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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-04-22
ALASkA'S CLIMATES.
1t Compares Favornbiy With That of
the Northern States.

rom tne Seattle observation-disclosures.
Doubtless there is no part of the earth
the climate of which is as little understood
by the average man and woman as that of
Alaska. Most of the people of the United
States, especially those east of the Rockies.
have only a hazy recollection of Alaska or
Russia in America" as described in their
childhood's geography; and the modern
"Klondike' has only dissipated that haze
sufficiently to allow their vision to be con-
centrated on that one point. To them
whatever happens in ''Klondike' Of course
happens in all other parts of Alaska. They
forget that the klondfke and the Yukon
country is separated from the southern
coast by a range of great mountains, and
that consequently the coast line has a vast
ly different climate from that of the in
terror. They forget that the proximity of
the Pacific. and the prevailing westerly
winds over that ocean, give the southern
coastal region of Alaska a climate having
a comparatively small range of tempera-
tUre; while the interior, shut off from these
modifying influences, is subject to truly
arctic rigors in winter which scarcely af-
feet the southern sections. It is safe to
say that before the discovery of gold in the
klondike scarcely one person in ten knew
the length and breadth of the district, and
some of the mistakes and guesses made are
ludicrous In the extreme
southeastern Alaska, at last as far as
temperature conditions are concerned. has
climate that many of the states may
envy, remembering the severity of the cold
waves that have swept the country from
Montana TO Florida 1t is true that south
eastern Alaska has a considerably greater
amount of precipitation and more rainy or
snowy days than most of the states of the
Union; however, the absence of cold waves
and disastrously sudden changes in tam
perature will go far on the credit side of
the southern Alaska ledger The interior
deprived IN a great measure of the sooth-
ing effect of the ocean, of course has a
rigid climate in winter yet the summer
months are warm, often oppressive
The coast line has had considerable moro
rain or snow than the Observation-Disclosures
and Skaguay-and the number of clear and
parity cloudy days at JUNEAU and Skaeuay
is more than twice as great as at Sitka and
klllisnoo. In fact, the winter weather of
juneau and Skaguay viii favora5ly com
pare with that of any of the northern
states-indeed with many of the southern
Inc western bureau bulletins of February
10 reported temperature of 2 degrees be-
low zero as having occurred on he 18th at
llahassee, Fla. On that date at Junea,
ana at S1tka, the lowest temperatures ware.
Juneau, 50 degrees; Sitka, 35 degrees while
the lowest temperature thus far of the
WINTER were degrees below zero at Ska
quay, IN December and January When If
is remembered that Skaguay is about . 600
niles farther north from the equator than
Tallahassee, the difference becomes more
striking, and should turn the tide of winter
travel toward Alaska.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-04-22
CURSED BY CHARITY.
How an English Village Was Palmer.
lied by Il Gift of Land

Julian Ralph in the Providence Journal
The well-meaning citizen of one of the
earlier Georgian reigns left to the village
a small tract of ground for the pasturing
of ten cows, whose milk was to be given a
pint at time, to the deserving poor at
the place. In time the cows died, and the
vicar of that day. who had the charity in
his control, rented the land as pasture for
the COWS of his neighbors, who paid him
10 shillngs, or $3.50, each year for each
cow that grazed there. Thus it came about
that money instead of milk began to be
dispensed to the so-called poor WHY there
Should have been poverty to any consider
able extent in a village of twenty or tWeu-
ty-four houses in England's days of profit
able agriculture, or whether there would
have been any but for this premium that
was put upon 1t there, who shall say? But
time went on; and not very long ago the
rich men of some busy manufacturing
towns near by turned covetous eyes upon
the beautiful village, and began to buy
land on Which to put UP villas there. They
bought the pasture land, piece by piece
until at last it was all bought up; and in
its place the poor of the village looked to a
sum of something like 100000 well and
safely invested.
The reader may be sure that the poor
multiplied proportionately to the growth of
this charity. Sadder tales than those of the
wrecks of manhood who flung themselves
upon or were sucked in by this charity
could scarcely be conceived. Farming
ceased to pay, it is true; but from below
the former farms the earth began to yield
rich mineral store. and work was made
for people threefold as numerous as the
population of the original farming village
Cottages sprung up in rows, even to the
forming of new street or two; and earnest
honest men came there to labor. Today
many of these families have succumbed to
the temptation of the local charity.
Today there is in that little village squalor
to match the worst in London Honest
households have been transformed into
families of parasites, loafers and drunk
ards. who will not work because aims
money comes more easily than wages. The
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-04-22
FIRST SIGHT OF INDIA.
bombay Like an Elaborate Dream of
Strange Sights and sounds.

