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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-12
CUT GERMAN LINES.
Hereros Break Through the Circle of
 German Troops.

Berlin, Sept. 12.-Ady1ces received here from German Southwest Africa show that the main body of the Hereros, several thousand strong, have broken through the ring of Ger man troops disposed for the purpose of encircling them and have escaped towards the southeast with the loss of fifty men killed. This is interpreted to mean an indefinite prolongation of the campaign.
 Lieutenant Colonel EstroH Septem- Der 9 attacked Chief Samuel Maherero while the latter was breaking camp. Samuel offered little resistance, aban- doning a portion of his cattle. The German losses to September 10 con sisted of one man slightly wounded.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-12
WHEN ]?
Means at What Time.

WHEN will the person who found brand new black felt hat belonging 10 the writer of this ad bring it to our store and get new $1 bill and receive our thanks?
 WHEN will our ''cops" have the convenience of a patrol wagon instead ] of express wagons, push carts, loe wagons. OK teams and wheelbarroWIs
 WHEN will the public find out thas : trading stamps are eaten penliS Ask Ben Witkowski, or buy some v our Tea and Coffee and compare tlelh l,i with the quality you get stamps WILL and see for yourself.
 WHEN will the trolley company stop tearing up Center square ana so llp and finish the Baldwin sTeet me!
 WHEN will you who have never drank any of our Tea or Cottee coHle. le and try some. Our Tea is 4O 70 oo oo cents per pound and Coffee is p to 4o cents per pound, and it's always war ranted to be excellent quality
 WHEN will the ward "heelers run LII 8 political campaign without any uIlch- cry or back-biting?
 WHEN are you going to buy sonie nice tasting. Butter? If it's this week lust try some of our Decent quality. Parker or Roosevelt doesn't have any better served at their table, and S2Oo,- 600 says so.
 WHEN are you going to buy pound of our warranted good Baking Powder, 45c pound, and get a DeauLl- fuIly decorated pitcher worth DUG Wlln 1t at
 Phelan's T Store. Ne Fbaat Main ek. TeleDhOE Il
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-12
DEMOCRAT PATTERNS.

Readers of this paper who use pat terms occasionally can get the best and at lowest price by watching our columns from now on. A new pat tern will be published every day, and by sending 10 cents to the Dem ocrat office it will be sent to any ad- dress.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-05-13
PLANTS HAVE HYsTERIA.
Certain Species Have Nerves That
Are as Sensitive as Those
of Human Beings.

Science claims to have discovered that
plants have nerves, and that some
species are irritable and nervous to a
marked degree. The peculiar phenom-
ena are not new, for the poets have sung
of the sensitive plants ~plaintive actions
when played upon by the rough wind
and of the mimosa's fright when crushed
or broken by some strange foot; but
these were supposed to be merely fig
ures of speech, and no one believed that
the song makers had such insight as to
discover that plant organisms were gift
ed with nerve eenters and brain cells.
Science has worked out the fact, how
ever, says the New York Times, that the
poets were neare the truth than we
gave them credit for, and that certain
species of u common woodland
growths possess nerves that can be
played upon by the east wind as readily
as those which afflict mankind. The
sensitive plant leads all others in this
respect. But what we considered innate
modesty at being handled is nothing
more than irritable nerves The genus
Mimosa comprises about 200 species,
and most of these exhibit peculiarly ir-
ritable natures if touched or handled In
the wrong way. The Mimosa pudica, the
botanical name for the sensitive plant,
is so highly organized that it is kept in
a state of neurasthenia most Of the time.
A puff of wind, the trampipg of heavy
feet near 1t, or the rude touch of the
hand, will aus this plant to go off into
nervous Mysteries. The exciting noise
or commotion strikes the nerves of the
plant and causes it to close up or droop
it's leaves. Hundreds of sensitive plants
have been diagnosed in the modern bio
logical laboratories, and the observers OF
the plants have traced the nerve centers
to their foundation.
In some of the plants the ends of the
nerves have been located. Thus If Mi
mosa pudica is touched with eve so fine
a point at the base of a pima or along
Its axis, the most remote pair of leaves
will SILVER and begin to close. Finally,
when all the leaves have closed, the
pima which has been touched will
droop. The shock has been so great
that the whole nervous system has been
temporarily disarranged. However,
like all nervous, irritable people. there
is a point beyond which fright reacts and
q control of the system begins to mani
fest itself. If the sensitive plant is
shaken for some time 1t gets over its
attack of neurasthenia and some of the
leaves will begin to open again.
The most sensitive place of the plant
is at the base of the secondary leaf
stalks, where an immense number OF
nervous ~corpuscles or delicate tissues
are located.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-05-13
Spencer and Huxley.

