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TITE EVENING TIMS WASHINGTON TUESDAY JtTLY 1 1902 THE EVENING TIMES FRANK A MUNSEY PUBLICATION OFFICE Tenth and D X KAXKS TO OUT OF TOTTX POtXTCS POSTAGE i StrPefs PImYATD = uKoiIJc KDITIO one three renths l2- orninf and SundRY oue s ix- th three HloRhs only year n IX- L01i u cents rear 8b tin cubic d0 b yeas n 430 13u- aday 41tlon one I thrmonth = lYEXLG EDITION one year xis mantle titre vcnln and Sunday one year three months forum Evening and ooeTor 10 u i S10 moathrv cent S5 az- rientks 2i CL25 Sundae aixmonths threolnuntiu A25U Any person who cannot buy the Morning Afternoon or Sunday fcdition of The Times on any news stand in Washington in suourban towns on railroad trains or elsewhere will confer a favor by notifying the Publisher of The Times corner Tenth and D Sts Washington D C THE APPROPRIATIONS AND THE SURPLUS t When about ten or years ago a Congress had managed to close its aetivity with a record of having appropriated a billion dollars in its two sessions there arose a great over what termed the extravagance of that particular aggregation of legislators The of the Fiftyseventh Congress is about to close and within its life ap- propriations have been made to nearly the same amount It is a noteworthy fact that comparatively few papers have thought it worth- while to eoinmen upon this and the few that have done so have been ex- tremely moderate in their expressions o opinion It that they not forgotten the reply generally made when the elamer the bil liiiidoliar Congress was raised That reply was This is a bilikmdoliar country And thus today the word is i This is a twcbillkmdollar coun try Nothing shows more dearly the Cur was inn have over helve out- cry reck- less first- s amount- ing maybe ¬ ± ¬ rectness of this view of the case than- a brief glance at the financial condi tion of the country today fact that by the taking off of the war taxes the revenues of the Government for the next fiscal year will be curtailed to the amount of something like 75000000 and in spite of the vast sums of money granted by Congress for the support of the Government and for great en- terprises the surplus at the close of June 1903 is estimated to be not less than 25000000 This estimate how- ever i3 based upon the receipts of the fiscal year now ending the is that the receipts from cus- toms and other sources will exceed by a very considerable amount those of the past official twelve months It is not at all improbable that ten years hence a twobiifiondollar Congress will be looked upon as rather a small matter We are progressing rapidly in our national necessities and fortu- nately our national income bids fair- ie keep step with then the proba- bility Notwith- standing t ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ First Delusion then Illusion and la ly Allusion merely- By BOOTH TABKlNGTOH Author of The Gentleman from Politicians and soldiers are wally famous I fancy It is rather a berf den to them After all fame Is not very much fun flow couldit be Tin j What is commonly known as fame is not fame but dangerously near notoriety The consolation xis that it does not f Only three or foffr writ living actually famous soldiers are really famous I it is rather a harden to them After all fame is not very much fun Hew could it be nnleSB famed were a very great egoist Most poets must been beautiful egoists They were always cry- ing up the love of fame There could be no more vulgar desire for in the last analysis it is merely the love of conspicuity 2fo really sane person cares to be conspicuous or is even willing to be conspicuous Modi of that which is called literary fame is purely ephemeral A novel is talked about by some people not a great many even if the book is popular for a little while perhaps three months The author is about with his noveL Then if he writes other books he may be talked about a little again unless his book is one of the three or four of a that are really worth white Only heaven knows men a novel is realty worth while A mere man would have to live two or three hundred years to be able to speak with authority Even then he ought to havebeen a woman In that ease he would with intuitional authority and would be rightFame is inaccurate Think of the disputes in regard to the personal appearance of Richard ill The popular conception of George Washington is not human Of the absurd stories about Rudyard Kipling and Richard Mansfield all the world knows We find even the lithographed individual in the world to be very unexpected when We see Ute original It all comes hack to the disappointment of Tout Sawyer who expected to find a United States Senator thirty feet did not fAME AND ITS STAGES diana i the famed one were a very gre t egoist atall Pohtae faney one If cen- tury r highand THREE 7 I less last long are ans and thee have talked 1 speak most ¬ LONELINESS OF COUNTRY LIFE By L L Representative Woods of California says that the reason of tbe abandoned farm is the loneliness of it Man he rays longs for companionship and can Ept live contentedly ia the solitude of the country With all due respect for Mr Woods really Is the case with of the farmers who have given up country life it may be doubted whether the statement can Justly fce made sweep ing as he makes it If loneliness of farm life is the only r the chief why people will not live on farms why Is it that these same farms were cleared and cultivated and adorned with human habitations which were held most dear by their occupants for sev eral generations when they were even lonelier than they are now If and women could live on these farms and be happy when they were miles from any neighbor except wolves cata mounts and Indians why have they sud- denly grown so unhappy about it of late yew when the nearest neighbor is not more than a quarter of a mile away and they have all of means of with the rest of the world The truth is that the farmer ie Just like any other man and wants to do the best that be can i r himself Ia in- numerable Instac of the abandon- ment of country life the move was made with heartsick The born countryman loves his name be loves the freedom and quiet of his tarns and be does not rsn the ftelitade what there IB of The crowding of the ci is in tolerable to him The people wtj crowd and recognition of the fact that this as men sorts it many the rea- son Comm unk tia6 sorrow ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ Exception Taken to the Views ef Representative Woods tile cities are half of them from the cities of the Old World and to them country life would in truth be lonely TIle real cause of the abandoned farm is that the small farmer mechanic or tradesman can off it He has to compete with the great ranches the flour mills the pack ing houses the fruit canning and vege table canning factories which can feed people of the town twenty miles cheaply than be can feed He finds that even if be works sixteen hours a day he cannot make his farm pay His boys rebel against so much labor without adequate returns and determine to put thein brains to better use No man with any sense wants to get up at 4 oclock in the morning and go to bed at 8 oclock at night