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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-05
Southern Peaches.

From the Savannah News.
The impression among the fruit grower.
OF this state appears to be that there will
be an abundance Of fruit this year This
impression Is particularly strong among
peach growers. 1t Is based upon the belief
that there will be no cold spells of weather
after the buds are in condition to be hurt
by the cold. The reason a mild spring is
expected Is that the winter has been so
cold. At the north 1t has been the coolest
in forty years. In some of the New Eng
land states big percentage of the peach
trees has been killed.
The winter in this state has been colder
than the average and has kept the sap in
the peach trees from running and the buds
from swelling. There have been two or
three warm spells, but they were of short
duration. and, as far as learned did not
put the trees in condition to be injured by
subsequent cold weather. In Florida the
peach trees are In bloom. In that state
peaches will be ready for market by the
middle of May. The crop is not large
one, however, but the price it brings makes
up for what 1t lacks in size.
Georgia's peach crop. If the season should
be favorable one, will bring into the state
a very large amount of money.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-05
Eels From the Mile.

From the Chicago News.
Eels are SO highly priced in Germany that
the supply is generally short of the de-
mand and an enterprising German firm has
therefore started an ceiling industry In the
lower Nile delta. The industry is centered
In Matardeh- Mensaleh, station on the
railway, where large depot has been es-
taiblished. to which the cells are brought
for sale by tho fishermen, who receive for
them about l cent each. Before dispatch
to Trieste, whence they are sent to Ham
burg by rail, the cells are cleaned, rubbed
with salt and packed in casks between lay
ers of ice impregnated with formalin. 1t is
expected that when the scheme Is in full
working order no less than about sixty
TONS or 10000 cells, will be sent from
Alexandria weekly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-05
THE AMERICAN GIRL.
Compliments That Should Make Her
Careful to Live Up to Her Reputation.

CareIul TO Live UP TO her reputation.
From the Chicago Chronicle.
1t is not the American heiress alone who
is appreciated on the other side of the At
lartic. The American college girl is looked
upon with surprise and admiration. Her
freedom, coupled with self-restraint, her
ability to take her affairs into her own
hands and manage them to advantage, her
roise in the presence of men students and
her readiness to cope with them in the
higher and more abstruse branches are be-
coming the envy of English college girls.
A marked difference between the two is
the close touch with life which the Ameri-
can college girl has and the English girl of
the same class has not. The latter gives
herself to the studies of the curriculum
alone and waits for social and practical life
until the college course is completed. The
advantage is with the American girl who
is not thrust into a wholly new sphere on
leaving the university and does not find
herself at sea as to social forms and con-
ventionalities. The French girl as well as
the English, is looking with no little envy
on the American girl. Evidence of this is
seen in the popularity of a play by Paul
Hyacinthe Loyson, son of the once famous
Pere Hyacinthe, and his American wife.
The name of the play is The Maiden's
Right. Contrary to all French traditions
1t claims for the French maiden the right
10 initiate the American girl and make
close acquaintance with her future husband
before marriage. instead of being handed
over to him as If it were matter of no
Importance to her.
These compliments from across the wa
ter should make the American girl mind
full of the reputation she is gaining abroad
and lead her to be careful to live up to
1t. If she can have freedom and be obedient
to the laws which govern freedom and II
she can maintain self-reliance without ex-
cess of self-assertion she may well be the
envy of her kindred beyond the Atlantic
otherwise she will merit only their con-
tempt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-05
Pyramids Around Cairo.

There are fourteen pyramids in the neigh
borhood of Cairo. Those which surround
the Sphinx and are known as the pyramids
of Gizeh are most easily accessible and
may be visited without fatigue or difficulty
Within the last few years trolley line
has been built almost to the very feet of
the Sphinx The tracks run along a cause
way lined on either side with rows of trees
and one of the fashionable drives of Cairo
The distance from the hotels in Cairo is
about nine miles.
You can leave your hotel in a carriage
or by the street cars in the morning take
your lunch at hotel few hundred yards
from the pyramids, spend the day around
these Incompatible monuments, by far the
most interesting of all relics of antiquity,
and drive back to the city at or in the
afternoon just in time to meet the long
procession of carriages filled with native
princes and pashas, yelled ladies from the
harems of rich Egyptians, generals in the
British service, civil officials of the govern
ment, members of the diplomatic circle,
HinSeo and Parsee millionaires, and all the
gay world who are spending the winter at
Cairo and come over that way for their
afternoon air.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-05
EMPRESS EUGENIE's JEWELS.
How They Were Carried Through India
and Sold to a Native Prince.

