Evening Star Newspaper, April 14, 1900, Page 26

28 THE CHORAL SOCIETY ge ered Sketch of the Largest Local Musical Organization. MANY WORKS PUBLICLY PRESENTED —_.-__. New Features Introduced During the Present Season. —--+-—_——_ THE. EVENING STAR, SATUKWAY, APRIL 14, 1900-26 PAGES, cause of the smallest audience to which the society has ever sung, and the same er of Gounod’s “Redemption” and Dudiey Buck's “Light of Asia.” This work given its first production by the so- . rather curiously, it was in the f objection by the composer, made tT the work had been some time In re- ausé given without orchestra. a performance on May 1, iven, and the composer t the performance, y¥ Orchestra assisting. there have been perform- ‘s “Samson and De- “Hymn of Praise,” ariner,” Bridge's “Creation,” Barnby's 1890, all was came on him: in lesser form by Mozart, chumann, te and others. rulties In the management of MUSICAL DIRECTOR has been of ashing’ at- the n’s he oldest. of the anima- terizes all the depart- ment, resulting in t certs and in > number of its support- nancial stability. in its cor members! fixed are not in W the succes: vement also f > tenor, usuail been materially s with the bass being the best part. have always had the but the last et_ preponder- past been cond basis, in able e deficiencie the favorable concerts and lecture Mr. Jobn Porter Lawrence. dy given makes {ft practically ors can be told at 1S was done the of their a of be- ‘alr Way © New Features. 4 the 1 carried rk sight-singing se have been held all the se venings at Sheldon’s Ha Kirkpatrick of Trin i, both for be students, de- e art of reading so much help musical art in the nation eneral knowledge of sight-singing. can be read like a printed page ly learning of all ‘¥ performance. ¥ now stands; but this for- Was not reached without This fs its seventeenth xt concert its fifty- t is count where the Hl in a formative stage, . where the population ts al- very striking tribute to Origin of the Society. originated with Mrs. who was at that time the figure in Washington's cert was on Feb- She was y assisted by m, whose untimely death loca] musical interests. © was the much- Sherman he Temained at led him to f 1809- for only one ud death in » members of the well) , Mrs. . Mrs. H chorus at Dr. John . ac » the society mstant In at- Wilson w ven con- is "M re num- n_given 3 Dyorak’s of B s “Arm: tre's Bride, an “Eiljah,” Berlloz’s “Damnation One of these in Baltimore, Faust.” shington ar2 numer- Mr. Jonef Kaspar. The many social attractions make r attenlance at rehearsals very alffi- while the shifting nature of our popu- ion pre the permanence of mem- bership which other cities can more easily absence ¢ very the Congre > educat d the > for the wh: . The onal Church, work of the so- f their audi- ble pla 2m and organ, thus enabling the con- certs to be given for veral ars past when otherwise they would have been of. nece doned for want of a place. As at eight of the Jast nine performances the house has been entirely sold out, the in- dicat are now very plain that public support would be given to a much larger r auditorium, and conse- ts, would enable the be developed i but replied that he thought ing enough rv hington. public will doubtle: gree with him in this and press the r no further. The most promising prospect for a new hall now is with e D. A. and the society hopes when such h built to dedicat= it with some sultab! 1 work. Few are ‘are of the expenses incident to the work of such a society. Beside the st of advertising and auditorium h concert, which the public is apt to S the total cost, the society has to the rent of a rehe ry the salary of the director and accom- , printing. music and postage, and incident ‘These foot up so consid- y that it fs found that the actual cost society of its own share of the gen- in preparing each concert, fc regard meet to the eral ex omitting t s and other special ex= pens-s, When the soloists cost from $3) to $700 for each concert it is Seen that very close calculation ts nec to avoid an annual deficit when the ipts are limited to the capacity of an ating only a few over 1,000. t during the last two years this has accomplished, and a small surplus has din the treasury after each sea- rk. The Board of Managers. This has been due to the very careful business management of the affairs of the ty by the board of managers, and par- been rem = Wi by the chief financial officers Prof. H. M. Paul, U. $. N., and Stas Meade. The former has been ncial secretary for two rs, and be- that served for an equal term as pres- t. When he umed office he found a bt of about $1,500 on the society sult of a season of too great libe expenditure, without adequate public sup- port. He secured contributions from the music lovers of the city, including one of the re- ality of $250 from Mrs. Hearst, sufficient to place the debt within figures which could be ed carried. Plans were then adopted lo reduce expenditures and cepts, which proved so suc last of the old debts was p ber. is increase re- ‘sful that the id last Decem- The president for the last two years Wm. Bruce King, whose interest in al affairs is well known. Assuming office after two years of Prof. Paul's