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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-21

sldered by some more important painting
than the sheep Coming Out OF a Forest
which at the Waggaman sale brought SiD.-
300. Israels, Keyer Neuhuys, Meris Biom-
mers, COrot, Daubigny, Diaz and others are
all represented. The collection VIII be eN-
hibited at the American Galleries during
the coming week.
On Wednesday evening a lecture on The
Gothic Ascendancy, Past and Present" was
given at Hubbard Memorial Hall by Mr..
Ralph Adams Cram, under the auspices OF
the local chapter of the American Institute
of Architects and the Washing ION Archi-
tectural Club. 1t dealt, perhaps, more with
history than architecture. but IT m infested
the close relation of architecture 10 life and
demonstrated its ability to interpret mans
highest aspirations. Mr.. Cram Is a strong
advocate of the Gothic 0hough lie would
prefer to call it "Christian''). and he made
a vigorous plea for its adaptation in con-
nection with the plans for the Episcopal
cathedral to be erected in the near future
upon Mt. st. Alban. His lecture was Illus
trated with many excellent stereopticon
slides of cathedrals and ruined abbeys IN
England. as well as examples OF Gothic
architecture in this country and elsewhere.
The National Society of the Fine Arts
held It's seventh and last meeting OF the
season at the residence OF Mr.. and Mrs.
JUN s1S1@Sdn On 4nurSuay evening. MT.
F. Hopkinson Smith was the speaker of the
occasion, and the subject of his address
"Impressionism in Art and Literature"
Mr.. Smith could scarcely be other than in
teresting and those of his hearers who went
chiefly to be entertained were not disap-
pointed. He spoke not only wisely, but
cieverly. and drove many good nails home
with merry raps. For the realists-slavish
imitators of nature-he had small mercy,
but neither was he inclined to accredit the
impressionsts with all virtue. Taking con-
crete examples such as Vibert's Mission
ary's Story and the "Angelus," by Millet.
he drew sharp contrasts and pointed out
clearly the diversity of the painters aims.
The realists. he said, were those who used
more words than were necessary; the i'm
Such men as Millet and Corot occupied, he
thought, middle group and In a measure
represented the millennium In painting. Art
must concern itself primarily, he declared,
with interpreting the true, the good and the
beautiful. and TO exempify the seriousness
of the profession he related several sgnif3
cant incidents IN the life of the painter Mil
let Passing to a consideration OF literature
he affirmed that the same rules held good.
and I'm proof of his statement gave several
readings from well-known authors Both in
art and literature he chose most of his ex-
amples from the French, but in conclusion
he paid high tribute to the works of our
own American painters and writer's. 1t is
hard TO say anything new upon the subject
of realism versus impressionism, but Mr..
Smith closed his thoughts in original form
and thereby gave them fresh and poignant
meaning.
collection of paintings by the late Jo-
eaph CaornanE which has heeu hrou1tt so
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-21

