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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-30
GREAT BIZ 6f E6oK

II was riding uptown IN a 9TH avenue SUR
face car In Now York one day last week. I"
said q post ofI3ce inspector, when q mighty
bad-iookfns accident occurred
AT 42d street q well-dressed. middle
aged man undertook TO swing himself on
boapd the open car while It was starting
Just after making the stop at that corner.
He had got one foot on the running
board, when the foot that still rested on
the wet pavement slipped. He slipped and
Tell forward on his hands. His left leg
shot beneath the wheels OF the moving car.
The conductor, who was collecting fares
from the running board. franticaIlv rang
the Dell to stop the car. Then men In the
car, including myself, shouted hoarsely. and
the women on the car screamed as IL bed
lain nad broken loose. One of the women
sank back in a dead faint. and she had to
De carried Into drug store after the Incl
dent was all over
The conductors signal to the motorman
stop till there was a horrible srindinT.
Joiting, crunching sound. The wheels had
passed over the middle-aged mans left leg.
1t was sfckening.
crowded sidewalk to do what they could
to assist the PROSTATE man.
When they got to him he was lying
downward. with his face resting on his
hands. His hat had fallen some distance
away, and his head looked gray and vener-
able.
But the PROSTATE man'was laughing just
NJ 10 20 XII:
ne WAS apsoiuteiy Snr1ekinE with merri-
ment. He was giving vent to explosions
OF pure enjoyment. He positively shouted
ana paWieo IN the overpius OF his tremen-
uous mirtn;
he laughed SO hard that 1t seemed as II
his sides must be just aching him.
People away up 9th avenue. heard his
i'appy, poisterous ma! mas! ana came rush,
ins aioals 10 see what was producing al
VI LIE Kun.
Inc pam VI having MS leg cut OH mas
put the poor oid gentleman OH ms nead,
was the sympatneuc remark OF iot OF
Us Mno s,opu aluunu ~a.9nlns MN anu rs.
HiiIlh. nis agony mas niaoe mn IeuI iouS.
poor oid chap became the UNIVERSAL verdict
as the madale-aged mans roarS OF laughter
grew even louder.
put dheTe was solneta ihS IN Inc uud!ily
OF ms laughter ihat puzzled me. lor all
.hat. II sounded 10 me IKE mignty neaithy:
human, foilcRlng laugnter-laugntef% inat
was actuaiiy proceeding from the nartn1ui
midrln OF the turnover man 10 my. ears
II dion nave even little DIT OF the '8rue-
some sound OF the KIND OF laughter that
proceeds from those IN state OF deIrium;
mere, lnere, ola chap, easy noW-We y!
get you OUT OF that nix all right, said
some of the willing helpers. as they start
ed to- see what they could do toward DIS
entangling the middie-aged man from
the wheels OF the car
Thanks, boys, he replied, to their
amazement, In a tone of perfect under
standing. But. say, he went on. It's so
blamed funny! and he went into another
paroxysm of laughter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-30
DON'T Talk of Your Health.

From the Boston Traveller.
IL you are not wen don't talk about it.
To do SO only exaggerates your conscious
ness OF physical discomfort. Also It casts
a shadow of gloom over other people. They
grow hesitant about asking you how you
feel: It gives them cold chills to be con-
tinually told that you are mot very we'll
or mot so welrv or about the same" Do
YOU know that q good deal of this Is imag-
inadons II you braced up aud told people
cheeraiy that you felt tip-top nine chances
u ten you would feel tip-top pretty soon.
You'd forget the aiixng habit.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-30
Lineage.

