Evening Star Newspaper, September 10, 1898, Page 16

Ys THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1898-24 PAGES, eA). (Copyright, 1898, by W. A. Fraser.) errkehs cy t. Layten had and the en his string exercise ar altar copped by one Harvey, trai rities was an ind ¢ s easy to a as it i into seksedt BL THE GRAZE OF CHANCE," WRITTEN FOR THE EVENING STAR BY W. A. FRASER. Leahy WOVE WOW OWI a se) 2 hse) se 222) ah of Jagnat. “Geod-mornin’, Meester Johnson,” began H and in manner_¥ h of | the I've-got-something-behind- style. “What is it, Harvey?” said Johnson, scenting the something at once. sir, you knew Simpkin, don't you? Li name on the bi any ood? Johnson. “He's tnd his friend's on the face of it, lone ripen y seat ii dake Wand iG tal MEAcCes: hall righ answered the Fee ree ore ee eee pea ides weit hulen wIbieeeTa caveat altel Hie y lender with cash enough te ant |, Gap Heron baelawnaeiraevaeer custo it. But transaction didn't really help | in” them very much; it tided the friend over queried Join a es c ¥ after the Bungutoo races, but ndicapper don't know much abou: gals daewoo ir, hand if you ‘appened to be ways und means | harywhere near when the weights was he- ing day with the Marwarie. in’ made hup and could get a tidy weight nothing tangible in sight, chances | hon aim we could land the stuff.” to be taken, one or owe little flyers | “What weight’ do you?” asked the own- on the part of had only w Ere Hie “hase. .caee alone. (aetan them down deeper in the debt mire. | pounds. With eight stone four pounds on That was why Layton was wandering } ‘is back he could gallop right away from bout on the maidan ci the Lucknow | th Secures ieincast i fei e cot ‘exentio: whi » shoula | ‘Then Harvey explained to the captain < wering “when he shoul | oy ateat tie Gis Suapkin haa pen have been at the “gym,” or the “mess,” or | them down at Jury almost anywhere ex about on pt mooning ‘en horses how he had beat- that quite outel: the dismal smoke-scented plain. {until Johnson saw t He was doig something that no officer | on his back there certainly was nothing the w ice would have given him | jn it but Simpkin. te s fretti | He knew that form, ¢ friend who had used up the money- | would certainly n nine HERE, FRA t we're in ed at the dry can't raise » pay that MM be down ke an Afghan or old Ne nows whe or the in- Some- him on ed | +s the clean, bred hoofs, sod in eager ned. | } | > riding | blind, en n put n to a big key had between stand a his nish post” and the of bis na Whirl. ed up a ere i had triai | good handicap,” there Joubt about it what- It was back the pay ot almost 1 the other hand, the gr ' of the money lender peered the thick folds of the peepul - and sneeringly asked why the sahib's signed notes they could not pay. It meant ruin and shame and all the rest and even the face of his friend, of y—all the happy boyishness gone— there in the evening dusk, drawn and white and pleading. it was a bitter struget horor—plenty of it; but the odds Were too reat, he could not fight against it: and. besides, Johnson had not contided in him, had net trusted him, had not put him on his honor. It was his luck that he had seen the trial. Fate had drawn him there to show him a way out of his difficulty. Also, if he bought Zigzag in the lotteries Jebnson could claim half every time. They both win quite enough, for the lot- teries would be very heavy. This was the day before the opening of the Lucknow spring meeting. ft was the next morning Frank Johnson Was walking home from the course after for Layton had tly NK." HE SAID. stone seven pound in the handicaps, per- haps ten ste e after his own hi ke a coup with Simpkin, and Zigzag would have less weight an- her t would fetch a pretty lotteries, end it would money to back him to win That would be too risky good as Harvey buy your * in hevery » “hand. we'll just as you like. ‘eavily. for nobody nout about 'im.”" for threr-quar He'll never he Always when things of this sort hap- pen, the ipient of the favor credits it {to fate. hat's just what the captain did. “The gods ure bound to thrust this I in my pock he mused as he trav- eled down the tre 1 road toward a big white bun And a little and went to jeep again was not to act, real till the r Johnson knew t three officers were aming the handicaps that very morn- ng in Maj. Jim's bungalow. He didn't quite know how he was go- jing to get a din the business if he could make any excuse to ge | arc them something was pretty to turn up. When he stepped up on the veranda rough dark green door of the bun- s closed. He gave a knock and shoved it abr < and walked in, pretending to be mighty ing anybody but his friend, there. “Awfully sorry, gentlemen,” sed at find- Maj. Jim. he exclaim- own jockey, Richmond, for Simpkin, and determined to ride Zigzag himself. if the game had been Zigzag, this would net have mattered so very much, for he vas one of the best riders in India. t{ the owner was riding Zizzag con- yton in his determination to haye en the horse. igzag in the first lottery. the secretary asked if the owner anything, Johnson answered, “Nothing, thanks.” HW come to me after {t's all over,” thought Layton, “ask for a half through- ut. He knows I'll have to give it to him, tco. It wouldn't be safe to have had his horse running with none of the owner's money on.” When Simpkin was sold Johnson bought him through another party. And so it was through