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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-01
The Death Penalty.

From the New York Globe.
The effect of the death penalty upon the
administration of justice is of interest in
New York at the present time. Much has
been said and written concerning it's eff
ficacy as a deterrent to crime, but little
concerning Its influence upon the prosecu-
ton itself And yet the Terranova case
and the various rumors as to what will
be done or Is being done in the Thaw case
make the latter problem of even greater
immediate interest.
Mr.. Thomas Speed Mosby, pardon at
torney to the governor of Missouri, has
recently made an effort to ascertain
whether capital punishment tends to d.
minish capital crimes. His conclusions
published in Harper's Weekly. are in the
negative. and he says: From a personal
study Of more than two thousand cases
am convinced that most crimes are COM
mitted by persons who either, first, expect
to escape all punishment, or second. who,
upon the spur of the moment, are regard
less Of all punishment, or third, who are
governed by cosmic, social or individual
factors which render the prospect of pun
ishment imperative as deterrent agency
at the time of the commission of the
crime" He believes with Beccaria that
the certainty of punishment is Of far more
avail than its severity in the matter Of
preventing crime"
Once the crime has been committed the
| ELECT Oh tHc oedlh penalty lakeS ON q new
significance. 1t is but natural that the
accused his family and friends should
take every means to avoid this supreme
disgrace. The gallows must be cheated at
any cost. But if life Imprisonment were
substituted for the death penalty. can it
be that a criminal would greatly prefer
Matteawan for life to the pententiary
save possibly for some Interior motive such
as to prevent trial and thus the possible
incidental ruin of some incidental reputa-
tons? Is confinement as one of the crimi-
nal insane preferable to confinement as
one of the criminal sane?
Mr.. Mosby's facts, concerning the effect
of the death penalty on crime itself are
not detailed enough to carry full convic-
ton, but supposing his conclusions to be
correct. IL to them could be added evidence
which would show that the death penalty
is obstacle in the way of certain pun
ishment and successful administration of
justice. how would the case stand for the
continuance Of the death penalty in New
York? The sages of New York state would
have to arroy themselves with Hugo
Guizot. Beccaria, Montesquieu. Turgot
Franklin, and how many others, in voting
for it's abolition.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-01
RICH, HE HERDS COWS.
Nephew Of Henry James, Novelist,
Learning Dairy Business.

From the Seattle Post-Iutelligeneer.
Renouncing the allurements of fashion
able society lin Seattle and forsaking his
life professionalism of the LAVE. Holton
James, nephew of Henry James. the emf
nent novelist, and nephew of Prof. William
James. head of the philosophy department
Of Harvard College. and scion of one of
the oldest and richest families Of the coun-
try. has chosen to live the simple life of a
cow herder and dispenser of milk.
Mr.. James Is a strong admrer of ]. G.
Phelps Stokes. and declares he is only fol-
lowing in his footsteps. James fortune is
estimated at about 100000, while his wife,
an Englishwoman. is reputed to be worth
close to q million.
For more than a month Mr.. James has
been employed on the Paulhamus dairy
ranch near Sumner as cow herder. He
arises at O'Clock every morning and does
his part of the milking with Swiss and
German hands.
James was treated like any other farm
hand on the Paulhanus farm. 1t made no
difference that he was college bred, that
he had been graduated from Harvard in
1906. and that he was plentifully supplied
with this worlds goods.
James object is to learn the practical
side of dairy SO he can run one he In
tends to buy to furnish pure milk free to
poor infants of Seattle.
In order to enable her husband to carry
out his ambition Mrs. James will spend a
year in England visiting her relatives She
is the daughter of a very old english fam
lily of means and is delightful entertainer
She sympathizes with the new ambition of
her husband, and the James mansion on
dent district in the city. 10 to b leased
for year. ssr-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-01
HOW THE DEER SIGNAL.
System of Wig-Wag That is Under.
stood by His Fellows Found.

