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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-08-04
MAKE NARROW ESCAPE.
Thrilling Experience of Two Young
Women of Washington.

Miss Mary Ball and Miss Fannie Powell
of this city had a narrow escape from in
slant death while out driving in the noun
tains at Harpers Ferry last night. The
horses were killed and the carriage was de-
molished. but the ladies escaped with few
cuts and bruises.
During the evening the ladies had enjoyed
a moonlight ride over the mountains. They
had returned to the hotel, and were about
to get out of the vehicle, when the horses
became frightened and ran away. Instead
OF keeping TO the road the animals turned
and rolled down the side Of the mountain,
landing near the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road tracks. 800 or 100 feet below The
young ladies jumped or were thrown from
the vehicle and were saved by landing in a
tree. They managed to retain their hold on
the tree branches until assistance reached
them. They were painfully injured, but
serious results are not anticipated -
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King Humbert,. Body Comnea.

. The remains Of King Humbert were yes
terday placed in a casket of walnut, COW
cred with lead and glass in such a manner
as to leave the face exposed. The cere-
p,ony. which took place in the presence Of
the royal family. was very touching
with the arms Of the House OF Savoy, over
the corpse.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-08-04
Economy.
From Harper's Bazaar

Billtpo-"You must be doing mighty well,
old man, to be able to charter. yacht"
Capton-"Not at ALL I'm doing 1t to save
money"
"How's that?'
I'm going to keep my wife atIsea for
whole month"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-08-04

FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST. SCIENTIST, SCOT.
tish Rite Hall, lOof q St n-w.-Seryices: Sunday
IT am. subject. SOUL; Wednesday:s- M:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-08-04

! The Fest Prescription for Malaria
Chtlls ard Few p bottle OF GRoyE.S TASTE.
Less CHILL TOXIC. 1t - simp1y Iron and oui.
je.3 9. tn th-a0t w.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-08-04

From Puck.

: Yes. bin talkin' politics more or less
with the folks round here" :
And what do you think of Bryan's
chances!" .-s.''~..@.e-. u, - - y.
We'll. think he'll get a majority-of the
votes he got last time
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CONGREGATIONAL.

Mt PLEASANT CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
Columbia road near 14th st. NV Rev NJ Roes
Ffshblrn rsstor.-930 a-m Sunday school: IL
am, reception Of members and Lords supper:
sermon by the pastor; pm. G. f. meeting. il
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-11-15

The fame of war which has started
in the Chinese empire may develop a
ponflagration which will threaten the
civilization of the world, if not en-
compass it's destruction. This danger
will not arise from the civilized ma
tons becoming jealous of n another
and warning among themselves, but
from the stirring into life and action
the dormant strength of the yellow
race. An agitation like the n in
progress may bring the seething mass
es of the Mongolians to a knowledge
of their strength and power, and then
their Unborn hatred Of the white races
and their savage fanaticism might lead
them to make an invasion OF Europe.
No one can tell what a talented and
artful commander might lead such
hosts to do. One who could invest
himself in the eyes of his countrymen
with something of mysterious and SUI
p~ernatural power might repeat the
history of Attila, the Scourge Of God.
Should Prince Tuan or some other I'M
known man of the people prove to be
4 NdDUlGOulC S0uluS uG 1n1SAL WSIQ I1S
yellow race into a fighting power
v ich would sweep the people of the
white races from the face of Europe
and America as the wind sweeps the
chaf from a threshing floor. That the
possibility of such a movement is be-
ing considered by the statesmen of
the civilized powers and that efforts
are being made to prevent it, is shown
in the hesitancy to allow the Japanese
to gain complete control in China by
suppressing the present uprising.
Should Japan gain control in China
it is probable that all the branches
of the yellow race would soon become
assimilated and united-China re
awakened, reinvigorated and instruct
ed by Japan would be far different
from the China of to-day. Japan has
made wonderful advancement in civ
~ilization during the past few years, but
her methods and ideals are widely diff
ferent from those of the Caucasian ma
tons. She has no sympathy in COM
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-11-15
THE RACES,
Threaten Civilization of
the World
Threaten Civilization of
the World

