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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-05
Surprises in War.

FROM tne new 1ork IrlDune
What novelty or what surprise will this
east Asian war produce? There may be
none. yet the chances would seem to be-
that one will be forthcoming, as In each Of
so many modern wars. Napoleon surprised
all Europe with the fiexibility of his mills
tary organizations and the celebrity of theif
movements. The war of 1912 surprised tha
world with an amazing series of VIC
tories, due to improved navigation and tho
sighting of cannonS- Our civil war reVo.
-lutionized naval warfare with ironclads and
turretS. The AuStro- PruSSian war of 1864
brought forward the perfected breechloadert
while the great FrancO-German war sur
prised the world with the deadly potency
of rapid-fire artillery. The Russo-Turkish
war gave an illustration at Plevna of tho
value of the spade. which enabled the
thinned legions of Osman to hold at bay.
and to repel with mighty slaughter the
overwhelming myriads of the Russian army
The Boer war showed the efficiency OF
smokeless pc WIDER and iong-range arms and
the need of open formation in battle ana
great mobility of troops.
The present war ought, we should think.
to teach us some new lessons. The value,
of the torpedo. the torpedo boat and the
torpedo-boat destroyer should be more ac-
curately demonstrated than ever before.
Whether the submarine boat will be used
and its efficiency ascertained is not yet.
known. Wireless biography has its first
opportunity of service in war. There is
also a rare chance to compare the relative
values of sea power and OF land power.
Nor should we overlook the fact. on the
one hand, that the newest of civilized MAJ
lions and the first of Asiatic Eations to
enter the charmed circle of the great powf
Ners'' is for the first time to show its caS
pacity in a great war, and on the otheI
hand, that the European power which IS
of all most populous and which has by fan
the largest army is now to show whethen
Its military efficiency is commensurate VILE
its physical bulk.
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ished to these mountain Businesses by 81
Babylonian monarch 1900 years ago. pre-
cisely as Russian non-conformists are bar
ished to frontier territories today by thu
car.
The pride of the Caucasus is the beauty
of its women. There are more beautiful
women to be found In these rugged noun
tainS than anywhere else in the world In
other countries there are women as lovely,
but nowhere else Is loneliness so common.
Among the Circassians homely girl is
hardly ever seen, and this is true In a less
degree of the Ossetes, the tribes OF Dag
hestan, and many of the other races in
habiting these highlands
Famed for Their Beauty.
The beauty of the Circassan girls is OF
course, world famous. They are In great
demand in all the harems of Turkey. Per-
STA, Egypt, Central Asia and other parts of
the Mohammedan world. Many merchants
visit the Circassian villages at certain sea
sons of the year to pick out the prettiest
girls and induce them to travel to Siam
boul Teheran and other cities, where they
can make good marriages, perhaps to a
prince or pasha- Sometimes the merchant
buys the girl from her parents as a specu-
lation: more frequently he deducts a com
mission from the sum paid him by the
bridegroom and sends them the balance Of
the purchase money
He keeps faith because he has to revisit
business. The girl is usually eager to go
with him. She rejoices at the chance of
! leaving the narrow life of tile village and
going out into the great world: where she
knows she will be Tapped I'm luxury and
possibly may become queen, as many
CircaSsian girl has done.
In no part of the world there more
ruined churches and monasteries than in
the Caucasus. Many of them were once
magnificent buildings dating back to the
most glorious days of the Byzantine en-
pire. Some of these fine old ruins, destroy
ed almost to their foundations, now support
the wretched novels of the peasants. The
Christian races in the Causasus are fond
of building their villages around such ruins;
they believe il brings them good luck. 1t
is hardly possible to travel ten miles in
many parts of the Caucasus without COM
ing across some famous church of ancient
days, now fallen into ruins.
But there are plenty of more or less mod
ern churches in the Christian districts Of
the Caucasus, and nowhere are monasteries
more plentiful. You see them on every
rugged mountain side. I'm every fertile val
ley. The most famous Is the monastery OF
Atom, at Souchoum Kale. on the Black sea.
1t is the largest monast-c establishment in
the world and was buiH at cost OF over
100000. Twenty-Five hundred monks find
refuge from the world within its cloisters.
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But the sailor flung himself fiat on the
ledge and grasped a Lee-Metford.
BE still, on your life,' he said. Squeeze
into your corner. There is Dyak on the
opposite cliff"
True enough man had climbed to that
unhappily placed rocky table. and was
shouting something to a confrere high on
the cliff over their heads. AS yet he had
not seen them. nor even noticed the place
where they were concealed. The sailor
ina gined from the Dyak's gestures, that
he was communicating the uselessness of
further search on the western part of the
island.
When the conversation ceased. he hoped
the lOud-voiced savage would descend. But
no! The scout looked into the valley, at the
well. the house. the cave Still he did not
see the ledge. At that unlucky moment
three birds. driven from the trees on the
crest by the passage of the Dyaks, flew
down the face Of the cliff and began cir
cling quest for some safe perch on which
not the less earnest because 1t was mute,
and took steady aim at the Dyaks left
breast. The birds fiuttered about in ever
smaller circles. Then one of them dropped
easily on to the lip of the rock. Instantly
his bright eyes encountered those of the
man. and he darted off with scream that
brought his mates after him.
The Dyak evidently noted the behavior
of the birdS-his only lore was the reading
of such signs-and gazed intently at the
hind the screen Of grass. He might perhaps
see some portion OF the tarpaulin covering
the stores. but at the distance 1t must re-
semble weather-beaten segment of the
cliff. Yet something puzzled him. After q
steady scrutiny he turned and yelled to
others on the beach.
The crucial moment had arrived jerks
pressed the trigger. and the Dyak hurtled
through the air, falling headlong out of
sight.
The sound Of this, the first shot of real
warfare, awoke Rainbow Island into tre-
mendous activity. The winged life of the
place filled the air with raucous cries. while
shouting Dyaks scurrfed in all directions.
Several came into the valley. Those near
est the fallen man picked him up and car
ried him to the well. He was quite dead,
and, although amidst his other injuries they
soon found the bullet wound, they evidently
did not know whence the shot came for
those to whom he shouted had no inkling
Of his motive, and the slight haze from the
rife was instantly swept away by the
breeze.
Iris could hear the turmoil beneath. and
she TREMENDOUSLY asked
Are they going to attack us?'
mot yet," was the reassuring answer.
81 killed the fellow who saw US before he
could tell the Others"
It was a bold risk, and he had taken It,
though, now the Dyaks knew for certain
their prey had not escaped. there was no
prospect of their speedy departure. Never
theless the position was not utterly hope
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The Electric Pilot.
rom the Scientific American.