Ernest Thompson Seton In Scribner's
A gregarious animal has usually many
means Of communicating with its fellows.
The well-marked livery Of the species serves
1t as his uniform does a soldier-it let's
friend and foe alike know who he is.
Next In importance is the white flag with
which most deer do their wig-wag signal
ing. This Is the tail and its surrounding
disc. The sudden elevation of this white
tail when danger is sensed conveys at once
silent alarm to the next of its kind
Another signal that have not seen noted
by any one else is thus described by E. A.
Preble during his trip to the Barrens in
1900. Though the observation applies to
the Barren ground species / believe 1t will
be found equally true of the woodland.
Soon after leaving our camp on the
morning of August 13 we saw some Barren
ground caribou. A young buck on point
of land was approaching as closely as the
depth of the water would permlt-about 300
yards. He showed little fear, trotting along
the shore abreast of our boat for about a
quarter of mile He would frequently
stop and wade some distance toward the
boat, at short intervals spreading and con-
tracing the white patch on his throat lit
orally into an oval disc, abruptly as to
give the effect of flashes of light. He
finally grew tired of following US and drift
ed behind"
What was the caribou doing? Apparently
signaling to what might be others of his
own kind out on the water.
The caribou's grunt. or bark. as Prof. ID.
G. Elliott calls 1t, have never heard in a
state of nature. but it is said to be much
like that of a reindeer. and my notes on
this are very full.
Ion July 4. 1900, got into herd of abb IT
1.003 half-wild reindeer. Their only vocal
sound is a grunt; this is uttered singly or
else doubied-that is, two are gwen In rapid
succession. 1t Is sometimes the call of a
COW to her calf and sometimes is uttered
I.xy hat lie lot mol md fdAnf fx n No
OF alarm or inquiry to find out IL his friends
are close at hand"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-01
BOOKS RECEIVED.

THE 10TH DECISIVE BATTLE OF THE
WORLD, GETTYSBURG. BY James T.
Long. Gettysburg, Pa: Published by
the Author
THE ASBESTOS SOCIETY OF SINNERS;
Detailing the Diversions of Dives and
Others on the Playground of Pluto,
with some broken threads Of Drop
stitch History picked up by News
paper man in Hades and woven into a
Stygian Nights Entertainment By
Lawrence Daniel Fogg. Boston: May
hew Publishing Company.
MANY MOODS AND MANY MINDS, a
Book of Poems. By Louis James Block.
New York: John Lane Company.
PIONEERS OF PROGRESS. By T. A.
Bland. author of Farming as a Pro-
fession,' &c. Chicago: T. A. Bland &
Co. Washington: Brentano's.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-01
Feminine Economy.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer,
When a man buys an expensive hat and
wears it out that is the end of the story.
A woman's hat, though. is a serial which
runs indefinitely. The pretty plumes which
graced last years creation as white appear
on one of this seasons of another hue
and will run the gamut of colors until
they reach black. The flowers. the rib
bons the laces, the velvet. even the Cos
samer shapes, do service again under ex
pert manipulation. Take, too. those mon
ster sleeves over which mere men guffaw-
ed so loudly When the fad for them was
over their fair wearers just took this sur
plus material and made extra waists of It.
This is not all. With an art which sayors
of the mysterious they took those flowing
sleeves of the fashion of year or SO ago
and turning them upside down, made
them into the prevailing mode.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-01
ANTHONY OvERMAN. BY Miriam MI

ANTHONY OVERMAN. BY Miriam MI
chelson, author of I'm the Bishops
Carriage" &c. illustrated by John
Cecil Clay. New York: Doubleday,
Page & Co. Washington: Woodward
& Lothrop.
Miss Nicholson has told here a story
which reflects her own earlier environment
as a newspaper writer in San Francisco.
She has put into her narrative quality
that bespeaks confidence In her sources.
the quality of personal participation. How
far she has drawn from life for her char
acters must be left to the imagination.
The people who act and speak in Anthony
Overman." from Anthony himself down to
Donaghey and Hilma and the miserable
wreck OF an ex-parson shivering In his
police station cell. are wildly realistic.
Anthony Overman. self-styled crank and
dreamer of the ideal of universal justice.
is no less a type because Of his comparative
rarity. The story itself is intensely modern
and dramatic. Jessie Incell newspaper wo-
man. seeker for sensations. queen of hun
dred hearts. keen, true, clean-hearted and
with all her enterprise a woman Of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-01