away from de fellairs what come here to do
de feeshln'. | say many time me, dat L
breeng de feesherman here for give de
'lunge pleasure"
"Old Bill was another muskelunge who
had lot of fun with anglers. He had it for
years. Then he came to an inglorious end
far more ingiortous than comes to fish
when he is properly caught and brought to
net after he has fought himself dead.
"Old Bilp' lived in a wicked tumble OF
broken water under a twenty-foot waterfall
in upper Canada. To reach his home and
try a bout with him meant thirty miles OF
stiff padding from the nearest settlement.
Season after season Old Bill lived under
great rock just where the water fixed its
liveltest after its plunge. Season after sea-
son men went wild as the great fish showed
a mornentary CLEAN of gold and olive and
then disappeared under his rock again.
leaving the bait or the glng or the spoon
to spring clear of the water he let go
after the one first quick snap at It,
One man fished for Old Bill for three
days, never csasing except to give him
rest between casts. In one day Old Bill
rose to that mans casts fourteen times. He
ripped the club of the gang of hooks five
times, destroyed two phantom minnow5 and
took uncounted real minnOws from the
hook without feeling the point once and
then at last on the evening of the third
day, he leaped at a copper spoon hooked
himself, rolled clear of the water, swirled
in a grand rush around the canoe. headed
straight into the boil of the cascade and
shook himself free.
The Last Chance.
It was the unhappy anglers last chance
He had 10 go away that night. All the way
back to civilization he caught other mus
kellunge and black lass on the trolling line
Some were good fish, too. But he wanted
Old Bill
SO he returned the next year and raised
Old Bill again in the same old spot. The
guides grinned at him, for the willy mus
kellunge was a joke with them all. Every
body knew the fish at sight. because he
bore a CHASTITY white scar across his back
that he had received in some cid battle.
They named this angler Jonah that year
because he returned to the settlements
without single big fish to his credit after
fishing in waters that were simply alive
with fish. He had put in all his time trying
for the one rascal and in VAN.
few weeks afterward the Jonah re-
ceived this letter from one of tie guides:
you remember Old BIZ. Well, week
after you left we took a man up north on a
business trip and he had never fiShed in
all his life When we padded across the
pool where you fished so hard fer Old Bill,
we put a split bamboo in his hand and let
him tow a copper spoon. We hadn't more
than padded to the N ddle Of the place be-
fore he yells out that he's fast to a log,
and the way that split bamboo doubled il
self up near made me cry for l expected
shed break sure. And there was Old BIZ
at the other end a-jUmping and a-hooting
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-21

One Of the most notable sales of the sea-
son is to take place In New York next Fri
day evening-that OF the Jefferson collec-
tion which is to be dispersed by order of
the executors at Mendeissohn Hall under
the auspices of the American Art Assocfa-
ton. Joseph Jefferson was genuinely an
art lover: he found his greatest pleasure in
his painting and in his paintings, and he
was both artist and critic He began
his collection by the purchase of Corot.
and he always inclined toward the work OF
the. Barbizon and Dutch schools. There
are three Reynolds, Rembrandt, Gains
borough, Hoppner, two Macs ana three
Lawrences In his collection, but II is rich
est in the works OF the modern Dutchmen
and In canvases produced by the painters
of Fontainebleau. There are no less than
eleven Mauves one of which is The Re
turn of the Flock" which was exhibited
the same year at the Salon QS6D and con-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-21

A collection of paintings by the late Jo-
seph Coomans. which has been brought 20
this country by his daughters, will be ex-
hibited this coming week in the Veerho1
gallery. LEILA MECHLIN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-21

great South Caro.inan. Mr.. Arthur Z.
Brice loaned four miniatures of Robert
Field, one Of the early Americans, and Miss
V. D. Bowers contributed one by SuIy,
probably not Thomas, but Lawrence. From
the Tudor place N Georgetown through the
generosity of Mrs. Beverley kennon, came
miniature of Gen Washington, painted
in PHILADELPHIA by Robertson expressly FOR
and at the request of Martha Gusts at
the time of her marriage TO Thomas Peter
two of Mrs. Washington, one painted at
the time of her marriage and the other
the work of Field at Mt. Vernon in 1901.
shortly before her death, and one of Dr.
William Thornton, architect Of the Capt.
toll, Octagon and Tudor Place. painted by
his wife and presented by her to Mrs. Ken
non. These were but d few OF many; sew
eral that were technically excellent were,
far as the painter was concerned, I'M
identified; others while subjectively inter-
esting, We're artistically of less value. They
all, however, in conjunction with a large
portrait of Samuel Chase of Maryland, by
]. w Jarvis, bore testimony to the sur
prising cleverness' and serious worth or
some of our early American painters, as
well as to the good taste OF their patrons.
1t is rather customary to look askant at
American art, to declare that we are but
just awaking from savagery, but the work
of these pioneers carries with it the prom
Use of the present, and even on its own
merits is not to be despised.
.4
On Tuesday OF this week Mr.. James
Henry Moser gave an informal private
view of the pictures which he is sending
over to the American Water Color Society's
exhibition in New York. Some of them
were recent and unexhibfted works and all
were notable enough TO merit relntroduc-
ton. There was a twilight effect on a
high banked river, rainy day at Lake
George (both of which, by the way. have
lately been purchased by a weil-known
Philadelphia collector). dark wood inter
Tor a orffpf iitflP In Connecticut. and
a gray, mysterious moonlight rather Jap
anesque in Its effect. Each was very iDdi-
vidual and yet all pleasantly harmonized-
There was no sameness either In subject or
technique but a relation in values which
made one complement another and the
group q unit. Mr.. Mcser stands now
among the foremost American water color
lists and he has without doubt done much
toward both establishing and unfolding the
value and dignity of water color as a me-
dunn.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-02-17
Sleeping place for Cats.

