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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-09-15
THE STAR By MAIL.

Persons leaving the city for any
period can have The Star mailed to
them to any address in the United
States or Canada, by ordering II at
this office. in person or by letter.
Terms: IS cents per week: 25 cents
for two weeks: or so cents per month.
INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. The
address may be changed as fire.
quently as desired. Always give the
last address. as well az the new one.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-09-15
Funeral Of Lieut.. Reich.

1t was announced at the Navy Depart
ment this morning that the funeral Of
Lieut.. Henry F. Reich. U. 8. NJ, retired.
will take place from his late residence in
Rockville, at o'clock this afternoon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-09-15
Grand Jury at Work.

The cases connected with the post Office
investigation occupied the attention of the
grand jury today. Notwithstanding the
rumor that several indictments would be
returned today, Assistant District Attorney
Taggart is authority for the statement that
the grand jury Is not yet ready to report
any additional indictments. The present
outlook is that there will be no more true
bills returned before the middle or latter
part of next week.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1903-02-11
SlCKROOM PHILOSOPHY.

Never conline patient to one room
IL you can obtain the use of two.
Never play the piano to sick person
IL you can play on strings or sing.
Never stand and fldget when Il sick
person is talking TO you. Sit down.
Never complain that you cannot get
feeding cup If there is teapot to be
haa Instead.
Never read fast TO sick person.
The way TO make II story seem short
| is TO tell 1t slowly.
Never judge the condition of your
patient from his appearance during Il
conversation. See how he looks an
hour aftcrWard.
Never put hot water bottle next to
the skin Its efficiency and the pa
tents safety are both enhanced by
surrounding the bottle with flannel.
Never allow the patient to take the
temperature himself. Many patients
are more knowing than nurses where
there is II question of temperature.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1903-02-11
Threc SIpna.

When ! was young man, said an
old timer. | was employed in an Ohio
town OF some ! 800 inhabitants. One
day the town was billed from roof To
foundation in flaming letters, They're
Coming" one couldn't go amiss of the
big letters. They followed him every
where and half the town would awak-
en- in the middle Of the night with those
huge letters staring them in the face,
while they wondered what ii all meant.
week or more passed and one
morning every one of those signs was
'They Have Come; at Town Hall To
night" And You may be sure the town
turned out in force There wasn't stand
ing room, although Il liberal admlttance
fee was charged Inside II big curtain
excluded the stage, and to this all eyes
were turned as the appointed hour drew
near. There was little delay, and 1t
was about half past 9 when the curtain
slowly rose, disclosing to view another
of the big lettered signs, only the word
Ing was different this time.
The sign read "Ihey Have Cone"
And you can bet your last dollar II
wasn't long before the townspeople had
gone Some clever fellows had worked
the game successfully and got away
with a snug little sum, leaving only
couple of townspeople to pull up the
curtain
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1903-02-11
A Lost Art.

Graceful bowling" remarked the
statuesque young lady at the head of
the tea table, is fast becoming one Of
the lost arts Few are proficient In II,
and, indeed, the difficulties are many
| am referring of course to men. Wo
men are still mistresses of the art but
not all Of them, either.
"But | have seen men who were fat
not to say tubby, and they find that a
mere inclination Of the head Is 4 bur
den, for IL induces disagreeable PUSHES
of blood to the head, and that is bad
for men who wear twenty inch collars
And there are men who are tall, lean
and scraggy, and when they bow, be-
ing sensitive plants, they think and
make the spectator think, Of strlnged
marioncttes, and they dread the smile
of the man in the street.
"And have seen men whom the crit
ical moment found unprcpared, with
hands In pockets. And | have seen
them when they were wearing caps
and clutched Valnly and lnstlnctively
Mt hat brims, and | blushed at their
grotesque poses and involuntary carica-
lures of the line of beauty. New
York Times.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1903-02-11
The LONDON TAPsTER.
Hard Lucl. stories That Take the
Place OF Open Begging.