G. W. Stevens in the London Mail
The first sight Of India is amazing, en-
trancing. Supplying. OF other countries
you become aware gradually; Italy leads
up to the Levant, and Egypt passes you
Oh insensibiy to the desert. Landed in
Bombay you have strayed into a most
elaborate dream, infinite in variety. blurred
With complexity, gallery of strange faces
a buzz of strange voices, a rainbow of
strange colors, garden of strange growths,
d book of strange questions, a pantheon of
strange gods. Different beasts and birds in
the street. different clothes to wear. differ
ent meal times and different food-the very
conmonest things are altered. You begin
new life in a new world.
1t takes time to come to yourself At
first everything is SO noticeable that you
notice nothing. When things begin to come
sorted and sifted, Bombay reveals itself as
a city of monstrous contrasts.
Along the sea front one splendid public
building follows another-variegated stone
facades, with arch and colonnade, cupola
ana pinnacle and statuary. AT their feet
huddle flimsy huts of mating, matched
with leaves, which a days rain would re-
duce to mud and pulp. You sit in a marble
paved club, vast and airy as a Roman
villa, and look out over gardens of heavy
scarlet and purple flowers toward choking
alleys, where half-naked sayaSes herd by
IdIhileS together IN Open-frOnted rooms
and filth runs down gullies to tester in the
sunken street In this quarter you may
see the weaver twirling his green and am
Der wool on hand loom-a skeleton so
simple and fragile that a kick would make
sticks of it: go to the street corner and you
see black smoke belch from a hundred
roaring mills. whose competition cuts the
throat of all the world. In the large open
space Parsees bowl each other under
hand full-pitches and cry, Tank you. tank
YOU, after bali; by the rail squats a Hin
doc, who would like, if only the law would
let him, to marry babies and burn widows.
Yet, for all its incongruities Bombay new
er lets you forget that ii is a very great
city. If it had no mills it would be re-
nowned for its port; if it had neither it
would be famous for its beauty. And it
it were as ugly as it is fair it would still
be one of the most astounding collections
of human animals in the world. Forty
languages, it is said, are habitually spoken
In its bazaars That, to him who under
stands no word of any of them. is perhaps
more curious than interesting, but then
every race has its own costume, so that
the streets of Bombay are kaleidoscope of
Vermilion turbans and crimson, orange and
III me color, of men in blue and brown and
emerald waistcoats women in cherry-col-
cred satin drawers or nantes, drawn from
the head across the bosom to the hip, Of
blazing purple or green that shines like a
grasshopper. If you check your eye and
ask your mind for the master color In the
crowd it is white-white bordered with
brown or fawn or damson legs
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-04-22
RAN ON. VERSE.
A Song Of Spring,

Written for The Evening Rtar by c. II. Doing.
subtle Something idpothe air.
Or is 1t in the earth somewhere?
Has changed thd feldS that late were bare
To carpets of bfishtitsreen.
And now is heard the slearest note
From thrustle's pipe and bluebird's throat.
And now the robins rafous coat
Takes on its brightest sheen
Along the dank sage Of the swals
The crimson budding naples hail,
With grateful blsfsh, the April gale
That wakes to fife tie flowers.
And green aud yellow, pink and gray,
Blend in the landscape far away;
Aud near, the blackbird's reundelay
Beguiles the sunny hours.
The crocus pushes thro' the mold
In cradle hoilows deep, that hold
Piled leaves Of layers manifold.
Its yellow-bearded spear
And, meath the hill tops sheltered lea.
A warming glow on bush and tree
Awakes the pale anemone
That bushes to be here.
A deeper shade of green is seen
In messy banks that rise between
The fretting brook and laurel screen,
That skirts the woodland path.
The swelling flowers, the budding tree,
The warming flush on hill aud lea,
Are signs that all too soon Will be
But springtime's aftermath.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-04-22
Who knowSS
ia the Independent.

