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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-19
Liquor Law in Chile.

From the New Orleans Times Democrat
Liquor sellers in Chile conduct their bust
ness under many disadvantages. Recently
a new law has been enacted and Is now in
force which will doubtless attract much at
tention among those interested In the ques-
ton as it affects this country. The novel
feature of the law is Its manner of dispos-
ing Of licenses. Each license for the sale
of liquor Is put up at auction every three
years and sold to the highest bidder, but
local option is amply provided for, as each
city and town may decide for itself whether
1t shall grant licenses. No liquor shall be
sold within 200 yards Of any church, school.
charitable institution or barracks, in any
theater or place Of public amusement, in
railway stations or on trains, to miners or
between the hours of midnight and a. n.
OF course, no provision Is made for Sunday
closing, for Sunday in Chile, as in all Latin
countries. is a holiday. The law further
provides that no public official shall own Or
be directly or indirectly interested IN a
license. By the way of guarding against
impure liquors, every distillery and brewery
Is placed in charge of government chemist
and the penalties for adulteration are made
very severe. Finally. all trials Of offenders
against the law must take place within zen
days of the complaint and a maximum Of
five days Is allowed the judge to consider
his decision. In other words. an offender
will know his fate at the outside in fifteen
days.
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BUTToNED TO A LAMP POST.
Plight of a Professor Who Had In.
dulged in Birthday Festivities.

From the Pittsburg Bulletin.
The members of a certain learned society
had been indulging in birthday festivities,
and when dinner and the subsequent enjoy
ments were over Prof. Jones started off to
trudge the half mile or SO to his home The
professor Is very clever man, and noted
for the keenness of his intellect The ex-
element and the unusually hearty dinner
followed by the abstruse discussion in
which he had been engaged. had given him
a headache; so, approaching an electric
light post. he pressed his throbbing brow
against the cool iron. Thus he stood for a
few minutes. Then, feeling little chilly,
he buttoned his overcoat preparatory to pro-
ceeding on his way home. but. to his horror,
when he attempted to leave the post he
found himself unable to move. A brain such
as the professors works quickly, and the
reason for his detention soon seemed clear
Evidently the current which fed the lamp
above had become diverted from its course
and was passing through his body binding
him to the post In the process. Death
CHASTITY and horrible, stared him In the
face Gradually his backbone would become
dissolved to jelly, and while the awful
process was going on he must stand there
as helpless as butterfly pinned to a cork.
who hurried up, and then, shaking with
laughter listened to the professors expla-
nation. When he had finished the policeman
unfastened the professors overcoat from
the post, round which he had inadvertently
buttoned 1t.
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fulness-the river Thames Here also I
am glad to see that duck trousers are Civ
Ing place to my old and oft-commended
favorite, white flannel.
Jackets.
Jackets are still finished off with the COL
la" rolled back. and they are generally sin
gle breasted. There are so many people
however, who have grown used to wearing
their coats buttoned up that they do not
ike to wear them open, though they lack
the courage to ignore altogether the long
rolled collar fashion. These men some
times wear square fronted double breast
ed jacket and button the two bottom but
tons. with an effect which 1 cannot call
pleasing.
mer that the cravat worn with a Jacket
suit must be colored and without pattern
dark blues and puppies being the prevalent
tints The surface may be Fyoken up:
irish poplin. which lends itself to a de-
llghtful variety of surfaces; China Grape
knitted or crocheted silk and self-colored
foulard silk are all in use. The correct
shape with jacket is a plain, narrowish
knot, tied squarely. and not pulled tight
enough to show any wrinkle. No pin at all
is worn with a knot by men who know best,
but simple pearl is allowable: SO is a
small ball Of black haematite a very old
idea lately revived.
With frock or morning coat an ascot Is
worn, usually black with a white pattern,
and this Is secured by small cameo or
pearl pin. But where the coat is gray a
white foulard ascot without pattern is often
worn, with turquoise pin.
A Pedal Effeminacy.
The latest pedal effeminacy is white kid.
laced-up shoes. with white or black silk Iaces.
Men who wish their footwear both expen-
sive and effeminate will please order a.
dozen pairs or This will be much an
proved by their Wallets, who, when the shoes
have descended to them after one, or. at
most, two days use, will doubtless find
some way to blacken them satisfactorily.
They will find them very soft and COM
Portable.
Driving gloves are being made with the
buttons on the buttonhole side and vice
versa. The obvious object of this is to
keep out water If the wearer Is really
driving and is overtaken by one of our
rather frequent downpours of rain; but the
object would be better attained If the tops
We're specially cut to overlap a good deal
Driving gloves are worn in the country by
thousands of men who have no intention Of
driving and wouldn't know how to go about
it If they had. For town wear-but town
is nearly empty. meaning the town, the
town of towns, London-a brownstone color
reindeer glove Is most fashionable
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It dimishes the profits from

