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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-01
ACROSS EUROPE by BOAT.
The Latest Scheme for II Great Trans
AsiRtic Canal.
From the London Mail.

AStNttc Canal.
From the London Mail.
1t has been freely stated that the monu-
mental railway enterprise of the nineteenth
century will be the trans-Siberian railroad.
Considering that when thi IS tremendous
length Of line Is completed the Pacific lit
toral will be brought into direct railway
communication with the North sea, one
cannot but pause for moment to admire
the enterprise of nation which in some
quarters has been looked upon for many
years as one more or less barbaric.
There is question that Russia is
marching onward with firm and vigorous
steps, and in engineering bids fair to COM
pete with any Of the older and. presumably,
more Intelligent countries. Its latest
gneering scheme is one which Is likely to
put into insignificance any other under
takingS of like character 1t Is nothing
less than to build gigantic waterway from
the Black sea to the Baltic; in other words.
a canal deep enough and wide enough to
carry cargo steamers from the north or
Russia to the south, or vice versa. At the
present time the country of Russian Po-
land in the watershed of the Dnepcr Is be-
irg actively surveyed toward this end, and
early next year it is expected that the
work of constructing this gigantic canal
will begin.
II
that In western Russia the low, fiat marsh
lands adjacent to the Dni-per should afford
excellent opportunities for rapid work in
connection with the enterprise in hand
The scheme at present is to take advantage
Of the river Duna from the port of Riga on
the Baltic coast to the town of Dumaburp
in Poland Here a canal will be cut to the
river Bercsina, which flows into the Dnie-
per, which itself, after passing through
kiev and E,katcrinoslav, cmptics into the
Black sea at Kherson close to Odessa The
canal will, when completed be in every
way as great in its possiblitics as the
present SueZ canal for not ONLY Is il in
tended for the DEVELOPMENT of commerce
but it will be built large. deep and wide
enough to allow of the passage of ironcIads
and ocean going steamers.
The enormous trade which has been done
Volga from Astrachan in the Caspian to
KaZan and Mini Novgorod in interior Rus
STA has undoubtcdI been the Incentive TO-
ward Russia's latest enterprise. one has
only to think that at present the Black Sc,
forms little more than a lake for Russian
steamers to realize to the fullest the nossi
bilitles which this new canal has in tn.
future The passage of the Bosphorus and
the Dardanelles sinks into insignificance
considerably. and the strltcpical nosjtion of
constantinon1n will he r.nJereJ nrartio,,I,
obsolete Tho Dni.n.r rivar nnyt 70 ~.
Volra is tho Ia rrrst v,,nry,v IN E,uronaan
Russia. II 10 navip,hle far - consider,i'I.
distance. but If is intended 10 tbnronrhiv
oyn,y,,o H. -, 80, - ~ =. '"e'iiS
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The zephyr that sweeps over the nodding
plumes of ripened corn is no more dis
turbing and no less pleasing to the eye
than the initial wriggle with which this
young woman sets herself in motion. She
Usually wears skirts of the clinging va
riety, that swirl around her maelstrom-
wise as she flats over the prcsaic paves
popularity of this Ellen Terry swing
is that the individual steps taken by the
yourg woman who affects 1t are barely OBJ
scrvable. She seems simply to sway her.
self over the ground. like an Aurora pur-
sued by the Hours. or, better, like Ken
yon Cox's pictured girls in the illustrations
to 1.-The Blessed Damozel." The girl who
walks Terry-wise ordinarily dresses her
hair to suit her celestial gait: that is. she
punches 1t In big wavy wad at the back
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-01

HE SENATORIAL
election will occur at
Columbus in 4 few
days, and it will
then be finally set
tied whether Mark
Hanna is to succeed
himself as senator of
the United States.
From what l can
learn there seems lit
tie doubt as to his
election, but there
are plenty of Judases
in Ohio politics. and
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he says to the dealer:
"Trot him up and
down n bit. and lets
see his action" The
assumption is COM
mon and natural
that n horses char
acter and capability
are infallibly indi-
Gated by his manner
of carrying himself
while on the move.
Wbv not onn1v tb;c
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II the Foraker faction can defeat Hanna
without bringing opprobrium upon itself 1t
will undoubtedly do so. / have heard moth
ing hut Foraker and Hanna since / came
into the state. In Cincinnati every one
lauded Foraker. with only here and there a
shOuter for Hanna. Here the majority are
for Hanna. but number of jealous rich
men question his ability and incline toward
Foraker
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Wasting Good Money.