every lottery, and there were many of them, for the handicap was a big betting race with eight horses in it. Layton bought Zigzag steadily every time, and Johnson's agent took Simpkin. After it was over Layton rather wonder- ed thet Zigzag’s owner made no sign—did not come and ask for his half. nderstand Johnson's refusing erest in him in the fotteries. the effect of that was to reduce his ng price. But why did he not come d now when it was all over. . < 3e around in the morning,” he theught. “He won't let him run unbacked after that trial.” But in the morning Johnson still made no sign, Layton was getting a little une: ing was such an uncertain business What if something had gone wrong ag. He would be utterly ruined if he failed to win the race. Not only the Marwarie’s debt, but the present lottery : He would be posted as a faulter; at least it would take every rupee he could rake together in the world to square up, and he would certainly have to send in his papers. Fifteen minutes before the race no offer had come trom Johnsen to take a share in Zigzag’s chances. The suspense was too reat for Layton. eThe went to the little dressing room, just under the stand, where Johnson was put- ting on his slim riding boots and colo! He could to take any for “See here, Frank,” he 3ai3, “I've got 4 zag in every lotter tand to win & big pot over him. teny cf it You havev't taken a bit of 1t yee i Johnson was noted for two things—his superb riding and his exquisite cynical humor. “Who the merry Hades told you to back y ho he kod. ‘d him bezavye I thought he could win, and you were riding him, answered ayton, coloring. slis: Well, he hasn't th said Johnson, tightenin racing cap, “and I dent want bit of him in anything. He hasn't a thousand-to-one chance.” Layton was dumfounded. 5 if he doesn’t win,” he sald, “I shail come # cropper. Johnson lov! at him queerly for a min- ute; then he said: “Now gv and square yourself on Simpkia. You hedge on him, for he’s win “And if h said Layton, almost angrily, “I s > hole than ever. I won't do It. or fall by Zigzag, and I'll 'ay you %) rupees to nothing against his wi “I won't do it that way,” said Johnson, quickly, “for that isu’t a be If L can't ; that’s the rule in betting; Mr, Layton to 10 against 7% If the horse cheerfully. t on my inount,” Sit half a mile, for with be better for sc When I'm the front and cu have an easy job. ther be on ? to make the you cam go to home. I think you'll za, sir,” replied the “I know what he ean do, and I the feel of this fellow under me; he's shifty.” The raci a mile and a quarter. As the he way over to the cour om the ty came up to Layton and said: a tremendyts rush or Simpkin.” D there wi The stable money be- ing ail on, Harvey hac tohl a few of iis friends, and the ring was floodiag the book- s with money for Simpkin. y few were backing 13, and he traveling out in th nz. “Ten to Zigzaz.”” the bookma were howling in vain—there were no ta At the start Johns AS playing 1 away in front the ranning and Keep a nice place Sunpkin to drop into when his hor: beaten. At third attempt taey got away, very much the captain desired. “They're off!” went up from the grand- stand in a hoarse cry, glasses were leveled at the bright’ splashes of color visting in and ovt, as the*elght horses mbied for places. black jacket, with red hot to the front imme zag lead: meb dy exclaimed, and on rubbe "as: th his hand- and i them on the leader and yellow iatel fe rushing troop. the red and uld see p leaning y ellow quarter- withers of the Kot away to Without lowering hi “Hels ng anyw if it comes to in work at the finish Johnson can ¢ all the boys seven pounds at that game.” When they had traveled a quarter of a mile the biack jacket was a length in front of everything. Layton’s heart lay like lead in his breast. That was not Johnson's eties when he eut to win a mile- | end-a-quarter race. With ten stone up, he wouldn't be making his own running. Layten knew then that he had lost. It was almost a relief to Know just where he stood. He had cast the dle and lost. Some fool near him Ss croaking: ‘Zig- g’ll win all the * He felt pity in bis heart for the ran’s utter ignorance of racing. Perhaps, though, after all, it were YTON TUGGED AT HIS MUSTACHE, ed, in his lazy, drawling way. idea that I was spoiling sport cart didn’t turn up at the race co I thought I'd come in and h with the major. I'll clear out, though, and let you finish up your wor! “Have a peg, Johnson?” said Maj. Jim, getting up from the table. “We are busy and breakfast won't be on till we finish. Serry I can’t ask you to stay in the room, but ‘re making the handicaps, you know.” “I say, you the othe: fellows,” exclaimed one cf as the captain sipped leisurely sky and soda, “Johnson likely knows something about this Simpkin they've sent up from Jagnat. He knows every gee-gee in the country.” “Yes,” added the major; “what about this brute Harvey has entered for Jagnat? We've got none of his performances to go on.”" “Oh, that crock," sald the captain, with fine secrn; “stick a postage stamp on his back—shove him in at anything you lik 7 st. 10 lbs. Good morning, gentlemen, he added, as he set bis glass down and opened the door. “Don’t put a load of bricks on Zigzag’s back.” As he walked away from his bungalow he whistled softly under his breath, “May I fall in love with Kali, if ever I’ saw a chance to beat that.” When the handicap was posted