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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-11
Fair PLAY to All Scorchers.
r Of The Evening Star:

The dismissal Of case in the United
States branch of the Police Court the
other day against a commander of the
United States navy for speeding his auto
mobile as reported in a recent issue OF The
STAR was a surprise to the advocates OF
fair play toward all violators Of the speed
law, because the correctness of the speed
indicators furnished bicycle policemen by
the District government has not been here
tofore challenged, although numerous cases
have been tried and fines Imposed Tor SINH
lar offenses. The action taken in this case
has surrounded with a cloud of doubt every
conviction made since the new speed regis
tiers have been in use, and arouses a spirit
of just resentment in the breast OF every
citizen who has been convicted within that
period upon the same character of evidence
presented in this case.
1t is far from the wish Of the writer to
cast any reflection upon the sincerity OF
purpose of the presiding judge in question
ing the correctness of the indicator In this
particular instance, and much less to crit
icise the apparent alacrity with which the
prosecuting attorney fell in with this view
and endeavored to cover his attitude by a
sling at the District government for fur
nishing unreliable speed indicators to its
bicycle policemen. Surely, no one, simply
because of the high standing Of the occu-
pants Of the vehicle in this particular case,
will seek to draw any conclusion other
than that the suggestion made was in be-
NAH Oh dDSOlulS Justice lOWaIu the uS-
PENDANT.
But this fact is plain, and stands out
with startling clearness axiom of
both justice and equity, that every convic-
ton for speeding and fine imposed there
for, based on the indicators recently fur
nished by the District government to its
bicycle policemen (and, similarly. in every
case in future where the indicator does
not register with absolute correctness). has
been a discrimination against the persons
convicted on such unreliable" evidence
and any fines imposed should be forthwith
returned to such persons For If one speed
Indicator be found registering incorrectly
what good reason is there to believe that
all may not be registering incorrectly?
To use the expression Of an eminent jurist
and lecturer, now deceased, Let us be
fart" But let us apply the same spirit of
fairness to all. Let us be just as solicitous
in finding flaws in the evidence whether
the defendant before the bar be a gentle
man Of high station or whether he be only
a Jealous youth who, overwhelmed by the
combined charms of feminine loneliness
and spring millinery forgets for the nonce
that his mobile Is speeding with undue
swiftness Qike his heart, perhaps) over
the sacred precincts of the city Of long
distances.
And that there may be no similar cause
for future dismissals, let US have every
speed register officially tested at proper
intervals and certificates furnished as to
their reliability. FRANK SWEET.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-11

complaining that the compensation was in
adequate and the assessment for benefits
excessive Thereafter it was recommended
by this Office that no further steps be taken
in the payment of awards or the collection
of assessments arising out of this proceed
ing until the matter of the validity OF the
proceeding could be determined.
1--WE have been unable to make any set
Element with Mrs. HeintZ!eman, and /.
therefore. recommend, in order to relieve
the owners of the property in this square
of their present embarrassment, that this
proceeding be abandoned. and If the open
ing of a minor street through the squire is
still desired by the Commissioners, that a
new proceeding be Instituted.
The papers were referred to the engineer
department and w. P. Richards, the assist
ant engineer in charge of street extension
also recommended that the old proceedings
be abandoned and new proceedings begun
for the opening of the street as originally
laid out. The Commissioners have ap-
proved this course.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-11
Suit to Recover on Bond.

