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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-23
MARRIED THE WRONG MEN.
Women Wed Their Lovers Doubles in
Austria and France.

From Tit-Bits.
A strange case of matrimonial fraud has
lately occurred at Vienna. A woman of
the lower middle class married a man
whom she took to be q Herr Weiss, her
fance, returning after years absence In
America to make her his wife. In less
than a month he robbed her of her savings
and then suddenly disappeared
A month later she received a letter from
America regretting that the writer had
been too Ill to return at the time agreed,
but stating that he was about to sail, and
that Immediately on his arrival he would
fulfill his promise by leading her to the
altar. The letter was signed Hermann
Weiss"
The poor woman was thrown into a sad
condition of perplexity and apprehension,
and her worst fears were realized when, on
her correspondents arrival she recognized
that she had been imposed upon by cal
lous fmposter- whose resemblance to the
real simon pure was marvelously striking. 1t
subsequently TRANSFERRED that the genuine
Hermann Weiss had while in America
foregathered with his double who had as
ccrtafned sufficient of the formers history
and prospects to enable him to carry out
with success his base scheme of deception
and heartless robbery
When Claude Bonnat, baker of Mar
settles, was in hiding from the police, who
held a warrant for his arrest on a serious
charge, he managed to communicate with
an acquaintance one Leriot, who in every
respect was his exact double, and conjured
him on the strength of their old
friendship to promise that, should any mis-
fortune befall him. he would, by imper-
sonating him-an easy enough task by
reason of the striking resemblance existing
between them-keep from the young woman
to whom he was engaged the knowledge of
her lovers shame. Leriot gave his promise
which sat but lightly on his conscience as
one to be kept or broken as within might
direct.
However, when Bonnat day or two later
fell into the hands of justice Leriot sought
out the young woman, of whom he had no
previous knowledge, with the result that
his susceptible heart was so touched that
he entered into the fulfllment of his promise
with surprising zeal. So well, indeed, did
he enact the role of Bonnat that he in
short while espoused the latter's lancee
The couple led life of complete happiness
which was In no wise dimmed when some
years later, on the convict's release, the
wife first discovered the fraud of which
she had been the victim.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-23
coFFIN's couRT-MARTrAL.
Trial Of Midshipman for Hazing VIII
Occur Next Week.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ANNAPOLIS. Md. December 2s.-It was
announced at the Naval Academy this
morning that the court-martial for the trial
of Midshipman Trenmore Cofisi. jr., of Car
son City. New, for hazing Midshipman Jer-
don p. Kimbrough of Germantown. Tenn,
would be convened at the Naval Academy
next week. The trial will in all probability
start on Thursday. The court will be COM
posed OF six members. including the Judge
advocate.
Rear Admiral Sands. superintendent of
the academy has not definitely arranged the
detail of the court Three of the members
will be sent down from Washington by the
Navy Department, because the six members
are not available here unless with Interrupt
ton of their other duties at the academy.
The ranking member will be commander
The charges and specifications against Cof-
fin are now being prepared in the office of
the superintendent The charge will. of
course, he "hazing," the specification being
that Coffin compelled KimbrouEh to stand
on his head until he became unconscious,
The trial of Warren A. Vanderyeer of
Mount Holly, N. j., who is under arrest for
not reporting the hazing OF Kimbrough
while he was aware of 1t as the mfdship-
man In charge Of the floor where the Of
Tense was being committed, will probably
follow Immediately after the conclusion Of
Collins trial.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-23
The Darwinian Theory.
From the New York Tribune.


Miss Agnes Mahony, missionary to liz
IBERIA, was visiting Philadelphia with two
African slave girls that she had bought for
SO apiece. Miss Mafony's pictures of Liz
IBERIA were somber. She relieved the gloom
of her narrative with an anecdote OF an
African coast pilot.
This pilot" said Miss Mahony. was
once bringing a ship northward. The cap
tain. toward sunset, bade him go below and
help himself to glass of cold tea.
AFTER taking the tea the pilot proceeded
to munich biscuit.
Now, the captain owned a large monkey,
and this creature sat browsing In a dark
corner of the gloomy cabin. The pilot
said:
shrugged it's shoulders.
1.-The pilot with affable gruffness went
on:
:. The south light is away on the port bow
now, sir
There was no answer.
But the pilot was persistent He con-
tinued:
Well be over the bar. sir in an hour
Failing to get reply even to this pleas
ant information, the pilot went up on deck
again, and. taking his place beside the
captain on the bridge. said
What a quiet chap your father Is.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-23
Biggest Farm in the World.
,rom Ererybody's MagazIne.

