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Zula Baker, Bessie Talbot Florence Nj.
Heard, Margaret Evelyn and Mary Asquith.

Mr.. James NJ. Beck assistant attorney
general, and Mrs. Beck have taken the
house al 1922 X street for the winter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-19

Mr.. and Mrs. Clayton E. Emig will give
at their residence 22O6 LIST street northwest
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BAUM. The remains Of HATTIE RAITM, the be-
loved wife of John Baum. will be removed from
the vault in st. Mary's cemetery and Inferred
Thursday, November 20, 1902, at pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-19

Miss Irene L. Crutchet was quietly mar
ried to Mr.. John A. Many of New York city
today at the residence Of her mother, Mrs
Catherine Crutchet. 459 Massa chusetts ave-
nue. northwest. by Rev. Father Dolan Of
ST. Patricks Church in the presence of the
immediate families of the couple and DR..
Stafford Of St. Patricks. The bride was
attended by Miss Alice Balm and Mr.
Claude O'Donnoghue was best man. After
a wedding breakfast Mr. and Mrs. Many
left on their wedding trip,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-19

The marriage of Miss Florence Yineling
Vettch, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. John w.
Veitch Of Ballston. Va, and Mr.. Joseph w.
Blumer of Washington will take place the
26th of November. Only the members of
the immediate families will be present.
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A birthday surprise party was rendered
Mrs. Frank Lemmel Monday evening at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Barr. S27 9Th
street southwest. A very enjoyable even
Ing was spent by large number of friends
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ExceIled in Science.

Americas place IN the scientific
world is the subject of an interesting
discussion in Popular Science Month
ly. This journal points out that while
we have produced many great invent
ors and are. perhaps. contributing
more than a share to practical en-
gineering. manufactures and agricul-
ture, we do not stand equally high in
the domain of pure science. If the
pure sciences We're divided into nine
groups-that is to say, mathematics
astronomy. physics. botany. chemistry,
geology. zoology. physiology and an
tbropology- psychology-and the Unit
ed States eXcelled in one branch, it
would be sufficient. 1t is, however, ad.
mitted we are inferior to several ma
lions in mathematics, physics, chem
istry and physiology. and we are in
ferior in reputation. though obviously
not so in performance, in zoology, bot
any and acknowledgements but
we are probably doing work of great
err volume and valCe than any othe:
nation in astronomy and in geology.
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they had done. hesitated about leaving
the stronghold of the log, but soon
saw that Aunt Judy was wedged fas,
between the two poles. and her ample
eXtremities were well fastened in .he
mud
What's the matter? Is you fel,
through?' inquired Napoleon. Sar
kept discreet silence.
NO. lse asleep in bed howled Aunt
Judy. wen All gets outer dis. Ah'i
frail you to a fragile end. OATS wal
All will
Now, Aunt Judy" said Napoleon
what you gwineter frail us TO-? Some.
body mus er fixed dat bridge whist
we was er sittin' on de log. | believe
you mus er fixed il to ketch us on d
way back.
Aunt Judy gasped. Such impudence
was too much.
''Say.Aunt Judy" went on Napoleon
'.'ef we helps you out Will you let us
off on de whippin'?'
"Nossig.' said Aunt Judy. Ali
des maui you
Den stay dere." said Napoleon. get.
ting holder as he realized that Aunt
Judy was really helpless. and with e
nod to the awe-strucn Sam. he starteo
back to the log. 1t was too much.
Poleon. oh, 'Poleon, Come heil
you po' old aunty OUT"
But the wicked Napoleon was steely
hearted as his namesake. He could
not afford to let mere emotions inter
fere with future prospects.
Eff you'll help me out. 'Poleon, AMI
mex promise.
What" said Napoleon. eagerly.
Aunt Judy was beginning to see a
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John Brown came here from Con-
necticut as a child of five years; and
it was through the incubation of ear
1y western reserve radicalism, oper-
ating excessively on a peculiar nature,
that he was projected upon the coun-
try at large as a lurid figure, what
ever its defects, not to fade from his
tory. 1t has been chiefly through a
certain stalwart moral stamina of its
people, combined with genius for
politics, that the reserve early became
conspicuous, and has all along exer-
cised huge influence, relative to its
size, upon the state and country, says
q writer in Scribners Magazine. 1t
has contributed six governors to the
state in the time of its need. five SEN
ators and two presidents to the
United States; educators, authors,
scientists almost innumerable. The
mere names of Wade and Giddings, of
James A. Garfield and William Nc
kinley, of Jay Cooke, tinancier of the
war of the union, of Governors Sam.
uel Huntington, Seabury Ford, Reuben
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WHEN CHAOS RULES


standeth in the hall. He fain would
eat, bet there is naught wherewith to
do it. AS he standeth amid the wreck
age and chaos of that once happy
home, his better half again draweth
nigh and asketh him in seductive
voice to help hang the family portraits.
