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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-20
Can't. Ross to leave This week.

Capt. Albert Ross. who has been assigned
by the Navy Department as commandant
OF the Great Lakes Naval Training Station.
for which site has been purchased at
Lake Bluff, ILL.,, expects to go to Illinois
this week to enter upon the work Of es-
tablishfng the station.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-20
SEE A BRITISH BUGABOO
RUSSIAN PAPERS SUSPECT AD-
VERSE LONDON INFLUENCE.

ST. PETERSBURG. June 2o-The Novoe
Vremya today printed dispatch from Lon
don in which its correspondent declared he
was in possession of information to the ef-
feet that the British were advising Japan
against the conclusion of an armistice.
Russia the dispatch added, .'is not
considered to be sufficiently weakened.
Great Britain hopes that Field Marshal
Oyama will succeed in destroying Gen.
Linevitchs army and thus relieve her OF
the nightmare that the army may later be
shifted to the borders of Afghanistan for
operatiOns against India
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-20
Boasts the Government.

The radical Nashashisn asserts that the
phantom of financial exhaustion hanging
over Russia" is really the greatest friend
of peace, and draws narrowing picture
of 80 per cent of the empires population
living as their forefathers did in the six
teenth century, groaning under the con-
stantly increasing debts piled up by mill
tarism and the adventures of the autocracy,
which clever bookkeeping can no longer
conceal.
Russia the Novoe Vremya continues,
'is reaching the end of her ability to bor-
row for the purpose of prosecuting the war
Here is the real secret of the hope of peace
Russia's poverty must decide the issue
when the plenipotentiaries meet"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-20
To Duty With Canal Commission.

Maj Edgar Russell signal corps, has been
relieved from duty in the office of the chief
signal officer of the army, War Department
this city, and ordered to duty on the 18TH
mian canal commission on August / next
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-20
Virginia Postmasters Appointed.