From the Scient1nc American.
River and harbor pilots will be put out OF
business entirely If the invention of Prof.
r. B. Owens should come into general use.
Prof. Owens is now professor of electrica.
engineering at McGill University at Mon
treal. and the device referred to above Is
an electrical apparatus by which boat
may be taken through narrow channel,
without the least danger of grounding, by
an officer of the boat entirely unacqua;nt
with the water through which he may be
passing. A properly insulated and protect
ed cable is laid In the channel to be fol-
lowed by the craft. An alternating cur
rent is passed through the cable, and two
telephones on board the vessel are acted
upon by the magnetic influences OF the
cable, so that 1t is possible to detect the
reflections of the boat with regard to the
position of the cables by listening at the
receivers of the instruments.
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their fondness for funeral feasts, which
seem to form the bulwark of their pagan
creed. In Ossetia man has to feed not
only his descendants. but also his departed
ancestors 'Your dead are hungry!"-that
is the worst insult which can be flung at
the head of an Ossete.
There are no fewer than ten "Feasts OF
the Dead during the year, and some Of
these feasts las. for several days. The
pious Ossete does not spread food and
drink before the tomb or the altar of his
ancestor. like the Chinese. He devours the
offerings himself. and by a convenient the
illogical doctrine they are supposed to
nourish the defunct progenitor In whose
honor they are offered An Ossete may
thus make hog and a drunkard OF him.
SELF ard charge the offense to iilia1 piety.
for obviously the more he can eat and
drink the better 1t is for the deceased.
A Sacred Duty.
The ritual of the Osscte religion, IL so 1t
may be called. is full of references to the
sacred duty of looking after the daily
bread OF ones ancestors. The following
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-05
Two Ways to Get Strong.

