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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-03
An American OH Jouhert.


The London correspondent of the Matin
has wired some extracts from the letter of
an American volunteer with the Beers. The
writer describes General Joubert as an old
fox. who knows his business well and who
will not move unless he is sure of success.
He says that he leaves the attack to the
English. the result being that while they
glish artillery is good, although the guns
are inferior in range to those of the
Beers, but the English cavalry is far less
useful than theirs. General White and his
lO.oOO men are closely klockaded, and the
town Is bombarded from time to time but
the Beers reckon on sickness, thirst and
hunger to reduce the garrison at Lady,
smith, winch they regard as important on
account OF the arms and ammunition that
1t contains. The Boer forces, continues the
writer, are increasing every day, and, in
ciuding the endorsements which have ar
rived from ENGLAND and America, they
now exceed 100000 men. They have allies
and spies everywhere and they know ey-
erytning that Is being done and planned
In the British army. Then, If the worst
comes to the worst. they have their noun.
tains to protect them, and II the English
would seek them there they would require
force OF quarter of q million troops
volunteers. moreover, are still pouring In
ana only few days previously q body of
ntty arrived from the United States. They
OF them IN Cuba and the Philippines and
they came from New York and Chicago.
John Bull, concludes the writer, will have
hard work before him II he L. to beat the
Boers. and VIII find that all this Is not q
mere picnios
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-03
The Italian Woman

FROM tne contemporary.
The rather low standard of her culture
tends to keep the Italian woman behind.
hend In the march of emancipation. though
enc comes across remarkable exceptions
among those occupied with education or
literature, and even in society. The Ital-
ian has very acute intelligence whic.,
takes in with extraordinary promptitude
anything presented to her mind: but sh.
does not cultivate it; once her studies end
ed she closes her books; ''adieu paniers
Nendanges sont faitesr That most useful
help to feminine intellectual DEVELOPMENT
reading has not yet become a habit with
her. There are countries where books are
more used by women than by men; rich
they buy them; poor, they have the lending
library; in their yearly expenditure no
matter how small it be. literature has its
place. There is nothing like this in Italy
With the exception of a small minority
the women do not read, and have no wish
to read. Their celebrated ancestresses of
the sixteenth century must hook at them
with reproachful eyes. If the shade of the
President des BrosSes recrossed the Alps
he would find no Maria Gaetana Agnesi
called the oracle of seven languages and the
servant OF the poor, and declared by him to
be more marvellous than Milan Cathedral
Benedict XIV granted permission to this
learned Milanese lady to take her fathers
place as professor of mathematics at the
University of Bologna during an illness Of
the latter.
The tradition of feminine learning is lost
in Italy: indeed, it was lost long before the
time of Maria Gaetsna Agnesi The italian
of today may yet prove herself capable Of
emulating her great forerunners; but in the
meantime 1t Is certain that modern ideas
have made so much less way with her than
with the women of other European coun-
tries that she offers a more formidable re-
sistance than even the men of her own land
to any effort at reform in favor of her SEX
This inferiority Of culture has the double
effect of greatly limiting the number Of
women capable Of taking any part what
ever in public affairs, and OF creating an
utter want Of sympathy with the cmancips<
ton movement in general.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-03
Gambling Houses in London.


There were in 1724 in London alone thir.
ty-five well-known gambling houses. Nearly
all our most respectable West End clubs
were originally gambling houses. as the
Cocoa Tree, which is still fiourishing as q
club at No. e. st. James street. One night
late in the last century there was a cast
at hazard. the difference Of which was $780,
0O0 That present pink Of perfection,
Whites" was perhaps the most appalling
gambling hell in Europe THE young men
of the age" says Walpole, lose there GOA
900, Els, 600. 10000 in an evening" The play
at this club was only for rouleaux Of ESQ
each, and generally there was 10000 ID
gold on the table. The gamestere began b.
pulling on their embroidered clothes, and
put on frieze garments or turned thei1
coats inside out for luck, They put on
pieces Of leather to save their lace rufies,
and to guard their eyes from the light and
to prevent tumbling their hair wore high.
crowned straw hats with broad brims, and
sometimes masks to conceal their emotions,
Almack's afterward was known as the
Goose Tree Ciub-a rather significant name
land Pitt was one of its most constant fire.
Quenters. and there met his adherents- Glib
bon was also q member, when the club was
still Almack's.. which. indeed. was the namo
81 Its founder and original proprietor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-03
THE LYRE BIRD.
Ventriloquist Who Makes Enough
Noise for q Dozen Birds.


