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Evening star., 1907-11-17
Il say!" / cried

Il say" cried.
The man took his pipe of his mouth and
looked up at me. What is it?" asked he.
my tree! My tree!" called down to him. 1t
is broken there. Look!"
The man on the ash barrel shrugged his shoulders
He put his pipe back in his mouth. It the
lineup man., he said between his teeth and the
meuthpece of it.
"Fell?" called wildly the lineup man had
yelled his, Line up! Line up! Want 1ine?''
Fell said the ash barrel man laconically.
'Dead?" asked in a softer tone that almost
a whisper.
Yes said the ash barrel man, dead. He fell
early this morning and died.
Then, taking his pip out of his mouth once more,
he added But his life is insured and his wife will
get the seventy-fve.
Evening star., 1907-11-17

: ! ! !. !
EVERY morning the lineup C~
Il man walked me with voice AN&&
like foghorn. Line upl" he NNA
yelled. Then, as an afterthought,
with a wilder shrek, he added, A~V
Want line? 2" ESNI8 L
Being on the East Side, but NM
not of it, | turned my pillow nv
and once more slept. NJ r
But morning it occurred |
to me to get up, throw on a u K
knono, and 60 to the window to \ ~
take peep at this awful creature y -
with the foghorn voice, to \>H l.
what he was like. AS did so he \&4A
looked up to my sixth story win ~
dow and saw me. E
Line up!' he yelled. Want X,
liner" fES
He was thick and heavy set to kK
match his calling his boots were ll|
stout and thick so1ed for the con- e. III
slant climbing of the poles. ~ A1l
NO" | answered from my NASN1
window, Il don't want line N@N4 la I
but this is what want to know EAGLF k
Why do you yell so? Every IMV. E t
morning since l have lived here 9Mf |
you've walked me yelling. Can't NWNNE
you keep quiet just one morning w l.
and let me seep?" mi
He looked wistfuly up at me. E
1t was doubtful if he compre- N ~
hended. Lady" he said suavely
and in gentler voice, want a j
line?"
mo" 1 answered; but look
here, laying aside the question of the noise y
make, aren't you afraid to climb these old q
poes7"
Some reached to the seventh story windows
They're safe," said he
But look!'' 1 persisted. "All these tall O.
are spced high up. What if you should fall so
morning? What if one should break off there VIII
it is spliced, when you are at the top?"
A man in the court was sitting on an ash bal
not far from the lineup man. He sat there i
every morning while his wife went out to wo
Ha n al ha 4
Don't tell him he'll fall, or he will He'll
frightened at the thought Whenever they
frightened and losr their nerve, they always ia
4" 1t is worse than washing the top story winde
I'm not afraid" said the lineup man, throw
his head back as he walked off, and yelling tt
louder than before:
Line up! Line upl Want liner,
Evening star., 1907-11-17
Drawing by Henry Raleigh

Receiving no response @ to @ his wild wild cry l. he
did fall and get killed." he vouchsafed
cheefuly, "it would be all right. | am
insured. If got killed, my wife would get
a Let of money,-she'd get seventy-6ve
dollars" This with an air of pride.
"Seventy-fve dollars!" l repeated Won
deringly. YES, seventy-fve dollars" said
the lineup man, and, climbing the high
fence surrounding the court, he went down
the other side and on and on, his voice
receding as he went in his eternal cry:
Line up! Line up! Want a line?'
Again and again, morning after morning,
his cry walked me. AS formerly ! turned
on my pillow and slept; but sometimes
through the day, at work near my window,
my thoughts went after the lineup man
if he should fall? The tall dead posts, the
ghosts of trees, were the only trees, there
in the court which was the front yard of
my back fiat. Some of them swayed when
the wind blew. They creaked when it
rained, and wet them through and through
and made them miserable Particularly
they creaked and moaned above the place
where they had been spliced, as if it hurt
them. When l first lived in the little back
fiat, thought there were birds in the trees;
but there were not. Now and again spar
row would fly at a tree, and, finding no
worms there, would fly away again.
The pulleys are fastened by the lineup man
on the tall poles in the courts of the poor, then
are fastened to the edges of the windows; so
e housewife, leaning out, hauls the lines in and
EN- out again. When the line is hauled in
out, the pulleys sing with a sound that is
e song of bird or so it seemed to me, per-
ecause, when one lives in the neighborhood of
or where there are no green trees or birds,
songs of birds, one must make believe You
l. hot fhn cD4 f,1oS
trees and the creak of the pulleys is the
f birds
morning l walked and looked out my sixth
window at the tall gray poles. There, just
the place where one tree was spllced, was
TX / looked down in the court. There
e top of the tree fiat on the flags. 1t was
he tree directly in front of the window of
n.
aned far out and looked over into the court
place against the fence, where the man sat
ash barrel, as usual, smoking his clay pipe
lis wife was at work
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CHAPTER II.

