast made my home Of life NO pleas-
ant
Leave not its tenant when its walls decay;
y love divine. - Helper ever present,
BE thou my strength and stay.
Be near me when all else is from me drifting.
Ear'h, sky, holmes picture, days Of shade and
shine.
And kindly faces Ia my own uplifting
Ihe love which answers mine.
have but Thee o Father. Let Thy Spirit
he with me then 20 comfort and uphold:
No gate Of pearl no branch al palm merit
Nor street OF shining gold.
: Suffice Ii if my good and IN unreckOned,
and both forgiven through Thy bounding grace,
lhnd myself 10y hands familiar beckoned
Unto my hitting place.
Some humble door among Thy many mansions
Some sheItcring shade where sin and striving
cease,
And flows forever through heavens green expan-
siuns
The river of Thy peace.
There, from the music round about me stealing,
lain would learn the new and holy song.
And ma az last. beneath Thy trees OF healing,
The lie for which long.
WHITTIER
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-10-18

Writing from Rockaway in August, 1910. he
says: Il have at last seen Madame Jerome
Bonaparte-Miss Patterson large, fat woman,
whose face still preserves traces of wonderful
beauty, but totally devoid of expression. She
looks like plaster model in a studio enlarged
They say she is agreeable woman, but /
pronounce her dreadfully tedious
These extracts might be continued ad in
hnitum, and but for an occasional piece of in
formation he has extracted and his illusions to
those we know here, this book of NJ. de
Bacourt amounts to nothing except ex-
hlbition OF Ill nature. These extracts I will
close with about the only pleasant thing he has
said of those he visited here. In June, lS4l,
the Comte de Menou introduced him to Mrs.
Graham. then residing in the house which
stood where now the Columbia University
stands, and there he met Miss Emily Harper
of Baltimore and Mr.. George Graham. He Is
kind enough to say of them: These people
have distinguished manners and speak Frencn
very WELL" JOHN f. CoYLE.
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BOGUS ALASKA CURIOS.
Their Manufacture an Important Indus
try I'm San Francisco.

From the San Francisco Chronicle.
1.-The spread OF American enterprise and
Yankee ingenuity is nowhere seen to better ad-
vantage than among the guileless natives of
Alaska" said Capt. Anderson Of the Bertha to
a reporter yesterday.
The captain thereupon proceeded to throw
new light upon the results of the fad of relic
hunting pursued by Alaskan excursionists.
1.-The captains of the excursion steamers are
pestered by the passengers for information as
10 the best places to procure relics" said he
The arrival of excursionists creates as much
OF stir among the natives as steamer day did
in San Francisco in the sos. They are the
! legitimate prey of the children OF Alaska
Years ago 1t was possible to get real relics at
a moderate price, but now 1t Is hard to tell the
| difference between real and false relies.
Some time ago some ingenious natives used
TO take half dollars, hammer them out very
| thin and manufacture them into bracelets.
| These curios were sold for S1.5 or 81 ut the
| most. When steamer loads of tourists COM
| menced going to Alaska in the summer they
| bought no the bracelets as fast as they were
| made. The native Alaskan is a very speedy
| individual. He saw fortunes in store for him.
| The bracelets could not be made fast enough
| TO supply the demand and he formed a sort OF
| syndicate with his brothers. This syndicate
| sent to San Francisco and had hundreds OF
| these bracelets manufactured here and re-
| shipped to Alaska. There they were and are
stll retalied TO the gulieless excursionIst at IS
| or 20 pair. Tho same may be said of native
idols, straw hats, bottle covers and bows and
| arrows. More than half of them are made IN
| this and other coast cities and then sent to
Alaska for sale. The natives know when they
| are talking to an expert and they do not try to
palm off spurious articles on HIM. But the
green excursionist is their ready victim. They
| will sell HIM straw hat made OF spruce roots
| for IS or Sc which they ordinarily sell for 80
cents Imported war suits decked with feathers
and beads are disposed Of at from S25 to S75
| each.
IF the studious collectors OF Alaskan curios
only knew the history Of half their materials
they would become very sad. The native
Alaskan is a victim of civilization. He has
learned from his white brother how to lie and
be knows how a saiza a nnnnrtnnikx
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-10-18
Pity the Messenger Boy.

