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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-14
Mr.. Freeman's Pupils.

A program of characteristic standard
selections was performed at the Luther
Place Memorial Church last night by the
pupils Of Mr.. Henry III. Freeman, organist
and choirmaster of St. Johns Episcopal
Church. Miss Anita Cluss appeared as
the assisting soloist of the evening and
played several harp numbers in admirable
style The duets in which she and Mr..
Freeman united were very heartily encored
A very large audience attended the recital
and applauded almost continuously. The
program follows: Organ. Tschrich, Festival
Fantasia and Fugue in c major and C
minor, Mr.. III. H Freeman. Organ and
harp. Gounod. Serenade arranged for the
organ by W. j. Westbrook, Miss Anita
Cluss and Mr.. Fl. H Freeman. Soprano,
Arne, The Lass With the Delicate Air"
Srieg. Sunshine Song Miss Gertrude
Damon. Tenor. Washington, Canadian
Boat Song" Mr.. William A. Boyd So
prano, Gounod. The Worker" Mrs NJ L.
Rieger. Organ, MendeIssohn second So
nata, a, Grave; b. Adagio; C. Allegro macs
toso; e, vivace, Miss Edith Morgan So
prano, Smith, Alpine Rose" Neyin.
Mighty LAX a Rose" Miss Lucy r.
Thomas ContraIto; Chaminade, Madrigal,
Nevin. serenade. Miss Helen A. Daily Organ,
Read, offertoire in A fat; Wely, Postiude
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Pleaded for Release.

: A man abou. sixty years of age who gave
his name as Burkhart Grant, was in the
tolls at the Police Court this morning on
charge of vagrancy. Grant is an under
sized individual and had the appearance of
being a stranger to soap ana water. Po-
liceman Sanders reported to Judge Scott
that he found him drunk on Pennsylvania
avenue northwest yesterday afternoon
The defendant denied that he was drunk
He claimed he had never been drunk In his
life. He asked the court to release him,
saying he was basket maker and would
go to work at once. Judge Scott said he
could not. overlook his wrongdoing and
made an assessment of $50. with three
months on the farm as the equivalent
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Telephone Rates.
o the Editor of The Evening Star:


Being telephone subscriber, have read
with interest the rate amendment offered nv
Senator Hale and the comments thereon
published in The Star during the last few
days. l beg to call attention to one or two
apparent defects In the proposed law which
might render it more uncertain and provoke
more litigation than the law passed in 1898.
In prescribing rates for measured service
the amendment makes no provision for the
fixed expenses of the telephone company,
such as interest on cost of equipment, main
tenance and repairs. Under the proposed
law phone might be ordered on the meas
ufed service basis and only used, say, ten
times month, giving the company an in
come of 30 or % cents per month. which IS
manifestly Inadequate.
The proposed amendment does not pro-
vide that all circuits shall be metallic :"
This would leave the company free to i'm
pose inferior service on those who wished
phones at the lower rates.
The writer suggests that the law should
provide for a measured service at a low
rate, say 2h cents per message, with a fixed
charge In addition sufficient to cover the
cost OF maintenance and interest, say $12 or
SIS per annum. =
The fat rate service seems to be all In
favor Of the comparatively few telephone
users who have constant use for their
phoaleS. II IL very ATTRACTIVE proposition
II the rates are low enough, but It seems to
the writer to be very inequitable and not
warranted by precedent In any important
industry. How would the butcher or the
ice man like to have a fiat rate imposed on
him by Congress at which he must supply
families large and small7 II the large user
gets more than his share under the fiat rate
agreement the small user must suffer, for
1t goes without saying that the telephone
company must earn sufficient money to
cover expenses and fair dividends or 20 out
OF business. SUBSCRIBER.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-14
ROCKVILLE AND VICINITY.
General and Personal News From
MONTGOMERY County's Capital.