ad- ministration, the financial burdens were not serious, and tt has been possibie to give the chief attention to the artistic alms of the society. The treasurer, Mr. Meade, {s one of the oldest in service among the members of the society, and one of the most active in seeking its welfare. No one but he knows how many times the credit of the soclety was protected at the cost of his own private resources. He 1s a member of St Patrick's choir. The vice president is Mr. Bernard R. Green, the superintendent of the congressional Mbrary building, and one of the regular supporters of all musical enterprises. Miss Amy C. Leavitt has been a member of the board of managers for many years and has devoted many hours of Jabor to its work. Being an a complished pianist, it is her lot to preside at the ex- amination of all new works proposed for the concerts. Mrs. John D. Patten {s the latest new member and a most valuable acquisition to the board, as her wide read- ing in musical literature fits her especially for the preparation of the y critical and descriptive for the Bulletin and the programs... The other members of the board are Mr. Thos. P. Woodward, president of the W: shington Title Company; Mr. Armand Gumprecht, nist at St. Patrick’s Church Secretary papers requir Edwin A. Hill and Librarian R. M. McKee, beth of the patent office; Mess s Pollard of the National um and G Abbot of the Smithsonian nting the scientific in- , and Mrs. Chas. G. Hert- ‘s Marte Kuhnel and Miss Lillian A. Norton. Its Musical Director. The musical director, Mr. Kaspar, has the best of all qualities in a choral director, un- limited Industry. He combines with this rare patience in instructions, an extremely quick ear and a very thorough understand- ing of the dramatic meaning ‘of the music. It is a striking characteristic of his work that he {s not content with simple accur- acy, but Insists on, and secures, the higher musical qualities of shading and phrasing. He Is ably seconded by Mr. John Porter Lawrence, who presides at the piano at all rehearsals and plays all accompaniments at the concerts. Having no orchestra the so- ciety is fortunate in having an accompanist who can supply this need by his skill at the organ. At the present time the soclety ts hard at work every Monday evening at Carroll Institute Hall, 10th Street below K, pre- paring for the coming concert on April 27, designed to contrast the development of the two schools of operatic music, the Ger- man and Italian. Friends of the soctety welcomed at the rehearsals. Five se- will be sung from each school, in- sg such larg f the first act of Verdi's finale to Wagner's “Meistersinger.” will present also the very celebrated by Dontzett!, and the quintet from Anu urray of soloists will be pre- sented. including Miss Sara Anderson, one of the leading concert sopranos of the day; Miss Mary Helen » Who has had a wide operatic expe Miss Bond, one of the most promi pung altos; Mr. Charles A. Katser, si solo tenor at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York; Mr. W. D. McFarland of this city, Mr. Julan memurable be- | Walker, baritone, of New York: Mr. Myron W. Whitney, jr., his distinguished father's successor, and Mr. Bernard A. Ryan of Washington, and one of the leading mem- bers of the soctety. All indications point to @ very brilliant concert, RACING BULLOCKs. A VISIT TO ILOILO Many Strange Sights One Sees in the Visayan Metropolis, WAS BURNED BY THE INSURGENTS A People With Few Wants and Most Primitive Customs. THEIR FARMS AND HOMES _——— Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. (Copyrighted, 1900, by Frank G. Carpenter.) ILOILO, February 20, 1900. Nloilo, which is pronounced as though it were spelled Elo-Elo, with the accent on the E's, is the second city of the Philip- pines. From the way the town has been treated in the Associated Press and cable dispatches of the war correspondents I supposed it was a large city. I had heard that it had all the way from thirty thous and to three hundred theusand inhabitants, and that it was the center of the sugar and hemp trade of the islands. It is the chief city of the middle fslands of the archi- pelago, the trade center of the Visayan group, and the capital of the Island of Panay, one of the largest and thriftiest of the Philippi Still it has, with its sur- rounding villages, not more than ten thous- and people, and the city proper does not cover as much ground as the county seat of an average Obio county. situated on both sides of the Hoilo . which is rather an arm of the sea than anything else. The ground about it is low and flat, running back behind the town for a distance of some twelve miles or more before the mountains begin. The har- bor is formed by the Iloilo strait, a strip of water about six miles wide, running be- tween the Island of Panay ‘and of Guimaras, furnishing a safe and deep an- chorage for ships. Millions of Cocoanut Trees. The lowlands above and below Moilo are covered with cocoanut groves, There are millious upon millions of trees walling the shores of the western side of the island, so close to the water that they seem to rise right up out of it, forming a stockade of white poles topped with green many miles long. Back of this