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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-11-03
IN MOROCCO,
improvement That Has Taken Place
In the Position of FOreigners
Budget Meakin in the Forum.

Improvement That Has Taken Place
In the Position of Foreigners.
Budget Meakin in the Forum.
Yet the improvement which has taken
place in the position of foreigners in Moroc-
CO during the past hundred years is amaz-
ing In the light of all they have suffered
there, so amazing that it requires an effort
to realize that this Is still the same CONN
try. under the same native rule While nj
racy continued to flourish nothing could he
done; but when it was exterminated the
situation commenced to improve: and 70
the young government of the United States
belongs the honor Of dealing the first de-
cisivc blow. Colonies which had with the
true British pluck refused to tolerate the
imposition of unfair demands by their home
government were not likely to submit to
the payment Of tribute to decrepit African
state. whatever the powers Of the old world
might do; so when the time came to enter
into relations with the Moors as an indie
pendent nation, 1t could only be upon the
basis Of equality, and from the first the
Americans obtained respect In Morocco
AS late as 119O the brutal sultan, Ell Yazeed
who emulated Isma'ail the Bloodthirsty did
not hesitate to declare war on all Christen-
dom save England, agreeing to terms of
peace only on the basis of tribute. Cooper
alton between the powers was not then
thought Of, and one by one they struck
their bargains.
But the New England republic flushed by
a successful war of independence and with
no interests at stake in Morocco could
afford to snap it's finger single-handed in
the face Of the sultan. In 1903 when on
his way to Tripol to demand redress for
cutting down the flagstaff of his nation
there, United States Commodore Preble
captured the Moorish frigate Meshboa with
American vessel in tow. and at once
shaped his course for Tangier. A treaty
of friendship had been concluded in 1877
by United States ambassador, Barclay.
1t was to last fifty years which it did, for
Preble obtained redress and the liberation
of all American prizes. These prizes had
been captured in accordance with one of
the usual declarations of war, made in 1902:
but Prebles prompt action showed the
MCors that the friendship of such a nation
was to be preferred to its enmity, since the
latter did not take the usual convenient
form Of paying to be let alone.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-11-03
THE SUNS DESTINATION.
Point Toward Which 1t and the Plan
cts Are Moving.

cts Are Moving.
From the Popular Science Monthly
More than a century ago Sir William
Herschel was able to fix roughly what we
call the apex Of the suns way in space.
or the point among the stars toward which
that way Is directed. Herschel found that
a comparison Of old stellar observations
seemed to indicate that the stars in a GER
tain part OF the sky were opening out, as
1t were. and that the consultations in the
| opposite part Of the heavens seemed to he
drawing In, or becoming smaller. There
can be but one reasonable explanation of
this. We must be moving toward that
part of the sky where the stars are separat-
ing. Just so man watching a regiment
OF soldiers approaching will see at first only
a confused body of men, But as thew
come nearer the individual soldiers will
seem to separate, until at length each one
Is seen distinct from all the others.
Herschel fixed the position Of the apex
al point in the constellation Hercules
The most recent Investigations of New
comb, published only a few months ago.
nave, on the whole verified Herschers con-
clusions. Later investigators have in
creased the precision of our knowledge
until we can now say that the present d.
rection Of the solar motion Is known with
In very narrow limits tiny circle might
be drawn on the sky, to which an astrono-
mer might point his hand and say: Yonder
little circle contains the goal toward which
the sun and planets are Fastening today.
Even the speed of this motion has been
subjected to measurement, and found to be
about ten miles per second.
The objective point and the rate of mo-
ton thus stated, exact science holds her
peace. Here genuine knowledge stops; and
We can proceed further only by the aid of
that imagination which men of science need
to curb at every moment.
But let no one think that the sun will
ever reach the so-called apex. To do so
would mean cosmc motion on a straight
line, while every consideration of celestial
mechanics points to motion a curve.
When shall We turn sufficiently upon that
curve to detect It's bending? 1t is prob
lem that we must leave as a rich heritage
to generations that to follow us. The
visionary theorists notion of a great CEN
trail sun, controlling our own suns way in
space, must be dismissed as far too daring
But for such a central sun we may sub
stitute a central center of gravity, be-
longing to a great system of which our sun
is but an insignificant member. Then we
reach conception that has lost nothing in
the grandeur Of its simplicity and is yet
in accord with the probabilities of sober
mechanical science. We cease to be a
lonely world. and stretch out the bonds of
a common relationship to yonder stars
within the armament.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-11-03
Fought n Whip Sting Ray.
the Atlanta Constitution.


