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Evening star., 1912-09-14

mer-gentle region, a brawny adventure In
the farther north hunting for gold. a
touch of English life, a glow Of French
Canadian. round this romance into COM
plete and dramatic Objectivity. When
lovers in books are never any more young
and believing and gay, when love reaches
iconsummation only through the demoli-
| ton of at least six of the ten command
| ments. it is truly a joy. too rare joy.
to find love story SO true. and clean
and compelling as this one is.
STUDIES AND APPRECIATIONs. By
William Sharp. Selected and ar
ranged by Mrs William Sharp. New
York: Duffield & Co.
This somewhat miscellaneous group of
essays offers a rare study in literary crit
ical analysis. To discover Mr.. Sharp's way
| with an author or with thing written,
the way by which he measures the sub
stance and accounts for the form of what
a writer has done. is in itself a fine bit of
schooling in the art of criticism. Among
! these essays the one on the sonnet and
the one on the sonnets of Shakespeare are
the most rounded, the most complete. The
remaining ones, however, have the charm
of freshness. Their subjects are less IA
| miliar while their manner Of treatment 10
unchanged. This author is most illumi-
mating on ''The italian Poets of Today"
"Sainte-Beuve." 1.-THE Modern Trouba-
dours," and upon the movement of young
Belgium in literature. NJ. Sharp counts
which simplicity adds a spiritual quality.
and balance an intellectual distinction. 1t
is interesting in these studies to see how
fully he follows this high doctrine of lit
erary Interpretation and appraisal
THE ROAD TO JOY. BY Louise, Collier
Wilcox. New York: Harper Bros.
One reads this booklet in twenty min
utes or SO. Then, If he be wise, he puts
it down among the easily get-at-able
things of the early morning-amons the
neckties and hairpins, the shoes and
stockings, as it were. That Is to say, 1T
is in the beginning hours Of every twenty
four that the spirit, looking down the
days perspective, must needs clothe, must
needs armor, itself in the minute-by-mln-
ute courage so simply and appealingly
set out here-a courage that sums ulti-
mately in secure footing along the open
road Of joy; to anchor ones trust. and
then to be unafraid. This is the essence
Of Buddha's gospel, Of Zenos, of Christ's.
It is the substance. likewise, of this essay
of optimism, this exaltation Of the gallant
heart whose center of confidence and joy
is ones own soul. This old thought might
easily have been a dull preachment. In
these right hands, however. it is a fresh
and buoyant word of helpfulness and
cheer.
THE SIGN At SIX. BY Stewart Ed
ward White, author Of 1.-The Blazed
Trail" etc. illustrated by M. Leone
Bracker. Indianapolis: Bobbs- Mer
rill Company
Two men of great power. one q man of
tremendous political authority who had
gripped a great city I his ruthless
hands and squeezed it =, mis- own ends Of
profit; the other a man of disordered
brain but remarkable scientific attain
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CHAPTER X.-Continued.
Copyright. 1912. by Rex Beach,

What dress are you going to wear"
he called to her.
THE white one with all the chiffon
missing"
What has become of the chiffon" he
demanded, sterHly. n
Il must have stepped on it at The
dance. lin fact I know I did
"Of course you saved it,
''OA. yes. But 1 can't find 1t now. If
you could only"
Mo- he cried. firmly, and dashed
down the stairs two at time. From the
lower hall he called UP to her:
Wear the new one. and be sure to let
me see you before he comes.''s
Bernie sighed as he hung up his hat.
Tor he had looked forward through q
dull. disappointing day to an evening
with Felicite Delord. Being a prim. or
derly man. he intensely disliked search
ing for missing articles. but he began a
systematic hunt for knowing Myra
Nelrs peculiar responsibility he was
Evening star., 1912-09-14

