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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-04-18
HABITS OF WILD GEESE.
Their PuEnacions Courtship and Oc-
easional EIopements.

From the Kansas City Star
Objects --hich never fail just now to at
tract tie attention of travellers over west
ern Kansas are hocks of wild geese feeding
upon the rich fields of wheat, which this
spring seem TO spread a carpet Of green
over all the broad domain. To rest and re-
fresh themselves in their annual flight
northward, the geese alight in these fields.
They select their ground carefully, choosing
a spot remote from human habitation and
so situated that they may see all the coun-
try around about and thus be warned of
the approach of danger in time to take
flight.
In their rpigrations northward in the
early spring and southwark in the late fall,
Wild geese fly in families of a dozen OF
twenty. arranging themselves in the form
of the letter a" enc side of the letter in
Tariably shorter than the other, and the
father gander and the mother goose a little
in advance of the apex. Sometimes many
families unite for time and travel togeth-
er. but always that inevitable letter IA is
clearly defined in the sky, the procession led
by a gander. who has Travelled the road be-
fore, and whose ''Honkt honkt' guides the
fight.
While feeding every family posts a sem
tinel. who stands in the midst OF the feeding
flock. his neck stretched high, fixed and
rigid as a statue.
Travelling over the Rock Island railroad
from Topeka to Hutchinson one day last
week with Col George W. Neale of Topeka
who knows all about wild geese. a repre-
sentative of the Star witnessed this spec
tacle of patience and faithfulneSs and saw
too, an attempt by a farmer boy to steal
upon the flock with a gun. The passengers
crowded to the windows FASTENED to the
car platforms. and the engineer, also inter-
ested, slowed down the train to creep
The boy crept down a draw to point
nearest the geese and then began to work
his way over rise. The boy was to lee
ward, the sentinel could not be warned
by scent, and the enemy had not yet got in
to view Slowly the boy toiled his way. his
body fiat against the ground. Finally he
had dragged himself to a point where he
could see the geese feeding over radius of
twenty yards from the sentinel. and moving
slowly in the direction of the boy. He had
only to be patient and his reward would be
brace of wild geese. But he possessed
boys curiosity. He raised his head to look
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THERE WE'RE FISH,
But II Took nm Extra Quarter to Find
Where They We're.


Where They Were.
The most tsciturn people in the world
live in western North Carolina and east
Tennessee" said department clerk to a
Star reporter
Il went fishing near Elk Park, and in
some of the streams down there is the
finest trout fishing in the world There
were four of us in the party and we went
Up enc Of the mountain creeks for about
three miles. native passed U.S. and I
asked:
Are there any trout in this creek?
Yep
eve threw our lines and fshed every
hole in the creek for two miles without
getting bite: then walked back toward
town with empty baskets. Meeting the
native again. l said:
Il thought you stated there were trout
in that creek"
Thar is
"'Well. we didn't get a bite
lowed yo all wouldn when 1 seed
yo' try
why not, If there are fish there?
'Yo' didn't ak me eff thar war trout
whar yo' was fishin'.'
What did / ask you? inquired get
ting angry.
g Eff thar war trout in the crck, an
thar is. heap of en-
Where are they?"
Still in the crick.
What part of the creek?
" In the middle. 'cept them as at the
sides. Thar amt none on the banks
Il gave him quarter, and he said:
They don't never come I'D this far
Bout two mile down the .crick thar s
plenty
I'VE went down the creek, and the native
was right. l never saw better fishing"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-04-18
SHE'S AN AMERICAN GIRL.
A Bit OF a story Which Has the Merit
of Truth.

