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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-09-24
RAILROAD CARS.
What Some of Them Cost and What
They Weigh.
From the Indianapolis Journal.


An ordinary passenger car on a steam
railroad costs from $4,000 to 5000 and
weighs $1,000 pounds. or nineteen tons. A
mail car, which costs from 5000 to $500
and is shorter by about one-quarter than
the ordinary passenger coach, weighs 3d.,
600 pounds, or sixteen tons. baggage
car, without the baggage in lit, weighs D.
600 pounds, fourteen tons, and costs about
much as a mail car. sleeping car,
with observatory attachments, literary an
mex and culinary department, costs any
where from $4,000 to $4,000. The average
weight of a sleeping car is from twenty TO
twenty-five tons.
A full train in motion, as a little figuring
will show. is no light affair The ordinary
weight of the railroad locomotive, for pas
senger service, inclusive of tender, but not
OF fuel in the tender, is forty tons. One
baggage car weighs fourteen tons, and one
mail car sixteen tons, bringing up the
weight of the locomotive and the baggage
and mail cars to seventy tons. Six pas
senger cars at an average of nineteen tons,
Weight of baggage, of fuel carried, weight
OF train made up 'of a locomotive and
eight cars would be 1S4 tons. or 36SOOO
pounds, exclusive of the passengers and
mail matter.
Pulling 1874 tons along rails at the rate of
fifty miles an hour or more is an achieve
ment which has not been easily brought
about. and the more the problem is studied
the more clearly it is understood how far
pushed. There were by the last figures re-
ported $4,000 locomotives in use on the
American railroads, 5000 passenger cars
and 5000 mail and baggage cars. These
figures seem large until compared with the
number of freight cars on American rail-
roads, and then they seem Insignificant for
the number Of freight cars in use is 12J0-
COO
Freight cars among the railroad men are
divided into four classes-fiat cars, such as
ere used for the transportation of stone,
machinery and lumber; box cars such as
are used for the transportation of grain.
fruit and ordinary merchandise; stock cars
such as are used for the transportation of
live stock, and cars such as are used for
coal and oil-those used for oil being sun
piled with tanks. The average weight Of
a fiat or gondola car is seven TONS The
car costs from $500 to 800. Box cars
weigh a ton more and cost S1oG more each.
Stock cars weigh eight tons each on the
average; coal cars weigh three tons each
1t costs about 500 to build coal or oil cars
and they are designed to carry five tons
apiece. The weight of fifty coal cars Is $50
tons, and of their contents if all filled, go
tons. which, with locomotive and caboose
added, makes 420 tons as the weight Of a
train. 1t may be added, roughly, that the
weight Of loaded trains. passenger. coal or
freight, ranges from 200 to $50 tons. The
lighter the train the greater the speed:
that's the railroad rule
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-09-24
ART IN AMERICA.
This Country Promises to Become the
Louvre of Nations.


From the Nineteenth Century.
1t does not seem to be commonly realized
that America-that is, the United states
is on the way to become the Louvre Oh the
nations. From year to year its pubic gal-
leries have been enriched with master
pieces of all the modern schools. and by
purchase, bequest or gift many valuable
and some great pictures by the older ltal-
ian. Flemish and Spanish masters have
been added to the already imposing store
of national art wealth
In New York pre-erninently, but also IN
Boston, Washington. Philadelphia and IN
other large cities from New Orleans IN the
south to Chicago in the north, and from
Baltimore in the east to San francisco III
the west, there is now so numerous. and,
in the main, so distinguished a congrega-
ton of pictures. of all schools and periods,
that the day is not only at hand, but mas
arrived. when the native student of art
no longer needs to go abroad in order to
learn the tidal reach and high-water mark
in this or that nations achievement, in TINS
or that schools accomplishment, in TINS
that individual painters work. In time,
and probably before long, the great desid-
eratum will be attained-the atmosphere
wherein the creative imagination is sus-
tanned and nourished. At present the most
brilliant American painters must follow the
trade flag of art and that banner fiaunts
nowhere steadily but in Paris and London.
There are now in America more training
schools, more opportunities for instruction,
more chances for the individual young
painter TO arrive at self-knowledge than
Were enjoyed of old by the eager youth of
Flanders, of France, of Spain. even of
Italy But the essential is still wanting
without which all these advantages are
merely as stars among the branches. There
is no atmosphere of art in America at
large.
In the great majority of towns through
all But every few years the radical in
huences at work are transmitting these
conditions, and though neither Boston nor
Washington nor even New York, is yet an
art center in any way comparable to Lon
don, or Paris, or Munich, the time is not
far distant when the inevitable must
happen.
In actual respect of art treasures the
great cities of the states are already be-
You'd our own provincial cities and towns
among which only Liverpool and Glasgow
stand out pre-eminent.
New York. naturally, has become the art
metropolis of the states. Already the art
wealth. OF this great city is almost incalru-
liable. Boston comes next then Washing
ton But Notwithstanding the general ,jea
10 the contrary, the finest private collec-
Iectlons are not in New York There is no
private collection in New York Or Boston
or w Washington to compare for q moment
with that of Mr.. W. T. Walters a. BaIti-
more. OF ali the homes of art to be seen
in America, Mr. Walters is Dra-ernine,1tIv
the house beautiful"
Within the last ten years the MaironoIi-
tan Museum of Art in New York has he
come one of the most interesting of oil
national art collections
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-09-24
The Sexton of the Sea.