The following fourth-class postmasters
were appointed today In Virginia. Graves
Mill, Asa N Estes; Mountain Lake, Beirne
Ellison
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a MAD friend OF mine viii have
NA jt that the chara cterist1c OF the
age is Make Believe. he ar
~ cues that all social intercourse
II ~ IS founded on make believe. a
servant enters to say that MI
and Mrs. Bore are in the drawing
room. "Oh. damn says the man,
"Husht" says the woman. smut ING
door, Susan. How often am 10 tSit
you never to leave the door open
The man creeps upstairs on uptoe ana
shuts himself UP in his study me
woman does things before a looking
glass waits till, by force or viii, she
feels she is sufficiently mistress OF -lteH-
self not to show her feelings, ana theh
enters the drawing room with OUT
scratched hands, and the look of one
welcoming an angels visit. she says
how delighted she is to see the Boresi
how good il was of them to come w ny
did they not bring more Bofes win
them Where IS haughIy %. 20 > e ~
ior2 Why does he never come 70 see
her now: she will have TO be really an
errv with him. And sweet little FiOs-
Sic Bore2 Too young to pay calls!
Eonscnsei An CAT Home day is not
worth having where all the Bores are
The Bores. who had hoped that she
was out who have only called because
the etiquette book told them that they
must call at least four times in the sea-
son. explain how they have been trying
and trying to come. This afternoon,
recounts Mrs. Bore, I'VE were deter
mined to come. John, dear, / said
this morning. 4 shall go and see dear
Mrs. Bounder this afternoon, no mat
ter what happens. " The idea con-
viewed is that the Prince of Wales. on
calling at the Bores, has been told that
he cannot come i'm. He can call again
i'm the evening or he can come some
other day. This afternoon the Bores
are going to enjoy themselves in their
own way; they are going to see Mrs.
BOunder. And how is Mr.. BOunder?N
demands Mrs. Bore. Mrs. BOunder re-
mains mute for a moment straining
her ears. She can hear him creeping
past the door on his way downstairs.
She hears the front door softly opened
and cIosed-to. She wakes. as from
dream. She has been thinking of the
sorrow that viii fall on BOunder when
he returns home later and learns what
d - has missed And thus it is, not only
with the Bores and Bounders, but even
with US who are not Bores or Boun-
ders. Society in all ranks is founded
on the make-believe that everybody is
charming, thai we are delighted to see
every body, that everybody is delighted
to see u.s. that it is so good of every
body TO come that we are desOlate at
the thought that they really must go
now. Which would we rather do: stop
and finish our cigar. or hasten into the
drawing to hear Miss Screecher
sing Can you ask US? We tumble
over each other in our hurry. Miss
Screecher would really rather not sing
Screecher, with pretty reluctance con-
sents We are careful not to look at
one another. We sit with our eyes
fixed on the ceiling. Miss Screecher
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finishes ana rises. But, it was so
short" we say. so soon as we can be
heard above the applause. Is Miss
Screecher quite sure that was the
whole Of it? Or has she been playing
tricks upon US, the naughty lady, de-
frauding us of a verse; Miss Screech-
er assures us that the fault is the COM
poser's But she knows another. At
this hint, our faces tighten again with
gladness; we clamor for more. Our
hosts wine IS always the most extraOr-
binary we have ever tasted. No, not
orders very strict. Our hosts cigar d?
We did not know they made such ci-
gars i'm this WOrka day world. No. we
really could not smoke another. Wen,
If he viii be so pressing, may we put it
in our pOcket2 The truth is we are not
used to high smoking. Our hostess's
coffee. Would she Confide to US her
secret2 The baby! The babyi We
hardly trust ourselves to speak The
usual baby. we have seen it, As rule
to be candid, we never could detect
much beauty in babies-have always
held the usual gush about them to be
lnsincere. But this baby! We are al
most on the point of asking them
where they got it. Tt is just the kind
We wanted for ourselves Little Janet's
recitation: "a Visit to the Dentist"
Hitherto the amateur reciter has not
appealed to US. But this is genius
surely. She ought to be trained for
the stage We plead for the stage
that 1T may not be deprived of such
talent Every bride is beautiful Every
bride looks charming in simple COS
tume-fOr further particulars see par
agraph. Every marriage is a cause for
universal rejoicing With our wine
glass in our hand we picture the beau
iiful life We know to be in store for
them how can it be otherwise. She,
lhe daughter of her mother (cheersl
Newell, we all know him (more
caeers, also involuntary guffaw from
lll-regulated young man at end of ia
pie. promptly suppressed. We carry
our make believe even into religion
sit in church and in voices swell
ing with pride. mention to the AL
mighty. at stated intervals. that we are
lulserabl WOrms-that there is no
good in us This sort of thing. we
gather, Is expected of us: it does US no
harm and is supposed to please. We
make believe that every woman is pure
that every man is honest-until they
insist on forcing us. against our Will
70 observe that they are not Then we
become angry with them and explain
10 them that they being sinners, are
not Iolk mt 10 mix with as perfect peo-
pie our grief when our rich aunt dies
Is hardly TO be borne. Diapers make
fortunes helping us to feebly express
our desolation- Our only consolation
- that she has gone to d better world
Everybody goes TO a better world when
they have got all they can out of this
one. We stand around the open grave
ana tell each other so. The clergyman
is so assured of st that to save time
they have written out the formula for
him and had it printed in a little book
IS enid ll used TO surprise nle-this
faet that everybody went to heaven.
Thinking of all the people IT, had
died. j pictured the place as over
crowded. Almost I felt sorry for the
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happens to a very big person, the lesser
people round him hardly care to go on
living. Seeing that the world is some
what overstOcked with persons of inn
portance. and that something or other
generally is happening TO them. one
wonders sometimes how it is the world
continues to exist Once upon a time
there occurred an Illness to a certain
good and great man. read in my
daily paper that the whole nation was
plunged in grief. People dining in pub
lie restaurants, on being told the news
by the waiter, dropped their heads
upon the table and sobbed. Strangers.
meeting in the street. flung their arms
about one another and cried like little
children. L was abroad at the time
but on the point of returning home. I
almost felt ashamed to go. I looked at
myself in the glass and was shocked
at my own appearance: it was that of
a man who had not been in trouble for
weeks. I felt that to burst upon this
grief-stricken nation with a counte-
nance such s mine would be to add to
their sorrow. 1t was borne in upon
me that [ must be a shallow egOtisti-
cal nature. 1 had had luck with a play
in America and for the life of me I
could not look grief-stricken. There
were moments when, if was not keep
ing a watch upon myself. I found my
self whistling. Had it been possible
I would have remained abroad till
some stroke of ul-fortune had rendered
me more in tune with my fellow coun-
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looking man reading a comic journal.
True, he did not laugh much: he had
got decency enough for that; but what
was grief-stricken citizen doing with
a comic journal, anyhow? Before I
had been in London an hour I had
come to the conclusion that we Eng
ish must be a people Of wonderful self
control. The day before, according to
the newspapers the whole country was
in serious danger Of pining away and
dying of a broken heart. In one day
the nation had pulled itself together.
we have cried all day" they had said
to themselves, I'VE have cried all night.
II does not seem to have done much
good. Now let us once again take up
the burden of life" Some of them-I
noticed it in the hotel dining-room that
evening-were taking quite kindly to
their food again. Our amusementS are
all founded on make believe. We
stand about solemnly in the middle of
a field, our hands upon our knees. Our
object IS to prevent another man from
running up and down between two
has hit toward US with bit of wood
he has to pretend that he cannot run
any more, but must go home and take
his clothes off. We make believe we
want to catch a fox. AS a matter of
fact we have not the slightest use for
the fox. We make believe about quite
serious things. In war, each cOuntry's
soldiers are always the most courag-
=
soldiers are always treacherOus and
tricky: that is why they sometimes
win. Our governments are supposed
to be founded on the principles of the
Sermon on the Mount; and spend most
of our taxes on making arrangements
to quarrel successfully with our enc
mics. Literature is the art of make
believe. Nov. all of you sit round
and throw your pennies in the cap"
saws the author. ''and I Will pretend
that there lives in Bayswater a young
lady named Angelina. who is the most
beautiful young lady that ever lived.
And in Noting Hill, we Will pretend,
there resided young man named Ed
win who is in love with Angelina"
And then, there being sufficient pennies
in the cap, the author starts away. and
pFetends that Angelina thought this
and said that and that Edwin did all
sorts of wonderful things. We know
he is making it all up as he goes along.
We know he is making up just what he
thinks will please US. He, on the other
hand. has to make believe that he is
doing il because he cannot help it, he
being an artist. Though we know well
enough that We're We to stop throwing
the pennies into the cap. he would find
out precious soon that he could The
theatrical manager bangs his drum.
Walk up. Walk up" he cries I'VE
are going to pretend that Mrs. John
son is a princess, and old man Johnson
is going to pretend to be q pirate. Walk
up. walk up. and be in timei" So Mrs.
Johnson. pretending to be q princess.
comes out of a wobbly thing that we
agree to pretend is a castle; and old
man johnson pretending to be a. pirate,
is pushed up and down on another
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INTERVIEW NISIE. HUMBERT.
Saws She Will Live on Her Millions
After Her Release From Prison.

