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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-26
Miners Will Resent Con-
temptuous Treatment.
SIT OATION CRITICAL
RECOGNITION OF THE UNION
DEMANDED OF THE OPERATORS.
President Baer Declared to Be the
Pivot Upon Which Events Will
Turn-Coal Regions Prosperous.
BY WILLIAM e. CURTIS.

Specal Correspondence of The Star and the Chicago
Record Herald.
HAZELTON. Penna., October II, 1905.
The labor situation in the anthracite coal
regions is critical, and another long strike
at the termination of the existing agree
ment, on the first of April next, can only
be avoided by the exercise of tact and d.
plomacy on the part of the operators. Dis
interested people, who are familiar with
conditions, do not hesitate to say that
Mr. Baer, president Of the Reading railroad
is the pivot upon which events will turn;
that upon his disposition and behavior the
dreaded demonstration will depend. Two of
the three divisions have already made the
following demands:
q, A recognition OF the Mine Workers Union
hy the coal operators, to take the form OF
s.gEed agreement between committee of toe
operators and the officials OF the union, concern
ing hours and wages
~ An elght-hour day for every man on the
pgyrolls. $500
j;1 An increase Of 10 per cent for all unskilled
lahor.
a. uniform scale Of wage for all employees
except contract miners.
The third division holds its convention
In November Il do not remember the date)
and will probably concur in the demands.
Joint convention, to be held at Shamokin
in December will undoubtedly rattfy them
also and instruct the officers of the union
to present them to the operators before
April l. when the agreement arranged by
President Roosevelts commission, In 1903,
expireS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-26
A Temporary Stay.

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger
Mr.. Timmid-"Miss Pechis-er-Mabel-
I'm going to kiss you"
Miss Pechis thaughtily)-"How dare
you. sir, Besides, the shades are up"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-09-12
MEN WITH TAILS.
queer Records of an Old Time Writ
err on This Subject.

Queer Records of an Old Time Writ
err on This Subject.
Mention of an obscure belief in other
countries that Englishmen used to wear
tails has prompted a correspondent to
submit some information regarding the
subject Of tails in general Dr. John
Wolff, an old time writer, said: '"There
Is even in England a gentleman Of
dark complexion and of great talents
who walks exactly as If he had. tail,
and people of high rank told me that
he and his family were known to have
tails, and therefore in his carriage
there is hole in the seat where he
sits In order that he may be able to
sit comfortably"
Barring Curious Myths of
the Middle Ages" contains the follow
ing: 'Dr. Wolff in his travels and ad-
ventures says, There are men and
women in Abyssinia with tails like
dogs and horses Wolff also heard
from a great many Abyssinians and
Armenians land Wolff is convinced Of
the truth of it, that there are near
Narea, in Abyssinia, people-men and
women-with large tails, with which
they are able to knock down horse,
and there are also such people near
China" A note in Barring Gould's book
adds: "In the College of Physicians
and Surgeons at Dublin may still be
seen a human skeleton with a tail
seven inches long. There are many
known instances of this elongation OF
the caudal vertebra. as in the Poo
hangs in Borneo"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-09-12
THE DEEP SEA DIVER.
His Calling About the Most Grew.
some of All Occupations

His Calling About the Most Grew
some of All Occupations.
Beyond all question, the calling of a
deep sea diver employed in examin-
ing and clearing away sunken wrecks
is the most grewsome. Putting aside
the fact that his life is in constant
danger from the results of submarine
enemies or accident to his diving dress
and apparatus, the sights that he is
called upon to See and to see, more
over, amid the most horrible surround
ings, exceed in ghastliness even those
which the hospital or the army sur
geon is called upon to confront. No
where else ON land or sea are so many
accumulated horrors to be found as in
the hull of ship which has sunk with
crew and passengers.
The hideous condition in which the
diver finds the victims of the wreck,
some half devoured by fish, some
standing upright and floating to and
fro with a CHASTITY parody of living mo-
ton, some still locked together as
though yet In the last agony OF the
death struggle, and some floating about
the interior Of ship and knocking
and rubbing up against him with hid
eous lifelikeness that is utterly indie
seribable. These are some of the hor-
rible sights which deep sea divers have
to work amid when they are employed
on sunken wrecks. When to all these
are added the awful gloom and silence
amid which the work has to be per-
formed, there will not seem to be
much doubt that of all modern callings
that of the deep sea diver is the most
grewsome.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-09-12
A MONSTER PHANTOM.
The Ancient Morse Legend of the
Flying Dutchman.

