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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-04-30
Loyalty.

Two friends have, long loved and trusted long
one, turning ever toward lifc's fairer side
And fearing lest it slip his grasp, would hide
From his souls inward eye all sight of wrong;
Brings me the worlds urcomprehending praise
as friendships hi est tribute; in shalue
OF mine, wilful blUnGer, naueht to claim
Deep-felt repentance: bur in countless ways
F1nds pardon for me ever and again.
Becausc-I am no worse than other men.
The second, looking up toward heavens light
Yet works in sitting fog and clcse-drawn fray,
Mid want, doubt, selfish greed where men must
pray
AS. cropping. they seek our lost CLEANS of right.
Scanning my life with leve's clear eyes, he secs
My Himsy talents, old mistakes low ends,
And when wear earths laurels. but cOmmends
With stem Thou canst do better things THAI
these"
Q keen soul reader, judge ME of these two;
Which, think you, Is the false friend, which the
true?
Ruth Huntington Sessions. in the Century.
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LANGUAGE OF THE EsQUIMAIx.
Spoken by habitnnts of More THAI,
10000 Miles of Coast Land.
tba

spoken by Inhabitants of More Than
10000 Miles of Coast Land.
From the Forum.
The Esquimau language, which ia spoken
at the extreme north of this hemisphere. ia
also found In the north of Asia.
The people have been called orarians-
that Is, jewellers on the shore" They in
habit harrow strip of country around the
margin OF Greenland and to the west Of
Baffins bay, around all the great islands
ana down the coast shore of Hudson bay
and about the bays and straits to the
north; then to the west around Alaska and
sun further along the arctic shores of the
eastern continent They thus extend along
the winding island and mainland coast for
more than 10000 miles, inhabiting a mar
row fringe of country by the sea and OBJ
tanning their livelihood therefrom More
than 10000 miles of coastland are OCCUPIED
by people who speak ono language.
But in Newfoundland there are tribes
which speak another tongue mixed with
the Esquimau, while on the southwest
coast there are other tribes speaking mixed
tongues; and the sape is true of tribes in
habiting the northern coast of Asia If we
call I'll these tongues Esquimau, then the
principal tongue Is still homogeneous and
common medium for the communication
of tribes Occupying, as 1 have said, more
than 10000 miles Of the most difficult coast
known to mankind. While there is inter-
communication. 1t Is infrequent because of
the difficulties and perils of arctic naviga-
ton. Thus in all that stretch of country
there Is but one language.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-04-30
The Brave at Home.

The maid who binds her warriors sash
With smile that well her pain dissembles
The while beneath her dropping lash
One starry tear-drop hangs and tremblas
Though Heaven alone records the tear
Ana Fame shall never know her story,
Her heart has shed drop as dear
As e'er believed the field of glory!
The wife who girds her husbands sword,
Mid little ones who weep Jr wonder,
And bravely speaks the cheering word,
What though her heart be rent asunder
Doomed nightly i'll her dreams TO hear
The bolts Of death around him rattle
Hath shed AS sacred blood as eer
Was poured upon the field of battle!
The mother who coBeeaI3 f1er grief
While to her breast her son She presses
Then breathes few brave words and brief,
kissing INC pG;iS2t brow she hlesses,
With nc one bat her sccret Goi
To Know the pain that weighs Gpon her,
Sheds holy blood eer the GOD
Received on Freedoms field of honor.
THOMAS BUCHANAN READ.
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DURING THE GOLD FEVER.
Nfnepfns Were Played With Bottles
OF Champagne i'm Melbourne.
From the Pail Mall Magazine