TCopyright. 1865, by Central News and
Press Exchanged
Paris. Dee. "a three-eolum lnterVleNt
with Nine Humbert in her prison a.
Rennes was published in the rlgaro-
The interviewer was NJ. Jules Huret
Asked how she would live when slie lel !
that such question should be put 10 nsr.
How shall I live2" she exclaimed ON
twenty seven millions. It is curious lhaI
while my memory has left me can al
ways remember the amount OF my Ioi-
tune. / can calculate 1T with the interest
In reply to further questions, Nine
Ifumbert declared that the millions were
with the Crawfords, and that she dld not
know where these individuals We're
But they know where am, she lqo-
ed, land will certainly come TO me "Itn ~ N
four hours of my liberation when am
liberated I shall count my millions, ana
pay all my creditors up to the last CEN
time / shall invite them to take glass
Of champagne with me, and they will
Yes she went on. Mime. Humbert is
an honest woman. who would be very
unhappy at the thought that she owed q
sou to anybody. If I had not been nm
dered / should have paid every body
Nine EIumbert is greatly disappointed
that she has not been released. She says
that when she first entered the prison
she was told that if she set a good eX-
ample to the other prisoners she would
be able to leave after serving half OF her
sentence. She complains that every body
has abandoned her-her husband. daueH-
ter and mother-in-law. She never hears
from Frederic Humbert: nor does her
daughter write to her. When the day OF
her release arrives it IS her intention 10
return to Paris She viii reside in the
Avenue du Bois de Boulogne but viii
only have real friends about her
No more deputies, ministers. presl-
dents of the council, presidents of the re-
public who always got n million from
me when they wanted it. she said
The prisoner has no fault to find wit 3
her treatment. and speaks warmly of the
Sisters Formerly I was for the lay
people but now I am for the nuns. she
said. Her last words had reference to the
Crawford millions. Twenty hours after
I am set free I shall have those millions.
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Devil nobody ever coming his way, so
to speak. I saw him in Imagination, a
lonely old gentleman, sitting at his
gate, day after day hoping against
hope, mUttering to himself, maybe,
that it seemed hardly worth while,
from his point of view, keeping the
show open. An old nurse whom 1
once took into my confidence was sure.
if / continued talking in this sort of
way. that he would get me anyhow. 1
must have been an evil-hearted young
ster the thought of how he would vel
come me. the only human being he
had seen for years, had a certain fas-
cinatfOn for me. for once in nv exist
ence I should be made a fuss about AT
every public meeting the chief speaker
is always a "jOlly good fellow The
man from Mars, reading our neWspa-
pers, would be convinced that every
member of parliament was iovial
kindly, big-hearted. geuerous-souled
saint, with just sufficient humanity in
him to prevent the angels from carry
ing him off bodily. DO not the entire
audience, moved by one common inn
pulse, declare him three times running
and in stentOrian voice to be this
Jolly good fellow % So say all of
them. We have always listened with
the most intense pleasure to the brill
liant speech of our friend. who has
just sat down. When you thought we
were yaWning, we were drink
ing in his eloquence with
open-mouthed admiration. The high
err one ascends in the social scale the
wider becomes this necessary base Of
make-believe. When anything sad
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HOIST WITH THEIR OWN PETARD.
knights of Industry Turn Detectives
With Disastrous Results.
copyright, 1906 by Central News and
Press EXCHANGED

