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Evening star., 1909-09-04
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cellent qualities 1t is tale of young
man who feels called to the ministry and
finds 1t a disappointing field for sin
cere man. He brings 10 his church the
zeal of youth and the wish to serve hu-
manity. But service is hampered by the
close corporation of selfish spirits who
control the church organization in terms
of servile obedience 10 orders and n slav-
ish following of theological paths Dan
Matthews is sacrificed II would have
been more to his credit had he met defeat
more nnanfully, had he gone out from the
pulpit with certain exposure OF the
evils which his extinguishment left still
active to hamper his successor and to
hold the community in the shackles OF
uncharitable narrowness. An appealing
love story adds TO the interest of the
ns-'ative, which. however, is chiefly not
able for the presentation of DR.. Oldham.
Dams discoverer and friend throughout
all his trials.
WENDELL PHILLIPS. Orator and Agi-
tator. BY Lorenzo Sears With
frontispiece. New York: Doubleday.
Page & Co. Washington: Woodward
& Lothrop.
DIR. Sears enjoyed the privilege of hear
ing Wendell Phillips speak on several oc-
casions and therefore was inspired in his
task as biographer by a personal sense
of acquaintance with his subject He has
presented a picture OF Phillips at full
length. tracing his career from boyhood.
showing the lad arranging chairs audi
tors and discoursing to them at length:
outlining his student career and his de-
velopment through sthe study of the law
to the point where, just entered into
manhood, Phillips began his espousal of
the cause of abolition. It was literally a
lifelong career upon which he thus la
bored as agitator and orator in behalf Of
emancipation. There have been few SINH
lar examples in American history of de-
votion unselfishly TO a cause, and his
torians agree that it was by such men as
ne and William Lloyd Garrison that the
anti-slavery sentiment of the north was
created and kept alive to the point that
made the contest for the preservation of
the Union successful In this work DR.
Sears shows the influences that affected
Phillips as thinker and as a speaker.
He treats his subject chronolog!cally and
adds numerous brief extracts from his
more notable addresses to show the grad
ual evolution of his style of delivery.
After closing the career of Phillips the
author adds a chapter the substance
of his oratory and another on the form,
concluding with brief chapter OF anec-
dotes and minor personalla, throwing
sidelights upon the career of the re-
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purest and most noble in the national
life?"
He accuses the art dealers of starving
artists to death He instances f1agrant
case that of Sisley. the painter of de-
lighlful landscapes, who was "chambered
him paint increasingly for small monthly
payments. AS long as he lived his paint
ings were not allowed to leave an obscure
attic. The dealers feared he would make
a name for himself and coin money with
that name
Death changed everything. Ssley was
discovered" and his glory was pro-
claimed Amateurs rushed in to buy. and
fabulous prices were paid for canvaSes
Tor which the PAINTER had received next
to nothing
similar instances Of painters starved
and glory retarded could be cited by the
hundred, possibly by the thousand, if
tales from other countries were added to
those of France. The artists hope for
help from patrons in their war against
dealers. The dealers. ast ute. bears on the
recognized in the artists lifetime. The
callousness of patrons of art keeps the
families of the greatest artists in want
after the artists death.
Chaucard the Paris millionaire who
died the other day. gave $3.50 OC0 for Mil
let's masterpiece. 1.-The Angelus" which
the artist sold for few hundred francs
He refused to give cent to aid Millets
to enter his gallery to their fathers
painting. His vanity caused the collector
to throw open the gallery to- all comers,
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"settle down. in a dull English town.
with the inevitable result. The author
draws the catastrophe vividly. and then
skillfully depicts the winning of him back.
through a visit to the weld after years
of absence and the disappointment caused
nv realization of the changes that follow
cd the advance of civilization.
THE CALLING OF Dan MATTHEW'S.
Ry Harold Bell Wright. author CT
'"rhe shepherd of the Hills. etc.
With Illustrations by Arthur l. kel-
Ter. Chicago: The Book Supply Com
pany.
