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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-03-07
SOUTHERN RAILWAY.
Viedmobt Air Line.l
Schedule in effect January q, 1896

PSnnSylglni9
ia sclgcr Station.
SOD A.M.-Daily-LocaI for Dan'ille Connects a,
M:nas as tor STR sburg, daily, except Sunday. and
at L-ynehburg with the Norfolk al d Western daiy,
aid with {. a. U. daily for Natural Bridge aud
Clifton Forge.
HIS AM.-Daily-The UNITED STATES FAST
and Washington TO Jacksonville, uniting at Char.
hottie with Pullman Sleeper for Augusta: also Iull.
goinery, connecting at Atlanta with Pullman Sleep
for Birmingham, Memphis and St. Louis.
4:0l P.M.-Local for s,rasburg, daily, except Sun.
day.:
i:!1 PM.-Daily-Loeal for Charlottesville
1905 P.M.-Daily-New York and Florida Short
Line, Limited. Pullman Compartment and obserya.
Pullman Draw ing Room Sleepers. New York to
Tampa and Augusta; Ncsiibuled Day Coach, Wash.
insion 10 ST. Ausi slime. and Dining Car. Salisbury
lo:43 PM-Daily- wAsnINGToN AND SOUTH.
WESTERN vESrIBUL-ED LIMITED. composed 0
a Issf man slefpeFs Dnl Y Cars and Day
and Hot Springs, NC; New York TO Memphis via
birmingham, New York to New Orleans via At
Washington to Atlanta. Southern Hallway Dining
i; TRAINS BETwEE .S' WaSiiSGToN AND ROUND
HILL lave Washington 3:0l M. daily and 4: IS
oniy for Round Hi; 1872 pm. daily. except
Sunday. for LeesbnIs. and 90 IN; daily, for s
A NJ and 300 PM daily from Round HILL 7:0e
M. daily except Sunday, iIom Hernion. and s:3A
Through trains from the south arrive at Washing
ton 6:42 AM, 9:45 An, 2:2o PM. and .: 10
Pm daily. Manassas Division. 1000 M. daily.
except sunday, and $40 AN. daily from Char
Tickets, Sleeping Car reservation and information
furnished at Offices. Sill and 1900 Pennsylvania
nue. aid a. Pennsy lvania Railroad Passenger Sta.
W. II. GREEN. General Superintendent.
J. NJ. CUI.P. Traffic Manager.
w A. TURK. General Passenger Agent.
JAZZ L. $. BROWN. Gen. Agt. Pass. Dept.
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CIGARETTES.
A VICTIMS STORY OF THE DEADLY
HABIT.
From the Evening Times, Buffalo. n. Y

From the Evening Times. Buffalo, N Y
Charles Roderick of No. 1877 East Genesce street
Bu1alo. n. Y, hale, hearty lad, stood leaning
carelessly against the banster at the head of the
stair
He was DIRE. sed in his working clothes. His
trousers shirt and haI DIS Were CO, cred with pastc
for they were paperlng at his tcme He looked
The perfect picture cf robust, manly health.
Yes, he said TO the Times reporter, stretch
Ing his arms and expanding his chest, I'm as
strong as an OK LOW, but you ought TO have seen
me year ago Why You really wouldn't have
known
I'm almost ashamed TO say it, but I am addicted
TO the cigarette habit The smoking of these little
things and tobacco chewing here ne right Down.
Il grew worse and worse. Each day. each week
saw my step mere feeble, my form cmacate ed,
until my friends predicted an early grave.
Il unable continue my work as steam
filter.
Il tried everything. No man ever had better
medical treatment than l did but twas use.
Dust Imagine a young boy like Ele The is about
twenty years of agci afflicted with almost all the
Illness known. Ny heart was bad. very weak and
given to palpita'ing. 1 was always costiye ana.
OH. my, 50 weak l was continually splitting blood
and gasping for breath. So bad did this become
that L was afraid to go to sleep for fear would
Il believe 1 told You I had the best of medical
Treatment. Six d9c'ors-i don't care to put their
1 became about discouraged"
Mr.: Roderick mentioned the doctors by name
10 reporter, anu ali We're among tLe Hlost
prominent in the city, living Main, Delaware,
Franklin, GeIcsee and other fashionable thorough
fares.
About year ago took my first box Of the
medicine that has saved my life.
Il tell you frankly that DR.. Williams Pink
Pills for Pale People tn. best medicine ]
have taken
Il took five boxes of Pink Pills. Just less
hox than had had doctors. and was well man.
And the pills only cost me so cents box AT that.
Il don't like newspaper rotoTiety. said Mr..
Rod.rick as the reporter turned to go. land
wouldn't let you my name il it wasn't be-
cause l want others to be benefited by my dis
cove:y.'
DIR. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People now
given to the public unfaiinc blood builder
and nerve rcstorer, curing all forms OF weahncss
arising from n watery condition Of the blood or
shattered nerves. Tie pills are sold by al deal
crs, will he sent post paid on receipt OF price
GO cents boz. or six boxes for So59-tacy are
sold in hnik by the 100, by addressing DIR.
Williams Medicine Company, Schenectady, y. y.
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CATS AND DOGS AS TEACHERS.
Domestic Animals to In,part BETTER
BANNERS to Lions and Tigers.
From the New YORK wo-IJ

