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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-03-15
Fought Himself in His SIeeu.
From the Unicntown (Pa.) Genius.

From the UDicntown (Pa.) Genius
Lee Moser was an amazed young man
when he awoke from slumber one morn
ing recently. He was momentarily not al
together certain of his own identity. His
head felt big. Blood covered his face. One
of his teeth was gone. What did it mean?
Then 1t dawned upon his mind that he
had been giving a fellow a severe thrash
ing In his dreams during the night. Ev-
erything corresponded exactly except his
recollection of his opponent, who. he had
dreamed. was some one else besides him
self. But In reality he had been fighting
himself His better self must have fallen
into conflict with his worser self It was
a sort Of Mr.. Hyde and DR.. Jekyn case.
He had vivid recollection of striking
his opponent (himself) some very severe
blows about the head and face. And he
remembered, too, that he had knocked a
tooth out. but he thought it was the other
fellows tooth: He is thinking seriously
bed at night hereafter, as he does NOT
wish to do himself any more bodily harm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-03-15
PaIais Royal, AIsNEk G e. nth SITS.

be administered to sleeping person with
out awakening him. Grown people are,
with the rarest exception. awakened by
the irritating fumes. IL a man were very
tired. and II his nose were naturally insen-
sitlve to unpleasant odors, and especially
II he were under the influence of drink, 1t
might be possible to make him uucon-
scious while asleep. But not even every
doctor could do it. The operation would
require the highest skill. And the most
skillful administrator would succeed only
once in a hundred times.
II we take the case of splitting the chic
rotorm in room and thus lmpregnating
all the air of the room, the thing is out of
the question. Yet not only do novelists as
sert that this can be done, but many people
have been actually charged In real life
with doing it-for the purpose of blackmail-
ing them for injuring them or perhaps to
throw OIL suspicion from the pretended vic
tim who has committed the robbery him
self. If the room measures, say, twelve
feet square and is nine feet high it would
probably take gallon of chlorCform spilled
on the floor to make a man unconscious.
All the chinks and crannies would have to
De stopped up first, moreover and the OPP
orator himself would have to be poison
proof or he also would succumb.
AS matter of fact, the only way to rem
der a person unconscious by the use of
chioroform Is In the way practiced by sur
geons In the operating room. And this is
by no means an easy task. There are sew
eral ways of doing It, The chloroform may
be dropped on a handkerchief, which is
then held over the face at some little dis
lance. or 1t may be dropped on a sponge,
or 1t may be used in one of the innumerable
machines invented for the purpose. But
the vapor must be mixed with air before II
is breathed. That is the reason the hand
kerchief or the sponge is held some inches
from the face. AS a rule, 1t takes from five
to eight minutes to make the person uncon-
scious. and during this time he generally
struggles very violently
1t is probable that many Of the charges
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-03-15

Choic. If Witch Hazel and
Bay Rur' Complexion Soaps,
sold in the drug stores at
2Jc per box Think of only
Toe for 3 cakes of these
greatly advertised soaps.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-03-15
Millinery" Opening

Tomorrow fourth and last day of this Twenty fourth Annual Opening
OF Our elves hint "A lady yesterday selected $40 hat and then
She said Your
expensive Such favorable remarks have been oweed from morning
night We proudly hearty thanks
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-03-15

OF chloroforming which have been made
are raise. Sometimes the pretended victim
asserts that he has become unconscious i'm
mediately. But it has been shown in evi-
dence that the time necessary to bring
about this result Is at least four or 1--WE
minutes. Sometimes he says he could not
cry out: yet he describes all the circum-
stances of the administration minuteiv
Now, the first effect of the chloroform is to
produce confusion Of the mind, while. on
the other hand. the patient can cry out al
most up to the last. He becomes mentally
confused before he loses the power of
speech. These few facts are sufficient per-
haps to demonstrate that some charges of
possible chloroforming are necessarily I'm
true,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-03-15

One place uptown. where used to work,
they'd take cream jugs at S. apiece. and
silver mugs at $45 dozen was nothing at
all. At another old place Of mine we had
one man searched. and he had seven nap
kins on him. I know a place little fud-
der down where they got gross OF salt
shakers with sterling tops last year. and
in two months they was gone. Eight
dozen was swtped the first week"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-03-15