Herbert Spencer, in his newly pub,
lished autobiography, says of Prof. Hux-
ley: HE was one of a circle in which
tragedy was the topic, when my name
came up in connection with some opin-
ion or other; w%hereupon he remarked:
oh. Spencer's idea of a tragedy is a
deduction killed by a fact On another
occasion George Henry Lewes gave Hulk
ley an opportunity. I had invited some
half dozen leading men to meet an Amer
lean friend at dinner. In the course of
the evening a conversation arose about
habits of composition. Lewes, one of
the last, said: I never hesitate. l get
up steam at once. In short, | boil at low
temperatures But remarked Huxley,
that implies a vacuum in the upper re-
gions.'"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-05-13
WHEN PEACE COMES IN ASIA
Neither Russia Nor Japan May Be
Allowed to Dictate What
Terms Shall Be.

"There is little doubt that the pres
t%erfere, will be a bitter one," says Gen.
Francis Vinton Greene in the war num-
Der of the Worlds Work, "but should
Russia gain a really decisive victory,
as she did over Turkey in 1878, she
would seek to make Japan a mere Rus
sian province, filled with splendid har-
bors and forming a magnificent outpost
for the coast of the orient. Should
Japan gain such a victory over Russia,
she would wish to drive Russia entire
ly away from the Pacific coast, establish
herself on the mainland and put herself
at the head of the far eastern races.
Neither will be allowed to do what
It wishes. Wars are not ended in that
way in these days, but in such a way
as the great nations think proper. In
her last war Russia had Turkey at her
mercy, but she was obliged to tear up
the treaty she had made at San Stefano
and to submit to such terms as the nom
combatant nations saw fit to allow at
Berlin. And in her last wal Japan in
u1cteQ u SlgndI QeIehL upon CHlud anu
dictated the terms of peace in the treaty
of Shimonoseki, which was ratified on
May 8, 1895. But only two days later,
at the dictation of Russia, Germany and
France, the Japanese emperor signed a
document In which he ~renounced and
gave up the chief advantages he had
gained by that treaty. Similarly now,
1t is quite certain that Japan will not
become a Russian province, nor will
there be any yellow peril under the
leadership of Japan, for, NJ matter
which side wins, the treaty of peace will
be made, not by the two combatants,
but by a congress of all the great pew
ers, including ourselves-so far have
unforeseen events carried us away from
the traditions of Washington. The
terms of that treaty will be such as the
! great nations think best for the inter-
ests Of the whole world, and not alone
of the two nations who carried on the
war"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-05-13
EN0LAND's DEATH WARRANT
Not Always Carried Into Effect, But
Serves as a Deterrent of
Crime.

The present agitation in England to
abolish the %pronouncing of the death
sentence in cases where it is patent that
capital punishment will not follow will
probably meet with the approval If most
people who desire that the law should
iose nothing Of its dignity, and at the
same time have nothing of unnecessary
horror added, says st. James Gazette.
The lord chancellor pleads for the re-
tention of the form, saying that the
passing of the death sentence will act
as a deterrent. James |. juggled with
death sentences in this manner, and got
himself rather badly d~islilted for it.
Over the plot in which Raleigh, Gotham
Grey and others were implicated, he had
the less puissant ones put to death and
Every bloodily handled" Cobham's
brother was beheaded like a gentle
man." The bishop of Chichester, with
the blood Of the latter still upon him,
went then to Lord Gotham. Him the
bishop exhorted to confession. Other
prelates were similarly engaged with Sir
Walter Raleigh and Lcrd Grey. Mean
time Markham, another of the conspira-
tors, had been placed upon the scaffold
and was about to bow his head to the ak,
when the sheriff was called away by a
Scotch hireling, and the prisoner left to
contemplate the ak for an hour. Then
he was led away and told to prepare for
death at the end of a further two hours.
Grey's turn was next. He prayed half
an hour before the block, then raised
himself to die-and was led away, the
king sending word that the order of ex-
ecution had been changed. So forth
came Gotham, and, having made his last
declaration, prepared to take farewell
of the world, when the sheriff stayed the
execution, and brought forth Markham
and Grey, all three thinking that the
other two had been executed. They
were told, after having suffered the
agony of all but death itself, that their
lives would be spared. Raleigh's expert
ence was similar. That was how they
used to make death sentences act as "a
deterrent" in the good old days. There
would be danger for those who tried a
repetition to-day.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-05-13
THE DISEASES OF METALS.
How they Are Rendered Unfit for
Use by Poisoning-Cura-
tive Treatment.

