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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-09-21
TWO MOTHERS.
Bereavement Brings Truth Home to
the TOrmented Woman.

Bereavement Brings Truth Home to
the TOrmented Woman.
From the Chicago Tribune.
When the well-to-do boarder's little boy
died she called in the woman who swept
ard scrubbed halls, attended to the fur
race and did scullery work in general
about the place, and showed her the little
fellow as he lay in his fiower-decked coffin
SO sweet md pretty in his last peaceful
sleep.
The scrubwomen had boy of her own
just few days younger than the dead
child, and when the well-to-do boarder's
message came she hastily wiped the suds
from her erms and grabbed up her baby
and took him in with her.
The two women stood over the tiny cas-
ket for a time in silence. At last the moth
er's self-control gave way and she bowed
her head over the boy and ba thed the little
cold face with tears that blinded her aching
eyes and scalded her thin, careworn
checks.
The scrubwoman set her baby on the
floor and folded her arms stoically.
Don't, MAJ am" she said without a
quaver in her coarse strong voice. You
ought to give thanks with all your soul. 1
wish to God it was my boy lying there in
stead of yours
The boarder laid her hand over the wo-
mans mouth and interrupted the impas-
stoned speech.
Don't say that she cried. You don't
realize the meaning Of your words. 1t
might come true. Your boy might die
The scrubwoman smiled.
There's no such good luck as that" she
said bitterly. It's always such as yours
that goes and such as mine that stays.
He's never been well. and he never will be
we'll. He's torment to himself and to me
and to everybody about the place. It's a
continual scratching to keep body and soul
together, and If I should die what would
become of him then? 1t amt that I'm I'M
naturally hardhearted, but pinching and
scraping a1org makes brutes of anybody.
Anyway, he'd be better Off"
You'll be sorry some day." the other re-
piled, turning again to her own little one.
The boarder moved away, and it was
three years before the two women met
again. A few days ago the well-to-do wo-
man was going through locality the ms
and outs of which had not been familiar
to her for many months, and among the
scrubwomen on the steps of large build
ing she saw Der former charwoman of the
boarding house.
How is Freddy?" she asked the first
greeting over.
The woman's lips trembled.
"Freddy's dead" she said, putting down
her brush and drying her eyes on the cor
ner of her apron.
The boarder grasped her hand in ready
sympathy. I'm so sorry" she said simply.
lit just happened last week." the scrub
woman went on between sobs. 1--WE re-
membered thousand times what you said
about being sorry. 1t was all true. There
not an hour that don't want him with ME
again. II l only hadn't said 1t! My poor
little boy!
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been swept up with 1t, pieces of bobbins and
quilts, iron, wood and rubbish in general in
the most chaotic confusion.
The first thing to be done with this mass
was to submit it to a tearing and whirling
process in a revolving machine called a
"duster." where an immense cylinder set
with spikes like harrow teeth gave the in
congruous bulk a vigorous. shaking up, dur
ing which the wood and metal, with occa-
sional buttons, came rafting out on the
floor like small hail storm, while the rags
were thrown over into a room beyond, where
they were gathered up and carried into the
sorting room
Here. with their heads tied up In kerr
chiefs, were a score of women and girls
standing at wooden snks-each one sur
rounded by number of barrels into which
she sorted the stuff, chips into one, old
paper into another. and so on.
After this sorting is over, the rags are
thrown into cutter. an oddly constructed
machine with sharp teeth set In rows to
catch and cut the bits of stuff that are
fed into 1t. Another machine cuts them
still finer, and then they are passed
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A CHINESE vENTR1LoaUIsr.


