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Evening star., 1900-09-29

OF these % (or 20 stars, 10 are in the
Northern Hemisphere. 1t Is notable also
that of the hundred stars in the list IA are
north and 53 south of the Equator, that
the 100 brightest stars are pretty evenly dis
tributed in each hemisphere with a slight
preponderence in favor of the southern. Mr..
Gore finds too, that of these hundred stars
SS lie in near the Milky Way a re-
markable fact considering that the Galaxy
does not, at most, cover more than one
fourth of the area of the star sphere.
The "DemOn" Star.
From now on for several months the
famous variable star, Beta Persei, better
known by Its Arabic name, Algol-al Ghul,
the Demon-wilI be favorably situated for
observation. Algol is ordinarily of about
the second magnitude-2.31 In the Harvard
Photometry-but at intervals of little less
than three days it undergoes a remarkable
change, dropping in the space of about four
and half hours to the fourth magnitude,
and in the next four and half hours re-
covering its usual brightness. Its exact
period, from minimum to minimum, Is 2
days 20 hours 40 minutes
The phenomenon is now known to be due
to the periodical passage of a dark satellite
between the bright star and US, which cuts
off a portion of it's light. About twenty
variable stars of the Algol type are now
known, all having periods of only a few
hours, or, at most, a few days. Minima OF
Algol will occur on the Sd of this month at
stands at about three-fifths of the distance
from Cassiopeia to the Pleiades. With the
aid OF the accompanying chart 1t should be
found easily.
The Planets.
Mercury will be evening star through
out the month, visible in the latter part Of
the month for short time after sunset low
in the southwest. 1t will be at its greatest
elongation east from the sun-twenty-three
degrees forty-four miputes-on the 10th.
Venus is morning star. rising about
3 hours 20 minutes before the sun, little
north Of east. Venus was at her greatest
brilliancy on August IA, and is still glo-
rious ornament of the eastern sky.
Mars, near the western border of Cancer,
rises half hour after midnight, and is,
therefore, still morning star, but will be-
come an evening star before the close OF
the month. 1t is moving quite rapidly east
ward.
Jupiter in the Scorpion, continues to be
an evening star. 1t now sets at about $50
pm.
Saturn is an evening star, setting about
two hours later than Jupiter. Between
these two planets, five or six degrees north
of Antares, is Uranus. appearing as a star
of about the sixth magnitude Neptune in
nearly the opposite quarter of the heavens,
near the western border of Gemini, is
evening star, invisible to the naked eye,
rising at about 10 pm.
Evening star., 1900-09-29

ha1 Banking Company has Chinese CASH
Ter; even those in Japan The Chinaman
in position Of trust is trustworthy
The Universal Wheelbarrow
The Chinese early discovered that there
Is less friction caused by one wheel than
two, and that n one-wheeled cart runs
easier on bad road than two-wheeled
vehicle, and on this account the wheelbar-
row came into requisition and is now uni
versal. In Shanghai the wheelbarrow is
used to carry people. The wheel is in the
center, the passenger side and his
baggage on the other In Shangtung a sail
Is attached to the barrow to get the benefit
of the wind. In Pekin one often sees a
donkey or two, or mule or two or
donkey, mule and horse, hitched to a wheel
barrow. Sometimes they have four mules
hltched to II, with two men in front at the
sides to drive and help balance 1t and q
man behind to hold the handles and assist
in balancing 1T. The wheel is without tire
or, If 1t has tire, it is put on in sec tons
a foot or more in length.
Practical but Not Scientific.
The Chinese are eminently a practical
though in no sense scientific. people. Every
thing that we can do they can do though
in very primitive style. They have an
expression, 'hsiang ia tzu," which in En-
glish would mean that we will think out
some method for bringing about a certain
end. The European invents a machine
which, when 1t is set going, accom- plishes
the work. The oriental has not yet ar
rived at that condition Of intellectual de-
velopment. He can do nothing more than
think out plan by which he can do the
work himself. In other words, while the
Chinese are the most practical people In
the world" they lack the mental power to
save muscle.
Evening star., 1900-09-29