Thereupon the husband borroweth
step ladder from his neighbor and
standeth it against the wall. The step
ladder hath broken step, but of this
the man wotteth not.
AS the man ascendeth the steplad-
der, bearing aloft the portrait OF his
wife's mother, the step aforesaid Civ
eth way. and the man descendeth upon
his head and throweth the picture
through window into the street, for.
behold, the man falleth to the floor
and great is the fall thereof Then the
man riseth up in his might and speak
eth things in a loud voice which are
not fit for publicat ton
Lastly, says the Ohio State Journal.
the man goeth upstairs to seek slum-
Der. but he findeth no place to lay his
head, so he lieth down on the floor
and sleepeth with his head on has
sock voting not that he will arise on
the morrow, a sore and stiffened crea-
ture. Verify the life of the head OF
the house to be cleaned is a. burden.
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The Roosevelt children, by the way
have been stirring their Tather's siren
uous blood. The youngsters are the
proud possessors of some thorough
bred chickens and they had an argu
ment as to which were the best fight
ers. To settle that question the boys
decided to pit the chickens against
each other. For several days a crowo
gathered at the White House barns tc
watch the fun. Papa" Roosevelt hap
pened out there one day, when a cock
hight was in fun swing He was horri
fed, o. at least had to pretend to be,
and he marched the youngsters TO tbs
White House.
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seem to understand their masters
word, and they are urged on TO the
combat with straws. The Chinese I'M
derStand how to feed and groom the
cricketS for the fray. They give
them honey, boiled chestnuts and
boiled rice and certain kinds of fish.
They do not allow anyone to smoke
near them, for they think that tobac-
co Injuries them. If the crickets grow
sick they feed them upon mosquitoes
and red ants.
In a cricket fight the crickets are
weighed before they are put in the
ring. They are matched as TO size
and color. The betting is done just
as carefully as at an English horse
race. The stakes are held by a COM
mittee, which deducts certain per
centage for those who own the fight
ing houses. During the fight the
gamblers grow excited. They scream
and yell and hop UP and down as one
insect gets the better of the other and
go almost mad when one wins.
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Wen All gets outer dis" howled
Aunt Judy. "Ah'll frail yo to
fraZZle end"
light. No, All d know bout dat
elder she said thoughtfully The
water was cold and the poles were
anything but comfortable, but Aunt
Judy was built of sterling stuff. Ma
poleon began to hedge.
Wat was you gwineter promise
aunty?" he inquired with affected care
lessness.
Well. eff you-oh, All d know
neider.'
Go on, aunty."
We'll. looky here. boys. if you"n
only help you po' ole aunty out. Ah'il
get you all the doughnuts and crack
Inns you kin hole
''Nossir." said Napoleon. You got
ter promise not to tech ha'r O our
heads 70 we let's you out" There
was long pause.
Then Aunt Judy said, We'll, boys,
guess Ah'll halter do it
In ten minutes she was out ioun-
dering on the grass. They helped her
to her feet.
Now, boys" said she. still retaining
a grasp on each muddy black paw. All
amt gwine tech a hair on you heads,
but Ise DIES natchelly gwineter frail
you backs till de world looks level"
Old Uncle Pete. over in the clearing
behind the trees, stopped hoeing and
listened for moment TO sounds which
came floating on the evening breeze.
Huh! Pears lax dem folks oveh
todes de bayou is always a-killin'
hawgS', he said to himself.
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The warden of the Kansas City
penitentiary casts doubt on the suppo-
sition that a convict does not have the
oppG rtunity to go much in society and
form a large acquaintance.
He says that two of the conyicts
now in his charge have seen 5000
prisoners come and go during the
twenty-five years since their arrival
at the institution.
BY the way, there are fifty fewer
convicts in the penitentiary at this
time than there were year ago, and
the warden wonders if Kansas is be-
coming more law abiding.-Kansas
City journal.
