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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-15
The Prison Bird.
TAsOH
From the New York Press.

In the Paris Museum of Natural History
at present the center Of interest Is the only
hVlng captive specimen of what African
explorers have called the "prison bird &"
The popularity Of this feathered beauty ia
that he is the most tyralnical and Jealous
OF husbands. imprisoning his mate through
OUT her nesting time. Livingston watched
the birds habits while in Monpour, and In
mis- subsequent observations referred to the
nest as prison and the female bird as q
slave. eI' a
me next Is built in the hollow of a tree
through an opening in the bark AS soon
as IL is completed the mother bird enters
carefully and fearfully. and settles down
IN II. Then papa walls up the opening,
leaving only just space enough for air and
1000 to pass through He keeps faithful
guard and brings food at regular intervals
without fail The female thrives under her
enforced retirement. But If the prison bird
Is Killed, or in any other way prevented
from fulfilling his duties, the mother and
her little ones must die of starva ton, for
she cannot free herself from bondage,
Normally the Imprisonment lasts until
the chicks are old enough to fly. Then the
male birds destroys the barrier with his
beak and liberates his family. TT is
charming writes Livingston, ito see the
JOY with which the little prisoners greet
the light and the unknown world"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-15
Nara,


from Irayel.
We went through Nara-a beautiful old
town that was the capital of Japan ten
hundred years ago, but has now the drowsy
quiet of sleepy cathedral city.
Every place in the world like every man
and every woman, has an individuality.
And the individuality of Nara is like that
of beautiful-souled nun who has grown
old, yet whom the cares of the world have
never troubled, and whose wrinkled coun-
tenance has ever a serene smile That's
Nara. Civilization has not made it conven-
uonal and shoddy. The tourist skips it in
his rambles. 1t is old Japan in loneliness.
1t was holy day in the Shinto religion
when we were there, and every child born
that day was counted a year older than a
child born the day before or the next day.
thousands of pilgrims had come to visit
the shrlnes. There were gaunt-cheeked old
men IN ocIagonal-shaped hats and long
gray silk robes hobbling on their stats
from temple to temple. Shaven- headed
yelioW-robed Buddhist priests walked with
solemn mien through the silent avenues
lunches of Japanese maidens, winsome to
look upon, hobbled on tiny clogs, their
arms about one another's shoulders The
trees arched long branches over the path
and from the knee-deep bracken came
jumping the deer. long-horned bucks and
soft-eyed does, running unaffrighted and
pushing their nostrils into ones hand sniff
fling for cakes. The deer live friendly with
mankind. They roam in the woods and
lanes by day At shutdown there is a bu-
gle call, and they come with sprightly leap
for the evenings meal and shelter in the
stockade.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-15

as P'yeng-yang. and were there awaiting
an army of reinforcAmena from Japan. con-
the conquest of CHINA. Q Admiral vi per-
ceived that it was anly by destroying this
auxiliary force that the Japanese could be
checked, and he realized. moreover, that
should it once set foot on Corean soil all
hope was gone. This grim necessity result
toise boat SO called because Of its re-
semblance to that animal. In the ilustra-
ton which has BEEN preserved to us in the
biography of Admiral "a we see that the
boat was covered with a curved deck of
iron plates, and was provided with ram.
These two things formed its defensive and
offensive equipment With this boat, whose
speed was exceptionally great. Admiral vi
boldly attacked the Japanese fleet of 600
boats ramming them right and left, and as
he passed on he left the struggling Japan
csc in the water, to be dispatched by his
followers in the ordinary boats of the
Corean fleet The enemies deemed the tor
toise boat to be work of superhuman
origin, and their bones melted" within
them,
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old clothes, and started on a four davis
tramp to Melbourne
Here they consigned II, through the Bank
of Victoria, to England, paying something
like SLIGO export duty and $3.50 for insur-
ance.
When London was reached the fame Of
this wonderful nugget had somehow pre-
ceded them, and the men and their rock of
gold were seven days wonder. All the
fashionable world crowded 10 see it, and
even the queen was not happy till she had
who had found it,
- II was sold to the Bank of England for
Sp,Vo and 1t turned the scale at thirty
FOUR pounds over hundred weight 1t was
within an eighth of a carat of being abso-
iutely pure gold. For some time il was
exhibited at the British Museum. and a
cast OF it was taken for preservation at the
museum And yet his wonderful discov-
cry seemed to bring nothing but misfortune
TO Its finders. Sam Napier married. went
to Liverpool and quickly lost all his money
there- He returned to the diggins; but.
though ne spent years in hunting for more
gold, he never found any,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-15
MANEATING LIONS.
Tricks of the Savage Beasts in Their
Native JungIes.
From Outing.