of Disagreement dimishes the profits from
the tourist traffic.
In the final debate in the upper house,
Herr Spiritus, the reporter of the COM
mittee. developed more fully the doctrine
of the higher utility:
1--WE of the Rhine districts see many
hundreds Of thousands coming every sum-
mer from far and near to seek on the sunny
heights. wooded hills and shady valleys
rest and delight. All return strengthened
and entranced 1t Is the same elsewhere.
l trust that the conviction will grow that
1t Is the sacred duty Of our generation. es-
pecially of our public men, to preserve for
posterity these beautiful tracts of the IA
therland
Let me add that the assent of the diet
was by no means perfunctory. All the
stock objections, the claim for compensa-
tion, for exemption in favor of this or that
order of advertising sign. were urged and
decisively rejected. The Hessian legisla-
ture has included provisions Of a similar
character in a statute enacted recently for
the protection Of public monuments.
"Such is the way in which the wise and
eminently practical people Of whose prog
ress SO much Is said among US order their
affairs
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-19
POSTER RESTRICTION.
How DETACHMENT Of the Scenery is
Prevented in Prussia.

From the London Times.
Mr. Richardson Evans, secretary of the
Society for Checking the Abuses of Public
Advertising. sends the following letter to
the Times regarding a recent Prussian law
to regulate bill posting in the country dis
triots. He says:
Il desire. by your permission, to offer
some account Of a stimulating example
lately set In Germany. An act to prevent
the DETACHMENT of scenery was passed in
the last session of the Prussian landtag. 1t
runs as follows:
with the object of preventing the dis
ngurement of places remarkable for their
natural beauty. the police authorities are
empowered to prohibit outside of towns
(ausserhalb der geschlossenen Ortschaften)
such advertising boards or notices or pic
torisl devices as disfgure the landscape by
means Of police regulations issued in ac-
cordance with the law of July 80, 1885
Such regulations may apply to particular
areas or spots.
Instructions, we are glad to learn, have
now been issued by the central govern
ment to the local authorities for the strict
enforcement of the provisions of this salu-
tary measure and 1t may be expected that
many painfully familiar eyesores on the
freQuented routes will speedily disappear
There is beauty worth saving in the
street as well as on the river or lrNOnG
the mountains. But 1t appears from the
proceedings in the langtag that regulations
already exist which considered ade-
quate for the protection of urban areas.
As regards the open country. the Prussian
legislature has gone upon the lines which
we are anxious to see adopted in English
practice.
"Q.) The law IL elastic; II places an efYec-
tive remedy within reach where a eriey-
ance exists. but avoids any Interference
with general usage In the matter of bust
ne0 notices
'2) 1t sets up no arbitrary distinction
between one class OF conspicuous signs and
another. The sole criterion is dtsiy71rinp
eject. There Is orNe and the same rule for
the big letters on the wall of a building
which announces that 1t Is Messrs. So and
Sos mandatory and for the multltu.I;n-
Gus pufns which the same firm, sets I'm
along all the highways Of travel
"CS) The ground OF public policy upon
which we rely was asserted throughout
thu debate IN strenuous terms. In the re-
port at the committee which submitted the
project occurs this paragraph:
What Ii needed is the cscasion OF q
legal basis We must do for the country
what u already Recognized as right for
the town. The equitable interest OF all
who love beautiful nature II in question
that b to say. Of most persons whsteyer
tRstf nationality may be, who travel for
pressure. Nor can We overlook the pecuni-
AIRY loss that will accrue II the progress
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-19
DIR. EDWARD KOCHISHERE
With His Great German Consumption and Asthma Cure.
He Can Be Consulted Free at His Washington Office,
73O 18th Street Northwest