From the st. Jamess Gazette.
The story of the Servian Jewels must re-
call to the ex-Empress Eugene her own ex-
Ieriences when the waves first began to
dash about her throne She determined to
sell the greater part of her Jewels in hope
to do something to save the dynasty Pub
licity had to be avoided, and a market was
not to be found I'm Europe, newly thrilled by
the horrors of Sedan. The empress looked
to the east for market. An Englishman
was on his way home for a holiday tel
egram at Bombay awaited him from one of
the greatest European financial houses and
informed him of the determination of the
empress. The difficulty had been to find
man with sufficient influence to be able to
approach the princes of India in secret with
q. view to selling them the jewels. Not less
hard was it to lay hands on the man who
had moral strength sufficient to carry with
him surreptitiously hundreds of thousands
of pounds worth of jewels in lands where
the queens writ did not run, and where the
protection of the constable Is not immedi-
ately available.
Every care had been taken to insure Sc
crecy. The jewels had been taken to pieces;
gems removed from their settings; the lat
ter 'jointed' to admit of their folding and
being worn around the waist of their bearer
in belt of soft leather. The Englishman
put on the belt, armed himself with trusty
revolver, engaged truSty servant and set
forth on his mission. For three months he
wandered over road, rail and river. The re-
sponsibility of his trust, the constant dam
ger of discovery, the difficulty of disposng
of his burden were worries that combined
almost to kill him. AT last he was success
full. The jewels were sold to prince who
esteemed them the more for that they were
the property of distressed empress. There
would have been trouble, doubt, had the
matter been known at the India office. but
the man who discharged the undertaking
afforded an excellent example of courage
and solid worth in trying conditions.
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mey which promises to prove as excellent
and interesting a work. : esq


mey which promises to prove as excellent
and interesting work. J esq
- eH
Mr.. Max weyl has recently painted q
charmingly characteristic landscape for a
local patron. 1t is a wood interior, in which
the observer looks out toward the open.
The trees, oaks of many years growth, are
heavy with brown-green foliage and cut off
the view of all save a bright patch of sky,
the blue of which is brightly reelected In
little pool of shallow water at their feet. In
color and composition 1t suggests an old.
rich tapestry; but In feeling and effect 1t is
close to nature. 1t is broadly-4almost abb
ruptly-laid In. yet 1t is not without sentt-
ment and definite poetic charm.
1.-THE Law Of Light" will be the subject
of the March art talk which will be given
at the Corcoran School by Mr.. Richard N
Brooke Monday, March Z. at 40 o'clock
These talks are given primarily for the
students of the school, but they are open
to others who are specially interested.
Many of Mr.. Parker Manns Washington
friends will be interested to know that he
is holding an exhibition of his oil paint
ings, pastels and sketches at the Clausen
gallery in New York. The exhibition began
February 20 and will continue until March
IL.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-05
The Yankee Scored.
From the New York Tribune.


A London paper, speaking of the Amer
lean INVASION relates that an enterprising
Yankee came over to England and decided
to open a shop in Birmingham He OBJ
tanned premises next door to a man who
also kept a shop of the same description.
but was not very pushing in his business
methods. The methods of the Yankee.
however, caused the older trader to wake
up and, with the spirit of originality strong
with the words Established fifty years !"
painted in large letters. Next day the Yam
kee replied to this with a notice over his
store to this effect: Established yesterday:
no old stock
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-05

Clementine was telling how her modern
Romeo made love to her on the porch
And did he swear by the pale moon p,
asked her chum.
He didn't have time. sighed Clemen-
tine.
How was that?"
He heard pa swearing by the front
steps."--Chicago News.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-05

Miss Ann Thrope-"I was shocked to hear
You were married 1 wouldn't marry the
best man on earth"
Mrs. Newbride-"Huhi He never gave
you a chance. He assures me l was the
only girl he ever proposed to."-PhiladeI-
phia Press.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-05
Senatorial Correspondence.
From Puck.

