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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-20
RAN ON VERSE.
The Largest Life.


Archibald Iampman in the Atlantic Monthly.
I lie upon my bed and hear and see
The moou IL rising through the glisteping trees:
And momentiy Il great and 'somber breeze
With a vast voice returning itfuIy
Comes like deep-toped gief. and stirs in me,
Sc mellow by some fneNplicable art
A of my soul 8 stra nfeness and its part
In the dark march Of human destiny
What am |, then. and Whist are they that mass
Ionder and love and laugh. and mourn and weep ?
What shall they know of me, or l. alas
OF them? Little. AT times, IL from sleep,
We waken to this yearnlng passionate mood
And trembie at our spiritual solitude.
Nay. never once to feel wa are alone
While the great human heart around us lies:
To make the smile other lips our own
To live upon the light in others eyes;
To breathe without doubt the iInpid air
OF that most perfect love that knows no pain:
To say. | love you, only, and not care
Whether the love come back " US again.
Dvinesr self forgetfu1ness. at fist
A task. and then tonic. then need:
To greet with open hards the best and worst
And only for annther's wound to bleed.
This is to the beauty that God meant
Wrapped round with life. inefably content
There is Il beauty at the goal of life
A beauty growing since the world began
Through every age and race, through lapse and
strife.
Till the great human soul complete her span
Beneath the waves Of storm that lash and burn
The currents of blind passion that appall
To listen and keep watch till we discern
The tide of sovereign truth that guides 1t all;
So to address spirits to the height
And attune them to the valiant whole
That the great light be clearer for our light
And the great soul the stronger for our soul:
To have done this is to have lived though fame
Remember with no familiar name.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-20

Prom Chambers Journal.
The Transvaal Boer will eat almost any
thing in the flesh, fish or fowl line, for all
IS grist that comes to his gastronomic mill.
and the following mixture is voted most
delectable by the majority of the rougher
classes: A great square slice is cut off a
loaf made of coarse unsifted meal. and
covered with a thick layer of jam--prefer-
ably strawberry; row of sardines is then
placed on top, and the oil from the sardine
box is literally poured over the whole. A
loud smacking of lips and other manifesto
tons OF thorough appreciation accomnanv
the disposal of this delicate bonne-boIIche:
but the unsophisticated Boer only INDUCES
in this luxury when he means To enjoy a
special treat, quite regardless of expense.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-20
HIRED BY WEIGHT.
Turkish Female Singers Must BE Fat
to Be Popular.
From the Chicago Record.

From the Chicago Record
In Turkey the most beautiful and desira-
BILE woman Is the one who weighs the most
A thin and willowy creature would have
TO standing in Turkey and would be total
failure on the stage in Constantinople. Tn
less a woman is fat she cannot secure an
cnga cement in music hall, and the fatter
she is the more enthusiasm she arouses and
the larger is her salary.
On Monday evening after my arrival
in Constantinople l went to the Concordia
Music Hall with my American acquaint-
ances, and there / saw more feminine
breadth. depth thickness. heft and circum-
ference than l had ever before seen under
given by women-women with moon faces,
rolling jowls, judicoEsly busted with pow
der, and elephantine forms that detied the
COnhding hold of any corset. Fat women!
Women who We're built straight out from
the chin and then retreated toward an in
definite waist line: women whose dimpled
arms were the shape of holsters and whose
bursting slippers squeakei beneath the
weight put on them.
Judging from the arrangement of the bill
ana the applause bestowed on the various
maSJOdOn sOubrettes, | would say that in
Constantinople woman weighing ID
pounds and possessed of a fair singing
hall. but she would be compelled to accept
low salary and appear early in the bill
woman Weighing 25D could get slight
" larger salary and better place on the
bill.
The salary would thus increase as the
weight increased. In Constantinople they
hire their SOubrettes by the pound. One
who can weigh in each evening at ga or
more is sure To get her name in black type
and draw the star salary. no matter wheth-
CT she can sing or not.
In the bill at the ConcOrdia were French
and German women, one lone American
ESTIMATED weight. 215J, and several from
Turkish Europe. The first woman who
sang was fat, the second was fatter, the
third waS-no, not fattest. although she
was much heavier than No. > She was
merely the promise of what was yet to
come
They were holding back the really big
artists for the finale. AT last these two
came on. They were sisters" and they
made large family by themselves. We
called them the Bchemoth Sisters. They
were in white and they waddied out on the
stage
Great Scott exclaimed the man from
Lafayette. Why didn't they roll them on
the stage? How much do you suppose they
weigh?'
a ton apiece" ventured the New Yorker.
Too low. too low
The house rose in JOY the two vast
egg-Shaped objects appeared on the stage.
The Turks. who had been sitting stOlidly in
me boxes looking with huH &nc"nrcrn at
Tho frail voc8lists who weighed less than
:ao. NOW Strengthened up and clapped their
hands. a Turk in front Of us Che had
checker board trousers and a low white
NcSC shouted Bravo
The two sisters were the hit Of the show.
They had to sing until their globular faces
We're pink with exertion and their balloon
like costumes rose and fell with the heaV-
ingS of their cXertiOn.
We wondered if they ever had comic opera
i'm Turkey. and If IL would he safe to put
an entire chorus on one stage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-20