DR.. Edward Koch. the inventor Of the Koch In
halation. is in this city at the Koch Lung
Cure. 100 18th st. NV. The doctor asserts that
bronchial catarrh Of the lungs is often mistaken
for consumption. Do not fill the stomach full Of
medicines which do more harm than good. The
doctor SAYS:
Nothing but direct application Of healing
perized medicines. antiseptics and germicides to
the seat of the disease will effect of
this any other lung disease, and they be
applied only by inhaing them in a yaporized state.
The lungs constitute air cavity. and be
reached incidentally only by medicated air. This
treatment discovered, perfected and first sue
cessfully applied by me. 1t is the only natural,
scientific and commonsense treatment ap-
piled for bronchial consumptive diseases. II 1t
fails nothing else could possibly succeed. But 1t
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-19
Psychology Of Digestion.
the Nashville American

From the Nashville American.
A Russian physiologist Prof. Pawlow, has
made some experiments recently which tend
to show there can be no digestion without
appetite. His contention is the introduction
OF food into the stomach does not, except
In rare cases, mechanically excite the flow
Of gastric juice His experiments were
carried out with prepared. dogs. The
aesophagus was cut in such a way that
when they swallowed food It did not pass
to the stomach, the diversion being, pre-
sumably. unknown to the animals Never
theless. these imaginary meals excited the
flow Of gastric juice as did the mere sight
of food. But when food was introduced
into a dogs stomach without his knowledge
or cooperation whether by a surgical
operation or other means he does not say)
the stomach remained dry, no digestive pro-
cess developing.
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Why She wept.
From the Boston Herald.

FROM the Boston herald.
When the Juneweds' motor car rounded
the curve In the lane almost into the midsr
of a gypsy camp little Mrs Junewed de-
clared she must have her fortune told. "I'u
slip Off my wedding ring" she urged. "and
that will confuse them, so that 1 can tell
IL they really know" So Mrs. ]. disap-
peared into the tent of the gypsy queen,
while her husband held tightly the tiny gold
band that he had so lately placed on her
finger. After long time she came back on
the run.
Drive me away, quick!' she sobbed.
"Oh. the horrid thing" And she burrowed
her head in his shoulder. "Oh she told
me should be married twice!'
He soothed her. Maybe It might be
Charlie Luzu," he said cheerily. .sYou
know ne is richer than l. and was In love
with you before I saw your
She shook her curis and sobbed harder
at isn't that" she walled. II wouldn't
mind being unmarried ag-gain. especially
to Ch-Chariiei II only you hadn't got to
dIeP'
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Caves in the Rock Of Gibraltar.
From the Westminster Gazette.

most interesting discovery was made
lately on the eastern side Of Gibraltar
rock, a cave. which from its dimensions bid
fair to rival the celebrated st. Michael's
cave, having been disclosed during the
progress Of blasting operations at the quar-
ry beneath the Monkeys alameda. The
general direction Of this cave is east and
west, and it's dimensions are approximately
$50 feet in length and 70 feet In height,
with a maximum width of 40 feet. Like
most caves, 1t diminishes In height and
width as 1t penetrates inland, until 1t dwin-
dies to a mere assure about eighteen inches
wide, which can be seen to extend for some
distance further About half way In there
is an upper gallery or smaller cave, which
extends only q short way. The stalac-
tites and stalagmtes are numerous and
varied in shape and size: in several In
stances they have united to form complete
pillars The entrance to the cave Is about
1HO wards south Of the eastern exit CT the
tunnel through the rock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-19
TELEaRAPH1c COMMUNICATION.
Growth Of Lines That Make a Wei
About the Earth.
From the Newark News.

