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is run-over a roadbed prepared with
never a thought of it and guarded not
an automobiles length of the way
Couple to this the facts that it is i'm
possible for the average automobil
to have even a curSOry knowledge OF
more than a few miles of road, COM
paratively speaking, and that he has to
take no examination to prove that he
has a working knowledge of the ma
difficult to comprehend that nothing
short of hendish recklessness is the
sole cause of practically all automobile
wrecks and accidents, with their fire.
quent attendant fatalities and never
failing injuries"
S. NJ. Butler, secretary of the Auto
mobile Club of America, of New York,
says that reckless autOmObiling, with
its attendant fatalities and accidents
to both driver and non-user of the
machine would be apprsciably lessened
at once and practically wiped out in a
short while if our legislators would
pattern after the French legislative
methods of dealing with aut0mobilists.
Give the reckless drivers time. ana
they will weed themselves out, and
thus sC.lve the most serious automobile
iEg Ircblem now confronting the pub
lc," said Mr.. Butler, grimly- But it
would undoubtedly take some time for
all the reckless fellows to kill them
selves off. even though they DO not con-
stitute, in my belief, 10 per cent of the
whole number of motor car drivers.
However. they can be got rid of
much more speedily and just as effect
lively if only the various state legisla-
lures can be brought TO see the light
and this club, as well as the national
body, is doing all that it can to make
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them see the light in the interests Of
all concerned-that is, everybody.
''In France. before a person is per-
mitted to drive an automobile of no
matter what horse power and speed, he
must first pass an examination in order
TO prove to the satisfaction of the au-
thorities that he thoroughly under
s.tan1s the mechanism OF The automo-
bile, knows how to work it, and is fully
aware Of its capabilities for causing
veal or woe.
81 would like to see such a require
ment called for by ever state lesis-
lature in this country; but, mark, the
good work should not be permitted to
stop here.
1T has been proved in many cases
that the more expert a certain class
Bile are they to run their machines
recklessly. paradoxical as this may
SEEM Largely to deal with just this
class of drivers, France has taken off
all legislative speed limits, paradoxicaI
as this may also seem, and set down
in the statutes instead that any auto
mobilist is liable to arrest at any time
for disorderly driving.
tUnder the New York law it is reck-
less driving to approach and cross a
dam or go by an intersecting road at
rate per hour of more than four
miles--a distance that a good walker
can cover in the same length of time.
and which a walking horse hftched to
I a buggy. can get over in three-quar-
ters of an hour at the most. The law
also provides that if a driver sends his
( car along at a speed exceeding ter
miles an hour in certain parts of a
! borough and fifteen miles in other
parts. he is a reckless driver.
Now, note this. There is no provi-
sion in the law to punish the automo-
\ bilist, who gIorying in his expertness.
4 in a crowded city insidiously shoots his
car IN and out among the trucks and
I street cars and over crossings with
! constant and great danger to pedes.
l TRANS and others. but at a rate %
/ speed OF only half that permitted By
the statutes. Yet here is this man go
/ irg scot free, while trap is set by
/ country constables for the automobile
/ ist who travels over a piece Of road at
the rate Of fifteen miles an hour ina
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copiousness; and taking the utmost
care TO avoid interfering with our COM
fort, he succeeded adroitly in flooring
his antagonist by a well directed blow.
A policeman appeared upon the scene
with marvellous promptitude He did
not attempt to interfere, but, running
out into the street communicated the
glad tidings TO another policeman.
That's going to cost them pretty
penny observed my host. who was
calmly continuing his supper: "why
couldn't they wait" It did cost them
a pretty penny. Some half a dozen po-
licemen were round about before as
many minutes had elapsed and each
one claimed his bribe. Then they
wished both cOnbatants goodnight
and trOOped out, evidently in great
good humor: and the two gentlemen
with wet napkins round their heads sat
down again, and laughter and amicable
conversation flowed freely as before.
They strike the stranger as a child
like people, but you are possessed with
a haunting sense of ugly traits be-
meath. The Workers-slaves it would
be almost more just to call them
allow themselves to be driven with the
accomplishing patience of intelligent
animals. Yet every educated Russian
you talk to on the subject knows that
revolution is coming. But he talks to
you about it with the door shut, for no
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PoIice ouallfy "a Chnnenrs.
TCopyright 1905, by Central News and
Press EXCHANGED


