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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-31
life. Tragedy and comedy are Swallowed

life. Tragedy and comedy are Swallowed
forth in their yellow pages, ana the tran
scriber's ingenious spelling furnishes an
inexhaustible fund OF amusement. There
may be found the cost of many of the nee
essaries Of life and Of every article of mas
culine and feminine attire; the fluctuations
of the farming industry are incidentally
revealed, together with the price of labor,
skilled and unskilled. All this, and much
more, is recorded by a clerk whose con-
scientious handling of the petty details fills
the reader with respectful admiration. No
item is too insignificant for his patient
pen, such a one as HONEY and vinnigar
for Freeman's coff'' and 'Buttens'' being
duly entered for the Justices inspection
and approval His photography, as the ex-
ample just given will show, is bound by no
conventional methods: he wanders at will
through the alphabet, and if word does
not satisfy his sense of fitness spelt after
on fashion, he is always ready to try an
other.
The chief impression conveyed by study
of these old books is of the patriarchal re-
lations which existed at that date between
those who gave and those who received as
sistance. The overseers were essentially
the poor mans guardians, exercising over
him a more than parental care. They paid
the midwife for bringing him into the
world; to a large extent they fed and
clothed him during his lifetime; if he took
a wife, they betrayed a part of the we'd
ding expenses; they allowed him money and
medicine when he was Laying STEEL" as
the clerk expresses tin other words, when
through some ailment he was unable to
work, they tended him during his last ILL
ness; and after laying out his corpse they
buried it in wool and RECALLED the coffin
bearers with bred. cheese and bear"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-31

puts on fine raiment and goes forth merely
to show that he has money to burn does
excite contempt, and does breed discomfort.
What are the amusements Of the rich
that arouse unfavorable comment? Are
they not those which make no appeal to
the intellect or the finer emotions Which
crafty no taste that ought to be gratifed?
Which are engaged in merely because they
are either very costly or very foolish, or
both? Are they not such things as the
Seeley dinner the Waterbury circus, or
an elaborate dinner with monkey as the
guest of honor? Are they not those acts
which display neither ina gination, reason
nor good taste, but simply show that those
who engage in them have a great deal of
money to throw away and are bound that
the world shall know it?
Neither the decent comfort of the well-to-
do nor the decent luxury of the rich breeds
malicious discomfort. To the mass of man.
kind a rich man Is in some ways a great
man, and all like to see greatness demean
itself as becomes its station. Not the SEEM
ly use of wealth, but its unseemly abuse, Is
what arouses social hatred.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-31
AN IDEAL SCHOOL.
It Was Seen on Little. Journey Into
Utopia.