From the Boston Traveller
Charles Bragg-"Yes. Miss Brightly. 1t
costs me ten thousand year to live"
Miss Brightly-"Oh, Mr.. Bragg; do you
think rs worth it?" 90 p
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acteristics Of gait of the passers-by, men
and women. Perhaps, then, you'll be able
to form your own conclusion as to what
the real thing is or ought to be in the mat
ter of the human gait, and as TO whether
you exhibit 1t in your own carriage, with
- to l against you in the probability, ac-
cordng to the figures of the scientists, who,
after all, may not be 50
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-01
Gossip About Hanna and Foraker
From Ohio Battle Grounds.
THEIR PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS
Different Methods of Managing
Political Campaigns.
BOTH STRONG, GENEROUS MEN

Special Correspor dence Of The Evening Star.
Copyrighted. 1897 by Frank G. Carpcnter)
CLEVELAND Ohio, December 81, 1897.
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Prof Finklenburg Of Bonn estimates that
the average human life in the sixteenth
century was only eighteen to twenty years.
while today it is ever forty years.
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Hanna and Foraker Compared.

1t is wonderful how strong both men are
in the hearts of the people. l could find
twenty men in any Ohio city who
would roll up their sleeves and fight for
either Foraker or Hanna. Foraker is the
typical fighter He believes in winning by
aggression. His whole life has been n
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McCulloueh-like gait as has the compare
lively Isolate state of the lone star whose
son and idol. ms daily seen on + street. is
oday the chief prescrver OF the tradition
airy legislative walk. That walk il should
be remembered. is dependent neither upon
the toSa nor the silk hat FOR important
Coh1outoiy effects; il is quite as impress
slN" anG magnificent, with only a Wide
scmbrero and a lot OF hair TO crown its
masSiveness.
Walking AbstrartrdIy.
The distracted walk of the nervous chief
or departmental division Is seen with
many variations on + street a while aft,-
I O'Clock The man who walks abstractcdly
huddies himself together after the manner
Of a newshoy hopping up and down on a
street corner 10 keep himself warm. and
he seems to he leading "A very deep inner
life. He appears TO neither see, hear nor
feel He walks with uncertain inquring
half-apologetc step, and when somebody
III mps against him he does all or most of
the apooS izing him self When h. has been
IL mpCd against for several squares he fin
ally turns of into side street. apparently
awaking TO a realization that this is a cold
rnfeelinE world. and that he has too many
thinks coming TO Toe abe 10 cope with IL.
Then there Is the + street walk OF tho
h' autifUl young male bud OF society who
declines TO w,ar an ovt rcoai in zero wealth
er tard ShiNcrs dismally In consequence
for some inScrutahle reason remotely
traceablc to Scotch shooting boxes who
Carries a hlackthorn club OF the length and
diameter of a shillaleh, and who waits Tor
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grand review Of the Union army after the
war, for instance. She walks on her toes,
not danseuse- wise but with the precision
that seeks to avoid too much contact with
a world all wrong. The heel-and-toe move
ment of the old lady with the cloth Shoes
the Nile-green umbrella and the white
scanned black bag is another. Then. the
girl with dresses only to her shoetops, with
the waltz step, who turns half around on
the ball of each foot with each advance.
Finally. the ronderous colored lady. who
models her walk upon that of May Irwin.
The Senatorial Strut.
AS you assert the women, so shall you
class the men in accordance with their F
street gait. First. then. shall be the trib-
ute to the senatorial or Roman strut, which
hereabouts is a certain signs of natural or
acquired greatness. 1t is the gait Of the
legislator. No matter whether the legisla-
tor. before dawning orange brilliantly up
on Washington. followed in the dank
wormy burrows of his native fields, or trod
the pri,urosed carpets of clubs of which he
acquires the gait OF the great when the
franchises of his fellows land him here
He walks as perhaps Catiline walked in
leaving the senate with the II go, but
shall return" threat slumbering in his eyes
Each step is the step of ponderosity. clinch-
ing argument which is supposed to be
revolving in the cavernous mind of the
walker. The arms swing free, bundle of
documents generally clutched In one hand
the right hand as a rule. Friends bow to
the great man. He returns the bows with
half salutes, performed wavingly, sweep
ingly with the document hand. He must
progress slowly, the better to produce the
proper leonine effect. Unless the day Is
very cold, he prefers to permit the flaps of
his overcoat and his frock coat underneath
TO swing OPEN to the breeze, for he leans to
looseness Of drapery and artistic ''combi-
nation" of effects. as sketohers term it,
He plants his foot firmly on the ground
and there is quite perceptibe halt before
ne raises 1t for the next step-a halt that
is perhaps meant to imply that the walker
Is not walking carelessly or thoughtlessly,
without giving due consideration to what
he is doing. but that he regards each step
as a distinct, separate move in his career.
destined to become part OF the records Of
time.
The effete and pretentious east should
blush to reflect that since the passing OF
Webster. Calhoun and Clay 1t has offered
no such superb exponent Of this profound.
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Miss Anna Sands has been devoting a
good deal of work of late to pastel which
she calls Jessica, not yet quite finished.
This subject. suggested by the line II am
never merry when I hear sweet music"
shows a very pretty head quite pensive in
attitude and expression. Upon the light
brown hair Is set small bright red cap.
which not only gives life to the picture by
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-01
From Life.

