Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-07-18

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no has a bank account of considerable size.
but the owner of the dog asked him II he
had the 81 The drummer said of course
he had it, but the landlady was not salts
fled to take his word. and insisted that ne
produce The salesman went down IN ms
clothes and to his CONSERVATION could only
scrape UP 81. Is and two car tickets. ms
was too much for the suffering woman. so
she tainted again.
Finally a purse of 81 was made up by
the drummers friends and he started out;
He stopped in at a restaurant ana stooo
off the proprietor for his breakfast. ana
then got his horse and buggy and drove
out to the pound. When he got there the
landlady waiting for him. The dog
catcher's wagon hadn't come In yet, so the
lady and the drummer waited In silence
which grew intense.
After a while the wagon came In, ana
there. with a bunch Of the commonest vel
low ours. was the much-petted. much-be-
loved Sky-terrier The owner of the Ia
vored canine came near f1oundertng again.
but she kept up with an effort. The money
for the dogs release was paid over and the
landlady got her darling In her arms again
and covered it with kisses.
THAT night. anticipating an unpleasant
scene. the drummer aged out until clock
a m. and sneaked in the house and up to his
room with his shoes in his hands. He arose
early next morning and thought to escape
before the lady of the house could nab him,
but he reckoned without his hostess. She
was waiting in a room just off the landing.
and when the drummer was quietly making
his way for the door she stepped out and
gave him one bell.
THE other dodgers, who heard brief
snatches of the dialogue going on below
stairs. say that the landlady pitched into
the unfortunate man without mercy, but
finally gave quarter and she agreed to smile
on him pleasantly once more upon condition
that he would help her pick off the elusive.
pestiferous insects which the dog had &C
quired while associatfng with common dog
dom in the pound wagon.
Everything Is lovely up at the house
now. they say. and the drummer and the
landlady were seen the other evening to-
gether on the car going to Cabin John. But
1t was a sad tale while 1t lasted"
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Vice Consul General Murphy at Frankfort
has made report to the State Department
in regard to the operations of the German
meat inspection law. from which 1t appears
that that measure has proved boomerang
and has done more harm than good to the
interests for whose benefit it was enacted.
The most important result Of the passage
of the law was the adoption by other coun-
tries of retaliatory measures against Ger
man products. For instance Westphalian
hams and Thuringian sausages are now
admitted into the United States only after
undergoing the same troublesome and ex-
many against American meats. The result
is that the great sausage factories in West
phalia, which for twenty-five years have
been exporting large quantities of sausages
to the Initetd States are threatened with
ruin. The Frankfort sausage industry is
likewise seriously threatened and the agra
rians are now considering the ACCESSIBILITY
of revoking the present obnoxious system
OF meat inspection.
According to Consul General Hughes at
Coburg, new form of automatic coupler
for railway carriages and wagons has been
invented In England. 1t consists of two
horizontally placed hooks. one above the
other. facing in opposite directions. Coup
ling is effected. on the cars coming to-
gether. by the hooks automatically swing
ing open sufficiently to enable them to
clasp Cars doubly held together by
the two sets of hooks. and it Is practically
impossible for them to part unless inter-
fered with, for in the event of one break
ing the other one would hold. Provision Is
made for allowing the hooks considera BILE
range of motion to enable them to travel
comfortably over short curves. AS they
face in opposite directions the movement
which might conceivably pull one set asun-
der would only serve to tighten the grip
of the second set of hooks. The carriages
or wagons are coupled by pulling a lever
from the side of the car