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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-03

Among the large number of representa-
tives and visitors to the meeting of the
National Camp, Patriotic Order Sons of
America, which met in Baltimore, Md, last
week, who came over to Washington after
adjournment, was a congenial party, con-
CONTINUED on Sixth Page)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-03

The first dance of the newly organized ST.
Stephens Institute Will be given Tuesday,
october p, at National Rifles Armory.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-03

Representative H.. Kirke Porter Of Pitts
burg has taken the Cameron house, q
Lafayette square. Mrs Porter and her
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-03

Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris. who spent the
summer at her place at Cobourg, Canada,
Is now in New York. The attention of her
daughter. Miss Rose Mary Sartoris, hav-
ing been recently called to the rumor of
her engagement. the young lady replied
that it was untrue.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-03

Rear Admiral and Mrs. Franklin c. Prin-
die having returned to their apartments at
the Cairo for the winter, after spending the
summer at Richf1eld Springs, the Green
mountains ard the Catskills.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-03

Mrs Norman Luchs will be at home
Thursdays during the season, ia 9th street
northwest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-03

Mrs. M. A. OHare, after a years alb
sence visiting Kansas City, Mo-, and Den.
yer, Col, has returned and is stopping with
her mother, 1884 9th street
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-03

Colonel and Mrs. Robert G. Rutherford
have returned to their home on 10Th street
from six weeks sojourn at Fort Assinni
boine, Mont, where they were the guests
of their son. First Lieutenant r. G. Ruth
erford. jr., oath United States Infantry, who
is stationed at that post
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-03

Miss Rathbone Smith. who has been
spending the summer at Harbor Beach and
Detroit. has returned to the city. and is re-
siding at 1915 X street northwest
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-03

Mrs. Samuel A. Gaskins and little daugh-
ter will spend the month of October with
friends in the vicinity OF Hancock, Md.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-03

Mr.. w. T. Sweet and family have re-
turned to the city. and will occupy their
new residence, 81 r street northwest. where
Mrs. Sweet and Miss Bessie will be plea Sed
to see their friends during the season.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-03

Mrs S. z. Gibson has returned to town
and opened her 18th street house for the
winter. Her daughters, Miss Bessie and
Miss Margaret. will remain in Canada until
the middle of October and then go to New
York to meet their brother. Mr.. Joseph Glib
son, on his return from Europe. Mr. Robert
Gibson returned from his trip abroad two
weeks ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-03

Mr.. and Mrs. Walter H. Klopfer have
sent out invitations for the marriage of
their daughter. Mae Wesley, to Mr.. Lloyd
Montgomery Tillman Wednesday evening,
October IA, at 8 O'clock Pro-Cathedral
Church of the Ascension.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-03

Mr. S M: Darragh and Miss Maud Thomp-
son. daughter of Mrs " A Thompson.
We're married at noon today by the Rev. D.
W. Skellenger at the parsonage of the
Sixth Presbyterian Church. They left i'm
mediately for the north
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BORN.

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Mr. and Mrs. P. L. O. A Keller and Earle
Keller have returned to their home at 91S
H street northwest after a summer in
northwestern New York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-03

