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Evening star., 1902-03-05
The Sea Gull at Home.
From the New York Mail and Express.

One can no more get correct line on
the sea gull when he observes him from
or near the land, than he can on the for
eigner when he encounters him in his tour
list tweeds, away from home. The gull Of
the Hudson, or the Central Park reservoir.
or the upper bay, is an expatriate. He is
out of his element. He is stranger who
brings in shore whiffs Of wild life that lies
somewhere beneath the horizon, somewhere
where the trade winds scatter the spray in
the track of the liners like dust on the open
road. He is stranger. and, say what you
WILL strangers are unpopular. Men do not
like what they do not understand. To get
on good terms with the gull one must see
him in his own home. One must have
been in fight about his ship day after day
where the waves chase each other out Of
sight of land. In his native habitat the
gull loses his corsatr aspect and his re-
pellent tourist manners. He takes on home
ly domestic ways and one sees him as ne
is-a friend Of the sea and of those who
go down to the sea in ships. There is
point in the various familiar names whic:l
the sailors bestow on him and his kindred.
He is simply barnyard fowl, although his
barnyard is the ocean itself. One may re-
gard him just as he would pet rooster OF
uncertain years. protected by his popularity
and his toughness from the ak of the
market man.
Evening star., 1902-03-05
ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS
NEW COMPANY ORGANIZED,
WITH $4,000 CAPITAL.
Large Audience Listens to Father
Buckley of Warrington General
News of Interest.
Evening Star Bureau.
No. 7O1 King Street.
Pan Tolanhnna No 1ikS

ALEXANDRIA. Va, March s. 1902.
The Cheeseman Chemical Company OF
this city has been granted charter OF in
corporation. The objects of the company
are to manufacture, buy and sell variety
of chemicals. The sum of $4,000 was
named as the capital stock The officers
are: Park Agnew. president; A. ii. Ag-
new, vice president; NJ B. Harlow, secre-
tary and treasurer, and Lewis Cheeseman,
superintendent and chemist.
A large audience at ST. Mary'S Catholic
Church last evening heard an Instructive
lecture by the Rev. Father Edward Buckley,
assistant pastor of st. Matthews Catholic
Church, Washington, on THE Divinity of
Christ as Proved by His Miracles"
Announcement has just been made by
Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander Paul of New YORK
of the marriage of their daughter. Mrs.
Laura Emily Kerim, and DR.. William Bed
ford Brown. formerly of this city
The fire department was called out about
10 O'Clock this morning for blaze at the
house of Sarah Cooley. colored, 712 Frank
lin street. The flames were eXtingu1shed
without the aid of the engines. The dam
age was slight. A defective fiue was the
cause of the fire.
The Rev Clarence E. Ball has qualified
in the corporation court as administrators
of the estate of Louisa Cowling. The Rev
T. ]. Sharkey had been appointed, but
failed to qualify.
The beard of directors of the Alexandria
Water Company has elected Mr.. Walter
Roberts president, to fill the vacancy
caused by the death Of Mr.. Benoni Wheat.
Mr.. w. Frank Lambert was elected a men,
ber of the board
Rev. Thomas G. Smyth of Washington
will deliver a complimentary lecture this
evening at Lyceum Hall, in Duke street.
under the auspices of the Young Men 5
Sodality Lyceum. The subject will be
"Character Buildng.'
Lieutenant Thomas b. Cochran has been
elected treasurer of the Alexandria Light
Infantry, and Corporal Samuel T. Pitts
has been chosen secretary.
The funeral of Mrs. Susie Williams, who
died Monday, took place this afternoon
from the family home, sos Oronoco street.
The Rev. DIR. George l.. Hunt of the First
Baptist Church conducted the services. In
termen was in Bethel cemetery.
Evening star., 1902-03-05
DARK AND BLOODY GROUND.
A Nook in Kentucky Where Lawless-
ness Raigns.

