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The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-15
THE suMATRA MALAY AT HoMI


 The house found myself in and which may answer as type, was built of bamboo. raised about eight feet above the ground, square, and reached by a ladder, pulled up at night The floor Of the single room was made of rattan strung from side to side leaving open spaces, through which domestic refuse was thrown, and housekeeping thus made easy. In one corner sat a woman making baskets. of which in a few simple patterns they are industri ous weavers; in another corner was kind of box, upon which the cooking was done in a brass pot of most artistic shape. Around the room hung the sim pie and few belongings of the family, with completed baskets and the ever lasting and ever smelling fish swinging from the rafters overhead. In appear ance the Surnatra Malays differ but very little from those of the Malay Pe- ninsula; what difference there is is in their favor. Some of them affect a trouser sarong of pronounced peg-top variety, and others wear rimiess hats that advertise religious pilgrimages, but for the greater part the natives of mainland and island are similar in hab- it, dress and looks. The food of the Su- matra Malay is rice, half or fully routed fish, and tapioca, which with gutta per- cha and rattan constitute the native in- dustries and articles of export--though the business of it is practically in the hands of the Chinese traders. As habit ual among the uncivilized people the women do all the work. The men fish, using traps almost entirely, and hunt small game with strategy and desulto- riness; chiefly they smoke cigarettes of native tobacco rolled in leaf. The men also chew tobacco and have the unpre- possessing habit of pushing the large cud under their upper lip, where it hangs partially exposed as they talk. Both sexes of all ages chew the betel nut, and a few stain their teeth, al- though the custom is not prevalent as in Siam, where black teeth are the rule, not to say the fashion. Another trait these peoples share in common is their lack of hospitality to the wayfaring stranger February Outing.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-15

had been torpedos. It was thought by some naval officers that the force of the compressed air charge would kill the dogs, but after their violent exits from the tubes they promptly arose to the surface and began swimming around as if nothing had happened. They were picked up and taken to the station, where they are now capering around as lively as ever. A reporter who called at the New York office of the Holland Torpedo Boat company. which designed the nine submarine craft that the Uni ted States has in commission, was told by the manager that it would be per- fectly practicable to expel men without injury from the torpedo tubes, just as the dogs had been fired out" Previous to the Narrag agansett bay test, he said, a dog had been discharged from the tube of a submarine boat at Annapolis, and this animal also escaped injury, except that his feelings seem to have been badly hurt, for after rising to the sur
 face and swimming ashore, he lit out for the next county, and may be run ming yet for all that any one knows.
 The manager said that after a man had crawled into the tube and the outer door had been opened, letting in the water, only fraction of second would elapse before he would be expelled, so that the time during which he would have to hold his breath would be infini- tesimal. If the bow of the boat were pointed downward, however, it would be possible to fill the bube with enough compressed air to keep out the water entirely when the outer door was opened. It would be necessary to insert block of wood in the tube with the man, as was done with the dogs. The Holland folk think there Is little danger in one of their boats ever meeting with an accident that would prevent it's re- turn to the surface. In fact, they as- sert that such thing could happen only in the event of the boat running afoul of cable in harbor, getting en- tangled in a wreck or wedged in be- tween rocks. They concede that if such mishap should happen at least one of the six men who usually compose the crew of 8 submarine boat, must die. One man who would have to stay be- hind to pull the lever that connects with the compressed air valve. The code of ethics that obtains on the sea holds that the commander should be the last man to leave the ship, but 1t is asserted that this would not hold good when to re- main behind means death. It Is more likely that lots would be drawn, the loser to shoot all his fellows out of the torpedo tube and then face death with as much equanimity as he could com mand.--American Inventor.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-15

