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The Irish standard., 1905-11-25

where. in July, 1898, the League" was
SSorganized, almost in 1reland's eleventh
hour. is ever to be commemorated as
the cradle of the New Ireland. Never
did q. band of young men and patriots
II come together with clearer view OF
with greater enthusiasm to put it into
operation, They laid their emphasis
\ on the national language as the palia-
dunn of nationality, and, as the de-
D generation of Ireland began with the
abandonment of the old tongue, so its
regeneration must, begin with its re-
/. vival. They saw that with proper or
:. Ranization and action it might be pos
sible to rouse the Irish people from
their lethargy and to bring back the
native speech to their ken from the
remote Businesses in the West ana
South where it had taken refuge. They
accordingly announced their program
4 to be "The preservation Of irish as
the national language of Ireland ana
duplication of existing Gaelic litera-
ture and the cultivation of a modern
literature in Irish" They wisely left
the purely literary and academic ques-
lions to the already existing socletles
for those objects in view. For halt
the short number of years that marx
the life of the Gaelic League the
workers toiled slowly and painfully
and attracted little notice. Nothing
was lacking to its beginnings the
apathy Of their countrymen, the dis
dain of the press, and even the scoI-
fers who must accompany every good
work. During the latter halt-dozen
years of it's existence its progress mas
been astonishingly rapid. First and
above all the strength of the League
has been centered on the upkeeping
of Irish as the language of the hearth
and home. the field and farm, in those
districts where it is still the vernacu-
lar; then, from these centers, to- carry
It to the borders where it is now
lowering between life and death. One
means to this end are the genuine
Irish schools, the establishment or
which it has fought for in those YER
nacular territories. 1t may be news
to some to learn that thousands OF
hooks and pamphlets entirely in Gaelic
and in Gaelic type and on Il wide
range OF subjects are now published
annually; that, exclusive of religious
books, more books are now published
in Dublin in Irish than in English. A
new literature in Irish has been ere
ated and the classics and the almost
forgotten poets, Eoghan Ruadh, Raj
ferty, MacDonnell, Ferriter, O'Donos-
hue, Tadhg Gaedhealach, have risen
from oblivion and taken their places
at the Irish fireside. The "League'
has two organs published regularly, the
"Irisleabhar ma Gaedhilge" ("The
Gaelic Journal'), monthly, and the
"Claidheamh Soluis" ("The Sword Of
Lightly, weekly and many papers in
Ireland and America print columns in
Irish. 1t appoints and pays organ
izers to stump the contested districts
and to win over the local school and
ecclesiastical authorities.
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Peep O'Day OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 80
The Croppy OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 80
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The Boyne Water. Observation-Disclosures. 30
The Denounced Observation-Disclosures. 80
Peter Of the Castle. ............. 90
Father Connell ................. 80
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-30

The announcement that the joint COM
mission Of Pennsylvania and Maryland has
completed the resurvey and remarking of
the boundary line between the two states
gives now interest to the famous Mason
portant part in the history of the country
The work of rcmarking this ancient boun-
dairy was carried on under the direction of
DR.. William B. Clark of the Maryland
geological bureau and the secretary of In
ternal affairs of Pennsylvania. The Penn
syivania Legislature in 1889 appropriated
$1,000 to repair and reset the monuments
on the boundary line between this com
Maryland on the south" In 1900 the legis-
lature Of Maryland made a like appropria-
ton OF 5000 to carry on its share of the
work
Surveying parties were sent into the
field first in 1893 and the major part of the
work was done some five years ago. but
the commission encountered unexpected diff
fculties in the search for some of the origi-
nal marking stones and the task was not
completed and reported to the governors of
the two states until this year.
Mason and Dixon $ line received its
name from the original surveyors. Charles
Mason and Alexander Dixon. They were
sent to America from London in 1868 to
lay down the boundary between the es-
tates of Lord Cecilus Calvert and William
Penn, TO avert what at one time threat
ened to be a civil war between the follow
ers OF the two great land holders.
The surveying was begun in 1854 and
pursued until stopped by the Indians at
Dunkard creek, now in the state of West
Virginia, in the autumn of 1861. Through
the greater part of the distance from the
eastern end of the line to Dunkard creek,
IA miles west OF Delaware. the line was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-30

