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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-04
ToDAY's STAR.
The Star today consists of five parts and
a comic supplement, as follows:
Part One.

U. s. Embassy at st. Petersburg. ...... 1
Dewey on the Fight. ht........................ /
Boom for Montague. ....................... q
The Equita BILE Fight. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. !
Russian Ships at Manila. a................... l
Shea Under Arrest. st....................... 2
Talking About eace....................... 2
Late Telegraph News.
Tells of the Battle. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 3
For Good Government. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 3
The Dead Remembered. Observation-Disclosures. 3
In Neighboring States. Observation-Disclosures. 10
News From Virginia. ia..................-.... 10
Maryland Gossip. .......................... 10
North Carolina Letter. 10
Reid o. English Soil. il...................... b
Gen. Boynton's Death. .................... D
Ohio Election Issues. 4
Bloody Antietam. ........................... 10
S-On the River Front. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 10
Coming Attacks on Capital. l............. IL
Lively Politics in West Virginia. ....;.. IL
Senator Foraker's Career.
Work on Filtration Plant.............-.. o
Cecilia at Berlin. u
Training the Negro, by w. E. Curtis. 8
Alfonso Quits Paris. is.......................
Cartoons of the Week. k.......-............. 16
Part Two.
Pages.
In the Realm of Higher Things. ........
Gods Omnipotence. e........................
Sermons Preached in the Open.......... 8
Sunday Morning Talks. ks....................
Editorial ....... ..................." 4
China's Future?. ?............................. 4
The City Discoverer. er....-.................. 4
Fifty Years Ago IN The Star.....-......
Society in the National Capital and
Elsewhere ..--.--....-.....-..-.-.
Outing Frocks for the Summer Holiday. 5
Pneumatic Book Tunnel at the Capitol.
American Boy Painters Rise Abroad.
The Mammoth Floating Drydock......
Black Friday, by Frederick s. Isham...
National Guard Notes. ..............-......
Louisiana Sugar Crops. ps....................
Georgetown Affairs. Observation-Disclosures. L
Around the City. .......................... b
Summer Plans of the Diplomats. Z
New Bronze Doors for the Capitol......
The Theater. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Fish Culture a Perfected ArC............
Benares and the Hindu Religion........
Finance and TEade. de...........-............ 10
A Period of Wall Street Dullness...... IL
The Inside of Wall Street. IL
The Educated Gormorant. t................. IL
The Mt Vernoh Gardens. ............... II
South a Haven for Sportsmen.. II
Part Three.
Pages
Vaudeville Drama and Opera in Tab
loid Form. By Campbell MacCulloch. =
In Gray-Beard Land. BY s. E. Kiser...
Gale Allen. Genius. By Holman Day. 8
How Jokes Are Written. BY r. K.
Munkittrick. U
The schoolmaster's Letters. By L. M.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-04

Vaudeville: Drama and Opera In Tab
loid Form. By Campbell MacCulloch. 3
In Gray-Beard Land. BY s. e. Kiser... 4
Gale Allen. Genius. By Holman Day. 8
How Jokes Are Written. BY r. K.
Munklttrlck U
The Schoolmaster's Letters. By L. M.
+ Montgomery. ........... ............ Z
Hanging Gardens of the Pacific. BY
Charles F. Holder. er..................... y
"Souls On Fire" BY Louis Tracy. y
The Cup of the Last Kiss BY Maurice
Smiley. ..-.................... IL
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-04

Admiral Dewey Is convinced that Togo
has firmly established the supremacy OF
the battleship and finally exploded the the
ory, which has been held by the public
rather than by naval experts. that the tor
pedo boats soon would supersede the real
fighting ship. It has been proved. he
thinks. that torpedo boats and destroyers
are valuable adJuncts to q navy only when
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-04

