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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-21

Mr.. and Mrs. Ledoux, son and daughter
left Sunday for New York, Boston ant
Canada for a stay of two months.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-21

Miss Mabel Thrift is the guest Of her
aunts, Mrs. J. A. Roe and Mrs. H. c..
Lowery. for a few weeks at Tilghman Is
land, Nd.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-21

Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Wilmington
have returned from their wedding trip to
Niagara Falls, Canada, Buffalo and Cleve-
land.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-21

Mrs Orbello, Miss Orbello and Miss
Edith Orbello will leave today to spend
the summer at Deer Park, Nd.
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President Ro.eve1t. Good Time.

When President Roosevelt was IeaY
'7g Washington this summer for hi
rster Bay vacation, some friends ex
.ssed their sympathy for him on the
>at burden OF his arduous tasks anC
tremendous responsibilities. "Oh, dc
not waste any sympathy on me-" be
said, Il have enjoyed every minute OF
my stay in Washington. 1 have had a
perfectly corking time"
Most men would take the Presidency
so seriously, they would be so weighted
down with its tremendous RESPONSE
bility and so anxious all the time lest
things should not go right, lest they
should make some terrible mistake,
that they would not really enjoy them
seles very much. Sensitiveness, timid-
ity, would keep many Presidents from
real enjoyment because of an embar-
RAISING self-consicousness as 70 how
they were deporting themselves, how
others were regarding them. They
would dread the cartoon, caricature
and criticism of the press so much that
tney would get very little pleasure or
comfort out of their office.
But Mr.. Roosevelt always gives the
impression that he is really having a
good time. He says he gets lots of fun,
as he goes along, from the humorous
and ludicrous things that are constant
ly happening, and that there are pIen
ty of them in his home life
When your husband or father comes
home again with a thundercloud on his
face, looking as though he thought he
were Atlas carrying the world on his
shoulders, just laugh him out of his
seriousness; tell him how President
Roosevelt manages TO carry the well
fare Of a nation. and still keeps him
self fresh, sunny and happy.-Success
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playing upon fhe paste formed Of stone
dust and condensed steam. The clicking
whir, like the clap Of wings, heard II
intervals, accounted for the scars- Bombe
of rock were being hurled from the great
tubes.
That he was in the range Of a rakins
volcano FIRE did not jmpreas this ant
clinging to the beard Of 4 giant. Up,
knees and hands, he crawled-up over the
throbbing chin, to the black pounded lip
OF the monster Out Of the old lake eoiIed
the furious tower of steam and rock-duat
which mushroomed in high air. like the
primal DsbsIe from which the worlds
were made. Pockets Of gas exploded In
the heights, rendine the periphery a. the
veil Of the temple was rent. Only this
to see, but sounds not meant for the ears
Of man. sounds which seemed to NV his
skull In twain-the numbering engines
Of the planet
The rocky rim of the lake vas hot to
his hands,and knees, but be co1id not 90
back. A thought In his brai7 held him
there with thrilling bands-the same
thought which Hayden Breen evolved ~
be stood At the edge Of the Brooklyn
pier But it was only play
thing of mind-the vagary Of altitude and
immensely. did ever = man clog live
voicanof Did ever suicidal genius con-
ceive of corrupting such majesty OF force
with his pygmy purposeT The
irreyerent query righted tie balances
There he fay, sprawled at the edge OF
the universal mystery, at the secret en-
trance to the chamber of earth's dyna-
mos The edge Of the pit shook with the
frightfuf work going on below. yet he was
not slain. The torrent burst past and
upward. clean as a missing bullet. The
bombs Of rock canted out from sheer
weight and fell behind him That which
he preehnGed-although his eyes saw
only the gray laundering cataclysm-was
never before imagined in the mind OF
man.
The gray blackened The roar dwin-
died, and his senses reeled. With a rush
of saliva the linen dropped from his open
mouth Constable was sure that there
was a gaping cleft in his skull, for he
could feel the air blowing in and out, cold
and colder. He tried to lift has hands
to cover the sensitive wound. but they
CROPPED in vain for his head With the
icy draughts of air, he seemed to hear,
family, his name falling upon the barred
ganglion.
"Peterl Peter Constable !"
He strained his face toward the sound
The lower part of his body would not
neFe. He was uncoupled, like beast
whose spine is broken.
Peter! Oh, Peter Constable he
heard again.
ITO BE- continued-)
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The Frenchman was really afraid. His
smile was yellowish-gray and of sickly
contour. His article relative to the Amer
lean appealed to him now, entirely strip
ped of the humor with which it was
fraught yesterday, as he composed 1t in
the inner Of inner Offices This demon
OF cracking French and restless hands
would stop at nothing. VI. Mondet pic
5tured himself being picked up for dead
presently. AS the blow did not fall in
simultaneously, he amended the picture
with the sorry thought that he was to
be played with before being dispatched.
This is the little man who tells you
that Saint Pierre is in no danger-who
SCOTS at those who have already gone"
Constable informed his hearers, now hold
ing up the Frenchman's arm, as a referee
upraises the whip of a winning fighter:
He says there is no more peril from
Pelee than from an old man shaking ashes
out of his pipe. Yesterday I proposed to
wager my ship against VI. Mondet's rolled
top desk that he was wrong, but there
was a difficulty in the way. Do you not
see, dear friends, that if l won the wager,
| should not be able to distinguish be
tween VI. Mondet's rolled-top desk and
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CHAPTER Ix-fcontinued.,