Many metals show symptoms of poi
soning, rendering them unfit for use.
Thus, says Prof. e. Heyn, in Harper's
Magazine, steel can, by means of small
quantities of hydrogen and under GER
tain circumstances, be very seriously
affected. Let us take two steel bars OF
the same material, both heated to a rec
exposed to the influences of hydrogen
or hydrogen gas, chilling both bars in
water after heating; WI shall find the
bar heated in hydrogen to be brittle,
whereas the other bar, heated in air, will
turn out to be far superior. The hydro
gen has in this instance acted like poi
son upon. the heated steel, and very
small quantities of such poisonous mat
ter will suffice to produce very violent eff
fects. The disease in question can be
radically cured, 1t only being necessary
to anneal the poisoned bar, repeating
the process by heating exposed to air.
The poisoned steel, by being allowed to
lie for a long time, will, without any fur
Their expert treatment, show signs of
improvement to a certain degree, the
poison gradually leaving 1t. A better
treatment still is boiling In water or oil,
which process may be compared to using
warm congresses in the case of human
beings.
Similar symptoms of poisoning, caused
by hydrogen or gases containing hydro
gen (as gas for lighting purposes). are
apparent in copper when exposed to red
heat. Not every kind of copper is sus-
ceptible 70 this poisoning in equal de-
gree.
Metals can become diseased from i'm
proper IL eatment, as, for instance, cop
per and steel when exposed a certain
length OF time to temperatures exceed
ing fixed limits. The copper. in con-
sequence, loses a great part of its due
tility and bending qualities. In steel the
disease can become so ~vlrulent that a
steel bar SO infected can. on falling on
the ground, break to pieces. The tech
nical expert calls such disease lover.
heating"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-05-13

In ink-ordinary ink, at least-mod-
ern science has made no improvement
The ink of our forefathers was worse
than that of their ancestors, and ours
is yet worse. The Chinese still pro-
duce perfect ink, for their so-called
India ink" has all the virtues an ink
should possess. 1t flows freely. writes
black, remains black and is permanent
in all c~limates.-St. Nicholas.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-05-13

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mind.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-27
HAGERsToWN HAPPENINGS.
Held for Alleged Forgery - Contracts
for New Iron Bridges.
of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star
HAGERSTOWN, Md, August 26, 1904.
Harry Clarence Gelwicks was held in
bonds of $500. charged with forging John v.
Straley's name to a check for $50 and at
tempting to pass it on Max Rubens.
Contracts We're awarded the Nelson &
Buchanan Company of Chambersburg for
the construction of three iron bridges across
different streams in the county. the cost of
which will amount to 81 1856.
Neal o. Boyer has fled SANDER suit for
5000 damages against Henry Holtzap
fel,
Efforts are being made to have Rev. Fred
erick Diehl returned to the passionate of
Robert Kennedy Memorial Presbyterian
Church at Welsh Run. made vacant by his
resignation last October to accept a call to
the pastorate of the Presbyterian Church
at Piedmont. w. Va.
Mrs. E. c. Chubb of Washington sum-
mering in the Blue Ridge, is visiting Mrs.
r. ]. Hahn. Prospect street, this city
Miss Bessie Summers has returned from a
months visit with her aunt, Mrs. J. F. Ke-
fauver, Washington.
Miss Annie Renner. Washington, is visit
ing her sister, Mrs. w. s. Davis.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-27
Washington Grove News.
sr.cial Correspondents of The Evening Star.
WASHINGTON GROVE, Md,