The Wonderful Illusion Created by
His Art.
From the Philf delphia Times.
A man who witnessed the performance,
gives the following description of what a
ventriloQuist in China did:
The ventriloquist was seated behind a
screen, where there were only a chair, a
table, a fan and a ruler. With the ruler he
raped on the table to enforce silence, and
when everybody had ceased speaking there
was suddenly heard the barking of a dog.
Then we heard the movements of a woman
She had been walked by the dog, and was
shaking her husband.
We were just expecting to hear the man
and wife talking together. when a child
began to cry. To pacify it the mother gave
it food; we could hear 1t drinking and cry
ing at the same time. The mother spoke to
1t soothingly, and then rose to change its
clothes.
Meanwhile another child had been waken-
ed and was beginning to make noise The
father scolded If, while the baby continued
crying. By and by the whole family went
back to bed and fell asleep. The patter of
a mouse was heard. 1t climbed up some
vase and upset 1t. We heard the clatter Of
the vase as it fell.
The woman coughed in her sleep. Then
cries of Fire! fire" were heard. The mouse
had upset the lamp; bed curtains were on
fire. The husband and wife walked up,
shouted and screamed, the children cried
thousands of people came running and
shouting.
Children cried. dogs barked, the walls
came crashing down, squibs and crackers
exploded. The fire brigade came racing up.
Water was pumped up in torrents, and
Kissed in the flames.
The representation was so true to life that
every one rose to his feet and was starting
away, when a second blow of the ruler on
the table commanded silence. We rushed
hohj ind he NJ
there except the ventriloquist, his table, his
chair and his ruler
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their workings Here the pulp Is shaken
as in a sieve. strained as in an endless milk
stralner, and then pressed and compelled
into a narrow passageway, where absorp-
ton takes place. 1t seems to be going over
a dam and along a glassy-looklng roadway
like a fume; now you see 1t plainly the
next instant 1t disappears; then 1t looks
substanceless. and before one knows how 1t
can have happened it is going first over one
hot cylinder and then over another, and If
one follows on he will soon come to an
endless web of paper being wound smok-
ing hot on a huge roller.
Finally it is reeled and measured of,
sheathed in strong coverings, labeled and
expressed to newspaper and printing es-
adjustments.
Not less interesting was the pulp mill.
where the wood pulp Is prepared. The
place. with its piles of logs, and spout
high in air, down which they were slid to
the dumping ground, suggested saw mill.
In the interior logs of spruce-fresh enough
from the forest to be full of the fragrant
rosin-were ready in four-foot piles. These
were swiftly sawed into short pieces by
two men, one who fed and one who held
the wood against the dazzling, whirling
steel. At another machine the bark was
taken off, and third-the guillotine-came
down with terrible certainty and cleft 1t
in billets as the operator presented it.
These were thrown into machines con-
tanning grindstones Of tremendous power,
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ENOCH UP A TREE.
A No brrskn Woman Who Has No Liz
ing for Romantic Outcomes.

A Nd brrskn Woman Who Has No Liz.
ing for Romantic Outcomes.
From tie Nebraska State Journal.
A paper in western Nebraska contains
the outline of a story that should be slupg
into undying verse by a poet as good as the
author of Enoch Arden" Some years ago
IL the town where the paper is publish
ed there lived a man who had a wife and
daughter. He seemed prosperous. and his
credit was good for anything he desired.
One fine starlight night he disappeared,
taking with him nearly everything that
wasn't nailed down. He had made about
every man in town a creditor and when
he went away the people betook themselves
into outer darkness for a while and walled
and CRASHED their teeth
The wife and daughter were treated the
same as the rest. They found themselves
destitute. The fend in human form who
had so long officiated as husband and
father had left them not dollar. The
lady and her daughter were. Of course,
believed them to be in collusion with the
departed. But they were not depressed by
this. They went manfully to work like
little heroines in play; the mother did
she could get to do. They prospered. as
they deserved to prosper. The older heroine
in time established a millinery store, which
captured all the trade, while the younger
became principal Of the schools. They had
money in the bank, and could eat ice cream
whenever they wanted to.
The other day a seedy tramp called at the
back door of the ladys residence and asked
for drink and something to eat. The
good woman looked at him intently and
recognized her husband. And now the
really beautiful part of this story comes in.
Did the lady kill the fatted calf for the
prodigal and bid him welcome and forget
the past? Not to any great extent
She called the family dog, large crea-
ture, with penchant for human remaine,
and no man ever climbed a tree quicker
than did the erring husband.
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tubs and is piled in snowy heaps on the
little cars. 1t looks like cotton batting
wrung into bits.
The pulp looks pure white, but II it was
given no tint the paper would naturally be
of yellowish cast. So 1t is blued very
much as laundress blues her clothes.
They Use for this process ultramarine. and
occasionally something which gives a red
dish cast. In other mills various kinds Of
dye are used. But before the tinting there
must he final thorough rinsing to re-
move the chloride and alum, which would
otherwise kill the color" So in a final
set Of tubs the much vexed and beaten
pulp Is put through another running wa
ter course OF treatment, then man dishes
In the blue fluid, and its lovely whiteness is
gone.
There also comes in another element in
this last room before the pulp begins to
was manufacturing almost exclusively
paper TO be used for newspapers. For this
n ore Or less wood pulp Is used, and 1t is
in this room that it is incorporated with
and poplar, the first being the stronger
and the latter the whittier of the two. 1t Is
prepared in mills devoted especially 10
that branch of paper manufacture. and
an tears one of these sheets into frag-
ments and throws them into the tub of
pulp. The suction draws them swiftly
within the power OF the machine. which
soon reduces them 10 nuSn anu mikes
them thoroughly with the other, the COM
bination of the two presenting the appear
ance of q munihcent dessert of floating
island-pale gold tinted islands on frothy
white sea.
And now the protracted ordeal Is nearly
at an erd, and the thin mush-which Is a
great deal of water thickened with what
Is to be paper-is conveyed to another long
room by means of a complex arrangement
of bands and wheels, of whirling, sliding
things, the very sight Of which daZes the
senses Of one who does not understand
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-09-21
THE CAPE PETREL.
A Bird That is Met Far Out at Sea md
is Always Welcome Sight.

