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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-30
Greatness of Michelangelo.

From the International Quarterly.
1t is the peculiar good and i'll fortune of
those who come at the supreme moment of
perfect ripeness that they leave behind
them an indispensable glory while they
are held accountable by some for the cor
ruption that follows. In the history of the
arts of form Michelangelo and Raphael,
romanticist and classicist, occupy together
this peculiar eminence. and from them flow
two streams which pervade the decadence,
one freezing into the icy stateliness of the
academic, the other boiling up into the
turgid defamation of the Baroque. The
greater the personal force of an artist. the
deadlier, generally speaking. in his inf1u-
ence; for the men of greatest personality
are the men of greatest faults and greatest
virtues, and their faults are imitable, while
their virtues are not. If the works of
Michelangelo were all destroyed and we
could judge of his power only by the at
tractive and destructive influence which he
exercised upon his successors, we should
still be justified in supposing that the force
which had been SO profoundly felt must
have been that of one of the greatest artists
of any country and of all time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-30
Why There is No Lynching in the West
Indies.

From the International Quarterly.
The fact is that in the British West In
dies assaults by black or colored men on
white women or children are practically
unknown. l say this an administrator
familiar with the judicial statistics, as a
resident familiar with all parts of Jamaica
and all classes of it's population, as the
head of a household of women and girls
who have frequented the suburbs of King
ston and lived for weeks and months in re-
mote country districts with neither myself
nor any other white man within call. Any
resident in Jamaica will tell the same story.
The only terror of Jamaica highways and
byways (and that is rare one) are de
white sailor men'-waStrel runaways from
European vessels.
/ cannot but Surmise that the propensity
of such assaults in the United States is
stimulated by the very character of the at
titude which the white assumes toward the
colored population. There is maintained a
constant storm of suggestion to the most
imaginative and uncomfortable of passions
in an excitable and imaginative race. If
we had anything like the same amount of
suggestion abroad in the British West In
dies should fear that there would be GRIM
inal assaults in something like the same
proportion they occur in the vicious at
mosphere of crowded white communities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-30
SELLING A WORLDS FAIR.
What Becomes Of ALI the Gaud and
Tinsel When All is Over.

From Worlds Work.
On bid of $3.50 600 a Chicago company
has bought. and Is removing, buildings, the
material and construction of which cost
$4,000, 600. This includes all the physical
property of the exposition company except
the intramural cars and street railway
equipment, which were sold to the st. Louis
Car Company for $4,000; the palace of
liberal arts. which is to be permanent, and
a few minor structures.
Thus the company has come into posses
sion of 100,OOO,0O0 square feet of good build
ing lumber 200, 900 square feet of sash lum-
Der, 10000 doors, 100000 square feet of
glass skylights, 100000 square feet of iron
and felt roofing, 100000 square feet of
burlap for wall covering, 100000 incan-
descent lights, and copper wire which cost
$3.50. GEO. Among its assets are two hos
pitais complete in all modern equipments;
three greenhouses ready for utilization any
where. each 300 feet long. with many sorts
OF plants and flowers; fire departmen big
enough for a city Of 5000 inhabitants. COM
prising nine engines and 100000 feet Of rub
Der hose; thousands of chairs Of all sorts;
miles of iron picket and woven-wire fences;
hundreds Of desks; wagons, dump cars and
steam rollers enough to fit up a dozen good
roads societies, and many other sorts of
paraphernalia.
Out of the structures, equipments and
furnishings of the Louisiana purchase ex-
position a good-sized city could be built
The debris would construct half a dozen
fairs like that at Buffalo in 1901. or that
which is to open in Portland, Greg, in
June 1905.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-30
Field of Science.
N the Baltimore Herald


Having examined thoroughly the data of
the physical sciences, the savants in those
branches of investigati ton are concentratin
their attention upon matters of detail in
order to perfect their scientific schemes
There is growing concern in some quar-
tiers lest the field of science shall become
so narrowed that there will be no worlds
for future investigators to conquer. To
pass in review the work of a Darwin, n
Huxley, Calico, Copernicus or Dana
is an informing exercise but there is MOTH
ing creative about it.
The question is being seriously asked
What has science to offer as an incentive
to future investigators? Or, rather, Are
not future Investigators bound to become
narrowed by the focusing of their vision
upon the details that have been left to
them as the only heritage for creditable
labor by the master minds in science? 1t
is felt by many persons that the interest
that psychological science has claimed dur
ing recent years is reflex effect of the
dwindfing opportunities presented by the
physical sciences.
On the other hand, the view is enter
tanned by many persons that the phe-
nomena of mind present few points of
profitable approach, and that most of what
is called mental science is blatant charla-
tanism. But this view will not be con-
CURED in by any psychologist of note. Such
men point to the crude conceptions that
obtained in natural science until the prog
ress of investigation gave symmetry and
substantially to the results of physical in
yestigation.
. The correlative development of natural,
mental and social science is fraught with
possibilities that may yet put to ridicule
the widest eXtravagances of the romanciSt
in the realm of discovery and progress as
far too conservative. Science is infinite and
investigation must be eternal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-30
The Story Of the Brain.
From Laslie's Monthly