sentS panorama that would
reward the artist who could
bring to the subject genius and
who would take hold with
enough enthusiasm to paint the spirit
that abides along the channel. The theme
is there.
II you would see the Washington water
front with a single sweep of the eye go to
the flats. that jungle-grown stretch OF land
pumped from the river bottom and which
is officially a part of Potomac Park. but
a part on which the engineers have not
yet cast their beauty spell, sit down on
the massive gray stone wall against
which the tides purl and against which
beats the swell thrown by steamboats,
and motor craft. Giant weeds will sur
round you and tall poplar trees. whipped
and limb-torn by the storms, will tower
above YOU.
At the west end of the big scene is the
railroad emhankment, green. with grass
and foneysuckle, and the railroad bridge.
with high brown girders and granite
piers. In the background are the low
graceful arches of the park bridge that
spans the east outlet of the tidal basin.
Farther off rises a thick network of iron
pillars and beams, with patches OF gran
ite wall and many derricks. that mark
the progress on the new buildings of the
bureau of engraving and printing. Loom
ing out OF the northwest corner of the
scene is the Monument.
Under the railroads green embankment
are hills Of sand dredged from the creeks
of Maryland and Virginia and hauled
here to help in the building Of a bigger
and better Washington. BY these sand
dunes are the scows in which the sand,
by the aid of putting tugs, is transported.
Scores OF idle men are sitting on these
barges and on the stringpieces of the
sand wharves. Some of them are fishing.
Boys are jumping off these barges ard
the nearby wharves. splashing and houn-
dering and then climbing again out
of the water preparatory to another
plunge.
Letting. the glance move down stream
the eye now takes in, in the neighborhood
of the foot of 18th street. immense bul-
warks of cordwood neatly piled as high
as the housetops and showing in the sun
light varying and confusing tones OF
brown and yellow At these wood wharves
lie numerous two-masted craft, some with
topmasts and some without. A few OF
these boats are still deep-laden with cord
wood, while others. having discharged
their cargoes, are casting off and drop
ping out into the stream. The cordage
creaks. the iron hanks that hold sail to
mast are grating as the sail Is raised and
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BOOKS RECEIVED.

A FIRST LATIN READER. By II. {.
Nutting, Phi. D.. assistant professor
of Latin in the University of Cali
fornia New York: American Book
Company.
THE CAMBRIDGE MANUALS OF
SCIENCE AND LITERATURE-THE
GROUND PLAN OF THE ENGLISH
PARISH CHURCH. BY A. Hamil-
ton Thompson, M. A.. F. $. A. Cam
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Passing of an Old Home.

- TEAM shovels ara eating their way
into the birthplace Of Nellie Gus
tbs, granddaughter of Mrs. George
washington, and ward and adopted
daughter Of George Washington. For
years these shovels have been biting
trainloads of yellow clay out of the
nelds OF Abingdon. as the estate was
named by John Parke Custis, son OF
MRS. Washington. and this clay Is be-
Evening star., 1912-09-14

The Department Of Agriculture has
been putting and is putting a deal Of
brainwork into the improvement and dis
tribution of alfalfa. Applied to this work
are the principles Of the selection of diff
ferent types of plants and the pOssibili-
ties of cross breeding for the purpose Of
producing new and valuable varieties and
of Strengthening and otherwise improv-
ing old varieties. Mr.. Galloway, chief of
the bureau CT plant industry. has emitted
interesting treatises. published as pam
phlets by the Department of Agriculture.
on the principles discovered by Mendel
on dominance and recessiveness on seq
regation, on allelomorphism-a term in
troduced by Prof. William Bateson Of
Evening star., 1912-09-14

