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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-04
DRIVING WITHOUT HANDS.
Mr.. Denny Tells How He Controls His
Horses.

People wonder how 1t Is that l am able
to drive horses without hands" said Mr.
w. b. Denny, the armless man, whose pro-
fciency as a horseman has won great
praise. AS far as the art of driving and
controlling horse, no matter how spirited
he is. is concerned, that is not a great per-
formance. After the ends of the driving
reins are securely buckled or tied I place
one rein over my right shoulder and the
near side rein under my left arm II a.
horse becomes FESTIVE and shows signs of
becoming uncomfortable l throw the weight
OF my body against the reins and II that
fails TO bring him to his senses l twist nv
body from one side TO the other, so as to
violently jerk his head from right to left.
"A straight, heavy pull against the mouth
Of horse that is inclined to run because
he Is frightened. or because of a vicious
disposition, Is rarely If ever effective in
gaining full control of him. When a fright
ened horse begins to get the better of you
your duty is to make him think of some
thing else besides the object of which he is
AFRAID. This can be done by violently Jerk
Ing his head from right to left, and at the
same time talking TO him in low tones DO
not let the horse know that you are fright
ened by shouting Whoa! whoar in a loud
and excited tone of voice. If you do the
chances are that you will add to his fright
BEFORE L get into wagon | always see
that the straps and buckles are in perfect
condition, that the horse is properly hitched
and that the trap / ride in is all right.
cannot afford to take many chances, as II
i were thrown to the ground by reason OF
an accident the chances are that | would
be fatally injured.
1T Is not so much my great skill as a
horseman that has thus far prevented me
from meeting with serious accidents as nv
confidence in my ability to manage any
horse | get up behind | drive pnpe h,f,
highly bred and spirited horses and | FIND
that kind in pinch much safer, because OF
their superior intelligence A horse known
TO be really vicious should never be driven
but consigned to the bone yard | drive
two horses with quite as much ease as
do one. and In pinch drive in race II
Is dangerous on my part but thus far
have met with no serious accidents"
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by the excise board and with complaints of
citizens Only ten bar rooms. he said, and
three wholesale places that were in exist
ence October 81 have failed to put up the
increased license fees. Those thirteen
places, he said, have all been closed, and
1t is believed that the protests against
others will be successful.
The symposium of temperance sermons,
which occurred in The Star October 81,
was repeatedly mentioned with commenda-
ton, and thanks were extended to the sew
eral churches, the use of which was given
for the recent revival meetings, and to
Dr. Bischoff and others who participated
in the exercises.
A special meeting of the executive COM
mittee of the District league was called for
Friday, November Z, at 4.15 pm, in the
presidents office. Washington Loan and
Trust building, and 1t was announced that
the national executive committee is TO meet
in this city Thursday, November o, at 10
am, in the Bliss building.
The league adjourned to Monday, Novem-
DER II, at pm, at 522 9th street, with a
proposed change of the dates of the regular
meetings as the special order.
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on a large scale-in nay state. Arkansas
raised in 1901 $4,000 bales of cotton, ana
it's mills consumed .463 bales, a wide dl1-
ference between production ana cohsuihp
ton. Something must be done to arouse
more interest in the milling Of cotton IN
the state, or the cotton raising INDUSTRY IN
Arkansas will decline into nothing. me
state has every natural advantage FOR cot
ton manufacturing. Labor is cheap ana
water power is abundant. On the other
hand, the cotton seed oil industry in the
state is paying proposition, the milis pay
ing dividend of from Is to 90 per cent
II imagine that very few people in the
United States Know said Mr.. Joseph
Gaines of Gainesville, Texas, where the
bulk of pecan nuts is grown which supply
the markets of this and other countries.
Texas furnishes the bulk of the pecan crop
each year, there being shipped from the
state in 1901 1000 carloads. The Texas
grower gets an average of cents per pound
on the ground for pecans, and the nut runs
forty-four pounds 10 the bushel. Most of
the Texas nuts go to New York Via Gal
weston. The one other great pecan coun.
try is the Indian territory. THOUSANDS OF
bushels go to waste in that territory De-
cause no one seems to care enough about
the matter to gather a full crop. This year
there will be a big Texas crop of pecans
and from what l can hear the price per
pound will be very low unless trust Is
formed to stay the price up.
THE famous Albemare pippin Is known
to all apple lovers" remarked Mr. William
Dabney of Charlottesville, Va, and 1t is In
the vicinity of my town that the fruit Is
grown in all it's perfection In some parts
of Orange and Culpeper counties it may
also be found but 1t is a remarkable fact
that the flavor of the pippin grown in those
counties does not favorably compare in
richness and juiciness with the same varie-
ety grown in the vicinity of Charlottesville
The Albemarle pippin is grown on certain
matches of soil along the foothills of the
Rlue Ridge To make a success OF growing
this particular kind of fruit you must seek
a certain altitude and peculiar KIND OF
red soil The soil runs In streaks. and when
Won have found it you might go ten rods
either way and run into soil that would
he practically worthless for the purpose.
The desired soil Is so scarce and the fruit
bearing capacity of the orchards so limited.
as the trees only bear alternate years, that
the price of the Albemarle pippin per barrel
remains about the same from year to year.
The fruit-raising industry around Char
lottesyille has become a staple one and Is
hound to increase in Importance just as
soon as the home people realize what good
thing they have.
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ANTI-SALOoN LEAGUE.
Arrangements for National Conven-
tion-Proceedings Last Night.