JChn James Meehan in keStie'S Weekly.
You scatter flowers the grassy mound
That marks the spot where your loved ones be,
You bring them emblems with never thought
For the dead beneath the
For every ship that the hands of men
Have builded with chart and wheel,
The bones Of men in a huEdred-fold
Are laid beneath its keel
canvas shroud and an iron bar
AT the weary head and the wasted feet,
And 10! from the deck they move away,
From the hearts that throb and beat!
Soldiers and sailors and captains grand,
Babes with mothers breast
Wet with the lips that will touch no more,
Come down in my arms TO rest.
And l lay them gently alone to sleep.
Where the bed of the sand Is clear:
And none may wander and none shall stray,
For keep them oh, dear!
And bark! When the bell buoy tolls at night,
Above the wave where the fishes swim.
You may know that keep my Fathers watch,
For the day l shall give them back to Him!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-09-24
Nicotine.


From London Punch II
have sung in many places
OF My Lady's charms and graces,
l bave frequently desfl hsedf her as my Queen;
But now in poetic rlrasss
intend to chant tie praises
Or another 1--we. the rymph called Nicotine.
Tho trust my deusest lady
VIII not think my conduct shady,
And with envy and with jealousy turn green;
For the notion is distressing,
Yet cannot help confessing
An attachment to the nymph called Nicotine.
am not he only lover
Of the Dymph, for round her hover
Norsiilpeis too numerous to count, 1 ween,
Young and old adoring gaily.
Whilst they offer inceIse daily
At the altar of the nympb called Nicotine.
Tho her charms great and many,
OF the fair scarcely any
In the ranks OF her admirers will be seen,
But the simple and the gentle
Have more than sent mental
Alteration of the nynph called Nicotine. .-3'
Then her worship is a pleasure,
For she speeds the hours of leisure,
AND she makes our appetite for work more keel
II you are not too rapacious
She 10 never aught but gracious,
SWeetly soothing is the nyinph called Nicotine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-09-24
RANDOM VERSE.
Eight Long Miles to s,bonex.

""e7 Ahics 10 SiDoneys
aroline Duer in Golfers Weekly
It's eight long rsilcs to Siboney-
You've got to walk or lie:
For there them that's wounded worse'n Won
In the carts that's tpting by
The carts that's jolting bySeood Iordt
Packed full Of battered men
And l guess their girls won't know them
If they see them heme again.
It's eight long miles to Siboney-
And the read AIN t., of the best
That's far enough, God Knows between
A strong man and his rest!
But when YOU'VE fought through hell all day.
And your wouttds Isl stiff and sore,
Why, you've had your fill of hardships
And you don't WANT any more
We're human animunificn.
And were spent like shot or she'll
But we'Ie winning for the Government
And they'd ought to treat us we'll
But maybe they gets reckless
And they goes it kind of blind
For they knows there's plenty more like US
That's pressing up behind.
Oh, Uncle Sam! we take your pay
And we'd better work than talk
But It's eight long miles to Siboney
And wounded has to walk
You needn't spare US fighting
For We amt afraid to die
But take care Of those that's hurried now
And they'll serve ycu by and by.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-09-24
"Dum SpirO SperO."