From the Buffalo Courier
One Of the district messenger boys undertook
novel task last Sunday afternoon. He was
called TO Franklin street house, where he
found a woman with baby.
Il am going TO take baby to the park for an
airing" she said. My maid has gone home
sick and II want you to go with me 10 carry the
baby. You can do il well enough IL you only
think So" The boy did not think so at all, but
he had no way out of 1t, and for three hours he
would como out Of their sockets. Don't you
gimme no moro calls to that house." he said
when he reported at headquarters II couldin'
stat two times o. that"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-10-18

At the age OF twenty
two he enlisted in the
United States army as
ensign, and in ten years
he had advanc o d
through the grades of
second and first lleuten-
ant to a captaincv. which
rank he held until the
disbanding of the army
in 1916. While in serv-
ice he was highly es-
teemed as a brave and
Jealous officer, and in
several close engage
ments he so deported
himself as to receive
from the commanding
-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-10-18
King AIfonso's Democratic WAYS.

rlOin tne SOrrleiS Oe Napole.
Whenever the king secs grandees or gentle
men whom he knows he calls them by their
Christian names or their surnames without
their title-a custom always reproved by his
governess. Eth! Xiquena,' exclaimed the
king one day as the ex-minlster passed. The
governess, who knew that the counts father
was dead and that the son had inherited the
title, observed: Sire. permit me to remind
your majesty that the person whom you do the
honor to address is the Duke of Bivona" The
king burst out laughing and exclaimed: s.The
Duke Of Bivona! This is NIGEL But know
that it is Xiquena- Are you not Xiquena?r be
added, addressing the count ''Yes, sire" ''Do
you see," the little king went on, ..this woman
has mania for giving people new names.
Doesn't she pretend that Juanito Gan officer of
the Royal Guard much loved by the king) is
the Marquis of Soto Mayor" sIndeed. sire. be
is, and you will permit me to remind your
majesty that he should be so addressed" re-
piled the gorerness. Don't be stupid" was
the monarch's answer; "this is Juanito and the
other Ii Xiquena."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-10-18

T Is ALREADY about
and around us-the sere
and yellow leaf. And
the fine. soft October
day is here also tenn
pered with exquisite at
mospheric bouyancy.
healthful and invigorat-
ing, and peradventure
the mos: delightful of
all the year. Yet its
very loneliness is the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-10-18
INSIDE THE EARTH.
An Eccentric Scientist and His
Strange Theory.
STORY OF SYMMES' HOLE.
An Early Product of Nineteenth Cen.
fury Thought-A Belief I'm a Land of
Warmth and Plenty beyond the Har.
rier Of Ice.
Written for THE EVENING srAR.l

L. SOMEWHAT recent edition Of a COM
AV pilation Of tho Symmes Theory Of Con-
ESEcentric Spheres has suggested this
EH vmethod of disseminating a knowledge
&AHIof this theory more widely than can be
done through the pamphlet just alluded to.
The author of this theory, John Cleves Symmes.
was born in Sussex county, n. j., on November
l. 1850. During his boyhood and youth he re-
ceived such education as the neighborhood
schools could impart, supplemented by general
reading, for which he early developed an in
satiable fondness. He was specially interested
in mathematics and the natural sciences, and
lost no opportunity to enlarge his stock Of in
formation on these subjects.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-10-18

A Little Secret-Missde Muir-''You haven't
been drumming? thought all the girls went
in for it Why do you suppose lis 80
popuiar?"
Miss dc Meanor-"Well, you know it's a
much cheaper way Of finding titled foreigners
than going to Europe. Puck.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-10-18
A TALK ABOUT FLOWERS.
Pretty Effects OF u Well. Appointe ed
Window Garden.

soME OF TIE FLOWERS THAT BLOOM N -HH
FALL-ArTRAcrIvE WINTER PLASTs-ADvAS-
TAGEs BULBS OFFER AMATEUR GARDENERS
THE CARE OF PLANTS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-10-18

Husband-"Is this canned chicken or canned
lobster, Ethel?" Wife-'.I don't know, John.
The label had been torn OF the can before I
opened it. "-SomeruaIs Journal
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-10-18
CURIOUS AND PRETTY.

