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The Washington times., 1902-09-07

grounds and the president of the board
of trustees of the Washington Public
Library.
This commission worked out gen
eral plan for the building and appointed
Mr. Bernard r. Green. architect of the
Library of Congress, architect to take
charge of the construction of the edi-
flee. In the selection of plans the conf
mission had the benefit of the advice
and assistance of Architect George b.
Post. of New York, and Henry Van
Brunt. of Kansas City.
The plans submitted by Messrs. Acker-
man & Ross, of New York. were ac-
cepted. They were afterward consider
ably modified. owing to the necessity for
reducing the cost of the structure as
projected.
The foundations of the edifice were
laid late in the year 1899. while the
architects were at work upon the plans
for the superstructure. On August l,
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be some time in October before 1t will
be actually ready for occupancy.
1t is desired that Mr.. Andrew Carne-
gle. the donor of the building. shall be
present at the dedicatory exercises. Mr.
Carnegie is now in Scotland, and it is
understood will not return to the United
States until late in the coming fall. It
is believed that the ceremony of opening
the building to the public will accord
ingly be delayed until that time.
Carnegie's Original Gift.
The beautiful edifice, which will bc
such notable addition to the city's ar
chitectural attractions. as well as boon
to multitude of readers for whom the
Library of Congress is somewhat out
of the way, had its beginning in a gift
of s250.0G0 to the city of Washington by
Mr. Andrew Carnegie on January IL
1899. The gift was made at the sugges-
tion of Mr.. B. H. Warner, who had a
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Anticipated That the Liberal Miionares Gift Washing
ton VIII Be Thrown Open Within Two Months The
Presence of the Donor Desired at the Dedication Exer
cises Which VIII Probably Be Held in October Il .s =

"HE new Carnegie Library, a
structure of remarkable beauty,
i is rapidly nearing completion and
will probably be thrown open 10
the public within two months time. The
building in its architecture is an ef-
fective combination of the Greek and
Roman. renaissance, and. with consider
able ornateness. combines taste and dig
nifty.
In plan it consists of a rectangular
central pavilion Ill feet 5 inches long
and 80 feet 10 inches broad. with wings
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The North Side.
The South Front.

of equal size east and west These wings
are each 63 feet inches long and 54
feet 10 inches broad. The area covered
by the building is 1907 square feet, or
about seven -eighths of Mount Vernon
Square.
The Library Proper.
There is basement and a first floor,
intended for the library proper. The ma
terra used for the entire exterior is
white marble. The entrance, and, in
deed, entire facade of the central
pavilio' 5 strikingly handsome. con-
The evening times., 1902-05-16
''OLD GLORY

IT. He flag. the Stars and Stripes, was
named "Old Glery'' in 1851 by a
! Salem, Mass, skipper named
William Driver. He was at that
time captain of the brig Charles Dog
gett-
Captain Driver was a successful deep
sea sailor. and at the time Of bestowing
the name "Old Glory on the Stars and
Stripes he was preparing TO shape the
briggs course 70 the Southern Pacific The
story is told by the compiler Of the genoa
logical memoir OF the Driver family, Har-
riet Ruth CWaters) Cooke
Just before the brig left Salem a young
man at the head Of a party OF friends
saIuted Captain Driver OF the deck of the
Doggett, and presented him with a large
and beautifully made American flag 1t
was done up in stops, and when sent aloft
and broke out to the air Captain Driver
ehristened Il cold Glory
He took it to the South Pacific, and
years after, when old age forced him 10
reIinquish the sea, he treasured the flag
as an old friend
Captain William Driver removed 10
Nashville. Tenn, IN 1857, and he died
there in 1886. Previous to the outbreak Of
hostIities between the North and the
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HAITI PHYSICALLY A PARADISE,
BUT SOCIALLY NOT ATTRACTIVE
WILLIAM BAYARD HALE, in "Thg independent

