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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-06-09
The Two O'Clock Train.

FROM Harper5.
1t was a very small western town, and the
only train out Of it thai night left at 9
o'clock. The travelling man had impressed
upon the night porter OF the hotel the i'm
portance Of calling him in time for this
train. Promptly at l 80 prodigious knock
reused the SLEEPER.
Say! be yez the man what wants the 9
o'clock thrain?'
yes" was the sleepy reply from within.
WELL 5ez can shape an hour longer, fer
she's SO much ltte'
The heavy feet shuffied off down the hall
and silence ensued. Arother hour had
passed, wren Pat again knocked.
Say! be yez the felly what said he want
ed to ketch the O'Clock thrain?'
"Yes!' and there was sound of the man
hastily springing f1om his bed.
WELL drawled Pat, "yez can go back
to bed again, fer she's another hour late"
A forcihle remark or two proceeded from
the travelling mans room, and were audi
Bile to his awakened neighbors, as was the
departure Of Pat; but soon all was quiet
again, and the few occupants of the hotel
were left for some time to undtsturbed re-
pose. Just as the first faint streaks Of
dawn were til ging the sky Pat once more
made his presence known, and, in terms
giving uEmistakable evidence Of recent
and heavy slumber, rema rked:
Say! If yez was the felly what wanted
to ketch the 2 o'clock thrain, yez can
shape till mornin', fer, bedad, the blame
things gene
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-06-09


Vice President Clough Of the Great
Northern makes the following very note
worthy statements: Il think If one-half the
box cars in the spring wheat territory
should be destroyed tonight the price of
grain would rise 10 cents per bushel to-
morrow. When the warehouses are full,
or when the money available for handling
the grain has been absorbed all additional
arrivals on the market are like so much
water poured CIR the top of a pail already
full, ii must run over and be wasted The
clamor for more cars for shipments and
for greater transportation facilities backed
up, a general rule, by railroad commits
sions and legislators have forced the rail-
road companies to keep adding to equip
ment until a condition has been reached
where the companies can at any time with
in period of ten days pour into any one
of the central markets enough grain to
hopelessly break down prices. Those in
terested in raising prices in any of the
markets, and trying to do So are simply
swept off their feet by the flood of grain
that the railroads are in position to pour
out upon them. AS things are, every
buShel of spring wheat grown is always in
sight in each one of the three central
spring markets; but neither of them can
supply more than mere fraction of the
storage or money needed for taking il all.
l can see but one remedy for this state of
things. The owrer must become his own
capitalist and warehousemau for his grain,
until the market can absorb 1t in healthy
way, and then let it out gradually, instead
of letting the whole mass drop or the mar
ket at once"
These expressions are strikingly confirm
atory of the assertion so often made by
those who are endeaVoring to secure a re-
form in the interchange car service that
the present supply of freight cars is much
greater than would be necessary if prop
erly handled.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-06-09
The Empire Of the Air,

tohi tHc ptHl!enail Magazine.
Roger Bacon in an essay which was not
published until 1918, gave some vague fore
shado"ing Of the possibilities Of steam, and
declared aerial navigation to be thing Of
the future. 1T is possible" remarked this
wonderful natural philosopher, ito devise
instruments for flying such that man be-
ing IN the center, if revolving something
by which artificial wings are made to beat
the air i'll the fashion of birds
Leaving the indefinite out of the reckon
Ing. we first find a definite project for
mounting into the air in the device of
FRANCIS Lana. an Italian Jesuit who In
1910 published his plan of four copper
balls, exhausted of air TO form vacuum,
supporting a vessel, and with a sail at
tacned to give the necessary horizontal
motion. He supposed that in practice these
would displace volume of air greater in
weight than the weight of the balls. hut
this would not really be the case. This ideu
ana mat OF the subsequently perfected
balloon, had its starting point in the dis
covery OF the principle of the pressure of
fluids, calculated by Archimedes of SYRIA
cuSe in POO b. c.
The discovery of hydrogen by Cavendish
in 17Go led Joseph Black. professor of
chemistry In the University of Edinburgh
to suggest in one of his lectures that q
weight might be lifted from the ground by
attaching to it a sphere of some suitable
material filled with this very light gas
This idea, casually uttered but not followed
up, was remembered some years later by
Ilberius Cava!la, an Italian merchant
who in 1872 tested its truth by experiment
His attempts to fill paper bags with hydro
gen failed, owing to the rap!dity with
which the subtle gas escaped through the
pores of the paper Then he collected the
gas in soapy water, and a bubble of gas
assembled; so that a soap bubble filed with
hydrogen was the first balloon. This ex-
pertinent appears to have been repeated by
Cavallo before the Royal Society, and is
described in their transactions" but 1t
was pursued no further. the practical en-
ergy not being Incoming to take the
matter up at this stage when it was moth
ing more than a scientific curiosity and an
interesting experiment, apparently too tri-
fling to be worth more thought.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-06-09
MILES STANDISH AND JOHN ALDEN
Their Children Intermarried and
They Have Many Descendants.

