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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-30
Electricity Source of Life.
From the World Today

From the World Today.
There Is good reason for believing that
the chemical. as well as the physical
changes of protoplasm. are produced by
alterations in electrical conditions, and that
the remarkable chemical powers of proto-
plasm shown in its synthesis and decom-
positions are in reality electrical, and re-
semble those produced in electrolysis by
the action of current. When. for example,
an electric charge is removed from an Or
ganic compound, it decomposes, and new
compounds arise. We can therefore say
that those substances will poison the pro-
tcplasm which give up or part with their
charges easily. Substances which give up
their charges with especial ease are mer-
curry and silver. which are accordingly very
poisonous. We are even able, from cleo
trical data recently obtained, to calculate
approximately for any salt how much will
be necessary to kill a given protoplasm in
given time.
1t may fairly be said then, that the
forces of protoplasm are electrical in large
part at least, and that they give rise under
these special conditions to the phenomena
which constitute life. This is. of course
quite different from saying that electricity
is life. Life is a name we give to group
of phenomena: while electricity PLAYS a
part in producing these it is not itself the
phenomena.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-30
The Harm Noise Does.

From the London Family Doctor
Noise is an undoubted factor in Impairing
the tone of the nerve centers Whether we
are conscious OF it or not, it hurts the brain
and has a deafening, dazing, bewildering
effect on the mental processes. 1t tires the
brain and tends to produce cerebral hy-
peremia. To live in a noisy atmosphere
is to shorten ones days. Irritability, neu-
raSthenia. insomnia are common effects
The tympanum or drum membrane of the
ear is injured. the circulation of the cere-
bro-spinal fluid is disturbed and the nerve
cells themselves suffer as though subjected
to mechanical violence
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-30
Love Troubles of the Rich.
rom the Philadelphia Tribune.


Recent events have. recalled very par
tieular attention to the fact that love not
only laughs at locksmths but at every sort
of opposition. In the popular novels of a
generation ago it was the poor man who
wooed the rich girl or the rich man who
wooed the poor girl, and succeeded after
sea of troubles in reaching the state OF
happiness which we were led to believe
was perpetual So mote it be! 1t is con-
stantly borne in on the minds of the in
telligent that love has no relation to con-
dition or circumstance We are told by
some that among the rich there is no ro-
nance because of monetary conditions
while others would have us believe that
every poor girl is anxious for a millionaire
husband The truth is that the great prin-
clple underlying the fundamental conduct
OF human nature is the sexual instinct and
this has no bounds either as to race wealth
or social position. No philosopher has ex-
planned why we love, but all admit that we
do and without any prescribed rule.
That bride of wealth and social position
from New York should have arrived in this
city with all her own and her husbands
changes of clothing In bag cannot but
stir the sentimental minds of the yicinage
1t has been said that all the world loves a
courage. The present case is of little i'm
portance except as an example of the fact
That love knocks with equal pace at the
novels of the poor and the palaces of kings
winch is slight variation from Horace
and was as true in his day as in ours
And. 20 It's love, It's love that makes the
world go round"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-30
The Peanut.
From the PHILADELPHIA Ledger.


We are told that the great doctrine of
the solidarity of mankind is being en-
forced as never before by the discoveries
of modern science: medicine economies.
biology, physics, in their latest develop
ments, teach us with hitherto unapproached
force that all men and all things are so
bound together that what affects one affects
all. 1t is an impressive truth. Consider the
case of man, the cotton crop and the pea
nut. Within the last few years the con-
sumption of the peanut has vastly in
creased. This interesting legume has fought
its way over prejudice and contempt to a
place of unchallenged pre-eminence in
popular esteem. Sneers have not prevailed
against 1t. Contumely in the presence OF
the unparalleled popularity of the peanut
hides at last its diminished front. Last
year We broke the wrnkled shells of 5000
900 bushels of pindars and ate some billions
of arachian nuts" If essentially the
choice of a plebeian taste, if the rich and
fastdiouS prefer a daintier delicacy the
peanut is without rival in the favor of the
multitude.
But now observe. The plant arachis n.y.
pogaea demands an early spring hot and
moist summer and a sandy. friable Ioam.
But these are conditions required by an
other plant of great usefulness and value
namely cotton. With this staple at a nor
NAL value, Virginia, North Carolina, Geor-
gia and Tennessee have found 1t advan-
tageous to devote a part of their acreage to
the edible. at the expense of the sartorial,
crop. But lately cotton has been going up,
and the south is naturally planting it to the
neglect of other crops; unhappily, almost to
the exclusion of the peanut. Thus we see
that such an unimportant fact as the value
per bale of cotton vitality affects human
happiness in remote particular.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-30
Ones Clothes and Ones Work.