From Outing.
when lions become maneaters these in
ert and treacherous brutes take no unnec-
cssary trouble to catch men, ard while hui
man beings are plentiful none of them un-
dertake perilous enterprises or proceed on
any haphazard expeditions. They know
what to do and where to go that prey may
De procured with the least amount of risk
or exertion. Such a lion is well aware Of
VINO tllls this corn field or that mealie
patch. He has informed himself of how
many men accompany the village herds,
where any outlying amps are situated and
now they arc guarded. There is no route by
which travellers proceed or traffic is carried
on that such animals have not studied with
reference 10 the facilities for attack they
AFFORD and their own bodily powers If
otherwise good strategic positions present
natural difhculties the lion not only con-
slders now these can be overcome. but per-
maps practices his part beforehand At all
events, he has been watched while engaged
In exercises that can only be explained in
this way.
SO puny creature as man is when I'M
provided with effective implements for Of
tense stands little chance against such a.
foe-an assailant having forty times his
strength, backed by marvellous activity
ana an intense passion for carnage Under
these circumstances savages can only shut
themselves up or assault their enemy in
large masses. On the other hand, those
precautions taken by a murderous lion
might not seem to comport with that bold
and often reckless temper attributed 10
this species. But such a discrepancy has
no real existence; 1t only appears when a
Judgment is made without taking all the
facts into consideration. This animals in
teinsence developed in maneaters to its
highest point, together with an organic
stealthiness of nature and proclivity toward
unexpected attacks and stratagems, fully
accounts for everything lion does in the
way OF guarding against failure"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-15
THE NAPIER NUGGET
Curious Experiences of Some Success
full Gold Miners.

Curious Experiences of Some Success
full Gold Miners.
From the Boston Traveller
The most interesting thing I remember
in long life spent in mining, said an old
miner who was at the Bendigo diggines in
the fifties, is the story of the finding of the
Napier nugget, probably the largest and
purest mass of gold ever found in the his
tory of gold mining.
Napier was second mate on a boat plying
between Melbourne and Liverpool. when
the gold fever got into his blood, and he
left the sea for the diggings In 81. He
came to Bendigo, but met with no success.
and then staked a claim at Hangover on
the Lodden river.
He worked hard at Kingower in COM
pany with his brother and man called
Ambrose, but for six months they scarcely
saw the color of gold. When luck did come
1t came in a way calculated to turn the
brain of an ordinary man.
One day, August IA 1t was, the three men
were just on the point of leaving their
work at the bottom of fourteen-foot
shaft, when Sam Napier, in putting down
his pick, struck something hard He turned
thing else, and the light fell on huge
mass of what appeared to be virgin gold
almost heavier than he, strong man az he
was, could mt The three men saw at a
glance that their fortunes were made. and
were almost frantic with delight How
ever. they covered up their treasure with
earth. and went to their tent as IL moth
ing had happened.
In the dead of night they went back to
their claim. carried of the nugget. and.
for safety. buried 1t six feet deep under the
table in the center of their tent For three
months they had their meals over these
buried thousands. and never breathed
word to q living soul. When their claim
was exhausted. about the middle of No
vember. they hired horse and cart. dug
up their nugget and placed 1t, together
with their dust, In a box among . lot Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-15
Her Sad Fate.