that even. ing on the notice board on the course, Zig- zag had the rather heavy impost of 10 stone; while Simpkin had a weight to glad- den Harvey's heart; he was in at elght stone. Harvey assured Johnson that the horse couldn't lose at that weight. To make the good thing a greater cer- tainty, Johnson jet the trainer have his better that way; he almost envied him. It was the knowledge of racing that broke so mary of them. At the three-quarters Zigzag was still leading. “He'll win! he'll win!” the other man was saying exultantly. “Itook 10to 1 about him.” Then something crept up on Zigzag— crept up until the horses were lapped head and head. The glasses showed the white jacket and red cap of the Jagnat’s stable. “Simpkin is coming now!” went up a ery from many threats—the throats of the many who had backed him when the tp Was spread about. At the half-mile Simpkin’s Arab head showed fn front. The two were a clear length in front of the field. ‘he stand was wild with delight, Simpkin had started favorite, “ueet for Over on the horses Johnson and Dick Were riding so close together that they could speak in short, gasping words as the wind cut at their breath, Three furlongs from home they were to- gether, nose and ncse—Simpkin had drop- ped back a head. Johnson could hear somethin on them from behind. se “Go on, Dick!” he gasped. and let you up next the rail. “I can't,” answered Dick, can't go any faster; I'm done A great rage came into the heart of the captain. This was the “sure thing” they had put him on to, Beaten a quarter of & mile from the finish, and the others closing up on them; already a chestnut head was lapped on the quarters of Simpkin. Zigzag was still full of running, for his head. Slowly, chestnut was creeping Dick's girths now. “I’m done,” he heard Dick say again, and “Vl pull back helplessly. “I for.” fighting inch by inch, the up; his nose was at then he gripped the saddle with his knees and rede for Layton’s five thousand. A furlong fi home he was clear of | Simpkin, but uf chestnut was still there, | lapped on his qarters now, and beside the chestnut, on the outside, was an iron-gray, coming very fast, too. How he cursed the folly that had made him take so much out of Zigzag to make the running for Simpkin. If the gallant old horse would only last home the 5,000 rupees would pay his losses, In the stand the cry of “Zigzag wins!” went up, 2s the horses clung to each other up the straight., Layton was ging at his blonde mus- tache, and even Gaiety’s face was solemn and still as he realized what that struggle meant to the two of them—meant more to them than to ail the others in the stand to- gether. Not only the money, but henor— Hfe itself was at’stake. i ed past the stand. Zigzag’s head, with its wide red nostrils, was still in front. And so they caught the judge’s eye. The stout heart of the gallant horse and the cool head of the steel-nerved rider had won the race that was ali but thrown away. _— IN THE CHURCHES The approaching celebration of the 200th anniversary of the founding of the Second Presbyterian Church in America is a mat- ter of intense interest to hundreds of the members of that denomination in Washing- ton, despite the fact that the celebration is to occur in Philadelphia, and many per- sons, it is understeod, wtil go from this city to witness the imposing ceremonies which wiil mark the event. The church referred to is called the First Presbyterian Church- of Philadelphia, and for almost a hundred years has been re- garded as the first organized in the United States; but from evidence discovered in the early part of the century, to the Rev. Fran- cis Makemie is accorded the honor of being the first Presbyterian minister in this coun- try and to have founded the first church. He was a native of Donegal county, Ire- 1and, educated at one of the Scottish uni- d was licensed and ordained by presbytery of Laggan, with his coming to America in response te peal for ministerial help which had sent for to that fo from Maryland. Shortly after his ordination, the date of whic not known, ume to this coun- try and settled in Maryland, where he organized the church in Snow Hill, which preceded the one in Philadelphia. Mr. Mak- emic went from place to place as an itiner- ant missionary, extending his journeys into the neighboring colonies in Virginia and as far south as South Carolina. Very little is known of the First Presby- terian Church in Philadelphia. It is not known at what precise time it was organ- ized, and thi ure no early records in the church of its history. Dr. Mease’s “Picture of Pi states that in the autumn ve J. AL (Ses jah Andrews, pastor) came from New England to Philadelphia and aft iS dent minister. ‘The ind o denominated sbyterians, had by this time increased in number. |The con- Sregation at this time was principally eom- posed of emigrants from Scotland, England and Ireland. Under the influence of Mr. Andrews they became Presbyterians and lop that mode of church govern- sndents, Who Were ment. A prominent chureh worker, in of organization of the Pre: jan Church in this country and Andrews were the two n who formed the plan of r presbytery and crganizing the Presby Chureh in ove! Pr resp Makemie was dec fis sation and preference, : Figid Scotch school. Andrew educ i by their influence ical brethren th byterian in but not.of tl st The Congregationalism « independency, or the gov congregation ‘by