Suit at law to recover 81. 74O claimed to be
due on a bond was filed today by the
United States Fidelity and Guaranty COM
pany against Eugene E. Gaddis. 1t Is
alleged that the plaintiff went on the bond
Of the defendant for $1,000 to insure the
faithful performance Of contract, which.
1t is said. the defendant entered into with
George w. F. Swartzell for the grading Of
block of land in Mount Pleasant The
defendant, 1t is declared failed to complete
the work, and the plaintiff was required to
have 1t done at cost equal to the amount
now sought to be recovered
Attorneys Brandenburg & Brandenburg
represent the plaintiff.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-11
BARRIERS FACE scA1DED.
Imprisoned Steam Causes Explosion OF
Can Of Water

Lawson II. Lawrence, thought the time
Tor him to leave this world had about come
this morning when am explosion occurred
IN his place Of business at 1922 AZ street
southwest Lawrence Is a barber. thirty
five years old and colored This morning
when he opened his shop and started to get
ready for business a can OF water was
put on the stove to be heated. The shop
boy put the top on the can without making
any provision for the steam to escape.
About BIB o'clock the barber went to
the stove to put on coal and in order to
40 this 1t was necessary for him to push
the can aside. When he attempted to
move the receptacle the explosion occurred,
the top Of the can being hurled to the cell
ms. The steam and hot water badly
scalded Lawrence,s face. The report OF
the explosion was loud enough to be heard
by persons on the street..
An ambulance was summoned and the
injured man was removed to the Elmer
gency Hospital. The physicians took Inn
mediate steps to afford him relief. His In
Jury is not serious.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-11
Georgetown to Play Princeton.

The base ball game on Georgetown Uni
versity field this afternoon between the
Princeton team and the representatives OF
the blue and gray promises to be one of
tho most interesting exhibitions of the
season. In former years these games at
tracted larger gatherings than any games
on GEORGETOWN field. Az both teams are
particularly strong this season, a close and
exciting contest may be expected.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-11

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New Oxfords and street
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The greatest variety of
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Special mention is made
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We are also showing the
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-11

Adelaide Pray. arrested on a charge OF
violating the pension law by fling false
anldavit In support Of q claim for widows
pension, was today released on bail in the
sum Of $500.
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NEW BOOKS.
Oonhinxed from Seventh Page

back from the South. Gilbert put the image
csrslessly away under his bed. We shall
not undertake to say whether Our Lady OF
Wrath. accustomed to be propitiated,
and offended by this shabby treatment,
brought about the tragedy that presently
befel in the Nova Scotia house. Neither
does the story say.
We must leave the reader to follow the
story for himself from this point. He will
be richly repaid The interest grows as
the tale proceeds. The parts that have
their setting in England and in Florence
arc full OF admirable color. One piece OF
booty that the thorough old captain brought
back from his ventures WIS young West
Indian wife She was procured queeriy,
It viii be found In the story. She and her
granddaughter Margaret figure IN the
English and italian parts. She changed
tho family name from Bauer to Barr when
she got to England, and In her own case she
attached an astonishing French prefix.
She was French and something else. Tho
granddaughter says to Lord Vernade, on
page $40: How would you feel II you had
found out that your grandmother had been
q West Indian slave girl, won at cards.
and that her own servants supposed her 10
have poisoned her husband-that husband
who had been something very like pirate!'
Margaret is q very interesting character
showing tho power Of heredity. But the
whole story IL interesting. We shall DO
sorry fer tho reader II he misses it,
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going to do a thing outside the limits OF
his Imagination. She dipped the iron
spoon In the pot and, extending her let
arm, deliberately allowed some drops OF tho
scalding liquor to fall on the bare nesn.
He saw the arm vince, saw red blisters
spring out on the white skin, he caught
the sharp indraw OF her breath; but he did
not move. Again she dipped the spoon
looking at him with defiant eyes, and with
the same elaboration she let the stun Tall
on the living flesh. This time the perspira-
ton sprang out on her brow, her face burned
suddenly hot, her whole frame shrank
under the torture.
Don't" he cried hoarsely. Il will not
bear It! Don'tl" And he uttered cry half
articulate. like beasts.
stand therei" she said. And he stood
still while she dipped the spoon again, and,
though her arm shook now like an aspen
and there were tears Of pain In her eyes
let the dreadful stuff fall third time.
She was white when she turned to him.
III you do 1t again. he cried, fursously, 1
will upset-the cursed pot"
There Is plenty Of plotting and counter
plotting and no lack Of fighting in the tale,
and. of course. a strong love interest runs
through 1t all. Mr.. Weyman's art enables
him to tell his story well without the stereo-
typed artifcea OF the average historical
novelists.
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Partly Japanese.

