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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-02

The full strength of Great Britain's In
dian army is 100000 men. of whom 23O.OOO
are native and 10000 British soldiers. In
addition to this military force there are
about 10000 enrolled European volunteers.
and native police. Offered by white men,
nearly 100000 strong.
Germany's expectation of ready-made
clothing is falling off. In 1898 1t amounted
to $211. 542, 900, which was 10000, 900 less
than in 1896. and $40. $50 600 less than in
1889. The reduction is mainly in shipments
to England. Holland and Switzerland.
With the single exception Of Norway
there is no land in Europe whose area IS
SO taken up by forests as Germany. more
than quarter OF its surface being devoted
to them.
The children Of the poor In Japan are
nearly always labeled. in case they should
stray from their homes while their mothers
are engaged on domestic duties.
In Belgium severe penalties are imposed
on persons who have the right to VOTE but
do not avail themselves Of It.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-02
Alteration of the Russian Calendar.
From Notes and Queries.

a r.
From Notes and Queries.
1t Is stated that the Russian government
is proposing to effect an alteration in their
calendar, the dates in which, since the end
of last February. have differed thirteen
days from those of western Europe and
America. We are. however. told they do
not propose to adopt the Gregorian reck-
oning, but to bring into use a scheme
more simple and more accurate, and to in
vite other nations to accept this. 1t is
then to be presumed that the plan in ques-
ton is that of dropping a leap year regu-
larly each one hundred and twenty eighth
year. which would keep the calendar right
and in accordance with the true length of
the tropical year for $1,000 years. Obvi-
ously this is far more simple than the
Gregorian rule, which Is this:
Der of which is Invisible by 100. unless it
is also Invisible by 400. This would keep
the calendar right for over 5000 years;
but If 1t were further modified by dropping
a leap year in each year the number of
which Is Invisible by 1000 1t would pre-
length for 100000 years. So that the modi-
fled Gregorian rule. with an exception of
an exception of an exception, would be
scarcely more accurate than the above
simple rule. according to which the next
leap year dropped after the present one
would be POPS. To prove its accuracy, 1t
is only necessary to point out that 1t i'm
piles having. in every period of 12S years.
~ common years of 1865 days each and 81
bissextile years of 1856 days each. This
makes in all 48.751 days in 12s years, or
the average length of year 36-'.24219 days.
which differs only in the fifth: decimal
place from the true length Of a tropical
wear
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-02
Stevenson of the Letters.

B. Paul Neuman in the London Spectator.
Long hatchet face. black hair and haunting gaze
That follows, you move about the room,
All this Is he who trod the darkening ways,
And plucked the flowers upon the edge Of DOOM
The bright, sweetscented flowers that star the
road
To Deaths dim dwelling Others heed them not,
With sad eyes fixed upon that drear abode.
Weeping, and wailing their unhappy lot.
But he went laughing down the Swallowed wayi
The boys heart leaping still within his breast,
Weaving his garlands when his mood was gay,
Mocking his SORROWS with a solemn Jest.
The high gods gave him wine to drink; a cup
OF strong DESIRE of knowledge. and Of pain,
He set 1t to his lips and drank 1t up.
Then, smiling, turned unto his flowers again.
These are the flowers Of that immortal strain
Which, when the hand that plucked them drops
and dies,
Still keen their radiant beauty free from stain,
And breathe their fragrance through the CEN
turtles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-02
Green Bushes.

Katherine lyman in the Pail Mall Magazine.
The green bushes when first loved you,
When we met and my heart approved you,
Tossed the gold and the scarlet high,
Gold and scarlet went drifting by.
Ochone, the wind and the weather!
Days when you and were together;
Much We needed the leaf on the tree;
Twas hearts springtme to you and me-
The green bushes when we were married
White rose and red rose carried,
When you drew me your threshold DER,
Rose and white for our wedding floor.
Ochone, the days that are oyeri
] beloved. and you my lover.
Little we cared what the world might saN
You and on our wedding day.
The green bushes grow thin and shiver,
You and we are lovers ever;
Cheek TO cheek and heart to heart
Still true lovers that none can part.
Ochone. winter goes signing,
Love in u world Of care and dyingt
All. forget that made you sad,
Yet remember made you glad
The green bushes grow gray and verna1
Spring comes back and Love 10 eternal;
In your arms come kiss. forgive me;
Had you ever the heart 10 grieve me, Ochonef
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-02
Handwriting Experts.

