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Evening star., 1898-02-26
JOURNALISM UNDER DIFFICULTIES.
The Work of the Censor and the Press
in Austria.

The Work of the Censor and the Press
in Austria.
Marx Twain, in Harper's Magazine
There is censor of the press and apnar-
emily he is always on duty and hard at
work. copy of each morning paper is
brought to him at O'clock His official
wagons wait at the doors of the newspaper
offices and scud to him with the first comics
that come from the press. His company
Of assistants read every line in these ma
pers, and mark everything which seems to
have dangerous look; then he passes final
judgment upon these markings. Two
things conspire to give to the results a.
caprlcious and unbalanced look; his assist
ants have diversified notions as to what is
dangerous ana what isn't; he can't get
time to examine their criticisms in much
detail; and so sometimes the very same
matter which Is suppressed in one paper
Ialis TO be damned in another one, and gets
pupilshed In full feather and unmodified
Then the paper in which It was supnressaJ
blandly copies the forbidden matter into its
evening edition-provokingly giving credit
ana oetalllng all the circumstances In cour-
teous and 1nonensive language-and of
course the censor cannot say word
sometimes the censor sucks all the Mood
out OF newspaper and leaves It colorIess
ana lnane; sometimes he leaves 1t undis-
turbed, and let's 1t talk out its opinions
with a frankness and vigor hardly to be
surpassed, think, in the journals of any
country Apparently the censor somettmes
revises his verdicts upon second thoupht
TOT several times lately he has suppressed
Journals after their issue and partial dis
trlDution. The distributed copies are then
sent Tor by the censor and destroyed. I
nave TWO OF these, but at the time thew
We're sent for could not remember what
had done with them.
Evening star., 1898-02-26
Hunting in By-Gone Days.

W. A. Baillie -Grohman in the Pail Mall Magazine
What long apprenticeship the would-be
huntsmen had to serve in by-gone days!
CASTOR de Folk considered a beginning
should be made when the child has reached
the age of seven, when 1t should be placed
in the kennels. King Charles says that to
become perfect huntsman the young gen.
tlhomme who is intended for the post of
veneur should be taken at the age Of
tw elve; he must be healthy and well built,
he must have good sense and especially a
quick and, prompt judgment. One of the
principal things required is that he should
be painstakins. Alas! hundred and fifty
years later we have D'Yauvflle telling us
that a man needs two years tuition to
Qualify as q huntsman! It was not only
the paid gentlemen of the hunting estab-
lishments, however, who became real con-
noisseurs, for their royal masters took such
personal interest in everything connected
with the chase that most of them knew all
their hounds by name, and on the eve of a
days hunting would name each hound that
was to be taken out. They also prided
themselves on being able to faire le bois
themselves-that is. go out with their
lymers in the morning and quest for and
harbour the stag.
Evening star., 1898-02-26

1875 erected brass tablet, brought from
England, to mark his grave. He died at
Thank God Harbor, November s, 1871, aged
fifty.
Two young Swedish students. Alfred
Bjorling, botanist. and Evald G. Kallsten-
ius. zoologist, twenty-one and twenty-four
years of age, undertook an expedition to
Smith sound in 1892. Three men besides
themselves reached the Cary Islands. The
little schooner was driven ashore. One
man died. and the rest, taking their small
heat, attempted to reach the mainland. So
read the record found by Lieut.. Peary in
the little cairn near the grave. No trace
of them has been found, and they are now
given up as lost forever.
The Mares British expedition of 1879 win
tered in Lady Franklin bay, the Discovery
and the Alert ct Cape Sheridan. Com
mander Markham of the Alert had reached
the highest north at So deg. 20 min. 20 sec.
over the ice. Sickness and scurvy made
them retreat. and after terrible suffering
and struggles they reached the Alert, leav-
ing one of their number dead. His name
was George Porter. His grave is probably
the most moi thern of any time.
Near the winter quarters of II. MS. Dis
covery. Lady Franklin bay. two other
graves are marked with rough boards to
the memories of James Hand and Charles
Paul. seamen. Other graves lie scattered
throughout the arctic circle, though many
a polar explorers last resting place is not
marked by so much as cairn.
Evening star., 1898-02-26
The Queen of Spain's Busy Life.
rom tho TondoD Tioo ~