A pretty, simple love tale in a Japanese
setting is told by Onoto Watanna in 4The
Heart Of Hyacinth" Harpers). There is
hardly an incident, save the breaking of
an engagement, perhaps. that has to do
at all with Japanese life, but the scene
Is undoubtedly in Japan, and the faint
violet designs that decorate every page
are by Japanese artist, Kiyokichi Sano
We observe that he does not admit reepon-
sibility for the colored illustrations.
The author disarms criticism at once
BY making her heroine a white child born
and bred in Japan and her hero Japanese
half-breed. 1t becomes impossible under
the circumstances to say whether their
actions would accord with either Oriental
or Western standards. There ia good
deal Of kissing. which we imagine is not
a Japanese custom, though the admirers
of Japanese drama as arranged in New
York may find it hard to believe. The
love story is we'll told none the less accord.
ing to Western standards, and the senti-
ment il unexceptionable. The Western peo-
ple introduced are rather needlessly coarse
and their story rather vulgarly common
place, but the heroine holds the stage
she Is very attractive, and the reader will
not heed the others.
The cover of the book is violet, so In the
box In which it ia enclosed. We don't
object to violet in itself, but 1t does suggest
bonbens and scented soap.
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Books Received.

-0ood-by. Proud World" Ellen Olncy kin.
(Houghton. Mfiin Coz
rThe Development Of the Drama" Brander
Matthew's Lit. d. Charles Schbncrs Sons)
Cruising Among the Caribbces" Charles Au-
gtlytus Stoddard. Charles Scnbner's Sons,
"A Book Of Golf" j. Braid. J. A. T. Bramston.
H. G. Hutchinson. (E. p. button Coz
The Fairies Circus" Neville Cain (R. II.
Russell)
"Hadley Ballads" Julia Taft Bayne. tThe
Open Court Publishing Company
Esther Burr's journal" Third edition. Jere-
nlah Eamcs Rankin. Woodward Lothrop,
Washngton)
McNally Coz
"ttagar A Dramatic Poem" Rollin j. Wells.
broadway Publishing Company
"pbl,cal Criticism" John a. W Haas. D. ID.
General Council Lutheran Publication House,
Letters from Chinese oiiiclal" Mcclure
Phillips & Coz
The Pun Book" Cr j, Carey s. Co :. New York j,
"Encyclope lila OF Household Economy" Emily
Holt Mcclure. Phillips Coz
Following the Frontier Roger Pocock
Mcclure. Phillips co..
General Zoology" Charles Wright Dodge
american Book Company
-Stores of Great Artists" Olive Browne Horne
and Kathrine Lois Scobey. american Book Com
panyJ
primary Arithmetic" william j. Milne. Phi. d
H. D. (American Book Company
lie petit Robinson de Paris, EuSeihs T0a
edited by Louise De Bonneville. american Bool
Company
The Congressman's WIFE, John d. Barry
(The smart Set Publishing Coz
"Humbugs and Canterbury Folks" MIS- T
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"rbs Land OF Heather" Clifton Johnson
MAC mlllansJ
"FIorcstane the Troubadour Julia de Vol
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sally. Mrs. Tubbs." Margaret Sidney. 10th
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Gorge Romance OF Old Athens. Charles
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JUMPED FROM EXPRESS TRAIN.
But LerenO Wasn't Hurt Much-Didn't
Want to 60 to jersey City.

