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Evening star., 1899-08-12
LIVING OUTDOORS.
Answcr to Criticisms the ExteruoIs
of English Architecture.

Answer to Criticfrms on the ExteruoIs
of English Architecture.
From the London Spectator.
That we live inside our houses. and not
outside them, has long been the standing
answer Of Englishmen to all criticisms on
the externals of our domestic arrhitecture
Summers like the present would soon mod
ify the strict observance Of this time-hon-
ored thesis. The garden and its furniture
would become matters Of concern. and moro
of our life in the months Of June. July and
August would be spent there. The taste for
fower-gardening, now SO general and SO
Incl easing. would be supplemented by a fur
.Aer effort to develop life al fresce and our
gardens would for the time be not only
places To look at, but places to live in
We should not only sit on the lawns, and
stroll along tho paths and alleys, we should
breakfast there, lunch there, and very pos
sfoiy dine there. and sit after dinner not
in the drawing room. but under the lines.
The luxury of this use of the garden was
formerly well understood abroad, and in
part is still pracuced; but public gardens
have superseded private pleasaunces for
this purpose, and the citizen of North Ger
many or Copenhagen who dimes in the
open air does SO in semi-public park. The
gardens at Hampton Court were formerly
equipped with suitable buildings and re-
treats, not only for sitting and taking tea
but for dining, the room for this purpose
being on the terrace overlooking the river
at considerable distance from the palace
and having annexed to 1t a modest kitchen
and Storeroom to contain provisions for the'
evening meal. 1t is for such entertainments
that tfe little temples by lakes and gar
den pools were built by our ancestors. who
rightly thought that to render eut-of-door
ne IN twilight and moonlight perfect the
presence of water and its reflection of ueht
and shadow was Indispensable Perhaps
they enjoyed hotter summers than their de-
scendants; but it is more probable that the
example or the continent was followed more
risidly than now while the habit of dinine
carry made 1t more natural to linger in the
gardens till late at night Even as late as
the days OF Pope the ladies' and the king
himseif, sat in the Hampton Court gardens
Evening star., 1899-08-12

From the Chicago Record
The days and nights are of equal length
at Guayaquil. The sun knocks off prompt
ly at o'clock in the evening and gets up
at 9 in the mornine with equal regularity
the whole year around. There is no twi-
light. no cleaning, no interval whatever
between daylight and dark-only a bril-
liant Illumination, the sudden disappear
ance Of red ball into a blue ocean, a
spread of flame color over all the western
sky for a few minutes and purple haze
in the east. Then the surface of the ocean
like the heavens, is lighted with millions Of
strange and shifting stars for the
water is impregnated with phos-
phorus that each tiny wave is
tipped with light, and the foam that
follows in the wake Of the vessel is often
like a stream of fire. Sometimes you can
see porpoises swimming along the bow of
the vessel livid with phosphoreseent light
and followed by streak of sparks like
comets tail. The southern cross with the
right arm tipped out at proper angle, hes
straight ahead, in the midst Of myriads of
unknown worlds that look strange to those
accustomed to the northern consultations.
Under the left arm is a large black spot
in the heavens, frightened by only single
modest star, which the sailors call 1.-The
DEVILS dinner bag" Over the stern of the
vessel in the early evening you can plainly
distinguish the familiar constellation Of the
great bear" but 1t goes to bed with the
children.
Evening star., 1899-08-12
MAUNA LOA.
Superstitions in Connection With the
Volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands,