on board was either drunk or seasick 1t
was so cold on deck that my teeth were
chattering In my head, and when l went
down into the crowded steerage | found the
atmosphere unbearable II was packed
with men. women and children. and here
ana there were groups of people passing
whisky bottles around. Every time / pass
ed one of these groups l was offered
drink of whisky, but always declined the
oHer with the best grace / could.
L FOUND the deck cold and wet and 1T
tie less wretched than the steerage. One
half OF the steerage passengers were Irish
men returning home. and a number of
others, as far as | could gather from their
talk, were Scotch people who were going
to see friends in ireland. Suddenly, with a
loud 'Whrr-r-o-o.' an Irish laborer struck
quiet-looking Scotchman in the face. The
Scotchman retorted with interest, and in
two minutes three or four sets Of COM
batants were fighting. The sailors came
along with Delaying pins. which they used
on the fighters, and. scattering them, put
two of the worst offenders in irons. BY
this time the deck was slippery with blood,
Then young fellow. apparently not
more than twenty, but fighting drunk
rushed around and said he wanted the
blood of an lrishman. He tried get UP
fight with several people. hitting at them
even with his head until he was led away
by some companions He evidently got all
the fighting he wanted, for ten minutes
later saw him crying, with his face all
covered with blood. and all the fight gone
out of him. 4 big man who saw me look
ing disguised. tried to pick a quarrel with
me by asking:
What the -- do you think you are
Before | had time to reply another man
jostled against him and diverted his atten-
ton. Words again led to blows, and others
Joined in the fight. 1t was nearly always
Scotch against Irish. and Irish against
Scotch.
This miserable state of affairs lasted
nearly all the way to Belfast. When we
arrived there about a dozen OF the fighters
were in irons and most of the rest were too
drunk to light any more. | made up my
mind after that experience never to travel
steerage in a Glasgow steamer in harvest
time again.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-20
4 BikiRg Ballad.

Blanche 7. Heath in the Detroit Free Press.
Lord Scroggins he rose from his baImy sleep,
And he saddled his horse Of steel.
He mHtteFed a Of import deep
As he sprang his plufging wheel:
I will speed east and viii speed me west,
Nor from my ladye's quest,
Till find her, for or veal"
The ladye stepped from her silken bower,
And she was gay ladyr,
For naught but great composite flower
Could rival her braveree
With her boomers red. and her Knockers tan,
She looked like link between monkey and man,
As she hied her over the lee,
Lord ScroggIns ne saw that ladye ride
stride in her naughty state:
And he airily cried he scorched to her side
DO find thee at last, my Fatel''
But she wrinkled her nose with a scorn divine
Sir Fossil, avaunt from path Of mine!
For the wheel that ride is 80,
While thine is s.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-20
Harrow and Plough.