Captain F. Dominick of a fishing smack
had fierce fight with an American whip
sting ray, or devil fish, near the Charles
ton lghtship, the other afternoon So far
as the local fishermen are able to say this
is the first fish of the kind ever seen around
the waters of Charleston and being I'M
known to Dominick, he was naturally in
bad fighting shape before the sea mon
ster was finally killed The ray had a.
wirelike tail five feet long, and when this
went slashing through the air and descend
ed with mighty force ON the back of the
captain he was more alarmed than he cared
to be, and 1t was any mans game until the
tail was finally cut OFF with a knife.
Captain Dominick said he was fishing in
quiet waters and his lines were hanging
loosely from his boat. Suddenly there was
a vicious pull at the line and the whin
singer, weighing 125 pounds, came to t..e
surface. The fish fought to get away- and
some of his flint teeth were broken in the
scramble. The tail began whipping the
air as soon as 1t came from the water
and Captain Dominick had to throw his
hands to his face to keep from having it
lacerated. Fortunately, big knife was
lying open in the boat, and with one cut
the tail was severed. This somewhat SUBJ
Dominick had 1t under control.
The captain says he had never seen a liv
ing specimen Of the whip sting ray before.
and he was not prepared for the onslaught
from the monsters tail. Farther up the
coast these members OF the piscafbriaI
tribe are not uncommon, but they are rare
in the waters hereabout
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-11-03

wanting in comfort, or even in luxury.
Each guest had contributed toothsome
pates, tender turkey, or well-mixed salads,
and the flowing bowl was not forgotten.
The rendezvous for thin was a weli-shel-
tered hollow several miles down the river
and close to the shore. with a quaint bridge
in the background-over a creek-which
served as a band stand. On the arrival Of
the picknickers the easy chairs were brought
ashore from the sledges for use at the to
bles. During the repast the Chinese band.
under the leadership of a European baton.
footed and tinkled and drummed the ma
tional airs in the usual officially courteous
manner of Tien Tsin. After tiffin every
body romped to Jerusalem-and through
the Virginia Reel, then Joined hands and
sang Aud Lang Syne in the pathetic exile
spirit that comes to us all far from home,
when any home association is touched
The pai-tzes were equipped again and all
the furs and plaids-which had not been
needed in the balmy noontime of the down
trip-were brought into service in the crisp
twilight of the home journey. And when
the pai-tzes glided up to the gunboat's
mornings to unload, three resounding cheers
We're given for this unique sport of Tien
TSin.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-11-03
A Near View of DR.. Holmes.
rs Rehecca Harding Davis in Scrihner'R.


Physically he was very small man, hold
ing himself stiff1y erect-his face inSignif1-
cant as his figure except for long, obsti-
nate upper lip cleft to me- he said one
day, "by some ill-conditioned greatgrand-
mother'), and eyes full of wonderful fire
and sympathy. No one on whom DR..
Holmes had once looked with interest ever
forgot the look-or him. He attracted all
kinds of people as brilliant, excitable
child would attract them. But nobody. 1
suspect, ever succeeded in being familiar
with him.
Americans at that time seldom talked of
distinction of class or descent. You were
only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for
a grandfather and were glad of it, But the
Autocrat patrician enough to repre-
sent the descent of a Daimio, with 1900
years of ancestry behind him. He was the
finest fruit of that Brahmin order of New
England which he first had classified and
christened. He had too keen an apprecia-
ton of genius not to recognize his own. He
enjoyed his work as much as his most fer
vent admirers, and openly enjoyed, too,
their applause. 1 remember evening
that he quoted one of his poems, and was
forced stupidity to acknowledge that 1 did
not know it. He fairly jumped to the book
cases, took out the volume and read the
verses, standing in the middle of the room,
his voice trembling. his whole body thrill
ing with their meaning.
THERE! he cried at the end, his eyes
flashing, could anybody have said that
better? Ah-hv with a long, indrawn breath
of delight as he put the book back.
He had the fervor. the irritability. the
tenderness Of a woman and her whimsical
fancies, too. He was. unlike women, eager
to help you out with your unreasonable
whims. One day happened to confess to a
liking for old graveyards and the strange
bits of human history to be found OF
he became my cicerone the next day to
Mount Auburn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-11-03
QUEER USES FOR CANNON BALLS.
Condemned as War Weapons, but
All Right in Stone Quarries.