Gaping our daily compliment to famous
men. Mr.. Zangwill assures us that he has
no idea OF the day or the month OF his
birth. He is quite willing. however. that
we should choose a nice roomy day. when
he Is In no danger of being jostled by big
ger men, and mark that as his birthday.
he adds that the day selected will thence
forward be duly observed by him to the
end of his natural life. We are faced by a
serious responsibility. But we hope to face
Il brayely. Mr.. Zangwiii must Certainly
born is tntoierable
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-03-15
Poking Fun at I. zanxwilI.

From the London Chronicle.
Mr.. Zangwill. as he has already said. has
no Christian name; only another name. II
appears that he Is also unprovided with q
birthday, and 10 therefore In danger OF -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-03-15

Gloves made to sell for less
than 81 are pie ntiful enough.
These are 81 Kid Gloves at
:I.'c. Or. restrictiOn.-not fit
ted All sizes. in white. black
and all the pfing shades
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-03-15
Fight With Messenger Boys.

MeS8enReT
After long series Of overt acts on the
one side, and the meekest and most hum
he subservience on the other, Wall street
brokers finally rebelled against the mes
senger boys, and yesterday they fought at
Broad and Wall streets. The referee was
J. Pierpont Morgan, who, behind his plate
glass windows, was safe from flying mis-
siles. The skirmish line was composed Of
one lone messenger boy and an italian
moral laws in Wall street messenger ser
vice that when an Italian looks the other
way all the messenger can grab is his n. 4"
This Italian wasn't wise, and he took the
bait and deserted his fruit stand and
chased the messenger boy who was eating
the flched banana Immediately score of
other messenger Boys settled down on that
fruit stand like a tot Of crows on corn
field.
A dignified banker on the way to his office
told these boys to STOP A diminutive mes
senger said it was none of his business.
and. getting his back under the fruit stand,
upset 1t. scattering oranges and bananas
came up, but tho messengers swarmed as
II universal call had been sent in. The
brokers Immediately were encircled by the
Silk hats spun ii the air. to be hit neatly
with oranges, and light overcOats took a
foreign hue. BY, that time the street de-
Gus proportions. with 1000 men looking on,
SO they opened, an avenue through which
the brokers could escape. 1t proved to be a
gauntlet and every dignif1ed flnancier was
pelted fngloriously In the rear as he hur-
ried back to his Office. Then j. Pierpont
Morgan smiled ana went back to his desk.
DividendsaDue Today.
Dividends aggregating more than $25,-
600 are payable tomorrow. Chief among
these is the 90 per cent dividend of the
Standard Oil Company. which alone
amounts to $2O.OO0s00O. Others are the Bur-
lington IA per cent dividend. amounting to
81, 498. 637: the Consolidated Gas. per cent
dividend. of s1.45O.71 the Laclede Gas. 2
per cent dividend, of $500 29S: the National
Lead. IN per cent preferred dividend Of
$26O. $40. and a number of minor Industrial
concerns. An interesting feature connected
with these payments is that they add but
2h per cent to the loan account OF the local
banks. which shows to what an extraor-
binary sum this item has grown SO far this
year.
The first cable connecting Manhattan and
Williamsburg Will probably be stretched
some time next week, as the two towers Of
the new East river bridge are now prac-
ucally completed. and work of suspending
the great steel ropes which will hold up the
roadway can be pushed forward without In
terfering with the contractors who are
building the other parts Of the great bridge
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-03-15

II you want work read the want eolum.:,
of The Star.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1901-09-06
slrs. ,x,sibl.xs. ra-.u,.

In the Nevada section CT the Mines
building at the Pan-American exposi-
tlon are samples OF rich gold ore from
the mines owned by Mrs. William Nc
Kinley, wife OF the president OF the
United States. They arrived recently.
The mining experts state that Mrs. Nc
Kinley now Is millionaire. For years
she did not know she had the property
which now Is so valuable. Her father,
James A Saxton. was a member OF the
Canton Mining company and before his
death became sole owner OF its lands
In Nevada. Gold prospectors who have
gone over the lands recently report
they are OF great value. and Mrs. Nc
Kinley and her sister have given very
recently to eastern capitalists an op-
tion on them.-Buffalo Express.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1901-09-06
lCommunicated.l
A SILENT SERMON.

