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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-24

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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1902-11-22

The Beers have accepted British
sovereignty in good faith, and the Brit
fish have conceived an almost exag.
gerated respect and admiration for the
character of the Beers, whom they
frankly despised at the beginning of
the war. There is one remarkable his
torical paradox to be noted in the out
come of this lamentable struggle. In
the loss of their beloved independents
in the defeat of their cause, and in
their seeming extinction or absorb
ton, the Beers have really come into
q new birth as nationality. 1t is not
written that a young people capable
of such heroism shall, after practical
" debating terms to the greatest en-
pire in the world, permit themselves to
forget that they have had a great part
in the making of history. This is not
day when small nationalities are
assimilated and yield up their identi-
ty; and so, far from this being the
end of the Boer nation, the peace of
Pretoria is the beginning of it. These
Boer farmers were the most obscure
people of European stock in the whole
world. They were far less known than
the Icelanders. To-day they are pas
sionately admired throughout every
nook and corner of the civilized world.
Review of Reviews.
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CARE OF THE TEETH.
To Preserve and Beautify Them
Should BE the Aim of Every
Man, Woman and Child.

Everybody admires a good set of
teeth, and the owne: of such is always
to be envied. An excellent cam
phorated tooth powder which will not
destroy the enamel of the teeth, and
yet will render them white, is made of
drs. of precipitated chalk, one-half
dr.. of powdered camphor and l DIR. of
powdered orris root.
1t is not sufficient to use only tooth
powder; liquid dentifrice is pleas
ant and has beneficial influence upon
the gums. To make one, take 2 ozs. Of
borax, a quart of hot water and one
teaspoonful each of tincture myrrh
and spirits of camphor. Dissolve the
borax in hot water, and when the wa
ter is cool add the other ingredients
and bottle them for use. A few drops
used in little water form delightful
wash.
1t is a mistake to suppose that the
teeth of every person should be of the
same whiteness. The variation of
color is largely a constitutional re-
suit.
Yellow teeth, it is said, are usually
indicative of bodily vigor, and very
pearly white ones of more fragile
constitution.
There is only one general rule to Of
fer respecting the care of the teeth,
and that is that they be kept immacu-
lately clean and in perfect health.
Their color then matters nothing, for
their condition will prove that they
are well attended to. Should the
gums be tender and spongy, the gen.
eral health, upon which the condition
of the teeth so much depends, should
be made the subject of inquiry.
A healing and soothing tooth pow
der is made of precipitated chalk
o., of powdered borax one-half o.,
of powdered myrrh one-fourth or,
and the same quantity of powdered
orris root.-N. Y. Journal.
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"It's mistake to suppose that loss
is Chinese word" says a retired
ships carpenter. "I've Travelled q
good bit in the orient in my time, and
among the odds and ends of interest.
ing information / picked up was q
Knockout of the genuineness of loss
as Chinese word. Cinnamon onlv
know joss when they come in CON.
tact with Europeans. A Chinese priest
that i became chummy with in Ham,
kow told me that there was no such
word IN Chinese. He explained that
the word was corruption of the Span.
ish word 'Dios' and had come into use
through the missionaries. Many early
missionaries, he said, were Spanish
priests, and their pronunciation of
Dios' was speedily corrupted into
Joss by native tongues and applied
to the Chinese deities. It's only on
the Chinese seaboard that the word
is understood. by Cinnamon. In the
interior, the priest told me, the celes-
tails had no knowledge Of it."-Chi-
cago Chronicle.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1902-11-22
BoER TONGUE TROUBLES.
Language Dimculties That Beset the
People Who Start Up New
Colonies.