An extraordinarily large printing OF this
novel Is proclaimed by the publishers IN
authorization of an expected demand.
whether the work will justify the belief
that It will prove one of the most strik-
ing fictions produced of late years Is to
he answered by the book sellers returns
later 1t is hardly to be rated as an eX-
traordinary story, although 1t has ex-
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by a man who has been through the
life. and to whom its discomforts were
secondary 10 a certain primeval enjoy
ment of its compensations. The writer
tells more of the human side of exist
ence in South Africa than of the country,
but there are passages of description
which carry the reader to realization of
the scenes on the lonely weld, the rocky
kopjes. the deadly malarial swamps, and
the charm of the open country and OF
the wind-swept uplands
The human characters in the story are
drawn with free hand. without hiding OF
blemish. The demoraliZing influences of
the frontiers of civilization are merciless-
ly set forth. All that is hard and british
in men in these circumstances is
portrayed. and likewise the nober traits
of self-sacrifice, scorn of danger and the
better side of men. An interesting study
in contrasts is presented by the story
of man who. loving the weld and the
frontier passionately and reveling in it's
attractions. marries prim, conventional
English middle-class girl and tries to
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BOOKS RECEIVED.

IRENE OF THE MOUNTAINS; a Ro-
nance of Old Virginia. BY George
Cary Eggleston. illustrated by
Frank T. Merrill Boston: Lothrop.
Lee & Shepard Co.
THE SON OF MARY BETHEL. BY Elsa
Barker. New York: Duffield & Co.
DAVID. By Gale Young Rice. author Of
"A Night in Avignon,'' etc. New
York: Doubleday, Page & Co.
Washington; Woodward & Lothrop.
THE EVOLUTION OF THE AMERICAN
FLAG. From materials collected by
the late George Candy. By Lloyd
Balderston, Ph.D.. professor of phys
les at the West Chester State Nor
NAL School. Philadelphia: Ferris *
Leach.
Other Stories. BY Z. C. McGaants
Columbia: The State Company.
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are stationed and they communicate
with the turrets and other gun rooms
by means of telegraph and telephone
> The range finders keep the true range
between the ship and the target at all
times and the lookouts note the effect
of the firing. If the shells fall short, It
is instantly noted and Immediately COM
municated with the gun sighters The
sfghter can then train his gun in ac-
cordance with the instructions. In like
manner the range finder communicates
any change in the distance Of the range
to the gun sighter.
This system has been in use now sew
it is almost perfect. With 1t the gun
ners Cannot, one chief gunner in
the fleet remarked recently, help hitting
the target Certainly it is great Inn
provement over the old system of range
finding, and it has increased the hitting
efficiency Of the ships by so per cent, or
even more.
With the old type of steel mast this
system of fire control was impractical,
because the old masts could be destroy
ed by d single .five-inch shell. Not so
the new skeleton type of mast. They
are constructed of scores of pieces of
steel tubing and wire cable. and it is
practically impossible to shoot them
away, this TACT ndNlHS DeeH cSldDllSIcu
during the tests in the lower Chesapeake
bay recently.
Every ship IN the Atlantic fleet is
equipped with at least one of the "skele-
tom masts. and many of them have two
masts of this type.
During the last week that the At
lantic fleet is on the southern drill
grounds the plan Of evolutions and ma
neuvers will be changed and the ships
will act on the defensive. The Atlantic
torpedo boat f1otilla, which will join the
fleet in a few days, will play the role
of the enemy
These maneuvers will be held mostly
at night and the torpedo boats will make
successive attacks upon the battleships
and cruisers. The big ships will de-
fend themselves with their searchlights
alone. the object being to pick up the
torpedo boats out of the blackness with
the searchlights. The crews of the small
er guns will train their guns on the
torpedo boats as soon as the searchlights
are thrown on them.
Judges will be appointed for this prac-
tice and they will determine which fleet
wins the battle. OF course, if the guns
are training on the torpedo boats before
those crafts get close enough to the
battleships to discharge torpedo, the
battleships win. But, on the other hand
the torpedo boats will win If they can
Evening star., 1909-09-04
The Motive.

Mrs. JULIA WARD HOWE is no
4VA friend to the new suffragette slo-
gan, mo vote, no husband" She says
the plan is old-she says it was tried un-
successfully in the days of Aristophanes.
My suffragette friends have disap-
pointed me-" the famous poet declared
in a recent interview Il expected their
slogan to be some new, startling thing,
and 10, it is old, old and familiar.
They remind me, my suffragette
friends, of a witness at a Boston in
quest.