Continrad on Fourth PaSe.)
New-York tribune., 1905-06-04

nigh ing himself in the dust at her feet.
.lra-Niss Clifford forgive me! he
stan red miserably II did not
send -rem. l never meant that YOU
sbr-.. see them \ shameful trick has
bee- -laved upon me Forgive mel
"F- what am / TO forgive you? she
ssl.e- --avelv. She did not look up, but
be- ,-- parted in the little half-srnile he
1ozez The blush was still on her face.
-F.- my presumption, he whispered.
~ -euld not help loving you, Una.
Il Won nave read the letters you know
all rh. rest.
81 re read the letters, every word, -
she rered. pressing her hand little
more -a5clv to her breast Perhaps
7 sbo, not have done SO, for l soon dis
cove-s that they were not meant for
me t. ad l thought at first you had
senr ID. although the writing of the
addre-. q the packet did not look like
vo11~s Eat even when | knew you did
not ] 1ld not help reading them all
do know who sent them; but l am
very -eful 10 the sender.
g, .tul:" he said wonderingly.
y nave SOlllCttAil4S " iPlS SANN
yo,1. r.-.- not-not your presumption
It is v.-- blindness, think-and-and
vour .--el resolution to go away and
never .t me Of your-your love for me-
# i had not been for the sending OF
tbe,e letters ! might never have known
How s- forgive you for that:
I'm he said. He had been very
Ill .-- 1,.. was beCin-lir7g 10 see He
took step nearer and took her hands
She th-e up her head and gazed, blush
inglv. aliastly, into his eyes, From
the fo,l- aF her gown she drew forth the
little packet OF letters and kissed II.
Your dear lettersi" she SAID braVely-
"Thev have given me the right TO speak
out. vfl speak Quit l love YOU dearl
I Viii he intent to wait through long
wears until YOU can claim me II have
been So appy since your letters camel -
He --- his arms around her and drew
her heaE close TO his. Their lips met
New-York tribune., 1905-06-04
W0T1D RATHER WALK HOME

kNtE.r. officer tells the following story OF
a C-rer McGloin, an odd character
e71rlar.. -- the navy, who for many years
was e., u privileged person IN the service
because his unfagging spirits and wit
The .-f Pensacola once was coming up 20
San Fr-.=co from Honolulu, when she met
= sever -.-e McGloin, who IN heavy weather
usually a-ne seasick, promptly turned IN
Short liter his disappearance, II was re-
ported 81 the Captain that something was
arniss sikh the foretopmast. Accordingly
McG1a5- =erzices as carpenter beng necessary
At tins --.-. --re. he was sent Tor Staggering
on dec = began TO make series Of excuses
which were cut short by the cornma1ulll'
Office. who ordered the carpenter to so aloit
10 asce-- IN what was wrong with the mast
TIE position struck McGloin with such
anaze that 1t took away his breath
"Up -- mast" 1nuttered he, : IN such
weathe- as this;'
"Yes up that mast, reiterated the COM g.
rnandi-- tficer sterrly, and quickly too:
Nc u decided to enter last despairlne
pro,ezt .'CaD'n." said he, do you honestly
mean ~ I'm to 90 up that mast IN sucH
weatfs- Why. this IS awful galel
Trs ee- lost patience - You re lnPertl-
nen- n,' exclaimed he. And We d.
lowed ID too much talk already Up 'il@
mast y'
al 80 1nourrfully walled McoIioia' a
he or -eG 70 obey the order; bul, ]"
adde5 -a a reDroachful glance at ms Sd
perlo- -er. "Ca9n, II there was louI
inch from here to Brooklyn, rather lhai
g up mast i walk home!
New-York tribune., 1905-06-04

the bed, and the delegates to the con-
vention formed behind him.
Mister Allen, said the selectman-
u will call you Mister Allen, this bein',
as YOU might say. an official visit, we
have just come from a house of pain
and sorrow"
And what kind of a house do you
think you've come into?" said Gale in a
kind of a gruff bow-wow under his towel
ing. DO | look as though | was Cele-
brating a birthday with feast and frolc9
| call it mighty cheeky business stram-
New-York tribune., 1905-06-04
POINT OF THE DISPUTE

W" Tetc is this YOU! How did You get
w 20 the chair-eang?'' asked a man oL
his butler, whom he met tollIng on
TIE ..-v.
sub II happen cause l were fool '
enc .. ~, IN q 'spute. 1t seem Ike / oali
cles. t 10 rnero-ize what my old NANNY
TEL Ire say how cullu d folk slways glts oG
W. i ira 'spute VII white folk ou, ~,
pa AM dis is what II bring on ne
.ae aoo tell tl,oo' rou de truf. De sheriff, he
To- an Clap me in jail, cause ne say, l
dqa lie some chickens, an de ledge he ne
II got anythin' to say. an ! up an,
D. 5uryrnen. dat sets in de box dey
e sl de sheriff. an l up an sPutes 81. oe',i n,
B.. sub. dey majority, dey carry de P mt
New-York tribune., 1905-06-04
SUNDAY MAGAZINE for JUNE 4. 1905
GALE ALLEN, GEN lUS|
Cor1vum y1omp

ming into a mans house in this fashion,
When l want to entertain III send out
invitations
Remarks are heard and duly noted,
said the selectman; but it SO happen
that there wasn't time for the usual per
iminaries of polite society. We are
willin' to take into account all the eX-
cuses that genius has to offer, and you
needn't take the trouble to recapitulate
'em. You can start right in and explain
what in sanup you were thinkin' of when
YOU set the Widder Sprague on that bob
New-York tribune., 1905-06-04

