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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-04

expected to rise with the lark and see
that the servants get through their duties.
Breakfast they prepare with their own
hands. After breakfast they go the rounds
and see that every room Is perfectly neat.
Dinner (under the mistress tuition) they
must cook themselves. Later on they pre-
pare supper. tidy up the kitchen and go all
over the house to see that every door is
properly closed. The girls off duty make
and mend their own and their companions
clothes. The following week another quar-
tet of girls is chosen. Walks and bicycling
In the country enter into the days pro-
gram. Very frequently guests are invited
to dine, and the girls in turn play at being
hostess. They carve the joints, set the ball
OF conversation rolling; and so forth. Dances
and musical parties, too, are given in the
evening. Again the girls act as hostesses
and arrange the whole entertainment. Of
hcers and professional men attend the
soirees. and are charmed at what they see
and hear. Ny friend stopped to take
breath. And how many girls" asked,
out of twenty are supposed to capture an
officer or professional man husband while
at the school?" lat least eight out OF the
twenty was the emphatic reply.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-04
bicycling and Insurance.
st. Louis Globe-DemoCrat.

from the st. Louis Globe-DemoCrat.
DR.. R. E. Tomlin, a life insurance ex-
aminer of long experience. has called at
tention to q new class of risks which is
giving life insurance companies some anx-
iety, viz, riders of the wheel What he has
to say on this subject Is valuable as a note
of warning against the abuse of a health
full exercise. Bicycling in moderation is a
splendid exercise beneficial to people of
every vocation; but excessive indulgence In
the use of the wheel is conducive to heart
and lung diseases and shortens the span
of life. Young men and men Of middle age
Immediately after bicycle exercise show a
great increase in the pulse, an irregularit.y
in its rhythm, a tremulous condition of the
whole body and murmur of the heart,
which continues for a considerable period.
chronic dilatation may be the result of
too much wheeling. There Is also danger
in case of tuberculosis in a family. that
phthisis may be developed by over-exercise
on the wheel This may come from the in
halation of dust, and the rapidly enforced
breathing making too great strain upon
the lung tissues. DR. Tomlin believes that
any person over fifty years old runs a
great risk in using a wheel, especially If
he rides with young people. who would
make the pace. This opinion, however.
cannot be accepted unreservedly, as the
issue must be greatly influenced by the ex-
tent to which an athletic habit of life has
previously been maintained. It is found
that large proportion of the wheel women
are injured by the excessive strain put
upon their muscles by rapid and long-con-
tinued riding, and insurance companies are
proposing to be exceedingly strict in their
Inquiries of both male and female appli-
cants as to their use of the wheel. In a
recent discussion on this subject it was
resolved that many men. and women also.
are going to their long homes from inju-
dicious wheeling and there is no doubt
that many riders who before taking up the
wheel had never practiced systematic ex-
ercse. nave not the patience to build up
gradually the power of endurance which
active indulgence in their new recreation
ueceSSitates
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-04
Value of the Mamie Tree.

From the Toronto Monetary Times.
There are more than sentimental reasons
why the maple tree should be held in re-
gard by Canadians. AS source of COM
mercia1 profit the value Of this tree is not
sufficiently appreciated. According to the
census of 1891. the annual production of
maple sugar in Ontario amounts to 5,665, 796
pounds, which means, at average market
prices, almost 100000. This industry is
capable of greater developments. and the
merchants Of the country should be in
terested in encouraging farmers to take
1t up more extensively. The sugar bush at
the Michigan Agricultural College yields
an annual return of II per cent, valuing
the woodland at $50 an acre. A Simcoe
county farmer estimates that the yield of
ten acres of maple trees, when the sap is
converted into strip and sugar. gives
net return Of about SO per acre In addi-
ton. there is to be considered the annual
growth of wood suitable for fuel and farm
uses which would amount to five cords
each year. In what industry can the far
mer obtain greater returns with the ex-
penditure of an equal amount Of labor and
capital? The bulk Of the maple sugar pro-
duced in Canada Is consumed here We
have not mentioned the usefulness of the
wood of this tree for cabinet-making pur-
poses or for interior decoration But peo-
pie in other countries admire 1t and value
1t, IL We do not Perhaps we are so far
familiar with 1t that We have ceased to
consider its worth in this aspect. Still.
this is another Of the directions in which
the maple Is Of value.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-04
MistOok Him for a King.