Condemned as War Weapons, but
All Right in Stone Quarries.
From the Boston Globe.
Cannon balls for blasting!
This sign, hung in conspicuous place be-
fore the door of store on Atlantic ave-
nue., led reporter inside and started bit
of questioning upon the subject.
The proprietor said: Last fall when the
United States government sold all of the
old cannon balls and solid shot which for
so many years were piled in pyramids along
the main street of the navy yard at
Charlestown, we purchased lot of them,
with little thought of converting them into
anything beside pig iron. But a few weeks
after we had stored them here overheard
a quarry owner complaining of the slow
ness and uncertainty of the old system Of
steel wedging used in getting out huge
blocks of granite, and after a bit Of
thought suggested the use of cannon balls
in the place of the steel wedges We sent
about twenty of various sizes and weights
out to his quarry, and after the first trial
he hurried team in here with a note that
read:
Tried the cannon balls; they are it.
Send fifty morei have thrown the steel
wedges away
1.-THE experience of this man led us to
send the cannon balls and solid shot to
other quarry operators and within the past
month the orders have been coming in SO
thlckly we can scarcely fill them from the
stock on hand.
THE method used in getting out great
cubes or monoliths from the granite and
marble quarries has been to drive steel
wedges along the line Of the lower portion
of the split made by a blast until the great
chunk of stone topples over on it's face.
1t required deal of time and number
of men with big iron sledges and steel
wedges to separate these cubes from the
quarry wall from which they had been
started by the blast.
THE method now pursued with the cam
non balls is to start the block of stone
away by a light blast, and then between
the smaller solid shot, usually the 4-inch
sort. are dropped down into the aperture
Two men with crowbars give the block
little shake, and the instant the block
shot take up their purchase on the space
made, when the large cannon balls, some
measuring fourteen or fifteen inches and
weighing 200 or 300 pounds, are dropped
into the top Of the gap. Now. the slightest
outward jar by levers on the big stone
send these heavy cannon balls dropping
downward of their own weight, until, with
an easy forward movement, the cube goes
over on its face.
These shot do away with any driving; of
necessity their great weight In proportion
10 their size forces them downward, and
their form prevents any chance of back.
ward setting of the block
Ihese cannon balls are also used as roll.
ers, as they take up and go over the in
equaltles OF the quarry surface and can be
rolled In any direction without resettinp
thus doing away with the old-style wooden
rollers. ~
They are also used to smother heavy
clearlng-out blasts Heavy rope mats are
thrown over the surface where the blast
has been set, and these cannon balls are
thrown on the mats"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-11-03
On the Dark ThreshOld.

Margaret s. Clark in Good Words.
How cold 1t feels! tho the sun still shines on your
face close above,
I am slipping into the Silent Place, where shall
not see you Love;
I must walk alone through the Gates of Death to
the Land we do not know.
Do not weep for me when they lay down where
the cypress trees bend low.
Do not weep for me when lie asleep. for my
dreams shall be Of thee;
shall thine eyes. shall feel thy touch, 1t will
cheer and hearten me-
Though we do not know what this death may mean
yet shall not 60 with dread,
Though walk alone In the Silent Land, for my love
will not be dead
Through my dreadful sleep shall dream Of thee
and thine eyes shall light the grave; :
Death can never take from the lonely one the love
that living gave;
I shall feel thy kiss when the winds blow soft in
the cypress trees above;
shall dream Of thee through the long, long years,
nor grow weary dreaming, Lowell
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-11-03
An Important Distinction.
From Puck.

FFOm PUCK.
Old doctor-'f you can manage 1t, get
your name in the papers"
Young doctor-"But etiquette forbids a
physician to advertise"
Old doctor-"Yes; but not to be adver-
Used"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-11-03
An Impertinent Question.
n the Chicago Times Herald

What became of that uncle of yours that
you used to think so much OFF,
Hes dead. Died one day when he was
all alone. Nobody knows just how it hap
pened."
Poor old mani How did he lose his
money!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-11-03
Delights of Timn.