it's deliberate attempt at assassination
What have YOU got to say Tor yourself?
The chances are that in ordinary cir
c1I1nstances Gale would have 1T on us
and drove us out; but enough things had
happened to him that evening to make
him sort of supple. Some one IN the
crowd limited that it had been found out
that he could be licked by the Sprague
bow. and that under those circumstances
it WASH t good taste for him to ride high
horse anv longer. So Gale ran his eye
over us. noted that we were all looking
pretty set, and he went on to give IN his
statement But he was scOrntul
Il don't suppose any of you have read
books enough to understand that the
scientists assert that there are more
cases of insanity among women IN the
country districts than in any other
classes?" said he.
''If thev let YOU run loose much longer
around here l reckon the point Will be
pretty well proved, broke in Mis- Bangs
with a sniff
1T amt that way at all, snapped
Gale. -"Scientists say that women IN
the country, bein' tied down to home
work and bein' alone so nuch, and hav1n'
nothin special to tc,ie up their m1nds'
get to broodin' and fall into nervous
prosperation and go crazy. That's the
size of it. Now you know that the
Widder Sprague has been alone a good
deal for the last ten years?
Say, is sweet apples good for bal
ancin' the mind?" inquired old Ike FL
well.
Gale snapped that one eye pretty hard
and showed that he understood that we
knew some things; but he kept on.
could see that the Widder Sprague was
oe+tin' run down and sOlumn and lone
some and was dwe1lin' on things. and
was fallin' into nervous prosperat1on Just
as fast as she could And whilst the
rest of the hogs in this place was goln
around with their noses held down to
their own business and not pay1n any
attention 10 the sufferin's of their neigh
bors. | studied up on the thing, and l
was bound to cure her of her bra1n-tag,
as the scientists call it. The books say
that in cases of that kind the patient
needs to be reused up, taken out OF hum
drum s11rroundir's, given some fresh and
healthy excitement, and so forth and
so on.
Then the first prescription of Tall
man sweetings failed, hey?" persisted
old Ike.
q understand what you're drlvln' at,
YOU old picked-nosed, scouting hyena!
yelled Gale It's got so in this town
that there can't be any neighborln' with
out it bein chawed over along with
plug of terbacBer down at that grocery
store. Now you shet up, Elwell, or III
- Git ofT'n this bed of pain and cuff your
I head into the shape of the Methodist
! stecple! When I'm talkin' science to
you | want order.
Nov, l went round this evening to
l take the Widder Sprague out OF herself,
as YOU might say, and make life little
less solumn and mournful. | went TO
cheer her up with fresh air and healthy
i excitement, as the books advise. And
/ see what comes of it? Bein nisunder-
stood and hooted at, and havln my house
/ invaded by a gang that don't understand
Z science nor common poiiteness
k 1T is generally admitted" said the
Il -o1oc+,,,,,, ''4hat the ones who intro
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TIE rALk RETIHAL.

There is talk of a revival Of relig-
ion in the United States. The call which
was recently circulated for a day Of
fasting and prayer said: THE deep and
very real work of grace which has
spread throughout Wales awakens
praise and profound thanksgiving to
God in the hearts of Christians in
America, inspiring the hope that this
may be but the beginning of the world
wide revival for which prayer has long
been offered. to the end that God will
in mercy graciOusly visit the United
States with manifestation of His Holy
Spirit" The accounts of the revival in
Wales show that it is wonderful. The
little principality is suffering. like the
rest of Great Britain, from a season of
almost unexampled business stagnation,
and the emotional nature of the Welsh
people makes them at all times liable
to enter with enthusiasm into such a
movement. In Evan Thomas, the young
evangelist whose name is most COM
monty mentioned in connection with
the movement. the right kind of leader
seems to have been found. He is gift
ed with rude native eloquence; he
knows his people and their language
thoroughly; he is brimful of fiery zeal
and there is no room for suspicion of
any sordid or worldly motive in his
work. He has set the Welsh hills on
fire. ~
Stocks in Wall street are soaring,
there is no marked business depression
in the country, and people on the whole
are fairly comfortable and gay. But
perhaps many of them can be stirred to
think ON their sins and repent. A re-
vival of pure and undefiled religion
would be a very good thing for the
United States. We are pretty rich,
smart and easy, and we ought to have
cur attention called to ourselves.
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ron GooD Ro4 Ds IN NEW YORK.