From the London Diapers Record.
Wherever a marked personal care is ex-
hibited for the cleanliness of the person and
for neatness in dress there is also almost
always found extra carefulness as regards
the finish of work done. Work people
whose personal habits are slovenly produce
slovenly work; those who are careful of
their own appearance are equally careful
of the look of the work they turn out And
probably what is true of the work room is
equally true of the region behind the
counter. Is 1t not the fact that the smart
saleswoman is usually rather particular
about her dress. is averse from wearing
dingy collars, ,frayed cuffs and faded ties?
The truth of the matter seems to be that
extra care as regards personal habits and
general appearance Is as rule indicative
of certain alertness of mind which shows
itself antagonistic to slovenliness of all
kinds. 10
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-30
A Typical Bonaparte.
From the London Outlook.

From the LONDON OUTLOOK.
Princess Mathilde was a typical Bona
parte. Beneath the skin of a grande dame
there dwelt the soul of a vivandiere. She
was generous and tempestuous. Something
of butt in her prime. as certain rather
pronounced passage in Lord Malmesbury's
"reminiscences shows. she was universally
admitted at the same time to possess taste
and a knowledge of the arts. 1t was to her
credit. too, that she cared not snap of
on the friendliest of terms with the Due
d'Aumale, and is said to have tried, but in
vain.. to conciliate some of the sitter
branches of the puzzle-headed Bourbon
family. Altogether. she was woman who
lived every moment of her life.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-30
Too Much for Her.

rom the Chicago Tribune.
Maud-''What book are you reading?"
Irene-"Sartor Resartus."
Maud-"What queer namei Is 1t inter-
esting?'
;Irene-"No. It's awfully tiresome."
Maud-"What are you reading 1t for.
then?''
Irene-"rve got to write paper about Il
at the next meeting of our literary club
Maud-"What is 1t about?''
Irene-'I don't know yet. I've only got
to the two hundred and ffty-seventh page"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-30

enchantingly about his Impressions Of
New York-ouite like one would expecr
Matthew Arnold. Alfred Austin,
Dante Rossetti, epigrammatic persons OF
that more or less deceased sort to talk on
the same subject.
And then Mr.. Harland went on, In reply to
adroit questions. to tell something abou. his
literary methods. where and how he picked
up his material. how fame had reacned
him. and so on.
But never a word did the remarkably ami
aoie and wholesome young man mention OF
the long years of drudgery he put in as a
mere clerk in the surrogate's office in New
YORK city, before he had any notion what
ever that he was destined for such high hon.
ors in the literary world-never a word!
You d have thought. to hear him. that New
! ork was new and an amazing experience
TO HIM But il doesn't seem SO long ago
really, since the newSpa per men W no Cow
cred the courts of New York used to see
young Mr.. Hariand bending over his desk
in the surrogate's office. his fingers looking
real inlSy. with the labor of copying dry-as-
dust documents. He used to walk to and
from the surrogates office every day. too.
for exercise, SO that New York couldn't
nave seemed such tremendously ex-
perience to him, unless indeed his memory
is a peculiarly short one
In those years of drudgery as a clerk
young Mr.. Harland used to get out of his
warm and cozy bed every morning at the
tantalizng hour of clock, and practice at
literary composition for three or four hours
before taking his breakfast and starting for
his clerks desk.
Accident to a Noted Preacher.
A peculiar accident happened to a noted
New York preacher a few weeks ago while
he was engaged in addressing a meeting or
men of the cloth. He was vehemently ar
raigning certain political elements of New
york, and emphasizing his remarks with
sweeping and somewhat violent gestures,
when. raising his right arm high above his
mead, preparatory bringing il down with
mallet-ike force upon the table in front or
MIN. the arm-well, the arm stuck right
there in mfdair. 1t wouldn't come down.
The minister broke off suddenly in h $ re-
marks ana gazed with humorous express
sion of alarm at the immovable arm. He
dld his mightiest to bring it to a normal
position. but 1t simply would not come
down. He tried TO bring il to his side by
grasping it with his left hand, but that was
no go either. The arm was Just stuck in
IT'S peculiar vertical position, and appar-
entity for keeps" too. The merriment OF
the assembled preachers presently gave
way to alarm when they perceived that
their brother of the cloth was really in
trouble, and an ambulance surgeon was
hastily summoned The ambulance surgeon
arrived in due time, made a brief exam:na-
ton. and said that the minister had pulled
his shoulder out of joint that was ali. The
surgeon knocked the shoulder back into
joint, bestowed a few words of solemn ad-
vice upon the preacher a s to taking things
so seriously as to throw his anatomy out of
gear, and the preacher went home with
some new ideas about the futility of over
earneStneSs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-30
A Distinction.
L rom Life.