Witness said the coroner, do you
know what motive the deceased had in
committing suicides?
Yes, judge. your honor said the
witness, pompously. Deceased told me
his motive, sir
The coroner, the court officers, every
body, looked interested.
What was, then, deceaseds motive,
witness?' asked the co1bner.
".Why. your honor, he said he wanted
to kill himself was the reply
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Prophet Without Honor.

u EGINALD DE KOVEN, the famous
N composer, motored recently to his
native Middletown. There, as he strolled
in a sun-blistered street. he met one of
the friends Of his boyhood. The friend
threw down his pick, climbed out of the
hole lie was digging and shook hands
warmly.
by the way" he said. "are you any
relation to Reginald De Koven, the COM
poser?"
Mr.. De Koven smiled.
Il am he." he answered.
mo, no." said the other. impatiently.
II mean De koven, the great composer
from New York. the one that's writing
grand opera on 'Trilby.' you know
Yes said De koven, laughing; yes,
that's me-
With an exclamation of disgust the
boyhood friend turned and leaped back
into his hole.
DE Koven." he sneered, you always
were a liar.
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though the circumstances would have
amply justified the homicide. With eX-
ceptional adroitness. the author carries
the situation on from this point, showing
how suspicion fastened upon the young
husband and. despite the lack of legal
proof. caused Tim to be ostracisad by
neighbors. Mystery forms within mys-
terry and complications lead from one pos
sibiity OF solution to another, with the
truth remaining undisclosed until the
final pages The author has produced
novel which will well repay perusal in
this volume. the story having served in
a prize mystery competition conducted
by Chicago newspaper.
THE END OF THE ROAD. BY Stanley
Portal Hyatt. author of The Little
Brown Brother" New York: d. APP
pleton & Co.
A story of trekking days in Rhodesia,
vibrant with the rude life of the pioneer,
his hardships, dangers, and likewise the
fierce joys of the free life. 1t is written
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of Turkey from the Christian dwellers in
the mountain lands. Many Illustrations
reproduced from photographs taken by
the author are printed with the book.
THE UTTERMOST FARTHING. BY
Mrs. Belloc LowndeS. New York:
Mitchell kennerly.
Truly, Laurence Vanderlyn found him
self in an extraordinary situation when the
lady with whom he was eloping for a week
died in railroad carriage in the south of
France from heart disease. the menace of
which she had shortly before communicat-
ed TO him. Proclamation of the tragedy
meant certain scandal. 1t was necessary
for Mr.. Vanderlyn to use his wits and all
his talents as a professional dlpiomatist
to extract himself from the dilemma and
to safeguard the honor of the woman VINO
had intrusted herself to him. lnasmuch
as the first man he met on his return to
Paris was the husband of the dead Wom-
an, the situation became Immediately
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with the loose powder lying around Is
dangerous not alone to themselves, put
to the entire ship as well. The dropping
of a spark from the breach of the gun
into the handling room, where the loose
powder is loaded, in all probability would
cause a disastrous explosions. Exposed TO
the air, smokeless powder will not. .ex-
plode, but it will burn rapidly, and. the
loose pieces on fire might ignite bags OF
powder and thus cause an explosion.
Considering the distance which the
shells and powder have to be carried and
the number of times they are handled
before being rammed home in the guns,
the rapidity of the fire of the big rifles
is little short of amazing. The shells and
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sailors But the officers and men alike
realize that In case of war they will not
be able to pick their weather for fight
with the enemy. and they must be as
skilled in hitting fast and hard in rough
weather as in smooth.
While the American navy has long led
the world in the training of its gun crews
i'm battle practice. the present evolutions
and maneuyers of the fleet are some
what of a separture from the regular
practice. Ships are used as targets and
these are towed about the drill GROUNDS
at various rates of speed. Inc crait
has been especially fitted up for this
practice and affords excellent targets.
Each one carries an immense sheet OF
canvas fastened to improvised masts ana
the deck On these sheets of canvas the
turrets masts and smokestacks or reg
ular batteship have been painted and the
guns of the big ships are trained at these
painted objects. and to hit them under
any weather conditions is no easy task.
Still the prize gun crews go at TINS work
with an even greater zeal and determ1na-
tionary practice. The former is real
battle" work, compared TO which the
latter is mere childS play.
