Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-12-24

southwestern Idaho, on the Oregon Short
Line. consisting of $4,000 acres, has re-
Congress. 1t would be an ideal place for
the poor Beers We don't want these SIM
pie people near New York There is not
room for them. Here they will become vic
tins of speculation and the prey of land
sharks
In the first detachment of Beers are many
who have been fighting for their homes for
more than year against English invasion.
About seyenty-fiye of them are from the
Transvaal and twenty-five from the Orange
Free State.
Political Names for Chrysanthemums.
If there is anything in a name, people
who have political interests can easily suit
themselves in chrysanthemums this winter.
AT the Central Park chrysanthemum show
there is white William ]. Bryan, and at
another chrysanthemum show there a
number of other political chrysanthemums.
Richard Croker, for instance, is a brand
new flower, blooming this year for the
nrst time. 1t Is a beautiful blossom, one
that Is grouped under rods, though really
more of a magenta pink. with silver reverse
sides to the leaves. 1t Is Japanese sort
petaled chrysanthemum. and shows The
silver under side Of its leaves attractivaly.
The Theodore Roosevelt is a handsome big
yellow flower, and DR.. Parkhurst who may
come under the head of politicians, is white
with blush Of pink. Paul Kruger, a new
1870 flower, Is a terra Gotta red. with gold
reverse sides to the leaves, and T. Z. Plat
is slight sulphur yellow. Getting out of
politics, Clara Barton is q fine white fow-
er, and Richard Carvel, another brand new
blossom, Is short-petaled pink flower.
Gladys Vanderbilt is very popular white
chrySanthemum, with peculiar petals rolled
to look like quilts. In cities, Philadelphia
is sulphur yellow. and Brooklyn is a rose
PINK, and Columbia Is an incurved moder-
ate-sized flower of pink.
Chrisfmas Nail md Evnrcs.
If goodfellowship, brotherly love and
wishes for happy Yuletide can be gagged
by the tremendous amount of mail and ex-
press packages that have passed through
New York during the past week. this Is, in
deed, a Christmas of good will toward
men, If mail Is late and express packages
do not arrive 1t will be due to the noun
tains of mail matter stacked up in the post
office and the thousands of packages I'D in
the express offices. Night and day for the
past week the employees Of the post office
nave been working. Extra help has been
employed, but it is no easy matter to sort,
distribute and deliver 10 600 900 or - 900
wv letters or mail packages a day. Fig
ures at the post office, in Superintendent of
Mails Mays department. show the big in
crease In Christmas mails over all previous
years. In 1898, 81 $40 500 Christmas letters
and packages passed through the office.
In 1899 this number was increased to So
19.44S and this year the increase Is ex-
pected to be 100000 or 4,OOO,OOO over last
year.
The Yonkers Historical and Library AS
soc1atlon has undertaken the publication of
the records Of the old Sieeny Hollow Church
at Tarrytown. The work of translatine
ana transcribing the records has been done
by the Rev DR.: David Cole, ex-president of
the society. The records are the earliest
and most complete list of baptisms and
marriages taking place in Westchester
county, between 1907 and 1890 The old
church was built by Frederick Philipse and
his wife about 1850, and still stands in
Sleepy Hollow cemetery A