date utility of thing he gets rid of 1t
promptly for what it will bring At the be-
ginning Of the Chinese-Japanese war parts
OF the large guns of the Taku forts were
IT. the pawnshops, having been pawned as
old brass. Half gun being somewhat
inefficient implement of warfare. the Chi
nese gunners labored under considerable
handicap in this respect.
All the students in q Chinese school study
aloud. The din would drive an American
school boy American teacher to the
verge of distraction. Nevertheless, by this
method the Chinese school children learn
great deal-such as 1t is.
Visiting without Luggage.
Once a Chinese government representa-
tive who was new to this country and it's
ways came to the house of an eminent New
York banker for a weeks visit. 1t was
winter. but he came without luggage and
yet every day he appeared at dinner with a
change of garments. His body was his
trunk; he put his trunk in his clothes in
stead of his clothes in his trunk. His
clothes were like the peel of an onion ex-
cept that any layer might be worn outside.
Many of his garments were silk clothes
lined with fur, or fur garments lined with
silk, depending upon which side was out.
He was a puzzle to his host until he ex-
planned his method.
The Chinaman doesn't black his boots,
but whitens them on the edge of the sole.
Sewing and Flowing.
Sewing is usually done out of doors by
the Chinese women. When a seamstress
sits down to sew she pins the work to her
bosom and begins sewing from her instead
of pinnng 1t to her knee and sewing toward
her as our women do. The American wo-
man wears her thimble on the end of her
finger and often pushes her needle with the
end of her thimble. The Chinese woman
wears her thmble between the first and
second joints. and in this way gets a much
better pressure her needle, has a more
comfortable place for her thimble and can
wear it as ring when not at work
Flowing is done with a forked stick. one
Evening star., 1900-09-29

city in certain localities is covered with
strips of cloth one foot by two. indicating
that the sick have received answers TO their
prayers by the worship of the god in that
place, who in many cases is fox
They Like Americana.
Up to the beginning of the present trou-
bles it has been a somewhat remarkable
fact that no American citizen, traveller,
business man. diplomat or missionary has
ever been murdered in China by the Chi
nese. This can be said of the citizens of
none of the other great powers which have
had constant and long-continued inter-
course with the east. This is not mere
coincidence or accident. The Chinese like
Americans. OF course, this statement is
made with the reservation that they do not
like any foreigner as a resident of China,
but as compared with the people of the
great European powers they like the
Americans. Whenever they ask a man of
what nationality he is, and his answer IS
that he is an American, they al once eX-
claim, We are friends.
Peripatetic Trades.
Many trades which with are station
airy are peripatetic in China. The black
smith packs his shop on a wheelbarrow
Two boxes that look like cheese boxes con-
tain the outfit OF the shoemaker, who does
his work on the sidewalk in the lee Of some
wall 30 does the c!lTGpttlSi. lie Is Hlucn
in demand. as the Chinese suffer severely
from corns. despite their cloth shoes. All
but the higher classes are shaved by peri
patetic BARRIERS. who wander about adver-
tising themselves with gongs or tweezers,
which they ring like tuning forks They
are great gOSSipS.
Our travelling restaurants have been an
ticipated many years by the Chinese pur-
yeyor of food. who carries his table on
one end of a pole, balanced by his stove
and cooking utensils on the other With
his dough, his hashed vegetables and a
little oil and salt he roasts, fries, bakes
broils or toasts quite a surprising number
of dishes, and their taste would be more
surprising than their number to an occi-
dental.
Even the confectioner is a wanderer. He
carries bowl or jar of mixed tafy and
number of straws in box. He winds up a
little of the liquid taffy on the end of a
straw and blows it after the style of a
glass blower into the shapes OF birds and
animals.
Chinese Artisans.
There isn't native iron worker in China
who can make a nail that can be driven
without a hole being bored for it. Without
outside instruction there wouldn't be a
Chinese nail made 1000 years from now
The Chinaman makes no improvements.
II the Chinaman fails to see the imme-
Evening star., 1900-09-29
GREAT BATTLES OF HISTORY.
Providence is Not Always on the Side
of the Heaviest BattaliOns.