PAssAIc. Sept. 1s.-Barto Lereno, an
Italian boy living at 7aS Main avenue,
jumped from an express train going through
this city AT the rate of forty miles an hour
last night and escaped with scalp
wound, The express stopped here to let
Off a passenger from the West Lereno
was at the station, and thinking that the
train was local which stops at Pros
poet street, near his home, he jumped
aboard.
When tho train sped past his station
| Lereno thought surely it would stop at
PasSaic Bridge, but in this he was mis-
| taken. The train was late and between the
| stations the engineer put On full steam.
| When the young man saw that the train was
not going to make the stop he decided that
| in order TO avoid being carried through to
Jersey City he must jump. When the
train struck the drawbridgc over the Pas
sale River the young man ,nadc dive for
the station platform. He struck the plat
| form and dashed up against an iron railing
| When the station hands reached his side
| lereno was unconscious. His only wound
| however, was n small one on his head
| After the wound had been dressed at the
! hospital he went to his homo.
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D.rn.rd W. Henderson. NJ, A. Mcthuen &c Co..
7 q Llppincott Company
Judgment" Alice Brown. tHarperso
"a Candle Of Understanding" Elizabeth BIS
land. diarpersl
Letters Home" William Dean Howells. Har-
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-The Stories of Peter and Ellen. Gertrude
Smith Harpers)
Engineering Preiiminaries for an lntoruroan
Electric Railway" Ernest Gouzenoach. tMcGraw
Publishing Company. New York;
ITO California and Back" c, a. Higgins and
Charles Kecler. doubleday, Page q Coz
"pr,ncipes Of American Forestry, Samuel B.
Green John Wiley & Sons)
How TO Study Shakespeare. Third Series.
V,nl,m II. Fleming. doubleday. Page 4 Coz
"Ths Responsibilities Of the Novelist FRANK
Norris doubleday. Page Coz
Jewel: A Chapter in Her Life Clara Louise
Burnham. (Houghton. Mlfiln Coz
The Clerk of the Woods" Bradford Torrey'
(Houghton, Mniin Coz
"Ess,ys on Great Writer'S" Henry Dwigh
sedpwtck, Jr (Houghton. Mriln Coz
My own story" John Townsend Trowbrdac.
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Two handsomely bound volumes, each
In ito own particular box OF cardboard.
come to US from the Messrs. Putnam.
These are entitled respectively Little Jour
neys to the Homes Of English Authors ana
Little Journeys to the Homes Of Great
Musicians" They are written BY Mr..
Ebert Hubbard. They appear to consist
of series Of chapters descriptive of places
that Mr.. Hubbard has never seen and per-
sons Of whom he has but tho most super
fetal knowledge. This Is how he sets out
on his Journey to the home Of Paganini
Months ago, after my lecture one night
in Boston. bethought me to call on my
old friend, Bliss Carman. expected to
find him sleeping the sleep Of the just, but
was prepared to rout him out; for although
my errand was from a fair, frail young
thing, and trivial. yet I was bound to de-
liver the message-for that is what one
should always do Mr.. Carman told him
to 20 away, a. he was busy. and, says
the imaginative traveller, fully understand
ing the condition, for am a poet myself
I went away and left the author to hts
labors.' In the account OF journey to
the homo OF Mozart, We learn that on the
train between GAINESVILLE, Wis, and Chicago.
Mr.. Hubbard went into the buffet car for
a while. When he returned to his sleeping
car, he found that the porter had chucked
Q pile OF his manuscript out Of the window
in cleaning up. Il hope dem scrubbed
papers was no count, boss!' said the por-
ter, and the imaginative traveller said
they were Of no value and gave him quar-
ter. shrewd chap. that porter. We arc
inclined to think he must have tried to
wade through some Of that manuscript.
We should think be might be useful man
a. q publishers reader.
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lived to be able TO buy al the dresses abe
could reasonably wiah for.
Five Veterans Agree.