decades Of rapid progress. 1t has been
no easy task The author quotes Oliver
Wolcott. who served in Washingtons cabi-
net and was afterward governor of Con-
necticut. as writing: After living q dozen
years in New York don't pretend to COM
prehend their politics. 1t Is a labyrinth of
wheels within wheels, and 1t is understood
only by the managers" Wolcott referred.
explains the author. ito the early decades
of the last century, when Clntonian and
Bucktail. gradually absorbing the Federal
lists, severed the old Republican party into
warning factions. In later years Daniel s.
Dickinson spoke of the tangled web of
| New York politics; and Horace Greeley
complained Of the zigzag, wavering lines
and uncouth political designations which
puzzled and wearied readers from 1910 to
1850. when Democrats divided into COnserv-
atives and Radicals, Hunkers and Barn.
burners, and Hards and Softs; and when
Wings were known as Conscience and Cot
ton. and Woolies and Silver Grays. More
drew Jackson, speaks of that most un-
fathomable Of subjects, the politics of the
state of New York."
These two volumes cover. first, from 1774
to 1882. and second, from 1888 to 1851. Thus
they embrace the entire ante-bellum period
Of national development. and the final por-
ton Of volume II bears Importantly upon
the position Of New York in the great
struggle. There remains to be told one of
the most interesting chapters to write that
embracing the modern period, in which
readers of today are actually and personally
concerned. 1t is the authors expectation
to complete his work by adding another
volume to his history, to bring 1t down to
1896 1t is to be hoped that he will &C
complish this purpose, for he has unques-
tionably offered a valuable record of i'm
portant forces and facts. by the lack of
which students of the political development
OF the United States have heretofore been
handicapped.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-06-06
DANIEL RISES TO
. CHECK LAFOLLETTE
virginian Holds Up Employers
Liability Bill as Result
Of Pique.
Nv w, w, Jermane,

Washington, June 6.-senator La
Follette's employers liability bill,
which has passed both houses, is being
held up in the senate thru notice
served by Senator Daniel of Virginia,
that he will move to reconsider the vote
by which it passed the senate.
Yesterday Senator La Toilette tried
to persuade Senator Daniel to take the
floor and move the reconsideration, but
Daniel evaded the issue by saying that
he would get up as soon as he could Sc
cure recognition by the chair. In the
senate, a member may secure this recog-
milton whenever he wants it, so the
! Virginia gentleman was not entirely
fair. 5. i. IN q s.
It seems that before the passage Of
the bill thru the senate, Daniel gave no
tice that he had an amendment which
he desired to offer it. Nothwithstand-
La Toilette called up the bill one day
during his absence and had it passed.
The notice of motion to reconsider
is supposed to be the visible outcrop-
ping Of Daniel s pique. Very soon,
however, he must make his motion, and
when made, if it is accompanied by a
statement that he was not permitted to
offer an amendment, the motion will
carry. This will bring the bill before
| the senate again, Wnen daniel Will nave
an opportunity to present his amend
| ment. %
It is believed by leading men in the
senate that after this Daniel matter has
been disposed of, the bill will again be
passed, altho it is known that there is
a great deal of smothered opposition to
It.. In the present state Of public senti
ment, however, that opposition will
hardly dare make itself heard. i
J Senator La Toilette will wait a rea
sonable length Of time. and then il
Senator Daniel does not make his mo
bringing in the question before the senate a
daily until disposed Of. It is said that
| by next session public sentiment may
have sagged to such an extent as to per
nit the opposition in the senate to de
feat the bill, hence, the Importance Of
securing action now.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-06-06
MILLIONAIRE A SUICIDE
IN FEAR OF INSANITY
Journal Special Service,