Rioh tne LOnQou Figaro.
Spain Is essentially lazy country. In all
ranks the people rise late and turn night
into day; but the queen regent-a tall,
graceful woman, looking younger than her
years-sets them an excellent example. Up
at I. her first care is given to her children,
and by o'clock she Is already at work
with her secretary. 1t Is only after lunch,
toward O'Clock, that she allows herself
an hour of well-earned rest. And some
idea OF Queen Christmas thoroughness
may be gained by the fact that she no
longer speaks German-her native tongue
save to those few Teutons who find their
way to Madrid.
When she first came a bride from Vienna
to Spain she had mastered but imperfect
ly the language. Now she talks Spanish
correctly, and has, alone and unaided, ac-
auired real knowledge of the splendid
literature of her adopted country. When
speaking Of her son she seldom refers to
his as his majesty" or 1.-The king" usually
1t is, my boy" or my little one." She
makes no outward difference between the
three children. but 1t is easy to see that
her heart Is specially bound up In Alfonso
XIII.
Evening star., 1898-02-26
The Virtue I'm Thrift.
From the London Spectator.

We should say that the virtue in thrift.
so far as there Is virtue in it-and we have
met with 1t in some of the meenest as we'll
as some Of the noblest of markind-lay in
the development which the practice must
give to the power of sclf-control. There
are many higher occasions for the exercise
OF that high quality. but there are none. ex-
cept In the case of ill-tempered men, which
recur so frequently. All men naturally like
to spend. and to be thrifty the resolve not
U spend whenever expenditure Is ayoIdable
must be acted on twenty times a week, and
VIII In shcrt time exercise a perceptible
influence Or the character. The man learns
TO resist momentary temptation and be-
Genes. therefore, stronger man. just as
"mte man becomes more enduring from the
constant wearing of clothes The weight
OF clothes Is seldom great but the per
petual habit of carrying them almost i'm
pCrceptibly strengthens the muscles The
tnrl1ty man Is more master of himself than
the extravagant man, and I'm self-mastery
1s one most fertile seed of virtue
But thrift in itself Is not virtue any more
tran a plough is agriculture or mathe-
neatics accuracy of thought. The best test
OF this Is that a Christian teacher who in
England would inculcate thrift. would in
many another country be compelled to con-
denim 1t as Of all qualities the one which
most interfered with freedom of the spirit
Now virtue which is a real virtue. and
not merely an expedient practice must be
as independent of national manners as of
geography. No doubt in England the use
OF carefulness needs to be inculcated the
typical Englishmen. IL he wants sparrows
being ready to shy at them with half
crowns: but it should be taught as arith-
metic is taught, not praised as a Christian
virtue. The two most thrifty people men,
ticned in the New Testament are Ananias
and Sapphira. and their thriftiness was
considered worthy Of death. They were
thrifty, no doubt. at the wrong time and in
the wrong way, but still they were thrifty
ard 1t was not counted to them for virtue
A little less reluctance to reduce their bal
ance would In their case at least have been
&C onsidered more consistent with the Chris
tan character.
Evening star., 1898-02-26
"My Uncle' and s'My Aunt
From the London News

