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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-06
ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS
DEATH OF THOMAS w. CLARK,
A FORMER ALDERMAN.
Special Correspondence of The Star.

Special Correspondence OF Inc sur
ALEXANDRIA, Va, February 6, 1906.
Mr. Thomas w. Clark died at an early
hour this morning at his residence, liz
South Fayette. street. Mr.. Clark was about
seventy years of age and was printer by
occupation. Several years ago he was
elected to the board Of alderman from the
Sd ward and served his fellow townsmen
well and faithfully. Two daughters and a.
son survive him. The arrangements for
the funeral have not been completed.
Mr.. E. NJ Harrington died last Sunday
night at his home at THE Plains" Tho
deceased was a confederate veteran, having
served az first lieutenant of Company X.
9Th Regiment Of Virginia Infantry.
Throughout the war he served under the
commands of the late Major R. Taylor
Scott and Gen. Eppa Hunon. He is survived
by three children. Mr.. j. w. Harrington
and Mrs. A. W. Underwood of this city and
Mrs, c. T. Underwood. He was sixty-nine
year of age. The remains We're shipped 70
this city last night, and the interment oe-
Cured at o'clock this afternoon IN betnel
cemetery. Rev. J. p. Stump, the pastor
of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.
| conducted the funeral services.
The annual meeting of the stockholders OF
| the Rosslyn Brick Company, consisting o.
| Georgetown men, was held yesterday al
| the Office of the companys attorney III
Alexandria, Va. The meeting resulted in
the election of the following: e. Baker
Weaver. president; George w. Wise. vice
president; e. r. Haight, secretary, and
George Weaver. treasurer: After the cleo
/ ton the newly elected officers and stock
| holders were served with dinner. Amene
those present were Messrs. Rezin w. Darby,
/ Walter T. Weaver, w. d. Douglas, A. Bull
| lock, H. Young. r. Baker Weaver, George
| w. Wise. e. r. Haight ana George Weaver
| It was decided at the meeting to send
Messrs. e. r. Haight and n. Young to the
brickmakers convention now being held
| in Philadelphia. They will depart Thurs
day of this week.
Amicab1e Settlement.
| City Sergt. Robert H. Cox. who was ap.
| pointed by Judge Barley OF the corpora
/ ton court receiver for the wholesale liquor
business of Fairfax q Co. on the petition
OF III. q. Williams OF Norfolk, one Of the
members Of the firm, was relieved OF the
/ duties OF settling up the affairs of the com,
pany by the members coming to an AMIGA
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BILE arrangement offs their difficulties late

BILE arrangement offs their difficulties late
yesterday afternoon.
1t was stated that the firm was entirely
solvent and that the application for a re-
ceiver was made by Mr. Williams on ae-
count of a disagreement with Milton ..
Fairfax of this city, one of the members
of the firm. The difficulty was settled last
night by Mr. Fairfax buying out the inter
est and good will of Mr. Williams Inc
business In future will be conducted by MI
Fairfax.
Mr.. and Mrs. George William Ramsay
have announced the engagement Of their
daughter, Miss sHallie Ramsay, to Or.
Clement Ellis Conger of Harrisonburg. The
wedding will take place at Christ Church,
this city, Wednesday February p.
A meeting under the auspices of Alexan-
dria and Belle Haven councils, Junior Or
der of American Mechanics, Will be held at
the opera house this evening at O CLOCK.
Ohio, and secretary of the national legfsla-
tive committee of the order, will be the
principal speaker and viii explain the prin-
ciples of the organization to the public.
General and Personal.
In a dispatch from Richmond yesterday
1t was stated that the ratification of the ap-
pointment of Mr.. Julian p. Baldwin as SUI
perintendent of schools of Alexandra
county was being held up on account of
report that Mr.. Baldwin is a member OF
the republican party. 1t was also stated
that Senator Machen of Alexandria had re-
ceived a letter from Mr.. Baldwin, In which
he stated that he had formerly voted the
republican ticket. but was at the present
| time democrat 1t is probable that a
the matter.
Thomas Wayland; a carpenter employed
by the Alexandria Fertilizer and Chemical
Company, had his arm severely injured yes
terday, his sleeve being caught in set
screw OF a rapidly revolving shaft. He was
| removed to the Alexandria Hospital for
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THE cAsTtLLAhE CASE
Countess Deaf to JAIL Efforts
for Reconciliation.
| AN EFFECT OF Al DIVORCE
To Give Her the Possession Of Her
Children.
LAWYERS DIFFER IN OPINION
As to How Ear She Can Go in De-
priving Her Husband of
Money.