While the enemy is silent through all
this battle practice" the work is not
without its danger for the gun crews, the
men in the handling rooms and the en-
tire crew of each of the ships. More than
once the American public has awakened
in the morning to read of horrible
disaster on an American battleship as the
result of the target practice The drop
ping of a spark into the handling room
and the ensuing explosion means the kill,
ing of many men and the damaging anu
nossib,e destruction of the ship. On
more than one occasion the heroic brav-
ery and presence of mind Of single
sailor in the handling room has saved
the lives of many men and prevented
the blowing up of the ship. 1t is In just
such an emergency as this that the IRON
grit and cool heroism of the American
Sailor is often shown. These dangers
are taken as the course OF the daily rou-
tine aboard ship, and not once are they
thought of when the ships go TO the
firing line to bang away at the targets.
The one idea Of every man Is to shoot
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u. S. Batt1eships Playing War Game.

get within torpedo firing range of the
sbins before being discovered.
II Is figured that one modern Whitehead
torpedo would practically disable battle
shin or cruiser and likewise one three
inch or five-inch shell would sink tor
pedo boat, so the judges VIII nave n,1ie @
diffic1lty in determining the battle. This
practice is held for the benefit of the
crews of the torpedo boats and the
handlers of the searchlights on the bat
tleships.
When the practice is completed, Septem-
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and ram the shell home and then the
bags Of powder. With the powder safely
into the gun the breech is closed and the
gun is ready for firing.
While it is of particular value In train
ing the gun crews to shoot under all
weather conditions, the present practice
is of special value in testing the new
fire control of the skeleton" military
mast. The fire control is located on
the top of the masts, which tower high
above the tall smoke tunnels of the war
ships There lookouts and range nnders
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.IRTY-TWO miles
beyond the Nir-
ginia capes eight
cen big warships
and 12,G0O officers
and men of the
American navy are
playing at war,
with two disman-
tied torpedo boats
ard one cigar
shaped barge as
the e n e m Y
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down into the ship, the judge gives the
order to cease firing.
X X
When the members of the gun crew are
straining every nerve and muscle to break
Il record and get a slice of the prize
money they look upon it as a hardship
when the judge orders the silencing of
the gun, but it is only in the heat of
battle that they take this view for
they realize that 10 continue the firing
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fast and straight and to beat the other
fellow at this game of mimic war
To watch these great warshps playing
at war is an inspiring sight. and 1t cam
not fail to give the American a more
secure feeling of protection from hostile
foe. and, a the same time, greater
pride in his country and his flag. 1t in
creases the respect of the citizen for the
sailor. and at such times this the
American sailor is determined person.
Cool and brave at all times. he handles
the death-dealing shells and powder with
startling rapidity. 1t is all done with
the least possible loss of time and yet
one is impressed with the fact that there
is no carelessness about the men at
work.
Practice begins almost Immediately after
breakfast. The targets are taken in tow
and begin circling about the drill
grounds. A ship is called to the range.
toward the moving targets. Without
all looks peaceful and calm. but on board
the men are as busy as bees preparing
for the firing. Faster and faster the
ships move across the waters, until. when
the desired range is reached. the forward
port twelve-inch rifle is fired with
great roar. A mammoth she'll goes
screeching across the water to hit or miss
the moving target. The starboard for
ward twelve-inch rife gets into action.
and then the eight-inch and f1ve-inch
guns begin their booming. Soon a cloud
of smoke envelops the ship. but still the
firing goes steadily ahead. Shell after
shell is sent screaming at the target
boats. and finally comes the order to
cease firing. when the ship turns about
and takes her place with the fleet once
more
~
Then another ship is called out, and
she has her turn on the firing line. Each
range, and when this ends she must go
back to the fleet. The judges. who are
aboard another ship. examine the targets
and note the number of hits. Finally
the signal is sent up. announcing the hits
for the respective ships. The gunners
watch for these signals, telling them
whether or not they land in the prize
money.
The night practice is more interesting
than that by day. The same evolutions
are gone through with but the streai-s of
fire shooting from the mouth Of the big
from the explosion cause more thrills
than does the firing by day. The night
work is to test the ability of the gun
ners in aiming accurately at moving tar
gets with the aid of the powerful search
lights on the battleships. The lights are
played on the target continuously by the
ship on the firing Hne
With all of this mad desire for rapid
firing by the gun crews every possible
precaution is taken to prevent accidents.