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Behold the house-cleaning season
rometh on space! The time is nigh at
hand when the dismal grupt of the
tackpuller and the knockout blow of
the tackhammer shall be heard abroad
in the land. Yea, verify, we are upon
the threshold OF the moist scrubbrush
and the weeping floor mop.
Now will the good man of the house
get him up at the first streaks of dawn
streaking the east and HE himself to
his office, for he knoweth in his heart
that the bosom of his family is no
place to be when housekeeping goeth
on. When the good man cometh home
at the twelfth hour and stitch down
to the table with the appetite of goat
beneath his belt, behold there is moth
ing on his platter save few cold,
shfvering potatoes and a hunk of beef.
which he recognizeth as an old ac-
quaintance.
After dinner the queen of his house
hold standeth before him with her
head done up in a dustcap and cob
webs in her eyes, asking him if he will
beat the parlor carpet but, remember
ing that he hath a pressing engage
ment, he gir6eth up his loins straight
way and hoofeth it downtown
Again at eventide he cometh home
and climbeth over the bureau, where
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One Of the most common ways of
betting in China is with oranges. This
goes on at the fruit stalls and also in
private houses. The bet is on the
number of seeds in an orange. Some
times it is as to whether the number
is odd or even, and at others as to the
exact number of seeds the orange con-
tainS. If at a fruit stand the dealer
will pay the lucky SueSser FIVE times
his bet. but the loser must pay the val
ue of the orange and also five times
as much as he has wagered.
Quail fighting is done on a table
with little fence about its edge. The
fighting quails have been starved for
some time. AS they are put into the
pen a few grains of rice or wheat are
laid before them, and they at once be-
gin to fight over them. They are
trained for the purpose. and a good
fighter is worth 500 and upward.
1t is the same with the crickets.
Their prize rings are little bowls. The
crickets have been trained. They
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right, but-hang it!-he's such no
end of a good fellow and it'll break
him all up and-Lord! 1 wish some
body would chloroform him.
Fellows" said Ken, cant we do
Hold blanket for him or something
told Ken he was fool, but that no
longer makes the impression on him
that it should.
"No-hang it," he said, II mean it.
Now. look here We all know that
Van isn't what you might cah a tear
ing beauty. And-great hat! there
are other girls, nice girls, slews of
girls that would take him quick IL
they could get him. Fellows with six
figure bank accounts aren't at dis
were to form a sort of benevolent con-
spiracy. get one of the girls into it,
Mamie Crane, maybe. and then pull
every wire we could-Beatrice Bene-
dick fashion-until we had him mar
ried--"
No use" interrupted Trenchard;
I'VE might break Mamie Cranes
heart, probably would. but that is all
would ever come OF it. Better leave
the whole thing alone
1 felt that knew Van a little better
than either of the other fellows did,
and l thought I understood the situa-
ton, so now ] spoke up.
Il tell you, fellows ] said, there is
just one thing can ease the pressure.
You can't drive Van, you can't coax
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In the Hartz Mountains nearly ev.
cry family raises canaries. Some OF
them raise them as a business and
produce 500 or 400 annually, which
they may sell for 81 each. But all
families, however poC-. raise twenty
or thirty on the side, SD to speak, sim
ply to help out the family exchequer
The woman of the house will sit pa,
tiently presiding over the stocking
machine, at the same time keeping ar
ear attentive to the attempts of the
youthful birds at her elbow to sing
Teaching the canaries is science.
One master even holds {. stick threat
eningly over his charge 60 warn ZEN
from false notes and uncertain tunes,
The bird business in Germany has
reached large proportions. One bird
store in Leipzig employs fifty clerks
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MEANT TO BE A WoRLD-BEATER
The Military Station to BE Established
on Governors Island.

In the heart of the city of New York
the United States is to have one of the
finest military stations in the world,
says New York correspondent. An
pouncement was made recently for the
perfection of the plans for charging
Governors Island, and the sundry civil
bill will carry an appropriation for
finishing the work. Secretary Root
has been working on this plan for
q long time. and it looks now as if his
abors would be crowned with success.
Governors Island is to be enlarged by
q breakwater and reclamation of shoal
ground, so that its area will be in
creased from the present SiXty-hve
acres to about $50 acres. Docks and
berths will be built, so that the largest
ships and transports can lie alongside
the warehouses and receive or dis
charge cargoes by electrical appli-
ances.