Paris, Oct 14=M Lepine. the pre-
feet of police, has just arrived at an
important decision in the matter of de-
tecting furious motor-car drivers He
has decided to organize a force of po-
lice chaffeurs. AS the result Of a dis
cussion at the municipal council, Ne
Lepine considered that policemen who
had to deal with cases Of furious ariv-
ing should henceforth possess a chat.
feur's certificate.
The question arose. How can an in--
experienced policeman tell when q
chaffeur is in fault if he has not passed
the necessary examination demOnstrat-
ing his competency" When policemen
have obtained the requisite certificates,
however they viii be able not only to
describe more accurately the causes of
the accidents, but If the necessity arises
take the place of an injured automo-
biIist and drive him to the hospital in
his car. on the other hand, as the
Petit Parisien" points out. automobil-
lists viii not be at the mercy Of the fifst
ignorant policeman who comes along
after an accident occurs.
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For Ready RiddIers.

At sunset sharp open my eye.
And all night long watch the ships
go by.
Just one great eve is set in my head
Mostly white, but sometimes red.
And never that eye may sleep a wink
For if it did great ships might sink.
And so until the dawn is white
I stare in steadiness through the night
And the sailors coming in from sea
Greet my eye with a blessing on me.
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AUTOMOBILING.
Interesting Conclusions Drawn
From Long List Of Disasters.
Comparison of Ways Of Rum
ming Locomotive and Auto.
TIMELY SUGGESTIONS
For a Law in America Similar
to One in France.
Estimate of Proportion of ''In-
sane" to ''Sane" AutOmObiIing.
TIMELY SUGGESTIONS
BY JOIN c. PICKETT.