The story of the brain as scientists have
gradually nnfolded its peculiar construction
is of marvellous interest. This pulpy, and.
apparently homogeneous, mass is revealed
to us as the most highly specialized and
vitalized organ In the, human body. 1t con-
sists of hundreds of millions of separate
and Independent organisms, once known as
nerve cells,-but--now called "neurones. !"
These unitsrof the brain are Independent
bodies and consist of a cell body, it's axis
and its branches. The cell body contains
within its covering membrane elements
which generate the nerve force or energy;
the axis is the nerve or medium which con-
veys that force; and the branches are the
means of decentralization of the neurones
with each Tier and with the organs and
tissues to which the nerve is distributed.
The life history ofithese microscopical bod
les is the same as the cells of other organs
and tissues, They are implanted before
birth, and many remain dormant for a life
time il unused: II stimulated to activity
they enlarge,ethrough more abundant nu-
triton, but fwasteI and atrophy when the
stimulation Is removed, they are undergo
ing constant Dchanges through the process
OF nutrition. aand from the innumerable i'm
pressions made upon them by objects with
in and without the body.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-30
Political Evils of War.
rom the Atlantic.

FROM tne Atlantic
The political evils of war are almost as
weighty as the moral Probably no govern
ment In modern times has been able to
carry on a serious contest that has not been
attended with extravaganza and dishon-
esty; at any rate, the United States has
never been able to do SO. From the time
that the soldiers suffered needlessly at VAL
ley Forge on account of inefficient supply
service and dishonest contractors, down 10
the purchase of army transports and sem
balmed' beef in 1898. profusion and pecu-
fation have invariably attended our military
operations. This evil, moreover usually
outlaSts war, because loose and irregular
methods of conducting public business are
not speedily reformed. After the civil war,
Washington was still infested by swindling
contractors who found not few choice
pickings; and the Shiny trail of the cor
ruptionist led up to the doors of Congress
and some of the executive departments.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-30
BPinking a Disease.

From the Butte inter Mountain.
DIR. C. L. Mix, an expert in the treat
ment of habitual drunkards. addressing
social science class. advocated hospital
ships for inebriates. anchored safely in iso-
lated parts of the harbor. He characterized
the prevailing method of throwing drunk
ards indiscriminately into jails as car
chaic." "An habitual drunkard is a dis
eased man." said DR.. Mix, '.and he should
be looked after with medical eye Inebri-
ates should be divided into two classes The
first is the hospital stage, and the second
the eonyalescent. The two never should be
mixed The first thing to do is to withdraw
the person, then take care of the reaction
AIRY symptoms The physical damage on the
stomach, liver and kidneys must be re-
paired. After this comes the year or so
of conyalescence. and the patient should
have specific education on the evils OF al
coaol
/. Gradually the most rah6d temperance adj
.vocates have come 70. regard the habitual
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-30
A Trick Of Imagination.
From the Philadelphia Bulletin


There's little mental science trick that
will teach imaginative persons to acquire
a perfect, graceful poise. One says 'imagi-
native" with reason. for you have to have
an Imagination to do it. You must imagine
that you bear a scintillating star on your
breast and basket of eggs on your head.
The first fancy will unconsciously in
fiuence you to carry your shoulders like
military man bent on exhibiting his gold
buttons. The second will teach you to sink
into chair gently and gracefully. instead
of launching into 1t. Also. it will train you
to climb stairs erect You can't twist or
bend over as women usually do in going
upstairs, IL you have basket Of eggs on
your head-even imaginary one-can
you?
So put on the flashing gold star, which
is worn to be SEEN and set the basket of
eggs on your head, and see what the
combined fancy win do for your carriage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-30
Sunflower Philosophy.

