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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-08-04
SERVANTS IN JAPAN.
They Render Excellent Service II They
Are Treated with Consideration.

Japanese servants are excellent IL you
choose them with discretion aud treat
them with the established consideration
of the country. There is n universal So
cial compact in Japan TO make life
pleasant by politeness. Everybody is
more or less well bred and hates the
man or woman who is yakamashu-
noisy, uncivil or exigent
People who lose their temper are al.
ways in a hurry, bang doors, swear aud
swagger, find themselves out of place
in a land where the lowest cody learns
aud practices an ancient courtesy from
the time when he wabbles about as u
baby upon his mothers back. Therefore
to be treated well in Japan--as perhaps,
indeed, ,elsewhere-you must treat every
body, including your domestics, well,
and then you will enjoy the most pleas
ant and willing service.
Your cook will doubtless cheat you u
little, your jinrikisba man will now
and then take too much sake. the mus
mu and the boys wife will gallop all
over the place about everything you do,
and the gardener and the coachman will
fight cocks i'm the back yard when your
back is turned, but If conscious of your
own you can forgive the little sins of
others. You can hardly fail to become
closely attached to the quiet, soft voiced,
pleasant people, who as soon as they
have learned your ways will take real
pleasure in making life agreeable to you.
A present now and then of Il kimono
to the maids Of toys and sweetmeats to
the children, days holiday now and
than granted to the theater or the wres-
tling match are richly rewarded by such
bright faces and uDmistakable warmth
of welcome OH arriving and of good
speed OH going as repay you tenfold
Respectful as Japanese servants are
and they never speak except on their
knees and faces-they like to be taken
into the family conversation and to sit
sometimes in friendly abandon with the
master and mistress, admiring dresses,
pictures or western novelties and listen
ing sometimes to the samisen and koto
as children of the household. Edwin
Arnold i'm Scribner's
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-08-04

The Western Morning News reports q
remarkable case of superstition. A
young woman in Penzance had suffered
from fits. and she adopted u remedy
which would be to most people almost
q repulsive as the disease itself She
procured live toad, placed it in bag,
hung it around her neck and carried il
next her body. The woman was cured
Of her fits, but she was being medically
attended at the Pensance infirmary at
the same time. The woman believes.
however. that this Was a coincidence
and that her strange talisman was the
instrument of her cure.-South Wales
News
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-08-04

About 10000. 600 of the bovine spe.
cies are now to be found in the Argen-
tine Republic. They are all descendants
of eight cows and one bull which We're
imported into Brazil in the middle of
the sixteenth century.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-08-04

The custom of inscribing upon tomb
stones was in vogue among the Greeks
and Romans. The Greeks only did this,
however, in the case of their illustrious
men, but when Roman died he was
duly buried near highway, and OH his
tombstone was carved suitable inscrip-
tion, which in the majority of cases be-
gan with "Sta, viator" (stop, traveler)
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-08-04

"IIonors of war" is the privilege al
lowed to the enemy, on capitulation, Of
being permitted to retain their arms
This is the highest honor victor can
pay vnnquished foe.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-08-04
no Live.

10 live is to have justice, truth, rea-
con, devotion. probity. sincerity. com
mon sense, right aud duty welded into
the heart. Victor Hugo
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-08-04
A Different Matter.

Tho Man (expectantly)-Then you
will be my wife?
Thv Girl--No, indeed. I simply said
] lovcd you. New York Ledger.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-08-04

yVANTED-FAtTliFC MEN OR WOMEN
w to travel for responsible established
house in Pennsylvania. Salary $3.50 and ex
penses. Position permanent Reference.
Enclose sclf-uddrcsscd stamped envelope.
The National, star Insurance Bldg Chicago.
Evening star., 1897-04-13