fiaee OF open beHStnH'
Inc pam ana open tapster who ac'
costs you in the street purely TO beg
may generally be known by an amaz-
ing oyerpolitcnrss in onenina thc con.
vorsoti,n 10 il tho o,iv noryon
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S'sn ) 'u si'lii N''o" hiiil' ii'a "'i oc'
gin by begging pardon for taking TINS
not so very rare liberty, but only the
cutters 30 on suhiEhtWay To tap Inc
Proneieh' tapS'crS approach the zap
Slue"aNs, so 10 speak something IKE
thls' WIN II QUICK 'ou'h OF the mat
prilh'
beg pardon SIR, III sure nmoiy
pcS your pataon ior 'aNii inc great
hper'S Oh sleahh TO you Ill Il puphc
'noroushiare IKE inns witch / am
uui'' """'' 1t ~ sIta' uoert!' Slr'
lhouSh lruS''h you VIII Kindly p"ruo'I
'tle great liberty Oh pore afdWofklh
num- SIT Ill t"hlh the great liberty OF
hshih IL Nn's suee. N .he ASharNet'
S"' 'oi '"' way 10 tue o.i"iu Vi 'h''
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10" ai'sNt' 'n' queSt,oi' pul 70"
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"'nN so"' N'''o'!' sn' puiHutS wy
'"i'S.et' po"'i'S OUT 'ne "oius' '''.iiN
20" h'''i'9' ST. II you II 50 iar paruon
'i'' iipe''s VI pure alu"orhin i'''''
S'' III aSh'i' 'he question, WHICH un-
iortuiia.ela was 'oreea 10 'ahe Tue
great hp't's' S'r' 'hIouEi p'il OUT
WORK eisi.eeh n'o'''nS an ho'hihN 10
cat since iast looSuay fortnight, sir'
upon NY "oi" OF hohor' Which hotilihK
put TIE cries Tor preau OF Iourteen
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1903-02-11
FAITHFUL DAD.
Here's to Noui You've Got Your
Faults, but You're All Right.

Faults, but You're All Right.
We happened in Il home the other
night and over the parlor door saw the
legend worked in letters of red, What
Is Home Without Mother?" Across
the room was another brief, God Bless
Our IIomc!'
Now, what's the matter with God
Bless Our Dad?" He gets UP early,
lights the fire. bols an egg, grabs his
dinner pail and wipes Off the dew OF
the dawn with his boots while many a
mother Is sleeping. lie makes the
weekly handout for the butcher, the
grocer, the milkmaa and baker, and
his little pile is badly worn before he
has been home an hour. He stands Off
the bailiff and keeps the rent paid up.
If there is n noise during the night,
dad is kicked in the back and made TO
go downstairs to find the burglar and
kill him. Mother darns the socks but
dad bought the socks In the first place
and the needles and the yarn after.
ward Mother does up the fruit; well,
dad bought 1t all. and Jars and sugar
cost like the mischief.
Dad buys chickens for the Sunday
dinner, carves them himself and draws
the neck from the ruins after every
one else Is served what is home
without mother2' Yes, that Is all
right, but what Is home without ia
Their? Ten chances to one 1t is board
Ing house, father is under slab and
the landlady Is widow. Dad, here's
TO you. You've got your faults-you
may have lots of them-but you're all
right, and we will miss you when
you're gone Stevens County Reveille
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1903-02-11
PiCklNGS FROM FICTION.

Ambitious people must always be dis
appointed people. Fame For Wom-
an"
The best kind of courage often comes
from II full stomach. Captain Mack
lin"
Love is like honcy-lt must be taken
by sips. One must not swim In it
THE Pharaoh and the Priest"
The man who is weakened In well
doing by the ingratitude of others is
serving God on salary basls.-"The
Power of Truth"
Nine times out of ten IL woman fails
through love, and she must be reached
by love If she Is to be restored -"DowI
In Water Street"
Don't call yourself friend and b,
thinking all the time what the other
side of the friendship can do for you
Aunt Abby's Neighbors"
Philosophy Is primarily matter OF
food; secondarily matter of clothes
1t does not concern the head Mt all
1.-Two Thousand Miles on an Automo-
bile"
Half the trouble of this troubled
world comes from the fact that, for
one reason or another, women are not
able to look up to the men with whom
they have dealings.-"Thc Vultures."
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1903-02-11