From the New York Sun.
Mrs oidblood-"Do you go back to VIII
liam the Conaueror?'
Mrs Newbiood-"No; but our boy is a
quarterback
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-30
Came Looping In.

when he came Looping through the
swing doors. breathless and painting, that
afternoon knew In minute that he was
due again, and | knew. similarly, that
there wasn't going to be bit of use say
ing anything to him, either.
HE made the bar in two jumps.
"GimIne! he said, hoarsely, to the head
barkeeper.
The Jewish outlook., 1905-07-07

in my hand, that may XIII hlm. ana Ieran
said: Let thy servant speak a word in the
ears of the king, his MASTER And Nimrod
said Speak, for l istening.' And
Terah said: yesterday one of thy servants
came unto and said: Sell me thy good
horse which the king has given thee and
| will give thee as his price stable full of
straw and fodder, and l said: L will not do
this thing until l have consulted the king
my MASTER and now, pray, let the king my
master tell his servant: shall he do the
thing which the man suggested nOt?"
And Nimrod heard the words of Terah and
was greatly angered with him and said: "Ho,
fool! What good are straw and fodder II you
have no horse?' And Terah said Alas! o
king my master! What good are silver and
gold if | have no son to inherit them?" When
Terah saw that these words angered the
king. he said: Il and all that is mine belong
to thee. Let the king do that which is pleas
ing in his eyes Behold my son is in thy
hands Take him without silver and without
price" And Nimrod said: mo; l will ac-
quire him for a price. as have said" And
Terah continued to address the king as fol-
lows ALLOW me three days that 1 may
comfort Amathlai my wife who takes great
delight in her son, and after that you may
send thy servants and take my son. And
the king said: "'rhy request is granted, for
thou hast found favor in my eyes," And
rerah departed from the presence of the
king and returned to his home and related
all these things to his wife. Amathai wept
bitterly, and she would not touch food nor
drink, and she cried out: would that l
could perish in thy stead, my son!" On the
third day the king sent his servants to Terah
with the command Give up thy son as
thou hast promised, and if not, thou and all
that are with thee shall perish
Since the servants importuned Terah
greatly he took the child of one of his
wants. who had been born on the same day
as Abram, gave him to the servant, and they
departed. Terah concealed Abram his son.
and he hid him in a cave. Abram grew
hungry and wept. And God sent the Angel
Gabriel to sustain him. The angel brought
forth milk from the finger of his left hand
and he nursed him.
When Abram was three years old he as
cended from the cave during the night and
saw the stars and said in his heart: How
beautiful and pleasant these brilliant
dots. They are nothing else but God Let
me bow down unto them!" When dawn arose
and morning shone, the stars were hidden,
and Abram said Il will not serve these,
for they are not God" The came forth
and Illuminated the whole earth, and Abram
said This then, is Cod" When the
set and darkness came, he saw the moon,
and he said in his heart: Perhaps this is
God?" While he still meditating this
matter the Angel Gabriel descended and
brought him to spring of water, and said
unto him: Wash and be pure" Abram did
thus and Gabriel told him that God created
the heaven and earth and all their hosts;
that He sustained all creation and that
thing is secret and hidden from Him. And
Abram heard the words of the angel, and
he bowed down and prostrated himself and
prayed to God, the creator of heaven and
earth.
The Jewish outlook., 1905-07-07
Isaac Hirsch Weiss
DR.. S. Singer.

