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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-06-07
White Shirt Waists.

Our line Of Lsdies White Shirt Waists, are
exceptionally pretty and stylish, made Of
very fine and sheer lawn. We have them
at-.... ...... Acc $1.00. $1.26, $3.50, $1.9S
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-06-07
Pretty KimOnaS.
Infants Caps.

New arrivals 10 Iofants' Caps All the
new and pretty ones and these are made BY
one Of the best makers too. Let rs chow
them to you. Esch...26, Soc, 81 and $3.50
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-06-07
Ladies' Lace Hosiery.

This Is q great season for Lace Hosiery.
We are showing beautiful styles In plain
black and oolors all sizes.
Pair.......... ............"-..-1z7, 20 anu QUO
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-06-07
COlOred Shirt Waists.

Ladies' Colored Shirt Waists Of most all
kinds; good quality materials stylisbly made,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-02-10
PROTECTION FOR MoURNERs.
Needed Improvements introduced at
Cemeteries for Burials.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
An improvement Of great Importance to
great many persons has been employed
in cemeteries for year or So and especially
this winter. Its purpose is to furnish pro-
lection to the living from the weather. AL
most every one of large acquaintance can
furnish instances from his own experience
in which persons have suffered severe ILL
ness in consequence of colds caught at
burials, and cases have not been infreuuent
in which deaths have been brought about
In this way. In wet or stormy weather the
old practice compelled the mourners to
stand on the wet grass or cold ground ex-
posed to the wind while the committal SER
vice was being read Nowadays canvas
shelter is supplied 1t is a light wooden
framework covered on top and on three
sides, and is erected to the windward of
the grave as easily as tent and in much
the same manner. The fourth side which
IS open, faces the grave. Protected by 1t
the mournerS can listen to the service with
out being exposed to the weather as for
merry. plank flooring is also provided
ana walks of canvas strips or planks are
laid from the carriages to the shelter Thus
mourners do not have to stand on or walk
over cold or wet ground. BY these simple
means much Of the former danger of at
tending funerals is avoided For quite a
time now 1t has been customary to hide
with evergreen boughs the ugly heaps Of
clay which were so suggestive and distress
ing sight to mournerS. These boughs are
placed in the grave after the coffin is low
cred into It, They deaden the sound of the
railing earth when the grave is being filed,
liant feature of burial to sensitive per-
sons.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-02-10
CHECK TORN AND PASTED.
Trouble Occasioned by It and Care
less Phrase.
From the Kansas City Journal.

From the Kansas City Journal.
A case in the district court at Atchison,
Kansas, shows how easily one may be mis-
led by the misuse of language. A colored
man had quarried lot of rock for 8. c.
King. In pay for the work King gave the
man a check for s175. But a little later
King discovered that the man had mis-
measured the rock and that he had been
overpaid. Going to the bank, he told the
cashier not to pay the check until further
notice. Then he hunted up the colored
man and asked to see the check. The col
ored man handed over the check, and King
at once tore it into eight pieces and cast
it on the ground, saying to the colored man
that he would settle with him after giving
the rock another measuring.
few hours later King happened into
the bank again. What about that check?'-
asked the cashier. oh, I fixed it, re-
sponded King, as he passed out And a
little later, when the colored man present
ed the check with the pieces all pasted to-
gether, the cashier paid it, though he said
afterward he thought it was a little curl
Gus that King should have gone to all the
trouble of fixing the check after it had
been so badly torn.
The colored man was arrested on the
charge of forgery. AT his trial the jury
could not agree. and he will be tried again
People may be surprised to know that past
ing torn check together comes under the
charge of forgery, but so it is under the
Kansas law. However, in this case the de-
Tense was that the colored man had the
right to put his own check together and
that he had not willingly surrendered 1t
to King.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-02-10
Smoothest of Pickpockets.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
You can talk about your smooth pick
pockets. but about the smoothest 1 ever
saw was in New York. said the man who
had travelled. TT was when 1 was up
there a couple of summers ago. No. the
story has never been printed, because the
pickpocket was never arrested. / was
victim myself, and / didn't 'holler,' either
An Italian with a grindorgan and a mon
key stopped in front of the hotel. The
grind organ man ground and the monkey
danced. The monkey then took up a COL
lection. He was the most playful mon
key l ever saw, and he jumped upon the
knees of every man in the lobby. After
he left 1 noticed that 1 was dollar short.
Several of the other fellows were also
short, but we were in New York and ex-
pected 1t.
THE next day the italian and the mon
key came again. The man ground out the
same old tunes and the monkey cut the
same capers. A woman was In the lobby,
and the animal jumped upon her lap. Then
there vas an awful scream and 'Jocko'
fell dead. In his right forepaw he held a
half dollar"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-02-10
RAILROADS.
BALTIMORE & OHIO
RAILROAD.