1t is understood that strenuous efforts to
effect a reconciliation will be made before
the suit for divorce brought by the Countess
de Castellane against her husband comes
up for trial. A decree cannot be pronounced
sooner than three months In Paris and
probably will not be rendered under six
months
The countess lawyers. Edmond Kelly, a
celebrated American counselor and Maitre
Crurpi, one of the foremost advocates at
the Paris bar, have advised her that the
issue of the suit will undoubtedly. be in her
fayo In that case they must have proof
positive OF the facts-which until short
time ago were only Jealous suspicious
connecting Count Boni with one OF the most
highly placed women in the most aristo-
cratic circles of society.
Effect Of Decree in Her Favor.
a decree in her favor would also give her
possession of her sons
Even If the countess had sued for and won
mere separation it would have led auto
matically to complete divorce after the
lepse of one or two years. the only formal
ity then required being the simple request
by husband or wife.
Although the children are French citizens,
as the countess herself is, she can take
them to America If one court gives them
into her custody. True, they will be liable
TO military service on ln6lT coming OF the
prescribed age, unless they should become
naturalized citizens of the United States.
1t is said that at present the children are
more French than American and more in
clined to accept their fathers views of life
than their mothers They have been
brought up, of course, in the Catholic re-
ligion. Pending trial of the suit they Will
remain in their mothers custody.
According to strict statute, the judge be-
fore whom the divorce plea was entered
made formal effort to bring about a
reconciliation. Count Boni was not pres
ent, but he was represented by his legal
advisers.
The countess herself appeared. To the
kindly-spoken remonstrances of the judge
she returned firm refusal to consider re-
newal of relations with her husband In
deed, since she left Count Boni de Castel-
lane to live at the Hotel Bristol she has
turned deaf to her own friends and
has hardly deigned to receive the relatives
of her husband.
1t is known that for long the Castellane
family and the Countess Anna have not
been on the best of terms. They openly
sneered in society at her "tantrums," as
they called her objections to Count Bonf s
frequent affairs of the heart. The Marquis
de Castellane, her father-in-law, mortally
offended Countess Annals American spirit
by referring to her as 1.-The bourgeoise," and
saying:
''She paid her money; she now bears a
name distinguished in France; she has our
position in society. What the devil does
she expect-to make a saint of our bad little
Boni?"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-06

The mystery of shooting affair in a Wal
nut Hill family at Cincinnati a week ago
was cleared yesterday by the ante-mortem
statement of Mrs Douglass, the mistress OF
the household, wife of William Douglass.
Physicians and nurses informed the coroner
that short time before she died Mrs.
Douglass told them she shot herself in the
abdomen while suffering from the eXcru-
chatting pain of neuralgia.
John Slade Ely, professor in Yale Medical
School at New Haven, Conn, was thrown
from his saddle horse in the suburbs of that
city and suffered conclusion of the brain.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-06
ParIor Suites.

q and 5 pieces well upholstered in tapestry dam
orr her suitable uaterfals.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-06

The following partial list Of the goods offered reduced
bargains idea of the
good than actual and practically
You of them old outostyle
regular They of thoroughly reliable quality and
the original prices.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-06

was reached, and logged publicly in the
market place of each. This severe punish
ment, however, was committed to years
Imprisonment. whence Sophie emerged to
disappear into obscurity, for of her subse-
Quent career history is silent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-06
Lawyers Differ.