IRON EVefypous Sioea@hne.
In a moment of vinous enthusiasm Dam
lei Webster put his hand in his pocket,
asked how much the national debt was,
and offered to pay it himself. A Mexican
farmer, Don Luis Terrazas, great friend
of President Diaz, once offered to assume
the Mexican national debt and 1t wouldn't
have kept him awake nights If his offer
had been accepted. Don Luis has what you
might call tidy little farm at Chihuahua;
about eight million acres. Takes the Mexi-
can Central trains more than half a day
to cross 1t. Whew! Don Luis is thought
TO own more than million cattle, but a
bagatelle of a hundred thousand or so
more or less never bothers him. His sta
Bile consists of some 100000 horses; his
sheepfoId of 100000 sheep. From 100000 to
100000 calves are branded with his brand
every spring More than a thousand cow
boys and so on keep his cattle on thou
sand hills. BY the way his farm includes
few mountains, for diversification. At
his slaughter and packing houses near Chi
htiahua City 250,000 cattle as many sheep
and hogs innumerable are killed; and away
they go in his own refrigerator-cars Some
40, 600 persons dwell on his estate and are
ruled by this Arabian Nights farmer, who
lives In a two-million (silver) dollar castle
and is swell and nabob such as these
United States know not.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-23
ART BY THE TON.
Involving Contract That MacMonnies
Came Near Making.
From the Worlds Work.

FROM the Norlds Work
OF late years Mr.. MacMonnies has had so
many commissions to do groups of sculp-
ture that he has made it rule never TO
enter a competition with other artists for
an order. In this connection story IS told
of an American city that asked him to en-
ter design for army and navy groups for
a soldiers and sailors monument He de-
clined to compete. Then the commission
was rendered him outright He submitted
sketches of his Idea for the groups The
committee In charge of the monument
wrote him, asking:
How many tons of granite do you intend
to use in the base?''
His reply was: If you are in the business
of buying granite you may use as much as
you want, one ton or 100000 tons. am an
artist, and l have never yet heard of art
being bought by the pound"
me question was dropped until the con-
tract for the commission was drawn When
Mr.. MaeMonnies received it he discovered
in 1t a clause providing that in case the
bronzes were ever thrown down from their
base by any cause whatever and any per-
son or property should be injured he and
his heirs forever should be liable for the
damage sustained. He returned the con-
tract without comment, Unsigned When
the committee wrote him asking the res
son his brief reply was: Your lawyers are
too sharp"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-23
Foreigners in Russia.
From Everybody's Magazine.
The chancellor Sni,ad &


The chancellor smiled.
mot long ago." he replied, "a gentleman
came here with just such a letter But
meanwhile the governor had received diff
ferent orders from some one else in Peters
burg. The gentleman did not see the peas
ants
Let's get out of this I said, speaking
low in English Lets hire sleigh and
just begin looking as we did nf-those other
villages. At least we can see something
before we get expelled
Unfortunately the chancellor caught my
meaning.
''If YOU try to see the peasants by your
selves. he said, you viii not only be
watched by the police. but some at least of
the peasants to whom you talk will be our
spies, We have telephones to every viii
iage. and In two hours at latest we shall
know not only whom you have seen.. but
also what you yourselves have said Mean.
while you will have been seized and thrown
into village jail awaiting our orders" He
smiled grimiy. Our village police are
rough fellows They would doubtless fog
you both In Jail before We could inform
them who you were. OF course We should
be sorry for this and should reprimand'
them But 81 tbs meant tn1e, you rec you.
would have b1on NpG9 az
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-23
EXCHANGE OF GREETINGS.
Mr.. Howard Compliments Employees
and They Reciprocate.

Mr.. George E. Howard, proprietor of the
Howard Printing and Publishing Company
and general manager of the Howard Label
Company gave his employees. numbering
over one hundred luncheon at o'clock
today at his place of business. ia 18th
street northwest. The composing room.
where the luncheon was held. was deco
rated with greens, holly and bunting.
A large Christmas tree occupied one end
of the room. and contained a stocking for
each employee. Mr.. J. Harry Cunningham.
manager of the Howard Printing Company,
presented Mr.. Howard, on behalf Of the
employees, a fur automobile coat, and Mr..
Thomas F. McCrew, superintendent Of the
Howard Label Company, acted as Santa
Claus and distributed the stockings Mr.
Howard. In his usual happy yein thanked
each and every one for their attention to
duty and attention to his success.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-23
Safest Seat in the Train.
From Everybody's Magazine.

