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turbulence very characteristic of the Eng
lish dOwager. But what chiefly produces
this effect of dowdness are the faces.
Though the frocks may be June. all the
faces are late autumn; the fabrics are gay
enough, but the faces are unsuitably GUM
and dull. They are non-conductive. apa-
thetic faces Whatever emotion stirs the
spirit behind these faces. it leaves the mask
Of mask it be- of facial dowdiness I'M
relieved.
There are three reception rooms. Beyond
them. to the right, the supper room. The
middle room Is blocked. a little woman, so
short-backed that you realize with a shver
how narrowly she has escaped q hunch-
back 5 fate, stands talking Yollubly to a
diplomat A long line of patient guests
stand waiting behind her. Every other sec
ond the lady neryousIy shakes her close
cropped. iron-gray head, or kicks at her
yellow silk train. When she turns her close
brown eyes, narrow pinChed nose and pailid
skin mark her one of the valiant neurotcS.
There is danger in long descent. The
founder of this ladys family was one of the
most powerful. most martial figures in En-
glish history; his descendant turns the mind
invountary to the theories Of Max
Nordau.
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the mutton-chop whskers affected by
stately buffers and ambassadors
Let In the walls of the white salon there
are several fine portraits. Over the mantei
is one of Sir Robert Waipole. The keen
eyed George Wyndham stands beneath it
looking intently at the pretty wife of a city
solicitor whose portrait hangs in this year
academy. Some ruggedness in the pictured
face of the dead statesman seems to en-
phasiZe some pleaSure-loving weakness in
the face Of the former cabinet minister be-
meath the portrait.
The white walls of this reception room
do not seem to hurt the old portraits in IT.
The Walpole. and a portrait of Lord Chud-
leigh. seem positively 10 gain from the star
ing white contrast. But Millais portrait
OF Gladstone suffers. The painting of the
face is chalky in color; the famous eye Is
fierce to caricature, it Oblterates the face.
Even when looked at intently. the eye occa-
sionally wanders out of the head. mod
est head Of Balfour hangs framed on mar
row panel between door and window
1t Is the head the public is familiar with
the one in which the chin jaw and cheeks
are so engagingly modelled 1t is nice
piece of craft, only it Is not Mr.. Balfour.
1t is an antithetical piece of art-an ideali-
cation and libel.
Fresh people arrive; a batch of pretty
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girls-very pretty and becomngly dressed.
Mrs. Humphrey Ward, short woman who
gives an impression of frmness and
strength starts court with the pretty
girls under the Gladstone portrait.
Two gentlemen speak
THAT is Mrs. Humphry Ward, is it not2"
"Yes."
"Ah, A managing, competent head Is
Mr. Ward here?"
"Yes. That is he examining the pic
lures
"Ah To he sure, What a very manag-
ing head she has,"
Fragments of conversation float about the
room. An ambassadress. elegant and dia-
monded. complains. in French. of the heat
and Of the crush. fat. oyerripe debutante
in childish white urges her mother to go
into the supper room She does want
an ice" she says. The japanese ambassa-
dor, strange boyish figure with tired.
eager face. smiles at her and moves aside
to let her pass.
There is in the Zoo. at Regents Park, a
friendly little animal half rat. half rabbit.
that runs about the lodges in its cage and
thrusts its nose with friendly confidence
through the wires for visitors TO rub. A
little man, whose white hair stands straight
on end, seems friendly, as inquisitlve.
His smiling inquring air. his quizzical
friendliness. pique curiosity; so do the pearl
ornaments on his evening shoes. Ordinary
evening dress and pearl ornaments on his
shoes, What does It mean? Suddenly
remember last years academy ana por-
trait of sargent's Toby, NJ P" uienry
Pepys of these degenerate days.
The wife of a well-known novelist de-
mands supper. Together enter the sup
per room. Knots of people stand about the
buffet. The fat debutante is enjoying her
ices.
"Figs-green figs. 1 love figs. You don't?
