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world into floating forests of masts. and
makes it possible for the windjammer to
outnumber it's steam rival in some such
proportion, as the latter far outreaches it
in tonnage.
But the coastwise windjammer has
crawled up in tonnage on the coastwise
steam vessel in recent years, and all be-
cause the ingenuity of the sailing master
has made steam do his bidding He dis
covered that he could control at will the
canvas of a schooner by means of a donkey
engine. and now there are six and seven
masted schooners costing a quarter of
million dollars each, and each with ton
mage of thousands over what was profitably
possible before the windjammers inveter-
ate enemy was enslaved for the formers
benefit. Some of these steam-fitted schoon-
ers have as much engine power and equip
ment as was on the first steamships to
cross the Atlantic. Like the majority of
the coastwise fleet, they are engaged in
carrying such humble cargoes as coal and
lumber. Four or five sailors and two Off
GERS. with the assistance of the donkey en-
gfnes, are enough to look after each of
these enormous windjammers of 5000 tons
burden and 10000 square feet of canvas,
How Steam Helps.
In still another way steam has helped the
sailing vessel, and that is to get into port.
When the wind was the wrong way wind
TANNERS used to stay off Sandy Hook for
days waiting for favorable turn In the
wind. Now. when a windjammer is sighted
by Sandy Hook, or Fire Island or by a
steamship. word is sent to the consignees
and tug is dispatched to find the wind
1ammer and tow it into port. Before this
practice became prevalent the record for
wasting time off the Hook fell to the lot
of a bark from the Caribbean which tried
for forty days to make the bay was blown
off continually, and sighted the Sandy
Hook and Fire Island lghtships as many
as twenty times before the wind finally
shifted and allowed it to head harborward
When will steam finally, definitely, triumph
over the windjammer? Last year. for the
first time since 1912, no square-rigged ship
was built in America. and only in Franco
is this style of windjammer holding its
own 1t has been calculated that in TWEEN
ty years the square-rigger will have dlsap-
peared from the American merchant ma
r1ne. In the meantime, other SORTS of wind
TANNERS are multiplying, and in the mean
time, also, thousand and one things may
happen to keep the square-riggers from dis
approximation example. if Congress should
pass the present shipping bill the largest
firm of square-riggers in America will i'm
medately add several ships to its fleet At
all events. as long as there is a variety
of Cargoes that can be carried to better adj
vantage in sailing vessels than in their
steam rivals, the humble windjammer will
continue to be a factor on the high seas-a
motive power in the international business
of the world.
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bid for passengers-and get enough to JUS
tify the expenses incurred in going after
and taking care of them.
Schooner Packet Lines.
The American schooner packet lines
home Is the famous old whaling port of
New Bedford 1t originated in the days
when every whaling ship. leaving New
Bedford short of a full crew. made the
Western Islands, and there completed the
necessary quota with Portuguese. the best
lancers and harpooners on earth. These
islanders, at the end of the whaling sea-
son, found themselves in New Bedford, and
in order to get those home who wanted to
go packet line between the whaling CEN
ter and the islands sprang into existence.
Today ii still has regular saiings, adver-
tised in the New Bedford papers. and its
passengers are Portuguese and descendants
of former Portuguese harpooners, VINO
married and settled on abandoned New
England farms, their children religiously
keeping up intercourse with the cd foiks
at home.'' sailing over to see them by the
hundreds in summer.
On one of the English lines for the An
tipodes the unusual passenger Is the tee
totaler. Not that you can get anything TO
sicians knowing the lines popularity. make
TANNERS do not carry drop OF 1ntoxicantS,
not even for medicinal purposes; but ply
sicians, knowing the lines peculiarly, make
use of it to get men suffering from alco-
holism, or verging on 1t, away from all
temptation until they can be fully restored
to normal; and the time consumed on the
voyage is just about the length of time
needed to accomplish this object. Many
an English Doctors standing prescription
for hard drinker is trip on this line;
and as a result when one of the wind
TANNERS is making ready to sail the pas
sengers begin to appear, supported between
obliging friends, limp, in cabs, and with
eyes seeing the proverbial sea serpent IN
the coils of ropes on the ships deck. But
day or two out of port puts them on their
feet, and by the time they have been out
week they are eating like horses and laying
plans for a grand jamboree once they
touch shore again on the under side of the
globe.
The Coastwise Trade.
All the vessels we have been talking about
are engaged in foreign trade exclusively,
but there are at least ten sailing vessels in
the worlds coastwise trade to every regis
tered one. For example. registered
windjammers total go according to the
bureau of navigation those in the coast
wise trade. whatever their tonnage, number
over 5000. 1t is the coastwise vessel that
turns our harbors and those of the outside
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Jules Verne II write from 5 am. until
noon, when take lunch and my days work
is finished: l must admit that do a lot
OF my work with the proof In hand-thanks
to the kindness OF my publisher. who gives
me unlimited revises. As | get UP carly.
go to bed early. / am asleep at pm.
do you always know how your stories
are going TO turn out?" / asked
Always, he answered. 81 begin with a
rough draft. which states what the story Is
to belts beginning. middle and end. AS
L usually have two or three stories under
way at the same time, / can switch from
one to another when l get tired. 1t Is a
valuable plan for any writer who would
produce his maximum. Sometimes | am
two years ahead of my contract. 1t is a
good thlng-for during the past three
months L have been able to do nothing
He certainly looked tired and weak, ana
a warning glance from Madame Verne
brought back to my mind her preliminary
stipulation that the interview should DO
short
when the preliminary draft Is DONE" he
went on. Il draw up plan of chapters,
naming them, and begin the first rough
copy of the book in pencil. When It is I'm
ished / re-write 1t in ink-and then the real
work begins with the first revise from the
printer. Somehow i cannot get real grip
of my subject until see II in print
Would not the typewriter do that for
your"
Il received one as a present from my pub
iishers. he answered. but | could not
learn to compose at 1t. / was too Old
Dream Inventions.
''To come back to the realization OF your
dream Inventions. Monsieur Verne. there IS
a persistent Russian rumor that the Japa-
nese have two dirigible balloons of the
Santos-Dumont type operatin in Manchu-
ria scouts. Do you still believe In The
future of dirigibles and flying machines. as
in your 'Robur lie Conquerant' and Hector
Servadac, was it not?'
81 should not be surprised If the Japa-
nese possessed those dirigibes.' he answer
ed contentedly. They are very progress
sive. The destruction of the Russian fleet
in the harbor of Port Arthur seems to me-
to have been the work of Japanese SUD-
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The Lines Not His Own.

