Evening Star Newspaper, May 21, 1898, Page 16

Written for The E “There will be no lack of photographs rked a well-known army this time,” officer to a Si though we hav ds of fine photogrs War Department and even more by Navy Department. is instantly photo- bs ing hundreds of the Maine in ali her stages of life and death, as also all of the oth guns and other belongin ography bas in re- cent years been at West Point and th: Naval Acaden of the lead- ing offic e now tures as they are their profession. A Many things that offic nd already, d into reporter, explains possessed of the most volubi would be ble to t 5 When the official reports of theswar w Spain are prepared they can be fhost thor- oughly illustrated by these photographs. “Besides, th volunteers are equally well equipped as photographers, there being one or more fine photographers with com- pany, and with the thirty thousand soldiers now at Tampa, Chickamauga and other places there ar} at the lowest calculation several hundred who are thoroughly pre- pared to take snap shots, with double that number of skilled amateurs, which will be the means of permanently preserving in a Pictorial way every scene and incident in Which they will take any part. Blessings, they say, always come in disguise, and this wer will prove a blessing to the various makers of cam2ras and other parapherna- lia end material that is used in connection With the up-to-date photographic art. The s are already loading down the Maiis with the phoiws they have taken, and it will not be long before the govern- Ment will not only have a picture of each Organization in the service, but also of every soldier and tor who is partici- pating in : 1 every temporary d camp outtit. * apaign is now pro- and perma) “A mest curi ‘a gressing in Lee ty, Geo: ed a Georgia representative to a porter, “between two popular men who # running for the 1 Politicaliy ther betw with no sic bu tar re- re in much plain shape of money 3 of the local art. The waters of that county. endeavoring to succeed trong following. He to where it onized t graph “in the of the ex- vires broke ¢ was nce of the the changes ing remainis copper = to the weather. and today all the phones are copper— tance telephoning s iron wires could nded dis . * * * © was to n would not This v trunk- Without wou not be s do not cal- will be much less of life ps during th a strong New York to a Star reporter, war,” ex- d that there will who are e condition that icy holders is that anies that they have S is to get tig- alculate futu rance compa: y have as good a means of e extent of the war and its e, and ending, if the mere conclusion one. In reach: had the as: = is a very important this conclusion they have ounsel of many of in public life in this abroad. As I unde i it, or, s over a year they to increase the rate for This decision has resu: in an amount of po three ¢ Y writing during four weeks. All of the axe agents around the outh, Soliciting business, and Ww that they are doing con- ee ek * “Tliere are rules for coachmen, private a@s well as put said the coachman of a 1 family te a Star reporter, “and lass man ever allows himself to et that there should be etiquette on X as well as inside. In the old coun- rules are taught by the older and stable servants to the you ones, but in thi le There is no one to teach where I was first put on the box, I worked in the stable three I was allowed to even clean the harness. I was on © harness a year befo: even clean the outs! - t, thou- phs have be2p filed and they a,” remark- | } on the question. | the latter being sligh allowed | er. ineton | and red. | over the | trade in them are so | names for mpanies have al-j t#ke t | they have been in the | gin to feel a bit sheepish over this sailing | under false c« | departme nger country many drivers only m by observation or picking them them. In ars before I could Nya t In the way he attires himself. If ont on Sunday or church work, he should conduct himself as his employers conduct them- Selves, or as near so as possible. It is wrong to wear a morning suit out at night or a night suit out before dinner. These de- tails are important in their way. They ex- emplify the character of the people you work for. Of course when families only Rave one suit of Hvery for their carriage they can't complain very much if their coachman fs not always exactly in it.” x KK KK “One of the many peculiar things a>out departmental life,” observed an old clerk to a Star reporter, “is that the nearer the clerks, men or women, live to the; depart- ment in which they are employed, the more difficulty they seem to have to get to their offices on time in the morning.- The trou- bic is that they seem so sure that they will be on hand on time that they are never in a hurry, and the result fs that they are frequently some minutes late and very sel- dom at their desks many minutes before the clock strikes. Four-fifths of the clerks probably reside* in the city proper, the others living in the suburbs and suburban towns. The further away they live the more ginger they put in their movements, n be always depended upon to, sar at their desks some minutes fore are actually required to be ther Fee ee “Flowers can play no part in a military funeral, the rules of army or naval burials forbidding them,” explained an army offi- cer to a Star reporter. “While I was down at Chickamauga recently, it was rumored that one of the soldiers in a camp there had died. Indeed it was so printed in a local paper. The result was that on the follow- ing day a large quantity of flowers