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DIED.

LIAM BUCKHULTZ, in his forty-hrst year.
funeral from the chapel OF J. VIM. Lee. I'M
dertaker. as2 Pennsy fyania avenue northwest.
on W 'dDesday. June p, at O'Clock pm. In
terment at Arlington.
BURKE. The remains OF Mrs. ANNIE. BURKE,
wife of Terrence Burke, will be removed from
vault Wednesday. June D. 1904. at 4:30 pm,
| and buried at Mt. olivet cemetery.
Wash NELLIE, wife of Major S. W. CLARK,
formerly Of this city.
| DEAN. Departed this life Monday June 20. 1904.
@ after az heI ons aHd psnfS ness
which h, she heb, bore With Christian fortitude. Mrs.
Funeral from Lincoln Temple, 18th and r streets
northwest. Wednesday. June o. at pm.
am, NARY GILLIAN, aged nineteen Years
Funeral, private from residence, 1905 South Caro-
lima avenue southeast.
W, GoRMAN, formerly of Baltimore. aged
street northwest June %, at $40 O'Clock am.
Interment at Loudoun Park. Baltimore. Md.
GREBLE Suddenly, on Monday, June 20 1904, at
8 O'Clock am. JAMES j.. beloved husband OF
Funeral, private from his late residence, No; s2I
street northwest, on Wednesday june -, at
4p.m. Interment at Rock Creek cemetery.
LIE CAIN. On Monday, June 90 1904, W. H. LIE
Funeral services at his late residence. No 334 1st
street northeast. Wednesday, June %, at pm.
Interment at Arlington by Lincoln Post; No 3,
G. A. r. Comrades OF the post invited 70 at
S. W. McELDERRY. Commander.
Adjutant.
PETERS. Departed this life June 10, 1904. at 3
o'clock m, at his residence, 1896 Superior
street northwest JOHN 7. A PETERS beloved
father of Margaret. Alfred. William and John
Funeral will take place from his late residence
"Wednesday June -, at 2 o'clock pm. Friends
and relatives are respectfully invited TO at
tend. p
In Memoriam.
DIKEMAN, who died year ago today, June
81 1913.
Gone In the best of his days,
Blghted in manhoods bloom;
Torn from the hearts that loved him,
To sleep in the silent tomb.
BY HIS PARENTS.
LIPSCOMB. In loving remembrance OF my be-
loved wife, JULIA LIPSCOMB, who died one
year today, June 81, 1903.
Cone but not forgotten.
. BY HER HUSBAND, EDWIN A. LIPSCoMB.
PITCHER. In loving remembrance OF dear
daughter and sister BERTHE PITCHER who
died five years ago, June p, 1890.
Dear BERTHE gone but not forgotten.
Loved in life, remembered in death.
PAPA, MAMMA, BROTHERS AND SISTERS.
SCHOENTHAI. In memory OF beloved wife
and mother. MINNIE DAHL) SCH0ENTHAL,
who departed this life five years today.
June 81 1899
Gone, but forgotten.
FAMILY.
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St Agnes Guild Fete.

st. Agnes Guild of Chevy Chase will hold
a lawn fete for the benefit of All Saints
Church, Chevy Chase, on the library
grounds corner of Connecticut avenue and
Kirke street. Chevy Chase, Thursday, juno
o. from to 10 pm. No admission Will be
charged.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-21
Mrs. Flint Recovering.

Mrs. Weston Flint. who has been serious
ly i'll at her apartments in the Cecil, is i'm
proving slightly, but is still unable to sec
any visitors.
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MARRIED,

PHILLIPS-CANTER. On May "a. 1904, by the
Rev VIM. ]. Morton. pastor OF Christ Church.
Alexandria. Va, WILLIAM l.. PHILLIPS and
CORA l.. CANTER, both of Washington, ID. c.
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Deaths In the District.
The following deaths were reported to the
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Miss Mama NJ. Greer of Germantown
Philadelphia, is visiting Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas Stretton of 1909 4th street north
west.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-21

Miss NJ Louise Heron of 1852 18th street
has just returned from visit of six weeks
with relatives in st. Louis, Mo-, and south
ern Maryland. Her cousin, Mrs. NJ. p.
Petit of Piney Point, Md, is now her
guest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-21