1t was preached to me in this way.
A gentleman and his wife were away
from home and his cuffs becoming
limp and soiled she took another
pair fresh and glistening from his
valise. On the snowy surface of one
was tiny black spot; how it did
shine and shine, more apparent than
the article which it defaced, and l
could not help thinking how like
that little black spot was to sin, and
finally this thought came to me--lf
the cuff had been black the spot
could not have been seen, and so on
until every color from black to
white passed before me, the black
spot becoming more and more inten-
sified as the colors became lighter,
until the snowy cuff was the only
one that held my gaze riveted by its
distinctness.
| conld not help thinking that
just so the follies and mistakes Of
upright men and women mar the
otherwise fair outline of their lives.
Neither conld 1 reprsss a sigh for
the time when faults and follies
shall be no more and we "Shall be
perfect even as lie is perfect"
Misty VEIL.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1901-09-06
Josh billings TheoIory.

We do not know to what church Josh
Billings belonged. but his theology was
correct in some particulars at least.
"Menny people," he says. "spend
their time trieing to find the hole whar
sin got into the world. If two men
brake through the Ice into mill pond.
they had better hunt for some good
hole tew get out rather than get into a
long argument about the bole they
cum to fall In.
There Is a great deal OF religion in
this world that Is like life preserver-
only put on at the moment of extreme
danger and then half the time put on
hind side before.
"Sin I'm the soul IL like silver I'm the
flesh. Mortihkasbun IL the natraI way
tew git rid Of it."-Exchange.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1901-09-06

say anything worse of it. 1t de.
nounces everybody, complains against
everything and suggests no remedies.
1t is apparently intended to catch
every variety of voter and offers no
promise to the reason of any kind of
a voter. 1t ridiculously attacks the
Virginia State government for fail. =.
ing to suppress trusts, exactly as the
Democratic national platforms at
tackled the Federal government for
like failures.
While our enemies emulate our
weaknesses and initiate our mistakes
we may feel safe. Col. Hoge and
his convention follow closely the
plans of Col. Bryan and his conven-
tlons and will gather like results.
The campaign in Virginia this year
promised to be reduced copy of the
campaign in the country in 1900
with the parties-we are happy 10
say-reversed. - Richmond Nsws.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1901-09-06

OF New York, conducted the services,
assisted by Methodists, Presbyte-
rians, Baptists, Disciples, Convel ted
Jews, Salvation Army workers, and
others; and thus this was union
service more than denominations
meeting, insomuch that the spirit of
unity was felt throughout. Eleven
services day was the programme,
beginning at six in the morning and
closing at ten in the evening. One
of the old-time features still contin-
ued is the use of straw around the
anxious seat, on which penitents are
asked to kneel for prayer. Straw
was used both in "tbe circle" or reg
ular popular meeting place, aud also
in "the Duspe Prsyer-Tsnt," where
the after-meetiBgs were held. The
Swedish Metbodists have large
tent oa the grounds, and conduct re-
vival meetings in their language for
ten days. More conversions seem to
result from their services than from
those in English. The music was
strictly evangelistic. "0ld Folks
Day was an enjoyable feature of
the camp, for it brought together
hundreds of old people from many
regions of the Hudson Valley. who
found great delight in recalling the
memories of other days. But the
abounding JOY found its culmina-
ton in "the march around Zion,"
which concludes the series of SER
vices each year. The people form
into line and march about the
grounds singing hymns, shouting
praises to God, and in many other
ways expressing their delight. In
all essential features Sing Sing camp
meeting is conducted along lines
characteristic of such services seven
ty-fve years ago.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1901-09-06
PROVED HE'D SEEN ONE.

