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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-07

ington. and in the presence of Abraham
Lincoln"
The coat of arms of the state Of New
York is made in bronze and inset, below the
inscription, and below that the words: "122d
N. Y. Vols" The whole is surmounted by
the Greek cross, the badge of the 9Th
Corps.
On the second face are the names of
those who gave their lives to the country
In the battle, and on the third face are
the names of those who were wounded In
the battle. On the fourth face Is bronze
tablet. inset, and upon 1t In raised letters
the inscription: Served three years In the
9th Army Corps. Battles, Antietam.
Fredericksburg, Mayre's Heights. Salem
Church, Gettysburg. Rappahannock, Mine
Run, Wilderness. Spottsylvania. Colo Har-
Cedar Creek. Fort Stedman. Petersburg
Sailors Creek. Appomattox
1t Is thought that there are only apou.
sixty-five members of the I'D New YORK
now living Not many of them can be at
the dedication next Tuesday. Many are
too old to travel SO far. and many cannot
spare the money to make the "Trip Lieut..
Col o. V. Tracy will be one OF the dlssln-
guished guests, and Gen. Lew Wallace has
written Col. Bingham that he hopes to be
able to attend the unwilling. Three men,
bers of the regiment are residents or wash
inston: Col B. F. Bingham and Charles
H. Worden, both in the Treasury Depart
ment, and David C. Fountain Of the Post
Office Department.
National in Their Nature.
The exercises at Battle Ground cemetery
will begin at $50 and will be simple. Col.
Bingham has received many distinguished
favors from War Department officials who
have helped him to make the dedication
truly military, and to give 1t national i'm
portance.
And 1t should be national" declared Col.
Bingham today. But for the 9Th Corps
and the 122d New York, along with the
other splendid fighting men, where would
the nation be drifting today? Would we
have had a nation? Might we not have
been hundred little warning republics, at
the very foot of the national ladder, instead
of being at the top we are today? 1
hope to see a splendid monument in this
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-07
Utility in Sport.
rom the Illustrated Sporting News.

From the Illustrated Sporting News
The exclusive Brookline Country Club
now raises its own spring lamb from a
flock maintained on the golf links Tho
records of the day contain this solemn
comment
THE fame of the Brooklne variety of
spring lamb has spread to such a degree
that offers to buy it have been made to the
club authorities. They crowned upon the
invasion of commercialism at first, but
methods have been found whereby mem
bers of the club are able to obtain spring
lamb for their own private tables without
the loss of dignity to the club
This innovation offers interesting posi-
utility There is no reason why in the
be planted with potatoes to be dealt out
for the benefit of the training table of the
following season. If spring lamb can De
raised golf course why not fine
crop of green peas on the inside field of a
steeplechase course, and buckwheat cakes
on the club house lawn? Every country
club of considerable size has a lot of
grounds that not utilized the year
around. The squash and hand ball courts
should be turned into mushroom beds in
the summer when all the athletes dsport
themselves out of doors. AS for spring
lamb, no well-regulated club should be
without it's own vintage. It's kinder fate
for the prospective mutton than to allow
the innocent beast to become tough and
hardened by hearing the language of green
players.
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The Antarctic Continent.
ne National Geographic Magazine.

From the National Geographic Magazine.
That vast antarctic continent exists,
perhaps twice large as that of Europe,
would seem to be proved by the reports now
appearing of the recent explorations in that
region. The American Commander Wilkes,
returning from the far south in 1871, assert
ed the existence of vast south polar con-
tinent and described his voyage of LOO
miles in sight of the coast. Ross, however
returning soon after, discredited Wilkes
conclusions, saying that the land seen by
Wilkes was merely great wall of ice.
The world has been in doubt which to be-
lieve
That Ross was wrong and Wilkes right
is very evident from the report of Capt.
Scott of the British antarctic expedition of
1901-1904. Capt. Scott shows that the mass
of ice seen by Ross is in reality an ex-
tensive glacier resting on land and cover
ing the land like the ice cap of Greenland.
The glacier Is about 700 miles wide, and
reaches the sea through a plain lying be-
tween Victoria Land and Edward VIZ
Land The German expedition under Won
Drygalski. working so degrees of longitude
farther west, also found somewhat SINH
lar expanse of ice-capped land, whose limits
they were unable to trace but which is ap-
parently part OF the same antarctic conti-
nent.
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SUICIDE IMPULSE AT SEA.
Strange Influences Which Lead to
Self-Destruction.
From the London Mail.