Bird That is Met Far Out at Sea md
is Always IA Welcome Sight.
From Good Words.
From the deck of a cape steamer, far out
on the wastes of ocean, one of the first
birds that obtrudes itself upon the notice
of the passengers is the cape petrol pro
cellaria capensis), known generally as the
cape pigeon" although the reason why 1t
is called a pigeon is not very clear, as II
has nothing to do with the family of the
Columbidae. 1t affords infinite diversion
to- the passengers Of the ocean-going
steamers, who, tired of looking at the end
less expanse of blue, welcome this little
companion of their solitudes.
When the southeast trades" are piping
merrily among the shrouds, and the white
horses in their thousands are falling and
curling over a bright and sunlit sea, the
cape petrol seems thoroughly at home in
the moving and coruscating scene For in
the latitude of the southeast trades"
though the wind blows a half gale or even
full gale. the skies continue clear and
blue, and the deep ceruleaa hues Of the
heavens are reflected upon the bosom Of
the ocean. Then is the sailors heart glad
within him. especially il he is on board OF
scarcely varying a point, will carry him
quickly on the right tack. and for days,
It may be. hardly a block need be shifted.
With such bright skies above him, so
tLdl LIE may Ttdu the HedNenS Wueu ne
likes, and free course before him, the
mariner welcomes the little cape pigeon
as petrol of good omen, and gladly throws
overheard bits of refuse and provender.
which the bird quickly snatches at as his
reward. Sometimes one is caught with q
hook and line, and on deck it presents q
sad and pitiable spectacle, as 1t cannot rise
and can only run along the deck in helpless
fashion with outstretched wings, vomiting
large quantities of reddish-colored oil.
This, IT is said, 1t does out of self-defensc.
Its length is about fifteen inches. and It
can easily be recognized by its black head
and speckled chin.
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uted the earliest mappfacture Of mirrors
OIL commercial seal e. Isoon after the be-
ginning of the sixteenth century. Before
that time small conde, mirrors Of glass
were produced in Germany by blowing
glass globes into which melted mixture
of tin. anthony ard fresin was passed
through tube. The oglobe thus coated
pieces.
In the manufacture 9pr the early vene.
tan mirrors sheet OF tinfoil was laid
poured over 1t. Theme sheet of glass was
slid carefully over the mercury and heavy
weights were placed upon it for the pur-
pose of squeezing out all but thin film of
the quicksilver. The, tin, and mercury hav-
Ing touches was ready, for use. This pro-
cess continued to be employed up to about
sixty years ago, when 1T was superseded
by Baron Liebig's Invention. Mercury Is
no longer employed, its use being attended
by danger to health. In old times the
teeth of the workmen rsed to- fall out,
and they suffered from variety OF dis
tressing disorders. Now solution of pure
silver is used instead. the meta! being de-
posted on the glass by chemical means.
But the greatest achievement OF glass
making up to date is the production Of
lenses for a big telescope, such as that OF
the Lick observatory in California. ihe
most important difficulty Is to get a piece
of clear g.ass that If large enough Tor the
purpose. I ne ingredients are iieitSu III an
earthen pot and the mixture is then per.
mitted to cool slowly. After being melted
and cooled again 1t is poured out and
pressed into the shape of disk. All over
the surface OF the disk are found impuri-
ties, which must be removed by cutting
off portions of the substance. Many more
MEETINGS and removals of impurities Ioi-
low, until the mass Is as free as possible
from bubbles and other blemtshes. The
rough disks for the crown and flint lenses
OF the Lick telescope cost 5000 each Ihey
were ground to approximate shape with
emery, polished with rouge. and the final
touches were ended by rubbing with the
bare hand.
Various substitutes for glass have been
patented. One Of those most widely USED
in which Is imbedded network OF galVa-
rized iron wire. This material Is used
largely in Europe, being sold IN rolls IKE
oilcloth, at 10 cents square loot. II is
lighter than glass, plant and practically
ipdestructible. Its employment is chiefly
for skylights and Conservatives. Inc most
important objection to it is that 1t Is IN
flammable. In Germany and elsewhere In
Europe tough MANILA paper is utilized TO q
great extent as substitute for glass by
florists and market gardeners: 1t Is
stretched on sashes the surface being paint
ed with boiled linseed oil. This makes 1t
translucent and impervious to water. 1t is
light, durable, admits enough of the sun s
rays for growing plants. and costs only
81 cents square yard.
a long time beyond the Christian era. The
origin of it is unknown, though various
apocryphal stories are current respecting
it's discovery. For modern civilization to
get along without 1t would be almost as
difficult as to dispense with paper. which
rivals glass in respect to the number OF
patents granted for its varied uses.
RENE BACHE.
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Two Knnsas Beverages.