its ow affairs in’ connectio hood, connection nristl ¥. The Camt ridge platform admitted the offich of ruling cllers in the churen, and most’of the churches In that made use of doubtful ¢ day was not rrment of each officers, governing With the brotie with any r w n « spotation with many, and not being so clear\y proved from Scripture as some oth points, the church was left at liberty to use this office or not, thought “ddvisable.” ‘before the year 1698 they had ciated for public worship. or ether they were then organised as ccngregation: or a ¢hurch, cannot be ¢ termined. ‘Thetr fi Phe Ip was uilding on the northwest corner nd Chestnut wn as the does wareho It belonged to arbade 8 Trading Company, and had been usec 1 place for the storage and sale of me but had been aban- ned on account of reverses which came on the It w: he frame ch the southeast corner of F streets that the first pri was constituted, in 171 larged house urch building at Sank and Market ytery in Ameri or 1706. continued to b hip until 1792, when it w by a more beautiful and sp erected partly on the old mentioned — building, guished for it jons nd tuty continued to wership until it iT e, from the the place of 1 to be un- De 0 it was insuffi- ently firm, and from th at fact there were already some fractu the ceiling. The n located h aving be- come almost tirely a busi ‘3 part of the and being remote fr m th of many of the ec ngre; to remove the pre: ton square. place where Th made in he Rev. George Davidson Baker, D. D., the present pastor, is well known in Wash. ington. He was born in Watertown, N. Y., November uduated from the Universit w York in 1860, and in 1s from Prince logical Seminary From 1863 to 1864 he supplied th Irairard Presbyterian Church, aston, Pa. and the Seventh Chureh, Cincinnati Ohio. He was ordained and instalied tor of the Second Church, Watertown, N. Y., in June, 1864. In October, 1867, he called to the Chureh at Oneida, N! Y- nstalled in November of that year. He was installed pastor of the First Church, Detroit, in October, 1871. He remained there until December, 1884, when he re- ceived a call to the First Church of this ity. He installed pastor January, been a commissioner assemblies, and in at he ¥ prominently spoken of for the position of moderator. At the Washington, D. C., assembly of when the Briggs trial was taken up, S chairman of the judicial committee. He is president of the Presbyterian board of education and of the Chri: n League, 1 a director in Princeton Seminary. He eived the degree of D.D. from Olivet College during his pastorate in Detroit. Gen, Thomas J. Morgan, formerly of this city, who earned distinction in the civil war, has becu United States commissioner of Indian affairs and is now secretary of the American Baptist Home Mission So- cisty, urges that our national government, through its commissioner of education, take immediat> steps to cover Cuba with @ complete public school system. He points out the wisdom of selecting such a man as Dr. S., Draper of the University of Ilinois—ysing,, Judge Draper's name simply to make clear his meaning—to go to Cuba and,supervise th> entire work. Such a mane Says Gen. Morgan, “solely because he Knows how, can do in a year what the Cubans‘tannot themselves do in twenty-five Years,-if at all. And if it is now organiz3d, ag, quickly as possible, such a system wil} remain. Without education for the common people there is little hope for Cuba. With“it there is great hope. Of course, there Bre to be church educa- tional plans, but:Cuba needs the public 2ducational plan, the best plan, made up of good poinis oug. of Michigan, Iowa and Massachusetts’. syStems, for example. I hope some Way Will be found to act, and that without a ntdment’s delay.” The Young Men's Christian Association, through its ,intemmational committee, has already taney preliminary steps to open in Havana an international association h>ad- quarters. Investigations are under way to jearn whether it must be supported in- definitely from outside sources. If the former prove to.be the outlook, the intar- national committee announces’ its inten- Uon of establishing an essociation in Ha- vana just as soon as political conditions will warrant. It is proposed to begin in Havana, but associations will be planned for other cities if lccal support can‘be had. The condition cf young men of the batter class of the island is said to be such that imperative need for such an ag2ncy as a Christian Association exists. The army .and-navy Christian commis- sion is taking steps to gather into the churches those. soldiers who gave their names to th2 secretaries in Camp Alger and elsewhere as being desirous of leading Christian lives in the future. No estimate can be made of the number, but it is known to run into the thousands. Around each teat in tha various camps there was organized Christian asscciations similar to ‘nose in ali our citjes, the material being obtained in the regiments. It was found that a very considerable number of men enlisted in the war for th? sole purpose of doil.g evangelical and personal work among other enlisted men. Enough of these were jable in many regiments to form local associations. Thase men kept the names and the home addresses of the men who had made the new resolve. In most cases these names were given to the regimental chaplain, and it has now been found out that in almost every case the chaplains have, with