From the London Mail.
Births, marriages and deaths are very
common at sea; cases of suicide, although
not materially swelling the records Of
deaths. are by no means infrequent II
often happens that mental depression is ac-
centuated by the vastness and solitude Of
the ocean. The sense of loneliness help
lessness and insignifcance has been known
to develop into suicidal tendencies.
Strangely enough, during an actual tenn
pest the sense of self-preservation seems
to overpower the desire for self-destruc-
ton. Some months ago a young lady on
board steamer bound for a Canadian port
evinced much apprehension as to her safety
during violent storm. Less than two days
later. when the sea was calm and sailing
conditions pleasant, she climbed over the
bulwarks and threw herself into the ocean;
The fascination of watching the SWIFT
flow of water from the propelleps at tho
stern of a vessel is well-known cause OF
suicide Even sailors who have gazed down
at the surging stream have been overcome
with the morbid impulse to leap into 1t. In
the Red sea and Indian ocean lascars, mad
with heat, have leaped out Of the engine
room and at bound have dived overheard.
never to be seen again. Lack of success In
America or Australia has driven many an
emigrant to seek oblivion in suicide. Two
cases occurred last year of unsuccessful
men who drowned themselves when in sight
of the old country.
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both among the wounded in the battle of
Fort Stevens Circular letters were pre-
pared and sent out and the collection of
funds commenced At the reunion Au-
gust IS. 1903. the forty-first anniversary
OF the muster-in of the regiment. the
committee reported funds sufficient to
take the first steps toward the erection of
the monument
The committee appointed to take charge
of the work of erection of the monument
consisted of Col b. +. Bingham, past com
mander of the Department OF the Potomac,
G. A r., who was one of the defenders
of Fort Stevens: Capt. r. II. Moses of
New York who was the adjutant of the
regiment at the close of the war. and his
brother Mr. Zebina Moses of Washington.
who although not a veteran has been Il
warm advocate of a monument on the
Fort Stevens battlefield, and was one of
the prime movers in the present enterprise.
The Monument.
The monument is beautiful creation of
Barre. VT, granite. standing nine feet six
inches high. On the front face is cut the
letters and number OF the regiment. Be
low is the inscription: ITO the gallant sons
of Onondaga county. N. Y. who fought OIL
this field, July u, 1854. in defense of Wash
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-07
DEFENDED CAPITAL
Monument to New York
Volunteers.
UNWILLING JULY IL
SIMPLE PROGRAM ARRANGED
FOR THE OCCASION.
Handsome Statue for Those Who Sleep
in Country's Cause at Battle
ground Cemetery.

Three years ago a few of the veterans
Of the 122d New York Volunteer Regi-
ment had a reunion, and at that reunion
they discussed the desrability of erect
ing a monument to the dead of that COM
mand who gave up their lives in the de-
Tense of Washington, July II, 1854, and
who sleep in battle-ground cemetery To-
day the monument is an accomplished
fact. and it will be dedicated with appro-
pirate ceremonies Tuesday, July l., ex-
actly forty years having elapsed since
those whose sacrifice 1t commentaries
fell in the attack on Fort Stevens before
the onslaught of Gen. Jubal Early on the
capital of the United States.
The committee on monument" was ap-
pointed at the reunion, consisting of
Davis Crossett, G. H. Gilbert, Caius A.
Weaver, o. V. Tracy and VIM. ]. Ander-
son. Capt. Crossett and Mr.. Weaver were
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vicinity some day, erected by the govern
ment."
The 18th Cavalry Band from Fort Myer
VII play, and CommanderinC Chief John
G. Black, with his staff, will be present
besides many other distinguished guests.
July 10. 1864, word went out from Wash
ington that President Lincoln wanted some
troops to hustle to his rescue. as all
the signs pointed to attack on the
national capital. This in the face Of the
fact that the very first work done after the
first call for troops was to put Washington
beyond all possibility of an attack by the
enemy. 4 chain of forts was strung around
Washington like the beads on a rosary.
There We're sixty-eight in all, and the cir
cult including the distance across the Po-
tomac. was thirty-seven miles.
These forts were all garrisoned a one
time. but when Gen. Early started down
the Shenandoah valley that hot July a few
green recruits, mostly '1c0 days men,
were all that was left to guard Washington.
The Available Force.
The reports for July 10 show that there
were about 81. 600 men in Washington who
could be pressed into military service. They
were mainly invalids. military hospital
guards. recruits under instruction and pro-
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Mrs Thomas Crawford, whose home 10
near Tophet, w. Va, drank several ounces
of carbolic acid Sunday physician was
hastily summoned. who succeeded in saving
her life. Sunday night. when all were
asleep. she left her bed and. going to thu
barn, hanged herself from one Of the
beams
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-07
A New Serial.

