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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-08
Gravestone for Dog,
But None for Child
pecial Correspondence Of The Star.


DUBLIN August %. 1907
~ VEN in death a woman's love for her
r. pet dog surpassed that for her own
80 child. Lady McKenna, widow of
the late Sir Joseph McKenna, re-
Gently died. Within week Of the
funeral her relatives were enabled to erect
over the unmarked grave of her baby
daughter a monument. 1t was a handsome
marble affair and for years had graced the
grave of Lady McKenna's favorite dog.
In leaving her own daughters place of
interment in the Waterford cemetery I'M
marked, while erecting this costly memory
in the grounds of her house TO her pet dog,
Lady McKenna merely followed out the
great inclinations OF her life. She was mad
on the subject of animals and loved them
as much as she hated children.
The will of this strange Irish woman has
Just been proved. The first clause provides
that her two favorite dogs, named Rorey
and Ruffles, shall continue to lead a life of
luxury They are left an ANNUAL income Of
$500 each for their maintenance. To make
certain that her horses should never know
less kindly mistress than herself Lady
Mckenna directed that they should be shot.
The bulk of her fortune. sum of SfS0, 0O0
Is bequeathed TO various societies for the
care of dogs and horses. the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals coming in
for the largest share.
Out of this money the widow desires that
large oil painting of herself shall be
taken care of and hung In the board room
at the headquarters OF this society.
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lay his hands belonging to Balzac.
Georges Sand, Musset, Gautier, Victor
Hugo. Vigny, Merimee. Stendhal and
Sa!nte Beuve. But 1t was to Balzac that
the vicomte practically devoted the later
half of his life.
His huge collection was splendidly ar
at his immense house at Brussels. 1t was
SO perfectly done that the stranger could
at an instants notice lay his hand on any
particular manuscript or other treasure.
The literary man woman was always
welcome to search through the various COL
lections.
And now the public will have a chance of
viewing these extraordinary treasures. for
the vcomte in his will has bequeathed his
entire collection to the Institute of France.
Strange to say, the institute Is not over
joyed. 1t is the size of the collection which
apparently has appalled, the members as
well as a special clause in the will which
demands that the collection shall be ar
ranged in the Chantilly Museum and shall
be open to the public.
The institute objects to such use of the
Chantilly building. 1t would mean, the
members say, that the stately palace Of
the institute would be overrun by the
great unwashed and all the literary rats
and hacks in France, perhaps elsewhere
The institute holds itself very much aloof
from the common herd and will l think.
only accept the superb bequest if the ex-
ecutors or the courts allow the breaking OF
the stipulation regarding ChantiIy and
the public.
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Brussels would like to keep the collection,
and the literary chieftains of Belgium are
already at work in influential circles trying
to have that portion of de Spoelberch' 8
will set aside and thus retain the collec-
ton where it is at present and turn the
vicomtes house into a national gallery.
There are also many of the Brussels mu-
seums which would be only too glad to
house the collection. The Institute Of
France, however, has two years in which
to decide. By that time the members may
be only too glad to receive this princely
beQuest.
For a time the Vicomte de Spoelberch
devoted himself to collecting the manu-
scripts of Sainte-Beuve. Then he idolized
Theophile Gautier His collection COM
prises all the published and unpublished
manuscripts of Gautier. Eight hundred of
his letters and albums OF his original draw
ings, with hundreds of other curious relics.
But even this array cannot compare with
the "Balzacians.' When Balzac died, as
he had lived, overwhelmed with debts, an
cry creditors rushed to his house and
ransacked it. They found nothing of ap-
parent value, but there were everywhere
immense piles of papers. These the in
furiated creditors threw by the handful
out of the windows and scattered to the
winds.
The poverty stricken neighbors gathered
up these papers and sold bundles of them
for a few sous to petty tradesmen .or
wrapping purposes. Hearing of this van
dalism, Vicomte de Spoelberch fastened
to the scene, and then and there began he
five years working of the gold mine"
A small army of men, women and chill
dren began rummaging in dirt heaps and
cellars. Balzacian love letters, with spots
Of butter, sugar grains, stains Of all sorts,
came to the vicomte from grocers. milkmen
and their customers in exchange for gold.
A bootmaker made a corner in the val
liable papers and held out for five years
Balzacs cook was besieged by the vicomte
for two years before he yielded up seventy
love letters.
In the end de Spoelberch pieced together
no less than 5000 of the famous Letters
A fEtrangere." This was Nine Hauska
whom Balzac married shortly before his
DEATH
In the Balzac collection, among other
things, are all the unpublished works, the
authors hair, an unique cast of his hands
plan of his house and many pictures. in
Guiding the picture of I Etrangere.
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please.
IF you come up here sings Nature, Il
will throw Ice and rocks at you. and open
chasms beneath your feet, and pour ava
lanches upon YOU
And man replies: up there l will go,
and your stones and ice shall fall and not
hit me, and l will pass over your chasms
and not fall into them, and your avalanches