A statement was made accompanying the S o'clock bulletin that the rally was due to hyperdermic injections of brandy and water For about an hour and a half following the seyehe sinking spell, the senator had been conscious, but he made no attempt to speak during the entire time. At 3:30 o'clock he dropped into a doze and at times slept peace fully. Later he took little nourish- ment.
 The physicians used oxygen continu- ously throughout the afternoon. The rally from a third sinking spell was so unusual that the physicians them selves were astounded. They said they believed it due largely to the patients wonderful efforts to aid in their heroic measures. It was stated that the re- currence of the sinking spells does not imply that these will continue and that simply because of the previous depres- sions there is no reason to look for another drain of like character on his vitality. At the same time the doctors hardly knew just what to expect. The following bulletin was issued at 8 o'clock.
 Senator Hanna is more comfortable than during the afternoon. The pulse is 1S2. Temperature 1O3.6 and respira- tion 40. (Signed)
 "Rixey,
 "Osler,
 Carter Some milk and whiskey were adnlinis- tered at 6:SO o'clock and shortly there after the patient was given another temperature. For an hour after the bath Senator Hanna dozed and rested comfortably. More nourishment was given at S:S0 o'clock. Throughout the evening the doctors gave oxygen for a couple of minutes at regular intervals of halp an hour. It was apparent at 8:30 that an unusual gloom pervaded the hotel. All hope had been abandoned and any improvement in the senator s condition which developed in the course of the day was regarded as only tenn porary. MT. Dover, on coming from the sick chamber said that there was no chance for life, although the physicians were not preparing for immediate dis solution.
 
 The temperature was again taken at 9:20 o'clock and registered 104.4 Find ing that it had not diminished, as was expected as the result of the last bath, another bath was given at 10 o'clock. The milk and whiskey nourishment was abandoned temporarily and a small quantity of champagne administered. At Il o'clock another official bulletin was issued as follows:
 There has been no material change in Senator Hanna's condition since s o'clock. Temperature now 104: pulse 13O; respiration 4o.'
 "Rixey,
 "Osler,
 Carter, At this time Senator Hanna, although exceedingly feeble, was conscious.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-15
EJEcTED FROM TROLLEY

A. w. Leek of New Haven Sues for Dam
 ages.
 Ansonia, Feb. IA. Deputy Sheriff Doolan of New Haven yesterday served papers on the Connecticut Railway X Lighting Go, in suit brought by Allen K Leek, of New Haven, in which $1 900 damages are sought. MT. Leek took a car in Derby on Janu- ary 9, 1904, for New Haven. He alleges that when the car reached Orange, he was ejected from 1t in a lonely spot in the night time and obliged to wait thirty minutes for another car. He had paid his fare. It was an intensely cold night
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-15

I with a good old-fashtoned Irish break
 down. Most of the elder people present
 are expected to participate in this. and spe-
 cial calcium lights will be used to make the effect one of a moonlight scene.
 The grand march will be led by Dr. Wm. J. Sheehan and lady. and will commence
 promptly at nine o'clock. The dance pro
 gramme will consist of eighteen dances and
 intermissions, and it Is expected that danc- ing will continue until about four o'clock.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-15

There's nothing in that fellow" Why, what warrants that conclu- sion?''
 Hes full al the time!'-New Orleans Times Democrat.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-15

MRS WINCHELL RECOVERING
 Mrs. A. D. .Winchel. who has been seri- ocusly i'll of grip. for some few days past is slowly recovering This will be welcome news to her many friends.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-15

The case is a novel one. as it raises inc company's liability for ejecting persons from car and compelling them to wait for another car. s',~ ',
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-16
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The Rich Wagners.

From Everybody's Magazine.
In the course of the "ParsifaP' feud oblo-
guy has been cast on Herr Director Conried
as the oppressor of an unfortunate widow
and much sympathy has been felt for the
reduced circumstances in which the Ameri-
can production of the opera will leave Frau
Wagner. In view of these facts some de-
tails as to Frau Wagners income may
prove not undressing So
In 1902 the Wagner family received any
where from between $5S,000f Ito $115, 900 in
royalties from the performances of Wag-
ners operas in Germany during that year.
The Bayreuth profits average another $50
600 year. Since 1891 Frau Wagner has re-
ceived $50. 600 year in royalties from the
Paris grand opera Many others of the 300
annual performances of the operas given
outside of Germany yield royalties, SO that
very conservative estimate puts the Wag-
ner family in possession of an income of
$4,000 1t has yet to be shown that the
Bayreuth festivals will suffer financially
from Herr Conried's productions of "Pari-
fal, but even should that prove the case
Frau Wagner would seem to be In no i'm
mediate danger of restitution.
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Depends on the Girl.