From the Chicago Tribune.
Of the many strange situations that have
been produced by the turns and twists of
the Mississippi river none is stranger and
none so terrible in it's results as that in
Madrid Bend" where the great stream,
turning north from Island No. 10. sweeps
across the line from Tennessee into Ken
lucky, rounds into the Missouri shore, and
then, sweeping southward. cuts the line
again to Tennessee Thus it cuts off Sec
ton of Kentucky from the rest of the state,
and even from the county to which it be-
longs and. wrapping around it coil of
it's own wild waters, holds 1t aloof from
law and order, from right and justice and
clings to it as the last resort in which may
thrive the outlawry and crime which half
a century ago were rampant along the
whole river. There is probably other
place in America today in the heart of a
cultivated country where human life is
held SO cheap as in this little region that
lies opposite New Madrid, Mo-, and pays
it's taxes at Hickman. Fulton county, Ky.
This is Kentucky Point, the home Of the
Darnell- Watson feud, in which more than
forty men are said to have been killed
Four miles wide and about seven miles
long it is settled as thickly as any farming
region in eastern Kentucky, produces enor-
nous crops Of cotton, which employ hun
dredS Of pickerS, and IS always scene or
activity. Yet it has neither court nor con-
stable jail nor jailer. and acknowledges no
law that does not accord with its own no
tions of justice. Many months have elapsed
since sheriff visited this region, and many
years since he took prisoner out from 1t
to stand trial at the Hickman court house.
Yet a week seldom goes by that some
man is not killed by a fellow somewhere
on the point. With the Mississippi on every
side but one and Missouri across 1t, and
with Tennessee on the fourth side. the
murderer is certain of easy escape before a
sheriff, thirty miles away. could be notified
and come to the scene. The state line runs
but short distance south Of Hickman, but
from the capital down stream to Kentucky
Point in Madrid Bend, is more than twen-
ty-fve miles, Overland there is no direct
passage, for the intercepting region Of Mis-
souri, lies along the Bayou St. John and
James Bayou which are impassable
swamps, and, which have themselves been
the home OF terrible lawlessness BY land
|: through Tennessee is almost as impossible
for it is cut by Rselford lake and the sur
rounding swamps and bayous. Only the
/ water route, therefore, remains for the
sheriff or officer who would go form HEX
man to the point and to travel on this ne
must either use skiff or wait for a
steamer, which may be week In coming.
Evening star., 1902-03-05
DEATH OF vOLTAIRE RANDALL,
He Caused the Arrest of One of the
Lincoln Conspirators.

Mr.. Eoltaire Randall, born in Westmore-
land county, Va, and a resident of WASH
inSton for the last twenty-five Years. died
Monday, aged seventy-four. During the
civil war he did effective service in the
cause under Provost Marshal McPhail TAX
ing many daring risks and making manv
important arrests. He made the first arrest
of the Conspirator Arnold, from whom he
extracted a confession. 1t was this infor
nation that led to the arrest and conyic-
ton of others implicated in the assassina-
ton of President Lincoln.
In early days. when the volunteer fire.
men held sway in Baltimore, where he for
merly lived, he was Il brave member of the
United Engine Company. He was a stanch
Union man and an indefatigable republican
in politics. In his early life he was promi-
nent in the odd Fellows, Red Men and
ether organizations.
For twenty years he had been employed
at the State, War and Navy Department.
and was ever faithful in the performance of
any duty or trust imposed.
AS a father and wise counselor he is
mourned by a widow, a son and a daueh-
ter, whose presence cheered the last hour
Of his life.
The funeral will be held tomorrow at 2
pm. from his late residence, 1888 9th street
northwest,
Evening star., 1902-03-05
WEIRD JEWELS.
Owls Heads, Snakes and Goblin-Like
Fish Among Designs.
From the London Leader.

FROM the London Leader.
Jewelry of the most original kind is oc-
cupying the attention of Paris; queer
shaped rings and brooches are being ea-
gtrly sought after and the old fashioned
gold nligree work promises to be I'm great
favor. Among the most unique designs Is
a plaque de cou shaped to the neck about
four inches long and one and a half wide
1t is of gold fligree work. rather OPEN
spaced, the interstices being filed in with
strange translucid enamel exactly of the
shade Of green sea water Incrusted upon
this are two weird goblin-lke fish-one
dark green the other pale violet-their
scales outlined in cloiSonne gold, the eyes
and the head being studied with irregular
SNAPPED pieces OF pearls, opals and chryso-
prases. There are several hair combs Of
wonderful design also. One is formed Of
two dull silver stOrks craning their necks
upward around a large slab of mother-o-
pearl, taken from the inner part Of an oys-
ter shell, and called a SCULPTURE de perle
In which three incipent pearls are seen
to be forming. The teeth Of the comb are
of carved ivory. Another ivory comb has
a hydra rising angrly in a golden spray
of seven snakes heads.
There are also strange and wonderful
rings Of sulphur-tinted silver. wrought in
designs of owls heads of angels with
folded or outstretched wings, or OF huge
uncanny spiders, set with pearls tur-
quoisos, amethysts or moonstones In ex-
Fquisite tonality OF colors. There are
brooches, too and buttons in sets of trans
parent sea green enamel, across which
lines of silver seaweed, swaying in the
tide, are represented encircling some pre-
cious pearl. A brooch representing a golden
fan studded with five large. round opals
forms a gorgeous background to the dark
head of an Egyptian slave. carved cut of
black onyx. There are any number of
pendants, representing fantastic heads OF
women with riotous hair, or angels with
demurely closed wings There are even UNI
brella handles representing hippocampus
In strange gilded silver. with chrysoprase
eyes There is thistle hat pin with a
huge pearl forming the heart in the center
of some violet enamel with pale gold Vein
ings. there are buckles formed of huge
GamingOes with twisted legs and wings
tinted In all tones Of silver and gold and
there is a huge breastplate of dull silver
set with amethysts and chrysoprates, from
which are pendant long chains of gradu-
ated pearls which reach upward toward
two shoulder pieces to match.
Evening star., 1902-03-05
FLAVORING MEAT.
The Famous Roast Beef of Old England
is Deteriorating.
From the London Mail.