AT the semi-monthly meeting of the Anti
Saloon League of the District, held last
night at 500 9Th street northwest, it was
reported by President Ewin that request
had been received from President Wilson
of the American Anti-Saloon League that
the District league take charge of the local
arrangements for the approaching national
convention. This gathering of the anti
saloon workers is to be held in Washing
ton December to II, 1902 1t will be the
seventh annual convention and the fourth
to be held in this city.
1t was ordered last night that commit
tee of arrangement be organized at once, to
consist of the twenty members of the ex-
ecutive committee Of the District league
and like number Of residents outside OF
the league, this committee to have full
powers.
Attorney Shoemaker reported that he has
been kept very busy since the first OF the
month with the cases that have been heard
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TAXES ON RECEIPTS.
Opinion of Corporation Counsel Re
specting Insurance Premiums.

A. B. Duvall, the corporation counsel, has
submitted to the Commissioners an opinion
ON the communication of the superint endent
of insurance as to whether the taxes on the
net premium receipts of insurance COM
panies are due and payable in 1902 or in
1903. 1t is held that such taxes are payable
In 1902, as a condition precedent to the
licensing of the companies. Mr.. Duvall
says:
The code of law for the District of Co
lumbia went into effect on January l, 1902,
and prior to that time home insurance COM
panies-that is, companies chartered in the
District-paid IL per cent on the assessed
value of their capital stock by the fiscal
year, while the agents of foreign insurance
companies paid / per centum on the gross
earnings of said agencies semi-annually
from January / to June 80 and from July /
TO December 81. The assessor reports that
none of these corporations has paid any
thing on capitalization or premium receipts,
except to December 81, 1901.
Il am of the opinion that payment of
such taxes in the year 1902 for that year
Is required by said section. No double tax
alton results therefrom. The insurance
companies paid their taxes to December 81,
1901. At that point of time the code inter-
Vened, requiring thereafter the payment of
taxes upon a different basis and changing
the assessment period. That is to say, these
taxes from and after January l, 1902, are
to be paid in advance, as general taxes and
occupation taxes paid.
1T is true that the amount of the tax is
based upon and is to be ascertained by the
amount of premium receipts of the last pre-
ceding calendar year, but this does not
operate to again tax such premium receipts.
1t simply supplies the basis upon which
the tax for the succeeding year is to be
computed.
ITO hold that the insurance companies
are not now required to pay this tax in the
year 1902 a condition to doing business
would be to say that Congress intended to
relieve them altogether from the payment
of the tax in the calendar year 1902. This
is unreasonable, and no such intention can
be found in the law"
The Commissioners have approved the
opinion.
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BUILDING OPERATIONS.
Report of District Inspector for Month
of October.