An ingenious French writer has been ex-
planning to curious world why the pawn
broking establishments are called my
aunt (Ma tante). The Prince de JoinviIle,
son of Louis Philippe. was kept very short
Of money in hts youth. One day the father
noticed that the prince was not wearing a
splendid gold watch that had been given to
him by his mother. where is your
watch?" asked the bourgeois king. eat
my aunt's," was the reply. Princess Ade-
laide was interrogated on the subject, but
she knew nothing about 1t. Then the
young scapegrace admitted that he had
pawned 1t. my aunt" therefore, became
proverhial for the Monte-de-Piete But
then, It may be asked, how it comes about
that the pawnbroker In England Is face
tiously spoken of as uncle" The French
writer is quite equal to the occasion. The
English say "uncie" because the French
say '.aunt." Here In England everything
goes by contrarfes The French coachuail
drives on the right the English on the left:
the French soldier has red trousers, the
English soldier q red coat: the Frenchman
eats an oyster out Of the hollow half Of
the shell, the Eng1ishman out Of the nat
half; the French epicure drinks champagne
after dinner. the English epicure during
dinner, and % forth. Il 70 an Q case q
pure '>ooaDooneoA~
Evening star., 1898-02-26
Australian Land Grants.


The Australians resemble US in having an
immense tract of land at the disposition of
the state. They came into possession much
later, when waste lands were much more
accessible, and befors they were covered by
traditions of any sort, and when the air
had become charged with the spirit Of ex-
pertmentation. They have accordingly tried
to do various things with the land, which
we never thought Of. South Australia, for
instance, had the plan of giving grants of
land to small cooperative associations, to
be managed by trustees, and supplied with
capital by loan from the state Of rot more
than $2o0 a head The state, in short,
agreed to do what our populists think II
ought to do, lend money to the farmers at
a low rate of interest. Some of these asso-
Citations were plainly communistic, and the
members were often brought together sim
ply by poverty. As a whole they have not
succeeded. Some have broken UP, but
others remain, and pay the government its
interest, but no one expects that 1t will
ever get back its principal.
Evening star., 1898-02-26
Did Not Recognize Her.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.

tne flttsDurg
Some trouble had occurred between the
teller Of a Pittsburs bank and his best
girl. Both were very proud and high
spirited, AMI the young lady Insisted upon
repeating to the teller that he must never
again speak to her: that he should never
recognize her under any circumstances,
ard that IL he did SO she would consider
1t an insult. The teller was greatly Offend
ed. He longed for revei ge, and few days
later he had it,
While shopping down town the young
lady became short of money. She kept a
small amount at an East End bank, but
the money was needed at once. So she
trtpped lightly into the teller's bank, filled
out her check for few dollars, and pre-
sented 1t to her erstwble escort.
Are you acquainted with any one here9'
asked the teller.
The young woman almost tainted
If rot" resumed the teller. I'm afraid
i can't cash your check. No doubt 1t Is
perfectly good, but bark rules require that
We know and recognize both the persons
and signatures of all those to whom we
pay money"
The gulf between them now can never be
abridged.
Evening star., 1898-02-26
LONELY ARCTIC GRAVES
The Last Resting Places of Same III
Fated Explorers.


From the London Mail
Beyond the region of human hab;tation
'iie arctic zone is sparseIy dotted with the
graves of brave men who los, ,ba,r n..s
while engaged In polar exploration or e.,
deavors 10 find the pole itself. And snbsa-
aueht expeditions endeavor to nrssarv.
tnese graves as far as possible and ko.r
q record Of them.
Cape Sabine. across Smith sound {,
soEtneasterly direction, is marked bv
soh'aFy grave. that Of Prof. August Sonn
eAe' tns astronomer, whose skull and bones
Heis Aouhu exposed to view by I.teut
rory during his last arctic trim and nv,
nm restored TO their tomb under the loose
So. that mad been scattered about. prob
aoiy by wolves and bears.
Another grave, a few rocks tuu,bJ,.d ona
Cpoh ahotner In deep rent between mas
siYe toulders. Is on LittIeton Island ahou,
neI I'm niiies 70 the northward on the east
Was buried there. DIR. Kane's expedftton
oil lSf;-5. On its retreat reached this island
IN ume 10 leave the body. Two other mem
b p.rs oi kanes expedition. Baker and schu-
pert died while the Advance. Kanes shin
wintered at Fern Rock. They We're buried
IN the little observatory there.
On the west side of Smith sound. at
Baird Inlet, George w. Rice member OF
the Lady Franklin expedition, died from
cold IN trying to secure food for his COM
Iades at Cape Sabine. His companion,
freaericks buried him in the ice. There
are nve graves at North Star Bay HMS
Nortn star, one Of Sir Edward Belcher's
squadron. In search of Sir John Frank,ir.
was forced to winter at the lower enG az
Inis SOUND, so1na, during which period one nan
was kiiied by falling down a clifr, and foue
others died from natural causes.
In latitude 81 deg. 81 min. north the grave
OF Capt. Charles Francis Hall is marked
with the most civilized headstone or tablet
OF any. The English polar expedition of
Evening star., 1898-02-26
The Picture,