all of their other duties, found time to communicate with hom> and pus- ters and put them into communication with men who may be persuaded to become identified with a church organization. Friends in this city of Mr. iswight L. Moo; the great evangelist, ve received information that the pian is again brougat forward of building in New York a great institutio: church for him. This has been discussed for the last two years, and one man has been invited to give one of his millions toward the project. Mr. Moody is known to favor the plan, not to become his bermazent field of labor, but to be » center fer the evangelical erforts of the whole ountry, under Mr. Moody’s airection. ‘rhe New York plan is revived at tnis time through the efforts of Brcoklyn to erect such church. An erroneous impression has been given concerning the brookiyn undertaking, Unat beng in reality nothing more than a suitable piace for Moody meetings and others simi The aim would be, w such ceate foutided, to bring famous preacaers front Bible instruction om ale, to get together chorus and to make an ngelical ch would ghout the whole coun abroad, to proviue for large 5 S While ir Washington recently Archsishop Ireland was interviewed by a Iriend on the t of the probability of the arising nsions in church matters in our nj sions, and the eminent divine is to have said: ef The chu:ch question in our new session offers no difficulty whatever. Two principles are already settled by the Con- stitution and laws cf America. il There w be no union of church and state, such a established in certain Cathoiie coun Europe. There wil be a comp! tection of all properties and of ith such princ s Cuthe United States are satisfied, and Catholic. in our new be satsted. The so jon need not be consid: sions. g flag ot this country is raised tory. The people cf our new pos: : am sure understand the matter ver well, and will loyally accept the situation. -It may not be very casy for them at nrst to adapt themselves in all cases his situ- ation, but the embarrassments felt will be but temporary. ‘The people will soon real- ize that it 1s tneir duty to support religion by voluntary and personal contrib Certain people who talk of t Ler} as fields for missionary effor:s from the United States do not know what they are talking about. They might w sense Organize missions tor the of the Catholics of Washington as for conversion of the Catholics of Santi: Havana, or San Juan, and their | would have as much prospect of si 5 in Washington as in those cities of Cuba to Rico. the go as Metropolitan, and suffragan bish at San Juan and Havana. The prov. will take its place in the Americ hierarchy, just as do the provinces of Bal- timore and that of St. Paul, making the fifteenth jastical province in the United States, and bringing to our Catholi population an addition of two and one-half millions—not to ta the PB So whate to from the late war ‘able ease of numbers and power will come from it to the Catholic ch tath- olic, Lam very much hings have been going , Lam, of course, thorou t if I were to sp lings as an American, would be too lengthy, and the religious feature of t “The Peace Proposal of the Czar of Rus- will be the topic for the ing ser at Wesley Cha and F streets northwest, Heisse, pastor. ———— PORTO RICAN NATIVES. They Are Hard Working and Have a Charming Personality. From the Independent. The personality of the Porto Rican ts a very charming one. Generations of ill treat- ment have developed in them a patient res- ignation which has about it nothing of cow ardice. Even now, with liberty within grasp, nothing is heard of recrimination, and none will be practiced. The same hos- pitality will be offered to the Spaniard a: to other nations, and that hospitality proverbial. The social life of the cities is identical with that of most all other tropical Span- ish-American countries. The mass, in the cool of the morning, which it is to be fe Bious thoughts are not the only cnes ch fill the heads of the youths of both the retreat after sundown, Where slim-waisted, dainty senoritas glide up and down the plaza to the sound of a fine military band; shopping aslight which deve 2 between buyer and 4 heart of thi sex, and an oc ball at the captain general's palace, costumes may be seen which deniable stamp of Rou de is » and faces which have a beauty which is at once teuching and enchanting, Small features, large, black, lustrous eyes, and perfect oval outlines make the criolla a distinct im- provement on the sensual-faced Spanish woman, and she is of more refined instincts and gentler disposition: As mothers they are unexcelled, and literaHy sacrifice them- selves for the welfare of their children. The capital, San Juan, being the seat of gov- ernment, is, of course, the social center, while Ponce is commercially of more im- portance and is of more modern construc- tion and advanced ideas. A visit to the rural districts introduces us to a class of peasantry ground down by un- just taxation. Living in a hut constructed of palm branches thatched with palm leaves, his only clothing a cotton duck suit from the New England looms, and sur- rounded by a numerous family, usually in a state of nature, as he passes his day work- ing in his patch or corn or sugar cane and his evenings dancing the native danzas to the sound of the guiro and tipple. He can neither read nor write, and has not the fa- cilities afforded