The marriage of Miss Anna H. Daven-
port daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Willard
G. Davenport, of the Emmanuel Protestant
Episcopal parish, in Anacostia. and Mr.
Clarence S. Mullikin of Prince Georges
county Md, took place Wednesday evening
last in the Emmanuel Church, at Washing
ton and Fillmore streets, Anacostia. The
brides father who is the rector of the
parish performed the ceremony, assisted
by his son, Rev. George Davenport who
came from his northern charge to par
ticipate In the ceremony. The church was
effectively decora ted with golden rod and
other flowers. The bride was attended by
her sister, Miss Frances Davenport, as
maid of honor. Little Miss Eleanor Daven-
port and Master George Davenport, niece
and nephew, respectively, Of the bride,
acted as flower bearers. The bride has
been prominently identified with the ladies'
organizations the parish for several
years while the groom has been studying
for the ministry and will be shortly ordain-
ed as missionary. In the course of a short
time the young couple will leave for Sitka,
Alaska, where the groom will engage as
missionary. They were the recipients of
numerous handsome presents.
A pretty wedding took place Wednesday
evening at the Metropolitan Baptist Church
on Capitol Hill. the contracting paSties be-
Ing Miss Martha Christian Gary and
Mr.. Walter U. Varney. both of Del Ray,
Va. The church was decorated in palms
and white asters. and the music was
rendered by Prof. G. Gorrell. of Virginia.
During the seating of the guess by the
ushers. the three bruthers of the bride.
William T.. John and Rowland Gary, and
Mr.. Mason James, the church choir render
ed several selections. The bride entered
the church escorted by her sister, Miss
Lucy Walker Gary. and was met at the
chancel by the groom and best man, Mr.
Harry Cation of Alexandra. Va. Miss Gary
was attended by he following bridesmaids:
Miss Annie Elizabeth Walker of Virginia.
the maid Of honor: Miss Bessie Stone Gar
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-03

Mrs. Reginald Fendall has returned home,
having spent the summer in foreign travel,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-03

Harold n. Dewitt, Miss Isabelle Shaw and
Dr. Philip S. Wales, L. S. N, of Washing
ton sailed for Antwerp this morning on the
iceland
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-19
THE AWAKENING OF THE POTATO.

1t is related that many years ago a Brit
ish lady given to moralizing in rhyme de-
clared that "a first-water diamond with
briliants begirt really represents value
far less than that of one good potato just
washed from the dirt This assertion
may be true of the few seed potatoes which
Frederick the Great sent for experiment to
the province of Brandenburg. since from
that introduction the agriculture of Ger
many has been changed that the potato
is one of the leading crops To-day one
eighth OF the arabic land of Germany is
planted to the potato, or 16o acres for every
10000 inhabitants, compared with thirty-five
Great Britain. Our consul general at Ber-
lin reports that an elaborate scheme of
scientific fertilization and cultivation has
been applied to German potato growing the
result Of which has been that the increase
OF the crop the last five years has had a
value of ss5,OOo0oc. II the statistics did not
sustain this statement it might be regarded
as incredible. AS it is it would be a large
field of diamonds that would be worth to
Germany as much as its potato crop.
In this country We have little use for the
potato except as food and for starch. and
when there happens to be an abundant crop
the potato is so cheap as to cause the
farmer to declare he will plant no more.
but when he has light crop the prices
rise and some people complain of the duty
which keeps foreign potatoes out of the
market. II may be asked, if Germany
plants five acres to potatoes where we
plant one. what the German people do with
them. In answer to this question it is
stated that the people OF Germany con-
sumo half its annual crop as food, and that,
after feeding large quantities to stock, a
large amount goes into a great number of
manufactured products. Among these prod
ucts are starch. glucose. potato flour,
dextrine and starch sugar. Each OF these
products Of the potato enters largely into
the exports of Germany. In fact, the Ger
man makes the potato a sort of a substi-
tute for the corn crop of this section.
The latest German discovery is that alco-
hol OF remarkable quality can be made
| from the potato. Many good people will
hold that there are articles enough already
out of which alcohol Is made or fluids OF
which alcohol is the brain-stealing element
Years ago. before chemistry furnished the
advance torch TO light the way to useful
l discoveries. people would az soon have at.
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tempted to extract blood from a turnip'
as alcohol from so duh a looking existence
as is the common potato. But Germany.
leader in the field of practical discoveries,
found peculiar quality Of alcohol in the
potato which is not used In the connecting
Of chemically produced wines TO be sold to
Americans, but as producer OF light wnicn
fairly rivals the electric current The ap-
paratus for its practical use includes lamps.
chandeliers and street lamps. in which al
cohol vapor is burned like gas in hooded
flame, covered by a Welsbach mantle.
Equal to the electric light in brilliancy, our
consul general says potato alcohol Is COM
peting with gas and electricity with in
creasing success every year.
Nor does this vegetable to which so many
half scurrilous names have been applied,
stop with the making of light; the German
has caused ii TO invade the realm Of heat
and power The alcohol has been applied
to house-warming and cooking. and to the
making of steam for various agricultural
appliances. 1t has been found to be su-
perior to other materials used for these pur-
poses. II may seem an e8agBeiation' put
the figures given prove that the potato as
cultivated in Germany has produced real
competitor for at least benzine and petro-
leum for motor purposes. Thus does it ap-
pear that the vegetable which has been re-
garded as most commonplace Is no longer
content to save millions Of poor peasants
from starvation, but has an ambition to
make good the prediction that it is of
greater value than the diamond by afford
ing this source of light, heat and power
for the worlds greatest material under
takings. If so much has been done with
the potato, may it not be confidently ex-
pected that for those people who mourn the
loss of natural gas better source Of heat
can be found than sofS coal?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-19
CHEERFULNEss IN FICTION.