You lucky person. to come from such a
country; three crops a year-fancy You
leave them. green figs. on the ground for
the fowls to eat? What shocking extrava-
gance!
Those Burne-Jones on the wall? Yes.
they belong to Mr.. Balfour. | suppose he
leaves this house. You see that one on
wood? Two girls doing flop. You can
see the heads, they are painted in too low,
too flat tone. The drapery is worked in
metal. When the light catches the metal
you can't see anything but the drapery.
don't think that picture is success. Burne-
Jones was always doing that sort of thing:
some people like it, don't you know. He is
an acquired taste. a kind of hypnotism. l
don't like turned-up noses and wilowy
necks. They say that they grow on you.
don't want anything of that sort to grow
on me. OF course, man with a willOwy
neck doesn't really matter. He can always
cover up his deficiency with a collar-some
mems collars are like fences. aren't they?
DO you know many people mere! Neither
do |. l don't like arist1cratic parties. | was
at an at home the other afternoon at
which the Chinese ambassador turned up.
His party hurried in ate all the straw
berries-helped themselves don't you know
and then hurried off. Awfully funny peo-
pie. I suppose all the people here are dis
tnguished for something.
You paint, don't you? No? l thought
you did.
"Oh, the Balfours have vanished and
everybody is going VIII you me to my
motor car? Thank you so much Good
night" A COLONIAL.
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cept during the period when the
rehabilitation of the building was in prog
ress, several years ago. the White House
has never been closed for so long a period
as this year.
The annual housekeeping and repairing
has been in progress since the President
and his family went to their summer home
and when they get back they will find the
exterior of the building looking spotless and
the interior as Clean as the hands of man
can make it. large force of men has been
at work a number of weeks all over the
building. The outer walls were cleaned by
hand this year and fresh paint put on
where the last coat had worn off, but the
hand-cleaned walls look winter, if possible,
than where the fresh paint has been put on
Throughout the interior of the building
fresh paint has been unsparingly used.
with the result that the walls have fresh
look. There has also been a general over
hauling in other directions, and considerable
money has been spent out OF the fund APP
propriated by Congress for the care and
maintenance of the building. The appro-
p.iaticn 20. the present fiscal year amounts
To $4,000. aud in the last fiscal year the
appropriation ives the same. After the en-
largement of the building ii was necessary
To increase the allowance FOR the Presidents
home the appropriations in Mckfnley,s
time having been about 10000 each year.
The appropriation is exclusively for tho
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,c,gyr.sht. 1908. by curti. nrowno
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TONDD% August 3 1895
~ ,,.a, re. 49,. ,1,.r g., pfoc,di1Iv
49,, -, ,,ari,
"a ana "0'hcu across TIE N'ie'i ain
LE toward the steps that lead TO Down
4 a ing street No To- the premier's Of
z.fa1 b,,fsa &c NJ nIafn brick In an
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isi'''.-' HOO "i''N' " DUN
house, quiet grave. middIe~ciasS mousse
LlSMts iHmiue jhe open doorway; a strip
NJ red Garnet snraads across the narrow
-,-.,..... ,,.i a., .,,,..,r5 ,}, e,a,s that
I"' .'-''i'' '''', "''' -
lead 10 the Green HafA' carriages anu
motor cars gather about The walls OF the
the s-rfp of red Garnet and enters. AT
homes that begin at 1890 pm. do not in
d--r. n flow Of soul OF bcget cheerful ex-
recitation.
The e11est enters q long passage Serv-
ants tr evening dress motion with depre-
eating hands the way to the visitor BY the
staircase runs a long counter: behind it are
numbered pigeon-holes. I surrender my
In. and Goa, and receive numbered ticket
: gentleman D's5dt me lelIs me III d my
'.''"-'9 Nc i,y a., 90, - ~ 81.
ca up ne van hIIt'iileSs - '.i t
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nm" ti''l III l@''5 Gnu - 60 - 80
"lHeI country III me Noiiu tns 49, 49, 10 a.
i!HpoItaH' a. 'he C1lI'en,S vi .lie 'g yI, T.,
III '4ie NV't Vi 1"o ' @ ~ 80
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METHOD OF COUNTING
THE UNCOUNTED PEOPLES
BY HENRY GANN EFT.