f1lTSCH WEISS, LeCIOI VI lLe belH
in Vienna, has been gathered to his fathers.
He was living link with the period in which
the spirit of the Middle Ages seemed to
linger. Thus in 1876 when Weiss was born,
the law still limited the number of Jewish
families that might be domiciled in the vari-
towns of the Austrian empire, and made
the permission to marry a matter of privi-
lege to be purchased from the state at not
inconsiderable cost. The state of affairs
within the Jewish community reflected in
many respects the depressing conditions
without. But no outward influences, how
ever unfavorable, can prevail against the in
nate and indomitable Jewish passion for
learning The of a respected merchant
of Mezeritz town in Moravia, Isaac Hrsch
Weiss was early initiated in all the Jewish
learning within reach. He was something
of an infant prodigy, whose precocious
knowledge of the Talmud however, called
forth from the sensible rabbi of Nikolsburg,
not approval, but remonstrance. He studied
under the most eminent rabbis of his time,
spending many years successfully at the Ye-
shiboth of Trebitsch, Eisenstadt and Nikols-
burg. Among his contemporaries men who
had been students under the same masters
as himself, We're Leopold Dukes, the bril-
liant and versatile scholar whose twenty
years sojourn in England is still cherished
memory in Anglo-Jewry, and Leopold Loew,
one of the greatest figures in Hungarian
Jewry, who became the leader of progress
sive Judaism in his country. To Weiss's pen
Jewish scholarship is indebted for, among
other important productions "Orach Latzad-
dix" a compendium of ritual laws; cru
dite edition of the Safra; Beth Talmud
monthly Hebrew magazine and review, con-
Quoted in conjunction with Lector Fried
man; monograph on. Rasch and especially
his great work in five volumes, Dor Dor We
dorshav,' in which he traces the history of
Jewish tradition from it's beginnings in the
Scriptures to the time of the expulsion Of
the Jews from Spain. An article of his on
THE Study of the Talmud in the Thirteenth
Century" appeared in the first number Of the
Jewish Quarterly Review and was subse-
quently embodied in the fifth volume of his
Jewish Tradition
His industry throughout his long life was
unremitting. In the morning he sowed his
seed and in the evening he suffered not his
hand to be slack. There is no doubt that he
has left large quantities of unpublished lit
erary material. In his eghty-first year, at
the suggestion of the late DR.. David Kauf-
mann of Buda-Pesth, he wrote his 'Remins-
cences" (zchronothaD in which he has many
interesting things to tell of Jewish student
life in the days of his youth, and passes in
review the characters and opinions of many
of the great ones in Israel of the last cen
tury, S. j. Crpoport, S. D. Luzzatto Mach
mann Krochma, l. S. Reggie, Zunz, Geiger,
etc.
The Hebrew language, in which most of
The Jewish outlook., 1905-07-07


hands. His example has done not a little to
foster the modern revival of the love of He
brew. How ZunZ estimated the achieve
ments in this field of Weiss and of his col
league Friedman, may be seen from the
following: Zunz had often been pressed and
had often refused to allow his "Gottes-
dienlche Vortraege" to be translated into
Hebrew. The work required revision, he
said, and he was too old to undertake it.
Ultimately, however, he expressed himself
content that Hebrew translation should be
made, but the condition that none but
Weiss and Friedman should have hand in
in it.
In 1890 I had the privilege of spending
during a couple of months, the greater part
of every day in his company. How often had
l reason to marvel at his easy command of
the whole field of rabbincal literature and
learning! His enthusiasm for Jewish his
tory and science was something to remem-
ber; it would have been well-nigh impossible
for anyone associating with him to escape
the noble infection. In his method of teach
ing there was a grasp and lucidity that
made learning from him hour after hour
long sustained delight. But indeed, one
was always learning from him, even during
the lightest conversation Most interesting
it to hear him speak of life in the old
Yeshiboth of Hungary, Bohemia and Mora
via; of the efforts made by the new learning
to invade the domains of the old; of the
curious contrasts presented in the Yeshi-
both as elsewhere of pettiness and greatness
of soul; of the hardshipS and privatons un-
murmuringly borne by eager students of the
Torah and the generous rivalry among the
more fortunate members of the congregation
in extending hospitality to the needy Ba-
chur.
hard hitter in controversy, when he
felt himself in the right, Weiss never
yielded to the temptation from which even
religious disputants are not free, to dip his
pen in gall or to cover with ridicule those
who honestly gave utterance to views which
he could not assent. AS he himself ex-
pressed it: How dare l pour ridicule upon
a man whose intent at least it was to benefit
me?
There a strange personal fascina-
tion about the man with his large, dark,
piercing eyes, and face furrowed with lines
dug as much by sorrow as by age. The hand
of fate had lain heavy upon him. He had
suffered much worldly loss through trusting
untrustworthy friends, and he never quite
recovered from the blow by which he was
deprived of two gifted sons in the prime of
their life
l saw L.ector Weiss again when was in
Vienna in January of this year. The pathos
of the scene has haunted me ever since
Though he had given me reason to believe
that held some little place in his conscious
thought, he seemed now hardly able to rec
ognize me. Some idea he was struggling
after disturbed and distressed him. His
strength had forsaken him; his light was
dimmed; he was paying heavy price for
having lived four score years and ten. A
son was giving him filal tendance, yet there
was an air of desolation both without and
within that made it hard to realize that this
who had fought well and bravely in
seventy years war for the TOrah Thara
The Jewish outlook., 1905-07-07