From the Lewiston (Ne) Journal.
Capt. Miles Standish, the man. not of
words, but of actions, did not capture the
Puritan maiden Priscilla, but John Alden
did-after a while The first wife Of Stand
ism, Rose, had died January "a, 1921, ana
after this unhappy, arm's-length courtship
the captain married Barbara, the younger
sister of his dead wife. When he made his
will he left his property TO his widow and
MS four sons, Alexander. Miles, Joseas and
Charles, and to his daughter, Lora.
John Alden married Priscilla Mullins and
the next generation of the two families in
termarried; and from them and the chill
dren VINO married otherwise have descend
ed great army OF American people who
are glad they are of Puritan stock and es-
pecially that they are Of the Standish ard
Alden strains. On the kennebec they have
a family association of Standishes as we'll
as in Massachusetts and in New York. A
former Lewiston lady, Mrs. E. S. Mower,
IS about to become member of the New
York Standish Family Association. In An
droscoggin. Franklin, Oxford and Cumber-
land counties we are constantly running
across people who are proud that they are
Standishes or Aldens. To give a list of
each descendant or to mention every fam
lily would fill series OF books.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-06-09

From the Nineteenth Century.
The Beers a body are unprogressive,
unadventurous, averse to change. The
British are progressive, active and eager
for adventure. The Beers are hunters and
cattle owners. The British are miners and
traders The British have the forces of
education, science and capital on their
side; the Beers, on the other hard, decline
to avail themselves of the resources by
which wealth is accumulated, and through
which the power conferred by wealth is
acquired. The Beers receive no reinforce
ment by emigration, the British popula-
ton is increasing daily by the constant in
fluX of new patches of enigrants Given
these conditions, and the result Is certain.
In virtue of natures law of the Survival
of the fittest,' the British are bound to dis
lance the Beers in the future as they have
done in the past. In this world as a pres
ent constituted, the weaker is certain in
the loEg run TO go to the wall. Just as in
the southern states in America the Yankee
is shunting out the southern planter, so
the Briton is compelled by the same mani
fest destiny to ovJt the Boer. hold, there
fore, that 10 matter what ones respect
may be for the individual fine qualities of
the Boer population, one can entertain no
doubt that In the end the race that goes
ahead must get the better Of the race that
stays at home.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-06-09
When Destitute of Eumor.
From the Fortnightly Review.

From the Fortnfghtly Review.
There appear to be whole races of men
the North American Indians and the Gin
Salese Feddas, for example-that are des-
titute of the sense of the ludicrous. And
in the higher races this sense is by no
means universally found. The richest in
tellccts possess it If amplest measure. The
absence of i. is sure indication of mental
poverty. Here comes a fool, let's be
grave" said Charles Lamb upon one oc-
casion. And 1 remember a friend of my
sOE whom we had met, He must be a
man of sense, for, although he said little
he laughed In the right place" That
laugh is manifestation of intellectual
abundance or eXuberance; 1t is some thin z
over and above the actual work of life
And SO we may adapt to our present pur-
pose certain words of Schiller's in his
Letters on Aesthetic Education: Man
sports (spielD only when he is man in the
full siSnification of the word and then
only is he complete man (ganz Mensch)
when he sports"
1 need hardly observe how grossly this
faculty of the ludiCrous may be abused.
There is nothing more diabcical-in the
into ridicule ''wha discover things are true
whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever
things are just, whatsoever things are pure
whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever
things are good report There is no
more detestable occupation than that of
"sapping solemn creed with solemn
sneer.' But 1t Is maxim Of jurispru-
dence "Abusus non tollit usum." And this
holds universally.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-06-09
The HiEh-Fliers in Mars,