stockade and ris- ing out of it as you approach the city you the spires and domes of churches and, later on, the wa'ls of a stone fort, and then the town Itself, a collection of low houses roofed with gray galvanized iron. The most of the houses are of white- washed stucco, a few of wood painted white or in light colors, and many are dilapidated and in ruins. ou see everywhere the desolation and destruction caused by the insurgents, When they evacuated the city they set fire to it, saying that most of the property belonged te the English and the Chinese, and to burn it would not injure the natives, who lived chiefly in the adjoining villages of Molo and Harrow. So they soaked everything with ccal ofl and ran from house to house with torches before they left. The work was well done, and nearly building of value was more or less . The schools and hospitals, as well as private dwellings and business property of all kinds, were fired, and in many cases burned to the ground. Some which had a first story of stone have since been rebuilt. The Condition of Panay. Similar burning has gone on in most parts af the Island of Panay, and although it ts nominally conquered it will be a long time before its peaceful ‘possession can be as- sured. The country {s full of bandits and thieves, and there are bands of guerrillas who are traveling from place to place mak- ing looting and robbery their business. These men do not respect the rights of property of the natives any more than those of the foreigners. They levy their contributions on all, perpetrating the most horrible murders and other crimes. Those who show any sympathy for us are singled out for death or torture, their houses are burned and their families murdered. Many of the natives would gladly adopt the American government and join with us were they not afraid of their lives, and such officials as are appointed by us have to be protected in the exercise of their offices. ‘This will necessitate the garrisoning of the island for a long time to come. Indeed, it seems to me that there will have to be a large American army kept in the Philip- pines for years in order to insure the progress and quiet which must be had if the islands are to be Americanized. Need Cavalry. I heard today from an old English rest- dent here what seems to me a very sensi- ble suggestion. This was that the chief roads of the island should be patrolled by cavalry. Five hundred men, properly mounted, could protect the main roads and crush every band as {it ecmes forth from the mountains. The insurgents are cow- ards and they will run ff attacked by a force of any size. With such protection the people could safely go on with their work on thelr plantations, and the banditti, confined to the mountains, would soon be starved out and disappear. One source of the robber bands comes from tho native soldiers who were employed in the Spanish army. There were about three thousand of these. When we took possession instead of making them part of our forces, as was, I am told, entirely feasible at the time, we discharged them and ordered them to go back to their homes. They had been serving some time and pre- ferred the trade of war to that of agricul- ture. They formed bands of guerrillas and since then have been working with the in- surgents and independently raising trouble everywhere. Match Head Cartridges. Panay, and especially Moilo, have been the centers of plotting and scheming against the Americans. All kinds of plots have been hatched up here and all sorts of means tried to smuggle in arms and am- munition. One of the most Ingenious de- vic2s was the Importing of ‘Japanese matches in order to use the heads for re- charging Mauser cartridges. Thirty mil- Mon boxes of these matches passed through the custom house here within a month be- fore our officials suspect2d what gas being done. It was then suggested that the na- tives could not use so many matches legiti- mately and it was discovered that they were cutting off the heads and using them for powdsr. A number of thelr cartridges so charged were captured and tested. It was found that the match heads had more explosive power than an equal amount of powder. They sent the balls forth with such force that they wer3 changed into slugs upon striking the sand, whereas the ordinary cartride, charged with powder, gave the balls a mushroom shape. Upon reducing the amount of match heads one- third the effect producsd was the same as that of the usual powder-charged cartridge. The insurgents had also refilled the old car- tridges with the ordinary amount of ful- minating powder. A Sample Outrage. Speaking of the terror inspired by the banditti, Incidents happen every week which show that it is well founded. Take, for in- stance, the case of a boy who was working about one of the camps in the neighboring Island of Cebu. He was a quiet little fel- low, very anxious to get something to do, and wanted cnly to be allowed to make a living. He was acting as a servant for one of our lieutenants, while his mother and sisters did washing for the soldiers, and his father was employed on odd jobs about the camp. He was warned that he should leave his p . but did not. A short time after this he