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
ROCKVILLE Md, June 10, 1902.
Messrs Robert B. Peter and William V.
Bouic, as attorneys for Mrs. Catherine ].
Adler have filed bill the equity side
of the circuit court at this place to have
construed the will of Mrs. Cecilia S. Jones'
Mrs Adler's mother. By the provisions of
the will of the late Samuel Jones his prop
erty was left to his wife, Mrs. Cecilia S.
Jones, for life, and after her death it was
to go to her children she might will
Mrs. Jones died early in the present year.
and by her will the property was devised to
her children, excepting Mrs. Adler, the in
strument directing that Mrs. Adler be paid
$1,000. The bill contends that the execu-
ton of the power is void and that Mrs. Ad-
Ter is entitled to share in the estate equally
with her brothers and sisters
Mr.. Bowie F. Waters, a member of the
Rockville bar, has announced his candidacy
for the democratic congressional nominal
ton. 1t is understood he will have no OPP
position in this county and Montgomerys
delegation will unanimously indorse him
for the honor. Those in the democratic
party familiar with the political conditions
of the district state that Mr.. Waters has
an excellent chance of being named to op-
pose Col. Pearre.
Invitations have been issued for the mar
riage of Rev Robert Gilmore, formerly pas
tor of the Christian Church at this place,
and Miss Josephine Smythe of Tazeweil
Va.
Miss Nora Rabbit has been Amounted
principal of the public school at Derwood.
succeeding Miss Mary Isherwood, who re-
Gently resigned.
Mr.. Merritt Posey and Miss Mary vir-
ginia Griffith, both of Washington, were
married here few days ago by Rev ]. H.
Balthis, assistant pastor of the Rockville
M. E. Church South the ceremony taking
place at the Methodist parsonage
At meeting of the Rockville town coun-
Gil Wednesday evening an ordinance was
passed granting the Chesapeake and Poto-
mac Telephone Company the right to erect
poles and wires on certain streets of the
town. 1t was determined to sink an addi-
tional well near the site of the present one
the capacity of the old one being thought
hardly sufficient to supply the town
Rev. w. B. Taylor and family of Yer
sailles, KY, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Geo.
S. Stone at this place.
Judge McSherry has rendered a decision
overruling the objections filed by M. v.
Bouic, attorney for Frank Higgins, to the
ratification of the recent sale of the C. ID.
Morgan property in Rockville. The prop
erty was sold by H. w. Talbot. trustee. to
Spencer c. Jones for $4,000.
Mr.. Edward T. Dickersoh Off Dfckerson.
this county, was one of the graduates of
the law school of the Maryland University.
Baltimore, at its recent annual commence
ment. He captured the prize ($1OO) for the
highest average for the three years of the
course. '@i'i.7
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Death of N. M. Hubbard. Jr

The death of N. NJ. Hubbard, jr., at Grand
Rapids, Mich, which was announced at the
Capitol yesterdy afternoon was heard with
profound regret by a very large number Of
people who knew him. Mr.. Hubbard was
the general counsel for the Chicago North
western railroad and was frequently in this
city on business. He was regarded as one
OF, II not the best. informed railroad attor-
neys IN the country. and in the field of poll
Tics In the northwest he occupied quite as
prominent place in the estimation of those
who knew him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-14

In Il Eat, Mr. Reginald F. Brooks. Mezzo-
soprano. FontenaiIles, "A Resolve" Cesek
Petites Roses, Miss Blanche Perry Tenor
White, TO Mary Campbell Upton, IF
Were You,' Mr.. Howard S. Burbank. So
prano' Mascheroni, For All Eternity"
Miss Rosa NJ. Cayce. Soprano, Beach
Wouldn't That Be Queer" Master Neil
t1nch. Organ and harp, Handel. ''Arioso:"
Calkin. 'Festal March," Miss Anita Cluss
and Mr.. II. II. Freeman
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Combines Business With Pleasure

Mr.. Fred Klein. manager Of the we'll
Known Hecht stores of this city, will sail
for Europe on the Kaiser Wilhelm June II.
MIR. Klein will visit the principal capitals
and larger cities. including Paris, London,
Berlin, Vienna and Prague, and intends to
combine business with pleasure. He will
be absent about six weeks
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PIANOS AND ORGANS.

cemetery and felicitating Mr.. b. H. War
ner on his retirement from business. The
association expressed the opinion also that
current revenues are sufficient for current
local expenses and that all local current
improvements should be paid for half by
Congress and half by the District, and sug-
costing that all extraordinary expenses be
paid from the proceeds of a bond issue.
Mr.. A. F. Kinnan, president of the
Brookland Citizens Association, and Col.
S. Z. Chamberlain addressed the meeting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-14
Decorations of Capitol Lawns.

Senator Frye. President pro tempore of
the Senate. and Speaker Henderson have
written the officers of the citizens commit
tee granting permission for the decoration
with G. A. R. designs of the grass plots at
the north and south Of the main entrance
to the Capitol.
The resolution introduced yesterday by
Senator Mason providing for free trans
portation to Washington of veterans I'M
able otherwise to attend the encampment
does not receive the Endorsement of those
most interested in the reunion. Chairman
warner IS confident the resolution will not
be given the support of the G. A. r. as
whole,
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1902-08-09
r1In sAcRIrIcE.