II you can have but one plant have the small
pink oxalis foribunda, for it is a curious and
pretty plant and will bloom ten months in the
year. Just after sunset il will seemingly 90 TO
sleep, the trefoil leaves will close like an UNI
breila and the rosy Hover will fold itself to-
gether for slumber just as the canary at the
other window, perhaps. will draw himself up
in a bunch for a good night-long nap. In the
morning, unless it DO cloudy, the leaves and
flowers will quietly unfold and enjoy daylight
life along with the other members of the house
hold
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-10-18
A WORD OF CAUTION.

Do not be deceived into buying inferio,
bulbs. Get the best; it is economy. They may
cost as much again. but it is money well in
vested. The best come from Holland, and car
be had from any first-class florist. Most OF tho
American dealers import largely from HOLLAND
and sell at reasonable prices, but many buv ur
inferior American grown bulbs, which are deai
at any price. So many large firms are now en-.
gagged in the sale OF imported bulbs it is posi-
bic TO purchase enough at a moderate cost I,
stock a large bed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-10-18
NOTES.

Gala are well under way now for winter
blooming and good plants can be had. The
especial need of this plant is food, water and
sunlight in great abundance. It also REQUIRES
a warm room in which to do its best
1t is well to secure now stock of soil for use
in winter, at which time the ground is full of
frost and the soil is unsuitable 1t can be easily
procured and pat away in the cellar to be used
as needed.
Always, when practicable, cover house plants
when sweeping the room in which they are
kept, as dust is very injurious to them
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-10-18

Gen. Ramsay, said he met that day Mr.
Wykoh, to whom he expressed his disappoint-
ment. oh don't be worried about that; will
obtain ticket for you," said MIR. Wykoff. an as
surance which seemed SO unlikely that the gen.
eral said he regarded it as badinage. Some
hours later, when he had returned to his
hotel, invitation reached him, borne
by parsonage Respondent in royal livery On
the night OF tho ball the consul general and
charge d'affaires was surprised to meet the
young lieutenant. not only there, but sustaining
evidently most pleasant relations with members
of the royal household. This, of course was
tho influence OF MIR. Wykoff even in that early
day. During the war Mr.. Wykoff occupied a
position which gave him influence with Mr.
Lincoln, and it was said his visits in Europe
during that period were as all agent OF the gov
eminent intrusted with important state mat
tors With the French minister, MARQUIS de
Montholon. he was on confidential terms and
dld good service, as was assured, i'll mainta
ing the friendly relations between France and
the United States, which were at one time very
seriously threatened. The only foolish thing
l ever heard of Wykoff doing-for he was a
born diplomat-was the publication of his boos
My Courtship and Its Consequences" detail
ing his pursuit of Miss Gamble. His relations
with the best people in this country and Eu-
rope were an Endorsement Of which any man
may have been proud.
Nj. de Bacourt speaks in the most familiar
terms Of Count de Menou, who accompanied
him to baltimore and introduced him to Arch
bishop Eccleston, and De Bacourt relates what
he calls a singular fact, "that in the establish
ment Of Catholic bishoprics in the United
States the promoter of the first seat was
Jefferson. who was said to be an unbeliever in
any religion" While minister at Paris in 1889
he was, he says, authorized to negotiate with
the papal nunclo, and obtained the erection of
bishopric at Baltimore. Count do Menou
built the Chain buildings on b street and was
| at one time largely interested in the improve
ments OF the city. He lived about the time De
Bacourt speaks Of in large frame villa-like
house on the southwest corner Of 14th and G
streets, long since demolished. DeBacourt
rotary Of the French LEGATION and was charge
d'afaires, and was removed for not having
once written to his government for eighteen
months. He says he u reduced to extreme
poverty"
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-11-28