The handwriting experts get another bad
setback in the case of a man who has Just
been pardoned out Of the Georgia peniten-
dary by President Mckinley, and who had
been convicted of the crime of sending OBJ
jectionable matter through the mails. 1t
appears that this man was convicted ry the
testimony Of two handwriting experts, and.
after he was sent to the penitentIary, the
OBJ ectionable letters continued to pass
through the mails in the same handwriting
Finally the police arrested another man,
and he was convicted by the same expert
testimony. The attorney general, in COM
mentinS on handwriting expert testimony in
this case. points out how absolutely unIe-
liable the deductions of these experts may
be, and the injustice of depending upon
such evidence In convicting suspected per-
sons. His point would seem to be well
taken. and 1t might be made to cover other
kinds of expert testimony than that relat-
Ing to the subject of handwriting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-02
waking Mt Night.

bel Dearmer in the London Spectator
When / wake up alone at night
I feel AS IL l had no eyes:
stare and stare with all my might,
But only biackness round me lies.
listen for the faintest sound
And. though I strain with either ear,
The dark Is silent oil around;
It's just as il could not hear.
But IL lie with limbs held fast
sort nf sound comes like sigh
Perhaps the darkness rushing past
Perhaps the minutes passing by;
Perhaps the thoughts in peoples heads
That keep quiet all the day,
Wait till they're sleeping in their beds,
Then rustic out and fly away!
Or else this noise like whirring wings.
That dies with the first streak Of light,
May be the sound Of baby things.
All growing. growing. in the night.
Children. and kitfy-cats and pups,
D- even little buds and flowers,
Daisies. perhaps. and buttercups,
All growing In the midnight hours.
And yet II seems II HE a part,
And nothing far away queer....
It's just the beating Of my heart.
That sounds strange AS lie herel
do not know why this should he:
When darkness hides the world from sigh
feel that all is gone but me-
little child and the black night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-02
The French Republic.

The opinion hitherto expressed In these
columns that there was little or no signifi-
canoe in the nationalist" victories in the
Paris elections is amply confirmed by the
complete returns of the municipal cleo
lions throughout France. OF 1892 COM
munes the republicans, supporters Of the
present system of government, carried o.
S32 or more than 70 per cent. The entire
opposition. including some hundreds that
are in doubt. won only 9.11O. The vast bulk
Of these, of course. were monarchists. The
preposterous ''nationalists." who follow M.
Deroulede and the pork butcher of Fort
Chabrol. were successful in only 153 COM
better than that. The French republic Is
all right.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-02

were spelled correctly. Following the doc
tors suggestion. a Main street merchant,
who has always travelled under the name
of ]. H. Groder. has changed his sign so
that now 1t reads. ~. II. Grondin." Joseph
E. Pooler has become, with few dashes
of the paint brush. Joseph E. Poulfn.'
Joseph Bullett has changed his name to
"Bouliette." Sam Roderick becomes Sam
"Roderique." Thus far about % per cent
of the French names found in the schools
of the city have been found to be spelled
wrong The changes that DR.. Jolly makes
are handed to the teacher and she is in
structed by the board of education to see
to 1t that the list Is kept correct. The
teacher must struggle for awhile with the
matter of pronunciation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-02

homogeneous in the death Of Desdemona or
Juliet. nothing to shock the feelings in the
death of Col. Newcome or lie Fevre. But
death is distressing when 1t Is dragged in
among the novelists puppets merely to
give the author an opportunity Of exhibit
ing his prowess in descriptive writing, and
Historically. and with as much writing
and contortion as the actor can simulate
without breaking blood vessel. as is too
often the case with Nine. Bernhardt While
1t seems absurd to shut death out alto
get.,er from the play and the novel, the
present discussion will do good il 1t induces
both actor and novelist to exercise becom-
ing restraint when they bring audiences to
the side of eathbed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-02
THE SHAFTS JOURNEY.
II In an EssAt on which His People
Look with Dread.