Noise for a Dozen Birds.
From the National Review.
The ground is hidden beneath a mass of
jungle grass. sword grass and fern, all
bowed under a weight of moisture, and
this forest is dreary, damp and cold. 1t
is billy country. and you hear the notes
OF the different birds echoing and deceiv-
ing you. They are all high. piping sounds.
save now and then when a thud-thud
ike thunderbolt seems to strike the
earth. 1t is a frightened wallaroo or WALL
any who is leaping. pausing to listen, and
ieaping on again over the green coating of
the earth.
Now, you hear a Tyre bird before you.
Doubtless he is not more than twenty
yards ahead, for the sound seems to rise
under cover of your gun, which with very
nervous hands you are holding before you.
But that bird is a rascally ventriloquist.
knowing how to pitch his voice and send
1t in any direction. Never mind-he is
singing, so you move on toward him. Take
heed to your surroundings and to the
weight of your football. Should you fall
foul of some rambling vine, or put down
your foot too quickly. the Tyre bird will
gather up his music and his tail, and you
Will hear him no more. You must stand
still as death and wait, If needs be, half
an hour for his second performance. When
no rs well On Win II you may go on, loo,
for his own excitement and the sound Of
his own voice will kill out all other sounds
and he will not hear you stealing on him.
He is disporting himself on a mound of
vegetable mold five or six feet in diameter,
which he has earthed up. Around him
are long grasses and ferns through which
he has made holes into which he can dart
at will to elude his enemies. Above is one
clear branch on to which he will leap when
instinct tells him he is safe from harm.
Here he will perch and plume himself pre-
vious to winging his flight to some other
play or feeding ground. By avoiding every
obstacle and pausing breathlessiy when
ever the bush singer lowers his note, you
have managed to steal almost upon him.
There, see his beautiful tail, bowling pea
cocklike over that mass of nodding grass
as its owner courtesies to the ground, and
chatters and calls and shrieks as if he were
addressing multitude on the ground be-
fore him. He is only initiating tribe of
Black cockatoos you swear there were at
least forty voices in chorus). Now he is
rivaling half dozen bellbirds. and the
next instant there is a long-drawn smack
ing sound which you may put down as the
music of a falling branch or the call of the
.whipcracker" Ia treeclimber).
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-03
An Apple Eater.
From Chambers Journal.

From Chambers Journal.
During a visit to the south of England a
gentleman was met with who related a
unique and most interesting experience in
d1etetics. 1t was that for the last three
years he had lived on one meal a day, ana
that meal was composed chiefly of apples.
Further establishment was evoked by his
reply to my question as to what he drank,
when he stated that the juices of the apples
supplied him with all the moisture or drink
he needed. This. he claimed was of the
purest Kind, being in reality water distilled
by nature and favored with the pleasant
aroma of the apple. He partook of his one
meal ABOUT O'Clock in the afternoon, eat
ing what he felt satisfied him, the meal oc
cupytng him from twenty minutes to half
an hour: He looked the picture of health
ful manhood, and is engaged daily in liter
airy work.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-03
SharpshoOters' Range Marks.
From the New Orleans Times Democrat.