FROM the New York World
III you Were to obtain entrance to a cir
Gus menagerie enc of these bright winter
days you would be aston:shed to see what
number of cats and dogs make them
selves at home in the buildings which quar-
Ter SO many queer beasts from all parts of
the globe.
The dogs are of all sorts and sizes; huge
and voraciouS Danes and wolf hounds and
the tiniest pets. The cats are large. hand
some. bright-lool,ing fellows famous nous
ers some of them, and have that air of
sleek and well-fed responsibility shown
only by cats of breeding who are well
treated.
ny is it," asked recent visitor, that
with so many wild animals you keep SO
many domestic ones? 1 should think You
for the former,
All. there is where you show your ignor
ance' said the attendant. I'VE wouldn't
let one of these little fellows go for a good
zeal III there We're none to replace them
Mice and the elephants Ell ~
We'll that is ore reason but there are
others The psychological effect of those
The what?"
The Psychological effect. Oh. YOU
needht laugh. | mean what I say. You
nave no idea what a soothing effect these
Attie domestic animals have on our cagei
ones. when the latter see members of
their own families. so 10 speak happy and
cohtented in their quarters it does not
seem 50 strange and horrible as it would
otherWlse appear to be shut up so close to
men L have seen lion or "A tiger or some
other member of the feline race watch a
domestic cat for hours. with look of
questioning and surprise. If it saw one of
me men stroke the latter and note that
the animal showed signs of pleasure. thu
Disser animal seemed to grow TRANQUIL
1tssH under the optical spell. There's a lot
ol unconscious hypnotic suggestion about
our little animals, and one of the reasons
why our menagerie is SO successful, I be-
i!eFe. Is because We have so many domes-
TIC animals in our midst
ou nave often heard ii said that lions
anu tigers can never be raised in captivi1v
put we are doing ii all the time One of
our secrets OF success is that We let CON
tehtei cats raise families in sight of the
cases OF the larger animals The latter
note the pleasant object-lesson, and are
cured or the mania of eating their Young
as they 90 in less successful mena eeries
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the expenditure of considerable sums of
money and the question must he consfd-
cred as to whether or not the advantages
to be secured will equal this cost. Great
engineering works like the construction of
filters will not be undertaken to save
single life nor to prevent dozen cases of
fever. 1t must be show n that the advan-
tages to be obtained are comparable with
the expenditures involved. To do this we
can best make use of a line of reasoning
similar to that SO often used in deciding
upon the merits Of projects for the aboli-
ton of grade crossings or for the adoption
of other Lfe-saNing arrangements.
The cost of constructing filters for a city
depends upon a whole series OF geological
climatic and other conditions, which can
not be discussed in this place. With what
we may perhaps consider average Ameri-
can conditions, We may estimate the cost
OF filters very roughly at three and half
dollars per inha!Jitant or S;aoow for a city
of one hundred thousand inhabitants, and
the cost Of operation, including interest Oh
first cost as well as sinking fund payments.
may be estimated at thirty-tiva cents per
annu1n for each person supplied with wa
ter.
The injuries resulting from the use of
impure water to be balanced against this
cost are many. A few of them the
Objectionable appearance, taste and odor of
such water; the causation OF diarrhcea and
other minor diseases, which are hardly no.
tced upon the mortality reports. but which
are none the Ices uncomfortable for the
people suffering from them, the losses. III
rect and il Girect. resulting from typhoid
fever in a City, loss of time for those suf-
fering from it, doctors, nurses and hos
pital bills and loss of the lives of those
dying.
Then there is the danger from cholera,
and while we hope that this dread disease
will not again have a foothold on our
shores. We know from all past experiences
that should IT do so, it would attack the
cities with polluted water supplies; and
We should gladly pay for purifying such
supplies for much the same reason that