Journal Special Service.
Pittsburg, June Ga great social
sensation has followed the discovery
after the announcement CT the sudden
death Of Thomas O'Connor Jones, as
sistant general manager of the Jone &
Mclaughlin Steel company, that Mr..
Jones had committed suicide. Brooding
over what he believed was impending
insanity, the young nan Of SO, many
times millionaire and sole heir to a
fortune estimated at $50,0O0,O0O, one Of
the most famous steel experts in the
country and the social leader Of Pitts
burg's most exclusive set, sent a bull
let thru his brain at o'clock yester-
day morning. 1888. ......;.
. -. His mother, who occupied an adjoin-
ing room, had been been talking with
him but a few moments before. Not a
he did did the tn deed. lie was unconscious
when his mother arrived, and uttered
no WORD before he died. Il
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-06-06
Direct from the Maker,

ing direct from the distiller? You not
only save the enormous profits of the
dealers, but you are sure of getting
PURE whiskey. Hayner Private Stock
Rye at only 50 cents a full quart, is
better whiskoy than a dealer will sell
you for $3.50 a quart. Order trial
quart by phone-Twin City 1855. Your
money back if you are not satisfied.
The Hayner Distilling Company, SO
Fourth street s.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-06-06

"MERlT' keeps the skin free from odor of
Precipitation. Dainty cream; at all stores or
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-06-06

: #"He lives long who lives well.'
Pickwick Rye will give you a new lease
on life. ,''"
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-03-13
Prairie Dogs Killed BY Soap.

John F. Braun, a farmer near Mil
tonvale, Kan, had about 100 prairie
dogs ON his farm and started in to
wipe them out. He used traps After
he had caught about thirty the rest
got wise and would walk around his
traps. Among the thirty was one
that the trap didn't injure and he put
1t in cage for pet. BY mistake
his children fed the prairie dog in the
cage a small piece of common soap
one day. Within five minutes the
prairie dog was dead. Mr. Braun de-
cided to experiment. He cut bar OF
soap int small pieces about the size
Of a hazel nut and threw few pieces
into each hole in dog town" The
next day there wasn't solitary
prairie dog left to tell the story. All
were dead. Ten cents worth OF soap
will clear a big farm of prairie dogs
Kansas City Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-03-13
Creeks Medicine Man.

The medicine man of the Creeks
will not eat anything scorched in
cooking; in treating a gun or arrow
wound he as well as the patient will
fast four days. only drinking little
Cruel.
He will not allow a woman to look
at his patient until he is we'll or dead.
Ii his patient dies the med cine man
takes a lot of medicine himself in
order to cleanse himself from the
fumes or odor of the dead. The pail
bearers, as we might call those as
sisting In the burial, also take the
same cleansing process.
And again when an Indian COM
mitted murder, even in self-defense,
he went tC the medicine man and took
the cleansing remedy, claiming the
remedy appeased the crime and the
trouble to his mind. The medicine
man has a horror of women, keeping
out of their company as much as pos
sible. At the full of each moon it
was the custom of the bucks to drink
medicine made by the medicine man
to cleanse their system. In camp the
Indian killed nothing which was not
eatable.-Indian Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-03-13
Bird That Shaves.

Man is not the only living creature
that shaves. The bonmot, South
American bird, takes a dry shave reg.
ularly.
The bonmot has long blue tail feath-
ers. Each quill is adorned from base
to tip with soft blue down. This ar.
rangement the bird dislikes. There
fore, with its sharp beak, it nips the
quilts bare from the base out to about
an inch from the tip, where it main.
tains neat oval Of soft blue whisker.
Such action seems silly on the bon
mot's part. To certain philosophers,
though, 1t seems no sillier than mans
action in regularly scraping bare his
cheeks and chin, while he maintains
on his upper lip an oval of soft hair
not unlike the bonmot's tail oval.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-03-13
Synpathetic.

Among our circle of friends there
was a very warm supporter of the
S. P. C. A., who, though earnest and
sincere, sometimes bored by overzeal.
We set traps to lead her into an ad.
mission Of the evil in animal nature,
but she always managed to make out
a good case for her dumb friends.
One day we felt that we at least had
a case in which she could have no pos
sible sympathy for the animal. 1t
was a dreadful story, published in
newspaper of baby who had been lit
orally. eaten alive by a large and
ferocious cat We gave her the clip
ping and watched with satisfaction the
tears gather in her eyes as she read.
We've got her now!" we murmured
triumphantly. Finally she looked up,
and we all held our breath to listen
to her comment. She spoke in heart
broken tones. Think" she said, how
hungry the poor cat must have been!"
-Harpers Weekly.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-03-13
WINTER WEAKNESS
Or. Williams Pink Pills the Tonic
That Most People Need for
Blood and Nerves.

