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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-21
WHITE BIRCH SPOOL INDUSTRY.
Most of the Thread Made in the World
Wound on This Wood.
From the New York Times.


Women all over the world are unwinding
thread from spools turned from the white
birches that grow upon the high ridges OF
northern Maine. where once stood the big
pines or spruces. Not many years ago
white birch was regarded as sort OF
nuisance, and every one regretted that such
wood had taken the place of the better
trees, the spruce and pine. that had always
been the states best resources, but now
that a great Industry has been built up
from the birch forests the silver harked tree
is looked upon as a treasure to be priced
among Names best. A great variety of
things are made from white birch timber.
but spools and spool bars are the chief
products, and of these the state turns out
more than million dollars worth every
year.
The manufacture of spools In Maine be-
gan soon after the passage of the Morrill,
tariff bill in 1861 The bill advanced the
duty on wound threads. and was. without
doubt, the reason the Scot Oh. ma nuf cturers
or thread came to this country and built
mills in New Jersey and Rhode Island.
Then other American companies were
formed.
The white birch area is a wide belt that
eAtends entirely across Maine. No estimate
mas yet been completed of the number of
acres of white birch timber in the state
but under the direction of the forestry com
missioner an estimate of the acreage of the
dlnerent kinds of Maine woods is now being
prepared. e
The Maine spool factories turn out now
ABOUT SocoG0,0o spools Coward in a vear
worth about S1000000. The price varies
from cents TO 60 cents a gross ACCORDING
TO size and quality. The market for Maine
spooIs Is extensive including most of the
england and the middle states All of the
factories are operated by steam
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-21
Exit Pompadour.
rom the Milwaukee Sentinel

From the Milwaukee Sentinel.
The coronation will celebrate the passing
of the pompadour and the introduction Of
the bang. American women who have for a
number of years displayed their foreheads
are now beginning to cultivate the fringe
By autumn the pompadour will be as passe
as a last years shirt waist The pompa-
dour has risen above the brow Of the rich
and the brow of the poor. 1t has been mod
flied and developed into a score Of shapes
but 1t has continued to hold it's own in the
United States. But now We must give way
before the coronation edict. The bang is
in vogue. Queen Alexandra has always
worn fringe but when she was Princess
Of Wales her fringe did not have the pres
tige that attaches to the frizzes Of the
Queen Of England. Because the queen has
found the fringe becoming she puts on her
crown. All sorts of women who never ex-
pect to see real crown will initiate her,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-21
MAN OR MAC H|NE?
All England Cannot Read
This Riddle.
THE SILENT KITCHENER
WONDERFULLY STRONG AND
COMPELLING NATURE.
Other Traits of the British General
and Stories Told of
Him.
THE SILENT KITCHENER
Written for The Evening Star.

Written for The Evening Star.
This is a peculiar figure that steps for
ward 10 take its place in the front ranks
in the march of the eonquerors.
Even now. with the laurels of his achieve
ments fresh men acclaim him not nearly so
much for what he did as for the way he
did it.
This is conqueror whose men do not go
mad with love and alteration of him when
he rides over the stricken field.
a frightening. silent MAXWELL fitted to
go down in British history as the silent de-
stroyer. Less man than soldier, less man
than slayer, less man than machine-mark
him as he moves through the dead routine
of field survey, the dead routine of drilling
hopeless native troops, the dead routine of
the practice march-irou-jawed, wordless,
expressionless. emotionless. Iron-jawed.
wordless, expressionless. emotionless, mark
him moving living men toward other living
men on the battlefields. Dongola, Atbara,
Omdurman, Move after move. check
mattel For all that any man knows, this
man moved other men, discarded them,
took them, lost them with as calm method
as the chess player loses and takes the
ChesSmen.
All the world saw the man. with his I'M
readable. still face. move to his place on
the vast. bloody chessboard of the Trans
vaal-a chessboard from which England 5
pieces were being swept fast; all the world
saw him move the pieces. All the world
saw the game still wavering going here
and going there, with England's pawns
still being swept away. And then! Check
mate,
Look back a quarter of a century. In the
Bible lands of Palestine in Galilee is tall,
gaunt, bony subaltern. with a hard face.
burned brick-red, laying the lines of sur
Hey, mapping the country where figure
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-21
TAB ON FREIGHT CARS.
A System That Makes It Almost I'm
possible for One to Be Lost.