The entire terminal facilities of
New York city will be available for
the handling of freight, loaded cars be-
ing fioated directly into the slips. Sec
rotary Root says that when his plans
are perfected the government will
have a station from which an expedi-
ton of 25, 900 men can be dispatched
on transports, fully equipped with ar
tillery, camp outfits, horses, tentage.
etc., in three days. There will be
room on the island for the barracks
and tents of that number of men, and
the transportation facilities Of the me-
tropolis are SO great that the addition
OF *. 900 or 5000 men to the ordinary
traRa would never be noticed. All this
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vately-for minute
him, and he is not trying to win ON
his beauty. you can be mighty sure Of
that, but he knows and cares lot for
Grace; he knows he's got ability, he
knows he's got money and he thinks
he could make her happy enough 80
that after while that countenance OF
his would be-forgotten, you know
she'd get used to it. What you want
isn't another woman in the case-it's
another man. and if you were as smart
as Van, as rich as Van as much in
love with Grace as Van, and hand
some, tell you Van would give him
free field for her sake-only provid-
ing he were just as good a fellow as
Van, and Van would have to be the
judge, but he would judge fair
We were all silent. and just at that
moment there was tap at the door.
Come in" l called.
The door opened and-it was Dwight
Van Vert
We must have looked like a trio OF
detected counterfeits, but Van never
noticed.
Rod he said. in a constrained, I'M
natural voice, may ask the boys to
excuse you'll would like to speak
to you rivately-for a moment"
l knew it must mean his death SEN
tence. and l followed him. like lamb
to the slaughter. Van closed the door
softly, took my arm and led me across
to where the great hall lamp shed its
rec light down upon us both. II
Rod, old man he said, Il No.
come to tell you that l am engaged to
be married. You know to whom-the
best girl and dearest in the world
and / wanted you to be the first to
congratulate me. 1t will be in a couple
of months, here, and on the 9Th of
June we sail for Europe on the Cam
pania.''
He gave my hand a numbing pres
sure, then gripped me by the Shout
ders and held me off at arms length
And l looked at him-at his fabricated
hair, his tip tilted nose, his lavish
wealth of freckles, his wind break ears
and his eyes. in which was shining
the glory of the New Jerusalem-and-
by Jove! Dwight Van Vert was the
handsomest fellow | ever saw.
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Wood, David Tod, John Brough, and
Jacob d. CoX-the latter also one o.
the ablest generals in the civil war.
and of those other generals, @. A. Gill.
more, Opdyke, Dewey. Alger, Reilly,
John Beatty and the two Paines, boto
major-generals. who, though entering
the service elsewhere, were natives Of
the reserve; of such practical scien-
lists as Edison and Brush; of such
authors as w. d. Howells, James Ford
Rhodes. Edith Thomas, George Ken
nan, Ambrose Bierce, Sarah Woolsey,
Albion w. Tourgee, Thomas Jay Hud-
son, and Della Bacon (of Bacon
Shakespeare fame), and of such edu-
Gators as ex-President James Fair
child of Oberlin, the tate Thomas w.
Harvey and Burke A. Hinsdale, and
Prof. George Trumbull Ladd (the
world-famous philosopher and psychol.
ogist of Yale's faculty., are sufficient
to attest that 1t was no people of mere
mediocrity which Connecticut's re-
markable colonizing movement placed
in Ohio.
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March that Ken and Trenchard and /
got to talking it over. We had heard
rumor that Grace and her mother
were going to Europe, and we knew
that meant one of two things-either
Van would be reckless and get his
Quietus right away or else, on some
cooked up excuse or other he would
follow them.
"Of course" said Ken, as he gave
vicious pail at his cigar, there's no
use kicking against the pricks. Van
has got to swing some day, and maybe
the sooner It's over the better"
"Of course" Trench admitted, Vans
gut to take his medicine, that's all
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from the fringe of trees which ran
short distance from the bayou, she
saw the recreapts perched on the drift
log which ran out into the water.
''Dere dey is, and dat scoun1 is
smokin' Unc' Pete's pipe, and, my
blessed, dat Sam is got one, tool"
Breaking off long. wild-plum
switch, she waddled, as fast as her
physical makeup would permit, to-
ward the boys. When she arrived at
the, bridge, the boys turned and saw
her, but only for second. There was
a ascream, crashing of sticks, and a
mighty suffering.