Thomas Dunn English III the Independent.
Perchance the spirit freed from feshcn chains
May doff its cerements and escape the tomb;
Perchance may wander while all time remains
YEARLY waiting for the day of DOOM
Released by death from all its earthly tbroes-
Who Knows?
Perchance the disembodied spirit NAV
Come back among the scenes of care and strife
To learn how useless its former Way
How little We're the greatest things Of life;
How very petty were its many woes
Who knows?
Perchance the spirit, when the life is er
May sink In apathy so long and deep
OF earth and heaven, hell to know no more
Till the last trump shall rouse it from its sleep
Unconscious While lies current steadily flows
Who Knows?
All! If the spirit may at times return
And gaze around with imGlaterial eyes
Or sghtless, senseless. hing may learn
Until the day for Judgment shall arise
Seek not 10 learn; In God your trust repose-
He knows.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-04-22
A New York SQUAD,

From the Pittshurg Dispatch.
A young, well-dressed couple occupied
seats near me few evenings ago in an
uptown cafe, and as they looked good for
a big tip the walters fairly flew over one
another in efforts to make the service sat
isfactory. They ordered a nice fat. young
squad and a large bottle of chambertin.
The meal seemed to be progressing pleas
antly. when the young gentleman was
heard to say to the waiter: do you call
up ring which he had deity removed
from one of the squads legs. 1t b0re the
inscription &c. l.. L., 974." The manager.
whose attention was attracted by the laugh
that went around, made good" by order
ing several bottles at his own expense. but
1. is safe to say that young man viii ore
der no more squads at that cafe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-04-22
Death for Corn Microbes.
From the New York Press.

NfeiA ene new YORK Press.
That little bit of tough skin on the bust
ness side of the little toe, that unfailing ba-
rometer and inducer of pedal agony. the
corn, Is not simply the result of wearing
boots too tight or too loose, as We have
been taught to believe. 1t has far more
important pedigree than that, and actually
boasts bacillus-the corn bacillus. His
identity has long been hidden, but a Trap
pist monk discovered the rascal and his
complete destruction may be looked for in
the near future.
The pesky organism has been dignified
with name. Bacillus diabolicus ii is
called. Physicians will abbreviate that to
Di. The monk OF La TrapPe who found
him out gives detailed Instructions for the
capture and punishment of the vicious mite
for the benefit Of suffering humanity, The
perchloride of mercury in solution and
thirty drops laudanum de Sydenham Place
this on the affected spot and the career of
the bacillus diabolicus comes to an ignoble
end.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-04-22
Life worth, Living.

From the Spectator. -
Life Is a thing vorth living to the brave.
Who fear not Fortunes spite in Truth who trust
Whose spirit, not thraled by pride or earthward
lust
STANDS up while mortal tumults round them rave,
Like Tenerife above the ocean wave;
Who. mailed in Duty, with divine disgust
heeoii from frivolous joys and aims UNJUST
Nor miss rewards which reason scornS to crave.
Lie is worth living to those souls of light
Who live for Others and by gift bestOY
TIN them the jubilant beams of their own by
right; =
Who knowing Iifes defects, more fnly know
This life Is not the Temple, but the Gate
Where men secure of Szitrance watch and wait,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-04-22
ChanEeIes,

ChanSeiess.
Stephen Power Otis In the Home Journal.
In the shadowy world of dreams
My long dead love and !
Met face to face, in the wan half CLEANS
Or the twilight dreamland sky.
Met as the living meet,
With kiss and clasp of hand
In the gray of the glimmering dreamland street,
Where the Houses of Silence stand.
rs It, oh, my own, at last?"
tHut the touch of her lips how chill!
"hhe The long years, out of the bitter past,
hose solemn and sad and still)
Face to face we Stood
win the wraiths of the years between
AN, weep, my own, for the missing good
vi the days that might have been!"
Nay. mourn MOTTO love- but smile,
lhat my troth Gdn mover change;
Nor the eyes that beamed for an earthly while
GROW careless. Of cold, strange.
DC Il
No changeihg oftmortal breath,
IN the tickle woBti of clay;
soqt mere, In thisoshaddwy realm Of death.
1our own, foreYbr and aye"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-04-22
COrean Punishment.
From the st. Louis Globe-Democrat.