him for learning to do so; end knows our country only by the dried fish and rice it sends him for his consump- tion. His bete noir is the Spanish civil guard, who patrol the country in mounted pairs, and whose boast is that they never bring in a prisoner alive. He pays direct tax to the government in the form of im- puesto territorial, or assessment on the value of his farm, and the cedula, or in- ternal passport; and it has been stated that these taxes amount to about 60 per cent of his net income. But he is ready for eman- cipation, and, when educated, will prove a valuable and law-abiding citizen. The Elephant: From Outing. ew more impressive confidences can be imparted than one in which a Hindoo describes how he knows his elephant in- tends to destroy him. It is all so seem- ingly trivial, aud yet in reality of such deadly significance. His story is so full of details that prove the man’s profound understanding of what he is talking about that one remains equally amazed at the brute’s power to dissemble, and its intend- ed victim's insight into this would-be mur- derer’s character. And yet, from the psychological standpoint, an elephant never gives any other such indication of mental power as is exhibited in its revenge. That patient, watchful, implacable hatred often provoked simply because a man is in at- tendance upon another animal (for it is the rule with tuskers to detest their next neighbors) speaks more conclusively of a high intellectual guide than all stories, true of false, that have been told of their abil- ity. Such concentration and fixedness of purpose, such careful, unrelaxed vigilance, such perfect and corsistent pretense, and, when the time comes, such desperate, un- hesitating energy as homicidal animals ex- hibit, are impossible without a very con- siderable, although in this instance very irregular, development. No one can deny that if this creature is great at all its greatness shows itself in its crimes. These have caused it to be worshipped in the east, where men vener- ate nothing but merciless, irresponsible force, and where an exhibition of those qualities and’ traits described fully ac- counts for the formula, “My Lord the Ele- phant.” of | WILHELMINA’'S LAND Some-of the Delights of Traveling Through Holland. PICTURESQUE SIGHTS ON ALL SIDES eee ees Sailing Leisurely Along the Quaint Old Canals. OF THE —_—--~- TRAITS PEOPLE Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. ROTTERDAM, September 4, 1898, T KS WELL TO travel slowly in the land of Wilhelmina, to steep oneself in all that sober luxury and atmosphere of self-respect which wraps the little land of Holland round as snugly as a quilt tucked round oa baby’s crib. From Antwerp on to Rot- te m is not th hours by rail, but on ttle steamer that crawls through the creeks, canals full and lakes of Z a Withelmina will not he crowned eptember 6, and two days more will sive ux ample time to travel sixty miles to Amsterdam. ‘The steamer starts at 3 a.m., In the cold half dawn, with all the Antwerp stretch of river lights burning an orange yellow in the blue-gray air. After two hours of tonic shivering you say good morning to the sun across a flat and fertile land, a big red un w you may look at without blink- ing. There is a mighty river flowing full and broad between low banks with scat- tered t You glide into canals lined the water's edge wiih grass and butterevy » groups of fishers of the Dutch Re- d persuasion in the strangest “pa stand chatting with the keepe lecks and drinking healths in Schiedam scbn: The “pants” bloomers, full ing, the humorists wear with but hats or r, high silk wear bomb-s n embroic casquettes of satin black silk. The captain promised bi minutes. It has been an hour : five venty minutes. The second cabin p: ar drinking gin. The captain says the break- ly waits to ha the milk come on > next stop. Visions of Dutch Girls. The boat is still in a canal between high banks, which give no lan but thrust on the view, without reserve, the ankles of the village girls who stand along the edg and look down thoughtfully while knitting. y bell-sha Their skirt village and then wheels and ly and a ars there is nothing more. The awls through imp > locks a dams. ed. The the canal, There i anothe tch girl standing on the ban! above our heads, a Dutch girl in a white rehed @ cap, cream-colored ker- hief crc upon her breastti with black bodice, a blue skirt, blue cotton ings and cute wooden shoe: nothing m The boat is in a nartow river once again, with scenery green and clean, with effects of light in this 1 sionistie hazes and impr ‘ock- And there is t color—near omi village. trim and picturesqu: re more vil lage girls, the milk blush-rose blondes air immacu- They look so solid, tight and th of Zeeland, with their silky lately clean. tidy, do these little Dutch-esses, in stiff bodices. Where Thousands Drowned. Out in the open Ooester-skelt, three miles across, the yellow-brownish water scorcely marks itself against the banks of yellow- green low dykes, with long, long lines of various tre » roots help to hold *he soil together. w there are continually these long lines of trees that nd like regiments to defeat the floods of the en- eroaching sea. It is the Verdronken'and, where thousands perished— nd towns and all the country: when a dyke burst. There is a and thea the little steamer quits the sub- Givisions of the Schelde, meanders throu the mazes