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Some of his own finest work, both original
and engraved, hangs on the wall, side 10y
side with work of various of his friends
One certainly will not forget a drawing
of Dana Gibson's fashionable young
lady sitting on divan, while in the back
ground are dim suggestions of the ball
room, like fancies passing through her
mind. There are fancy Indian pipes lying
on the tables, and old Mexican vases Fur
thermore, the room, like all the rest of the
house, is in the most charming taste-no
doubt showing the handiwork and good
judgment of the dainty and unusually
interesting little woman known as Mrs
Remington. She evidently lets the man OF
the house do as he pleases but keeps him
in excellent order.
When at last we were settled down for a
talk on the day / called, Mr.. Remington
told me his story briefly.
He was born in Canton, Lawrence county
New York, in small village. where he wa 3
rather a lively youngster, fond of sports.
taking life not too seriously. His father
was a newspaper man, and wanted him to
showed leaning toward art, the older man
offered no objection. as the case usually is.
and when the young man was about eigh-
teen-that was in 1S1S-9-he sent him To
the Yale University Art School. He made
a pretense of working here for year and a
half, but he admits himself that he found
out more about foot ball than he did about
the principles of fine art. AS / have said.
he was member of Walter Camps original
foot ball team. At that time Walter Camp
was practically inventing the American
game, and Mr.. Remington assisted him
practically in his experiments. He took
part in other athletic sports as we'll
After drawing from the antique and gain
ing some little skill with the pencil. young
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-01-13
Better Conditions.
Sir Edwin Arnold.


The average number OF days Of sickness
in every decade for each man is said to be
only sixteen. Under rules of scientific ny.
giene and principles of health better prac-
ticed. our span of life-be this Desirable or
the reverse-has. by the evidence OF insur-
ance societies. considerably increased. The
power of unalleviated physical pain to ter
rify o. trouble is practically a; an end with
the general use of those benign anaesthetics
which have brought a new era of confidence
70 the hospital and sick room. and taken
away all its horror from the surgeons
knife.
Doubtless. to Judge from your average
daily journal, murders and suicides. crimes
and catastrophes. wars and feuds and
frauds would seem to remain the staple OF
the human record. But be IL remembered
that. for obvious reasons. all our worst and
darkest Is collected there. One nigh. as
well judge OF public health by the painful
cases described in a medical publication az
OF the vast mass of solid human happiness
and innocent living JOY by the daily cata-
logue Of these really trivial exceptions to
IL. As for "sins" (the most serious OF
which ere only such as are malicious).
though the population increase. they seem
steadily to diminish. We had ~, 6Gs habit
uals" in 1865; now the evil roll is only 81
l53.
When the population of England was
19.2Ji,0oo in lisa. there were ., $50 persons
undergoing penal servitude; now. with
population of % .SsO,119 the number is only
94d. In isds the entire number OF prisoners
in our jails was ~. SS3: the entire number
at The same date last year was 12,663,
though the population had increased by
6.OoO,Oo0 Pauperism is also declining In
1870 lOfa.39l persons Were in receipt OF re-
lief; in 1881, with an addition of more than
100000 Inhabitants there were only T74-
9o5 The upshot OF these figures-without
pressing them too much-seems surely to
be that the "cosmic process" in our own
little corner OF the universe is not dosSo
so badly.
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A Delicious Eutree.

From the Chicago Evening Post
This is the season when everybody gfveo
dinner, SO IL is timely TO suggest that oys-
ter outlets make a delicious entree to serve
at a formal dinner. Take one cupful OF fine
chopped cooked chicken, half a pint of oys-
tiers, three eggs. one tablespoonful Of -four
one of butter, two Of fine cracker crumbs
one of lemon juice. one teaspoonful Of salt
and one-eighth of a teaspoonful OF pepper
Soak the crumbs in the oyster liquor. Chop
the oysters very fine and add them to the
soaked crumbs. Add. also. the chicken and
seasoning. Put the butter into a frying pan
and when IL becomes melted add the flour
Stir until smooth and frothy, then add the
oyster mixture and stir for three minutes
Put in two eggs beaten well and stir for
minute longer. Take from the fire and
spread upon platter to cool. and when
cold shape Ike outlets. After beating the
remaining egg (which should be a large one)
dip the outlets into il and then into bread
crumbs and fry in fat until brown; a min
ute and half should suffice for the cook
ing. Serve with bechamel Or anchovy sauce.
While the mixture is hot IL may be spread
smoothly upon buttered platter and they
shaped into outlets.
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Written for The Evening Star.
HAND SEWING.
Danger That 1t May Become One of
| the Lost Arts.