From the London Mall
England would not he England without
it's famous roast beef. Patriotic Britons are
still under the delusion that by paying the
price they can obtain the genuine article
las good as ever it was sir This is an
other of the pleasant fictions which the
faithful journalist is obliged to shatter. AS
q matter of fact the distinctive flavor
which won the admiration of King James
has been slowly lost owing to modern
methods of fattening cattle.
Tenderness and juicy quality undoubtedly
have been gained by modern breeders owing
to their scientific feeding of oxen. but the
original "beefy' flavor. which took about
three years to become perfect, is gradually
being replaced by quite unpleasant flavors;
For instance, and the British Farmers
Association is the authority. consulted by
the writer. Devonshire beef has a distinctly
'.turnippy' taste. due to the roots and tur-
Lips upon which the beasts are fed.
In spring beef this flavor is most notice
able. for it is during the winter months,
when paSturage is scarce, that the animals
have to be fed on roots. If, for one month
only, just before slaughtering. the cattle
We're fed on hay. this objection would be
removed. but our cattle breeders are in
such a hurry to send the animals to the
market that this month cannot be spared
when the demand for English beef is great
and pressing.
Oilcake is another artificial food that af-
fects the flavor. The taste of the oil is
most unpleasantly perceptibie when the
food is used to any great extent. But 1t
fattens very rapidly. SO farmers use it. Six
weeks only is necessary to get into
market condition oilcake. What, then,
is the finest beef for table? The answer
VIII come as a shock. 1t is, according to
an expert, the American who succeeds
again.
American beef. bred from the finest Eng
lish stock, has many advantages over the
home grown animals. The pasturage in
America Is ideal. Sunshine is abundant
and sunshine has great effect in the way
of improving the flavor of beef. The most
exposed portions of the animal, such as
that from which the sirloin is taken, are
always the best
American beef comes over in chilled not
frozen, chambers If the ice gets into the
meat the flesh becomes tasteleSs, but a
cold chamber, the temperature of which
does not fall below freezing point. arrests
decomposition without spelling the flavor
Evening star., 1902-03-05
Lifting the King"
From the London Tattler.

From the London Iatter.
One of the picturesque English coronation
ceremonies which have been discontinued is
that Of lifting the king In the old days
the monarch always slept at the palace Of
Westminster on the night before the coro-
nation. The regalia which are still, tech
nically speaking, in the dean and chapter
of Westminster, We're brought to them to
Westminster hall in preparation for the
ceremony. These were arranged on a long
table, the crown, the scepter the spurs,
and so on. The king. when he descended
from the palace to Westminster hall, was
lifted by his mobiles onto marble chair. by
the way, which perished in the ruins of the
houses of parliament when they were
burned sixty or seventy years ago.
The lifting Of the king into this chair was
a survival of the old Saxon custom of car
rying the king on his shield. The custom
survived up to the time of the coronation Of
George ". When the monarch was seated
in the chair he at once directed by point
ing his finger which of his mobiles should
carry the various parts Of the regalia to
the abbey, and the procession began.
Evening star., 1902-03-05
Dress for Auto Riding.