From the LONDON Daiiy Ne~s.
The Nor-Dar. an unfmpeachable authority
on Persian affairs. describes the manner Of
the shah's progress from Tcheran to Djulfa,
on the Russian frontier. The poor peasan-
try may well anticipate with terror the ap-
pearance of the king Of kings and his huge
convoy. Says the NoT-Dara I'm every vii
lase and hamlet of the provinces through
which Muzaner-ed-Din wilP shortly pass on
his Journey to the west there is just now
observable an extraordinary and feverish
activity in the collection OF great stores of
provisions Of all kinds for supplying the
wants of the many thousands Of persons
who accompany his majesty from the cap
ital to the frontier But 1t, Is not with Joy.
but with grief and despair that the poor
people go about these preparations. Such
acquisitions are imposed upon the unfortu-
nate people in virtue Of legally sanctioned
and ancient Persian custom, according to
which the shah, whenever he visits the
provinces. makes the satraps responsible
and the satraps. in their turn recoup them
selves to the last penny at the cost of the
peasantry. Hence. the imposing progress
minions accompanied by great bodies Of in
fantry and cavalry and an enormous per-
sonal encourage. costs the state excheQuer
not single farthing.
to the satrap whose brow must sweat to
find the needful, first for the padishah, and
secondly for the grinding taskmaster. who
has bought his satrapy at an imperial auc
tion Thus the governors Of Kazvik, Cham
sa and Aserbaishan were recently COM
manded by the shah to provide all that was
required for the fitting reception Of himself
and the host Of his convoy on his passage
to Djulfa. That order was sufficient to sink
the peasantry Of those provinces into the
lowest depths Of tribulation, knowing that
1t will take them some few years to recover
by thrift and industry the substance they
r,fr11,, fhn h,,,. l., -
the shahs convoy.
Crowds of these distracted peasants. with
tears in their eyes and in their voices anx-
iously asSailed the correspondent Of the
Nor-Dar with the question whether the
shah would return by the same route, or
would he go by way of the Caspian and
Resht. and thereby relieve them Of the des-
olating effects of second visitation. I'm
fortunately, the correspondent was unable
to console them. Muzaffer-ed-Din has a
dread Of the sea. and a particularly super
stitious fear Of the Caspian. and he would
therefore return by the same way that he
came"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-02
The Covered Bridge.

Tell the fainting soul in the weary form,
There's a world of the purest bliss,
That is linked as that soul and form are linked
BY q covered bridge, with this.
Yet to reach that realm on the other shore,
We must pass through a transient gloom,
And must walk unseen, unhelped and alone,
Through that covered bridge-the tomb.
But we all pass over on equal terms,
For the universal toll
Is the outer garb which the hand OF God
Has flung around the soul.
Though the eye Is dim, and the bridge Is dark,
And the river It spans ID wide,
Yet faith points through to shining mount
That looms the other side.
To enable our feet In the next days march
To climb up the golden ridge,
We must all lie down for one-nigtt's rest,
DAVID BARKER,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-02
The Bridge.

W. W. Campbell in Pearson's Magazine.
What is hi, briuge to heavenT' they cried,
And the warriors held their breath,
As the grizzled king of hundred fights
Went down to the river Of DEATH
what Is his bridge to heaven!" they cried
as II Fashioned with buckles and spears,
And grded strong with the iron blades
OF the battles Of bygone years?
And what are the voices he hears In his dreams7
Are they the clamors Of fight,
Or the echoes of splendid victories that come
As be stands by the river at niyht?''
Nay. nay. and they stand by in wonder and awe,
For all that he builds on there
Are a withered blossom, a baby's shoe
And the lock of q womnn's hair.
And the only voice he hears In his Dreams
As the world dies In his ears
Are old love-ballad, babys LAUGH,
And the sob Of dead wife's tesrS,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-02

= histE III lhe Lineage neS-hpralu.
Let me- sing a song for the hero
Who fell unnamed. unknown
The common soldier. lying
Beneath no costly Stone
Who fought where the foe was strongest
And. after the day done,
Was merely among the missing
Nine hundred and sixty-one."
Let me sing song for the hero
Who knelt AZ the rail to pray
While the boats with the weeping women
And children were rowed away
Who. being man and gifted
With the strength God gives to men,
Was one Of the hundred sailors
Who will ne'er tread decks again.
Let me sing song for the hero
Who weary. wasted. wan
With disease and the world against him
T"l.d hopefully. bravely
Who robbed Of earth's choicest pleasures
Could smile as he wrought away.
And lies with the unnamed millions
Awaiting the Judgment Day.
Let me sing the song Of the heroes
Who died unknown. unnamed.
And my song shall be Of the bravest
That Death and the grave e'er claimed
And my song shall live the longest
OF all the songs e'er sung.
And still be the song Of heroes
When the last sad knell Is rung!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-02
Literary Deathbeds.
From the London Globe.