writer in the New York Sun and an
other in the Philadelphia Press criticise
present-day novelists because of their ten
side of life and to avoid poverty, crime,
despair, misery and passion. The Press
man intimates that the fault may be with
the publishers rather than with the authors
of fiction, but he considers 1T very unfor-
tunate thing. The tendency, he says, drove
Hawthorne to allegory, and has driven
Henry James to England-two illustrations
that seem hardly pertinent, since Haw-
thorne managed to portray good deal of
misery, crime and passion in rather forci-
bic way, and Henry James has surely not
revealed the soul'' any more clearly in his
retreat in England than he could have done
here. The trouble with these critics-there
are many of them, for the charge is an old
oneis either that they do not read the fic-
ton that deals with the tragic things of
life, or, reading 1t, do not realize that it is
what they have professed to want. For,
contrary to both the authorities quoted,
there is quite an ample supply of American
novels dealing with the dark things of life,
its passions and tragedies. Any reviewer
who has been compelled to handle the fic-
ton output of the last two or three years
can testify that the list contains dozens of
them. Most oe them have been heard of
but little, for the reason that the public,
once it suspects their character, will have
none of them. The cause is very simple.
1t is not that the public has unconquer-
able liking for the cheerful surface" novel;
on the contrary. it likes the powerful tragic
tale under proper conditions. The trouble
is that with most of these fctional trag-
edies readers instinctively feel their falsity
to life for the writer of such fiction almost
invariably makes the mistake Of allowing
He lays on the black pigment too thickly
and covers it over all; in short, he will have
nothing but misery and despair and trag-
edy. Real life is not like this. There is
always a mingling of light and shade.
Into each life some rain must fall" but
into 1t also the sun shines at intervals.
Your novelist who wants to deal with the
deep things insists upon ignoring the COM
pensation that even the most afflicted of
mortals finds somewhere along his path; he
admits no brightness, no humor, no offset
to the tragic elements. Therein he blum
ders; he does not portray life truthfully,
and his books do not succeed. No, it is
neither the authors nor the publishers who
have tendency toward wholesomely cheer
| full fiction: IL is the readers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-19

Philadelphia Record.
vigorous campaign Of agricultural edu-
cation has been started In the Philippines.
Heretofore the most primitive and waste
full methods have prevailed. Everything rs
done by hand, and comparatively little ef-
fort has been made to cultivate diversified
crops. AS the government holds 100000
acres out of the 100000 OF acres in the
Islands, IL is essential that agriculture be
brought to as high state OF perfection as
is possible. The climate is diversified
enough TO permit OF the growing Of many
tropical and subtropical fruits. Under the
Spanish regime a beginning was made In
establishing agricultural experiment sta
tons, but these were either abandoned or
allowed to fall into a deplo-able condi-
ton. The first report OF the Bureau OF
Agriculture of the Philippine islands has
just been published, from which il is
learned that a determined effort is being
made to awaken the natives from their
lethargy. Cocoanuts, mangoes, bananas,
pineapples, and in certain districts oranges
and other citrous fruits may be grown.
Indeed, ii is doubtful IL any of the fruits
which have made California fruit growers
world-famous and rich cannot be raised
profitably in parts of the archipelago. I'M
proved varieties of oranges and lemons
brought from California are fiourishing.
and pear, peach, apricot and plum trees
have been successfully introduced. Cocoa,
vanilla and coffee are suitable crops for
cultivation, though at the present time the
first two are allowed TO grow wild. Rice is
to be grown on a large scale at an expert
ment station in the middle of the rice belt,
extending from Manila TO Dagupan, and
when il is remembered that the Depart
ment of Agriculture in this country was
able in few years to enable the South to
produce sufficient rice for the entire coun-
trys needs, the success of the Philippine
work along similar lines is practically as
Sured.
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mob to justice Three Of them have already
been indicted. The Joplin Daily Globe OF
the nth inst. publishes cali from the
mayor for the organization OF volunteer
force of 500 citizens for the suppression of
lawiessness. Two thousand men responded
to the call. and the force was quickly or
ganized. The Globe editorially condemns
the mob In strong language. and demands
the punishment of all who can be identified
as having participated in it. The mob was
uncomfortable for awhile. but the prevail
ing sentiment of the people seems to be
strongly in favor OF law and order.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-19