From the North American Review.
If the attraction of the earth were less
pow erful our winged tribes might have re-
ceiVed a much greater Development In
virtue of the unquestionable principle
known as 1.-The struggle for existence"
these winged creatures, dominating all
others, would have been the strongest
Progress would have been effected alone
this line. The superior race, the human
race, would have been a winged race.
These simple consderat TONS which II max.
be easy to extend much further, are
CROUCH to convince us that our human
form is essentially terrestrial and that the
inhabitants of Mars cannot Resemble ne
They are different.
Upon Mars, for example, one might SUD-
pose, without scientific herasy, that the
remarkable lightness of their bodies NAV
nave developed the winged race more high
iy IN the direction indicated, and that the
inhabitants Of this planet may have re-
celved the privilege Of flight.
Does TINS amount to saying that for this
reason, they must necessarily have the
form of birds? No. The bats, are they not
mammals which suckle their young?
Is 1t saying. then, that we must Imagine
them under this form? Not at all Nav
they not rather be like dragon flies flutter-
ing in the air above the lakes and the
canals?
AS to this point we can imagine eyery-
thing and prove nothing. 1t is even highly
propable that the reality Is something alb
solutely different from all our terrestrial
conceptions.
On the one hand the Iightness of the
Marian beings is favorable Of their winged
constitution. On the other hand, however,
the atmosphere Is hardly we'll fitted to sus-
tain them But still we recall that terres-
trial zoology furnishes instances of birds,
which are very heavy, such as condors and
the vultures, and these are just the ones
which fly highest in the most rarefied re-
gions of our atmosphere; they have been
observed even above the submits of the
Himalayas, the Andes and the Cordilleras
at elevations of from 5000 to 5000 meters
(21,OOO to 10000 feeD, where they can still
soar freely, thanks to the enormous spread
of their wings.
Nor must we lose sight of the fact that q
human being, weighing 20 Kilograms Q54
pounds) would weigh no more than 90 kilo-
grams COG pounds) If transported to the
globe Of Mars.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-06-09
N ] N Y D N
TALKS TO
NJ D 7 i T R ) .
THE CARE OF CHILDREN.
HOW THE LITTLE ONES MAY BE
SAVED LONG SPELLS OF SICKNESS.

Every Mother, With the Aid of Num-
yon's Improved Homeopathic REM
edies, Can Become the Family Ply
stefan and Save Many Dollars In
Doctors Fees-These Remedies Re
Iieve Immediately, Are Absolutely
Harmless and So Labeled That
There Cam BE No Mistake.
The mother naturally has the of the chill
dren. She is expected to watch every symptom Of
Illness in the little ones, and far lies in her
power the proper remedy to prevent siege of
sickness Many mothers, by reason OF incxperlence,
compelled to call in physician, when il they
had little more knowledge of the necessary med-
cines TO use and could obtain these medicines
quickly. a physicians aid would not be required
many dollars could be saved and perhaps precious
lives not endangered. IL mothers will obtain Mum
yon's Guide to Health from their nearest druggist
ii will tell them what to in cases of emer
gency. With Munyon's Remedies in the house she
Is prepared for illness of all kinds not only IN the
children, but In the older folks The remedies most
necessary to keep hand for the little ones are
Whooping Cough Cure, Fever Cure, Diarrlea Cure
Group Cure. Cholera MOrbus Cure, Constipation
Cure, Worm Cure, Face and Skin Ointment, Mum
yOn's Balm and Munyon's Plasters.
Any OF these remedies be obtained from your
druggist at 70 cents bottle.
Eminent doctors at Your service, free.
II you have Catarrh any Throat Lung Com
pa!nt. call and receive free trial local treat
nent. We positively CGtlrrh.
Open q. m. to 5 pm: Monday and Thursday, 6
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street northwest. 1t
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-06-09
Education in switzerland.