The killing of General Lawton by the bull
let of some unknown Filipino sharpshooter
recalls an interesting little story which was
told in the corridor of the Grunewald by
one of the officers of the Tennessee regi-
ment when it passed through the city re-
Gently on its way home from service in the
far east.
'In the first advance which we made
north of Manila" he said, I'VE discovered
that the native sharpshooters were exceed
ingly fond of locating range marks on
ground they thought we would be apt to
traverse. They would know the exact ele-
walton necessary to drop a bullet at some
bush, stump. or pile of stones, and if a
soldier approached the spot he was pretty
would be killed or wounded before the
deadly indicator would be observed, and
when any sharpshooting was going on our
boys learned eventually to avoid all con-
spicuouS objects that looked as If they
might have been selected as range marks.
Otherwise the Filipinos are not remarkable
as shots"
A very similar story was told by soldiers
who participated in the fighting before San
tiago. They say that almost every Spanish
rifleman hidden away in treetop had a
scale of distances carefully noted by marks
at various points. and some of these range
finders acquired sinister fame Some little
distance from the first emergency hospital
was the wreck of heavy two-wheeled
native wagon. with pole sticking straight
up into the air. 1t was on the edge Of a
path to the nearest creek. which was fire.
quently traversed, and three soldiers were
shot near the heap of rubbish before 1t be-
came evident tina. hidden sharpshooter
was using it to sight by. A couple of days
later there was systematic raid on the
men in the treetops and most ofsthem were
swept out by the machine guns. but in the
meanwhile the old wagon and other objects
that appeared to have been located as dis
lance marks were scrupulously Stunned
It Is very possible that the gallant I1awton
CHANGED to get in line with some such indi-
Gator at the moment he received his death
wound.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-03
SHIPS CHRONoMETERs.
Some of the Tests to Which They Are
Subjected.

SuUycctcos
From the New York Post.
There is popular belief that chronom-
eters. those delicate pieces of mechanism
which enable the mariner to tell to nicely
where he is upon the ocean, are made only
in England One will be told even in Maid
en- Lane that England is chronometer-
maker to the world. This was true at one
time, but now, according to shipmasters,
America turns out excellent thermometers.
There are, however, only three American
makers as against numerous British firms.
Many Of the instruments in use in the
United States navy are of American make
These chronometers are purchased on trial.
The delicate instrument is subjected to ex-
trsmes of temperature. by means of which
its variations are ascertained. No instru-
ment leaves the makers hands until 1t has
been thoroughly tested or before it is three
years old. In this period there is ample
opportunity for developing Its peculiarities.
When 1t is understood that an error of
four seconds on the part of the ohronom-
eter will put skipper mile out of his
course the necessity of the most careful
and thorough test is apparent.
Even when an instrument has been test
ed to the satisfaction of the experts, and
has been finally adjusted, only q skilled
man can be allowed to carry 1t from the
workshop to the ship. One firm alone has a
ed. They are not, Of course. dealing all
the time with new chronometers; there are
from 400 to 500 always in stock from ships
arriving in this port from all parts of the
world. As soon as a ship comes into port
its chronometer Is usually sent ashore for
rating, that is to say. 1t is carefully OBJ
served until the ship Is ready to sail. when
the variation is reported to the captain,
who can then make his calculations accord
lngiy. The chronometers of the transat-
lantic liners are sent ashore for rating
every time they come into port. The great
est care Is taken of chronometers on board
ship, and on all f1rst-class ships there are
usually three, one being for deck observa-
TONS. The most perfect one of the lot Is
usually placed in a dry but well-ventilated
apartment amidships, where 1t is firmly
screwed down. and should there be fear of
dampness, wrapped in a heavy wooden
blanket. On the government vessels the
chronometer is placed in a case lined and
padded with curled hair, which keeps 1t
from being Jared. The smallest speck of
rust on the balance spring might cause a
chronometer to lose Its accuracy. A first
class chronometer costs $3.50, and one Of
the same grade capable of telegraphing Its
own time sells at $3.50.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-03
Give Ne My Dreams,

= j. Warehouse In Los Angeles Herald.
Give me my dreams. All else Is naught.
At price Of pain success Is bought:
We struggle upward but to fall:
The prize We grasp but holds us thrall:
Inc lips that cheer us through the yearn
Some day smile not for all our tears:
We build awhile, we know not what.
And the toiler is forgot.
Give me my dreams.
Give me my dreams. child ami
Who stands In darkness but to sigh,
Until hand doth backward roll
The gray, damp mists about my soul.
And then-oh, dream Of dreams that cheers
They come, the loved of other years
And voices whisper soft and low
Inc loving words Of long ago.
Give me my dreams.
Give me my dreams. Oh. little maid
With whom of old laughed and pIayed
They say the ivy loves TO creep
Above the grave where now Won sloan.
They say the robins song no more
Can wake you as 1t did of yore,
What matter7 Still In dreams Won cro.,
Unto my side a tryst to keep
Give me my dreams.
Give me my dreams. All else in droSa
But still l count IL little loss
For yet in dreams the bright stars burn
As In the years to which turn;
white hands reach TO me through the mia
BY lips loved my lips are kissed;
And all lifes fields are love ayloW
As they We're once, oh, long ago
Give me my dreams
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-03
The Missing Commandments.