shall slide, but l will not be in them"
Man accepts the challenge of Nature and
wins. That is the sport of climbing.
No one can have climbed high mountains
for a long series of years and not have had
adventures galore. The strange thing is
how little impression they leave upon the
memory.
They are by no means always theatrical
in effect. A spectator might be watching
! through a telescope party in direst peril
and not perceive a trace Of the danger
Once l remember mot once, indeed. but
many times) crossing steep snow slope in
descending a snow mountain late In the
afternoon of a hot day and finding the
snow in very ticklish state resting on a
slope of ice and ready to slide off at any
moment. 1t is not till you are well on 20
the slope that you fully realize the danger
At first you think you are only crossing a
soft patch but things grow worse you
advance. The leader moves very slowly,
cutting each step through into the ice be-
low, SO that no slipping foot may start .-e
slithery mass. Each steps exactly into the
hole left by his predecessor foot. Every
effort is made not to divide the slope by
deep furroW. If the mass were to give
way down you would all go in and with
it. and there is sure to be cliff to fall
over down below; or If not it is of small
consequence, for you would be involved in
the mass of the avalanche, and pressed to
death or smothered in it when it comes to
rest at the foot of the slope.
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Mountain climbing In UNEMPLOYED districts
is all adventure. You never know what is
coming round the corner. After weeks of
labor to reach some point you may find the
approach absolutely barred to your ad
vance. The knowledge that this may hap
pen gives to each stage of the advance an
excitement unknown in explored mountains
and recognized ascents. There no I'M
known corners in the Alps. All are mapped,
photographed and described. Thirty years
ago, still more, fifty years ago, this was
not the case. Alpine climbing then had the
fascination of exploration.
The joy of exploration does not depend
on the size of mountains or even on their
difficulty. The small mountains of Splits
bergen were the most delightful 1 ever
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1t is in bad weather that the adventure
Of the mountains is most rich. for then the
way has to be found without much help
from the eyes. You must feel with the
point of the ice ak what usually you can
see On rocks the lodges are smothered
and the handholds and footholds are hid
den. The way you came up Is not recogniz-
able in the descent. because all the aspect
of things is changed and the limit of vision
Is only few yards. To unravel the in
tricacies of a crevassed glacier at such a
time is no simple matter. 1t is more than
likely that the night will close in and find
you still in the midst of difficulties. You
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y
if you find rock ledge large enough to
stand on. thrice lucky if you can sit down
huddled close together and roped to some
friendly jutting fragment of rock. How
long the shortest night seems under such
circumstances! You beat your limbs on
one another to keep circulation going and
ward off the approach of frost bite. The
minutes pass like hours and the hours like
days. VIII the dawn never come? Per-
haps the storm has passed and the stars
are shining, though mountain storms are
seldom brief. In such good luck you will
see the first white edge of dawn in the
far northeast.
How cold it looks! how slowly it wakes!
Long before the rose light comes you are
off again ever SO slowly. The cramped
limbs will not work at first. But presently
the blood begins to move more freely, and
before the sun shines on the awakened
world you are fully alive once more.
More frequently the storm continues, and
the snow lies thicker with every hour that
passes. When the moment comes to move
one man may be unwilling. The frost has
entered into his soul He must be forced
by high-handed means. lugged and pushed
and beaten and handled till life comes back
into him and pluck to wrestle with danger
and despair.
The mountaneer has need to choose his
companions well for such emergencies. The
hours of inaction are the most dangerous.
x K
The finest days however. are not free
from peril. Who that has unwittingly trod-
den on an overhangng cornce frnging
some narrow crest can deny 1t? Present
day climbers know how to keep away from
cornices, the width of which 1t Is not easy
to estimate from above. Many fatal acct
dent has been caused by a false estimate
of where the cornice begins. A party Is
walking along what seems a snSooth and
easy road, when, crack and they are
launched to eternity down a hideous preci-
pice, unless, as has happened more than
once, one or two of them have been on the
other slope and have been enabled to save
their companions by holding the rope firmly
no easy thing to do under such circum-
stances.
The rope. after all, is the great safe
guard if it Is properly used. Half the fatal
accidents that have happened are due in
the last resort to bad handling of the
rope.
Once l was descending a steep ice ridge,
from which slopes that would be called
precipices descended either hand for
more than a mile. We were party of
three. The leader fell out of his steps and
would inevitably have been shot down to
destruction, but the other two had the rope
tight between them, SO that the strain
of the leaders fall came on to them as on
to one man, and they held him with perfect
ease but l shall never forget the moment
when l saw him shooting off down the
slope and felt at once the bite of the rope
round my waist.
Mountain climbing In rnannlnrnd district.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-08
BY JOHN H. WHITSON.
Author OF The Rainbow Chasers."