Alice A. Pitman in the Pail Mall Magazine.
Thou art SO fair. dear Hope, would not see
What depths lie hidden In thy smiles benign;
Nay, rathar let me drink the sparkling wine
Thou pourest freely with girlish glee.
The Presents nursing climbing thy knee
Around thy form his fusome arms entwine,
To hide thy charms from such sad eyes as mine,
And grasp the riches of tHturity!
can but love, coQuettish though thou art
And from thee would some precious token take,
word touch. sigh for my poor sake,
Let me hear from thee in my heart of hearth
If life from thee be but a thing apart,
Then must sleeping dream: but never wake!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-09-24
Divorce by Candles.
From the Amrita Bazaar Patrika.

FROM the AIurita Bazaar Patrika.
When Burmese husband and wife de-
eide 10 separate the woman goes out and
buys two little candles of equal length,
which are made especially for this use She
brings them home. She and her husband
sit dcwn on the floor, placing the candles
between them, and light them simuita-
neously. One candle stands for her. the
other for him. The one whose candle
goes out first rises and goes out of the
house forever, with nothing but what he
or she may have on. The one whose can
die has survived the longer time even by
a second. takes everything. So the d.
yorce and division of the property, If one
can call that division, are settled.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-09-24

In Cyprus the first article of gold of an
cient workmanship discovered on the
island has been just found. 1t is a plate
of gold three inches long by one and one
half inches broad, and on 1t are the fig
ures of a sphinx and two beardless war
riors.
In the time of Charles V Spain had 1870 coo
monks and priests and 10000 nuns. No
fewer than 1o2 days out of the 365 were
holidays, and the 100000 mobiles would have
considered it a disgrace to DO any useful
work to make living.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-09-24
Democracy.
t Foster In the Atlantic Monthly.

William Prescott Foster in the Atlantic Monthly.
Our mighty bark, with maSts that rake the stars,
Has Jagged too long in port and we have drowsed
An idle crew with Wild mates caroused.
ForSetful of our part In EreeSi0ms wars.
But now. at last, with sab taut to the Spas,
For her whose righttGl cHnise our sires espoused,
Again our ship must steer where blow unlicensed
The winds of God, beyond the shoals and bars.
For still our orders ibid asIin the past
That glorious day shu4,k our banner free,
And broke from outfthel.iine and took the van,
With linstocks lit, and babe them follow fast,
Who held with u.s. to sail and search the
Until find better v4,rld for man.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-09-24
The Regular Army Man,


Zoe Lincoln in the L. A. W. Bulletin.
He amt no gold-lace "Belvidere,'' !
Ter sparkle in the SUM-
He don't parade with gay cockade
And posies in his gun;
He amt no pretty soldier boy
So lovely, spick and span,
He wears a crust of tan and dust.
The Regular Army man;
The marchin'. parchin,
Pipe-clay starchin',
Reg lar Army man.
He ain't at home in Sunday School,
Nor yet a social tea,
And on the day he gets his pay
He's apt ter spend 1t free;
He amt no temp rance advocate,
He likes ter NIL the can.
He's kinder rough an. maybe, tough,
The Reg lar Army man;
The rarin, tearin',
Sometimes Swearin',p
Reg lar Army mhn. b
No state IL call him noble son.
He amt no ladies pet,
But, let start anyhow,
They'll send fer him, you betl
He don't cut any ice al, all
In Fash'n's social plan,
He gifts the job ter fnce mob
The Reg lar Army man;
The millin dEillin'a
Made fer KILN, ~ =
Reg lar Army man. .
They amt no tears she'd over him
When he goes of ter war,
He gifts no Speech nor RIayerful ''preachh
From mayor governor;
He packs his LITTLE knapsack up
And trots off in the van.
Ter start the fight and start 1t right,
The Reglar Army man;
The rattlin, battlin,
Colt or Gaiiinh n:
Reg lar Army man. d
He makes no fuss about the job,
He don't talk big or )rave,
He knows he's in ter ght and wiz,
Or help fill up grave;
He amt no mama 5 ,arlin','' but
He does the best he an,
And he's the chap that wins the scrap,
The Reg lar Army MN;
The dandy, handy,
Cool and sandy,
Reg lar Army man.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-09-24
The Last Dance of the Leaves.
John Vance Cheney in the Dial.

Inc Last Dahce OF the Leaves.
ohm Vance Cheney in the DIAL
l.
Still playing. playing faithful Pleasure
Keeps blithe, beguiling measure:
The flowers fallen. the tRrushes gone.
Pleasure still is playing on
Softly calling back the day
Glory by glory slipt away =
The shed leaves, with the rabbits feet.
Move to the music; light and feet
They hold once more the happy air.
With memory hold pale revel there.
The wind Of Autumn wakes and blows
1t whistles in the withered close:
Now 1t laughs, and now 1t grieyes:
Weird the measure that it wea yes
For the dances Of the yellow leaves.
The sad grass pale and paler grows,
Gray Death, from vale to hill he goes;
Stu the wind it half deceiyes:
Weird the measure that it ,yeayes
For the dances of the dying leaves,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-09-24
September.
From the Pail Mall Gazetta.

