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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-23
THE MESSAGE
BY LOUIS TRACY.
Copyright by J.
tcopyright, 1908. By Edward ]. clode.I

We're subtle forces at work of whose ex-
istence she was wholly unaware? HAD
these unhappy blacks some power at COM
mand which was denied to those VINO
lorded it over them? OF late she had
read a good deal concerning the supposed
origin of Obi rites in West African fetlsh
worship. She had never seen real Ju-ju
man until that afternoon. but his appear
ance and antics were sufficiently striking
to create vivid impression quite apart
from the tragic sequel to his incantation
The queer belief that the calabash was In
some degree responsible for the bioodshed
going on within few feet OF where she
stood so took hold of her that she found
the continued darkness unbearable.
Mr.. Hume she said, Forcing her
parched lips to utter the words. don
you think the lamp might be lit now? 1t
cannot make j UGH dlTerence. we are
nearing the end
For reply Hume struck match and
applied it to the wick. The comfortable
and spacious room suddenly assumed it's
familiar guise. 1t looked quiet and home
like The turmoil raging beneath seemed
to be absurdly incongruous-a horrible
dream rather than dread reality
Yet the lamp was hardly we'll alight ere
Warden's voice came from the veranda
open the door. Hume." he cried. Col
Vile is wounded.
Evelyn. owing to her nearness. flung
wide the door before the missionary could
reach it. Warden stood there. CHASTITY to
grave injury. His left arm encircled Col
ville's limp body. and in his right hand
was a gun barrel from which the stock
had been broken off. In his Arab cos
tune. travel-soiled and blOod-stained. he
looked the incarnation of fearsome war.
while the seemingly lifeless form he car
ried added a note of horror to his appall-
ing aspect.
But when he saw Evelyn he actually
smiled. She caught the tender look in his
eyes through the mask of blood and dirt
and perspiration
Il fear it is all up with us. sweetheart"
he said. II don't think Colville is dead
but it is only a matter of seconds for him
and the rest of us. Have you a revolver?
Give me that lamp. 1t may help little
Under this low roof we cannot distinguish
friend from foe.
He spoke so gently, with such well
balanced meditation. that he might have
been standing at the door of some peace
full villa overlooking the Thames. with no
more serious purport in MS words than
to light the way for guest. But rush
and furious melee on the stairs showed
what manner of guest might be expected
and that ominous question anent re-
volver was not lost on Evelyn. Hume
took Colville into his arms, and Warden
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CHAPER XVI-Continued.

EVELYN leaning against the door, with
every faculty on the alert for the slight
est indication of Wardens welfare, never
theless let her mind stray in the most be
wilderlng manner She was devoid OF
fear. If given her choice she would he
out there in the thick of the struggle.
using her puny strength on behalf of the
man she loved Instead. she was con-
demned to inaction. The intolerable dark
ness became oppressive. and her memory
flew back through time and space to the
sunlit day when she sat with Warden and
Peter Evans in the little dinghy of the
Nancy. and saw the grim face OF the
Oku chief dancing about on the blue
waters of the SOlent.
What trivial incident it was i'm some
respects-yet what mighty upheaval it
portended! No matter in what direction
her whirling thoughts took her. the
carved calabash seemed to be mixed up
with events in way that was hardly
credible. 1t brought her and Warden to-
gether. That chance meeting on a sum-
mer morning gave them a bond of inter
est which quickly strengthened into af-
lection and love Then ii led them into
the intricacies of political plot sent
Warden to London. caused him to en-
counter Mrs. LANG. with ali the heart
ache and misery that resulted therefrom,
and cast him ashore at Rabat to become
a slave and desert wanderer. She her
self had been equally its sport. Her
knowledge of the men Of Okn alone in
duced Figuero and Baumeartner to con-
spire against her. If she had never seen
the gourd II was more than probable
that she would never have saZed on the
Benue river. And how persistently that
weird creation of Domenico Carcass skill
had chung to either Warden or herself. 1t
was not to be shaken Off Even now.
when they were on the very th-esh old OF
death, it was lying there in her -oonl
shrouded in a canvas case. She could
almost sec it's evil scowl everlastingly
threatening mankind.
Though a fresh outburst of firing star
tied her highly strung nerves she felt
somewhat of thrill of supernatural awe
at the fancy that the carved image of the
bygone King of Benin had forced it's way
back to the actual locality in which its
human prototype had ruled millions OF
those very men who were now clamortng
for the lives of herself and her conf
panfons.
1t was strange notion. and il DOM
mated her for moment to the exclusion
of all else. Could it be possible that there
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-23
that splendid genius of France who was
his own worst foe.
THE PRIDE OF THE GRAFTONS. BY
Priscilla Craven. New York: D. APP
pletOn Co.