Snowden Ashford, the inspector OF build
ings, has submitted to the Commissioners
a report of the building operations In the
District of Columbia during the month of
October. Permits were issued for the num-
Der and character of dwellings as follows:
Brick dwellings, 80, 1892 135; frame dwell
lings, II, SOS. 400; brick repairs, 80, $780,
frame repairs, 80, So, 102; office building, l.
$124, 1877; school, /. $4,000; apartment
houses. 5, s71,O0o; stores, 8, $90.500; store
and apartment, 1, $4,000; store and dwell
ling (frame), $500; store and dwelling
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Wind-Up Of Campaign.

Democrats of the Oxon Hill district,
Prince Georges county, Md, wound up the
campaign last night with a big rally at
McNey's Hall, in Oxon Hill The meeting
was under the auspices of the Anaeostia
Democratic Club. DR.. j. A. Watson. presi-
dent. the members of which left Anacostia
In carriages, preceded by a band of music
Speakers for the occasion accompanied
them. = In the absence of the president of
the club the gathering was presided over
by Mr. Raymond Heiskell. Those who
made addresses were Robert E. Mattingly,
Capt. John S. Miller and ]. g. Gardener.
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RESIGNATION ACCEPTED.
Release of DR.. Smith, Who Becomes
Pastor of st. Thomas Church

The vestry of St. Michael and All Angels
Protestant Episcopal Church in Baltimore
at a meeting held last night, accepted the
resignation of the former rector of that
church, Rev. DR.. c. Ernest Smith, who has
recently accepted a call to the rectorship OF
St. Thomas Episcopal Church in this city.
After the meeting of the vestry of the Bal
timore church last evening DR.. Smith was
asked when the resignation would take eff
feet, but he stated he was unable to tell at
this time He preached at his new charge
in this city last Sunday evening, and SEEM
ed very much pleased with the church and
congregation.
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DIAMOND DIVES

Are made especially FOR THE HOME.
They for HOME ECONOMY. and can be
used to make anything look bright and new.
Direction book and As dyed samples free.
DIAMOND DYES, Burlington, VT.
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Obrick1. $500: elevators, Q, s34 ,3O5; engine
and boilers, 8, SO, 100; electric motor, l, $3.50
stable (brick), 4, $1O,55O; stable frame),
81 200; sheds, 40, $1,926. Total, 29s, S1,0s7,-
469
The following summary shows the distri-
button of improvements in the different sec
tons of the District and value of the same:
Buildings. northwest, $500 2S2; county, $24S,-
southwest 900. Total, 1927 ,OO7. Repairs,
northwest $142, S66; county, $7,064; south
east, $685.; northeast, S2,717; southwest,
81, 450. Total, S160 49,.
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Its Disgustingg
Its Repulsiveg

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one short pun Of the breath through the blower
Supplied with each bottle of DIR. Agncw's Catarrhal
3wder dinuses this powder over the surface G. the
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relieves instantly. and permanently cures Catarrh
hay fever, colds, headache. throat tonsiiItis
aud deafness
Use DIR. Agncw's Liver Pills. 40 doses 10 cents
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-04
IN HOTEL CORRIDORS

Washington certainly has the cleanest
money 1 ever handled said Mr.. H. c.
Williams of Chicago, at the Arlington.
"Out in our country all of the paper money
is more or less greasy and dirty and much
of it is torn. Then, too, merchants and
others who get paper money generally put
it away and give silver in change. / went
into the telegraph office in Charlottesville,
Ind, only the other day to send telegram.
The cost was only 40 cents All the money
l had handy was $40 bill. Imagine my
chagrin when the cashier handed me $3.50
in silver in change. He said he had no
paper money in the office That $40 bill
noticed he filed away in wallet"
Evening star., 1902-09-11
Has His Shoes Quilt"