Miss Rosa Getz of Roland Park, Balti-
more, is the guest of Mrs Jules A. De-
monet 1909 H street northwest.
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Very pretty dresses. Round and
square Jokes of fine tucks. trimmed at
neck and sleeves with dainty cambria
embroidery. Skirts are cut extra
width and made with very deep hens.
Second Floor.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Max I\ohner of 1882 18th
street have as their guests Mr.. and Mrs.
Louis Ostertag of PiquS, Ohio. They will
remain here a few days prior to their de-
parture for Europe. They will be at home
to their friends this evening.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-21

Mrs. Amelia Carroll and her two children
have gone to join her husband, John NJ.
Carroll in Keokuk, Iowa.
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Mrs. L. S. Embry Copenhagen, daughter
of Judge Embry of this city, and Mr.
George Bruce Webster of New York are to
be married in New York today.
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Feminine Extremes.

From the Baltimore Herald.
1t is in fashions that femininity. famous
for it's extremes, displays the most sur
prisingly silly cont asts.
Take, for instance. the way the ladies
decorate their shoulders and dress their
feet. The average woman with the means
to dress as she pleases will cover her
shoulders with furs that may cost any
where from five up to five hundred dollars,
while she will settle the footwear problem
with a pair of paper-soled shoes that are
not likely to exceed a valuation of three or
fo ur dollars. With her shoulders arrayed
in ahiuer ce she will trip the streets in
snow slush, her thin-soIed, thin topped
She es affording only the slightest possible
protection and warmth. 1t is almost the
same wearing no shoes at ALL Suffer?
OF course she does. but that is of no con-
sequence. She could not wear large, heavy
snow and water proof boots or even clumsy
rubbers. That would be much more pain
full THAI the cold
All women do not commit this indiscre-
ton, but the majority of them do. Why?
Well, why do women do a great many
things that are entirely inexplicable?
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MRS. RIGGS AND HER a's.
How Kate Douglass Wiggin Favors
One Letter

Admirers of the works of the lady who is
known to the reading world as Kate Doug
lass Wiggin would doubtless not recognize
her if she were mentioned by her formal
society name, Mrs. Riggs. But that is her
name, nevertheless, and it was recently en-
phasiZed at a dinner given by her at her
house in New York to a number of literary
friends. One of them, Mr.. Harry P. Taber,
whose humorous stories and rhymes have
convulsed many readers in the past, had
prepared for the occasion the following
"G-ode' to the hostess. which was read
with evidences of great enjoyment by those
present:
The poets have sung in the days gone by of the
love Of a maid tor man;
For love is the thing that revolyes the world and
has ever since time began.
And Rosalind loved in the forest glade and unfor-
tunate Egypt's queen
Knew little concerning the loving stunt ere the
asp came the scene.
But none of the maids in the history books-no
OF these
Compares with the wonderful Mistress Riggs and
her passionate love of g's
There's Douglas and two in Riggs and
others in Wiggn, too
much to do.
But IL l a letter / wouldn't care-Td work
for her night and day,
II shed maze me another Rebecca book-and my
work would seem like play.
So when you see her again some time, will you tell
her, my lady, please,
That like her acknowledgement as much as she
loves her coll cted g'S?
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THE RUSSIAN ADVANCE. Ry Albert ]. Bever-
idgc With maps New York: Harper Broth
eTs.
One of the bes.-known of all the tradi-
tons of international politics is that Rus
STA has for centuries been seeking free
access to an uafrozen port. This fact is
perhaps more commonly known among the
people at large, without reference to their
relationship to diplomacy or politics, than
any other fact relating to a foreign power
Thus to a certain extent the steady advance
o. Russia toward the warm seas is tajily
well understood by the people of this eoun-
try. who have watched the course of events
in the old world with intelligent keenness
But only to a certain extent. So vast Is
Russia so widespread are her activities
today so yelled many of her designs, SO in
scrutable many of her incidental motives
and Intentions that 1t is difficult to follow
with a full comprehension the great play of
world forces which just now eliminates in
the close approach of Japan AID Russ!s'
to the war point. Ever since the Boxer
trouble of 1890 closed and its consequent
course of readjustments in China began the
western world has felt that Russia DID not
irtend to yield at all from the advanced
position which she had taken in eastern
Asia. Senator Beverdge of Indiana I'M
dertook in the course of visit 10 Iussia
and Asia in 1901 to ascertain the lne OF
greatest likelihood in this regard. He trav-
eled with probably the most complete OUTFIT
of credentials and permits ever granted
to an investigating tourist through the
realms of the car. He notes in his book
the surprising frankness of all the Russian
officials with whom he talked. their reidl-
ness to show him everything. ths liberty
granted to his personal movements. 1t
would seem as though the government at
st. Petersburg had placed the whole Rus
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RARE "DEVIL" FLOWERS.
Single Plant Worth $1,000 in
e1,OOO.OOO Orchid Collection.