A Danger That 1t May Become One of
the Lost Arts.
In these days of hurry and rush there Is
great danger that sewing by hand Will be-
come one Of the lost arts. The younger
generation, who know little OF anything
but machine work. will perhaps sneer at
the idea of calling so commonplace thihs
as sewing art. but their mothers ana auh's
can tell them Of the hand sutcnlng' anu
the rolling ana whipping Of dainty rufnes,
than which nothing is lovelier, on ladies
and babies clothes of the olden times.
A lady, noted among her friends for the
daintiness of her clothes, and ieaolhs
busy life in the literary world, tells me II
was with the greatest dimculty she Can
find seamstresses who will finish q garment
neatly by hand.
And it is not to be wondered at when the
machine is so convenient ana does up
everything in such a hurry. The pay 'oo'
is another drawback, as few are Wiling 70
nav for the time it takes to do the work
The remedy is with the ladies and girls
themselves. If they only knew now 10 use
the needle deftly it would be real res.
when tired out with society demands anu
too much reading of novels, that many IN
dulge in. Then it is so convenient TO nave
a lot of trimmed ruffles already rolieo
and only to be whipped on the garments
when the seamstress comes In TO 90 the
spring and autumn sewing. 1t would not
take from her wages either, as 1t is moth
ing more than sewing on lace and otner
trimmings, and far daintier than any other
trimming. Now, when so many practlcal
branches are being introduced into the
schools, would it not be well to have this
all-important branch taught? l am sure
the much burdened papas would not mind
the additional amount to be paid, which
would be small compared with the bills for
the seamstress when the young lady turns
out" Then how important when the event
full time in a woman'S life comes, ana she
marries and goes to her own home, to know
how to mend and darn and sew buttons on
neatly, for, say what you please about gain
ing or keeping a mans heart through his
stomach, l know that they can appreciate
a neatly mended garment as we'll The poor
things are often dreadfully imposed upon,
because the little wife thinks they are
stupid about such things, and she thinks II
very cruel, IL. after a few years of married
life, her spouse let's slip little cuss word
when the badly darned sock hurts his foot,
or the poorly sewed on button pops off at
the first or second wearing. l say girls,
learn to sew well. M
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how to draw horses, cowboys and Indians.
He has made his immense success because
he knows the life which he depicts. knows
a horse from the prick of his ears to the
frogs of his feet; knows what riding is
from four solid years in the saddle knows
what Indians are from two Indian cam
paigns-one among the Apaches.
Mr. Remington is not much over thirty.
and has seen life in a good many phases;
but for the past three years he has occu-
pied a quiet little brown painted stone
house, on Webster avenue in New Rochelle.
a small town sixteen miles north of New
York city. There is plenty of land out
there and he can keep horses, without
which he would be lost. In the summer
time his surroundings here are most beau
uful. The grounds about his house and the
Eeighboring houses are eXcellently kept,
ample though they are, and well PROVIDED
with trees, and of course there is good rid
ing and driving for miles around. His house
Is a steep-roofed, gabled cottage, roomy in
side and easy to get about In. The kitchen
is almost the only room that does not stand
invitingly open and contain the scattered
traces of the artists craft. Upstairs in one
gable is the room where he paints in OILS.
About the room are numerous saddles OF
various varieties, many of which look oddly
familiar to an old habtue OF the western
plains; and on a little platform is a wooden
horse used for posing models. Everything
is scattered about the room promiscuously.
Here is a nnlShed painting OF q troop OF
horses In a long rank; on the easel is a yet
unfinished painting Of a Virginia rider.
Another finished painting is a resting group
of Indians and horses, looking over the
plains away to the distance. He says he
tried that a number of times, but IL didn't
suit him. He posed this way and that way,
and another But at last the right attitudes
were discovered and in a few hours the
work was finished.
But much of his illustration is done down
In his study-it looks more like a study
than a studio-where he has desk and
books, though the walls are hung with
specimens of Indians garments and other
relics. This room stands open, like all the
other rooms on the lower floor, and just
In front of it is little reception room
filled with pictures-sketches, proofs, paint
ngs, water colors-what not do not know
Here 1t is that one sees a portfolio of
proofs, which laid fiat, sheet upon sheet
make pile six inches high, and Mr.. Rem
ington will tell you that these are only
about half his work done in little over
half a dozen years.
If you go to see him you will find big
thick, smooth-faced man (who was on Wal
ter Camps original foot ball team) He
may be dressed in old clothes suited TO
working out of doors, for he cannot stay
inside after o'clock. Commonly he rides
for an hour or two; but he is a man to
leave it all to his outside man, either
When he has taken you inside he provides
you with a frst-rate cigar, and asks you
II you will have drink of his fine old
Scotch whisky Ia luxury he spends little
money on now and then, though he says
he can't afford it, and gives you a COM
Portable seat in his attractive little parlor.
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mans are as complicated as the robes of the
Catholic Church and it IS no end of diff
Guilty to digest them. Half the German
officers do not know the subject. 1 had
every facility offered me-
What 1 want to do is soldier men now.
I've done the wild parts of this country
up pretty thoroughly by this time The
west is all played out in its romantic as
poets. I've been pretty much EVERYWHERE
and done up pretty much everything but
the east. ] don't know anything about
New York CITY, I'm going to see something
of New York city this winter just for INV
own amusement and edifcation But /
hope to travel in various parts of Europe.
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DOGS ON THE RACE TRACK.
A Canadian Lad Made $4,000 Out of
His Exhibitions by His TrOtting Set

