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Evening star., 1902-08-22
HIS FEE IN NICKELS.
Cheerful Lawyers Experience With a
"Soulless Corporation"

From the Chicago Inter Ocean.
-Four drinks said the cheerful young
lawyer. whose shingle has been out only
since January, will be 40 cents. So there
go eight of 'em.
Now. IL any of you three want car fare
money in exchange for bills I'm in the
money changing business and I need the
bills, so step up. Incidentally, 1 may re-
mark that the meanest corporation in bust
ness in this city Is a certain railway cpnI-
pany, and I've just been up against It."
The cheerful young lawyer produced a
handful of nickels from a bullying pocket
rendered eight to the waiter, with two over
Tor good measure, and slapped more pockets
which also bulged. The pockets jingled
You see.' he explained bill Smith
who's my dads head clerk, was cooling off
his Panama by holding it out of the car
window when going across the bridge the
other day and a pole broke his arm. In
Que time he sent for me and put me up
against 1t.
"Of course they hadn't any business to
nave a pole In the way of a gentleman's
arm, and equally, of course, Bill Smith
hadn't any right to presume that he could
ride with his arm outside car. The COM
pany only contracts to carry its passengers
with all of 'em inside
SO it being very nice legal point which
might get to sympathetic jury and might
not, when the company offered Bill 500
worth of satisfaction / advised him to TAX
| II, and he did Then l went up to collect
! the money.
| The company's claim department was at
| the FAR end of the line, of course. That s
| to make it hard for claimants to get at
expected that, and l don't say any
| thlng about the 10 cents and the valuable
| time | spent in getting out there to collect
Blli Smiths hundred and coming back
| But DO object to that company's way OF
! doing business in other respects
when | got there the man in charge of
| the claim payments cOOlly offered a
check for $3.50 and asked for $50 change.
| l explained that | wouldn't be in this bust
! ness II L carried $50 In loose change around
with me habitually. Then he grinned and
SAID he'd fix me up another way if I'd wait,
| and he disappeared
| When he came back he produced ss5 in
| very greasy small bills and SIS in nickels
| L think he'd been out to the corner and
| held up the cars till he got enough.
| Anyway, he turned the bundle over to
| me, gave me newspaper to wrap it in and
| left me to cuss. When 1 got TO Bill Smith
| he took the paper money and left me the
Sl5 in nickelS for my share
Evening star., 1902-08-22
English, Scotch and Irish.


We are glad that 1t is an English journal
which publishes a fine eulogy Of the Scot.
seeing that an English publisher has just
issued an attack upon that excellent race.
In the present case the article goes into
figures, for whose accuracy we cannot. Of
course. pretend to vouch. and shows in
how many ways the Scot Is superior both
to the Englishman and the Irishman. On
an average we are told the Scot earns f45
year. the Englishman f3s and the Irish
man f20. For the maintenance of roads,
bridges, police, harbors and education Scot
land pays f3 per head per year. as against
e 1Ss. In England. Scottish fishermen
bring to port fish which are worth for ev-
cry man.. woman and child in their coun-
try Is. 3D., while English fishermen cannot
do better than 3s I'D. worth, and Irishmen
only Is. ID. worth. In the matter of thrift
too, each Scotsman Is credited In the aver
age Of the savings bank with f5 As, as
against the fb of the Englishman and the
f2 Of the Irishman- Finally, to make an
end Of these averages, Scotland heads the
lists In births. and Is the lowest in deaths
From all this we may gather that Eng
land has something to learn from Scot
land. and certainly an imitation Of the
Evening star., 1902-08-22
From Page to Premier.

Prom the Philadelphia Record
The career of Apollo Kagwa prime min
itser of Uganda, who is in London to attend
the coronation, has been remarkable and
romantic. When very young he was a
page in the court of King Mtesa. and after
that rulers death rose to the rank of stew
ard under the notorious Mwanga He al
ways held aloof from the barbarities prev
alent at that time. and was in consequence
more than once beaten and wounded by
Mwanga.
Twenty years ago Apollo came under the
influence of the Church Missionary Society
and has since remained a loyal and stanch
friend of the missionaries. often at great
personal cost Though speaking but little
English, he is no mean scholar in his own
tongue and has written three books on the
history and folklore of his people.
1t was owing to the strong representa-
dons of Apollo. says the London Express
that Mwanga in 1890 signed the treaty
with Capt. Lugard by which Uganda be-
came a British protectorate. He was head
of the forces In 1892 and ruled the country
with conspicuous ability during Mwanga's
flight Had it not been for his influence
the chiefs would have rebelled and the
country would have had to be reconquered
Evening star., 1902-08-22
LORD ACTON's LIBRARY.
Treasure Which Carnegie Presents to
Morley.