were sent by sympathetic ladies and others with @ request that they should be placed on the coffin of the dead soldier. Now the fact was that no soldier had died and the offi- cers had the flowers sent to their quarters. If there were a death in the camp the flew- ers couid not be used, for they are not mil- itary in any sense. The only thing allowed on the coffin of a soldier or sailor is a flag. That has been decided to be decoration enouch, and among military men I have never heard the slightest objection to the custom, which has always prevailed.” i * OK OK * * “Some time since I read a paragraph in the ‘Heard and Seen’ columns of The Star,” da physician to a Star reporter, “to the effect that colered people rarely, if ever, were heard to sneeze. Since then I have given considerable attention to the t, and have inquired of other physi- ns as to their experience or observations They all concur that nd some of them say it never s it is brenght on by artificial ting th® question, ne to my attention, and » rarity of suicide among very rare that ft can r oceurs. The statistics which are now very carefully show that the most intellectual and those who are the most subject race. Ii ald ; | to their emotions, are most prone to sui- cide. The Germans lead in the matter of | sufcide, the F: neh coming next. ‘I the Americ about th y in the lead.” +e of the present millin- a man milliner of Wash- to a Star writer, he color that as booked to be the rage for summer hat e Irish same, tl * “At the beginnin eason,”” sa! | trimming was burnt orange, and the Paris millinery model combi exhibited some beautiful tions of burnt-orange with various of red in the trimming of picture ats for the warm season. The trimmers Were accordingly all set to work in copying models in stock hats for display.in ry sf Then came the h trouble, and the most fashionable n immediately began to frown upon of yellow and red, the Span- rll bet a big red apple that in promenade in any city in America 1 not see on tne head of a solitary n a hat trimmed with burnt-orange From exhibiting their dislike for ation of the two colors, the wo- country oped a wonderful for burnt-orar which is low, for 4 whatsoever. The that the great stocks of burnt- immed hats that were made up a!l country in anticipation of a big ch dead gooc the tens of thousands of bolts of bur were imported by whole- r the impression—which r broke out—that * this season, are boards they are women of this ar this yea sashes that be- the close of Z n ribbons are almost hem different combinations of yel- d reds, and the firms that deferred purchasing large stocks of them until the nning of trouble between this country ain are now patting themselves on the back.” yeu w wems ee HK K “A lot of men enter the army and navy of the United States under assumed names,” said an official connected with the navy bureau of information. ‘There seems te be ne particular reason why any of them should do this, for the time has long since passed when it was considered—well, @ retrogressive step for a young man to enter our land or sea service. The young fellows of good families, though, who get into a bit of trouble at home and join one er other of our outfity very often assume this purpose. They generally lofty names, too, though of late years there has been a queer practice on the part of such men who wish to conceal their identity of giving the recruiting offi- Ss the ante-nuptial names of their moth- Most of these young fellows, after ervice a while, be- and they write to their king that they be hence- forth carried on the muster rolls under their proper names. It is within the prov- ince of the military authorities to punish these men for what is called ‘fraudulent enlistment,’ but this Is never done. The names of the applicants are simply changed in the records, orders are issued to the ef- fect that the changes have been made, and that’s all there ever is about it.” soeaie ec ees THE DEADLY NAVAJA. Weapon Which Finds vor Among the Spaniards, From tae Buffalo News. It ts said that every Spaniard carries a knife unless he belongs to the upper classes or the aristocracy. Even then instinct fre- quently leads them to its use. With the peasants and common people a blade Is an indispensable article of dress. The ugliest of Spanish knives is the navaja of Seville. At the first intimation of trouble the Span- jard pulls his knife. If it is a navaja and provided with a big ratchet and spring, he jerks the blade open, the ratchet snapping like a rattlesnake’s warning. ‘This adds dramatic effect and appeals to that love of vraggadecio and display inherent in the Spantsh people. The navaja is used with the blade up. This gives the blow a terrible ripping and thrusting force. It is hard to parry, and the point once in, little avails the victim. The wound is nearly always fatal, for it THE EVENING STAR; SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1898-24 PAGES. IT'S THE WAY OF A WOMAN She was a pale-faced, blue-eyed woman of that peculiar type which is the most dependent and helpless creature on earth apparently, until there is some great physi- cal or political convulsion which entirely oversets nature and art and brings to ‘he surface for the admiration of the worki Present and to come only the unexpected. She was neatly and inexpensively dressed, and was evidently not of the diplomatic set in society. She had come to the police station to inquire concerning the where- abouts of her husband, a man not entirely unknown to the police as an incurable in- corrigible, never quite bad