dogtired after working all day at manual labor not of The most congenial worry and a mortgage to show for it at the end of the year The American than that but it a thousand pities that he cannot stay right on his ancestors farm and make the most of himself and make the farming districts the busy happy places they used to be However it cannot be helped The wheelwright the carpenter the doctor the merchant seek city openings when the farmer can no longer pay good prices for their work and then it be- comes difficult to get the ordinary of life In the country and people with proper regard for their families to town where the chtldre within call of a physician who knows bis business That ia the secret of the abndoaci iiia in the East 1 1 I no longer make a living from them and then have but farmers bOy can make more for him- self Is I I com- forts move may go to school and the family mq be i the him more growing nothing r ¬ ¬ ¬ THE ARBITRATION OF STRIKES- IS A NATIONAL MATTERB- Y HON ALLAN X McDERMOTT Representative from New Jersey L The provide for boards of investigation and arbitration was introduced in Congress because it is that when there is a disagreement between em- ployers and employes Engaged in a business ihrt affects commerce between the States the interests of the whole country demand that should be a power vested somewhere to make investigation and inform the people of the whole truth of Ute master I do not believe in a permanent board The would be apt to become onesided and of littk or no use The scheme of the bill provides that the President shall appoint a board to investigate a disagreement of the nature mentioned He may move of his own accord or on petition He is to appoint of seven mem bers whose official life will terminate when they have on the particular disturbance referred to them The employers will have the right to nominate the employes another and the President will use his judgment in selecting the others The report of such a board will mold public opin ion and public opinion bused upon an intelligent the will settle any strike Each member of the board is to have the power to summon witnesses and each side may be represented by counsel whose ar guments are t be punted This will give the public the benefit of them Each member of the board is to make a Ito I mem- bers aboard one her facts ap- parent there l re- ported men under- standing ¬ ¬ ¬ THE DEW j His baby face Is of He Setters over kill and plain With broken hearted calling A sad and solitary mite They call him Little Cry by f He was so gay an OUr ago Astride the silver sfcowers He chased tha sunbeams to and fro And slept among the flowers But when he woke the light hi Sown And left him frightened and alone How for sky to hide He calls but no hears And over all country side He sheds his brimming tears His pretty towers l e cannot find Theyre only left their ghosts be- hind Till of amber light The dusk gloom dismisses And comforts Little Cry by With tenderest of kisses jibe flowers are calling him to play And saabeasMs wipe his tears away Phfladelphia 1 r The Boys Outing Encourage your boy in making some aprt of a collection while he is in the country and give him a magnifying glass as his invaluable aid says the Philadelphia Record An excellent may be bought for 2 He can make a butterfly net himself with a half yard of mosquito netting gathered round a little hoop fastened to a stick two or three feet long and with this he acn catch all sorts of interesting wings and stings If he is stayiBg near a river creek or cove there are the really beautiful dragon flies water beetles and devils da iing needles to be made trophies- of his net and almost anywhere the humbly be and the honey bee may be caught All of these may be quickly and per- haps painlessly killed by holding a wad of cotton wet In strong ammonia over them after which keep the finest odes in separate little boxes or impaled- on earns Many birds have now abandoned their nests often leaving unhatched eggs in them and from these a fine collection may be made With his magnifying glass the in I 1 pain l And how his tears I I Night f I I I Ute one 1 loa shaft Night IntJte Inquirer 11 I one u I fall are falling creel tae Jesele Pepe 1 very ¬ ¬ ¬ ° quiring boy may get the amount of entertainment and in studying pollywogs spiders beetles and Infinite other rather gruesome things that boys not afraid of even this years lo cust may be examined with interest He will find lichens a marvelously them dotted with tiny red flowers and every variety a wonder of dainty col- oring A wasps abandoned one by all treasure worth getting They are found on the limbs of trees and bushes varying in size from those as small as six inches in circumference to those over three feet and are beau- tifully screened with a gray fibrous substance of the same shade as the nest an evidence of the instinctive pro- tective coloration adopted by animals birds ev1 uw ts to insure safety from their enemies One of these curious wasps nests was seen not long ago adorning the walls of a handsome reception room and was so exceptionally large and gracefully P M ED PAGE overhung with its gray fibre that it more interest than the fine pie tures and statuettes by which It was surrounded The cells of these nests are almost identically like those of the honey bee which scientists say are absolutely per- fect examples of the utilization of space not to be equaled by the greatest It will ad greatly to a boys inter- est in trees if he names some of thorn after his favorite heroes according to the character suggested by the tree If the boy is not old enough to be trusted with the farmers gun let him learn to make bows and arrows and to hit the mark with them Skill in manship trains the eye the the judgment Birch bark ferns shells anything may arouse interest in the fad for col- lecting and a complete collection of any kind has its value Indian arrowtasads of stone are to be found in the plowed welds of many of the States if one has the knack of find- ing them instruc- tion tadPoles and beautiful study with his some o nestan meansis a ex- cited mathe- matician are marks a ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ report Testimony is to be closed in thirty days after the board is appointed and a report made to the Presi dent within ten days thereafter unless the President for good cause snows shall grant further time It may be asked Why should such work not be un- dertaken by the State in which the difference exists There are several reasons First it would be difficult to keep the investigation out of the political If a were called upon to appoint he would probably commence to play politics as soon as he started to consider the matter investigation may cover several States Third The President can select a board from parts of the Union After a board has been appointed the parties to the dispute can submit their matters in difference to arbi tration and the board will report its findings to the Mr Gardner the chairman of the Committee on has made Several valuable amenaatory suggestions- as has Mr Littlefield of Maine and I have accepted these and shall be glad to receive any other suggestions toward the