The lawyers Of Paris differ as to how far
the angry countess can carry out her eX-
pressed purpose to leave her husband with
out frame to crafty his lordly and ex-
travagant whims. To some 1t does not ap-
pear certain on broad principles of law
that the Gould property In New York is
wholly out Of Count Bonis reach. Even
though it is materially outside of French
Jurisdiction, much might depend upon how
an individual judge might decide. There
fore some lawyers regard 1t as possible that
In order to avoid protracted trouble and
long proceedings upon appeal, the countess
and her trustees might find ii expedient, II
the point should be pressed, to allow Count
Boni a little ''alilnony.
Paris is wondering what the husband OF
the woman who stands virtually accused as
correspondent will do. He bears one of the
greatest names in France If one leave out
the royalist and perhaps the Bonapartist
pretenders to the throne, his rank is con-
fessedy higher than that of any other
French nobleman. Although MS wife
name has not been made public through any
official act even the fried potato vendors
on the Paris streets can tell you who 1t is
that Countess Anna accuses.
Her husband, according to various stand
ards of conduct ought to make Count Boni
fight a duel which Boni, as one of the most
famous of fencers, would be very happy to
do; he might murder his wife; or perhaps
this being the twentieth century, divorce
har
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Verdict Of Not Guilty.

A verdict of not guilty was returned late
last evening by the jury In Criminal Court
No. In the case of Elijah Johnson, colored
charged with criminal assault.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-06
Statesmen Recovering From Illness.

Senator German of Maryland and Repr,-
sentative Hit OF Illinois both OF whom
have been confined to their homes in this
city for several days by Illness are reported
to be much improved today.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-10
MAN DREssMAKER OF PARIS.
His Method Of Work How He Gets an
Inspiration.

From the Womun's Home Com ponioH.
The dressmaker is a slim young man with
a long nose and big. winsome eyes. Wear
ing a gray frock coat and patent leather shoes
corseted and powdered and perfumed-he
ia more than a man: he is a dressmaker. He
ia saturated with dandylsm, It is not OF an
offensive kind.
His manners are a strange mixture OF hui
mility and insolence. for he is at once a sales
man and an artist. And he talks. talks. talks
bending his slim body into polite curves
eesticulating with his thin white hands
rolling his eyes in their painted orbits. the while
he fumbles silks and velvets and satlns and
lace and wool.
The mere man who comes into a dress
makers shop Of an afternoon In Paris no
one goes to the dressmaker's save only In
the afternoon-begins by sneerine at this
fantastic creature. That mood does not
last long. Contempt gives way to admira-
tion. There is something marvellous in the
way this lord of lace and ribbon dominates
the women-the royal highness az well as the
spoilt actress.
He is charming; he is frivolous. Then OF q
sudden his face darkens; he becomes serious;
he stares at her royal highness. studying her
form from head to foot he smites his brow.
and cries despairingly NO! no. ' can't
ace YOU In that gown-to-day. ] can't see
YOU in any gown will study-an inspiration
will come-you must wait. And royalty goes
away nattered. she knows not why.f
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-10
The Cowpunchcr's EleEy.

From The Denvcr Republican.
I've Ridden nigh a thousand leagues upon two
And il takes a grizzled westerner to know Jus,
The ranches dot the s,ronEholds of the old time
And the glory OF the cattle days can ne'er come
O. the creak Of saddle leather
o, the sting OF upland weather,
when the cowmen roamed the foothills and drove
In ten thousand steers;
Through the years, back In the dreaming.
can SEQ the oampnres, cleaning;
And the lowing of the night herd sounds. all falntly.
In my ears.
There's a oheokerboard OF fences on the vast and
windswept range.
And the haystacks and the wtndmllls make the
landscape new and strange:
And the plains are full OF farmers, with their har.
rows and their Iloush,;
ON the roadsides loiter kidlets who are div.
ing home the cows
q, the quickly faded glory.
OF the cowboys brief, brief story,
How the old range beckons vainly In the sunshine
and the rain.
And the thund'rlng hoofS OF cattle
But WHY dream a useless day dream that car only
give one palm!
Where the herders sought the martf
Where have gone the saucy cowtowns, where
the gun man PLAYED bis enmy nit, t.,
armed, heroic strife .
Each has vanished like a bubble that has lived
Its little lie.
And the blood that went a.ingllng
When VIC rode forth In the morning, chaps clad
knights in cavalcade;
And the mem'ries that come trooplng.
And the sDirits, sad and d,oopinC.
when the cowman looks about MIN az the havoc
Time has made.
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For Girl, and YouuG Women.
A STEEL LINED BLOUSE.
Found by Philadelphia Police In Probing
Chinese shooting.
From the Fh,iqdtij l,a Rocord.

