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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-26
THE EVENING STAR, TUESDAY, MAY 49, 1eos-1e PAGES
SUMMER RESORTS.
FARVIEW HOUSE,

Stamford. N. Y. Elevation. 300 feet; spacious
grounds; electric Lights; open areplaces and hot
water heat Special inducements for June and Sep
TENDER. G. II. HAGER, Stamford N. Y.
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for he thinks and speaks only in low
ing tones of all mankind, and Of all
things on earth. His scrap book Of
drawings, covering all Of the old land
marks Of this city, Is particularly in
teresting when exhibited in HIS parlor,
on q winter evening, and explained BY
him in his viVacious manner. he says:
81 have often laughed at the officers
q the old times, who used to think
that because the navy yard was two
miles and q half from the white house
and navy department they could do -
they pleased without any Of their con-
duct or misconduct being found out
when Commodore GoldsbOrough
was in charge of the navy yard, al
though he resided in the northwest
he knew what WIS going on as well
as any modern sleuth. He went TO
the quarters of the commandant ev-
cry day 70 attend 20 ofBcial business.
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COMMERCIAL PROFESSIONS.
Men OF Money who Labor to Turn
Their Business Into InstitutiOnH
Of UaefuIneHS.

The truth is, we hear too much
about the commercialism of the pro-
LESSONS. There are men who vulgar
ize them all, no doubt, and who sell
their eraft-right for a mess of. mil
lions, for there have always been such
men, says Worlds Work. But there
B another tendency of our time that
is far stronger than the tendency
to get wealth; it is the ten
dency to establish, to build, and
to maintain institutiOns-institu-
tions Of any useful and honorable
kind. Men give themselves in the
most unselfish way to build up colleges
and universities, hospitals, museums,
clubs, associations for the advance
ment of trades and professions, libra
ries-there is no end of the list. Men
labor to turn their business into insti-
tutions. Many founders of great COM
merciaI houses work for their honor
able perpetuity.
Many manufacturers plan their fac
tories so as to give them an institu-
tiOnal character and value. The
naturally conservative tendency of an
active people is toward institution
building. Strong men in almost every
department of work show such ten
dency, often as a dominant trait of
character, and this is a stronger mo-
tive than the mere wish to be rich.
The rich man who stands alone, who
has not established something, who
is not identified with some great in
stitution, commercial or public, is not
envied. He is more likely to be pitied.
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cHAFINe DISH COOKERY.
Proper setting OF the Table Il auits
- Important a. Correct Prep
aratiOn of Food.

II the dining-rOOm is to be the scene
of a chatting dish feast usea bare table,
with a handsome luncheon cloth or
linen centerpiece for floral decorations
to rest on. A dolly should be at each
cover, with a plate, knife and fork and
whatever glasses are necessary. Make
the table as inviting as possible. a lit
tie smilax or greenhouse asparagus is
inexpensive and adds to the attractive
ness of the supper.
Authorities differ as to the mixing
of a Welsh rarebit. Each man is a law
unto himself and is quite sure that he
makes a better rarebit than his neigh
Dor. The following recipe is for six
persons: One pound Of cheese, as rich
and new as possible, cut into small bits.
Place a tablespoonful of butter in the
chafng dish. When hot add the cheese;
as this meltS stir all the time. Season
with plenty Of salt and cayenne pep
per and a pinch Of dry mustard. When
it is well heated through and cooking,
add about half a pint Of beer. Watch
carefully and stir constantly, and when
thoroughly melted serve on thin
slices of hot toast or square biscuits.
Scotch woOdcock is another savory
dish. First prepare the toast, cut
ting the bread thin and tOasting an
even brown. Butter when hot, and
spread with anchovy paste, leaving
It on a hot plate to soak into the
toast. Cut bacon in the thinneSt
possible slices. Have the chatting
dish hot, and put in the slices of
bacon. AS soon as they look trans
parent turn them over, and as the
edges curl they are done. Put a
slice on each bit of toast. While
this is being prepared scrambled
eggs should have been made in an
other blazer and poured over the
anchOvy toast and bacon. and the
Scotch woo.cock is complete. -Four
eggs are enough for six persons.
Break them into a dish and beat I'M
til as light as possible. Add a cup
full of milk or cream and season
with salt and pepper to taste. Have
the chatting dish hot and place in
it a tablespoonful of butter. Pour
in the egg and stir cOnstantly.-N.
Y. Herald.
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VENEZUELA IS DBCAYING.
German Traveller states That MIXED
Negroes and Indians Are Get
ting an Upper Hand.