a public similar TO that which the paper
first catered to does not yet exist The
Journal believes that there is now and will
continue to be large class of people
who would be pleased with and benefited
by just such fiction as the old Ledger
furnished then. The word benefit" Is
used advisedly. MIR. Bonner edited his
paper with care and upon a definite plan.
He admitted into its columns nothing I'M
clean or suggestive of evil. nothing in any
way morally Objectionable. Though the
fiction published was whoiesomely free
from the obtrusive moral il had always
sound moral basis. Ii taught good princi-
ples-honesty. fidelity, courage. patriotism.
things well to impress upon the minds of
ing interest, often preposterous, no doubt.
but that can be said of some of the cur
rent novels having a high reputation. AS
for their literary quality which the Eagle
seems to regard as so inferior. is it really
true that g. p. r. James, Sylvanus Cobb,
Emerson Bennett, Mrs. Southworth and
Fanny Fern were so far behind some of
the popular writer's of to-day? What are
Mary Johnston's stories but dime novels of
the Ledger period? Some of Ford's fiction
is namby-pamby to a degree that would
probably have caused it's rejection by Mr.
Bonner, SO that IL the descendants Of the
old Ledger readers are, as the Eagle says,
finding satisfaction in these and other writ
ers Of their class. they have possibly not
advanced greatly.
The truth is that the old Ledger was
edited with great skill and a keen COM
prehension of the needs and iikings of GER
tain classes. That Mr.. Bonner had some
queer whims Mr.. James L. Ford has
shown in his amusing Literary Shop
| that, for instance, Of not permitting an
allusion in the Ledger to a stepmother-
but he knew his public, its wants and its
limitations. It is because no one since his
day has had an equal understanding of
such needs and tastes that other papers of
somewhat similar character have failed.
! They have admitted what was crude and
coarse and vulgar, often indecent, and
have thus missed the mark that Mr.. Bon
ner hit so squarely. What he published
was not fine literature Of course, but II
had its uses. No periodical that the Jour
nal knows Of quite takes it's place. 1t was
an institution in its day. and because OF
the real want it filled so we'll the vanishing
of it's very name is worth passing COM
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-19
A ONCE-FAMOUs PAPER.