From Eyerybody's
There are two ways to get strong, tha
active and the passive. To sum it up with
one brief concrete Illustration. the active
treatment would comprise such vigorous
exercise of all the muscles of the body in
the fresh rejuvenating air and under the
bright and healing sun one might obs
tain in the railroad section gang. By this
method you are able to relish and digest
anything short of shoe pegs. The passive
method goes at it the other way about.
Instead of exercising that one may eat.
eats that one may exercise. A diet
is prescribed which is almost pure nutri-
ment to begin with, and has been so COM
pletely predigested that all one has to do,
is to swallow ii down and the food Is;
turned directly into power. BY this method.
if the billbOards are to be believed, aged
gentlemen become so frisky that they JUNK
over eight-foot fences just to work of them
super1uous energy.
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Fail Not!

Rest not content! Hopes will de down at last,
Though famed by circumstance their enbers cast
Pale light upon thy way. Love? Love Will
change,
For It has all Of bliss In which to range
And on each Joy win sorrow follow fast
Fen In the whelm of things the whiriing blast
That darkens even spirit, where are massed
The laws Of life and death. that weird melange,
Rest not content!
Lo, all the sweets Of human love, thou hast!
Thine IL the calm Of morning. unsurpassed.
Thou hast the gift Of sladnsss, what more strange
The will and wish thy life 50 to arrange
That truth be thine which ever grows vast
Rest not content!
CHARLES W. STEVENSON.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-05
New Industrial Economy.
From the Worlds Work. ha'iff

From the Worlds Work. ArtH
A locomotive engineer on an eastern rail-
road said one day to his two firemen:
Suppose you fellows workfasan you, and
not the company, We're paying the coal
bills" During six months, merely by care
full firing, the men caused saving in coal,
over the average consumption of the en-
CINE. equal to almost four. times the
amount Of wages paid the men for that
period. The engine was the same; the
men worked differently. fse
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Al
The Idea.
From Judge.

Bachelor (crustily)-"Tle worst about
marriage is that when fellow proposes it
Is generally plunge into the dark
Justwed-"Great heavens! You wouldn't
have a fellow propose when the gas Is 60
ing full tilt. would you?n
Evening journal., 1904-09-24
Have Your Fall Gown
Fitted Over an
L. R. Corset
(Corset Salon, second floorl

(Corsct Salon, second tloorl
With a dozen good models
at 81 and other still finer ones
for $1.50, ~, $3.50 and $3.75,
certainly nobody ought to
wear an old corset under a
new gown.
The new L. RS of winter
weight material are in-coutil,
jean, and the like.
Still we always keep enough
batiste models for those who pre-
fer a lightweight corset all the
year round.
The L. r. is made exbreSSb
for, and can be had 0nlp in
the U(aHaMaker stores.
81. Short, medium and long waists
also girdes for young girls.
Sl.50. Short, medium and long hips.
81. Medium high bust; bias gored.
$500 Strong coutil; long waist; dil
hips heavily boned.
1915. Couti low bust; long skirt
well boned.
Evening journal., 1904-09-24
rh. Annr.clntire vi.ltor.