He was rather the worse for
speak-easy liquor when he faced the
magistrate in the Central Police
Court, and it didn't require rich
brogue to indicate his ancestry. The
remnant of a fighting Sunday jag
left him very loquacious.
"What is your name?" asked the
magistrate.
"Michael O'Halloran," was the
reply.
"What is your occupation?"
"Phwat's that"
"What is your occupation? What
work do you do?"
"Oi'm sailor"
The magistrate looked incredu-
lous.
81 don't believe you ever saw a
ship" he said.
"Didn't Oi, thin," said the pris-
oner. "An' phwat do yiz t'ink Oh
cum over in, hack?"
After that it went hard with
Michael. ael.-Philadelphia Record.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1901-09-06
AN ACRosTrC.

THE following was composed in 1891
by Tobias Riley. The Payne name is a
familiar one in Northumberland and
Lancaster. The original acrostic is the
property of Mrs. r. b. Brouu and hangs
in frame at her home:l
R-Round, with the swiftuess of the roll
ing spheres,
LIN, silence flies our pleasures and our
years;
C-Contipu'd time, with more than An
gels speed,
H-Hails Us I'm youth, and then among
the dead;
"A morning sun once bless'd our early
days
R-lsich were its beams, and bright its
golden rays.
D-Deaib, with his train of pains and
fell disease,
A stranger stood, aud feared to mar
our peace,
N-Not even vagrant wo, :hat stalks
abroad,
D-Durst show his head nor enter our
abode.
M-Morniug soon pass'd, with all it's
fragrant bloom,
A-And vernal sweets soon found a
reckless tomb;
R-Revolving years brought sickness,
pain and wo,
lin spite of art or all that we could
do:
A flower faded here, another there,
P-Perhaps the objects of our greatest
care.
A-And now our sun has passed. merid-
ian height,
Yes, morning gone, proclains ap-
prosching night;
N-NOr shall the night, with all its hor-
rors. stay;
E,-Eternity shall bring joyful day.
High on his throue the Lamb him
self shall shine,
U-Unclouded beams shall spread the
S-Sun, moon and stars shall quickly
fade away,
B-But God remain the source of end.
less day.
A mighty throng shall bask In Heav-
N-NCr sorrow feel, for, loi their work
D-Death, once the spoIler of their Joys,
shall die,
A-And pain and toll with grief for
ever fly.
N-No tears shall gush nor fall from
weeping eyes,
D-Destruction stops this side the genial
skies;
W-When time Is Ger, when saints are
welcom'd home,
LIN kindness then may Jesus hid us
come;
shall say,
Each other greet, aud hail eternal
day.
Let those who read and think of years
gone by,
Remember us, though in our graves we
lie;
Ii virtue mark'd our lives in earthly
days,
The pattern take, but give the Lord the
praise.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1901-09-06
LOVE EPIDEMIC ON TRANSPORT,

OF the 400 American teachers
who sailed on the transport Thomas
from San Francisco to Manila. sixty
OF them, on reaching Honolulu,
were married. The teachers had
been chosen from the many normal
universities of the country, and were
strangers to each other. Their ac-
quaintance and courtship extended
over period of less than ten DAYS.
The captain of the Thomas refused
to permit the weddings while at sea,
and the thirty couples, upon the ar
rival of the transport at Honolulu,
sought out a clergyman and were
married. A boat was chartered and
the thirty pairs made tour of the
bay.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1901-09-06
Oysters Will Be Late.

Inquiry of large dealer in sea
food elected the surprising infor-
nation that there will not be an
oyster in the market fit to recon-.
mend before September 18th. A few
have been offered in the last week,
but their quality was so poor that
even dealers of easy conscience re-
fused to handle them. This menas
big prices for good oysters when
they do come in, yet there are over
200, 900 acres Of uncultivated oys-
ter lands in Long Island Sound. The
oyster has numerous deadly enc
mics, and it is supposed that some
of these have been vigorously at
work this summer. = New York
Press.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1901-09-06
BARREL OF EELS.