perfection of the measure I have been mueh encouraged by the altention given by Mr Littlefield and Mr Gardner I do not agree with their political ideas but they are of the nations most valuable thinkers on other subjects governor SecondThe Presi- dent arena dif- ferent La- bors ¬ ¬ ¬ BAD BOYS AND PLAYGROUNDST- here been various complaints made at different times about dis- turbing noiies in Washington Parrots chickens cats dogs and hand or- gans have all come in for their share of abuse but little or nothing has been said of the noisiest element of boys These afternoons with windows open their shouting and yelling is intolerable but this is mild compared with the injuries they by their mania for throwing stones They must throw a stone at the pet cat and even at the servant girl if she shows her face at the The repairing of window panes broken by boys becomes an item of expense in housekeeping in Washington A family actually moved away away from a corner house in the northwest reason given was that the Bbys were so bad in that neighborhood I know of another case that happened recently A family actually moved away from Washington they said were worried and annoyed to such a degrei by bad boys Of course one complain to the police but the boys are not punished and it only brings down on the complainant the enmity of the parents and does not encourage neighborly feeling There should be a law prohibiting a boy from roaming around the streets a bulldog or an airgun These two are invariably elements of even of great cruelty toward harmless animals cats and especially and bring these bad boys where they belong in the police court In no other city would such a sight be seen as it of eight or ten boys roaming around the with their guns and dogs Some measures must taKen to stop all this and the only means seems to be to Have playgrounds for them as in Boston and New York There they can give vest to their surplus energy in gamma ball playing etc and cease to be an intolerable annoyance to the community KM S WHEN CUPIDCAME TO By DON MARQUIS beds of marigold and fern woddlarid vales all violetscented From banks where bloodred poppies The rustic nooks by lovers haunted K Into the citys east and din H- Tfiro7 crowded marts that pulse with Jif Thro scenes of luxury and sin One day the truant BoyGod strayed Grown tired of loosing venomed darts At beardless He thought to try the proof of hearts Reputed wiser and more staid But now bedraggled lost He stood within the marketplace- His quiver stolen poor wings torn And tears bedewed the roseleaf face And some with cares and labor spent Remarked him not but passed unheeding Some hastened by on pleasure bent And some their hearts with sorrow Went murmuring Love is dead nor guessed Love stood beside them in the press r Till two less hurried than the rest i Paused pitying his wretchedness And she was one her past oergrown Kiix With weeds that choked the flower of tru Deemed all lifes sweetness dead and fe Tike crumbled petals into dust S- A id he I will drop cant and make fir Hy meaning clear for plainness pays r A spades a rakes a rake j t They were a pair of old roues Too much forbidden fruit will turn Tasteless or bitter in the mouth f And loves too light or burn Too dim or sear the soul to drouilu We tire of unrealities Grow cynicwise and doubt ihr real Of sense or trifling tired were doubted their own power to feel But when she stooped and took Loves hand And kissed the lad Love laughed A hand to him the imp had planned C The situation well no doubt And when above the curly head met I think each in that gaze of lifesreal meaning read At least they took the boy to raise hate allthe summer andthe be- cause t y Wash- ington u i TOWN I Prom il fj t forlorn if F spadea i- I I I th s- And Somewhat l Ii in- flict back- door con al- ways with mischief kitt- ens sometimes streets a lie From i r burn trade 4 maid i bleeding 1 t x blow sensual s held out ¬ > > > < < < + AND PITTSBURO Good Sense in Mr Roosevelt sSe The people o Pittsburg had a parade route all planned eat for Presi- dent Roosevelt on the occasion of his Fourth of July visit there and now the President has put his word In and changed it The people of Pittaburg condemning Mr Roosevelt as arbitrary let us see what they expected him te do The parade committee it is said had laid plans to the procession over the Graat Boulevard which runs along a hillside where a goat can hardly get a footing The might have had so dlmcnlty with it but the spectators would have had a perilous time The chances are that accidents would have occurred At any rate while President Roosevelt may be fond of hunting the cimarron in his native iastaesaes he had no fancy for human beings making mountain sheep of themselves to celebrate a national holiday and when he found out about the plan he sent the eomorittee a request that the parade route be made as short as possible This seems to have been the only sensible action to take in the cir cumstanees Aside from the incongruity of marching the President of the United States along a goattrack in the middle of a triumphal procession there was the manifest unwisdom of gathering a large crowd of spectators in say such place and everyone who knows the Fourth of July American knows that the crowds would have been there It is unfortunate but it is true when there is anything going on the average American will be in it if he can and it is perhaps fortunate that the eruption of Moat Pelee occurred too far from our shores for holiday excursions or he would have fallen over himself with eagerness to be In that parade- is in a broad clear where there will be room for everybody without crowding WHEN THE CZAR ENTERTAINS THE PRESI DENT queSt Parade Change I are therefore and per P8a little disappoiided But before take I I r I t I s J The place fora street t 7 for a i surprised I procession ¬ If the Czar has spent upon the of President Loubet even small fraction of the France on the entertainment of the Czar th French President will have a brlllion welcome says the New York Sun Royal visits ire always expensive lux aries though less so now than foreThe King of Italy and Eznpecpr Wil item are said to be the most economics visitors a country can have The want but their tastes simple and extravagant ostentation doesnt appeal to either of them Oi the other hand Leopold of Belgium comes high Nothing is too elaborat and brilliant to suit him and he is easily bored It has been said that a private caaaot satisfactorily entertai King Leopold and his suite during week for less than 20006 while o00 win matte Emperor William content the same length of time England most expensive royal visitor within years was the Shah of Persia fo whose entertainment 1WOW was one week But outdid all ordinary modern records when she opened her arms t the Czar It has been estimated the invitation alone sent by specia messengers cost 5000 that 50000 wa spent in making Dunkirk beautiful 18 eeo went to military bands 180 t expenses of the picked troops 15000 to the naval review 25000 to salutes flW guarding the Czar and 7500- to fioiisins and feeding the guest and suited These were only a part of items sad after everything was a modest 59660 was