In winter the air Of the close rooms in
which we spend so much of the time
does not furnish enough oxygen to the
lungs to burn out the foul matter in the
blood. In the cold season we do not exer-
else as much and the skin and kidneys do
not throw off the waste matter as freely
as usual. The system becomes overloaded
with poisonous matter, and too feeble
to throw it off. Relief can be had only
through the use Of a remedy that will
promptly and thoroughly purify and
strengthen the blood, and the one best
adapted for this purpose is the great
blood tonic known as DR.. Williams Pink
Pills.
"They acted like magic in my case, ;"
said Mrs. Clara l.. Wilde, Of No. 377
Farnsworth avenue, Detroit, Mich. Il
was weak and thin and could not sleep.
My stomach and nerves were out Of or
der. / can't describe how miserable
really was. dragged through six
months of feebleness, growing weaker
all the time until finally hadn tstrength
enough to leave my bed.
"Then glad day came, the day when
began to take DR.. Williams Pink Pills.
They made me feel strong right away.
My appetite came back, took on flesh
and the color returned to my cheeks.
People wondered that these pills did for
me what the doctors couldn't do. took
only six boxes and then 1 was perfectly
well. If had not found this wonderful
remedy / surely think that must have
wasted to death. Believing firmly that
these pills saved my life by the strength
which they gave me at a critical mo-
ment, I unhesitatingly recommend them
to Others"
DIR. Williams Pink Pills contain no
stimulant but give strength that lasts.
They may be obtained at any drug
store.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-03-13

MES that the noon hour will find a
man on our breakfast huskier and
with stronger heartbeat and clearer
working brain than he ever had on
the old diet.
Suppose, II you have never really
made move for absolutely clean
health that pushes you along each day
with a spring in your step and re-
serve vlgor In muscle and brain that
makes the doing of things pleasure,
you join the army of plain old COM
mon sense" and start in now. Then
after you have been 2 or 3 weeks on
the Grape-Nuts training you write
statement Of how you used to be and
how you are now. The simple facts
will interest others and surprise your.
self. We never publish names except
on permission, but we often tell the
facts in, the newspapers, and when
requested give the names by private
letter.
There is plenty of time to get per.
sonal experience with Grape-Nuts and
write a sensible, truthful letter to be
sent in with the list of words, as the
contest does not close until April Both
1906. SO start in as soon as you like
to building words, and start in using
Grape-Nuts. Cut this statement out
and keep the letters Y-I-O-Grape-Nu
before you and when you write your
letter you will have some reason to
write on the subject, why Owe
Grape-Nuts."
Remember 331 persons will win
prizes, which will be awarded in an
exact and just manner as soon as the
list can be counted after April Both,
1906. Every contestant will be sent a
printed list Of names and addresses Of
winners on application, in order to
have proof that the prizes are sent as
agreed The company Is well known
all over the world for absolute fidelity
to its agreements and every single one
of the 331 winners may depend on re-
ceiving the prize won,
Many persons might feel it useless
to contest, but when one remembers
the great number of prizes-(331)--
the curiosity Of seeing how many
words can really be made up evening
after evening and the good, natural
fun and education in the competition.
1t seems worth the trial; there is no
cost, nothing to lose and a fine oppor-
tunity to win one of the many boxes
of gold or greenbacks.
We make the prediction that some
who win prize of gold or greenbacks
will also win back health and strength
worth more to them than wagon full
of money prizes.
There are no preliminaries, cut out
this statement and go at it, and send
in the list and letter before April 30th,
1906 to Postum Cereal Co., LtI., Bat
tie Creek, Mich. and let your name
and address be plainly written.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-03-13
The Population Of Heaven.

Moncure d. Conway in his reminis-
cences relates a story that was told
him by Helen Taylor, the stepdaugh-
ter of John Stuart Mill. While in Scot
land she called on a poor woman who
had lost her little son. The mother
refused to be consoled, saying:
What troubles me is they be all men
folk up there in heaven and won't
know what to do for him."
1t appears, therefore, that the New
York preachers who have announced
that there are no women angels can
not be accepted as the discoveries of
this great and interesting fact.