From the New York World
A paragraph has been going the rounds
of the press referring to the following in
scription, which, it is stated was written
by Mark Twain for the tombstone of his
wife in Woodlawn cemetery. Elmira, N Y:
Warm summer sun,
Shine kindly here.
Warm southern wind,
Blow softly here.
Green sod above
Lie light, lie light.
Good night, dear heart,
Good night, good night.
1t appears that this statement is errone-
Gus, according to the literary sheet of the
Harpers. The lines are favorite ones with
Mr.. Clemens and when he had them en-
graved for his daughter's-not his wife's-
gravestone he inclosed them in quotation
marks, TO indicate that he was not the
author of them. Who the writer is he does
not know: but. as he says, the lines were
to him touching and beautiful. and express
ed what he felt better than any words of
his own could have done.
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By Virtue of the Emperor.

From the London Chronicle.
This success is gratefully attributed to the brill
liant virtue Of the emperor.-Admiral Togo.
By virtue Of the emperor
All victories are bought;
The nations warliEe temper or
Their leaders skill Is naught.
In ponderous tribes heaviest guns.
And paltry pawns our patriouc sons.
Fleets armies guns and batteries
Are trust OF fools alone;
The essence of the matter -
The monarch's moral tone:
To thrones and powers my heart, presaging, sings
Do yirtuous, and be conQuerors. kingsI
Then let the plausfve millions see
Your virtues magic powers
Beneath whose dazzling briliiancy
The stricken foenan covers;
These these alone make victory complete,
Shall storm his stronghold and shall sink hia 0sel
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THEIR DAY NOT PAST
Sailing Vessels Are Still
Seen on Every Sea.
CARRY ODD CARGOES
WINDJAMMERs MORE ECoNoMI-
CAL THAN STEAMSHIPS.
Shipper Saves on Freight What He
Loses in Time-Making Use
of Steam.
Written for The Evening