mon with the civilized powers, and her
leaders are shrewd enough to know
that she has nothing to expect from
the white races. The Japanese are
Mongolians and they would naturally
be more inclined toward people OF
their own race and color, like the
Chinese, than toward the whites. They
might fight among themselves, but In
a common cause against people of an
other race and color they would be
found shoulder to shoulder. Japan,
too, is ambitious, and she has a hatred
of the powers for their action in de-
priving her of what she believed was
her fruits of victory in the war against
China. 1t is an open secret that the
leading statesmen of China and Japan
believe that the yellow race should
control the continent of Asia. Should
it ever attain this power then the
threatening moment will have ar
rived. Then the yellow race will be
arrayed against the white.
The power of a united yellow race is
not fully realized, and the danger
which it would threaten is by no
means imaginary. 1t is real and its
reality is appalling. 1t would combine
more than o%ne-third of the population
of the earth and could put $4,000, 900
soldiers in the field. The measure of
these soldiers should not be taken by
the fighting qualities shown by the
Chinese during the Chinese-Japanese
war. The Chinese who took part in
that war formed a mere rabble. They
were not of the northern provinces,
where are found the real fighters of
China, nor were they of the better and
more intelligent classes of the south
ern provinces. The events of the past
few days prove this statement, for the
fanatical Boxers have not only fought
like demons, but have conducted their
movements with skill and have shown
their ability to handle modern weap-
ons of war. With a united yellow
race the Chinese would have the adj
vantage of Japanese teaching, dash
and leadership.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-11-15
The MiIIiOndire'S
Match Box.

He had pressed upon me one of his
own high-priced cigars.
Thanks" I said. "Match?"
Haven't you got one of your own"
mo. Come on. Hurry"
My friend the millionaire looked per-
turbed for a moment. Then his coun-
tenance cleared. I'VE shall be at Wa
terloo in twenty minutes he said,
"and then we can get a light at the
refreshment room. They never mind
your taking a match or two"
mo good" l said. 81 want to smoke
now. Hand over your box
With great reluctance ne handed me
his gold matchbox with his monogram
on it in emeralds-a pretty, unostenta-
tious little toy. He shut both the car
riage windows so that no draught
should neeessitate the use of more
than one match.
l opened the box and examined the
contents with care. He did not like
the examination. He WINGED under it.
He grew nervous
Come, come" he said, Tight up and
give me the box back"
HAS this been going on loa@?" I
asked.
What do you mean?"
"You know perfectly we'll what |
mean. There are several different
kinds of wax matches in this box"
We'll, there's nothing in that. Some
times l buy one kind and sometimes
another"
But you don't buy. six different
kinds at once, and then put some OF
each in your box. / am sorry to say
that you are a thief, a match-thief
You probably are a liar also, for
doubt if you have ever bought matches
at any rate, in recent years. repeat
my question-has this been going or
long?"
"They don't mind you taking n OF
two" he said, feebly.
But how about five or six? There
are five matches here of special quail
ity, long in the shank, thicker thar
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-11-15
Industries Under Free Trade.

That it is possible for industries to
become established and to flourish un-
der free trade was exemplified the 9TH
er day at Lithgow, when a party rep
~resenting a conference of i~ntercolonial
protectionists were invited by the
proprietary to come and see the iron,
steel and copper producing establish
ments at Lithgow. There are between
zoo and 3OQ men employed in the in
dustry, which has sprung up under
free trade. Under protection, when
federation is accomplished, this indus
try must increase, and Lithgow, a
center of iron and coal deposits, is
certain to become one of the chief
manufacturing centers of Australasia.
j. Hunter Stephenson, in Chicago
Record.
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CAN MARRY 800.
And Yet He Is willing to BE Oblfgins
as Possible.