p r a history is ever written of the
automobiling season in the
north, which may be said to have
been brought to a formal and ex-
citing close yesterday with the
road contest for the Vanderbilt
cup, not the least instructive chapter
will deal with the wrecks that have
the. seasons sport and the
numerous fatalities, not to mention
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man in Russia can be sure that his own
servants are not police spies. was
discussing the question with Russian
on1clal one evening IN his study when
his old hOusekeeper entered the room
"a soft-eyed gray-haired woman who
had been in his service over eight
years. and whose position in the house
mold was almost that OF a friend. He
stopped abruptly and changed the con-
versation. So soon as the door was
closed behind her again, he explained
himself. TT is better to chat upon
Such matters when one IS quite alone,
he laughed. But surely you can trust
her" I said. ''It is safer to trust no
one" he answered. And then he con-
tinued from the point where we had
been interrupted. ''It is gathering" he
said, there are times when I almost
smell blood in the air. I am an old
man and may escape it, but my chill
dren will have to suffer-suffer as chill
dTen must do for the sins of their
of the people, and as brute beasts they
viii come upon us, cruel, and undis-
eliminating: right and wrong indiffer-
entity going down before them. But it
has to be. 1t is needed" The future
history Of Russia will be. history of the
French Revolution over again, but
with this difference: that the educated
classes. the thinkers. who are pushing
forward the dumb masses, are doing
so with their eyes open.
There viii be no Mirabeau, no Dan
ton to be appalled, at the peoples in
gratitude The men who today are
working for revolution in Russia
number among their ranks statesmen,
soldiers delicately-nur women,
rich landowners, prosperous trades
men, students familiar with the les
sons Of history. They have no mis-
conceptions concerning the blind
E'rankenstein into which they are
breathing life. He will crush them,
they know it; but with them he will
crush the injustice and stupidity they
have grown to hate better than they
love themselves. The Russian peas
ant when he rises, Will prove more
terrible, more pitiless than We're the
men of 1890. He is less intelligent, more
brutal. They sing a wild song, these
Russian cattle, the while they work.
They sing it in chorus on the quays
while hauling the cargo, they sing it
IN the factory, they chant it on the
weary endless steppes, reaping the
corn they may not eat. 1t is about the
good time their masters are having
OF the feasting and the merry-m king
But the last line of every verse is the
same. When you ask a Russian to
translate it for you he shrugs his
shoulders "Oh, it means" he says,
that their time will come. some dayi7
1t is a sad, pathetic, haunting refrain.
Moscow and st. Petersburg, and some
how the light talk and laughter die
away, and a hush, like a chill breath.
enters by the closed door and passes
through. 1t is a curious song. like
the Wailing OF a tired wind. and one
day 1t will sweep over the land herald
ing terror.
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A Seotchman 1 met in Russia told me
that when he first came out to act as
manager of large factory just outside
St. Petersburg, belonging to his Scottish
employers. he unwitungly made mis-
take the first week when paying his
Workpeople By miscalculation of the
Russian money he paid some three hum
dred men each one nearly a rouble short
He discovered his error before the fol-
lowing Saturday and then put the mat
ter right The men accepted his ex-
planation with perfect composure and
without any comment whatever. The
thing astonished him. But you must
have known was paying you short, -
he said to one Of them. why didn't
you tell me of it?'' oh answered the
IN your own pocket, and that if we had
complained it would only have meant
dismissal for us. No one would have
taken our word against yours Cor
ruption appears to beso general through
out the whole Of Russia that all classes
have come to accept it as part Of the
established order Of things. A friend
gave me little dog to bring away wit5s
me. Tt was a valuable animal and I
wished to keep it with me. It is strictly
forbidden TO take dogs into railway
/ carria ges.
The list Of the pains and penalties
Tor doing so frightened me consider
ably. "Oh. that viii be all right" my
friend assured me, t'have a few roubIes
loose in your pocket" I tipped the
station master and I tipped the guard
and started, pleased with myself. But
had not anticipated what was in
store for me. The news that an Eng
ashman with a dog in a basket had
must have been te1egraphed ali down
the line At almost every stopping
place some enormous official. generally
wearing a sword and helmet board
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ed the train. At first these fellows
terrified me I took them for field
marshals at least. When they saw the
dog their establishment was bOundiess.
Visions of Siberia crossed my mind
Anxious and trembling I gave the
iirst one a gold piece He shook me
warmly by the hand. I thought he
was going to kiss me. If / had offered
him my cheek am sure he would
have done So With the next one I
felt less apprehensive. For a couple
or roubles he blessed me so, gath
cred; and, commencing me to the care
OF the Almighty departed. Before I
had reached the German frontier /
was giving away the equivalent of
English sixpenees to men with the bear
ing and carriage of major generals:
and to see their faces brighten up and
to receive their heartfelt benedictfons
was well worth the money.
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But to the man without roubIes in
his pocket Russian officiaIdom is not
so gracious. BY the expenditure of
rev more coins I got my dog through
the customs without trouble; and had
leisure to look about me. A miserable
object was being badgered by half a
dozen men In uniform, he-his lean
face puckered up into a snarl=return-
ing them snappish answers; the whole
scene suggesting some half-starved
mongreI worried by schoolboys. A
slight 1nIormality had been discovered
IN his passport, so a fellow traveller
with whom I had made friends in
formed me. He had no roubIes in his
pocket, and in consequence they were
sending him back to St Petersburg
some eighteen hours journey, in q
carriage that an English magistrate
would fine a butcher for transporting
oxen IN. It seemed a good juke to
Russian officialdom; they would drop
IN every now and then, look at him,
as he sat crOched in a corner of the
waiting-room, and pass out again,
laughing. The snarl had died from
his face; a duh listless Indifference
had taken its place-the look one sees
on the face of a beaten dog, after the
beating is over, when it is lying very
still, its great eyes staring into moth
1ngnesss and one wonders whether it
is thinking. The Russian worker reads
no newspaper, has no club, yet all
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There is a prison on the banks of the
Neva, in st. Petersburg. They say
such things are done with now. but up
till very recently there existed small
cell therein, below the level of the ice,
and prisoners placed there would be
found missing d day or two afterwarc,
nothing ever again known of them, ex-
cept perhaps to the fishes of the
Baltic. They talk of all these things
among themselves, the sleigh-drivers
round their charcoal fire; the field
workers going and coming through
the gray light; the factory-w
their whispers deadened by the rattle
of the looms.
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Russians as Know Them
By Jerome K. Jerome.

Copyright. 1906 by Central News ana Press Exchanged
The Topeka state journal., 1905-10-15

DON'T forget the sale Of government
property at the state house tomorrow
afternoon at 1870 p. N.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-10-15