From the Kansas City Journal.
If an Abilene paper correctly reports the
testimony given last week in a whisky
trial before District Judge Humphrey a
new drink has been born in Kansas. A wit
ness upon the stand gave testimony as
contained in the following cross-examina-
ton:
what did you drink" was asked.
Hop tea"
what was 1t uke?'
Hop tea
Ibid you ever drink beer?'
mo. SIR"
Don't know what it is nke?"
mo, SIR"
Have you drank anything that resem-
bles hop tea?"
YES"
What was itr'
"Pilliwink."
WELL" went on the county attorney,
what is pilliwink like?''
1T is like hop tea," was the answer
And all the attorney could further get
out of that witness was the statement that
pilliwink tasted like hop tea and hop tea
tasted like pilliwink.
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Worse and More of 1t.

From an Exchange. IS
No limit las ever been found to the
uses Of a small boys pocket One day
at school little girl put up her hand to
attract attention. 81
Teacher. Johnny's got caterpillar"
Johnny was, of course, called to the
desk. made to surrender the cherished pos.
session. and sent to his seat with a repri-
mand. In about two minutes the same
small hand waved in the air again and the
same small voice complained:
Teacher, Johnny's got another cater
spillarp
A second surrender of the caterpillar and
a second admonition followed.
Hardly had silence once more settled
over the room when frantic waving of
the same hand was followed by a perfect
shrek of dismay:
Teacher. Johnny's got whole pocket
full of caterpillars"
This time the teachers dismay equaled
her pupils, and Johnny was promptly sent
hcme with his brood Of strange pets.
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down toward their final place Of deposit in
the river. and the chloride Of lime and
alum are next in order.
After the bleaching powders are In. the
whole mass begins to churn into foam and
is kept in this condition for hour, the
alum shining like a silver crust on top Of
the drifts. The air is full of the keen steam
Of 1t, making ones nose Jingle and convey
ing the sense Of a grand. purifying day.
by this time. between lime water chlo,
Of vitrtsl. besides perpetual water and
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one of the most important industries in the
United States, and the method followed is
one of interest.
1t was a most prosa!c and unromantic re-
gion of WORKOUT, discarded stuff into which
I stepped on my first trip. when the rag
room" was thrown open for inspection, clut-
tered with all sorts of material-waste from
mills and factories, with everything that had
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Only His Autograph.
From the Boston Traveller