Priscilla Craven. New York: D. APP
pleton & Co.
The book in hand uncovers no larger
aim in its presentment than to exploit the
pride of a family that would have been
more becomingly engaged in being
ashamed of itself The father, the proud
his daughter for the capture of rich
husband. and confiding to her. now and
then, the facts and circumstances of his
numerous amours. At this point the book
is fatty impossible. Grant that plenty of
fathers are cads. not one of them is in
decent enough for that This daughter,
who might have been quite girl. is ftp
pant. pert and over-knowing-an unlovely.
ungirlish creation. The mother is tired.
good woman The fathers sister. very
fetching person. rounds out the indiscre
ton and folly Of this vulgar set, given up
to the sale Of the daughter by the for
book-designed. one feels. however. to be
clever one.
THE ETHICS OF PROGRESS: or, the
Theory and the Practice by Which
Civilization Proceeds. By Charles F.
Dole. author of "The Spirit of De-
mocracy." etc. New York: Thomas
Y. Crowell & Co.
The author has studied thoroughly
every phase of 1.-The most interesting and
profound of all the subjects which con-
Germ human welfare" And he imparts
his knowledge with a forceful simplicity
that must appeal alike to the student of
ethics and to the casual reader The
profoundest question in ethics. the writer
explains, touches the ground of au-
thority upon which the individual or So
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one to Lyme. Conn. where there is a
famous summer colony of artists, to see
an exhibition which was set forth in the
public library. and another to Benning-
ton. Vt. by tourist car from Great Bar
rington to Pittsfield through North
Adams. Williamstown and Pownall
Stopping in Stockbridge. he spent an hour
with Mr.. f.. l.. Morse. who has aban-
doned his studio in this city for one most
picturesquely situated and spIenddIy ap-
pointed in that delightful locality. This
AFTERNOON MIR. Moser will entertain the
members Of the Auuarelle Club at his
studio. exhibiting informally his summer
sketches and recountng Incidents of his
the Corcoran School. of which Mr. Moser
is instructor. will reassemble the first
Monday in November
TN CHICAGO this past summer an inter
estins experiment was tried, an exhibit
ton of sculpture being set forth under the
auspices of the Municipal Art Society in
GARFIELD Park. Since the erection of the
first group of statuary in June" writes
Miss Lena McCauley in the Boston Tran
script, the grounds have been the mecca
Of thousands Of interested people who
have come from out of town and from
'he ioi 'ieS' IedSHeS VI the city TO puZ-
zle over the meaning of the impressive
groups Of figures such as Lcrado Taft's
categorical composition, ''The Blind and
the Spirit of the Mines fountain by Mr..
Mulligan's pupils. Daniel c. French, So,
Ion Borglum, the late Edward Kemeys,
Leonard Crunelle and other well known
sculptors were represented, the work of
each being given precisely the right SET
ting. LEILA MECHLIN
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y HOSE who attended the SeS-
sions of the convention of art
societies, held in this city last
May, will be interested to learn
of the growth and develop
ment of the American Federatio of Arts,
which was formed at that time During
the summer months no less than fifty art
societies. institutions and the like have
come into the federation chapters and
over three hundred and fifty individuals
have become associate members. The In
terest manifested has been widespread.
Chapters have been formed in California
Oregon. Minnesota and Kansas, as well as
in Boston, New York. Baltimore and
Washington and almost every state has
fair quota of individual members.
Curiously enough. it is said, the best
response has been made by California and
Texas, though on almost every SIDE cor
dial support has been given. The objects
of the American Federation of Arts are
to unite in closer fellowship all Organiza-
tions and individuals interested in the ad-
Vancement of art. the upbuIlding OF ap-
probation the cultivation Of taste; to
stimulate endeavor and prevent the dupli-
cation of effort: to nationaliEe the art
interests of the country. and to furnish a
channel through which expression of pub
lie opinion influential in securing better
fine arts may be made. An office has
been established in this city, and here an
nualy great convention will be held
But the federation will not only serve as
a clearing house" SO far as art organlza-
lions are concerned. 1t will initiate effort,
establishing a lecture bureau and circu-
lating library of lantern slides to be
loaned to small towns remote from art
centers and will assemble and send out
travelling exhibitions.
1t has, moreover, begun this month the
publication of monthly illustrated maya
zine-a non-technical magazine of art
purposed to spread the knowledge of work
we'll done in the fields of painting. sculp-
ture, municipal art, the arts and crafts:
a magazine which not only in name cart
and Progress) will bear testimony to the
fact that art is token of advanced civil
lization. A magazine for laymen, up
holding a professional standard. The
American Federation of Arts. which prom
Uses at the present time to accomplish
large results. is to a great extent the
child of the National Society OF Fine Arts.
for it was this organization which, under
the late Charles NJ. Ffoulke's presidency,
brought to life and re-established the Ma
tional Academy of Art, whose regents
sent out the call for the convention. The
academy has charter from Congress and
is thus imbued with special authority,
hut it had for many years lapsed into IN
activity Mr.. Ffoulke was one of it's char
ter members and it was at his home that
the project of forming national art or
ganization omewhat similar to the ma
tional bar and medical associations was
shaped Among the projectors of the
federation were: William f. Curtis, VINO
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BOOKS RECEIVED