enough to have @ permanent place in the industries of the state. "m looking for my husband,” she said timorous! e ““Yes'm,” responded the officer in a tone which indicated subdued surprise that she should he-looking for anything so well rid of. “Have you seen him around here?” this with a quiver of the lower !ip snd » moist- ening eyelid that make most men want to get out of the way, but that a polic2man is used to. “No’m, he hasn’t been around. But he'll turn up. Don't you worry about him.” “I can’t help it,” she sobved, breaking down entirely. “Why, ma'm, what co you think has hap- pened to him 5 - “Oh,” she wept, “this cruel, «ruel war that is breaking cur hearts and tilling our homes with sorrow and leaving us poor women to bear all the burdens, and now my husband has gone off to be a soldier and get shot. Oh, oh, I know he has; I know he has,” and she refus2d to pe com- forted though the policeman iidnt offer any consolation. On the contrary, he sim- ply snorted right out. “Lord bless you, ma'm,”’ he said as kind- ly as he could, “you needn't think hie will ever go to be a soldier. He ain't that kind, ma’m. About the last plac2 you want to look for him, ma’m, is where enlisting is going on. He ain't—’ But there was something !n the woman's face that prevented the officer from offer- ing further consolation in that diraction. “Don't you say another word,” she snap- ped, jn a way that scattered the tears, “my ‘husband {s as brave a man as you or any of your old policemen are. He's braver, and he will fight for nis country whilé you things are sitting around this town having a good time and arres:ing innocent little chilcren to make the peo- ple think you are earning your wages. My husband wou!d make a better-looking sol- dier than any of you, and he'll fight those hateful Spaniards as long as there is a drop of blood in his body, so he will, and I'll be only too glad to show you that you are slandering a brave man, ant as good a soldier as ever offered himself a sacrifice to his country. So there,’ and before the officer could get the dust and debris out of his eyes the pale-faced, blue-eyed wo- man had flouted herself oui of the station. Ree DIED OF GRIEF. The Horse Could Not Stand the Pangs of Separation. “Speaking of the emotional life of a horse,” said an old trainer, who had been listening to a story about an animal's death that was directly traced to grief, “I recall one remarkable instance of sorrow shown by a horse belonging to a circus with which I was traveling three years ago. We were performing in the little town of Unionville, Pa., when one of the trick horses fell and sprained one of his legs so badly that he could not travel. He was taken to a livery stable and put in a box stall, the leg was bandaged and he was made as comfortable as possible. “He ate his food and was apparently contented until about midnight, when the circus began moving out of town, Then he became restiess and tramped and whin- nied. As the caravans moved past the stable he seemed to realize that he was being deserted, and his anxiety and distress be- came pitiful. He would stand with his ears pricked in an attitude of intense listening and then as his ears caught the sounds of the retiring wagons he would rush as best he could with his injured leg from one side of the stall to the other, pushing at the door with his nose and making every cf- fort to escape. The stableman, who was a stranger to him, tried to soothe him, but to no purpose. He would not be comforted. “Long after all sounds of the circus had ceased his agitation continued. The sweat poured from him, and he quivered in every part of the body. Finally the stableman Went to his employer’s house, woke him up and told him he believed the horse would die if some of the circus horses were not brought back to keep him company. At about daylight the proprietor of the stable | mounted a horse and rode after the circus. | He overtook us ten or twelve miles away and, as I had charge of all the horses and was much attached to the injured animal, I returned with him. When we reached the stall the horse was dead. “The stableman said that he remained for nearly an hour perfectly still and with every sense apparently strained to the ut- most tension, and then, without making a sign, fell and died with scarcely a strug- gle. The veterinarian who was called re- marked, after the circumstances were told him, that unquestionably the horse died from grief.” —_- Garden tn a Sugar Barrel. An enterprising dweller in a flat has re- cenuy succeeded in a venture at strawberry cultur2 which opens up a new field for those who love but do uot possess a garden. This depaz-ure takes the form of a garden in a barrel. An empty sugar barrel is per- furated by a serles of holes an inch and a quarter in diametar, the holes being five inches apart and the circular rows being at a distance of six inches from each other. The barrel is then filled with alternate lay- ers of gravel and sand loam, with a thin layer of fertiliz2r sandwiched between them. The gardener then inserts through the auger holes the roots of her strawberry plants, and roots them also, as mahy as possible, in the earth of the open top of th barrel. In process of time she finds her barrel one mass of fragrant and luscious fruit, more than sufficient for herself and family. ————— Golf Jewelry. Golf has invaded the realm of jewelry. Some of the presents that would be most acceptable to men and women who play golf have designs of golf clubs upon them. Gold and silver clubs are used as stick-pins, miniature