Connecticut has some good roads
and a good Highway Commissioner
who is always doing all he can to give
her more and better good roads. She
is fortunate, and she has been and is
setting good example for other
States in this matter. Many of the
States are waking up to the impor-
lance of good roads. The great State
of New York for one. The other day
the New York Chamber of Commerce,
by unanimous vote, adopted a COM
mittee report urging the Improvement
Of the public roads as Indispensable to
the economical conduct of the internal
commerce of the State. The Chamber
of Commerce in adopting this resolution
approved the proposed amendment to
the Constitution of the State of New
York, which provides that debt or
debts of the State may be authorized
by law for the Improvement of high
ways, the aggregate Of the debts so
authorized not to exceed $50,000,000 at
one time. 1t is recommended that the
legislature pass an enabling act to
submit this amendment to the people
at the election next fall. 1t is estimat-
ed that the farm products raised for
market in the State Of New York an
nually weigh 10000 tons. All of this
vast tonnage has to be hauled over
the public roads to the railroad station
or to the nearest market town. The
average distance is not less, probaly,
than threemiles and the cost of hauling
that tonnage over a bad road is not
less than Is to so cents a ton mile,
or an aggregate of 100000 a year
and up. A good road saves nearly
half this cost, and hence the cost Of
bad roads is one of the heaviest bur
dens the farmer must bear. And it
is likely that this is an underestimate
Of the tonnage Of New York crops.
More. power to the advocates of good
roads in New York. New York has the
road called Wall street, and she ought
to have many good roads.
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A MISSOURI WELCOME.

How Kansas Received One of It's
Own Girls as Prima Donna.
Bessie Parkinson "a bias this Parkina
business, anyhowD Kansas City's own
particular prima donna, came into her
own last night, and her own received
her with open arms and clamorous
voices. Nearly 10000 admirers and
friends filed Convention Hall to greet
her and welcome her home, and the
cordially and very evident friend
illness of the throngs must have spoken
directly to the heart of the girl who,
some six years ago, made her last bow
to a Kansas City audience in the old
Coates Theater, when 1t, too, was
packed to the doors to bid her God
speed. Last night, she came to
acknowledge her debt to the city that
then gave her the means to accomplish
the work that made her what she is to-
day-to give an account of her steward
Sulp-dllu IIle I1OuSdiluS VI ttydi sup
porters who assembled meath the
white rafters decided that she had not
been idle meanwhile, and that the in
vestment Kansas City made a half
dozen years back was a good one, and
had drawn good interest.
And hereafter, when Bessie Parkin-
son wins greater and still greater tri-
umphs-as she must and will do-she
will doubtless look back ON these two
Kansas City events-her farewell and
her home coming-and contrast the
aspirations and hopes and fears of the
earlier one with the triumphs and real
izations and acclaims of the latter, and
be glad that she was worthy Of trust
placed in he. But after all, probably
that first appearance in the old Coates
Theater will hold the warmer place
with her. because it was all faith and
hope and desire then, while now it is
greatness and fame and certain abil-
ity.
But be that as it may, certainly no
singer ever was welcomed in this city.
and acclaimed and applauded and
"bravoed' and generally made much
of, as was she. The audience that
heard her was a. very brilliant one to
start with; the elite Of the city, mu-
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of melody which makes this aria's
final one of the most effective that can
be sung, and bowed as the last note
scared to the roof in faultless cadences.
And Kansas City had heard its own
songstress, and she has surprised her
own. No one expected it could be so
good. For so long have Americans
distrusted their own operate prod
ucts that it seems inbred. But Kan
sas City recognized the genius Of this
singer instantly, and the hall once
mere resounded with the plaudits and
the shouts. So insistent was this out
burst that no bows would satisfy it.
and the little singer had to toss aside
the sheaves of flowers with which she
was burdened and sing another num-
her. And even at that she was APP
plauded, time and again, when she was
through. 1t certainly was a gorgeous
greeting, and Bess was almost over
come by it.--Kansas City Journal.
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sically and socially. was there, and the
size of it well nigh fiiled the hall. 1t
was a throng of personal friends and
admirers, prepared to be astonished
at the progress the little woman had
made since last she appeared here. 1t
was cordial to an extreme, yet critical
too, for it knew what good singing
meant, and had read of the triumphs
of its pet, and now, in characteristic
Missouri fashion, it wanted to 'be
shown
Tehn every one sat up and too no.
tice. The late corners hurried to their
seats again, but the applause only
seemed to grow as she stood there
awaiting its cessation that she might
do her part. Waves of nose rolled
over the throng from areana floor to
roof garden and back again, and surg
ed from end to end of the vast hall. 1t
all mingled into one uproar. seats.
There was a strained air of expectancy
and all were ON the qui-vive. The cur
tains of the improvised stage parted
ever so little and then.
A slender girl, of marked beauty,
clad in a simple gown of sea-foam
green, stood in front of nearly 10000
shouting, hand clapping, stamping and
applauding human beings. A smile
wreathed her lips, as she bowed and
and the roof re-echoed it in thunder
tones. The little girl in green bowed
again and again, and smiled some
more, and even held up her hands, but
for more than three minutess-which
seemed TO- of course-she was COM
PEELED to stand there waiting for the
noise to subside. Even then, wave
after wave would break forth afresh,
and it was almost embarrassing before
quiet was restored
AT the first notes that Bless Parkin-
son sang. Kansas City knew that its
faith had not been in vain and that 1t
was in for musical treat. The Sc
lection was that erux of all singers,
the mad scene" from Lucia and
she sang it in, italian, of course, with
Mr.. North's flute obligato and superbly
she went through it, her own notes so
blending at times with those of the
flute that they were indistinguishabla,
Higher and higher she went, as the
score demanded; she trilled and she
warbled, she took the difficult colora-
ture passages as If they were moth
ing, and finally she ended in that burst
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HEY THEY EMIG Fate.