"Move ON, Ninety-Sevcn."
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Miss Bertha Perrie has been doing some
very dainty miniatures since she took up
this line of work, the most recent Of the
tiny portraits that have come from her
hand being a likeness of little Elizabeth
Noyes. The flesh tints in this miniature are
clear and transparent, and the golden curls
straying about the chIld's face are painted
with very delicate touch. Miss Perrie
will be represented by work in water color
at the exhibit of the Pennsylvania Academy
of Fine Arts.
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The recent reunion of the Sketch Club at
Miss Juliet Thompson's house proved to be
very enjoyable affair, and enough work
was accomplished to make the meeting
smack of old times. Much of the time,
however, was spent in IL social way and
members who have been out of the city re-
ncwcd old friendships.
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SEEN ON F STREET
Some Of the Many and Varied Styles
Of Pedestrianism.
TIE WALK OF THE ATHLETIC GIRL
There Are Those That Trip and
Others That Glide.
AN INTE RESTING STUDY
E WALK OF THE ATHLETIC GIRL
AN INTERESTING STUDY

w YHEN A MAN IS
WV dickering for a horse
he SAYS to the dealer:
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Mr. George Gibbs has completed an i'm
portant series of drawings, which are to &C
company a forthcoming account in one of
the magazines by DIR. Nansen, in which he
tells more about his famous arctic voyage.
These drawings have occupied large share
of Mr. Gibbs time lately, but he has also
done several other good sketches in black
and white. Among these is a good society
drawing, which is to appear in a coming
number of Vogue.
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novel exhibition will be placed in the
gallery on January 1G if the present plan
Is carried out. 1t Will be n collection of
artists sketches, and the works will be put
at suitably low prices. At the end of the
exhibition the sketches remaining unsold
will be disposed OF at auction. The display
promises to be very interesting, as work
in every medium will be included. At sim
liar sketch exhibitions held in New York
good prices have often been realized on the
less pretentious and unfinished works from
the painters brushes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-01

Both Hanna and Foraker are charitable
men. Mrs. Foraker is very active men,
Der OF the Methodist Church. and she is in
,erested in all things connected with It,
Hanna gives good deal to the churches,
but don't think he Is over-regular In his
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-11-12
A TALK ABOUT SEEDS.
How Plant Life Is Carried sometimes
from One End of the Earth
to the other.

A barren rock in midocean, an un-
frequented road or a heap of sand
never remains long without inhabit-
ants in the shape of plants of some
kind.
Nature does not like unseemly spots,
and soon contrives to throw mantle
of green over unsightly places.
Plants have no feet by which they
may travel, yet they manage to spread
over the world by taking advantage
Of the wandering propensities of an
imals, water and birds.
After ramble through the woods
and fields you have had to sit down by
the roadside and pick the "stickers"
out of your stockings.
The burdock, sandburr and mar
tynia are sharp fellows. They pro-
vide their seeds with little hooks that
aatch hold of anything woolly that
chances to brush against them, and
thus they steal rides to distant places
sometimes thousands of miles away,
uncleaned wool and green hides are
important artices of commerce, and
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-11-12