sNUFF-BOx FULL OF TREES;
Some Apocryphal Essays. BY W. H.
Ellwanger. author of The Oriental
Rug" etc. New York: Dodd. Mead
& Co. Washington: Brentano's
TANDARD CONCERT REPERTORy,
and Other Concert Pieces. Hand
book of the Standard Overtures.
Suites. Symphonic Poems. Rhapso-
dies, Fantasies, etc, in the Modern
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in st. Luke's Hospital. New York. and
then the reports were so favorable that
the announcement of her death Thursday
came to all as great shock. Though
not native of this city Miss .Atwater
had spent the greater part of her life
here and was completely identified with
the local art societies. She was capa-
bic painter and one whose works made
direct appeal both to the general public
and to those of the profession A hard
student. she found pleasure in her work
and manifested in it clear vision and
knowing skill. Many will recall her de-
ightful interpreted ons of Gloucester
fishing boats and Gloucester gardens full
of freshness. spOntaneity and charm
which lent note of gayety and sub
stantial worth to the current exhibitions
Much will her contributions be missed in
those which are to come!
~ OSTON next month will have a great
- exhibition to arouse interest and win
support for the 1915 movement which
looks toward the realization six years
hence of the ideal city. This exhibition
will be held in the old Art Museum on
Copley square and will afford every or
ganization interested in the betterment of
Boston opportunity to show what 1t is
planning to do and in what direction 1t
desires aid. The medical societies. educa-
tional institutions and business corpora
tons, as we'll as art societies. are taking
active part and models. moving pictures,
photographs and drawings will be en-
ployed to present a graphic picture of the
city's need. The city planning exhibition
shown in this city, as we'll as New York
and elsewhere, last winter. will be set
forth completely, supplemented by special
loans, among which, 1t may be noted, are
the models made to demonstrate the
Burnham Park commission plan for the
development Of Washington.
MR. RICHARD n BROOKE spent his
W. summer holiday at Warrenton, Va,
from whence he has brought back num-
Der of impressive anvases-Studies as yet
incomplete but full of the witchery Of the
outdoor world. sunlight, rolling fields and
the country near Warrenton, but each has
individual Significance and intrinsic merit.
THE Corcoran Gallery will hold 10 great
exhibition this winter, but instead
a series of interesting and significant
small shows. The first OF these will be
an exhibition of paintings by Mr.. Alfred
East, the president of the Royal Society
of British Painters, and without doubt,
one of the most distinguished landscape
painters i'll England. This exhibition will
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-23
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
HAR0tD Mae6RAIR's NEW Novel
THE GOOSE GIRL