Paget. after leaving the Monmouths at the
Queens Road station, drove in a cab to the
Albany, where he had chambers on the
first floor overlooking the covered walk,
He was beginning to make a good income
by concert engagements. and he had in
herited a little money from his godmother.
but for his means, his habits were luxuri-
Gus. Always in debt, always harassed and
always extravaganza his sustaining hope
was to compose an opera which would
make fortune.
In Nivien Monmouth, he had found he
knew. the inspira ton which he had craved
vainly until their meeting. When he
reached his rooms he paced the floor in
fever. hearing eternal harmonies on the
subject of Daphnis and Chloe. An artist
by nature. he had never paused to ap-
praise his own instinct for music. Part of
his spirit and all his real language. 1t rose
and surged In his brain, just color lives
in an eye. Music was his life. and what
he could not express IN music he imper-
fecty realized
Tonight the fever and exaltation Of his
ideas were suddenly disturbed by visitor.
1t was Heimerfelt, his agent, flushed, smil-
ing and prosperous.
II have got some good news for you
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looked for Rcndel Paget, with whom she
was deeply infatuated He had just entered
the supper room and he was alone.
Il am afraid" she said apologetically,
that | am engaged to Mr.. Paget for sup
per. He's trying to find me-
The c. B. bowed-with :ronic Difference
and withdrew-as though Nivien had given
him to understand that for the present ut
any rate. she was under jealous protection.
You played beautifully said Paget. as
he took her in charge.
Sac pressed his arm with her small, SEN
in him.
The two had been acquainted for Il fort
night He had travelled with Cecil and her
self in Sunday train to Brighton: Paget
had lent Cecil a copy of the Referee and by
degrees they started conversation. Paget
had been struck by Vvien's face the mo-
ment he entered the compartment She
was his ''type"-that is to say. she had the
delicate physique which appealed irresiSti
bly, to his imagination
after a pause. that l have known you for
ever 50 long. All your expressions and
gestures familiar to me-.
She smiled innocently at his innocence.
That is always the way with everybody.
It's in all the poetry and novels
But this is such vivid feeling-it isn't
vague and romantic" he insisted sit isn't
the usual thing
She however, satisfied that the symptom
was normal in ali cases of pre-ordained
love, led him on to the exchange of those
sweet batteries. which. between the enam-
ored. seem to each other a perfect under
standing of the others soul. Perhaps they
are right-for to love is to see Projections,
and to see PROJECTIONS is to believe in di-
knowledge the incorrupt part in all char
2CtCr.
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Rapid Construction in New York