A correspondence is proceeding in lit
erary journal concerning the use Of death
bed scenes in fiction and on the stage.
The question is asked whether it is right
to act death on the stage. or to describe
the dissolution Of soul and body in the
pages Of a novel. II death is to be rigidly
omitted we must sacrifice many Of Shake
speare's plays, while Thaokeray and Dick
ems would be only two of the great masters
in the innumerable host of novelists con-
demned to perpetual Punishment from po-
lite libraries. Nevertheless, the question Is
worth arguing. because the modern actor
and the modern novelist seem to take a
morbid delight in rendering the great act
of death with a fullness and devotion to
realism which even the least hypersensi-
tive find something more than distressing.
solemnity Of death forbids its Introduction
into drama or fiction. except under the
most pressing necessity. One finds nothing
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-02
Texas "Hard Wheat"
From the Chicago Record.

Recent tests in European manufactures
have demonstrated conclusively that the
hard wheat Of northern Texas Is particu-
larly available for making macaroni and
other so-called ''pastes." Some Of the early
experiments with the Texas wheat were
unsatisfactory. but 1ater trials have re-
vealed that the early failure was due to the
mixed with the hard variety The Euro
pean manufacturers ndW hope that they
may obtain an Increased supply of their raw
material from Texas, and thus be relieved
asked for the Mediterranean products The
utilization Of the hard Wheat of Texas will
bring about much more general cultiva-
ton OF that cereal. At the same time that
the paste manufactures: of Europe the OPP
portunity Is opened for the manufacture of
those pastes in this Country,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-02
The Unbidden Guest.
Ethelwyn wetherald in the New England Magaz

Wetherald In the New England Magazl
made feast In my banquet hall;
The guests were choice and few:
There Success with his splendid eyes,
And Health with his ruddy hue;
And there was Joy with her radiant smile,
And Love with her lily breast
And said. five will eat and drink
There shall be no other guest.
set five plates upon the board.
With fairest fruits o'erspread;
When suddenly a sixth appeared,
Heaped high with bitter bread.
I set five glasses on the board,
And poured In them the vine;
When suddenly sixth appeared,
Filled full Of tears and brine.
placed five wreaths upon the board,
Rose-tined like June morns:
When suddenly sixth appeared,
Enwrought with naked thorns.
Then gay we sat In the banquet hall,
With merry laugh and Jest;
While at my side unsmiling stood
The unlimited guest.
Oh lightly. lightly flowed the talk,
And laughter rang again;
Yet louder sounded In my heart
The speechlessness of Pain.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-02
Bird. a. weather Prophets.

From the London Science Siftings.
Birds are generally looked upon as good
weather prophets. and the following may be
taken as a general Interpretation Of their
signs. II swallows fly near the grouni
there will be rainy or windy weather. II
chicks seek shelter 1t will be wet. II chick
ems and other fowls pick their feathers the
weather will be cloudy and damp. II dur
ing severe frosts BOOSTERS crow early, tho
Thermometer will rise. When ducks battle
and quack there will be rain. When they
are quiet there will be a thunderstorm. II
q cat searches for q warm place the wealth
er will be colder. II It scratches q door,
table or other object with its claws, there
will be windy and snowy weather.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-02
Queer Things Heard in the Elevators.