From the Chicago Tribune.
THAT freight cars are ever completely
lost is a fallacy.'' said w. E. Beecham, car
accountant of the Chicago, Milwaukee and
St. Paul. Mr.. Beecham has been connected
with the railroad since 1873 and says that
tracing cars is one of the easiest and at the
same time most perplexing of the problems
t'of railroading. The railroad has system
by which any one of its 10000 freight cars
can be placed absolutely within a reason
able time.
The record is kept in room containing
half dozen immense counting boards filled
with pegs, each peg containing a record of
a different car from the time 1t goes into
the service until 1t is abandoned. Tiny col
ored tickets are hung on to the pegs every
time car is reported as transferred to one
Of the many intereecttng lines over which
it travels, the ticket containing the car
number, the name of the road and the date
OF transferring. 1t takes but moment to
find any one Of the companys cars, the top
ticket indicating Its last known position,
THE history Of one of our furniture cars
from the LIST Of October to the present time
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-21
THE BREAKFAST TABLE LETTER.
Multitudes of Microbes Pour From 1t
When Opened.
From the Chicago Tribune

FROM the Chicago Tribune.
The London Lancet. which is one of the
most alert and enterprisng of all medical
journals in the gentle art of making life
unpleasant for mankind. or that large nor
ton of it which still believes in doctors
has now discovered a new source of appre-
hension. If not of danger, and announces
1t with violence of protest which is start
ing. 1t has found a new and deadly herd
OF microbes, and they are lying in wait for
their prey in the place least suspected
namely, in the breakfast table letter Ac-
cerding to this eminent authority. when
materfam iiias-for it is to be presumed
paterfamilias gets his mail at the office
opens her letter out swarms multtudes Of
microbes. like Wordsworth's daffodils
continuous as the stars that shine" and
spread themselves over the bacon, and
eggs. and graduated excelsior ending their
grand rush with an onslaught upon the
hap1acks. AS the letter has not been dis
injected and materfamilias, at that hour
OF the day. may have neglected to render
her myers immune by some antiseptic she
net only exposes herself but all the rest of
the family to attacks from these unwel-
come visitors.
III this quest for microbes goes on much
longer what will become of the human
race? Already we have been told that we
breathe. and eat, and drink them in air
food and water by millions. Millions more
1t is found. are lying in wait for us in the
clothes We wear. the books we read the
money we handle, the letters We open the
dust we breathe. the smoke We inhale the
flowers whose perfume delights us, and the
hands we shake. 1t is microbes eyery-
where. Is it not time that the savants anti
hunting up new varieties of microbes and
try to find out some way of killing off
those they have already found? Is It kind
to tell us that We are infested with mi
crobes and menaced by fresh myrisds on
every hand and then leave US defenseless?
Is It any wonder humanity grows pessimis-
tic. and dXSpeptic. and bad ternnereda
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-21
Need of Laughter.
From the Chicago Journal.

From the Chicago Journal.
Laughter is a good healthy, muscle-mak-
ing, lung-developing exercise. and it is as
good for girls for boys. And humor can
be cultivated in a girls mind without any
abatement of the dignity and modesty and
charm Of her woma1hood- the unpleas-
ant and constant frivolity evidenced in
smart speech or quickness OF repartee,
but the humor that looks at the world with
a swinkle in the eye and sees its absurdities,
its smalinesses and it's fun.
1t should be part OF every woman's men
tai equipment, for women are called upon
to bear so many of life's small worries as
well its greater ones. The bringing up
of children. the care of servants and the
many social duties that become a burden
all are made easy and possible to put I'D
with by the woman with the unfailing sense
of the bright side of life. 1t Is a sense tina
lasts through life, through its many ills, its
disillusions, its tribulations, even its trag-
edieS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-21

soon became thing Of the past. Then. too.
his preference has always been for ciaret
and light wines. so heavy and unwhole-
some port has been generally reduced from
bottle TO glass a head.
Speaking of smoking, It was the king
who popularized cigarettes. He was almost
the first person to smoke them regularly.
he took to them in Egypt, and to this day
smokes Egyptian ones only which are spe-
cially made for him.
Rough tweed Norfolks and knickerhock-
ers for shooting are among the boons for
which we have TO thank the king A por-
trait was taken OF him in this costume,
with rough worsted stockings and with
gun in hand about twenty-five year ago.
Sportsmen were not slow to follow an eX-
ample which combined fashion with COM
fort.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-21
Pope Praises American Newspapers.