The Ancient Morse Legend of the
Flying Dutchman.
The old Norsemen had a curious and
vague tradition of a phantom ship
which they called Mannifual. The
French maritime chronicler, Jal, gives
an account of her. So likewise does
Thorpe in his work on Northern
Mythology She was so gigantic that
her masts were taller than the highest
mountains. The captain rode about
on horseback delivering his orders.
Sailors going aloft as boys came down
respectable middle aged, men, and in
the blocks about her rigging were din
ing halls where they sustained life
during their heavenward wanderlngs.
When passing through the strait of
Dover on her way northward she
stuck, but the captain, with ready in
vention, ordered her sides to be lib
orally besmeared with soap, and she
slipped through, leaving the cliffs of
France and England white forever aft
erward.
Down to within q century ago this
gigantic ship was known among Eng
fish sailors by the name Of the Merry
Dun of Dover, but she seems quite to
have disappeared from the maritime
lore Of Great Britain. Seamen of
Normandy still believe in her existence
and call her the Chasse Froude. They
say that she is so immense that 1t
occasion In turning her bowsprit swept
away a whole battalion of soldiers
from the Dover cliffs while her stern
boom was demolishing the forts of
Calais.
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SPIRIT OF THE PIANO.


More Adapted to the ParlOr Than to
the Concert Hall.
The fact that the piano Is descended
from the spinet and the harpsichord is
still stumbling block to amateurs of
music. The fact that in tone and
resonance 1t has lately been enormous
ly developed is also a stumbling block
to those who write for it. The first
class have entirely neglected the harp
sichord, perfect and fully evolved in
strument, the spirit Of which is alto
gether different from that of the piano.
The second class have been tempted by
the dynamics of the piano to treat 1t
too much like an orchestra and to for
get that it is not only a solo instru-
ment, but really chamber instrument.
Its utterance, which Chopin under
stood so we'll, is really chamber music,
and there Is always something lamen-
table to me in the contemplation Of a
great artist distressing himself and his
instrument In the attempt to fill a
large concert room with exaggerated
iGSolOno VI q QCAlCulC anu
temperament. The effect is never en-
tirely satisfactory, however great the
artist may be. for that note of intimacy
which Is surely the very essence and
spirit Of the piano cannot possibly be
maintained in the presence of a large
and miscellaneous audience.
When we consider among all our i'm
pressions of pianoforte music the mo-
ments that have given US memorable
pleasure, we find that they took place
In intimate assemblies where some one
played and some one sang and where
the atmosphere thrilled with Just that
amount Of electric disturbance which
we call sympathy, which is born with
the meeting of friends and dies when
they disperse National Review.
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We have become so accustomed to
rolling the proper names in our geogra-
phies over our tongues as glibly as we
do our own that few of us ever stop to
think how much Of history, political.
natural and religious. is wrapped up in
few syllables. How many towns do
you know that end in berg" burg"
"burgh" or borough?
Take for the first one Edinburgh. for
Instance. How came it by that name
Instead Of Stumptown or Hardscrab-
Bile? Let us take the "burgh" out of
the name first.
"Burgh" means In England and Scot
land corporate town. All the English
towns that end in berry" "burrow,"
bury" borrow" etc, have that end
Ing from "burgh." In the German it
means a castle or fortified town. So
much for our ~ourgh" Then, In Edin-
burgh, it means the castle or town Of
whom or what? Here ''Edin" is only
Edwin" shortened, and Edinburgh
the town Of Edwin. Taking this one as
model, the study becomes easy and
nteresting.-London Globe.
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logs, ana the IaDor was nn1sneo TWO
days in advance.
1T is well. my children" said Nassik.
The waters will take everything at
their food, and then down at the
bridge they will see what they will see.
Let us now rest from our labors."
Down at the bridge there was no
fear as the food crept up. The Coon
tree was not bringing down enough
driftwood to tear raft from its moor
lngs. So 1t was for a week.
One morning when high water mark
was reached the chief engineer sneered
at the turgid food. Two hours later
there was wild alarm. The face of
the waters was hidden by drift. Never
had man seen so much Of 1t. 1t came
rushing down like wall. Some passed
between the piers at first and went
crashing along, but presently there
was swirling about and a wedginR
OF mighty trees, and five minutes later
there was block In half an hour II
extended back mile, and the force of
million horses was pressing against
It. For quarter of an hour the handi-
work OF man withstood the strain of
the elements. Then there was a crash
and a roar, and the current of the
Goomtree flowed on as IL man had
never been.
Kim Nassik had been whipped, and
he had revenged himself.
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Telling His Name.