of the Meas. comes through Krammer and the Voikerak to the wi Hollandsch Diep, which has rough water and looks almost like the this bay was land; but long ago, tidal wave wiped’ out 2 hundred mar towns and villages, and upward of 100,000 People perished. Then soon it is the little a narrow river (where Orange drowned in 1711), broad an dmilis of the he pe and the busy villages proclaim the land of Hol- land one has read of. A Religious Memory. Dort, or Dortrecht, fs the first fine town, which ought to be held in peculiar rever- ence by the publishers of the Westminster son Leaf, which, being founded on the tminsier catechism, has its remote and ultimate foundation in the decisions of the famous Dortreche synod, held in 19. It is the cleanest land in the whole world. The very cows look to have been scrubbed down with bath toweling till they shine. The sloping stone dykes seem to have been Tiled roots of soft red rise up lke amid the foliage of the trees. Thatched roofs of a dove tint go sloping down close to the ground, as if they would slip off the cozy houses, like the dove-col- ored shawl slips off the shoulders of a Quaker girlaf there be any left who wear dove-colored shawls. Here there are v lages that do not know the railway, and thelr daughters do not know the modern fashions, changing monthly. Here a vil- lage girl buys one fine gown, and it will last her fifteen years! Yet these giris do not spare expense on their fine gowns. They have real linen and real lace, and fine silk stockings if they care to wear them, and each girl ha: gold helmet, which is worth from $0) S00. a to Their Gold Hemlets. This helmet is a thin and supple shell of gold, which snugly fits the head. Some- times it is scoop-shaped, to allow the back hair to be coiled into a knot. Sometimes the back hair hangs below the helmet in another kind of knot. Sometimes :hey plait their back hair in two long pigta‘ls, which hang down before the ears on each side of the face. But the gold helmet must always be there. though it be only seer to shimmer in the sunlight through the meshes of a kind of nightcap, also fitting snugly, which may be of linen or of lace, having ruffles. Each girl has her gold helmet, even those who come to service up in Rotterda: though when they grow sophisticated, cit fied and shamefaced, they first put city bonnets over their gold helmets and white nightcaps, and then, later on, lock up their caps and helmets in their bureau drawers, and take to smart pink cotton prints for gowns, and wear coquettish ruffies on their heads, pretended caps of gauzy tulle, for all the world like London chambermaigs. These helmets, horned on each side of the forehead with long twisted prongs of gold, and dating in the history of costume down to the times when the Germanic tribes were struggling with the Romans, are, to- gether with the bomb-shaned skirts and their accessories, soon bound to disappear and figure only, like the peasant costumes of the north of France, in charity bazaars, on city girls instead of country girls, who are abandoning them for flimsy trash three years behind the current styles. The air is sultry, like a gentle steaming, in the laboring noonday sun. Clouds above clouds around the whole horizon meet at the zenith like a dome. There is no end of peaceful hamlets, pretty, tid; busy; the distant music of the sawmil comes like the humming of the bees around a hive, and the great windmill fans go round and round azd round! The river widens and the windmills and the sawmills give their place to shipping. ! Then the squat spires of a city full of little, iraruistic churches show themselves, and we approach the seventh commercial port of Europ». Puritan Daughters. From boozy Belgian Artwerp to schnaps- drinking Dutch Rot am is all th dis- tance from the continent frivolity to our own Anglo-Saxon respectability. The wn is Puritan. The giris look at you with straight eyes, as innocent lamt they jare not like French or Belgian girls, out j walking with their mamas, casting down their eyes tmmodestly. All that kind of thing is left behind In speaking of the handsome quays they call the boompjes—more like parks than sectioas of an ordinary water front—the e book tells t “visitors may enter vessels without « » not get in the wa We did not enter and in- n well believe we might have did walk innocentiy into th atic club of with the smart of our position nad were m: only when we ordered curacao and bitters from a waiter in blue br feloth and a yellow vest. who explained to us he might - In a word, the hotels and restaurants ke y for butter, in- de Your morning cx with your roc rent; the » streets: young walk will ne See a ror a man nan with dirty or 4 clothes. Th town is Puritan! general knowledge of the Eng ish lan- is remarkable, as also is th p Dutch to ish, which inp: it. n Nummer 71” enough, pnelen pears While such words “begin” ph seem to wink at fami © foreign gibberish. When you the frequent puzz ing as the valu t will not be fou 1 “Wij leven vrij, nd's ew ether and Fishing From the Windows, Rotterdam is so airy, open, bright, so shady and well watered, that its citizens ma afford to sing about their blithe- ‘anals are everywhere, and th 1s are beautiful. They give a park-I lock to all the streets, bordered by lawns, shrubs and tre And the n eut their kitchen or their parlor windo dinner, t jon, whic when they have c fresh fish in ¢’ a an element