we pay insurance rates to protect our
selves from great and terrible, although
remote, danger.
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OF damage suits by American railroads can
not be computed with any positiveness, be-
cause 1t varies considerably from year to
year. When roads are in good condition,
accidents involving loss of life or serious
bodily injury are rare; when roads are in
poor condition; such accidents are frequent.
The large systems of the country spend on
an average I'M the settlement of damage
suits about S150.OO0 each, and the smaller
railway companies bring up probably, the
total amount paid to about $3,O0O,0O0 in all.
Although the American railroads carry
| collectively in & year 6OOOO0.OO0 passengers,
the number Of fatal accidents averages but
about 300. arid of injuries to passengers
| about 5000. or One killed for every 100000
carried, and one injured for every 200, 600.
Pictures on the Tickets.
Said local railway ticket agent to Star
reporter the iether day:
Il am looking forward to the adoption of
plan on the railroads Of the east that
will absolutely establish peoples identity
and thereby prevent many swindles. 1 re-
fer to the California plan of photographing
every purchaser OF railroad ticket on the
ticket itself. In this way people can be
traced up to the moment of their disap-
pearance, and the little pictures will prove
to be the strongest kind of evidence in
| court.
THE California plan works in this way.
A purchaser presents himself at the win
cow and asks for a ticket. The senSitiZed
emu VI the ticket, with us paper covering,
is slipped into frame in the twinkling of
an eye. The whole ticket is then inserted
IN the Slot at the top Of the machine. The
agent presses spring. percussion cap ex-
p'odes, ignting flash light, the lens
covers, shutting almost instantly. and in
flash the picture is beingsautomatically de-
veloped The explosion of the fashlight
sets the machinery in motion, an elevator
draws the ticket down, leaving the light
tight case behind, to a point where the first
bath meets it. This bath is filled with de-
veioping solution. The first bath then gives
place to the second. AS these baths recede
they empty into the lower tank where the
developmen; is completed The whole pro-
cess occupies less than minute.
when that plan goes into effect there
Will be plenty of men who value themselves
at million who can be bought for cent,
especially if they try to travel on ticket
that contains the face Of another, or they
get hurt and the man to whom the ticket
originally belonged should come forward
and claim damages. That would be a state
of things"
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to%ralt -lIt;S the suns corona in broad day-
light. Tire results of this photography are
said to be so remarkable that MIR Packer
has withheld them from the public till this
late date that he might test them thor
ouSh!y; and 1T IS not until now, when he
Is convinced that his discovery is a real
MS brother astronomers.
The suns corona. rs is well known, can
be seen only during total solar eclpses.
When il shines out in soft silvery beams
all around The dark Iody of the moon as
she crosses the suns disk. 1t has been the
nope of astronomers that some way of eff
1ectlVeiy blocking out the suns glare
might be discovered. so that it might be
seen or photographed in ordinary times;
but till recently all such efforts have met
with little success. Now. apparently, Mr.
Packer has succeeded
The method is simple enough 1t has
IohS been known that thin metal foil or
metal films deposited on glass, will let
strong light through, though in ordinary
thckneSSeS the metals are extremely
opaque Packer has row discovered that
the rays that do succeed in getting through
are the Photographic rays, in which the
corona is very rich, while the solar disk.
with all its glare. has relatively few of
tlem- He, Therefore simply photographs
the sun through one of these films, and
gets a picture of what no mortal eye can
see-lhs solar corona in broad daylight.
Value of the Discovery,
The impt rtance of this to astronomers
may be imagined when it ds known that
they have not yet decided what the corona
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He Was Too Kind.
From the Philadelphia Record.