sr.cial Correspondents of The Evening Star.
WASHINGTON GROVE, Md,
August g. 1904.
Mr. w. II. H Smith conducted the Chau-
tauoua round table last night. DR.. Hugh
Blacks lectures on mental culture were
the subject of the hours consideration
and discussion.
The annual Sunday school entertain
ment and social was given this evening
at 1880. Dr. Forest Gatchell had charge
Of the program, which was as follows:
Recitation, What is the Real Good?'
Elizabeth Kaiser; recitation, Aunt Table
tha," Cornelia Trugian; piano solo. Al
fred Lindsay; recitation, The New
Church Organ" Florence Meyer; recita-
ton, Harold Hilliar; recitation, Helen
Hit; recitation, IF Ever I See." Leonora
Sauls; duet Misses Ethel Foster and
Caryl Walker; recitation, Tell Me, Sunny
Goldenrod," Florence Hart; recitation,
Rachel Gatchell: trio. Misses May Wilson.
Margaret Gatchell. Lisle Rush; recita-
ton. Margaret Smith; recitation. The
Nightingale" Francis Clark; recitation.
recitation, Eugene Cfssel: song, Anna May
Rush; duet, Bessie Ober and Florence
Middleton; song, Virginia SWEET.
Mrs. Sophie Smith was visiting with
MIS-. RODert Conen VI HioNS avenue To-
day.
The Misses Cotton. who have been
spending a short time with Mrs. Samuel
walker. returned to the city today.
Miss Grace Hildebrand spent several
DAYS this week here with Mrs. Frank
Woodward of Sd avenue.
Miss Ethel Sunny is visiting Miss Ma
bel Campbell of I'd avenue.
Mrs Mark Woodward and Miss Maria
Woodward spent Thursday here with
Mrs Frank Woodward.
DR. and Mrs. d. E. Wiber who have
been away from the Grove on an extend
ed western trip returned last night
The second annual field day of the
Washington Grove Athletic Association
will be held on Woodward field the morn
ing Of Labor day, September 5. The chief
feature Of the meet will be the one-mfle
relay race for the championship Of Mont
gomery county. Medals have been offered
to members Of each team, and a silver
trophy cup has been offered to the win
ming team. The days sports will con-
clude with a base ball game between
Washington Grove and Takoma Park for
the Montgomery county championship
The ChautauQua assembly program for
next week announces exceptionally at
tractfve features. Alton Packard the
cartoonist, will be here on Wednesday
and Thursday evenings. with change Of
programs. Famous English Novels IL
Illustrating Social Conditions" Is the SUBJ
jeet for the Chautauqua round table talk
on Friday evening. Ellsworth Plumsted,
The Wandering Raggedy Man." will be
here with readings. songs, stories and
character impersonations on Saturday
evening.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-27
MAssING FOR THE MANEUvERs
Troops Arriving at the Camps on His
toric Bull Run.

dispatch from Gainesville, Va, last
night says All preparations have been
made by the quartermaster's department
for the arrival tomorrow OF the corps staff
the division commanders and their STATS
and the brigade commanders and their aids
The regulars which have not arrived will
be here not later than Sunday, and the
militia will be on hand by Sunday week
AT Manassas there are the following or
CARNATIONS: One troop OF the 18th United
States Cavalry. two companies of the I'd
Battalion, United States Engineers, and
band. Hospital Corps and Signal Corps.
At Thoroughfare there are: One troop
9TH Cavalry; one company ID Battalion
United States Engineers Hospital Corps
ana Signal Corps The first division of the
Blues. which will occupy Manassas, will
be under command of Brig Gen. Frederick
ID. Grant. and the second division at Thor
oughfare under Brig Gen ] FrantIir Ri,
Both commanders have arrived The corns
headquarters here have a picturesque ioca-
Ton, with a grove in the rear and n fine
pass.
1t was announced today that 300 men
comprising the Sd and 4th Field Batteries
ha1 left Fort Myer this morning They
VIII march to Thoroughfare the camp of
the Browns; Capt. Foote is In Command
OF the I'D Battery and Capt. SummeralI OF
the 4th. GIL "a
Here at corps headquarters are stationed
one troop OF the 9Th United States Cavalry
and the nth Battery. Field Artillery, with.
out guns The battalion o. the Sth Infantry
and band. Stationed at Fort jay. N "
VIII arrive at Gainesville on September /
All the militia will come by rail-. eYcent
one troop of Maryland cava.ry which was
granted permission TO march here AS
signed TO the Blues" and the '.Rrowns.
are militia from as far south as Texas and
as Tar east as Maine. Northern and south
ern organizations are pretty well divided
up on both sides.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-27

shows how impracticable are the efforts
of reformers when such impossible means
are taken to correct growing vices. Leg
1slatlon can never control human appe-
Ute, save In a moderately restrictive
sense. The evil will continue until the
culprit Is educated to better ways
The real responsibility for bad habits
In the young rests with the parents and
guardians Home treatment Is more eff
fectlye than any law that can be enacted.
If parents would do their duty in such re-
spects there would be no need for such
absurd bills as the one in question. The
growing boy should be taught that to-
bacco is hurtful to him physically and
mentally, and should be properly trained
by his parents to believe that what they
tell him is true and for his ultimate well
fare. This places the responsibility of
initiating all such reforms where IL very
properly belongs. Mere punishment a fter
habit is formed Is commencing the les
son at the wrong end
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-27
Juvenile Smoking.
From the New York Herald.


