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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-25
GIFTS TO THE FIREMEN.
Mr.. John r. McLean's Annual Distri-
button Made

Mr. William f. Hart manager of the
Washington Gas Company, and young
Ned Mclean, son of Mr.. John r. Mclean,
made an automobile tour of the several
engine houses of the District yesterday.
AT each the chief was called out and
asked to line up his men. Mr.. Hart then
got out of the auto carrying a good-sized
satchel from which he distributed slips
of Uncle Sans green paper with the
compliments of Mr.. Mclean. They were
worth IS to each of the privates and $40
tc the chiefs. In this way three enjoy
able hours were spent, and $1,000 also.
1t has been Mr.. McLean's1 custom for a
number of years to remember the firemen
al Christmas time, and Mr.. Hart has al
ways acted as his deputy. Mr.. Mclean is
one of many who regard them as much
underpaid for their arduous and danger
GUS service to the community, and is glad
OF an opportunity to bring them some ad-
ditional cheer at Christmas. In Cincin-
natl, his former home. MIR. Mclean also
gladdened the hearts ofsthe firemen in a
like manner. The department there is
about twice the size of ours, and the
amount involved is ~ correspondingly
large. s.ts--9
The employees of the Washington Cas-
light Company received gifts aggregat-
ing $1,000 yesterday. IL
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-25
Gets Back Use of Her Arm.

A dispatch from Baltimore, Nd, las
night says: An unusual surgical operation
was performed today. at the Franklin
Square Hospital. Miss Lena Myers. daugh.
ter of T. Frank Myers of Jefferson county
w. Va, who is now thirty-siX years old
fell into a fireplace when six years old and
was terribly burned on the left side from
the ear to the lower rib. The arm was al
lowed to hang at the side, with the result
that in time it adhered to the body. Miss
Myers has had practically use of the
arm. She submitted to an operation by
DR.. Harry Gross. An incision was made in
the skin from the shoulder to the border OF
the lower rib and the arm set free. The
skin was then drawn so to cover the bare
area as far as possible and the arm placed
in sling.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-25
Many Get Shocks at the Phones,

a dispatch from indianapolis last night
says: The interior of the Home Telephone
Company's exchange in Noblesville was
burned out, the result Of a cable In South
9th street coming into contact with the
trolley wire of the indianapolis Northern
Traction Company. The trolley wire had
been raised four feet to allow Il house to
be moved across the track. and it touched
the telephone wires. More than 20) tele-
phones were burned out and nearly every
telephone in the city rang. Many patrons
who answered the call were shocked and
several We're badly burned. Large balls of
fire darted across the room of the exchange
office. causing the night operators to leave
the place in a panic and run to the fire de-
partment to sound the alarm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-25
Shoplifting Charged.

Chloe Page and Mary9I, Page, mother
and daughter who gaveDtheir address az
Alexandria, Va, appeared before Judge
Scott, in the United States branch of the
Police Court this morning. to answer to
charges of shoplifting. They. each deposited
so collateral for their appearance at a later
date for the trial of theirscases
The prisoners were arrested last evening
by Detective Sergeant Thomas Hartigan,
and the information charges the women
with stealing stockings and other articles
of apparel.
Stella Vale. who was arrested last night
by Detective McNamee and charged with
stealing six strings OF beads, was before the
court also this morning, but she was re-
manded to the house of detention, pending
the hearing of the charges against her.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-25
EIGHT REASONS
why Scott's Emulsion is an
ideal food medicine.

why Scott's Emulsion is an
ideal food medicine.
4. 1t is partly pre=di=
gested and therefore passes
quickly into the blood.
2. 1t imposes no tax upon
the stomach or other di=
gestive organs.
3. 1t does not cause fer
mentati0n such as usually
results from ordinary food
when the stomach is weak.
A.. Its action is mild and
even, insuring the great
est nOurishment with the
least effort.
5. Its quality is always
uniform.
6. 1t feeds and strength
ems the bones, blood, nerves
and tissues.
y. 1t is one of the great
est flesh producers known
to medical science.
8. 1t is palatable and
agreeable to the taste and
easily taken.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-25
Charge. of Assault.

