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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-09
COUNTERFEIT TRADE MARKS.
One Sort Of yellow PeriP in Man
churia

One sort of yellow peril" that American
exporters have to deal with in the orient
is very real, according to report that has
been received by the Department of Com
merce and Labor from one of its special
agents who has been investiga ting trade
conditions in the far east. The special
agent says that Manchuria is the hotbed
for counterfeit trade marks and that every
commodity bearing an American trade
mark that comes into the orient should
have the text OF the mark printed also IN
Chinese characters as well an explana-
ton of why these characters are added.
of the real article under the impression that
1t is an imitation.
No charge is made as to the place OF
origin of the spurious trade marks, but the
vendors of the imitation articles evidently
know the law well enough to keep on the
wtndward side. They will change one let
ter for instance in the name of an Ameri-
can brand of soap, condensed milk or toilet
preparat ion and sell very Inferior article
on the strength of the reputation that has
been made by the legitimate manufacturer.
This not Only cuts into the manufacturer
trade, but eventually kills the whole trade
I'm the articles initiated. OF course the
imitators care little about this; what they
are after being immediate profits.
But the mere fact that there are counter
feits of this sort shows one source of troue
BILE that the legitimate American manufac'
trade OF the orient, and II is hoped that
some of the counrerfeiters may be caught
ard G.sccura ged a little in the tnroaoo they
are snak.ag into American commercA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-09

other fresh water college having so many
prosperous representatives in finance here
as has Hokohoonk"
Sir" answered Mr.. Pearley. at is not
dlone owing TO the stated teaching of the
varied and scholarly courses at Hokohoonk
10 which our alumni owe those sound pri~-
ciples of plain living and early savings upon
Which all worldly success must be based. 1t
is also due to what l may call the extra
collegiate teaching and influence There I
may modesty claim some credit l make
companions Of the undergraduates; / show
them by example what their instruc tors
snow them by precept, that plain living,
nigh thinking, simple ways. studious days
are the foundation rocks for the strong
moral fiber. the strength to withstand hard
snip Dandy, If you can't pull the cork
Knock the neck off. That's the way. Now.
gentlemen, before the first race is run let
us sample a certain pate Dandy will find
for us. which, eaten with thin slices of
brown bread and sprinkled lightly with
lemon juice and just a busting of red pep
per. will be found not unpalatable If taken
with a modest amount of cool champagne.
Dandy, look for the pate and give me that
bottle There's little trick in opening this
brand AS | was saying, Mr.. Carroll, at
Hokohoonk we seek to train the mind and
body to the simple life"
Having opened up the hamper to its most
enticing depths and placed the various
dishes where the company could sample
them at will Dandy asked permission to
visit the betting ring. Mr.. Bullock ap-
proved. saying that Dandy could act as
their commissioner for such small bets as
they wished to place in the interest of i'm
proving the breed of the American horse
Inc frst event was selling race for
three-year-olds, at about six furlongs, and
Mr. Bullock's favorite carried top weight
116 pounds.
Having learned the betting rates Dandy
returned to take the commissions and
urged Mr.. Peabody to play the low weight
for place. For" he said, wit only ninety
six pounds to trundle dat horse ought to
have look in. He can run like a COM
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-09