disappeared for a week. of that Ume he returned, dre: shirt, with his throat bad gashed and torn and his fz blistered. Upon his forehead, tattooed in Dlack letters of indelible ink, were the Words ““Traidor a la Patria,” ‘and on his ghin, pricked in with the same ink, was “Amen.” The boy cried bitterly as he told his Story, begging the Americans to protect him and his father. He said he had been told by some of his acquaintance ‘that there was a party of Americans In the mountains who had sent for him. The men told him that If he would go with them they would guide him to the place. He Went. | On arriving at the foothills he found himself surrounded by a party of the in- surgents of his own town, including its former president. He was at once scized, and the president told him they had en- ticed him to that place to make an exd At the end d only ina iy cut, his arms ce scratched and greater part of the water used in this region is carried in this way. How the Girls Dive. But little water is used at the houses ex- cept for cooking and drinking. Every one goes to the well or the creek when he wishes a bath, and from the number of People I see bathing in every stream, I I judge that the people are cleanly. The Visayans are fond of paddling and playing in the water, and you see boys and girls of all ages, and even women and men, rolling about in the creeks and taking dives off the banks into the deeper pools. 1 saw a party of a dozen young girls ranging in age from 13 to 20 swimming In a pool out in the country near here the other day. They had on loose cotton, low-necked Mother Hubbards, which the water had glued as tightly to their plump bodies as the tradi- tional paper on the wall, and their brown necks, faces and bare feet shone out in contrast under this hot sun of the tropics. When I showed them my camera and told them I wanted to photograph them diving into the creek they laughingly consented and ran up the bank and jumped far out into the stream while I made snap shots of them. A little farther up the stream were sev- eral washwomen, the mothers, I suppose, of the maidens at bath. They were s ping the clothes on the stones of the creek, trying to pound the dirt out of them. Some were standing up to their waists In the water and rubbing the garments to and fro with their hands. After a piece was comparatively clean it was spread out upon the grass to dry, being bleached into ap- parent cleanline: by sprinkling it with water now and then. No Modern Wants. I am struck. with the few wants the Filipinos have. They use little that their own country does not supply. They do everything without machinery and In as crude a way as their forefathers did a century ago. They are today far behind the Chinese or the Japanese, although they have had the Spantards to teach them mod- ern Inventions. ‘The plows I see here are crooked sticks with pieces of iron fastened to them. They have but one handle, and as the plowman goes along with his goad and his buffalo you are reminded of the plowing of the days of the Scriptures. The harrow is in most cases more rude than the plo I have seen some which were merely sticks of bamboo with the branches broken off s from the stem so that they the teeth of the harrow E cks are laid parallel with one another in the shape of the ordinary American harrow and are thus dragged over the fields. They cannot do WATER BUCKETS OF THE PHILIPPINES, ple of him. This man then ordered that the boy be tied up and tattooed. He was plac With his back against a tree. His arms were tied above the elbows with ropes and he was raised by these so that his feet were off the ground. Another rope was tied about his neck, binding it tight to the trunk of the tree, and a third around his for head. In this position he could not mov his head, and so tied the tattooing was done. He was left for a time on the tree, with the sun beating down upon him, and with the cords cutting into the flesh of his arms and neck. When he was taken down he was toid that he must stay with the band and warned that if he attempted to escape they would not only recapture and kill him, but would also kill his father. He ran aw that night, but since then his father has mysteriously. disappeared, and It Is believed that the insurgents have carried out their threat and killed him. I have heard of other instances of killing and torture both here and in Luzon, in- stances which go to show that there are no more cruel and bloodthirsty people any- where than the Filipinos, Instances which show that they have the lowest ideas of life and civilization, and also that with all their so-called bravery they are really cowards at heart, who will only attack in the dark and when they know they are compara- tively safe. It would, I doubt not, be safe for ten or twelve Americans to travel al- most anywhere on this island, but one or two, if they went unarmed into some of the districts, would take their lives into their hands. Here in Tloflo every one seems kindly disposed, and you would not suppose that there was anything like war going on. Country Scenes in Panay. I made an excursion with Lieut. Van De- man of Gen. Hughes’ staff out into the country near Iloilo yesterday. Very little of