The Trinity Annex and Realty building in
New York is a notable example of rapid
construction. The first steel columns Were
set on September l., 1906, and the building
was fol mally opened on May 1 following,
and in this time 9.c00 tons of steel, Loo,
600 bricks, 100000 square feet of tile and
1000 cubic feet of stone were set in
place 4 few of the offices were occupied
six months after the work of construction
had been begun.
The exgencies of The situation have been
the means of developing some remarkable
and interesting innovations of construction
!naugurated with the view of saving time
and money by making use of material at
hand. \ notable case of this kind Is seen
on the Crocker building. which was a ten
story building, but slightly damaged by the
earthquake but Quilted by the fire. The
frame being practically unchanged, 1t was
necessary only to reconstruct the interior,
but the matter OF disposing OF the material
taken from the old building was alone
serious one. so the contractors hit upon the
profitable plan OF converting all the bricks,
thing stoneWork and flooring into cement,
which was utilized in the new construction
entering into the new building. A com
plete installation OF crusherS and mixers
and other machinery was secured and set
up on an adjoining lot and a the waste
was carried down 1t was at once converted
into the material for the manufacture Of
cement and went right back into the build
ing without any loss of time whatever IN
the handling.
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Mice Destroying Maine Apple Belt.

The apple belt of Maine is suffering from
a visitation OF field mice, which have dew
astated the orchards. so that 1t will require
several years of careful nursing before the
apple crop will be up to standard. These
animals are SO tiny that 1t seems impos-
sible that they could cause much dam
age, but the seriousness of them is due not
to their size but their numbers. They
have been allowed to multiply very raldly
in the past few years by destruction OF
their natural enemies, the crows, jays.
shrikes owls and hawks. These birds have
been killed off in great numbers by the
farmers because of the damage they are
supposed to do to the crops, and in thus
disturbing natures balance the farmers
have brought down upon themselves an
equally II not more serious trouble.
The mice attack the fruit trees, gnawlng
the bark from the base, so that the tree Is
seriously injured and often killed. Tho
state agricultural experts are working on
the problem, but they are unable to Offer
any solution except that OF projecting the
natural enemies of the mice. Poisoning is
not successful, for the reason that other
animals are destroyed at the same time.
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on foot than in any other way. Most Of
the roads In the interior are in execrable
shape. especially during the winter Many
Of them are hub deep in mud whenever
there is a rain or thaw, and it is no un-
common thing for the mail carriers cart
to be completely stalled and for him or
her, as the may be, to have to cover
the remainder of the route on foot. Indeed,
the establishment OF the rural free delivery
service has done more than anything else
to put the government on notice to tho
condition of many of the roads and lead
to their improvement. OF course, the Post
Office Department has no authority over
the local county roads, but there have
been a number of cases where it was
threatened to discontinue a mail route Ii
the road was not improved. and this has
always proved an effective spur.
There have been some cases, however,
where the local farmers have been about
as mean as it was possible to be. There
was one case that did not come to the
notice of the department till after the
trouble was over, where a number OF
farmers built turn out over their own
land along a stretch Of absolutely inn
passabe road and then charged the mail
carrier daily toll of in one case 3 cents
and in another case 3 cents for the use Of
the private road. The carrier put up with
the imposition because he knew il he re-
ported the case to the department tho
route would be discontinued and he would
lose his job. But 1t is a safe prediction
that the same thing will not happen an
other winter.
Boise, Idaho, claims the distinction OF
having more women carriers than any
other post office in the country, and tho
women meet with actually more courtesy
and consideration in that wild country than
In many of the civilized communities.
One of the most striking pieces of brav-
cry among the women carriers that have
been called to the attention Of the depart,
ment was that of Miss Ella, a carrier Of
Mobile, Ala. She was delivering mail in O.
light wagon when overtaken by severe
storm. She had to try a second crossing OF
badly swollen stream where one bridge
had been washed out. The second bridge
was under water, but she tried to drive
across the submerged structure. In doing
SO her horse and wagon were washed
down stream and upset, but she managed
not only TO save herself and her vehicle.A
bat the mail sacks well, though all Of
them had good duckng.
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A T N O Els.