'Midrash Beresit XXXV1II.
Midrash Tanhuma XIX.
Hullin LXXXVI.
sSefer Ha-Iashar.
Midrash Tanhuma Lech Lecha I'LL
Midrash Lamentations xxi, XII.
Midrash Rabba LXIV.
New-York tribune., 1905-08-29
E. A. APGAR FOUND DEAD ON BED.
East Orange Botanist Dies as Result Of
Hearty Breakfast.

East Orange, N. J.. Aug % (SpeciaD. D.-Profes-
sor Ellis A. Apgar of No. 125 Beach-st., East
Orange was found dead to-day by DR.. Thomas
W. Harvey. A week ago Professor Apgar had a
stroke of apoplexy. but was able to be about.
and this morning ate a hearty breakfast. read
Tor time, and then said he would take nap.
He went to his room, where he was found dead
on his bed.
professor Apgar was born seventy years ago in
Feapack. N ]. He entered Rutgers College and
vas graduated in the class of &c. He taught in
inc state Normal School, at Trenton and was
appointed State Superintendent of Public In
slructon a position which he filled for twenty
Years resigning to accept a position with tho
Westinghouse Electric Company.
he retired twelve years ago, and devoted his
time to study and botanical research and in
writing for the newspapers on botanical and as
trohomlcal subjects. He had written a work on
botany which was ready for publication
He was appointed member of the East Orange
Tree Planting Commission when that BODY was
FORMED. year ago. and served as it's chairman
he was constantly the alert to discover pests
"nich were injurious to the trees. He leaves n
wire. Two sons, William H. Apgar OF Arizona
ana Ellis ]. Apgar, of East Orange and a daugh-
ter, Miss Mineta Apgar
New-York tribune., 1905-08-29
SPOKE CHINESE WITH IRISH BRoGUE.
Detective Deficient and Oriental Actors Were
Discharged

When Sang Chu and Woo Fook, Of No. 10
Chatham Square. arrested at No. 5 Doyers-st..
Sunday night, charged with giving a theatrical
performance. were arraigned before Magistrate
Finn, in the Tombs police court yesterday. the
magistrate asked Detective Hamilton. OF Cap
tain Eggerss staff. who made the arrests.
Can you talk Chinese?"
Yes" said Hamilton. If such an accom-
plishment was quite ordinary. Magistrate Finn
looked at the detective in admiration and con-
tinued:
Ask him what kind Of performance was
going on-comedy. tragedy or religious"
What yez after doing there?" roared
Hamilton. in speech nearer Celtic than Chinese
For answer. Woo Fook put his hands together
and assumed an attitude of prayer.
ut was religious he says. your honor" inter-
preted Hamilton.
II could talk Chinese better than that my
self" said the court. Discharged
Coroner Scholer has postponed until to-day
the inquest into the murders of the four China
men who were shot and killed three weeks ago
in a Chinese theatre
New-York tribune., 1905-08-29
THE DRAMA-MUSIC.
"THE HAM TREE"
The New-York Theatre

Last night mighty good one for t1lav a.
Erlanger and The Ham Tree" with McTntyro
and Heath. at the New-York Theatre for August
is still hot and the theatre was filled with actor
people. who roared at the busted" minstrel jokes
and the efforts of the performers to extricate
themselves. Not that the general public will not
be equally amused when II gets a chance 10 see
The Ham Tree" but last night was actor night
The Ham Tree is called musical vaudeville .
which must be different from musical comedy. of
the vintage of 1904 vaudeville means novelty
and they have that In THE Ham Tree" w. C.
Fields. in his New Way to Play Tennis"
OF the hits of the piece.
OF course. there is no plot to THE Ham Tree
how could there be with that name?-but no one
misses it, The chorus has some new stunts such
gathering the footlghts and calling the bald
heads TO them with open arms. The heads were
perfectly willing to come. and even carry the suit
cases which figure in one of the scenes.
Every one gets back TO 5th-ave. as usual in the
third act. which opens with hit song. When the
Cats Away and proceeds with an automobile
honeymoon, led by Forrest Hun
II is show That will do much toward setting the
pace for the winters productions and if 1t was AIN
up to the menu scene of the second act there is no
doubt as to which would be the winner under the
wire ~-S
New-York tribune., 1905-08-29
"THE PRoDIGAL SON."
[By Telegraph to The Tribune. ]