Providence is Not Always on the Side
of the Heaviest Battalions.
From the Chicago Chronicle.
When Napoleon said providence is al
ways on the side of the strongest battal-
ions" ne proved the falsity of his own pre-
cept on his last battlefield. 1t is not with
out interest to see how this applied in some
of the worlds great battles. At Marathon
there were 100000 Persians confronting
II 600 Greeks. The Persian army was rout-
ed and the invasion of Greece was ended
Xerxes moved on Greece with his army of
millions. Leonidas with his immortals met
them at Thermopylae and held the Persians
in check. but not until the heroic Spartan
and his followers were killed. Subsequently
at Salamis Thermistocles met the Persans
in naval battle Xerxes watched the strug-
gle from a distance and wept over the de-
struction of his army. Under HeZekiah
Jerusalem was menaced by $4,000 Assyr-
ans who threatened to ruin the city. Not
one Assyrian soldier saw Jerusalem. At
Gaugamela Alexander the Great, with
Al 900 men, fought 100000 Persans under
Darius. The Persians were routed and Da-
RUS assassinated by one of his satraps
The siege of Jerusalem was the gloomiest
event in the history of mankind. In A. d.
20 the temple of Herod was just completed.
The Jews We're never SO naughty and so pa
triotic. They were never disorganiZed.
Innumerabe factions divided them. But
the feast of the Passover and the common
danger enabled Vespasian and Titus to shut
them up in the city. John and Simon, their
partisan leaders hated each other as cor
daily as they hated the Romans When
their followers were not fighting one an
other during the siege they were opposing
the Romans. Vespasian and Titus cast
trenches about the city, not one stone was
left upon another of their beautiful temple
as the Savior predicted, and 100000 Jews
perished in that awful holocaust
In the Russian campaign Napoleon lost
475OOO men, His legions melted and died
under the falling snowfakes.
The naval battle Of Lepanto between the
Christians under Don John of Austria and
the Turks was one of the fercest contests
of the middle ages. The Christians num-
bered $4,000 and the Turks 100 600 men. The
Turkish fleet was destroyed. it's commander
killed and the Moslem naval power was
crushed the Mediterranean.
AT Waterloo Wellington had 10000 men
and 159 cannon. Napoleon confronted him
with 1900 men and 240 cannon. Napoleon
claimed he had Wellington in his grasp
But he was facing destiny. A rain storm
Of the night before wrought havoc
Grouchy failed to come up. According to
Victor Hugo the sunken road of Oham
ruined the charge of Napoleon's cavalry
When the night came Napoleon was a fu-
gitive.
In the Boer war the battles of the Tugela
will be considered memorable Joubert, with
1000 Beers, defeated Butler, with 5000
British, and drove him across the Tugea
river three times. This is one of the most
the invincible genius Of the South African
general
Evening star., 1900-09-29

poisons, but their treatment of open sores
does not seem to be attended with good re-
suits.
Patent Medicines.
The translation of yellow posters pasted
upon the walls of courts or houses along
every street and alley of Chinese village
or city would make an interesting piece of
literature, but would not be accepted by
any respectable publication, read by
any respectable people. There are many
of them, however, that are unique. One
large poster that meets you on every side
is Foreign methods of repairing the
teeth yang ia pu va yen. Still another is
a poster advertising Bicycle pills" TIE
hsing che tan, which guarantee boy chill
dren TO the family that uses them in suffi-
cient quantities. A very large proportion
advertise the cures that may be expected
by taking pilgrimages to certain temples
and drinking water from the springs con-
nected Herewith, but the most common of
all temple advertisements is Ask and it
will be answered. yu chiu pi ying. 1t not
infrequently happens that the wall of the
Evening star., 1900-09-29

fork of which is tipped with iron. On one
occasion as / was passing along the road
saw a man plowing his field with two anil
mails, his wife, who had bound feet, and his
son. Both were hitched to the plow, while
he was pushing with all his strength. On
another occasion 1 saw bound-footed wo-
man with her plow on her shoulder, with a
single donkey-a small donkey, too-golng
to plow her field. Women take the place OF
the donkey on the farm Of the man who
owns no donkey.
"Not Far Out"
All Chinese artisans work on an ancient
and firmly established principle, expressed
in their language by the words cha pu
to-" that is mot far out" If a thing is
cha pu to-. you are supposed to be salts
tied with it. Exactness is too much to ask
of Chinaman.
The shoeng of horses is a very different
process from that by an American black
smith. The Chinese leads the horse up to
framework composed OF two posts and
horizontal beam, then with long rope at
tached to the animals head he runs around
Evening star., 1900-09-29