added fo sundries all that It is up to Russia ti show something in the line of Slavic magnificence while entertaining Loubet and no court In Europe is better able to achieve dazzling splen- dor It is perhaps the cnly one whoa expenses have not been cut down ruth Sly within the last few years Economy is the watchword modern sovereigns King Edward ha made the English court gay and brillian once more but has lopped off a lot o useless and traditional expenditures- The young King of Italy has made sweeping reforms in his menage and expenses in every rational way Austria has learned court economy Spanish royal family has been forcer to retrench But In Russia the same superb pomp of old prevails and Rus sian court are the most bril- liant held in Europe Tsarskoe Selo where President Loubel was feted last week is the favorite Cearina and although it is neither s large nor so stately as Peterhoff it is ai admirable fer royal en tertainment It stands upon a hill driving distance of St Petersburg and was built in 1794 though greatly changed and improved later by Cather ine The SOefoot facade with all columns carvings vases and balconies was at one time covered solidly gold loaf as was the roof but In course of time the sold began to peel and ordered It removed The contrac tors offered 3000000 roubles for gold but the Empress scorned the sug sectiea I am sot a secondhand merchant she said haughtily What became oi the gold deponent aalth not but today the palace is like other Russian stained white and green and yel- low while only the dome and cupola of the private chapel glitter with gold No palace in Europe has more mag- nificent staterooms old Tsars koe palace winch gives the name to the estate although the Alexander palace- is within the same grounds The golden banqueting hall in which the gala dinner for the President was on Tuesday evening is of huge size and Its walls and ceiling are entirely covered with gold leaf laid upon the richest and most Intricate carving and ornament The amber room is still more famous It is one of the most remarka- ble rooms In the world Every inch its walls and ceilings is of finest amber presented to Catherine II by Frederick the Great The walls are paneled and rIchly carved with flowers fruit and groups of figures On each the arms of Frederick the imperial and the Russian letter E standing fer Ekateria The Lyons room commemorates the Lobby of Alexander I for rare and is hung with the choicest specimens of his collection which was aonsidered the finest in the world The Lapis Lazuli room is another expression jf Catherine IIs love for splendor Its enter- tainment a sum spent ever bc royal due are a monarch indi- vidual n for spent In France j that to his the UP Atter among re- duced The country of the present Czar and stage setting IL its with Cath- erine the thanthis held of panelappear ci- pher tapes- tries honor re- sent 5e footer Presi- dent functions palate with- in pal- aces ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ walls are covered with panels made from large slabs of lapis lazuli The ceiling- is of gold The floor Is of ebony inlaid with huge mother of pearl flowers There Is a Chinese room too fur- nished exactly In accordance with Chi nese conventions and there is Cather ines porcelain bedchamber whose walls are of porcelain painted by great mas- ters and whose rows of pillars are of wonderful purple glass And then there are ballrooms of enormous size ablaze with gold and crystal The pri- vate chapel Is said to be the most splen- didly decorated building of Its kind la- the world Of course th royal family does not attempt to live up to all this gorgeous ness In everyday life though the are handy things to have in the family when a President of France or a King comes arislting The private apartments are rairy modern and eminently livable while the grounds of the estate see even more of the royal family than the palace does They are entertaining grounds eighteen miles square and laid out with absolute In formality and amusingly cosmopolitan taste Small wonder the older of the little grand duchesses adore those grounds and are always clamoring to escape from the city palace and get down to the Tsarkoe Selo There they can ride their donkeys and there they fund all sorts of fascinating playgrounds The grounds abound ia surprises a Chinese village a TurkIsh Kiosk a Swiss cowhouse a summer- house with Ionic colonnades and a hanging garden a lake bOlding a fleet cf pigmy boats which form a collection of models of the boots of all nations ant were built to amuse the Grand Duke Constantine when he was studying for his future place as high admiral There are Innumerable cascades and fountains and flowers and brooks and bridges and near the palace are two adorable baby houses fitted with mimic menages for tiny grand duchesses On the whole the grounds of Tsars koe Selo are distinctly more amusing than the golden banqueting hall If President Loubet is wise he will go out and play with the grand duchess PRONUNCIATION A correspondent says the London Chronicle points out that our pro nunciation which Is too often pro nounciation has its faults It Is only too true and GIbralter Is a rock on which many split Heighth Is a com mon mistake and a few months ago thousands of people were convinced that they were In Febuary Not a man calls an Isthmus anything but an ismus And aerated The maltreatment of that word demands a separate hospital Areated is the common injury But there have been heard such compound fractures as aer eated and aeriorated After that diptherIa which merely loses an h- is a mild case Foreigners however may be excused since their mistakes are usually due to a superfluity of con- science One may sympathize with a Frenchman who puts faith in any rule as to the pronunciation of ou h The plural of potato may have no terrors for him but set him to pronounce this sentence Invented by Punch A roughcoated doughfaced ploughman trode coughing and hiccoughing thoughtfully through the streets cf Scarborough The foreigner who could take that fence would deserve nationalization as he alighted In regard to the popular pronunciation of Berkshire Derby and clerk a correspondent reminds us that the late Prof Freeman discussed the question some twenty years ago In the nineteenth entury Prof Freemans view wu that It did not matter whether we say Barkshlre or Berkshire since both ire equally wrong He supposed that the original and proper sound of the first syllable was the same as that heard in berry or Berwick when they are tot pronounced as they are in many pro rinclal district burry aa Burricli- f you take a Scotsman unawares te jrlT invariably revert to the original proper Bairkshlre and clalrk THE SCOTCH FUSILIERS Yes smiled the English host I sure you that the mow cent as you call in it America has not i few followers in this country Oh gurgled the young lady frays New York who had been invited over for he coronation that is true and I t is Just too sweet Why yesterday ve saw a whole regiment of soldiers with rainyday skirts en Judge stater- ooms c t hundreds J immedI- ate newwoman I t 1 big out fa- a i mod I thick ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬

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TITE EVENING TIMS WASHINGTON TUESDAY JtTLY 1 1902

THE EVENING TIMESFRANK A MUNSEY

PUBLICATION OFFICE Tenth and D

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THE APPROPRIATIONS AND THE SURPLUS

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When about ten or yearsago a Congress had managed to close

its aetivity with a record of havingappropriated a billion dollars in itstwo sessions there arose a great

over what termed theextravagance of that particular

aggregation of legislators Theof the Fiftyseventh Congress

is about to close and within its life ap-

propriations have been madeto nearly the same amount It is

a noteworthy fact that comparativelyfew papers have thought it worth-while to eoinmen upon this and thefew that have done so have been ex-

tremely moderate in their expressionso opinion It that theynot forgotten the reply generallymade when the elamer the billiiiidoliar Congress was raised Thatreply was This is a bilikmdoliarcountry And thus today the wordisi This is a twcbillkmdollar country

Nothing shows more dearly the Cur

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have

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helve

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amount-ing

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rectness of this view of the case than-

a brief glance at the financial condition of the country today

fact that by the takingoff of the war taxes the revenues ofthe Government for the next fiscalyear will be curtailed to the amountof something like 75000000 and inspite of the vast sums of moneygranted by Congress for the supportof the Government and for great en-

terprises the surplus at the close ofJune 1903 is estimated to be not lessthan 25000000 This estimate how-

ever i3 based upon the receipts of thefiscal year now ending the

is that the receipts from cus-

toms and other sources will exceed bya very considerable amount those ofthe past official twelve months It isnot at all improbable that ten yearshence a twobiifiondollar Congresswill be looked upon as rather a smallmatter We are progressing rapidlyin our national necessities and fortu-nately our national income bids fair-ie keep step with then

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First Delusion then Illusion and la ly Allusion merely-

By BOOTH TABKlNGTOH Author of The Gentleman from

Politicians and soldiers are wally famous I fancy It is rather a berfden to them After all fame Is not very much fun flow couldit be Tin j

What is commonly known as fame is not fame but dangerously

near notoriety The consolation xis that it does not f

Only three or foffr writ living actually famoussoldiers are really famous I it is rather a harden to them

After all fame is not very much fun Hew could it be nnleSB

famed were a very great egoistMost poets must been beautiful egoists They were always cry-

ing up the love of fame There could be no more vulgar desire for in thelast analysis it is merely the love of conspicuity 2fo really sane personcares to be conspicuous or is even willing to be conspicuous

Modi of that which is called literary fame is purely ephemeral Anovel is talked about by some people not a great many even if the book

is popular for a little while perhaps three months The author isabout with his noveL Then if he writes other books he may be talkedabout a little again unless his book is one of the three or four of a

that are really worth white

Only heaven knows men a novel is realty worth while A mere manwould have to live two or three hundred years to be able to speak with

authority Even then he ought to havebeen a woman

In that ease he would with intuitional authority and would be

rightFameis inaccurate Think of the disputes in regard to the personal

appearance of Richard illThe popular conception of George Washington is not human

Of the absurd stories about Rudyard Kipling and Richard Mansfield

all the world knows We find even the lithographed individual in theworld to be very unexpected when We see Ute original It all comes hack

to the disappointment of Tout Sawyer who expected to find a United

States Senator thirty feet did not

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LONELINESS OFCOUNTRY LIFE

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Representative Woods of Californiasays that the reason of tbe abandonedfarm is the loneliness of it Man herays longs for companionship and canEpt live contentedly ia the solitude ofthe country

With all due respect for Mr Woods

really Is the case with of thefarmers who have given up countrylife it may be doubted whether thestatement can Justly fce made sweeping as he makes it If loneliness of

farm life is the only r the chiefwhy people will not live on farms

why Is it that these same farms werecleared and cultivated and adorned withhuman habitations which were heldmost dear by their occupants for several generations when they were evenlonelier than they are now Ifand women could live on these farmsand be happy when they were milesfrom any neighbor except wolves catamounts and Indians why have they sud-

denly grown so unhappy about it oflate yew when the nearest neighboris not more than a quarter of a mileaway and they have all of meansof with the rest of theworld

The truth is that the farmer ie Justlike any other man and wants to do thebest that be can i r himself Ia in-

numerable Instac of the abandon-ment of country life the move wasmade with heartsick The borncountryman loves his name be loves thefreedom and quiet of his tarns and bedoes not rsn the ftelitade what thereIB of The crowding of the ci is intolerable to him The people wtj crowd

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tile cities are half of them from thecities of the Old World and to themcountry life would in truth be lonely