FROM the Newark News.
Comparatively few of the millions Of the
earths population have even rudfmentary
knowledge of the growth Of telegraph lines
all over the world and Of the virtual unit
izing of these lines into one grand system
for the interchange of thought. Mountains
and deserts, seas and oceans, not SO long
since barriers of isolation between peoples
not only of different races, but of a COM
mon inheritance Of blood and traditions.
have been spanned. and the moiding of all
peoples into one family Is slowly proceed
ing. No conceivable modes of iocomotion
and interchange of visitation could accom-
plish the education In which the nations
are sharing through means of the electric
telegraph Wherever the system spreads
forth it's interlacement of wire-spun nerves
there we find its coadjutor in education,
the newspaper. The press is the exponent
of the telegraph, and hand in hand they
work for the education Of the world The
present status Of the work may be sur
missed from the number Of messages. long
and short, that are being exchanged
throughout the world in one year, 400, 600
600. or more than 100000 a day, by no
means tagging conversation.
The total length Of conducting wires Is
$500. 900 miles. enough to encircle the earth
150 times, or establish fifteen lines of COM
municatton with the moon. There are .hir-
teen cables stretched over the bottom of the
quotas. except the Pacific. The great width
OF this ocean presented two difficulties. one
OF them. which was real, resulting from the
other. which was theoretical. TO the estab-
lishment OF transpacinc cable. 1t Ia sup
posed that the distance through which mes
sages can be transmitted on a continuous
wire Is limited. In crossing so great an ex--
tent OF water II Is deemed necessary TO
have land stations at proper intervals not
only for the renewal OF electric transmits
sion. but for the proper control OF the ca
bies Prior to our recent territorial acqui-
sitions in the Pacific 1t did not appear that
satisfactory arrangements could be made
for establishing these stations Now the
way Il clear and the great ocean will soon
be spanned. Aside from necessity OF IN
Simultaneous and uninterruptabia conmuni-
cation with our new Dependencies II there
is any virtue in direct talk with the orient
we shau have +.
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Easy to Tear Down.
rom the Portland (,fe.) Advertiser.

From the Portland (Ae.} Advertiser.
current item tells how trial was made
to decide in how short time living trees
could be made into newspapers It was
done in 145 minutes. This Is interesting as
showing the perfection of modern machin
cry. but 1t is not important. II some genius
could invent a process now for turning
into trees. 1t would be worth
talking about. Analysts Is easy enough: A
Il synthesis which Ii the sticker. Anybodv
can tear down. but those who can build un
are few. 1t toek many years to build the
tree that in few hours was Converted
Into paper. ana after an the slow and AZ
lent processes Of natures laboratory are
the more wonderful In their results.
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never does fail. unless mortal injury to the lung
structures has taken place before 1t Is applied.
VIII positively assert that Bronchial or Ca
tarrhal Consumption can be cured by my healing
oily vaDors. that reach the seat OF the disease
laden as they are with the Koch germ-kilIing
Tuberculine The treatment can be given at your
own home. Send for a book explaining the treat.
ment and giving testimonials OF patients cured.
After years Of careful observation and exam
lining the sputum of seven hundred cases. l am
convinced that fully three ifths of all deaths
charged to consumption really catarrhal bron-
chitis associated with dyspepsia. which is brought
on from severe dosing.
while am In Washington I shall he pleased
TO examine the sputum and consult with any pa
tient free who will call upon me at my Office, 100
11th st. W.
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Schools for Girls Combine.

The Chevy Chase School for Girls and
Washington Heights School for Girls, COM
bined. have been removed to Woodley road
and Goth street. French is the language of
the house. Arrangements may be made for
pupils wishing to remain at the school in
the afternoon. There are kindergarten and
primary departments. Mile L. NJ. Boulig-
ny is principal
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-19
Ranks Among the Best.

The twenty eighth year Of the Mount
will begin October Z. This institution for
the education of girls ranks among the best.
Information regarding terms. etc. may be
had by addressing Elizabeth J. Somers,
principal. Adella Gates Hensley Is assist
ant principal.
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The Vaudoux Ceremonies.