burning urn in his family court. Into this
urn went all novels and every sort of
vicious literature on which he could lay
hands, and especially the blocks from
which they were printed. For these he
made wide search, in the hope of extin-
gushing the evil at its source. In order
to find money to buy them up, he first
used his spare funds, and then sold cloth
ing, and even his wife's ornaments, in or
der that the work of destruction might be
more complete. Others of influence in
Soochow followed these examples; they
created public opinion, and the conse-
quence was that representatives of sixty
five of the most respectable firms went to-
gether to the city temple, burnt incense,
and made q VOW not to engage in the trade
of immoral books An Office was opened
in the Confucian temple of the magistracy
for buying up the blocks of immoral books
including novels. There was an immense
destruction of this literature in Soochow,
SO that it became hard to meet with vicious
publications. This was, however, nearly
half q century ago, and the evil rose again.
Twenty-Five years ago the then governor
of the district issued new proclamation
reiterating the order prohibiting immoral
publications.
At the present time there is a flood of
books with q bad influence. Such reading
as they furnish has more influence in lead
ing young minds wrong, says the Confu-
cianist writer, than all the influence on
the side of right or the teaching of the
sages. 'aThe foreign reader of Chinese
books of an imaginative kind cannot con-
denim them unfortunately, because they
contain beautiful characters, both of men
and women, which exhibit an admirable
idea of bravery, flial piety, purity of life,
loyalty and other noble qualities. But
there can be no doubt of the bad influence
| of many of the native books which ia
miliarize the minds of the young with
scenes of vice and hold up successful
crime to sympathetic admiration. Il
must also be remembered that whatever
evil there may be in the actual life of tn,
Chinese, they have among them the firm
friends of high morality. The nationa
conscience and the national iteratur,
alike testify with unfaltering voice to tn,
duty of everyone to be moral, just ant
humane.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-11-28

PROFITABLE POTATO-GROWING
The American Agriculturist does good
thing for farming and farmers in Offering
for the largest verified crops per acre for
certain roots and cereals cash prizes large
enough to stimulate keen and intelligent
competition. This year the prize is offer
ed for potatoes, and will be awarded as
follows: first to w. J. Sturgiso of Wyoming,
crop 974 bushels, raised on virgin soil with
irrigation, but no fertilizers whatever;
second, R. A. Chisholm of Colorado, crop
s47 bushels, raised with 1000 pounds of
pure fertilizer In both cases the results
are very interesting, but they are especial
ly SO in the second, as the condition of
absolutely new soil is one not so often OBJ
tainable. The amount of fertilizer used by
Mr.. Chisholm was not large, and the Ag-
riculturist concludes from all the ex-
periments reported that nothing commen-
surate is gained by using more than ], 800
or 2, 900 pounds of fertilizer per acre. Mr..
Chisholm did not applyit broadcast but in
the drills, which were thirty-three inches
apart, the hills being ten inches apart in
the drills. The drills were thrown up high
by plough, the deep trenches between
being used for irrigation, so that the
water was fed to the plants from below,
not above, and the earth over the tubert
never became baked or puddled. The land
was prepared by deep ploughing and
thorough tilling.
Mr.. Chisholm reports the total cash cost
of raising the acre of potatoes as $16.70
Cheap enough.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-11-28
CHINESE NOVELS.
Interesting vfcissitudes of This Liter
ature In the Land of COnfuefus.
From the North China Herald.l