A famous naval architect was the CHEST
Of prince of the German imperial family,
and, when out walking with his host, OBJ
served that the side of the path he occu-
pied was smoother and easier than that
upon which the latter was walking Think
ing 1t to be only ordinary politeness, he
changed from the left to the right side
Then he noticed that the notables whom
they met saluted the prince with profound
respect, but stared at him as if they were
very much surprised and wondered who he
was. In a short time the prince said: Ibid
you observe that after you changed to my
right side the people whom we met looked
at you in great surprise?'
Yes was the architects reply; and
then he explained why he had changed his
position.
All yes! just so,' laughed the prince.
well, 1 will explain why they looked SO
intently at you. 1t is a rule of the German
court that the person of the highest rank
shall occupy the right-hand side. All the
people whom We met knew me, but when
they saw you on my right-hand, they sup
posed you to be king, and wondered who
you could be-
The guest promptly got back to the left
side.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-04
Senses Sharpened In the Wilds.

Letter In the chicago 11Ines-f Herald
I made bold TO say to DR.. Nansen that
thousands upon thousands Of men who
were not specially interested in arctic work
mad read his beck with delight, and that
to me the marvel was not that he could do
what he did in the field, but that he could
write such a book about his experiences.
'The b:st thing In 1t, to my notion"
said. lis your description Of your dramatic
meeting with Jackson on Franz Josef Land,
and the best part of that was your refer
ence to the manner in which the wild mans
sharpened senses discovered the fragment
of the soap which the civilized European
has used in his morning additions"
1T is really true" replied DR.. Nansen,
"that l could smell that soap as plainly as
II it had been a strong perfume. Johansen
noted the same thing when he came up.
In fact, for several days our sense of smell
wonderfully acute. AS 1 approached
Jacksons hut 1 thought I could smell ev-
erything ii contained and give a sort Of
inventory Of its stores without entering. In
a day or two this acuteness wore OF, and
We became quite normal in that, as we'll as
other respects. But 1 wonder IL a man
were to live wild for a few years II his
sense of smell would not become quite as
keen as that Of an animal?'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-04
Victoria Mt NapOleOn's Tomb.

From the London Times
The following extract from her maiesty's
journal in 1870, describes the pilgrimage
to Napoleon's grave. during the state visit
to the emperor at the Tuileries:
After this, as the queen wrote in her
Journal. we drove straight to the Hotel
des 1nvalides, under the dome of which
Napoleon lies, late as 1T was because we
were most anxious not to miss this, per-
haps the most important act of all in this
very interesting and eventful time 1t was
nearly when we arrived. All the invaides
chiefly of the former, but some of the
present. war-were drawn up on either side
of the court into which we drove
There were four torches which lit US along,
and added to the solemnity of the scene
which was striking in every way The
church is fine and lofty. We went to look
from above into the open vault the
coffin Is not yet there, but in a small side
chapel de st. Jerome. Into this the en-
peror led me, and there l stood, at the arm
of Napoleon III, his nephew, before the
granddaughter of the king who hated him
most and who most vigorously opposed
him, and this very nephew, who bears his
name, beng my nearest and dearest ally,
The organ of the church was playing God
save the Queen at the time and this SOL
emn scene took place by torchlight and dur
ing a thunder storm. Strange and wonder
ful indeed! 1t seems if in this tribute
OF respect to the departed and dead foe,
old enmities and rivalries were wiped ont
and the seal of heaven placed upon that
bond OF unity which is now happily estab-
ilsled between TWO great and powerful ma
ions. May heaven bless and prosper it,"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-04
SCHOOLS IN THE ORIENT.
There Is Abundant Chance to Get ar
English Educa ton There.