From the Chicago Record Herald.
The flower pot was like a toy. The moss
in it would not have made a teaspoonful.
Out of the moss two tiny leaves, each less
than a half-inch long, peeped. They were
variegated leaves; their right halves were
green and their left halves white Pot,
earth, leaves and all, this plant would have
slipped easily into a mans waistcoat
rocket.
And yet $4,000 had been offered for it.
1t did not weigh an ounce. There was
nothing to it but two tiny leaves upon
stem less than an inch long. Yet it was
worth $4,000.
1t was an orchid in the collection of Mrs
George B. Wilson of Philadelphia. Mrs
Wilson's orchids are said to be the finest
in America-some say the finest in the
world. The little plant was a cross between
a Cattleya aurea and Cattleya labiata.
1t was two years old and it would be five
years more before 1t would begin to bloom.
But it was the only orchid in the world
with leaves half green and half white, and
therefore Sanders, the English collector,
seeing it in November, said
Il viii give you $4,000 for it,
But Mrs. Wilson's gardener replied
I'VE buy all we can, but we never SELL"
Mrs. Wilson lives at 43d and Walnut
streets. Philadelphia, says the New York
liiDGtie. 1Sh years ago Sie UouSHt tHe
orchids of Erastus Corning of New York
10000 plants, which Mr.. Corning had been
forty years in gathering. She engaged for
her gardener, Alphonse Pericat, who had
been head gardener at the orchid farm of
Baron Alphonse de Rothschild of Paris, and
she sent off, with a rowing commission,
Henri Barrault. a skilled orchid hunter. For
the last ten years, thanks to the daring
and TIE industry of Barrault, and thanks
to the patient art of Pericat her collection
has been growing greatly. 1t is practically
a collection that represents fifty years of
work. 1t numbers 600 plants, over 1000
of which are unique, with duplicates no
where in the world, and it is worth Gas
Erastus Corning spent $100, coo on 1t, as
Mrs. Wilson has spent s259,CO0 on it, and
as Percat has propagated from it over
1000 hybrids) close upon s1,000,00o. 1t is
said to be the best collection in America,
and Sanders says it is in many respects the
best collection In the world.
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Of his son. and this was probably the source
of a large part of the fund which eventu-
ally came to the United States.
The possession by the first Duke of
Northumberland of titles and dignites only
inferior to those of royalty was of little
consequence to his son James Smithson.
Deprived by the bar sinister on his
escutcheon from claiming the family name
and henors. he nevertheless aspired to win
a fame more universal and lasting than
these could have bestowed upon him. He
devoted himself to original research in the
field of science. and sought to be known
and honored by his fellow-men as a dis
coverer of new truths. Moreover, he re-
solved to attach his name to an institution
unique in it's character. noble in its object,
and universal in Its beneficence. of which
John Quincy Adams has well safd ''Of all
the foundations of establishments for pious
or charitable uses which ever signalized
the spirit Of the age or the comprehensive
bene1cence of the founder. none can be
named more deserving of the appreciation
Of mankind"
Smithson's feeling in regard to postum
nous fame was strikingly expressed in the
following sentence found in one of his
manuscripts:
1.-The best blood of England flows in my
veins; on my fathers side I am a North
cumberland. on my mothers / am related
to kings but this avails me not My name
shall live in the memory Of man when the
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OF those gentlemen az far as his Judgment
dictated. There was considerable corre-
spondence between the executors and Mr..
Fletcher Webster regarding the documents,
letters, etc, OF Mr.. Whistler, and an EFFORT
was made to collect the scattered writings,
chiefly in the nature Of correspondence. re-
quired to complete the collection. The time
passed. however without action, and finally
Mr.. Fletcher Webster, in 1857, five years
after his fathers death, published two
volume edition of Private Correspond
ence." This was by no means complete.
Then in 1869 Mr.. George Ticknor Curtis
published Life in two volumes, contain
ing number of additional letters. Some
of the originals of Mr.. Curtis collection
warehouse in 1881, but fortunately before
that disaster a large number of the letters
had passed into the hands of Mr.. Charles
O. Greenough and are now in the Library
of Congress. The present edition embraces
everything that has not heretofore been
published which bears upon Mr.. Webster's
public career or his private correspondence
of a character suitable for publication. In
the first volume are certain addresses de-
are speeches in Congress and diplomatic
papers; in the third are miscellaneous
papers, legal arguments, early addresses,
etc. and in the fourth letters. Each volume
Is prefaced by a portrait of value, while
other portraits and plates are scattered
generously through the work. Index and
appendix provisions are ample, and render
before the student of biography, history
and politics, while the lover of the force
full, graceful English style, of which Mr..
Webster was q master, is now presented
with a golden opportunity for the enrich
ment of his own store.
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the trust of James Smithson to the United
States of America be faithfully executed by
their representatives in Congress- let the
result accomplish his object, the increase
and diffusion of knowledge among men,,
and wreath of more unfading verdur0
shall entwine itself in the lapse of future
ages around the name Of Smithson than
the united hands of tradition. history ana
poetry have braided around the name OF
Percy through the long perspective in ages
past Of a thousand years
Literally Educated.
The Duke of Northumberland provided
liberal education for his son James, who
pursued his studies at Oxford University,
where he became attached to Pembroke
College, distinguished for having among Its
fellows the learned Blackstone. the eloquent
Whitfield and the celebrated Dr. Samuel
Johnson. Here the young student was
noted for diligence, application and good
scholarship, and attracted marked atten-
ton by his proficiency in chemistry. HIS
vacations were passed In excursions 10 COLI
lect minerals and ores which ii was his
favorite occupation to analyze. At oxford
he received the impulse for scientific re-
search which characterized all his futurs
life and the ardent desire not only to adj
vance knowledge himself but to devote in
after years his whole fortune to provide
means by which others could prosecute this
high and noble pursuit.
on the 26th of May, 1ISS, as James Lewis
Macie, by which name he seems at that
time TO have been known, and which lie
retained for about fourteen years when hs
adopted that of James Smithson.
Smthson never married, and as q man OF
wealth had ample opportunity for leisure
or the indulgence of mere personal gratiff-
cation. But idlenesS and pleasure were not
compatible with the spirit and ardor of the
young student of chemistry. He diligently
pursued his Investigations and his ambi-
ton to become associated with the votaries
of science induced him to seek membership
in the Royal Society of London.
His Death in Genoa.
Smithson died on the 9th of June 1929,
at Genoa, Italy. He was buried in the
Protestant cemetery, about a mile west OF
Genoa, on the high elevation which forms
the west side of the harbor and overlooks
marked by handsome monument. The
base is of pale gray marble, 81 feet long,
feet wide and 81 feet high. On the top Of
this is a white marble suitably proper
toned to the base. The lot is inclosed by
an iron fence, with gray marble corner
posts. On side of the monument the
inscription is as follows:
Sacred to the memory of James Smith
son, esq, Fellow of the Royal Society,
London, who died at Genoa the 26th June,
1929, aged 10 years"
On the other side is the following:
This monument is erected, and the
ground which it stands purchased In
perpetuity, by Henry Hungerford, esq,
the deceaseds nephew in token of graft.
tude to a generous benefactor and as q
tribute to departed worth.
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The Public and Wall Street.
From Cent per Cent.