FROM the Chicago News.
Lord Acton's library, which Andrew Car
nog.e has presented to John Morley was
once catalogued for sale at auction. That
was twelve years ago. and the dispersal of
the books was prevented by Mr.. Carnegie's
coming forward a private purchaser and
owner. Foreign books form the bulk Of the
collection. and though they treat largely of
ecclesiastical history, they are mostly of a
date no farther back than fifty or sixty
years. The main feature is perhaps an
exhaustive series of works. local and gen.
eral. on the history of France Spain, Por-
tugal, Belgium. Holland, Italy Switzerland,
Germany. Russia. Poland Bohemia Hun
gary, Iceland, Sweden and Norway. If
Lord Acton bought beyond his means 1t
was not by paying record prices for first
editions of Shakespeare fol'os or such like
treasures. He had few sixteenth century
books. but not any single one that would
sell for large price.
Andrew Carnegie Is not the first million
aire to buy a historians library. The 1900
volumes of chronicles and travels from
which Gibbon distilled the decline and Fall
of the Roman Empire" were purchased by
Beckford after the writer's death II bought
II, said the author of ''Vathek" >" ito have
something to read when l passed through
Lausanne There were few rarities in the
collection. but most of the authors were in
the best obtainable editions and In perfect
condition; the fastidious Gibbon was in
capable of behaving disrespectfully to a
DOCK For six weeks Beckford reveled In
his purchase and read himself nearly blind
he soon tired of his books. however, and
presented the whole collection to a German
physician named Schen The recipient
showed his appreciation Of the trea sure by,
promptly selling It.
Evening star., 1902-08-22
GERMANS IN ASIA MINOR.
How They Are Trying to Obtain a
Commercial MONOPOLY.

| From the Pail Mall Gazette.
! The German Anatolian Railway Company
and the Austrian Oriental Railway Com
pany are at the present moment trying to
come to an agreement with the Ottoman
government to obtain special tariffs for
the transport of goods from central Eu-
| rope to Asia Minor. If the concession is
| granted German and Austrian goods will be
brought into Asiatic Turkey at the rate of so
per cent lower than that actually in force
The reduction, however, would not apply
to goods from other countries. The Ana
! tolian Railway Company. is closely con-
nected with the Deutsche Bank one of the
most powerful banking institutions in Ger
| many. This new operation is another move
in Germany's ambitious project of captur-
ing the trade of Asia Minor, the importance
| of which. from the point Of view of British
interests. should not be overlooked. AS
Germany's colonial ventures in Africa
Asia and the Pacific have hitherto proved
anything but satisfactory, she has for some
years past been trying to obtain footing
In Asia Minor by means of commercial
concessions at the expense Of British trade
| and the trade Of all other countries.
THE German companies to whom these
concessions are granted are all more or less
intimately connected with the German gov
ernment, which backs up their claims by
means Of its ambassador at tConstantinople.
They are at work trying to buy up the
shares Of all the other railways in Asia
Minor now in the possession of Zurich
bank or scattered about elsewhere. They
also propose to establish service of ferry
boats between Seraglio Point on the Eu-
ropean shore and Haidar Pasha on the
Atlantic side, which Is the terminus of
the Anatolian railway. They are offering
the Ottoman government a bait in the
shape Of loan Of E1.O00.00O Turkish
provided the new concession is granted
The Germans are not making much noise
| about their schemes in Asia Minor, but
those who are in the know are confident of
success. distinguished German, who was
| in the confidence of the highest person
ages in the empire, has declared that Ger
many will gradually obtain an exclusive
commercial monopoly throughout Asiatic
Turkey. The Bagdad railway would COM
plete the scheme, and political influence
would be bound to follow.
Evening star., 1902-08-22
RUSSIA HAS MOST HORSES.
Resources Greater Than Germany, Aus
tria, France and Italy.
From Leisure Hour.