HIS Exhibitions by HIS TrOtt1nG Set.
ter.
Horse racing has long been an established
and popular pastime, and now dog racing
is coming to attract some attention. A lad
named Willie Ketchum Of Ontario is said
by the Utica Press to have been the pioneer
in this line of sport. In 1887 he showed his
trotting dog broken to harness. 1t was an
Irish setter who never left a trot and made
half-mile heats against ponies He was
able to outspeed almost every pony that
was entered against him. His challenge
was against any pony twelve hands or I'M
der, or to give any horse twenty seconds
the horse to go mile and the dog half a
mile, the horse to draw a quarter of his
own weight The lad made about $4,000
with his dog in this way. Another boy
named Charley Kinsler, whose home is in
Ohio trained bulldog to make splendid
time on the course. He was not q success
however, because on the occasion of his
first race on fair ground the word go had
just been given when he espied an un-
friendly dog some distance away, and he
bolted the track and Cverhauled the object
Of his chase, and could not be persuaded to
return till he had WHIPPED him on the spot
Young kinSler gave up teaching bulldogs
and his next venture was with a cross be-
tween a Newfoundland and bloodhound
which developed very good speed Young
Kinsler however, had the best success with
settlers, and those that he broke to harness
were able to go at quite a fast clip. He
made tour of the country fairs and was
everywhere a popular attraction. The BUSH
ness Melted him handsome profits and he is
spending the present winter in training
other dogs to draw in harness. single in
pairs and four-in-hand. OF course dog
trotting can be at best but a novelty and a
side attraction. The two lads who have
gone into it have done immensely well with
the enterprise but 1t is a field that can be
very easily crowded and too much competi
ton will extinguish the business
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DOGS IN ALASKA.
| without Them the Eskimo. Coula
Scarcely Find an Existence,