Il confess / cannot understand you,
DEAR she said. What consideration is
due gentleman who is rendered speech
less by the accusation of a newspaper?
What depth is there to his feeling for
your welfare when he rushes away blind
ly and remains throughout the day, while
you are here at. the foot Of bursting vol
caDo, as he pointed out You viii find
that I am right. Lara. Mr. Constable is
not even worthy accomplice to the tai
ented Stembridge. he is without speech
or valor. What remains when a man is
neither brain nor brute?r Her voice had
not been raised, and Mrs. Stansbury left
the library before Lara formed an an
swer.
The torturing hours crawled by. The
gray afternoon turned to dusk, and the
dusk to might. The north was redeemed
by Pelee's fre!it cone, which the thick
vapor dimmed and blurred The rumbIings
were constant. Lara was suffering TO
fight out her battle alone She asked no
more than this. A thousand. times she
paced across her room scores of visits she
made to Constable's window, strsining
her eyes northward, along the rsAd
through the day and darkness, TO the end
of all things-the mountain Uncle
joey came to plead with her, but she
begged him to go away. Her brain was a
livid track of flying, futile agonies. I'M
the evening the intermittent rumblingsl
gave way to a growing, constant and in-l
cessant. 1t was as If a steady stream of
heavy vehicles was pounding over a wood
en- bridge. There was a pang in each
phase of the monster, since the man had
gone up into that red roar. 1t was near
ly midnight when the girl in the upper
room heard step upon the veranda.
Uncle Joey" she called at the plant
er's door, make haste; there is some
body below :"
The moments of waiting assailed the
very roots of her reason. The voice that
she heard at last was Breen's.
81 beg that you'll forgive me, Mr.. Wall,
for arousing you at this hour, but it is
necessary for me to have few words
with Miss Stansbury."
Sir" the planter replied, anything
which concerns yourself is of no moment
to Miss Stansbury. If your message is
from Mr.. Constable, you may tell him
to come himself or send a native"
Il dislike to appear insistent, Mr..
WALL" Breen replied, without irritation,
but cannot count my errand accom-
plished until l have hearl from Miss
Stansbury. If she should refuse to see
NE"
Il am coming down, Mr.. Breen," Lara
,alled over the baluster. Uncle joey, |
how Mr.. Breen to a seat. III be there
n a moment"
She turned to re-enter her. room for a
garment. Her mothers figure barred the, |
'pen doorway.
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| There ~
Constable's irritation against the entire
tribe of editorial opinion breeders must
have found an instant vent at last. VI.
Mondet was chucked ike large soft
bundle into the sea- ~ his carriage and
the door slammed forci6Iy. corking the
|. viafs of his wrath. In any Of the red
blooded zones, a stranger who performed
such antics at the expense of a por1ly
and respected citizen would have encoun-
tered a Guietus quick and blasting. but
the people of Martinique are not swift TO
anger nor forward at reprisals.
Come ~ Constable yelled, in voice
which jerked up his hearers "Who has
use for my offer? Who goes to Fort de
Francef@
|; A few came forward, perhaps a dozen
in all, out of the fifty or sixty who had
listened Half in anger, half in admira-
ton, which he did not seek to understand,
he ran his'eye last time over the dusty,
,haggard stifed crowdewhich he had failed
to move.
From their eyes. sulIen, startled and
pitiful, he glanced beyond to the place
where old Vulcan lay, muttering his ag-
onies. The sight completed the circuit of
rending voltage, made him think of Lara
With furious zeal he grappled the work
at hand, forced his way out of the crowd,
crossed the Roxelane and hurried toward
the Hotel des Palms. His physical en-
ergy was fmperious, but the numbness Of
his scalp was pregnant warning against
the perils of heat. The city was silent
enough to act like a vast sounding board
Voices reached him from far behind, from
the harbor front to the left, from shut
shops and houses everywhere At the
hotel, after much difficulty, he procured
guides and a small outfit for the journey
TO the summit Of the mountain 1t was
after, midday when the party rode into
Morne Rouge. The ash-hung valley was
behind, and Constable drank deeply Of
the clean east wind from the Atlantic.
There was a. rush of bitterness, too, be-
cause Lara was not sharing the priceless
of sun-lit vitality All the i'm
petus of his mad enterprise was needed
now to turn the point of bereavement,
anSr' force it into the background again. |
The party pushed through Ajoupa Bouil-
ion to the gorge of the Falaise, the north |
ward bank of which marked the chosen |
trail to the summit.
And. now they moved upward in the
midst OF the old glory Of Martinique. The
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CHAPTER X.