I was searching for a house in Brus-
sells two winters ago, and there was
one I went over in a small street lead
ing out of the Avenue Louise. It was
poorly furnished, but rich in pictures
large and small. They covered the
walls of every room. These, the land
lady-an elderly, haggard-looSing wO-
man-explained to me, will not be
left, I am taking them with me to
London. They are my husbands. He
is arranging an exhibition" The friend
who had sent me, had told me the
woman was a widow who had baa~ 1iv-
ing in Brussels eking out a precarious
existence as a lodging house keeper
for the last ten years. You have mar
ried again?' I questioned her The
woman smiled. Not again. was
married 18 years ago, in Russia. Ny
husband was transported to Siberia a
few days after we were married and I
have never seen him since. I should
have followed him, - Z she explained,
"only every year we thought he was
going to be set free" He is really
free now?'' 7 asked. YES she an
swered. they set him free last week.
He will join me in London. We shall
be able to finish our honeymoon, she
added with another smile I read in
the English papers of the exhibition
in London. It was said the artist
showed much promise and -assibly a
career may be opening out for him.
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1t is a fascinating subject, Russia
But for a wholesome fear of my editor,
I feel I could ramble on for columns
Nature has made life hard there for
rich and poor alike. To the banks of
the Neva with its ague and influenza
bestowing fogs and mists one i1nagines
that the devil himself must have guild
ed Peter the Great. Show me in all
my dOminions the most hOpelessIy un-
attractive site on which to build a city"
Peter must have prayed; and the devil
having discovered the site on which St.
Petersburg now stands. must have re-
turned to his master in high good
feather. Il think. my dear Peter, I have
found you something really unique. Tt is
a pestilent swamp to which a mighty
river brings bitter blasts and marrow
chilling fogs. In the brief summer time
the wind viii bring you sand. In this
way you will combine the disadvan-
tages Of the North Pole with those of
the desert of Sahara" In the winter
time the Russians light their great
stoves and doubly barricade their doors
and windows; and in this atmosphere.
women will pass six months. never ven
turing out of doors. Even the men only
90 out at intervals. Every office, every
shop is an oven. Men of forty have white
hair and parchment faces, and the wo-
men are old at thirty.
The farm laborers during the few
summer months work almost entirely
without sleep. They leave that for the
winter, when they shut themselves up
like dormice in cir novels, their store
of food and vodka buried underneath
the floor. For days together they sleep,
then wake and dig, then sleep again.
SO it is even with their betters. The
Russian party lasts all night In an
adjoining room are beds and couches;
half a dozen guests are always sleep
ing. An hour contents them, then they
rejoin the company and other guests
take their places. The Russian eats
when he feels so disposed; the table
is always spread, the guests come and
go. once a year there is a great feast
in Moscow. The Russian merchant
and his friends sit down early in the
day and a sort of thick sweet pancake
for many hours, and the ambition of
the Russian merchant is to eat more
than his meigbbor. Fifty or sixty of
these hot cakes a man will consume
at a sitting, and dozen funerals in
Moscow is often the result. An un-
civilized people, we call them in our
lordly way, but they are young. They
will see US out. am inclined to think
Their energy. their intelligence-wh
these show above the groundwork and
their animalism are nonstrous.
have known Russian learn Chinese
within six months Englishi they learn
it while you are talking to them. The
children play at chess and study the
violin for their own amusement The
world will be glad of Russia=when she
has put her house in order.
JEROME K. JEROME
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-09-23
De..Car01ina

En- ell dia de hoy partieron para
Guayama las acreditadas maestras gra-
duadas, seffcritas Enriqueta y Emilia
Rodriguez, vecinas de este pueblo,
con ell fin de abrir las clases. ~en sus
respectivas escuelas, Ell IS del corrien-
te, en- aquella importante localidad.
Deseamosles buen viaje y que ell
exito corone sus esfuerzos en- la peno-
sa tsrea del Magisterio.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-09-23
Mensaje del General Plaza

Ell Presidente del Ecuador, don
Leonidas Plaza, envio ell 10 de agosto
al Congreso de Quito su tiltimo men,
safe presidential. cuya sfntesis es la
siguiente:
L-Separaci6n de la Iglesia y del
Estado,
Exclaustracion de las communicates
religiosas incautacion de los bienes
de manos muertas.
Emancipation de la mujer.
Libertad de testar.
Reduction del contrato matrimonial
q una forna simple y 1nica.
Ampliaci6n de los motives de di-
vorcio hasta la so1a manifestation de
los c6nyuges ante autoridad compe-
tente.
PIena secularizacion de la ensenanza.
Suppression de los jurados de impren-
ia abrogacion de todas las leyes que
tiend an a coartar difcultar la liber
tad del pensamiento.
Suppression del art1culo constitutional
que declara reconoce la religion del
Estado.
H.-V ariaci6n del sistema de elec-
clones stablecimiento de Colegios
e1ectorales.
Suppression del voto del ejercito.
Dilataci6n por tres amos mas del
periodic presidential.
Ley de Regimen Municipal Due re-
duzca las municipalidades sus
propios terminus, sin consentirlas in
tervenci6n directa indirecta en- ell
terreno politico
Reorganization de la policfa sobre
bases mas amplias y cientf6cas,
Un buen sistema penitenciario.
III.-Comision Codi6cadora, que Sc
entienda en- esta blecer la concordia
de nuestra legislation y su armonfa
con las necesidades de la epoca.
Tribun ales Supremos, Superiores VI
de Cuentas, Alcaldes y Jueces Letra-
dos de election popular.
Creaci6n de la Estadfstica con rem
tas adecuadas y conveniente organi-
zacion. q
IV.-Un buen sistema rentis:ico.
Capitalization de rentas.
Equiibrio en- Ell presupuesto.
Centr a1izaci6n de Obras P1blicas.
No es todo este, dice el Presidente
Plaza, pero es 10 mas, seguramente, y
cuando 10 hayamos obtenido, trabaja-
remos para que las instituciones y las
leyes que broten de esta reforma, am
plia, radical gcnerosamente llevada q
cabo, no sean la expression de aspira-
clones individuales nj la realization
del ideal de un partido polftico sino,
mas adn, norma de conducta y condi-
cion de vida.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-09-23
J. AMERICAN RAILROAD COMPANY or PORTO RICO.