Oh TRUTH
From the Chicago Record.
Here's a bit Of a story that comes from
London and has the rare merit of truth,
There was certain young American girl
in London who had come over with only
the courage of youth and the point of a
pen to keep the wolf away. She hadn't the
easiest time IN the world, let me tell you.
one day she presented herself at the Of
nee or an editor who had bought STUFF Of
her The great man was busy but as she
insisted on seeing him she was allowed to
enter. She had a bundle of manuscript in
her hand, and she begged the editor to read
y at once Oddly enough, he consented.
II was story.
IT was story about a young woman
WRITER who purchased q typewritipg ma
chlne on the installment plan All went
wen TIL the final payment of 81 was due
Sne hadn't the money and couldn't get 1t.
twice the people who sold the machine
gave her additional time. At her wits end
the poor girl begged him to wait lust two
hours She gave him something to read.
ana she wheedled him a little, and he
onered to wait
So she sat down at the machine and rot
tied OF pathetic story of her own strug-
sies with fate and of her fruitless efforts
10 raise money to pay for the typewriter.
and went to newspaper office, sold the
story and brought back the money in time
TO save the machine.
1t was prettily told story and a pathetic
one.
by jove." said the editor. as he finished
reading 1t. 81 always said you could do
nction. but you never would Come around
next week, and I'll let you know whether
We'll publish it,
The girl heStated
II you please, SIR she said, won't you
decide now?'
Why" asked the editor, in surprise.
w ell, said the girl, won see the mn n
VINO came after the typewriter is waiting
for the money"
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He Could CsOlS.

From the Lewiston NIc.) Journal
A Lewiston man has been complain
Ing lately that his wife does not pay
enough after ton to cooking for tomor-
row. AT such times his wife has remark
ed Why don't you cook yourself?" The
iast time she said this was at supper time
Monday night. He didn't answer but after
supper he filled the cook stove with wood
look OFF lis coat and started in. He got
her cook book down and began at the COM
mefcemeEt and made two pans of dough-
nuts, two patches of biscuit molasses gin
gerbread. hasty pudding to fry for break
last cookies, tarts, six Custard pes boiled
vegetables for breakfas: hash, and in half
an hour had the stove covered with dishe s
OF all kinds. His wife went out into the
kitchen and dropped speechless into a
chair. AT half-past IL that night he wash
ed the last dish and closed the dumb waiter
-hlled with food which compared very
well with some his wife had made. and
went to bed. The next noon his wife hand
ed him a bill of $40, which she said was
the amount Of raw material he had used
the night before. Are you gong to cook
as much as that every day?' she asked.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-04-18

Oriental effect Such effects are used as
the ground work for parasols. over which
Duchesse lace may be cunningly displayed.
Or such foundations may be covered with
the openwork grass linen so much in evil
dence. and so dainty for many uses.
Along with the Persian novelties in suit
ings come some more homely sounding
names Grenadines are in as high favor as
ever of old-they come in all colorS and
with silk stripes. They, like the grass lin
ems. are made up into dresses over silks of
different colOrS.
ChiIdrcn'S dresses are made very daintily
With large white embroidered collars and
white insertion. The materials are dimities,
piques, chambrey and polka dotted linens
and musIins-aH good oid-fashioned sound
ing stuffs.
For instance, for girl of eight: pink
pique made with jacket and skirt, a
white blouse waist OF embroidery and in
sertion, with a wide sailor collar.
Pretty are the poke bonets prepared for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-04-18

trimmed with irregularly placed lace-edged
tucked ruff1es. And there is-to pass from
ed from June trousseau in preparation;
the material is pink brocaded satin,
scattered over with dark pink flowers. 1t
Is Van Dyked with wide cream Valenci-
Of narrow pink ribbon. The corsets match,
and their tops are gay with lace and with
the same pink ribbon.
Tailor gowns we have still with us, and
their materials are English cheviots plain,
mixed and in small checks. The checks are
used for skirts with plain dark jackets
whose lapels are faced with lighter goods
harmonizng with the skirts. The plain
cheviots are made with silk, invisibly but
toned, provided with rolling collars and
three pockets, two hip pockets and one on
the breast! Who says that woman ad-
Vanceth not?
A plain full skirt Of taffeta silk shading
from tan to green, is the foundation of one
tailors model. The bodice is draped with
black chiffon embroideI ed in ecru, the taft
feta sleeves full and a ruff of knife
plated chiffon at the neck Is caught with
a rhinestone buckle in front
Another pretty model dress has plain
full skirt Of cheviot in a small green and
white check. The short jacket is of green
cloth, whose revers are faced with white
MORE. The jacket Is trimmed with tiny
pearl buttons and Is worn over a full
blouse front effect of white MORE silk.
There are many things to note. There
are hats. purple hats, with trimmings of
purple and yellow flowers.
There are odd hats of white satin covered
with black horse netting, spangled with
rhinestones.
There are hats with brims entirely COW
cred with jonquils or with vioiets, and hats
with crowns of pink roses ard green leaves.
There are toques and bonnets of rough
purple straw with bedeckments of violets.
There are ostrich feather boas for spring
wear. in delicate shades of pearl, gray and
amber
There are tan and blue Jackets. trimmed
with gilt braid outlining the seams, pock-
cts and lapels, or with fancy braid laid on
in scroll work or vertically.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-04-18