a-goin', men fallir' on all sides of me,
an me a-wonderin' when my time was
comm. quit wonderin' purity soon,
for l felt somethin' hit me over tn
left breast like a piledriver hittin' a
bridge timber, an went up in tn air.
1 don't remember when hit tn groun',
for was knocked deader'n a smelt by
that lick.
81 don't remember no more about
TIL fight, fur didn't come to until after
1T was over, an then was restin' on
cct in tn field hospital. was mighty
weak, but otherwise a-feelin' all right.
When | opened my eyes a surgeon was
leanin' over me.
"'Feelin' all right?' he asked. I
told him l was, an asked him what
the matter was, He told me nothin'
but bruise on the chest, an then
he handed me that little package ia
ther had given me, an which had car
ried all of them months. Right square
In the middle OF ii was bullet hole.
II I hadn't had it right where / did
I'd "A got that bullet In th' heart, an
then wouldn't been here this minute
tellin bout it."
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"And that packet saved your life,
eh?" queried the boy with the blue
eyes and the haxen hair.
That's what it did, son." said the
veteran.
And, of course, you brought that
Bible home an kept it as precious
heirloom for your children and your
children's children?" said the gro
ceryman, as he deftly spread some
more sticky paper on the favorite run
way of the flies.
bible? Who said anything about
Bible?" snorted the old vet. 81
didn't have no Bible"
well, what was that package?"
asked the groceryman.
at was deck o. cards. My father
had been to war an he knew what sol
dier needed T. pass away tn time.
If he hadn't give me that deck I'd
a been fertilizin' cotton patch this
minute. Omaha World Herald.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-11-12

How pitiless as well as ingenious
fraud can be may be gathered from
this bit of history from the civil war,
Lint was a necessity. With the wound
ed running up toward the quarter mil
lion 1t can well be imagined what large
quantities were required. All wounds
were dressed with it; antisepsis was
unknown. Women made lint; socie-
ties had lint bees; but still large sup
ply was called for. A certain church
leader of Boston hit on a plan. He
went to Europe and bought linen rags
by the bale at trifie. Foul and dirty
as they came from the ash barrels, off
beggars' backs and what not. they
were dumped into one end of a rending
machine, and came out at the other
end in a white, fluffy mass. This was
put up nicely in blue paper and sold to
the government 81 so a pound. No
wonder that "hospital gangrene" so
often defied the care of nurses and the
skill of surgeons The name of this
artist in torture for the union wound
ed is highly honored in Boston today.
Criterion.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-11-12
COOKED FOR coNFEDERATEs.
A supper That Union Soldiers Pre-
pared hut Did Not Par
take OF.

In the camp at Falls Church Va, are
number of veterans who fought with
Sigel and with Sheridan in the Shen-
andoah valley. From Falls Church to
the Blue Ridge mountains, which sep
arates the Shenandoah and the Loudon
valleys, is strip of not more than 30
miles. The panorama of nature pre-
sented on one of these ridges is one of
the finest in the world, and those SOL
diers now in camp here to whom the
scene is familiar have taken advantage
of their nearness to the old fighting
ground to visit it once again to enjoy
its beauty and have the pleasures of
talking over old times.
Among those who made the trip this
week was an officer. of western regi-
ment, who took his wife along with
him. AT Round Hill they hired We
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-11-12
HOB, MOB AND BOB.
The Death of One, by Accident, Leads
to the determination of the
Happy Family.

Once upon time a man wrote a
story called "Rab and His Friends"
over which many people wept. The
story of Hob and his friends has a
pathos of it's own-though Hob was
merely a Cleveland goat.
He lived contentedly in the stable
OF his owner, and one day there came
cat to keep him company. Hob de-
veloped quite a fondness for her, and
she became known as mob" BY and
by a horse joined the animals in the
stable and was dubbed Bob" The
three became the closest friends.
AS Bob would stand in his stall after
hard days work Mob would spring
on his back, and from that lofty plain
purr softly to Bob. Hob usually
found place in the stall beside Bob,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-11-12
A BOYS THANKSGIVING.