BY the man that wrote '"The Lure Of the
Mask" "Thc Man On the Box" "Half n
Rogue" etc.
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early outlined a practical plan OF pro-
cedure: Senator Root. former Secretary
Robert Bacon. Glenn Brown, William III
Holmes and f. d. Millet. The present
officers are: Charles L. Hutchinson OF
Chicago, president: Herbert Adams tsculp-
tori, John w. Alexander tpainter,. and
Ralph Adams Cram (architect. vice pres
identS: F. D. Milet. secretary; Miss Leila
Mechlin, assistant secretary, and A. >.
Parsons, treasurer.
THE Rhode Island Avenue Suburban
1 Citizens Association has been ac-
complishing something in the way of out
door art this season by means of a flower
garden competition inspired by an address
given by George w. Gable on the North
ampton Prize Garden Competitions" at
the convention of the American Fedora
ton of Arts. Such competition had
been talked of before this convention met.
but nothing was done until the delegate
sent by the association returned with
definite plan. Then a committee was ap-
pointed SIS subscribed by three members
for prizes, and other awards In the form
of nursery stock. garden hose, seeds and
magazines. secured from various sources.
Altogether the prizes had an aggregate
value of $40, and were divided into th1r-
teen awar1s-five for hest home grounds.
three for lawns. three for vegetable gar
dens and two for flowers. From an asso-
citation membership of 10 there were sew
enty-nine entrants. and in many instances
it was found that those who eventually
had the best home grounds had also the
best individual display. Interest was
worked up by illustrated lectures, and the
work was carried on Systematically and
thoughtfllly. This is art of substantial
sort for as it has been truly said, the
appearance of a street is much more de-
pendent upon the upkeep of the premises
than upon sidewalks and curbing, and the
city beautiful is by means an idle
dream.
THE Washington Water Color Club
! has sustained serious loss through
the death of Miss Grace E. Atwater, for
many years its secretary. a little less
than ten months ago Miss Atwater de-
termned to go abroad for year. and re-
signed her position Miss Bertha r. Per-
RE being named as her successor. In
January she and Miss Leslie Jackson
sailed from New York on the Inflated
Republic. and at the time of the accident
which befell the ship none, it is said, was
cooler or more Self-pOssessed than She.
Losing at that time all her baggage she
returned to Washington for few weeks,
but in the spring started out again, pur-
posing to carry out her original plan.
She went first to Spain, then to Italy,
but being far from we'll FASTENED to Paris
in July, where she was taken desperately
i'll and was brought back to America.
Only about a fortnight ago did her as
sociates in this city learn that she was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-23

D EMARkABLE interest has beer
II shown in the great loan exhibition
set forth at the Metropolitan Museum.
New York, in recognition of the Hudson
Fulton celebration, nearly one hundred
thousand persons visiting it within the
first twenty four days it was open. And
this. in spite of multiplicity of counter
attractions Last Saturday afternoon the
galleries were fairly thronged. not only
by men and women of apparent leisure,
but by workingmen and their families.
But this is in truth wonderful exhibit
ton and one which should attract visitors
from afar. 1t will continue until the 3Oth
Of November.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-23

X Hiss BERTHA E. PERRIE has In her
lV4 studio in the Art League building
quite number of sketches and studies
made abroad this summer which are ex-
tremely interesting. Some are In oils.
others i'm water color. but all alike give
veracious Interpretation to quantity at
tractfve scenes. There are glimpses of
narrow, winding streets. pictures of old
churches, interiors. figures, flower mar
kets and rural roadways-"little por-
traits of the places, or things, they rep
resent carrying conviction and presenting
tangible charm. Miss Ferries work has
always been eminently sound. but it has
not invariably been as pictorial. Her
themes this year seem to be especially
well chosen. her compositions particularly
pleasing and her workmanship no less
accomplished
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open in the Hemicycle Hall about the
middle of November and will be followed
in January by an exhibition of recent
paintings by Mr. Edward w. Redfeld
the well known American landscapist. In
February the Washington Water Color
Club will hold its annual exhibition, ana
in March the Society of Washington Ar
lists will take possession of the same
gallery Between these two events Will
however, come an exhibition OF portraits
by William Funk, with possibly later an
exhibit of color photography by Miss
Frances Benjamin Johnston, who, by
the way has recently removed her studio
to New York having been appointed om-
cial photographer for the New Theater
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-23