marked by stones one mile apart, in which
and the letter M in the south side. At
each five-mile mark a stone was placed
with the arms of Penn engraved on the
north side and those of Calvert on the
south side. Fortunately for posterity. the
original surveying party ran the line by
the stars and did not depend upon the
fluctuations of the magnetic needle. If it
had been surveyed by a compass in 1900
1t would have shown a deviation of at
least two miles, and were the line to be
run over again at the present time with
an uncorrected compass, according to the
records of the original survey, the devia-
ton would reach about nineteen miles
south OF where it now is and the rich coal
mines of the Maryland counties would be-
long to Pennsylvania. The later surveyors
soon discovered the trick of their prede-
cessors and followed the same course.
me agreement which furnished the basis
OF the original survey made between
the colonists of Penn and those of Calvert
and was contained in the charter given by
King Charles II to William Penn In 1881.
A semi-circle with twelve-mile radius was
to be drawn around the town of New Cas-
tie, Del, beginning at the Delaware river
and extending north and west. right
line was to be run from Cape Henlopen on
the coast of New Jersey, due west to the
middle point of the peninsula between the
Chesapeake and Delaware bays From this
point meridian line was TO be run due
north so as to form a tangent with the
semi-circie drawn around New Castle. From
the point where the tangent touched the
circle the meridian was TO run due north
until IL reached the latitude of a point If
teen miles south of Philadelphia. From this
the boundary between the two estates.
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nal surveyors the work necessary to estab-
hsh these several points was ACCOMPLISH
ed with great difficulty through the forests
ana marshes across the intervening rivers
1t consumed three years, beginning with
1850, to establish the line across the pen
lnSula and TO fix the tangent point Then
me London surveyors took up the work.
Nearly a year more was consumed to make
sure of the latitude OF the point fifteen
miles south of Philadelphia. Finally the
point was established where the three cor
ners of the states of Delaware, Pennsyl-
vania and Maryland meet and this point
was duly marked by a suitable stone and
the survey of the celebrated Mason and
DIXON line was begun in the summer of
1764.
That year the line was run and partially
marked to the Susquehanna river The
next year 1t was continued to the Allegheny
river and little further to the westward
put by decree Of the Indians 1t was
brought abruptly to a stop, and the sur
Veyors returned to Philadelphia.
In lS49 desire to test the survey took
shape and the legislatures of the three
states interested made appropriations and
appointed commissioners to perform the
work. The survey was placed in the hands
OF Col. James d. Graham of the United
States Typographical survey. Col Graham
went over the work and in the main cor
roborated 1t. He found that the radius of
twelve miles used to establish the arc of
the circle was two feet and four inches
snort and that the tangent point had been
placed 157 feet too far SOUTH The corner
stone of the three states was reset accord
Ing to this survey, and Maryland received
1.S1 acres of land as the result Since then
there has been no effort seriously to ques-
ton the accuracy of the original survey.
The mile stones used to mark the boun-
dairy We're brought from England, dressed
and ready for setting up. The labor of
transporting them over the trackless will
derness was found almost insurmountable
and had to be abandoned over a part of the
line. Where the posts could not be carried
piles of stone four feet square and eight
feet high were built in their place. and in
some instances wooden posts were used on
some of the inaccessible hills of western
Maryland. The marking posts were about
twelve inches square and varied in length
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-30

to drink. He said simply, I'm not thirsty"
But l ask you, can you conceive anything
more barbarous than to have to drink
when you are not thirsty and eat when
you are not hungry? It's like going back
to the days of the inquisition, when they
tried peoples faith by pouring gallons of
water into their stomachs by means of
funnel.
Now. having told you good many things
in support of my theory, let me now tell
you what mean by intelligent irrigularity.
Don't have an idea that you can't sit with
your back to the horses or with your face
to the engine. If you don't happen to be
hungry when you sit down to your lunch
don't force yourself to eat more thap you
feel inclined to do. If, at the same time,
you feel inclined to have a second helping,
have it by all means. Don't take a tepid
tub as a sort of religion on morning
when you feel shivering and cold or If you
happen to have pain between your Shout
ders. On the contrary, have it hot
you get into it, and you'll feel all the
better for 1t.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-30