From Life.
He-"Yes, I remembered you at once as
the girl l was engaged to in the mountains
some seasons ago"
What remarkable memory for faces
you have, haven't your
No; for rings"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-30
Save Us From Our Friends

rIoH fuck
Mrs. Gramercy-"Tve Investigated and 1t
is really true that her ancestor came over
in the Mayfiower."
Mrs. Park-"Pshawi If the truth were
known I'll wager he was merely one of the
crew"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-30
Up and Down.

From the Philadelphia Press.
Poet-'I left a poem here the other day."
Editor-"Ah! yes; your poem carried with
1t the stamp of approval, and
Poet-"Oh! I'm delighted"
Editor-"I mean 1t carried the necessary
2-cent stamp with 1t, SO I mailed it back to
you this morning"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-30

Henry Harland the writer of that iniul-
itably refined piece of fiction. THE Cardi-
nails Snuff Box" and several other tales
that have placed him In the front rank
among novelists, got back to ''the states"
a little while ago. after having spent sew
eral years In Florence. Verona, Nice. Ma
pies, the Tyrol. Rome and other places duly
mentioned In Baedaker and on the Cooks
Tourists lists. Most of his fictionizing has
been done in Europe, and all of his fame
garnered there.
When he got back. and the interviewsrs
were sent after him. he certainly talked
, 1904-12-21
R.. n. A.
MAY HOLD STATE CAMP HERE IN
APRIL CS NEXT YEAR IF
PLANS CARRIED OUT.
Frances Willard Camp Instruets Re-
corder to Invite Supreme OFFICERS
to Grant Dispensation - Officers
Chosen and Social Session to Be
Held Friday Night.

1t Is probable hat the state camp
Of the Royal Neighbors Of America
will be held in this city in April. At
the meeting of Frances Willard camp
last night. at the Grand Army hall,
Mrs. Olive Weightman, the recorder
and the oracle elect, was instructed to
correspond with the head camp Of
ficers and extend the invitation of the
camp. She will hear in a few days,
when the matter will be definitely set
tied.
By the laws of the order, the state
camp is held at the capital of the
state unless specially invited to meet
elsewhere, in which case it is usually
the rule for the supreme officers to
grant a special dispensation fixing the
meeting of the state camp at some
other place. 1t is believed the meet
ing of the body here would stimulate
the work of the local camp and of the
order in the state. Mrs. Weightman
assured the head camp officers that
Laramie would do its level best to
make the meeting both pleasant and
profitable.
Frances Willard camp held it's an
nual election last night, with the fol-
lowing result:
Oracle-Mrs. Olive Weightman.
Vice Oracle-Mrs. Maggie Marvin.
characteristics. Maggie Langheldt.
Recorder-Mrs. Minnie Wallis.
Receiver-Mrs. Rachel Matthews.
Marshal-Miss Maude Ferguson.
Inner Sentinel-Mrs. Sarah Fergu-
son.
Outer Sentinel-Miss Brown.
Manager-Mrs. Anna Jackson.
Physicians-Dr. Florence Patrick
and DR.. D. E. Brown.
Delegate-Mrs. Olive Weightman.
Alternate-Mrs. Rifenberger.
The camp and Wyoming camp, Mod
ern Woodmen of America, will have a
social session and turkey supper at the
hall Friday night.
, 1904-12-21