Lord Baltimore was formerly plain
David Plunkett. Shortly after he was
raised to the peerage he took a trip
to the Riviera. The French railway
company reserved carriage for his
private use. At some unknown hour
Of the night the door Of the carriage
was suddenly opened. A lantern was
flashed upon him, and a voice sharply
cried, "Votre nomT c'Your namer)
Lord Baltimore, Weakened out Of his
sleep, looking up in a partly dazed
condition, discovered a railway off,
cial on his way round for tickets. Lord
Rathmore's name was on the paper af-
fixed to the window, marking the COM
partment as reserved. The official de-
sired to Identify the occupant Of the
carriage with the person to whose use
it was inscribed. "Votre nomH" he
sternly repeated, seeing the passenger
hesitate. There sprang to Lord Rath-
mores lips the familiar David Plum
kett." Happily he remembered In time
he was no longer David Plunkett, but
for the life of him he could not re-
member what title In the peerage he
had selected. 1t seemed half an hour
to him before he could remember
Baltimore
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A story of Horace Greeley.

One of the stories told of Horace
Greeley in Wilder's THE Sunny Side
Of the Street" Is a curious rendering
into vernacular experience of the an
Gent Horace's theater going gentleman
Of Argos, with his retort, "Cui sic ex-
torta voluptas ct demptus per vim
mentis gratissimus error"
A friend-one Of the wise, observant,
upsetting kind of friends-called on
Greeley one cold winter day and found
the great journalist with a favorite
book in his hand, beatiflc smile on his
face and his feet over the register. The
visitor had previously been through
the building and learned that the fur
mace had gone wrong and been re-
moved, the cold air flue could not be
closed and zero air was coming
through all the registers, so he said:
mr.. Greeley, why do you keep your
feet there? There is no heat-only cold
air is coming up!"
Greeley tumbled out of his chair and
In the childish whine that always came
to him when he was excited replied:
"Why didn't you let me alone1 [
was entirely comfortable, but now I'm
near you Pm frozen"
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The great ship labored in the storm.
Ever and anon giant wave would
throw the steel leviathan on her beam
ends, and at each shock the heads Of
the passengers would knock In an an
vii chorus against the sides of their
berths. At this critical moment, with
roar that rose above the fury Of the
hurricane mob Of determined men
burst upon the deck.
'Mutinyr gasped the mate.
mo, they are cabin passengers" said
the captain. "Now, gentlemen, you
must go below. There really Is no
danger"
Eyes there is-danger for a Jonah
who is on this ship" came back the
answering chorus.
who do you mean, gentIemenY'
asked the captain.
SHOW u.s." they howled-" show us
that fellow who was singing Rocked
In the Cradle of the Deep only a few
hours ago. Let vs. at himw-New York
Press.
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A reader at the Paris Bibliotheque
Rationale has dug up the prescriptions
for medicines which were ordered to
Prince Condo In his last illness. A
consultation Of three physicians pre-
scribed "a syrop made of rice, marsh
mallow roots and sugar candles" and
a blister to be applied night and morn
ing. The distinguished patient failed
to improve, and fourth doctor was
called in, who ordered two ounces of
a preparation Of hyacinths to fortify
the heart and repair the exhausted
forces" followed by poppy water"
"syrop of stag horns" "ipecachuana,"
'liquorice" and "mistletoe roots" The
prince lived through this treatment for
six months, when he died, according
to the death certificate, ''of the malady
from which he was suffering" 1t
doesn't make any difference now. but
it is natural to hope he didn't die Of
anything worse.
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There is an American in London who
is rapidly learning English. He used
to ring the bell and call CURLY for
"mucilage." Assiduous and willing at
tendants brought him everything you
can think of from the ''peerage" to
packets Of cigarettes, but never the ex-
act thing he wanted At last the most
intelligent Of the young men put the
right question and got the answer.
"Oh, yes" he said and brought gum.
In America when you want to stick
things together you ask for mucilage,
and when you want something to chew
you demand gum; so called, by lim-
itation, we presume, because II is
'stick Jaw. "-London Chronicle
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Washing in Naples is done In any old
tub, barrel or dish and generally out
side of the house, and by the amount
of water used one would judge 1t to be
scarce Instead Of a board broad
stone is used, supported by one stick
underneath and the edge Of the tub.
Water is cold, and the clothes are
hung out to dry in every conceivable
place. | saw some towels hung out
of a window in the palace. No clothes
pins are used. When one can afford 1t
rings are strung on to the line; other
wise strings are tied to strings, to
which a double piece Of short string is
tied; one corner of the article to be
dried is slipnoosed into this and never
becomes loose.-Chicago Tribune.
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1875