Nihepins Were Played With Bottles
OF Champagne i'm Melbourne.
From the Pail Mall Magazine.
Gold threatened to become as common as
silver In the days of Solomon. In one year
tl2,GU,oOO, in eight years f95O000o0. were
ven. Some men at Golden Point made as
much as 400 each a day. Another excep-
tionally lucky party unearthed thirty -four
pounds of gold in one day. No wonder that
such pockets" We're termed Jewellers
shops! Occasionally a nugget worth f1o.-
900 was unearthed. The result of this sud-
den influx of wealth almost without labor
and with risks which are infinitesimal as
compared to klondike, was the temporary
decentralization of the population. Mel
bourne in the height of the gold fever has
been described by one who knew it we'll as
"a feyered, drunken, delrious pande-
monium The lucky ones-and there were
thousands of them-squandered their riches
in the most reckless fashion Some of their
fantastic tricks would scarcely be credit; ed
We're they not attested by witnesses still
living. The game of ninepins, we are told
was played with bottles of champagne for
which he who broke least had 10 pay; doz-
ems of the same costly wine were cTlptied
into tubs, and drunk from tin pannikins
spirits and beer being added to give body
to the beverage; one man, in imitation of
Caligula, shod his horse with gold; sand
wiches made of hanknotes were deyoured;
silver wrapped up in banknotes was threwa
to popular actresses instead of fowers--in
fact, money was SO plentiful that the reck-
less diggers could not knock it down. fast
enough. They thought they only had to
dig few feet in the earth to get plenty
more, and for a time it almost seemed as
II this were SO. Such were some of the
characteristics of Victoria's hot youth.
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row river was well picketed. a guard being
stationed on the unsubnerged deck of the
sunken steamer Southf1eld. mile below
the town. Fortune favored the brave, and.
successfully passing the river guard with
out discovery, Cushing cast off his tow
opposite the ironclad, while simultaneously
with large fire which suddenly blazed
forth from the river back came q hot fu-
si1lIde from the ship and men upon the
shore. BY the fires light Gushing saw a
guard of logs surrounding the ship, doomed
out thirty feet from her side, but, I'M
Gaunted ne turned SO as to hit the booms
at d right angle. and in the face of the fir
ing ran square upon and over the shiny
logs. and with Roadway nearly gone, as
the firing temporarily ceased answering
nonchalantly the captains hail with joke
he found himself just where he wanted to
be, nearly under the rams quarter port.
ten feet from the ugly muzzle of a one
hundred FOUNDER rified gun.
Goodness and Bravery.
Holding in the right hand the "heel-jig-
ger" of the torpedo and in the left the ex-
plodins lire. he stood calmly near the bow
the personification of cool, courageous
heroisr, as he gave the order to lower the
boom, while the slight remaining motion
of the launch carried the torpedo under the
rams overhang-then, a strong pull of the
detaching line. moments pause for the
Using of the torpedo under the hull,
silSHl pun ny the lett nanu, just as II was
cut by g. bullet-the explosion simultaneous
with a discharge of canister from the hun
dred-pound rifle ten feet from his left ear,
crashing into and splinteriEg the launch,
blinded with the thick, sulphurous smoke
cloud, drenched with the mass of water
thrown up, his clothing with many bullet
holeS-and the last of the Albemarle!
There Is not in naval history such a mar
velous example of GOODNESS and professional
skill. says l. r. Solely as was shown by
Gushing in this exploit. His adventures,
after jumping from his disabled boat under
volley of musketry: chilled while swim
and crawling through swamps and hiding
in the day, swimming at night. avoiding
pickets, finally capturing a little flat-bot-
toned boat used by the pickets. floating
behind and pushing it away from him.
finally getting into it and family padding
his way to the fleet in the sol.nd-ail these
incidents would make Il thriiiiGA story of
themselves. The nation has shown just
appreciation of his services by naming the
speedy torpedo boat Gushing in his men,
Dry
The elimination of confederate torpedo
triumph was during the last naval opera
tions in Mobile waters. where the waters
engulfed the monitors Tecumseh and Usage
the latter during a heavy easteriy blow.
while shifting her position TO prevent foul
ing other vessels. Many other vessels were
destroyed or damaged by submarine agen-
cies during these operations, which our
limits will not permit to narrate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-04-30
RAN DOM. VERSE.
- "a
Our Fleet.