ways do have been the greatest curse OF
many and many human life.
l once stood In the Casino at Dieppe
watching lady play little horses" why
do you double on n VIM" | asked. ''It so
seldom comes off" She looked al me with
mingled pity and contempt. at is my sys-
tenn" she replied If nothing further
could be said. 1t was very bad system.
1t lost her a great deal more than she could
afford to lose and crippled her seriously for
the rest of her life.
But that was only money. At any mo-
ment money can come back-somebody may
leave you some, you may find some means
OF making It. property may go up, prices
may go down: nothing is impossible with
regard to money. But once you have by
foolish regularity allowed the curse of line
and rule to possess you, there is no getting
back your own again. What you DELHI
erately waste of the precious human It's
sues is lost to you forever, aye. and richly
you win deserve 1t.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-30

1t Is the household executive whatever
her title, who watches Closely the costly
silver, the delicate cut glass and the dainty
chinaware of the house. 1t Is she who sees
to it that renewals both in the household
table service and the household linen are
made at the proper time. 1t is a part Of
her duty to prevent leakages either
through carelessness or through pilfering
She must keep harmonious the discordant
personalities sure to be brought together
In any aggregation of people as numerous
as a modern muti-millonaires household.
There are sure to be differences. even quar-
rels, between gardener and butler, butler
and chef, stableman and coachman, and
coachman and gardener, to say nothing
of the inevitable falings out among the
women of The household. These she must
soothe over herself, If possible, keeping all
knowledge of them from either the bust
ness ridden master or the socially driven
mistress of the house.
The household executive. too, must look
after the daily menus, for which purpose
she must have at least one session every
day with the chef. Often after she has ar
ranged the dinner menu the real chatelaine
will suggest Encouragement, sometimes so
late in the day to make the chef suiky;
such situation calls into play all the tact
the stewardess has at her command.
When guests are coming for a week
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-30

Think of your hair. If you want to have
luxuriant head OF hair at seventy don't
part 1t in the same place from the time you
leave school If you do you will have a
"hy-walk' that would accommodate black
beetles. No woman in the world has such
beautiful hair as the woman who keeps
well in sight of the prevailing fashion. 1t
means that she frequently changes her
mode of dressing, and change in dressing
is as good for the hair as intelligent irregu-
larity is for the human mechanism. Be-
neve me. those harmless little words, IT al
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emily be very much the worse for his po-
tations. Take the case of pair of boots.
The person who has one pair of boots wears
that pair out in next to no time, but your
provident person who wears them irregu-
larly, that is to say, wears them turn and
turn about with two, three, four, five or six
other pairs, is the person who gets half as
much again out of his boots in proportion
to the person who has only one. 1t is the
same with everything. Many people love
boiled tripe and onions, but think of living
altogether, week in, week out, on boiled
tripe and onions! The very thought is
nauseous. Think, too of going to bed every
night at 10 o'clock to the very tick. Ill or
well, gay or dull. busy or idle, because one
had been to bed at 10 o'clock the night
before, and intended to go to bed at 10
O'Clock the night after. The very dreariness
of the idea is enough to shorten life!
Then take the old-fashioned idea as to
fires. When I was a child l knew people
who never had a fire after the spring clean
ing was done. and prided themselves on
getting 1t finished by the first of May, nor
would they permit a fire to be lighted out
side of the kitchen until November had
poked her misty personality in at the door,
How dreadful How unenlightenedl How
dreary! / did not live in such a house as
that myself; / shouldn't be here today If !
had. Or If / were here today l should be
a miserable, dyspeptic, wretched and dis
contented woman. instead of being able to
go to a pantomme and laugh as heartily
day / heard a man severely blamed be-
cause a friend, wishing to do him great
honor, opened bottle of champagne during
the course Of the morning, and pressed him
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-30

