Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-09

Atheist may enter here; but not Catholic.
A Jacobite of the forbidden faith took mis-
chievous revenge by chalking the following
couplet underneath the notice:
Whoever wrote these words. he wrote them
well;
The same are written on the gates OF He'll.
HANNAH MORE quotes with approval
= the application to a Slaveship of the
inscription that Dante placed over one of
the gates of hell. Through me you pass to
the lost people"
a far more famous motto IS that which
Dante has placed upon the principal gate of
hell. 'All abandon hope. We who enter here
Charles Warren Stoddard was wont to say
that he did not believe these words were to
be found on the gates of hell. THE real in
scription,' he would explain, is this, lei
on parle franGais !
TO an obscure Connecticut minister is at
tributed we'll known line which he is
said to have written on the gatepost of a
cemetery in his native village, after perusing
the fulSome cpitaphs on the headstones
within: Here lie the dead, and here the
living lie"
DURING the days when slavery flour
= ished in the Southern States of Amer
ica Drvburgh Abbey, where the body of Sir
Walter Scott lies buried, was forbidden
ground to them. Countess of Buchau, wife
of the proprietor, caused a board to be placed
over the gate at the entrance to the Abbey
grounds whereon was written in large let
tiers, Shareholders from America not adj
mitted."
AN American magazine recently told the
= story of a Philadelphia family who
lived in corner house SO easily accessible
from the street that they were constantly
annoyed by persons ringing to ask where
other possible inhabitants of that block were
to be found Finally the boy of the house
determined to stop the nuisance.
Il guess" said he complacently, there
won't be any more folks asking if the
Browns or the Biddles live in this house.
I've fixed them!'
what have you done?" asked Mater
farnilias
Hung out a sign"
and what did YOU put on it,"
lust five words, !" replied Harold proudly.
"Nobody lives here but US :"
WHEN William Morris resided at Red
w House, Abbey Wood Station, just
outside of London. he was fond of painting
on labels, WHICH he I1u1lS ABOUT Illc IOuSt,
the motto, IF can" Dante Gabriel Ros-
setti, paying a visit to Morris, found many
of these labels still blank, and in his reckless
way filled them up with another motto, las
| can't"
Bur1e- Jones, a fellow visitor, who tells
the story, adds that when Morris saw this
pleasantly, it would have puzzled the dis
criminator of words to know which of those
two was more eloquent in violent English
A QUARTER of century ago Bill Nye
was a resident of Laramie, Kansas.
The visitor, who went down the main street,
turned a corner, and paused before livery
stable, could find him by this sign:
Laramie Boomerang,
Walk down the Alley,
Twist the Gray Mules Tail.
Take the elevator Immediately.
A few steps aloft, and the visitor entered
a large bare room, where, amid the click of
type and the rattle of press, tall, thin, sal
low man sat before rude wooden table, his
bald head studiously bent over his news
paper copy. That was Bill Nye.
CUSTAVE DORE once bought villa on
- the outskirts of Paris and wrote over
the entrance this musical rebus, Do Mi. 81,
La, Do, Re. This, properly Interpreted is
"Domicile a Dore" or in plain English,
"HOne of Dore /"