From the London Chronicle.
We have not managed yet to dress be-
comingly for the motor car, for 1t supplies
novel form of motion which is speedy
enough to leave the modiste painting and
out Of sight. waterproof. with goggles
and a peaked hat, may be comfortable,
but they certainly do not make an at
tractive costume. AS Barry Pain once re-
marked. the possession of a motor car i'm
plies at least moderate wealth, but the
pcssessors invariably look poor-dog poor.
While the engineers are busy devisng a
shape of motor which is not hideous. the
costume designers-male and female-might
discover a dress to go with the graceful
car which is, we hope, on the way.
Meanwhile the king las begun the pro-
cess Of bringing the motor car into line
with current custom. His majesty sees
that the automobile is not a traction en-
gine, but a private carriage. that differs
only in speed and motive power from the
royal landau. So in front of the royal
motor are placed couple Of lveried SER
wants. who in a double sense take the air.
Moreover, fashion is setting against the
driver in serge suit and peaked cap. and
many coachmen are being induced to
transfer their skill and their costume from
the box seat Of the brougham to the
guiding lever of the motor.
Evening star., 1902-03-05

BAD NEWS FROM MAINE.
A Scarcity of Genuine Black Trees May
Cause a Spruce Gum Famine.
From the New York Sun,

From the New York Sun.
There is prospect of spruce gum fam
inc in New England this year. The drug
gsts and candy dealers in the manufacture
ing cities of Massachusetts and Connection.
are sending in orders faster than the lum-
bermen can fill them, and the Bangor job
hers who handle one-half the spruce gum
output of the country. are at the end Of
their wits to make excuses for the delay.
The price of clear, amber-tinted spruce
nuggets. such as the factory girls delight
ir chewing, has gone up from seventy-five
cents to $1.50 pound inside of six months,
while the quotations on what is called
school ma am gum are not made at all for
fear that none can be produced. The dis
tinction between ordinary factory gum and
school ma am gum lies in the fact that th.
latter is fully two years of age before it is
taken from the trees, and is therefore more
fragrant and of greater benefit to the
teeth.
A scarcity of genuine black spruce trees
In the Maine woods is the cause of the
famine Prior to the time when the large
pulp mills were built there was no trouble
III securing the gum many OF the profess
sional harvesters having retained large
tracts of forest for their own use.
The custom was to go through the woods
every year in March and secure all the good
nuggets that were found hanging from the
trunks or limbs. Before the hunter returned
to the ground from the tree he made sew
eral incisions in the healthy bark on the
south side of the tree, and from these
wounds the gum for next years crop was
harvested.
The pulp industry spoiled all these pre-
serves by cutting off The best trees to be
converted into sulphite pulp for paper. and
the gum pickers were forced to seek other
forests further away from the routes Of
travel. AS the new trees had to be SCARED
for several years before they came into
full bearing, the supply Of gum grew scarce
ard the price doubled inside of n year.
While the harvesterS can build up new
orchards in a few years, If left to them
selves, the trouble comes in when the own
ers Of the pulp mills, in seeking new stock
invade the gum preserves before they are
III good condition, and the man with the
hatchet and e-clmber is driven still
deeper into the woods.
The harvest of gum In Maine Is about
six tons in season. which, taking one year
with another. sells for sixty cents pound.
This year the collectors will not bring in
more than four tons. every one of which
is spoken for at $50 pound.
Ten years ago the large dealers in Boston
had habit of sending agents to Maine and
engaging all the gum they could secure at
from sixty to seventy cents a pound, and
then taking it to their stores and putting
the price up to 81 a pound or higher, thus
bringing great distress to those who were
devotees to the chewing habit. This year
the middlemen viii get no opportunity to
make a corner in gum.
Evening star., 1902-03-05
st. Rules Tower.
From the London Chronicle.


ST. Rules Tower. in the town Of ST. An
drews. is an evidence Of the link which
binds st. Andrew, whose feast all good
Scotchmen are keeping today, to the coun-
try of whom he is the patron saint The
legend runs that a monk called Regulus.
or Rule, brought the bones of st. Andrew
from Constantinople to Scotland, and buried
them near the seacoast. on the spot round
which the present town Of st. Andrews
afterward grew. Whether the story is true
or not, there seems to be no other way to
explain the connection of this particular
saint with Scotland, for he seems to have
passed the whole Of his life up to the mo-
ment Of his martyrdom in the east James
III certainly associated him with the coun-
try across the Tweed, for 1t was he who
founded the Order Of st. Andrew in 1857, to
be conferred on the king and sixteen
knights.
Evening star., 1902-03-05
Generals Open Schools.
Frederick Atkinson In the Atlantic.