Written for The Evening Star.
A century ago steam began its fight with
sail for the mastery of the waters of the
earth. In the course of the struggle that
has been waged bitterly, necessarily ever
since, only the navies of the world have
gone over bodily to steam. In no other
line has steam triumphed to the extent of
securing monopoly.
The windjammer still goes down to the
sea as a packet, saucily defiant of the great
steel rival that swallows the equivalent of
the population OF a town on a voyage. 1t
still pokes it's nose inqusitively into ev-
cry part of the seven seas. 1t makes every
port of any consequence in the hemi5-
phere. Its cargoes are as varied as in the
days when it was undisputed mistress of
the seas.
Steam has pressed it hard, with never
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gates something like 500 thousand bales
per annum, which is less than one-third OF
the annual crop of Texas.
The Germans are also trying to raise
cotton in their African possessions The
Kolonial- Kirtschaftliche- of Berlin
has been arousng interest in the subject
1t has collected cotton seed and distributed
ii throughout the various German-Ameri-
can colonies. 1t offers premiums for the
best crops and gives free transportation
from Germany to the colonies. 1t has even
gone so far as to promise TO buy the entire
crop at fixed price if it is delivered at the
coast ready for shipment and also to fur
nish the planters machinery. at greatly re-
duced prices. Some of the German steam
ship lines have agreed to transport this
seasons crop free of charge.
I'm order to carry out these experiments
Germany has secured cotton experts from
southern states to take charge of them
She is also sending her experts to this
country TO study the methods of cotton
culture which prevail in the south. So far
We have no definite statistics showing just
what the Germans are doing in Africa but
we know that her first cotton shipment
from Ter colonies was received in Decem-
Der. 1902, and that ii consisted of only four
bales. 1t will be a long time before any
fear need be felt from Germany as a cot
ton competition
Russian Cotton.
How about Russian
THE Russians have some cotton fields on
the other side of the Caspian sea and they
are now growing several hundred thousand
bales per year They are increasing. their
cotton area. This is also true of India and
Egypt, but the growth is nowhere so large
as in the United States. Within the past
twenty years we have increased our product
more than 96 per cent or about five and one
half million bales per annum. There is no
doubt but that the increase will go on, es-
pecially If the demand of the world Is such
as will keep up the prices
Are our cotton exports increasing, Dr.
Galloway" I asked.
Yes. In 1880 We exported only four and
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q let up. Steam has Kissed across its
path day and night. stealing away freight
by the millions of tons, passengers by the
tens OF thousands. Steam has outfooted *.
crashed into it, wrecked 1t. stolen its very
friends whom 1t made rich. Steam has
done all this and more, but despite all 1t
has done, which is all it can do, steam
has not succeeded in driving the sail from
the seas, and so, today, the windjammer is
still with lis several thousands strong.
1t In shorn of much of its former glory,
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London, matter of nearly months voy-
age for liners even.
Coal. fruit, lumber. case oil, wool, wheat
these are the staple cargoes of the wind
TANNER today. with scarcely thought for
passengers as in the good old times.
Scarcely a thought mind you, for, strange
as 1t may seem. a packet line with reg
ular schedule still runs from the United
States across. the Atlantic and the lines
that sail out of English ports for Australia
and New Zealand nearly all make strong
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East Indian Matrimonial Notice.

From the Lahore Tribune.
Wanted-a match for childless widowes
of thirty-three years. He is very respecta-
BILE and wealthy, making about 400 rupees
per mensem and Agarwal Walsh by caste.
Apply with particulars to
RAM CHANDARSAHAI,
Deputy Collector. Budahon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-11
The Spirit of Prophecy.
From the Houston Post.

From the Houston Post
Whitney had just invented the cotton gin.
NOW" chuckled he, lit won't be great
while before the southern states will see
seed"
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After Facts.

From the Houston Post.
How old did your sister say she is2'
Eighteen"
How old Is shef'
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department organized a demonstration farm
at that place. 1t got one of the planters
TO set aside twenty acres for the purpose
and TO take charge OF the work. The farm
6rs and business men there became interest
ed in the subject They wanted the expert
ment tried. and raised purse of $500 to IN
sure the planter against any loss. The man
planted and cultivated his twenty acres UNI
der the direction of the department and as a
result he not only made the fun amount of
500 which should have been his ordinary
profit upon that much land, but also 81, 800 ad-
ditional. In other words. out of that twenty
acres he made 81, 800 more than was made
out of any similar area in the cotton fields
adjoining him cultivated in the ordinary
way He was so impressed with this that
he planted 100 acres this year under the
same management. He has kept strict
account Of all his expenses. including labor,
seed. picking baling. stock feed and inter-
est on the value OF his farm. and the entire
cost for the year has aggregated $G,IA AS
a result he has made a crop OF 243 bales of
cotton which has already brought him in
S13T45 giving him a clear net proht OF
S. COO He has twenty bales yet to pick.
and this viii give him 81 geo more. AT the
same time lands cultivated in the old way
have little more than paid their expenses.
Where are you making experiments OF
This kind. DIR. Galloway"
We are making them all over the south.
Our plans involve the use of fertilizers and
the selection of seed. They include the
rotation of crops. the Introduction of legu-
mlnous plants to add humus to the SOIL
end a general good farm management
and cause it to yield the largest possible
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Long Staple Cotton for the Uplands.

Does the character OF the cotton seed
make much dlfference?" | asked.
yes, that is one of the vital points in the
Industry We are getting the best seed
from all parts OF the world, and are giving
each locality that which grows best fer that
locality. We are marrying different kinds
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-11
How One Man Made $1,000.


''I have just received a letter from Ter
rell, Tex" continued DR.. Galloway which
shows what can be done by proper cuItiva-
tiou. The cotton product of that region has
been steadily decreasing, owing to the lack
Of fertilization and the boil weevil To show
what might be done by better farming the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-23
TRIBUTE TO THE DEAD.
John Paul Jones and Wilmer M.
Blackmar Subjects Of Resolutions.