From the Baltimore Sun.
When Louis Merkanen, a youth of Boston
Mich, buys a new pair of shoes the shoe
maker must build not make" them
There Is distinction. Louis does not wear
an ordinary shoe. He wears quite an ex-
traordinary one, for in size it is No 90
Louis Is just sixteen years old Notwith-
standing his youthfulness. he Is seven feet
tall and weighs 2S9 pounds. He is the won
der of his community, for his parents are
small. His mother Ia not over five feet tall.
while his father is medium sized.
Louis went to local shoe dealer and or
dered new pair of shoes, and now the
wielder of the awl is busy building"
pair of lasts the size of Louis feet The
lad grows three inches, a year on an aver
age, and if he does not stop growing, which
Is unlikely, he will be eight feet two inches
in height when he Is twenty years Gid. Two
years ago he wore No. 16 shoe Last year
when he was confirmed at the Finnish
Church the shoemaker built" a pair, size
No. 1s, for that event. At this rate If his
feet continue to grow as they have he will
require size No. % when he is twenty years
old. Louis had some difficulty in entering
the door Of the shoe store, for there was
Just fraction of an inch to spare, but he
made it all right. However, Louis is good
natured and happy, as most large people
Evening star., 1902-09-11
REFORMING MEMS DRESS.
Silk Hats, Frock Coats and Trousers
Are Decried.
From the London Mail.

| From the London Mail.
| Does the present day wearing apparel rep
resent the maximum Of comfort and warmth
with the minimum of weight? In addition
is it the most becoming We can wear?
| To these questions Lord Ronald Suther-
land Cover gave the writer an emphatic
negative.
Il have no wish to design dress which
shall be beautiful at the expense of utility,
nor do 1 wish only one class of society to
benefit" said Lord Cover. with slight
notifications the proposed reformed dress
could be worn by all classes It Is only
question of material, not Of cut.
Ito begin at the top: The silk hat must
go. I feel especially strongly about this
article of headdress. 1t is heavy. hideous
and unhealthy, and should be discarded in
favor of a Homburg, for instance, or a soft
felt hat, something between a cavaliers s
and a New South Wales lancer's in shape"
They say that the silk hat is the only
one that can be worn with the frock coat"
Granted; but why retain the frock coat?
1t suits very few men, and it's length adds
to the weight on the shoulders Let the
with tails and wear rather short coat
not too abbreviated-in which, am sure, he
will look yell and feel comfortable.
My most radical recommendations apply
to the neither garments. The ungraceful
trousers should be replaced with close-ft-
ting knee breeches, coming below the knee
anu ldSteLIlS Win llree buttons, ana SILK
stockings and neat-buckled or laced shoes
would complete serviceable costume.
"As for the ladies, l cannot criticise their
toilet. They always look charming"
Lord Ronald frankly admitted that he had
not the courage to adopt his reformed cos
tune at once. However, he has not worn a
| silk hat for years, the last occasion being
a royal garden party.
Il don't think the present period is the
ugltest in the history of mans Dress" he
| admitted, but that Is not saying a great
deal In 1910, in my opinion, the high
water mark Of downright uginess was
reached; but we are nearly as bad today.
THE only way to get a sensible style Of
| dressing generally adopted" concluded Lord
| Ronald, "is to wear 1t in ones own homo
and among ones intimate friends. Then a
body of us may visit q theater in reformed
attire; but 1t will need q lot of courage"
Evening star., 1902-09-11
The Men Who Break Down.