the other post and thus binds him between
the two The rope is then brought around
the body and over the beam. to which both
body and head are firmly secured, and the
horse is thus unable to move sideways or
lie down. The smith then puts a small
stool under the foot TO be shod and thus
trims the foot and drives the shoe
booksellers are among the common huck-
sters of the middle kingdom. Not how
ever, like our book agents. The Chinese
takes his cart or wheelbarrow, loads 1t up
with all kinds of books, 1t may be good
books or 1t NAV be books which contain
the most common and vulgar street songs.
This cart or barrow he pushes from place
TO place, and If he succeeds in selling ID to
- cents worth per day he makes a good
living.
Thieves and ReEsars.
Chinese thieves are required to be, and
are, organized into guild. This is re-
quired in order that the government may
keep control of them. Having them thus
organized the government is able to hold
the king of the guild responsible for all
stealing done This is not a bad plan, as
the following incident will show. friend
Of the writer vas one day going through
one OF the gates of Pekin on horseback, his
macintosh fastened TO his saddle behind
him. In the crowd this was stolen He
rode 10 the police station at once, reported
the loss and gave the police two days to
find the booty. They called up the king of
thieves, threatened him that they would
have the government on his head, and when
my friend called two days later the gar
ment was there. 1t should be stated that
the thieves are compelled to divide with the
police
Chinese beggars. like thieves, are organ
lied into guild. This Is partly for self
protection and partly for self-help. Every
business house in the city is pesieged at
stated intervals, unless the proprietor buys
them OFF, This he does by paying the
king of beggars a stipulated sum, when a
small red slip of paper Is pasted up on the
side of the door, which is recognized by all
the beggars. In case a beggar is badly
treated by any firm, dozen or twenty of
them band together and besiege the house
which Is unable to rid itself of thern until
they have received sufficient recompense.
When this is done the beggars withdraw
and the house is left in peace until time for
the next beggar to come. Their expression
when begging is The more you give the
more you'll have" Yueh kei yueh yu
Reliable in Business Life
Despite his ineffcency as an artisan and
workman. the Chinaman as business man
has character. Indeed, he is the business
man of the east. He is reliable and hon
est. There is not a big European business
firm in the east in which Cinnamon do not
hold responsible positions. Every one of the
institutions of the Hong Kong and Shang-
Evening star., 1900-09-29

Mr. J. E. Gore has just published in
knowledge a list of ''The Hundred Bright
est Stars" arranged in the order of their
magnitudes as determined at the Harvard
College observatory. He gives also their
magnitudes as measured at Oxford and
Potsdam. An analysis Of the list brings
out some interesting points. The first %
stars In the list are brighter than magni-
tude 1.6, and may, therefore, be classed as
first-magnitude stars. In the. Revision Of
the Harvard Photometry'' (afso cited) the
number of first magnitudes Is exactly 20.
the lowest on the list being Deneb Cygni
Evening star., 1900-09-29
Same Old Story.
From London Answers.


Ihey mad just got married, and were
starting on their honeymoon. The bride
had got the man she loved and she didn't
care who saw her put her head on his
shoulder. The bridegroom had got a farm
with his wife, and If he wanted to squeeze
her hand or feed her with sweets whose
business was it? A little old man sat op-
posite the couple, and he looked at them
SO often that the young husband finally
explained:
We've just got married.
Il knowed it all the time" chuekled the
other.
And we can't help it. you know"
mo, you can't; I'll be blowed If you
can"
II presume 1t all seems very silly to an
old man like your"
Does 1t? does it?' cackled the old fell
low. We'll, / can tell you 1t does not, then.
I've been there three times over, and now
I'm on my way to marry fourth. Silly?
Why, children. it's paradise boiled down.
Evening star., 1900-09-29
Mafel&ing's Clever Ape in London.
From the London Telegraph.