band Of pIunderers exploiting the coun-
try and never dreaming Of developing it.
Public improvements are unheard Of
The streams are unbridged, the towns
are connected only by wild and often an
traceabIe trails. Everywhere are ncg-
Iected harbors filing up with silt. rUi .ous
wharves. roofess warehouses. aband ed
plantations and the encroaching jungle.
Once the richest colony in the world.
dotted with magnificent. estates and COW
cred with great engineering works. whose
fallen stones sre still. to be -ssrT7 Under,
the chapparal, exporting spnRalIy ~1TT1SS<'
lions of pounds of coffee, sugar~GQfEf0n,
spices, tobacco and rare woods. Haiti
has sunk into squalid and groveIfng pow
erty, its political administration become
an absurd affair Of contemplate incapac-
ity, its moral condition an affront to the
conscience of the world
With exports decreasing, with money
growing intolerabIy scarce. with the most
primitive demands of decent living for
gotten, with no national ideals to cherish,
no principles to live for. with the national
atayism to African sayagery growing an
nually more pronounced, revolutions may
be looked for as a normal condition of
Haitian existence until civilized neigh
bors take the island in hand.
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A TWENTIETH CENTURY VIEW


began which
which has taken place within
the o.
the has
would
in theciog-
the possible
unfortunate people Of
Of the fate
utterly ab-
expressed
S n
practically
possible
possible
nobody
which
with
sthmian under eonsidera
curiosity supstous but
effective fer safety in this will be the
intelligent general toward natural phenomena
earthquake hardly be conceived
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SOME COSTLY TRIALS.

but finally established by the House of
Lords.
On the death of the last surviving
grandson dispute arose as to whether
the eldest male descendant or the male
descendant of the eldest son should in
herit the property. The latter won, but
the legal EXPENSES of the case we're so
heavy that almost all the original e600,-
900 was swamped- After this trial the
government passed a law prohibiting any
one to leave property for the purpose of
accumulation for period Of more than
twenty-one years after death.
Some years ago two brothers named
BidweH came over to England from
America with what they considered a per-
feet system for robbing the Bank OF Eng
land. By the most ingenious methods Of
forging bills they managed to extract no
less than s1O2, 900 from the Old Lady OF
Th7eadneedIe Street One day. however.
forged bill was detected through being TN
dated, and the brothers fed to America
The bank-as they always do in cases Of
fraud-foIlowed them, caught them and
had them sent hack TO England for trial
They were convicted and sentenced to a
long term of Imprisonment, but before the
bank obtained the verdict they were
muIcted of another s46.G00. which the
governors had to debit to cost Of law
proceedings London Answers
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physically paradise, Haiti is the
- home of the most miserable So
1 ciety that today on the face of the
earth pretends to civilization. The
people number a million and half, of
whom all but a few thousand are negroes
not ''colored people, by which in the
West Indies mulattoes of various shades
is meaBt-but fuII-blooded blacks. The
grossest superstitions mingle with the
nominal Christianity of the people, and
the hill forests are nightly the scene Of
the most abominable African rites; ser
pent worship is common; human sacri-
fees, I was with great reluctance con-
vinced, are offered, and human flesh is
eaten.
The government is purely a military
despotism- The constitution IS one thing,
the actual administration another The
country is divided into departments, over
each OF which is placed as the personal
representative of the president a dele
gate" who is feudaI lord, exercises
absolute authority and whose acts are
not questioned so long as ne supports
his chief a system Of espionage is the
best developed feature Of the administra-
tion. Liberty IS a fiction in Haiti. Free
speech is a crime Whatever party rise
OF fall, the government is little more than
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DERIVATION OF "LoAFER."