There are new sleeves" on the gowns,
but yet old sleeves on cloaks and wraps.
There are carriage parasols all roses.
broCade silk and chiffon and walking para
sells in scarcely less elaborate makes
There are gowns in grass linen by the
million, and in other openwork materials
VI ich require an expensive foundation.
There are hats, and those TIE most COM
mon. which come low in front to shade
the face, and which rise high over the hair
behind.
There are hats in purple Tuscan straw
with straight brims narrower behind than
In front. continental hats with crowns of
fancy lavender straw. green hats with
dropping brims overlaid with white hya-
cinths and knotted green tulle. White and
green. indeed. is almost as common color
scheme as plain purple.
And above and beyond all there is color
in everything the colors of the rainbow
and more; for these are but seven.
ELLEN OSBORN
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-04-18

From Elackwoods Magazine
little boy in the course of his reading
lesson came to the word widow" and called
it window" word more familiar to him.
The teacher, who was acting as examiner,
corrected the blunder. and then wishing
TO improve the OCCASION put the question,
What is the difference between widow
and Window" The boys answer began,
You can see through a window, but" and
then stopped. The amusement plainly vis-
ible on the teachers face prevented this
miniature Sam Weller from completing the
contrast.
Now, the blunder here, 50 far as it was a
blunder, was entirely due to the teacher
He did not mean to impress on his pupils
the transparency of a window as contrasted
with a widow, but the difference in spelling
between the two words
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-04-18
METEORs MADE HARMLESS.
We Owe Our Immunity 20 Our AtmOS-
phere. which Serves as a Shield.

We Owe Our Immunity 10 Our AtmOS-
phere. which Serves as a Shield.
From the Spectator.
We owe our immunity TO our atmosphere
which serves a buIlet-proof cuirass for
the world. When a meteor enters the at
mosphere, the friction produced by its gi-
gantic speed makes IT flash UP like the ar
row OF Acestes. only more so. The ingeni-
GUS experiments OF Lord Kelvin have shown
that the heat thus produced. just as
brake showers sparks from the carriage
wheel, or a lucifer match lights on the box,
is sufficient to consume the meteor as II it
were suddenly cast into a furnace heated
to three or four million degrees. Obviously
the smaller meteors are utterly consumed
before they have penetrated far into the
atmosphere, which their fate has shown to
rise to a height of about 40 miles.
Only a very large one can descend. as
that of Madrid is said to have done to
within twenty miles of the earth before be-
ing burst by the expansion due TO heat and
oy the resistance of the air. The fact that
fragments do occasionally reach the earth
Is the best proof Of the great size OF some
or the meteors that We encounter. II it
were not for the blessed air." the eXplo-
sion OF them all, with the accompanying
ferrent heat would take place in our midst
III Is safe to say that such a state of things
would render our great towns uninhabit-
able. In London We are sometimes inclined
10 grid at the atmosphere, with its smoke
and Its fog and its east wind. But none
of us can tell how often il has saved him
from terrible and invisible fate, in being
as Mark Twain has IL, shot with a rock .
III we are more inclined 10 recognize the at
moSphere services in future, the Madrid
meteor will not have exploded in vain.
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Highest Of all in Leavening Power-Latest u Report
R3>!a!l! RRskiRs
ABSOLUTELY PURE
THE BLUEFJsH BRIG ABE.
What Happens When the Blues Make
Charge Upon the Mcnhaden.