better news came to the treasury officials
this summer when Mexico notified us that
1t had abolished its free zone" This strip.
twelve miles wide, lined the entire border
of President DiaZ's republic, and until now
all imports Were admitted therein free, GUS
toms payments being charged only AT the
southernmost edge of the zone. This free
zone was strip of exceedingly poor coun-
try, and the object of admitting goods
there free was to aid the inhabitants, but
the absence of Mexican customs officers
who might otherwise have co-operated with
us directly boundary allowed OF
much smuggling of goods northward from
the strip. In 1895 Congress passed a law
putting an end to the practice of shipping
foreign goods through the United States in
bond If destined for the free zone This
was purposed TO break up the enterprise or
smuggling such goods back into our coun-
try from the strip, and thus avoiding duty.
One Door in U. g., Other in Canada.
But the most interesting institution con-
nected with smuggling Of any category Is
the line store" Up in Vermont and Maine
it has become somewhat of fashion to
build stores directly upon the international
boundary line, that the front half for in
stance, may be in the United States and tho
rear half IN Canada. Goods are bought IN
whichever country they can be obtained at
the cheaper figure and VIXEN the American
customs officer arrives to make his inspec-
ton he finds American goods carefully
piled up in the American end of the estab-
Eshment and, just so, the Canadian officers
find their native goods in the end OF the
building which, technically speaking, is
Canadian soil. OF course II is the easiest
matter in the world. when the customs men
are not around, to move n barrel OF cheap
Canadian whisky to the forward end of
the store and there sell ii to Yankee GUS
toner whose covered wagon is waiting out
side.
One OF our officers outwitted a line store
keeper recently. Discovering that some
Canadian law had been violated I'm handling
the whisky of the dominion, the Yankee oIIl-
Ger interested the Canadian customs man OF
the district and they planned to raid the
store at both ends. The Canadian officer
appeared first and the storekeeper promptly
rolled the Canadian whisky over TO the
American side out of the jurisdiction of the
government whose law had been infringed.
Just then the American officer appeared at
his end of the building and seized the liquor,
for non-payment of duties. However. Uncle
Sam can never completely stamp out from
tier smuggling unless he adopt some such
safeguard as the peculiar system OF barriers
erected by Italy along her Swiss boundary.
Between tall steel posts is stretched wire
netting hung with bells which, when the
fence is touched, start Changing and attract
the attention of the patrol
JOHN ELFRErH WATKINS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-09
"YALLER" DOGS DEVOTION.
Refused to Leave Hospital Until His
Young Mistress Was Well.

It was only a little "yaller dog'-but II
devotion to duty and to its mistress makes
for good in the doggish hereafter, then this
little dog should be one Of the bright shin
ing stars in that mysterious place.
The accident which brought out this little
yaller dogs faithfulness-for it is always
their action in an emergency which COM
mends even dogs to hero worshipers-hap-
pened one day last week. The yaller dog s
mistress. Lizzie Brinkley, was run over by
a cart at South Capitol and N streets. A
hurry call brought the Emergency Hospital
ambulance. and the physician In charge
ordered that all possible speed be made to
that institution. Before the ambulance
came the little dog did the best it could for
tiny Lizzie. licking her wounds and show
Ing by his every act the great sorrow that
her injury brought to him.
When his mistress was lifted into the am
bulance the little dog made great leap and
lay down beside her on the stretcher. The
doctor, not knowing the relation existing
between little dog and little girl, showed
scant courtesy to the interloper sending
him out into the street with one hard kick
Then the ambulance driver whipped up his
horse while the little dog for moment sat
on the curbstone, whining discOnsolately.
But then, seeing the path Of duty clear, he
set off at gallop behind the vehicle. For
a dozen squares or more the unequal race
continued, the long strides OF the horse
making the little dog spend every ounce OF
his strength to keep within reach Of his
Lizzie.
From time to time the doctor stopped his
ministrations to the little girl just long
enough to notice that the yaller dog was
still hanging on faithfully Finally he
opened the near gate of the ambulance and
with yelp of delight, the little dog jumped
in and took his accustomed place. Even at
the hospital the strange faces and un-
familiar surroundings had no terror for the
diminutive mongrel pup. and he followed as
Lizzie was carried into the accident room.
All the time that the surgeons We're dress
ing the little girls wounds the yaller dog
crouched under the operating table, nor
could he be driven away from the institution
until few days later, when the doctors de-
cided that Lizzie Brinkley was wen enough
to go home.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-09
A CLEVER SCHEME.
How the Japanese Correspondents Sent
Their Dispatches.

