Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-10

One of the sights at the Capitol that Is
well worth seeing is the great seal of the
United States Supreme Court. Fer beauty
of design. convenience of handling and
superb workmanship in every respect 1t IS
not excelled by any device of the sort in
the country. 1t is probably not equaied
by any other seal in this city except the
seal of the State Department. The most
wonderful part of this seal is that it en-
bodies some innovations, and innovations
very seldom creep into the sanctum In
which the United States supreme Court
holds sway.
In fact the court absolutely reversed it's
time-honored seal. the temptation to re-
verse something being the only incentive
that could have influenced the court to
make a change in anything in It's posses
sion. The old seal had on its face an eagle
with dropping wings 1t was sorry-iook-
ing sort of bird, and so 1t happened that
after the United States had become a
well-established world power the court
thought the wings ought to be raised in
the air. The wings were raised ana the
bird given an expression Of exulta-
ton in place of that down-trodden cast of
countenance it had formerly worn. 1t was
really a belligerent bird reversed and
revised. When the court saw it 1t was
feared that foreign powers might think the
United States was putting on airs and was
typefying in the breezy eagle the alleged
stick that is said to be hidden in official
quarters. So they looked it over with "a
view of introducing some more pacific fea-
ture and they conceived a plan to Go 1t.
On the old seal the eagle held the olive
branch in it's left claw. with bunch OF
arrows in the right claw. That read war
and peace" The judges simply reversed
the emblems, so putting the olive branch
in the right claw and the arrows In the
left which gave peace the nrst pace IN
the emblematic figure. Thus they secured
an eagle that looks warlike, but Is toned
down by making the peaceful olive branch
stand for its first and main impulse.
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Il have heard of many cases of enthusi-
asm over the Japanese victories ON land ana
sea-" remarked an officer at the War De-
partment yesterday, but by far the worst
case of the kind that has come under my
notice is that of a man in this city, VINO
announced that he had fully determined TO
name his newborn son after the Japanese
heroes, Togo Oyama.
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I'VE have just heard of some phenomenal
shooting" said an officer at the Navy De-
Iartment the other day. .At distance of
1000 yards while the torpedo-boat Preble
was at target practice just outside the
Golden Horn, and was steaming ten knots
an hour, kempthorne Scott, naval appren-
tice of the first class, scored nineteen hits
out of twenty-one shots at a floating target.
1t is a new record, and is likely to stand Tor
a long time to come.
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A druggist in the northeast section of the
city who has a soda water fountain In his
establishment has unconsciously become a
promoter of temperance. His store is To-
Gated where within a short distance can be
found large number of residences occu-
pied by Italians who employed as la
borers. Up to the time that they discov-
cred that soda water was good to drink
they had been regular patrons of the tiny
saloons scattered about in the vicinity, buy
ing beer by the bucket to drink with their
lunch at midday. Children of the laborers
associating with American children who
had contracted the soda water habit carried
to their parents tales of the desirability of
soda water as a drink
The. parents tasted the stuff. and while it
was an unknown quantity in their life in
Italy, they found in the Sweet-fiaVored drink
a most acceptable substitute for the Bit
terness of the beer. This the average Ital-
ian does not take at all kindly to- So we'll
did the swarthy sons of Italy like the sweet
efervescing drink as a substitute for the
sweet wines of their fatherland that it is
now regular thing for them to go to the
store referred to for : ida water with a lot
of havorinS syrup before the MONDAY meal
Both the laborers and their families want
one which does not meet with the ap-
proval of the saloon men Whereabouts as
they find that their sales of luncheon
liquids have fallen off something like rs
per cent Favorite fiavors with the Ital-
ians are raspberry and strawberry. A
peculiar thing about the taste is that it
is not all governed by the season. They
all want raspberry for a time and then
shift suddenly to strawberry and back
again without the least bit of warming
But they all drink the same flavor at the
same time and have suddenly developed
simultaneous desire for change of flavor
when ii is least expected.
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1t was probably suggested to him be-
cause at that particular time his cash was
at low ebb. At any rate as is sometimes
the case with an active real estate broker
he was feeling rich in spirit, and in that
aff!uent state of mind which had no rela-
ton 10 the condition of his bank account