The Minnesota Association met Saturday
evening at Legion Hall, 419 10th street
northwest as previously announced Mrs.
w. w. Case. second vice president, had pre-
pared most enjoyable program, consisting
of the following numbers: Piano solo, Miss
Reed; contralto song, Mrs. Adele Croissette
Oxley; recitation, Miss Charlie Garner; the
Busaboo Song (originaD. Mrs. Clifford
Howard; Irish dialectic recitation, Mr. w.
w. Case; contralto song, Mrs. Oxley; reci-
tation. Miss Katherine Garner; duet, in the
negro dialect, Miss Hattie e. Hawley and
Mrs. Clifford Howard; address, Gen. A c.
Hawley; the bugle calls, on a cornet. Mr..
l.. H. Wylie. The north star state was out
in force, there were frequent encores and
great enthusiasm, and the association de-
cided 10 hold its next meeting on Saturday
evening, April "a, at the same place. All
Minnesotians are cordially invited
Evening star., 1897-04-13
LOCAL MENTION.
AMusEMENTs TONIGHT.

Academy of Music--Hoyt's "a Texas
Steer"
Columbia Theater.-"The Prisoner Of
Zenda''
Grand Opera House.-"Jim the Penman.
Kernan's Lyceum Theater.-The Rentz-
Santley Company.
Lafayette Square Opera House.-Miss
Olga Nethersole in Carmen.
New National Theater.-Charles Hopper
in "Chimm:e Fadden-"
Willard Hall.-Exhibition of the Biograph.
Vitascope Hall, adjoining Columbia Thea
ter.-Edison's Vitascope.
42T 7th street.-The Crystal Maze.
Masonic Temple. atn and F streets north
west.-Easter Festival for the beEeht or
the Woman's Home Missionary Society or
the NJ. Z. Church of the District
Evening star., 1897-04-13

the order of the day at the vitascope ex-
hibitions at Vitascope Hall yesterday and
the new views which are being shown
elected much favorable comment, Several
new pictures were shown yesterday, al
though none of the old ones were taken out
of the exhibition, and the list now en-
braces almost every style of picture that
possesses the characteristics of life and
notion The vitescope scenes are clear and
distinct. and are thrown upon the screen
with a vividness that is startling to those
who are not familiar with this sort of a
picture. The exhibitions will be continued
this week at the usual hours, and the new
views will form one Of the main attrac-
tions.
seats for fba. ssoeon ~ onar. - he.in Of
the Lafayette Square Opera House next
Monday by the Castle Square Opera Com
pany will open at the bcx office tomorrow
morning.
Evening star., 1897-04-13
His Destination,

Walter Wyman. who said he came from
Rockville. Md. and was bound for heaven
or purgatory," he was not sure which. was
before Judge KimbalI today. and was held
to await the result of further Investigation
into the circumstances as to how he reached
Washington
street northwest by Policeman Cornwall
while wandering aimlessly about and un-
able 10 give any account of himself. The
accused told Judge Kimball that he was
tied IL Rockville and brought to Washing
ton. where he was released.
Evening star., 1897-04-13

The police have not yet completed the
work of taking the census, nor is 1t ex-
pected that the work will be finished for
several days. Lieutenant Boyle of the third
precinct Is the only lieutenant who has
made his returns to headquarters. The
figures show an increase of only about 600,
which Is only about one-half the increa Sc
when the census was taken before. Should
the other precincts make no better show
ing the increase will be unusually small,
as compared with past years. Although the
other precincts have not completed their
work. it Is thought at least two of them
will show decrease IL the popula tior
since the census taken two years ago.
Evening star., 1897-04-13
EXCURSIONS TOMORROW.