DR.. Passarge, the noted traveller.
who has just returned from Vene-
zuela, says, according to a Berlin re-
port:
president Castro is a full-blooded
Indian and an energetic man without
political wisdom He rose suddenly
from magistrate of a remote village
at the foot of the Andes to the presi-
dency, and his rapid rise made him
overcOnfident.
THE present situation is due 20
two facts: Germany suddenly sus-
pended the pressure of the early part
of the war, which diminished the re-
spect in which she was held by Presi-
dent Castro; secondly, the attitude
of the Ofiicials of the great Venezue-
Ian railroad toward President Cas-
trO. Germany's first principle must
be not to NEEDLE in the internal af-
fairs of Venezuela. But the railroad
officials forgot this"
DR.. Passarge describes the state as
drifting to certain decay and as fol-
lowing a steadily downward course
since Gen. BlancO's presidency. The
color question plays an important
role in political tendencies. The
mixed negroes and Indians, ETC., are
getting an upper hand in society and
politics.
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WHERE DWARFs ARE MADE.
ChiIdFen In MadFnH stunted and DIa-
tOFted for the Purpose OF Put
ting Then Dat to Beg.

Some interest has of late been
aroused in Madras by the exhibition
Of two dwarfs who are alleged to be
over so years Of age, and are brother
and sister. These beings are not only
small but distorted. It is believed
that dwarfs are manufactured in
Indian. There is a practice extant in
the Punjab Of elongating infants
heads so as to render them out Of al,
proportion to the body. The effect OF
compression on the brain renders the
victims idiotic, says the London Ex-
press.
They are sent around to beg, and in
their Peregrinations visit the Madras
and Bombay presidencies. An instinct
akin to that of an animal, however.
still lives in the distorted beings. and
invariably brings them back to their
masters. They are known as sSbab
shuja's MICE" from the name Of the
temple where they are manufactured
The children, It is stated, are vowed to
the temple BY fanatical women.
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fenced in when the city was laid out,
and the commissioners planned TO
leave It undisturbed.
Tens Of thousands Of visitors 20 the
uatiDlal capital view the navy yard,
are guided through the great gun, fac
tory by officials, and have tie public
places explained to them, but very few
ever have the opportunity to talk to
tie Oldest inhabitant; the man who
EdeV al dbout q almost a century ago,
- g tlme Wheh the navy yard was q
thing Of tie imaginary future, as was
also the capital city. And, for that
matter, IN those days the success. Of
the republic itself was problematical.
william Birth, IS years Of age, deaf
esrBT post, who can. leuu nothing Of
mOdernthingseEoept through his eyes.
Is an interesting converSatioaalist.
Ns EaYs: II used spectaeles from the
time ] was 50 until was almost 20
yeafEoId: and then my eyesight came
BEOk 60 me. Tor more than % years I
h1Eerdsef NO 6peetselesi Ny eyesighf
issas good aEthat Of Gny yOulg nan
or woman on earth. was bragzing
that was growing young again, when
NY hearing began 20 fan. Gradually
IN power o. Discerning sounds left me,
allEI ana aus Isolated from theWorId;
1T 7 red al 81 the daily pagers. and
Il1oW 3 thiug oEt sgo. anyNsy."
This Wunderful Cd. man g as-lova-
~ - anothsr Saint Johh, ths Aged;
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ENGLAND's GREAT BACHELORS.
-Four Leading Men of the British
Kingdom Are Unmarried NJ
Middle Age.

This is the age of bachelors in Eng.
land. The women are discussing wlth
keen interest the fact that four Of Their
great men are unmarried. Arthur Bal
four is a bachelor, and indeed the hrs'
bachelor to become premier since TX
time of William Pitt.
Lord Kitchener. England's most not
able soldier, and Lord Miner. her most
prominent administrator, are both IN
married.
Completing the notable four Is The
bishop Of London, who is not far from
being the most prominent man In ne
church.
The men on the other side, says TIE
Philadelphia North American, are de-
claring that France has long been
cursed with petticOat influence in POn-
tics, and England has had some e.
perience of the plague Of women BE-
hind the scenes at the war Office
They believe that 'the triumph Of the
four great bachelors points to qule'
and effective revolt Of man."
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PERns OF THE TRAPPERs.
How the Famous scott and Many 9th
ers Went to Their Deaths on
the Platte River.