During n recent exhibition Of pictures
in Burlington House, London, a lady
noticed on two visits a striking looking
man. whose face she remembered to
hnve seen at previous exhibitions. Il
am sure he is a famous artist-he has
the air OF an academician," she said to
her husband. "He is always here, cata-
logue in hand. He must devote his day
10 the study OF these masterpieces.
See him now turning wearily away
from that Eyre Grove" At this mo-
ment an academician whom they knew
passed, and the.lady called attention to
what she thought must be fattering
fanaucism. The academlcian, who did
not seem 10 be 50 grathed as she ex-
pected, said he knew the gallery hunt
er. He was pressed 10 communicate
his knowledge. "Oh, that" he said, lis
the detective we employ TO keep an eye
on pickpockets"
Evening journal., 1904-09-24
Another Shipment of
Princess May" Gloves
for Women
Chestnut and Juniper and Arcade

Chestnut and Juniper and Arcade
Full sizes again in the splen-
did heavy Cape gloves that
have set makers and retailers
wondering how we can ever
sell such a fine quality for 81
a pair.
Comes in Indian tan, russell,
the reddish color known as Manila.
and black and white.
The Rel0 Princess NAV
bigue-seaW hmbSkm is a shade
lighter in weight-more fol
calling and shopping.
Black and white, tan, gray and
beautiful golden brown.
Both gloves have been given
an extra broad cut this yeal
to do away with narrow
thumbs and cramped UP
hands.
All fastened with one large
clasp.
Evening journal., 1904-09-24
The Auto-piano The
Piano That Plays Itself
LPIano Store, thIrd tloorl

The Ahgelns did a great
deal for people who have
musical tastes but no musical
education-but the auto-piano
has done still more.
1t has no outside attachment
the player is concealed within and
when not in use the piano may be
played like an ordinary instrument.
But if the Auto-piano goes
into the house where young
people want to dance, where
some one with a sweet voice
asks for an accompaniment,
where old people are alone in
the evenings, it will make
music to delight everyone.
Ask to see this instrument
in the piano rooms, on the
third floor-try it yourself il
you will.
The price is S4s5, which may be
paid in weekly or monthly partia
payments, where it is not conven'
lent to pay the whole amount a
once.
Evening journal., 1904-09-24
Fall Millinery
Trimmed and Untrimmed
fEol1.r C,for r,ai, 0ono
lGolden Salon, main flooTl


The first hats to go out Of
the store are the quiet, digni-
fled little So, Sc and s. toques
and turbans (some of them
copied from the French).
These are always the things
that women want as soon as
straw hats are laid aside,
though the popularity of pic
lture hats is increasing daily.
A specially good supply Of
feather and peacock turbans this
morning.
For women who like to
trim their everyday millinery
at home, we suggest these
untrimmed shapes:
Jap silk hats, plain, 9oc span
gled, s1.25.
Scratch felts, csc to 1925.
Black and colors.
Chenille hats, with silk or vel
vet, SO to So.
Long nap, furry beavers, So. sc
to SIS.
Evening journal., 1904-09-24
weaalnr cnt. suner.tltlon.

AS every girl knows, wedding cake
has n certain romantic use. A little
piece OF Il placed under the pillow OF
en- unengaged girl should. II she care
fully goes through little preliminary
ritual. result in her seeing her future
husband In her dreams. Before get.
ting into bed the girl repeats the fol
lowing charm:
place my shoes in the form OF T
And hope this night my love to see
As she says the words she arranges
her shoes, and, having done so, she lies
down and composes herself 10 sleep
Should she speak another word tho
spell viii be broken, and. though she
may have pleasant dreams enough
they will be worthless from the pro
phetic point Of view.
Evening journal., 1904-09-24
oaa Nnmes.