Complete veritiCatjon of the statement
that members Of tn" warning factions in
Chinatown wear coats of mail 10 protect
them from the bullets and Knife thrUsts Of
their enemies was found Yesterday when the
police, in Investigating the shooting OF Willie
lee ! ork. found an armored coat in the room
Of Lee Pock, his alleged assnilant. The coat
is made after the ordinary style Of a China
mans loose blouse and is OF blue ican or heavy
drilling. on the body II looks like an ordi-
nary laundryman's working blouse, but
when the police picked it UP they found out
differently.
The garment from hen to neck was padded
with steel, in the shape Of pieces about an
inch and a half square. These do not lap
like scales. but are brought together. edge
to edge. and held with loops of wire. That
the metal lined coat might conform to the
BODY the pieces of steel We're pounded and
made slightly Coucayc. Across the body Of
the garment, back and front. is apparently
a seam, but examination showed that the
coat was made of double thickness in the
lower portion, and underneath the apron
like fap in front there was a long pocket like
a holster.
The garment weighs all told about fifty
mounds, and is about threc- fourths of an inch
In thickness. II was turned over to Stunt.
TAYLOR and will be taken into court as an
exhibit in too case OF L." Peck, who was held
at a hearing before Magistrate Gallagher to
await the result oil Works. injuries.
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WHERE LIGHTNING STRIKES.
At functions and on sharp Curves OF
Trolley Lines.

r.. H. Adams. a Baltimore street railway
mar, has a clever method Of finding out where
lightning is likely to strike one of his cars.
According to the street Rdiiuny journal he
keeps in his Office a large scale 1ap of the
system. and whenever a car crew reports
that n car has been damaged by lightning,
he sticks a pin in the map at the point where
the car was Al the time.
1t ia astonisEirG how quickly a record Of
this kind will show up tho locations that
seem 10 be especially susceptible to lightning
dischar Gcs. In tho course of the season a
few points will have a miniature forest of pins
grouped around them. while long stretches
Of track will show M pins at all.
When a particular location begins 10 ac-
cumulate a ollect ion of these ~te!ltale pins, q
lightning arrester can be installed AT this
point and the trouble A. once eliminate ed
or az least materially reduced. From graphic
records kept in this way over a period Of years
II has been determined that the most vulner-
able points are at functions Of. lines and at
eherp- bends and curveA
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MECHANICS or POLITICIANS.
Titles by which We'll known Men We're
FamIiisriy Spoken or.
From me Washington Sto-