bundles of clubs crossed some- what after the fashion of rifles on a sol dier’s cap as brooches, and a small putt2r clasp pin is just the thing for the white puff tie. Match safes, cigarette cases, link cuff buttons, tankards and loving cups, silver- backed brushes and silver-topped tobacco jars, all with golf designs upon them in re- lief, ar2 coraing more and more to be a part of the gentlemen’s outfit. For the women there are dainty silver score-card frames, chain belts, purses, small cups, silk belts with silver buckles ornamented with golfing paraph2rnalia. As prizes in local and inter- club matches these convenient articles are finding much favor. —_ Mea France. From What to Eat. The French are very temperate in food and drink, a cup of coffee with a piece of bread being considered quite sufficient until noon, v-hen the dejeuner a la fourchette is served. This consists of a first course of eggs or macaroni, a second of one each or stew, anda third of fruit and cheese. Plenty of bread (always good in France) is eaten during the meal, but but- ter rarely, and a glass or two of wine Ui- luted with water, but never iced or sweet- ened, is drunk by each member of the ASIGHT TO BE: REMEMBERED “I don't supose that the universal dis- play of the stars end.stripes at the pres- ent period is m anyt:sense likely to erasa from the appréciatioh of true-blue Ameri- cans the fulfest ‘fnderstanding of the meaning, strength and significance of the emblem,” said a nayal officer. “Rather, the universal exhibition of the flag is more likely to bring to thé ‘men, women and cnil- dren of the land a fuller appreciation of the glories of the starry banner. Yet, im- pressive and inspiring as this brave array of the nationalcolor# on most of the beau- tiful streets of Washington surely is, it does not excite within me quite the sam2 serisation of jboundiess, irrepressible en- thusiasm as that which I once experienced at sea, upon the sight of a single American flag. I am full aware that all of us are more or less savage in our natures, but I cannot recall that I ever experienced such @ thrill of savage exultation and exaltation as I did when I clapped eyes upon this lone American flag, in the center of the low, laughing Pacific. “My ship was returning from Japan to the United States, five years ago. We had been on the China station for over three years, and most of us, forward as well as aft, were pretty lonesome, as you may fancy, for a sight of this smiling land of ours. We were eight days out from Yoko- hama, making for Honolulu to coal ship, when we were overtaken by the Fourth of July. All the ships in the American navy, you remember, are dressed with bunting from stem to stern on Independence day, whether tke ships are at anchor or at sea, in any quarter of the globe. Our signal quartermaster made an especially beautiful job of ship dressing on this Fourth of July, and, with our 100-foot homeward-bound pennant streaming flat with the fresh breeze, I don’t douvt that we made a brave and beautiful picture as viewed from a distance, were there only a few ships in the offing to view us. But we seemed to be ab- solutely alone in mid-Pacific. During the first three or four days of our homeward- bound cruise out of Japan we had run actress a few ships, all flying the British flag, but on this sunshiny Fourth of July merning we seemed to be quite alone on the sea. We were all lolling about the decks, somewhat stupidly, along about 10 o'clock in the morning, after inspection, talking about where we intended putting in our ‘detached time, after our ship went of commissicn. ‘A sail!” sung out the boy in the look- out. F ‘“* ‘Whereaway?’ shoufed the officer of the deck, and you may believe that we were all attention to catch the compass points sung out by the lad aloft. “The sail was a skys‘l, still and tiny as the link in a lady’s lorgnette chain, on the outermost verge of the southeastern hori- zon. Yet all of us aft took the poop for it. with our glasses, and the men up for’ard jammed the to’gallant fo'c’sle and strained their eyes for the sail, whigh was making for us. A sailing s! approaching you at sea from the far horizon seems to make at you in bounds when you yourself are driving for her, and by the timie we took 1 second long look at the approaching ship her huge royals, bellied out by the fresa breeze, shone clear and brilliant in our eyes, reflected by the bright morning sun. But by the time we could make out the royals we had no time for them. Our gaze was focused on the bit of bunting at main—the stars and stripes of our republic I think a bit of a chill ran over the spines of all of us when ‘we saw that. It med such a devilishly beautiful idea, that—the flag bounding slap at us right out of the middle of the Pacific, and of all mornings, on this Fourth of July morn i muttered ““This is good; Us the old skipper « cee el nd then the hull of the appraitching snip danced on the amethyst Herizon’ for us, her code of signals flutterin®. “The Shenandoahjput of Bath,’ shouted the signal quartermaster from the bridge. “You ought to haye heard the men up forward, bless hel mischievous, gener- ous souls. TaeyMlet Sut a whoap that rang around the circle of fndigo sea like a Val- halla shout of Victory, and I fear we were a bit undignified aft, for one of the senior watch officers alongside us on the poop de- liberately threw his cap to the deck, thru both cf his arms in the air and emitted a series of howls that were calculated to make the voice of our siren seem smail by comparison. “Well, “Dees she