English Educa ton There.
From the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Throughout British territory. in the
Orient churches and schools are scattered
about, and always are at Headquarters,
military or civil. All the subjects OF her
majesty the queen can enter the Christian
churches and Christian Sunday schools
If they wish. They are not the destitute
heathen' of the old-time phrase-"destitute
Of the means of grace" and the .Eura-
neutrality-suspicious., hybrids-ambitious
to be classed Europeans" crowd
promptly into the Christian churches Their
main rush is for two. either the Protestant
Episcopal or the Methodist; first IN prefer
ment the Episcopal. the old established
church of England, because there all Off
Gals go-the viceroy, the local governors
and their famiIies-whoever represents the
ruling power: and the next the Methodist
churches, which, as here, have the popu-
larizing, drawing faculty, being Jealous
and energetic
There. as here, the Roman Catholic
churches get more people than any other
church. Their pictures of saints and angels
and the Madonna and the Savior their
dressed statues and their professional cele-
brations the non-educated can get hold of
at once, as story; and story with points
OF resemblance to their inherited faith.
Christianity's heroes and heroines march
We'll into line with sacred biography which
they before We're familiar with. Their old
time heroes and heroines were very gro
tesque. but, for all that, sacred: sacred
somewhat. That whole people is grotesque
Their art is grotesque. We are different.
But we are not symmetrical. In fact, We
also are grotesque.
oh, wad some power the giftie gle US
10 see ourSefS as others US
1t Wad frae monte a blunder free us.
And foolish notion.
Ze1ana teacher and twenty years lead
er of such work in Calcutta told me that
when the bright Bengali Brahmans were
first told the story of Jesus Christs par
entage. birth, childhood, etc, they ex-
claimed: That is Krishnar' And their
belief could not be removed, that Khrist
is an English story of krishna. At first
the English books on India spelled II Crish-
ma, but not now.
krishna is the very favorite hero of the
Hindoo women and children: sacred and
yet familiar. AS favorite also is Krishna
of the Sanskrit-reading Brahman. krsh-
ma. the god-and-man character, was no
doubt historical.
Krishna Is "the milk-and-butter god,'
because he began as a milkman: rather, a
COW boy. The favorite toy of Hindoo chill
dren is the somersetting Krishna, divert
ing statuette in yellow bronze.
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police all tho -acts concerning the bank
burglary and the subsequent escape OF the
men. He says the bloodhounds were thrown
on the scent without any trouble by rub
ping an onlcr on the shoes worn by the
burglars. He adds that no bloodhound can
De induced to follow an onion trail
II this discovery is verified, what is to be-
come OF the terrible man-huntinR blood
hounds which ever since the days OF
Uncle Toms Cabin have figured so ex-
tensively In saffron literature? What Is to
become Of Eliza and that wonderful trip on
the hoating ice? Who henceforth will be
thrilled by the blood-curdling baying of
the hounds L. L. E. when he knows that
Eliza could easily bid defiance to pursuit
oy using lowly but self-assertive onion?
. The play must be revised. The river Of
ice may as well be left out altogether Just
at the critical moment. when the approach
Ing hounds are in full cry. Eliza-the new
Eliza-shall open a lunch basket take out
an onion, wave it triumphantly and cry
saved: Just as the curtain falls. Why
not? II the stage hopes to keep abreast of
the age II must pay attention to those re-
allstic details which. combined make per-
lection in dramatic art.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-04
An Ancient Almanac.
From the Boston TRANSCRIPT.

From the Boston Transcript.
The most valuable almanac ever made
is that now in the British museum which
Is priceless. 1t Is believed to be at least
5000 years old. The days are written in
red Ink on papyrus, In columns and under
each Is a figure. followed by three char
acters signifying the probable state of the
weather for that day. The most elabora tie
almanac in the world is that issued by
the Chinese government in twelve thick
Volumes which gives full information as
to lucky times and places for performing
the acts Of every day life, which is con-
sidered an essential of success by every
good Chinaman. The Nautical Almanac
costs the British nation f3,9I2 a year At
its office, No. Verulam buildings, Gray's
Inn, London, the superintendent, A NJ W.
Downing, doctor of science and fellow CT
the Royal Society, receives f6OO. Edward
Roberts. fellow of the royal astronomical
and statistical societies, the chief assistant
receives f4jO, and there are eleven other as
sistants, several of whom are graduates Of
universities or members of learned societies
who are paid from f10O to 600 each. The
most curious calendar at present In use
Is that of the natives of Central America
where the months are only twenty days,
and these. are named after animals. Among
most modern European ones the Almanac
de Gotha" has been the longest in con-
tinuous acknowledgement of 135 years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-04
The Dying Century.