From the Youths Companion.
without dogs the larger portion of the
great Eskimo family peopling the barren
northern coast of America would find IL i'm
possible 10 exist in its chosen home" So
writes Mr.. f. w. Nelson in his Mammals
OF Northern Alaska. They are used I'm
The winter for hunting. sledge drawing ana
the like, but i'm summer are mostly left to
shift for themselves.
They receive much hard usage as well an
do much hard work. but are described. new
ertheless, as rollicking set, full OF play.
fond OF human society and quarrelsome as
schoolboys. Mr.. Nelson credits them with
vein of humor and declares that their
varying characteristics can be read In their
faces.
They are worth from 81 to SIS apiece. ac-
cording to age, size and intelligence For
sledge drawing they are harnessed in teams
OF either seven or nine-three or four pairs
and leader. The load is from $50 10 200
pounds and the course is mainly through
unbroken snow or over rough ice.
With a team of seven dogs and a load of
more than 300 pounds Mr.. Nelson made a
journey Of more than /, 100 miles in about
two months. The last 90 miles were made
over bad road in a continuous pull of II
hours.
They are much affected by the moon.
During full moon hall the night is spent by
them in bowling in chorus.
During the entire winter at St Mich
aers," says Mr. Nelson. I'VE were invarta-
bly, given a chorus every moonlight night
ana the dogs OF two neighboring villages
Joined in the serenade" He speaks Of its
wild, weird harmony" and seems TO have
found ii agreeable rather than otherwise
The influence Of the moon is also very
apparent when the dogs are travelling They
brighten up the moon rises and prickfng
up their ears start OF as IL they had for
gotten their fatigue. The fur traders taxa
advantage of this fact and sometimes lie
over during the day and travel at night.
The dogs endure an astonishing degree
OF cold. Mr.. Nelson saw a female with two
newly born puppies lying upon the snow
near hut, with no sign of shelter, when
the thermometer ranged from 30 to IS de-
grees below zero.
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Nootka fort.who explored the waters around
vancouver Island, were the first to see the
i tip OF the great mountain shining sixty
miles TO southward-for there is no evidence
that any OF the Spaniards went south OF the
bumper peninsula, on which Port Town.
SEND now stands. Quimper, who rounded
that point in 1870, and Caamano, who con-
tinued the surveys and explorations in
1871, and Galiano and Valdes, who were
charting the Gulf of Georgia when VAN
couver overlook them IN 1872. all must have
seen the peak, although none entered II on
their charts. Unknown, snow-capped peaks
were too thick about them to trouble with
those at such long range. they die name
the splendid white peak below ,he Fraser as
MI Carmelo, and gave Vancouver tracings
OF their charts with the names hey had APP
Piled The Englishman. however disregard
ed all baptisms, save his own, and sent the
noble mountain sounding down the corridors
of geographic fame as Mt. Baker, in honor
or his lieutenant, Joseph Baker. who first
deserted 1t above the fog. and who drew all
the charts OF Nancouvars surveys. LAS to
Baker, said Theodore Winthrop forty wears
ago, that name should be forgotten. Noun
talns should not be insulted hy being named
after undistinSuished bipads, nor by the
prefix Mount. Vancouver had heard of
and his curiosity was much excited to eX-
plore the promised expansive Mediterrane-
an ocean. which, by various accounts is
said to have existence in these regions lie
le1l MS SnlpS IN Port Discovery and with
three small boats went from Juan he F'ucas
straits into the Spanish Canal de Caamano
now Puget sound). On rounding to:nt
Hudson the fog lifted and ne party saw
across the low land of Scow bay "a very
remarkable high. round mountain, covered
with snow, apparently at the southern ex-
tremity of the distant range (Cascades) of
snowy mountains before notical bore S.
- r.. All this on Mon1ay. May = 1Tg2
They saw II again the same afternoon
across the Hood canal portage at the end of
Port Townsend bay, and On the tollowing
day. while camped on MarrowsJone Point,
Vancouver named ii in honor of my friend
Rear Admiral Rainier" vancouye-'s charts
being the first ones of his coast ever pub-
lished. were adopted by all nations and save
in very few instances, his nomenclature is
unchanged.
Puget sound Named.
Vancouver renamed the Canal de Caa-
mano as Admiralty inlet, and named its
furthest branch, the maze of little water
ways beyond the narrows near the pres
ent Tacoma). as Puget sound The first
Hudson Bay Companys post and farms,
first saw mill and settlement were on the
Puget shores, and the first shipments going
to and from that arm Puget sound became
first known, and has gradually come to
mean all of Admiralty inlet, crowding the
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H E A r T I CT E S
that have been writ
ten about Frederick
Remington are many
and varied, though
he has not been in
the field more than
five years. But he
has not been very
truly represented.
His personality has
been delfied, and of
all men, Frederick
Remington is not of
the deified sort He
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-01-13