[argaret Gilman George In Youths Companion
There Mr Is is picture in my room
Fit food for mirth to them, perhaps. es
A holy thing to me-
She labored in a barren land, 80,
Barren of hills or river shore;
Barren OF woods or prairie sweep;
Small things about her door.
/. Her eyes were truthful, steady gray,
Her hands were firm and fixed to work
through all the changeless day.
Between the tasks she painted 1t.
A childs cheap paint box all she hads
Ihe drawing, color you would say,
Absurdly, wholly bad. t15
But she who held the wretched brush. -.
In hands but used to WELD a broom,
Put all her starving sOnlsin this,
Her love of bird and bloom. 49,
She saw a faint, gold, sunset sky,
That gloritied the brOoding hills; ....-.
She saw the river still with light
Like 10 soul Gods presence fills.
She saw the birds fit silently ~, =
Homeward against that tender light;
she felt the fragrance of the rose
Before the dew Of night.
Deep feelings made her heart grow great.
Grow great within her as she wrought.
What II the hand that held the brush
Was rigid and untaught? -rs
The poor. pathetic, faded daub,
ci With the, the cheap tints and shaky lines,
Grows glorious as a masterpiece
When eHee the eye divines.
!, who have tried I'm hating rhyme
10 tell the things my soul would see,
Hang 1t away from seOrnful eyes,
A holy thing to me- - -fts.s
Evening star., 1898-02-26
Her Frown.

Charles j. Bayne in Puck.s Ios-
her mirth "
Into liquid waves Of laughter ripple down;
And her eyes a deeper rupture
In their dreamy moments capture
But l cherish most her features archly gathered
In a frown.
In the masquerade OF faces desolation wears a
smile,
while the gravest In demeanor is the clownJ I
But know that in revealing
Every transient thought and feeling
She Is nearest when her forehead sWeetly fur
rows with frown.
In her eyes there CLEANS splendor which no
shadows subdue,
Like the CLINT upon the waving fields of brown;
As the glowing embers mingle
With the ashes the ingle
CLOVIS her soul among the thoughts which gravely
walt upon her frown
All the shifting lights and shadows which her
April eyes assume
Wear charm Of which this aspect Is the crown:
And IL she could guess the ardor
OF my thoughts as regard her.
How wonder would her features coldly gather
In a frown
Evening star., 1898-02-26
Du Mnurier's story of His blindness,

Du Mnurier's story of His blindness.
From Harper's Magazine.
1 went to Antwerp, where there is fa-
nous school of painting, and where I had
no less person than Mr.. Alma-Tadema
as fellow-student. It was all delightful,
but misfortune befell me, and 1 lost the
sight of one eye-perhaps it was the eye
with which used to do the funny carica-
lures; 1t was very good eye, much the
better of the two. and the other has not i'm
proved by having to do double share of
the work. Moreover, certain physical dtsa-
biiities that have the misfortune to labor
under make 1t difficult for me to study and
sketch the lusty things In the open air and
sunshine. Ny sight, besides being defective
In many ways, Is so sensitive that cannot
face the common light of day without glass
es thickly trimmed with wire gauxe, SO that
sketching out-of-doors Is often to me difa-
cult and distressing
mention this infrmity not as an excuse
TOR my shortcomings and failures-for them
there IL no excuse-but as q reason why I
have abetained from the treatment of SO
much that 10 20 popular, delightful and ex-
hiiarating In English country life and
sports.
Evening star., 1898-02-26
WINDMILLS AND ELECTRICITY.
The New Way to Secure House Light
ing.