From Impressions Quarterly. i
THE school house itself. to begin with,
is not barrack. It's charming building,
as much as possible like our homes Inc
views from it are glorious; it's full of the
purest air; it's gardens and shrubbery are
fne; inside there are flowers everywhere;
and ii is furnished beautifully: hung, too,
with good pictures-good ones, not the
drcary sort of thing with which clubs and
art associations and graduating classes,
in their ignorance, so often endoW the I'M
happy schools of the land. Why, know,
and l dare say you can parallel 1t. OF
school that has on it's walls huge staring
photograph Of broken columns, labeled
,'Roman Forum cOlored print called
My Mary, She Minds a Dairy a plau-
nette' of coquettish slender angels in
belfry, entitled Christmas Bells and Sar-
geants never-failng Hosea the pleasant
young prophet in becoming burnoose.
The money for these was raised by Wom-
ans club, and they were chosen from the
catalogue of an educational company by
committee Of eminent citizens and their
wives, who knew what they liked and
got it! .
ooh, I'm setting myself up I'm well
aware But who can help 1t, when he sees
such-bumptiousness? for that's exactly
what it is; confidence in yourself as the
measure Of all things under heaven. It's
the note of the American life: just the
bad side, l suppose, though of a general
tendency that's sound
But our school. AS the building is diff
ferent in many ways from others, so is the
life that is lived in it. You'll see but
handful of pupils in any one room, six or
eight or ten. They're gathered round the
tee cher informally. They're allowed to
whisper! Think Of that! O tempora! That
is, If one of them is burning to make some
comment to another upon what Is being
said or done. and will do it without inter-
rLption or discourtasy to the teacher, it's
permitted. Communication! You allow
communication! an excellent woman once
said. while visiting us. ! II she'd said
Matricide! You encourage matricide! her
tone couldn't have conveyed more horror.
She had taught I
This all means that our school work
is vital The children have the same sort
of eager interest in what Is going on that
a group Of brothers and sisters has at
home, when the right Mnd of father or
mother gathers them together for instruc-
ton. Perhaps might claim that our
ideal-to make the school as similar as
possible to the best cllild-life in the best
home. Usually it resembles too much
ZOO, where the poor animals shift rest
lessly about, In cage not too clean, and
dream of freedom. Even the very best
schools are full of bad air and languid-
ness. and the children pay for their knowl-
edge of partial paymentsand the restrictive
relative and the magnetic meridian with
headache and nearsightedness and indi-
geStion,"
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sergeant, January 10, 1892; quartermaster
sergeant of the LIST Battalion April II, 1897,
and acting sergeant-major, August %, 1898
He was elected quartermaster, with the
rank of first lieutenant, May q, 1899. and
served efficiently in that capacity until his
demise. His military papers and records
are regarded as models.
Col. Brett to Be Promoted.
Capt. Lloyd NJ. Brett, 7th Cavalry, United
States army Qieutenant-colonel and adju-
tant general. District of Columbia militia),
has been ordered to report in person to Col.
Winfield s. Edgerly, I'd Cavalry, president
of an examining board appointed to meet
at Fort Myer. Va, at such time as he may
be required by the board, for examination.
Notes.
Ordnance Sergt Robert H. Potts, gen.
eral non-commissioned staff, D. c. militia
has been ordered for examination for the
position of first lieutenant and quarter
master, 4th Battalion.
On their own applications, the follow
ing have been ordered honorably dis
charged Pvt. Thomas ]. McGrath. Com
pany A, list Regiment; Pvt. William J.
1obin. Company a, 1st Regiment; Corp.
NadaH T. Nell. Company, F, 1st Regi-
nn; First sergt Joseph A. Hummer,
Company l.. I'd Regiment; Pvt. Frank
Mills, Company NJ, I'd Regiment, and Pvt
Norvain TOlliver, Company A, 1st Sepa-
rate Battalion.
BY reason of removal from the District
the following have been ordered honor
ably discharged: First Sergt Edward L.
Myers Company G., list Regiment; Pvt
James E. Beach, Company G, 1st Regi-
ment; Pvt. Robert r. Myers. Company G,
1st Regiment Pvt. Bowman l.. Vowel,
company G: 1st Regiment; Sergt. Will
lam H. Beckstein, Company c, I'd Regi-
ment; Corp. Reverdy Johnson, Company
=, "a Regiment; Pvt. John H. Cameron,
company {, I'd Regiment; First Sergt
Frederick p. Rogers. Company X, I'd
regiment; Pvt. Augustus W. Conner.
company *. I'd Regiment, and Pvt Ora
nam G Dodge, Company NJ, I'd Regiment
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WHAT BREEDS SOCIAL HATE.
Foolish Display by the Silly and thu
Idle Rich.
tbe chicago Inter Ocear

From the Chicago Inter Ocean.
'To faunt fine clothes in the eyes Of the
DOOR" said Mrs. Frank R. Lille on Monday
to a woman's club, breeds discomfort and
anarchy" If Mrs. Lille should go among
the poor in way to learn what they really
feel we believe she would discover that her
statement was substantially incorrect.
Seldom do the poor, as such, maliciously
resent any proper use of wealth. The poor
are human, and the universal instinct of
human nature is to approve such proper
use. No man who lives according 20 his
means is hated for that reason by his
poorer neighbors.
What does breed malicious discomfort is
not the proper and decent spending Of
wealth. but the vulgar wasting of wealth
and places excite no malice. The poorest
dress as well as they can afford. and like to
see others do likewise. But the man who
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-31
WAGNER AS A HUMORIST.
How He Complied With the Sugges-
ton of London Newspaper.