From me Washington Stu-
r'ntil reoently the newspa pers referred 70
JEFF Davis Of Arkansas. Bob Taylor OF
Tennessee and Tom Watson OF Georgia.
Ceremony was dispensed with, The public
insisted on familiarity with the men Of whom
Il heard 40 much Suddenly the note II
chan ged As the result Of two Senatorial
primaries the reference now Is to Hon, JEFF
ferson Davis and Hon. Robert l.. Taylor.
while several successful books have produced
for the types Hon. Thomas +. Watson.
Whether We shall all love them more at a
little distance and with our hats respect
fully raised IL a question.
To the very last the public held on to Jim
Bl1ine and TO Ben Harrison. Tammany
always spoke Of Sammy Tilden. though
not with affection. 1t hated him pretty
cordially. Nobody ever spoke Of Bill or
Billy Mckinley. and nobody speaks Of
Bill or Billy Bryan. Neither Mr.. Cleveland's
nor Judge Parker's given name lends itself
10 an affectionate diminutive, and neither
man Il Of a chummy disposition.
People spoke Rdmiringly OF Sam Randall
and Of Tom Reed and OF Dave Henderson.
They speak 90 to-dly OF Joe C~lnnon-Cncle
Joe. But nobody was ever heard 70 speak
OF Charley Crisp or OF Jack Carlisle. And
yet the Georgian was an aHable and a very
popular man, and the Kentucklan was
admired as speaker as IuuCh 70 any
man who had ever occupied the chair. II
Mr.. Williams goes In two years hence shall
we hear Of Jack Williams. or will he con-
tinue to be known IA John Sharp?
This disposition OF the public runs eocen-
trlcally. Gen. Harrison WAS not n chummy
man, and yet people in speaking Of him called
him Ben. Mr.. Randall was a very firm
and unyielding man and had few lntinates.
and yet the public insisted on Sam. When
people spoke Of Dan voorhees, everybody
could understand. because the Tall syca-
more Of the Wabash had an address which
was the very essence OF heartiness and
toviality. But a nature OF the same quality
never In the case OF Judge Crisp diminished
IN the press the formal Charles to Charley.
nor in that Of Mr., Mckinley the formal VIII
lam to Bill or Billy.
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pas itefs ever been suv converted sr'iSr
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va inc municipality NJ ecrpan, cpsussd
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Ias thsre atet be.r , ttlss ca the system,
N ~ desefihe fulr
liov wete lshof disputes settief'
Mere the law, felatins ~ health, employers
liability and contract labor obssfvsdP
The COMMITTEES haa found aleeady that
n Ia fatici. easter 10 get abewegN 70 aome ~
these duertiUn IN fngland thar II n IN thia
country The frrufda ovsf bore are not
kept In tho shate they arr IN Fhaiand
The work ~ The c~utntnltlea viii be ~
ltnmenao Importance ah Dr Albert
shaw tho other day sbecauee n wiii BRING
hack information that will inspire q zeal
for changing our conditions where changes
are demanded, and fof further study, The
men who are going abroad have entire
oonhdence In one another.
They are not d~ootrlnaires. They are ~
competent n body Of men a. could he
got together In this country. M DOM.
mites wili agree on M many points as
possible On the ground.
1T will be highly important 20 have @
large body Of facts settled upon while they
are on the ground and I hope that they
will all agree upon a. many facts ~ possible
There may be some facts upon which they
will not agree. but I trust they Mil be unanl-
NOUS on the very largest number N facts
possible"
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Family OF Long Lived People.

Dublin correspondence Atlanta Constitution.
Mrs. Elizabeth Billieu Of Wilkinson county
on Wednesday last celebrated the ninety
eiehth anniversary OF her birthday. She
comes from a family Of long lived people.
Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin Fordham moved to
Georgia from North Carolina early In the
Nineteenth century. They had fourteen
children. Two died in infancy, Twelve
w,re raised to mans estate. Mrs. Simeon
Ellington died at the age OF a., Mrs. Daniel
Dominy at the age Of 2 and MrsIop Du Pre-
Ram died Al the age Of IS, Frank Fordham at
he aee of 81, Robert Fordham at s., Wiley
Fordham AT - and BENJAMIN Fordham at
a. XII Of the men buried two wives and one
If them three. This one is still living and Is
Swidower at the age. Of 81,
Il Is not believed that there 10 q more re
1nnst1at a bettSu, peoor46orionEeyity1 m
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WOMEN HORKERS IN JAPAN.
Employed as Clerks. BoOkkeepers and
School Teachers.

Il rom TNt JuDuH 'HfUUtftt.
The remarkable increase during the last
few years in the number OF women employed
in various branches OF commercial life in
,Japan must be regarded as a very significant
sign OF the times. Not content with the occu-
nations which have almost exclusively be-
loneed to females. they have now invaded
those fields which have hitherto been con-
sidered as belonging to the male sex.
The experiment made in the employment Of
women as clerks and bookkeepers has been
found satisfactory. and we now find girls
employed by many Of the firms and stores in
Toxic and other large cities. The employ
ment OF women in these various directions will
do much toward emancipating the Japanese
women, who have until now been entirely
dependent on men for the shaping OF their
destinies. 1t Ia only natural. under such
circumstances, that female education should
en- ga re serious public attention. The number
Of girls receiving a school education. IL is
stated. is now more than eight times the num-
Der OF those at school ten years ago. More
remarkable are the hgures given by tho Toxic
Educational Society. Fifteen years ago the
percentage Of females admitted TO the tram
ing school for teachers was less than 20, as
compared with the men. but to-day the rate
has been completely reversed, the number
OF male applicants being now about IL per
cent. OF the total II is said that women, as
teachers, are proving themselves superior to
men, and that there is consequently more
demand for the former than the latter. There
Is no doubt that the employment OF women in
the various branches of business activity will
steadily increase with tho advance of cduca-
tIon among them,