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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-17

the dead sea-not crab, Ininnow, frog or
tadpole. The lake Is absolutely devoid of
all life except the bathers Now, to some
this may seem great pity that In beau
tiful lake nearly 5000 square miles in size
there is nothing to be caught with hook ana
line seine or spear There are no shells on
the bottom 70 cut the feet, because she'll
fish never existed in the lake and never can
So you see we have our compensations for
the lack of good fishing, If you have the
paradise for fishermen on your Atlantic
coast We certainly have the paradise for
batherS. If you once come and take bath
there your swim in the eastern waters Will
ever afterward seem tame in comparison.
'One thing more about swimming, and
then / am done, If you come out to the
Salt lake to swim just follow the lead OF
those who have lived there for years and
don't think that you know everything.
Just throw your body as far out OF the
water as you can with each stroke and
swim hard over hand. Remember that the
density of the water makes progress in the
ordinary way slow. But your body Is so
buoyant that you will almost swim
on top of the water instead of through 1t.
Then you can slide along at a speed that
will astonish you. l remember the time
that Capt. Boyton, the famous swimmer,
came out to Salt lake and attempted to
swim to Antelope Island, in the middle OF
the lake. He came all prepared with his
rubber suit. which of itself was quite heavy
and weighed him down. He was advised
not to make the trial. and above all not to
wear his rubber suit. but he would not
listen to advice. He plunged into the water
and started on his famous swim. Well, he
never reached Antelope Island. He was
found the next morning washed ashore, ex-
hausted and half dead, in the marsh east
of Black Rock. He was coated with a crust
of salt that weighed half much as his
body. and in giving his experiences after
ward he said that the water blew in his
face and hardened into a crust that be-
came unbearable. The weight of the water
impeled by a fair breeze simply knocked
him out. Now. If he had attempted the
swim in calm water a day when little
wind was blowing. and had left his rubber
suit off and tried to swim over and not
through the water, he would have found his
task comparatively easy. When you get
under the water you soon have to give up,
and one of your old-fashioned eastern
swimmers would never get along in the Salt
lake unless he learned the art all over
again"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-17
Skylark's Glorious Song,

FROM the minneapolis Journal.
Need l say a word about the skylark and
its wholly joyous song? It inspired one of
Jeremy Taylor's most beautiful and best
known passages-the lark rising from his
bed of grass and soaring upward, singing
as he rises and hoping to get to heaven and
climb above the clouds; singing las if 1t
had learned music from an angel as he
passed sometimes through the air about his
ministering here below" And 1t inspired,
too one of the finest odes in the English
language, Shelley's finest work, his ''su-
preme ode" But as may be said of another
ode, ii is mot in tune with the birds song
and the feeling it does and ought to awaken
The rapture with which the strain springs
up at first dies down before the close into
Shelley's ever-haunting melancholy.
Like Keats lode to the Nightingale" it
is no key to the birds song. 1t does not
teach us anything of the thought and feel
ing which inspired that quivering. ascend
ing embodiment of joy. that pilgrim of the
sky, hiding itself in the glorious light of the
summer heavens. The skylark may be
heard as early as January heard it this
year in November-as may also the rarer
woodiark, whose song, uttered from trees
or when flying, we recognize from its like
ness to that of the skylark, though it lacks
much of its rush and spirit and haste.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-17

Written for The Evening Star
have heard the peerless Nilsson to the heights of
heaven float,
ON the ontspread soaring pinIons Of transeenden-
tai note;
have listened unto Scalchi In a melody divine
TIL my blood was all a-sparkle like her own rich
native wine,
have heard at early morning. breaking through
the woodlands hush,
The rapt. inspired triiiing Of a loye-deIiebted
thrush
And my soul has echoed eagerly to every toucbi,g
strain,
Forgetting all its WEAKNESS, its sorrows and its
pain.
Yet all those blended harmonies, could never make
feel
The enchnntment that o'erwhelms me In the sing.
ing of the reel.
oh, ii has sweeter metre than such melodies as
these,
As ii buzzes. buzzes. buzzes like q coming swarm,
of bees
THERE'S electrifying ichor in the rapid monotones
That enkindles exaltation In the marrow Of INV
bones
No miser ever reyeled at blinking golden gains
MY biood goes coursing madly TO the rhythm of its
strains,
My heart and soul go dancing in a mad yoluptuous
whIrl;
My brains raging fire: all my senses In a swirl
An, no language can depict It! No power can re-
veal
The ecstasy that trembles in the singing of the
ree1i
-CLUSKEY CROMWELL.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-17
A QUAINT INN.
Queer London Tavern That Attracts
Custom by Its Unusual Regulations.

