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Written for The Evening Star.

Written for The Evening Star.
Each year, with the unfolding of the
leaves on the beautiful old trees in the
forest of Fontainebleau, the picturesque lit
tie French hamlet of Barbizon, on the bor-
der of the forest, welcomes greater num-
Der of pilgrims to the shrine of the great
men who made its history-Millet, Rous-
seau, Diaz.
The visitors are all artists and lovers of
art, and their number has increased in late
years because they fear that with each
year will disappear some precious spot that
now marks the favorite haunts of the great
masters of art who lived and worked there.
Now, however, there Is little fear of such
a misfortune, for word has just come over
the seas that Barbizon is about to be
raised to the dignity of a commune, and
that the son of the great leader of the
BarbiZon school, Millet will probably be
cidedly that way.
What could be more appropriate than to
have for Barbizons head the son of the
man who made it famous the world over +?
demand the people of the hamlet, and as a
still more convincing argument, they add,
and who would be more careful and eager
to preserve in it's old, unmarried state the
natural beauty of Barbizon. which has been
pictured hundreds of times by world-famed
artists, but perhaps by no one as success
fully as Millet, than Milet's son. himself an
artist of great fame.
The disciples and worshipers of the elder
Mfllet, who may be counted by the thou
sands in almost every country on the globe
agree with the art loving people of Barbi-
zon in this matter, all the more so be-
cause Millet, fills, has inherited from his
father his love and reverence of art in
nature
Artists Community.
The good people of Barbizon, with the
French masters of art, Jean Francois
Millet. Theodore Rousseau. Diaz, Dupre
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VIEW OF BARB1zoN LOOKING TOWARD THE FOREST

it's seclusion, and the ,ittle group of art
lists of which my father was member
were the only outsiders. 1t was a plain
farming community, without church.
without hotel without anything to give
1t publicity. But one of its greatest at
fractions to those great painters of ma
ture was the fact that within easy access
are some of the widest and most beauti-
full parts of the forest of Fontainebleau.
/ remember when / grew older, and be-
came such a companion for my father. I
often went for. walks iii the evening with
him and Rousseau. The walks being at such
times little too long for me, my father
carried me on his shoulders. There is fine
and great religious sentiment in the MEM
DRY that / was guarded on these walks by
the two great men. through the darkening
where in the hazy background the
clocks sounded the Angelus, when the la
borers mounted their horses dulled by ia
tigue, after the days work in the fields. the
respectful and sympathetic good evening Of
the countrymen that we knew. who passed
on their way home. the pitchfork or the
spade on their shoulders. and near the end
Of the village long-belated flock that re-
turned to one of the great farms.
An indispensable Beauty.
The Landscape of the fields is not especial
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trance of the forest, where stands the great
boulder on which is carved the medalIionS
of my father and Rousseau
When Autumn Comes.
The main street of the village is very ani.i
mated in summer, with the passing stranger
ers, carriages and automobiles. Often they
arrange little entertainments for them-
selves and for the villagers, but when au.
tumn comes, then all the visitors go away
and the chats we have around the fresfde
love nature. The forest becomes again the
chapel and seems to confide to those who
stay the secrets that it would not tell to
strangers. Useless to say. perhaps. that
Barbizon for many men of letters Is an ill.,
eXhaustible theme. These men retire here
to WOO the muse, and have written some
very beautiful things about the country.
Commemorate tive plaques are 10 be placed
on the houses of the great artists who made
Barbizon famous. Jean Francois Miilet.
Theodore Rousseau, Diaz. Barge and
Charles Jacques.
The people of the village wished to make
Barbzon a commune. Finally. at the re-!
peated request. the favor was accorded
them, thanks, l believe. above all, to the.
great names that made this country so
illuStriouS BarbiZon commune passed
the senate on the 18th of November, 1903,
and the people nominated. a municipal
council, then turned their attention 70
the question of mayor. A great number
of those who loved their country and the
memories attached to 1T, desired that l..
the son of Jean Francois Millet, should
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to be able to hurry without feeling afraid
that by SO doing he might attract dangerous
attention. He would not have dared to
make any haste on the station platform.
Long before he reached the bottom of the
stairway the friendly fog again enshrouded
him and changed the sharp outlines of his
figure into dull, gray blur. When he ac-
tually stepped out into the street he did so
with confidence and great gratitude toward
the fog. 1t had surely been his friend that
day. He stepped to one side and waited
near to the bottom of the stairway for
moment to see that none followed him, and
then went slowly down the street toward
the Thames emba nkment.
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HUNDRED-MILE TRAIN
Is in Sight and Will Cut Time on Long
Runs