Steamer Manchester for Mount vernon,
Marshall Hall. Glymont and intermediate
lard.ngs at 10 a
Steamer Norfolk for Norfolk and Fortress
Monroe at 4 pm
Trains leave 13fa street and Pennsylvania
avenue for Mount Vernon at 6:p, looo, IL
am and 1905, 2-o5 and 4:13 pm
Trains leave 131t street and Pennsylvania
avenue for Arlington hourly from s am to
pm
Steamer Wakefield for Colonial Beach and
river landings at Z am
Evening star., 1897-04-13
Warrington Choir Choral Society

The Washington Choir Choral Society
held a mass meeting yesterday afternoon
at the Metropolitan A. NJ. E. Church. The
society has only lately been organized. the
following officers being installed by Rev.
alter H. Brooks yesterday: j. Henry
Lewis. president. Edw. Scott. vice presi-
dent H. L. Parrott. secretary; E. L. Rob
1nson, treasurer; j. T. Layton, musical di-
rector; J. T. Walker. assistant musical di-
rector: Eugene Compton, librarian, and
William johnson. assistant librarian The
new society will have its first rehearsal
next Wednesday evening
Evening star., 1897-04-13

Tomorrow is the last day for bass fishing
In Maryland and Virginia waters until the
1st of June There is severe penalty pro-
vided for violations of the law. and one
half the fines go TO the informers. Local
anglers are very much interested in the
enforcement OF the provisions of this act.
and with the assistance of the men en-
pioyed along the Chesapeake and Ohio
canal they hope to prevent wholesale vio-
lations of the law
Evening star., 1897-04-13
CITY AND DISTRICT.
A Novel Window show.

Saks & Co. have utilized one of the big
7th street windows for an Easter display
that will prove specially entertaining to
the children An immense Easter egg. six
feet high, covered with natural MOSES
ard lichens, stands in the middle Of a nest
of green. around which are sporting in
Vulnerable squirrels and birds. Through a
nUmber of cracks glimpses are caught of
the inside and Of fairies fitting hither and
thither. Hidden electric lights give a bril-
liant contrast to the deep brown and green
of the outside.
Evening star., 1897-04-13
Mrs. AckIan.. Divorce su,t

Mrs Laura Crocker Acklan of Cleveland,
Ohio. appeared before the joint legislative
committee on divorce at Dover, Del. yes
terday and testified in her suit for a separ-
alton from William Hayes Acklan of this
city She charged her husband with ex-
trere cruelty and desertion
Evening star., 1897-04-13

Free Demonstration mt Mertz'n.
A representative of the Rabuteau Com
pany will illustrate the treatment used in
beautifying the face and form by the Rabu-
teau preparations to all lady visitors at
Mertz's Pharmacy, 11th and F, tomorrow
from 10 am. to 5 p.m.-AdVt.
Evening star., 1897-04-13

sion he told of the work Of the Deaf Mute
College, and said that while people went
from here co get methods of education, the
foreign countries now have to come here to
learn in what this college has surpassed
them.
Evening star., 1897-04-13
He Was Dead,

When the case of Frank Nelson and
James Green was called today before Judge
Kinlbal Officer Mcdaniel said that Green
was dead. The evidence showed that Oh
the night of February 81 1896, the two
men had fight, during which Nelson
struck Green in the mouth and knocked
him down. The policeman got out warrants
for the men the next day. but both disap-
peared, and since then Green died Nelson
was not again seen by the policeman until
yesterday, when he was at once taken into
custody. He was fined S.
Evening star., 1897-04-13
OCEAN TRAVEL.
NORTH GERMAN LLOYD
ANCHOR LINE


UNITED STATES MAI. STEAMSHIPS
Sail from New York every Saturday for Glasgow
via Londonderry.
Rates for Saloon Passage; CITY OF ROME, $40
Other steamers, $50.
Second Cahin-Rome, $42 so; Furnessia, $37 so.
other steamers S35
Steerage Passage-Rome. $3.50: Furnessia,
$24.50: other stec'ucrs, 81. 80.
For illustrated Book OF Tours and further
information, apply to HENDERSON BROTHERS
General Agents, Bowling Green, n. ", or c. W
MOSS. 921 Penna. NV, EDW. f. DROpP
& SONS. 925 Penna. ave, Washington. aI3-3ma
Evening star., 1897-04-13