eueer LONDON Tavern That Attracts
Custom by Its Unusual Regulations.
From the New York Press
Just off busy Bishop gate. London. in a
small and somewhat ''slummy" street, there
stands public house remarkable for the
fact that in it one is allowed to have only
one drink and no smoke.
The proprietor of this quaint hosiery
obviously worthy citizen. seeing that he
himself invented, so to speak. this original
system of doing business. has been in the
occupation of the house some twenty odd
years.
Thither go all sorts and conditions of
men, from the silk-hatted city man to the
railway porter warehouseman, or mere
messenger. Ali have just their one drink
and go out Nor is it possible to trick the
proprietor by ordering. say, a bottle and
calling it ''oEe drink"
No; his one drink means certain meas
ure of beer, wine spirits, and that a
moderate one. On the wall of the one bar,
wherein all and sundry are served alike
hang the printed rules of the establishment
in frame.
They set forth how that the proprietor
deeming that he may conduct his business
as he thinks best, and having at heart the
cause of temperance, begs to call attention,
etc. Then follow in numbered order the
several rules. Before a customer can have
second drink he must go away and stop
away ior al IeaSt thirty or forty minutes.
one result of the strictly enforced rule
against smoking is that the atmosphere of
the bar is wonderfully clear and fresh. OF
course, no person is served should he ap-
pear to be even so slightly under the in
iuence of alcohol. The result is perfect
order and a subdued quiet.
The hours of closing, too differ from
those of other houses in the trade. Eleven
O'Clock sharp sees the house shut up five
nights of the week. On Saturdays the hour
is II. and on Sundays 10
To this house the chief rabbi grants his
special permit every PeRtecost to sell
Kosher rum to those of the Jewish COM
munity of the neighborhood
OF course. over and above the regular GUS
toners many people are attracted to this
inn out of pure curiosity. The Sightseeing
and novelty hunting American finds it out
IN his rarnbles. Should the curiosity mon
ger, however, try to coax the men servers
behind the bar into breach of their stern
law he is courteously refused. They are
never caught mapping, try them ever so
often.
The list of carefully compiled rules con-
ciudes with an invitation that such Gus
toners as do not care to conform thereto
are respectfully requested to transfer
their custom to some other establishment"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-17
EVENING STAR SATURDAY, JUNE II, 1see-24 PAGES

iaundries are public property. BY this
means the inhabitants are able to have
their clothes washef in,the very best man.
feel, when INDUCING in IN extra clean shirt,
that any profit made sen it goes to the
There is one great source of evil which,
able to cast off. Millions upon millions of
tons of coal are consumed yearly, and the
black, suffocating smoke hangs continually
not. lasgows fault that 1t has not been
removed The corporations are willing to
pay any one s1o,ooo.oo8 who viii dash it
away.
BY running their own Street railways. gas
plants and water works, and also being
owners of their own city. they have been
able to build Glasgow at practically no cost
to themselves. AND not only this. BY inn
proving their city they have saved every
year an average of oyer 1900 lives and
scourging diseases are Known no more.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-17