From the Philadelphia Record.
A well-known woman of this city contem-
plated giving reception, and one evening
when she had been remarking to her hus-
band that it was fully time the invitations
were out he resolved to give her a pleasant
surprise by sending them all off without her
knowledge. So he got his wife's address
book and went to work, going right down
the line of addresses, supposing, Of course
they We're all calling acquaintance
When his wife returned from the even
ingS entertainment to which she had been,
he said to her gayly, We'll, Mary, I've got
all the invitations Off"
You have?" was the pleasant answer"
why, how did you know whom to invite?'
Oh. well, l got your address book and
went down the list. l thought l would sur
prise you"
'If you wanted to surprise me you have
succeeded admirably said his wife, DO
you know whom you have asked? The
butcher, house-cleaners. laundresses, dress
makers and my own friends. 1 hope that 1
have very feWSueh surprises"
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price. the price at which he values himself:
the price at which others value him; the
price insurance companies put him on, and
the price the Supreme Court holds is suffi-
Gent for any human being in general. and
the man in question In particular. The mans
valuation of himself is variable quantity,
which jumps up and down IN such err
ratio style that it must needs be left out
The valuation of insurance companies Is the
most liberal of those which are fixed, and
the valuation of railroads is the poorest
Next to general who has an important
battle to win the railroads OF the country
sacrifice lives at the smallest possible cost,
yet this cost has driven several roads into
bankruptcy. Goa, mining is considered by
many to be exceedingly dangerous to human
life.yet the aggregate of hum an beings killed
on the railroads far exceeds those lost under
ground.
Several of the eastern and western states
have on their Statute books a law which
once prevailed i'll Pennsylvania, rating
human life as worth al the outside 5000.
Railroad companies coming uuder their jur-
lsd.ctons cannot be compel lad TO pay more
than that sum for any life lost through the
carelessness and negligence of their man
agement The person killed may be the
father or large family, and his industry
and ability may earn for the support OF that
family twice or thrice $1,000 yearly vet If
that man is killed through the cu!pIb!e mis-
management of A railroad. the company Is
quits by single $1,000 payment, and the
orphaned little ones must look elsewhere for
the support and subsistence thus with
drawn.
Death is Cheaper.
If the passenger is mutilated, but not
quite killed, the railroad company on whose
road he was injured may be compelled to
pay any sum not obviously unreasonable
that jury may assess. 1t often happens
that in case of accident it is for the IN
terest of the railroad company that the in
Iured passengers die, thereby limiting the
ccmpany's liability to 5000 in each case,
rather than that they should recover suffi-
Gently to sue for damages and be awarded
perhaps much larger sum.
Inc bigger roads nave sinking funds for
Just such emergencies. but the smaller
roads generally have such a struggle to
meet fixed charges that reserve fund is
not to be thought Of
The amount of money paid in settlement
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Won "a Bride and n Farm.