Felix Gerson in Philadelphia Ledger.
Old century, tottering to thy rest.
All vainly dost thou beat thy breast:
A new dawn gildS the mountain crest
The glory of thy wondrous day,
With all it's glitter and display,
In twilight shadow dies away,
Almost the poet. in whose rhyme
Thy praise is sung in verse sublime,
Begins his lay "Once on time"
Strange fancies fill thy time-worn brain:
Thou dreamest thou art young again,
With battle cry on land and main.
And dread turmoil of unrest
Embroils the Orient and the West:
Alarms sound at thy behest.
Zen Israel's children, in thy throes,
Imagine DER again their woes;
And many hope toward Zion goes.
The world is mad-men shout and cry
Beholding wonders in the sky,
Renewing faith in prophecy.
Old century, we love thee well.
Thy fame the chronicler will tell
When long forgot thy funeral knell.
To nOb!er action by thee led,
And many high-Souled word was said
New happiness came in thy wake
-Righted was many an old mistake;
An age-worn thirst thy springs did slake
Rest thee-new hopes begin to play:
They drive thy death-born fears away.
And usher in the newer day.
Rest thee, brave requiem shall be thine,
Whose lustrous deeds will long outshine
The strange vagaries of decline.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-04
In -AOra Glen.

In AOra Glen.
Neil Munro in The Sketch.
In yon valley 1 had friends once.
There 1 have friends no more.
For lowly lies the rafter
And the Intel Of the door.
Inc friends are all departed,
me hearthstone's black and cold,
AND sturdy grows the nettle
On the place 1 loved of old.
me hres '.ere scarce in ember,
or the windows blank and dim,
Ana the song was scarce concluded
Or the garden out of trim,
When up came good Sir Nettle
CIrue friend to me this dayD
Ana 'he signs of mans futility
lie MD them ali away.
Oh! black might be- that ruin
Where my fathets dWelt so long,
And nothing hide the shame of it,
The ugliness and wrong;
the cabar and the coEaer-stone
Might bleach in winds and rains,
But for the friendly nettle
mat look such a Gaurtier's pains.
Here's one who has no quarrel
NV, with the nettle thick and tall.
That wraps the cheer1ess hearthstone
And screens the .humBled wall,
That clusters on the fo9tpath
Where the children used to play,
And guards hoasehotd's sepulchre
From all who come the way.
There's deer upon the mountain,
There's sheep along the glen,
The forests hum with feather.
But where are now the men?
Here's but the lowly laroch,"
Where soft the footsteps fall.
My folk are quite forgotten
And the nettle's over ALL
sLaroch Gaelic, site Of ruined house,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-04
The Song and the Voice.

A mother sang to her child one day
A song of the beautiful home above:
Sang 1t as only a woman sings,
Whose heart is full of a mothers love.
And many a time in the years that came
lie heard the sound of that low, sweet
song;
1t took him back to his childhood DAYS:
IL Kept MS feet from the paths of wrong.
mother spoke to her child one day
IN an angry voice. that made him start,
AS II an arrow had sped that way
And pierced his loving and tender heart.
ana When he had grown to mans estate.
And was tempted and tried as all man
are, --'
He fell; for that mothers angry words
HAD left on his heart lasting scar.
-ChaS. s. Carter
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-04
Come Back ashore.

From the Northw,s st Magazine.
My colleen machree! am longing to be
Again by your side as of yore
The heart in my breast can never find rest,
Since you've turned your sweet eyes from
our shore. r,.
Mavourneen aroon!' the sad light of the
moon, III
AS it falls en- my pathway so lone,
Seems to mourn for your smile, since you've
left our green isle,sf
And Its beams ara less bright on our
home. ~
Alanna machree! let your heart turn to
In pity, colleen T. implore:
Turn my night into day, mavourneen, 1
pray; ....... Il, -.
Come back to our island, asthore
Let me hear your laugh ring like the JOY
birds of spring.
Let me see the love-light shining clear P
In your eyes turned to me from over the
sea;
My colleen! wait for you here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-04
Passing an Examination.
rom the Boston Transcript.