ety to hospitality, It is true t k midsummer the canals of Rotter ther of the Mly nor the r “ 5 jam but does not always smell of the 5 nor Piiladelphia, to which city I re this town of dig and lelsu aid a list be made of c nenta s have no great sights—no mor: nts, no tuins, x n a word, no Imill tour town of Rotter- am would { honor in it, hough she a maritime m um a pic and a statue of Erasmu: Rotterdam is not iguing. Just Like the Paintings. In the markets you ¢ the bodices and headg. n make a study ar of the 5 sants, Catching the Duteh t for still life, you may muse on symphonies of color in. the heaps of produce. Here are the stalis, Where all the shades of white—silver-white, blue-white, white shaded with bronze green, white with meta reflections—unite a clear s of hi all the tints of 5 in the veg tables, melodiously mpanied by the fra- g1ance of the flowers, which sing t h the fruits tones. The picture g: os, n the most diverse is not s y Sow Suckiing e Good Kitchen A e and a Glass of Win 1, ntleman Offering an Oyster to a Lady: nd is good, healthy, digestiie art. Every knows what the pictures mean. It is like Rotterdam, this Dutch art of a bygone and, snug, hearty, healthy, savory 5 H s come out to streets and house fronts every morning as the hour strikes eight. They have great squirts to send the water hich they have great meps to reach euch 1 corner. First they scrub the win then the house front, then th The first day we thought done in honor of the Wilhelmina. But it appears they do it ¢ ery day. To eat well, p well and clean are the chief virtues in the minds of Wilhelmina’s subjects was being ation of fair RLING HEILIG. TYPHOID. Some Facts About It and How the Disease ix Spread. From the Youth's Compr nion. Typhoid fever is generally regarded at the present day, along with and some other dissases, as belonging to the ‘ater-borne” affections. In other words, is believed that the germs of such di es are carried, and perhaps projagated, water. There is littl: doubt th in theory of typhoid fever is correct, and that this in tracing any extended epic e to its source we must first of all exam- ine into the condition of the water sup Drinking water has been proved to be ti cause of the spread of typhoid fever in many epidemics in this country and Eng- land; but there is little comfort in this for those who habitually drink sirong2r than water, because, during an epidemic the drinking water m. be made safe by boiling, this is not enough, If the water is contaminated the germs may be introduced into the bedy while brushing the te2th or washing the face. Ur again, salads and fruits which are eaten Taw may be contaminated the water in which they are washed. Typhoid fever has sometimes been spread in city whos: wa- ter supply was above reproach by means of milk or ice. Mik need not be watered in order to be- come a vehicls for typhoid germs; the germs may be introduced into cans and b ee tles while these are being hed in water drawn from a contaminated well or brook at the dairy. Although destroyed by boil- ing, typheid germs will resist a freezing temperature for a long time, and have been found fn ice cut from a pond poisoned with sewage containing the bacilli of this dis- ease. Another means of the spread of typhoid has racently been discovered in Oystermen frequently place brackish water rear the mouth of or river in order to fatten them before they are brought to market. If this place hap- pens to be near the mouth of a sewer con- taining typhoid poison, or if the creck wa- ter be contaminated, the oysters will take the virus within their shells, and so revenge themselves on those who eat them raw. In some puzzling cases of typhoid it has been supposed that the food was Infected by flies, which had carried th: germs a long distance on their feet—a strong argument for the proper care of food in the fly sea- scn. These are only a few of the ways in which this disease may b2 spread, but they are enough to show that, so far from feeling surprise that the disorder should be so com- mon, we may rather wonder that we are not all its victims. se eine ee Freaks of the Mauser. m the New York Commercial Advertiser. “Those Mauser bullets did some mighty queer thing: said a wounded soldier the other day. ‘As long as they were flying through the air they went straight enough, but when one struck a man’s body there was no telling what it would do. Some times it wovid be straight through him, bones and all, and no zipping on to plug some poor fellow half a mile away perhaps. And then again it might chase around in- side him like 2 hen with her head cut off. “I saw a man who was hit in the right eye by a Mauser. The ball, instead of lodging in his brain, went through his tem- ple and down the side of his face in front of his ear, just under the skin. It Rept on under his skin, leaving a red track all the way, went down the side of neck, over his shoulder and down his back. Near his waist it came out. The man's getting well. Another man was shot in the left breast. The ball went through his chest, turned down, went through his liver, ploughed its way through the muacies of his right thigh and come out near his rignt knee. It's mighty queer the way those balls go sometimes. I suppose they hit bones-and glance, but that won't account for it always. Another queer thing is that most all the men were hit between the <a and the knee, The Spanish fired