From the Street Railway Journal
We note with pleasure that our space-de-
vouring friends at Zossen have not yet
satiated their hunger for pace and touched
the record the other day for no less than
40 miles per hour They seem to be over
coming air pressure rather comfortably
up to the present, and we have heard Moth
ing about the motors failing or the pressure
caving in the front end of the car. Perhaps
the doubling gentlemen who figured on the
motors burning out from overload at eighty
miles per hour to 100 miles per hour will
now be convinced that higher speeds are
both possible and practicable. One hundred
and forty mile per hour is decidedly hot
pace, but it will more than likely be beaten
before we go to press. 1t has taken a good
many years to evolve the two-minute trot-
ting horse, but this year we have him in
triplicate, and just so it has been with cleo
trio railroading.
Once the records began to break they fair
ly blew up and left only small fragments.
One hundred and forty miles per hour, even
If not outdOne by a considerable margin,
still means that the hundred-mile-an-ho hour
train is much nearer to reality than it has
ever been before. That speed is quite FEAST
BILE whenever it is demanded, and it Is,
moreover, quite high enough to meet the
requirements of humanity for some little
time to come. It's real importance lies as
we have often remarked, in it's application
to long lines on which the saving of time
would be material. Cutting down the rum
ming time to Flatbush or Hackensack may
defer the dyspepsia of the commuter for
another season or two, but 1t is not COM
mercially important. 1t is cutting the time
on long runs that counts-reducing the time
to Washington to less than three hours,
converting the trip to Chicago into a mere
nights run. 1t Is now announced that the
experiments have been conducted largely
with the idea Of the early application of the
system to the railroad connecting Berlin
with Hamburg, distant by rail 176 miles
from each other, and that an early CONVEX
sion of that line Is by no means improbable
Somehow the hundred-mile-an-hour train
locks nearer than 1t did a few months ago,
and our spyglass Is still trained in the d.
rectinn of Germany. -
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become the mayor. the matter being
taken quite as matter of course. They
decided that some one else might mod
ernize the country in an exaggerated
fashion, the tendency asserting itself in
that direction.
In 1897 l married an American girl.
Geraldine Reed, who is an artist also. and
of great talent We live in Barbizon All
the year except for occasional trips ia
outside places, and in the winter to re-
visit the museums in Paris, to hear good
music, and, in short. to renew artistic
and friendly relations Here at Barbixon
we live in a house that my mother took
two years, after my fathers death. which
is situated on the other side of the street
opposite the old atelier formerly occupied
by my father, for his. house was torni
down In 1877 to give was to more moderus
buildings
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JEAN FRANCOIS MILLET AND THE
BARBIZON SCHOOL.

BY FFaHCOlS MlIItC.
Barbizon has always been home to me-
for, though l was born in Paris, in 1919
my father and mother took my two Sis
tiers and myself to the little hamlet in
June of the same year. and when my
baby eyes rested on it for the first time
it was at the height of it's beauty, just
entering into summer.
The little village was then very humble
and poor. Few strangers ever entered
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hungry and satisfied his appetite. Then he
was shown to a room, which was clean.
He undressed as QuickiyTas he could and
locking the door carefully, and seeing to it
that the precious belt was buckled tightly
about his body. piled into bed, and, almost
instantly, fell into deep sleep.
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Rather Pessimistic.

From the Chicago News.
This is a tough old world" remarked
the anvil in the .blacksmith.s shop. IT net |
nothing but hard knocks all day long"
Right you are rejoined the bellows. |
I'm always hard pressed to raise tho
wind.
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CHAPTER n.

Repaintin' Of her name don't hurt q
vessels speed none.-The Log Book
Of The Lyddy.
Charing Cross railway station in London
|, ts situated near to one end of that throbbing
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CHAPTER I.

It takes better seaman sometimes to
get his vessel out of dock than it
does to get her cross the OCEAN
The Log Book of The Lyddy.
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The landscape of the fields is not especial
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-02
CHAPTER III.