A fisherman on Potomac Greek
sunk barrel in the creek, baited
for cells to be used in grabbing. A
hole was bored in the top of the bar
rel about one and one-half inches in
diameter and the bottom was covered
with bait. 1t was then sunk i'm the
water. Two days later, when an at
tempt was made to move the barrel
it was found to be very heavy and
on examination proved to be filed
with eels. 1t required the efforts of
several men to get it out Of the wa
ter. The cells were brought to Fred
ericksburg and shipped to Philadel-
phia. They netted the fisherman
$12.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1901-09-06
The Booth,ncx

IT Is hard TO realize that the boot.
blaeS is an invention of the last half
century. yet he is now celebrating iu
London the fftieth anniversary of his
appearance. He came upon the scene
IN 1881, the year OF the great exhibit
tion In London. the first of the worlds
fairs" The city was full OF visitors
from all parts of the world, aud the
problem of tue street arab was a seri-
Gus one. Mr.. Macgregor OF the famous
Rob Roy canoe suggested that the BOYS
he organized into great bootblacking
brigade, and he himself made the first
box for holding the kit" the model of
those still in use. ldlers jeercd the
boys at first and sometimes stoned
them. but the public found their sery-
ices so convenient that the trade was
profitable. II has prospered ever since
and is now. IL not one of the learned
professions, at least one with a history.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1901-09-06
SM SMALLESTYEARINOYSTE
BUSINESS.

The Canned Goods Exchange Of
this city has compiled some inter
esting statistics of the oyster bust
ness Of Baltimore and the State.
The figures cover seventeen years
and show that the number of
bushels used here during the sea-
son of 1900-I901 was the smallest
in the period covered. The total
amount used was 3,502,114 bushels,
divided into 2.57e,740 bushels raw
and a22,374 steamed.
From these figures it might be
assumed the business was in a bad
way, especially as the two preceding
years were larger, amounting to
2,6S9, ,493 raw, 1,5S2,233 steamed. q
total of 4,271, ,726 for 189S-99, and
2,793,2s4 raw, 1.269,371 steamed, a
total of 4,062,665 for 1899 19OO.-
Baltimore Herald.
What aay be true of Baltimore is
Just the reverse along the Kappa
hammock river, as more oysters were
shipped from this section last year
than ever before. Baltimore is
largely dependent on Virginia for
her oysters, aud the shortage in
-
that city is easily accounted for by
the fact that large oyster shuckers
have seen the advantage of opening
their oysters near the rocks and
shipping them already shucked.
The Rappahannock boasts of more
than twenty large shocking houses,
and nearly all our oysters now go to
supply these large firms.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1901-09-06
NORTHMEN SwOOP DOWN On
POTATOES.

Lovers of cornbread and Irish po-
tatoes will shortly arouse to the per-
ception that such tastes are expen-
sive indulgencies. The failure in
the corn and potato crops has all
ready increased the prices of both sta
pies, and the chances are that before
many months have passed potatoes
will be higher and scarcer than ever
before in this market. The Middle
Atlantic and New England States
are looking to Virginia to supply
their almost total deficiency in pota-
to raising.
In consequences, the potato-g grow
ing section of Virginia has been
over run by bayers, who have come
down from the North to bargain for
the growing fields of tubers. In
more than one instance a Virginia
trucking farmer has sold his pota-
toes without digging them for
$1,000. The serious part of the
matter is that the supply may be
sold out of the State, and the mar
ket here may be much restricted as
to quantity and quality.
Though the drouth has been
broken the woeful effect of the agri-
cultural situation is now being
brought home to Chicago and to
other cities as well. Prices of vege-
tables are about double what they
were year ago and to make both
ends meet clearinghouse keepers
and restaurants have been compelled
to raise their prices or to curtail
the quantity served. Eggs, poultry
and veal show an excessive percent
age of loss. The fruit crop in the
West has suffered so seriously that
for canning purposes prices are al
most prohibitive.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1901-09-06
FISHING NOTES.

This is a true fish story: A man
was fishing for kipgish in Australia,
having baited with whiting. "A
shark followed and took the bait.
A friend jabbed the shark with a
big iron hook. The shark got away,
and the line came back. The hook
was there, but the whiting was gone.
In its place were two large ribs of
beef from the stomach of the shark.
These were landed safely, with the
philosophic remark of the fisher
man, Exchange is no robbery"