From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
A youth in Kunsan, Corea, recently cut
his hair to displease his parents The lat
ter were so enraged and grieved at this
conduct that they Cooked upon him as
dead, and, calling In their relatives and
friends, went through the ceremony for the
dead, sacrifices being offered and wailing
INDUCED in. The incorrigble youth was
stole spectator through 1t all. sitting quiet
Iy by himself, and when tired he made his
way to the dispensary CT Dr. Drew (from
whom the account is DRAWN and reported
the progress of the services. For a month
no notice was taken of the boy by his par
ents other than giving MIN his food He
has taken to wearing foreign clothing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-04-22
To d Life.

Norwood II. McGiIvary in the Overland Monthly.
When all the world still, he found ajar
The gate of Paradise, and heard alone
As few in life have heard, the Overt0ne
Above that heavenly music, bar on bar;
While. like the instant blaze of some strange star
Upon the marge of night, he Thought to see
A CLEAN that pierced his souls transparency,
Enkindling his whole self with flames from afar.
10 him was given no voice Of raptured song,
To sing the deathless melody he heard
No sorcery of hand to mold the light
In shapes that might be seen by all the throng-
AS though his life were one melodious word
He lived and that word meant simple
Right
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-04-22
a songaof TRUTH.

Written for The Evening Star by Annie Lambeth
Perkins.
Life is not long enough for Idle dreaming;
For signs sent out to corresponding heartst
Soon have the shadows fallen, all too soon
The light of life departs.
IT'S sweet know, to sigh of hopeless longingJ
To sing Of broken hearts and vanished beauty,
But, after all. life in Its truest meaning
ID conscientious dutyl
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-04-22
To the Nfnety-and-Nine,

+ TOM Harper's BazarJIA u
For the one stray lsaal faat must walk apart,
Leave greatness ahd sadness and fame,
Perehance to die 81 O broken heart
That the world Gay Eslnember its name.
But We. who are oily the rank and file,
We may leave to Garth The gift of a smile
AS sweet us the, 4pet' :, song.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-04-22

The British empire Is now a territory of
IL 500 600 square miles, or 13,00O,OOO If We
include Egypt and the Soudan, and in this
territory there Is population of about
401 600 0OO. which would be increased to
over 40 900 0oe if Egypt and the Soudan
were included-a population about one
fourth of the whole population of the
earth. OF the population about 50,0O0,0O0
are of English speech and race.
An ingenious mechanical device pastes
paper labels on 100 900 cans in ten hours.
Down shoot rolls a ceaseless procession
of cans. and each can picks up label as
ii passes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-04-22
When the Sun Isn't in 1t.
From the Detroit Journal.

The sun has kissed Eudora
More oft than /; but mark,
He may not know what Joy it ID ;,
To kiss her in the dark
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-04-22


After all the guests have drunk and o,,,
pHmvnted the host he drinks his Gun and
says. You have honored me and M home
% your visit" to which they all bow and
Say. We have been honored"
Inefe are various ways in which the
ei"us Is spent Card playing is very GEN
eidl in winter. but IL frequently ca1sss
fut'rreiS among the mountaineers Heroic
IaIeS usually occupy the evening and each
1die Is made a little larger than the one
preceding it, One says: MY grapdfatbar
win one blow Of his vatican (some SORT
% = ciayfnore) cut off the head of a gipon
ue hlgh"ayman-" The other says: Listen
may God prolong your days; there is great
eT imam that My great grandfather once
stfdcS a great btghwayman with his yati-
cAa on the crown of his head. The weanon
TEL exactly on the middle of the head. and
passing through the backbone cut the
spinal cord exactly in two and passed he
tween the feet OF the doomed man. The
dow was so swift that the man, not feeling
IL, stepped forward toward my great grand
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-05-17
Her spleadia Hair..