maze READY, out the men quarreIeG
among themselves as to who had the
best right. While the war of words
was going on the black horse could
have wheeled and broken through, but
he realized that his race was run. 1t
was bright moonlight, and he stood
blowing the steam from his nostrils,
and his head was never held higher.
His limbs trembled, but with weak
ness instead Of fright. His eyes had
lost their fire, but the race he had run
was to be talked about for twenty
years to come
Suddenly three or four men began
to whirl their lassos and others pre-
pared to shoot, and it was then that
the black horse uttered a sobbing
neigh, tossed his proud head high and
sank down with sigh and was dead
ere any man had laid hand on his fore
lock. Captivity was not for him.
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An odd Reriment.

In the fifties of the last century Mr..
Leveson- Cover resided in ST. Peters
burg. He told this story: Opposite to
our house was drawn up a regiment
called Paulovski, formed by the EN-
peror Paul, all the men having turned
up noses and therefore resembling
him. 1t seems it was the fashion here
to compose regiments of men who have
the same sort Of features. The emper-
or had reck1its sent to him and told
them off according to their looks. What
childishness! There is one regiment of
men all marked with the smallpox.
This Paulovski regiment did one thing
which amused me. Just before the cor
tege came up they all blew their noses
with their fingers at the word Of com
mand, and this was in order that none
of them might sneeze when the emper-
or passed, as their doing SO would
bring him bad luckp'
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Like Many a Man.

A horse was entered In a trotting
race. When he was put on the track
to be warmed up he seemed to move
with great energy, and number OF
inexperienced persons put up their mon
ey on him, but when the actual race
came off a rawboned, yew necked AMI
NAL that had no style about him passed
the snowy horse with great ease and on
the home stretch distanced him.
''That horse" said an experienced
race track man who had been wise
enough to back the rawboned steed,
(which lost out is like good many
people. He spends too much time and
energy going up in the air instead of
getting over the earth - Missouri Val
ley Farmer
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warning to Guests.

This notice greets one in hotel
opened by foreigner who has just
mastered" the English language:
Gentlemen who come in this hotel not
say anything about their meals they
will be charged for, and If they should
say beforehand that they are going
out to breakfast or dinner, and if they
say they have not anything to eat they
will be charged, OF unless they bring
it to the notice of the manager And
no fuss will be allowed afterward about
it, and nothing will be allowed to de-
duct anything out of it."-Paris Eng
fish and American Gazette.
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Pennsylvania RAILROAD.
The Standard Railroad Of America. Pro
feefed throughout BY Block Signals
and Intoxicating .SsOsiehes.
zratns ieave Mound Holly
IN EFFECT JUNE 25. 1905.