Complaint was made to the police of the
ninth precinct this morning. by Minnie
Zinke. thirteen years old, who resides on
Hickey lane near the Bladensburg road.
that man. by the name of John Sweeney,
aged thirty-ive years, a neighbor, attempt
ed to drag her into stable near her home
about o'clock last night. The police were
given description OF the man and an eft
fort Is being made today to locate him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-25
THE sAruRDI44 STAR.
Many Interesting Features in Tomor-
rows Big Paper.

Many Interesting Features in Tomor-
rows Big Paper.
Here are some of the many interesting
features of the big Saturday Star this week:
MARINES IN PANAMA Qpustrated).
How our boys are policing the isthmus
during the period of uncertainty.
OUR ASIATIC MARKET QllustrateO.
Frank Carpenter writes entertainingly of
the chances for American goods across
the Pacific.
PRoDIGALITY OF sHIFTY SMITH Qllus-
trated).
A clever short story, bit out of the ordi-
nary, written for The Evening Star by
William Hamilton Osborne.
PARIS FASHIONS Qllustrated).
What well-dressed women are planning
to wear at the beginning of the new
year.
JOSE LIMANTOUR Qllustrated).
pen picture of the famous man whom
Diaz has picked out as, his successor as
president of Mexico.
MURDERER WHO LAUGHED Qllus-
tratedD.
remarkable incident graphically de-
scribed by Albert Sonnichsen, able sea-
man.
LITTLE TRAITOR TO THE SOUTH
Qllustrated).
Another installment of Cyrus Townsend
Brady's delightful serial story
GORGEOUS FUR HATS QllustrateO.
Dame Fashion has ordained two revivaIs
in millinery for the winter, feathers and
furs.
THE QUEST OF BEAUTY.
Various exercises that Will add curves,
strength and attractiveness to the
female form.
WANTED SMART FURS
Sterling .Heilig tells of a pretty girls
quest of handome jacket in Paris.
ON THE WARPATH YET Qllustrate6.
The Indians of the far southwest still in
dulge in occasional uprisings just for
the fun of the thing.
A NEW YEAR PARTY.
A lively plan that will insure a Jolly time
wit in puzzle cards and pictures.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-25
Army Orders.

Capt. Edward Anderson, It'll Cavalry, has
been relieved from treatment at the General
Hospital, Washington barracks, and order
ed to join his regiment.
Capt Ira c. Welborn, 10th Infantry, at
his own request, has been transferred to
the 9th Infantry, and Capt. f. H. Shoeffel,
9th Infantry, has been transferred to the
10th Infantry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-25
Emperor Williams Christmas.

\ cablegram from Berlin last night says:
Emperor William and his sons were pres
ent this evening at a Christm as tree party
for the benefit of the families of one OF the
infantry regiments.
The emperor will take his usual walk in
the neighborhood of Potsdam tomorr row and
Will give new 5-mark pieces to whoever he
happens TO meet. This is quite a feature
of Christmas time wherever the emperor
is, but no one knows beforehand the route
he will follow
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-25
For Assault.

For committing an assault on John jack
son last evening Thomas Green will be
obliged to pay fine of So or spend sixty
days in jail. in accordance with the SEN
States branch of the Police Court this
morning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-25

Three Itahans-Joe and Iloria Cireafta,
brothers, and B. Mascitta-were burned to
death in a Baltimore and Ohio railroad
camp car at Mount Lake Park, Md. The
car and its contents were destroyed. and
about fifteen other workmen narrowly es-
caped death
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-08

all the same the vision had been rea,-
tic enough for the lady to look ex-
quisitely pretty. No one could help
wishing to stay in a world which con-
I tanned as charming a picture as that.
And then, too quickly, the moment Of
clearness passed; and he was troubled
about the Herald" beseeching those
near him to put copies of the paper in
his hands, threatening angrily to be-
lieve they were deceiving him, that
his paper had suspended, if the three
issues of the week were not instantly
produced. What did they mean by
keeping the truth from him? He knew
the Herald" had not come out Who
was there to get it out in his absence?
He raised himself on his elbow and
struggled to be up; and they had hard
work to quiet him.
But the next night Meredith waited
near his bedside haggard and dishev-
elled. Harkless had been lying in
long stupor; suddenly he spoke, quite
loudly, and the young surgeon, Gay,
who leaned over him, remembered the
words and the tone all his life.
Away and away-across the wat
ers," said John HAIRLESS. "She was
here-once-in June"
What is it, John?" whispered Mere
dith, huskily. You're easier, aren't
you?"
And John smiled little, as if for an
the bandages, and saw and knew his
old friend again.
That same night a friend of Rodney
McCunes sent telegram from Rouen:
He is dying. His paper is dead.
Your name goes before convention in
September
Continued in Next Sundays News.y
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-10-16