[By Telegraph 10 The Tribune
Washington. Aug. 28.-"The Prodigal Son." which
Hall Caine arranged for the stage before he wrote
the book of the same had its initial perform
ance at the New National Theatre tonight and
was enthusiastically received. Its first production
in London will occur at the Drury Lane next Sat
urday night. where Mr.. Caine is now conducting
the rehearsals leaving the performance here to the
management which will present the play at the
New-Amsterdam in New-York next week
The opening tonight gathered everybody worth
considering who happened TO be in the national
capital so early in the season. '"The Christian" f."
by the same author, had received baptism at the
same theatre in 1898. and The Eternal City" was
inaugurated on the same stage three years ago
both the author and the managers being firm In
I'll opinion that week in Washington is a good
thing for any play, even the best. The story and
character of the play and the book are practically
identical. There are three spectacular scenes in
Iceland, and one on the Riviera. and the incidental
music is Icelandic The cast which is much stronger
than is usually seen in Washington was warnl,y
encouraged throughout the performance The prin-
cpal characters were Edward Morgan as Magnus
Aubrey Boucicault Oscar the Prodigal; Char
lotte Walker as Thora. Drina de Wolfe as Helgs
Marie Wainwright as Aunt Margaret, ]. E Dods0n
George 9. Boniface, Henry Bergman and
Others including chorus make up a company
OF more than hundred.
New-York tribune., 1905-08-29
cASTRo's WAR PLANS.

From The Army and Navy Journal.
There is fear that the relations be-
tween the United States and Venezuela which have
been exceedingly unsatisfactory during the last two
future. The President of the Venezuelan republic,
castro regards the United States with resentment
and suspicion. He is fatty opposed TO the Roose-
welt Interpretation of the Monroe Doctrine and is
combination of South American nations including
Venezuela, Peru. Colombia. Bolivia. and Ecuador,
TO oppose the North American programme He is
also reported TO be negotiating agreement
whereby certain German interests shall receive a
concession granting exclusive navigation on the
Orinoco River. with absolute control over the
custom houses in that part of the country. and he
is quoted as declaring that he is making ready TO
flight the Yankees" All this and much other In
teresting information has been given TO the New
York Tribune by an American who has just re-
turned from Venezuela He states that President
Castro placed orders in Italy for the cOnstruc-
tion of five torpedo boats and contracts in France
for eight batteries of field artillery and four noun
batteries total Appropriation for these pur
sum than Venezuela has ever expended in single
military proect The Tribunes informant also
states that when Castro heard OF the appointment
OF Judge Calhoun as President RooseVelt's special
dftioDs I'm Caracas he became violently indignant
and declared that Judge Calhoun would not be al
Ioy-e5 ~ land in Venezuela. Judge Calhoun had
Laar warned before leaving the United that
Nasb{neton received no more respect in Venezuela
Than a cancelled postal card. and consequently he
,ooE with him a passport signed by the Venezuelan
commemorative I'm Washington. il Is said, however
tbat the Venezuelan Minister or Foreign Affairs
dssuaded Castro from his purpose TO exclude Judge
CaIhoun and that the latter will be duly received
although he has no definite diplomatic status II
tbe Information given 10 The Tribune is trust
ygorthv-and Il is in accord with that obtained
froyn other sources-our trouble with Venezuela is
evidently approaching crisis.
New-York tribune., 1905-08-29
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