For cats as we'll as dogs, the neat
est sleeping place is strong, closely
woven wicker basket. Favorite pets
have a basket with curving canopy
top, decked out with big satin bow
and carpeted with rug of white
goats hair. Simpler baskets are round
and fiat and show deep opening at
one side. A soft blanket should al.
ways be laid in the bottom of these
and made fresh and clean at least
once a week, says the Philadelphia
Record.
A pet cat is so very tidy about her
own appearance that she requires less
attention than a canary or dog. AS
a kitten, dish of milk should be plac-
ed where she can always take drink.
An older cat always likes bowl of
milk kept filled for her in the kitchen,
while the scraps from the table com
prise the remainder Of her nourish-
ment. Scarcely any meat should be
given in a cats diet during winter.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-02-17
No sunday Paper maj NIaht.

Mr.. Capen. an old resident of a
seaport town of Massachusetts,, is en-
ployed as driver of the coach which
conveys travellers from the train to
the hotel
One Saturday evening short time
ago three men arrived on the after
noon train from Boston. Mr. Capen
was sitting on the drivers seat, wait
ing to take them to their destination
They looked about the station and
evidently were not favorably i'm
pressed with the surroundings. fol
one was heard to say:
what desolate country! We Ger
tainly have come to the jumping-of
place. I don't believe we can ever
get Sunday paper in this place. car
we, driver?"
There was silence for a moment
aid then Mr.. Capen drawled out,
"Wal, not tonight"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-02-17

cnair and sobbed quietly. Suddenly
she was startled by a tapping at the
door and then child's voice called
out;
Mamma. oh. mamma. Are you
thare?" Then the door was opened
and the little boy rushed into the
room, laying bunch OF roses In the
lap OF his mother, as she lifted her
head and tried to dry her eyes.
"Why, what's the matter. mamma?
Does your head ache?" exclaimed the
child i've been looking every
where for you. Aren't the flowers
Mrs. Sanderson gave me nice?"
francis. my darling! My love!"
exclaimed the mother passionately,
clasping the child in her arms and
kissing him again and again. Thank
God, have you to live for. anyway.
My little boy"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-02-17
Her idea oft

An official OF one OF the telegraph
companies tells an amusing story of a
young woman in Pennsylvania town
who wished to send telegram to a
New York firm ordering supply OF
dress goods.
After some inquiries as to whether
the line really and truly" did "coh-
meet with New York." the young wom-
an finally decided to afford the CON-
pany the benefit of her patronage.
Opening her hand bag she took there
from various samples which she con.
suited from time TO time as she IN,
dertook the t2sk Of expressing her
wants in the usual ten words. When
she had apparently completed the IN
teresting operation. she attached two
of the samples to the telegraph form
and handed her message to the man
at the window. Her telegram read
as follows:
BLANK and Company. Send express
four yards sample A and six yards d.
= Success Magazine.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-02-17