which have not been tempered with. the
following table is presented, showing the
population at a few dates during the past
: CON
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Geographer for the United States Government.
this great number considerably more than
one-half is still a matter of estimate, only
400 millions being enumerated. The only
known populations are those of India. the
British and Dutch colonies, and Japan. the
last not from a census as we interpret the
word, but from registration of the people.
which gives the total number with pre-
sumptive accuracy, but little else regarding
them
The above statements may be summar-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-13
Cost of Maintaining
The White House

F'TEI2 having been closed for five or
six weeks, to the great disappoint-
ment of thousands OF strangers,
the White House will be open to
the public the coming week Ex-
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=
White House and It's care ana help. From
this appropriation all repairs are made,
painting done, plumbing attended TO, refur-
nishing paid for. together with the wages
OF the help. So far as known the Prest-
dent is not compelled TO pay out OF MS
laundry attendants, steward and his assist
ants and other servants are paid from the
appropriation made by Congress. The ush-
ers are paid from separate appropriation,
which cares for the force OF clerks and en-
ployes In the executive offices. The police
men In the grounds and inside the White
House and executive Offices are paid on
the police rolls of the city. being merely de-
tailed to their present work. The squad of
laborers in the grounds, engaged In cutting
grass, trimming trees and shrubs. looking
after the fountains, keeping the grounds
clean, are paid from the appropriation made
for the superintendent OF public buildings
and grounds. There are eight or ten of
these men, and they are kept busy.
Clerks In the office of the superintendent
of public buildings and grounds say that
the only way an estimate could be made of
how much the White House has cost. in
Guiding the furnishings and wages of the
servants employed there would be To fol-
low the appropriations since the erection of
the building. They have no total In this
story Of the building since 1892, when the
plans of James Hohan were selected, est
mates the total cost at about 10000 in
Guiding the $4,000 Virginia and the $4,000
Maryland gave TO build II. Hoban superin-
tended the erection OF the first building. and
also its restoration after It was burned by
the british in 1914. The cornerstone for the
original building was laid October II. 1872.
The funds for the construction, outside of
those furnished by Maryland and Virginia.
We're derived from the sale Of lots in Wash
ington.
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OF the enumerated countries China is by
far the most important, since X IS supposed
to contain fully three-ffths of the uncount-
ed people of tie earth Many widely Diff
ferent statements of the population OF this
country have been published at different
times. The figures have been derived from
registrations of the people, these registra-
tons having been made at irregular inter-
vals-some times annually and then after
long intervals. from time immemoral.
Many. perhaps most of the results of these
eigners to suit their own notions of what
the popula ton should be. and hence are
yaluelcss. Those which have not been
changed are. however, of much value. as
they give the minimum number of the peo-
pie, if nothing more.
No reason can be conceived why China
should pad its population and publish d
number in excess of the truth. The motives
which induce this In American cities
absent in China On the other hand, there
are cogent reasons why the returns of this
registrat lion may be less than the truth. 1t
has been and perhaps is now made for pur-
poses OF taxation and for draft into the mil
itary service both of which would natural
y induce concealment. II may easily be
conceived. moreover, that many and per-
haps great omissions due to careless
ness on the part OF the people and of the
officials. These considerations seem to in
dictate that tho figures Of population of
China are not likely to be too great, but.
If in error. they are in all probability TOO
small
Selecting from among the many published
statements OF population certain ones
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The first presidential family to enter
the building was that of President and
Mrs. John Adams, This was in November
1900. In April OF that year Congress had
made its first appropriation for furnishing
the building. This sum was for $4,000,
and at the time there was much COM
plant as to the large sum of money to be
spent in doing this. Mrs. Adams the first
wife of a President 20 go into the build
ing. found it splendidly furnished with
the money appropriated. The appropra
ton, however. lasted for long time. as
there is no record that another was made
for three or four years. No appropriation
for repairs was made by Congress until
seven years later, in March, 1907, when
$4,000 was put a the disposal of those
in charge of the building.