In silent agony until his destination was
reached-the only relief obtainable being
when the cart stopped for the night and
the weary traveller could throw himself
partly dressed a bed to snatch a few
hours sleep before the drivers call at the
earliest dawn warned him that the dread
hour had arrived for him to again take
his seat In the cart.
The start from the town was always Of
the same nature. The four or six horses
would stand paving the ground while a
couple Of Hottentots would hang on TO
their heads, the driver would gather up
the reins and crack his whip. the boys
would spring to one side, and the equipage
would disappear in a cloud of dust in the
distance. On some lines this would hold
good at all the various stopping places. but
in others once the first halt was reached.
and civilization left behind, a span of
weary mules would be dragged reluctantly
forth. and the travellers heart would sink
into his boots. and he would glance re-
proachfuiiy at the driver. The mules would
be tnspanned and a fresh start made, and
the drivers assistant would bring forth
his short sjambok and prepare for bust
ness. Tender-hearted travellers would at
first sympathize with the mules; later on
the sympathy would be transferred TO the
wretched boy who had to urge them on.
by jumping down from the cart every few
minutes and running alongside the ami
mails and beiaboring them. After a time
the travellers sympathy for both would
have vanished, and he would mentally con-
sign both to the neither world. When the
boy climbed on the cart at intervals the
passengers would draw deep breaths
Everything comes to him who waits" and
at length a stage would be reached on the
confines of civilization. where a span of
horses would be produced and a better
start made. Like the Irish jarvey, the
postcard driver firmly believed in Saving
trot for the avenue" and the coach
would wheel into the village in a blaze of
glory, the driver awakening the echoes
with shrill blast from his bugle
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-17
SOUTH AFRICA TRAVEL.
As 1t Was Before Railroads Berar
Their Work of Civilization.
From South Africa

As 1t Was Before Railroads Rerau
Their Work of Civilization.
From South Africa.
To the ordinary traveller or tourist who
now visits South Africa the word travel
will have little more meaning than what IT
invokes in other lands. The railway now
runs to most parts of the country, and a.
more or less tedious journey in a comfort
able compartment will carry him to his
destination. Such was not however. al
ways the case, and 1t is not so long since
those who through pleasure or necessity
were forced to travel had to avail them
selves of the facilities offered by post carts
or transport wagons. 1t is true that in
some remote dorps in the Transvaal and
Free State the scream of the railway Whis-
tie has never been heard and proba blv
never will be; but these places are out of
the way of the ordinary traveller, and rare
ly visited by him. In the old DAYS the
traveller who had to trust himself to the
tender mercfes Of the post contractor did So
as rule in fear and trembling There
were, as in all else, degrees in the various
services, but the man who could have
found pleasure in a trip even on the best
roads must have indeed possessed a dispo-
sition of which Mark Tapley might have
been proud.
In some of the services on the principal
routes from Cape Colony and Natal the
carts were we'll horsed, the drivers were
thoroughly up to their work, and the condf-
tons were made as desirable as was pos
sible under the circumstances But the
carts had been built to suit the roads. the
space was strictly limited, and the mails
would absorb considerable quantity of
damned in between couple of other I'M
fortunates his knees compressed against
pile of bags and his back sore from con-
slant friction against the seat, would sit
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-17
My Little Boy.
Jecii Joyce in the Boston Transcript.

Il Joyce in the Boston Transcript.
o little boy, my little boy,
Why do you stay so long?
The night is here, with shadows drear,
Ills time for mother's song.
The cheering crowds have gone away,
The streets are still and dead,
Why do you stay so long at play!
IT'S more than time for bed.
A great, great day this day has been
IT'S writ In blo5d and flame;
And In the papers that they brought
read your precious name.
Your name, my b6y-0<little boy
What do you know OF war;
Gould God have meant the brow I've kissed
should wear battle scar?
o little boy-my little boy.
They tell me you have grown:
But. dear, twas only yesterday
You could not stand alone.
How could those tender, clinging hands
A heavy rifle bear?
You were too tired to march, know,
And SO they left you there.
little boy-my little boy,
You rested all the day,
Wake up-the game Is played and won,
It's time you came away.
The country has a million arms
To claim the nations due.
A million hearts to bleed and break.
But have only you.
Wake up-wake up!-the hour is late,
You should not tarry there;
The night Ii dark on San Juan hill,
Too dark for hope or prayer.
wake up.-my arms are opened wide
To welcome you with joy.
And still you sleep--and sleep--and sleep,
o little. little boy:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-17
ROSA BONHEUR.
interesting Facts About the Life of
the Great French Artist.