TIle real cause of the abandoned farmis that the small farmer mechanic ortradesman canoff it He has to compete with thegreat ranches the flour mills the packing houses the fruit canning and vegetable canning factories which can feed

people of the town twenty milescheaply than be can feed

He finds that even if be workssixteen hours a day he cannot make hisfarm pay His boys rebelagainst so much labor without adequatereturns and determine to put theinbrains to better use No man with anysense wants to get up at 4 oclock inthe morning and go to bed at 8 oclockat night dogtired after working allday at manual labor not of The mostcongenialworry and a mortgage to show for it atthe end of the year The American

than that but it a thousandpities that he cannot stay right on hisancestors farm and make the most ofhimself and make the farming districtsthe busy happy places they used to beHowever it cannot be helped Thewheelwright the carpenter the doctorthe merchant seek city openings whenthe farmer can no longer pay goodprices for their work and then it be-

comes difficult to get the ordinaryof life In the country and people

with proper regard for their familiesto town where the chtldre

within call of a physician who knowsbis business That ia the secret of theabndoaci iiia in the East

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IS A NATIONAL MATTERB-

Y HON ALLAN X McDERMOTT Representative from New JerseyL

The provide for boards of investigation and

arbitration was introduced in Congress because it is

that when there is a disagreement between em-

ployers and employes Engaged in a business ihrt affects

commerce between the States the interests of the whole

country demand that should be a power vested

somewhere to make investigation and inform the peopleof the whole truth of Ute master

I do not believe in a permanent board Thewould be apt to become onesided and of littk or no

use The scheme of the bill provides that the Presidentshall appoint a board to investigate a disagreement ofthe nature mentioned He may move of his own accord

or on petition He is to appoint of seven mem

bers whose official life will terminate when they have

on the particular disturbance referred to themThe employers will have the right to nominate

the employes another and the President will use hisjudgment in selecting the others

The report of such a board will mold public opinion and public opinion bused upon an intelligent

the will settle any strike Each member

of the board is to have the power to summon witnesses

and each side may be represented by counsel whose arguments are t be punted This will give the public thebenefit of them Each member of the board is to make a

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j His baby face Is of

He Setters over kill and plainWith broken hearted calling

A sad and solitary miteThey call him Little Cry by

fHe was so gay an OUr ago

Astride the silver sfcowers

He chased tha sunbeams to and froAnd slept among the flowers

But when he woke the light hiSown

And left him frightened and alone

How for sky to hideHe calls but no hears

And over all country sideHe sheds his brimming tears

His pretty towers l e cannot find

Theyre only left their ghosts be-

hind

Till of amber lightThe dusk gloom dismisses

And comforts Little Cry by

With tenderest of kissesjibe flowers are calling him to playAnd saabeasMs wipe his tears away

Phfladelphia1

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Encourage your boy in making someaprt of a collection while he is in thecountry and give him a magnifyingglass as his invaluable aid says the

Philadelphia Record An excellentmay be bought for 2

He can make a butterfly net himselfwith a half yard of mosquito

netting gathered round a little hoopfastened to a stick two or three feetlong and with this he acn catch allsorts of interesting wings and stings

If he is stayiBg near a river creek orcove there are the really beautifuldragon flies water beetles and devilsda iing needles to be made trophies-

of his net and almost anywhere thehumbly be and the honey bee may

be caughtAll of these may be quickly and per-

haps painlessly killed by holding a

wad of cotton wet In strong ammoniaover them after which keep the finestodes in separate little boxes or impaled-

on earnsMany birds have now abandoned their

nests often leaving unhatched eggs in

them and from these a fine collectionmay be made

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quiring boy may get theamount of entertainment and

in studying pollywogs

spiders beetles and Infinite otherrather gruesome things that boysnot afraid of even this years locust may be examined with interest

He will find lichens a marvelously

them dotted with tiny red flowers andevery variety a wonder of dainty col-

oringA wasps abandoned one by

all treasure worth gettingThey are found on the limbs of treesand bushes varying in size from thoseas small as six inches in circumferenceto those over three feet and are beau-tifully screened with a gray fibroussubstance of the same shade as the nestan evidence of the instinctive pro-

tective coloration adopted by animalsbirds ev1 uw ts to insure safety fromtheir enemies

One of these curious wasps nests wasseen not long ago adorning the wallsof a handsome reception room and wasso exceptionally large and gracefullyP M ED PAGEoverhung with its gray fibre that it

more interest than the fine pietures and statuettes by which It wassurrounded

The cells of these nests are almostidentically like those of the honey beewhich scientists say are absolutely per-

fect examples of the utilization of spacenot to be equaled by the greatest

It will ad greatly to a boys inter-est in trees if he names some of thornafter his favorite heroes according tothe character suggested by the tree

If the boy is not old enough to betrusted with the farmers gun let himlearn to make bows and arrows and tohit the mark with them Skill inmanship trains the eye thethe judgment

Birch bark ferns shells anythingmay arouse interest in the fad for col-

lecting and a complete collection of anykind has its value

Indian arrowtasads of stone are to befound in the plowed welds of many ofthe States if one has the knack of find-

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report Testimony is to be closed in thirty days afterthe board is appointed and a report made to the President within ten days thereafter unless the Presidentfor good cause snows shall grant further time

It may be asked Why should such work not be un-

dertaken by the State in which the difference existsThere are several reasons

First it would be difficult to keep the investigation

out of the political If a were called

upon to appoint he would probably commence to play

politics as soon as he started to consider the matterinvestigation may cover several States

Third The President can select a board fromparts of the Union

After a board has been appointed the parties to the

dispute can submit their matters in difference to arbi

tration and the board will report its findings to the

Mr Gardner the chairman of the Committee on

has made Several valuable amenaatory suggestions-

as has Mr Littlefield of Maine and I have accepted

these and shall be glad to receive any other suggestions

toward the perfection of the measure I have been mueh

encouraged by the altention given by Mr Littlefield and

Mr Gardner I do not agree with their political ideas

but they are of the nations most valuable thinkers on

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BAD BOYS AND PLAYGROUNDST-

here been various complaints made at different times about dis-

turbing noiies in Washington Parrots chickens cats dogs and hand or-

gans have all come in for their share of abuse but little or nothing hasbeen said of the noisiest element of boys