Mrs. vandervelt will be down in
few moments. sir" the servant said,
as she ushered the visitor into the
drawing room.
Vandervelt gazed about the room
and his eyes rested on photograph
lying on the table. 1t was the por-
trait Of his divorced wife-the woman
who would be down in a few mo-
ments."
"A picture OF her." he muttered,
with wistful, but hopeless look in
his eyes. He still loved her-yes,
loved her more than ever before-but
he knew now that this folly had built
barrier between them that could
never be torn asunder
"A picture of her-just as she look
ed when | last saw her; at least, just
as she would have looked had she
been happy. How she must hate me
now. God knows, deserve the hate"
Cursing himself for being a fool,
vandervelt continued his soliloquy
What folly and what cruelty had been
his desertion of her-his devoted
wife! And his boy--did Francis
know what a cowardly beast his faith
er had been? And the divorce they
had agreed to-yes, that had been still
further folly. He had been blind
his infatuation for the other woman
had been as sand in his eyes. He had
been unable to see until the sand was
removed and then it was too late.
But heaven knows, I've suffered as
greatly as She" was the consolation
he tried to give himself, but it was
Loor consolation. for he realized that
she had not deserved the suffering.
AS he continued the mental battle
against his feelings which he could
not control, the man who had once
been strong and brave and reckless
dropped into an armchair beside the
table and buried HIS face in his hands.
Mrs. vandervelt entered and looked
upon the picture of despair. She step
ped lightly, and so deeply engrossed
was he in his bitter thoughts that
Vandervelt did not hear her as she
approached.
ALLEN" she said. softly, her voice
quivering. as she put her hand on his
head and stroked his hair.
Vandervelt started violently. He
was frightened. so suddenly was he
awakened FROM his meditation. and
bounded from the chair as he would
have leaped from railway rack to
escape death beneath the wheels OF
approaching train. He turned about
and looked at her and saw the trem-
BILE of her lips as she tried to speak.
Then the gaze from his eyes fell to
the carpet on the floor.
Allen" she finally said again in
voice tremulous with emotion. you
-you-come back toto"
ASK your forgiveness" he supplied.
TO stay?" she finished.
"To ask your forgiveness" he re-
peated, unable to raise his eyes and
meet her gaze.
Again her lips quivered in an effort
to speak. but she could not. She tot
tered little as though she were dizzy
and might fall, and her hand swept
nervously across her face as If she
were brushing away cobwebs. He
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-02-17
Londoners Take SNUFF.

Snuff-taking is common habit
among certain classes of the London
poor. 1t shows its effects in rambling
speech, pallid aspect and detected de-
meanor, resembling the symptoms. OF
the morphia taker The practice is
especially common among women and
an observer says that women in the
prisoners dock in the police court
will have their hair decorated with
curl papers which contain each the
pinch Of snuff needed for consolation
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-02-17

The automobile rushed down the
road--huge, gigantic, sublime. Over
the fe.ice hung the woman who works
hard and long-her husband is at the
cafe and she haS thirteen little ones
(an unlucky number.) Suddenly upon
the thirteenth came the auto, unsee-
ing. slew him, and hummed on, un-
known. The woman who works hard
and long rushed forward with hands.
hands made rough with toll, upraised.
She paused and stood inarticulate-a
goddess. a giantess. Then she hurled
forth these words OF derision. Of de-
spair: Mon Dieu! And I'd just
washed himi.-Le Sport. Paris.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-02-17
Quaint Agriculture.

There are In the suburbs Of Rome
Two farms where antique medals are
made in large quantities. The people
who devote themselves to this odd In
dustry cause to be swallowed by tur-
keys coins or medals roughly struck
with the efigy Of Tiberius or Caligu-
la. The mechanical action OF the tiny
stones contained in the gizzard is adj
ded to the purely chemical action OF
the gastric juice. partially effacing the
figures and toning down the hardness
Of the features. 1t is to be feared
that some ~s the specimens in our
public collie lons have been obtained
by this curious process.-Cosmos, Par
Is.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-02-17
cures BLOOD, skin Troubles, cancer
Blood Poison. Greatest Blood
Purifier Free.

II your blood is impure. thin. dis
eased, hot or full of humors, IL you
have blood poison. cancer. carbuncless
eating sores, scrofula, eczema, itching,
risings and lumpss scabby. HHmply
skin, bone pains, catarrh, rheumatism.
OF any blood or skin disease. take Boz
tanic Blood Balm (B b. 3D. accord
ing to directions. Soon all sores heal,
aches and pains stop. the blood is
made pure and rich. les<lng the skin
free from every eruptioHs and giving
the rich glow of perfect health to the
skin. At the same time B. B. p. inn
proves the digestion. cures dyspepsia,
strengthens weak kidneys. Just the
medicine for old people, as 1t gives
them new. vigorous blood. Druggists,
81 per large bottle, with directions for
home cure. Sample free and prepaid
by writing Blood Balm Co. Atlanta.
Ga. Describe trouble and special free
medical advice also sent In sealed LETT
ter. b. B. B. is especially advised for
chronic, deep-seated cases Of impure
blood and skin diseaSes End cures after
all else fails.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-02-17
Forest Monarch Centuries Old.