Hallworth University, endowed ana
erected for the higher education OF young
men and women by q self-made American
citizen" is the scene OF the story told by
Miss Anna Mcclure Sholl in "The Law OF
Life" ID. Appleton 4 Co.. The self-made
citizen had endowed it generously ana
what the place lacked in pedigree 1t mace
up In fortune. The campus was large ana
the buildings thoroughly steam heated
and lavishly provided with Assyrlan re-
mains and doubtful Botticellis. Then too
the machine shops, the dairy and the agrl-
cultural buildings bound its sons to the
soil" As tho first president was a man OF
vast and varied attainments, he knew
the necessity of a university made out OF
whole cloth, but he was determined ina.
the cut OF the cloth should be correct and
liberal enough TO At all possible conditions
There had bsen story told OF an Oxford
man who once came over to occupy chair
at Hallworth. He paused on the edge OF
the campus, surveyed the buildings and
then took the next train back to New York
and the next steamer to Europe. But the
truth Of the story is not vouohed for, and
It was told in i-jocular fashion by DR..
Penfold to Miss Barbara Dale when she
arrived at Hallworth from New England.
Barbara was tall. slender girl with dark
gray eyes and firm. sweet mouth. She
married DR.. Penfold, who was only As,
but whose gray hair and heavily lined
brow gave him the appearance OF 90. he
was an Innocent and absent minded mathe-
matician, and the story was told OF him
that in his youth he had proposed to girl
and she had accepted him. Then he became
absorbed In mathmetical problem and for
got her, and when he came back to earth
she had married some one else. As We have
said, he married Barbara and ehe. against
her will. fell In love with the good LOOKING
and attractive young Richard Waring
It Is with the ensuing complications that
the story principally concerns ITSELF. Not
the least interesting feature OF 1t Is ito
picture OF tho life Of the co educational
university professor from woman's point
Of view. A publishers advertisement
assures us that no less than five veteran
readers OF manuscript to whom the story
was submitted were moved to enthusiasm
We have always had a vague idea that q
veteran reader Of publishers manuscripts
must from the very nature Of his occupation
be q person Of moderated enthusiasms
But let the first veteran disprove It, AT
last says the venerable one, we have
an author who is not afraid to face a tragic
problem Of love and sex and who IL able to
treat Il with dignity and full grasp OF it's
depth and power To veteran No. the
reading Of It was q constantly increasing
delight Hail to the veterans and more
power to their enthusiasmsl
1t is q pleasure and privilege to DO able
to agree with thsm--and we arc not sure
that In the face Of such upamimfy Of au-
thoritv Va would dare do otherwise.
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Helps 10 Dante.

A useful piece Of work has been done BY
Mr.. Charles Allen Dinslnnre in putting to-
pether In Aids to the Study Of Dante
(Houghton, Mifiin Il Co.. number Of
ESSAYS and statements concerning Dante
and his works from authoritative or re-
spectacle sources, arranged systematically
for the use Of students. He has used the
best he could find In English and has made
TRANSACTIONS from tho German and italian
to supplement these. filling in a few gaps
with summaries Of his own.
The quality Of his work may be judged
from the authors on whom he depends.
Prof Charles Eliot Norton. to whom the
book is dedicated. is the chief English
authority, and essays by Dean Church
and Lowell arc inserted. This shows the
literary rather than strictly scientific char
acter Of the work. The extracts and the
translations bring together . good deal of
matter which the student would find it
difficult to get at otherwise. The transla-
tions from original italian sources arc
valuable. The book will be helpful to all
students Of Dante, and perhaps more to
those who try to learn about him in transla-
tons than to those who can read the original.
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POST OFFICE BURGLARS AT WORK
Unsuccessful Attack on the Depew once
The once at Elma Cleaned Out.

BUFFALO, Sept. 1s.The timely arrival OF
a night Waterman prevented the theft OF
a, 400 in cash from the Depew post office
last night Two burglars had succeeded In
drilling holes in the safe door and were about
to insert giant powder when they were dis
oovared nv the Waterman and made " ,eir
escape through the rear door They had n
stolen rig in waiting and drove in the di-
fection os E'ma
Eariv this morning the post Office al Elma
was entered by burglars who cleared the
place Of all stamps and cash and also some
of the goods in the store in which the post
Office il located Il il believed that the
burglars were those who made the tempt
at Depew.