Much that Is admirable well as inter-
esting is 10 be found in the exhibition of
the work of the students of the Corcoran
Schol of Art. which opened last evening
with the customary private view and re-
Ceptiou IN the Corcoran Gallery and Will
continue during the coming week. y spe-
Cial effort WAS made last year to raise the
standard OF the exhibition, and this year
again a distinct advance has been made.
The work is academic and sound but It is
more knowing than heretofore and less
propirg The average ability of the indi-
yidual students seems higher than formerly,
the subjects are handled with better feel
ing and the results are more evenly good
The business of an art school Is to lay
foundations, TO furnish equipment, to teach
tie "a, b. c's" Of art; no one can learn
TO be an artist" and yet even genius must
have training In the students exhibition
one looks not for finished product. but
future promise, for evidence OF sound work
ing methods and right Ideals. Not every
one who studies Will attain sucCess-those
richly endowed with talent are few-but out
of tie art schools OF today Will come our
artists Of tomorrow. The future OF Amerl-
can art depends to great degree upon the
training given in the art schols or the pres
cnt; so II IS indeed well worth while to
watch their progress and their trend. The
Corcoran School is neither old nor large as
compared to many, but there are few
which could give stronger evidence OF
earnest well-diTected effort. The work COM
on the walls OF the hemicyCle hall and the
opposite school room. Half way round
the semi-circular wall of the former gallery
to be found the drawings entered in
competition for the gold and bronze medals
-nfty-two in all, representing thirteen COM
peutors These are by students who have
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forty guneas a week-on five years con-
tract; option of renewal at sixty guineas
week-acts as GCd apart-star lead: to
be billed as star; London, engagement. I'm
not joking he continued, fearing that he
was breaking good news too violently on
an unprepared mind. He drew out his cigar
case and presented 1t with the noble ges-
ture which he reserved for the successful
only-to the artist.
Paget took cigar. but he bit off the end
in a provoking, meditative manner, which
lowered Heimerfelt's spirits.
The fact Is, Heimerfet. said he, Il have
made up my mind to leave the profession.
shall stick to my composing"
Good Cod"
singing on platforms. And what 1 don't
enjoy l can't do
Heimerfelt was too upset to keep his cigar
alight. 1t dropped from his fingers. while
he muttered oaths under his breath:
You are all alike he exclaimed: IAN
ungrateful set. 1 bring you into notice;
l study your interests. / introduce you
to the big managers; I put up with all
your capers and antics. l work up booms,
and l study the market I obtain mag
nifcent offers-entirely through my own
personal nfiuence-and them for my pains
l am made a fool Of"
Il believe I've lost heart for the work.
You wouldn't like me to turn out a bad
bargain for the syndicate?"
What does that matter-to us-so long
as they will sign the contract? And
there's beautiful part for you in the
new production-four changes of costume,
oriental atmosphere, and the three best
solos Vardelle has ever written. You
haven't taken it all in. That's what the
matter with you"
Pm sure everything about 1t Is splen-
did-eXcept me-"
There's to be duet with Rosie Raleigh
Il kiss and l COO Best thing 1 ever
heard. Nardelle ran it through for Ed
wards and me last night after supper
The man to sing that said l. is Rendel
Paget' I thought his line was grand
opera said Nardelle. All in good time >
said /; he's in no hurry to begin the heavy
before he's thirty. He listens to nv adj
vice, he added, with wall. "Oh. you have
made me feel so ill.,
I'm more sorry than I can say, and I
hope you wont throw me over-eTen now.
Can't you place my opera for me?"
place an opera. You must be mad."
1T isn't written yet, but it's all in my
head, and it's charming"
THE man is made" said Heimerfelt,
addressing the air.
MY life is my own. isn't II?
Forty guineas a week thrown away"
But composers make money"
Not when they have your notions"
Wait till you hear Daphnis and Chloe"
"Buncombe and ORWELL"
you'll think 1t over and change your
mind"
The veins In Heimerfelts forehead be-
came swollen; he grew purple in the face
and too angry to trust himself further
with client who might yet do we'll in the
long run, he dashed from the room and
on to the public staircase down which he
descended hurriedly into the covered walk
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-01
CHAPTER III.