From the Lewiston Evening Journal.
From tie Of Aroostook. broad and mellow In
the sun
Down to rocky York the chorus Of the farmers has
begun.
They are riding in Aroostook on Il patent sulky
plough
They are riding, taking comfort for they've
learned the secret how,
They planting their potatoes with whirring
new machine.
Driver sits beneath an awning siickest thing
you've eyer seen
There is not rock to yex EN- In the acres spread
Ing wide.
So they sit upon crshion. cock their legs and
Gee and Bright go Iurching onward in the burrows
mellow steam:
Over there, with clank of while, tugs a sturdy
Morgan team.
And the man who rides the planter or who plods
Joins and swells the mighty chorus of the seasons
budding mrth.
And they've pitched the tune to jubi
liant strain.
They lifting it merrly now.
We wait for that melody down here in
Tls the song of the harrow and plough
They are picking rocks In oxford and in Waldo
blasting ledge
And they're farming down in Lincoln their
Down among the kitchen gardens of the slopes of
Cumberland
They're sticking in the garden sass as thick as IT
And every is shifting at the scent of furrowed
earth.
And every man is living all of life at what it's
worth
Though the farmer In Aroostook sails across
velvet field
And his mellow, crumbly acres vomit forth
spendtbr.ft yield
All the rest just as cheerful on their hillside
farms he.
For there's coy wealth in gardens and n fortune
in tree.
So they're singing the song of the COM
ing of spring,
And the song of the empty NOW;
OF the quiy err of birth that Is stirring
the earth
IT'S the song of the harrow and plough.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-20

PeGKy'S herch1ef.
From the Home Journal.
Yellow. for the passing years
Have with sere touch dimmed it.
And the hands vanished long
That in the old times trimmed It.
While i sweet herbs fragrance faint
Each fimv fold discoses-
The muslin kerchef, broidered white,
With roses.
Peggy, she my great grea t-aunt
On gala days to don it,
With her skillful fingers feet
Put 'broideries upon 1t,
And as other maids. / wis,
Oft sat with dreamy glances
The while she weayed, tween silken stitch,
Romances.
When fine and daintily,
Flower 'brOdered, Peggy made It.
With slender Sprigs of lavender
Away with care she laid it,
Yet as springs to summers turned
And years the years succeeded
Soft, fold fold. the kerchief lay
Unheeded.
For as a ~pringtide blossom dies,
SO Peggy. ere she wore 1t,
And with the scent OF lavender
That subtIy hovers DER it,
Breathing of the years ago
All undsturbed reposes
The muslin kerchief 'br0dered white,
With roses.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-20
A Duplicate Game.
From the Chicago Record.

From the Chicago Record
game of whist? Who could resist
The challenge hold when you insist?
Ana yet I'm told that. entire nous,
You always hold trick two
Unknown to your antagonist.
| own am no analyst
ot maden's ways, nor grasp the gist
Or half their ,playsf thus l may rue
A game of whist.
Bnr, like an ardent optimist,
/ IL give the wheel Of chance O twist;
Ii play my hand-aLd would 1t do
+" try to win your hand from you
IL hearts be truinps? Do you persist
IL ii game of whist?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-20

He had taken his punishment like a little
man, and for some time afterward had been
buried in thought. Mamma" he said.
finally.
We'll. Wiilie?'
do you really spank me because YOU
love me so much?'
That's the reason punish you Willie 3"
"And don't you love papa at alp
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-20
When Marjorie Sings.


Julia Schayer in Lippincott's
When Marjorie sings, her throat of snow
SW"lls with the music's ebb and flow
Lake throat of song thrush. and her eyes
Grow e nder as the light that lies
On hilltops when the sun is low.
SO fair the singer, scarce I know
Allegro frC M adagio
Nor dream her art to criticise
When Marjorie sings.
look and list and hourly grow
More hopelessly her slave; but. oh,
Of whom dreams she? tOh, dread surmtseD
For whom do those soft bushes rise?
To whom these maiden fancies 20
When Marjorie sings?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-20
Judge Not!