What Happens When the Blues Make
Charge Upon the Mcnhnden.
From the New York SUM-
when menhaden or herring are driven
UP on the beach by bluefish, rs they often
are so that they can be carried off by the
cart load" said fisherman there is very
seldom found among them one of their
pursuers; and II one is found it is likely to
be a fish that Is diseased or that has been
hurt IL some way. The bluefish follows TO
the very verge of the water but there 1t
stops, and 1t is so powerful and alert a
swimmer that close as 1t is. II still easily
keeps clear of the land. The menhaden and
herring are no mean swimmers; they could
come as close and keep off the shore as
easily as the bluefish do, but not when the
bluefsh are after them Then they are like
men pursued 10 the edge of a precipice: it
Is almost certain death to jump. but they
must do that or turn and take the chances
OF breaking through the pursuing line.
when the bluefish-there may be three
or four Thousand of them together-sight a
school of menhaden they go for ii like a
brigade of heavy cavalry cutting and slash
ing. swapping and biting. right and left
The menhaien are simply overborne by su-
periOr weight, and there is nothing for
them to do but fee. If they are driven to-
ward the shore the land is to them what
the precip:ce would be to the man: they
must take it or they must turn and try to
fight their way through. Many do turn and
try 10 swim under or over or around the
savage bluefish, and some escape in this
way, and some are Snapped up, and some
MANNED and then cast ashore; and
many of them. crowding together SO
closely pressed that they are practically
forced as hore.
Sometimes fish that are not cast up very
far flop down into the water again; high
wave may set some free. A fish thus liber-
ated may find its fins so damaged that IL
can't swim, and ii is cast up again; weak
ened by its rough experience IL may fall a
prey to some of the bluefish yet lingering
off shore; It may escape"
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and gold. their belts narrow velvet straps,
their buckles small and giided.
There is, too. waist in green Persian silk
with a coat tail effect. 1t has a full soft
front of light blue mousseline de Soie and
Is lined with light blue, and there are dot
ted swiss waists made up with white and
black lace insertion, ard shirt waists of
wash silk and swivel silks and grass linen
shirt waists over different colored silks,
with blouse fronts and stock ribbon collars,
and waists of amber chiffon whose sleeves
are SUGGESTIONS of puffs. and whose white
satin yokes are set with tiny turquoises and
Tearl5.
1t is a comfortable fashion which pro-
vides waist with linen collar which can
be detached and substituted by a stock
ribbon collar with big bow, which is very
much softer and prettisr.
Petticoats more elaborate than ever are
made to match the corsets OF the season.
There are handsome ones of Persian silk
trimmed with white lace, and OF white silk
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-04-18
British Guiann,. Dwarf Indians.

The Indiars of British Guiana. accord
ing to a writer in :he Nineteenth Century,
are not far removed from the lowest saw
ages in the depths of the dark continent
A root called the covassa is their principal
food. 1t is prepared for use by scraping it
pebbles.
Communism to its fullest extent prevails
among them. AS to clothes the men get
along with a breech Cirut while the Ho-
men are in the height of fashion with a
simple fringe. Though dwarfs they are
well made and sturdy, make capital boat
men and re splendid swimmers. All the
real work is done by women
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Luck VIII Turn,

rom the Chicago Record
Never mind the little sprinkles-
April's face is smile and I,out:
Clouds Will break in merry wrinkles
When the sun shines out
Don't give up for just shower
Every faith Is grown Doubt
And success Is bound TO flower
When the shines out.
"Heaven OverarchcS."
Heaven Ovt rarchcs earth and sea.
Firth sadness and seabttern"Ss.
Heaven ovcrarChes you and me;
little while and we shall be
Please G0d-whcre there ia no more sea
Nor barren wilderness.
Heaven overnrches you and me.
And all earth's gardens and her graves
Look up with me- until
The dny break and the shadows fee
What though tonight wrecks you and me,
If So tomorrow saves
CHRISTINA ROSETTI
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-04-18
Comment on the Sermon.

From the Yonkers Statesman.
Mrs. Crimsonbeak-"Don't you think there
vas a good deal Of truth in the Rev. Mr..
Longs sermon today?"
Mr.. Crimsonbeak-'Yes; especially when
he said 1t was impossible for any of US to
tell when the end would come"
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Dollars md Sense;

Or. The Doom of the Matinee Hat
The legislature of Ohio has Just passed law
fOrhi6ding women 10 wear large hats at thea tersD
1t may not in all things be worthy or wise,
Our laws and our modes to Americanize;
But here Is a point which thousands would thank
Our NJ P.'s for taking tip from the Iank.
For where's the male victim whoever hat sat,
EnseHlng. behind huge matinee hat"
Who will rejoice when government collars,
For every such nuisance, fine of ten dollars?
N. B.-Tha poor managers lives will Ice Hades,
The fine should be paid by the selfish fine ladies)
man might well be blind bat.
As sit in the Of a matinee hat.
And II makes old theater- goer TO sigh. Oh,
To think that his lot is not cast In Ohio.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-04-18
PICKINGs FROM LONDON PUNCH.
A Romance of the River