The farm by daylight was no. as the
farm by moonlight The plain was a
weary hat OF loose red sand sparsely
covered by dry 'karroo' bushes. that
cracked beneath the tread like finder
aud showed the red earth everywhere.
Here and there n milk bush lifted It's
pale colored rods, and In every direc-
ton the ants and beetles ran about In
the blnzing sand The red walls OF
the farmhouse, the zine roofs OF the
outbuildlngs. the stone walls OF the
kraals. all reflected the fierce sunlight
till the eye ached and blenched. No
tree or shrub was 10 be seen far or
near. The two sunnowers that stood
before the door. outstared by the sun.
dropped their brazen faces TO the sand.
and the little clcadalike insects cried
aloud among the stones OF the "kopje.'
The Boer woman. seen by daylight,
was even less lovely than when in bed
she rolled and dreamed. She sat on n
chair In the great front room, with
her feet on wooden stove. and wiped
her fiat face with the corner or her
apron and drank coffee and In Cape
Dutch swore that the beloved weather
was damned. Less lovely. too. by day
light was the dead Engllshman's child.
her little stepdaughter. upon whose
freckies and low. wrinkled forehead
the sunlight had no mercy.
"Lyndall." the child said to her little
orphan cousin. who sat with her on the
door threading beads. show Is IL your
beads never fall of your needler'
al try" said the little one gravely.
moIstening her tiny finger. THAT lie
why"
The overseer. seen by daylight. was
n huge German. wearing a shabby suit
and with n childish habit OF rubbing
his hands and nodding his head pro-
dlglously when pleased at anything.
He stood out at the kraals In the blaz.
ing sun. explaining to two Kafiir boys
the approaching end OF the world. The
boys as they cut the cakes or dung
winked at each other and worked as
slowly as they possibly could. but the
German never saw t.
Away beyond the ''kopje" Waldo. hts
son, herded the ewes and lambs. a
small and dusty herd. powdered al
over from head TO foot with red sand
wearing a ragged coat and shoes OF un'
dressed leather, through whose holes
the toes looked out. His hat was toe
large and had sunk down to his eyes
conceaiing completely the silky BLACK
curls. II was curious small hgufe
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a great silver hunting watch. II licked
loudly. The boy listened to II and be-
gan mechanically 20 count. Tick. tick.
tick-one. two. three. four, He lost
count presently aud only listened.
Tick. tick. tick, tick.
IL never waited II went on inexora-
bly,. and every time il licked man
died. He raised himself little on his
elbow and listened lie wished 1t
would leave of.
How many times had 1t licked since
he came 10 lie down. A thousand
times. million times. perhaps.
He tried 10 count again and sat up
10 listen better
Dying. dying. dying" said the
watch. dying. dying. DYING
He heard 1t distinctly. Where were
they going 70. all those people2
He lay down quickly and pulled the
cover up over his head, but presently
the silky curls reappeared.
"Dying. dying. dying" said the
watch dying, dying. DYING
He thought OF the words his father
had read that evening. For wide Is
the gate and broad is the way that
leadeth to destruction, aud many there
be which go In thereat"
"Many. many, many" said the
watch.
"Because straight is the gate. and
narrow is the way that leadeth unto
life. and few there be that ind Il"
Few, few. few" said the watch.
The boy lay with his eyes wide open.
He saw before him long stream OF
people. great dark multitude. that
moved in one direction. Then they
came 70 the dark edge of the world
and went over lie saw them passing
on before him. and there was nothing
that could stop them. lie thought OF
how that stream had rolled on through
all the long ages OF the past. how the
old Greeks and Romans had gone over
The countless millions Of China and
India-they were going over now
Since he had come to bed how many
had gone?
And the watch said. Eternity. eter
nifty. eternity
"stop them Stop themr cried thu
child.
And all the while the watch KEEP
ticking on. just like Gods Will tina
never changes or alters, you may Ok
, what you please
Great beads OF persplration stood OF
the boys forehead. He climbed out o
bed ana lay with his face turned e
the mud floor.
20 Cod, God, save them" he cried Il
agony. only some, only few. only TO
each moment | am praying here-one'
, lie folded his little hands upon ht
head. God. God. save themF
He groyeled on the floor.
Oh. the long, long ages OF the past
In which they had gone over! Oh. th
long. long future. In which they woul
pass away. o God the long. long long
! eternity, which has no end!
The child wept and crept closer {
/, the ground.
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THE CONFESSION.