ON great secret of youth and beauty for
the young woman or the mother is the
proper understanding of her woruanly sys.
TEN and we'll being. Every woman, Young
or old, should knoD herself and her phys
ical male up. A good way to arrive al
this knowledge is to get a good doctor
book, such, for instance, as the peoples
Common Sense Medical Adviser by K. v
Pierce, NJ. D., which can readily be pro.
cured by sending twenty.ono = : in one.
cent stamps for paper-boun,. ', %olunie, OF
th%irty-one cents for cloth. bound copy, ad
dressing DR.. R. v. Pierce, at Buffalo, N. Y,
Tie change from maidenhood to woman.
hood is one that involves the whole BODY
The strain at this time upon the blood.
forming structures may be too great. Dis
orders of the functions peculiarly feminine
are nearly always dependent upon de
fective nutrition. In all such cases Or
Pierce's Favorite Prescription is just the
vegetable tonic for the female system.
AZ cannot express my thanks for the benefit !
writes Mn. Julius wehrly, Of Cambridge. Dor.
chester Co.. Md. NJ took 'Favorite Prcscrip
ton and feel that Q perfect cure has beer
effected. feel like thanking Won for the kind
and Eatheriy letters which you wrote"
Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription wa
tie ffs4 exclusively woinan's tonic on the
market. If>has sold more largely in the
past third Ola century than any othe,
3edicine for W1unen. Do not let the drug.
gist penuade yoH to try some compound
that has not had the test of SO many years
success.
d.. Pierce. PLEASANT Pellet. should b.
nsed with sFavoAite Prescription whea
svW Q laxative h required.
, 1904-12-21
Eastern Star Officers,

Alpha chapter. Order Of the Eastern
Star, last night elected the following
officers:
Worthy Matron-Miss Tessie WEIGH.
Worthy Patron-Elwyn w. Condit.
Associate Matron-Mrs. Mary Hynds
Conductress-Miss Stella Abrams.
Associate Conductress-Mrs. w. J..
Reddy.
Trasure1TMrs. R. ]. Gardiner.
Secretafy-Mrs. Fannie Settele.
These officers will be installed Mon
day night at the joint installation Of
the three Masonic bodies.
, 1904-12-21
LARAMIE GIRL REcovERs
MONEY LOST IN BANK.

Miss Irene Flemming OF this city,
who is attending Ohcrin college. O.,
writes her mother when the failure Of
the Oberlin National hank on account
Of Mrs. Chadwick gave the students
of that college a great scare, as they
had much money in the bank, there
being $25 900 in which the college was
interested. Miss Flemming herself
had q whole years supply, and for a
time she was quite blue. She says,
however. that President King of the
college announced on Saturday that a
friend of the institution, a millionaire,
has agreed to pay all that was due the
students and she will not lose a cent.
When the announcement was made the
girls clapped their hands and fairly
shouted for Joy.
Miss Flemming will not be home for
| Christmas, but sends regards to Lara
mic friends and wishes them all a
merry Christmas and a happy New
Year.
, 1904-12-21

Is ProverbiaI Laramie Women no Elk
ception.

How much we owe to the sympathet-
ic side of womankind.
When others suffer they cheerfully
lend a helping hand. They tell you
the means which brought relief to
them that you may profit by their ex-
perience. Read the testimony given
here by a Laramie woman.
Mrs. Charles Bloom, wife Of Charles
Bloom retired, living at 1O11 First
street says: my knowledge Of Doan's
Kidney Pills dates back over a year
ago. At that time a dull heavy pain
persistently chung to me for months
and accompanying it was trouble with
the kidney secretions, a sure indica'
ton that in some way my kidneys re-
uuired attention. Through a friend l
was advised to 8 Doan's Kidney
Pills and I went to the Laramie Drug
Co.'S store for them. A box brought
such undoubted relief that l continued
the treatment until that l had used
six boxes in all. Ut to date there has
not been a symptom of a occurrence
This to q woman over sixty years OF
& Is decidedly welcome and positive
ly proves that Doan's Kidney Pills can
be depended upon to do the work
promised"
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents. Foster -Milburn Co, Buffalo, N.
Y, sole agents for the United States.
Remember the name Doan's and
take no substitute.
, 1904-12-21
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21. 1904
AFTER TWENTY

Inc score-party given by DR.. Stew.
n last night struck a responsive
chord in the hearts Of his guests and
they enjoyed it to the fullest extent.
By his untiring energy. great ability,
strict integrity and devotion to bust,
ness, this talented physician has won
for himself name and fame. Not only
has he given close attention to has
practice, but he has found time to in.
vestigate and to engage in the mater,
ial development Of our state, and to
do his part in the field of political &C,
ton. He has engaged in the rancn
business, and has " endeavored to
promote advanced methods, both in
the tilling of the soil and the raising
of live stock.
Such occasions as that of last night
are productive of great good in any
community. They have a tendency to
bring men closer together, to knock
of the rough corners, to cause them
to unite In a common purpose. Through
the program prepared by the host
much in relation to the welfare of the
state. the county n the city was dis
cussed. and with profit to all who were
present.
1t Is not too much to say that this
event marked a milestone in the city's
progress and that future work along
because of the celebration by DR.
Stevens Of the ending Of a score OF
years in Laramie.
, 1904-12-21
BOSTON'S HUMILlATING EX-
PERIENCE.