There are not many people who can get
| ahead Of telegraph company said a cor
| respondent who has just come back to
Washington from Portsmouth, but 1 sus-
| pect that the Japanese correspondents man
aged 1t during the peace conference. You
know that cable rates to Japan are pretty
| heavy, and there was much Sis a
| word paid on some of the urgent messages,
while about 5S cents was the lowest press
| rate. The correspondents were sending a
lot Of matter and, of course, the Japanese
messages had to be translated in way be-
fore they could be sent. The Morse code
can't cope with the $1,000 ideographs that
the Jap language is made up Of SO the Jap
correspondents used to write the messages
Theoretically in English characters and send
their messages in that way They were
read off and transferred to Japanese type
in Tokyo. OF course, the telegraph COM
pany could not read them, and as the limit
in size for cable word is fifteen letters,
the Japs used to divide their messages up
regularly into English letters in blocks Of
fifteen. No word was ever longer or short
er than fifteen letters, and the cable COM
pany had to take it that way and stand for
THE chief operator used to kick and COM
plain occasionally, but he could not go back
Of the explanation that each Of the fifteen
letter groups was Japanese word spelled
phonetically. But he swore Japanese was
the most queerly regular language he ever
saw. OF course, the cable bills were pretty
high at that.
But the cable company probably made
less out Of the Japanese than they did out
Of any of the other correspondents The
Russian alphabet is made up of nom English
letters, but it can be sent In Morse, and
there are some operators who could do 1t,
though the most of the Russian messages
were written either in French or English"
ut Is a wonder to me- said State De-
partment clerk, who was listening to the
story that the Japs did not use their code
book. At least there is one In China, and l
suppose there Is one in Japan. You know
the Chinese characters cannot be cabled
any more than can the japanese, but they
get over that difficulty by having in every
Chinese telegraph Office a simple CODE in
which the message is written with hume
Into fifty-eight squares, numbered in Sc
quence, and in each square is a Chinese
word. the commoner words coming among
the lower numbers. When the telegram is
written the sender simply puts down the
number of the square in place of the word
it contains, and the message Is decided in
the same way at the other end. There are
5000 words, and that Is enough for the
average vocabulary of the man who wants
to send telegram. l do not know whether
this method would have been cheaper than
the fifteen-letter scheme of the correspond
ents. but it is possible If they had used code
the company would have cut them down to
five figures for each word, as that is the
limit code messages.
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windy, and den at sister and me, and,
what 90 you tink dere was tears In his
eyes. Tink Of a Judge crying! What you
On &. cheek s two little ch hat aha
cruelty agent took from my home" he
says; and he stoops over and kisses sister
yes. and me-
When, an hour later. Dandy had con-
Quoted Mr.. Pearley and MT Bowsar to their
apartment, the professor confessed that
the dinner, while 1t might satisfy the spir-
ttual hunger. had left him with a bodily
appetite OF importunate kind. so he set
forth leg Of cold roast pork (favored with
sage), some young onions Off the Ice, a
loaf Of bread and fresh butter, which .Ie
providently had sent to his larder
AS the party partook Of this. moistened
with a moderate supply of beer, Mr.. Pear
ley questioned Dandy as to the real char
acter OF the company they had just left,
and the young man made explanation In
these words:
Governor, de whole plant is a graft.
you cops de little mug about de size of
water plug. Well, he's de only gazaboo
half Of de suckers dey ropes into de joint
wit telling EN- dat de odder half is all
foist row writers. Den Mr.. Bowsars fren'
he tells de odder half dat de foist half Is
all top-line artists See? Each half thinks
dat de odder is de real goods, de double
cross Is woiked on de whole outfit, and de
fake is pulled off like an old glove. De
bantam mug and de artist chap dey gets
such as me, who can do a toin we gets
free grub when goes dere. Dey has
lots of smood tricks, has dose two boss
grafters for de joint. Sometimes dey gets
a real pape to write up. De pape has
fun wit de layout, of course, but de touts
and willies who go dere hasn't furniture
enough in DER cocos to see dat dey is get
ting de laugh, and only dat DER joint
gets in de. pape-and dere is lots of men
who'd commit murder for dat. De easiest
ting in dis town is to sell gold bricks, and
de hardest Is to make enough gold bricks
to sell to all de come-ons who Is crying for
EN-. l wonder sometimes dat any of us
takes de trouble to DIN a honest living. 1t
must be dat dere is something de matter
wit us, and we should took something to
get cured of de habit.
After Dandys departure Mr.. Bowsar
was SO indignant at being imposed upon by
his former school friend that he expressed
a purpose Of going out at once to chastise
him. Mr.. Pearley entreated his friend not
to act rashly, and spoke SO soothingly
that Mr.. Bowsar soon fell peacefully
asleep. Then Mr.. Pearley, smiling to him.
self, took from a table the second volume
Of Gibbon and read the fifteenth chapter.
pausing between its notable paragraphs to
muse pleasantly on the Invitation he had