Interesting vfcissitudes of This Liter
ature In the Land of Confucius.
From the North China Herald.l
The writing of this class of literature be-
gan in the thirteenth century, and contin-
ued to be favorite occupation of Chinese
writer's for about three centuries. After
this it was felt that enough had been pro-
vided, and the production almost ceased.
The authors concealed their names. The
moral teaching of the Confucian school
was too powerful for those who loved to
give reign to their imagination in novel
and play writing to be able to venture
on publicity. It was never with the
consent of the always dominant moral
philosophers that novels grew to the
position of influence they now possess in
China.
This hostility has by no means ceased.
Quite recently there appeared in Chinese
newspaper paper written by an anony-
nous Confucianist against novels. He il
deeply impressed with the need of contin-
| uing the crusade against icentious itera-
ture and romances commenced by one
| Chien during the last century,. when he
founded school in Soochow for the pro
motion of the healthy study of the classi
cal books. He held that novels are now
80 prevalent that they amount to fourth
estate in the realm of teaching, the Confu
clan, Buddhist and Taoist literatures being
| the first, second and third. But instead
| Of intoxicating virtues they lead men tt
vice. Everyone reads them or hears then
read, and it may be- questioned whether
the moral influence for evil of Chimes
works of Imagination is, he says, no
greater than that of the books of the thre'
religions for good. They suggest to younl
men that they should lead a hcentious life
and represent killing man as noble &C
ton. To read of these things produce
disastrous results on public morality. TIL
many cases of crime in the courts and tn
number of those who adopt a robbers ca
reer are due to the effects of Chinese move
reading.
} This author was followed by Shih, VIII
sst the example Of establishing q pspel
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-11-28
A NATIONAL UNIVERSITY,


There are already enough universities in
this country, and even the one just started
in Worcester was not needed. But if
Senator Edmunds can bring it about there
will be another, and big one too. SEN
ator Edmunds says that he will press his
bill this winter for the establishment of a
national university at Washington. He
says that there has been a good deal of OBJ
lection made to the establishment of this
university, upon the part of the friends of
the leading universities of the country.
This objection is based upon their belief
that the establishment of such universi-
ty at the capital would injure those estab-
lished elsewhere. Mr.. Edmunds asserts
that there is no good ground for this OBJ
lection. He does not purpose to estab-
lish university in the ordinary sense. 1t
is to be more in accordance with the
German university idea-a school to
| which students may come to take a post
graduate course after having finished work
at the other colleges. No one is to be ad-
| mitted to it who has not passed through q
course of instruction equal to that given
in the best colleges. Senator Edmunds
believes that his plan will finally prevail,
and that this great school will in the end
embrace the highest technical schools, and
that, with the advantages given through
the establishment at the national capital
in time such a university would rank with
| the best in the world.
The money that it would tahe to estab
lish and carry on such a school could bt
| spent to much better advantage than in
the way Senator Edmunds proposes. Fo
instance, right here in New Haven.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-11-28
Women Who Are Popular.

FROM the foutn 8 COmpaniOnl
"She," said the manager of great re-
tail establishment, pointing out the fore
woman of one of the departments, ''is the
most successful of all the 300 salespeople
in the house. She began behind a small
counter, where different colored embroi-
dering silks were sold. observed that
customers would ask for her, and if she
was engaged would wait until she was
ready to serve them.
81 wished to find out the reason for
this, and offered to bring another sales
woman to patient customer one day."
"'No,' she said. Miss Crale never for
gets the kind of silk which 1 use. She re-
members the grade and even the shade
which bought before, and she takes such
an interest in itr"
''These two qualities-her memory of
the preferences of her customers and her
interest in them-have made her the best
saleswoman that we have ever had"
A daughter of q prominent senator made
his house the most popular resort in
Washington few winters ago.
"There are many women here" said 0
friend, ''more beautiful and more brilliant
than Miss Dash, but she never forgets you
or anything that concerns you. After
years of absence, if you go to her house
she will remember that you take thret
Jumps of sugar in your tea, that you dis
like the color of yellow and that YOU
favorite songs are Scotch ballads. 1t is {
trifiing quality but certainly it gives her {
| wonderful charm"
No quality will strengthen the influences
of sister, wife or a mother SO much il
her home as this persistent remembrance
| of the little likes and dislikes of thos
about her, with hearty effort 10 indulg
l them.
| Surely every woman should try t.
| strengthen her influence in the field il
which God has set her to work. Some o
them may complain that they have NJ
memory for trifes, nor keen sympath
with the wants or feelings of others. A
a rule, this is because they are exclusivel
occupied with their own wants and feel
ings.
Put self out of your heart and you wi
be surprised to find how large and war;
tenement it isl