Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-10-31

where the electric lights In your state room b.
come useless mockery, where sleep must be
wooed behind curtained windows, no matter
what the hour? In this strange land Edison
| and all other purveyors Of artificial light are ut
discount. Electric light, gas, Candles Pc
In the presence Of the blazing sun. The orb
OF day is here . tyrant and monopolist, and
even the moon and stars have no hour in which
to assert themselves.
THE MURDER OF WORDS
What blow at the vocabulary Of the people
this condition Of affairs strikesi Whole classes
Of words are eliminated In an Instant How
poverty the poet who il denied all allu-
sions to might, sable goddessr' with her "ebon
throne" her ''rayless majesty" and her 'leaden
scepter," who can paint no sunset, for whom
no honest watchdog bays the moon, who
knows no FREELY. owl or bat other crea-
ture Of the night, who has no twilight in
which, Walt Whitman-like, ito Ioafe with
his SOUL" who sees no daybreak. hears
no cock-crowinG at dawn, no lark 1.-The
herald of the morn and never welcomes
jocund day, as it stands ''tiptoe on the misty
noun tain top" And can there be any writer's
of Norwegian Shooting Stars in a land where
no one can make a night of it," where no
vengeful wife can Turk in darkness to pounee
upon her wretched husband, delayed at his
club, and struggling In dim light with an nn-
manageable night key? What will the novelist
the dramatist, the tragedian do when deeds OF
darkness" become impossible, and the words
themselves are meaningless, when the burglar
and midnight assassin are not to be conceived
and utilized. and there is no ..witching time of
night when churchyards yawn, and hell itself
breathes out contagion to this world?
LIGHT AND LIFE FROM THE sun.
But. on the other hand, what opportunities
and inducements for work and pleasure, What
q turning of night into day in the literal sense
Isaiah's prophecy is fulfilled: "But it SD all
come to pass that at evening time it shall be
light" The sun refrains from setting as it
did for Joshua, and light. which is life, full at
any rate Of vivifying influences, bestows
blessings upon man and the soil. The sun
does not stand still. as at Joshua's request. in
order that destruction may be complete
Development, not death, is in the untimey
rays of the Norwegian unsetting sun. Constant
sunshine during the short season develops q
crop in the thin soil which would otherwise
be impossible. 1t is said that at Christiania,
where the summer nightsGre very short, though
the midnight sun is not visible, the barley
rfpens in exactly the same time that is required
in southern France, continuous heat compensat-
ing for lack OF intensity. So with the men, who
might naturally be sun worshipers, since they
really live at high pressure only in this summer
flood Of sunlight, and hibernate. as it were. in
the long darkness that is lighted only by the
aurora. The tourist. the artist and the photog-
rapher find this n strange and enchanted land
where they can see sights, sketch and photo
graph at any hour of the twenty-four. We Wis
tied some of the grandest scenes of the trip lat
the dead Of night" and several kodak instan-
famous views were successfully taken by the
light Of the midnight sun.
The Neptuns first night within the Arctic
circle will never be forgotten by any of the
passengers. There were sufficient clouds in
the sky to render it doubtful whether at IL
O'Clock we should be able to see the full, I'M
obscured orb, but all cleared away from the
horizon by midnight and round, red sun