Edwin-"What colors shall you wear at
the boat race, Miss Angelina?''
Angelina uncertain as to Edwin's univer-
sity)-"Need you ask? True blue, of course"
Edwin (who received his education at Dur
ham University, enthusiastically clasping
Angelina in his arms)-"Darling! / felt GER
tain that you would heap Goals of fire on my
head for asking such a question
(But, as a matter of fact. he heaped the
Goals on hers when the time came for settle
ments, being a large pit proprietary
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mark of favor shown from another family,
the little goose unhasitatingIy abandons
companions and lovers of her own kindred
causes little furry in the flock for mo-
ment and sometimes young gander gives
chase but he soon turns back and catches
up with his family bidins his time to make
good the loss by reprisal upon some other
flock.
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APril's Lady.

Skies of April soul of May,
Drcams-cnfolding, tender, gay
All fair Omens trace thy way
April's lady, child of spring
May good angels guard and bless,
May no rough winds e'er caress,
Gentle thoughts alone possess.
April's lady, child Of spring.
When the trees put forth their leaves;
With the sunlight's golden sheaves
FlGttcring round bird-haunted caves,
Was thy coming, child of spring.
When the flowers awoke from sleep,
And the streams began TO leap
With n murmurous song and sweep,
Bloomcd this peerless bud Of sprIng.
Warp of April, wool of May,
Threads of Heavens seranest ray
Weave thy robe for aye and aye,
April's lady, child Of spring.
FRANK II. RAINEY
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A MugNNumn.

From the CincrT.ai Enquirer.
Nav" said the little boy. Johnny is
such a mugwump that don't want to sleep
with him any more
"A mugwump?"
Yes, mamma. Didn't you tell me that a
mugwump was some one who would not
take either side" And that's the way with
Johnny. He always wants 10 sleep in thu
middle of the bed"
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Plausible.
From til

From the Indianapolis Journal
a." the young man frankly admitted,
lam looking for a snap"
''Well," the elderly one suggested, eff YOU
have the ginger it ought to be easy to find
some one with the dough-
And a great silence fell inaudibly.
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Privileged.

From the Chicago Tribune.
"OId Skadds ought to know better than
TO pronounce it kenyon"
young man, when you are able 10 clip
as many of them as old Skadds does YOU
will find you can call it kenyon and move
in the highest literary and social circles"
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From the Indianap polls Journal
I'D be ashamed to go around begging.
said the prosperous citizen.
"Pride's funny thing, amt it?" answer
ed Mr.. Everett Wrest. Here you are. too
proud to beg, and here / am too proud II
work. Takes all sorts to make a world.
guess"
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today; for escape from the objects Of his
wrath he could not. If he strolled down
Broadway, he would see Persian novelties
In suitings:' on 9th avenue Persian effects
in parascls would affront his delicate Ro-
man SOUL and Persian designs in scarfs
" Guild complete his mental demolition as he
fled along Sd avenue to his stopping place,
of course ir little Italy"
Yet he might escape, through not know
ing the "PerSicos apparatus on sight.
As the word goes, it means almost any
thing in rich cclors and with a bizarre,
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A Sign That Fails Not.
From Puck.

From luck.
Mrs. Won Blumer-"Dear, what does Il
mean when you get a notice from the bank
that your account is overdrawn?'
Won Blumer-''In the case of a man il
means that he is married"
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Cause and Effect.

From the Boston Transcript.
Fogg says it is all nonsense to say that
Lightning never strikes twice in the same
place His grocer's scales, he asserts, show
the effects of at least half a dozen light
LiLgs.
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An Explanation.

From the Atlanta Constitution.
The reason there's so little hay in the
country is because we have to make it
while the sun shines, and some people can't
stand hot weather.
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At the Inquiry Window.

Excited Traveler-"Can catch the
o'clock express for Buffalo,"
Railroad Official-"That depends upon how
fast You can run. 1t started thirteen min
uteS ago"