Adrian Roos in Literature.
The wife OF a Poet biographies show it, has hap
pness rich and rare;
In rapturous reyel he deigns to disheye her care
fully done back hair
He calls her to listen, with glanees that glisen,
to songs of his sensitive soul
While she is discerning by odors of burning that
cook. with her fancies of penny romances is
finding heaven with 81, and dinner is done
to coal!
oh, there's nothing that's weary hard
In the life OF the wife Of bard;
No maiden would choose reject or refuse
The offer to marry son Of the Muse!
Her duties should bring her to cherish her singer
MN with readiness prompt and gay,
When nature beseeches for pines or for peaches
clear turtle or Crown Tokay;
For him In holder Of jewels must shoulder cigars
of a flavor unique,
And as for the payment for food and for raiment.
IL creditors claim it she never must name H.
for II he should know it the sensitive poet
would MARBLE no more for a week!
For singers flower in the sun.
And he shuts at the sight of a dun;
The creditor storms and the creditor SHE'S
There's not any money in sons OF the Muse
ing love for life.
Some Beatrice. or a Petrarehian Laura or some
It's strictly de regle for her to inveig1e the Bard
into tropical rhyme:
deeply affected. but try to he happy on Or prose Sc
that that Is serappy and frequently snappy, and
s Leave TO nef 6 1, the emile begetters the
the subsequent ages viii read in his pages and
weepingly wonder why destiny's blunder had
him to be knitted If law had permitted and he
could have fitted and quietly quilted the
fettered his fancy sublime!
For the wife who would check or control
Such beautiful union Of soul
Deserves to be slated In all the Reviews
fof mafrang the lie OF son Of the Ausei
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-15
From Pearson's Weekly.

FROM Pearsons Weekly.
In the whole wide world there is not a
class of people to be found who inf1ict
severer punishment upon themselves than
the CARDS of Central America. Their re-
Igion, which is enc of the most peculiar
kind, demands sef-punishment for sins in
tentio1ally or Internationally committed.
The punishment takes the form of starva-
ton and close confinement.
III the sin be in the form of a lie. no mat
ter whether 1t is calculated to injure an
other or not, the sinner goes without either
foou or drink for three days, at the end of
which 1t Is believed that the offender has
paid the penalty for. his or her sin.
Blaspheming and yusingu bad language is
punishable by absolute starvation for two
days. Assault, drunkenness and other seri-
Gus sins call for four days starvation for
one week, three days starvation for the
second week, two days starvation for the
third week and onesdaya starvation in the
fourth week. e. 1s
All sins are punished with starvation. For
that reason crime Is very low among the
CARDS, who are afi1ungnthe best-behaved
and most truthful people in the world.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-15

From the London Echo
Here is a fetching description of a mill
tary review which we Gull from Mr. Harold
GorstS' new book on China:
AT one extremity of the field there was
raised on slight elevation of the ground a
platform shaded by an immense red parasol
and ornamented with banners, streamers
and some large lanterns, that did not seem
particularly necessary, as the sun was shin
ing in full splendor. The inspector extra
ordinary of the imperial army. and the
principal civil and military mandarins of
the town, were on the platform, seated in
armchairs before little tables covered with
tea things and boxes filed with excellent
tobacco The moment arrived to begin A
little culverin that stood near the platform
was fired off, the military judges covering
their ears with their hands to protect them
from the frighlful detonation; then a yell
low flag was hoisted to the top of one of the
forts, the tom-toms sounded a furious
charge, and the soldiers rushed together
pell-meil, uttering terrible cries and group
company. 1t is impossible to i'm
agine anything more whimsical and comic
than the evolutions of the Chinese soldiers;
they advance, draw back, leap, pirouette,
cut capers, crouch behind their shields, as
if to watch the enemy, then jump up again,
distribute blows right and left, and then
run away with all their might, crying Vic
tory victory"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-15

James Whitcomb Riley in Lippineott's.
o, will walk with you. my lad whichever way
you fare,
You'll have me. too. the side of you, with heart
light air;
No care for WHERE the road you takes a-leading-
anywhere
1t can but be joyful jaunt the whilst you journey
there.
The road You takes the rlIh of love. an that's
the bridth of two
And will walk with you, my lad-O, will walk
with you.
Hoi will walk with you. my lad
Be weather black or blue
Or roadsides frost dew my lad
o. will walk with you.
Aye, glad my lad I'll walk with you whatever
winds may blow,
Or summer blossoms stay steps, or binding
drifts Of snow;
The way that you set face and foot's the way
that | will go,
And brave I'll be- abreast of you, the saints and
angels know.
With Loyal hand in loyal hand and one heart
made Of two,
Through summers gold. winters cold, it's 1
will walk with you.
Sure, will walk with you. my lad
As Love Ordsins to-
To heavens door, and through NV lad
U. VIII walk with you.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-15
FISH IN SAMOA,
Migratory Swarms Return at a Ger
tain Time Each Year.
From L.ippincott's.