ing nodded and baked into brick for
the upbuilding of Washington city
Year by year the Shovels have dug
nearer to the weather beaten frame
house where the most popular woman
OF the early republican era came into
the world, and where her early child
hood was spent. Now the deep clay
pits are but a few yards from the
house. and 1t may be that not many
months will pass when the house will
be no more. The present owner of the
clay fields the house stands on Is re-
ported to have said that the house shall
be preserved. The clay exhausted, and
the level of the fields near the house
reduced about thirty feet. the place
I may be converted into railroad yards
by the Washington Southern railroad.
4
A walk Of half mile from the sta
tions Addison. Virginia Highlands and
Four Mile Run will bring one to this
house. Part of this walk will be over
dirt road, part over paths through
fields and part along footway through
clay pits. The house is seen from the
electric and steam lines. 1t is an Or
binary frame farmhouse, facing. east
and west. white painted, but not fresh
ly. with green shutters. hip roof
shingled. red brick chimneys at the
grove of big trees to the front and
sides. Most OF the land between the
traffic lines and the house has been
cut down from fifteen to thirty feet
Deep cuts-clay gulches-extend in
front and to the sides of the garden
that surrounds the house. A steam
shovel works and A little locomotive
and a train of mud-caked dump cars
run ceaselessly back and forth be-
tween the clay diggings and the brick
plant. Nearby are rows of small houses.
mostly of wood. where live the families
of and men employed in brick making
At the east front, where was the
principal garden of the builder, the
land slopes easily down to the river
shore. about 500 yards away. Some
scraggy relics Of the Custis garden
persist, and each spring the Jonquils
descendants Of the Custis jonquils,
rise from the soil and blossom.
Abdingdon was great estate, but
the house was never q noble bit OF
architecture. When John Parke Gus
tbs married Nellie Calvert of Mary
land he seems to have caused the erec
ton of this plain. though ample
dwelling. with the idea that later he
would erect a house in keeping with
his wealth and standing in the neigh
borhood. Abingdon, being a Gusts
home, was directly or remotely asso-
ciated with nearly all the colonial and
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revolutionary families Of Virginia and
Maryland The house was built In
1778
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the hoarse yet softened sounds of many
rough voices float across the water.
HA
Passing on. ones eye rests on wide.
gray, weather-beaten wharves, tall, un-
painted wooden buildings and piles Of
lumber. mostly a pale bright yellow.
Next to the lumber wharves there is a
tumble of wooden structures looking in
the distance like close-built village of
old barns. The wharves at this point are
crowded around with small sailing yes
sells. There are scores of yellow masts,
some inclining this way and some that
and many having a big knot of canvas
the topsafl Understanding at the mast.
Tugs with red upper works and white
hulls are in evidence at this point These
are the fish wharves. or the oyster
wharves, or the watermelon wharves, ac-
cording to the season. The volume of
food distributed from these wharves is
not understood by the Washngtonian who
sees only the supply at the corner store.
To the right of the fish wharves loom
ed yellow-and between the upper and
the lower ice houses are big patches of
cream-colored lumber and brown cord
wood. To the right of the lower ice house
one sees more lumber and more piles of
sand, and then the steamboat wharves and
the steamboats,. flying the national flag,
and their company hags and the flags of
other nations. come into the view. Here
are boats. all painted white that reach
nearly all the bays and creeks and little
landings in the long and wide Potomac
country and Indirectly lead into all parts
of the water world of Maryland AMI Vir-
ginia.
Evening star., 1912-09-14
Eating and Paying.

CCORES of Washington lunchrooms
- trust their customers and often trust
them in more ways than one. Lunch
room proprietors, or the successful ones
have a shrewd knowledge Of human ma
ture and find that they do not lose by the
honor system Of paying for food. A
writer in the London Chronicle says:
"As the train stops the table is spread.
I cannot spell the name of the place, but
it is Russia But in those hungry hours
you find the railway restaurant with
everything you can imagine for internal
comfort spread around. Hot viands, cold
food. boiling tea, vodka, sandwiches. and
the prices are stuck on them In card
board. You just go about and eat and
drink and at the end of it it is but neces-
sary to add it up to the man at the door.
And pay You have merely to remember
what you have eaten or drunk in the
hurry. And I suppose there is more hon.
esty to the square foot there than any
where where people are not put on their
honor.
a man can walk into a crowded Wash
ington lunchhouse and take from the
counter anything that is exposed for sale.
He may even order special dishes out of
the kitchen He can walk up again, get
more food. go to a table and eat it. Hav-
ing finished he'll go to the man who
stands behind the pie and coffee, sand
wich and cake and ice cream, ETC.. coun-
ter, or perhaps he may walk over to a
beautiful type Of the regular cashier and
tell how much he owes. Laying down a
quarter, he may say, Take out ten or
fifteen, or twenty" and everybody is per-
fectlv satisfied. The man behind the
counter is not disturbed If customer
who has eaten how much only he, the
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YHE Washington water front pre-
sents a panorama that would
reward the artist who could
bring to the subject genius and
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OF to the right, If the day is not clear,
the view begins to get bit misty, but the
square tower of the car barns and the
roofs of buildings in Washington barracks
show above the tree tops and against the
blue and foggy background of the Ana
costa hills.
In the foreground in the left-hand part
or the scene are many little boats, power
and sail, riding at keg anchors that rise
and fall as the water sways them
Evening star., 1912-09-14
HEALTH AND MEDICAL 1NSPEC-
TJON OF SCHOOL CHILDREN. BY

TION OF SCHOOI VHIHDNT1.s'
Walter S. Cornell. NJ. d., director -
medical inspection of public schools
Philadelphia: lecturer on child ny
giene. University of Pennsylvania
etc. Philadelphia: +. a. Davis Com
pany.
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able bits OF mystery writing that mas
been nut forth in recent years. His read
ers will not find enlightenment until the
end and meanwhile the always engaging
Chester Kent develops some fascinating
tricks OF diyination.
The Holbrook news., 1912-02-09
Chinese TaIIeyrand.