Ana HeC he As Wiling to BE ObI1g1ng
as Possible.
The Reporter last week published a
copy of the advertisement for a wife
which A. G. Holmes of West End in
serted some time ago, says the Walton
IN " paper of that title. The ad-
vertisement got in the New York city
papers and Mr.. Holmes has received
more replies than he can rel answer
or even read, another evidence of the
value of advertising. de requests the
publication of the letter below to stop
further answers to his advertisement:
81, A. G. Holmes of West End, Walton,
would say that I Received about three
Hundred letters from Different ladeys
from the Advertisement which / Had
Published and it seams that all Of
these Ladies want to marry. 1t seams
that some of them is almost Grassy
for me to Marcy them, But I don't
know as l could marry three Hundred
very well. But l Have one that l think
will make me a good wife. I must say
that the report Published in the mid
dletown Paper is a Falls Hood and the
man LndL GuDllSnSu IL ID ~ Adn dC dill.
if a man cant, speak good of another
don't speak anything Because the Bible
says, Thou shalt not go up and down
as a Tail Barrier But I say to some
People sweep your own Door yard frs
and see that it is clean Befor you Dc
others any Harm and you will have
Plenty to Do, and I would say that
thank the Kind Ladeys Every where
for wrighting to me, and 1 would no
Have Published this statement for
wife so soon But I could not live alon'
it was so loansome. A. G. HOLMES"
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usual, made of good white wax. There
will be only four directly, because l
am going to light my cigar with one
of them. Where did you get them?"
practically, I did buy them. I pay
my club subscription every year, and
surely I have a right"
you have no right to take
away the club matches than you have
to pocket the club spoons, and you
know it. What about this match? It
has been carried loose in a pocket and
Is dirty. It has a pink head. 1t is
evidently a very cheap kind. I should
say it saved the smoker 33 per cent.
Where did 0 get it?"
Look here" he said, irritably, II
won't submit to these questions. Give
me my box back at once. He made a
grab at it, but eluded him.
You'll have to submit to these ques-
lions and to answer them truly, unless
you want to be shown up. Eyer heard
of the public prosecutor? Theft is
theft, and it's serious. Once more,
where did you get this wretched little
match? 1t looks like some poor mans
eve lamb"
eff you want to know, I got it from
a railway porter" he said sulkily.
"He gave ! 20 you on the under
stand1ng that you wished to use it at
once. You deceived him and sneaked
it-a poor mans solitary match. My
word, but you've fallen low, very
low"
"You don't know that it vas his
only match"
cts probable, and you don't know
that it wasn't. What about this one
the very short one with the mud on
it?"
81 came by it perfectly fairly. A
small boy in the street dropped it. He
looked for it for some time. but he
couldn't see where it had gone. l saw
it. l waited about, pretending to look
in a shop window until the boy had
gone, and then l picked it up. These
small boys ought not to smoke cigar
cites. It's perfectly ~scandalous
It -"
80 you cheat children as well, dc
YOU? Do you know what the law il
with regard to property found in thu
street? Have you no relics of a mora
sense?"
In my enthusiasm | had allowed m,
cigar to go out. I relit it with tn
railway porter's match. without payinj
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-11-15
THIS IS A SUN.SPOT YEAR.
Is There Any Relation Between That Fact
and Certain Others?

1t is believed. from evidences now
Eeen in the sun, that a period of great
activity is in progress there, and that
the effects of this Unreasonable force
will be seen during the next five years
in what is known as "sun spots.'
These sun spots are supposed to be
great solar volcanoes or other disturb
hnces of the SUMS surface in some Wis
tble way. The spots can be see easily
by observers during the years up to
1905, when the maximum will have
been reached. These supposed cavi-
ties sometimes go to a width Of about
10000 miles and then break up into
separating at the rate of 100 miles an
hour.
The energy sent out by the same
force that causes these sun spots must
be There are ONE reasons
for believing that before the spots
themselves make their appearance to
The right the energy is at work and is
radiated from the sun to the planets
of this system. At all events, the sun
spot periods are usually notable on
the earth by peculiar manifestations
of electrical energy. The electric
storms that have been seen in New
England lately are due, in some de-
gree, to the solar energy and the cleo
tricity sent to the earth as a result.
Such, at least, is a widely received
scientific theory.
1t may be that the sun spots are th5
energy of which they are merely tht
result work in some fashion that car
not be so easily traced. During the
past three years, when the suns en-
ergieS have been at work, Strang;
things have happened in the world. l
is merely a coincidence? II So, it is a
least worth notice that condolences 0
this kind are not rare if one takes tn,
trouble to look up the story of the civ
ilized world in the few years preceding
each period of outbreak Of SUI spots
say in the past so years.
To trace back the periods, reckonin
II years as the cycle, the beginning O
IL spot outbreaks would be reckone
in 1889, 1873, 1867, and 1856 in such
count. These dates are not exact be
cause the period of duration is not eX
actly measurable in units of years
Still it is surely worth some motto
that before the period of 1856 ther
came the desperate outbreak of tn
war in the Crimea; that before tn
period of 1867 the United States wa
ravaged by civil war to an extent hare
ly ever recorded in the history of an
other country, and that the great tral
edy of Lincoln's death had been r.
corded; that preceding the sun sp'
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-11-15
SYMPATHY WITH Beers.
Many Ways In Which 1t Finds Express
sion in Europe.

Many ways 1n u ~ Al ~NR~
sion In Europe.
In Brussels, in Amsterdam, in Paris,
in Berlin, one hears the music of the
Transvaal hymn everywhere, says a
writer. The Anglo-Boer war has rous-
ed a tremendous sentiment in Europe.
In every school of Belgium, Holland,
Germany, the children have made up
collections for the families of the dead
Beers. Millions of marks, guldens,
francs have thus been sent to the suf-
ferers of the veldt. In churches, in
cafes, in concert hall, at social gather
ings, the most popular form Of benevo-
lence this winter has been the Boer
subscriptions. If a few friends in
Cologne or The Hague gathered for a
game Of whist they sent the money
played for to the Beers, who never play
cards. If a dinner was given at a fash
ionable hotel the guests remembered
the farmers of the veldt, who hardly
| ever saw a hotel. At n restaurant in
Brussels, 1900 francs were collected in
an evening. Every city and town that
udS d h~OWoPop0A Ao0 hou
ton fund. A German rural paper
lifted 1000 marks. Sentiment in Hol-
land, Belgium and Germany is prac-
tically a unit pro-Boer, while in France
at least IS per cent lean the same way.
One quite pathetic form of Boer sym
pathy in Europe was the Klaus
Sammlung," or house collection This
was a subscription taken in little boxes
by children who called from house to
house.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-11-15

Big Mamma Makes Short Work of His
Tormentors.