WHOSE who attended the ses-
sions of the convention of art
societies, held in this city last
May, will be interested to learn
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-23

MIR JAMES HENRY MOSER, presi-
1v4 dent of the Washington Water Col
Club, returned to the city this week
and reOpened his studio in the lie Droit
building. The greater part of the time
he has been away he has spent at West
Cornwall, Conn, Mrs. Moser's old home.
He did, however, take two short trips.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-23

JUST FOR TWO. BY Mary Stewart
Cutting, author of Little Stories of
Married Life" etc, etc. Illustrated
by Edmund Frederick, A. T.. Keller
and Robert Edwards. New York:
Doubleday. Page & Co. Washington:
Woodward & Lothrop.
In each of these half dozen stories the
elemental Two appear together. absorbed
in solving some part OF the original prob
lem These stories are strikingly vivid:
quality growing. in part. out of their
constructive excellence: in larger part,
out of the concrete personality and con-
sistent natural conduct of their charac-
ters Modern cast, single of aim, har-
morious of development. simple of treat
ment-always that, even when dealing
with the deepest things OF the heart and
the subtlest things of life, one gathers
out of them company of bright. whole
some. cIean-thinking hopeful people. con-
fident and capable in their hold on the
daily life-people good TO know.
CARDILLAC. BY Robert Barr, author
of ''Tekla." etc. New York: Fred:r-
ick A. Stokes Company.
This tale of romantic endeavor is set
In a real place. France. under a king
whose name can be found in any history,
a-plenty. all matters OF authentic record
From this solid ground the story gains
the touch of verify that In these exact
days Is the high sign of excellence. The
hero. soldier of fortune, is sworn to the
rescue of an imprisoned princess, hos
tage TO the king. so plausible and praise
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-11-05
MORE AFRICAN GOLD.

A great gold rush is reported from
Rhodesia, and that part of South At
RIGA has been so prolific in deposits
Of the worlds greatest money metal
that the genuineness of the claims
made for the new field will be accept
ed, almost without question. South At
rican hunters are too experienced and
too familiar with gold fields which
make good" to spend much time or
energy on deposits which are not
worth while. 1t is more probable that
another really great gold field has been
found in British South Africa than 1t
is that an extraordinary gold rush has
been started and kept up, on nothing
OF much consequence. Very possibly,
the latest addition to the long list
of African gold fields will carry the
production of the precious metal, in
that continent, up to $500, 00e, 900 a
year, within the next half-decade. It
is likely that the gold yield of Africa
alone, two or three years hence, will
be three times as great as the gold
output of the world about Is years
ago.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-11-05
FARM

"Too much ridicule is heaped on
the gentleman farmer" said the Sec
rotary of agriculture at a banquet of
gentlemen farmers in Washington.
After the tfSnderous applause
died down Mr.. Wilson continued:
"Too many of us take the view of
the gentleman farmer that an old
friend of mine in Ohio takes.
Gentlemen farmers he grunt-
ed one day in my hearing. Every
body knows what a gentleman farm
er is
"'Well, what is hep said I, impa-
tiently.
"'Oh,' said my old friend, hes a
man capable enough to run a farm
as it should be run and rich enough
to stand the loss"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-11-05
TELEGRAPHY IN COLOMBIA.

Capt. Whiffen has reached Lon
don after a year spent in exploring
the southeastern districts of Colom-
bia, South America. Among the
curious discoveries Capt. Whit
fen made is the secret of a system
of biography employed by the ma
tives. Sound is the medium used.
Hollow trees are selected and these,
being of various thickness, are able
to give out a high and low note
when struck. The sound travels
immense distances through the
bush-many miles. A code is not
employed, but from the different
musical notes the native is able to
recognize the words that are in
tended.