Frederick Atkinson In the Atlantic.
There could have been no clearer express
sion of American purposes with regard to
the Philippines than presented in the
reopening and organizing of schools by
military commanders as soon as peace was
restored in their posts. General Otis and
General Macarthur both strongly favored
and advanced a progressive educational
policy. During the first year of the war
educational efforts We're necessarily CON
fined to the city of Manila. where American
authority was firmly established; but as
scon as practicable the work was extended
throughout all provinces where conditions
warranted 1t. Soldier teachers We're put
into the schools to teach English The CEN
tral military government ordered and dis
tributed large quantities of American school
books and supplies. Financial aid was
given to towns too poor to pay the salaries
OF native teachers and the rentals Of school
buildings. The educational work done un-
der the purely military regime. with old
machinery, was hardly systematic or ideal
but II showed that the military authorities
recognized the value of a system of schools
to quote General MacArthur-..as an ad-
Junct To military operations, calculated to
Gacify the people, and to procure and ex-
pedite the restoration of tranquility
throughout the archipelago
Evening star., 1902-03-05
Gum of Yucatan.
le Philadelphia Record.

From the Philadelphia Record.
The famou 'chicle'' chewing gum of
Yucatan is gathered by bands of men called
"chicleros, who go into the deep forest
carrying heavy knives Of special make
pals and ladies for the sap. and each has
a strong rope, about eighty feet in length.
to be used in climbing the tall sapota trees.
from which the gum is obtained. The sap
flows from gashes cut in the bark, and.
having been caught in the pals, it is boiled
down to a gummy consistency. The camp
of the chicleros resembles in many respects
an American maple sugar camp. After sew
eral months Of work the men return from
the forests, laden with blocks of the gum.
The best quality Of the gum is obtained
from the fruit Of the sapota tree, but this
is seldom exported because 1t is too well
liked at home.
Evening star., 1902-03-05
Bring Your Own Ability.
From Success.


If one brings the ability, the world will
provide the opportunity. Sooner or later.
If we go the right way about it. the world
gives US a fair rate Of exchange for our
selves. But, of course. much depends on
how we place our goods on the market.
Gifts in themselves are not enough We
must know how to manage our gifts. More
than half of success lies in the proper
management Of our gifts. The gifts are
hardly more important. OF course. there
are people who expect success. without
gifts or work or anything: idle malcon-
tents, who seem to think the world is In
debt to them for honoring 1t with their
preeence. thriftless camp-followers In the
battle of life: strange race of men and
women. at whom one can only look with
.u.3ous wonder.
Evening star., 1902-03-05
Coaching in Old Days.
From the London Chronicle.

From the London Chronicle.
On December q. 1s43 the prince of
Wales" the last Of the coaches running
between London and Bristol, was taken
off the road The decay of coaching had
set In about four years earlier and one
by one coaches had given place to the
railway. after enjoying palmy days last
Ing about twenty years. It was on the
Bristol road that the first mail coach was
driven, the institution being due to the
enterprise OF Mr.. Palmer, MP. for Bath.
The coach started from London on August
3, 1874, at 8 am. and reached Bristol at II
O'Clock in the night. the coaches previously
driven taking from Monday to Wednesday
to reach Bath. Other routes were opened
in the following year, and the regula ton
pace :of six miles an hour gradually in
creased to ten, when the railway entered
into competition. carried the first mail in
1888 and killed coaching.
Evening star., 1902-03-05
Argentine Journalism.
From the Buenos Ayres Herald

Editing a paper is nice thing. II we
publish jokes, people will say We are rattle
Drained: If We don't, We are an old fossil.
If we publish original matter they say we
do not give enough selections; II we give
selections. they say We are too lazy to
write. If we don't go to church we arc
heathen: if we do. We are a hypocrite. If
we remain in the office, We ought to get out
and hustle for locals; If we go out we are
not attending to our business. If We wear
old clothes they laugh at us, II We wear
Evening star., 1902-03-05
How It Happened.

From the Chicago News
Sandy PikesE"Yes. mum, I was under
SchleY."
Kind Lady-"How noble! Was it at San
tiago?"
Sandy Pikes-"No, mum; 1t was on a par
lor car The admiral was sittin' on a plush
chair an I was ridin' underneath on de
trucks"
Evening star., 1902-03-05
THE STARVATION PLAN

OF TREATING DYSPEPSIA AND STOMACH
TROUBLES Is USELESS AND UNSCIENTIFIC.
The almost certain failure of the starvation cure
for dyspepsia has been proven time and again, but
a of dieting is generally the first
thing recommended for a of indigestion any
stomach trouble,