The picnic character of the feast was
thoroughly carried out, yet nothing was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-11-03

Theodore Thespis-"But, my dear fellow,
I'll pay you in time.
Peter Flint prefer 1t in money."-Tit-
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1900-07-27

splendid condition of the national
health and therefore to the favor
able climate. He estimates the in
crease of births over deaths in this
country at 14.6 per 1000 inhabi-
tants- Canada is the only country
approaching this. It shows IA per
cent. In Italy, Austria and New
Zealand the increase is but little over
10 per 1000 inhabitants, and in
France the increase is hardly note
worthy, the death rate there being
22-1 and the birth rate 22.4 per 1000
inhabitants.
If you are for Frink, vote for a
Frink delegation.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1900-07-27

m; Cherry Valley, schoolhouse, to D. m
Christopher, N. P. depot, to 9 D. m Cumber-
land, schoolhouse, to p m. ; Des Moines school
house, to p. m; Dunlap, schoolhouse, 2 to S
p m. Duwamish, -; Eagle Gorge, schoolhouse.
2 to p. M. Enumelaw, Dewey hall, 2 to D. M
Falls City, Marshall's hall. to p NJ. Franklin,
schooihouse, to p. m; Gilman, ; Green
River, schoolhouse, to D. M. Hot Springs, old
bath house. to p. m. HoughtOn Northrup
schoolhouse, to p m. Juanita, schoolhouse, to
p. m; Kirkland, ; Krain, schoolhouse to
p. M. Lester, schoolhouse, to p m. !; Maury
sehoolhouse, to p. M; Martin Greek, SkykOmish
schoolhouse, to D. m; Meeker, Taylor school
house, to p M; Mercer, Catkin's hotel z to 9
p. H.. Meridian, Nordon place, to p. m. Mono
non, schoohouse, 2 to p M New Castle, Athletic
to D. m Novelty, schoolhouse, to p. m. /;
Ssssoia :.,a ss5oelaouse. M oai
ton postoffce, to p. m. Redmond schoolhouse
Z to 9 p. m; Renton, +. B. Hayes building
to 8 p. M; Richmond Richmond beach buildne
to p m. /; Sammish, schoolhouse, 2 to 5 D. m:
Sherwood, schoolhouse, to p. m; Sprague,
Balch river schoolhouse, to D. m Sno0ualmie
house, to p. m; Star Lake. Sloans hall
Stones, to p. m; Stossel, schoolhouse, to
p m; Stuck, schoolhouse, to p. M; Suisse
Greek, schoolhouse, to p M; Sunnydale school
house, z to 9 p. M; Squak, Brunk schoolhouse
to p m; TOlt, town hall, to 5 p. m; Union
schoolhouse. to 5 p M; Vincent, schoolhouse, 3
to p. m; Valley, John Lindberg building 2 to
p m Webster, Eddyville schoolhouse, to D. m
Wellington Stewards house. to s p. M ; West
oedItie, l. NJ Preston DnldlnSs TO p. M. White
River, Yates house. o Brien, to S D. m. /; Woodin-
vile, schoolhouse, to p M; Yesler schoolhouse
to p m. That the qualification of voter at
said caucuses and primaries in addition to those
prescribed by law shall be that they will support
the Republican ticket at the general election to be
held on the 9th day Of November 1900, and, if
challenged, he shall declare before being allowed
to vote.
That the basis of representation to the county
convention shall be as follows: One delegate-at-
large for the precinct, and one delegate for every
twenty votes or major fraction thereof, over the
first twenty, cast for Judge T. J. Anders at the
election of 1898. in King county; provided that
each precinct shall have at least two delegates
That on said basis the several voting precincts
In said King county shall be entitled to repre-
sentaon in said county convention by the following
number Of delegates:
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1900-07-27