Tre Anacostia police have been asked to
find an open-face nickel watch and the
man who stole It. The request was made
by James Adams. who lives on Railroad
avenue.
Evening star., 1897-04-13

SmalFs Easter Plants and Flowers.
j. H. Small & Sons. 1fth and G streets;
and 1853 Broadway. New York.-Advt
Evening star., 1897-04-13

For Spring Lamb and New York Roast sc
to John r. Kelly. 9th ST. wing, Center Mar
ket. Corned Beef a speciality.
Evening star., 1897-04-13
$3.50 to New York md Returr

The B. and o. r. r. will sell round-trip
tickets to New York for all trains including
the Royal Blue flyers. April 26, good for re-
turn until April %. inclusive So 80 for the
round trip.-Adyt
Evening star., 1897-04-13

HUYLER'S EASTER OFFERINGS.
A large variety of novelties to be fillef
with delicious Ronbons and Chocolates
Make the selection early at their store
corner T and 18th SITS.
Evening star., 1897-04-13
@@ll lANNsAMERlGA LIME

From New York to Rotterdam and Amsterdam via
Boulogne Sur Mer: 3& hours from Paris London
SS- MAASDAM April ID, 10 am.
SIS. WERkENBAM. April 10, 10 am
First cabin, x12. so and up; second cabin &36 For
Information apply to General Passenger Agency 80
Broadway, New York to G. W. Moss, 92l Pa
ave-; E. F. Droop, 925 Pa ave, and Crane, Paris
{ Co. Ebbitt House. Wasington. D. C. mh2- th&s6rn
Evening star., 1897-04-13

Last Saturday man hired a bicycle at
the store of Jones & Burr. 513 9th street,
and failed to return it. The wheel was an
Envoy. No. 1881, and the police have been
asked to find the man and wheel.
Evening star., 1897-04-13

Between : and 10 O'Clock last night bur-
glars visited the premises Of William A.
Taylor. No. s04 Az street southwest, and
robbed the clothes-Ene of the weeks wash
The line was not stolen.
Evening star., 1897-04-13
An Exquisite Easter Gift

beautiful Flowers. artistically arranged in
box to match j. Louis Loose, cor. 18th & F.
Advertisement
Evening star., 1897-04-13

Money to lend at and 9 per cent on real
estate Frank T. Rawlings. 1905 Pa ave-
Advertisement.
Evening star., 1897-04-13

II you want anything. try an ad in The
Star II anybody has what you wish, you
will get an answer
Evening star., 1897-04-13

Boards. 12-in.. lie. per foot. 9th & N.Y.ay
advertisement.
Evening star., 1897-04-13
This is Not the L0rxeat S<ore

But II Is one OF the promptest, cleanest
ana most reliable butter establishments in
the United States One price to all and
that the lowest James F. Oyster. 800 Pa
aye.-Adyt
Evening star., 1897-04-13

ORAGE-FIREPROOF BUILDING.
Empire Carpet Cleaning Co., Gl Mass.
ave. Carpets and Mattresses Renovated.
Evening star., 1897-04-13

Ligntring Rods. Kueh.in ,129s & 1920 Pa a,
ROUGH DRY LAUNDRY,
2ic per dozen. 1893 14th st. NV.
Evening star., 1897-04-13
SmaIr. Eaxter Eloxx.r.

14th and G sts.: and 1153 Broadway. N. Y
Don't miss seeing our Easter display
Advertisement
Evening star., 1897-04-13
Taking the Census,

Boards. 12-in.. 1c- per foot. Libbey & Co
Advertisement.
Evening star., 1897-04-13

Celebrated Leonard dry-air refrigerators
Low prices. A. Eberly's Sons, I1S 1th NV.
Evening star., 1897-04-13

HAVE HOT CROSS BUNS
For GOOD FRIDAY breakfast. We make
real English buns. Send in your order as
early as pos 81 sic. .pl Fuss ellis .1f2IN aV.
Evening star., 1897-04-13
French Lime.