From Leisure Hour
Recent debates in the imperial parliament
have not only drawn attention to the ethics
OF horse dealing. but to the fact that war
fare wants more horses than 1t did, 50
many, in fact, that the supply may not be
equal to the demand. 1t Is pointed out that
In survey of the worlds supplies IL is evil
dent that the one power that has profited
most by the new order Of things is Russia
European Russia alone. with it's ten horses
TO the square mile, owns a quarter of the
horses on the face of the earth. Including
Poland and Finland, the Russian horses
west of the Urals number II. .639 600, and
the army has $1,000 when on a war footing,
or more than the armies of Germany, Aus
tria France and Italy combined. Further,
II the European powers decided to mount
all the men in their armies they would not
be able to find two horses apiece for them.
while Russia could find eight horses for
every man. This predominance of Russia
in the horse world is a significant fact that
has not received the attention it deserves
For some years now the Importation of
Russian horses into England has been in
creasing. and at the present time, in the or
dinary way of business, Russia sends us
about sixth of our foreign horse supply,
and ii is only exceeded in numbers by the
United States.
The horse it sends US is not a taking ami
NAL To look at, as may be judged from its
average rapport NSlue DeinS only Ri. out IS
as good a thing to get about on as any or
its more advertised relatives. In the Ma
Foleonic war the native horse lived while
the French horse died, and the native horse
came across Europe, greeted everyw1cre
" tn deriStOn, but carrying it's rider to
Paris. In the Crimea we had the same ex-
perience with horses We are now having
In South Africa. Those we sent diel they
could not stand the climate. but the ma
tive horses stood it, and the only others that
Did so were the little Arabs from the is
lands of the Levant. which 1t is necessary
10 mention, lest Ii should be supposed that
ugliness is hOrsefiesh is Indispensable tor
military opera tions in eastern Europe.
Among us the Russian horse of all sorts.
hardy as ne unquestionably is. requires ac-
climatiZing. and breaks down in a week II
Set to work at once indeed would all
horses, more or less 1t is only in times of
stress that any man of sense puts horse,
fresh from sea voyage, on to corn for a
day on two and then drafts him u hard
labor.
Evening star., 1902-08-22
COLUMBIA RIVER SALMON
The Product of the Spring Run Over
Three Hundred Thousand Gases.


The spring salmon season on the Column
bia Is practically over. and cannerymen are
figuring their gains. 1t is estimated that
fhe pack Is between 2JO0OO and 10000
Cases The canneries are putting I'D little
OF the product at present, and the pack is
now almost complete II is believed that
the fish picked and put up in cold storage
amount to the equivalent of at least 80 900
cases more All these figures are for one
pound cans. four dozen TO the case
The canneries have put down the price Of
fish to a figure which does not profit gill;
METERS, and consequently these fishermen
are out OF business. 1t is well known, how
ever. that some cannerymen are paving
more than the 2-cent price for chinooks,
giving as high as cents In spite of the un-
Outstanding that cents was to be the top
notch.
Although the canneries give 1t out that
they are using little or no fish, the fact
remains that traps and se!nes are going
Ihls gear Is owned by the cannerymen and
!hey pay wages Tor It's operation. 1t is said
tnat the salmon are much inferior to the
nsh caught in the early summer and that
sooner than run down the quality OF their
product the cannerymen decided to lay off
for the year. Fishing at the present nr,ce
offered yields small compensation for the
additional reason that the nets bring in
many low-grade whtefish.
The outlook for Columbia river prices IL
very favorable. Pound cans now bring
81 81 and 81. 10 per dozen. II there had been
big pack of sockeyes at Puget sound this
year these prices might not be maintained
for the Puget sound product In large quan-
tity at 81 and l.10 would offer severe com
petition. But the pack of sockeyes is about
100000 cases short OF what ii was last
year, when 100000 cases were put up
The Puguet sound canneries may pack a
large quantity of dog salmon. but 1t is In
feriOr product.
Evening star., 1902-08-22
What Royalty Smokes.

from the new OriednS DeHlocrdt.
Making cigars for princes and potentates
and crowned heads Is great business in
Havana, and incidentally I may remark,
from what well-posted men have told me,
that they turn these royal contracts to good
use in more than one way. You see, 1t is
a good advertising feature. 1t gives the
cigarmakers a prestige which they cannot
get in any other way. King Edward Of
England has his cigars specially made. By
the way, that reminds me Of the fact that
we frequently find cigars in this country
which are labeled with the English coat
of-arms, just as the cigars are labelled
which are made especially for his majesty
the King Of England. OF course, they are
not the same cigar. 1t Is simply catch
system. All the cigars that are made for
crowned heads by Cuban manufacturers
are bought by the men they are made for.
and scrupuIous care Is exercised in the mat
ter. The only men who ever get any Of
these cigars either get them on orders from
royal personages, or they get them as
guests of the royalty. A particular kind
OF tobacco Is used in the manufacture Of
these cigars. Take the case, for instance.
of the Czar Of Russia Cigars that are
made for him are branded with the Rus
sian coat of arms, and he buys all the
cigars the factory can make out Of the ma
terial and in the way specified In his order.
Evening star., 1902-08-22