These afternoons with windows open their shouting andyelling is intolerable but this is mild compared with the injuries they

by their mania for throwing stones They must throw a stone at the

pet cat and even at the servant girl if she shows her face at theThe repairing of window panes broken by boys becomes an item of

expense in housekeeping in Washington A family actually moved awayaway from a corner house in the northwest reason given was thatthe Bbys were so bad in that neighborhood I know of another case thathappened recently A family actually moved away from Washington

they said were worried and annoyed to such a degrei by badboys

Of course one complain to the police but the boys are notpunished and it only brings down on the complainant the enmity of

the parents and does not encourage neighborly feelingThere should be a law prohibiting a boy from roaming around the

streets a bulldog or an airgun These two are invariably elements

of even of great cruelty toward harmless animals cats andespecially and bring these bad boys where they belong in

the police court In no other city would such a sight be seen as itof eight or ten boys roaming around the with their guns

and dogsSome measures must taKen to stop all this and the only means

seems to be to Have playgrounds for them as in Boston and New YorkThere they can give vest to their surplus energy in gamma ball playingetc and cease to be an intolerable annoyance to the community

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WHEN CUPIDCAME TOBy DON MARQUIS

beds of marigold and fernwoddlarid vales all violetscented

From banks where bloodred poppiesThe rustic nooks by lovers haunted K

Into the citys east and din H-

Tfiro7 crowded marts that pulse with JifThro scenes of luxury and sin

One day the truant BoyGod strayed

Grown tired of loosing venomed dartsAt beardlessHe thought to try the proof of heartsReputed wiser and more staidBut now bedraggled lost

He stood within the marketplace-His quiver stolen poor wings tornAnd tears bedewed the roseleaf face

And some with cares and labor spentRemarked him not but passed unheeding

Some hastened by on pleasure bent

And some their hearts with sorrow

Went murmuring Love is dead nor guessed

Love stood beside them in the press rTill two less hurried than the rest i

Paused pitying his wretchedness

And she was one her past oergrown KiixWith weeds that choked the flower of truDeemed all lifes sweetness dead and fe

Tike crumbled petals into dust S-

A id he I will drop cant and make firHy meaning clear for plainness pays rA spades a rakes a rake j tThey were a pair of old roues

Too much forbidden fruit will turnTasteless or bitter in the mouth fAnd loves too light or burnToo dim or sear the soul to drouiluWe tire of unrealitiesGrow cynicwise and doubt ihr realOf sense or trifling tired were

doubted their own power to feel

But when she stooped and took Loves handAnd kissed the lad Love laughed

A hand to him the imp had planned C

The situation well no doubtAnd when above the curly head

met I think each in that gazeof lifesreal meaning read

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AND PITTSBUROGood Sense in Mr Roosevelt sSe

The people o Pittsburg had a parade route all planned eat for Presi-dent Roosevelt on the occasion of his Fourth of July visit there and now

the President has put his word In and changed it The people of Pittaburg

condemning Mr Roosevelt as arbitrary let us see what they expected himte do

The parade committee it is said had laid plans to the processionover the Graat Boulevard which runs along a hillside where a goat canhardly get a footing The might have had so dlmcnlty with itbut the spectators would have had a perilous time The chances are thataccidents would have occurred At any rate while President Rooseveltmay be fond of hunting the cimarron in his native iastaesaes he had nofancy for human beings making mountain sheep of themselves to celebratea national holiday and when he found out about the plan he sent theeomorittee a request that the parade route be made as short as possible

This seems to have been the only sensible action to take in the circumstanees Aside from the incongruity of marching the President of theUnited States along a goattrack in the middle of a triumphal processionthere was the manifest unwisdom of gathering a large crowd of spectatorsin say such place and everyone who knows the Fourth of July Americanknows that the crowds would have been there It is unfortunate but it istrue when there is anything going on the average American will be init if he can and it is perhaps fortunate that the eruption of Moat Peleeoccurred too far from our shores for holiday excursions or he would havefallen over himself with eagerness to be In that parade-is in a broad clear where there will be room for everybody withoutcrowding

WHEN THE CZAR ENTERTAINS

THE PRESI DENTqueSt Parade Change

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small fraction of the Franceon the entertainment of the Czar thFrench President will have a brlllionwelcome says the New York SunRoyal visits ire always expensive luxaries though less so now than

foreThe King of Italy and Eznpecpr Wilitem are said to be the most economics

visitors a country can have Thewant but their tastessimple and extravagant ostentationdoesnt appeal to either of them Oi

the other hand Leopold of Belgiumcomes high Nothing is too elaboratand brilliant to suit him and he is

easily boredIt has been said that a private

caaaot satisfactorily entertaiKing Leopold and his suite duringweek for less than 20006 while o00win matte Emperor William contentthe same length of time Englandmost expensive royal visitor within

years was the Shah of Persia fowhose entertainment 1WOW was

one weekBut outdid all ordinary modern

records when she opened her arms tthe Czar It has been estimatedthe invitation alone sent by speciamessengers cost 5000 that 50000 waspent in making Dunkirk beautiful 18

eeo went to military bands 180 texpenses of the picked troops 15000to the naval review 25000 to salutes

flW guarding the Czar and 7500-

to fioiisins and feeding the guest andsuited These were only a part ofitems sad after everything was

a modest 59660 was added fosundries

all that It is up to Russia tishow something in the line of Slavicmagnificence while entertaining