Copyright 1907 By Little. Brown and Company,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-08
MOUNTAIN ADVENTURES TAKEN
BY SIR MARTIN CONWAY

~ OUNTAIN adventures imply
IN mountain dangers, which are
many and real. The sport Of
climbing consists in evading
them. and yet going where you
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Every climber remembers some falling
stone that passed within what he thought
was an inch of his head Sometimes they
come in battalions, the air thick with them:
1t seems impossible that they should not hit
YOU But they miss 900 times out of 900.
Nature is very poor shot!
once in the Himalayas 1 was walking
very calmly along a hillside near the bot
tom of valley and a stone the size of an
egg whipped between my legs with the
velocity OF bullet. 1 have never known a
stone to move SO fast 1t must have come
from an immense height. Another time a.
great vulture plunging from some great
altltude went past my head SO close that
the wind of him almost knocked me down.
railing ice has obliterated my party's
steps within few seconds Of our leaving
them l have seen a gully We had recently
descended swept from top to bottom by a
gigantic avalanche. All climbers can re-
member such incidents, but the chances are
infinitely in the climbers favor If he pro-
ceeds with caution.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-17
Queer Thinos Made From Milk.

You could build house of milk, il
you liked, and it would be as strong
and lasting as though made of Aber-
deem granite, says M. Glen Fling in
Technical World Magazine. More
over, all the fittings could be made
of the same substance, and they
would outlive the finest ordinary ma
terial that was ever constructed.
Billiard balls, combs, fancy boxes
and many other things are made from
the new substance, galalith, which is
made from milk.
There is really no limit to the
articles which can be made from gal
alith. 1t takes dyes readily and in
ferior grades are colored. The best
remain white, however, for white gal
alith brings the highest price because
of it's similarity to ivory. The first
grade of white galalith is made up in
to knife handles, and 1t brings al
most as high a figure as would so
much ivory.
Galalith is the best substitute for
ivory ever discovered, for it is smooth
to the touch, retains it's soft, creamy
tinting for years, is not marred by
soap and water and, unlike celluloid,
is proof against fire. 1t does not chip
or crack like bone, and can be cut
into the most delicate shapes, being
tough and not easily broken.
In Austria something like 100000
quarts of SKINNED milk are used daily
for the purpose of making galalith,
and the industry is largely on the in
crease. The article describes the
process of making this queer SUBJ
stance.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-17
A PATHETIC SCENE.
Wife Visits Saloon Where Her HuS.
band Was Carousing.