From the Pail Mall Gazette
| am of many moods and many shapes
/ strip the chestnut and tread the cranes
The pulse of life runs high within my veins
My hands and lips are red with berry stains
bid the leaves from all their dances cease
And die golden death, and l release
The spell of summer, that all remember
Winter and death at beck of me- September
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-09-24
A Ghosts SOliIOquy.

Martha Jordan Fishel in the Criterion.
shall return from Gods amazing dawn,
Where my soul pauses questioning and free,
l shall go back to earth-a guardian shade
spirit strayed-
And love thee-live with thee.
But worse than Deaths cold fingers my heart,
Which stilled its life and took my soul in fee,
Is this dread truth-this desolating thought
So dearly bought
I'm ghost to thee
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-09-24

clear moral gain in the fact that the con-
stitut!onal throne is filed by woman. 1t
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-09-24

At the time this great distance was SPAN
ned by a mirror flash the atmosphere was
of unusual clearness. On another occasion
of long-distance signaling while surveying
the corps had watched for the opportunity
nearly three months before It came. and
they met with success-though the distance
between the points this time was but little
over one hundred miles.
The moisture of the sea atmosphere near
the water renders the photographic method
too inefficient and uncertain for use on
ships, though it is sometimes tried. The
most successful feat reported by this sys-
tenn at sea performed In 1888 between
the Islands of Msuritius and Reunion, in
the Indian ocean, east Of Madagascar. The
stations were on peaks having the eleva-
lions OF 1903 and 3,7S3 feet, respectively,
above the surface OF the sea. The flash at
the receiving station was dazzling, like
another sum-" though the distance was
Slightly over one hundred and thirty-three
miles: but the mirror had the enormous
size of about ten and three-quarters feet.
The quickest work which has been re-
ported by the government was done in
Arizona in August, 1856, by Lieut.. A. NJ.
Fuller, u. 9. A, where a message of twen-
ty-seven words was sent by telegraph
through six stations over distance of
three hundred miles, and a reply OF TWEEN
ty-five words received within a period OF
two hours and twenty minutes.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-12-06
The Only Event OF Importance Was the
Reading Of the Presidents Message.
THE FIGHT ON Mr.. BAILEY DISCUSSED.
All the Silver Democrats Will Rally Chosen
ennesseeans Condemn the Tactics and the Gold
bugs-No Financial Legislation Expected at This Session

appo!nt tho committee to tnform the house
that uhc senate was ready to transact bus!-
ness Mr.. Hale tMe.) fixing the hour OF
daaiy meeting al 10 O'clock noon. and Mr.
Morrill, tNtl 10 appoint a committees 20
notify the president that the senate was
awaiting any communication ne might de-
sire 10 make.
Mr.. Morrill, (Vtl and Mr.. Cockrell (Mo.)
| wele named by the vlce president 1, Join
a Hike committee o. the housa 10 clll on3the
! president,
aT. Mcbride ture,) prcsentcd Che orrdan-
tttalS OF Ills ncwly-elpcted cptlrigIe, Mr..
Simon, to whom the vice prsSident admin
I istercd the olth OF ofilet.
! Pending the reading vt thu presidents
message MI Allison moved thee a reeess BIZ
taken.
| AZ 05 Mayor pru8en. execui!ye clerk Of
phe president, entered the chaabsr aud tlie
scnato was ag-in called to order. The
message was presented 20 Niee President
| Hobart, who laid 70 before she senate at
once, and It's reading was begun ut l,s9
! =. m
| The reading Of the message occupied Two
hours alm eighteen inmates anl not the
| slightest demonstration occurred.
! NJ $40 p. IN. the senaSe adjourned
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-12-06
POSTAL GRAPH CABLE CO.
TWO TREATIES rRoBApLE.
One VIII Embrace the Protocol, the
other All other Subjects.