Loubet and no court In Europeis better able to achieve dazzling splen-

dor It is perhaps the cnly one whoaexpenses have not been cut down ruthSly within the last few years

Economy is the watchwordmodern sovereigns King Edward hamade the English court gay and brillianonce more but has lopped off a lot ouseless and traditional expenditures-The young King of Italy has madesweeping reforms in his menage and

expenses in every rational wayAustria has learned court economySpanish royal family has been forcer

to retrench But In Russia the samesuperb pomp of old prevails and Russian court are the most bril-liant held in Europe

Tsarskoe Selo where President Loubelwas feted last week is the favorite

Cearina and although it is neither slarge nor so stately as Peterhoff it is aiadmirable fer royal entertainment It stands upon a hill

driving distance of St Petersburgand was built in 1794 though greatlychanged and improved later by Catherine The SOefoot facade with allcolumns carvings vases and balconieswas at one time covered solidlygold loaf as was the roof but In courseof time the sold began to peel and

ordered It removed The contractors offered 3000000 roubles forgold but the Empress scorned the sugsectiea

I am sot a secondhand merchantshe said haughtily What became oithe gold deponent aalth not but todaythe palace is like other Russian

stained white and green and yel-low while only the dome and cupola ofthe private chapel glitter with gold

No palace in Europe has more mag-

nificent staterooms old Tsarskoe palace winch gives the name to theestate although the Alexander palace-is within the same grounds

The golden banqueting hall in whichthe gala dinner for the President was

on Tuesday evening is of huge sizeand Its walls and ceiling are entirelycovered with gold leaf laid upon therichest and most Intricate carving andornament The amber room is still morefamous It is one of the most remarka-ble rooms In the world Every inchits walls and ceilings is of finest amberpresented to Catherine II by Frederickthe Great The walls are paneled andrIchly carved with flowers fruit andgroups of figures On eachthe arms of Frederick the imperial

and the Russian letter E standingfer Ekateria

The Lyons room commemorates theLobby of Alexander I for rare

and is hung with the choicestspecimens of his collection which wasaonsidered the finest in the world TheLapis Lazuli room is another expressionjf Catherine IIs love for splendor Its

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walls are covered with panels made fromlarge slabs of lapis lazuli The ceiling-is of gold The floor Is of ebony inlaidwith huge mother of pearl flowers

There Is a Chinese room too fur-nished exactly In accordance with Chinese conventions and there is Catherines porcelain bedchamber whose wallsare of porcelain painted by great mas-ters and whose rows of pillars areof wonderful purple glass And thenthere are ballrooms of enormous sizeablaze with gold and crystal The pri-vate chapel Is said to be the most splen-didly decorated building of Its kind la-the world

Of course th royal family does notattempt to live up to all this gorgeousness In everyday life though the

are handy things to have in thefamily when a President of France or aKing comes arislting The privateapartments are rairy modern andeminently livable while the grounds ofthe estate see even more of the royalfamily than the palace does They areentertaining grounds eighteen milessquare and laid out with absolute Informality and amusingly cosmopolitantaste Small wonder the older of thelittle grand duchesses adore thosegrounds and are always clamoring toescape from the city palace and getdown to the Tsarkoe Selo

There they can ride their donkeys andthere they fund all sorts of fascinatingplaygrounds The grounds abound iasurprises a Chinese village a TurkIshKiosk a Swiss cowhouse a summer-house with Ionic colonnades and ahanging garden a lake bOlding a fleet cfpigmy boats which form a collection ofmodels of the boots of all nations antwere built to amuse the Grand DukeConstantine when he was studying forhis future place as high admiral

There are Innumerable cascades andfountains and flowers and brooks andbridges and near the palace are twoadorable baby houses fitted withmimic menages for tiny grand duchesses

On the whole the grounds of Tsarskoe Selo are distinctly more amusingthan the golden banqueting hall IfPresident Loubet is wise he will go outand play with the grand duchess

PRONUNCIATION

A correspondent says the London

Chronicle points out that our pronunciation which Is too often pro

nounciation has its faults It Is only

too true and GIbralter Is a rock onwhich many split Heighth Is a com

mon mistake and a few months ago

thousands of people were convinced thatthey were In Febuary Not a man

calls an Isthmus anythingbut an ismus And aerated Themaltreatment of that word demands aseparate hospital Areated is thecommon injury But there have beenheard such compound fractures as aereated and aeriorated After thatdiptherIa which merely loses an h-

is a mild case Foreigners howevermay be excused since their mistakesare usually due to a superfluity of con-

science One may sympathize with aFrenchman who puts faith in any rule asto the pronunciation of ou h Theplural of potato may have no terrorsfor him but set him to pronounce thissentence Invented by Punch Aroughcoated doughfaced ploughmantrode coughing and hiccoughingthoughtfully through the streets cfScarborough The foreigner who couldtake that fence would deserve

nationalization as he alighted Inregard to the popular pronunciation ofBerkshire Derby and clerk a

correspondent reminds us that the lateProf Freeman discussed the questionsome twenty years ago In the nineteenthentury Prof Freemans view wuthat It did not matter whether we sayBarkshlre or Berkshire since bothire equally wrong He supposed that theoriginal and proper sound of the firstsyllable was the same as that heard inberry or Berwick when they are

tot pronounced as they are in many prorinclal district burry aa Burricli-f you take a Scotsman unawares te jrlTinvariably revert to the originalproper Bairkshlre and clalrk

THE SCOTCH FUSILIERS

Yes smiled the English host Isure you that the mow

cent as you call in it America has noti few followers in this country

Oh gurgled the young lady fraysNew York who had been invited over forhe coronation that is true and It is Just too sweet Why yesterdayve saw a whole regiment of soldiers

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