Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-09-11
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water is turned into steam, and then is
forced olt and up again into the sea or
on the land in the form known as geysers
or boiling springs. Anyhow, the National
Geological Society has reported the fact,
and the scientific world will have to settle
1t In some way. The contribution was GER
tainly one of the greatest possible value,
for the idea Of a great big hole under the
seas and oceans Is new one. The won
derful thing In the matter is why 1t has not
been filled up The theory that this water
supplies the geysers or hot springs Is the
only one that explains the disappearance Of
the water under the sea, and its reappear-
ance, or, at least, supposed temperance,
in other places as geyserS or boiling
springs. 1t is supposed there is similar
disappearance of water in many other
places in tie world. though none other has
been as definitely reported"
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ut makes me feel sorry for human ma
ture." remarked q well-known lady to
Star reporter, Ito see the illustrations of
meanness that frequently occur about our
markets. They surpass any that I have
ever read of. and occur daily. The offend
ers, I am sorry to say, are nearly always
women, and in many instances are women,
judging from their appearance and dress,
who have no reason other than pure I'M
adulterated meanness for their practice.
A few mornings ago. while at the Riggs
MARKET, On Z street, saw woman dp-
proach an old colored auntie, who had the
usual stock of herbs. wild flowers, ETC., on
her stand. and ask the price of some golden
rod she displayed. She was informed that
three punches were sold for five cents.
Picking out the best bunch of the three,
she inquired If she could have it for one
cent. The colored auntie told her the price
for single bunch was two cents. 1t does
not cost you anything the would-be pur
chaser replied, and do not see why you
should charge SO much for it, The auntie
looked at her with a whitening look and -e-
piled: No: 1 did not pay anything for it,
but / tramped around for over an hour in
the woods to gather it. Then 1 toted- 1t
seven miles into the city on my head, start
ing from my home two hours before day
light this morning. and if / can't get two
cents for that bunch of golden rod I'll give
IL away before 1 will sell it for one cent
There was no purchase made.
In few minutes i heard woman
wrangling with another auntie trying to
get a cympling for one cent, the price of
them being, as in the former case, three
for five cents. She, too. had picked out the
auntie consented to sell it for one cent.
though she insisted that she ought to have
two cents for it. This was mean enough,
but verse was to come Put it In a bag
for me- the purchaser said. don't
intend to carry it in my hand Lady
said the auntie, I like to sell my few
things. and 1 works hard to get them, but
this is too much. The paper bags large
twenty-five cents a hundred. and I can't
afford to do it, Well said the woman.
who was miscalled lady If you won't
give me bag to hold 1t l won't buy and
she went on. Now, to my mind, there Is
no excuse for such meanness. l was told
that the woman who declined to buy the
cymbling rides to the market In her own
carriage"
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1.-The improvements in the matter of tele-
graphs and telephones have been wonderful
of late years." remarked telephone line
contractor, VINO is now at work in Fairfax
county. Va. on long-distance telephone
line which is being constructed from Rich
mond to New York and which will cross
the Potomac near the Chain bridge, but
the work of constructing the lines has i'm
proved as well. Companies now put up
five miles of wire easier and at less ex-
pense than they could put up one mile even
five or six years ago. Dynamite Is used to
dig the post holes where picks and other
old-style blasting were used short while
ago and with it holes in solid rock can be
dug at less expense than shoyelers can dig
cut holes in a clay or mari bank. Another
thing is the wire. The best grade of pure
copper wire as thick as is needed can now
be strung at less expense than the old GAL
vanized iron wire, which was used so ex-
tensively a few years ago for telegraph
lines and later on for telephone wires. The
ga ngs of workmen needed are carted about
the country in wagons larger than the
Gospel mission wagon of the Union Mission,
and are fed and slept on the principle of the
big circus organizations. The wagons We
use have the capacity of furnishing sub
stantial beds for sixty men, fifteen men
sleeping in eaen wagon. The cooking
range is as large as that in any of the
Washington hotels, that and the kitchen
outfit occupying a separate wagon. In
stead of foraging on the country, as the old
telegraph line constructors were forced to
do and seldom getting a set-down square
meal, our people get two regular meals
each day, the midday meal being sent out
in cans to the men along the line"