dren before we GO said the bishop,
"and you must be very quiet and listen
hard, for there is n guessing part to 1t.
"Once upon time began the bish-
OPP there lived man alone, and, as
sometimes happens to lonely people,
he grew selfish and bitter hearted. He
forgot the teachings of the one whom
he had vowed TO serve, but tried in
stead TO serve himself and was unhap-
ply. as all such men are.
There came to him one day Il dear
little friend of his who was also lone
~. hut who tried to forget his lonei-
ness by helping others and was com
forted by doing this SO the man
learned lesson from his little friend.
and he. too, found comfort and happi-
ness as the boy had.
Now, the man naturally did not
want to be lonely and unhappy and
bitter again, for he found the better
part SO he thought out plan He
would take the boy down south to his
mother, who is almost we'll, but not
quite so we'll as she will be when the
man brings to her her youngest boy"
There was a queer gurgling sob
that was half Il laugh and half Il cry
and altogether mixture of home
sickness and coming delight. and Dunn
my Dee shot himself bodily into the
bishops arms. cuddlcd against his
shoulder and lay there smiling hap
PLY. He CROPPED vainly for his hand
kerehief that could not be found, and
his fingers closed gratefully over the
bishops fine lawn that he found within
his grasp.
"Guessed," said the bishop, laughing,
with Il shake in his voice The first
part of my puzzle story guessed with
out mistake. Now for the second.
Then he took the little sick girl to
white. bright room that he knows of in
the children's hospital, where, sur
rounded by birds, books and flowers
and loving care, she can get we'll and
perhaps come to live In the lonely house
of the lonely man to brighten It,"
Another little cry from the bed, and
Morals slender, cropping fingers sought
the bishops hand. Me-" she said.
"Me-Nora? Would my aunt
Il think So" said the bishop. I'VE
will find way But what a fine pair
of guesscrs these two are! Never to
make mistake"
When the kind hearted woman on
that floor came in to look after Nora,
her aunt being away serving time for
drunkenness, they went away and left
the happy child. already better, with
hope and joy working miracles with
her.
You make up your mind the best
and quickest of any one | ever knew.
How did You think of such beautiful
things asked Dummy Dee ms they
felt their way down the rlckety stairs.
Its thank offering, Dummy Dec"
said the bishop. with return of his
curious smile, for burning the pm
pers''
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1903-02-11
IMPLANTED CORN.
IL Has IA Habit OF Getting Uneasy In
the Guripr

II Has IA Habit OF Getting Uneasy In
the Spring.
at beats ALL" said Bergen county
farmer, what curious things we find III
nature that we can't explain. You kin
go over lot of en- and there's yet
one that you can't tell me why it is.
That's corn hcatin' up In the spring.
you take n lot of corn. | don't care
II it's whole corn or cracked corn or
cornmeal. You keep 1t in any kind OF
storehollsc the common sranary, like
we have on the farms, or the stone or
brick buldn', like many of tho gro
GERS and feed dealers have it in. When
1t comes corn plantin' time, that corn
of yourn II git Uneasy. Soon's the
blades start out of the ground, then
you'll have to hustle to save your grain.
Seems as when the time comes along
fur corn TO be planted the corn in the
bags. 10 matter what shape It's in, be-
gins TO heat up, and when the planted
corn begins TO grow what you've got
stored will git so hot it'll fairly smoke.
You've got to take 1t out of the bags
and spread it out so it'll cool off or
you'll lose it all In a few days it'll
cool down again, and you won't have
no more trouble with 1t durin' the sum-
mer, no matter how hot the weather
gifts. It's jest when the planted corn
starts; that's all.
Curious? OF course it's curious or
/ wouldn't speak of it. might under
| stand how whole corn would act that
| way, but when it comes to cracked corn
and cornmcal then it's too much fur
me. And III bet you can't tell why 1t
Is, 'cept it's jest nature tryin' to assert
herself. New York Mail and Express.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1903-02-11
The Beaver.

The beaver is really sort of porta-
BILE pulp mill, grinding up almost any
kind of wood that comes his way, says
writer. l once measured white
birch tree twenty-five inches through
cut down by beaver. A single bea-
yer generally. If not always, amputates
the tree, and when 1t comes down the
whole family fall to and have regu-
lar frolic with the bark and branches.
A big beaver Will bring down fair
sized sapling-say three inches through
in about two minutes and n large
tree in about an hour. The ability of
a beaver to remain under water for n
long time is not really so tough n prob
lem as ii looks. When the lake or
pond Is frozen over, II beaver will come
to the under surface of the ice and ex-
pei his breath SO that it will form II
wide, Hat bubble. The air, coming In
contact with the Ice and water, Is puri-
fled, and the beaver breathes 1t again.
This operation he ean repeat several
times. The otter and muskrat do the
same thing.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1903-02-11
MADE TO STAND PULLING.
The Great Tensile strength of the
Governments Paper Money.