There is no question in South Africa
Of suppression of the language of the
people. The language of the Boer
people of South Africa is a patois
called Taal, based on the seventeenth
century Holland Dutch, with a mix
ture of many strange words, Kaffir
and English. and with the omission
of most grammat teal infections. In
that happy tongue You are permitted
to say II is" 1t is needless to say
there is no literature in this patois,
as there is in Hollander Dutch of this
century. The official recognition of
Hollander Dutch dates from 1882 in
the Cape Colony, and is result of a
political propaganda of the Afrikan-
der Bund, says the Pail Mall Gazette.
1t was openly announced and hailed as
the "thin end of the wedge" to prevent
the fusion of the Boer and British
strains of the European people, and to
drive the British into the sea.
The weld Boer does not understand
Hollander Dutch; he dislikes the Hol.
lander outlander only degree less
than the British outlander, or than the
French. Italian, German or any other
outlander. He only hears the Hol-
lander tongue, or, rather, the seven
teenth-century predecessor of it, in
the text from the seventeeth-century
Dutch Bible read out in the churches
on Sundays by the predikant, or in the
hymns chanted by his fathers of the
low lands, who worsted Alva, prose-
cutor of the saints of the Lord.
A very minute proportion of the
Beers have any business to transact
in the law courts or public Offices, I'M
less such as are fully acquainted with
English. For a generation before Ma
juba hill the Beers, desiring to give
their children a fair start in their
business dealings with the business
people of the towns, hadi their chill
dren taught English. The English
goyerness was an institution among
Beers of any position. At the present
moment there are none of the Boer
leaders who cannot speak English:
there are many, of course, who will
not. After so many years of active
political propaganda of the Hollander
Dutch language, in the year before
the war in Pretoria there were only
five per cent. of the cases in the law
courts between neutrality-suspicious.
people. All business transactions
were conducted in English; sales and
mortgages of farms, sales of mining
options, dealings in stocks and shares,
purchases in shops of imported goods,
sales in the market squares of agri-
cultural produce. Every Boer profess
sional man, every Boer politician, had,
as q necessity of life, to be acquainted
with English.
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FACE OF GAS METER.

the face of a gas meter 1t will be
noticed that the hands of alternate
dials move in the same direction.
The dial at the top registers frac-
tions of cubic foot and is used for
test purposes only. The figures on
the right-hand dial represent hun
dreds of cubic feet and when the
hand has made one complete revolu-
ton thousand cubic feet will have
passed through. Each thousand feet
will be checked on the lower dial un-
til 10000 in reached, when the hand
of the last dial moves one point. 1t
should be noted that the hands can
not be reset to zero and that, conse-
quently, each reading should be pre-
served until the next one is taken
and the former deducted from it.
The dotted lines represent the posi-
ton of the hands at previous read
ing of the meter, namely $500 cubic
feet. The hands now indicate 6,4O0
cubic feet. Minus $500 cubic feet
would give 1900 cubic feet as the
amount of gas consumed during the
quarter; at $3.50 per 1000 feet, your
bill should be $500.
A water meter is read in precisely
the same way but the registration is
more minute. The first dial is used
only for testing. The next registers
single feet, then tens, hundreds and
so on. If, after deducting as shown
above, you find you have, used 1885
cubic feet of water during the year,
you must multiply this number by
.74s to find the number of gallons,
namely 1884 gallons. This amount
multiplied by the rate per thousand
gallons (unless you pay for water
by the faucet) will show the amount
of your water bill.-Ernest r. Lowe,
in Good Housekeeping.
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HOW CHOP sUEY is MADE.
Famous Chinese Delicacy That Ii he
coming . Popular Dish I'm the
United States.