Many of the farmers of our West are
moving to Manitoba in western Canada,
and Theodore Macfarlane Knappen
tells why in the Review of Reviews.
Briefly, the why is to be found in the
lure of free or cheap lands in western
Canada and the inducement to turn the
old farms into cash at high prices.
Farms in Iowa and Illinois are worth
from SIS to $125 an acre. Farms in
western Canada that in their virgin
state will produce larger crops may be
had for the taking or for from SIS to SIS
an acre. To these lands turn the Amer
lean tenant farmer and the hired man.
The free lands in the humid part of the
republics west are gone. Population
has crowded up to the one hundred and
first meridian, the general western limit
of the humid belt. Beyond lies the cat
tie country and irrigation. The Ameri-
can farmer with family of growing
DOJS dIUullu Hill sees IlU way 10 Keep
the family together but to emigrate to
the last free-land country on the CONT
nent, western Canada-"the last west"
So he sells out, moves west and settles
his sons around him. Together they
may homestead and purchase several
thousand acres. They will put this
cheap land into wheat, blowing with
traction engines that drive, simultane-
ously, nine burrows through the prime
val sod. They may reasonably count
on twenty bushels tn the acre, which
is less than the Manitoba average for
more than twenty acres. In years Of
high prices there is fortune in a sin
gle crop. Good farmers sometimes get
forty and fifty bushels of wheat to the
acre. F*%%. ~
Pretty attractive. for awhile anyway.
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EXCEPTIONS.

Koncha-I say, want to smoke the
worst wayI
Clay-Have cigarette?-Boston
Transcript.
Mr.. Jones-Mary, can a woman keep
anything to herself?
Mrs. Jones-Yes; her private opinion
of her husband.-Chicago Journal.
Il heard you make use of the word
jackass,' sir; did you apply it to me?"
mo, sir, didn't. You don't imagine
you're the only jackass in the world, do
you?"-Cleveland Leader.
Teaching the Young.-Young Fish
What is pessimist, father?
Old Fish-A pessimist, my son, is a
fish who thinks that every worm has
hook in it.-Puck. -
What! fifty cents for box of straw
berries!" she exclaimed. "Exorbitant!
Besides, they're half green"
Il know, ma'am," replied the dealer,
'but they amt enough in box to hurt
yer. '-Philadelphia Press.
Customer-You said you'd finish that
job If you had to stay up all night to do
It.
Dealer snappishly)-Well, l didn't
have to stay up all night. This is a
free country.-Philadelph Ledger.
Miracle of miracles!
Ecstasy of ecstasies!
Event unimaginable!
Prodigy unparalleled!
Baby's got little toof!
New Orleans Times Democrat.
They say that all the world loves a
lover said the rejected sutton, as he
ate his dinner from the mantelpiece.
But there are generally two excep-
tions to the rule-the girl you want to
|, be your wife, and the man you want
to be your father-in-law. Princeton
Tiger.
Aunt Peggy (apropos Of the sons
letter from college)-Im afraid our
son is goin' ter turn out a reforner
instid of a business man. He SEE here
tibet he'd like ter tear up evil by the
roots. Mi .s -
Uncle Jabez (sententiously) Don't
yew worry, wife. They are probably
teachin' him tibet money Is the root Of
all evil.--Judge.