Constable had been physically unhurt
In his thirty years, and the eIertions Of
the past four days had worn little more
than the polish from his vitality. In
stead of relaxing in the crisis of the news,
paper revelation, his body righted under
the whip of pride, and he strobe down
into the city as one who has slipped q
burden. Heshad been beaten in a battle
with lwonfan. Blucher had come to
Mrs. Stansbury's aid at the last moment,
in the shape of newspapers from the
north. From Lara, however, and not the
mother, had come the most Gripping blow
of all. 1t was Lara who had handed him
the newspaper. She did not wait, nor
ask Around this item, Constable built
gloom-structure of baronial proportions
His attitude toward Breen- was very
simple. He would not betray his guest
for all the newspapers and police in
Christendom, Having waived Breen's
offer to detail the particulars of his past,
during the first night of acquaintance,
Constable certainly could not reproach
the other for disappearing himself.
1t was ten-thirty in the morning when
he sent message out to Captain Negley,
countermanding sailing orders, and enelos-
ing cheerful note to Crusoe, containing
draft for the stipulated amount. At the
bank he also left a second sum for Faith
er Damien, and procured considerable cur
rent paper for his own uses His mind
moved in a light, irresponsible fashion.
1t was as if he were obsessed at quick
intervals, one after another, by mad kings
who dared anything, and whom no one
dared refuse. His brain kept the great
sorrow in the background. and occupied
itself with striking articles. While aware
that in losing Miss Stansbury and the
privilege of protecting her, the meaning
and direction of his life was gone. still
Constable did not yet sense the fullness
of the visitation. His was not a wound
to heal by first intention; and in bad
hurts pain assumes command leisurely
and in order.
he plunged into a crowd in the market
place, and began to talk TO the natives
but to the purpose of start
ing them toward Fort de France, adding
that Father Damien would care for them
generously there. II do not say that this
s the last day of Saint Pierre" he ex-
claimed in French, "bU l declare to YOU
hat if ever planet looked as if she were
about to spring leak, Mother Earth has
he symptoms localized in Pelee ~
Constable's eyes had fixed upon a car
.iage passing along the edge of the |
,rowd. Now he moved toward it quick
y and seized the bride. Despite the pro-
estations Of the driver, he led the vehicle |
uto the good view of all. His face was /
ed with the heat and ashine with laugh
er and Precipitation. Alarm and merri-
nent mingled in the native throng. All
yes followed the towering figure of the
american, now bowed before the swinging
DOR of the carriage-and NJ. Mondet
This, dear friends" Constable resum-
d, as one would produce rabbit from
silk hat-"this, you all perceive, is
our little editor of Les Colonies. Is he
OF bright and clean and pretty? He is
cry fond of American humor. See how
be little editor laughs!' |,
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FACTS FOR FARMERS.