Chop suey, the national dish of China
for at least 25 centuries, bids fair to be-
come standard food in this country.
There are some 60 Chinese restaurants
scattered over the different boroughs
of Greater New York whose chief at
traction is this popular composition,
and several American restaurants
have endeavored to-take advantage of
its popularity by adding it to their daily
bill of fare. There is a ridiculous
amount of mystery concerning the
dish. 1t is simple, economical and cas-
lily made, according to the New York
Post. The general formula is as fol-
lows: One pound of moderately lean
fresh pork, cut into pieces quarter of
an inch thick, half an inch wide and
an inch long. Two chicken livers,
chopped up to the size of dice, two
chicken gizzards, cut into slices the
size of a nickel, and each ring pinked
with the lines almost meeting in the
center.
The heat of cooking causes the fibers
to shrink, and converts the circle into
many-pointed star. A quarter of
pound of celery cut into slivers, quar-
ter of pound of canned mushrooms,
and a quarter of a pound of green peas,
chopped string beans, asparagus tips,
bean sprouts, or satisfy. These are
thrown into frying-pan over hot
fire, covered with cup of water, four
tablespoonfuls of peanut oil, olive oil.
or melted butter, tablespoonful of
chopped onion, half Glove of garlic,
grated salt, white pepper and red pep
per. sE
If the fire is hot enough, these will
cook in five minutes. The contents of
the pan should be stirred to prevent
burning, and the moment the water
boils out, fresh water should be added
in small quantities to prevent frying.
The dish should be served promptly,
and is not only palatable but whole
some and easily digested. In place of
pork, mutton can be employed, while
chicken liver and gizzard may be re-
placed by those of turkey. Some Chi
nese cooks use the Indian soy. which
is sweeter. The effect can be initiated
by adding teaspoonful of Worcester
shire sauce and another of brown sugar
or teaspoonful Of molasses. An
agreeable modification results from
the use of asparagus tips along with
the other vegetable ingredients, while
the Singapore variety is obtained by
stirring in tablespoonful of curry
paste. In the Chinese restaurants the
cost varies from 10 to rs cents plate,
the more expensive dish containing a
fair amount of the best imported
French mushrooms.
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what is the proper diet for prize.
fighters" asked Dukane. Pound
cake" = Pittsburg Chronicle-Tcle-
graph.
"Manish sort of girl" as she, re-
ally?" very. She used the tele-
phone for the first time in her life
to-day, and she didn't giggle once"
-Philadelphia Press.
rs he as devoted as he was before
they were married?" "Yes, indeed.
Gle has not even begun to think
about whether they can afford things
or not. indianapolis News.
Unheard OF Extravagance. ~
Pierpont Morgan has 700 books that
cost him million and a quarter"
Gosh! He must be mighty poor
buyer. can take $500 and buy a
million and quarter books with it,"
Chicago Tribune.
Notification of Rank-"Did the
count speak to your father?" "Yes."
'What was the result?" "Oh, papa
is SO cautious. / couldn't quite make
it all out, but think papa told him
he wanted to see properly certified
abstract of title."-Chicago Post.
First Summer Boarder-"Jenkins
must be in sore financial straits; ]
heard him say last night that he
found great many bills against him
since he came down here" Second
S. Bob, he merely referred to
mosquitoes Ohio State Journal.
Working Him.-Borroughs = Say.
old man, can you break q twenty,
so can get fve-dollar bill out
of it?" Markley-"Sure; here you
are. Where's your twenty?" Bor-
roughs-"Oh, you misunderstood me!
thought you had twenty.
Thanks! One five will do."-Phila-
delphia Press.
"Doing 1t Proper.'-The reporter
was interviewing the western mil
lionaire. rs it true that you are
going to endow a chair in that uni
versity2" ''Endow chair?" he
Numbered; ''why, b'gosh, can give
whole set o. furniture, an I'll do
it, too. Say that in yer paper!
There amt nothin' cheap about me-"
Baltimore Herald.
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New York Society Leader who II
Called the Most ExtravaEant
WOman In Amerlca.