CoMFAGNlE GENERALE TRANsATLANTIoUE,
DIRECT LINE TO PARIS FRANCE
VIA HANRE.
La Norn.andie, Deloucle. Sat, April IL, 10 n nm
La Champagne. PoirOt. Sat, April "a 10 a m
La Gascoene. Baudelon. Sat. May 1, 10 a m
RATES OF PASSAGE-First-class New York TO
Paris, s1o5 and upward by ali steamers except La
Touraine including railway fare Paris and land
ing charges. Second-class to Paris $54.75 A
FORGET, General Agelt, General Once, No z
Bowling Green, NY. G. VI. MOSS, 92l Penn. ave,
Washington. ID. c. ja191y
Evening star., 1897-04-13
L'EtOfle du Nord.

Boards. 12-in.. 1c. per foot. 9th & N.Yav.
advertisement
Evening star., 1897-04-13
End of Fishing,

Boards, 12-in-, 1c. per foot. Libbey G. Co.
advertisement
Evening star., 1897-04-13

SOMETHING NEW
Blue flame oil cooking stoves. A. Eberly'
Sons. IFS 1th NV.
Evening star., 1897-04-13

Electric Fans, Lights, Bells. J.H. kuehline
Evening star., 1897-04-13

PriceArbuckle's Coffee lower. Johnstcn's.p.4.
Evening star., 1897-04-13
CITY ITEMS.

Tested by Time. Fer Bronchial affec-
tions. Coughs, etc, Browns Bronchial
Troches have prov ed their efficacy by
test of many years. Price 25 cents.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1897-11-05

a typewriter automatically. What is
called the Delany system Is still more
rapid. But all these achievements and
projects are surpassed by a plan de-
scribed by Lieut. George Owen Squicr
of the Third United States artillery
and assistant professor of physics az
Dartmouth. In some experiments
conducted by Lieutenant Squier. in co
operation with Prof A. c. Crehore at
Fort Monroe. a speed Of 1000 words
per minute was actually attained, and
the assertion is made that from 3.009
tc 6,000 words a minute may be sent
by the same system between poinss as
far apart as New York and Chicago
One great novelty about the new
plan is that 1t utilizes an alternating
current instead of a constant enc.
Now, If an alternating current be In
terrupted. and If the interruption oc-
ours at just the stage Of an alteration
which is midway between a positive
and a negative wave, there win be no
spark, because the force which was
flowing In one direction subsidies &c
zero before 1t begins to flow in the
other. What Messrs. Squier and Gre
hore propose, then, is to Interrupt
their current and restore. it at just
such zero points in the oscillation as
this. But the sparks will not disap-
pear unless the make and ''break"
occur at precisely the right instant;
and thus a simple and valuable guide
Is afforded the operator in adjusting
his apparatus. When he finds that
sparkling has ceased, he knows that his
transmitter interrupts and restores the
flow at the zero stage, and is working
In perfect harmony with the particular
frequency of alienation employed
Now. let us suppose that the Morse
alphabet. which is composed Of dots
and dashes, is TO be tried with this sys-
TEN. In that case a break lasting from
the beginning of a positive wave until
its end might stand for the dot, and a
break from the beginning of a positive
wave. but continuing past its subsi-
dence through the rise and fall OF the
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1897-11-05