A midsummer meeting of the United
States Historical Society was held last
night at the residence OF its president.
Major J. II. Slime, 1875 Carroll street south
east. After the transaction of routine bust
ness Major Slime presented a resolution in
honor Of John Paul Jones. which was
unanimously adopted. 1t recited that view
ing the failure of so many nations of the
earth TO formulate governments of che peo-
pie. for the people and by the people," IT
was resolved that I'VE honor the services
of John Paul Jones in aid OF Gen. Wash
ington and the patriots of the revolution
and his great services in that momentous
struggle for universal liberty"
II was further urged that suitable monu-
ments in honor OF his memory be erected
by the grateful people of this great re-
public at Annapolis. Nd, and Washington.
ID. c.
Capt Homer J. Locking then offered
resolutions in respect TO the memory of the
late Wilmer NJ Blackmar, commander-in-
cfiof of the Grand Army of the Republic.
II recited that the United States Historical
Society recognized Gen. Blackmar's pa
triotlc devotion to his country In war and
in peace, and we bow our heads in sorrow
at the announcement OF his sudden death"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-23
UNDERTAKES HAPPY
Parisians Can Now Wear
Mustaches.
Special Correspondence Of The Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
PARIS July 16, 1905.
Undertakes here are jollier than usual
nowadays, because they have just been
granted permission to wear mustaches. 1t
appears that they have been trying for over
four years to obtain what they consider to
be valuable privilege Hitherto the COM
pany of Funeral Pomp," as it has been
called which in Paris is semi-municipal
enterprise, has insisted on all its hands be-
ing clean shaved. A barber is even paid to
attend to them for nothing. But the Gro
quemorts, mutes are gruesomely called
here, hankered after military mustaches
and now they have obtained them, OF at
least the right to wear them. Still, the
privilege was granted with much reluctance
One of the directors of the company said
pathetieally: 'NIustaches do not harmonize
with the austere livery of our men. More
over, some of the latter have utterly spoiled
their looks by letting the hair grow on their
upper lips. For instance, several men
whom we used to employ effectively at fu-
nerals of the first class can now be sent out
only to escort paupers hearses. so deplor-
able is the change in their appearance since
they grew mustaches."
French funerals, 1t should be explained,
are divided or classed into ten categories,
according to the degree of ceremonial and
price. Many of the mustached men now
appear to be reduced to the tenth class of
undertaking.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-23
BRITISH BATTLESHIPS.
Defective System Of Ventilation Said
to Be In Vogue.
Of The Star.

Speclal correspondence OF The Star.
LONDON, July 49, 1905.
The questions Of defects in the army and
navy, their arms and equipments still con-
tinue the subject of discussion here
naval gunnery officer in an interview this
week made public the following regarding
the armament OF British batteships:
A few weeks ago great hue and cry
was raised about the twelve-inch Mark
VIII guns. The critics blamed the guns,
but in this case 1t was not a case of de-
fective inner tubes, bad mountings or faulty
sights. All these things are the best that
money and mechanical ingenuity can pro-
duce. The fault was the VIGOROUSLY de-
fectve system of ventilation in vogue on
the warshps. For instance we use cordite
in the navy. Now cordite is very capricious
You must keep 1t cool or 1t deteriorates sur
prisingly. We are supposed never to let the
temperature of the magazines rise above 90
degrees.
I'm my last ship the monday temperature
of the lower deck flats averaged about 1870
degrees, and in spite of all of our precau-
lions l am sure the magazine frequently
reached this. The result was that our cor
dte suffered and our last two quarterly
practices were returned as very bad. That
cordite was returned to the store when we
were paid off to be issued to another ship.
She, too, will shoot, badly, and then we
shall hear more talk about defective guns
and sights"
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BARRED FROM UNITED STATES.
Irish Guards Band Cannot Pass
Through American Territory.

LONDON, July, IL, 1905.
There is considerable disappointment
among the members of the famous Irish
Guards Band on account OF communica-
ton which has just been made to them
by the British war office. Ii is to the eff
feet that they must not enter the United
States when they visit the Toronto exhibi-
ion in August
The communication has been made In a
document marked private and confidcn-
tial," and no reason Is given for the de-
cision arrived at. The Irishmen cannot
understand why they should be thus barred
from the United States, considering that
special provision was made for the Grena-
diers' Band to visit the st. Louis exposi-
ton last year
1t is stated on good authority, however,
that the English war office has been
prompted in its decision by notification
from Washington that the Irish-Americans
of New York threatened to make the ap-
pearance of the Irish Guards Band in the
city the occasion for hostile demons.ra-
ton, which might result in complications
between the two nations 1t ought 10 be
explained that, while the Irish Guards are
most popular IN England in their own
country they receive but scant courtesy.