In the passing out of existence of the New
York Ledger the Brooklyn Eagle sees proof
that the public has outgrown that class of
ton, it holds, has changed the standard of
the public that was once satisfied with the
fiction furnished by the Ledger-a mighty
evolution" it calls it, in the intelligence
and tastes of the American people. The
Eagle says very truly:
Forty years ago the Ledger was read in
farmhouses and small villages all over the
country. 1t met the universal craving for
fiction for thousands, perhaps millions, of
people who lacked the education to enjoy
Hawthorne, or Scott, or even Dickens. 1t
filled with romance the lives of hard-work-
ing men and women who had barely mas
tered the three Rs in school; ii gave to
them glimpses of splendor which they could
never hope to know outside of it's pages
To-day the grandsons of those Ledger read
ers are In college or fitting for it, They
Irving Bachelor, Booth Harrington, Amelia
Barr, and some of them Howells and Hem
ry Van Dyke.
With due respect to the opinion of the
Eagle, the Journal must insist that 1t has
diagnosed this case incorrectly. The fact
is, that the Ledger which has just come
to an end was an entirely different sort of
publication from the paper edited by the
elder Bonner. It's downfall began when he
gave up its management and turned it over
to his sons They evidently with intent to
improve it and raise its literary standard,
transformed it into a nondescript sheet,
with most of the fiction eliminated and in
its place a variety of miscellany of the
Instructive" order, intermingled with
didactic essays and more and better pic
lures than the founder of the paper had
been accustomed to use. The matter was
we'll enough in its way, If enough people
could have been found to read it: but ii
was not of the sort to suit the old patrons
and apparently new CLIENTELE did not ma.
terialize. AT all events, after a time the
Ledger was changed into a monthly maya
zine of the department order and gave
its pages up to stated portions of domestic
| science, fashions, advice to girls, fiction
serious articles and a large number OF
| Illustrations. 1t was a sheer imitation of a
dozen other periodicals. some of them very
successful, but it still left untouched the
| field which the elder Bonner had so sue
cessfully supplied. The new field It had
entered was filled, and so. after a struggle
| 1t died. The original Ledger had died Ions
! before. but there Il nothing to prove thai
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-19

men sent replies. Each began his commune
cation with the sentence: 81 am itt' The
pedigrees were fearfully and wonderfully
made. One young man said that his idea
of good drawing snd good printing was
typifed by so bill. and regretted that
he had no specimen to send They all said
that they wanted TO work, but their physi-
clans had forbidden them to do so. and
hoped that this detail might be waived
One remarked that he knew good drawing
when he saw IL. but that experience had
taught him that IL was expensive to see
IL unless sure he had the best hand. An
other said he had never worked in either
a department store, newspaper office or
print shop, but knew more about them
than the proprietors did themselves. As
yet no replies have been received from the
advertiser
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-19
THE LITTLE COUNTRY CHURCH

Il is not to be disputed that the church =,
the country fills a larger place in the life ~
the people than IL does in toAn. II viii -
a sorry time for me" remarked traveu,,
man, when my route takes me away FRO,
several little country towns know. Moth
ing does me more good than 10 spend SIM
day In little country town. No: Il does,,,
take me back 10 my boyhOod's davs. 3,
takes me back TO my fathers. or even nv
grandfather's boyhood days. the people ara
so earnest, so primitive and simple in thsl-
piety and worship. In cities church men.
bers stay at home from church nov ana
then. but in these little country town.
bless you. Sunday is the event OF the yFeet
and only sick people absent themselves
from service. In fact. IL you visit one ~
these little places during the week. when
any meetings. as they call them. are going
on at the church, you suffer for attention
You can hardly get good dinner at the
places where they keep people. FOR the
women OF that family are bent on attend
ing every service, morning. afternoon and
evening. held in the church.
eff visitor to these small towns declines
to attend church he is regarded with susp,-
cion Immediately and his stock, socially
and financially, falls away below par a,
once. In cities the evening church attend
ance is generally simmer than that of the
morning; not so in villages. Night church
finds the pews all crowded. and at the close
OF the service an interesting society cere-
mony occurs outside of the building All
the young men form a double line from one
side OF the front door; the girls walk down
between these ranks, and are courteously
but firmly, albeit awkwardly. snatched on
the way down. by the young men who de-
sire to accompany them home 1t is worth
going far to see this rustic pairing-off per.
| Torrance.
lone dear little Indiana village know
and I'll never give its name TO a rude and
scofffng world-sometimes holds church
| service in a schoolhouse. On the preacher
table are two coal oil lamps; the organlu
has one also, and she plays the organ at
| galloping gait. which means that the con
gregation ought TO sing faster, but IL al
ways lags a full line behind the music
Every family I'm the church carries its ow
coal oil lamp; these are placed on the desks
and while the hymns are sung they ar
turned up; between the hymns they ar
| turned down. When service is out tn
people go home. carrying their coal Of
| lamps"