The duties of the modern multt-milionaire
households executive head are mutifarious
In the summer time, when the family IS
living at its country place, her authority
extends, in a way to the uttermost boun-
daries of the estate. Butler and chamber
maids, coachman, chief stableman and head
gardner all take orders from her.
OF course her rule does not extend to
the small details concerning the work
done by such employees as the coachman,
the head gardener and the stableman.
Each of these manages the internal af-
fairs of his own little domain as it pleases
him. but from her the coachman receives
his orders as to what turnouts shall be
brought out each day and when: the head
Stableman gets from her his directions
regarding the saddle horses that are
wanted. and from her the head gardener
receives directions as to the flowers that
are wanted at the house.
Furthermore. all these submit their ac
counts to her, and it is she who draws
their attention to any undue expensive
ness that may develop in the conduct of
their departments in the little world that
makes up the establishment maintained
by their multi-millionaire employer.
If there is a housekeeper under this
functionary then the latter probably acts
as social secretary to the mistress of the
house. Generally, though, this is not the
arrangement, the social secretary's work
being done by woman who has no other
duties to perform In any event the house
nOiu force IS ulNlueO INTO Inree classes:
The maids, the buffers staff" and the
kitchen forces. The last named are head
ed by the chef-sometimes there are two
and he has from three to five helpers.
The kitchen is the most expensive of the
three departments. There are proba bly,
few $4,000 cooks now in the United
States, but some of them are very well
paid indeed. The butler is another we'll
raid employe, and, almost without excep-
ton. he, as well as the chef, is an impor-
tation. The head cooks and head walters
in many of the lti-millionaire houses
are better paid (when it is remembered
that the pay includes keep" and at least
two new suits a Year, than most active
railroad men, for instance. Yet the Amer
leans who become chefs or buffers are
cember.
The writer, in fact, never heard of an
American occupying a place either as
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-30
Fall of the Wheel,

From the New York Tribune.
Mute evidence of the decline in popularity
of the bicycle is furnished by the rows of
empty wheel racks al the Grand Central
station. Time was, not so long ago, when
every one of them (they are hundreds in
number) were filled, and even then there
was not room enough for the bicycles that
arrived with every TRAN. Now a bicycle
is strange sight In the station, and the
racks store nothing but dust.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-30

Councilman-"Fve come to see, sir, IL you
will subscribe anything to the town ceme-
terry"
Old Resident-"Good gracious! I've al
ready subscribed three wives."-Lfe
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-30

1t was another reporter who sought out
a reformer. now nationally prominent. when
he was just beginning to come to the front
and asked him If he would grant the favor
of talking on a certain phase of a question
then before the public.
The coming man jumped when the re-
porter spoke.
by Jove! he exclaimed, why didn't L
think of that phase OF the thing long ago?
Talk about II! No, sir I'll save that idea
until next week, and then work It up for a
ma gazine which know will be glad to pay
me $50. at least, for the discussion. But is
there anything else l can talk to you
about2'
Graft?
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rooms in a Notwithstanding apartment
house and takes her meals out AS the
hands of the clock neared 1920 Mrs Henry
remarked. naively:
How would you like to drop in on Mrs.
Jones. just around the corner? It's about
her lunch time now, and If we go right
away l just know she'll ask us to stay to
luncheon, and she always sets such dear
luncheons. and 1 like them, oh, very great
deal better than those they give at the
boarding house."
Graft2
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-30

One OF last June's many brides-typical
of the others to all appearances-was max
ing up a list Of guests for the big church
wedding which she had set her heart on and
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HAVE lately been thinking good deal
on the subject of what may generalize
as the bodily state-health, strength
and beauty-and l have come to the
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THE office where the household eXecu
tive spends certain hours every day is one
of the most important apartments in the
modern multi-millionaire's establishment
II is not conspicuous enough to attract the
attention of guests, but it is the real CEN
ter of the households activity and intelli-
gence, as much as is the managers office
in a big hotel.
1t is there that the household bills are
paid and filed: it is there that the books are
kept: it is there that the expenses of the
place each month are compared with the
expenses of previous months as carefully as
the expenses of the great corporation whose
profits furnish the family income are com
pared by the corporations accounting de-
partment. In some cases the household
bills are formally audited once a month by
an expert accountant sent from the cor
porations main office.
In almost every case all orders for sup
plies made out on blank forms similar
to the purchasing forms used by big corpo-
rations, and are good only when signed by
the stewardess or whatever the household
executive may be termed and countersigned
either by the head of the family or one of
his most trusted office employees. The wages
account is generally liquidated by a check
from the head of the house drawn to the
order of the household executive cashed by
her and paid to the employees in currency
to suit.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-30

According to the records kept by the oris.-