Leave Washington, New Jersey ave. and st.
Cincinnati st. Louis and Louisville, 1000 a.in,
-3:45 pm, '1:10 night.
Pittsburg and Cleveland, '10:45 am, IS 80 pm
and 100 night.
Columbus and Wheeling $3.50 pm.
Winchester, 1875 am, As and 1880 pm.
I,uray, '3:45 pm.
Annapolis, f7:i5, $3.50, 1875, Hiss am, '5:s5
Frederick 1875, 5000, f1o:45 am, s1:15, 1880,
1870 pm.
Hagerstown, f10:o5 am and IS 80 pm.
ROyd and way points, rs 80, 5000 am, sl:lo,
$50. 1870, s10:15, i'll 30 pm.
Gaithersburg and way points. IS 30, 5000 Am.
1850. s1:1a, 1900, 1890 800, 1880, Ti:oo,
$40, S10:15, f11:30 pm. ., ~
Washington Junction and way points, 1885, s9;oo
m. 81 rs, f4:30, 1870 pm.
Baltimore, week days, x3:00. 500, $50 xi:oo,
xt:15. xS:3o, S:35, 1880, x10:0O, 11:55 a m,
xI2:3O noon x1 35, x3.O0, x4:0O, $50, 4:So xooo,
x5:33 x620, $50 xS:0O, x1O:Oo, XII 80. 1l3o pm
sundays, x3:O0. x7:05, x1:15, $50, x9:O0 am,
xs:00, x10:O0. XII 80, Kill :35 pm.
ROYAL BLUE LINE.
All trains Illuminated with Pintsch iight
Baltimore Philadelphia. New York, Boston ana
the east 1900, '7:G5 diner, 1870 buffet, 5000
tdIner}. f1O:00 tdnerl am, '12:3O diner 200
diner, $500 and al 80 pm. sleeping car open
at 1000 o'clock.
Pullman all day trains.
Atlantic City. 1920
'Daily. Except Sunday. Sunday only.
NEXDresS trains.
Baggage called for and checked from hotels and
residenC by Union Transfer Co. orders left at
New York avenue and 18th street and at station.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-02-10
BIRDS WITHOUT BRAINS.
Experiments Made on Pigeons and
Falcons and the Results.


1t is a very common Idea that il the brain
OF an animal is completely destroyed It viii
die, or if it lives it remains in a "comatose''
condition An ingenious German has cut
out some pigeons brains with care. given
the wound time to heal, and shown that the
birds can run about. fly, measure a dis
tance eat, go to sleep In the dark, wake up
with the light, and, in fine. do most of the
things healthy. normal pigeon can do.
Only memory and the mating impulses ara
quite gone. 1t Is possible to discriminate
very neatly between the reflex acts and
those involving some use OF the memory.
mus pralnless falcon was put in a cage
with some mice. Every time a mouse
moved the falcon jumped for Ii and caught
It. There the act ended. The normal fall
con eats its mouse. When its brain is gone
IL pays no more attention to fits captured
prey as soon as the mouse ceases to move.
These and great variety of other expert
ments on rabbits, dogs, fishes, and still
lower orders have shed a deal of light on
the obscure phenomena Of mental" action.
With this have come very materialistio
views. For IL the larger part of bodily
actions can be shown to be nothing more
than simple mechanical responses to appro-
PIRATE stimuli, the suspicion grows that the
more intricate working Of the brain Is
really only the result OF a highly complex
arrangement of the same automatic char
acter. This Is, indeed, the drift of presents
day scientific opinion; and this explains
why the reactionaries of whom Prof Lor-
bard appears from the newspaper accounts
to be one, are driven to find reason" I'm the
KICK of a dead frog leg. For the live frog
demonstrates his disgust OF science in pre-.
cisely the same fashion, and this whether
he have brain to think about it. or has
had his thinking apparatus cut out. Those
who are interested In such matters will find
the latest results summed up In DR.. jacques
Loebs capital book on the comparative
physiology of the brain.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-02-10