81 am not Mrs. Nation; l have no
hatchet; l am not crazy"
These words came from the lips Of
a Lewis woman as she met her hus-
band face to face in hotel barroom
the other evening, says the Lewis
Pilot. They were directed to the bar
tender and loungers, as the former
handed the woman's husband glass
of whisky.
She continued: "That man has not
done days work this winter, and I
am worn out trying to support him
and the rest of the family. l want to
know if something cannot be done to
keep him from destroying his own life
and starving his family?"
The woman was thin and pale. Her
lips quivered as she spoke. Her frail
body could hardly stand the strain of
the unfamiliar environment. AS she
finished the little girl by her side
burst into tears, the bartender took
back the whisky, the abashed husband
stood with bowed head, one by one
the loungers left the room. Presently
the bartender, gazing at the poor wom-
an, solemenly vowed that the man
should not drink at his bar again.
1t was pathetic scene; it was the
last resort of a desperate woman. AS
she left the hotel with her husband
and the little girl there was a lesson
too painful for any pen to picture
Selected.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-17
IN THE RUSSIAN STYLE.
Curious National Customs Observed
at a South Dakota Marriage.

A double wedding in the Russian
colony at Rosedale, S. D., south of
Alexandria, lasted through an entire
day and irto the evening. The names
of the principals were Joseph Mandel
and Katherine Hofer, and Michael
Waldner and Katherine Gross.
The ceremony was begun in the
morning in the little stone church, in
which the old custom or the men and
women sitting on opposite sides still
prevails. The Russian priest deliv-
cred a long sermon, and at 11:2O
O'Clock he called the principals to the
front of the edifice, the women going
first and being followed by the young
men. The ceremony proper was spok-
en- in Russian, and lasted but short
time. 1t was followed by prayer
and a song and then brides and bride
grooms' returned to their separate
seats.
The bridal costumes of the couples
were very simple, the maidens wear
ing fiannelette gowns with hand
kerchief tied over their heads. The
bridegrooms, however, we're dressed
little more fastidiously, in that they
wore regular wedding suits, chief of
which was long coat. A popularity
about the coat is that it Is worn by
every bridegroom in the settlement.
two coats being kept in the settlement
in case of a double wedding, apd
whether the bridegroom be tall or
short, large or small, the coat must
do it's duty.
With the ceremony over, the guests
and the bridal couples went to the
eating house, where big dinner COM
posed of noodle soup, bread, beef,
sauerkraut, whiskey and wine was
served. The women occupied one
long table and the men another, but
the bridal couples were allowed to sit
together. With the dinner over came
the interesting part of the ceremony,
and that is the love scene which fol-
lows a Russian wedding. :. The COM
pany went to what is called the love-
room in one of the houses, where be-
fore the assembled crowd the brides
and brldegrooms sat with arms
around each other, billing and cooling,
oblivious to the comments and watch
full eyes of the others. AS a sort of
break in the monotony for the brides
one of the young ladies filled the
aprons of the brides with peanuts and
candy, which they munched with COM
placency as the joyous festivities pro-
ceeded. At nine o'clock the love
scene broke up and the day of the
wedding came to an end.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-17
American Idealism.

Since my first arrival in America I
have held that the real spirit is ideal
istic and that the average individual
American is controlled by idealistic
impulses. Those who may contradict
me can not have sounded the depths
of the philosophy of Ralph Waldo
Emerson, or studied the life and read
the speeches of Abraham Lincoln, and
considered their far-reaching effect on
the American people. In Lincoln's
great character nothing can be more
striking than the way in which he
combined reality and the loftiest ideal,
with thoroughly practical capacity
to achieve that ideal by practical
methods. This faculty seemed to give
him far-sighted, almost superhuman
vision, which enabled him to pierce
the clouds obscuring the sight of the
keenest statesmen and thinkers Of his
age-Baron Speck Won Sternburg, in
Forum.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-17
COSTLY PRESSURE.
Heart and Nerves Fail on Coffee.