the region near here has yet been opened up, but we found the people at work in their flelds and I had a chance to see some- thing of rural life in this strange part of our new possessions. The houses are much like the country houses of Luzon. They are thatched huts built high up upon posts, with a place under each hut for the chick- ens and pig, and also for the farming tools, if the owner 4s so fortunate as to possess any. Most of the houses are near tue roads, but some are off in cocoanut groves at the sides. The people live in most cases high up and the average hut ts reached by @ ladder of bamboo poles. The ladders slope upward at an angle of about 45 de- grees. They usually consist of heavy side Pleces and rungs about as big around as your arm and as long as the width of the door. On the rungs the women and chil- dren sit in the evening as our people do on thelr front door steps, and quite small babies are to be seen thus balancing them- selves and crawling up and down. Tho floors of the houses are usually of bamboo sticks split in half, with the curv- ed side upward. There are cracks be- tween the strips, so that the average housewife does not need to sweep, for the dirt falls through the floor. These houses have no windows. Holes in the walls about a yard square take their places. Sometimes there {3 a thatched shutter which may be fitted into the hole in time of rain, and in some cases there are doors of thatch which may close the opening reached by the stair ladder, but often there are neithes windows nor doors. This you see, relieves the Filipina of many of the troubles of the American housewife. She has no windows to wash, no floors to Sweep and no doors which keep fiying open. She has no trouble about her stove drawing, for she has no stove in our sense of the word. She cooks on a box of ashes or in a little clay pot, using some chips or sticks for fuel. In most cases, remem- ber, Iam speaking of the poor. There are no knives and forks to wash, for the peo- ple eat with their fingers, dipping into the common bowl of rice about which they squat and conveying the stuff from it di- rectly to their mouths, There are but few cooking utensila to clean and wash day has no terrors for the husband, because the clothes are usually faken to the well or the nearest stream &nd@ the dirt pounded out with the hand or by slapping the gar- ments upon the stone, Queer Water Buckets. What would you think of sending your daughter to the well with a water bucket taller than herself. I saw hundreds of girls carrying buckets of that length this after- noon. They were trudging along the road with them from the springs, wells and streams to their homes, and stranger still, most of them were carrying their buckets over their shoulders, just as you would carry a pole. The Visayan water bucket is from three to six feet deep and only about three or four inches in diameter. It is merely a stick of bamboo, with the joints removed, except at the bottom, forming a wooden pipe of the above dimensions, The water carrier takes it over her shoulder to the stream and usually wades out far enough into the water to enable her to fill it by laying it down at an angle of forty- five degrees or less, or by sinking it. ‘The more than ground. ‘The farm wason of the Philippines is a d which is dragged over the ficlds by buffaloes. In Luzon the sled has runn thing like the rudest of our Amer ges, but farther south you find only cks, with the ends cut off uch an angle that they serve the pur- ch the surface of the The rice threshing machine is a flail, or more often a mortar, in which the paddy or grains with the hulls on them are pu and pounded out by the women and ser- vants dropping heavy wooden pestles on them. During an excursion which I made into the country near Hoilo 1 saw many scaffolds of bamboo pole work, raised hich up in the air, and upon some of them men and women treading out the grain from the chaff. As the grain fell from the pl form to the ground the chaff was carr off by the wind. I visited a carriage factory. machinery whatever, 5 ess ant had no and its building was rude shed of bamboo. Nearby wise tou dry where axes were being made, The fur- nace was a clay barrel standing upright on the ground. It was not larger than a cider barrel, but from the molds standing about { could see that it must turn out a con- siderable product. The molds wers Mke waffle irons opening and shutting; they were lined with clay. Each mold had the imprint of an ax. The Trotting Bullocks of Panay. Here in Noflo bullocks take, to a large ex- tent, the places of horses and ponics. They are the riding and driving animals of the elty and its surroundings. They are used in carriages, carts and all sorts of vehicles, and they can make good timo when pushed. These trotting bulls are a cross of the sacred cows of the Hindoos with the cattle brought here from Australia. ‘They are not as large as the pure Hindoo animals, but they have pronounced huinys, and the same clean, well-formed limbs. They some- what resemble the Jergey, only they are much larger. They are harnessed 1: vith yokes and are driven with lines textes diers is done by them. They form the chief drays for the quartermasters, and