Every Chinese is an enigma to the
 western mind, but the greatest enig- ma of them all is the man who has been called to the helm of state in this storm, the only man, if there be any, who can save the empire from ship wreck, Yuan Shi-Kai. He has been suspected and trusted alternately by ManckI and Chinese, reformer and conservative, foreign and native. The late emperor, who had made him his chief adviser, cursed him with his last breath as traitor and cause of all his misfortunes. The late empress dow ager, who had favored him above all others, denounced him at her last council The present regent, his bit ter enemy, has now made him virtual ly dictator of the empire. He is pos sible intermediary between Manchus and rebels, because each party believes he is on their side; the Manchus, trust him to support the dynasty, the rebels trust him to promote reform. Trained in the school of devious diplomacy un- der that consummate master of the craft, Ii Hung-Chang, he has pursued a tortuous course through the troubled waters of Chinese politics ever since. His career would make the plot for a melodrama were it not too sensation al and improbable for the stage New York Independent.
The Holbrook news., 1912-02-09
The Man They Admired.

Several senate clerks and stenog- faphers were gossipping in the Cap itol building the other day, telling "reminiscences of statesmen past and present, when Senator Cummins of Iowa passed them. "Ah, there's the best of all of them," one remarked. Right you are," asserted another. 'rForaker was great, but, in some re- spects, this man even surpasses him." T doubt if this old building ever forgets his memory" sighed a third. wonderful in debateI" was the fourth mans contribution. "No man was ever his equal in the hulla- balloo of a hot fight on the floor" A stranger had listened to the praises, following Senator Cummins with his eyes as long as he could. 'Who is he?" he asked eagerly, Some famous orator? The country's leading states man, perhaps? A political genius7" ~Genius nothing!" grunted one of the stenographers. ''Why that mans the slowest talker of the senate and the easiest to take in shorthandl"
The Holbrook news., 1912-02-09
WIse Servant.

A woman in Trenton. N J.. who has been having lot of trouble with her domestic help. was obliged recently to accept the temporary service of a raw recruit in the shape of an Irish girl just landed in this country.
 After a preliminary survey of the girl and a dejected sigh, the lady of the house asked:
 What can you coT'
 "Shure, most anything at all, num- responded the newcomer.
 The lady of the house glanced about the room There was everything to be done Could you i'll the lamps r" she finally ventured to ask
 "Shure, kin i'll the Iamps!" ex- claimed the enthusiastic CeIt, as she grabbed one and started out Then, with the air of one wishing above all things to suit the possible capr1ces of Q new employer. she paused to query:
 "An' is 1t gas or oil ye'd be wantin' thim filled with7"
The Holbrook news., 1912-02-09
sIr Walter RaIeluh,a PIpe.


 A pipe with a history is to be of fered for sale in London. It was once the property of Sir Walter Raleigh and is not unlike the letter "Y" in shape and for centuries now has had its home in an ancient inlaid box dated "Anno 1527." It is construct ed in four pieces of wood, rudely carved with dogs heads and with the faces of red Indians.
 On the bowl there is a cap about as large as the bowl itself, and at- tached to the stem is a string of beads made of the same wood as the pipe. In this stem a powerful whis- tie has been cut, and the suggestion Is that Sir Walter Raleigh used it to summon his servants.
 The Archaeological Society exhibit ed it at the Guildhall in the sos of the last century, the inscription ac- companying it bearing these words: ''The original pipe of the above cele- brated Historian of the World and who first introduced tobacco and po- tatoes' into England. Tradition (cor- roborated by parchment in the pos session of the owner) states that this pipe was used by Sir Walter Raleigh on the scaffold just previous to his execution and handed to one of his relatives as a memento of him. London Telegraph.
The Holbrook news., 1912-02-09
Seek Rest in Churches.