Paget had opened the door Of the lobby,
when he heard the rustic of silken skirts
on the staircase His face clouded, an ex-
preston of pain frightened the corners of
his mouth, and, as he stood under the
lamp, he looked suddenly pale. The wearer
of the silken skirts now turned the cor
ner and appeared upon the landing. At
the sight of Paget she smiled with a sort
Of weary tenderness. He FASTENED to
and after she had crossed the threshold
he bent and kissed her gloved hand-an
act Of homage or affection which she re-
ceived as a matter Of complete indiffer-
ence.
She sat down in an arm chair I'M
fastened her evening cloak of embroidered
velvet, and unwound lace scarf from her
head. The lady was an actress, advertised
professionally as Mrs. Otway, but the name
was known to be an assumed one. There
were many speculations on the subject.
OF her antecedents little was known. At
sixteen she married; at twenty she went on
the stage, making her debut Juliet at
matinee. She had now attained celebrity.
toured in America, and created several
leading parts by modern dramatists.
II was about to write to you,' said Paget.
What about?'
He explained as plausibly he could
Heimerfelt's offer and its rejection. The
main factor of Mrs. Otways charm was its
uncertainty. No one could say how she
given circumstances. She received the news
of Paget's altered plans quietly enough:
You know your own business best"
Her tone was colorleSs, almost imper-
sonal
Yes, I do" he said, eagerly; "the stage
has lost all it's glamour for me. You like
it"
II am obliged to like it,
"At any rate, it does not bore you. 1 want
to write opera
Il understand that"
You understand everything. You are a
wonderful woman. It's such load Off my
mind to have told you. l was afraid you
might think me foolish
lit would have altered nothing. AS 1t hap
pens, l think you're right"
A quick blush of gratitude swept over his
face and something like affection kindled
in his eyes as he grasped her hand
I'm doubly confident If you agree.
There's a struggle in store for me. but 1
feel equal to it,"
And the money question:"
"Odious Still few believe in me, and
they are the right few"
so long as you see that your work is
too original to be accepted without severe
criticism, and as long as severe criticism
does not daunt you, l shall feel contented
But men of genius who can stand rough
treatment as beginners often become bitter
when the attacks are maintained. Bitterness
won't suit you"
Il must take my chances with the rest"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-01

Women carriers in the rural free delivery
service Of the Post Office Department are
making a record for themselves. There
have been a number of cases brought to
the attention of the department lately where
women carriers have covered their routes
in the face of all sorts of weather difficult
ties and have even braved physical dangers
to get the mail through on contract time.
There women carriers In Alaska.
which is the most dangerous of all the mail
regions, but those in the United States have
had enough to face in the way of storms
and floods to show that they are well up in
the list with the men of the service.
Out of 1866 r. F. D. carriers. as
they are known in the service, there
are only 253 women, not large
proportion, but they have all of them
proved excellent employees. The subject of
female stamina in. this line was first
brought to the attention Of the department
by story printed about Miss Eta Nelson,
one of the rural carriers in one of the
New England states. She has twenty
fve-mile route, and during the worst of
the snow storms last winter she did not
miss a trip, and though she was hours late
on some occasions in covering her route.
1t was only because it was a physical i'm
possibility to wade through the storm any
sooner. There were occasions when her
horse could not face the storm and she
put him up on the road and covered the
rest of her route on foot. On one occasion
she was nearly twentyfour hours in cover
ing twenty-five miles, but she was going
all the time, and managed to break her
way through the drifts, being the first
passenger along the road over the hills
where her mail route is located.
Since the announcement about her was
printed, Assistant Postmaster General De
Graw. who is in charge of the rural free
delivery service. has received a number
of letters and clippings from other parts
of the country showing how>>the women
carriers have done their duty by the de-
partment in the face of obstacles. Two of
these reliable public servants are Misses
Fife and Mollie Stevens of Indiana. On
one occasion when the roads were i'm
passable for vehicles the two sisters
shouldered the mall sacks, one of which
contained 200 copies of weekly country
paper, and covered the whole of the route
on foot, walking from in the morning
till 8 at night.
There are a good many places where 1t
is easier for the mail carrier to get about