From the st. Louis GIobe-Dem0crat.
Miss Anna. the daughter of J. NJ. Hayes
was married at Chattanooga, Tenn, to Geo.
Miller. jr. of Toledo, Ohio. under rather ro-
mantle circumstances. The groom is the
son of Rev. George Miller. a Presbyterian
minister of Toledo During the dedica lion
of the Cnickamauga Park last September
Rev. Miller met his old boyhood companion
Mr.. Hayes. The latter has three grown
daughters The minister took great fancy
to Miss Anna, and determined that his son
should marry her, or at least one of his old
friends daughters. He took home photo
graphs of the three girls, and offered his
son a farm if he would marry one of them
The young man liked best the picture of
Miss Anna. The couple became engaged,
and Monday young Miller saw his fiancee
for the first time. Both were pleased. and
after spending a week here. the couple will
go to OHIO to reside on the farm thus won.
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Winters Eviction,
From the academy

Ihtef must go, soft the west wind is singing
,r,- y" Ioiser his ilini0n NORTHEASTERN shall blow:
ahe swallow, spring herald her edict is bringing
Winter must so.''
his SlFohsholds. frost fenced, has Phoebus laid
Ills letters that held her earth now is far fling
Ane Streams, long his prf on his impotence show
Anu safe meath the brier the first primros. Ia
clnging. p'iHiio>e Is
The dull banks are hrjpb, ,r;-b ,h ,,,
glow. ~ eei'if'ihe >
While clear from the hillside the sheep-be1 ia
ringing iA 10
Winter must 90"
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Desire VS.. Capacity.

Brom Truth.
Mr.. Callipers-'What kind of a bow is
Willie Wiggles?"
Little Clarence-"He is liar, pa
MIR. Callipers-'You should not talk so
about one of your playmates. Clarence"
Little Clarence = We'll. he is, pa. Why.
at the church supper, the other night. when
one OF the ladies asked him if he had cate,
All he wanted to. he told her yes n1a'am.
hold" ~ N'iN
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n AMERICA, UN-
til recently, but little
interest has been
manifested in filtra-
ton. In 1896 the late
J. p. kirkwood, then
engineer for the wa
ter board of the city
of st. Louis, was
sent to Europe to in
vestigate the pro-
cesses of filtration
then in Use. Mr..
kirkwood was much
impressed with the
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A Familiar Make I'm.
From Tid-Bits.

From Tid-BitS.
Mrs. Dix-'I wonder what present my
husband will bring me tonight%'
Mrs. Hicks-"What makes you expect
one? Is it your birthday"
Mrs. DiX-"No-o; We Quarreled this morn
ing"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-03-07

From the Chester pa.) Democrat.
Hoax-"I understand you ran away to
when you were boy?"
Joax-"No! 1 started to: but my father
caught me, and 1 went on a whaling ex-
petition with nimG'
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AID TO SOLAR RESEARCH
LOSE UPON PROF.

, LOSE UPON PROF.
Roe@tgen'S sensation
al discovery, D. f.
Packer Of South Bly,
n1inSham, England,
announces another
that has much SINH
iarity to it, though
tie cathode rays of
which il treats pro-
coed from that great
reservoir of electric
CT ergy-the sun. Mr..
Packer has since
July last been pho
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VALUATION OF MAN
According to Railroad, Insurance
and Supreme Court Ideas.
COST TO RAILWAYS OF ACCIDENTS
Fully 100000 a Year Paid in
Settlement Of Damage Suits.
AN ENIOUS PLAN
AN NOUS PLAN
All STATEMENT

H E STATEMENT
that every man has
his price is badly be-
hind the times. It is
in great need of re-
modelling, to suit the
ideas and customs of
the present. 1t should
re ad: Every man
has several prices"
for he possesses. as a
noted humorist has
said. several, If not
more"
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fkor Thing:

FXskor Thing:
From the Cincikfx% Enquirer.
There will NJ one advantage about the
horseless carfiS4 e. said Maud Ethel. 1T
won't mistakeg4he sound of kiss for a
chirrup to go Ester and compel the young
man to grab TIE reins with both hands"
The stme Old Joke.
From cAicasqsro Date.
"Deres netinl supersttchus bout me-"
remarked TIRED Tim as he downed another
whisky. + amt afraid of Spirits
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ATTORNEYS,

CAMPBELL CAR8INGTON, ATTORNEY lT-LAw.
Webster Law building, sos ID st. NV Wash!ne.
ton, DC: Residence, No. Mount Vernon Flats
New York ave. aud 9th st. NV. seIs