How much you spend also depends upon
what girl. We will come to that later. If
you wanted to spend lot and if it were
dinner and not supper, you would no doubt
take her to PaiIlard's. Paillard's does not
serve suppers. Neither does the Ritz.
In restaurants, however, there was never
such a place for taking supper after the
theater or otherwise and certain prin-
ciples discovered slowly in this hard school
make 1t possible for one to give tips on the
subject.
Principle l. If you do 1t, do it right
There is nothing doing to take a girl to
supper in a lost-to-the-w establishment
where she will see no one. Besides, it looks
clandestine. On this head, let the girl have
the hesitations. Not you. OF course you
are proud to show her. IT, by any circum-
stance there be reasons for real hesitation,
do not take her
l mean to supper
They will. of course, tell you Of private
supper rooms. 1t is not these that lack in
Paris. No one ever saw any good come of
them. all the same. And 1t is all so differ
ent and stuffy. and so throws the party on
its own resources that not every one who
Wills makes a success at 1t. a party of
four can have a CHASTITY slow time in a pri-
vate supper room. Regularly it Is as we'll
to stay in the girls dining room at home
And cheaper.
When you do 1t right in Paris you take
them to Durand's, Larue's, Mares, the
Grand Cafe restaurant or the Cafe de Paris
or Maxims.
Maxim's, it should be noted is so frankly
fast that one cannot take a lady.
The Cafe de Paris has a much higher
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To Suppress Tipping"
From London Truth.