In men whom meE condemn as i'll
find so much of goodness still:
In men whom men pronounce divine
l find so much Of sin and blot,
] hesitate to draw a line
Between the two. where God has not.
JOAQUIN MILLER
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-20

The hair on the heads of most of the hum
dreds of thousands of dolls now being eX-
hibited in shop windows is made from the
hair of the Angora goat This product is
controlled by an English syndicate, and is
valued at 100000 year. After the hair is
wigs by girls.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-20

The costliest bicycle in the world has lust
been finished at a gun factory In Vienna
1t will cost 100000 gulden, which Is little
more than $1,000. The owner is a rich
South African diamond king and mine
owner. who will present the machine to his
wife on her next birthday. The frame
alone cost 1880 gulden, and at the last
Vienna exposition it was admired by thou
sands. The South African millionaire was
so struck with the exquisite beauty of the
wheel that he bought 1t and had Ii inlaid
with precious stones and diamonds on
every possible part.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-02-18
big BInze in New York city.

New York, Feb. l0--rhi. city Wa- Wis
tied by fire last night. ;he loss by which
is variouely estimated at from 100000 to
81 100000
The flames started in The bag factory If
Walter Bell, and Front street The
lire soon spread to No. ) and then to rs
Moore street. The sparks blown by the
wind ignited Nos. / and 3 South street, a
four-story building occupied As storage
warehouse by j. H. Meyer a Co, and
threatened the entire block bounded by
South, Front, Moore aud Whitehall
streets. No , trout street, occupied by
Augumbau and Rance, fruits, burned
rapidly.
Peter Hartman'~ hotel, the Eastman
ana the Whitehall hotel were included in
the sweep OF the flames.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-02-18
Tribute From Gen. Miles.

Major General Nelson A. Miles pays a
glowing tribute to the valor of the Amer
lean soldiers in the fight at Manila
The American soldiers have again met
with remarkable success, just as they did
all through the late war;" he said This
last conflict and its glorious results is but
another testimonial to the courage, patri-
otism and gallantry of our soldiers. They
respond nobly to call to duty and acquit
themselves with honor
"All reports show that officers and men
distinguished themselves by their GOODNESS
and true American fortitude under fire.
Their heroism adds to the fame OF our
army.
81 feel quite certain that the conflict
will have a salutary effect upon the in
surgents and will doubtless discourage
them from renewing hostilities."
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-02-18
English Praise Our Volunteers

The Telegraph, commenting upon the
fighting at Manila, says:
at is quite clear that the Americans
have given the Filipino rebels very
sound thrashing at a comparatively small
cost to themselves. They have for the
time being, at all events, placed Manila
in safety until the reinforcements now
en- route reach General Otis Although
the majority of the American soldiers at
Manila were volunteers, they appear to
have fought with as much discipline and
gallantry as their regular comrades could
baye exhibited"
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-02-18
wife Was Frozen to Death.

Butte, Mont, Feb l3.-Ihe weather,
after brief spell OF pIeasantness, has
again turned bitterly cold. The thermom-
eter varies between and 20 below zero.
Sam Rumble, a miner, on returning to his
home in MederviIle, the eastern suburb
OF Butte. found his wife lying at the bot
tom OF the front steps, frozen to death.
The woman had evidently started out
during the night and had slipped and
fallen, stunning herself, and being unable
to move or call for help was frozen.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-02-18
OREGON.

The Moro Leader estimates that there
are $4,000 sheep in sherman county, Ore
gou.
For the first time in its history, Elgin
is suffering from an epidemic Of typhoid
and scarlet fever.
Ernest Thompson of Rosemrg, ac-
cidentaliy shot himself in the foot with
22-calihre rifle last week.
w. Il. Winans of Hood River, killed a
cougar at Great Point, last week. 1t
was Il feet long and weighed $50 pounds.
The cougar was an old-timer.
Molalla farmers are deholnng their
stock. They say it Is safer for the COM
mlnity to deprive animals of natural wea-
pons which civilization has rendered use
less to them.
Frank Gallagher, Of Cornucopia, was
kicked in the face by a horse the other
day. Man and animal fell into snow
drift and the horse kicked his way out
and Gallagher's, too.
Mount Hood school district. Wasco
county, has voted to build public school
20x30 feet. 1t will cost about $3.50 Pine
Grove district. in the same county, will
erect a $1,000 building.
The tank for Condon's city water works
has been completed. 1t is 25 feet in di-
ameter and lG feet deep and holds $4,000
gallons.
The body of William p. Jordan, who
disappeared from the Oregon Soldiers
Home hospital on the morning of January
9th, was recovered one mile below Ford's
bar in the South Umpqua river. The
coroner's jury returned a verdict Of sui
cidal drowning.
Mrs. George Hull of Laurel died from
the effects OF burns received while trying
to save the household effects, when her
house was destroyed By fire few weeks
ago,
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-02-18
Cold weather in Chicago.