publish daily installments of Miriam Mi
chelson's very successful story 'In the Bish-
ops Carriage" 1t Is full of surprises and
strong situations. and L. intensely interest
ing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-07
Climax Of Use.

The folding fan was introduced into
France by Catherine de Medici. and this
valuable auxiliary of woman reached Its
height in the reign of Louis XIV. In the
hands of the powdered duchesses and mar
Quises of the old regime 1t was a weapon
Douglas Island news., 1904-09-21
Fix Your Pipes Now!

Patrons of the Douglas City Water Works are hereby notified that during the coming winter, if a shortage of water occurs, the gates in the main will be closed during the night time; in order to husband the supply for the purpose of fire protection. Have your pipes fixed now, so they will not freeze up. A word to the wise.
 Douglas City Water Works,
 A. MURRAY, Prop.
Douglas Island news., 1904-09-21

Midas creek is a myth and rank fake, and those who assisted the fakirs by official acts, say many of the dis gusted argonauts, were either fools or knaves.
 Fairbanks is now money order office, it having been constituted such by Post Office Inspector c. l.. Wayland, who recently visited the new camp on the Panama.
 The Tanana stampede has caused a shortage of labor in Dawson, and wages have advanced dollar a day in the Klondike. "It's an ill wind that blows nobody good"
 J. A. Goldberg a cigar dealer and C.. w. Daniels a gam bier were taken from Seattle to Nome to appear as witnesses for the government in case against beach-combers.
 C.L. Johnson an employe of the Pio- neer Mining Company, and J.J. Haynes foreman of the pipe line leading to the pumping plant on the Nome River. were severley burned in an oil explosion.
 The gasoline launch Carrie Nation, owned by Col. Vim of Juneau, was to- tally destroyed by fire on the 18th of this month, after being left high and dry on the bar at the north end of Douglas Is- land.
 Incorporation not does mean self government to Wrangell, and the town dads are still asking federal officers how they may spend their own money, and whether they may eXpend 9 per cent. or 50 per cent. of the total on the schools.
 The report comes from Ketchikan that Indians found 100 pounds of am, bergris near there last week. Our in formant also states that the find is worth S84, 4,OO0, and has been shipped to San Francisco.
 Capt. West, of the steamer Corwin re- ports that the vessels composing the whaling fleet are now at Point Barrow waiting for an opportunity to dodge through the ice on their way to the McKinZie River.
 A new Presbyterian church was re- gently dedicated on Sulphur Creek in the Klondike. The church is commo- dious and is said to be one of the pretti- est in the north. A parsonage was built in connection with the church.
 R. B. Watkinson, who since last July has been washing gold at Yakutat beach, says that there are about 250 men at the beach and each of them is succeeding in taking out from the sands anywhere from S4 to S20 day.
 Sergt. Patterson reports that the first ten days business on the Alaskan cable comes to $622.50, the receipts at all four offices. Including official business and other line tolls at commercial rates, the new cable is handling about 812o worth | of business every day.
 On the 18th inst the city of Dawson voted to surrender it's municipal charter and to permit the city to be governed by the Yukon territorial 1 council. The interest taken in the election was not great as is evidenced oy the small vote cast. It was: For charter, 289. Against sur ,ondarinc charter %
Douglas Island news., 1904-09-21
The rthIand The Latest News, from Reliable Sources, Concerning the Great
 North, Condensed. Information for Everybody.