In the United States the free hunt
ers approach the mountains by three
main routes. 1t was coming down the
Platte that poor Scott's canoe was
overturned, his powder lost and his
rife rendered useless. relates Outing.
Game had retreated to the mountains
with springs advance. Berries were
not ripe by the time trappers were
descending with their winters hunt.
Scott and his furnishing men could
not find edible roots. Each day Scott
weakened. There was no food. Final
" Scott had strength to go no further.
His men had found tracks of some
other hunting party far to the fore.
They thought that in any case he
could not live. What ought they to
do? Hang back and starve with him,
or hasten forward while they had
strength to the party whose tracks
they had espied. On pretense of seek
ing roots, they deserted the helpless
man. The next spring when these
same hunters went up the Platte they
found the skeleton of poor Scott 90
miles from the place where they had
left him. The terror that spurred the
emaciated man to drag himself all this
weary distance can barely be con-
ceived; but such were the fearful odds
taken by every free traPPer who went
up the Platte, across the parched
plains or to the headwaters of the
Missouri.
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GIRL SAILED AS BOY.
Makes Three Voyages DIsEuised
In Male Attire.

Esther McEwen, the 15-year-old
Scotch girl who has just got back
home after making her third sea voy-
sge, dressed as a boy, says she was in
spired to become a sailor by reading
. novel about a girl who did so. Es-
Their says the story was an exciting
one, but il is doubtful if its heroine
had a more eventful experience than
that which befell her fiesh-and- blood
emulator.
The girl first made a trip all around
the Scotch coast. Then she shipped
for long cruise to Valparaiso. After
that she signed" for a voyage to the
east, visiting France and Spain and
finally brought up at Alexandria. She
would have continued her wanderings
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if having to undergo a medical exami-
nation had not forced her to admit
that she was a girl. Her captain
brought her back as a cabin passenger
to England, where she fell into the
hands of the police, as having no Wis
ible means of support" and has just
been released.
Esther ran away from home because
her half-sister, with whom she used
to live, treated her unkindly. Her par
ents were dead. Big, strong and
healthy, she had been working in the
fields up to the time when the book
about the sailor lass fell into her
hands. Then she decided to cut loose.
First she went to a barber and with
out a tremOr told him TO take of her
long black hair. She had him crop it
close to her head. Then she got a
suit of boys clothes and left the
little village, Wishaw, where she was
living, for Glasgow. She got into an
empty compartment" and changed
her clothes between stations.
Soon after she had reached Glas-
gov she postponed her plan Of going
to sea for awhile. Instead she worked
as a boy in a colliery. Wandering
about the streets one night in her male
get-up, somebody offered her a chance
in the mines. She took it, and for
three months worked in her shirt
sleeves beside the men and earned six
dollars a week. One day, however,
part of the colliery roof underneath
which she worked fell in, just missing
the girl and killing the man next to
her. This scared Esther so badly that
she quit the coal business. Her first
plan Of going to sea came back to her,
and leaving Glasgow for Ayr on the
seacoast, she prepared to carry it out.
Esther didn't find much difficulty in
getting a berth" on board ship. She
signed as cabin boy on a vessel called
the Discovery, and it was on this craft
that she took her trip around the
Scottish coast. She called herself Al
Ian Gordon. She was paid of at New
port, England, and promptly found a
place as cabin boy on a ship bOuhd for
South America. After this voyage was
over she found herself in Cardiff with
about S13 in her pocket. The ship
in which she set of for Alexandria
was named The Gem, and the girl
worked as a steward aboard of her.
When at the eastern city the word was
passed round that a doctor was COM
ing to examine the entire ships COM
pany, she went TO her captain and con-
fided in him Fortunately for her he
proved to be kindhearted and immedi-
ately told her that he would take her
home and see that she didn't suffer en-
the way. "He treated me like a fatlI-
err" Esther said.
OF course il got out that there was
girl on board dressed as q boy-for
the sailor-lass had not been able to get
any other clOthes-and when the ship
reached port a policeman heard some
of the men talking about Esther and
forthwith made e his business to ar
rest her. The girl was released after
a day or two, one Of her sisters having
turned up and claimed her.
Esther says she doesn't like the sea
ct all, and that she didn't have a good
time on ship-board, for the mems ways
her. OF course, she didn't
care for their amusements, either, and
they thought her mopish and bad !
loW."-LOndOn Letter In Detroit !
Free Press.
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RED, BLACK OR BIovD,
OaFlz-HaIred Children B,
Imagination, But Red-H.,S.,
Get the Good MARI.