1t is seldom that Romans take much real
interest in events out of their own immedi-
ate circle of vision. but the case of little
Margaret Taylor Of Cincinnati who was
kidnapped by her aunt four years ago and
was found in Bordighera the other day, has
touched the motherly hearts of the Roman
matrons. People in high places have also
interested themselves in the case, and even
the pontiff, through his archbishop in &C.
noa, was Informed how the matter went.
When he heard that a paper in Cincinnati.
the home of the parents of little Margaret,
had provided the funds to enable Mr.. Tay-
Tor to come to Italy, claim his daughter
and take her home he said: THAT paper
understands the true mission of the press
viz, humanitarian help to those who can
not help themselves. The English and
American papers deserve their power"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-21

that was mainly because the walters were
being sent home as fast as ships could
carry them. Some of them were sent to
less comfortable places by the grim, home.
1y slrdar. They were sent to battle. Many
of them died. He never showed by any
sign that he was sorry or glad or relieved
or Indifferent. Just that level glance and
that entire silence. Kitchener Is making
a failure of It," rang the dispatches.
Silence Kitchener is to be superseded"
Silence. Kitchener is despairing of win
ping gdnf out" Silence, smother d appalling de-
Once he broke that silence. He sent
dispatch-"Send me more men,.
1t was the march on OmdurTan over
again. Silence and work and silence-and
then-the end.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-21
Ethical Properties of Words.
rom the Portland oregonian

from TIE Portland Uregonian.
Nothing in language is more fascinating
than the shades of meaning which grow up
around word and cling to it and then
gradually fall away, making room for
others. No conspirator will ever plead
guilty to conspiracy. Call it some more ac-
ceptable name and he will not object
Words, that is to say, have a moral char
acter, and the invidious term is the one we
repudiate with scorn. The man who prides
himself on his close-astedness would never
admit that he is mean. Tell the implaca-
bic that he Is resentful and he will plead
guilty: hint that he Is vindictive and he
will slam the door behind him. One word
Is invidious, the other u not.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-21
Slavery Statistics.
From the Charleston News and Courier

from Tue Charleston News and Courier.
The total white population of the south In
1850, according to the census, it is noted,
was 5000, 1G0, of which 1884, S64 owned the
1865, 696 slaves in the country, excluding
2 owned in Kansas, Is in Nebraska, 20 in
Utah and Is in New Jersey. One man alone
owned more than 1000 slaves and he was a
South Carolinian. Eighty-eight owners. In
nine states, had more than 300 each and
thirty of the eighty were South Carolinians
One-fifth of all the slaveholders-or a 322
owned but one slave each, and the great
est number of these small holders in one
state was in Virginia, which had also the
largest proportion of Slaves, 490,S6
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-21

The rotation Of waterspout at the sur
face of the sea has been estimated by Pro-
lessor Bigelow as 354 miles an hour, or
nearly six miles minute.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-21

woman can only throw a cricket ba1l
IS percent as far as 1ap, on an aver
age, hut can jump G per cent Of the dis
lance q man can jump.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-21


