Evening star., 1900-03-06

| soldiers camp, spd yet SO edged around
with earnest love and childlike faith that
all its grossest trappings fell away and left
us nothing but the ideal Christ Once more
i we heard the distant batteries speak. Then
all was hushed except the preachers voice.
Remsfkaiae Sermon.
Prepare to meet. yer Gawd. l come ter
| tell yer all abars q GENERAL whose armies
| hold ther city Of eternal llfe II you are
wounded throw yer; rifles down and p will
| send the ambulance OF is love, with Red
Cross angels, and His adjutant, whose
name Is mercy. t91dtess yer wounds Throw
the fs No
storm rher walls pr take ther gates at ther
point Of ther bayenit for ther ramparts are
guarded nd ther ,sehtties never sleep. An
you will ever 'eaf, nd ther colonel. whose
name is death, gives the order ter march:
you will have nothink to fear abart il yer
bandoliers are full Of faith md yer rifles are
sighted with good works Yer uniforms
| may be ragged. and you may not even have
a corporal stripe to show, but if yer can
pass ther sentries fearlessly you'll find a
generals commission waiting for yer just
inside the gate. But Yer can't fool my gem
eral Remember this, ther pass word is re-
pentanee' nd nothink else will do. The
challenge yer. Who goes there?' FRIEND
Advance, friend. nd give the countersiyn'
II you say. good works you will find his
nayonet UP against yer chest. If you say
you forgot to get it. you'll be in ell in the
twinkling of an eye; but If YOU saw loud
and clear. repentance he'll lower his bay
onet and say, Pass. friend, alrs WE'LL"
Wrecked by the Beers.
We have heard great deal from both
sides during the war Of the wanton destruc-
ton OF PROPERTY by soldiers, but a letter
from Mrs. Woods. who is the wife of a.
member Of the legislative assembly of Ma
tai. Is the strongest testimony 1 have SEEN
Mrs. Woods returned to her home when the
Beers had retired from 1t, after four days'
encampment there. She found everything
IN her mouse except what had been useful
to Is, the invaders smashed where it stood, or
uttered about the f1oors the yard and the
home fields: a seventy-guinea piano had
been hacked with a hatchet. Her treasures
or bric-a-brac, her paintings. mirrors,
lamps, books. papers and music were
filthy wreckage of the dining room and sit
ting room. where horses and cattle had
been stabbed A family Bible lay among
the refuse. and torn copy Of Hymns An
eient and Modern" had been thrown out
INTO the meadow; precisely Livingstone's
experience Of these same people Mrs
Woods gives long and precise inventory.
protest.
Wanton Destruction.
NO one above the status of a dog could
behave as these Beers have done. and a
naked Zulu Is perfect gentleman in his
habits compared with the Free Slater
Being only a woman, after the first sense
OF nausea which. overcame me at the awful
sight. am not ashamed to say that wept
z,in!0 aiaIo tne runs. Fhere are things in every
Woman's household which are probably Of
little intrinsic value, but are neyertheIess
sacred IN the eyes of wife and mother,
oucn s enlngs as letters, portraits of the liv-
ing ana the dead, school prizes presentation
DOCKS, presents from our nearest and dear
est-these are of little value to outsiders
put now precious TO a woman! For in
stance. the cradle in which all nv children
were rocked: all their little clothes-traas
nres OF nearly twenty-four years hoardinp.
their first school letters, their locks of babv
naansas 1aar, ist.ers OF courtship and matrimony,
keepsakes and photographs-s,1reIy tSe
"retches might have left me these"
Improving the Strand.
The destruction. Of the island" In the
strand between the churches of St. Glenn
ehts Dane and St. Mary lie Strand has he
gun. Hoardings now surround the houses
and shops there. and by the end of March
the famous HolywelI street, with the nests
OF old buildings filed with second-band
oooksellers will cease to exist 1t is a part
oi the much-Leeded StRand Improvement to
winch l have several times alluded With
view to securing harmony of design. as
wen as sufficiently imposing architectural
@ tfeatiIlei1t az OF the buildings, in. the new Hol-
porn 10 strand thoroughfare, it is proposed
by the improvements cpmmittee of the Lon
DON county council ton invite designs from
the eight Leading architects. -Four of. the
archtteets 1t is suggested. should be nom
mated by the council and four by the Royat-
Institute of British Architects premium
oosa od a19I ba oeibng paid In each case The pro
to the new thoroughfare the beauty and
civic dignity which mark some of the grand
thOroughfares in continental capitals. In
the past too little regard has been paid to
orohtf
the deplorable result seen in Shaftesbury
avenue and Charing Cross road, where
buildings of all sorts of Styles and with a
great diversity of elevations, reduced what
might have been splendid thoroughfares to
the level of second-class suburban streets.
fhe opportunity which will be given to
lne me, archltects In the case of the new street
VIII be unique as far as modern street con-
struction in London is concerned. Leaving
out of consideration % 100 square feet of
lar land which VIII be occupied by the Gaiety
Short's"-all of which under the act legal
lzing the Improvement are to be reinstated
-tnerc Will be about four acres of land
available for building purposes on the ISL
and formed by the new street where it
debonches in its two avenues upon the
Strand. The total frontage will be $3.50
Ieet or nearly one and one-eighth miles.
This is probably the largest amount of first
class frontage that has been involved in
any metropolitan street Improvement. Ger
tainly there has been nothing like 1t since
of the century. Some idea of the vast in
terests involved may be gathered from the
TACT that the sites which will be at the dis
posal of the county council moderate
estimate are valued at four million pounds.
At The Evening Star ONCE.
The following names have recently been
registered at the London Office of The
Evening Star: H. K. Packard. James A.
Cavanagh, Miss Ada NJ. Stanley, Chicago;
George H. T. Soule, Miss Mabel S. Soule,
Alfred T. Porter, Boston; Miss Charlotte r.
Stead. Edward c. Graham, New York; John
Edwards, Philadelphia, and August Fred
erick, st. Louis. L. H. MOORE.
FrilIs of Fashion.
Qulls now clasped with diamond
buckles having very visible prongs.
Metallic effects in feathers are being large
" patronized by the best milliners.
There is disposition in toquas to adopt