copyright, 1906 by Central News and
Press EXCHANGED
Madrid, Dec. Emanuel Moino and
Manuel Fernandez, both knights of in
dustry," finding the confidence trick bust
ness getting rather SLOW hit upon the
idea of playing the detective, with the
object of eXtorting money by blacknail.
The two conspirators got up a suitable
disguise, and, providing themselves with
counterfeits of police badges, such as the
Spanish detectives carry to show their
authority went proving around the
quarter of the town where pickpockets,
gamblers and thieves .congregate-
Here they 8ounced upon two suspicious
looking individuals, whom they invited III
the name of the law to accompany them
TO the police station. Apparently abashed,
but protesting, the quarry obeyed- On
the way the pseudo detectives delicately
suggested that they would release their
prisoners for a certain sum, Whereupou
they fell to bargaining with their VIC
tins. Suddenly and without warning,
however. the latter blew whistles and
seized their captOrs. The two Manuels
had made a. srievious mistake; their sup
posed victims were real detectives. Over
powered. after a long struggle, the two
crooks were hauled before the magistrate,
who sentenced them to eight years inn
prisOnulent.
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THE KING OF BEGGARs.
Sentenced to Prison Ninety-nine Times
as a Vagabond.

Paris, Dec 9.-The police have arrested
a curious individual at the Halls. He
gave his name as Dominique Beny, and
described himself as the King of Beg
CARS" Asked by q police comuissary TO
give particulars of his career, he said that.
he was born in 1S47, was educated at Or
leans College. and studied law in Paris.
One day he lost at Baccarat more money
than he possessed. In order to pay his
debt he robbed his father, who refused
to have anything more to do with him.
From that time he became a. wandering
beggar. He declared that he had Rrav-
elled through France more than twenty
times. He had also been through Bel
GUM, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and
Spain, and was familiar with the prisons
of these countries. Altogether he had
been sentenced no fewer than 90 times as
a vagabond
1T is because I have been sentenced so
often that I am called the King of Beg
gars,' he added.
You are going to receive another sent
ence.'' said the police commissary.
Then that will make a hundred" ex-
claimed the vagabond, apparently pleased
at the prospect of finding himself once
more in Jail.
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Novel Railway Journey.