From Puck.
Senator Shugar-'I see that Senator Sniff
kins is sending out a. great many personal
notes to delegates to the national conven-
tion.''
Senator Steele-'I should say SO, And
they're nearly all fifties, tooi'
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Another attractive picture by Mr.. Spencer
Nichols is now on exhibition at Veerhoffs.
This Is a summer scene and Is as warm
in tone as the snow picture is cold. In COM
position 1t is simple-a dark stretch of
woodland is seen at close range beyond a
sunny field. across which two white geese
are stalking: but in treatment it is some
what complex. 1t Is essentially a green
picture but 1t Is far removed from the
usual landscape of this description. A GER
tain conventionality and decorative motive
are evident in 1t, but not unpleasantiy so,
and the force and vigor displayed in the
brush work are equally agreeable.
X Il
Mr. Macdonald has just finished another
portrait of Admiral Remey which. while
no better likeness than the two which pre-
coded 1t, is probably the most painter-lfke
in it's rendering of the three. 1t is larger
than the second portrait. but smaller than
the first, and shows the admiral in differ
emit pose from either. 1t is excellent in color
and direct handling, and has apparently
been painted with great ease. Mr. Macdon-
aid Is now painting a portrait Of Mrs. Re-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-05

The exhibition of paintings by Mr.. Lucien
Powell, which for the past ten days has
been attracting attention at Veerhoff's.
closed today and will be replaced on Mon
day by a collection of paintings by foreign
celebrities. which, in turn. win give way the
following week to a special exhibition of
water colors by Miss Bertha E. Perrie of
this city.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-01-23

It is perfectly understood by every
sick man or woman that If they can
get some remedy that will stop the
gradual loss of flesh and strength,
their recovery is assured. People
who are nervous and unsteady. have
dizzy spells, with weakened memory,
and loss of ambition their blood Is
thin and watery. 1t shows in their
sallOw complexion and tired manner.
Soon as they commence to gain flesh
they look better and sleep better: To
gain from one to three pounds Of
good, solid flesh per week the blood
must be made rich. and pure. DR..
Gums Blood and Nerve Tome puts
in the body the very pith of what
makes pure rich blood in the most
ing strength. This Tonic is in tablet
form, to be taken right after meals
1t enriches the blood, making force
where there was falntness. For wom-
ems weakness better remedy was
never made. Sold by all druggists
for 75c pei, box, or three boxes for
81. or sent by mail. Write us about
your case. Address DIR. Bosanko Co..
Philadelphia. Pa. For sale by Chas.
McNab. corner Washington street and
Riverside avenue.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-01-23

decessor. Concededly necessary to the
sa'vation of souls though this be, might
not the clerical functions be discharged
in less ornate structures than the cost
ly ediiices of brick and stone now
erected or being pushed tt completion
for church purposes in this city?
There is here a so-called Chldren's
Home, where those in charge some
times find it necessary to the proper
up-bringing of the helpless little
creatures under their dominion that
they should be beaten forty minutes
and where the children are housed in
an old wooden shell scarcely habitable,
and such fire-trap that should fire
break out in it scarcely one of those
housed there would escape. One tenth
of the money invested here in Spo-
kane in church editices would give
to these children a comfortable, secure
home. and command such attention to
their wants as would render this earth
less place of torment to them than it
now is. Church members still profess
to follow the teachings of Christ
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hoped something might crop out dur
ing the hearing that would incrim-
mate the accused, or definitely place
the crime on one of the prisoners
The murder of Mabel Bechtel was
one of the most shocking in the GRIM
inal history of Pennsylvania, rival
ing the Paterson murders in horrible
details. When arrested for the crime,
Tom Bechtel committed suicide, and
it was supposed that he was guilty.
The indictment of the old mother and
other members Of the family, with
the lovers of the girl, came as a sur
prise to all. Having made one dis
play of incompetence the prosecutor
is expected to achieve more notorie-
ty of a like nature before he Is
through with the cases pending.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-01-23
Last OF
Nee kSeS