Michael G. Null, noted statistic
ian, has been doing bit Of predict
ing as to the final report of the 1900
national census, which runs as fol-
lows:
gave the United States a population
increase Of 3, 100000 in the next two
years, making a total population of
77,500,000 for 1900. But Mr.. Null
hall believes the actual total will fall
short Of this figure. After consider
ing the number of school children in
1897 and the natural increase from
the excess of births over deaths, he
estimates the population at 10000
900 to 5000, 900, an increase of 49,
$4,000 in ten years This includes
the increase due to immigration.
The birth and death statistics Of
Mr.. Mulhall differ from those of DR..
Billings, made in the census Of 1890.
DR.. Billings estimated the birth rate
at 31.4 and the death rate at Is per
thousand yearly. Mr. Mulhall OBJ
serves that certain states and cities,
with an aggregate population Of 49,
100000 in 1890, or 81 per cent. of
the total population, showed-a death
rate in that year Of 100000, or 20.8
rate of IL per thousand for the rest
Of the Union and we get a rate for
the whole Union of II per thousand,
thus demonstrating tn at DR.. Bill
lings' death rate percentage was not
$4,000 births over deaths is shown
birth rate ranges from 81 to 80, the
death rate from 16 to II per 1000
inhabitants. Because Of the civil
war the death rate was higher be-
tween 1860 and 1870, while in the
ensuing decade the birth rate rose
a condition noticeable after wars and
demonstrated in England after Wa
terloo and in France and Germany
after the war of 1870.
Mr.. Mulhall's conclusion is that
the United States is tribute to the
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1900-07-27
For Governor

Believing that majority of
the citizens of King county
are favorable to my candidacy
for the governorship of the
state of Washington, | an
nounce myself as a candidate
for the nomination of gov
ernor subject to the ratifica-
ton Of the King county Re
publican convention.
j. M. FRINK.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1900-07-27
For County Treasurer

In announcing my candi-
dacy for the office Of county
treasurer | do so believing
that it meets the approval of
a majority of the Republicans
of King County. 1t, how
ever, is left entirely to the
will of the Republican
county convention.
]. A. KELLOGG.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1900-07-27
For Sheriff

I am a candidate for the
nominatisn Of sheriff Of King
county subject to the 1atifi
cation of the county Republi-
can convention. l, therefore,
ask the suffrage of the voters
of the county to that end.
JOHN WooDING,
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1900-07-27

unpreparedness for freedom. There
must be some other cause for the diff
ferent development in two different
countries and under much the same
circumstances. May it not have been
of the greatest moral effect that in
this country the Negro, from the day
he was freed, was held to be man
and citizen and anybody's equal?
Sir Spenser st. John, who had
lived as British minister in Hayti
and later on in Mexico, in his book
on Hayti, gives a most pitiable de-
lscription of the blacks of that. island,
who fell back into all the horrors of
savagery Of their native Africa, into
a condition toward which, according
to some American authorities, the
North American Negro is drifting.
1t might be used as an argument
against the black race, that in Hayti
nobody interfered with the develop
ment Of the Negroes, and that their
actual condition in Hayti is only
their natural one. But [ wish the
friendly reader to consider that the
Negro Of Hayti obtained his liberty
only after cruel and bloody strug-
gle which quiekened all his atavistic
instincts, and that the civilizing in
fiuence and example Of the white
man were completely withdrawn
from him.
f. SEMELEDER, M. D.
Cordoba, Y c., Mexico.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1900-07-27
For Governor

To the end that the King
county Republican conven-
ton will endorce my can
didacy for the governorship
of the state of Washington [
hereby announce myself for
the same.
E. HESTER GU1E.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1900-07-27
For County Treasurer

Owing to long experience in
the office of county treasurer
as an assistant in announcing
my candidacy for the Office
| feel that [ am in no wise i'm
posing upon the tax payers.
My candidacy is subject to
the ratification Of the Re-
publican county convention.
BENZ. G.. LEVY.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1900-07-27

CALL FOR REPUBLICAN STATE
Convention. The Republican state
convention for Washington is hereby
called to meet at the city of Tacoma
on 10Th August, 1900, at 10 o'clock a. M,
for the purpose of nominating two can
didates for congress and full state
ticket and for the transaction of such
other business as may properly come
before said state convention in connec-
ton Herewith. The basis Of repre-
sentation will be two delegates at large
from each county, and one delegate for
each 100 votes or major fraction thereof
cast in each county for Hon w. L.
Jones, Republican candidate for con-
gresS at the general election of 1898, the
apportionment of each county being as
follows:
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1900-07-27
JUSTICE OF PEACE.

Having served the city of Seattle
in this capacity for the past two
years, hereby announce my candi-
dacy for reelection, subject to the
approval Of the Republican county
convention. II. FL. CAM.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1900-07-27
For County Clark

Convinced that a majority
of the voters of King county
favor my nomination for the
office of county clerk and will
so express themselves at the
next Republican county con-
vention [ hereby announce
myself for the same.
ELLIS MORRISON.