The New Way to Secure House Light
From Electricity.
If We mistake not DIR. Fridtjof Nansen in
his last attempt to reach the north pole
had the Fran equipped with specially de-
signed windmill, which when operating
Grove a dynamo and furnished the neces-
sary current for lighting purposes. An aer-
motor erected on the roof of building in
Park Place in this city has been for some
time successfully driving a dynamo in con-
nection with a storage battery plant the
current from which has been utilized for
incandescent lighting. From this 1t will be
seen that there Is nothing very new in the
application of windmills to the driving of
dynamos. There are probably several rea-
sons why the windmill or aermotor has not
been more universally adopted for the
above purpose. In the first place, such
motive power is always more or less un-
certain and cannot always be depended
upon. There may be claim just at the time
it is found necessary to recharge the bat
terieS. or the batteries may be in use when
breeze springs up. This would neces-
state having two sets of batteries at a con-
siderable cost. Another reason why aer-
motors have not been more extensively
adopted Is probably due to the fact that
current can now be generated with steam
as motive power very economically, es-
pecially in large quantities. The erecting
OF an aermotor and the installation of q
number Of storage batteries with q dynamo
means considerable outlay of money es-
pecially when the cost of maintenance and
renewals is taken into account. In certain
cases 1t may be found that the interest on
the batteries. generator and windmill, with
the labor Item figured in, will cost as much
IN the long run as the current could be pur-
chased for on the outside. But probably
the chlef reason why the power of the
wind Is allowed to go to waste when It
couid De employed for generating electricity
is the same as that which prevents the use
OF the immense power derivable from the
Iides In both the Hudson and East rivers
from being utilized, namely, conservatism.
or, II not lack Of progress. a slowness in
avaiiing ourselves of opportunities
Evening star., 1898-02-26
March.

Bernard n Malcolm Ramsay in the Pail Mall Maga-
Out OF the cavern of Time spring
On the dancing feet of 4he wind:
Wildly, oh! wildly my way I wing
~ while the gray clouds hurry behind
Trailing a mantle far over the sky
And the maniac winds go believing by.
The scudding grasses all shivering Hy
And the plants crouch down to the earth
Inc OH oaks groan and the pOplars sigh
But laugh with frenzied mirth
Ard call on the tempest to mock their cries
with thunderous tongues and Eaming eyes,
Not trembling tree but lifts its arms
with vain appeal to the skies.
Oh! love their terrors and wild alarms
And the mercless, mad replies
FROM the foam fecked mouths Of the chaiing
hounds 1e
That hold in leash in MY hunting grounds.
Evening star., 1898-02-26
I Kissed the Cook.
; ChallIss In ."What to Eat.ss

James Courtney challiss In .'.Nhat to Eat"
kissed the cook-ah md sAebtyas diyfne!
Cheeks peachy, dark brown eyes, lips red as wine;
Long apron witbta Boy
A cap as whit9eAs show
BY far too tempting; So II 7 Kissed the cook.
! kissed the cook, this angel from the skies,
Aud yet, did not take her by surprise.
, Twas mean %fi1 hIlow.
To keep it. IN tell you 46w Tkissed the cook.
/, kissed the cook-poor, ,helpiGss little lass.
Ane cnahGe 30 good could NOT let 1t pass.
Her bands were in the dough;
xrv sne drre not spQil, ySu know,
kissed the cook. might have been more strong.
nut tnen ! guess It wasn't very wrong.
Tor just tween ) ou and me,
The cooks my Wife, Is she,
~ fsn1, you see, to kiss the cook.
Evening star., 1898-02-26
THE EXTINCTION OF THE GIRAFFE
How the Animal il Being Hunted tn
It's End In Africa.