Mr. Prichard devotes several articles to
description Of the ceremonies he witnessed.
He describes the evil influences of the pa
paloi, with their knowledge Of the medicinal
qualities of roots and herbs and their mys-
terious poisons. handed down by tradition.
for which they alone know the antidote,
thus creating abject fear and exacting large
sums from the victims Of their poisons. He
witnessed many orgies. but was not Wit
ness to the sacrifice of the goat without
horns" the utmost secrecy being observed
in that orgie. In concluding the subject
he says:
But there is one thing common to the
whole country, of which every Haitian de-
MES the existence. Vaudoux Is the one
thing they declare they have not. They tell
you there Is no snake worship Il am speak
Ing of the higher clasSes) within the BOUNDS
of the republic. But when you betray GER
tain knowledge Of the subject, they admit
that though sacrifices and savage dances
may take place in other departments. no
such things are known in that one In which
you at the moment find yourself. Thus in
Jacmel they told me l should find Vaudoux
In Port-au-Prince and the Plain Of Guide
Sac. In Port-au-Prince as l was actually
returning from witnessing sacrifice within
the hints Of the town. l was advised to go
to the Cape where alone such rites -four
ished. And at the Cape they told me to
take ship for Jacmel, for there 1 would as
suredly find them. AS matter Of plain
fact the traveller riding across the country
in any direction Is quite likely to come sud-
denly in view Of the ceremonies In full
swing. He will see the tell-tale dances, the
faces smeared in blood. perhaps even the
body of the black goat, the sacred sacri-
flee. Nor are they grotesque pictures only;
the element of. horror darkens them ALL for
wherever you hear the palpitating throb ct
the big bullock-skin drum, and wherever
the votaries of Vaudoux foregather there is
always the possibility that human sacrifice
has been or Is to be accomplished"
Speaking of the Haitian. Mr.. Pritchard
says: He has had his opportunity.
That opportunity has lasted for a hundred
years in a splendid land which he found
ready prepared for him. Yet today We find
him with a government which, save in the
single point Of force majeure,' has de-
generated into farce; and as for the coun-
try ITSELF houses and plantations have dis
appeared and where clearings once were
there are now impenetrable forest. Certain
ly he has existed through one hundred years
of internecine strife. but he has never for
six consecutive months governed himself
in any accepted sense of the word. Today,
and matters stand, he certainly cannot
rule himself.
These articles were written before the
present revolution began. Mr.. Prichard
has given his English readers his observa-
lions in Haiti What has taken place since
the revolution began no newspaper CORE
spondent will likely know.
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A Slayer.
From tho Philadelphia Press.

Froin tho PhiIadelphfa Press.
Il don't want much lunch" he said to
the girl behind the quick lunch counter.
Just little something that viii stay by
me TIN supper time"
Better try some of our plum pudding,
then" she suggested.
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most incredible, made In connection with
q nation not only living in the midst of
other civilized communities, but which was
itself started a century ago on the double
lines OF European laws and a Christian
creed. Nevertheless, all those who know
anything of Haiti by personal experience
fact has been amply proved over and over
again. The national method Is not to sup
press these Infamous crimes, but simply
d ID ue" Worship is widespread. The severn
ment has been at all times too unstable to
care to take the risk of seriously opposing
so powerful combination. The sect is
universally feared, hence they carry on
their rites and their orgies with practical
impunity. At the root of this outgrowth
of superstition are the papalois and the
mamalois the priests and priestesses. who
minister to the naturally credulous mind.
papaloi, mamaloi are corruptions OF papa
lie roi and mama lie roi. They dwell chief
ly in the mountains
disciples, is an all-powerful deity. but the
idea of the masses does not rise above the
serpent which represents to them their god.
and which presides, in Its box, over all
their services. These usually take place at
nights and in pseudo-secrecy. They con-
sist of dancing, sacrificing feasting, invoca-
lions and Delphic delirium on the part
of mamaloi, winding up with scenes OF an
indescribable nature. There are SAID To- De
two sects of Vaudoux; one which sacrif1ces
only fruits. white cocks and white goats TO
the serpent-god; the other. that sinister
cult above referred to, whose lesser cere-
monies call for the blood Of a black goat
but whose advanced orgies cannot be fully
carried out without the sacrifice of the
goat without horns'-the human child.
'Vaudoux Is cannibalism in the second
stage. In the first instance a savage eats
human flesh as an extreme form of tri-
umph over an enemy; so the appetite grows
until the food is preferred to any other.
The next stage follows naturally. The man.
to propitiate his god, offers him
that which he himself most prizes. Add to
this sacrifice the mysteries and traditions
Of the ages and you have the Vaudoux of
today"