inees surrounding that city have scarcely
any rich men. The other great cities rank
ed in order according to the number of
their capitalists are Osaka, Kobe. Nagaya.
Kioto and Yokohama.
It will seem strange to foreigners, to
whom Yokohama Is the best known of all
Japanese cities, that 1t should be last in
the Jijfs list. The statistician does not at
tempt to account for this, but in explana-
tion of the fact that the prefecture Of Kiu-
shiu, always looked upon as the richest in
the empire, has few semi-millionaires, the
paper says that while there are not many
rich men there, vet its wealth is very gen.
orally distributed and there are no poor
people.
Commenting upon the information thus
brought to light by the Jill, the Japan
Daily Mail, paper published In English
In Yokohama, says:
Comparing these results with American
statistics it appears that whereas there
are 3,S2S persons in the United States cred
tied with possessing million gold dollars
each and upward. or. in other words, o1e
millionaire for every 10000 inhabitants,
supposfng the population to be $4,000, e0G
there Is In Japan only one semi mill 1naire
Tor every 100000 Inhabitants, taking the
population at $4,000 COO Reducing these
figures to the same denomination (ye-O II
would appear that there are just ten times
as many men of wealth in America as in
Japan.
But before accepting that conclusion a
large correction is evidently necessary.
since, although there may be only 3.S2S
milhonaires in the states, there may be
fifty or a hundred thousand quarter NIL
lionaires. Obviously, since half a million
yen is equal to only quarter of a million
dollars, no accurate comparison can be
made until the number of quarter million
aires in America is ascertained.''
The Jijfs figures also reveal the fact that
manufacturing Is still in its infancy in
Japan, for in the list of AL men of wealth
beth the farming and the merchant classes
nave a larger representation than has the
manufacturing class. 1t is also noticeable
that out of the AL no fewer than Sky
SIX are noblemen who do not pursue any
trade or profession. A remarka BILE fact Is
that not more than one or two in every
ten have amassed their wealth in one gen.
Grafton; the others have inherited a great
part OF 1t. This Is just the opposite of the
conditions prevailing in America, where
seven or eight in every ten millionaires
have made their own money
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-02-10
MEXICO WELL PRosPECTED.
Natives Of the Republic Good Judges
Of Ore.

From the Engineering Magazine.
could not advise any one to start to
Mexico seeking a high-grade proposition
which may be worked with small capital
My opinion in this is based on the follow
ing facts:
A more or less scientific system Of mining
and metallurgy was practiced in many
localities In Mexico long before the Cali
lorna discoveries gave American mining
its great impetus. These operations were
carried on under the supervision of the
priesthood, and for the benefit Of the
church. At that time the population of
Mexico was fanatically religious; therefore,
anything pertaining to the interest of the
church would attract the interest of the
public at large. The ecclesiastical mining
plants did not require a special and exclu-
slve class of operatives, but employed any
ana all OF the communicates who were not
otherwise occupied. 1t follows that nearly
all the laborers Of the country would, at
some time or other in their lives be en-
ployed In mining operations In later years
the American and German miners have
made Mexico field Of operations, and have
installed comparatively recent methods
These foreign enterprises have been no re-
spectors OF persons as regards their native
laborers. employing the first person who
appeared to fill vacancy; and since q few
dollars In hand makes the average Mexican
laborer too rich to work, vacancies were
not infrequent. From all Of which it fol-
lows that the conditions have been favor
able for general dissemination Of practf-
cal mining knowledge in Mexico
Now: the Mexican, while not Of strong
mentality, has the faculty of observation
strongly developed by close contact with
nature. and has the capacity for accurate
imitation characteristic of all semi-civilized
peoples. Hence. we may expect to find him
good on-hand judge of ore quite skillful
IN tests with the "batea' and horn spoon,
and even able to supplement these with
rough roasting and matchmaking opera
ever loWly, one will find specimens Of ORE
with which the children play while they
listen to the talk Of their elders about the
fortunes which have been gained by the
turning Of stone. In a country over every
foot of which men Of the above character
nave neen roaming for generations either
directly In search of mineral or as herders
vet ever with an eye open for pedras
ricas. there Is small chance of there re-
surface,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-02-10
Indian Prairie Dog Hunts.