Thanks, dear God, for all the fun
1 have had throughout the year;
For the smiling sky and sun,
Fer the summers glorious cheer.
Thanks for every jolly game
l have played In field and wood,
Thanks for lovely flowers that came,
Blooming where the snowdrifts stood.
Thanks for all the luscious fruit,
Apples red and purple grapes;
Thanks for vine and tree and root,
Melons OF all sorts and shapes.
Thank you for the noisy rain,
Making music down the caves,
Knocking at the window-pane,
Dancing with the happy leaves.
Thank you for the winter days
Beautiful with ice and snow,
Merry rides in jingling sleighs,
Coastlng, skating to and fro.
Thanks for Joyous Christmas-tide,
And the pretty stories told
BY the bright and warm fireside,
Safe from harm and wind and cold.
Thank you for the stars and moon,
For the great, wide ocean, too
Thank you for the birds sweet tune,
Laughing brooks and sparkling dew.
Oh, so many thanks we need
For your kindness, and l say,
Thank you very much indeed
For the gift-Thanksgiving day.
Julia z. Cooke, In Youths Companion.
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and was not at all backward in picking
up the hay and dainties which were
brought out to Bob by his human
friends. The other day false step
of Bob ended the existence of the
happy family and caused sorrow to
pervade the neighborhood. In making
room for his master to enter the stall
Bob knocked Mob from her perch on
his back and she fell to the floor. The
next moment Bob had stepped square
ly on her back. Mob gave a pitiful cry
and died. For some time Bob did not
seem to realize what had happened
lie listened for the familiar "purr"
and "meouw." They did not come.
When he finally understood, he refused
to eat his meal of soft mash. Two
hours later Bob was dead-dead, they
say, from a broken heart. Hob had
been out of doors adding territory to
his owner by Astounding and abut-
ting" and entered the barn with a
merry frisk of his short tail. When he
beheld the forms of his two dear friends
he stopped with suddenness that
sent him back on his launches.
After assuring himself that they
were certainly dead, he walked slow
ly back of the barn and lay down.
He moaned pitifully and refused to
notice the people who came to sympa-
thize with him in his misery.
In spite of the best efforts of vet
erinary surgeon, who was hastily sum-
moned, Hob died, and the three old
friends were no more. If Hob and Bob
did not die of broken hearts, what
did they die of?-N. Y. World.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-11-12
SREEZEROOD

are exchanged between countries on
opposite sides of the world. Seeds
clinging to the wool of sheep and cat
tie may thus be carried from the
United States to Europe, or from Aus
tralia to the United States. Frequent
ly in the vicinity of wool-cleaning
works plants foreign to that part of
the world may be found growing.
When you pick the 'stickers" out
of your clothing or cut them out of
Rover's hair you may cast them on
the ground, and II conditions are ia
| vorable new plants will grow from the
| seeds, and, without thinking about it,
you thus help nature to weave her
summer garments.
The dandelion thistle, milkweed and
willow have pleasant way of travel
ing. Each little seed is provided with
a little feathery sail, and is sometimes
carried many miles by stiff breeze.
The seeds of the maple, catalpa, ash
and pine are provided with one or two
wings instead of sails. They cannot
travel as far through the air as seeds
provided with sails, but they may fall
into river, and there is no telling how
far they may float or where they may
stop, take root and grow. Seeds pro-
| duced along rivers in the interior of
continents have been found on the
shores of islands in midocean.
Some plants, like the orange, apple
| and pear, surround their seeds with
an edible pulp, but these plants make
very wise provision by giving their
seeds bitter tnste, so that the sweet
pulp is eaten, and the bitter life germs
are thrown away. Like the peach,
many plants protect their seeds from
being eaten by surrounding them with
hard shell.
The seeds of the raspberry, black
berry and strawberry are so small
that most of them do not digest when
the fruit is eaten. Owing TO this
| birds and animals assist nature very
greatly by scattering seeds.
Wild geraniumS and lady-slippers
have a curious way. When the seeds
| are ripe the sides of the seed pod
spring open and fling the seeds in all
directions.
In studying nature, although II is
so full of life, we must not overlook the
fact that life is the exception and
death is the rule. Very, very few of
the seeds produced ever grow into
plants, and very few of the plants that
spring up ever mature. We're this
otherwise, in short time the world
would become an uninha bit able Jungle.
Frank Il. Gerty, In Chicago Record.