9 There is no record that the servants
Were furnished to Presidents at the in
ception. and it is generally understood
that it not until comparatively re
cent years that Congress felt called upon
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published and has renewed popular interest
in the matter. The figures. like those OF
earlier dates, refer 10 the population of
China proper only. The Chinese empire Is
give min 1902 as i239oo,0Do
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THE PLUM TREE.
BY DAVID GRAHAM PHILLIPS.
copyright ~ the Company
BY DAVID GRAHAM PHILLIPS.

Copyright 1875. by the Bobbs-Merrln Company
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-02-14
4 M,n. Ch05. EBr0na

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love and admiration of her husband,
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To one person Lakewood suggests the
rendezvous OF select society, to another a
utopia for invalids, and to third the dom
icile Of pony polo, golf, drag hunting and
other sports. 1t means in fact, all things
desirable to all men It bids fair to be-
come in time as famous as the old English
resorts of fashion. Within striking distance
not only of New York but OF Philadelphia
also, besides such change of scene and
anclioration OF climate as one expects at a
winter resort, it offers the inhabitants OF
both cities common meeting ground for
social pleasures and fecreations. A num-
Der Of the larger hotels afford accommoda-
tions which leave the most fastidious pa
irons nothing to desire, and smaller hotels
and select boarding houses abound which
are adapted to the needs of people of re-
fnement, whose means are moderate. An
admirable school system makes the town
suitable as family home. The natural
scenery is far famed, particularly the
Cathedral Pines and the romantic shores
Of Lake Carasaljo. The attractiveness Of
the region is also greatly enhanced by the
architectural beauty Of The private resi-
dences which have been constructed on
every scale and in a wide variety OF charm
ing styles, both modern and antique. An
interesting little brochure on Lakewood
has been published By the Central Railroad
Company Of New Jersey, which may be
had for the asking. Ssnd for it to G. NJ
Burt, G. P. A., las Liberty ST., New York
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HOUSE PASSES RATE BILL
Esca townsend Measure Goes
through Without Trouble.
TOTAL VOTE or 326 TO II

Dohn sharp williams, the Minority
Leader, Urged the Passing OF Another
gin Made Up of the Davey Sill and
Portions Of thei shakleford BiIl-Mr-
williams voted the Winning Measure
washington, D. C.-After rejecting
the minority substitute by 1856 to 151
the House passed the Esch- Townsend
bill by 326 to II.
Under The special rule the time for
the vote was set for 3 o'clock in the at.
ternoon, and there We're only two prop
ositions before the House. One was
the Esch-Townsend bill and the other
the bill urged by John Sharp Williams,
the minority leader and made up of
the Davey bill and portions of the
Shackleford bill The Democrats had
demanded the right to amend the ma
jority bill with provisions applying to
private ear companies and terminal
preferences. The majority program,
having been decided upon by the adOp.
tiOn of the rule, there was nothing left
for the Democrats but to vote for their
own bill and then take what they could
get in the majority measure, which
they did almost to man.
During the debate there were ex-
pressions of praise for the President,
whose fight for rate legislation was ap.
plauded when alluded to-
Mr. Pierce. of Tennessee, said the
President had shown that he was the
greatest leader this country had seen
since the Civil War He justified his
support of the bill on the ground that
it was Democratic doctrine, and had
been urged by w J Bryan, who was
also leader on this subject.
John Sharp Williams, in closing for
the minority began by saying that the
country owed the bill to the President.