The question as 70 the derivation Of that
word loafer'' which Mr. Rhodes viii is
likely TO elevate from the slang dictionary
Is already getting acute. The word is
Spanish, and, like EzIoot and others. came
from Mexico through Texas to the States.
II is the AngIecized or Americanized form
Of gaIlofero, an idle, lazy yagabond, ~
passing. as any student OF Bartlett knows,
through gIofero, and gIofer 10 Iofer- and
ending up with the pretense of having
something English OF American about 1t.
as 'Ioafer. man who has no casual con
nsction with the loaf he does not earn
OF the loafer Josh Billings has given in
his 'AIminax'' a description which would
have gone to Cecil Rhodes heart, as OF
the type Of man who was not TO inherit
DaIham or any other property that was
his. if he RQld help it: The IoafeT is
thing who is willing to be despised for the
privilege Of abusing others He occupies
all grades IN society, from she judge on
the bench clear down to the ragged crea-
ture who leans against lampposts and
fights flies in August. He has no pride
that is worthy and no delicacy that any
body could hurt During his boyhood he
kills cats and robs hens nests. During
middle life he begs all the tobacco he uses,
and drinks all the cheap whisky he can at
somebody else's expense. and does die at
last" The Ioafer IN America would seem
TO be more pronounced than his British
brother, if We take Henry ". shaw-Josh
Bulings-as authority.-London Chronicle.
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South ''Old Glory was flung to the breeze
every day from the window of Captain
Drivers Nashville house, but when the
bullets began to zip and the odor of gun
powder to taint the air. the old flag had
to be secreted.
It was kept cut of sight inside a great
bed comfortably until February q. 1862.
when Brigadier General Nelson's wing OF
the Union Army appeared in Nashville.
when Captain Driver presented it to the
g,seral TO be hoisted OF the capitol It
was run up. and Captain Driver himself
did the hosting. He watched it through
the night. and, heavy wind coming up,
he took it down, and sent q new flag up
in its place.
The original "OId Glory was beginning
to ribbon. The second flag, owned by
Captain Driver, was given TO the Ohio
Sixth. when that regiment left Nashville
for home It vas placed in the rear of a
baggage wagon. where a mule nosed It
cut and devoured it.
The original aOld Glory was preserved,
aad after The death of Captain Driver, in
1856, it was presented by the compiler Of
the Driver memoir to the Essex Institute
at Salem. Mass, where it may now be
seen--Boston Globe,
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RUSSIAN SOLDIER WORST PAID.

In view Of the present proposition 20
give Master Thomas Atkins a clear shilI-
ing day it becomes not uninteresting to
compare his position in this respect with
certain Of his continental confr1res. The
French private OF the line receives but
a sou q day, and in ali obtains but 81
pence a week in cash The worst off Of
all. however, would appear to be the Rus
sian soldier. He is supposed to receive
the handsome remuneration of q farth-
ing day. but often as not he does not
even get this. In other respects the Brit
ish soldier IS also, by comparison. more
fortunate than the soldiers Of other na-
lions. The length OF service, for instance,
demanded OF him Including his service
in the reserve) is twelve years. France
demands twenty-five, Germany twenty
eight and Russia twenty-five; but, OF
course. much Of this is little more than
a nominal liability to be called upon In
the event Of war.-PaTfs Messenger
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DUPLIQTY, AND
TACT IN EVERYDAY LIFE

II RANKNESS is q gem of the first
r water; duplicity IS a vice which no
L one attempts to defend; but tact is
an intervening element which,
while not necessarily committed to either.
turns both to account in such a manner
that the good qualities of the one engu1f
the pernicious characteristics OF the
other, and becomes saIutary attribute,
sa-s the Boston Journal"
BluHtness and sincerity are not inevita-
bly, synonymous terms. Who can describe
our love for the fellow who, in order to
manifest his undying friendship for US,
seizes upon every opportunity to remind
US that we are a consummate asst We
do not feel bound by any moral obligation
TO accept his statement as correct On
the contrary. most of us are prone to give
ourselves the benefit of any doubt which
may exist, and to ascribe to our "friend"
those asinine propensities which he, in
his eagerness to prove his devotion may
have set to our account He who Affects
an Ungrseious manner and rides rough
shod over our finer sensibiIities may be
cur friend. but ne is scarcely a congeniaI
companion; and his advice, when taken at
all. is usually accepted with a grace SINH
lar to that which attends the administer
ing OF bitter medicine. IN either case the
result may be beneficial. but in neither
is the experience an agreeable one
The two-faced person is even more to
be dreaded than IS the fellow before men
45o-e5 s1ofosr bs-,, fha-o fc Ei++Ia or M
defense, as he rips US up the back, fgu-
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IN May, 1871. commenced the longest
trial that has ever taken place in
I England. 1t was the case Of Itch
borne vs. Lushington, in which the
pIaintfn declared himself to be Sir Roger
Charles Tichborne, supposed to have been
lost at sea. He claimed the baronetey and
estates of the family. worth about f24,600
a year.
His claim was resisted by a minor son,
and, after few chancery proceedings,
trial began in the court of common pleas
For twenty-five days the claimant was
examined, and IN December the case for
the plaintiff closed The attorney gen
eraI. ] D. Coleridge. afterward spoke for
twenty-six days, and on the 103d day OF
the trial the claimant was declared non
suited.
Before the prosecution came on it is
said that the amount of money expended
by the estate was G92,0G0-
The claimant was then tried before Lord
Chief Justice Cockburn for perjury and
forgery. and nearly zoo witnesses we're
called. The whole trial had lasted nearly
four years, and we are told that almost
e2OO. goo was spent on the proceedings
Before Goudie. the Liverpool bank clerk,
was arrested. it is calculated that some
thing like ESQ Z day was spent on search
ing for him 1t Will easily be seen how
money may flow like water in cases Of
this sort. when hundreds Of people have
TO be tipped here and there IN order TO
obtain the necessary information which
leads to arrest So. before Goudie was
placed in the dock, nearly 9SoO was spent
on him. To this must be added the s250
which the bank offered for his capture
When the trial commenced the most
eminent lawyers in the country were re-
tanned. Absolutely no expense was spared
BY either side. and. what with counsels'
fees. witnesses expenses, moneys spent
on searching for information and tips to
people who won't speak without oil
ing." very little remained out Of 100000.
But sf, f,0gO is as a drop in the ocean
compared with the cost Of some Of the
greater trials
One of the most extraordinary wills ever
made. and which necessitated law pro-
ceedings which amounted to something
like G250, 900. was that of Peter Isaac
TheIIusson, a Cenevese merchant. of Lon
don. This affiuent trader left s1Oo 600 to
his widow and the remainder Of his prop
erty-nameIy, e609. .000-he left to trus-
tees 10 accumulate during the lives Of his
three sons. and the lives of their sons;
then the estates that were purchased with
the produce of the accumulated funds
we're to be conveyed to the eldest hneaI
male descendant Of his three sons. He
also made the proviso that should no heir
exist the whole amount was to be applied
to the reduction of the national debt. The
will was contested by the heirs-at-law.
The evening times., 1902-05-16
KING EDWARDS GRACIOUS ACT.