A bill for the prevention Of Juvenile
smoking has been presented in the house
of commons The chief clause is as fol-
lows: mo person under the age of six
teen years shall smoke or use tobacco In
any form. and any such person SO doing
shall be liable, on conviction, to penalty
not exceeding ten shillings for each Of
fence" Another item Is to the erect
that any one who sells, gives or supplies
tobacco in any form to such youngsters
shall likewise be liable to fines. the onus
of proof as regards age of the receiver to
lie on the person charged with a breach
of the provisions of the act.
The London Lancet. in commenting on
the BILL very significantly asks how the
provisions named could be consistently
carried out How, for instance. will they
stop the street arab from picking up
Tags and smoking them. and how Is the
unfortunate tobacconist to be sure that
q customer is over the appointed age?"
Another question is. Who Is to pay the
fine tor the urohin so caughtf All this
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-27
Falls Church News,

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
FALLS CHURCH, Va. August %, 1904.
The school board of Falls Church district
composed of Mr.. w. H. Shreve, chairman
Mr. r. W. Birch. clerk, and Mr.. G. B. Cock.
rille has elected the following teachers fol-
| the public schools of the district for the
fall session: Miss Eva Cowling. principal
Of West End school. and Miss Mamie
Wiley assistant: Miss Alma Ricketts,, Lin
colnia school: Miss Sallie Hagan for Bat
ley's Cross Roads, Miss Leila Beattie for
Anandale Miss Josephine Wine for Ida.
The board has ordered the opening of a
new school at HOwardsville and elected
Miss Daisy Stevenson as teacher. For the
colored schools the following were elected
teachers: Mr. T. w. Hyson principal
Falls Church school. and Miss Bessie Rid
dick assistant: Miss M. r. Holiday for
Seminary school, and Mrs. Brent for Merri-
field. On Monday the school electoral board
Of the county, composed of Messrs. e. V.
Ford. commonwealth attorney; Capt M.
D. Hall. county superintendent, and ]. X.
Blake. will meet to settle the question of
revocation of teachers license granted to
Prof. w. 7. Heistand. who last year taught
the school at Ida.
The tenth annual session Of the Fairfax
County Sunday School Association was
held yesterday at Fairfax Court House
The session convened In the NJ. E. Church
ercises conducted by Rev. ]. w. Smith
pastor. At the conclusion of these exer-
cises Mrs. Sallie L. Reeves of Washington
was introduced and gave a talk on her trip
through the holy land. as a delegate to the
recent worlds congress Of Sunday school
workers at Jerusalem. This was followed
by an address on Sunday school work by
Rev. r. A. Dawson, d. D., pastor of the
Presbyterian Church at Falls Church
An hour was given to a conference OF
Sunday school workers, during which a
number of superintendent took part max
ing many suggestion as to the best method
Of conducting Sunday school. Commit
tees were announced to consider various
subjects.
At the afternoon session Rev. Eyerard
Meade. rector Of the Pohick Protestan,
Episcopal Church. conducted the opening
devotional exercises This was followed by
a roll call of the schools Of the county and
responses by the delegates in attendance
| Mr.. E c. Hough, president, and Rev. III
| A. Beach. secretary. submitted their an.
nual reports. Mr.. w. w. MILAN, presiden,
| of the Sunday School Teachers Union o,
! the District of Columbia. was then intro
| duced and made an address, replete WITH
valuable fnformat ton and suggestions ar q
| practicable nature. Mrs. Reeves exemnr
| fed her methods of teaching a Sunda ,
| school lesson to a class of children.
| The young friends of Mr.. and Mrs. G. W
I Parker. former residents of Falls Church
| now of Buffalo. N. Y. rendered them .
| straw ride on Tuesday night
] Miss Grace Gundry and Miss Steiner. whs
have been visiting Miss Gundry, returned
| to their home In Gainesville, Md, yester
| day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-27
Former Clerk Robbed w. u. T G.

a dispatch from Atlanta. Ga. says; I
L. L'aney, alias A. +. Standish formerly
receiving clerk of the Western Union
Telegraph Company at Dallas Tex. was
arrested Thursday on telegram from
the company in Dallas. The telegram
specified no charges. but Laney. who is
under twenty years OF age admitted to the
ofhcers that he and confed crate, whose
name he gave as Black. alias Edmund Sea-
born. had stolen 81 100 on bogus kilograms
According to Laney's story, his father is
now chief operator for the Western Union
Company in Dallas. He admitted that as
receiving clerk he sent bogus kilograms for
money to confederate, who Travelled from
city TO city.