Tormentors.
Last Sunday afternoon, while a con-
cert was being held at the Crystal Pal
ace, an elephant belonging to a circus
which had been performing there
broke from it's f~astenings and killed
it's keeper. 1t then brushed through
various partitions of wood and glass,
and appeared in the main building,
where a great number Of persons were
listening to the music. 1t did not at
tempt to hurt any of the crowd, though
it broke off with it's trunk the uplifted
arm Of a statue, probably under the
idea that this represented a man about
to strike. After some time it allowed
itself to be secured by another ele-
plant. 1t was then decided to kill the
animal, and after a dose of poison had
failed, a London gunmaker was sent
for as executioner, and shot the animal
dead. On the following Wednesday an
inquest was held or the body OF the
man. The evidence in favor of the
elephant could not have been more
clearly PIT. Mr.. Sanger, its owner,
admitted that the animal had once be-
fore killed a former keeper; and he
gave the facts which led to the death
of the second. The first man had been
discharged by Mr.. Sanger fifteen
months previously for gross brutality
to the animals. He came back and
asked to be employed again. This was
granted, and he was taken on, no as
a keeper, but as a laborer. The very
first time he went into the stable the
elephant, though it was quite dark at
the time, instantly recognized the mans
voice, and at once crushed him to
death against the stall. The creature
had acted only in a panic of horror at
the temperance of a tormentor was
SO we'll established at the previous in
quest that it was retained in h men
agerie. 1t was exceptionally doclle'
and was taken through towns and vii
lagos all over England. Why, then,
did he kill the second keeper? Be-
cause this man, after his Sunday din
ner. declared that he would pay GU"
the elephant for striking him with his
trunk. He actually took a lace, one
of those taken from the Arabs in the
Soudan. (Those who have seen the
trophies taken from the Mahdfs fol-
lowers will realize what a horrible
weapon it was.) Followed by another
keeper, also armed with a lance, he
proceeded to "prod"-i. e., pierce the
chained elephant savagely. And his
death was the elephants revenge
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period of 1873 there came the harrow
ing experiences of France, eliminating
in the communist riots, and the Rus
sian-Turkish war; that before 1889
came the Roumelian revolution, the
Nihilist outbreak in Russian, and the
wal with the Afghans, and that before
1900 came the war with Spain, the
Jameson raid, and the consequent wal
between the Beers and the British.
1t is also interesting to note how
have accompanied the manifestations
of sun spots in the past h~alf-century.
Each period has been accompanied by
great business booms and the climax
and disappearance of the sun spots in
close proximity to a financial panic,
except in 1861 when the immense prep
arations for war in the United States
rather caused better business. Since
that date, however, the years 1873,
1884, and 1895 were years of wide
spread financial and industrial depres-
sion. This coincidence is also strik-
ing enough to be noted. OF course,
such condolences do not prove that
the energy or the reaction in the sun
causes such results on the earth; but
it is at least remarkable that the suns
energy and the human energy on the
earth should have run in cycles so
closely alike.-Boston Advertiser.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-11-15
School Maps in MindanaG.

While comparatively new maps of
Singapore, Hongkong, Tokyo and
other oriental cities, showing in detail
the streets and public works, are hung
upon the walls, the youthful scholar in
Mindanao, Philippine Islands, has to
depend upon a large map of the west
ern hemisphere for his information as
to the United States. While in many
respects the maps are excellent, they
utterly fail to convey the slightest in
telligence respecting the country whose
people are now so closely related to
them. No state lines are shown on the
maps at all, and the following cities
comprise all of the points given: Bos-
ton, New York, Washington, Charles
ton, Montgomery, (Ala.), New Or
leans, Jackson (Miss.), and San Fran
cisco.
OF the whole sisterhood of states but
| two are represented-Florida and
| Michigan. Chicago does not appear of
record, nor do Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Cincinnati, or any of the larger towns
have place. In the face of this fact it
is peculiar that Jackson and Mont
gomery should be shown.-George
Thomson Fry IN Chicago Record.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-11-15

The docks of London cover a great
area. The Victoria dock, opened in
1855, measures 5000 by 1,050 feet. The
Royal Albert, connecting with it, and
completed in 1880, is $500 feet long
and 400 feet wide. The two, with their
locks, constitute a chain almost three
miles long, across n of the great
horseshoe bends in the lower Thames.