FROM Everybody Magazine
Timid persons shun the last car, at least
for week or two after reading about
some deadly 'rear-end' accident, and the
first car from fear of a .head-on' collision.
They practice the old maxim, Elm the mid
die you will go safest and stick to the
middle of the train. A scientific gent" has
just demonstrated, after much brow-fllr-
rowing calculation, that a seat in the mid
die of the last car but one Is the safest
Thus does science verify. with great pa
rade, the conclusions of the non-learned
Accidents are so diverse and eccentric, how
ever, that the stoical traveller. puts more
trust in his accident policy than in any
doctrine of probabilities At last the rail-
road companies are condescending to build
steel cars. Human life ought to lengthen
as a consequence. 1t has not escaped Gym
ical observation that the voyager in a Pull
man is usually safer than the common herd
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-23
The Socialists Shirts.
I'M Everybody's Magazine.

From Eyerybody's Magazine.
Two casual acauaintances were discuss
ing politics. One announced that he had
turned socialist.
81 don't know what socialist it." said
the other.
"A socialist is one who believes in diyid-
ing UP with the other fellow
Does that mean that If you had two
farms you would give me one?.'
Sure I would"
''And IL you had two houses?',
~ would give you one
And If you had two shirts what would
you do with them?f
"Ah, gwan! you know have two Shirts
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-23
Postal Card Insurance.

From Eyerybcdy's Magazine.
The members of a Photographic society
or institute In Zurich have started plan
of cheap life insurance. postal card
costing cents protects the receiver for
thirty days to the amount of $500, to go to
the next of kin. or insures him y225 a
week, so long as. In case of not fatal ac-
cident he cannot work. Address this card
to yourself end you have about as easy a
form OF life Insurance as can be desired
But 50 cents 8 year for $40 insurance seems
suspiciousiy low rats.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-23

What is a big automobile
road race likef What is it good
for?
Read Car Comingl" in Ev-
erybody's for January. 1t puts
you right in the midst of the big
Vanderbilt road race. So thrill
ing an account of any race was
never written before.
"You must forget your fear
and play the game"-is the key
note of one part. Makes the
world better"--is the keynote
of the other part. The bridge
over the chasm is a highly in
teresting structure.
Everybody who is fond of the
sport, everybody who is bitterly
opposed TO Everybody should
read Car Coming!' in Every
body's.
Everyiody's Magazine Is cents
s1.50 year
Special representatives wanted for Everybody
agazlne in towns whe.e there are no dealers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-23

From Harper's Weekly.
The following graceful acknowledgment
and news item combined appeared recently
in the columns of a Missouri contempo-
rary: Mrs. Henry Woggs. who is a pleas
ant and estimable lady. and who can bake
the finest cake ever made. having sent us
some and therefore making us a judge. and
who has family OF nice, ciean,. polite
children. and who plays the piano beautf-
fully and gives lessons on the same to
few fortunate pupils IN our little city, had
& tooth pulled Friday"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-23
Ignorant Of Napoleon.
From the London Chronicle.

The instances OF general ignorance I'd
which attention has been drawn recall a REL
markable case once mentioned by Lord
Beaconsfeld He related that Napoleon /, d
year after he became emperor, determined
to find out whether there was any one In
the world who had never heard of him.
Within q fortnight the police of Paris had
discovered Woodehopper OF Montmartre
within Paris who had never heard ~ thu
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-23

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-16
SUNDAY MAGAZINE for JULY 16, 1905

to possess money whom regard with admiration
but the man who is making money, and thereby
proving his efficiency and indirectly beneitng the
community. 1t will sound to many insuferable
paradox to assert that nowhere in the civilized
world to-day is money itself of less weight than
here in the United States but the broader his
opportunity the likely is an honest observer
to come to this strange conclusion. Fortunes are
made in a day almost, and they may fade away
in night; as the Yankee proverb put it pithily:
It's only three generations from shirt-seeves to
shirt-sleeves," Wealth is likely to lack something
of its glamour in a land where well-beng is widely
diffused and where a large proportion of the
population have either had a fortune and lost it.
or else expect to gain in the immediate future.
Probably also there is country which
tains more men who do not greatly care for large
gains and who have gladly given up money-making
for some other occupation they found profit
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-16

able for themselves. These are the men like
Thoreau, in whose Walden, half century
old we can find emphatic declaration of all the
latest doctrines of the simple life. We all have
heard of Agassiz-best of Americans even though
he was born in another Republc-how he repealed
the proffer of large terms for series of lectures
with the that he had no time to make
money Closely akin the reply of a famous
machinist in response to an inquiry to what he
had been doing to the effect that he had accom-
pished nothing of late: ''Weve Just been building
engines and making money and I'm about tired
of it" And few years ago college professor of
known executive ability declined the presidency of
trust company, which offered him a salary at
least five times what he receiving There are
not few men to-day toiling in these United States
who hold with Ben Jonson that money never made
any rich-but his mind
But while this is true, while there are some men
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-16