From the London Telegraph.
Mafeking's ape, who displayed so much
intelligence during the famous siege as to
merit a claim to be the missing link" and
SO much antipathy to the nefarious prac-
tees of the Beers as to entitle him to the
benefits of civilization, has been brought to
this country by the officer who trained him,
and has proved an object of curiosity to the
camp at Salisbury Plain. It's principal duty
in the beleaguered town was to ring the
alarm bell the moment the Beers COM
menced firing. and 1t performed this work In
SO indefadgable and conscientious q man.
ner as to merit the approval Of all the
residents. Having sounded the tocsin and
warned the inhabitants, the ape scurrted of
to Its underground bombproof hole, thus
proving that 1t thoroughly realized the
danger to itself as well as to others M Is
reported that the animal - shortly to be
offered for sale. Surely comfortable home
will be provided for 1t after difficult duties
well performed.
Evening star., 1900-09-29

There Is still some doubt whether the golf
ball will finally class with the nail and the
horse and the other things a woman can't
drive or with the bargain, which she can
Puck.
Evening star., 1900-09-29
Fate.

From the Chicago Record.
THAT woman lecturer said it was vulssy
to sneeze."
"Well?"
"Then she sneezed."
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1900-04-12
POSTED BY THE JANITOR.
Society Specials Communicated
Through the Autocrat of the
Apartment House.

They were riding together on an Indiana
avenue car. One wore little gem of a
black bonnet, with violet trimmings, and
the other had on an appropriate Lenten
symphony in gray.
by the way, did you hear that Lillian
Bell is to be married. asked the one IN
the black bonnet.
Dear me, no! How did you find it out !?
Who is it? When is it to be! Where are
they going to live? Is he"
Ssh, dear, and III tell you all about it, !"
whispered the other, behind her little
mouse-colored muff I'm the first place.
he's young-only 25. He's veree, veree
handsome, he's rich, they've been acquaint-
ed only three weeks He is veree, veree much
in love with her, and she with him. They
are going to have a simplee beautiful we'd
ding, and then they are going to take a
trip to Paris, and after that live in New
York. And"
well, well, how much you know about it!
] didn't suppose you were acquainted with
Miss Bell. Never heard you mention it,
my dear"
I'm not; never saw her in my life" said
the other. "But you know that the Bells
live in one of that row of greensboro houses
down there on Lake avenue? Well, the
houses all have the same janitor, and a
friend of friend of mine lives in one of
them. The janitor told all about it to the
woman in the greensboro house, she told
my friend, and my friend told me. There!"
How lovely!" murmured the woman
in the Lenten gray.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1900-04-12
MARCH AND APRIL
Are the Most Disnsreeable Months of
the Year in the North.

In the South, they are the pIeasantest and
most agreeable. The trees and shrubs put
forth their buds and flowers; early veg
etables and fruits are ready for eating, and
in fact all nature seems to have awakened
fromitswinter sleep. The Louisville & Nash
vile Railroad Company reaches the Garden
Spots of the South, and will on the first and
third Tuesdays OF March and April sell
round-trip tickets to all principal points in
ida at about half rates. Write for particu-
lars of excursions to p. Sid Jones, D. p. A.,
in charge of immigration, Birmingham, Ala,
or j. X. Ridgely, n. w. =. A., Chicago, Ill.
In the spring a man forgets where he puts
things, and places the blame on the house
cleaning -Atchison Globe.
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FREE RURAL DELIVERY.
This Is IA subject in Which Every Pro-
Sressiye Farmer Should Take
Deep Interest.

The advantages of a free mail deliv-
cry in the country are so manifold
that the subject should be of vital in
terest to every farmer. And if coun-
try. people were as alive to their own
interest as they should be- daily
mail would soon be an established
fact in every farm community.
The superintendent of the bureau of
free delivery notes and reports the
following benefits growing out of the
SYSTEM:
First, a marked increase IN the post
a! receipts, many routes already sup
porting themselves; second, decided
advance in the value of farm lands in
communities reached by rural free
delivery, the advance being moder-
ately estimated at three to five dol
lars per acre; third, a pronounced i'm
provement in the condition that roads,
as it is made a condition that roads