Trains tedUe Mount Holly
For Philadelphia, 5.55, 6.52, ia, 747, 1852. s.1s
857 9l7 ILL a. M, lilo, 2.42. 30 AS, 537 O3
$40, ia, 7.34, 1856, 1916 p. IN. On Sundays
sos, 1851, 1852 q. M. lbs, 5.49, 7l9, 9.28 d. m.
For Pemberton, SIS, 9.06, ll.2l q. M. L4l 2O7
4.38, GAL, 6.07, 40, (l240 a. m. Friday only
On Sundays, 1871, 1909 a. M, 40, $50 $50 o. M
For ington, $50, $40, 1915 a. m, 4.O5, 433
sos. 7.35. 800 p. N.
For Bordentown, Trenton and New York, G. 30
s.l0, 10. As a. M, 4.05, .33. sos, 7.35 p. m.
For Lumberton, Medford, MarltOn and Had.
donfteld, $40, ll-3O, a. ~, 4.40 p. M.
For Toms River, Island Heights and Sea Side
Park, 9.O6, 9.56 a. M. 207, 4.2S, 5.4l p. M ON
Sundays, 8.3l a. IN.
For As5ury Park and Long Branch, 9.O6, 9 81
q. M, 207, 4.2S p. IN. On Sundays, 8.3lsa. m.
Trains teGUe for Mount Holly as Jott0ios:
From Philadelphia 800, sl6, 8O8 $40, 1885, II. 40
O. M, 1850, $780, l50, ESQ, 356, 4.32, 90, 56, 544
SOS, SIS, 7.50, $40, l040 lI.50, p. On Sundays
From Trenton, FAC, $50, a. M, 2.55, $40 p. m.
From Burlington, SIS. 1905 a. m $50, 9. 8, 7.24,
e.52 p. m.
From New York, via Trenton and Burlington,
500, a. M, 100, 400, p. m.
From Medford, 7.07 a. m, l.30, sos D. m.
From Toms River 6.55, 8l9 q. m, 1922, 3.43, 6.42
p m. On Sundays, 6.22 p. m.
From North PembertOn, 6.S 7.l8, III, 902, q.
M, l2.47, III, 3.46, 4.l5, 6l2 = a p. m. On Sun
days. 7.34 a. M, u. %, $50, 655 9.l5 p. m.
From South Pemberton, 1882, a. M, 1858, Az,
6.52 pm On sundays, 70l p. m.
From Asbury Park, III, 1l.l3 a. m., 231, s. SO d.
M On Sundays, 5.Il p. m.
From Long Branch, 65S 1855 a. M, 2l2 5.l5 p.
m. On SUNDAYS. 400 o. M
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SELF Reaneet.

1t Is mistake to associate pride or
foppishness with self respect. The one
rises from a judiclous Consideration OF
what we are, the other from an extrav-
agant notion of what something ex-
traneous has made us. The one Is
true, the other is false, and both can
not exist together. A man that re-
spects himself cannot be proud, and
proud man does not respect himself.
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WEST JERSEY 8 sEAsBoKE RAILROAD

MedfOrd, Marit0n and Philadelphia.
Leave Medford for Philadelphia at 200, zoos a.
M, 2-05, $40 p. IN.
On Sundays, 7.05 a. M, i40 p. M.
Leave Marion for Philadelphia at TIA, l0lS g..
M, 223, 5.22 p. IN.
On Sundays, 7.l9 a. M, 452 p. m.
Leave Philadelphia, Market street, for Med
ford and Marion at zoo, 1880 a. M, Except
Saturdays), 100 p. M, saturdays only. $40,
90 p m.
On Sundays, 800 a. M, go D. m.
Leave MarltOn for MeifOrd, S.I7, ll.l9 q. M,
Except Saturdays), LAB p. M, saturdays
only, 4.06, 6.ll p. m.
On Sundays, 9.48 a, M, 708 p. m.
For further particulars apply to the ticket
agent at the station.
W. W. -ATTERBURY, j. r. WOOD,
General Manager. Gen. Pass. Agent
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Ability.

Father-You ought to be ashamed Of
yourself Dick. You are now in your
twenty-fifth year and you haven't
earned penny yet At your age /
had already married a woman with
100O0.-London World.
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81 understand Colonel Jones is a IA
talist"
YOU'RE right thar, stranger. He
never fails to git his New Or
leans Times Democrat.
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Il think / will invite the Bronsons.
l know they would be glad to come"
But, my dear. people who would be
glad to come are the very ones you
should not invite. Puck.
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OF all wild beasts preserve me from
/ tyrant; of all tame, from iatterer.
johnson
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Union transportation Company.


207, 500 p. M, weekdays. Sundays, 8.31 q. m.
Leave Tuckerton for Mount Holly, TIP, l0.l6 q.
M, 4.S0 p. M, weekdays. Sundays, 5.50p m.