When Mrs. Norton was in the heydsy
Of ner loneliness, very beautiful Ital-
ial, woman came to London, bringing
letters Of introduction. MIRA Norton
asked small party Of fashionable peo-
pie to meet her at dinner, among whom
was Lord Normandy, great admirer
Of pretty women. All the men were en-.
ohanted with the beautiful stranger and
all the women rather jealoua One Of
her great beauties was profusion Of
splendid hair, dressed in innumerable
plaits. The women decided they were
not all her own. Before the evening
was over Lord Normandy expressed his
admiration Of the wonderful hair and
intimated how much he should like to
see 1t let down.
"Since you wish It, my lord, - said
the woman, and she forthwith unplaited
one massive coil after another, while
the other women looked on, deyoured
with envy. II am doing for you, my
lord. what do not do for everybody, !"
said the houri, casting up her fine eyes
ct the enraptured Lord Normandy
from under her mantle of flowing locks.
SIT is three weeks now since I Last I'M
did my hair."
Which announcement In some degree
oonsoled the English danes for their
inferior looka
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-05-17
ailss In the Pulnit.

The tenets Of John Wesley and his
disciples were eagerly embraced in Nor
folk, and Giles frequently became q To-
cal preacher. One local, Sam by
name, is described 40 "a born teacher, {"
though his SMILES often dropped to the
burlesque. On one occasion he took for
his text, "The wages Of sin is death, I"
and prefaced his sermon as follows:
"My fri'ndR Brother Paul tells Us
that the wages o. sin is death. Now,
let's see wuther we kin grasp wot he
maan by't. S'pose Iwor tn go an du my
harvest for Mr.. b. Ia local farmer),
an arter all the wuk wor dun 20 an az
Mr.. T. (another farmer In the same vii.
lage) fur my wages, wot du yeou think
Mr.. T. would saay1 Surely he would
up and saay, Sam, yeou air q fule. Go
an AZ Mr.. b. fur yer wages; yeou ha'
dun yer harvest there. Wot du yeou
come an az me fur yer wages fur2' An
ef I wuk all my loife fur the daavil an
go tn God fur my reward he wool saay,
mo, no. Sam; yeou 60 tn the daavil fur
yer reward; yeou hev wuked fur him in
the harvest o. loife; he must pay
yeou. '"-Westminster Gazetta
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-05-17
COCOON.

E. T. Hastings is erecting q neat lit
tie cottage on the corner of Linn and
Second streets.
A great many of the strawberry beds
in this vicinity are looking slim on &C.
count of the severe winter. The crop,
no doubt, will be greatly shortened.
Many of the farmers are complaining
that the severe weather last winter
killed out all the clover in their
meadows.
Grandma Campbell, of Hopkinton, is
a guest at the home of her son, j. H.
Campbell and family, at their residence
on Third street.
The Coggon creamery is doing good
business this spring, though great
many of the creameries throughout the
country have been. compelled to close
down on account of scarcity of milk.
The Odd Fellows lodges of Albur-
nett, Central City and Coggon last year
formed an association for the observ-
ance of their memorial day, which
comes in June This year the services
will be held in Coggon, and already the
home lodge has commenced making ar
rangements for the occasion.
Mr.. ). j. Lyttle visited his wife, al
Independence, last Thursday and says
he found her much better than he ex-
pected. Her health seems to be improv.
ing rapidly and it seems to be the belief
OF the attending physician that she will
be able to return in short time, per
haps two months. Mr.. Lyttle's friends
will be glad to learn that her condition
has taken SO favorable turn,--Monitor
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THORPE.

Uncle Chester Grow, who has been
suffering from Brights disease for some
time, is better at this writing.
Grandpa Munger is convalescing and
we are much pleased to see him able to
be up and around.
Several of the Frentress family were
In East Dubuque, Illinois, the latter
part of last week, attending the funeral
of Hon. H. N. Frentress.
Herm Fowler, who has been perform
ing the duties of assistant mail clerk
from Dubuque to Sioux City, is at
home again.
Cal Cree had neat runaway Wed
nesday. No bones broken.
Ed Lee has resigned his position as
pumper for the Ry Co. at this station,
and is managing his farm. Fred
Wormleighton takes his place here.
Over fifty wagon loads of hogs were
shipped from this station last week.
Several car loads coming from near the
Point. 1t seems to pay to ship from
here. Try it.
A sociable for the benefit of the school
library, Friday night, at g. E. Ryans,
was 9 social and financial success, the
proceeds amounting to $8.Go