found in his room to ride out with Mrs.
Ainsworth the next day.
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patrons and their host, for, as the profess
sor pointed out, the effect Of seeing horses
run around In a circle oil day might con-
their t.s sense service. Gs oG "a x. and sua as
they were at home for the night. When
he entered upon this extension Of bis du.
ties Dandy surprised his friends by his
familiarity with the restaurant to which
but short time when It became plain that
Dandy's coming interested the other pa
irons more than ala that of Mr.. Bowsar's
friend, the eminent illustrator.
Many of those at the dozen more Ia
bles crowded together in the basement
room may have been famous, though their
names when their host recited them did
not awaken a responsive echo in the minds
OF his hearers. There were a number of
ladies in the company, and they, the host
whispered to our friends. were noted for
tistic achievements. One had walked the
streets Of the Tenderloin at night for the
benefit of a paper whose readers would be
interested, II not expert, commentators on
the details of her. experience. Another had
shown that the police of a certain precinct
were careless. She had been successful In
nineteen out of twenty attempts to COM
NIT sneak thefts in the Railways OF 5th
the district had pleaded in defense Of the
charge OF carelessness that his officers
were trained only to circumvent the &C
tivities of ordinarily clever sneak thieves.
w men IL CdlIlc 70 IltliUS tItH inc
reporters OF the Yellow Daily he asked
that his men be allowed a handicap.
Dandy who had intended to go to little
corner table alone. was compelled to &C
Cept the invitation of some merry souls at
their table and he soon was engaged in
conversation of a lively and humorous ma
ture, judging from the bursts of loud laugh
ter which greeted his remarks
After a dinner consisting of leisurely
succession of dishes with beautiful names
and unlovely fragments of meat and vege-
tables, soused In a dark. mysterious
sauce, bantam of a man with a large
mustache and voice arose to announce that
they had with them singer of great repu-
tation who might be persuaded, to obligc
the company, and his name was Before
the songbird's name could be spoken
the bird himself hoped to the piano and
at once plunged a murderous voice into the
vitals of a song once a vehicle for the art
OF Chevalier, which, rendered by the bird
with a Pennsylvania accent modified by an
attempt at Boweryese. produced an effect
which filled the professor with oppressive
gloom, though 1t set the regular patrons Of
the place cheering wildly. The songbird
showing a wish to acknowledge the ap-
plause in the usual manner, the Bantam
hastily announced that he would consent to
recite a sketch written by friend of his
and entitled The conclusion Of the an
nouncement was lost in cheers. Thereupon
the Bantam began to dislocate his bones.
shatter his vocal chords and deafen the
hearers. sprnging about with surprising
livelness, shouting. gesturing, grimacing
in a manner alarming to the strangers from
the west, both of whom recognized the
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hint that they themselves are smuggling In
some articles which they do not think the
greedy government has the moral right TO
tax. Such disclosures. slyly dropped, are
very apt to draw out the amateur smugEler,
who, when he reaches the wharf wonders
how in the name OF all things holy his mo-
tive has been suspected by the man i'm the
brass buttons. who takes n peep into his
trunk and then orders him carefully
searched.
Professional Smuggling.
II IS only OF the amateur snuEE!er that
we have been speaking so far. The really
dangerous. professional criminals Of this
class are the sailormen largely employed ~
bring the goods over the seas and the small
boatmen who meet these smuggling sGipz
before the revenue cutter has "A chance 10
bounce out and cast its eagle eye about,
The smuggling ship arranges to approach
port at night and To unload upon the Fast-
less black waves its taTpaulin- covered csssa
of goods. This Illicit freight Is then E4th-
cred up by the small bOatmen, who ScG.eto
II somewhere along an unfrcqucnted biz of
shore whence IL is quite as mysteTinusiy
transferred to u fence generally a FalI-
ormens 5 iloon, Often the rowboatmen eur
reptitiUCsiy ship the goods directly TO tho
dealer and thus save the commission Of mo
fence BY ali of these means the Eovern-
ment estimates that II annually loses sl,-
o00,oCu I'm duties.
Another class OF profe ssional smuEs'era
are those who operate along our Can1di1n
and Mexican frontiers Up on the Detroit
river the government has long been AT war
with the 'pigtail whisky league" OF Chi
nese smugglerS, in league with the SyDdi-
cate of Canadian gamblers recently report
ed as building airship for the transport
of their Illicit goods across the border. BUT
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Changed His Mind.
a pb,,ade,nb,a pness

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Crittick-"I sawNuritch looking at one Of
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D'Auber-"Ah! I'm glad of that He In
timated to me that he might have some-
thing for me to do
Crittick-.Yes. while he was looking at 1t
he told me he had intended to let you paint
his back fence, but he didn't think he
would now"
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THE SECRET OF YOUTH,

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remarkable man Of 81 says: For
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