There is something like a sense OF
the tragic in the fall of majestic trees.
One had just been cut down near
Burgdorf, in Switzerland. which real
ly deserves to be described as mon
arch OF the forest. 1t was an oak
At a height of sixteen feet from the
ground the trunk measured not less
chan four and one-half feet in diam
eter, which gives circumference of
sixteen feet three inches. The con-
centric rings showed the tree to have
been planted about the year 1000. OF
these rings 311 could be counted
London Globe.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-02-17
zoe Of the oetupus.

Conger cells hunt for the octopus
and, when found. proceed to browse
on its limbs. The octupus tries to
hug the slippery conger tight, but in
vain, and, finding its limbs growing
less, discharges its ink in the face Of
the foe and, under cover Of the tur-
bid water beats a hasty retreat. It is
to escape the too pressing attention
Of its foes that the octupus possesses
the power of changing its color to
Correspond with that Of its surround
lnas.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-02-17
Beyond the Hills.

Beyond the Hills
All the world Is still before you, little
boy,
You are in the fair. green valley where
the sun
Lights the smooth and pleasant paths
down which you run:
Out beyond the hills you dirnly see is
care,
Far beyond those heights are burdens
you must bear,
But beyond those uplands also there is
Little boy.
There are heartaches that await you, lit
tie boy,
And those roads that in the distance
wind away
Lead to labor and contention and dis
may;
Stones are waiting there to bruise your
weary feet
Foes are ambushed there whom you Will
have to meet
But upon those hard roads also there is
JOY,
Little boy.
You are innocent and care free, little boy
And out yonder there Is knowledge you
must gain
At the price Of many efforts and much
You must toll and you must suffer ere
You may never from beyond those hills
return,
But be glad, for yonder love lies. too. and
JOY,
IS. E. Kiser.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-02-17
NUNS FIRsr no POWDER HAln
Then Custom Quickly Spread to
Women Of Fashion.

Then Custom Quickly Spread to
Women Of Fashion.
The custom of powdering the hair
dates back as far as the sixteenth
century and was first introduced by
the nuns In French converts. Those
who had occasion to leave the clois-
ters for any reason were wont to
powder their hair so as to make 1t APP
pear gray and give them venerable
look. The fashionable danes were
80 struck with the novel effect of
white powder on dark hair that they
soon appropriated the device as one
Of the arts of the worldly toilet out
of this grew the use of tints in the
hair. The Roman women often used
blue powder. and later, in 1860. EN-
press Eugenie set the fashion Of using
gold powder. Rome under the empire
and Greece during the time Of Per
iclos were seized with a mania for
golden hair The bellies and fops OF
the day devised several methods
whereby black locks might be
changed to golden yellow, but bleach
ing did not always succeed. Conse-
quently quite a trade was established
with the fair-haired tribes beyond the
Alps, who sold their locks to Latin
merchants to be worn on the heads
Of Roman candles.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-02-17
Not consolInu.

A young man had enlisted in an
English regiment for Inoia for four
teen years. Seven years after he had
been In India his old mother in Eng
land wrote to him saying that If he
did rot send home some money at
once she and the old man would have
10 20 to the workhouse. The son wrote
back saying that II she could hang on
eor seven years he would come home
and they would all go together
Judges Magazine of Fun.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-02-17
curIous Question Of Law

A curious question of law has come
before the Maine courts. A bishop
and the rector of parish are being
sued for libel by man excommuni-
Gated by them. The supreme court
has just held that there is a cause
for action. The dismissal from church
is undoubtedly prejudicial to a mans
character, but it is nice question
to what extent the courts should in
terfere with church discipline.