Is man among men, "a deuce of a good
fellow." he never drew but two women in
his life and they were failures, while his
greatest hope is a war in Europe. If he
were Of the deified sort he would not know
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-01-13
M GUN 7 R AINIE R,
The Grandest Single Peak on the
Pacific Coast,
and THE WASHINGTON NATIONAL PARK
Facts as to Its Discovery and Its
Climbers.
INTEREST OF SCIENTISTS

HE G r A n d Z 5 T
single peak on the
Pacific coast and al
most the most i'm
p-essive mountain
mass within the Unit
ed States is Mount
Rainier in the state
of Washington. The
lands around 1t, a
tract measuring thir-
ty-slx by forty-two
miles, including the
entire slope and foot
hills of the mountain.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-01-13
BRAIN-WORkER
Use HOrsfOrd's Acid PhOsphate.

Wien night comes the literary and active busi-
ness mans brain is hungry from the exhaustiny
labor Of the day. Horsfords Acid Pbosphate
quickly supplies the Of tissue and refreshing
sleep results.
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The sor OF Albion stood gazing al the
group of men in front of the bon Ton
Temple of Bacchus' with deep interest
Excitement was running high at Red Dog
Ii was the day of election, and a reform
ticket was in the field
'Alkali Ike, amt yer goin' ter vote fer
Hank Bitters and moral methodist" cried a
red bearded enthusiast
THE hull ticket II be beat" replied the
party addressed; IN be hanged eff 1 do"
And then the intelligent British tourist
drew out his tablet and wrote-"Note: In
America, after an election. the friends OF
the defeated candidate are taken out ana
Nnched"
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HE CAN DRAW HORSES
An Interesting Chat With Mr..
Frederick Remington.
HE LIVES AN ACTIVE, OUT DOOR LIFE.
How He Obtains Material for
His Brush.
HIS HOPES FOR THE FUTURE
Il e A r TICLE s

Written for The Evening Star.
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CORN CUT ONE-THIRD.
The Worlds Reports Indicate n Crop
of About 1,3OO, OOO,OOO Bushels.

The biggest crop raised by a single coun-
try Is Indian corn, and the United States
Is the country that raises it,
In good year the United States pro-
duces 2,OOoOOO.OOO bushels of this staple,
and has produced more. At the average
market price these 2,V00,000000 bushels
are worth $lWO,OOO,OUO, or about ten
times as much as the gold production OF
the whole world for a year. 1t would pay
the entire public debt Of the United States.
But this year the corn crop is short, says
today's New York World. A severe
drought has greatly reduced the yield. Just
how much Is what many people would be
very glad to know. and the World there
fore prints today reports from nearly 800
correspondents scattered throughout the
corn region.
These reports cover the states of Ohio.
Indiana, Illinois. Kentucky. Michigan. Wis
consin, Minnesota. Iowa, Missouri, Kansas,
Nebraska and South Dakota.
TneSe twelve states include the great
corn belt of the United States, and in an
average year produce about 70 per cent
Of the crop.
The government report makes the yield
this year 1.1OO.OOO.OOO bushels. but most
all OF the corn authorities say this Is too
low, and the Worlds exhaustive reports
Indicate that the latter are right
II one Will study these reports carefully
he Will see that they indicate about two
thirds of an average CROP or in the neigh
borhoOd of 800 WU,OOO bushels
The greatest reduction has been in the
states west of the Mississippi and there
the loss has been heavy.
Kansas, which raises more than 80 600
900 bushels of corn in a good year, reports
only 42,OUO.OOO bushels. But the states ca st
of the Mississippi. where rain is a more
certain quantity, pull up the average.