| In Norman county, MINI. wheat has
/ been threshi1g out 20 bushels to the acre.
I Barley and fax are exceptionally good.
The State land department Of South
Dakota has made the first Offering Of
State lands in the old Fort Sully mill
tary reservation, which was practically
all taken by the State at the time Ii waI
thrown open TO settlement.
While the South Dakota State vetsri-
marian and the government authorities
are watching the anthrax situation in the
counties Of the southeastern part Of ths
State, the Governors office is yet receiF-
ing complaints in regard 70 the situation,
and demanding something more in the
way Of stamping the disease out. All
such complaints are turned over 10 ths
officials who have the situation in charge
for investigation. From reports the indi-
cations are that the situation in that part
Of the State is of a serious nature. and
will require careful handling to get tina
disease stamped out.
The Red river valley is being invaded
by representatives of seed houses in the
Southwest who are after the potatoes
grown in this section to use for seed 20
tatoes through Kansas, Missouri, Okla
homa and Texas.
Following out his declaration Of inn
munity to any one defending lives or
property against night riders, Gov. VIII
son Of Kentucky granted pardons to Wal
ter Duncan, who was convicted Of shoot
Ing and killing Newt Hazlett al Jackson
vile, Shelby county, in June, and Riley
Harold, who was indicted as an scces-
sory to the murder
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The complaints Of business men with
reference to the ignorance and super
| iciality of public school graduates
even as regards such fundamental stud
les as arithmetic, spelling and writ
Ing. arc strikingly REINFORCED by ar
indictment against the school system
of the country drawn by Colonel Larn
ed Of the Military Academy. An artf
Gle is contributed by the colonel to the
North American Review, which Is
buntly entitled THE Ineficiency OF
the Public Schools" and which Is
based on the years entrance eIamina-
'tfon papers at West Point Even now
after legislation and much effort to
raise the standards Of admission, the
examinations at the academy are by
no means difficult, according to Colonel
Larned. The subjects are: Element
airy algebra, plane geometry, English
grammar, elementary composition, com
mon school geography and high school
history, general and United States.
The minimum passing mark In any
subject is 66. 1t seems that 314 can
didates took the examination this
year, and 265 failed In one or more
subjects, -209 failed In two or more
subjects, and 26 in every subject. Ex-
aiming the failure by subjects, the
colonel shows that 154 failed In alge-
bra, 237 In geometry, 100 In grammar,
IA in composition and literature, 70
In geography, "a in history. Yet the
average attendance Of these 314 youths
In our common and high schools was
but little less than ten years, and In
the case of considerably more than
half Of the number the study In these
schools was supplemented by private
tutoring or even some college training.
The fnefficiency complained of is uni
versal," the Eastern and Middle
Western States disclosing quite as
much weakness as the remoter and
sparscly settled regions The state OF
affairs, says Colonel Larned, is such
as to make the judiclous grieve and
to demand that the educators sit up
and take notice. The educators are
taking notice. There are wide differ !
ences OF opinion as to the causes OF
the admitted lack Of school efficiency |
Some insist on reverslon to the three |
Rs policy" others ask for more men
teachers and stricter discipline, still |
others believe that the children are
and overtaxed In the first
grades, with results physically and
mentally pernicious. But there is a
growing demand for greater efficiency
and for an overhauling of the educa.
.ional system.
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INDIAN WOOD FACES
Strange Religious Rites Observed
Among the Ancient seItecAs.