| Superstitions in Connection with the
Volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands
| From the st. Louis Globe-Democrat
| There are many superstitions In regard
to the volcanoes of Hawaii.
Fele, the goddess of volcanoes, with
her six sisters and her brother, was said
| to have emigrated from Kahiki (Samoa)
in ancient times. They are said, first, to
have lived on Oahu tall whose craters are
| now extinct, then to have moved to Mo-
| lokai, then to Heleakala and finally to
have settled in Hawaii. Mr. Ellis reports
| the natives believed the conical craters
were their houses, where they often
| amused themselves by playing draughts;
| the roaring Of the furnaces and the crack
| ling Of the flames was the music OF their
dance and the red, fiery surge was the
surf in which they played. People some
times threw the bodies of relatives into the
crater of Kilauea that they might ioin
the company Of volcanic deities and after
ward befriend the family. PeIe was iden-
tical with the Samoan fire goddess Fee
The god Maui was celebrated In all the
islands ct Polynesia for his exploits of OBJ
tanning fire for men, of drawing UP islands
ftom the bottom OF the sea with his magic
hook, maniakalana, and of lassoing the
sun and compelling him to move slowly.
Kamapuaa was kupua, or demi-god, who,
the legends say, had contest with the
I goddess Pele, whose fires he nearly extin-
i SulSneQ Dy pouring sea water into her
| crater. During an eruption the sea is often
very much troubled. The Australia, lately
arrived at San Francisco, reports a great
comn1otion of the sea near Hawaii, and a
heavy cloud over Mauna Loa The natives,
with their intelligent, If untutored minds,
study the actions of volcano and sea, and
thus the legends grow.
In the olden time whenever an eruption
took place 1t was the custom to nick the
ohelo berries, which grew in great guam
| titles near the volcano, and throw them
into the crater as an Offering to Pele
Hogs and other property were often
thrown into the streams of lava 1t is
rumored that modern monarchs tried this
latter method of appeasing the wrath of
Pele, and, strange coincidence the day af-
ter one such ceremony the lava fiow
liceased to advance. A native girl, with
told mo of Pele's recent appearances; how
the old people tell of seeing her dying
about the country at night, sometimes hay-
ing the form of a very ancient woman,
sometimes young and beautiful, I could
not decide whether the girl, who lived in a
primitive part of Hawaii believed tne
stories ar not; the Hawaiian of TODAY.
while ashamed to acknowledse faith in the
old superstit.ons of course, has not wholly
departed from the beliefs of hts fathers
Alexander, in his Brief History OF the
Hawaiian People" tells how one supersti-
ton was broken down by KapielaIi-not
the dowager queen. who died recently but
high chteftess that lived seventy-fiye
years ago. In her youth she was intem-
perate and dissolute but later In life be-
came an example of virtue to her country
women. Up to her time 1t had been taboo
Evening star., 1899-08-12
CREATION OF THE CAT.
came to the Aid Of st. Francis When
Attacked by Mice.

From the London Spectator
1 send you a translation I have made of
an Italian legend of how the cat was cre-
ated, written by Antonio De Nfno. MANY
are the proverbs about cats In the Abruzzi
81. FRANCIS de Paula performed 50 many
miracles that the devil was made ill with
envy. Once he entered the cell of ST
FRANCIS In the shape of a grand nobleman
WIN a box full of heavy gold pieces. Here
franc1s, said he, take these, don't re-
main in this miserable hovel, enjoy life:
IL Is streWn with roses, why do YOU collect
all the thorns?r -StnF'rancis. without mora
ado, raised his hand and made the sign of
the cross, Whefeapon the fine gentleman
disappeared amid clouds of sulphur smoke
Another time the devil led lovely damsels
oarefooted and lightly clothed, into the
cell OF the saint, and then queens and en-
presses of glorious beauty covered with
jewels and wrapped in mantIes of gold tis-
sue But st. Francis stood there like a
log of wood, and at last made the sign of
the I'M cross, when everything disappeared
The devil was furious. II must find some
way to make this stolid fellow lose pa
tience" % 20
After much thought he rubbed his hands
with delight. He created mice, and they
multiplied by thousands in the wink Of AZ,
eye The cell of St Francis was filled bv
them, and he tried in vain to drive them
out with his hands and feet But as he
ufoVe them out OF. the door they swarufed
In at the window, and when he closed both
door and window. they crept up through
holes in the brick floor or dropped down
through c-acks4in the ceiling. Then they
clambered UP the saints tunic made beds
In his straw mattress, played pranks in
his provision basket and were generally of
fens1ve. At last ST. Francis, after reciting
a fervent prayer, burst out laughing. The
mice were beginning to attack him in thou
sands, when a beautiful little cat was
created in the sleeve of his tunic So he
cried to the mice, II inplore you to stop
and go your ways or you will repent it,
The mice answered by pushing their
noses against the bare skin of the saint,
as though they wanted to pierce through
him. so he drew the beautiful little cat out
of his sleeve. and it sprang at the mice
blessed with such miraculous hunger that
1T swallowed two at a time of the big ones
and three Or four Of the little ones. St
Francis hoped they would have been ex-
terminated, and rushed to stop up hole
In the ceiling Che had already shut the
door and the Window, but he was not
quick enough A pair of mice managed to
escape, and thus we have those tiresome
mice all over the world. st. Francis then
uttered another prayer, and his beautiful
little cat was granted a companion. They
multiplied exceedingly, and have always
been fayorites with devout old ladies be-
cause they are creation of ST. Francis
Evening star., 1899-08-12
END THE WORLD.
A Scientist Figures Out That 1t IL
Three Billion Years on.