With wind and tide to fight, some
times a port that's in plain sight
seems further off than Chiny.-The
Log Book of The Lyddy.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-05-12
WORLDS FAIR WELL poLIcED,
Nearly 1000 Men on Duty Inside the
Grounds Chief Desmond in
Charge Of Detectives.

There are now nearly 1000 men
guarding the worlds Fair grounds and
buildings, 81 OF whom belong to the
regular metropolitan police force OF
st. Louis. There are on duty inside
the grounds, detailed by Chief Of Po-
lice Mathew Kiely, Is sergeants, two
lieutenants, one captain, 70 detectives
and 275 patrolmen. Chief Of Detec-
tiYes William Desmond, OF interna-
tional renown as a c~rook-catcher, is
in command OF the detective force
and is personally on duty within the
grounds. In addition there are a
number OF expert detectives from
other American cities and from the
capitals of Europe, so that an habitual
criminal, no matter whence he may
hail, is likely to fall into the clutches
OF an officer II he dares to visit the
Worlds Fair.
About 600 Jefferson guards, hand
somely uniformed, are on duty. Later
in the season, as the crowds of visitors
increase, the Jefferson guards will be-
considerably increased In force. The
guards patrol the grounds and build
ings, taking are that the exhibits
are not damaged by visitors.
In the Hall Of Congress are four
policemen who attract much atten-
tion. They are picked men from the
London police force, sent over as a
special guard for the jubilee presents
of the late Queen Victoria, which are
exhibited in that building.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-05-12
ig line Dress Goods and Wash Cool
at reasonable prices.
Isam3AxHMn
%1
Atoms New Kansas CITY Line

CHICAGO, ILL, May 7.-Announce.
ment is made by the Alton OF the
early opening OF the company's new
st. Louis Kansas City line, which will
be 279 miles long. The new cutoff is
65 miles long and has maximum grades
of only 26 feet to the mile and maxi
mum curvatures Of only one per cent.
The line is practically an air line, go
per cent Of it being perfectly straight.
There is one tangent eighteen miles
and another fourteen miles, but thirty
two miles of this distance might prop
erly be called straight track. The
line is laid with 85-pound rails, has
steel bridges, concrete culverts and is
rock ballasted. The company, in con-
nection with the Burlington, will run
four passenger trains daily each way
between Kansas City and st. Louis.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-05-12
BURGLAR IN HIS sleep
THE QUEER ~s0MNAMULIsTIC
FEAT OF AN Albany,
MISSOURI LAD.
PECULIAR ACTIONS OF YOUNG NAN
Broke Into a Postofice by the Use Of
Brace and Bit and Opened a
Cash Drawer With Same
Tools Then He
Awakened.
PECULIAR ACTIONS OF YOUNG NAN

ALBANY, Mo-, May 9.-In a SON.
nambulistic state Hardin Hughes, the
20.year-old son OF the Rev. Hughes, a
Baptist minister, left his bed room
and went upon a tour at 8 O'Clock this
morning. The Hughes home is four
blocks from the postofice. The Rev.
Mr.. Hughes was Weakened by his son,
who informed him that he had been
walking in his sleep and had found
himself at the postoflce when he
awakened. The father found the son
dressed in odd garments belonging to
Others. He vent with the son to the
postotice and saw where the midnight
walker had gained an entrance in the
front door. They then went at once
to the postmaster and asked him to
see what damage had been done.
When daylight came 1t was revealed
that the somnambulist had risen in
his sleep, secured a brace and bit, gone
&c the postofice and securing a box
climbed up high enough to bore
through the door two holes that re-
leased the plate glass. Then enter
ing he went to the delivery window,
climbed eight feet over into the pri-
yate Office and bored three holes into
the little cash drawer which he should
have had reason to believe did not
contain anything except small change
used in stamp sales. He could have
pried 1t open with a jackknife.
The young man awakened while
working on the drawer and at once
retired and told his father all. Not a
penny was taken and nothing was
m2lested in the store and news stand
through which he passed in his jour
ney.
Young Hughes has an excellent rep
utation for honesty and ~worthinesS
by those who know him. His mania
for sleep-walking has grown on him
since his childhood days. He is a
student in Northwest Missouri Col
lege. A government official happened
TO be here at the time and will, Of
course, take steps to present the case
to the courts, as such excuses for
tamperlng with postofice property
will need a more complete explana-
ton.
In the quiet hours of a dark, rainy
morning not a person saw young
Hughes on his tour and had he not
revealed the fact there would have
been no evidence, or even suspicion,
that he had committed a crime.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-05-12
ABSENT TREATMENT
FOR bad HUSBANDS
WOMEN OF BAYoNNE, NJ, INAU-
GURATE SERIES OF EVEN.
ING DIVERSIONS.
HAVE LODGE" OF THEIR OWN
Lords and Masters will Not Be Ad-
mitted and VIII Be Told to
Mind Their Own
Business"