Some OF the odd personal names met
with in this country originated In Eng
lish warehouses, wherc 1t used to be
a common thing. as Dickens intimates
in "Oliver Twist" TO name foundlings
for some utensii about the asylum or
for anything else that might strike the
stupid fancy Of the authorities Thus
many persons were launched upon the
world bearing the names OF the days
OF the week. OF some church or street
near the asylum and Of a hundred and
one other things furnishing equally
absurd cognomens.
Evening journal., 1904-09-24
Blouses for the Winter
Girl
lBabY Store. seeond fIoorl

Pretty-and girlishIy so,
which means graceful lines,
gay colors, sparkling buttons
here and there-but simple
through and through.
Real old-fashioned muslin delaine
is here, soft and silky like crepe de
chine, but frmer, crisper; alba
tross; pretty striped flannel; a
crisp, closely woven canvas. These
are some Of the materials.
Girls going away to school will
want just such blouses in their
trunks, the stay-at-home girls in
their closets, to be handy for the
first snappy day.
1925, $3.50, $3.50, $3.50, S., $3.50,
S., and on up to $3.50; IA, l6, 1s-yeal
sizes.
Evening journal., 1904-09-24
New Fall Dress-Goods
(Aisle 9-easn


Something smooth and
something tightly twisted
that's what most women are
asking for to put into their fall
tailored suits.
Such stuffs start at 81 a
yard for black and white mix
tures-the black so lost nthe
white that it makes a gray
effect.
Pay s1.25 if you want good
medium-weight cassimeres, with
the hint Of plaidcoursing through
them.
Scotch mixtures oveTplaided with
lines Of mohair are good sturdy
things-and pretty. $3.50 a yard.
Fine imported worsted serge for
SO yard, with flash Of dots il
white and color.
Evening journal., 1904-09-24
700 PAR of Mems Cloves, Z5c a Pa.

lS-Fifth and French.
l4-Front and Poplar.
l5-SiNth ana Spruce.
l6-Eleventh and Church.
l7-Third and railroad avenue.
-S-Thirteenth ana King.
;i-Seventh ana Railroad avenue.
25-Second and Shipley.
2s-Front and Justison.
25-Second and Jackson.
26-Maryland avenue ard Linden.
27-Delaware avenue and DUPONT.
2s-Ninth anc Madison.
3l-Lancaster avenue and searles.
Evening journal., 1904-09-24
Mecu Hats for WeH-Dressed Men
Market street entresol

The body Of fine fur felt with al
long rich nap; trimmings Of fine.
silk-none better used on a s5 hat.
the inside leather band as good
as we know how TO buy.
Put it with any $5 hat you.
like, mix them up and you
will have a hard time to say
which is which.
No difficulty either in fitting
or suiting you. The shape
inside is such as conforms
naturally to the head; out.
wardly there are three heights
of crown and five different
widths of brim.
Other Derbys. 50, $3.50 and SO /;
Knox's, So.
Evening journal., 1904-09-24

l25-commeree and Dock. 5. VIII
mington.
l2s-Pusey & Jones Co.'S ONCE.
l27-Shallcross ana Woodla~n ave-
nues.
1s2-Pusey & Jones Co. Railway.
I34-Jackson and Shallcross avenue.
( 1s5-Elm and Van Buren.
Is2-Causeway and Guthrie's Lane.
14s-Twentieth and Market.
1l5-Jessup & Moore's Paper Mills.
i52-Third and Jefferson.
153--Front and Union.
15t-Washington and Elliott avenue.
Evening journal., 1904-09-24

62-Slxth avenue and Duncan.
63-Fourth aud Scott.
6i-Pullman Car Works.
71--LancastSr Ave. and Monroe.
52--Fourth and Franklin.
93-Lovering Ave. ana Scott.
12-Pennsylvania Ave. and Scott.
li3-Thirteenth and Lombard.
1i4-Fifth and Washington.
115-Eighth and Lombard.
1l6--Eighth and Washington
117-Eighth and French.
Ie3-Eighth. west OF Orange.
i24-Foot OF Marsh Road
Evening journal., 1904-09-24
Handkerchiefs. New and
Dainty
LAi.I. -,,.nrN
aisle e-west)

Paris is carrying a great
many colored handkerohiefs
this fall, and the last steamer
brought a big caseful of the
prettiest over to us.
Some for men, some for women
some for as little as soc, some for
81 and s1.25 each.
New all-white Irish hand
kerchiefs are here, too-fol
12Hc instead of 25c apiece.
Edged with lace; two rows ot
reVering on the linen center.
Evening journal., 1904-09-24