For every mean man who dies, another
appears just as mean
Inventing bad habits in others. and neg
lecting your own faults. is not reform.
Here Is something new: An Atchison
mans children want him to marry again
There are lots of people. like March, very
annoying when they attempt to be playful.
The wife may be the patient one in the
beginning. but years go by the husband
gets the patient look.
II hayt avoided cigarette smoking fo1
twepty-six years" young man said today
hut no one ever commended me Tor q, ~
intend to begin"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-30

drinker as victim rather than a criminal.
Drinking is a disease Once i'm the grin of
liquor. some men are no more able to re-
sist it than man can hold back when the
death angel beckons. Teetotalism Is de-
creasing with inebriety, and for the same
reason that sober reflection fails to see
why those who use liquor moderately and
benehcially should abstain because there
are some who cannot indulge without over
Indulgence. DR.. Mix undoubtedly speaks
common sense when he says that mere
failing for drunkards is pitiabIy Intellectual.
AS punishment. it degrades without re-
forming; as corrective, the effects of the
method are nil
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-30
English!
From the London Chronicle.


The patriotic Englishman is puzzled and
grieved fwrites correspondent to find
judging from the daily papers-that his
mother tongue is inadequate to the pres
ent crisis. cs2e sheet flies to French. and
Iroclaims the "debacle''-not the overthrow
of Kuropatkin. Another to Spanish, and
writes of scorrailing' the Russian forces
Why not rounding-up? Was It not Prof
Biackie who oEce said. whenever he was
tempted to use an alien word or express
sion he dug into his dictionary ana found
an English equivalent that WAS far more
forc5ble?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-30

mental and physical, as are poured into his
counsel are always as much to he r. ana
upon as are his pills and powders. Every
one who knows the true type OF family doc.
tor knows this and viii feel to thank the
rreslaent Tor standing up and saying such
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-30
Unilingual Englishmen.

From the London Motorist and Traveller
I cannot remember ever having seen an
English waiter abroad, except perhaps, in
an American bar and have never. to
my knowledge, met one who could speal,
any language but his own this NAV be a
very proud, "civis romanus sum, Kind of
attitude toward life. but doubt IL it wins
against the method OF the many-tongued
German.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-30

oered how medical man can be all things
to all men and at the same time be true
and sincere straight through. No one
knows SO well as he where the family skele-
tons hide. and no one In his time hears
so many real tales of woe and suffering.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-30

The 5Judge--'eYou called him iiar. did
you? How did he take it?' =
The Colonel--"He agreeahly surprised me.
sub. by acting like a perfect gentleman. He
kaocixed me down, stit. Chicago Tribune.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-30
The Family Physician.
From the Boston Transcript

President Roosevelts fine appreciation of
the family physician viii waken a respon-
sive echo in pretty nearly every heart in
the land. A good many have often won
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-30
Wife a Domestic.

1t remained for lawsuit not long ago
to reveal one of the most unsupported cases
of this kind that perhaps ever existed The
wife had instituted legal proceedings
against her husband in order to recover
some personal property which she alleged
he had apprepriatedh for his own use. Dur
ing the cotifse ofsthe trial it was stated
that she WIS regarded as a domestic ser
want in the house and nurse to the children
Of her husband by IFS first wife.
OF quite another character is the bust
ness arrangement which prominent man
who owns several large city drug stores
was unexpectedly led to make with his
wife. She was cashier in one of the busiest
of these places, and when his wife died he
married her. The first wife had been one
of the most. dependent of women financial
ly, entirely domestic, and with her sole d.
version the spending of money in luxurious
sums both upon her own needs and those
of her little family =
Wife NO. installed in her place,
but quickly decided that this life was not
for her She hired people that she thought
knew more about tt than she did to look
after her house and the children, and de-
manded her old place back in the drug
store. Besides being pretty, she has de-
cided business faculty and adds to the
popularity of the place with the great num-
Der of men who are customers. and who
haven't the least idea that she is the pro-
prietOr's wife. Besides this, she keeps Il
good-natured but effective lookout upon the
business while her husband is at his other
stores,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-30
Works for Salary.

Another large house has woman occu-
plying similar place, and the fact that
she is the wife of the managing director Of
the firm is known only to one or two IF the
most trusted employees. She comes and
goes, and receives orders, in exactly the
same way as the women with whom she
works, and the secret of the situation is
that for years she has been legally sep
arated from her husband, and not wishing
to be dependent upon him for support she
obtained this place with the firm.
A more singular case still, which exists
In large millinery house, was the result
OF an unhappy love affair. The owner en-
ploys his wife as manager of his business,
and pays her a fine salary, but he treats
her as If no closer relationship existed be-
tween them. Before they were married she
had the place, and, although she resigned
at the time of their marriage, her life cid
not turn out to be a happy one, and one
day she suddenly forsook it and took
place with another house similar to the one
She had filled for her husband. In the
meantime her husbands business did not
prosper under his own management and
that of his new assistant and he went to
the woman and begged her to come back
as his manager, if not as his wife. She
consented and draws a large salary, but
they do not communicate except On bust
ness matters
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-30
HIRE THEIR WIVES
MANY RETAIN SALARIED PLACES
THEY HELD BEFORE MARRIAGE.
Instances of Strange Relationship Be-
tween sifen ana women-Matri-
Ebony a4a Business.