At every gun there is a judge, whose
duty il is to watch the men, the powder
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FORWARD TURRETs OF BATTLEsHIP GEORGIA.

and the gun The slightest hitch with
the working of the gun and the judge
Immediately silences it. And if one of the
bags containing the hundreds of little
sticks of smokeless powder breaks and
the powder is scattered on the floor
around the breech Of the gun, or a piece
drops back into the handling room, far
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powder are kept in the magazines, far
dowr. in the hun of the ship. Men in the
magazine rooms load the shells and pow
der or trucks which run on small tracks
The trucks transfer the shells to the
handling room, where they are loaded on
the electric ammunition hosts and hauled
up to the turrets. There men unload them
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@UNNERS Fire at Float
" ing Targets and Must
Be Experts Regardless of the
Weather Conditions-Judges
Score Number of Hits" and
Misses" and Prize Money
Is Distributed to Winners
Two Old Boats Equipped
With Large Painted Masts
Serve as Targets-Few Acct
dents on Account of Care
Taken by Presiding Officers.
pecial Correspondence of The Star.
NEWPORT NEWS Va
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ber 20, the fleet will steam into Hampton
roads and disband there, the various
ships going to their home navy yards
for necessary repairs before reassemblins
in Hampton roads TO start on the cruise
to the tropics this winter.
AS they appear today, the battleshlps
are very different from what they were
when they returned from the cruise
around the world last February. The
new war paint of a dull green and the
new Skeleton masts give them a much
more warlike appearance than the white
coats and single steel masts.
Composing the fleet as it is made up at
present are the battleships Connecticut.
flagship of Rear Admiral Schroeder;
Louisiana, Minnesota, Vermont, Kansas,
New Hampshire, Idaho, Mississippi, Vir-
ginia, Georgia. Rhode Island, New Jersey.
Nebraska Ohio and Wisconsin, and the
armored cruisers North Carolina, Montana
and New York. These eighteen ships rep
resent a cost of nearly Sl50OO0.O00 and a
tonnage of 10000 They carry a total
of sixty twelve-inch rifles, twelve ten-inch
rifles, 104 eight-inch rifles, $50 five-inch
rifles and several hundred smaller caliber
guns.
Thirteen of the battleships and two of
the armored cruisers have been commits
stoned less than two and one-half years,
while Somes of the battleShipS have been
commissioned during the past year. Six
of the battleships are of $4,000 tonnage.
five of 1900 tonnage, two of 1900 ton
mage and the remaining two of 1900
tonnage.
The armored cruisers Montana and
North Carolina were built here last year.
and are each of Is, 800 tonnage. The New
York fought through the Spanish-Amer-
ican war, being the flagship of Rear Ad-
miral Sampson, but she came out of the
New York navy yard this summer after
having been practically rebuilt. She has
all new armor and guns and now is one
of the most powerful armored cruisers
in the United States navy.
Early next year the Atlantic fleet will
include, besides the present ships the
"Dreadnoughts' Delaware and North
Dakota and the semi miDreadnoughts'
South Carolina and Michigan. The Della
ware and North Dakota carry ten twelve
inch rifles each, besides fourteen five-inch
rifles, and the South Carolina and Mich
igan carry eight twelve-inch guns each,
besides a number of small guns. The
Delaware and North Dakota will have a
speed of twenty-one knots an hour, two
knots more than any battleship now in
the fleet.
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acute, and Mrs. Lowndes thenceforward
tells a story which is unusual in its in
sistence upon close attention to every
change of phase 1t may crafty the
prospective reader to know that the true
circumstances of Mrs Pargeters death
were never disclosed, though their con-
cealment called for an amazing degree of
intrigue.
LOVES PRIVILEGE. BY Stella NJ. Dur
ing. author of 'Disinherited.' Illus
trated in color by Frank H. Desch.
Philadelphia: j. B. Lippincott Com
pany.
young man is found by his wife, on
the afternoon of their wedding day, In
the garden of an English country house,
standing with a smoking gun In hand
by the dead body of her former admlrer'
who had sworn to kill his successful
rival. Reason prompted her to believe
that her husband was the murderer
while love demanded his acquittal al