IRON the London Times.
report from the British legation in
Berne. which has just been published by
'he foreign office. refers to the educational
system of Switzerland Education there is
rHCouraged and developed to a wonderful
degree. The sratuitous distribution of food
and clothing to poor children in elementary
schools is made when they have long jour-
ncys or when the weather In winter is very
rad and they nave to remain during the
n.'ddle of the day IN school In reply to
L government circular on the subject L. S1
schools wished tor assistance under this
mead; in eighty-nine schools something was
already done in this direction for the chill
tren: and many were altogether opposed 10
IL on the ground that in many cantons IL
'EaS not required, and was needed only for
those In the mountain districts.
The Swisss have not only shown great
zeal for education but also a great spirit
Of religious liberation in all that concerns
their educational system. In some can
tons where the population is mixed Pro-
testant and Catholic, religious instruction
is given on a fixed day and at stated hours
SO tilat II parents wish their children 10
have nothing but secular education they
can be absent during that time. Mixed
schools also exist in some cantons, and are
attended Ivy children Of both communions.
These cannot be called secular schools
for in a canton like Zurich, for instance,
where Protestants are in the majority, q
Roman Catholic child receives instruction
in the dement's of Christianity, with read
iHgs from the Bible, with his Protestant
sCnOol-feiloWs, until he is ten or eleven
years old, when his special preparation for
confirmation by his own pastor begins
This system also prevails in st. Gall. where
the Roman Catholics are almost double the
Protestants in number. School administra-
ucn, organization and instruction are in
the hands of each canton, and elementary
education is compulsory everywhere.
In 1893 the cost of education was about
10 shillings for each inhabitant, and there
is about a similar amount per head of the
population given in federal subventons for
educational purposes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-06-09
ICELAND IMMIGRANTS.
They Settle in the Northwest and
Make Excellent Citizens.

MAKE EXcellent C1t1zen0s
From the New York Times.
There Is In Milton, N. D., large Ice
landic population. The Icelanders are, as
we see them here, the most frugal and in
dustrious people in the world. They never
fail to utilize everything Of value in life,
from the shortest straw to the latest min
ute Of time. They are at work always, all
of them, from the baby just out of the
cradle to the withered and hobbling great
grandfather. Every family makes sure
that its own necessities are provided for.
Each keeps a few sheep, some pigs, an
abundance Of hens. at least one or two
cows. ETC.. but nothing that consumes with
out producing something in return. Most
luxurles are new to them on their arrival
and they take to new articles, either of food
or raiment, only when forced by their own
surroundings to do SO. They live within
themselves and always have something to
sell-chickens, eggs. butter, mittens, socks,
KNIT Wammuses. leggins. hoods, cloth ear
ups, and, of course. farm products.
All work necessarily, but moderately,
curing daylight, and at night, while visit
ing as II they had just met after a long
separation. knit. spin, weave, sew work
out rude implements, card wool, make but
ter and manufacture garments. OF course
the cloth for these garments Is home made.
When something is absolutely needed from
the store the Icelander secures it by bar
'SAiH6 drtlcle OF mona misunderstanding
never pays out money if it can be avoided.
Ihere Is absolutely no picture in Ameri-
can Ire carrying SO perfe"t an idea of do
mestlc contentment and happiness as one
may see in an ordinary Icelandic home.
ihey are frank, cheerful and kind-never
noisy-and have no vaulting ambitions, no
ialse pride. no false modesty. The utter
lack of prudery may account for their vir-
tue, and, in part for their simple happi-
ness.
The 1celander has no complex theories or
philosophy. He thinks the first man was
an lce!ander and was born in Iceland.
lie scouts the idea that the Norseman dis
covered .either America or his own bleak
nttle mole in the arctic seas. He says he
was always on the latter, and always
knew about the former and about Green
land and Europe. He claims with pride,
mat nothing good in the popular form OF
government Is new with America, or that
tne United States is entitled to credit for
the invention of a republic. He says he
hau better republic than this for more
IMAM II" Years, and that long 900 years
IN Iceland did not develop SO many sins.
CROOKS and forms of maladninistration as
year in America.
All lcelanders. Of course, are very hardy.
Ihey are troubled at first by the extreme
neat OF the summers, but finally become
acclimated. They do not move about, and
never return to Iceland. They become
Americanized even more easily than the
Norwegians. if that is possible, and make
rellaDle, peaceful citizens. The young Wo-
men are the most kindly and quiet servants
procurable and all of them are honest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-06-09
THE TRUE SOLDIER.
President ElfOfs Address in Memorial
Hall at Harvard Decoration Day.