A bold attempt to suppress the tipping"
of hotel servants has been made by the
proprietor of a well-known French hotel.
the Hotel Univers, at Lyons. Visitors to
that hotel are now informed that in order
to palliate as far as possible the irritating
question of gratuites or tips they will be
charged 10 per cent on the amount of their
bills, and that this amount will be handed
over in full to the staff and be considered
as taking the place of the former gratuities.
This is avowedly only an experiment We
shall all be interested to hear how 1t works.
The amount of tip is largely determined
by mans satisfaction with the way be is
attended to and looked after; and the tip
ping system Objectionable though it may be
in some respects. tends for this reason to
keep the servants up to the mark. But If
they can rely upon getting the same amount
from everybody, and getting 1t whether they
exert themselves to please or not, the quail
ty of the service is likely to suffer in conse-
quence. So many men like to reward hotel
servants for any special attention OF trou-
BILE that 1t is pretty certain tips would still
be given, even if the Lyons 10 per cent be-
came a general institution. In that case the
only effect of it would be to impose an extra
tax upon travellers. In fact, a special
charge to cover servants gratuities really
resolves itself into little more than an add
ton to the charge already generally made.
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LIGHTS AND GAYETY
When0ne Goes Out to Supper
in Paris
HERE'S WHAT TO Do
WHAT YOU WILL SPEND DEPENDS
UPON THE GIRL.
Be Sure to Order Something Snowy
Have the Champagne in
of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star
PARIS, January 4, 1909.
When YOU take girl Cor girls) to supper
you want to get something out of it for
both.
mean you and the girl.
mean supper in a restaurant. Because.
regularly, if it be not in a restaurant it is
the girl who takes you to her papa's din
ing room to eat out of the CHEEKY chatting
dish, around the CHEEKY lamp, before the
CHEEKY fire. ct ought to be a wood fire in
an open CRATE, with white bearskin be-
fore it,
/ mean, of course, that a door must be
either open or shut. / have heard of taking
girls to supper in hotels. They do 1t in
London; but there it is the restaurant of a
swell hotel, ard not it's dining room. In
Paris they don't. They take tea at the
Elysee Palace for it's big luxurious decor
alive spaces, it's gayety and afternoon cleo
trio lights. its music and its position on the
avenue of the Champs Elysees, and at the
Hotel Ritz without music, by snobiSme,
and because it is the best afternoon tea in
Paris.
They take. ladies to dinner at the Ritz
for Boldi s orchestra. but immensely seldom
to the Palace, where the dinner is slow
affair, for bona fide travellers and boarders
One thing may be noted: Because of its
situation many wealthy and some chic
people go now and again to the Palace for
their coffee after dinner-only this. They
live so near they find it pays. In this
sense that for small exertion they get half
an hours flip of music, lights and mix
up.
They take supper at neither There is
not hotel in Paris where one .sups. l
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run at 30 degrees entering the loop at the
rate of about thirty miles an hour then
rising twenty feet when he leaves the loop
makes jump in the air upside down lands
on the other wall and rides UP at the speed
of twenty-five miles an hour.
The track as far as the cut IS three feet
wide, the back wall or come-out being six
feet just half the width of the loops used
in America. The bicycle he uses is a spe-
cially made one, weighing eighty pounds,
and even then ii sometimes gives way under.
him. the force being so terrific when he hits
the back wall.
The first loop he used for this daring feat
he has ridden about five hundred times:
since he discarded that for more improved
apparatus he has ridden his new one 100
times, and never has he had the slightest
fear of accident. Several others have at
tempted to initiate him, but as yet none OF
them has been able to continue on the ma
chine after making the leap.
Barber Is very modest about his extraor-
binary riding, and recently. when he was
talking about 1t, he excused his daring on
the plea that he had always had it in him
Il always have been a terror on a wheel"
he said. and the more dangerous n thing
was the greater appeal it had for me- and
though L did not quite expect the accident
that brought about this wrinkle OF
mine, at the same time / was very thankful
for the new idea. though / should not care
10 nave another one suggested to me in
such a way 1t might not end so happily
ON, yes. there are added dangers to il,
suppose, but to me it seems no more than
merely riding around the solid loop and
that held no more danger for me than any
other trick wheel-riding
There is another matter of which 7
am proud, however. / have the distinction
OF drawing salary just double that which
President Roosevelt receives"
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CoLoRED CLOTHES FOR MEN?
King Edwards Influence on the Dress
Question.

From the London Mail. rrI.
In the opinion of great London tailor
there is growing dissatisfaction among
well-dressad men at the sameness and SOM
berness of their attire r.
"The first step in revolution in mems
dress has already been taken" said this
authority the other day. Innocent though
1t may seem, the latest dress waistcoat,
with it's oldfashioned aspect, has given a
great many men desire to render their ap-
pearance little more artistic.
THE change is coming in the direction
which offers the least line of resistance-in
evening dress; for it requires less courage
to face the remarks of ones friends at din
ner than to brave the criticism of the
streets.
1--WE are getting a demand for knee
breecheS, and one man has just ordered a
dress coat with crimson silk lining and
collar. 1t looks very smart.
"Colored coats for evening wear have
been tried by some courageous persons, but
they soon gave them up. Probably they
thought that 1t was better to look like a
butler than footman.
THE king deserves praise for the efforts
he has made to render mems dress more
becoming. His majesty's idea of a single
breasted frock coat for summer wear was
productive of garment at once pictur-
esque and comfortable. Upon every posi-
causes the gentlemen of his court to dis
card, ordinary evening dress for more at
tractive uniforms.
"To the influence of the king may be
largely ascribed the desire of many men to
become more artistica1ly clothed"
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Why Thinkers Live Long