j. c. Walker of the Virginia Hotel mot
Miss Bonheur through his acquaintance
with Anne klumpke, the American girl
VINO mas been living with the artist at the
chateau BY. and who recently painted her
portrait and sent it to the Carnegie gallery
at Plttsburg. Mr. Walker told some inter
esting stories of Miss Benheur's life yester-
day.
had expected to find Miss Bonheur
Instead found her a little woman. cha rno-
lLsiy modest and retiring. She had a
strons tace but her eyes were those of an
elgntesn-year-oid girl They were the most
retharkahle eyes | ever saw. She had a
soft voice, and she was devotedly fond of
music, though she did not sing or play
Inc people about her chateau which is
forty miles from Paris sjn,niV worsb;naS
her.
The first time met her was the day be-
lore her seventy-seventh birthday. No one
would nave dreamed she was so old Her
manner was that Of a woman of thirty-tive,
ana She was in as close touch with the
word as any resident of Paris. She came
10 the little II o'clock dejeuner in the jack
Ct ana trousers she always wore outside of
Parls. In spite of her dress, none would
nave called her masculine. l think the way
IN which she Wore her hair was responsible
LOT the mannish look some of her pictures
have.
1T has been printed that she had spent
some time In England, but 1 cannot believe
that is true. She did not know word of
English. and think if she had ever been in
England she certainly would have picked
Up good deal of the language
Il think she must have left her greatest
painting unfinished. The picture exhibited
In this years salon Is small affair COM
paired with the Horse Show The I'M
finished picture which 1 saw in her studio
covered nearly one end of the room.
think 1t was intended to be something like
the Horse Fair / remember there were
sketched on the canvas.
Her studio was curious place. There
were stuffed horses heads and horses
names hung all around the room-models,
I suppose. The walls were covered with
sketches Of horses and other animals. But
in the last few years all her pet wild ami
mails. OF which she made so much. had been
sent away. In her, house, however, there
were hundreds of BIRDS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-17
Brooklyn Bridge,

1hsrles G. ID. Roberts In the Atlantic Monthly.
No ifeless thing of iron and stone.
But sentiept, as her children are
Nature accepts you for her own
Kin to the cataract and the star
She marks your vast, sufficing plan
Cable and girder bolt and rod
And takes you, from the hand of man.
For some new handiwork of God
You thrill through all your chords of steel
Responsive to the living sun;
And quickening In your nerves you feel
Life with its conscious currents run.
Your anchorage upbears the march
OF time and the eternal powers,
The sky admits your perfect arch,
The rocf respects your stable towers
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-17
The Crest.

@. F. c. Arensberg in the Harvard Advocate
My life has passed as on some mountain slope.
Facing the morning east, and gathering rays
Into its breast from dawn of summer days
Even tin the tides Of shadows turn and grope,
Creeping from hollow to ravine. There ope
Amid the striving winds. a battling maze.
Wild tortuous paths thousand devious ways
And one that leads to far-or crest and hone
see the ragged crest that bounds the sky
Ending this world Of mine. What need to ask
What lands beyond. what shaken seas extend
Below the summit, what my future task?
So have strength 80 that my hope stays high
Will pursue my purpose to the end.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-17
Blissful Twenty-Three.
From the Chicago Daily News.

From the Chicago Daily News
used TO hate and envy him
When / was eight or nine
And he was twenty-five or three
And wooed girl who seemed to me
creature half divine
used to gaze up on her face
And wish that there could be
Some subtle means through which mirht
Lie down to blfssful dreams at night
And wake up twenty-three.
/ met their daughter yesterday
Alb, she is fair 10 Sec
And smiles upon a boy l hate
wish that he were thirty-eieht
And were twenty three.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-17
Negative Philosophy.

From the Chicago Journal.
Some sage person has discovered
And has told In verses neat
What lot of cash 'twould save us
If we didn't have to eat
Let me add unto this wisdom
Though the thought may make you Green.
We could hoard up gold in bedclothes
If We didn't have to sleep.
Furthermore, It's borne upon me,
With force cannot balk
THAT we'd save lot of eather
If we didn't have to walk
So, of all thu bills that yex U.S.
Just the biggest one, / guess
Would be spared for safe Investment
II we didn't have to dress.
Gene to think the whole thing over,
Free concurrence you will give
That vast wealth would line our pockets
If we didn't have to live
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-17
Cofored and UncoIored Tea.