A resident of a great western state
puts the case regarding stimulants
with comprehensive brevity that is
admirable. He says:
Il am Sc years old and have had con-
siderable experience with stimulants.
They are all alike-a mortgage on re-
served energy at ruinous interest. AS
the whip stimulates but does not
strengthen the horse, so do stimulants
act upon the human system. Feeling
this way, gave UP coffee and all
other stimulants and began the use of
Postum Food coffee some months ago.
The beneficial results have been ap-
parent from the first. The rheumatism
that used to suffer from has left me.
/ sleep sounder, my nerves are stead
fer and my brain clearer. And bear
testimony also to the food value of
Postum-something that is lacking in
coffee" Name given by Postum Co.,
Battle Creek, Mich. There's reason.
Read "The Road to Wellyille," the
quaint little book in pkgs.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-17
MEN STILL LIVE IN CAVES.
frogIodytic Villages Are Found In
Northern Africa.

Grottoes and caverns are used more
or less as shelters by primitive peo-
pies and thus inhabited caves are OF
course most frequent in Africa. A con-
siderable number of natives make
their homes in caves along the south
ern shore of the Strait of Gibraltar
and in some of those caves are found
the polished stones and arrow heads
Of the stone age. Troglodyte villages
are frequent in the Tebessa territory
Of Algeria, one of which, at Djeurf,
ESQ., feet above the gorge of the Wadi
Hallail is reached by steps cut in the
rock.
The inhabitants OF the Tunisian
Island of Galite are cave dwe!lers,
their habitations being grottoes which
they have dug out of the limestone, or
ancient burial cayerns that they Eave
enlarged. The subterranean villages os
Matmata and of Medennie, hewn out
of the rock, are in southern Tunisia.
A Christian monastery built under
ground in the twelfth century still sx-
lists at Goba, Abyssinia. The enor-
nous cavern discovered several years
ago within two hours walk of the .Oort
of Tanga, in German East Africa, cen
tains rooms the roofs of which are
from 120 to 250 feet above the floor.
Only few of these vast chambers
have yet been explored, for the entire
cavern seems to be inhabited by mil
lions of bats. One of these killed
with stick measured nearly five feet
across its extended wings.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-17
NEAL DOW AND. HIS SON.
incident That Shows the Latter Fol.
lowed in His Fathers Steps.

Col. Fred N. Dow tells the follow
ing story which illustrates how the
son of father devoted to a great
principle is likely to follow in his
fathers steps:
Col. Dow once visited friends at
Quebec, and, while seeing the sights
of the city and it's surroundings, he
took a public carriage to visit the
Falls of Montmorency. At halfway
house on the road the driver pulled
up his horse and remarked: THE
carriage always stops here"
For what purpose?" asked the
colonel
For the passengers to treat" was
the reply.
But none of us drink, and we don't
intend to treat"
The driver had dismounted and was
waiting by the roadside. Drawing
himself up to his full height, he said,
impressively: Il have driven this
carriage for 80 years, and this hap
pened but once before. Some time
ago ! had for fare a crank from
Portland, Me-, by the name of Neal
Dow, who said he wouldn't drink; and,
what is more to the point, he said
he wouldn't pay for anybody else to
drink
The son found himself occupying
the same ground as that on which
his father had stood-Selected
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-17

When person gets up in the morn
ing with a duh headache and a tired,
stretchy feeling, it's an almost certain
indication that the liver, or bowels,
or both, are decidedly out of order
At such times Nature, the wisest
and besc of doctors, takes this means
to give warning that she needs the
help and gentle assistance which can
best be obtained from that old fam
lily remedy. Brandreth's Pills, which
has been in use for over a century.
They are the same fine laxative
tonic pill your grandparents used
when doctors were few and far be-
tween, and when people had to have
a remedy that could absolutely be de-
pended upon.
Brandreth's Pills can be depended
upon, and are sold in every drug and
medicine store, plain or sugar-coated.