Keeler, the skagway Money King | has struck Juneau.
 The saintly city of Sitka has been visited by a thunder storm.
 The Klondike mill property of the N ! A. T. E T. Go. was totally destroyed by fire.
 i Letters warning miners from going to the Panama district this winter have been received in Seattle.
 Warrants have been issued at Nome for the arrest of Duncan and Griggs, the Midas creek swindlers.
 Alfred Benson was drowned in the surf at Nome on Aug. 27. His partner was rescued by a woman.
 Prof. W. A. Kelly, superintendent of the Presbyterian Mission home at Sitka, has thrown up the job.
 The Ketchikan Cannery practically closed the season with a pack of 35,00O cases, 13,O0O of which are reds.
 The distance from Circle City to Fairbanks is 25O miles by the overland route. The water route is much longer.
 Issac Burpee, extradited from St. Louis charged with embedding 5000, was acquitted by Dawson jury in two minutes.
 The Hotel Revillagigedo is new institution at Ketchikan. It has electric lights and steam heat, besides that name.
 Many rushing to the Tanana are talk ing small boats from Dawson to Circle, where they take the overland trail for 25O mile walk.
 A Fairbanks special says that John Bechtol, formerly of Dawson, was rob- bed of S2,OOO worth of gold dust while aboard steamer.
 The Wrang ell Electric Light & Power Go. has taken steps to incorporate with a capitalization of s5,OOO divided into 200 shares of s25 each.
 The whooping cough epidemic at Whitehorse is practically over and the attendance at the public school is daily increasing says the Star.
 Seven days and seven hours from Dawson to Seattle is the seasons record time made by the Klondike passengers of the Lynn Canal steamer City of Se- attle.
 The value of the trade with the Amer ican Yukon, via Skagway, will in all probability be greater this year by more than 100 per cent than has that of all the previous years since the com pletion of the W.P. & Y. R. combined. The increase of the first nine months of the present year over the same period of last year has been 525 per cent.
Douglas Island news., 1904-09-21

The Alaska Packers Association ship McLaurin, salmon laden from Bristol
 Bay for San Francisco, broke down in
 Behring Sea August 30, losing her rud- der. The disabled craft, which after the mishap sent her 13O Chinese can. nery employees ashore at Cape Cheerful, UnalaSka Island, was picked up by the United States revenue cutter Rush and lowed to Dutch Harbor. Later the Chinese were taken off the Cape and conveyed to Dutch Haroor, where they joined the ship again. The McLaurin will be equipped with new rudder at, Dutch Harbor.
 The Topkok Ditch Company, which is operating on Daniels creek, has an immense body of pay dirt. Two bed- rock fumes extend from the creek to the sea, and excellent work is being done at a comparatively small cost. The company has four creek and three beach claims on Daniels, all of which have been thoroughly prospected; over 100 holes have been sunk on the various claims, On No. Daniels the pay dirt is from 25 to 30 feet deep, so it may be imagined that such body of gravel will prodce a great amount of gold.- Nome Nugget.
 The Yukon will have better winter stage service this winter than ever be- fore. The White Pass will cover the overland route from White Horse to Dawson with relay stage system of four-horse teams drawing large passen- ger stages with capacity of twenty persons each. The relay stations will be twenty miles apart, and the stages will be run on schedule, after the train system. The schedule worked so perfectly last winter that stages cov- cred the entire distance of 305 miles, and finished the run with as much punctuality as passenger train does on the transcontinental roads.
 The Nome Nugget prints extracts from letter written by Thomas s. Novel;, among which we find the fol- lowing: MT. Thos. S. Nowell, during his long connection with mines in AL aska has acquired an extensive knowl- edge of it's needs and actual condi- tions. He states in his letter to his son that he will go to Washington at the opening of the next session uf congress and he would be pleased to represent that section. MT. Nowell pledges him. self to look carefully after the interests of all sections, without expense to any one, as he will himself defray all costs of the trip during his sojourn at the national capitol. MT. Nowell, without doubt, would make an ideal represen- tative.
Douglas Island news., 1904-09-21