From the Mexican Herald
When man standing at the head OF a
vast business breaks down the papers be-
gin to talk Of the enormous pressure Of
modern life,. especially in the lines OF
finance and industrial activity. There are
railway presidents who stand a great
amount Of business strain, but they waste
none Of their energies, and are temperate
as all men of great affairs must be, If they
would hold their own in these busy days.
While a great business involves large re-
sponsibilities, strong man at the head
of 1t will be found to have selected capable
assistants. often younger men with great
power OF resisting strain. The railway
president bank president or head of a
trust has his staff; his business is systema-
tized and large part of his worth to his
corporation consists in his ability to pick
good men for responsible places.
When one comes to look over the list of
men broken down in business II is among
those having small business that the great
er number will be found. The man in a
small way rarely can afford to have ca
pable assistants; he must do ii all him.
SELF" and hence worry and OVERRIDING
There is more of a chance for brain flag In
a small shop or agency than in q big busi-
ness.
Evening star., 1902-09-11
NUTS AS FOOD.
Scientific Men Say the World Might
Live on Shell Food.

Live on Shell Food.
From the New York Sun.
The cultivation of nuts in our country
is largely confined to the southern states.
Just as in the north we have our dairy,
live stock and many other associations,
our neighbors In the south have their south
ern Nut Growers Association, which is
devoted to the various interests of the nut
industry. A meeting Of this association
is to be held at Macon, Ga, on October 9 to
consider the interests of the peanut, pecan
and other branches of the industry and to
discuss the extension of the domestic and
foreign trade.
The various soils and climates Of our vast
area provide all the conditions necessary
for the production of all kinds OF nuts
The southerners say that In a number Of
their states the almond should be grown
as we'll as in Sicily. Peanut and pecan
growing are already well developed In the
south. The quantity of filberts and chest
nuts might be very largely increased IN
nearly all the northern and central states
and the pistachio, a high-priced nut, thrives
in many localities Under influences In
operatio particularly in the south, the
cultivation of nuts Is sure to have a much
larger development in this country.
1t has been asserted in the scientific jour-
mails of Europe within the past two or
three years. on the authority of chemists
and dietary experts, that the nutritive
properties of nuts entitle them to much
higher place than they now occupy as an
article of food. They even assert that if
all other means of nutriment were cut off
man could support life on the nut crop of
the world This statement has also been
made in some of the best school textbooks
of Europe and it appears in a school book
recently published in this country. The
rising generation seems likely, therefore,
to have a higher opinion of the utility Of
nuts than their fathers entertained.
Evening star., 1902-09-11
THE BICYCLE.
Reaction Followed Fad - The Wheel
Receivers Public Favor

Receivers Public Favor.
From the Chicago Record Herald.
The troubles of the bicycle trust have led
to expressions Of wonderment at the col
lapse Of the bicycle fad, but that had begun
before the trust was formed, and there is
no mystery as to its cause. The first of
them was a reaction against the common
American fault OF OVERRIDING things Men
and women half killed themselves by riding
too far Every pleasure trip became a
pleasure eXertion, in which the weaker COM
petitors were painfully exhausted. An alb
solute disgust for the wheel followed among
the victims. many Of whom would never
mount a wheel again after one such heart
breaking and body-racking ride.
Another cause was the cheapening of
wheels, which brought them within the
reach Of the plainest people and raised
social doubts among the aristocrats, who
could afford to pay $50 per wheel. The
incursion Of the commoners came just in
time to save the liverymen, who were about
to expire. and brought back to the horse
some Of his old value.
Another cause in many places was the
detestable condition Of city streets and
country roads. Except on first-class road
bicycle is a sorrow, and the bicycle rider
soon exhausts the delights of a few boue-
wards and an occasional highway that hap
pens to be in fair condition. He wants va
riety and novelty without getting them at
the cost Of terrifcally hard labor and of
considerable bodily peril.
1t is said besides that the exercise is not
as beneficial as some others, but under IA
vorable conditions it affords a pleasant
means of getting about and seeing town and
country, and the probabilities are that the
present reaction will be followed by period
of increasing and healthy demand for
wheels In fact dealers and repair men say
that this period has already begun.