Ecu
Written for The Evening Star by Elizabeth Worth
Sea Eagles, pnions Plume,i and poised. that fret.
ted long for flight,
Held hooded by a stronger hand, patient nation $
might, y,
We slip your leash. We bin you 20. white winged
resstless feet, g
Where valor hcpeiess, fain1he fell, hold grim their
las. retreati ~
Seek yon bright isle 'Hhe faithful isle that Cod
has made fafr!
The PEARL Of isles, her, tropic blooms caresset
by ocean air, S
That man has made eharne house. the sport Of
furious hate!
Where dark Spain's banners faunt their folds In
mockery of fate!
Not thirst for conquest points your prows-in holy
We fight!
The lust Of land, the greed Of gold-such cause
were poor and slight!
Not for revenge ye haste, altho' one deed Of
treacherous wrong
Might well have nerved peoples soul to strife
relentless, long:
We send noblest bird upon each consecrated
crest,
The flowers of peace and brotherhoOd-knew knight
more sacred guestI
Prayers fill these sails, shining eyes shall
watch our banner true.
Fair fly the flags unfurled for right. Our Red and
White and Blue.
Laugh, waters of the tranquil bay; stanch feet to
anchor swing!
Huzza! from hostile heights the guns of Moro
laundering.
Starved hands outstretch them from the shore and
spectral forms shall glide,
The olive. cheeks grown white to greet the.
saviors DER the tide.
Lo, from the deep your brethren slain. that kne "
no bell bier,
Stir mighty at the signal sounds to know the
Flag near
Can ye hear. above the din their hollow voices
say,
Comrades, all hail! Our chance was first. thrice
welcome to the Bay.''
land and main
Heart prompt to dare, hand hard to smite-take
thou cur warning, Spain!
From to age, Ger PROSTATE forms thy ruthless
track
lips that kiss the crucifx! o hands that ply the
rack
Lo, radiant, clear-eyed, Freedom stands! and
can'st thou bar her path?
Thy steel shall SILVER at her touch, Renounce thy
pride, thy wrath,
Lest One should sweep thee utterly, with outworn
things, away,
And in the depths with Lucifer, there hide thee
from the day!
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China and the east. which are concentrated
at the Liverpool docks. is absolutely neces-
sary, and IL an experience at once interest
ing and profitable.
The construction of the Liverpool over
head railway has rendered such a visit
pleasant, expeditions and easy. Until the
railway was built. in 1889. the only means
OF locomotion along the line of docks was
by broad-wheeled omnibuses which were
specially built TO run on the low-level dock
railway. and were slow and cumbersome.
That the overhead railway met a great
want is proved by the fact that while the
old bus service sufflced for about 2.JO0Oo0
passengers per annum. the traffic on the
overhead is now nearly 100000, and IS
steadily increasing
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He Took a Fort.
From the London Sketch.


In 1851 a man-o-war's man, Strahan by
name, captured almost single-handed one
of the forts on the Hoogly. The fcrt, which
was strongly situated, was invested by the
admiral, and Strahan during the time Of
midday repose wandered of ION his own"
in its direction. Gaining the walls without
discovery, he took IL into his head to scale
a breach made by the cannon OF the ships.
and, on reaching the platform. he -four
ished his cutlass and fired his pistol at 1.-The
niggurs," shouting THE place is mine"
The native soldiers attacked him, and he
held his own with indomitable pluck till re-
inforced by one or two other tars who had
struggled out of camp and heard his
huzzas.
The enemy, unprepared for this ill-timcd
attack, and fearing further invaders. fed
from the fort upon the opposite side. leav-
ing twenty cannon and a large store q
ammunition. Much to 6trahan's surprise.
he was lectured by the admiral for his
breach of discipline. and he was dismissed
with hints of future punishment. well"
said Strahan, IF I'm f1egged for this here
action, I'm - II ever take another fort
- long as ] liver
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-04-30
SPRING IN VENICE.
The Queen of the Adrintic is Not
Pleasant In the Rain.