From the New York Herald
Scientists do queer things sometimes. One
of them has attempted to calculate in cold
mathematics how 'soon we may expect the
Judgment day; afrd he has prepared a pa
per on the subject which he expects to
read before the American Association for
the Advancement OF Science when it meets
next month In Columbus. Starting with the
total amount Of energy stored in the sun
and the fact that the orb of day is con-
tfnuously distributing energy equivalent to
the work of seven men for each area Of the
earth's surface of the size of the human
body, our stat1stician calculates that it will
require 1915, ,oo0,0oo years Of outpouring be-
fore a sensible diminution of the quantity
of energy given out can be detected. I'D to
this distant period mountains will stand,
rivers will run, plants will grow and animal
life Will exist very much as it does today
If you realize that solar energy as SOON az
used reasserts itself in some other form.
either as sound, electricity or simple mo-
uon' u Is easy 10 see that this estimate is
100 small rather than too great. At any
rate the world is not liable to stop going
for few years yet, according to his rea-
Soning.
Some idea of the yastness of tbe foroe
that is meted out to us from the physical
source of earthly life NAV be gaiued he
says, by considering that if the energy that
the sun gives to earth liz a single daY could
be bottled up and directed against Mia erara
Falls it would cause that great body of wa
ter TO daSh back again I'D hill for 1000
years II turned into single blast of heat
1t would cause every living creature instan-
taneously to blight and wither: the ice
around the poles would be melted in one
and three-Quarter minutes and in another
eleven seconds all the oceans would be
turned into steam "
If transmitted into electricity a. shark
would fash from the earth as far as the
planet Jupiter. If collected into a single
sound the vibration thereof would NOT only
oreak every ear drum in the world but
would uproot the giant trees of the forest.
and even level mountains If changed into
a momentary flash Of light its burst would
pe SO binding as to penetrate the walls of
the tn deepest st. dungeons and destroy the sight
OF every living creature. In brilliancy thfs
Hash would exceed the brightness Of the
sun itself over a million times
For one man to expend an amount Of
energy equivalent to that which the earth
receives from the sun in the tenth part of a
second he would have to work hard con-
tnuously for 100000 years.
Th1s calculation is remarkable In that its
result differs by more than 1874 O0O. 600
years from the period when scientists gem
orally believe that the world will come to
an end. Such experts as Darwin and Hux-
icy believed that 1t could not sustain life
2,00O,0OO years hence.
Evening star., 1899-08-12
Papa,s Day Dream.

5: q. klser in ChEcago Times-Herald.
She has gone, with twenty trunks, down to the sea-
She has gone and left The hired girl and ms-j
Gone and taken Sue and May
Seven hhndred miles away,
Where the salty breeze Is blowing fresh and free.
Shs is happy whegss thsa abounding billows play,
Ringing money Ifhavefbad t. earn away.
She is choosing others sons
For my darlfgg little ones
All, the younger of theas twenty-six today!
She has gone, with twenty trunks, down to the sea
To try to find twSdsonsfn- law fer me-,
And while I labor here
am pastered with a fear
From which vainly struggle to be free.
She is far away beside the ocean blue,
With the darli1gs that we live for, May and Sue
o when they quit the shore
Shall have to toll for four
Instead Of merely working on for two7
Evening star., 1899-08-12
Black Sheen,

sachard Burton in the Atlantic Monthly,
From their folded mates they wander far,
Their ways seem harsh and wild;
They follow the beck OF a baIeful star
Their paths are dream-beguiled.
Yet haply they sought but a wider range
some loftier mountain slope,
And little recked of the country strange
Beyond the gates of hope.
And hapy bell with Turing call
Summoned their feet to tread
Midst the cruel rocks, where the deep pitfall
And the lurking snare are spread.
Maybe, in spite Of their tameless days
OF outcast liberty,
They're sick at heart for the homely ways
Where their altered brothers be.
And oft at night, when the plains fail dark
And the hills loom large ard dim,
For the Shepherds voice they mutely bark
And their souls go out to him,
Meanwhile, Black sheepl black sheep!' we CITY
Safe in the inner fold;
And maybe they hear, and wonder why,
And marvel, out in the cold.
Evening star., 1899-08-12
The Saddest Thing.