among us who care little for money and while
there are many who chiefly for the making of
it, ready to share it when made with their fellow
citizens, candor compels the admission that there
are also not a few who greedy and grasping
selfish and Shameless and who stand forward con-
spicuous and INSCRIPTIONS, as though to Justify
to the full the aspersions which foreigners cast
upon us.
Although these men manage for the most
part to keep within the letter of the law their
morality is that of the wrecker and of the pirate
1t IS symptom of health in the body polite that
the proposal has been made to nlict social ostra-
cism upon the criminal rich. We need to stifen
our consciences and to set up loftier standard of
social intercourse, refusing to have fellowship with
the men who make their money by overriding the
law or by undermining it-just we should
have declined the friendship of Captain Kidd
Continued page I6
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costuming, the posing and attitudnizing even the
wonderful make-ups. .-.,=
The peacocks know they are on parade, and every
smile, every hand-shake, every stare through the
nsoent lorgnette, every bit of upto-date fashion,
able slang, are all for the eyes and of their
audience The peacocks and the birds of Paradise
revel IN this exhibition. 1t is part of their daily
hves-ther very meat and drink
Here one behods the most amazing and Devil
der1ng results of the sartorial art Here are the
startling color schemes, the ultramodsh cut the
latest in frills and "fa-lals" The Kaleidoscope
opalescence of hue dazzles the eye the musical
frou-frou of satin and silk pleases the ear and the
perfume of vlolets and orrs overpowers the senses
One who longs to behold the quntessence of modern
feminine luxury at least once in lifetime should
journey to Peacock Promenade
"Rubberneck Row. is another story That is
over the footlights. 1t is peopled by the onookers
distinctly outside of the splendid procession There
is something almost pathetic about ''Rubberneck
Row" 1t IS not much that the women there
lack distinction and STYLE that their garments are
year behind the mode the materials of a
lesser quality. 1t is the demonstration of the men
tai paucity that drives them to haunt this famous
corridor.
There many young women in big New-York
who spend three and four days each week in Rub
berneck Row., star-gazing and incidentally eating
their hearts. They cannot live without the almost
daily excitement of watching the parade of the
peacocks. This mental stimulant, tasted at first
out of curiosity becomes a fixed habit
They crave the spectacle the morphine victim
his drug.
what? Here again to-day" the writer heard
one young matron say to another recently in
"Rubberneck Row.
Yes, was the reply. Il can't stay away If
L do am restless and fdgety | don't know
what to do with myself"
So am t. was the response.
The writer watched these two as they eagerly
devoured the spectacle before them Have you
ever watched women at the races-the strained ex-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-16

Look my Children" cucks the matronly hen,
" at those gorgeous greens and blues-they are
wearing those colors this season. And notice the
magnificent way that elegant tail is spread like
a huge fan All the first families are spreading
their plumage that way now. 1t is very smart"
And all the baby chickens cry: ooh, mamal"
and twist their fuzzy little necks to get a better
view of the passing magniicence.
In certain famous hotel in certain famous
city there is enacted daily scene analogous to the
comedy of the farm-yard The stately peacocks
strut to and fro Haunting their splendor. Mule
birds of more sober punage flock thther to behold
the spectacle
There is wide corridor where the g1ittering
pageant passes up and down 1t is called 81 Pea
cock Promenade But from the fact that the
sides of this hall lined with seats whereon out
siders sit and cape at the endless procession it is
also called in the picturesque slang of the day,
" Rubberneck Row"
There is no greater mental food for the social
philosopher than the spectacle of one woman over
hauling anothers costume with her eyes We are
all familiar with the ntodus 0Perdnd of the public
conveyances- surface car is crowded with tailor
made Each is comfortably and we'll
enough gowned. Suddenly woman, beside whose
magnihcence the splendor of Shebas Queen would
fade into inSgnifcance, enters with much rustling
of silk, much swaying of plunes and much glttering
of gewgaws. Instantly every woman in the car
twists her neck until it is in danger of dslocation
every pair of eyes fixed with cold, calculating
glanCes upon the newcomer; every mortal mind is
busy reckoning to within fraction the cost of the
outfit; and every lip curls with one would
say: You think yourself very smart but l have
gown at home that would make yours look like
thirty cents"
Often one pair of critical eyes will meet another
and Geographic smile of dsdain will flash between
The woman who provoke scornful smile be-
tween two other in public place may be
at rest anent her costume; for while these women
smile IN we-s1mulated mockery at her toilet,
they are secretly grinding their teeth in envious
rage of it's success.
But to return to Peacock Promenade" Along
the marble floors, between potted plants and stat
uaTy, to the sound of distant music, moves each
day the enchanting procession 1t is like stage
picture, and not a stage accessory is missing.
There are the music and properties, the gorgeous