One night two years after the boy
sat alone on the -kopie." He had
crept softly from his fathers room ann
come there. lie often did. because
when he played or cried aloud hls ~.
Their might awake and hear him, anu
none knew his great sorrow and none
knew his grief but himself. and lac
buried them deep In bis heart
He turned up the brim OF his great
har and looked ar the moon. but most
Al the leaves of the prlclSly pear thai
grew just before him. They gllnteh
aud gllnted aaa = just like his
own heart ce'i ri and md, very =, !,
wicked TIis p. @rart had pain
also. IL seeme. "a OF llttle bits OF
glass that hGst he had sat there for
half an hour. and he dared not 80 back
TO the close house.
He felt horribly lonely There was
not one thing so wicked as he In all
the world. aud be knew IL. He folded
his arms and began 10 cry-not aloud.
He sobbed without making any sound.
and his tears left scorched marks
where they fell lie could not pray.
He had prayed night aud day for so
many months. and tonight he could not
pray When he left OF crying. he held
his aching head with his brown hands.
IF one might have gone up TO him and
touched him kindly. poor. ugly little
thing. Perhaps his heart was almost
broken.
With his swollen eyes he sat there on
flat stone at the very top OF the
"kopje." and the tree. with every one
OF It's wicked leaves. blinked and blink
ed at him. Presently he began 10 cry
again and then stopped his crying e
look at Il. lie was quiet for LONG
while. Then he knelt up slowly and
bent forward. There was secret hC
had carrled in his heart for year
He had not dared 10 look NJ II, he hac
not whispered IL 10 himself. but for ,
year he had carried IL. II hate Godv
he said The wind took the words an,
ran away with them among the stones
and through the leaves OF the prick,
pear He thought 1t died away hal
down the "kopJe." He had told /
now.
81 love Jesus Christ. but hate God!
The wind carried away that SCUM
as il had done the drst. Then he 60
up aud buttoned his old coat abou
him. He knew he was certainly los
now. He did not care. II half TN
, world were 70 be lost why not be too
He would not pray for mercy an
= more. Better so-better to know Gel
talnly. II was ended now. Better 81
He began scrambling down the side
; OF tile "kopje" 20 go home
Better so. But, oh. the Loneliness
the agonized pain. for that night an
for nights on nights to come. the al
guish that sleeps all day on the hear
like a heavy worm and wakes up 0
night 70 feed!
! There are some OF us who 10 aftC
years say 70 Fate, "Now deal us you
2 hardest blow. give us what you will
| but let US never again suffer as "
/ suffered when we were children"
The barb In the arrow OF childhood
l. suffering is thls-its Intense lonelines
: its intense ignorance.
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CHAPTER II.

PLANS AND DUSHMAN PAINTINGS.
AT last came the year OF the great
drought, the year 1862 From end to
end Of the land The earth cried for wa
tar Man and beast turned their eyes
to the pitIless sky that. like tie roof OF
some brazen oven. arched overhead.
On the farm. day after day. month
after month the water In the dams
fell lower and lower. the sheep died To
the helds. the cattle. scarcely able TO
crawl tOttered rs they moved from
spot to spot In search OF food. Week
after week month after month, the
sun looked down from the cloudless
sky till the "karroo" bushes were leaf
less sticks broken into the earth. and
the earth Itself was naked and bare,
and only the mill. bushes. like old bags.
pointed their shrlveled fingers heaven
ward. praying for the rain that never
came.
IL was on an afternoon OF long day
In that thirsty summer that on the side
OF the -kopJe" farthest from the home
stead the two girls sat. They were
somewhat grown since the days when
they played hide and seek there. but
they were mere children still
Their dress was OF dark coarse stun.
Their common blue plnafores reached
TO their ankles. and on their feet they
wore homemade "vel-schoen."
They sat under q shelving rock. on
the surface OF which were still visible
some old Bushman paintings, their red
and black pigments having been pre-
served through long years from wind
and rain by the overhanging ledge
grotesque oxen, elephants. rhinoceroses
and n one horned beast such as no man
ever has seen or ever shall see.
The girls sat with their backs TO the
paintings. In their laps were a few
fern and ice plant leaves. which by
dInt OF much searching they had gath
cred under the rocks.
Fun took or her big brown kappjt
and began vigorously 70 fan her red
face with Il. but her companion benz
low over the leaves In her lap and a.
last took up an ice plant leaf and fas
tened II on to the front OF her blue pima
fore with a pin.
Diamonds must look as these drops
do" she said. carefully bending ovel
the leaf and crushing one crystal droI
with her delicate little nail when |.
she snid. IAN grown up, shall weal
real diamonds exactly like these In M
hair"
Her companion opened her eyes anC
wrlnkled her low forehead. -
"whcro will you find them, Lyndall
The stones are only crystals that WI
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CHAPTER /.
SHADOWS FROM CHILD LIFE.