only = little past 80. Hiss VII 8 q
wealthy cir, had died soon after he re-
turned from Paris to work as an artist
here, AS the son OF q Newport portrait
tst, he was well known-in that city, and
returned to it to prosecute his at. II
was two years ago that he painted the
portrait of Cen Joe" Wheeler. and
through Wheeler he became acquainted
with Mr.. Bryan and was commissions
to paint the picture Of the latter. :,
Through his acquaintance.wi with Gen.
Wheeler also Mr.. Leavitt nearlylost his
life two years ago. The little general
rode q fiery black charger that had
borne him in Cuba. This animal the
general lent. to the young artist, who,
more familiar with the mahlstick than
the crop, was thrown and badly injured.
There are some artists, by the way, who
are fully. qualified for rough riding.
Frederic Remington, for instance, is a
thorough bronco buster, both theoreti-
cal and practical. -~: H..
Both Mr.. .Leavitt and Miss Bryan have
been familiar figures in New York for
the past year or two. The daughter of
the candidate is tall, 1lne-featured and
strong, a type of the western girl at her
best. The artist looks even fewer years
than he owns. >,.
Artists of Mr>Leavitt's ability seldom
meet vigorous opposition in seeking
wives in any circle. The point of the
Bryan opposition to Mr.. Leavitt was
mainly his age, which is not after all so
excessive. .-" r
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fine, handsome man of the commanding
Manchu type; he married woman half
Portuguese, half Kanaka, and by her
had one son and 13 daughters.
All Fong was a merchant Of silks.
china and bric-a-brac. His shop in
Honolulu was one of the most fashion
able. Globe-trotters visited: it and
swelled it revenues. All Fong was q
clever merchant.
The young people spelled the name
Along. Eleven years ago the father d.
vided his wealth. To his wife and tc
each girl he gave, it was said at the time.
$3.50, 900. His son and the rest of his
wealth he took back to China, where he
sim ply disappeared, swallowed, up in
that great mass of humanity. s,|s 49,.
Nearly every one of the Along girls
has made good match since then, and
in every case the husband is a white man
of unusually high standing y Lieut..
Dougherty, of the army, Capt. Willing:
of the navy, and a San Francisco law
yer named Hensell are the most recent
of Mamma Afong's sons-in-law. To
their distinguished company was added
a few days ago Mr.. James W. Brewster,
of New York. He is the son of the very
wealthy Brewster, who is known as a
maker Of fine carriages. His social po-
sition is excellent. His family is one of
the best in the city.
Mrs. Brewster was Miss Melanie
Along. All the Along girls are highly
educated, graceful, attractive. They are
brunette, of course, but there is in their
features small trace of either Chinese
or Kanaka extraction. In Honolulu
their position is that of other young la
dies Of wealth and refinement.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-10-16