BAYoNNE, N. j., May 10.-Becaust
there are clubs and lodges and kindred
places for amusement and poker in
Bayonne, which demand most OF the
time Of the men In evenings, the
women intend to rudely jostle the
tranquility Of the town by inaugur.
ating a series OF evening diversions
for themselves, to which the most re.
pentant and pleading husband will
not be admitted.
Under the name Of the Married
Woman's Emancipation Society, all
the fortunes are to be inflicted upon
the unlucky husband. 1t will be an
absent treatment corrective measure,
l. E., women will not get home nights
until after their husbands
What we intend to do" said Mrs,
Josiah Kicks president OF the society,
sis to have our good time in our own
way" We do not propose to ask our
husbands to resign from the several
clubs which keep them out all sorts
Of hours four nights in the week. Let
them go il they want to, but they
need not expect that we are going to
let them tell all the pretty stories
about compulsory attendance any
longer.
why should we sit 10 the house all
alone while they are out having a
good time?"
RULES OF GOVERNMENT.
AT this point Mrs. Kicks displayed
a set Of rules which will be adopted
by the society. Here they are:
1. A member cannot resign because
a husband has repented of his sins
without the unanimous consent of
the society.
2 Any sign of weakness on the
part Of a husband must be reported
at once, SO that a committee may
determine whether or not he is sincere.
3. a member must not balk at
vaudeville and a few other light
touches at the society entertainment.
4. A member must always say I've
been to the club, If she gets home
than her husband, and If he de-
mands an explanation.
s.. Members must no show weak
ness in the presence of their husbands
when the club is up for discussion.
The members refuse to go into the
Of the little affairs which will
keep them up late at night, but all
that they would be just spicy
enough.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-05-12

WI would like to call attention to
the card published In to-day's LED
GER from County Assessor Sipple, who
was defeated for nomination for a
second term. Mr.. SIpple hurrahs for
the nominee. This is the spirit which
should be shown by every true and
loyal Democrat. The writer has prob
ably lost as many candidates for NOM
nation since the time he began to
vote as any one, but he always took
his medicine and looked pleasant. We
commend Mr. Sipple's card to Demo.
Gratis generally.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-05-12
Lincoln's Love For Giant Elm.

Mrs. James Munhall one of the old
est and most respected women of Ur-
bana, ILL.,, Is dead. She was born In
Kentucky In 1882, going to Urbana
with her parents when an infant In
arms. Urbana was then an Indian
village. Her father cleared their
home site of heavy timber, leaving an
elm standing and this elm is now al
most as large as the famous redwoods
In California. The tree stands to-
day the marvel Of all visitors. The
big elm was the delight of Abraham
Lincoln and the great emancipation
never came to Urbana In his round of
circuit riding without visiting it. The
tree was also the wonder and delight
OF Robert Mcintyre, who made it the
subject OF n OF his most eloquent
orations.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-05-12
LIVE STOCK MARKET.

The receipts on the st. Louis live
stock market Tuesday we're made VI
Of: Cattle, 4,74s; hogs, s,462; sheep
3,4l5, horses and mules, ITO.
Beef and butcher steers sold from
$3.50 to "a 400; butcher heifers from
1925 to "a. rs; butcher COWS from 500
to s4.25; veal calves from 50. so to 8 /. 90,
Stockers and feeders from $3.50 to
s4.25.
Hogs Good butcher and heavy hogs
sold at "a. s0(04.s5 fair to good medi.
UNI weights and packers 81 N so,
lights above $50 lbs. average s4.5O(a
@4,S0 under $50 lbs. average 800
@4.55, pigs under 100 lbs. s3.606
4.25, and roughs and culls at 3d. 5G
$50. The bulk OF the hogs weighing
$50 lbs. or more sold at s4.7OG4.s0,
against s4.65(G4.s2i on Monday.
Sheep-Lambs and yearlings 500
TO $500. Mutton $3.50 to $3.50. Bucks
and culls 81. so to a. 25,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-05-12
DON'T PHOTOGRAPH
SAVAGE MOROS
KODAK : FIENDs VISITING THE
WORLDS FAIR MAY GET
INTO TROUBLE
EXPOSITION is NOT RESPONSIBLE
Signs Have Been Put Up Warning
People Intent on Getting
Snapshots in the Queer
Philippine Village.