He congratulated the House on the
prospect of the passage of such legisla-
ton. and on the fact that President
Roosevelt had ''been nominated by the
Republican Party and elected by the
people, He insisted that the President
was beginning to assume a strong
Democratic attitude. and expressed the
hope that he might urge on Congress
tariff revision and the reduction of the
army. Then, growing sarcastic he rid
iculed the -partisanship of the ma.
jority and the passing fear among Re.
publicans that the President would ''go
over to the Democracy
The bill which he had drawn and
which the committee had repudiated
was. in his opinion, only q rough draft
which he had framed after conferences
with the President and members of his
Cabinet. The Esch Townsend bill was
not an Administration measure, nor
could any bill be said to be an Admin.
istration measure. His own bill was
as much an Administration bill as any.
for it was. with the exception of two
sections, the work of the Attorney
General.
In order to keep the record straight
Mr.. Williams demanded the yeas and
nays on the minority substitute. and
when that failed both he and Mr.. Hep
burn at the same time were demanding
yeas and nays on the Esch- Townsend
bill.
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TIC riar ~ tha vatinan.

The Papal flag is comparatively I'M
familiar outside of the Eternal City.
The war flag of the defunct temporal
power of the Pope was white. and in
its centre stood figures of st. Peter
and st. Paul, with the cross keys and
tiara above them. The flag Of the mer-
chant ships owned by the subjects of
the States of the Church is curious
combination, half yellow and half
white, with the design of the cross keys
on the white. In the banner used by
the Crusader King of Jerusalem, God
frey, the only tinetures introduced were
the two metals, gold and silver, five
golden crosses being placed upon a
silver field. This was done with the
attention Of making the device unique,
as in all other cases it is deemed false
heraldry to place metal on metal
London Pail Mali Gazette.
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The Furness Liner Damara Goes on
Rocks Near Halifax, N 5.
Sinks in Few Minutes, But Two Boauoads
Of Crew and Passengers Get on in
Safety and Reach the Shore.

Halifax, n. S. The Furness Line
Office here was. advised of the arrival
at Point Pleasant of the missing boat
from the steamer Damara, which ran
on the rocks at MusquodoboIt. thirty
miles east of here, early the previous
morning. The boat contained Capt.
Gorst and four passengers, and ten Of
the crew. They suffered little i'll eff
steamer carried thirty-four persons in
all. The first officer and eighteen men
landed at Pleasant Point the afternoon
before after terrific struggle with
wind and sea-
Word was received from Capt. Harri-
son, marine superintendent of the Fur
ness Line office. who left at midnight
on a tug for the scene of the wreck
that the steamer had sunk in ten faith
oms of water.
The first officer. H. J. Nuttall. who
sent the first news to this city by
telephone, said that it was 2.30 a. M.
when the steamer struck on the lodges.
The weather was thick, with a heavy
snowstorm in progress and gale
passed entirely over the lodges, and
tore a large hole in her bottom. As
soon as she cleared the reefs the
pumps were sounded and it was found
that she was making water fast. The
pumps were kept going, and it was
hoped that the ship would make some
point of land where the crew could
beach her with safety. This was
CT hi "a
water gained so fast that the pumps
could not keep the steamer free. The
water rose rapidly, and the fires were
extinguished, so orders were at once
given to launch the lifeboats.
Nuttall. with eighteen Of the crew,
went off in the first boat, and soon
afterwards the second boat was put
over the side. The captain, four pass
engers and the remainder of the crew
(ten men), entered the boat and pulled
off a short distance from the Damara.
When they left the steamer there was
fourteen feet of water in the hold, and
she was dipped heavily by the bow.
Nuttall said that it was daylight when
they started for the land, and short
time afterward, a snow squall thick
er than any of the preceding ones, shut
out their view of the captains boat.
After that they did not catch glimpse
of the liner, which was then on the
verge of laundering. When the wealth
er cleared slightly, the steamer was
not in sight.
Nuttall said that the men in his boat
were so exhausted from cold and hum
ger that they never would have been
able to make the land had not the peo-
raIa of pIaa Point Q0mn tO thQir as
sistance and dragged their boat ashore.
They were cared for by residents of
the settlement, who showed them
every attention. Two Of the engineers
were in the boat which made the land.