Mrs. Clarence Mackay. the dashing
leader of New York society, with-a
fortune of almost $4,000, 900 at her
command, is credited with being the
most extravagant young matron in
America She spends annually more
than $4,000 on her wardrobe, and
this does not include her lavish ex-
penoitures for jewelry, which is her
pet fad. With an assured Christmas
present every year of $4,000 for pin
money and regular allowances ON an
equally liberal basis, she is easily in
position to lead the younger set of
women in New York in the matter of
extravaganza.
Mrs. Mackay leans perceptibly to-
ward fads, and one of her latest
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tions. Rose Mary dried her tears, and
things looked more cheerful, as how
could it be otherwise with so smart
a person as Detective Thomas B. Allen,
ESQ.,, working on the case? But noon
came, and two o'clock came, and yet
there was no news of Eliza Ann. Rose
Mary's face grew longer and longer,
while Tommy, the less he knew, the
wiser he looked. If only his toe was
well, he and Charlie Gay would find
the kidnapers! And the thought of
the dire fate that would be theirs
made Rose Mary shudder. However,
the toe wasn't well, and Charlie Gay
was away, and Eliza Ann was not
found. So matters stood at three
o'clock, and Tommy was limiting to
Aunt Myra that a larger reward might
be necessary, when mamma cried:
"Why! Here comes DIR. Mason again!"
He came into the house. past mamma,
and Aunt Myra and grandma, straight
up to Rose Mary's bed, and opened his
medicine case, and there was Eliza
Ami
"Whyl Wherever did you find Eliza
Ann?" Rose Mary cried.
"In my medicine case," said the doc
tor. "the very next house I visited
after leaving here, and 1 brought her
back the first chance l had. How she
got there is mystery to me-"
"The case must have been open when
tried Eliza AIMS coat on" Aunt
Myra said. you know, I cannot see
very well, and l must have dropped her
in the case instead of on the bed and
nobody noticed!"
Then Rose Mary told the doctor how
badly she had felt, how Tommy had
become detective and how very, very
glad she was to have her darling Eliza
Ann hack again.
"And DIR. Mason won the reward!"
Tommy cried.
The doctor read the notice and
shook his head. 81 will divide the re-
ward between you and Rose Mary"
he said, because it is a very peculiar
case. You see the kidnaper discov.
cred himself!"-Boston Globe.
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The maple sugar season lasts only
i've or six weeks, but it yields Amer
lean farmers over a million dollars a
year.
Paper coal is a form of Ignite
found near Bonn, in Germany. 1t
splits naturally in films as thin as
paper.
Seventy-eight profit sharing enter
prises. affecting $500 workpeople,
were in operation in Great Britain
last year.
The sanitation Of the city of Anne
dabad, India, is SO bad that the NOR
tality is 20 per 1000, with no epidemic
to account for it.
Signor Schiaparelli the Milan as
tronomer, has been elected an associ-
ate of the French academy of science
in the room of the late Baron Nor
denskiold.
A Roman bowl of Samian make.
said to be 1000 years old, has been
brought up from the sea bottom off
Beachy Head by Brightlingsee oys-
ter dredger.
Maiden Bower, a pre-Roman earth
work, near Dunstable, England, is in
danger of being destroyed by the ex-
tension of chalk quarry, which has
already been worked to within few
yards of the ancient rampant.
The Pasteur institute for the treat
ment of persons bitten by rabid ami
mails in Calcutta is rapidly gaining
in popularity among the natives. In
the eight months ended May 81 last,
352 persons were treated, and the
mortality, was only eight per cent.
Sericulture, the raising of silk
worms, does not appear to increase in
France. The official returns for last
year show that 132,634 persons were
engaged in the industry, as compared
with 1924 in 1900. In 1897 the num-
Der was 133,252. The yield of cocoons
varies with the seasons. In the last
five years it has ranged from 6,s9S,033
to 9,1S0, 404 kilos.
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"KINDLY OMIT FLOWERS"