From the New Orleans Times Democrat.
"A funny thing about this business"
said a man who runs the elevator in big
office building, is the way people will
sometimes call out whatever happens to b
on their minds instead Of the number OF
the floor at which they want to stop. Just
a few moments ago very good-lookinS
lady got in the car. and. when we were
about half way up she called out SUDDENLY
Two back teeth What! said I. little
startled. I mean f1ve. she answered. turns
ing red. Then she saw that made it worse
than ever, and she turned red some more.
Il mean please stop at the fifth floor she
managed to say, very low, when We wer9
nearly to the top. You see. she was on hep
way to the dentists, may be to have two
back teeth snatched out. and suppose she
couldn't think Of anything else The othee
day a fat, fussy old man rushed IN with 3
bundle of papers in his hand: When w
cot near the fourth floor he hlurted cutl
Hes q contemplate rascalr Very MkelyK
said T. and kept on going up. III, thersE
he yelled, why didp't you stop whore
told YOUR How DID know what moor yoH
meantT said L What you remarked dtx
tsnants on several hoors.' Il turned ou1
that he wanted to see his lawyer. don't
know whether be was thinking ABOUT hin3
az n Somebody he was In litigation with"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-02
Spelling of French Names I'm Maine.
Er,r, ~ 7 x,,cistou No Journal

The work of changing the names Of the
French people In Waterville. Me-. from the
wrong to the right way of spelling is pro-
crossing well under the direction Of Dr.
Jolly. The doctor goes through every
school room takes the list of names Of the
pupils and changes the spelling thereon to
the correct way. If any name appears
which is spelled wrong. In one room the
doctor found forty-fve names OF French
Canadian pupils. and only two Of them
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-02

A medical paper says that In railway col,
l,sions nearly all the passengers who arg
and concussion natures own anaestheti9
preserving them.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-12-28
Tour OF Puerto Rico.

The American Tourist Association
announces two tours of the beautiful
island OF Puerto Rico under escort.
through and around the island by rail.
carriage. automobile and boat.
Special Pullman cars leave Chicago
Thursday, January II and Thursday.
February IA, at $50 a. M, connecting
with the splendid new steamships
Ponce and San Juan sailing from New
York the second day following. Indi-
vidual tickets sold for other sailing
dates, alternate Saturdays
Tickets include all expenses every
where. All railway, steamer and
sleeping care fares, meals and berths
on steamers. meals on dining car. hotel
bills in New York and Puerto Rico,
all transfers, carriage rides in the cit
les and through the island, guides and
interpreters are included in the tick
cts. There are no extras.
Tours are under the direction of
Reau Campbell, General Manager. A.
T. A., 1923 Marquartett Building,
Chicago.
Itineraries, maps and tickets can be
had on application to the Agents of the
Chicago, Milwaukee & ST. Paul R'y..
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-12-28

linger upon the tongue and
slide down the throat and
leave sense of satisfied Ifulness
all the way down. After the edge
of hunger is taken off the talk be-
gins. The common place becomes
witty and the witty hilariously fun
nyand all the little ills of life dis
appear with the pie, and Heaven
is almost attained with the nuts
and candy. That is the kind of a
dinner it was, we warrant you.
The man who would send that
kind of an invitation would have
that kind of dinner, and all of
Christmas Day we were with that
family in spirit and were glad that
they lived in Denison and that
their hearts were warm and true
and that they were able after the
year of hard work, such as we
know they have had, to send that
invitation, "Tell all the folks to
come, for there's enough for all. I"
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-12-28

is constantly losing his bearings as
to lady and gentlemen cows. In
the city the ladies skirts are always
either two feet or twenty feet long,
there is no middle course; the SER
wants are always unmitigated asses,
and the black mustache has become
a synonym for villiany. We are
not speaking alone of the class of
shows that favor Denison with their
presence but in the large cities,
the rules of custom governing
these things are just as memorable.
People are expected to laugh and
enjoy these same ssgaucheries" year
after year, and the awkward thing
about it is that they do There
has been so much improvement
along other lines that we have
hoped the spirit of the age might
strike the stage. 1t has not, hence
we mourn, and hope that one of
the things the new century has in
store for us is the firing of the old
stage canons and the setting up of
new
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-12-28

Among the tens of thousands who
have used Chamberlafn's Cough Rem
edy for colds and la grippe during the
past few years, to our knowledge not a
single case has resulted in pneumonia.
Thos. Whitfield & Co, $50 Wabash
avenue, Chicago one of the most PROM
inent retail druggists in that city in
speaking of this says: "Wc recon-
mend Chamberlain Cough Remedy
for la grippe in many cases, as it not
only gives prompt and complete recov-
cry, but also counteracts any tendency
of la grippe to result in pneumonia .
For Sale by @. f. Casaday & Co., The
Broadway Pharmacy.