Evening star., 1903-11-07

IF you patronize the street cars about
the time of day l do the sayings Oh the
women passengers would certainly weary
you" remarked a newspaper man VINO Is
required to remain up late at night anu
therefore does not ride down town to his
office until about 10 o'clock each morning.
Il usually take a car that is always filled
with women on their way to the depart
nlent stores their object apparently being
an hour or two of shopping. l do not be-
lieve I've been on car with the same
women any two days during the past three
weeks. but all I've heard during that peiiod
is Have you finished housecleaning? They
all say it, one to the other, and then go
on to tell of their troubles with servants
and pa paperhangers. and painters. and garnet
LAYERS and all the rest. I'm Surfeited WIN
these yarns Of domestcty it relates -
putting homes in order for the winter, AND
unless the wearers of skirts get through
soon and cease relating their woes while
riding in public vehicles IL De 1orceo u
walk to work.
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"a most unusual state of lawlessness ap-
pears to have existed at the naval station
at Charleston S c. said officer of the
navy the other day, due to the fact that
the local police authorities have no Jurls-
dicton over the territory. According 10
recent report from the commandant OF the
station a party of drunken men armed
with shotguns barricaded themselves in
the yard and announced their intention Oh
holding their position against all corners.
and on another occasion woman passing
through the yard was murdered in cold
blood in broad daylight when the yafo
was full of workmen. There was no
United States force at the yard sufhcient 10
prevent such wanton disregard of the law,
and the local authorities made no effort
to interfere In view of this almost I'M
precedented situation. General Elnott com
mandant of the marine corps has ordered
q marine guard of one officer and thfrty
men to the station, and they will be en-
camped under canvas Estimates have peen
made for the erection OF barracks at
Charleston, and 1t is believed that repe-
tition of the lawlessness reported Will De
impossible in the future.
The latest thing in explosives, according
to United States Consul General Guenther
at Frankfort is powdered aluminium. mixed
with nitrate of ammonia and put. upon Inc
market under the name OF ammonia
This explosive is said to be one of the
surest and safest known, as 1t cannot De
exploded by friction or blow, while other
wise containing all requisites of an ex-
plosve. The fact that aluminium is not
property to ammonal of not being suo]ect
to disintegration. AS it is not anected py
frost accidents which so often occur Wien
thawing out frozen dynamite are not 10
he faared The explosion is caused by an
ordinary cap. Another important pronerty
claimed for ammonal is that 1t Is not o.'eet-
eo by moisture.
fau, wears ago an army officer of
raIisio,ls turn of mind took command or
military post on the frontier, and among
,ba things lacking to make the place seem
fully civilized he found that the post chapel
had no emblem of the Christian church
An ardent desire TO correct the oversight
of the previous commandant led him 10
irclIire if there was not a carpenter In the
most who could make d good cross. he
found his man. and told him what was
wanted The Irish carpenter fully as en-
thusiastic as the officer, was dellghteo Win
the order to beautify the church. ana set
about his labors with unusual zeal Inc
choicest woods were selected for the WORK.
and the labor of love went on lor sew
eraI weeks The cross was to be OF sooo
size i'm order that it might be seen LOT d
long distance and was to decorate tle
somewhat diminutive steeple. Near the
close of the work the carpenter De'noush,
him that in the land of his nativity ne hao
seen letters of some sort on all the crosses
hut for the life of him he could not renem-
Le. yvbat they were. Too proud to ac-
Knowledge his ignorance of what he felt
tbat every good churchman should Know
no concluded that the letters must nave
Icen the initials of the dioceses where the
crosses were erected and his army lie or
many wears had taught him but three let
ters that went with all property. -The day
Of the delivery of the cross came, ana IL
WAS taken with much ceremony TO the
church The commandant was absent pu'
the men detailed for the work soon ac-
cCmplshed their task and set the cross
high upon the steeple, where the entire
most looked at il with mingled feelings OF
reverence and amusement, for upon the
arms of the cross were the only letters the
faithful Irishman had known. and they
StC cd out in bold relief against the poilShed
baCkground-"U. s. a
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THAT truth Is sometimes stranger than
fiction was exemplified in a striking way.
remarked an officer Of the army the other
dav ''in a most romantic case just acted
upon by the President. In granting par
don to Frank c. Heron of Nashville, Tenn.
at the instance of Mrs James A. Jackson
OF that state, the President has removed
blight which has hung over Heron for
forty years past. AS a confederate soldier.
sixteen years of age, by orders of his COM
mandiug officer, ,-as he asserted. Heron shot
a Union farmer in Tennessee. He was
tried by court-martial found guilty and
sentenced to death. a sentence afterWard
Commuted by President Johnson to impris-
onment for life. Heron served two wears
peared from the knowledge of the officials
In the meantime he had become IN bonora1