~Quite astonishing is the number Of male and female derelicts who float in- to church at this time of the year." ob- served a veteran New York sexton. Particularly on stormy days is the at- tendance big and there is a line al- ready formed before we unlock the doors in the morning. These unfor- tunate humans seek rest and refuge from the indictment weather. Why, it often happens that have to awaken these friendless beings from sound sflmbers. Not content with sleeping while in attitude of prayer, they ire duently stretch themselves full length on rear peWs. and get my cue from me well-deFeloped snores."
The Holbrook news., 1912-02-09
Three Curious wiIIs.

Becoming a woman hater because, as he said, his wife deserted him after inducing him to assign half his prop erty to her, an Evansville Ind.) man stipulated in his will that none but men should attend his funeral
 By the will of an Upper Sandusky. Ohio, man the income of $15,OO0 will be used for the benefit of church and university work. He provides for 8 fund to maintain preaching services each Sunday and Sunday school as well. The testator requested that a copy of portion of his will be print ed in large letters and hung in the church.
 After directing that her body be cremated and the ashes scattered around the rose bushes in her garden a Quakeress of Moorestown provides by her will that $5,OOO shall be held in trust, the income of which shall be paid annually to the National Wom- ans Suffrage association until such time as women shall have the right to vote at all elections in all the states. At that time the principal of the trust fund is to be paid to niece of the testatrix-Case and Comment
The Holbrook news., 1912-02-09
SOr1FTHING
 @Nr,No 
BEDROOM SET FOR THE GIRLS
Very Pretty, Simple and Inexpensive Furniture May Be Made of Plain,
 Heavy Muslin.

very pretty, simple and inexpen- sive bedroom set may be made of plain heavy muslin. the kind that you pay ten cents a yard for. Make the bed spread in the shape of a wide sheet, slashed at the lower corners so that it will hang over the foot and sides of the bed nicely. About the edge of the bedspread put a broad band of fadeless red or blue cotton cloth. Above this band-which should be about six inches wide-draw a de- sign of winding vine and small ten drills and leaves. This should be close to the band. Chain-stitch the design in fadeless cotton the same color as the band.
 A dresser scarf and pillow valance or shams are made in the same way. as are the covers for cushions, trunk,
The Holbrook news., 1912-02-09
Method In Madness.

Pat Sullivan was a soldier and c good fellow; but in the opinion of officers and men alike he was cer- tsinly suffering from some brain af- hiction, and when on duty or at drill he would suddenly break from the ranks and run after an imaginary bit of paper, visible to no one but him self, shouting as he did so:
 There 1t goesI There's the pa- perl"
 This at length became so frequent an occurrence that, on the matter be- ing brought before the medical au- thorities, he was declared to be suf- fering from slight attack of insan- 1ty, and in consequence he was given his discharge. When leaving, how ever, he gave evident proof that there was some method in his madness, for as he quilted the service for ever he cried, hourishing his discharge-paper
 Faith, boys, sure I've got the piece of paper I've been running after this long timelr
The Holbrook news., 1912-02-09
BATTLE WITH "soL'S" RAYS
Girl Who Loved Sunshine Finally Finds Material for Cushion That
 Won't Fade.

My big south bay window seat is the dearest part of my room," said 8 real nome girl" who is gaining much useful experience since her monthly allowance has been counted on for the adornment and replace ments" of her pretty, sunshiny bed room, ''but for few months the mat ter of keeping it respectable threat ened to keep me poor. All the sum- shine there is I want, so 1t comes in without hindrance, and right across the seat cushions and the pillows that I set up to lean against. The consequence was the denim covers faded almost as looked at them. It recover the tops of those seat cush- ions and I couldn't get anything re- spectacle in appearance under twenty five or thirty cents yard.
 'T would take a half day of and have a beautiful spree putting on the new covers, shaped to fit. The room would brisk up and be twice as nv- able as ever before, so it seemed. Then one day would lift up one of
  der it the denim was six shades brighter than out where the sun had shone on 1t. Nothing that could af- ford seemed proof against fading until one day, when was studying over the problem, happened to notice that the plain ingrain filling around the edge of the big rug was just the color I wanted and always had been.
 Tt got just as much sun as the window seat, in that part of the room, and had not altered it's hue. It took me no great while to figure out that ingrain carpet filling, even if I paid a dollar yard for it, would outlast a dozen sets of denim covering and save the work of recovering every few weeks. So saved up and saved up until I could afford the carpet. Work? It doesl It is as nice and fresh looking now as when I put it on, six months ago.