the house for great many years,
but these rules have never been en-
forced. It has been assumed as a mat
ter of course that they were adopted
for the sake of appearances and that
they were not to interfere with the
comfort-of statesmen or with the facil-
ity with which they might entertain
themselves or their friends.
Every little while there has been a
bluff at one end of the capitol or the
other about shutting off the booze al
together, by law, the understanding
being that If such bill passed at one
end of the capitol it would be quietly
smothered at the other, thus giving
everybody chance once in awhile to
go on record without interfering with
bibulatory freedom.
Last winter the game was tried in
the house. They got into sharp de-
bate on prohibition during debate on
the immigration bill, which contained
a clause forbiddng the sale of beer or
wine at immigrant stations. One men,
Der dared another to offer an amend
ment prohibiting the sale, of liquor in
the capitol: The dare was taken and
the amendment was adopted with a
rush. Nobody had the hardihood to
vote against it. Then it went over to
the senate and the. expectation was
that it would be heard of no more. but
the senate last winter was imbued with
spirit of mischief. and the amendment
was retained exactly as it passed the
house. ~ r. -: -
/ So at last the law is firmly fixed in
the statutes and there it is likely to
stay. For nobody is ever going to risk
his political future BY offering an
amendment allowing the sale Of liquor
: in the capitol and nobody .ofsSconse-
quence would vote for such an amend
ment If it were offered. y -
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fortune because oi his notoriety, but it
is not really known that he ever did
Jump at all.
From the new bridge now being built,
considerably higher than the old, zone or
two workmen have fallen of. When
their mates see them 60 they begin to
plan the funeral without waiting for re-
turns. But when Edward Sizer went
over the other day it was different. AS
he dropped he grasped key Of nails
into which he had thrown his coat. Be-
fore they got to the water key and man
were parted. The man struck, sank,
rose again and began swimming. A
boat picked him up. III
Sizer belongs to the bridgemen's
union, the most venturesomeq trade
known to local builders The caisson
men, who work under fearful pressure
to lay foundations for bridge piers many
feet under water, may die faster. They
get ''caisson disease" the same that
killed Washington Roebling, the great
builder of the old bridge. But when a
bridgeman goes, there is something
dramatic about it. Ordinary disease
harms him not; he works in the open.
Death comes to him suddenly. IL It
comes. He does not stick to the work
long, At 40 q bridgeman goes at some
thing else. His nerve is worn out. He
is not as fearless as he was. =# I.
Painters do not patntthe big bridges
except the approaches asd some fairly
easy work. For the: cables and depend
sent parts riggers are employed ellows5
who at out tall ships with masts and,
sspars. Crawling about the wires they
look like flies to man below.
OWEN LANGDoN.
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that contains Tammany Hall and the
home of Boss" Murphy he would refuse
to believe it. Yet that is the truth.
Mr.. Cutting fulfills someone's defini-
ton of gentleman as one whose FAM
lily has three generations painted in
OIL" He is very wealthy, but as his
money was inherited he can devote all
his time to public work. He is the presi-
dent of the Citizens union, which beat
out Tammany two years ago. At that
time he could have had the nomination
for mayor. He could have had it this
year. He refused, holding that his posi-
ton at the head of the union made it
undesirable for him to accept office. A
nomination for alderman in a district
where he is pretty sure to get beaten is
not open to the same objection. Here
Mr.. Cutting can only spend thousands
OF dollars, organize marching clubs,
finance meetings, provide speakers, hire
fustlers, watch the polls for repeaters--
and in the end count the majority
against him in the serene consciousness
that he has at least helped the general
ticket.
1t will be rousing finish to a rousing
campaign. In other districts men of al :
most similar prominence, usually demo-
Gratis, are running in similar "whirl-
wind" fashion. II the fusionists win,
the government of the city will be
mainly In the hands of democrats, thus
robbing the result of partisan signifi-
canoe. But they will not be democrats
wearing the stripes of the tiger.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-10-16

"A
been impossible to
get anything stronger than beer at the
senate restaurant and the lack of
stronger stimulants has not occasioned
the slightest complaint. The counter
at the other end of the capitol has been
patronized, it is true, but almost wholly
by visitors and not to any great ex-
tent by members.
The capitol has really for years been
temperate place. The day has long
passed when senator or representa-
tive could appear in a state of inso-
briefly in the neighborhood Of the halls
of legislation without causing unfavor-
able comment and perhaps running his
reputation.
Men go about the work of legislation
nowadays seriously and temporarily.
The same standards prevail among
public men that prevail among bust
ness men. and if the shutting of liquors
out ot-the capitol will only help to dis
abuse the public mind of the contrary
impression it will be a very salutary
thing even though it makes no real
difference in the conduct of senators
and representatives.
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ed as the sodth's best representative
among the business interests, OF the
north, which have SO great an influence
in egislati lion. .s5:sz.
t= Is pretty hard to classify Maryland
either as southern or northern
state. The predomtnati1g sentiment
IS undoubtedly southern, although It's
commercial alliances are with the
north. German is about as hard to
classify as his state. His sympathiea
are undoubtedly with the south, al
though his business interests are with
the north and his associations are
largely northern. He is without ques-
ton the shrewdest politician on the
democrat side in congress, and he is
recognized as the. legislative leader of
his party. ~. s . s:s.= ~ s.:
German is sphinx. He ii canny of
speech and nobody has ever yet sur
prfsed him into an indiscreet utterance.
And yet there is nobody in Washing
ton whose personal relations with
newspaper men are closer or of q more
CONFIDENTIAL character. He began as; a
page IN the senate and his entire life
mas practically been passed within the
shadow of the capitol. For he was as
s1stant postmaster of the senate after
ne. became too mature for the page
snip and he had not long returned to
Baltimore before he was elected to the
senate.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-10-16