CARROLLTON, Mo-. Jan. 23.--With
L. Meeks to Albert Spahr, the Meeks
name disappears from Sullivan coun-
ty and the sole survivor of one of the
bloodiost wholesale murders ever
perpetratcd loses her identity. Nellie
Meeks, 10 years ago a girl of Z, blood
stained, battered, barely conscious.
covered with mud and soaked with
rain, appeared at a farm house near
Browning. Mo, and told how her
father, mother. brother and baby sis
ter had been murdered-beaten to
death with clubs-and how their
bodies had been thrown upon hay
stack, where they yet lay.
The child's story met with little
credence. though substantiated by
her own wounds. but an investigation
was made and the mangled corpses of
Gus Meeks, his wife and two of their
children were found as Nellie had said
they would be. The Taylor brothers
William and George--had fallen
upon the family in dead of night and
had slain them. They thought they
had killed Nellie, too. and she had
been thrown with the others into the
hay before it was set afire. But rain
eXtinguished the flames and revived
the little girl, and the Taylor broth
ers were brought to justice.
Meeks, it turned out, knew Of a
shady deal of the Taylors, who were
bankers at Browning, Mo. The Tay-
Tors promised Meeks $1,000 if he
would leave the country with his fam
lily. Meeks agreed and started in a
prairie schooner the day the money
was paid. That night the Taylors
murdered him and his family in the
wagon and took the money. They
were convicted and sentenced to hang
A daring jailbreak was followed by
the ,recapture and execution of Will
liam Taylor but George has never
been seen since he dropped off the
roof of the Jail in this town.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-01-23
To Spokane Falls.
a Tribute Written for The Press by
the "Idaho Poet"

AT Howard street is a water gate
Which causes the river to separate,
And keeps the flow extremely still
, That gives the power to Centennial
mill.
Then over the dam starts this flow
A hundred feet wide, as white as
snow;
Swaying in swiftness, from side to
side
Like the oceans restless tide.
Then gathered to the southern bank
This whirling seathing water sank,
In depths that are blush black
The electric power dam is holding
back.
Blue and unbroken lash towering
walls
And here the other channel falls,
Blends its wavy milk white flow
Together then in peace they go.
Till the brow is reached seem to
sleep
Then from the crest madly leap,
Dash into foam, splash into spray
Haste swiftly on their downward way.
Some wavelets lOiter as If to stop
While mighty waves sweep DER their
top;
This white froth on a bed so steep
Now gathers to make it's final leap.
Leaves with a bound throws spray
in air
Whirling troubled waters everywhere,
Then in it's mighty strength of flow,
Spins the whirlpool far below.
Boiling and seething in its restless
sway
This milk white foam is now all
spray,
Over each other the whitecaps dash
Giving a roar to every splash.
These struggling pillows SO hurled
about
Now have sifted the bubbles out,
Dark and blue In peace once more
The waves are stilled by a rocky
shore
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LOVeinkanSaS

SEVERANCE, Kan, Jan. 23.-V.
j. kirwan, mayor of Severance. has
given under his hand and seal leap
year proclama ton. which concludes:
at shall be lawful, right and proper
and fitting, and the unahenable' priv
ilege of any single woman in this city,
be she maid or widow, to ask or solicit
the hand in wedlock of any single
man, young or old, whom she may
choose. And any man so asked shall
be in duty bound to accept such pro-
posal, unless he can give good and
sufficient reason for refusing; such
reason being based on the fact of his
already being engaged.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-01-23
Local Briefs.