Washington, December 5.-The impress
sion prevails here that the results OF Ike
negotiations at Paris W. be embodied in
two or more treaties instead of one. There
will be one actual peace treaty embodying
nothing more than the protocol points re-
lating to the REIMBURSEMENT Of Spatn's COW
ereignty over Cuba end the Spanish Yves,
Ibdies, Guam and the Philippines, with the
single exception Of the proviso for The re-
lease Of prisoners. All the other matters,
relating TO renewal of commercial treat &c,
the acquisition OF cable and coaling stations
ard in fact all those eXtraneous matters
that have been mentioned as likely to be
incorporated in the peace treaty Will form
the subject of a special treaty. This eolrse
is likely 10 be adopted in order to hastan
the conclusion CT peace for which there is
great necessity If for no other reason than
to secure the release of prisoners and the
restoration of trade between Spain and the
United States,
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on the great leading issue-Mhich is and
will b. the paramount questionable free
coinage OF silver, the message is omlnoasly
silent. but no insentation OF the money
question can he considered without at tho
same time considering this question
Chairman Dipgley, WAYS and IN ans COM
m,ttee charm an--rhe MESSAGE Is an eN-
cellent resume of the present year. II has
many valuable suggestions that Will aid
materially at the praper TINS he eaitcr
in solving the different problems bfor us.
II is to be noted that the president states
that our revenue laws are working we'll
with no suggestion of any needed modifi-
cation.
Representative Bailey OF Texas, the dem
ocratic floor leader, wns called from the
house by the illness OF his SON and asked
to be excused from expressing his Views
on the MESSAGE
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-12-06
GRAVE ISSUES AHEAD.
Congress Must Legisintc for the
Newly Acquired colonies.
Especial Dispatch to The Pos,)


Especial Dispatch TO The Post.)
Washington, December 5.--When coa-
gress adjourned In July the United statss
was In the midst Of war with Spain Adj
mlra1 Sampzon had won his splendid victory
over Ceryeras fleet, General Skater was
stu invading Santiago and General Males
was preparing for his campaign In Pusro
Rico.
The National legislature reassem5led 10
day under entirely different conditions
1eaoe had been attained all but the formal
signing and ratification OF the treaty. The
United States. Instead OF being merely the
dominant power OF The Western continent.
has at a single stop taken her piage among
the first great powers OF the world and
must be reakoned with In every internal
uionsl complication, SO that congress now
finds Itself confronted with the necessity
If legigiAting for thu new condition Of
affairs Provision must be made for the
administration or distant and widely dr.
fereBt colonial possessions and the military
and naval strength Of the country must be
Increased In such measure as will give
weight and effect TO the diplomacy OF the
United States In the councils Of nations.
Senators and representatives, are iin-
pressed with the new and increased respon-
slbiiitles OF Inc American goysinm ut.
which some Of them do not believe ough. 10
be assumed aud when they came together
today s. WAS the general feeling that upon
lh,r solution of difficult problems with
which they are confronted may depend IN a
large measure the future OF their country.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-12-06
rnE SENATE.
Many Foreign DiEniinries Witness
the Opening of the Session.

Nnny Foreign DiEnif1ries witness
the Opening of the Session.
In tho Opening hours of the last session
Of the memorable Ffty-fifh congress he
senate chamber presented nm animated
scene. The galleries were h1ed early. many
OF tho spectators being visitors TO Wash
ington who had embraced tbs opportunity
TO witness a congressional opening. On the
senate floor tho scene presented was un-
usually brilliant. Tho desks OF the mem
bers were loaded with magnificent fpeci-
beautiful or elaborate In floral displays has
been seen IN the senate for many years.
Above In the diplomatic gallery Just be-
fore the senate convened. appeared Sir
Julian Pauacefote, tho British ambassador,
an3 party; Mr.. WI Ting Fang, the Chinese
mipistor. and attaches OF his legation and
come other members OF the diplomatic
corps. On the floor. Lord Hcrschel the chief
representative OF Great Britain on the
Joint commission. accompanied by Mr.. JEFF
ferson Coolidge of Massachusetts. also
came.
81. Wilfred Lanrier, Sir Richard Cart
wright. Sir Louis Davies aud Mr.. Carlton.
members OF the committee, were also on
the hCor.
Promptly on the stroke OF IL o'clock Vice
President Hobart entered and ascending 10
his desk raped for order.
Rev Mr.. MilburD, the veteran blind
chaplaJn, In a profoundly impressive man
ner. returned "devout and reverent thanks
for Gods goodpefs TO US as a nation and
for HIS care OF us since We last gathered
In this chamber"
A call OF the senate developed the pres,
ence OF sixty members
The usual RESOLUTIONS were offered.
Mr. Cullom Qlls.) offered a resolution to