From Golfers Weekly
Here in Venice l doubt if there are many
English residents nowadays who concern
themselves much with home affairs. They
who live here all the year round are quite
alienated, unless l err. from their native
land; and these, when summed up, are
relatively few. 1 should think it would be,
all i'll all, a most unpleasant winter dwell
ing place. The Sondolas, in December,
January ana February, must freeze their
occupants, who have no other mode of
transit except they choose to take the
little steamboats, which only traverse one
great liquid highway Of the town. AS for
spring in Venice it comes tardily and
row, at the verge of middle March, the
IT ost afflUent sunshine still necessitates a
stout oNercoat. Stree L came here, a fort
night or more ago, much rain has fallen.
L his, however, they call exceptional
year; but when. after all, has the weather
anywhere been other than "eXCeptional?'
we are always expecting il to deDort itself
as usual, and in truth there is nothing
that sc Systematically disregards its rep
utation for good behavior. Florence is not
such great stretch further south on this
comparatively small peninsula, and yet
found her, just TWO years ago, with her
tawny Arno sparkling bland responses to
a sky of tenderest charm. A dead friend
of mime once told me that lie reached the
Vale Of Cashmeer to find there four or five
inches of snow, and when watch it rain
In Venice L know precisely how he must
have felt. Gray lights and fearful heavens
do not become the queen of the Adriatic
She Is apt, then, to show her worst
wrinkles, and it must be admitted that
she has many. Never. l imagine is she
Low so dismal as in carnival time and
this year l lighted upon her when that
efete festivity was backgrounded and en-
compassed by dark nights and drizZling
Gays. The Roman carnival has grown vul-
gar enough of late. but the Venetian one
Is coarseness untold. All the more SON. Der
does 1t now seem besides when one recalls
the splendors of it's past. Noblesse of
either sex once took part in it, and even
the doge himself. The square of St Mark
blazed with perpetual rainbow-tinted reve
Flowers and confetti were tossed from
gondola to balcony, from balcony to gon-
doia- Picturesqueness rioted Intrigue
whispered its witcheries behind masks of
velvet and satin. Gold was flung to the
poor by prodigal illustrissimi Flowers
hShts, music, passion, poetry the very
quintesence of all romanticism, woye in
toXicatlng spells. But now? A few trouoes
OF the commoneSt loafers and hoydens go
Gashing about in cheap masquerade gear.
yelling strident songs, pushing their impu-
dent noses into trattoria and cafe as be-
tinseled and acrotatic and bawdy and
rowdy as the o'clock a. M output from
some Bowery ball.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-04-30
Smiles and, Tears.

From the Argosy. e5F 70
You bid me sing a gay refrain,
Win from my Tyre a note more glad,
And when chose brighter strain,
Stll-still you told me 1t was sad.
l did not mean 1t should be 30,
NOR was my wish to make you sigh;
But you are young, and do not know
How JOY and grief together lie.
There ever Is a minor chord
Struck somewhere in our earthly lays,
Ever a shadow on the sward
OF brightest scenes whereon we gaze.
And while we may not heed the one
Nor hear the other, each is there;
Yet lurking In the blithest tone,
Yet darkening the landscape fair.
Thus. often scarcely knowing why,
We cannot look without 4 tear;
And 30 1t Is we sometimes sigh,
Tho Joyous By the song ne hear.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-04-30
Il "a
The Fling.

Lo! In night dry rods have bloomed
In flowers of red, and white and blue;
On ev'ry stan the. dawu's fllumed
The glorious baIineri waves anew!
tC ~
No blossom this, to droOp and fade
In sulph rous smoke OF belching guns;
Its roots were set, fits 'tints were laid
In the best blood Of Freedoms sons.
Across its hues tie. eyes of men
Flash each to edeh With patriot fire,
And heroes press its sAcred stem
To lips that smile, az they expire.
n
The sluggish blood. by commerce chilled,
Leaps to its fount with sudden pride;
AND children gazeg with bosoms thrilled,
At this their heritage and guide!
-GkACEtDUFFIE BOYLAN.
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Forgiveness.

Annette Lyons, In London Figaro.
They loved each other well, they swore,
And so to wed they wildly hoped;
Wherefore 1t wasn't long before
They laughed at locksmiths and elOped,
Her pa forgave, as papas do;
ller mamma, too, forgaye and blessed;
His ma and pa forgaye them. too
And brothers, sisters-all the rest
And only two could not forgive;
They've not forgiven to this day,
And went, as long as e'er they live
They can't forgive themselves, they say.
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Fate.

The SKY is clouded. the rocks are bare.
The spray Of the tempest is white in air;
me Winds are out with the waves at play,
And shall not tempt the sea today.
The trail is narrow, the wood Is DIM
The panther clfngs to the archiDg limb,
And the lions whelps are abroad ut play,
And | shall not join in the chase today
But the ship sailed safely over the sea.
And the hunters came from the chase in glee
And the town that was builded upon a rock
Was swallowed up in the earthquake shock.
bret HARTE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-04-30
War.
From the Hymnal.

rom the Hymnal.
o Lord of Hosts! Almighty King!
Behold the sacrifice we bring:
To every arm Thy strength impart:
Thy spirit shed through every heart.
Wake In our breast the living fires.
The holy faith that warmed our sires;
Thy hand hath made our nation free;
To die for her is serving Thee.
Re Thou a pillared fame to show
The midnight snare. the silent foe;
And when the battle thunders loud,
Still guide us In its moving cloud.
God of all nations, Sovereign Lord.
In Thy dread name we draw the sword,
We lift the starry flag On high
That fills with light our stormy sky.
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Foreigners as British Consul.