wave?’ does she wave = “The Shenandoah, probably queen of all the clippers in the world, bore down upon us with every thread of Her canvas set and drawing—as beautiful a picture as any man ever sees in this world. And there, fiutter- ing far above her main skys'l, snapping in the breeze and waving gra y with the dips and leans of the: great ship—the 2 It would be hard to describe the fe ling we all experienced when the Shenandoah swept by within a hundred = y: s of us. Her crew were just as much pleased a and she did not w a he howled. Ss wi it for us to dip she swung by us like a prine in th ride of her finery, again and again w the banner dipped in reply to our banner- dipping at the mizzen, and the clipper’s crew, ranged along the weather rail, min- gled their hoarse shouts with the tren dous cheering of our man-o'-war': men. “When a man sces the flag of his native land under circumstances like these the memory of it Is going to abide with him.” ——— HAD were, but jusi D GO. But His Determination Brought His | Wife to Tears. “My dear,” said he, in a solemn tone, Gisconsolately hanging his hat upon the rack, “I am sorry—I can’t tell you how scrry Iam. But there's no use talking any more about it. I've got to go—” Husband!" “It grieves me more sorely than it can Pessibly grieve you, Cynthia. But I see no way out of it. I cannot shirk it any lon- ger. I've simply got to go—” “But have you considered—” “Considered? Have I not tossed, broad awake, for many nights, considering it in all its phases? Considered! If you could but know the torture I have suffered consider- ing it—but, never mind. There is no way out of it. It has come to the point now where I’ve got to go—” “But what isto become—" “Cynthia, enough! Do not attempt fur- ther to dissaude If I hold out any lon- ger in refusing to spend a day in Baltimore in examining those goods, the boss’ll cer- tainly fire me, and the rent.of this bunga- low's got to be paid, as you know, job or no job."” Then they mingled their tears. —_+—__ Too Fat to Travel Third Class. One of the penaltizs of being too fat in France is that you must pay first-class rail- way fare. So, at least, it happened to M. Payelle of Lillers. He found the doors of the third-class carriages on the Chemin de Fer du Nord so narrow that h2 could not get in, even sideways, when he wanted to travel from Lille to Paris. So he tried sec- ond class, but equally in vain. First class showed itself more hospitable, and recsived him with open arms.:; But the station mas- ter ordered him, out. (M. Payelle, however, replied in the wordszof MacMahon at Ma- genta, “J'y suis, j'y rest.” Nevertheless, @ summons wag.issued against him, and he was fined sixteen francs. In future M. Pay- elle will have to,travel first class or remain at home. Y ¢ —_ : Australian Horses, From the Househdld Words. The land of the kapgaroo and the wom- bat, where the mammal was nothing unless marsupial, till the European arrived on the scene, may now be! called the land of horses. In New South Wales,the sight of @ beggar on horsebaek excites no surprise~ The poorest settler has a nag or two of IN FULL-DRESS UNIFORM “About twenty-five years ago,” said a well-known army officer, “the Modoc In- dian war, in the lava beds of southern Oregon and northern Californin, was in progress In it occurred some as severe fighting, under adverse circumstances, as ever came to the lot of the United States army. Among the troops engaged in that war was the 9th United States Infantry. It is well known that this regiment was never permitted to take any part in the civil war, but was kept, during that whole eventful period, on the Pacific slope. It Was not the fault of the officers of the regi- ment, yet they felt very sensitive on the subject. “Among the officers of that regiment was @ young lieutenant, whose name I shall mention later. On the evening preceding the heaviest fight that occurred during the campaign remarks were made reflecting upon the courage of what they designated as the ‘California contingent,’ meaning thereby the 9th Infantry. These remarks came to the ears of the young lieutenant, who immediately sought their author, and in the presence of a large number of his fellow officers, resented the aspersions in the most vigorous terms; branding the man as a modern Ananias, and also announcing that immediately after the fight which was siated for the following day he would per- sonally make good all that he then said. “Furthermore, as the matter of personal courage had been put in question, he an- nounced that in the fight of the following morning he should wear his full uniform, and he challenged the author of the dis- paraging remarks to do the same. That night the commanding general sent for this lieutenant and informed him that in the charge that was to be made on the follow- ing morning he was going to give him the ext position to the post of honor, that is, the left of the line. Any soldier will know that when troops are in line of battle the left is equally expcsed with the right. It happened, therefore, that on the morning of the battle the California lieutenant, true to his word, appeared in command of the left of the line in full uniform, and as it was well Known that such an exposure was to court almost certain death, not another officer did so appear, notwith- standing the liectenant’s emphatic chal- lenge. In the gray dawn of the following kour the troops lined up in front of those terrible obstacles known as the lava beds. The command, ‘Forward!’ was given, and over they went, first one and then another, in the face of a withering fire from the Sav- ages behind piles of rocks, some five and some fully forty feet in height, the Califor- nia lieutenant, im full uniform, at the head of his company on the left of the line. The right was crushed and fell back, but the ieft, encouraged by its commander's splendid example, held its ground. “As may be imagined, the officer in full uniform received the attention of every Mcdoc warrior who cavght sight of iim, and they finally brought him down with a rifle bail through his thigh, cutting the tendons to his leg. Calling two soldiers, in- stead of permitting them to carry him off, as they wished to do, he placed a hand on the shoulder of e nd ported, he fought on, until by sheer ios blood his whole strength gave way and the sol- diers laid him down till the fight was all over, His gallant conduct on this occasion won for him the undying friendship of the Major General Crook, to whose depart- ment he was soon after called. To his own nd this friendship the United States it that he is now Brigadier General s P. Eagan, commissary general of nee. Modocs touched the button in the Is of Oregon, and President McKin- s done the rest. The same conduct British army would have won the Victoria Cross; in the French army it would ‘ought the Cross of the Legion of In the United States army it won the friendsh neral Crook, and an were now to Se RICH GUATEMALA. Rapid Development of the Country Possible Under Other Conditions. From the Forum. The resources of Guatemala are varied and abundant. Coffee is the chief staple and the berry i: good as the best the world provid: Corn and beans are the chief food of the people. Sugar, tobacco and other tropical plants can be raised, to un unlimited extent, on the hot lands along the coast; while wheat and other cerea!s rich harvests in the higher and more e districts of the inte r on by the United State: iprocity treaties made under the Harri- son administration with several of the Lati ics American ubli was ai si blow to Guatemala; for her government and people son to suppose that we were acting in good faith, and desire free exchange of natural ‘products that countr assumption sums of money sted in the duction of sugar, for which the United States furnished the only market. But, without notice, or the observance of the usual diplomatic formaliti: the arrang ment revoked by the enactment « Wilso; rman tariff jaw, and the plantd ce idle. While the poli of the United States toward it populous neighbors. has doubiless been inspired by friendly motives, these neighbors have learned, through a somewhat rough ex- perience, that avhen our interests conflict with theirs we do not consider the conse- quences. Guatemala might easily sustain ten times its present population. The soil is rich and easily cultivated, and, unlike the other Central American republics, there is plenty of labor. Some parts of the coun- try are quite thickly populated; but the others are covered with dense forests and a variety of timber, which might be easily made marketable if means of transporta- tion were provided. But, although Guate- mala is much further advanced than the rest of Central America, her railway sys- tem does not exceed 250 miles; there ig no internal navigation, and the wagon roads are in a deplorable condition. The mineral wealth of the country is supposed to be large; but it Is only slighy developed. The mines are inaccessible, and, in the absence of modern machinery, which at present cannot be conveyed to them, cannot be worked with profit. The government offers generous inducements to immigrants. The land laws are liberal; and efforts have been made from time tx time to secure the es. tablishment of colonies and the pre-emp- tion of public lands by private settlers. But all the accessible area is at present occupied; and no foreigner can expect to prosper in Guatemala unless he has abun- dant capital which will enable him to pur- chase at high prices plantations already developed. If peace could be assured, if railways and wagon roads could pe ex- tended into the intericr—so that the timber regions, the mineral deposits, and the wild agricultura] lands could be reached as conveniently as the new portions of our own country—Guatemala would offer great advantages to the immigrant, and would enjoy a rapid development. ———+e+_— A Curious Boat. From the Baltimore Sun. On board the Hawaiian bark Iolani there is a curiosity in a native canoe made by some of the Pacific islanders. While on th> voyage from Honolulu last August for Hong Kong. to load matting for Baltimore an ob- ject was seen in the water to the leeward. Capt. McClure changed his course, and run- ning close to it found it to be a mammoth canos. He had the ship's carpenter put into the canoe, which was nearly filled with wa- ter. When once inside {t was almost im- Possible to stand up on its slippery bottom. To make his position more exciting the car- penter was seen fighting with a: large fish, which was making desperate efforts to es- cape from the boat. A shark hook was thrown the carpenter, and it was not until BY eS JOHNSON» Written for The Evening Star. A Rustic Ideal. When the signs of summer thicken And the nights their paces quicken And the days so warm pass lingeringly ‘Then the cit‘ en grows weary And the hous no more seem cheery As he longs for balmy air and azure sky. And in day-dreams he goes drifting Where the lights and shadows shifting Make the wood a wonderland through all the hours, Or he seeks the field so, fragrant Where the breeze, a jovial vagrant, Squanders