Some curious statistics rar...
hair have been collected by tba d
authorities at Lille. 1t is fol,rs 5'l 400
Suburn-haired boys are geDe-.r 'aai
the head of the recitation class Z
blonde girls come out highest -,
meticians. But in composite, !,
ore nowhere, says the LoDdo, =
press. Z
The dark-haired children q.
sexes have the quality Of imsgir,,,-
and in their compositions kpovL-
not to fatigue the attention ana
compared to the auburn and no.
are born stylists.
I dare say the auburn how, -,
blond lasses in the Lille eIcrrs-,,-
schools are of Flemish-that is to-.
phlegmatic-race. Their brain, /
not grow at once congested When -.
stand up to recite, and for that rs,,r
they keep the mastery of the vocal.
gans. In short. they continue IN -
what they are about. The dark ~
dren are probably of Celtic-thati,.
say, Gallic-Origin. The blood g..
with a rush to their brains. and H.,
grow confused, splutter and b-,,i
down. If they could only be ,augB,t,
remain silent for a few moments in,
would be all the better for this 7.S
as the confusion would have 49,
away. leaving only stimulated nsps-
organs.
Finally, on the subject of hair. ssU
a writer in Truth. / am sorry 10 a,
that the red-headed boys and girl, !,
the Lille schools are at the bot,oni,
everything, save in good con5vs
marks. Nor are they remarkable 70,
good health. The dark boys bebsv,
better than the auburn OF the fair. and
are more sensitive to praise or blam,
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persons would quickly find Judgment

in a Jail.
Should repubicanism fail in
France, however, the duchess of Or
leans, whose latest picture is herewith
presented, might become a French
queen. Her recent return with her
husband to England was notable be-
cause it was the first time that the
couple had been allowed to land in that
country since the duke wrote to a
French artist, complimenting him on
caricatures Of the late Queen Victoria.
The duchess, before her marriage in
1896, was Maria DorOthea Amelia,
daughter of Archduke Joseph, of Aus
tria. The duke is the great-grandson
of the last Of the French kings, Louis
Philippe, who abdicated the throne in
1s4s in favor of his grandson, the
count Of Paris. French royalists, as
many as could be gathered, were pres
ent at the wedding.
Duke Robert was born In 1859, and
succeeded his father, the late count
Of Paris, in 1894, as the head of the
royal family Of France. His mother,
who is still living, was the Spanish in
fanta Louise, Of Montpensier. He has
one brother and four sisters, the ED
est Of the latter being the charming
queen of Portugal, and the second,
Helena, is married to the duke of
Aosta, the heir-presumptiEe to the
throne Of Italy.
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ErTntfnn PapyrI.

The National museum at Washing
ton helps with funds to support tss
explorations in Egypt which Dr. FED
ders Petrie, the great Egyptologlst' Is
making. AS its share of this year.
finds il has just received ten paPyr
manuscripts, dating from about tne
birth. Of Christ. They are mostly 0!lls
Of Iading for camel trains, receipts Ioi
goods, etc.
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DUCHESS OF ORLEANS.
Her Husbands Rank Might
Make Her n Queen.

It is a common saying in Europe
that one can never tell what will hap
pen tomorrow in Paris. OF late the
royalists have been very active, and
the faithful followers Of the house of
Orleans are shouting for the duke of
Orleans-in the secrecy Of their pal
aces on the FaubOurg Saint German,
of course. Should they attempt to
shout on the streets their aristocratic
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SITE OF NAVY YARD.
Known in Washington Records a.
Reservation No. ~.
q Has an InteEeEtlnE HIstoFy which
% Hest INTERESTINGLY Relatea by
IN ola District Res-
I6eat.
T8uciaI WashinFton Isttar.l