Strange Religious Rites Observed
Among the Ancient seHtecAs-
Cp In. the northeast corner or Okla
homa there is a small band Of Seneca
Indians on a reservation Of the same
name, says the Kansas City Star. This
Is a remnant Of nation OF Indians
that can be traced from the original
New England States, as they were fore
ed west and south by the encroachment
Of the whites and the battle arm OF
stronger Indian bands that were con-
stantIy warning against them
Among this little band of Indians,
probably not more than 100 all told,
there are some curious heather rites
that seem to be instructive with the
tribe
Among them there is an old order
known as THE Wood Face" Those who
belong TO the order can. call in the
Wood Faces" in case of sickness, as is
often done. They go through a per
Torrance that is calculated 10 drive out
from the sick person the evil spirit that
may De QONtTLnk dEOuHu ALC htA- L AS0S
faces are masks made out OF wood. usu-
ally carved to represent human form
Of some character, but sometimes made
to represent the head of an animal.
They are painted red and black, with
large silver eyes and a horse tail for
hair.
Arrayed in one Of these hideous
masks, together with rattles made OF
turtle shells fastened together at the
upper edges with small stones inside
and tied to the legs OF the Wood
Faces" as they dance, roll and kick,
kinging their nominations the while,
| he Indians present a scene calculated |
TO drive away any evil spirit that might |
happen along and incidentally drive the /
life out Of the patient. While all this
IS going on it is also customary TO pour .
shes on the head Of the patient.
1t appears that this organization has
)een in the tribe for many generations,
he modes OF procedure differing some
lines, but following the same general
lharacter. Its secret signs and sym
)ols are guarded as closely as Masonry
nd its fraternal features are as bind
|ng. Its spiritual benefits are believed
b as implicitly as does any white man
believe in his religion.
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No Time for Fireworks.

The mountainous waves threatened
10 engulf the struggling ship at any
noment. The captain ordered box OF
fkyrockets and flares brought to the
lain and with his own hands ignited
hem. in the hope tht they would make
novn his distress to some passing
hip.
Amid the rockets red glare a tall,
hin. austere individual made his way
. the rail and reproyed the captain as
pillows:
Captain, l must protest against this
nseemly bravado. We are now facing
cath. This is no time for a celebra-
on. "-Everybody's Magazine.
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The old idea that minister should
occupy a place apart from his charge
has in large measure given way to the
sentiment of practical age" and the
so-called institutional church Of the
cities is but one manifestation sof this
idea. In the city the method by which
a minister may come most closely to his
people is complicated matter, for the
people under his spiritual guidance are
Of many occupations and many actiyi-
ties. In the country the question is a
more direct one. Here the congrega-
ton is Of one mind, Of one line of
thought
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There is great hope and great safety
in the campaign methods Of to-day. II
is the intelligence Of the citizen that is
appealed to. 1t is campaign Of edu-
cation and discipline, not one Of torch
light parades and big noise. The
newspaper which educates and informs
tics as it is In other measures educa-
tional, intellectual and social. The
old war horses and the former school Of
politics have had their day. They may
have been Indispensable for primitive
methods, but their occupation is gone
We welcome an intelligence which IN
sures good government and an honest
citizenship.
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There is no issue in the political
campaign to compare in gravity with
the issue of law enforcement In the
United States and the rigid and I'M
compromising march of justice. The
right spirit cannot be thrust upon the
people suddenly by force OF arms.
They must be born and bred to re-
spect for the law; they must be train
ed and educated to a regard for their
country and its institutions; they must
be taught by every known agency In
the republic to adopt as part or their
active, everyday working patriotism
the high resolve to stand for the law
individually and collectively; to op
pose all who oppose 1t; to sustain 1t
even when they do not like 1t, and to
make this country country of the
law" because they are convinced that
the republics bulwark is the law; that