From Cent per Gent.
The public, however, during the past year
has been taught a severe lesson in the
tactics Of Wall street, and its effect Will
doubtless be lasting. 1t has seen the values
of securities steadily crumble away point
by point, scarcely without an upward
movement, until they reached their present
low level Men whose names were known
throughout the length and breadth Of the
land as promoters and organizers of colos-
sal Industrial combinations no longer COM
mand the confidence of the people. 1t has
been plainly demonstrated that they are not:
infallible. and the mistakes they have made
have been costly in the extreme. The
masses have learned the lesson well and
have turned their eyes from the stock ex-
changes, with their glittering attractions. to
the small Industrial corporations conserva-
lively capitalized and honestly managed.
from which moderate but regular returns
on the money invested can reasonably be
expected, but which will be exempt from
the ups and downs and manipulative prac-i
tees of the stock market Glowing pros
pectuses of corporations whose principal
assets are wind and water no longer serve
their purpose. The people are beginning to
think and to inquire and to place their
money only when they have been fully con-
WINGED as to the intrinsic merit Of the cor
poration in which they are asked to invest.
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SM|THS0N'S REMAINS
Body Being Brought Here in
Charge Of DR.. Bell.
PROPOSED TRIBUTE
PEOPLE TO HONOR MEMORY OF
SMITHSONIAN FOUNDER.
The United States the Beneficiary Of
His Generosity-His Genoa
logical Record.