Help, help. ,Poleon! Sam! Oh,
Loi,dy, help me outer dis! Oh. Oh.
Disssome er you rascalg, debblishness.
OhM Ahsll frail. yoafs cohse, OATS good
boz and help YOU on eNnty out,'
TheSboys, at shrsts Sri sae5 by s8Tilat
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W. oISoH, yGheu Auul JUDY
from the wash-house door, ''wey you
gwine? Come back heuh, you trifin'.
black rascal. Didn't All tell you to
stan right by dat wringah until All
was through wild you?
Il was des gwine down to see if
Mist Jimmy's boat was tied" said the
recreant Napoleon as he shifted his
weight from one black, sun-cracked.
bare foot to the other.
"Yaas, specs OATS wat dat extry
fshhook is a hangin' in dem kinks
behine you ear fo; and wat you got
in you han? OATS a box o wu'ms.
Sho's ISe alive. Pears like you amt
got sense enough to bell a buZzard,
'Poleon,"
Napoleon rolled his eyes cautiously
around towards a 'clump of saw pal
metto in the edge of the scrub.
where a wide, straw hat could be seen
above the tops of the palmetto fans.
and knotty ishpole waved jerkily.
Would she see it? Napoleon's heart
almost stooS still as Aunt Judy's eyes
turned in that direction, but old eyes
that are dimmed by many years of
sewing and standing over the steaming
washtub are not as sharp as young
ones.
Tick dis basket er cloes and hang
EN- out on de line she continued,
land bring me er coal outer dat fun.
Look lax All dest mus tex a res
Napoleon complied, holding the coal
between two sticks while Aunt Judy
puffed for light A smile crept over
his face. He knew what Aunt Judy's
resseS" meant. Then, taking up me
basket, he went out to the clothes
line, keeping carefully in view of Aunt
Judy. Gradually he worked around, ts-
he saw Aunt Judy's head nod, until her
face was hidden by the door jamb.
Dat boy amt so bad" unused The
old lady. He dest kim O. childish.
Get kim O frisky sometimes lax any
boy gwineter do wat got some stiff
ness in he backbone. Guess Ahll-
All 'll-let him." There was
long pause. 4 big. green horsefly came
droning in and settled on Aunt Judy's
head, standing out strongly against
the gray, twine-wrapped strands of
wool. Aunt Judy was asleep. Ma
poleon came and peeped in at the door
Softly putting down the basket, ne
stole noiselessly over to the palmetto,
and two figures raced off toward the
bayou.
little creek made around from the
bayou, over which was wooden
bridge.
Sam" said Napolean, Aunt Judy
is gwineter wake up fore long. 'Speck
we better fix dis bridge and with a
mischievous glitter in his black eyes
he commenced removing some of he
loose boards lying across the two poles
which formed the only passage across
the muddy creek
Wen des fix some err desc fans
across de openin'." he chartered. IN
unfilial light spreading over his black,
shiny face. The two young imps soon
had dead. brown palmetto leaves over
1he opening.
Now we'll DIES get out on dat ole
and drop our lines in de Black
said Sam.
Judy nodded and drowsed, Civ
Ith gentle snore, occasionally
by fitful snorts. The pipe still
sosely held, between her two
eth. The fire was long ago
Suddenly she started up
et Zion, All mus get dem
,ffer dat line 'Poleon!" No
'Specks he dun traipsed off
Il Sam Williams. He gotter quit
,vishness. YaSsir. here's de bas-
KILL des slip down to de bayou
Hope he got summer desc
ilrs in his foots." she muttered
nade her waV toward the Darh
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Teisserene de Bort, the French aero
naut, has secured the lowest temperA-
ture mark on record-72 degrees CEN
tiErade, or 97.6 degrees FahrenAeit.
Tre reading was registered on ther-
mometer in a trial balloon, sent up
recently, which rose to a height q
$4,000 feet.
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The King of Siam has an army corps
OF 500 elephants. A corp of half
as many American rough riders OF
the western ranges would make the
numbering beasts pack their trunks
and quit the field in one, two. three
order. -...-..----.
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right in the t of the greatest city
and greatest 8, aport on the continent
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1t takes the editor to make long
story Ehort ss.l5sla5zIE
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II was UP in my room one night in