From Lppfncotts.
One strange feature of this sea life of
the tropics is the regular recurrence of mi
gratory swarms of fish of very small size
that return in huge numbers year after year
with such absolute regularity that the ma
uves calculate on the event on certain
date in each year, and even within an hour
or two of the day. One such swarm of fish
forms the occasion of an annual holiday
and feast at Samoa. The fish is not unlike
the whitehall for which the English
Thames has SO long been celebrated, and
each year it arrives in Samoa on the same
day in the month Of October, remains for a
day, or at the most two days, and then dis
appears entirely until the same day the fol-
lowing year. Why it comes, or whence, no
curious naturalist has yet discovered nor
has anybody traced its onward course when
1t leaves the Samoan group; but the fact
IS unquestionable that suddenly, without
notice, the still waters of the lagoon which
surround each island within the fringing
reef becomes alive with millions of fishes
passing through them for a single day and
night and then disappearing for a year as
though they had never come.
"A visit to Samoa enabled me to see this
strange phenomenon for myself and to
witness the native feast by which it is cele-
DRAFTED year by year. 1 had been in Samoa
for month. and in that month L had en-
Joyed almost surfeit of beauty | had
coasted the shores of its islands in native
canoes; l had bathed in the warm. still
waters of its lagoons, fringed to seward by
the white reef, on which the ocean broke
in golden spray and to Iandward by the
silver beach of coral sand, fecked with the
tremulous shadows of the swaying palms.
mad climbed with my native guide the
abrupt hills, covered with dense forests of
tropical luxuriance, through the arcades of
which / caught glimpses of the flash and
ulster OF the oceans myriad smiles, and
again we had plunged into deep valleys
among the hills, where little headIong
streams murmur under the shade of the
widespreading bread-fruit trees and wave
the broad leaves of the great water lilies
of the Pacific islands
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-15
A SIMEON IN THE DESERT.
Graphic Description of the Dread
Terror of the Sands.
L1ra.s tha NJ

Terror of the Sands.
From the Atlantic Monthly
So this yellow, sunburned life drags its
yellow weight across the endless plains A
fatelike, awful march; no hope, no halt for
man or beast; but on, on, over the spread
ing pillows of biting sands, of glowing,
shifting, sinking sands, with overhead the
hot sky, blue and hard, and blazing in its
midst the scorching eye that burns and
blisters with it's sight
In agony the camels stumble on, beat at
the dense hot wall. Desperately the coolies
hide their faces in the hot, swaying lunches
before them; but through their stupor there
beats a wave of consciousness. A shudder
brings them to a knowledge of something
awful. Through the sun-steeped sun
bleached minds there cuts a keener stab
They are awake to what?
Into the coarse camel hair they dig their
fists; tighter they press to the living things
beneath them; they look not to one an
other; words they have not In the pres
ence of this heat they dare not breathe.
Convulsively they cling to the stumbling
beasts. and in low, dry sobs the anguish
OF body breaks forth. Between the two,
the brute and man, there strikes a flash of
mutual pain and torment. An instant, and
down the camel line there breaks the
brute's shrill, soul-lfke cry. In 1t they voice
their all, the pent-up spirit of the bitter
yellow beasts, burdened and tortured for
me- In 1t comes a question for the shrink
ing wretches lying on their humps. The
bitter sounds fall on the parched tense air
and die away.
Far and away comes a gasp-a hot vicious
pant. Again 1t comes--a breath of fire that
touched and Is gone. The great line halts
as one. blank, dead moment; in it the
bosom of the desert heaves, and a breath
rolls toward the waiting line. With broken
means the creatures bend their knees and
wait the coming of the storm. Another
searching breath-a timeless wait
Far to the east 1t starts, across the sarrds
II whirls In circling hoops that form at last
a not, fierce lurch 1t falls Upon the crouch-
ing backs; singing with fangs of fire, pelt-
lures; with its dry lash Whipping ont tha
lives of men and beasts. Faster. thicker.
hotter, fall the sands, crushing and bury,
ing with a merciless weight-an ocean If
burning fire, pouring wrath and strength
upon these wretches as 1t hurls its mad
force across the desert. The pillows toss
and heave. and break at last to sweep on
on for other prey. o
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-15

The funds invested so far in the Paris ex-
position amount to S7,600,0o0 OF this sum
$5,600.000 has been paid away during the
present year. The Paris municipality has
contributed s.. 100000 of the s4.000,000 prom
ised by the city and $500 900 has been sup
piled by the Western of France railway and
other various undertakings. The state has
contributed 81 100000, and has agreed to
pay it 81, 100000 more before the end of 1899
A German officer has invented a lamp for
use in war time, which can be carried in
soldiers knapsack without adding much to
the weight. 1t is supplied with acetylene
gas and is destined for use on the battle
field to assist the search for wounded.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-15
A Clear Record.