THE way some cashiers pay out
small bills in exchange for large ones
must make other men as tired as it
wearies me- remarked an observing
business man to another Washing
tonian us they watched the cashier of
fashionable uptown cafe pull at and
strip the ones and twos In exchange for
II ten as though he were pulling piece
of molasses candy over II hook and
hated to let go.
1T does" acquiesced his friend, who
happened to be United States treas
ury expert. THE way some cashiers
jerk, snap and pull at bills rs they pay
them out Is utterly absurd. The old
adagc about pinching n silver dollar
until the eagle screams pales before
the way the up to date flip cashier
jerks the long green he handles
in this connection will give you a
fact that Is not generally known, and
that Is the weight new treasury sin
gle note, and four notes In sheet, will
sustain without breaking. The agure,s
may be accepted as official and ac-
curate.
"A single treasury note measures 3ls
inches wide by ~ inches long and
will suspend II pounds lengthwise and
81 pounds crosswise. Notes are printed
four TO n sheet A sheet will suspend
10S pounds lengthwisc and III pounds
crosswise
1.-THE remarkable strength of Unit
ed States treasury note may thus be
seen ut glance, and venture TO say
that not one person In million would
have guessed the great tenacity of the
paper which, when properly printed
and stamped becomes good money"
The cashier had interestedly listened
to the treasury experts explanation of
the weight sustaining and necessarily
resisting power of wear and tear of
our paper money, and then he said
You see, 1t Is this way: Bills stick
together, see, and we cashiers have to
make up any shortage out of our own
pockets, and that's ora reason why we
snap and jerk the bills so hard so we
will not pay out two for one, as might
be done, Again, n two dollar bill Is fire.
quently mistaken for II five. and vice
versa, and by counting out our money
as If 1t were drops of our lifeblood we
are less liable to pass out one for the
Washington Star
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1903-02-11

The custom Of giving engagement
rings ranks back to long before the
Christian era. With the ancient Egyp-
tlans engagement rings were always
OF iron, TO Indicate the mutual sacrl-
flee of liberty OF the contracting par
ties.
one of the very earliest adornments
OF betrothal rings was II tombstone,
which symbolized the attractive force
which drew ii maiden from her own
family circle into that of her husband.
1t is believed that the fourth finger
has always been the brides ring finger.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1903-02-11

II was in New York one day and
took trip down to Coney Island"
said tho agent of pittsburg nail
mill. Il had heard of the slick fellows
down there, and so left my witch at
home md carried n dummy across
which | pasted II slip of paper bearing
the words, Look inside for fool
hadn't got the salt taste of the ocean
yet when the watch disappeared, and
1t was three hours later, us | sat in n
booth drinking beer, when | felt TINT
watch In II side pocket of my coat
pulled II out In amaZcment, md |
found my slip Of paper replaced by
one hearing the words, Look outside
for an ass" 1t may be That got the
bulge on the gang, but somehow
have always thought that they came
out trifle ahead Just n triile"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1903-02-11

1t Is standing puzzle to the ento-
mologlsts how frail little insects of the
mosquito and butterfly order can brave
the cold of an arctic winter and yet re-
tain their vitality. The larva of the
mllkweed butterfly has been exposed
to an artificial blast 6S degrees below
zero. Taken out of range of this arti-
out" this same worm was able 10 creep
in less than half an hour afterward.
Butterflies have been found fitting joy
ously about In the highest latitude man
has ever penetrated, and the mosqul-
toes Of Alaska and Greenland are
known TO be the healthlest specimens
OF that race Of little pests.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1903-02-11
THE COLORADO APACHE.
As an Accurate Man Tracier lie Has
No Equal.

As an Accurate Man Tracker lie Has
No Equal.
AS trailer the Colorado Apache has
10 equal. He possesses the acute In
stlnct OF tie hound combined with an
accurate sense of vision. A turned
leaf, fieck of gravel cast aside, the
displacement Of a pebble from its bed
all are clear, readable pages.
They ask few If any particulars of
the man they are to follow. They will.
as they progress on his track, gather
up for themselves one by one little
items as to his personality, which are
nearly always verified In the end.
When following a trail over the iron
capped rocks and stony arroyas of Arl-
iona, his face IL n picture OF intense
concentration. Not a syllable escapes
him. His pace varies from 10 visible
cause. At times he almost runs; then,
with rapid glance behind, he glides
along slowly and with eyes glued TO
the ground possibly for hours. Here
and there may be few stretches OF
sand, but dry sand leaves after the
footstep only an indentation, closing
after the pressure, so that to the mex
perieneed eye IL might have been q
horse or mule that made it and not a
man. MAN Trailing With Human
Bloodhounds" in Outing.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1903-02-11