The personal heroism Of the men we COM
memorate hereof those who survived as
we'll as Of those who fell-had two elements
which are especially affecting, and worthy
of remembrance.
In the first place, these men went through
all the squalor, wretchedness and carnage
of war without having any clear vision of
their country's future. They did not know
that victory was to crown the Union cause;
they did not know that the nation was to
come out of the four years struggle deliv
cred from slavery, united as never before,
and confident as never before in its re-
sources and stability One of the worst
horrors in 1S60-6l, before the war opened,
was the sickening doubt whether we really
had any country.
Civil war is immeasurably worse than
any other war, because II inevitably creates
just this terrible doubt about the national
future. 1t was not till 1s64-65 that II be-
came plain that the north would ultimately
win military success, and even then all men
saw that after military success would come
immense civil difficulties. The heroism of
the soldiers on both sides and the pathos of
their sufferinss and sacrifices are greatly
heightened by their utter inability to fore
cast the future. Like all devoted souls,
they walked by faith. and not by sight.
Most of the men whose names are written on
these walls died with no shout of victory
in their ears, or prospect Of ultimate tri-
umph before their glazing eyes. To console
them In their mortal agony, in their supreme
sacrifice, they had nothing but their own
hope and faith.
Secondly, the service these men rendered
TO their country was absolutely disinterest-
ed. No professional interest in war infiu-
enced them. No pay, or prize money, or
prospect or pension had the least attrac-
ton for them. They offered their services
and lives to the country just for love, and
out of the determination that, If they could
help 1t, the cause of freedom should take no
harm On the spur of the moment they
abandoned promising civil careers, dear
homes and the natural occupations of men
who had received collegiate training for the
savage distractions and butcheries of war
NO mercenaIy motive can be attributed to
any Of them. This disinterestedness is es-
sential to their heroic quality. The world
has long since determined the limits of It's
occasional respect for mercenary soldiers
1t admres in such only the faithful fulfill
ment of an immortal contract. The friends
We commemorate here had in view no out
ward rewards near remote.
To these heroes Of ours, and to all soldiers
OF ike spirit in the civil war, we owe debts
which can never be paid except in respect
admiration and loving remembrance We
owe them the demonstration that out of the
hideous losses and horrors of war, as out
OF pestliences, famines, shipwrecks, con-
fagrations and the hastings of the tornado,
noble souls can pluck glorious fruits of self
Sacrlhce and moral SuDlimity. And, further
We owe them great uplifting of our coun-
try in dignity. strength and security.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-06-09
A MADDENING PREDICAMENT.
WHATS In Nnme.' Was n Very
Serious Question,

Serious Question.
From the Detroit Free Press
What under the canopy is the matter,
Bartlett?"
Crazy Only crazy. Crazier than a bed
bug The old age Of King Lear was a beau
tlful and happy one compared to mine"
NO, no. Bartlett. You're just worried
over something. 1t will come all right"
'Oh, yes. just imagine things. There's
nothing substantial in my affiiction. Now
listen. My Christian name Is Edward fIy-
erett My wife's is Emily Ellis. When or
hrst-born came to US we both wanted 70
furnish part of It's name so it's Edward
Ellis With the first daughter we were
DOM possessed OF the same natural desire
ana she Is Emily Everett. An aunt named
Elsa" "
What of it? They're all good names,
DON'T you see, man. Each of us has
our correspondents. and the young folks
are all in love- The postman calls with a
letter. or an invitation, addressed to r. E
bartlett. Who in thunder is it for? Thoea
intlais belong to each and every one Of us
Mother and l could get along but thoso
children! I've caught the girls pulling ha r..
three times within week, and they doa't
eat meal without making faces at ore
another ! opened one Of Edwards letters
from his best girl 1t was such a sweet
breezy reminder OF old times that / was
reading 1t without thought of doing wrong
when he came along, grabbed the letter ami
dared me out in the back yard. They used
to be such refined and loving children, too
Now were all by the ears. and l dread
public scandal. It's awful. simply awfulr'
But We can certainly do something"
NO can about it. Something must he
done. If there IS no other way out of It,
Will have special session of the legislature
and have every Internal name changed
I'll get them as widely different as the
worlds nomenclature and Christianity will
permit"