Some recent visitors to Daniel
Webster's old home in Marshfield,
Mass, found only one man in the
neighborhood who could talk from
personal knowledge about the states
man, and not soul who bore his
name or claimed direct or indirect
descent from him. The exception was
an aged person named Wright, who
said that in the old days he had been
the superintendent OF Webster's big
farm, and had known him well and
intimately for years, not as the great
orator and politician, of course, but
as the gentleman farmer, kindly en-
ployer and good neighbor. Mr..
Wright somewhat reluctantly adj
mitted that as an agfieultarist his
famous friend was not brilliant sue
cess in pecuniary way, but he says
that no one ever loved a quiet rural
life better, or took keener, more
minute or more personal interest in
all that went on in the fields, woods
and barns. HE loved this place,
every tree and flower and living thing
on it. He knew every sod that was
turned, every COW that was MIXED,
every blade of grass that was moved
and his steersl There was a man
who knew an oxlp And then Mr..
Wright told how Webster. when near
deaths door, had his favorite oxen
driven up before the window Of the
manse that has now disappeared. 81
was there and drove them up, two by
two, while Webster stood by the
window and watched them pass. 1t
was sad day for that household, and
when he was gone everything began
to go down hill. At the end of two
years the place was closed up and sold
piecemeal. Some parts Of it fetched
good prices. others almost nothing.
According to this authority Webster
never drank to excess. and ''his only
trouble was the fact that he did not
have as much money as he needed. "
Mr.. Wright is over so years old, but
he still works daily in his fields and
shows few signs of extreme age -
New York Times.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1897-11-05
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.

The fastest flowing river in the
world is the Sutlei, in British India,
with descent Of $4,000 feet in $50
niles
Railways in Holland are so carefully
managed that the accidental deaths on
them average only one year for the
entire country.
1t is no unusual thing for vessel
plying between Japan and London to
carry !, 900, 900 fans of all kinds as
single item Of its cargo.
In agreeable contrast to the familiar
mo thoroughfare" sign is an inscrip-
ton at Sabine, Me-, which reads:
Private way; welcome"
The longest straight railroad line in
America is on the Lake Shore railway,
beginning at point three miles west
Of Toledo, Ohio, and running SO miles
without curve.
Toronto hotels have been bothered
by man who persists in putting six
names on the register and ordering six
rooms, although no one accompanies
him and herepresents nobody but him
self.
Among the numerous superstitions
of the Cossacks there is none stronger
than the belief that they will enter
heaven in better state if they are
personally clean at the time they are
killed.
A stout gentleman in Holton, Kan,
who weighs 800 pounds, has for the
past six weeks been trying to reduce
his avoirdupois by long and frequent
rides on horseback. Up to date, it is
the horse that has lost flesh.
Ona man with money enough to buy
his mortuary monument ahead of time
who is not ashamed of his vocation is
John Hyman, of Loogootee, Ind, who
has had carved in stone barrel with
keg on top gift, the barrel inscribed
"a Cooper py Trade. .
OF a family of seven brothers uamed
Luke and ding in Irwin county, Ga.
all of whom lived to an age of more
than seventy years and two of whom
survive, not one ever had lawsuit or
any kind of court case. Down that
way the record is spoken of with
praise.
Tom Paugh Of Backbone Mountain,
the distinguished snake hunter OF
Harrison county, West Virginia, has
done 1872 rattlesnakes to death in the
past summer. He declares the larg-
est Of them to have been of only the
modest length of eight feet. 1t had,
however, eighteen rattles.
Bamboo grows very thriftily in Cal
ifornia bottom lands aud is found to be
a very useful plant. The seed of many
species resembles rice, and is almost
as valuable for food. The stalk may
be used in the building Of bridges,
fences and barns, aud in the mean
facture of water pipes, furniture and
boxes.
The peculiar walk Of a name on Chest
nut street, Philadelphia, drew the at
tention Of all who saw him. Some Of
his steps were short, some long, and
some OF average length. He was what
is called "a erack-stepper, striving
to avoid stepping on the cracks ia the
pavement, as he thought it unlueky to
/ touch them.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1897-11-05

"ANTEDs--Several trustworthy gentle
w men or ladies 10 travel In Marvlanf
for established, reliable house. SALARY s7n
and expenses. Steady position Encl,,=e
reference and self addressed STAMPED envel
ope. The Dominion Company. third Floes
Omaha Bldg. Chicago. LII