A charming anecdote Is told by Prof
Darcy Thompson the expert sent by Eng
land to investigate the seal question While
conducting examinations at an English uni
versity, he learned that one Of the students
to be examined. young woman who was
a candidate for degree. was SO timid and
so nervous that IT was likely she would not
do herself Justice, and he was asked to
make allowances for this Professor
Thompson asked to be presented to her be-
Tor the hour for examinations, and after
meeting he suggested that, as they had a
few moments at their disposal. he would be
pleased to have her show him about the
museum. She gladly assented to this. and
they spent delightful half hour; when the
dreaded time approached the nervousness
Of the young woman became apparent
Finally she summoned courage to ask when
the ordeal would take place. The conclu-
sion Of the story is obvious-Professor
Thompson told her the dreaded hour was
over. While they sauntered about the
museum he had put her through a rigid ex-
animation. she had answered his questions
brilliantly. and she received her degree.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-04
THE CAUSES OF POVERTY.
Hard Condition of Humanity Estab-
lished by Nature.

Hard Condition of Humanity Estab-
lished by Nature.
Francis A. Walker in the Century.
In the first place. l should without hesi-
tation say that easily chief among the
causes of poverty is the hard condition of
the human lot as by nature established.
The prime reason why bread must be so
dear, and flesh and blood so cheap, is that
the ratio of exchange between the two has
been fixed in the constitution Of the earth,
much to the disadvantage of the latter.
When 1t is written that God cursed the
ground and babe 1t be unfruitful, bringing
forth briers and thorns. that man should
only eat his bread with a dripping brow,
the Scripture does not exceed the truth of
the unceasing and ever painful struggle for
existence.
Taking it by and large, it is a hard, cold
and cruel world, in which little is to be got
except by toll and anguish; and of that lit
tie not all can be kept by any degree of
care and pains. There are, indeed, regions
where the earth spontaneously brings forth
fruit enough for a small population, and
where moderate effort will largely in
crease that product, while the climate is so
benign that life is easily protected from eX-
posure But these are not the regions where
man ever has, OF seemingly ever can, be-
come q noble being; and even here, in the
iiiidSt VI tIOpiCdl plenty, the serpent StluSo,
the tiger prowls at night around the viii
lage; the earthquake and the tornado work
their frightful mischief; cholera and ma
laria kill their millions; while every few
years gaunt famine stalks over the land
leaving it numbered with corpses.
Throughout all the regions inhabited by
our own race life is a terribly close and
grinding struggle. From four to seven
months the earth lies locked up in frost
and its wretched inhabitants cover over
the scanty fire and try to outlast the win
ter. When summer opens it is to a harsh
soil that the peasant resorts to win the
reans, scanty at the best, of barely pre-
serving life. Sterility is the rule among
the soils of the earth, mountain and plain
alike. The exceptions are a comparatively
few fertile valleys in which are concentrat-
ed the productive essences of nature. The
literature of primitive peoples is ever tell
ing the story of ills unceaSing Wrestle with
the hard conditions of existence, and the
same dreary tale is repeated down to our
own day. Alcman. the Greek, calls spring
the season of short fare and less than
forty years ago the Irish peasant spoke of
the starving season" which Immediately
preceded the harvest of the year. If, then
you complain of poverty, make your COM
plant manfully and squarely against the
Maker of the earth. for poverty is largely
His work. The socialist is simply dishonest
When he charges human misery upon So
ciety. Society has done vastly more to re-
iieve misery than to create it.
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RANDOM VERSE.
Wasting.


Written for The Evening Star.
I once knew little anfte,a
Who had a blue-eyedik kitten white,
But It stole the milk one clay.
So grandma gave the GATEWAY.
The little maid. with dips, apout,
Her fearful protest thus sobbed out,
"Oh. dear, it's dreadful! I don't know
Why grandma will waste kittens sou
In many an alley. many q street,
Patter homeless little feet;
In poorhouse grim, asylum staid,
Dwell many little man and maid.
While well-kept parlors. lifeless halls,
Somber firesides, soundless walls,
Bespeak a place which "grown-ups" own,
And where they live, content alone.
But when think Of childish eyes,
Their funny questions, odd replies,
Their soft, entwining little arms,
Wee hearts unguarded from life's harms
This neglect seems strange as sad;
When staid old houses might be glad.
I wonder with my heart aglow
Why people will waste children so,
HUGH MAINE.