AA"" sne Ahih0l II being Hunted tn
Its End I'm Africa,
From the London Times
Inc untimely and most regrettable death
OF the young South African giraffe which
lately reached England serves again to re-
mind US of the increasing scarcity of these
animals, and of the immense difficulties
which attend their capture. 1t Is a remark
able fact that until the year 1895 no living
giraffe had ever reached Europe from South
Africa. The old stock, so long familiar in
the Geological Society's gardens. were de-
scended from animals captured in Kor-
dofan by NJ. Thibaut, a French trader in
the Soudan, as far back as 1884. These
North African giraffes bred freely In cap
tivity, and the last of this stock died so
recently as 1892. In 1895 the Geological So
young female captured by Boer hunters in
Southeast Africa. This animal has thriyen
remarkably, and it was confidently hoped
that Its union with the young male which
tion Of a fresh family Of these strange and
interesting animals. Throughout Europe
giraffes have been, of late years, thanks
principally to the closing OF the Soudan
trade routes by the mahdf's adherents, ex-
tremely scarce, and the supply In other
parts of Africa 10 without doubt being de-
pleted rapidly and surely year by year.
Even IN the further Soudan these animals
are being gradually exterminated
Giraffe hide-which In the mature animals
attafns q thickness of at least an inch upon
the upper parts-is a commodity eagerly
sought after by all natives south and north
of the equator. From It are fashioned SAN
dais, shields and whips, and the demand for
1t II owing to the extermina tfon Of the
rhfnoceros and hippopotamus, rapidly In
creasing. In South Africa the value Of the
skin OF Q full-grown bull giraffe ID at the
present time, even far ND country about
20. and 70 secure this reward large NUM-
bers OF gira2Ees, wherever these animals
are plentiful, are annually alain. principally
to supply the constant demand for sJam-
Evening star., 1898-02-26
Ifs.
Written for The Evening Star.

Written for The Evening Star.
II those We mourn We're murdered.
We Will prove the fact, and then
Give no quarter to an enemy
OF fends IN form of men!
Wen remember the Maine,
And the victims slain,
And keep stern account with Snainf
II those We mourn were slaughtered
By accident alone, .
Wen apologize for hate,
And for distrust atone;-
But forget not the Maine,
And the victims slain,
And watch our account with Spainl
II the harbor Of Havana
Is honeycOmbed with mines
Death traps for the unwary-
These prove the fell designs:-
So remember the Maine,
And the victims slain,
And keep stern account with Spafpi
If we're morally convinced
That murder has been done,
We will act for our revenge
North, South, East West-as one:-
Well remember the Maine,
And the victims slain
And punish the bastard Spain!
ID. g,
Evening star., 1898-02-26
RANDOM VERSE.
sweet Rseseninx.


Written for The Evening Stsr by W. T. Talbot.
On uptoe, very wide awake.
Drawn for a moment freAa her play,
Watching grandmother. .fro3t a cake,
Wee Mabel stood one day.
A spell of pensive silepce passed,
When by a sudden inpaise led,
my papa says rs dwswiks fas.~
With artless pride shs said.
Then, pausing as the fptnW slowed
With promise In her r,ehilAish view:
''An' dwan'm when,H d all dwoved
Den tan fwost caks, TO-
Grandmother stopped. 'lihd with kiss
Mabel was folded tosa bteast
Whose loIgfngs for her, future bliss
Love-moistened eyes expressed
"a T.
"Dmanma," !" she murmured, Nesting there
Her sense Of fostering love complete,
Il dwess dey's fwostin' on 'ou' hair
Betause 'ou is sweet"