philanthropic were no longer passed
around. but notice was given that only
hard work with pick and shovel would be
considered a claim for SUCH The grum-
bling and muttering were general and om-
inous. One boy, however. after a period
Of thinking offered to work for five days
for suit of clothes-the price set by Mr..
George. The others hectored him a fool
for working to get what was his by right,
but when he walked away with his new
suit, the pride of honest ownership, and
the immediate capitulation of many others.
were the first suggestion toward the re-
public's cure fer pauperism.
The problem of crime was equally hard.
Mr. George made rules against smoking,
gambling, stealing. fighting, etc, but how
to punish for violations was beyond his
comprehension. He even tried the whip,
but that failed. He then .resorted to a
whipped and compelling the culprit to do
the whipping. This worked better. but
crime still flourished. Finally. in 1894, he
inaugurated a public trial OF every alleged
offender. the decision to be awarded by the
town meeting.
The Problem Solved.
On the suggestion of the boys a jury Of
the best citizens was selected by Mr.
George himself for such trials. At this
time. instead of corporal punishment he
substituted fines Of a graded number Of
hours work. The stone pile was superin-
tended by an adult. one of the assistants.
and when one day he was sick the boys
proposed that in his place be appointed
Banjo, a member of the Park" gang,
which was an offshoot of the famous
"Why-ho" gang. Only necessity compelled
Mr.. George to accept this radical innova-
tion and that but for one day. but its
startling success was the first eye-opener
on the possibilities of self-governmeit.
Banjo got much better and harder work
out Of the boys than did the adult. for they
could not deceive him, and on the other
hand Banjo himself became a self-respect-
ing citizen and an upholder of the law.
Evening star., 1902-08-22
When jackson Dined.

From the Montgomery lAla.) Advertiser.
While the dinner hour still clings to the
noontime among country people it has ad-
vanced in the cities until now II occurs at
any time between noon and midnight. And
that reminds us of one of the many stories
about Col. Davy Crockett. While he was a
member Of Congress and was at his home
In Tennessee some one asked him about
the dinner hour in Washington. He said
the common people ate dinner at IL the
next above them at 1, the merchants at 2
the representatives at 3, the senators at 4
members of the cabinet at and the Vice
President at 6. But when does the Presi-
dent diner" What Old Hickory" said
Crockett, anxious to fix a time that would
suit his idea of Jackson's greatness. well.
he don't eat till next dayY'
Evening star., 1902-08-22
Superiority Of the Infant Bee.
rom the London World


When one thinks that any bee that walks
out OF Its cradle, pale, perhaps, but per-
fect, knows at once all that is to be known
of the life and duties of bee. complicated
as they are, and comprising the knowledge
or an architect. wax modeIler, a nurse, a
ladys maid. a housekeeper a tourist
agency and a field marshal. and then COM
pdres that vast knowledge with the human
baby. who is looked upon a genius if 1t
gurgtes 'goo-goo'' and tries to gouge its
mothers eye out with its finger, one real
ICES that the boasted superiority of the fu-
man brain depends largely on human
vanity.
Evening star., 1902-08-22
Straw Hats and kits.
From the Westminster Budget.

A correspondent of a London paper has
been holding up hands of horror over the
announcement that operagoers in Paris
nave been permitted to wear straw hats
with evening dress. But there is nothing
SO startling In the statement. Presumably
the said straw hats were not worn In the
stalls, and. for that matter, there is at
least one distinguished musical critic who
mas been known to appear at Covent Gar
den In this same summery headgear. It
was not so long ago that gentleman pre-
sented himself for admission to the stalls
at Covent Garden picturesqueiy attired IN
Highland costume which he explained was
as much the evening dress of his native
land as the white shirt and swalfowtaiIs
OF the benighted southron. Mr. FORSYTH.
the most amiable and polite of managers.
listened gravely to his arguments. but he
did not gain his point.
Evening star., 1902-08-22
No Cause for ANXIETY,

Minister Merry of Nicaragua in a mail
dispatch to the State Department dated
August says:
1T now transpires that Dr. Russell n.
Wilson did not land at Blueields with the
Colombian revolutionary expedition in the
gunboat Pinzon and the anxiety regarding
his execution by sentence Of Nicaraguan
court-martial was without cause.''
Evening star., 1902-08-22

Scots tenacity of purpose. his thrift and
his tireless energy would be of advantage
to our own working classes. But whether
these figures prove that the Scot is hap
pier and more buoyant person than the
Englishman is another matter
Evening star., 1902-08-22
Neck.
From Puck,

Uncle Josh--"An' why do they call 1t a
rubber of whistr" "
Uncle Silas--T dunno. Mess people try
to look at each others hands"
Evening star., 1902-08-22
Worked for What They Got.