ton of a London Newspaper.
From Golfers Week ly.
Richard Wagner was not a man to whom
one would naturally ascribe the faculty OF
ready Joking 1t is not from the creator
of the serious somber Flying Dntchman
or The composer of the half-mystical, half
religious opera 'Parsifar' that one would
expect cheerful prankS at the expense of
other people. Nevertheless, an instance Is
on record of how the great tone-painter Of
Baircuth played a very funny trick on
newspaper and probably a good many of
the readers accustomed to relying on what
it said. 1t was in the ffties. Wagner,
then still climbing the ladder of fame, was
conducting the Philharmonic concerts IN
the British metropolis for a season. Being,
as he remained to the end, very ardent
admirer of Beethoven, and. in fact, know
ing that masters nine symphonies by
heart. he selected several of them for per-
Torrance in the said series of concerts.
The first time. then, that Wagner con-
Quoted Beethoven symphony in London
the public received the rendition kindly
enough. but the next morning a certain
newspaper with very large circulation
came out with a rather severe criticism
The author of ''Lohengrin" was in cold
print but in unreServed terms, scolded for
directing a symphony by the immortal
Beethoven without a score in front of MIN.
Such a proceeding, to which London was
unaccustomed, was sheer presumption, so
ran the criticism. And after further I'M
complimentary remarks the great and in
fiuential journal advised young Herr Wag-
ner to a score when he conducted a
Beethoven symphony again. Well, soon
Herr Wagner did, this time with book of
music open before him on his desk. He
was seen to turn over the leaves with a
certain amount of regularity, too. His re-
ward came. the next day, in the form of a
commendatory article In the aforesaid
newspaper, which praised him for a very
much better Interpretation of Beethoven
than his last. due. of course. to the sug-
gested use of the score. Whereupon Wag-
ner 1--WE think our pun is justified in this
particular fnstance) announced the fact
that the score in front OF him the previous
evening was that of Rossini's OPERA 'Thl
Barber Of Seville. turned upside down.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-31
FRENCH VIEW OF AMERICA.
Partisan Editor Says Crime is Most
Audacious in the United States.

Partisan Editor Says Crime is Most
Audacious in the United States.
From Harper's Weekly.
M. Urban Gohier. the energetic editor of
the Paris Aurore, who took such an active
part in exposing the delinquencies of the
military chiefs in the Dreyfus affair, and
who has for some years led continuous
attack on miltarism in France, lately
spent five months in this country, seeing
things for himself and writing an account
OF what he saw for the benefit of his coun-
trymen. His book, too, makes good read
Ing for Americans, though 1t is primarily
addressed to the French. He says you can
observe and get to understand a larger
number Of things in the United States than
anywhere else in the same space of time,
because life is more open there-private
life as well public life. Family affairs,
like political and money affairs, are car
ried on In broad daylight; marriages, be-
trothals. divorces, quarrels between man
and wife, business failures, wills, honest
dealings and shady transactions are an
nounced, explained, commented upon OPEN
ly and publicly. When the papers do not
give enough details those who are inters
ested take upon themselves to supply the
deficiency. Nothing IS secret. There is
no false shame; and sometimes. indeed,
there is a lack of modesty and delicate re-
straint. But all this is very convenient for
the foreign observer.
In this chaos of humanity, wherein men
of black skin, yellow skin and red skin are
mingled with men of every tribe of white
skin. good and evil carry on their eternal
battle. Humanitarian societies swarm all
over the country; warm-hearted, self-sacri-
ficing people spend enormous amount
of good will and energy; works of charity
and popular education are innumerabe
Crime is more audacious and more inge-
nious than anywhere else. There is as
much virtue as in any place in the world,
and nearly as much hypocrisy as in Eng
land. Scandalous adultery is rarer than in
France, because divorce is excessively
easy; but the revolver plays an equally
important role in the tragicomedies of love
Vice is less bold, but much more brutal
Blackguardism is little known. but party
bent on having a good time very soon be-
gins to look like band of registering sail
ors. In America a man marries a wife
and her only In France, where the fam
lily is a sort of entity, he marries the whole
lot of them-crabbed mother-in-law the
sour tempered aunt, the worthless big
brother the silly little sister, the ill-famed
uncle. In America the bridegroom can ig
more the existence of all these accessories.
The young people do what they will and
learn life in living 1t.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-31
When a Peanut Sprouts.
from the New York Mail and Express.