From the Philadelphia North American,
Twuz little Tommy Mason
Who as Sergint av tn guard
caught rafferty, a-slapin' at his post;
An which tn same Is treason
An the punishment Is hard
But RAFFERTY, d been foightin' all TIL long day
l0ike haste.
Wiz Tommy at his shoulder all tn whole
An there want so many troopers thot we had a
sthock to waste
Besoides, tale-bearing wasn't Tommy's stole.
Twuz Sergint Tommy Mason
Who. dacint to tn ind
stood guard whclle Rafferty, enjoyed a schnore:
An If tn same treason:
hist! Tvuz stickin to frind
trough mebhe twuz aginst tn rules o. war
out IN blot. f
A-fnightin' like the divvil tn Mkt day.
plot, ~ - ~
Tn captain wuddent had a word to say
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-15
The Heart Or July.


Written for The Evening star, by Annie Landreth
Perkins.u
The burning streets loob up totthe fervid sky;
The clouds In the calmy iiueHether are white and
high; rs III
Full-leafed are the trees il their deepest RICH
ness of green : IL
For now tits the DEPTH Of simmer. the heart of
July!
The city is restless, rs one with fever seems
Whose heart heats heavily, burdened with weary
dreams
Each stately mansion OF granite marble white
Wrapped in the glow Of light, how 1t shimmers
and gleamsi
Round the city the winding river il bright.
brilliant az molten silver there In the summer
light
Doth it remember its letters Of binding Ice
When under the skies Of winter the world was
whitsf
Just now from the west came wind like a
feyered sigh
Slipping between the burning street and the fervid
sky
All Of the world seems dumb In trance Of sleep,
Folded around BY the ardent heat Of the heart Of
Julyi
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The First Red Rose,

From Leslies Popular Monthly
An anxious lover held within his hand
n pure white rose, sent from his laiy's bover
From which he fam would read her secret thought
And thus he whispered to the fragrant flower:
Tell me. sweet rose. and did my lady's lima
Press thy soft petals ere you came to meT
Then VIII l stoop to play the arrant thief
As now stooP TO steal her kiss from thee 80
Then at the touch OF his impassioned Inns
The white flower crtmsoned like the biushing
morn.
Hope IKE within his anxious heart, and smiled.
And ID that hour the FIRST red rose was born
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-15

In the past five months fifty new cotton
mills have been built or projected in the
southern states, involving an outlay of SILL
50o.000. and thirty-ninc old mills are maxi
ing improvements at a cost of $5,SOo,Oc0
These additions will add LOO, 900 new spin
dies to existing southern machinery Out
side of these additions there are approxi-
mately 4.0Oo,00o spindies IN operation in the
south.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-15
Among the Zunis.

asked Frank H. Gushing of the bureau
of ethnOlogy, who spent some years in
Zuni a member of the tribe. and practi-
cally suffered a martyrdom in the destruc-
ton of his digestive organs by trying to
eat the vile decoctions of the tribe what he
considered The most wonderful of the feats
OF the Iaagicians he witnessed in Zuni.
PerhapS the seVerest test of nerve. and
one OF the most remarkable in other re-
sPects. he replied. was the ember dance
OF the Ma-ke-tsa-na-kw which literally
means the LITTLE fire people. They perform
tier eNo!utiOns upon Il thick and glowing
bed OF enbers, barefoored and barelegged
save for their painted decorations once in
every TOUR years 1t Is a religious rite
symbolic OF the conquest and the authority
OF mankind over fire and what they term
the elements Of the south. They burn out
the effects of the fiery diseases.
The priests who participate in these
remarkable scenes prepare themselves by a
long period OF publication. Eight days pre-
Fious TO the act they maintain a continual