From the Boston Traveller.
Charles Henderson was smart"
'How?"
why, just before his rich uncle died he
called the young fellow to him and told
him he had decided to leave him nothing
but his autograph"
"Yes?"
"And Charlie said, All right and then
drew up check for 1905 and told the
old man to put the autograph on It, 1t
pleased the old man 10 much that he made
1t 5000, COO"
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Thoroughbreds.

Tim McCarthy-"say, Gull. wot kind of
err dawg is dat dawg O. yourn, are he a
t'ouroughbreed?'
Gully McCall-"You bet he arches a
Irish setter-he's allus settin' around when
deys somethink to do. What kind is
yourn?'
Tim-"Mine mus be fox hound; he's so
dern foxy, whenever I go to shoot at any
think he runs behint Of a tree
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ventor who is known
at the patent office
as the glass man.
During the last few
years he has OBJ
tanned patents for a
surprising number Of
devices in glass.
Among these is a
glass coffin, which is
guaranteed proc t
against decay and
rats. So long as no
deliberate attempt
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ployed in the manu-
facture of articles in
such common use as
paper are very apt to
De overlooked by the
majority of people
or accepted without
question as an unex-
olained proc e s 8
whereby an indis-
pensable article is
made and placed upon
the market. The man.
ufacture of paper Is
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ceaseless rinsings, the paper pulp Is white
as snow Odor or color could never sur
vive such heroic treatment, and there has
been nothing but wtnnowing, grinding,
But through 1t all the fiber has remained
intact As Il comes out Of the bleaching
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and when next I saw 1t what had but
moment before been a segment of a tree
had been transformed into cream-colored
pulp. Then 1t was put through another
marvelously constructed machine, and, To-!
thick blankets a yard square, exquisite in
color and ready to be carried to the paper
mill.
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Cure for the Bnby.

Wife-"John. why don't you go to sleepT'
Husband-'Tm afraid it might wake up
| the baby"
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MAKING OF PAPER
Interesting Processes as Witnessed
by a Visitor.
AN EVERYDAY ARTICLE OF Use
Evolution of a Sheet of Paper
From a .SoiIed Rag.
USE OF WOOD P q p
IN EVERYDAY ARTICLE OF Use
USE OF WOOD PULP

Written Exclusively for The Evening Star.
1~HE METHODS EN-
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From Truth.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-09-21
Slippers and Spun Cloth, Billiard
Tables and Collins.
INGENIOUS AND NOVEL USES
Mouse Traps Of Glass and Houses
Built of Glass Bricks.
FISH BAIT AND PEARLS
Written for The Evening Star.

~ HERE IS AN IN
The evening world., 1895-05-10

pleasant rooms they were to be sure.
At one time he used to think that Kitty
had sacrificed q great deal when she
married him. but perhaps the renuncia-
ton was lot 80 one-sided as he had i'm
agined. For instance. there was the
club. He could no longer afford to 20
there, and with It he had renowned all
Intellectual society. Kitty's people and
their neighbors were rich and respect
able. Most admirable OF their kind,
they ate. drank. slept and made money;
withal. most worthy creatures. but par
ticuiarly unentertaining. Mr.. Turner,
her father. was type-a kindly, honor
able man. but without the slightest ar
usuc or literary culture he could talk
for hours of his business. and knew
more about tallow than any other man
In England. Fortunately, his pride OF
this distinction was slightly mitigateI
by the fact that he was also a con-
noisseuI OF wines. His sons wore rid
ing breeches on Sunday mornings and
read THE Lunar Month" IN their bed
rooms His eldest daughter was gifted
with sufficient religious enthusiasm for
ten such families. while Mrs Turner
was motherly in the extreme.
His thoughts wandered to George de
Naux, his old college chum, who had
shared those Gray's Inn chambers. lie
dance all night and work. all day, pull
a good oar, sail a half-rater against
the best. walk fifty miles. ride like a
centeur, sing. drink and gamble, with