From the New York Mail and Express.
Few persons are, perhaps, aware that a
thing of beauty is common peanut plant,
growing singly in a six or eight-inch pot,
and grown indoors during the colder
weather." said a Lexington avenue florist
Kept In warm room or by the kitchen
loose. mellow loan, and only moderately
moistened. will soon getminate and grow
up into beautiful pldnt, extending its
branches over the pot
"The leaves close together like the leaves
OF book on the approach OF night, or
when a shower begins to- fall upon them.
The plant bears tiny yellow flowers. There
Is nothing else just like it, and florists
throughout the country might well add it
to their list
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CANDY AND GOSSIP.
Sweet Morsels the Undoing of Women
Employees.

From the Chicago Inter Ocean.
1t is reported that all the women stenog-
raphers in the general Offices of the Grand
Trunk railway are to be discharged for the
reasons hereinafter set forth. to wit:
Because they are too much addicted to
the chocolate cream and caramel habit.
Because, when not INDUCING in various
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-31
THE ANCIENT VILLAGE.
Items of Value of Account Books Of
Overseers to the Poor.

From the London Spectator.
Overseers' account books do not sound an
interesting field for research, and. indeed.
with the present cut-and-dried system Of
relief. it is probable that the dictionary
would prove light reading by comparison.
Under the former poor law the parchment
bound volumes were an epitome Of village
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The announcement of the death. last Sun
day. OF First Lieut.. A. NJ. Muzzy, quarter
master of the LIST Battalion, was a severe
shock to an unusually large circle of friends
and comrades. 1t is conceded that Lieut..
Muzzy was one Of the most valuable officers
Of the District National Guard but his loss
will be felt particularly by the LIST Battalion
the Washington Light Infantry Corps
which he served conscientiously and faith
fully for sixteen years and fourteen DAYS
DIR. Muzzy was enrolled as q member of
Company A. Washington Light Infantry
Corps. October 3. 1887. He was appointed
sergeant Of Company A. May %, 1859; first
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THE NATIONAL GUARD
Recent Rifle Meeting at Ord
way Range a Success
EVENTS AND WINNERS
PENNSYLVANIA MILITIAMEN TO
INSPECT LOCAL ARMoRY.
Death of Lieut.. Muzzy-His Record as
an Officer-Promotion for
Col. Brett.
EVENTS AND WINNERS

Tho annual rifle competitions at the Ord
%ay range have occupied the time and at
tentfou of District National Guardsmeh
during the greater portion of the week
ending TO-DAY. Major James f. Bell, in
snector general of rifle practice. District
of Columbia militia, the executive officer,
expresses himself as much pleased with
the result of the meeting. which was sue
cessful beyond expectation Major BEL
says he feels grateful to the range ofhcefs
for their support and assistance, and par
Gcularly so to Captains George l.. TAFT ana
II. c.. Grove. who throughout the meeting
devoted their entire time to the duties of
range officers not taking part In any OF
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1903-03-06
ocal News of Carson and Vicinity.

Try Friend for cagarr. He leads.
Talking about bustles. you will find
the latest at Will Days
the valley yesterday.
The Nevada engineering works at
Reno is employing Al men.
Remember that the hand boys give
their dance and concert Friday night.
Six inches CT snow fell in Gard
nerville during the storm of Wednes-
day night
Beef and all classes Of meat at re-
duced rates at the Eagle market
Ernest bingham. OF the Reno Jour
nal attended the banquet last night.
Heonsluen legs for all at King
Daughters sale.
Two feet CT snow fell at Wc0dfcrds
during the storm OF last Wednesday,
All ,;,ds of tho sn.s, homo .reE.a
nastrv Mas dcuyhnuts wa,n,,. waf,r
oa o,,,,e c.,a hoc., 81 -
Charles Robinson and Joseph An
derson have been bound over to ans
or t tbo o,,roa of roii.;rs t,o C,s
49,, ,,,, - Do ,;.o
!. ,
Sandy Bottom comes to the Car
son City opera house next Saturday
| evening
ioiii i@i'hS' VIII sup 'o' q >'' 80