The Occur d'Alene and Spokane
electric line has been awarded the con-
tract to carry the mail between this
city and Occur d'Alene. Idaho.
The celebrated Kroeger pianos can
be found only at Bowers Piano Store,
408 Sprague avenue. Prices reason
able and terms to suit.
The Club Cafe always in the lead.
Our CSC merchants lunch with beer
or wine from 1870 to 2 p. m. as good
as ever. Headquarters for steaks.
chops. etc. I. Chilbere. manager.
Easy Work soap--The largest cake
on the market for cents. No fancy
wrapper-all soap.
In addressing the Federation Of
Women's clubs, last night. Mrs. Hav-
ilah Squires said that "if mothers will
take their sons in hand they will have
no need of crying out against taxation
without representation. They will
have representatives, and noble ones,
too, in the sons of their homes" The
fe Grafton will fight sweat shops.
Ben Franklin, the philosopher, said:
"A penny saved Is a penny earned"
One dollar deposited each week in
the savings bank department of the
Spokane & Eastern Trust company
will in one year amount to SETS;
in five, $286.11; in ten, $634.88; in
twenty, s157s.S3; in thirty, $29S0.21;
in forty, $5083.34. January, April.
July and October are the interest
periods.
Do not buy sewing machine until
you get our prices and terms. We
carry all makes for sale and rent on
easy terms. Eastman-Jones Co., Inc,
1888 Riverside avenue
The Red Cross Pharmacy carries
the most complete stock on the North
Side and is doing the largest bust
ness. Call up Main 614 for your drug
wants.
A dainty toilet necessity-Watsen
Glover Cream.
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PLEADS FOR
THE ORPHANS

r. RI. Winston says: No doubt it is
essential TO the saving of souls from
eternal, irretrievable damnation that
the Reverend Doctor Wallace should
on every Sunday inform all those who
will gather to hear him of his inmost,
most uncomplimentary thought con
corning Mayor Boyd; that the Rev
erend Doctor Van Osdell should give
his real opinion of his brother clergy
men who go Summing; that the Rev
erend Doctor Lambert should advise
the anNiously waiting world of his de-
auctions from a fire in a Chicago thea
ter; that the Reverend Doctor Glib
oney should expound his ideas con-
corning THE Ark of God in the house
of Obedemon," ct cetera, ct cetera.
No doubt, also, souls cannot be saved
unless several church organizations vie
with each other in paying high cleri-
ical salaries, so that each fresh impor-
tation may indulge in more sensational
ism and command larger scare head
lines in the daily press than his pre-
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-01-23

vid Weinsenberger, her lovers, ar
raigned and discharged, the situation
is as hard to unravel as was the fam
ed Gordian knot.
The first trial, that of Weisenber-
ger was a farce of first water. The
court, jury and attorneys for the de-
Tense. were disguised with the tao
tics of the prosecuting attorney.
whose only excuse, when he failed to
produce a 1.-THE or evidence incrim
mating the defendant, was that he
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-01-23
Fun on
The Ice

NEWARK, n. j., Jan. 23.-Some Of
the most prominent speed skaters of
the country are taking part in the
amateur out-of-door speed skating
championships, which are being con-
tested today on Verona Lake. Among
the number are Phil Kealney, lie Roy
See, Saroney and Mcdonald.
The program of events consists Of
one mile, two mile, five mile, half mile
and one mile (novice) scratch races.
Gold. silver and bronze medals will be
awarded in each race.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-01-23
Big Torpedo.

WASHINGTON, Jan. ga new
img-range torpedo has been invented
by young engineer in the torpedo
factory at Rume, Austria. The torpe-
% measures % feet in length, is very
bender, but strongly built, and can
e discharged with accuracy. to dis
ance of $500 yards. Experiments have
een carried out with this torpedo be-
,ore the Austrian government with
Conspicuous success, and it's capabili-
les are to be demonstrated soon at an
Exhibition before representatives of all
dhe powers.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-01-23
SWEDISH MISSION.

Rev. E. V. Bjorklund of st. Cloud,
Mimi, and Rev. ]. L. Seth of Superior.
Wis, will conduct meetings at the
Swedish Mission church, E440 River
side avenue. on Sunday forenoon and
evening. January "a. and the follow
ing Monday evening. Rev. Bjorklund
is the singer who IS called by Rev.
e. A. Skogsbergh to assist him in his
evanselistic work on the coast. Rev.
Seth has been Skogsbergh's assistant
in the work at Minneapolis, MINI.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-01-23
wEsTMINsTER CoNGREGA-
TIONAL,

At Westminster Congregational
church, Fourth avenue and Wash
ington street, tomorrow evening Rev
George r. Wallace will begin series
of four lectures on Religion and
Matrimony" the themes being: L
THE Young Woman's Question
Whom Shall l Marry 1.-THE
Young Man Seeking a Wife" s.
"The Ideal Wife" 4-"The Model
Husband" The choir will be assist
cd by Mrs. Anna Newmeyer Ingram.
A ladies' trio will be given.