Americans viii not think less of King
Edward fcS his royal act of courtesy in
inviting Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnston. over
his own signature. 10 attend the corona
tion ceremonies at Westminster in June
next
Mrs. Johnston was mistress|of the White
House during the Administration of Presi-
dent James buchanan, her distinguished
uncle. and when King Edward. then the
Prince of Wales, visited this country in
1860 he was layishly entertained at the
White House. President Buchanan and his
niece showing him such hospitality as be-
fitted alike the character of the royal
guest and the democratic simplicity OF the
American people. Forty-two years have
passed since this function occurred. and
Mrs. Johnston is now an aged lady, whose
snow-white locks betoken the many win
ters which have passed over her head,
but King Edward has net forgotten the
queenly gTaciousness OF manner which
characterized the bearing Of the first lady
of the land. and now that he is about to
assume, with formal ceremonies, the
crown 10 which he has long been predes-
tined, he becomingly remembers his fair
hostess of the White House who enter
tanned him in the CO.'S. Nothing more roy
al than this simple act has yet character
lied the reign of King Edward, and it
plainly reveals the fact that behind the
purple of the austere sovereign beats the
heart Of the English gentleman
On account CT the iniirmities Of ad-
vanced years Mrs. Johnston will not be
able to attend the coronation ceremonies,
but she Is none the less appreciative Of
the invitation, which impaTts an addi-
ional touch OF brightness TO the kindIing
sunset Of her iife-Atlanta Constitution.
The evening times., 1902-05-16

Indeed it is only necessary to take look at the
visitors gallery in Parliament appreciate how deeply
the concerned. No conditions of weather
stress of circumstances prevent the wives of the
Irish members being present. Their numbers greatly
exceed those of any other country represented From
o'clock in the afternoon until night, and very
often until in the morning they sit listening with
tagging interest the debates question
Womens clubs, as you understand the term. do not
exist in Ireland But for all that the By
indoent. There are the Irish Literary So
cety where lectures Irish subjects stered
and the Gaelic movement in which the take an
active interest Much has been done in America pro-
mote the progress of this plan which has for its
object the revival of Irish art, music and the indus
tries of the country.
The Irish women make grand wives and fine house
keepers, and moreover great readers They do
tremendous for charity; in fact their efforts
outside the home almost entirely to work
of this sort. There societies without number
whose sole object afford relief for distressing
ditions among the poor to give dinners and
do whatever lies in their power assuage the misery
OF the people.
They visit hospitals and supply the needs of these
institutions, and it is by loving
the women of Ireland helping to work the sal
yaton of the people and the which they have SO
close their hearts.
The evening times., 1902-05-16
ARE ANARCHISTS PERsONE CRAZE?