The next summer, 1894, Mr.. George de-
termined to make them work for what they
took. Boxes OF Clothing sent In by the
Evening star., 1902-08-22

the present the number has ranged from
$50 to 300 OF whom about one fourth have
The Pa1per Spirit.
The people and churches Of the neiehbor-
hood responded bountifully with food and
clothing. and these were distributed freely
among the youthful claimants. Four sum-
mers Of this experience focused his atten-
tion on It's essentially degrading effects.
One-tenth of the children came there as a
gang" to fight and brawl and terrorize
the country; nine-tenths came for the food
and the clothing that they could take hack
to their parents From arrival to departure
their constant -clamor was, What are desc
farmers goin' to give US to take hack 7''
1.-The woman / was by last year gave me
two dresses and sent US three barrels of
potatoes in the winter. What are youse
goin' to give me?' and so on. Here were
two conditions for Mr.. George to meet
moving spirit of the political and charita-
BILE system Of New York city and its tene
ments And the fact that 200 Of these
budding criminals aud spaupers were on his
hands made him think. One day he re-
monstrated with a crowd of them. ..why
do you do nothing but beg and demand
things to take back with you? You have
done nothing to earn them: thew are not
yours" little Italian girl. spokesman
Of the crowd, drew herself up and said.
"Mr. George. wot do youse tink we are
here fur. anyway" That's the ta,I ;.
growled the crowd.
Worked for What They Got.
The next summer, 1894, Mr.. George de-
termined to make them work for what they
took. Boxes Of clothing sent in by the
Evening star., 1902-08-22
WOMEN'S ONE=DAY BARGE
These S1.2S to $500 Shoes

81 white Canvas Oxford Ties.
81 Crash linen 0xfords or Colonials,
81 Red goat Strap slippers,
$1-5o grade Two Strap Kid Sandals.
$1.25 Vici Kid Turn and
heavy Sole oxford Ties.
Tomorrow Only,
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1902-12-10

It takes some people . mighty long
time to forget the things they should
not remember.
We have noticed that when q horse
b not named Dolly, tie name is pretty
apt to be Prince.
It seems strange that the man with
q bad temper ian't any more amiable
when he losesit.
Not one woman 10 q thousand
knows the difference between loving
and being loved.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1902-12-10

When a man boasts that he does
not owe a dollar in the world it may
be because his credit is bad.
The difference between happiness
and pleasure is the difference be-
tween being asleep and dead.
When we feel as bad every day as
we feel on Monday, wen begin look
ing through the doctor book.
Some men do not die unth their ma
chinery wears out. Others explode
their boilers end die suddenly.
II women had brain power as well
IS their instinct, man would be more
Of a crawling worm than he b.
Grover Cleveland is q great man.
He killed eighty ducks In one day
and ate all OF them for supper.
There are sweetheart trusts in
every town, by reason OF which many
g young man has gone busted.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1902-12-10

Blobbs-"So Scribbler is writing a
novel, Ell? Does he 60 in for real
ism?" "Slobbs-"Oh, no; it's to be
an historical novel;"
Engaged people put on magnifying
glasses when they look at each 9TH
er's virtues. The day they are mar
ried they take them of.
Don't call on a humane society
when q teamster tries to make his
horses pull q heavy load out of a mud
hole; get hold Of one of the wheels.
A Republican congress will not ad-
NIT New Mexico and Arizona to
statehood, because they would proba-
bly, send four Democrats to the sem
ate.
When q woman has supper ready on
time, and learns that her husband is
late because he has stopped at a ga
loon to throw dice for turkeys, she's
good and mad.
When the average boy thinks OF
the revenge he would like to inficl
for his wrongs he pictures IL as 9
scFnbbing brush bath and q drying
with 3 rough towel.
A woman's imagination is so lively
that II her bare feet were in q tub o.
snow she would believe that a hand
some fur around her neck was keep
ing her warm.