With reference to a letter on this subject
signed "Civis Britannicus'' in our last is
sue, Surgeon Lieutenant Colonel MacGregor
writes to us that when travelling in French
Indo- China he had occasion to apply at
Saigon Tor consular assistance. Our consul.
he found. was an American, and the assist.
ent who was sent with him to get justice
done at the hands OF the French authorities
was actually French subject 4 Pondi-
cherry Eurasian,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-04-30
Too Much for Him.

From the Chicago Record.
THAT botany professor has lost his
mind"
"War EXCITEMENT"
mo; he couldn't classify more than fifty
Of the flowers on his wife's spring hat"
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Almost n Miie-a-Minute Elevator.

NImOst u NIic-H-MInute EIevntOr.
From the Oakland Times.
Ed II. Benjamin returned the other day
from visit to the big mines on the mother
lode in Amador county.
Il took a fast ride he said, 'in the
OEeida mine. This company has just put
in a new hosting gear which beats any
thing on the Pacific coast, and there are
only one or two mines in the country which
have machinery to equal it. 1 came up
1890 feet In the shaft in twenty seconds
This is at the rate of almost mile a min
ute, and by comparison the swiftest ele-
vetors in the tall buildings in San Fran
cisco are slow coaches. When the mine
is in regular operation the cage win be run
at the speed of thirty miles an hour in
lifting ore. This remarkable hoist was
manufactured in San Francisco and seems
TO embrace no new principie-just q very
large drum and the. usual cable"
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While the work of torpedo destruction
was being SO successfully prosecuted
throughout the south the rebel ironclad
Aibemarle. roughly constructed on the Roa-
ncke river. came out into AlbemarIe sound
and terrorized our wooden feet there. sink
Ing the Southfeld by ramming, exploding
the boilers OF the Sassacus and raising Cain
generally IL was necessary 10 get rid OF
her, and to Lieut.. W. Il. Gushing !.
smooth-iaced, iong-haired young officer who
mad performed several daring exploits was
allotted the DeriioUs task OF DESTROYING her
The Albcmarle was moored at Plymouth
on the Roanoke river, a stream about 500
feet wide, on the night of the 9th of Oc-
tober when Lieutenant Cushing. with
seven picked men. started from out the
sound in his steam launch, towing a boat
with thirteen men. Silently the little boats
entered the mouth Of the Roanoke for Ply
mouth, eight miles away-an hours run.
The enemys army, numbering thousands
occupied the town and forts, and the mar
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-08-24
PIONEER BALES.
The Advance Guards OF the Seasons
Fleecy staple Reached ArdmOre
This MOrnInR-Two Bales.

ArdmOre's pioneer bale of cot
ton for the season of 1898 SO ar
rived on Main street shortly after
4 O'Clock this morning. This cot
ton was raised on the same farm
which produced the first bale last
season and was grown by Green
Patton, a colored man, who has
only lived in the Territory eight
months. The cotton was hauled
from the Humdy farm on Caddo
to Charlie Bruce's gin and was
ginned last evening. The bale
was offered for sale at 10 O'Clock
when it was bought by that ex-
perienced and handsome cotton
buyer, Chas. D. Workman, who
paid 5 SO cents for it, The bale
weighed 400 pounds and was good
cotton. 1t was sent to the Com
press company yard.
Mayor Gait and Joe Biles, of r.
w. Randols establishment, made
a brief canvass among the mer-
chants and succeeded in raising
$23.65 as premium money. This
was divided between Green Patton
and C. l.. Robertson, of Holder,
who had bale on the street only
a few hours after the arrival of
the first. This second bale reached
Ardmore about midnight in the
seed and was ginned by Blanton,
Ray & Co.. early this morning.
This bale was sold to N. F. Law,
representing j. W. Banks, one of
our enterprising merchants, for
$5.35 per hundred pounds.
1t is believed the cotton market
will be in full blast here by the
middle of September.
1t can be safely said those two
bales of cotton received to-day are
the forerunners of $4,000 bales to
be received on this market this
season.
The first bale last year was re-
ceived on the 18th of this month,
just one week earlier than this
and sold for Z cents.