FROM the London Telegraph
Thinkers as rule live long: or. to nut
the proposition into more general terms. ex-
erclSe OF the mind tends to longevity Her
bert Spencer has died in his eighty-fourth
year. Darwin reached his seventy third. Sir
George stokes his eighty-fourth, CARLYLE
his eightr-siXth. TyndaIl was accidentally
poisoned at scyenty-three, but might have
Eved several years longer; Huxley was
seventy when he died. Gladstone in his
eigh;y-nin;h year. Disraell in his seventy
seventh. Newton lived to be eighty-fiye
and Lord Kelvin is ) i'll vigorous in research
IN ms eiShueth. To a great extent the
Dram Is the center and seat of life what
Slr william Gull called the central battery
ana It's stimulation undoubtedly strength
ems the forces that make for vitality
healthy exercise of either mind or BODY of
course favors length of days but the striv-
lngs OF the THICKER and writer are seldom
quite OF the healthy order Darwin Car
Iyle ana Spencer were victims of nearly
h1eionS dyspepsia. and yet exceeded three
score and ten. Pleasant exertion without
pleasure; a priori one would not expect
the abstract thinker to live so happily as
the man OF experimental research, and ex-
perience seems to confirm the expecta ton
No one will question Sir James Paget's
dictum that undue. fatigue is a common
cause OF disease. but also is Incidence
what part of the human economy mental
or physical is not made for activity?
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With the decorative pail, the decorative
oysters and the decorative fruit-stand and
flowers, one hot dish will be enough.
Principle 8. Order one hot dish and order
the cheapest on the list. They are all good.
hot dish is hot dish. In certain Paris
restaurants they have two cards. one with
the prices marked in plain figures, the
other. called the grand card without
prices. The first is for regular customers;
the second is for strangers. What viii
cost the regular IS will cost the stranger
$40. 1t is not the establishment that makes
the difference, but the maitre-d' hotel and
waiter and sometimes the Partisan
friend who brings the stranger to be
done.
Principle A. Let the waiter know from the
start that you Will tip him SO much if he
serves you We'll But pay attention not to
let the girl hear you say it. Nothing
throws cold water on girl at supper like
conversation about money matters.
Whisper to the waiter. I would almost
make this a rule by itself. so generally
effective is 1t.
How much shall you promise to tip him?
A trifie more than he regularly gets for the
same service. Don't regret the money.
The race of restaurant walters is the same
all over the world.
Don't try to fool the waiter.
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS
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the next notch, and when they looked out
seen but duh blur. No picture of the
passing scenery had time to photograph
itself on their eyes before it was lost to
view.
Just Whizzed By.
At each station along the road crowds of
people had collected to greet the car and
cheer it. but the occupants of the car could
not see them, and. owing to the noise of the
motors and the constant rattle Of stones
on the tracks, the passengers did not hear
the shouts that the spectators sent after
the flying object.
At Rangsdorf they passed the 20O-kilo-
meter mark. and there they let out the
power and put on the brakes, going to Eos
sen without any power. In a few minutes
they slid gently into Zossen, where they
were met by a number of distinguished
men, among them several Americans. who
We're keenly interested in the experiment
They examined the Morse instrument
which gives written statement of the
speed. and great cheer went up when 1t
was announced that the car had broken the
record by speed of 100 miles an hour.
The marvelously successful result of the
practicability of high-speed running over
long distances, and it is estimated that it
will be possible 10 reduce the time taken
over the journey from Berlin to Cologne
from nine to three and quarter hours.
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Amateur Photographic.
Chicago Record-H Herald.

DToM the lineage record Herald.
Amateur Photography" indeed is only
about twenty years old. From the few
crude and unwieldy outfits first put upon
the market the pastime, in the hands of
amateurs, has developed great variety of
cameras, particularly for outdoor use. to
say nothing of all sorts of printing papers,
developers and ingenious devices for MAX
ing photography easy for the nonprofes-
sional 1t was amateur photography which
developed the kodak and the cartridge film,
which have practically revolutionized the
art of photography. To supply the con-
stantly increasing army of amateurs a vast
industry, employing millions of capital and
thousands of artisans, has been built up.
1t is entirely within the truth to say that
modern outdoor photography, with its
many ingenious appliances and its won
derful utilization of new discoveries in
chemistry, has been developed by the ri
valry of manufacturers to cater to the
needs and desires of the amateur