perfume ‘that he borrowed from the flowers. Yet a calm consideration Of the sylvan situation Makes one count the many comforts he must lose; Bids him think of horses lazy And of wagons cramped and crazy And the many hours it takes to get the news. So when, my errant fancy, With your idle necromancy My thoughts to summer bowers you'd be- guile, Let me feel no losses tragic. Prythee, exercise your magic; Let your fiction weave a picture worth the while. - Let us have on leafy mountains Barber shops and soda fountains. And. when we rest some vine-shaded grot; Let’s have methods of obtain! Viands, luscious and sustaining, If we will but drop a nickel in the slot. And when up the hill we'd ramble, Let an elevator gambol, While electric cars are frisking o'er the lea. while sing Keep biythe rhythm to the rin Of the telephone that’s hanging from the Let the merry bird tree. * * A Close Shave. hters who wear glass ination. near-sighted that at a distance dred feet he could not tell a bicycle police- However, he his place and when the oculist directed his attention to the card upon which letters of rious sizes are printed he smiled con- man from a dromedary. Vv fidently. “You want me to read those letters?” he inquired. “Yes,” replied the oculist, pointing with a lead pencil. “On the third line?” “No; the fourth.” The candidate rattled the names of the letters off at a wonderful pace. conch easy,” he exclaimed, as he “Yes,” replied the oculis whether I could have seen some of thi elf at that distance. little ones my pass.” But in a few minutes he came back. “I have been thinking it over, ed with the ex We'll start with some of those “and I am not quite sati aminati big letters for a change. The young man looke the recruiting officer interpose Look here! You've passed once. change the record, and, beside use of wasting tim satisfied, I am. “I saw that looked = worri said the c thought there was ne use of bothc any more.” m mighty glad you spoke ed the recruit, wiping is gla: the truth, I was a little careless and hadn't en the trouble to memorize the big let- A Justifiable ‘ausevniiion, The boy who gets up the war bulletins was working with a speed which showed that he realized an eager public was wait- He felt his responsibil- ities. The characters went upon the paper with swiftness under his practiced hands, and every now and then he drew back and contemplated his work with the pride of Presently the man of carping tendencies passed. A sneer came upom his countenance and the boy anticipated the criticism which was obviously under way ing on his efforts. the artist. with the inquiry: Well, what's the matter with it?” “Look at the spelling?” “It's according to copy. “But the word ‘Spain.’ have divided it! efforts to make it undergo spasms where the word is legitimately a monosyllable?”” The boy gazed at his work for a moment or two and then stolidly proceeded with his stamping. ‘Aren't you going to change it?” ‘o, I'm not.” ‘But it’s palpably wrong.” “Not these days. The way A Discouraged Litterateur. 7 The young man with high check bones and flowing locks stopped abruptly when he came to the ticker which was telling off the base ball news. He stared for some Y PHILANDER. ~~. The physical examination for admi Friends certain enterprising recruit regarded it as waste of time for him to apply for « He was in excellent health, but so Jan’ de yuth “You may begin with these.” disconsolate, but I don’t see how we are going “All right,” was the rejoinder. 'S were red and you | impartec seribe to dest trivial, | sisn : that prove the man’s pr ing of wha! remains e to dissimulate sight into this would acter, Siandpoint, an other such indication o: exhibited in its watchful, fvoked simpl ance upon another animal (for it is the true or false, that have been told ¢ ability. of ance, such ‘perfe: and, when the time comes, such @ unhesitating energy as homicidal animals exhibit are impo: siderable, irregular, developm See how you ‘Spa’ at the end of one line and then on the next ‘in.’ think that such a breach of the first prin- ciples of English will be tolerated? think the public is going to endure your great at all tts g its crimes; these h shiped in’ the nothi and where an and traits di form fo’ dollahs back, dat I paid for dis chawm, Une’ Johnsing; wone ob ma’ dreams come true. things are going now you're liable to find pieces of Spain scattered around anywhere.” I know I hab had dreams, but in de maw in’ I can’t rec‘lec’ dem! witch dreams! true! time in fascina of a cleri “Young rofitable mm@anner in sir.” was the mpt reply. “I has taught me 4 lesson today.” ut are you aware of the insidiou lurks in the practice of wa k market's fluct anything so, at times, news my we far mor conside: yet sumption. Father said he ne store, but I told him I'm through, on't see an: “1 had h . thing it was to ¢ a things t when it comes to having a m . | to do nothing but throw neatly ty writien matter into the wasie basket, I guess there’s no use of trying to crowd In. I'm going back and tell father I’m ready to Ko to work. * x * Necdiess Fear, “I's yeard ‘em say a heap "bout whut swineter happen in hishere wah,” said the old colored man reflectively lm say 1 got Kinder skyaht when I hyuhd de white folks tellin’ whut bad people deshere Span- ishers 1s, and how dey gwinter conflagger- ate de worl.” “Well, dey may do some hi swered the boy who was liste indifferenily. dey may. You allus haster stoy an’ Usten ter anybody dat brag "bout dey trouble he gwinter make fur ye, ‘case it shows he’s got de d hab de power r no’ hyuh "bout de light: wif de yuvvuh | ‘bout sumpin’ Dositi . Whevvuh he ijer evvuh t got mad an’ got no stin, 1 bug he an’ put dah out sp) sn’ any. Ar i tells yer whut it ts, dah's a pow'ful lot 0° jighinin’ bugs in dishere wori'.” x * & Among the Ph nes. Hello! Hello! Oh, afar, A ereeting to y Where ur charms s neath a fond con foliage beaut every breeze in fakes murm cadence f music in its flow Ss who repeat, “Hello! Hello!’ ‘The Saxon's call Shall echo o'er your tropic height. firm yet ge aL i fail To curb your indolent deligh Yet to his ery, whe night draws And jeweled waves dash thre Will come your cherish “Loile, Liello. The m Ovti Few mi ~ see as > knows his eleph. It nt int is all so seemingly reality of is so f uch dead of details ‘ound unc he is talkin pout And yet, from phant chologi ver gives any mental power as is revenge. That patient, implacabie hatred, often pre because a man ts in atten rule with tuskers to detest their next neighbors) speaks 1aere conclusively of a Yigh intellectual grade than ail the Such purpose, such nitration and fixedness aceful, unrelaxed vigil- 1G consisient pretense, perate, bie without a very con: in this instance very at. that if this creature is tmess shows itself in ve ed it to be wor- where men venerate irresponsible force, exhibition of those qualities eribed fully accounts for the » “My Lord the Elephant.” = <DEL ‘ althoug’ No one can deny east but merci Satisfying a Skeptic. Frem Puck. Young Mokeby (sullenly)—I wants mx’ Unc’ Johnsing (the Conjure Man)—Doan’ you remember de dreams dat yo fo git; de dreams you know you dream but can't re- call? Young Mokeby—Why, Many times Unc’ Johnsing (impressively)—Dem’s de Dem’s Ge ones dat come of a carriage. Here driving an fee cart day and the whip the day after. Of he had stabbed the fish several times that it was conquered. When tke canoe was hoisted on board a number of small fish wers found swimming about. The large fish leaves a trail like a battle-ax, save that it is up instead of down. The long knives, such as this form of the navaja presents, offer & tremendous advantage, and in the is i family, including the children. Dinner, ou can see a fel or a gr for a his own, and Hts chiXiren may be seen rid- usually at 7 o'clock, is a little more elab- | ing to school like litfle lords, A cme na t 1, f ’ and & sted -horse are saklon orslited! con tee ign sae” | townaip wulldine tuodaeanin Tes coat = elghed nm pounds, and ehded in a course understand the business, | street brawls and private quarrels so often seaaperves. with cognac at the end, Owi: try where each villege, almost, has its race SrowSee for a meal on board. and the etiquette of ibe carriage, so well | indulged in always overmatch more fragile | to he fact that so much chicory is meéting. With a population scarcely over nown observed in the country, is Weapons. Matches are seldom used, except by cer- tain of the better classes in the land of Ferdinand and Isabella, and the practice of sinking a light from the 4int will lvstrate how common an article of use the ‘Dhe canoe is about twenty-five feet long, aR ae cut out of a solld log, with rearing ends, which would give the log it was hown from @ diameter of at least five feet. 1,250,000, the colony owns more than 500,000 horses. And she now exports horses on a rapidly increasing scale: In 1895 the colony exported 1,063 hoses, of the estimated value of £12,745; in 1896 the number was. so much Greek to him. It makes me tired to see some of the coachmen of this city and the way they do their work. For in- stance, take the matter of gloves, In many cases the folks Inside the carriage wear the gunwalss are holes in which good | 8,138, value £123,500, and last year there | hide thongs were us2d to hold to for their ves. Surely this ought to be hint | ever handy knife is. Nearly every Span- | quality) may account for the excessive | was a ‘further iz. India being the ‘the enough for the coachman to put on his | tard carries in his tit « bit of fine When | use . Teading customer, Australian. horses being | Serving the oars. Places are cut out for gloves. A coachman should represent on| he wants a light out comes the flint, the found admirably adapted for military pur- Z placed in the niches while wet and the outside the people on the inside of the | knife is produced und the stone struck with A Negative Estimate, in that part of the British empire. | anowed to shrink. ‘Thare also ‘@ place in Bout his "Sting" wear ploven, he sg | Sesh ee onder Amal beef] om tae Cheags Rew Hei abe ate titans pyar | tae Songa' te sp eae = oul . ey wear gloves, should, | punk cat the spark as jes, mi t 5 ‘ i Talos paing told to do so. One thing | it, and in a seconu there is all ‘the Diaze| little Freddle—“What ts horse sense?" Xstrata, Put the Straits Settlements, Ja- | to gyug te the ipatives et follows another Just as naturally as the | needed. Calmly the Spaniard blowa the | Papa—“Wall, it's pretty hard to explain: | va and the Philippine Islands. and, in the Baghee group, from the gerriage follows the horses which draw it. | smoke of his cigarette in rings about his but just watch the scerchers you'll FOG ee folani was about twenty miles when the cu- If the family is in mourning or second head, ever ready for a resort to the friend get @ good idea of what people who haven't ‘We think ourselves original when we do rious vessel was picked up. The é mourning, the coacbman should indicate | who never plays him false—his navaja, any look like." Bogan gee but reproduce.—Life. = of the fish could not be accounted