From the New York Commercial Advertiser
The Navajo Indian, while he cannot be-
prevailed upon to eat a rabbit, is greedily
fond of fat prairie dogs. Large communf-
ties OF these small animals abound on the
western plains, and the Navajo has resort
ed to many ingenious methods for trapping
his coveted dainty. One of them is by the
aid of bit of mirror placed at the en-
trance to burrow. When the animal ven-
lures from his bed room. deep under ground
he sees familiar image hooking him at
the front door and he hurries out to con-
front the impudent intruder, when he Is
pinned to the ground with an arrow. But
the most effective method is what the In
dams call the rain hunt. As soon as the
steady downpour of summer rains begins
every Navajo who can walk repairs to the
prairie dog village with hoes, sharp sticks
or any digging implement. With these they
hollow out trenches that Will lead the storm
water into as many burrows as possible.
Soon little stream is pouring down each
small home and the inmate much dis
turbed, pops out to see what the matter
can be. Many Of the animals remain under
ground until they are drowned and their
bodies float to the surface. After such a
hunt, in which many pounds of prairie dogs
are generally secured, there is a feast for
many days in the Navajo buts
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-02-10
English Actors Abroad.
From the London Chronicle.

lnt louuoH tnEDHlcle
English actors will welcome the inaugu-
ration of the first English theater in Paris,
and there should be no doubt Of it's f1nan-
cial success. Performances by English
companies on the continent are by no
means an innovation; as far back as the
sixteenth century English performances
were given, and IN those early days met
with considerable success. An English
company performed in Germany in 1856,
and another at Lubbock in 1913. Five years
later one played with great success for nine
weeks at Hamburg, and in November asked
permission to perform at Luneburg, which
had been previously visited by the same
company with glorious results. but met
with a refusal, as the season was Advent.
Our plays, too. met with favor on the con-
tinent under the disadvantage of transla-
ton. Julius Caesar" was performed in
1860 at Luneburg by German company,
and in 1866 another applied for permission
to present twenty-five English pieces,
among them King Lear and Titus An
dronicus,"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-02-10
English Rocks.

From Cha nbers Journal.
When the English rocks are building their
nests frequently rookery is disturbed by
big quarrels over the placing Of those huge
bundles Of sticks in the treetops The
trouble occurs mostly with young birds
wishing to place their nests too near an
old nest. A council of rocks Is called, with
the result that the disputants' nests are
soon scattered to the winds, and the claim,
ant and the defendant both have to begin
a new foundation. Sometimes there is a
disturbance on a more limited scale when a
pair of birds do their very best to pull the
sticks from the nest Of another pair, each
of the contending parties doing all they can
to prevent the other from building. Rocks
are curiously weather wise, and they scent
a coming storm and set to work to repair
and strengthening their nests before that
imminent gale has been evident to the
farmer. The rocks powers Of sight and
hearing are remarkable.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-02-10
STICKING PINS.
a Feminine Practice That Has Been
the Cause of Much Trouble.
From the London Truth

the Cause of Much Trouble.
From the London Truth.
Woman's proneness to stick a Din wher-
ever convenient has proved a serious mat
ter to one steamship company. The line
decided some time ago to place the most
modern air-filled rubber mattresses in the
berths Of the best rooms on two of it's big
gest ships. Recently the stewards were
kept busy at the completion of each trip
with blowing up with air dozens Of mat
tresses that had collapsed from some I'M
known cause. 1t took the officials of the
line some hours to discover the cause OF
the failure Of the mattresses to maintain
their proper condition. Hatpins, breastpins,
safety pins, stickpins, every known kind Of
pin had done the mischief
One advantage of these mattresses"
said the manufacturer, was that they
were intended as life preservers or small
RATS should the emergency arise. Give
me decent sized hatpin IL you want to see
me knock the ambition out of the average
life preserver that depends upon air. The
woman tourists simply stabbed those mat
tresses to DEATH"
The steamship company now has this
notice attached to the door of every state
room please do not stick pins in the
berth cushions and mattresses. Pins are
injurious to them"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-02-10
too much trouble to follow out this con-

to too much trouble to follow ont this con-.
struction.
Another woman came In one day with a
reo-hot stove temper because, as she de-
cared, We had given my letter to the
meanest old thing that ever lived n
dion cool her of bit when we told her
That the postal regulations allowed the de-
hEery or mail to either person where n IS
addressed to one In care of another. I'm
less the postmaster is notified to the con-
trary he is obliged TO deliver II to the first
Of the two persons who may call for it,
The other woman must have opened II read
IL and resealed 1t, hence the bright red
glow of anger upon the face OF the lady az
the window
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-02-10
The Telephone at Sea.