SHADOWS FROM CHILD LIFE
The full African moon poured down
It's light from the blue sky into the
wide. lonely plain. The dry, sandy
earth. with it's coating of stunted ~kar-
roo" bushes a few inches high, the low
hills that skiryed the PLAIN. the milk
bushes wIthJ their long, fingerlike
leaves. all were touched by a weird
and an almost oppressive beauty as
they lay I'm the white light.
In one spot only was the solemn
monotony of the plain broken. Near
the center a small solitary "kopJe'
rose. Alone IL lay there. heap OF
round TToDgones piled one upon an
other. as over some giants grave.
Here and there few tufts OF grass or
small succulent plants had sprung up
among Its stones, and on the very sum
NIT clump of prickly pears lifted
their thorny arms and reflected. as
from mirrors the moonlight on their
broad. heshy leaves. At the foot or
the "kopje" lay the homestead. first
the stone walled sheep kraals and KAT
FIR huts. beyond them the dwelling
house. square red brick building
with matched roof. Even on its bare
red walls aDtd the wooden ladder that
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led UP TO the loft the moonlight cast
kind OF dreamy beauty and quite ethe-
realized the low brick wall that ran
before the house aud which inclosed
bare patch OF sand and two struggling
sunfowers. On the zine roof OF the
great open wagon house. on the roofs
OF the outbuildings that jutted from
its side. the moonlight gllnted with a
quite peculiar brightness till II seemed
that every rib In the metal was OF
FURNISHED silver.
Sleep ruled everywhere, and the
homestead was not less quiet than the
solitary plain.
In the farmhouse, on her great wood
en- bedstend. Tant' Sannie, the Boer
woman, rolled heavily In her sleep.
She had gone 10 bed, as she always
did, In her clothes. and the night was
warm and the room close, and she
dreamed bad dreams-not OF the ghosts
and devils that so haunted her waking
thoughts. not OF her second husband
the consumptiye Englishman, whose
grave lay away beyond the ostrich
camps nor OF her first the young
Boer but only OF the Sleeps trotters
she had eaten for supper that night.
She dreamed that one stuck fast IN her
throat. and she rolled her huge form
from side 10 side and snorted horribly.
In the next room. where the maid
had forgotten 10 close the shutter. the
white moonlight fell in in n flood and
made It light as day. There were two
small beds against the wall. In one
rI.t exrifh n lANg
forehead and a face OF freckles, but
the loving moonlight hid defects here.
as elsewhere. aud showed only the In
nocent face OF child In its first sweet
sleep.
The figure in the companion bed be-
longed OF right TO the moonlight Tor
Il was OF quite elfnlike beauty. The
child had dropped her cover on the
door. and the moonlight looked In. at
the naked little limbs Presently she
opened her eyes and looked at the
moonlight that was bathing her.
"Emg' she called TO the sleeper In
the other bed, but received no answer.
Then she drew the cover from the
door, turned her pillow and. pulling
the sheet over her head. went TO sleep
again.
Only In one OF the outbuildings that
,utted from the wagon house there was
some one who was not sleep The room
was dark. Door and shutter were clos
ed. Not a ray OF light entered any
where. The German overseer TO whom
the room belonged lay sleeping sound
ly on his bed In the corner. his great
arms folded and his bushy gray and
black beard rising and falling on his
breast. But one In the room was not
asleep. Two large eyes looked about
I'm the darkness. and two small hands
were smoothing the patchwork quilt
The boy. who slept on box under the
window, had Just awakened from bis
hrst sleep. He drew the quilt up e
his chin. 80 that little peered above Il
but great head Of silky black curl'
and the two black eyes. He stared
about In the darkness. Nothing was
visible. not even the outline or one
worm eaten rafter, nor OF the deal IN
BILE. on which lay the Bible from which
hk father had read before they wen
90 bed. No one could tell where thu
tool box was and where the fireplace
There was something very impressive
10 the child In the complete darkness.
At the head Of his fathers bed huns
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said freckled

will pldN u
He has DsN.. - 80 =. said freckicd
EN-.
mo" sid beautiful little Lyndall-
looking curiously AT him; he has sesa
crying"
She never made mistake.