are digging out $35, 100000 railway;
her cart-tail campaigns, her braying
bands, her fierce automobiles thirsting
for the baptism of blood-New York
with all this going on; and Dowie COM
ing!
Dowie expects to bring 1000 sample
Dowieites to help convert New York,
though the actual number may be "ten
per cent. off"
The city is big enough for 1900 ex-
horters to get lost in. There are more
than that number of Mormons in town,
and the average New Yorker never
heard or saw one of them. Yet the
Mormons have several flourishing soci-
cites. OF the organizations that more
directly rival Dowie there are two.
The Salvationists with Is barracks
and headquarters, and with a member
ship running we'll into four figures, will
make his soldiers hump to surpass
them in vigor. The Salvationists know
their ground thoroughly. There is not
saloon in the city into which has not
penetrated some demure-faced girl in
her poke bonnetrselling the "War-Cry"
Very different will be the opposition
of the regular Christian Science
churches against Dowie's somewhat
similar methods. There are several of
these organizations, the richest of them
the First church-having beautiful
building on the upper west side which
has cost some quarter of million dol
lars. These are no people to wage war
against Dowie's full-blooded and vigor-
Gus methods. Most of their members
are elderly, in money well-to-do, in edu-
cation above the average, in physique
rather frail. Their methods are not
noisy, though they are effective.
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entire district when he gets his fight
ing clothes, on. He not only has rec
ord in two wars, but he was for years
the most pugnacious correspondent on
newspaper row, fitting fearlessly at ev-
cry perceptible abuse and making enc
mics right and left in the pursuit OF
his calling.
When he was appointed president of
the school board he supposed that 1t
was to be place of more or less roil-
tine and that for the moderate allow
ance of $500 a. year he was to preside
over the meetings of the board with
dignity, and enunciate his findings
with solemnity. He hadn't been there
a fortnight, however, before he was en-
gagged in scrap and he has been in
some sort of scrimmage ever since.
First he tackled the school histories.
He happened to find an incorrect his
tor1cal allusion in one of them and he
proceeded to examine them all. He dis
covered that they were full of: mistakes
and he ordered them all out of the
schools until the mistakes could be cor
rected. Of course that angered the
writer's and publishers. but he didn't
mind. He won his point Then he
learned that the contractors for coal
were furnishing the school buildings
with an inferior article at an exorbi-
tant price and that they were selling
badly underweight He stopped that
and made every coal dealer his NOR
tai enemy in consequence. A little Ia
ter he fell afoul Of personal scandal
that was keeping the schools in a tur-
moil, and he went at that with vim
that startled the community and re-
suited in the elimination of the cause.
And yet Gen. Boynton personally is
one Of the gentlest and most consider
ate of men. It is only when he scents
an abuse that he vaults into the arena.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-10-16

DIR. Charles w. Benin, of the health
department of Chicago, has discovered
a new vaccine, superior in many re-
spects to that now used by physicians.
One of the chief objections to the vac
cine now used is the long time neces-
sary for its application. 1t often takes
80 and 40 minutes to inoculate per-
son with the virus because of the
glycerin with which it is mixed. This
disadvantage is obviated by the re-
suits obtained by DR.. Benin. Instead
of mixing lymph with glycerin in Or
der to secure virus he has discovered
that chloroform will accomplish the
same result.