are even employed as mail wagons. People Are Half Naked. As I go farther south I find the people wear less and less clothes, Out in the country districts you meet everywhere naked children. The women usually wear but a single garment, consisting of a low- cut Mother Hubbard gown, which is often remarkably short. The men are in many cases bare to the waist, and along the shore it 1s not uncommon to see full grown men Wearing nothing but breech cloths. Lit- tle boys go about in short shirts and bables sit astride thetr mother’s hips as naked as when they were born. It is in- deed a strange part of the animal show of Uncle Sam's great circus of this year 1900, and a part which will need considerable training before its members can take their places in the ring to do the great trick act of American citizenship. FRANK G. CARPENTER, ——.—__ How to Put on Gloves. Open and turn back the gloves to the thumb and powder lightly. Put the fingers in their places, not the thumb, and carefully work them cn with the first finger and thumb of the other hand until they are quite down; never press be- tween the fingers. Pass the thumb into its place with care and work on as the fingers. Turn back the glove and slide it over the hand and wrist, never pinching the kid, and work the glove into proper place by means of the lightest pressure, always allowing the kid to slide between the fingers. In finishing care should be taken in fast- ening the first button. ————~+e-. Harry P. Godwin. Gentle his heart yas As the light of the stars in June, And sparkling his mind As they; Filling the earth with a brightness Cheaging the soul, And sweet to sit under, Feeling its glow and its gladness; His were the words That encouraged; ‘His was the spirit ‘That led up from darkness Into the light, Into the sunshine of living; Never a shadow he cast ‘Until in his passing Out of the world He left tt gloomy without him; All that be was we remember; All that he is, God knows, And the angels. = = —W. J. LAMPTON. DIPLOMATIC CORPS Recent Departures for Other Posts and Arrivals Here. BARON GEVERS OF THE NETHERLANDS Sketch of the Representative From Queen Emma's Country. OPINIONS ON TIMELY TOPICS The diplomatic corps has undergone a number of changes within the past few months. The entire body regretted the con- templated retirement of Lord P: from the head of the British embs occurred at this tim family have been the recipients of many congratulatory di: and luncheons since the announcement that he is to re- main here, Mr. Jutaro Komura, the Jap- arese minister left this week for his new post at St. Petersburg, and Mr. Chin Pom Ye, the Corean envoy, has gone to the courts of Berlin and Vienna, A new Per- sian minister Is now on his way to this country and will re-establish the Persian legation, which has been closed for some years, The Portuguese, Ecuadorean, Argen- tine, Venezuelan and the Dominican lega tions are all in the care of charges d'affaire: while Bolivia and Siam have practically been unrepresented for more than a@ year, although they are still chronicled in the diplomatic list, but the business for these countries 1s transacted through thelr consulate offices in New York. Netherlands’ New, Envoy. The latest addition to the corps fs the new minister from the Netherlands, Baron Gevers, who arrived in Washington last month, and who has recent ablished himself, temporarily, at 1735 De Sales street. The country of Holland, or the Netherlands, was one of the first of the European countries to send a diplomatic representative to our young republic, near- ly one hundred y and the relations between the two countr! have never been broken off, although some of the newspa- pers have persisted in saying that the were broken at the time of the last min ‘kerlin’s) departure. This ake, however, as Minister Gevers appointment to the Washing- n immediately thereafter and v vented from coming then by sick- that he is not the first who has held his His f. therla until a mists received his ton mis: ne: r, was the on from 1851 envoy and tenure of the office mar- ried Katherine Wright, daughter of the late Igiited States Senator Wright of New Jersey. From here he was tra ferred to St burg. where in 1856 hi son was born. He remained in St. Pe burg until 1868, when he was sent to Lon- don, where he died in 1870. The Baroness ned to her home in an the universities of Holland and Germany. Afier hi ad n Baron Gevers en- tered the foreign off gue and received his first niment as an attache of the Dutch le n at Vienna in 18s0. From that time he was steadily promoted in th tas secre of le ure, where he stay as then unsferred to nsellor of lega- tion, where he ained for seven years, and where he filled his position so aceepta- bly that he was promoted in rank to min- nt and placed at the ad of the Dutch mat Berne, Switzerland. From 1896 to 1000 he w stationed at Servia, from which post he was 2 moted to mt! r plenipotentiary credited to the United States, Where Holland Leads. When seen at his residence on De Sales street by a Star reporter, Minister Gevers expressed himself as much pleased with his present appointment, and the prospect of making his home fer some time in the United States. He