When the Fifty-seventh Congress
met, last December, members in both
branches fairly fell over each other
to introduce bills for the uprooting
of anarchism in this country and the
punishment of each and all found
guilty of preaching anarchistic doc
trines. As for anyone who should at
tempt the life of the Nations Chief
Magistrate, or of any one of the chief
officers of the Government, death was
to be his portion And now, after all
these bills have been introduced,
speeches full of sound and fury have
been heard and embalmed in the
Record" and all other concomitant
fireworks have been exploded, moth
ing more
There is no less need now for leg
isIatiOn tending to suppress anarch-
istic tendencies than there was six
months ago The snake is Just as
venomous, just as ready to strike.
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FATE.

High in the spaces OF sky
Reigns inaccessible Fate;
Yields she to prayer or to cry
Answers she early or late?
Change and rebirth and decay,
Dawning and darkness and light
Creatures they are Of a day,
Lost in a pitiIess night.
Men are like children who play
Unknown by an unknown sea;
Centuries vanish away;
She waits-the eternal She.
Nay; but the Gods are afraid
OF the hoary Mothers nod:
They are of things that are made,
She the original God.
They have seen dynasties fall
In ruin CT what has been;
Her no upheavals appaIl-
Silent. unmoved and serene.
Silent, Unmoyed and serene
Reigns in a world uncreate.
Eldest OF God and their Queen.
Featureless. passionate Fate.
w. L. c., IN The FortnightIy Reviev
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justeas eager to kill the first victim
that may cross its path as when it
struck down the man who in kindli-
ness stretched forth his hand to press
the hand that slew him The organs
of anarchy in this country have not
ceased to preach their damnable doc
trines, nor have the reds" ceased to
hold their meetings at which murder
is glorifed and the execution Of the
assassin Is exalted as martyrdCn for
n holy cause Somewhere there may
Iurk some hairbrained fanatic whose
muddled intellect will be set afre by
some slaughter-breathing har5ngue
and who viii go forth upon his er>
rand of murder like a wild beast af-
ter its prey.
What is the reason of this inexpli-
cable apathy that has fallen upon the
men who make the laws? Must an
other victim be sacrificed on the
bloody altar of anarchism before they
can be stimulated to action?
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THE COUNTRY DOCTOR


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LEARNING IN THE HUB.

President Henry Smith Pritchett, Of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
who responded to the toast, Science at
the Columbian alumni dinner on Saturday
night at Sherry's illustrated his subject
with one incident that was very much
appreciated
Science" he said lis now a word to
conjure with In Boston school the other
day a teacher said TO a small boy:
Who won the battle of New OrIeans?'
Why, jim Corbett, of course was the
answer
How did that happen" asked the
teacher. not placing Corbett's name and
thinking to set the boy right
He Won, was the prompt reply, be
cause he had more science than the other
guy. Boston Journal.
The evening times., 1902-05-16
BRET HARFE AS A NEWSPAPER
MAN.

There are people in Springfield. says
the Republican" of that city, who viii
remember Bret Harte's visit here in 1878.
He came to report for the New York
Tribune" the great college boat race of
that year. and vas the guest Of the late
Samuel Bowles. That was the most pic
turesque boat race this city ever saw.
participated in by crews from Yale. Har-
ward, Columbia, Cornell. Amherst, the
State Agricultural College, Bowdoin.
Dartmouth, Brown, Wesleyan, and VIII
Iiams. The eleven boats were led to vie
tory by Yale, and thus the late Bob
Cook rose to his Iong-sustained boating
fame Such reporting was not much in
Mr.. Harte's line, and it irked him visibIy
and much He came TO the Republican"
Office after the race and tOiled until after
midnight in the slow composition Of the
column dispatch which appeared in the
Tribune" the following day. Nor was the
result such as to greatly impress the
young newspaper workers who had been
engaged in the same work The one touch
in depletion which fingers in memory is
Mr., Harte's liksrins Of the flashing oars
in the distance To toothpicks. He did not
enjoy his comm ission, and frankly said
so. Those who saw him labor obtained
the settled conviction that daily news
paper work was quite too sudden for Bret
Harte.