The brilliant young preacher. when he
makes his parochial calls. endeavors to
cultivate an acquaintance with the de-
velopment Of the younger minds, thus after
a fashion keeping tab upon his Sunday
school teachers.
The other afternoon while he was watt
Ing in the drawing room Of beautiful Cass
avenue residence for the delayed appear
ance of Elsie's mamma he was entertained
by the little daughter herself. Taking her
upon his lap, he began q review OF the
church lessons that had been given to q
little maid Of five.
Can you tell me, Elsie, how many COM
mandmentS there are?'
Yes, sir; seven or eight"
"Oh. no. dear; there are ten"
Yes. I know. there used to be, but I
heard papa tell mamma yesterday that you
had broken two or three Of them at least.
and that would leave only seven or eight.
you know"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-03
Old Letters.


'irginfa Frazer Boyle in The Bookman,
Faded and old is the ribbon.
Blue once, as azure-lit skies
Breaking in twain with untying.
A truce held to Time as be flies.
Breathing Of rue and rosemary.
And Lavender pressed in the leayesf
Yeliowed and mellowed loves dreaming.
Tied In the long garnered sneaves.
What is the harvest they bring us,
Blotsam Of life and the years?
Kissed by the dust in their sleepinr-
Bathed in loves sunshine and tears.
verse from laurel-crowned poet,
A garland of faith to the fair
petal from roses that shattered
A curl OF a baby's bright hair;
A tale Of ball in its season.
A scrap of a gown that was worn
4 conhdante's news Of a heartbreak.
a lovers page. tettered and ton(
4 chtld's painful hand that was scided
To trace out its first words of love;
a message Of birth and Of sorrow,
A bridal song, sealed with a dove
They huttef and drift from their moorfnRu
Like white thoughts that culver and ehifs
Dropped deep in the heart Of forever,
The past that was thine and Is nina
Az, ashes Of roses, scatter
Your memories. ever the same,
Ay, ashes Of roses. old letters,
lay your white hearts in the fame
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-03
I'm the Storm.
From the Chicago Record.

rom the Chicago Record.
My child. your hero may not be-
In truth. hero all the time:
Remember. II must chance that he
Shall still have rugged sleeps to china
Don't place him>on too high a plane.
In fancy: then he will not fall
In your esteem and may attain
To something noble after all
My boy. don't think your sweetheart bears
4 halo on her golden hair:
crown Of purity she wears
And you must help to keep IL thera
But she will have her trying moods.
And be not always kind and sweet1
These are lifes nerving interludes-A
Sad pitfalls for unwary feet.
Sou both are far from perfect vet,
And quarrels will UNHAPPY Come
Both may be wrong; 80 don't fprreh
In angers blind delirium,
That sweet concessions each must maka
And tender promises renew;
Or else a loving heart may break.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-03
Tears.
dworth Reese in Scribner's Magasins,

Litetts Woodwork Reese in Scribner's MaRaxins.
When consider Life and its few years
wtsp Of fog betwfxt US and the sun:
call to battle. and the battle done
Ere the last echo dies within our ears:
A rose choked In the grass; an hour Of fears:
The gusts that past a darkening shore do beat:
The blrst OF music down an christening street.
wonder at the idleness Of tears.
Ye old. old dead. and ye Of yesternight
Chieftains. and barts, and keepers OF the sheen
By every cup Of sorrow that you had,
Loose ne from tears, and make me see nriRht
how each hath back what once he stayed to weep
Homer his sight, David his little ladi
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-03
Today's Possibilities.