What Mr., Cleveland speaks Of in an
other connection as a bald confusion
of thought is Tho only charitable ex-
PLANTATION of the amazing conduct of
the voters Of a certain aldermanic dis
trict in that ingenious and lettered
Boston.
Several weeks ago al alderman
named Curley and a brother of his, a
member of the state legislature, were
sentenced to a two months term in
the county Jail for conspiracy against
the federal government. They had
impersonated two other men in an eX-
animation held under the national
civil service act-purely out OF neigh
borly feeling and kindness of heart"
they claimed, and without the expecta-
ton OF personal advantage. They
knew they were violating the law and
trying to cheat the government, but
what is the law among neighbors'
who believe in the spells plan?
Through their impotence before and
during their trial was ~scathingly re-
buked by the court, they persisted in
%ridiculing the prosecution and in de
claring that they were not in the least
ashamed of what they had done. What
fuss over an act of mere kindness
They could not see why they should
| be sent to Jail for assisting two good
friends and followers who wished tc
| better their condition. They appealed
to the voters of their district to win
dictate them" The alderman obtained
a denomination, carried on his com
paign from his cell in Jail and asked
his constituents to "intlct on the goot
government association the rebuke il
deserves"
And the voters did as they were thus
brazenly urged to do. They reelected
| the alderman by a large majority. The
! district is not the slums, either
where the distribution of turkey To-
Thanksgiving is by some put above
| other aldcrmanic and legislative vir
tues 1t is a district of intelligent
lreading. comfortable people.
Boston is chagrined and Inundated
at this extraordinary experience ant
| does not know how to account for sucf
lthoughtless encouragement of graft
contempt for law and decency. 1t is
a triumph of maudlin sentimentality
over sense and elementary propriety
a symptom of mental and moral con
fusion. But are the honorable con
victs to he permitted to serve as leg
islators after serving time?-Record
| JJorolI
, 1904-12-21

There Is no question but that a
thousand people pulling together can
do more than a thousand pulling in
different directions. There are a hun
dred ways In which the people of this
city might aid in the upbuilding and
social conditions. W. have as
healthy a climate and as good a eli
mate as any country under the shin
ing heavens. The old stories of fake
correspondents about hard winters
and terrible bkizzards have all been
exploded and 1t is now generally recog-
nised in the west at least that Wyo
ming has more days Of sunshine INT
more days humanity a enjoy the out.
door life than most any place in the
temperate zone. The general heal'p
Of the entire state Is extraordinary.
Consumptives find in ranch life a.
most q specific for their malady ana
man, run down from overwOrk, finds
along our streams and in our noun
JkSlu6 TIC ICol III lCSA ~ tho'
brings o return Of the blossom OF
youth to his brow. In addition to our
matchless climAte we need more in
dustrial concerns. We need small
manufacturing enterprises Of various
kinds. A brick plant has been put in
opertion here and the quality of its
product Is excellent, as evidenced by
the beautiful walls Of the Methodist
church, the Carnegie library and the
McMurray residence. Our plaster mill
ia working constantly and its pro
duct is being transported to all the
Rocky mountain states and to the Pa
cific. In addition to these. Laramie
should have a glass factory. The Re
publican has never lost hope that such
a manufacturing enterprise would fin
ally be located here permanently and
successfully. 1t believes the manage
ment of the Union Pacific railroad will
now lend a helping hand in placing
glass upon the Pacific market and into
all the markets in Hartman territory.
other small manufacturing concerns,
such as q woolscouring plant, woolen
mill n others should receive proper
investlgation Al the same 'ine We
snooio nrge WIN all our power Tue
extension Of the farming area about
THIS city. IN agriculture must oe our
nam oepehoence. "A 'houSaiu iaihs
OF eaen'y acres are lar p'eiefao'' :"
nuhdreo 1arias oi eoo acres
CHEYENNE anu othef 'o"ns LIZ NV
ing. by uhiteo enoi.' "a LII can "e
IN inc vail. III Ill ai'ieie Ii 'he leauer
, 1904-12-21

W. 8. Baily, P. o. True Texas,
writes: my wife had been suffering
five years with paralysis in her arm.
when I was persuaded to use Billiards.
Snow Liniment, which cured her all
right. have also used 1t for old sores,
frost bites and skin eruptions. 1t does
the work" CSC, soc. $1.O0. Sold by
Red Cross Pharmacy.