ST. LOUIS, May 10.-If visitors try
TO get a snapshot or a photograph OF
the Moros at the Worlds Fair they
will do so at their own risk.
A sign conveying this information
is to be put UP within a few days on
the stockade about the Moro Village,
AMI 1.-THE sign will be displayed in a
conspicuous place over the entrance
after the village is opened.
This sign has been decided upon for
fear of some photographer being
boloed by an angry Moro.
Guards have already been instruct
ed to notify kodakers and camera
fends that they must not snap the
Moros, and II they do 1t will be at
their own rish, and II they get in
trouble they must not blame the Ex-
position company or the United
States Government, in whose care the
Moros are.
The Moros are Mohammedans and
one OF the tenets Of their religion is
against images, and they look on
Photographs as images. You can't
insult a Moro more than by trying to
photograph him, and you're In luck II
you're not chased of the reservation
and, perhaps. the earth-if you try
the kodak ON him
1t is realized that as the village
progresses and visitors become more
numerous, photographers and kodack-
ers generally will seek to secure pict-
ures of the savage Moros. To prevent
any trouble the signs will be put up,
so that any mar or woman who tries
the picture game on the Moro must
know that he OF she is taking chance.
The Moros dislike visitors, and those
who visit them while they are at work
are scowled down il they attempt a
conversation. However, as soon as
the Moro gets settled he'll welcome
you IL you leave the kodak out.
The Moro, like other American cit |
liens, does not like to be bothered
while's he's moving. aouse-settling
time isn't to his liking any more than
It is to the liking Of the man in Kan
kakee.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-05-12

The trials Of the illuminations at
the Worlds Fair have demonstrated
that the electrical features are far
and away ahead OF anything ever seen
at any previous exposition. The
standard attained at Buffalo is much
surpassed. The extent of the grounds
Is 50 great that when one is 10 the cen
ter Of the main picture" there is a
blaze Of glory in every direction as far
as the eye can reach. There are more
than 100000 incandescent lamps 10 use
and the beauty Of the architecture Of
the magnificent buildings is enhanced
after nightfall.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-05-12

GOVERNOR DocKERY has by procla-
nation appointed June , to be Mis-
souri, Day at the Worlds Fair. The
Louisiana Purchase Exposition is on
the soil Of Missouri and the directing
corporation is a charter creature Of
the State. Missouri has made the
largest expenditure for exhibits amc1g
the States. Missouri Day will be the
greatest Of the Fairs special occas-
ions, unless st. Louis Day can be
made TO surpass in attendance. The
people Of the State will show their
pride in the Fair and in their own
magnificent series of exhibits. Au-
drain county should be well represent
ed on this occasion.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-05-12
MISS GOULD THANKS GEN. BELL.
Refusal of Colorado Officer to Partake
of Wine at Governors Banquet
the OCCASION.

DENVER, May 7.-Gen Sherman
Bell of the governors staff, who es-
corted Miss Helen NJ. Gould at the re-
ception given by Gov. Peabody In st.
Louis last Monday, has received a let
ter Miss Gould, in which she says:
II cannot restrain from sending you
a few lines to tell you that it was a
comfort to me last night that you did
not take champagne forone feels rather
OF In refusing, when almost everyone
takes it. And l am also sincerely
glad that this is your usual custom
and was not simply an act of courtesy
to a lady"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-05-12
To Punish Bird Killers.

In recent instructions to the grand
jury of Davis county, Judge Alexan.
der, Of the circuit court, called special
attention to the cruel and wholesale
destruction Of song birds that is TAX
ing part place in Missouri, and told
the jurors TO indict anybody whom
they might hear had participated in
the slaughter. The fine for killing a
song bird in Missouri is s25. The law
thus protects song birds, because, be-
sides their music, they are useful as
enemies to injurious insects; and it is
to be wished that every other circuit
Judge 10 the State would follow Judge
Alexander's example.