The North Commercial Company's steamer Koyukuk recently made trip of 25O miles above Fairbanks on the Panama river to what is known as the Big Delta. The boat took a stock of supplies and opened post at the Big Delta for the company.
 A man lost a pocket book in White. horse which contained S95. Another man found it and chased all over the waterfront to find the owner, who, on receiving it said: Come across the street and l will buy a drink" The very generous offer was declined.-S
 Selfconfessed thieves, Joe Shubert, Ben Toyler and George Wade, employees of the Wild Goose Mining Company of Nome, have been bound over to the grand jury on charge of larcenc and placed under 82,0OO bonds each. The men were implicated in the footing of the Mattie mine August IT.
 ". A. Ried, formerly of Skagway, but later secretary of the Y. M. c. A. of Treadwell, is in charge of the Mill tary Branch Y. M. c. A. in the St. Louis fair. He expects to return to Alaska at the close of the fair and will look after the Military Y. M. c. A. work in this district and will reside at Fort Seward.
 At no time in the history of the camp, has the shortage of currency been so keenly felt as at present, says the Council City News. What might have been an active and exceptionally good season, has so far, proven very slow and discouraging. Everyone of the large companies in and about Council, have been and are, paying their employees in checks, and as there are but little or no means at hand to cash them, our business men in all lines, are in a very unpleasant positio
 With the advent of ex. Judge and ex- Mayor Thomas J. Humes, of Seattle, in Alaska comes a new political force in this district. The "Mark Twain" of Seattle will not be a passive spectator to the workings of society, political or otherwise, no matter what community he might call home. He has selected Fairbanks as the place where he will attempt to lay up few dollars against a rainy day, but if the whole of Alaska should prove too big for his influence to permeate it's farthermost border 1t will be because the leopard has changed his spots, or has ceased to be the Judge Humes of the old day.-Alaskan.
 The editor of the Whitehorse Star is for the following, and still lives: The rose that smells the sweet est is the first of all to fade. The boy who runs the feetest is the one to soon- est jade The brightest of the evenings has the gloomiest of dawns. The man whe buys the biggest yards must cut the largest lawns. The apple chat is larges thas the fattest worm ofall. The fellow who gets on in life is always full of gall. The soup that looks the dearest is the first to show the flies. The fellow who would sell the goods must pay to advertise. The hen that lays the larg- est egg will be the first to set. And things we always banker for are the last of all we get. The simplest way is always best, and yet we pass it by to labbIe with the tinseled things that catch and fool the eye. l
Douglas Island news., 1904-09-21

The North Commercial Company's steamer Koyukuk recently made trip of 25O miles above Fairbanks on the Panama river to what is known as the Big Delta. The boat took a stock of supplies and opened post at the Big Delta for the company.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-03-28
CHICAGO MUST PAY.
in Snarl Over the De.
 posit Which Has Not Been Made.

Chicago. March 2S.---An effort will be made to-day to straighten out the tangle regarding the deposit which the local committee is said to have made to secure the republican national con vention for Chicago. So far no money has been deposited by the local com mittee to guarantee the expenses of the convention, and a meeting has been arranged for to-day between members of the national sub-commit- tee in charge of the local arrange ments and the citizens committee in an effort to reach an understanding in the matter.
 Samuel B. Raymond. chairman of the citizens committee. said late last night:
 E ''There was never written agree ment and there never was any guaran- tee of a certain stipulated fund. Sen ator Hanna asked me if we would de- posit sum in some bank in case we got the convention, but we said fatly we would do no such thing. We would not deposit any sum or guaran- tee any sum- All we agreed to do was to pay any legitimate expenses of the convention. That was our under standing with Senator Hanna and he understood it that way"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-03-28
SERVANT
 PROBLEM.
A Brooklyn Minis
 ters Sermon.
He Says They Are Not Paid Wages Enough-He al- so Spoke a Good Word for the Female School Teacher.

New York, March 2s.-In a sermon before his congregation in Brooklyn, Dr Newell Dwight Hills has freely ex- pressed himself on the servant girl problem.
 You never pay enough wages" he said, ito the nurse girl who takes care of your children. You never recon pense your cooks adequately for what they do for you by their good cooking, which helps to make sweet tempers and sunshiny dispositions. Most of the good thinking that is done on Mon- day Is due to a well cooked dinner on Sunday. You never can pay them enough wages; you ought to send them to as many entertainments as you go to yourself; you ought to make them a part of the family.
 There's many q servant in the kitchen, Or nurse girl, who stands high CT with God than the wealthy mistress who treats her as a menia1. There are no menial duties in caring for lit- tie children. l do not understand why families of so much culture do not have the same fine ideas toward service as have the old patrician families of the world''
 Dr Hills then championed the old maid school teacher. Society, he said would not hold together without them.