Berlin. Dec. "a workman from Vor-
arlbere has undertaken a singular train
journey He had been out of work for a
long period. and. wishing to get to Bre-
gem bv train, concealed himself under 4
carriage at ST AutOn, taking refuge be-
tween the poles and the brake meehan-
ism. In this dangerous position he made
the Journey through the Arlberg. tunnel
to BIundenz There he was discovered by
a railway employee who was inspecting
the carriage wheels. He tried to escape
when released but was so cramped and
shaken that he could scarcely keep his
legs. After hearing his story, the railway
authorities allowed him to go to Bregenz
in search of work.
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trymen. But business was pressing.
The. first man I talked to on Dover Pier
was a customs house official. You
might have thought sorrow would
have made him Indifferent to a mere
matter of forty-eight cigars Instead
Of which he appeared quite pleased
when he found them. He demanded
three and four-pence and chuckled
when he got it. On Dover platform a
little girl laughed because a lady drop
ped a handbook on a dog: but then chill
dren are always callous-or. perhaps,
she had not heard the news. What as
tonished me most, however, was TO find
in the railway carriage a respectable
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sTRANeER THAN FIcToN.
Father, Finds a Lost Child After Years
OF Vain Search.

Paris Dec. 9.-TWenty years ago the
wife of a sea captain died at ChalOns-
placed in the care of q nurse. When the
captain returned from a voyage a year
afterwards he was informed that the
c.lild had been stolen. The particulars
of the theft were very vague; neverthe-
less. he went in search OF his child, and.
failing to find her entered a MONASTERY
and was ultimately ordained as a priest
Years afterward he entered the mission
field and went to Africa. He came home
a short time ago. He found that the
nurse to whom the child had been con-
fded was dying. and confessed that his
wife's relatives had paid her to abandon
the child in a church so that they could
keep a fortune in their hands. The priest
INQUIRED into this startling story. and
learned that the child had been adopted
b. a lawyer of Chalons, and had been
left a fortune.
He sought his daughter out, aud
,-ealed himself to her. The scene between
father and daughter was of an affectlnE
character.
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Observations Of a Day
By the AMATEUR PHILOSOPHER

~ HE Merry Christmas rush is
started and of course you
have forgotten all the reSolu-
tons you made last year in
Christmas week. Then, driven
wild by the hurry and the Wor-
ry, the work and the expense of re-
Numbering everyone of the fifty OF
sixty. persons on your list, you resolved
never again to go to such trouble for
Christmas. You agreed with all your
friends that there was no sense il it
and said you would cut them off your
list if they would cut you off. You de-
your list to Immediate relatives and
intimate friends and that you were GO
ing to buy verything-nCt, sit up
nights wearing out your eyes and
nerves with needlework. Another
thing, you weren't going to buy eX-
pensively. The whole spirit Of Christ
mas giving was lost in modern cStrava-
gance-everyone striving to start the
New Year a bankrupt etc. etc.
But all that is forgotten, now that
the Merry Christmas rush is on again.
You are in clear up to your eyes and
have added fifteen new names TO your
list without looping any of the old ones
off although the only tie between YOU
and some of your Christmas present
friends is this annual exchange CT gifts
that none of you can afford to make.
This year. as last, you are shutting ont
Of YOUR thoughts the looming spectre
of the New Years duns. This year
as last YOU are deceiving the unhappy
man who pays your bills as to the real
cost of your Christmas giving This
year as last you have started thirty or
forty pieces of needlework which YOU
will have to sit up until every midnight
of the week before Christmas in or
der to finish. This year, as last. you
are working yourself to the verge of
nervous prostration in order to have a
"merry Christmas.
1t was a Topeka woman with a big,
generous heart who is so anxious to do
things for other people that she has
little time left to think of herself Who
last year d day or two before merry"
Christmas said with a vail in her voice
as she recounted the different things
she had to do before the gladstone an
niversary. And think one of the
worst things about it all is doing UP
the packages
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Cyclone in Switzerland.

Berne- Dec. "a heavy cyclone from
the south has passed through the St
Gofhard defile. causing considerable dam
age Tt whipped the waters OF the Goth
ara lake with such violence that the bill
lows were thrown up TO Monte Prosa.
hotel. The roof of the hotel was blown
The efforts of engineers did not prevent
the storm from completely den1oiishing
the small house in which the instruments