katharine B. Huston in the Dramatic Magazine.
They asked me once, when life.was young
Its tale untold, its songs unsung-
And Hope stfn near. I laughed and said:
To know my cheeks must lose their red.
And ey'ry shimmering, golden thread
In this fair coronal, its glory shed,
Be coiled and folded, snowy white
A sign Of eerrew, hess and blight
This is the saddest thing!"
They asked egaiR when partings came,
And Death, triumphant breathed the name
OF one held dear. / wepf and said;
10 sit alone, here, with ones dead
And list in vain their footsteps. This
10 wait their coming, and forever miss
Their voices. Surely Hfe's sad tale when told
No other grief SO deep can hold.
This is the saodest thing!''
But now1 sit dry-eyed and cold
And wonder that living form can hold
A heart SO dead. And IL You ask:
What is it now? What new, hard task
Has left you hopeless? Thus, tonight,
/ answer, with q clearer sight:
The saddest thfng-te SIT alone
And face, all fearless, Love out-grown-
This is the saddesr thing!''
Evening star., 1899-08-12
Misery.
Written for The Evening Sta

Written for The Evening Star.
The ache round this old heart tonight, dear
No wording of mine e'er can tell;
touch from the finger of grief, dear.
Is weaving dark, chilling spell.
No blood from the wound will e'er Ao,v Aa..
No rending Of flesh can you see
As Damocle's swtrd strikes no bicw, dear.
No scar Will be found upon me.
sigh with the weight On my breast. love.
The misery found in Its wake
And swear while this heart beats On earth Io,e
I'll never more eat Of your cake
Ia NAT. CHARxEx
Evening star., 1899-08-12
"Making outn in Georgia.

From the Atlanta Constitution.
One Of the oid-time darkies, on being
asked "how he was making out" replied In
this fashion:
'FWell, suh, times is mighty tight wild me,
but manage to make a iivin.."
What are YOU doing now?"
We'll, sub, keeps de pot b'ilin' by doin'
q little plowtn', a little votin', en- a little
ibaptizin': en- wen dey's nuttin doir' al
dem three hangs roun' de white folks en-
waits 'tweli dey gifts In de notion ter run
fer ONCE agini
Evening star., 1899-08-12
The Song of the Ak,
William Lucius Graves In Youths companio

lillian Lucius Graves In Youths Companion.
Fathered was by the forge,
Graded in leaping fame,
Iulled by the clink and the clan1
OF hammers beating in turn.
Now in the hewer's hand,
Tempered tand polished and edged,
Swing 1 all day in the sun,
Swing and chant this song!
High on the mountain crest
Where the great winds pipe and swirl
Tower the ancient pines,
Rooted thousand years
Myriad summers have waxed
And waned in their odorous shadef,
SHOWS immemofial
Drifted their branches through
Still their exultant heads
Rise to the hIapid blue,
Still they fearlessly lean
To the surge OF the swinging gale
And shout down the trail o. the blast
PaeaRs Aeoliani
Old they seem as the stars
Moveless as living rock,
Lasting as earth itself!
Lo, then come /, the ak!
Hover a moment aloft
In eager and bres thless poise,
Then In a circle of light
Leap TO the cedar's root
Deep and deeper / bite
To the heart Of the virgin wood.
And the scent of its bloodless wounds
Fills all the air with balm.
Sudden n bngling shock
Thrills up the living trunk,
I'uises along the boughs,
Shivering Drescience of death
Nainly the mighty mast
Wrestles in agony
Then with stormy sigh
Trembles and yields and leans
Sweeps with thnnderous crash
Down to the bruised earth.
Lo. It's myself sing
Feller of oak and ash!
Brother am I to the sword
Red-edged slayer of meni
Side by side have we hewn
Paths for the pioneer
From sea to sun-smitten seal
Hark to my chanted praise,
Wild cascades in the hills
Winds In the straining pines.
Voices Of woodnen all
Swelling In unison vast,
Shout through the sunlir days
Sing through the stariit nights.
The sounding song o. the axi
Evening star., 1899-08-12

81 think ft would be a good plan 20 send
Willie Up Into the country for a month";
suggested Wiliie's father. Hes never bee,
en- a farm, and Il would be rather a novsi
experience for hirz"
mo. you don't" interrupted Willie .pve
heard all about the country, and I'm not
going anywhere where they have thrashin9
machines. It's bad enough when it's done
by nd."-ChicSgo Post, -
Evening star., 1899-08-12
Valuation Varies,