This Is the story Of Reservation
~" Is described on the Origi.
nal maps Of the city of Wash
i1Eton, By the engineer L'Enfant, in
1702, confirmed by Washington, March
2, 1877, and adopted by congress in
several enactments,
The various land reservations pro-
posed by the wonderful genius who
planned this beautiful capital city are
numbered on the maps, and their pro
possd uses described in VOluminOus
notes which accompanied the draw
inRs. Reservation IA" was set apart
for . navy yard, and it was the pur-
pose Of the delineator that there
should also be located there ship
building plants Of magnitude BETTING
the great nation which he believed
would grow upon this continent.
The navy yard has always been and
Is yet located on Reservation IA, J" and
there is there in operation a splen-
did gun factory; but the ship build
ing Of the nation has almost always
been done by contracting parties in
other seacOaSt cities. The eastern
branch Of the Potomac, where the
navy yard is located, is nowadays so
shallow that it would not float mod
en- cruiser, while battleship would
have hard time coming any further
up the river than Alexandria.
This reservation is about mile and
q quarter southeast of the capitol
building, and was originally in the
tract known as ''Ehe Proutfarm;" but,
when the yard WIS authorized, under
an appropriation made in 1923, addi-
tiOnal hand was found necessary and
the two triangular squares westward,
numbered ssS and ss4, were purchased
Of the commissioners, Scott and
Thornton, for $1,000. The conveyance
recfted that the land was "for the
sole use and behoof Of the said United
States forever"
There iEian impression that some Of
the ofaeerS' residences in the yard
were once connected with the Prout
farm, but, as will be seen by the dia-
gram, but two Of the buildings Of Mr..
Prout came within the navy yard line,
and these disappeared years ago. The
FIRST building for officers was erected
in the yard in 1891, and for many years
was occupied by Capt. Cassin, and is
known now as ''the captains house"
The residences for the commandant
and other officers were built in1SO4.
ThemanEion house Of William Prout
was q large brick fronting on Eighth
street, north OF NJ street, originally
two stories in height and - by - feet
in size. The barns were of frame, one
IS by - feet, another 40 by "a. The |
smaller buildings were built Of logs. |
Many old citizens remember the man
SION - having been the home Of the |
OtteFback family for years, it having
been purchased Of Mr.. Prout in the |
thirties; but the site is now used for
q car barn by the Capital Traction |
company. The graveyard was in Geor-
gis avenue and NJ street, % by 81 feet |
IN dimensions, and from the stories |
told by old men, who as boys PLAYED |
about the tOmbstOnes, it was well pop |
ulated. 1t viii be observed that in |
the form Of square $40, in the cut, the
lower angle does not appear, and the
explanation is that the graveyard was
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CAMEL A CURIOSITY.
One with Two Humps Creates \ Sen.
GatlOn Among the People Of
Cairo, Egypt.

One would hardly expect TO hear oi
a camel being an object of public al,
traction in Egypt. That such is the
case, however, is vOuched for by The
Egyptian Gazette. THE ship Of Tie
desert" or the One-humped drOme
Diary, is very common in the streets Of
Cairo and other parts of the Nile
country, but when the geological gar.
den at Ghizeh secured a specimen Of
the two-humped Bactrian camel ther,
was indeed a sensation.
The double-decked ship of the des
ert was the most interesting animal
in the menagerie to the native Egyp
tian who had been familiar all his life
with the one-humped variety.
Strange as it may seem, this particu-
lar specimen was bred and secured
from the Rotterdam geological gar.
dens, where the well-knOwn Swiss nat,
uralist, DR.. BHettikofer, is rearing the
species with success.
What the drOmedary is to Saharss
parched sands, says the Philadelphia
Record, the Bactrian camel is to the
dreary stretches of Asia. As the
drOmedary may be likened to the swift
and safe passenger ship, so may the
patient Bactrian beast be referred to
as the slower but az the more impOr-
taDt dePDIv laden merchantmen for
centuries on centuries, generation
after generation, these patient crea-
lures have been transporting tie
wealth of China, farther India and tbs
orient generally to Russia and then's
thrOupbOut the accident.
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Col. R. H. Pratt, head Of the govern
ment Indian school at Carlisle re-
reports that the enrolment OF lnGlA.
students there this year has reaenso
the high-water mark of lob. Inc SUI
dents are encouraged to earn mODS!
by hiring out during vacation ~.
they made nearly $4,000 that way iAs'
wear
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The newest and prettiest tea trays
are Oblong, with brass or wooden han
dies and a glass bottom which may be
removed to admit a piece Of burnt
leather or rich fabric, racing print, or
other decoration.
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Rrrine for E.arenaer Enter.

For fine lavender water use two
ounces Of finest oil Of lavender, one
ounce essence Of musk, one-half ounce
essence of ambergris, one-half ounce
oil Of bergamOt and one-haf gallon Of
reetihed spirits. Nix the ingredients,
keep in q demijohn for several days,
shaking occasionally. Then filter and
bottls.
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EIeefrleal Pov-er Carried Ear.

The problem Of the conveyance :.
electrical power is no barrier 70 20
California electrician. San Jose -
just been equipped with a system - =
electric lighting the current for -. -,
is carried for a distance Of 17S nll-s-'
from a point in the heart Of the sisii'
Eayada mountains.