is proud of his American blood, and as he speaks English without a flaw and has but few of the earmarks of a foreigner he would easily be taken for a pid native of this country. He talked unre- fervedly on any and all topics, and while he said, what all of e world knows, that Holland’s sympathies are entirely with the Boers, yet he preferred not to elaborate the subject. In speaking of some of his im- pressions Baron Geve “When I was a little lad I came with my parents several times on visits to our Amer- ican relatives, and when I was twenty-one I made quite a trip through the country, going as far west as Chicago. I remember how I was impressed then, and the short time that I have been here now the im- pression has been deepened by the vastness of your great country and the vastness of all of your enterprises. In many things you lead the world, and yet in some few things ane own little country leads you. Your Library of Congress building is a marvel of magnificence and utility, but {t necessarily must be many years before the library {t- self can contain such valuable works and manuscripts as do our wonderful libraries at The Hague, Leyden and Utrecht. The royal library of The Hague contains some of the most priceless letters and manu- scripts in existence, and our art galleries in these citles and at Amsterdam and Haar- lem hold many of the masterpieces of the artists of all ages. During the jubilee of the queen’s coronation there was a display of the works of Rembrandt at Amsterdam. The Queen of England, {he Emperor of Germany and nearly alt of the monarchs of Europe loaned their cepies of the famous painter, and the coliection was the most complete and wonderful that was ever got- ten together. “The Dutch are sometimes said to be phlegmatic and slow, and certainly we are conservative. but we are also @ musio-love ing and artistic race. Our conservatorieg re as excellent as any in Euro] our art schools hold an undisputed n the field of i Our artis present day, Joseph Israel ve and the M The shies Our per cent 0 n your own, = our is. the colleges and u S past have sent out some of the wor: “How about hig! yell, that is ive peos women need the not taken a very se broader sch opened their doors to member what the Emp. id on this subject? Some one him what he thought of the higher jon for women. his a niiment h swer will tn effue das to thought of {t for the empress he salt ho, that is a different matter, ws but the four k's is all that kirche, clothes, And tha expregeeg the m subject; but. b. he would ntion of ites at present. He is until June, when y to visit his mothe ers people of the sume mer he will and upen his retu estab- Usk the Dutch le hand¢ nces West Se PERVERSION OF APPETITE, a Disorder of the Stom: Often Caused by From the New York Herald. There is a very tory id of a hostier who, for economical rea cheated his horse into the belicf that split shavings were grass by compelling the animal to look through green spectacles while at ite manger. It fs also related, however, that the beass fi y dicd as the result of the a The Foley boy, who voluntarily ate toothpicks for other reasons, was happily saved from a like fate by an operation which resulted in thi and a half of w As the ordinary xtraction of a pound d pulp from his intestines, boy of eleven is usually sfied with ev lay food, provided he gets enough of it, the from such standpoint is worthy of a passing refers ence. The habit case of chewing and swallowing d slivers of wood to which he en addicted for months was simply due to a perversion of appetite which ale though quite uncommon with male youngs sters is not infrequently seen In t site sex of like tender years, There is iy both instances a marked nervous perversion of instincts, which in the case of the fe= males is generally designated as hysterical, The young miss who masticates her slate pencils or bites her nails is a notable ex- ample of the latter type. We should hardly that such manifestations of er te were evte dences of mental unsoundness—although if is notoriously true tha: shape or the other is very prevalent among the inmates of ir e ylums. Various articles, such as chalk, bits of mortar, hair, cinders, and even forks and spoons. often surreptitiously swallowed by and mad people. With seemingly rational individuals thé origin of the trouble is not infrequently the stomach itself, which is often dilat and 60 disordered in function as to cause craving for the sense of comfortable distens sion, which can only be satisfied by bi and indigestible materials. The cl: eal of the south is peculiarly affilcted in respect, as was also the old farmer wW! preferred corned beef and cabbage % breakfast In order that his stomach mi the disorder in on@ heave “something to chew on betw meals.” ——_—_+ ‘areless. From Life. Doctor—“Where’s my hat, I wonder Assistant—“Weren't appendicitis just now?” Yes: but where's my hat?" “Perhaps you left it in h ee you operating fog Art vs. Commercialism Again. From Puck. Nibble—‘What is the difference betweel\ poetry and verse?” Scribble—“You can scll verse.” THE PRE AILING From Sketch. “Smokin' don't touch my "eart, Tommy. Brigade.” FEMININE SENTIMENT. Yer must jine the Bold Boys’ Khakf