The Parsee untrammeled by his sur
roundings, Is seen in Bombay In all his
are, without exception, tall. finely
formed and stately and possess ro-
business and beauty quite at contrast
with their Hlndoo neighbors
Their street costume is peculiar
long white cotton gown, wide trousers
Of the same material and color and Il
tall inter shaped hat. They have n
general reputation for sobriety, frugal
ty and sagacity, and they seem to
thoroughly understand the accumula-
ton Of fortunes, in this respect resem-
bling the Hebrews. The wealthlest
residents Of Bombay are Parsces.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1903-02-11

An Irishwoman was looking at refrlg
orators In house furnishing store some
weeks ago. After examining into the
merits and qualities of II number of
them she purchased the one that the
salesman assured her would keep food
the best Some days afterward the
woman called and requested them to
take that refrigerator back, as II would
not keep anything better than the
kitchen safe of the cellar. The sales
man mildly suggested that possibly she
had not put enough Ice IN II to keep the
things cold. Enough ice in It? Why,
are you crazy, monI | don't put any
Ice In it. Anything will keep cold If
you put Ice In 1t. | bought the refrig-
orator so that | wouldn't need the ice"
Philadelphia Ledger.
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NAPoLEoN'S AWFUL HAND.
One Theory of the Great Mans Fall
at Waterloo,

IRE at Waterloo.
Napoleon, according to Alexander
Dumas, lost such battles as he did lose
because he wrote such fiendish hand.
His generals could not read his notes
and letters, typewriting had not been
invented, and the trembling marshals,
afraid of dlsobeying and striving to In
terpret the indecipherable commands,
loitered, wandered and did not come UP
to the scratch, or not to the right
scratch. Thus Waterloo was lost Can
not you fancy Grouchy handing round
Napoleon's notes on that sanguinary
Sunday? Il say" cries the marshal to
his aid-de-camp, us that word Gem
bloux or Wavrc? Is this Butcher or
Bulow" SO probably Grouchy tossed
up for 1t, and the real words may have
been none of these at which he offered
his conjectures. Meanwhile on the left
and center D'Erlon and Jerome and
Ney were equally puzzled and kept on
sending cavalry to places where it was
very uncomfortable tthough our men
| seldom managed to hit any of the cav
of good. Napoleon may never have been
appraised of these circumstances. His
old writing master was not on the
scene of action. Nobody dared to say,
Sire, what does this figure OF cent?.
ped mean, and how are Veto construe
these two thick strokes thanked by
blots?" The imperial temper was pep.
hn fAr
off his interrogator's epaulets and
danced upon them. Did he not once
draw his pistol to shoot Il little dog
that barked at his horse? And when
the pistol missed fire the great soldier
threw 1t at the dog and did not hit him.
The little dog retrcated with the hon
ors of war.
Such was the temper of Napoleon,
and we know what Marlborough
thought of the value of an equable
temper. Nobody could ask Bonaparte
to write II leglble hand, so his generals
lived Il life of conjecture as to his
meaning, ana Waterloo was not n sue
cess, and the emperor never knew why
OF all his seven or eight theories of his
failure at Waterloo, his handwriting
was not one. Yet II this explanation
had occurred TO him Napoleon would
certainly have blamed his pens, Ink
and paper. Those Of Nelson at Copen-
hagen We're very bad. "If your guns
are no better than your pens" said
Danish officer who came In under a
flag of truce before the fight and was
asked to put II message into writing,
you had better retire. Andrew Lang
In Longman's Magazine.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1903-02-11
A W.T. InI,reIIn.

Never leave an umbrella standing on
the point in the ordinary way when
wet. The water trickles down, spelling
the silk and making the wires rusty 1t
Is also "A mistake TO open it and leave 1t
standing, rs this stretches the silk,
making II baggy so that it is impossi-
bic to fold ii smoothly. The proper
way is 10 shake out rs much OF the
water as possible, then stand the UNI
brclla on its handle to drain.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1903-02-11

Wagner. the eminent composer, had
the nerves of an acrobat Once he was
climbing n precipltous mountain in
company with n young friend. When
some distance up and walking along a
narrow ledge. the companion, who was
following, called out that he was grow
Ing giddy.
Of rock, caught his friend and passed
him between the rock and himself TO
the front