Too late to bring your fragrant offering.
Or Irvine loves myrtle for my marble
brow
When am dead! To-day your tribute
bring;
need them now.
Waste no laudatlons on my deafened
Nor lay choice flowers within my Icy
hand.
Your tardy need Of praise I shall not
hear.
Nor understand.
To pile wealth of flowers upon my
Or speak the kindly words you should
have said.
VIII be but mockery-a hollow sound
When / am dead.
To sorrowing souls with pain and grief
distraught
In homes where dark'ning shadows group
and fall,
And flowers bloom not.
'omit the fiowers!' The bloom Of shrub
Leave not upon my grave to wither
there.
These demonstrations of your love shall
not see.
Nor know, nor care.
Pray, do not economize or make a feint
To Mt an aureola round my head.
Or tag my clay with virtues OF saint.
When I am dead.
When the last words are spoken: Dust
to DUST
And the last trump you leave me to
await.
My strange behest you will not then. I
trust.
: Repudiate.
Not for the dead are blossoms from
earth's bowers,
The simplest rites are ever the most
ut:
But ostentation. eulogy and flowers
Kindly omit"
springfield (Mass.) Republican.
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Between Friend.

mo, Mr.. Dudleigh," said the
beautiful girl with the old-rose hair,
Il can never be your wife, bu. |
shall always be your friend"
"Then before / co." rejoined the
young man as he calmly lit a paper
covered coffin nail, Il have one last
word to say 70 you as friend"
what is it?" she asked after the
manner of the curious sex.
1T is this" he replied. Il think
you have stacked the cards against
yourself in this game. You lose by
winning, while l win by losing.
Chicago Daily News.
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lie Kidnapping
Of Eliza Ann -
BY
MARY ISABEL BoYNTON.

@ HE was not very sick, little Rose
y Mary, only enough to be kept in
bed and have her playthings, and be
the one object around which the whole
family revolved. Yet her throat felt
''horrid," and was certainly uncom-
Portable, with fold upon fold of fan
mel around it. wet with an ill-smelling
something from queer green bottle
grandma had.
And Rose Mary grew tired, and lit
tie cross, with the putting on of the
flannel, for grandma drew 1t so tight
she could not swallow, and Aunt Myra,
who was kind but nearsighted, fixed it
over, pricking her neck because she
could not quite see where pins ought
to go. Then mamma, with her soft,
cool hands, fixed it just right. Still
the throat did not get better, and Rose
Mary's voice grew quite queer and
hoarse, and tiny red spot burned on
each cheek, so papa sent for DR.. Ma
son.
He came, looked into her throat,
laughed at the flannel and ill-smelling
something from the queer green bot
tie, and left her some medicine that
did not taste so very nasty, after
which she had spoonful of grandma's
grape jelly. And the throat began to
feel better, though the doctor said
she must stay snug and warm in bed
the whole week through.
The first Rose Mary had all her dolls
on the bed, but one by one she sent
them back to the doll house, until only
Eliza Ann was left. Eliza Ann was
only four inches long, somewhat bat
tered china doll.
One day when Rose Mary was COM
ing from school she saw a rag-picker's
cart by the roadside with one wheel
of, and the rags strewn about the gut
ter. She stood and watched the man
mend his cart, pick up his rags and
drive off, and as she was turning to
go away down in the gutter, where
the rags had fallen thickest, she found
Eliza Ann.
Rose Mary clasped her treasure
tight in her chubby hand and hurried
home, and from that hour Eliza Ann
was the best beloved Of all her dolls.
She slept with her, she carried her to
school, safe in the depths of a spa
cious pocket; she was sometimes even
Struggled to church in the same way.
During school hours Rose Mary
never played with her, and never in
church, only it was comfort to run
her hand into her pocket and feel her
beloved Eliza Ann near.
Now it so happened at this particu-
lar time that Eliza Ann had bad
throat too, and had tiny flannel band
around it, with drop on it from the
big, queer, green bottle. Tom, who
was two years older than Rose Mary,
and was being kept from school by
sore toe, put grandma's spectacles
on and played he was the doctor, COM
ing great many times each day to
see Eliza Ann, looking wise and grave,
for DR.. Tom considered Eliza Ann a
very sick doll indeed.
While DR.. Mason was making his
third visit to Rose Mary, Aunt Myra