From Harper's Weekly.
Unique methods of telephony are working
wonders in the field of marine signaling.
and when this phase Of the new achieve
ments has been fully developed 1t Is be-
lieved that the danger of collisions and other
disasters at sea will be very materially
lessened. One Of the most important OF
these systems of telephone signals for
ships was invented by the late Dr.. Gray.
By this plan the water of a lake, OCEAN or
river is made to act as the medium foe
conveying sounds, as. for instance the
strokes Of a bell tolled below the surface
Of the water. The sounds thus transmitted
are heard distinctly at great distances by
means of exceptionally sensitive telephonic
receivers designed especially for such SER
vice. Inasmuch as any number of different
signals may be arranged by the introduce
ton OF various combinations OF strokes
given In quick succession or at long inter-
vals II Will be seen that the possibilities oe
the system for signaling purposes are yir-
tualiy limitless. The practical application
OF this invention has already been carried
30 far that ships have been fitted with app
paratus which causes gongs to ring auto.
matically when the vessel comes within
hail. Of one Of these submerged bells.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-02-10
RAILROADS.
Chesapeake & Ohio Ry.

Trains leave from Pennsylvania Station.
500 PM. DAILY-Cincinnatl and St Louis Spe-
ciIl-Solid train for Cincinnati, Pullman Sleepers
TO Cincinnati, Lexington. Louisville indianapolis
and ST. Louis without change. Connection for Viz
ginIa Hot Springs Dining Car. ParlOr Cars Gin
cfnnsti To Chicago
1f:f9 PM DAILY-F. F. V. Emited-Solid train
for Cincinnati Pullman Sleepers TO Cincinnati,
Lexington and Louisville without change. Com
partment Sleeper to Virginia Hot Springs Tuesdays
and Saturdays. Dining Car Sleepers Cincinnati TO
Chicago and ST. louis.
10:5i AN. En-. STNDAY-Washington and Old
Point Specia-leSs than 52 hour train to Old Point
Comfort. via Richmond. Only all-Tail route
Reservation and tickets at Chesapeake and Ohio
Office, 513 Pennsylvania avenue; 600 Fourteenth
street. I. aud at the station. Telephone call,
Main I4I1 for Transatlantic Railroad Cab service.
II. ". FULLER,
TpleDhODp Main General Passenger Agent
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-02-10
MARcoNrs SIGNALS.
Do They Follow the Curvature of the
Earth or Pass Through

GidTtA OF K6SS 1QT0uRht
From Harper's Weekly.
How do Marconrs signals come across
from Cornwall to the Newfoundland
shores? There is a curving hill of water
and earth crust ITO miles high in between.
Did the electric waves go over the hill, or
through 1t, or how? That is the puzzle the
electrical world is bothering over at the
moment. Some German experiments seem
to indicate that the waves are absorbed by
water as they are by metals. Professor
Fleming Of London. who has done an elab-
crate work on the scientific side Of the sub
3ect, puts the matter a little differently.
His results would make water OPAQUE to
these electrical waves, as it is in large
quantity to light. Either way, 1t seems as
II the signals didn't come straight through.
They went round the hill. In this case
they must somehow have followed the
curving earth. But howl The accepted
idea is that the vibrations Marconi uses
are just long, invisible light waves. And
light goes straight. Professor Fleming
thinks the waves might bend; or, 1t may
be. the upper air being highly rarefied. Is
also Opaque to them, like water. This
would form a shell round the earth, In
which the signals might travel anywhere
Would they go clear round? And II they
did. would they stop when they got back to
where they started. or keep going round
and round7 Evidently, until they had been
absorbed by substances like the metals
But what becomes Of the waves then? Do
they set up a current Of ordinary electric
ity? II that be true, then they could trans
NIT power. There was a Kansas professor
named Blake who had this idea, some
years ago. He was quite sure the falls Of
the Nile could be made to run London, and
Niagara to turn corn grinders and run
moving machines out on his native plains.
This matter OF long distance transmission
Is the great electrical problem OF the day,
and it may be the Hertz waves win bring
the solution. II they should coal mines
could shut up shop. Here Is a wide field,
and inasmuch aa about every nation in
Europe has been ahead Of us I'm perfecting
the wireless telegraph, this II . chance
to even uQ.