other things equally futile.
Dress suits thereupon became things of
the past with Kitchener. After Tel-el-Ke-
bir saw the breaking of Arabi's mad might
England had to take in hand the reorgani-
zation of the Egyptian army, SO called by
courtesy. Sir Evelyn Wood was appointed
sirdar feommander.) He demanded twenty
five British officers for the work. Being
about as hopeless and unpleasant and un-
profitable and unpromising a job as ever
faced white men, there was rush of young
Britons. Kitchener was among them. He
became an officer in the glorious army of
the khedive-one of that curious corps VINO
worked Loyalty for the little brown ruler
and were ready at any moment to knock
his head off if they or dear old England
didn't like anything that he did.
A Hopeless Army.
The Egyptian army was a band of under
paid underfed, undertreated and under
mined feilaheen. 1t was an army without
backbone. 1t went forth to war only with
view to rctreating at the earliest possible
moment. 1t slouched and loafed and did
not wash. 1t could not shoot. And kitche-
ner worked over those helpless reeds of
broken natives and gripped them and
squeezed them. and, being a man himself,
found the man in the weakened levies be-
fore him.
He made such men out of them that in
1881 they maze MIN commander III Sudhlll
and there are remnants of desert hordes.yet
who remember certain ensuing lean years.
They remember yet how the gaunt man
stepped calmly into their camp one night,
unarmed and alone, and cheerfully nicked
their sacred chief in the face with a rid
ing whip in the midst of his spear bearers
and gun carriers. because that sacred chief
was just preparing to execute a British
soldier who had been caught that after
noon.
Osman Digna's men who. still are alive
remember him, for he took his Egyptian
levies into HANDFUL one day.
The great bearded emirs and the savage,
hairy fighting men laughed through their
teeth when they saw him come They had
made the poor rice eaters of Egypt run too
often to dream of anything else except an
easy slaughter. But this time the men
whom Kitchener had found in the teilahetn
were behind those brown skins, in which
once there had been room for nothing but
quaking hearts. And emirs and hairy fight
ing men snapped their teeth In the dust in
dying and spearmen fell to rise no more.
The troops were beaten off at last, but
Kitchener, although defeated in this. his
first real battle, had broken his Egyptian
soldiery to fighting and killing sportsmen
blood" deerhound: He got bullet in the
face as souvenir of the occasion A few
years ago, while he was eating at table,
the bullet suddenly worked it's way out and
fell into hfs plate. He lifted it out with
his fork. stared in disapproval at his SER
want, who had too lively expression of
surprise his face. and went eating
without saying a word.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-22
Gravel roofing. A. H. Reid. '541 Broadway.
CANNOT AGREE ON EXPRESSMEN
City Council Has "A Hard Time of Il
Providing n Place for Them
to stand.

The city authorities have as yet failed
to arrive at any solution of the vexed
question of providing the expressmen a To-
cation for standing their wagons and teams
but Mayor Morgan stated yesterday that he
had hopes the matter would be settled at
the meeting Of the city council Monday
night. The present ordinance governing
the expressmen is said to be defective and
Mayor Morgan is In favor Of a new one
being drafted.
Conditions of which complaint was made
by the owners and occupants Of the prop
erty at the corner of Main street and
Broadway have been improved somewhat
since the last meeting OF the city council.
Chief OF Police Tibbits has given the mat
ter his personal attention and many unde-
sirable loafers at that corner have been
given to understand that they must seek
another location. The fish wagons, of which
complaint was also made. have been made
to move elsewhere but pending the action
OF the city council, no effort has been
made to remove the express wagons.
While Mayor Morgan is hopeful that a
solution Of this question will be reached
at the meeting OF the city council Monday
night, several of the aldermen are not SO
sanguine. The question OF providing a
location for the eXpressmen is one OF Ions
standing and there does not seem to be
any available place today more thar
when the question first arose several years
ago. 1t has been suggested that part Of the
expressmen stand at the market back Of
the city hall and part at the hay market
at the junction Of Pearl and Main streets
but this is said is not agreeable to the
expressmen who want standing room or
the streets.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-22
PROTEST ON A PEST HOUSE
Residents in Vicinity of Lidgett Property
Object to Use for that Purpose,
HURTSvALUE OF SURROUNDING PROPERTY
OmciaIs Think Objection should Have
Been Filed Before City Had
Purchased Instead
Of Now.