E. Kiser in the Pfttsburg Dispatch.
may not, when the sun goes down,
Have added to my store
OF worldly goods or gained renovn
Through Gallantry or lore.
may not, while I strive today
Move onward to the goal
The cleaning goal SO far away
On which I've set my soul.
But can show a kindness to
Some one who stands without,
And ] can praise some toiler who
Ii toiling on In doubt.
And when the sun goes down I stfn
May be O better man
No matter what the fates may WILL
Than when the day began.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-03
Wireless Telegraphy,

John Hall Ingham in the Atlantic Monthly.
Over the wilds Of ocean and Of shore.
Through the broad wastes Of air flashes a vora
Without q guide. invisible. unheard
Borne on those magic currents circlinr o'sr
The steadfast world. 1t pauses not before
4 point Is touched. alone In earth or sky
Responsive with a subtle sympathy,
And 10, It's scaled In mystery no more,
y human voice that speakest to deaf ears
o human heart that fndest feeling dead
somewhere beyond the league-lon silences.
somewhere across the spaces Of the years,
A heart will thrill to thee a voice will blesa
Love VIII awake and Life be perfected
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-03

ing card playing on the first day OF the
week
An honorable at Albany wanted to have
an inspector Of aorseshoeing and another
to make chiropody q profession with q IL
cense. and third would revoke the license
Of teachers who used tobacco. In Massa-
chusetts representative would prohibit
hens and roosters from wearing trousers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-03

Pew for a short time, suffering with slight
stomach complaint.
The doctor cannot account for the mans
present condition. For many years prior to
his coming here Wertenen says he worked
In the copper mines of upper Michigan. He
thinks the underground work had to do
with his present condition. He is about
thirty-Six years of age and unmarried
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-03

From Puck

T rom FUck.
Edith-"see the solitaire ring Harold gave
me! What do you think of the stone?"
pose it is?'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-03
-SO>-

First Russian-"The emperor expresses
the hopeski that the warskoff in South At
RIGA may be broughtovich to a speedy ter
minationski"
Second Russian-"Ah, yes, His imperial
majesty is pleasedskoff to be q trifieski
czarcastic Life
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-03

There are 1000 miles of railway open fo-
traffic in New Zealand.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-03

wicked virginia senate OF 1875 Ce1eala1
Senator McCane's anti-fiirting bill by "a
TO O.
Rhode Island has recently gotten into a
peck Of trouble on social questions. One
of the courts has just passed on an am
biguous law of some fifty years ago ac-
cording to which there has not been legal
marriage in that state in half a century.
Down in Louisville in the winter of 1898
there was a terrible hubbub which threat
ened to change the whole course of politics.
Some good people got after the grand jury
about the open saloons and gambling
houses. One of their members fortunately
recollected a law introduced by a country
member and enacted some time previous
ly. which prohibited the keeping of red
birds martins other wild song birds in
cages. and fined the offenders.
OF course. this had never been enforced,
but there II was on the statute books. So
they called the chief of police. Jacob Haze
ger. and sternly demanded to know why he
had not enforced the red bird law. Chief
Haeger was new. and he thought this
meant business. By noon the next day 400
citizens had been ordered to let their red
birds go or pay the fine. The clamor be-
came so great that IL threatened to disrupt
the political party who had control Of the
town Its enforcement was suspended, and,
OF course. those who were willing to con-
done the lack Of enforcement of one law
could not vigorously demand the enforce
msnt of the law against faro banks crap
games. pool rooms and brothels
Minnesota's legislators presumably duly
considered the phrenology bills submitted
TO them by one Of the honorables One nro-
yided for q state phrenologist with an a..
sistant. who should examine not less than
1000 heads In a year.
Missouri would prevent its peopls fran,
eating green watermelons by appointing a
watermelon inspector. and the bill was only
defeated when venerable member moved
that the inspectors title should be 1.-The
official plugger. muncher and faster of the
state of Missouri" And also the same leg
tslature sent TO engrossment q bill prevent
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-28

Montavile Flowers. who deserves the title he bears Master of Imper senators" appeared before q large and well pleased audience at the Institute in this city last Friday night. He rendered "Ben-Hur" most perfectly. His gestures were graceful his dialect perfect and his delivery excellent. He is the real wonder of fhe rineteenta centary.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-28

Geo. 5. McKenney makes special ty of dressing all kinds of poultr, on very short notice. PA W. 4tl Ave. m
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-28

The fire departments responded to a still alarm Friday night about 9.30 U 'clock to the residence of Nat Allen en Third avenue between Beech and Elm. A burning fue was th cause. The damage was slight.