Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-08-11

in this town who has the in'ihlHS III Hii
of a confirmed Did bacclor in such proper
tfnus TO his other component parts that
nnthiu- short of divine interpositiOn can
save him He has been counting a young
woman for 4 year or more in his peculiar
fashion. and last sunday night it occurred
10 him that an appropriate moment had
arrived for him TO make : formal presen-
taffon Of his claim and have 1t acted upon
l. happened at a picture sque resort IN t,iS
mountains # lsoudoun county, anu ane
soft summer air and the quiet Nai-eSs
stretching mics away at the teet OF the
lovers should nav, reused an the roiai'C &c
in mans nature. and made a declaration VI
This SOFT & poem and fantasy ne
skipped all that. however, and came 20 the
n1,meutatrs question pretty much as
hunter comes to a fence. -. VOW,
Miss Katherine he said atter very
ufrIa mo Si.i!.s,'' will you be kind enough
to marry me ,.,, ,r,,ndabIe
promptness and Indignation
Indeed. why n0t?' he inquired colSiu
erably surprised at her answer
simply because don't want 10. =,
To most men this would nave been IN
the nature of total extlnsulShiileh'' DU' '4-'
man is different .7,.-
well. weIl.' he said. apparently study
ing out the proposition, and not at an
overcome by the young woman ans"ei'
..tbis is what / would call an episode IN my
carsar-an episode, Miss katharine, pelhs
something that is entirely uneNpect ..,u;,i
Then he began talking stp'ul sum t,,,
else, and she got UP and went INTO the
house.
IAN Englishman who drops MS anu
aspirates his as. and a stenosrapher ana
typewriter who spells phonetically from o'e-
tation make a fine combination from which
,roIbIe is sure to result unless the copy
is carefully revised" said a New York mer-
chant to a Star reporter the other day For
IF min
of one of the most important banking
bo,,s.= IN Wall street is EngliShman
Not long ago he employed young man 10
acf as his stenographer, and one OF the
first things that the latter was called upon
to do was the taking down OF a letter 10
the managers wife, who was away al d
summer resort Being busy man 'ie Ell
pIishnau didn't take the trouble 10 look at
the letter after it had been typewriter,
but when his wife, in the course OF re"
days. answered it there was not 'ii''e
for the stenOGrapher.
NV dear Henry she wrote, what on
earth do you mean by calling me hannah
and our little Horace Otis! VIII auiilt
that this sounds like you. but why DO you
make a Joke of it before your employees:
..Of course the fond husband and father
didn't know what 1t all meant, ana so ne
wrote for an explanation, and his frst let-
ter was sent back to him one glance at II
and he rushed over to his stenograpner'
excitedIv threw the sheet of paper down ne
fore him and demanded: There, what do
You mean sir. by writing my wife's name
down " 'Anuah2'
Anna replied the young man; let me
see No: I've got it Hannah. all right
But said the Ensl!shman. who was
furious its not 'Annah; it's Hannah
well there it is Hannah-H -a-n-n-a-h
49, nrah he Gashedr exclaimed the En-
rli=hran. Alma, Hannah, Can't you
read English. you BANKED fool?
BY this time the stenographer began 70
soc through the trouble. 50 he begged on
anon the plea that having had swelling
IL, one Of his ears. he had not been aoie 10
hear very we'll But it cost him -Snahry -, d
weeks salary to square things with the
t5vs in the office. and he always deems IL
ha<t to hide when he hears the manager
wife is xpected down town
Won hear talk every now and then said
rra calculating man. about DISCRIMINATING
the ChireSe-wfplng them OFF the face OF
the earth utterly and giving their land to
wnrthTer people and don't doubt it would
b. a good thing # it We're worked right. but
did YOU ever think what it means to exter-
inmate the Chinese. in all the term Implies?
If YOU haven't let's think about it together
for a few moments Fly all accounts there
are four hundred millions Of the heather
in that celestial kingdom. every one of them
a. much of Il human being - any of US in
this country. To kill them off utterly would
require q thousand years of butchery at the
rate IF eleven hundred individuals a day,
provided there were no natural increase OF
the population III all that time. Killing
them at the rate Of one a minute, which
would require pretty active work, the job
would not be completed much short of eight
hundred years. If the powers sent hun
dred thousand troops there to attend to the
determination business. and each soldier
got to his credit every day, they would
have TO keep up the pace for twelve years
before the country was ready for a new
CUpancy- Allowing an ounce of powder and
an ounce Of steel bullet for each heather
disposed OF. twenty-five million pounds of
powder and twelve thousand five hundred
tons Of steel would be required in the labor.
Calculating that each body would call for
a grave five feat by two. say. ten square
feet of earth. a graveyard containing four
billion square feet Of territory would be
necessary TO aCcOmmOda the eXterTni-
mated If the dead were buried in a trench
one deep. allowing four feet to the person
the trench would be three hundred thou
sand miles in length. say. twelve times
around the world. Does it occur to you
what kind of a last ditch that would be-
Burylng two bodies a day. II would require
the labor of the entire voting population of
the United States fifteen years to accom-
plish the task Allowing eight inches for
the thickness of a body. If the dead were