The Board Of Health, having completed
the purchase Of the Lidgett property on
Oak street and Washington avenue for a
female isolation hospital, residents in that
section Of the city are now up In arms
and are making vigorous objections to hav-
ing a pest house located there. II has
been intimated that an attempt to burn
down the place might be made and the
health authorities have been compelled to
place a special officer TO guard the prop
erty.
Residents and property owners In that
section of the city have gotten up a pc
tition which is now being circulated, ask
ing the city to refrain from using the
Lidgett property as a pest house or isola-
ton hospital. The protestants contend
that the placing Of smallpox patients there
would %endanger the health Of the resi-
dents in that neighborhood and II is also
urged hat the location Of the pest house
there would not only impair the value OF
the surrounding property, but make 1t
practically worthless.
1t has been reported to the health board
that the persons now circulating this pc
tition will in the event Of the city ig-
noring it, take the matter into the courts
and seek to enjoin the city from using
the property Tor the purpose TOT winch
it was purchased. Charles CLAIR, a former
member of the police force and owner OF
property on East Washington avenue, lie
particularly active in circulating the Pc
tition, which has been signed, among
others by ex-Alderman Lewis Hammer, who
owns property in that neighborhood.
Members of the health board at are sur
prised at the objections being raised now
that the property has been purchased and
the money paid over to Mr.. Lidgett by
the county auditor, as the persons now OBJ
jecting made no protest during the time
that the board had the question Of the
purchase of this property under consider
alton. Mayor Morgan yesterday gave it as
his opinion that the property secured by
the city was an ideal place for an isola-
ton hospital, as the promises stand alone
in a hollow, without a building within a
block OF them.
1t is understood that the petition OF
the protesting residents and property own
ers will be presented at the meeting OF the
city council Monday night, but that the
aldermen will decline to take any action
on 1t.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-22
LEVICH'S FATE WITH JURY
Lawyers Get Decidedly Personal in Making
Their Arguments.
STATE APPEALS BoNAPARTE DAM CASE
Button Makers Are Agitating Question
of Adopting Means 10 Keep Up
the supply of MusseI
Shells.
(From a Stan Correspondent.)

a SAoAA AAGaROhuNINa
DIES MONIES, Ia, Nov. 21.-(Special.)-
The Levich murder case reached an end
SO far as the testimony and the arguments
are concerned this evening. The attorneys
in the case spent the entire day making
arguments. and these we're interesting
largely from the fact that the attorneys
followed the line Of the entire trial and
INDUCED in fierce attacks one upon the
other. The case has been fought out on
factional lines and according to local pref
udices and commanded the attention Of
the entire people Of Des Moines more than
any recent case,
At 10 o'clock there was no indication Of
agreement and the presiding Judge went
home.
The murder Of Isaac Finklestein, ex>
policeman and prominent as a politician,
active in the Hebrew Republican club
and possessed OF considerable wealth, cree
ated a great sensation August 5 last. He
was waylaid at an alley and struck over
the head with a singletree taken from
Harris Levich's delivery wagon two blocks
away. This occurred about 10 o'clock p.
m, and the dying man was found a few
minutes later. Levich was arrested at 3
o'clock the next morning and John Walker,
a colored man, was arrested IN hour later.
Inc city OmcldlS DelleYed tnal LeYlch
planned an assault on Finkelstein and em>
ployed Walker to do It, not intending he
should be killed. This was imposed to be
the result Of business rivalry and political
antagonisms. The general Impression when
the murder was committed was that II
was the result Of Finkelstein's activity in
compelling the city police reluctantly to
proceed against the gamblers and his open
accusations that the city administration and
the gamblers had an understanding and
agreement. Finkelstein had been prom.
ised a position with the administration
and out of revenge had been making II
uncomfortable for the administration. He
asserted that the gamblers were paying
the city officials money to be allowed to
raids and finally closed up the houses. Al
the time he was killed It was known he
had prepared impeachment papers against
the mayor in connection with this matter
Leyich has been out on bail most Of tho
time. but Walker has been in Jail and II
still awaiting trial. Both men have beer
discreet In their conduct. The Levich case
developed very contradictory statements a
TO what was seen and done the night o.
the murder. but there was no direct evi.
dence against either OF the defendants.
Federal Court Work.
The grand jury in the federal court to
day reported and was discharged. only on'
indictment Of consequence being brough
and that against B. Bernstein OF oskalooss