Most OF the pearls are small according to
the growth. and II they could be left in the
water would grow larger. Some are mi
mute. like bird shot. which are worth from
u to $40 each. Occasionally they find one
as big as small pea, which viii sell for
10 or $50. The value varies with the si1a
and perfection. saw a beautiful eresS
black pear-shaped pearl at Mr.. Erhman,s
tnat would have been worth thousands az
dollars but for an imperfection. which re.
duced its value to hundreds. 1t can be SET
in brooch with the fair side out uks We
wear our best manners In company. ana he
world az large may admire it. but every ex-
pert viii at once recognize why II was SET
that way. "~S SCI
All the Panama merchants / have narnsd
employ diving bells and send men down 10
the bottom of the bay to pick out the best.
.oohing smells, which are put in baskets ana
nauied up to the surface OF the water ana
dumped into boats. These men are paid hv
the month and work In gangs eli cay under
a foreman, receiving stated wages and "a.
IONS They have no share IN the Jewel,
tney nnd, and it is difficult for them ~
Steal, unless the whole party foreman ard
all. enter into the conspiracy.
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-22
ALAsKA's GREAT FUTURE.

Among the distinguished arrivals Of the
last few days is Colonel Charles Reichen-
bach, who has spent some time in the
snowy Businesses of the Upper Yukon.
The colonel is very enthusiastic concern
Ing the future Of Dawson. and he pre-
diets great things for the entire territory.
He says that nearly all of the Californians
who went north to win fortune are doing
well and that some of them are progress
ing so rapidly that 1t will not be long be-
fore they will be able to return to their
homes in civilization with enough to in
sure them against anything in the shape
of poverty for the rest Of their natural
lives.
The colonel is one Of the best known
men in the north and though his head
quarters are at Dawson, he has interests
all over the Territory and is conversant
with the affairs of all the mining camps
along the river. Speaking Of the recently
discovered diggings at Cape Nome he
said:
1--WE have been experiencing quite an
exodus from Dawson for the new dig
gings, which are very rich, but l don't
think this exodus will do Dawson any
great harm. On the contrary, 1 believe 1t
will do the camp considerable good. The
miners who have gone down the river
will clear the town Of It's surplus popula-
ton with the result that wages will go
up and every one will have all they can
attend to in the way Of work"
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-22

charged by Henry Mayer. tailor, 30 Mont
dismissed by Judge Graham yesterday, as
there was no evidence to support the
charge.
Albert Porter, dope fend." who stole
a coat and vest from Joseph Schultz s
lodging-house, S02 Montgomery street,
and broke a window and knocked down
a woman in his efforts to escape, was yes
terday sent to the County Jail for six
months by Judge Conlan.
J. r. Hurd, engineer of the San Jose
train, charged with manslaughter in con-
nection with the death of Lorenzo Ciar-
della and his little girl at the Sunnysde
crossing three weeks ago, had his case
dismissed by Judge Mogan yesterday, as
he was not responsible.
H. J. GuturieZ, Spaniard, who was ar
rested in the Spreckels market for insult
ing girls at the weighing machine, was
yesterday convicted by Judge Conlan on
the charge of disturbing the peace, and
was ordered to appear for sentence to-
morrow.
T. Minamide, the Japanese who was
convicted of having brutally assaulted a
white woman some weeks ago, was SEN
fenced to serve twenty years In the state
penitentiary by Judge Dunno yesterday.
Benjamin A Curtaz has filed answer to
the action instituted by his wife. Jose
phine Sarah CurtaZ for divorce. Mr
Curtaz denies that he has been guilty
Of infidelity and asks that Mrs: CurtaZ
petition be denied. Judge Datngerheld
will hear the case Monday afternoon
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-22
our free art exhibition the past
week has been a source of great
pleasure and satisfaction. some
of the exhibits remain few days.
art materials

Christmas and cold weather coming
suggest pleasant employment for
these long evenings, making fancy
and useful articles.
German knitting yarn, hanks to 10,
CSC hank; 90c 10.
Germantown yarn, IL skeins to ID. 12c
skein; s1.44 10.
Germantown yarn. 16 skeins to 10, 1Oc
skein; S1.44 10.
SaxOny yarn, II skeins to rn. s1-Sc
skein; 81 10.
Spanish yarn, skeins to 10, 15c
skein; $1.20 10,
Shetland floss, skeins to 10, 15c
skein; S1.20 ID.
Shetland floss, Il skeins to 10, 1oc
skein; $120 10.
Fairy zephyr-same as Shetland floss;
2. 4 and fold zephyr, sc g. lap and
SLIGO rb.