In mentioning green tea 1 used the adjec-
tive pure, for there can be pure green tea.
though as unfit for drinking as bitter green
fruit when dried would be for eating. There
is scarcely any pure green tea in The mar
ket One reason for this is that among the
Chinese each family has its own tea plat
and makes up the product which is sold to
dealers. who find 1T necessary to use color
ing matter to give the various patches a
uniform color and make 1t fit for a foreign
market.
Another reason is that the Chinese being
a frugal people. wasting nothing, after
sleeping leaves for their own use dry and
color the grounds for the American market,
for no colored green teas are admitted in
the European markets. and but little pure
green tea is used there. The Chinese them
selves never use colored teas. and II IL
stated by the best authority that SEVEN
eighths of all the tea exported from China
Is colored and made IN Japan for II there
Is no colored Japan tea, why the frequent
use of the word uncolored by dealers aud
users when speaking of Japan tear No one
ever heard of uncolored Indian or CeyIon
tea.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-03-22

to be printed in German newspapers The
Hall three-cornered bottle bill was again re-
ported for slaughter by the committee on
public health and sanitation. The following
bills were passed: To regulate the practice
of barbering; appropriating money to Re
lott city school district; relating to judicial
on county court of st. Croix cOunty: re-
lating to elections; authorizing D0neIas
county to aid agricultural society; appro-
prlating money to fire sufferers of Rarron
county; appropriating money for funeral
expenses of William Hughes and Albert
WoJciechoWski; authorizing the purchase
of toll road in Fond du Lac county: an.
propriating money to legislative visiting
committee; relating to voluntary ASSIGN
ments; relating to parks drives, ETC.; re
lating to school boards, etc; relating to Ger
tain courts; relating to municipal court of
Douglas county; relating to the assessment
Of real and personal property. Senator
Mills bill relating to qualification of Jurors
and relating to fees of sheriffs were non
cOncurred in, and the following Senate bills
were ordered to a third reading: Relating to
duties of state superintendent: relating to
joint free high school districts; changing
the name Of state library cOmmisSiOn re
lating to board of normal school regents;
amending municipal court laws for Ash
land county; relating to punishment of va
grants; providing for election of supervisors
OF Milwaukee county. Mr. Green's bill re-
provements in Milwaukee was sent to the
committee on judiciary. There was some
thing of a fight over the bill to take away
the preference u IHe state dis Il creator III
the matter of insolvent banks. Mr. Nc
Grath offered an amendment requiring
banks to give q bond in The sum of their
capital stock and average deposits to pro-
tect depositors which was lost roll
call was ordered and the bill was advanced
to a third reading by a vote Of 90 to g.
The bill making an appropriation to the
geological survey was the subject Of long
discussion. The bill was originally for
$4,000 year, but the committee on claims
had amended cutting the appropriation to
$500. Mr.. Wheeler offered an amendment
to the amendment making the sum $4,000 a
year. The amendment was debated a.
length, and finally adopted by a vote Of Il
to 20 The bill was then ordered to a third
reading. The Assembly then adjourned IN
til $50 p. IN. on the Goth.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-03-22
GET BIG DIVIDENDS.
Cripple Creek Gold Mine Companies
Distribute Profits.

Colorado Springs, Col, March 49,
March Cripple Greek dividends thus far
declared will exceed $250,000. In Febru-
airy $37S,2 $50 was paid, and in January
500, 900; but in February the Victor
company paid a quarterly dividend of
100000, and the Isabella the same of
$135, 1000. The total thus far for 1899,
1886, $50, or $276, $50 a month, is in ex-
cess of the 1898 record for the first quar-
ter.
The Jack Pot joins the dividend payers
this month with cents a share, or $50,
600. The company is stocked for 1850
600 shares, at 81 par value each. The
patented claims are Jack Pot and Get
tysburg, on Raven hill. and Providence,
Iron Master, Mary Wynne and Silver
Bell on Gold hill, fifty-three acres in ex-
tent At the 400-feet level, the Daven-
port lease is in a twO-foot vein, assaying
$3.50 and $500, with streak six to eight
inches, which runs from $500 to $500
During the past week the company
stock advanced 21a cents, to 1862 cents,
against 40 cents sixty days ago. The
sales reached 243 900 shares. During the
same period Isabella sold 34S 100 shares,
from So cents to 81, and down again
to S715. In the developing mines list,
the Pinnacle sold 29S, 900 shares. gaining
215 cents, and closing at 1114 The total
dividends paid by public companies of
the great camp aggregate S7,SS6, IL II.