Chicago, Feb. l0.-This city is in the
grip of the coolest weather since 1872.
Twenty two below is the record. About
20 persons were so severely frost bitten
during the early morning that they had
to be taken to hospitals. Several portions
of the city are suffering from lack of wa
ter supply, due to frozen pipes. One man
was frozen to death on the street last
night while intoxicated
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-02-18

Manila, Feb. 1.-THE American colors
were run up today over n town of flame
Emaged at their inability to hold Mala-
bon in the face OF our invincibe troops
after being driven out OF Caloocan yester-
day, Aguinaldo's savage hordes set fire To
Il more remote entertainment. Alive every
instant to the obligations of civilized war
fare, the United States soldiers turned fire
fighters. Laying down their arms, they
tell 10 the task of eXtinguishing the flames
and saving the lives and property of the
deienoeess natives, and their work was
crowned with success.
1t ms been estimated the enemy mum
bered 10000 when the fighting began last
Saturday night, but since that time the
rebel losses killed, wounded and prisoners
amount to at least S000 which with
the addition OF 1000 prisoners and at least
that number Of those seeking cover, would
reduce the Filipino army today to 10000.
Even this estimate OF their fighting
strength would be mdicrously excessive
Many of them are Ygarotes and others
mountain tribesmen half naked, painted,
decked with feathers, and armed with
nothing more formidable than bows and
arrows and the bolas, or balls and thongs.
/ 1t is such armed troops that with barbar-
ic spite are burning a trail behind them
The capture OF Malabon began with the
Smelling Of the town by the monitor Mo
nadnock and the cruiser Charleston.
Thus, As in The case OF Caloocan yesterday,
the enemy were demoraized by heavy ar
tillely before the advance OF our soldiers.
1t was a resisJless advance when it came
accomplished in the teeth OF a heavy mus
kerry tire from the Jungle Eleven Of our
men fell in the charge-tNo killed and the
rest wounded. But this loss was a baga-
tellc to what the Fiiipinos suffered. Dead
and wounded We're piled on all sides when
the soldiers swarmed into the burning
town.
An interesting discovery was made in
headquarters by the Filipnos leaders. In
the haste OF their flight they had lett be-
hind, among other papers, the plans for
sudden attack in force on Manila itself.
Rebels Driven From CaloOcan.
Manila, Philippine Islands, Feb. Il
Inc iiOlitpl hoIluHoCk ana cruiser
Charleston began Smelling the Insurgents
positions at Caloocan at o'clock yester-
day afternoon. At 4 o'clock the American
troops advanced and made splendid
; charge through the woods, where the in
eurgents were concealed One hour after
the fight began the town of Caloocan was
: burning. Our troops are now IN full pos
session I'm insurgent force estimated at
5000 defended the trenches stubbornly I'M
til driven ont at the point OF the blyonet,
with heavy losses Their shooting was
bad. Our losses were three killed and 80
wounded.
The American troops engaged in the
fight We're the Twentieth Kansas, Tenth
Pennsylvania, the Montana and Idaho
troops, the Twenty third regulars, Third
artillery as infantry, one battery of the
Sixth artillery and Utah battery. Two
troops OF cavalry were held in reserve.
superior tactics OF the Americans discon-
ccrted the enemy
At the last station, under fire from NAL
abon, the farthcst advance post, our
men communicated with the army and
navy by signals from high towers.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-02-18

into the state $55000.Oo0. The market
value OF the stock today is $4,000. 900.
Who shall say that Massachusetts does
not prosper by its enterprise in investing
in foreign corporations"