Sz-S'xth and Tatnah.
34-Fuurih and Madison.
S5-Harlan & Honlngsworth CO.
S6--Maryland avenue and Cedar.
4l-Warner's Wharf.
42-Heald and Lobdcn.
43-Eighth and Broome.
45--Delaware Ave. and Van Buren.
46-FoWteenth and Walnut.
5l-Thirteenth and Washington.
52-Thirteenth and Claymont.
ss-Second ana Hawley.
Sap. B. & ". Depot.
6l-Third and King
Evening journal., 1904-09-24
Wanamaker Oil Stoves

Japanned finish, $3.50; nickel
finish, s5; Russia iron brass font
holding one gallon; self-extin-
guisher; smokeless and odorless if
properly cared for will burn ten
hours and comfortably heat room
twenty feet square.
Evening journal., 1904-09-24
Store closes ais
Boxed Soundly-Girls
Suits
Second floor, Chestnut street,

koecono MOOR, Chestnut sueetl
Box-coats are the popular
style, with sound tailoring art
to make them graceful, to give
the correct manniSh finish.
Il half dozen different effects to
choose from at $I5-the firm, tight
~ twisted worsteds in different
coloring, homespuns and fancy
coverts in little herringbone rat
terms, indistinct, shadowy plaids;
some with the ultra long coats.
Other suits, $3.50 up.
Evening journal., 1904-09-24
inexpensive Decorated
China
Second noor)


1t is only during the month
of the china sale, twice a year,
that we can sell decorated
china of this quality at such
small prices. And September
is nearly gone.
Austrian china. 10c
Teaoups, saucers and plates
1.-TWO sizes), oatmeal bowls and
dessert dishes.
The decoration is a pink and
white floral border with gold edges.
Bavarian china, IOc to Soc
Pink and white rose decoration
with gold filigree edge. Average
half price.
Breakfast plates, 15c.
Bread and butter plates, 1Oc.
Teacups and saucers, 15c.
Sugars and creams, $50 a set.
Syrup jugs and plates, SOC.
Tea plates and dessert plates,
12c.
Oatmeal dishes, 15c.
Dessert saucerS, 15c.
Marmalade jars, SOC.
Evening journal., 1904-09-24
$5 for Warm Three-Quarter
Knockabout Goat
Second floor, Chestnut streetl

Made of rough sturdy tweeds, and servceable fancy
wosteds that you might expect to find in of double
the price
But only forty-egh in all-for women who want loose
oomy wraps that be sweaters and golf vests
for driving, walking and automobilng
lined with the cloth and the like
except the peat the middle of the back
different cloths from which choose. So usually s1O
Evening journal., 1904-09-24
Mako street and Main AlsIel

People who come here for shoes during the out
fitting sale often ASK "How do you arrange to get SO
many thousands of pairs of shoes sell at wholesale
prices ?
There are always manufacturers and jobbers who for
various reasons have odd lots of shoes that they want to
get rid of quickly and because we sell more shoes than any
four other Philadelphia stores put together they to us
first We buy whatever they offer that is good of its kind;
the rest-We won't have at any price,
Today you will find among shoes, bought in
Evening journal., 1904-09-24

162-Seldel & Hastings Rolling Mil.
1G3-Ninth and Spruce.
l64-Vandever avenue and Thatcher.
212-Third and Tatnall.
213-Fourth and Lombard.
214-Thirtieth and washington.
215-Twenty-ffth and Market.
216-Elghteenth and Brinckle avenue.
223-Tenth and Adams.
224-Vandever avenue and Pine.
225-Eleventh and Union.
226-Rising sun Lane and Twentieth
231-New Castle avenue and d.
as5-WilminEtoR Malleable Iron Co
Evening journal., 1904-09-24
Oil Stoves

s2.75 worth So. 10; japanned
base, aluminium top; tank with
capacity of one gallon round
burner, swinging handle, so that
it can be easily carried from room
to room.