SCHEDULE OF EFFECT ON AND AFTER SEPTEMBER TO- 1905
BETWEEN SAN JUAN CAROLINA CAMUY AGUADH MYAGEz AND P0NCE
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-25
Deaths in the District.

The following deaths have been reported
to the health office in the last twenty
hours:
Sarah E. Bailey IS years, 1125 New
Hampshire avenue northwest
Lewis P. Ball. IS days, AZ X street north
east.
Clarence l. Bartlett, u years, 1913 5th
street southeast.
Elizabeth W. Baxter. IS years. 1913 sth
street northwest.
Truman Beckett, 40 years, Maryland ave-
nue. near 9th southwest.
John 7. Biggs, 90 years Garfield Hospital.
Caroline Carter 80 years, Washington
Asylum Hospital.
Samuel E. Chappell, years, 1901 32d
Walter Cherry, p years, $50 Hughes
court
Jessie F. Cole, 10 months, 9o5 22d street
northwest.
Mary A Cole, % years. Sbley Hospital
Nettie A. Cole, 81 years, I1o Sth street
northeast.
John c. Cotton, 3 months, Sibley Hospital.
Annie NJ. Crump, IL years, 92o 9th street
northwest.
William Dean, 30 years, Freedmens Hos
John r. Dulin, year, 1907 Gales street
northeast.
Caroline Edmondston, 81 years, 449 @
street
Alice Epps, AZ years. Providence Hospital
Samuel ii. GRIMM, sS years, l3OS New
Hampshire avenue.
Marie j. Hames. IL years, 713 18th street
northwest.
William w. Heron, 81 years, 1462 Binney
street northwest.
Richard L. Hyde, 81 years. Congress
Heights.
Amelia M. Jackson. % years. 1880 9Th
street northwest
Francis R. King, u years, Episcopal Eye,
Ear and Throat Hospital.
Ode A. King, 3S years. 1911 B street
southeast.
Mary NJ Mann, SO years, 1876 23d street
northwest.
James Mason, 90 years. 800 Pomeroy
street northwest.
Dorsey Minor, q years, 2113 9th street
northwest
Wilbert Moore, 8 years. 210 Ruppert's
court southeast.
Eugene Maybe, IA years, 226 Seaton street
northeast.
Mary A. T. OHallaghan. g. years. 1880
Eye street northwest.
Robert A. Paine. "a years, 214 H street
southwest.
Maria A. Redman, 6s years, 4Ss Cullinane
alley southwest.
Frederick e. Sherwood 63 years, 474
Pennsylvania avenue northwest
Catherine B. Sullivan, 50 years, George
Washington College.
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Death of Mrs. Fague.

Mrs. Rosa V. Fague. daughter of the late
John s. Springmann and wife OF Joseph r..
Fague of the District bar, died at her
home, 300 11th street southwest, yesterday
after a long Illness. The funeral will take
place tomorrow at 2:3o pm. from the
family residence and interment will be in
Congressional cemetery. Rev. J. T. Wight
man of Baltimore win officiate. He will be
assisted by the Rev. J. c. Hawk. pastor OF
Marvin NJ. +. Church. and the Rev. Clau-
dius L. Smith of Epiphany p. Z. Church.
Mrs. Fague leaves her husband and two
daughters by former husband-Sadie the
wife OF Charles e. Babcock and Miss Clara
Bacon.