DR.. Alexander Graham Bell is expected to
return to Washington about the middle of
the present month with the body of James
Smithson, the founder of the scientific in
stitution which bears his name. DIR. Bell
and his wife sailed on the steamer Princess
Irene on January from Genoa, Italy, with
the remains of the distinguished scholar
who was buried there In 1929, and should
therefore reach Washington about the time
calculated upon before he departed on his
errand. Arrangements have not yet
been made for the reception of the
body of the distinguished man whose
generosity gave to the United States the
fund which made scientific research possible
amid such splendid environment and it is
likely that the remains will be temporarily
placed in vault. later being reinterred in
the grounds of the institution or placed in
a permanent mausoleum there. If the
wishes of the regents of the Institution bear
fruit Washington will have a memorial to
James Smithson that would be a credit to
any city.
Genealogical Record.
A monograph prepared by William J.
Rhees of the Smithsonian Institution says
that James Smithson was born in England
about the year 1854 the precise date and
place of his nativity being unknown. He
was a natural son of Hugh Smithson, first
Duke of Northumberland. his mother being
a Mrs. Elizabeth Macie. of an old family
In Wiltshire of the name of Hungerford.
Nothing has been learned of her history.
Hugh Smithson, his father was distin-
guished as a member of one of the most IL
lustrious houses of Great Britain, and also
because Of his alliance with the renowned
family of Percy.
The Smithson baronetcy arose with an
earlier Hugh Smithson. the second son of
Anthony Smithson. esq.,. of Newscome or
Newsham. in the parish of Kirby on-the-
Mount, Yorkshire who was thus rewarded
by Charles II in 1860 for his services in the
royalist cause during the civil wars.
In 1850 Sir Hugh Smithson succeeded to
these honors and on the 22d Of October,
1776. was created first Duke of Northum-
berland and Earl Percy. with succession to
his heirs male; and finally in 1854 the
barony of Lovaine of Alnwick was added to
his accumulated dignities.
The duke lived till 17S6. and was succeed
ed by his son Hugh (half brother of James
Smithson). as the second Duke of North
cumberland.
First Duke of Northumberland.
Hugh Smithson. the first Duke of North
cumberland. had (besides James Smithson)
another natural son. who was known as
Henry Louis Dickinson. He received good
education. entered the military service, was
commissioned lieutenant colonel on the 1st
of January. 1900. and on the 4th of August,
1903. took command of the Saith Regiment of
Foot. He saw active service on the CONT
nent and in Asia and Africa. His estate
was left to the care of his half brother,
Mr.. James Smithson. in trust for the benefit
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titles of the Northumberland and
Percys are extinct and forgotten"
The Words of Adams.

titles of the Northumberland and Tho
Percys are extinct and forgotten
The Words Of Adams.
The eloquent words of John QuinoH
Adams in reference to the fame to be coma
ferred on Smithson by the successful al.
complishment of the great design he had
in view by his bequest are appropriate Inf
this connection:
''The father of the testator upon forming,
his alliance with the heiress of the family
OF the Percys. assumed. by an act Of the
British parliament. that name. and under
it, became Duke of Northumberland. But
renowned as Is the name of Percy in the
historical annals of England; resounding Al
1t does from the summit of the Cheviot
Hills to the ears of our children in the
ballad of Chevy Chace. with the classical
commentary Of Addison; freshened and
renovated in our memory as 1t has recently
been from the purest fountain of poetical
inspiration in the loftier strain of Alnwic&
Castle, tuned by bard from our own ma.
tive land F'itZ Greene Halleck); doubly inJs
mortalized it is in the deathless dramas
of Shakespeare; confident against th0
world in arms ii may have been in ages
long past and may still be In the virtues OF
Its present possessors by inheritance, lat,
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Many Years to Wait.

From the Chicago News.
Poet-.1 told her would be married
when received check for last Ms"
: Friend-"You should be careful You
know you promised not to marry for many
years yet"
Poet-eDon,t worry. This matter was
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Decidedly Beneficial.

Aunt Janet hope you enjoy your
dancing lessons, Freddy?"
Freddy-"Sure, aunty: When get in a
fight now, can side-step twice as good
as used to-"