From the Chicago Tribune.
There is n large ard rich mercantile house
IN Chicago in which the firm consists OF
several members of one family. Near the
door of theioffice, afAong innumerable other
typists, SITS pieasant-faced GIRL whose
'ooks or work do not distinguish her in any
way from those who sit around her.
If you happen to pick her out as d coli
yenient person to. ask what you want to
know and at the same time your question
is one of slightly more than technical inn
portance, she win as likely as not say:
Wait a minute. will go and speak to
papa about it,
Your first bewilderment is followed by
that still greater when you learn that she
is the wife of one of the younger memb eis
of the firm, and that she has kept the same
place there since she married that she had
before that event occurred. Sne works at
the same salary. and. strange to say, there
is no domestic dscord. 1t is only the lack
of ability on the part of the wife to take
pleasure other than that of work and sim
pie expenditure, and she is totally without
power to readjust herself even to a wider
scheme of economy
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-05-03
REAL ESTATE SALES.
The Meaaher Ranch is Bought in by S
S. Hobson.

The most important real estate
transaction of the past week was the
sale of the Meagher ranch. belonging
to the estate Of Daniel A, Meagher,
which was disposed of at auction Sat
urday afternoon by F. +. MACEDONIAN,
the administrator. The tract consists
of 692 acres, situated in sections seven
and eight, township Is north of range
Is east. 1t had been well advertised
and brought out quite crowd of bid
ders. The tract finally went to S. S.
Hobson, on his bid of $6,050.
G. w. Cook has sold to Edgar A..
Hamilton, of Stanford, 119 acre
tract in section 6, township Is, north of
range IS east for $3.50.
The Spring Creek Coal Co. has sold
to Andrew Green 160-acre tract in
section "a, township 10, north of range
Is east for $50.
G. w. Cook sold for Clarence Barnes
TO Charles Clarkson Of Great Falls,
the Barnes ranch, near Castle Butte,
comprising 100 acres, for $1,025.
William d. Bennett sold to Frank
Pick for $500, lot 5, in block 5, this
city.
w. n. Roberts sold to NJ. L. Wood
bury a lot in the Janeaux tract for
$3.50.
Donald Davidson sold to NJ. L. Wood
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-05-03
A Library Suggestion.
Editor Argus.

ISuS.
Lewistown, Mont, May Just now
when plans for the new Carnegie H.
brary are on foot, is good time for
the people Of Lewistown to consider
how they may render service which
will be of signal benefit to the intel
ligent patrons of the library. Hun
dreds of copies of the leading maya
zines and reviews enter the Lewis
town homes each month, are read
thrown aside and soon lost. How
many ever stopped to think that there
are being destroyed III these maya
zines writings by the masters OF
thought in every department of learn
ing? That contemporary history, re-
cent discoveries in science, explora
tons, social and economic discussions
by authorities in each department, in
fact, the best that is being thought
and the utmost that is being done
from day to day all over the world
appears each month in these maya
zines.
| Now, much of this valuable matter
does not find its way into the ency
clopelias and histories for years. Some
articles never appear in book form
or the books containing them are no,
| dNdiidUlc Ill lue SIIIdll library. 1uus
the students in our high school, the
ladies in their club work, lawyers ant
everyone engaged in scholarly work
are often unable to gather needed in
formation concerning some question
or event which was the topic of tn,
day in the reviews of two or three
years ago. 1t would be very littl
trouble TO save the years number
of the Century, North American Re
view, Harper's Monthly, being care
full that the volume is complete. ant
these could be turned over to the Ii
brary. 1t is desirable, of course, t
have them bound, but in the hand
of the careful librarian, even that i
not imperative. The cumulative in
deX (simply poole's index in install
ments) is published. I think, ever
three months, indexing all the Leaf
ing magazines up to date. With this
if the citizens would lend their &C
operation, the public library coult
+ in few years, have mass of mater
ial for reference which would be a
, invaluable aid to research of ever
, description.
. GERTRUDE MAXWELL.