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revised version, doubtless) Port Ar
thur and other ancient history. Coney
Island must be up to date. And so the
pyrotechnic people are already at work
have been for a week. No one can
deny that there is good material, for
only a trifling stretch of the imagin-
alton may find spectacular material in
the Heterogeneous elements of life at
the Golden Gate and in the stupendous
disaster which overlook them;
There are to be other remarkable
things at Coney Island which will be
in full swing in another week. Nov
ing pictures are being made from a
balloon and these are to be shown on
a horizontal sheet. which you will
scrutinize from a make-believe bal
loon basket at Luna park In this way
you will seem actually to be making
a balloon voyage. over Coney Island
and New York. -s-t~5-z:
There is to be another thriller much
more thrilling than the chutes for you
are to go over a real cascade (without
rollers) in real boat There is an
artificial "wave maker" guaranteed to
produce surf on the mildest days.
Nothing cheers, Stimulates and excites
the New Yorker like being able to do
something in an artificial way. Per-
haps we are all just grown UP chill
dren who. like make believe'' better
than the real thing, the fire engine on
the stage better than on the street, the
surf made by a machine better than
the breakers made in the good old
way by the ocean itself. 5s-t y
I have said nothing about pro-
posal to have daring lady (undoubt-
edly from France) turn two, somer-
saults in an automobile. The single
somersault is already an old story.
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FOR MECHANICAL PURPOSES
Clancy Needed the Rum to Lubricate:
( the Mechanism: of Barn
F*'~s- RaiSer1.

In rural Maine, when one has an e.
2ecially hard or disagreeable task to per-
form, one calls in the neighbors." At
such times, says the Bangor News, the
work performed is done without money
and without price except that the host
must provide abundant refreshments. both
nourishing and refreshing. At such
times the winter supply of tirewood is cut,
the. timber felled and piled, the frames Of
buildings raised. Often the host has
trouble to find intoxicants, Maine being:
dry state. !
This was Clancy's dilemma when he en-
tered the city agency. at Bangor Straight
IN front OF him sign hung: Liquors.
Sold for Use in Sickness or for Mechanical
Purposes Only"
Il want two gallons of old rum" he
announced.
The agent pointed YEARLY to the sign.
i saw that" said Clancy: '1've been,
Are you sick?"
mo-
Got prescription?"
mo"
What do you want it for?" queried the
"Got to have it," replied Clancy, cheer
FULLY, "for mechanical purposes. I'm 60
ing to raise barn."
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Defects Of Criminal Law.


There are two reasons why criminal
law reform is pressing problem to-
day. One is the repression by that re-
form Of lynch law. The other is not
less important We need that reform
says an Atlantic writer, because the
social condition Of our day imperar
lively demands a substantial increase
in the scope and power Of criminal
law. a system strong enough to meet
the new and increasing requirements
Of our civilization for corrective and
repressive criminal law. A system too
complicated to deal out certain Justice
to common offenders, ignorant and
brutal, poor in purse and influence,
can never adequately deal with our
new class Of big business criminals.
with tho men who get rich by fraud,
the corporation inf1aters and wreckers,
the faithless trustees and grating d.
rectors, the exploiters of municipali-
ties, tho magnates who give bribes
and tho bosses who take them, the
trust operators who sin against hon
esty in business, who break the law
against monopolies, who give and take
forbidden rebates. How can predatory
wealth. powerful, influential, often in
trenched in Office, be punished by a sys.
TEN which creaks, groans. and often
breaks down, in bringing a border ruf.
fan to Justice?
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have to admit that many of their the
ories are guesswork. They have
cleaned some very interesting data
from the disturbance, and the seismo-
graph, that delicate instrument that
registers disturbances Of the earth, has
come into great prominence. The
weather bureau has one which prompt
ly recorded the earthquake on the
morning 1t occurred, but at the mag
netic observatory of the United States
coast and geodetic survey, at Chelten-
ham, the closest observation was
made not only with the seismograph,
but also with the self-registering mag
netfc instruments.
This magnetic observatory is one of
the best equipped in the country and
the seismograph was mounted there in
December, 1904. The record is made
by a fine steel point which makes a
trace on sheet of paper having a
smoked surface. This paper is wound
on cylinder driven by clockwork and
revolving once every hour at such a
speed that the smoked surface moves
past the pen point 1t the rate of one
twenty-fifth Of an inch every four Sec
onds. Cheltenham is 2,450 miles in
an air line from San Francisco and the
record shows that the waves from the
earthquake crossed the continent in
seven minutes "a seconds, ;5or at the
rate Of ,5h miles per second, which is
!, 27 times the velocity of sound. =:
The self-recording magnetic instru-
ments registered the same data and
showed that the tremors of the earth
quake crossed from San francisco to
Cheltenham in about seven minutes.
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Judicial Repression.

~ judicial Repression. l.,
Just why. Ina country In which the
vast majority Of Judges are elected by
popular vote. there should be Ok.
pressed in law such q superstitious ter
TOR lest Judge should give anv ex-
preston Of his own personality Is puz'
cling In the extreme. In many stateA
writes George w. Alger. in Atlantic.
and particularly in. those in which q
drm and vigorous administration Of
Justice IN Of urgent importance, The
Judge who presides at . criminal trial
II not permitted by Law to be a Judge
in any real or vital sense. He must
not comment on the evidence. he must
not review tho facts and set them In
coherent order before the jury. he
must not sift tho testimony and sepa'
rate tho material from tho immaterial.
hs must above all things. refrain from
expressing In any wise personal
opinion on anything from the start
Of the trial to it, close. He must deal
out abstract rules Of law. and leave the
Jury to their own devices with such
blind guidance In sndeavoring to apply
that law to the facts. II he sees them
swayed by misleading eloquence, he
must not set them In the path Of rea-
con for Justices sake. He Is a pilot
who must not touch the wheel. The
vigorous, commanding figure Of the
English Judge is by law excluded from
the great majority Of our criminal
courts. The summary Of facts in the
charge which, for example. Justice
Bingham gave a few years ago to an
English jury in the sensational case Of
Whitaker Wright. the great swind-
ling promoter. would have meant an
Inevitable reversal and new trial for
"error" in any lynch law state in this
country.
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all his tales are to be believed, and is
now having the time of his life re-
ceivings responses to his suggestion
that he would like to have a nice lady
for his wife, and when the right one
comes along he will settle upon her
the tidy sum of 100000. It may be
mentioned that the lady has ot>Syet
appeared, and Mr.. Stark's 100000 are
yet intact. He came here a few, weeks
ago and put up at the best hotel in the
city, and to an enterprising reporter.
on a daily paper told an: enchanting
story in his great luck in searching:
for wealth. : i. 5'.le-. 'y~%--.:.z 80
According to- his tale, he struck it
rich wherever he went in gold and sill
yer mining and in search for diamonds
in the diamond fields Of Brazil. He
said that he was worth Z $4,000 in
cash, besides retaining an interest in
some valuable mines. He was tired,
he declared, of his hard life as a pros
pector and gold hunter, and wanted to
settle down in peace, comfort and do
nestle bliss. IN order to attain his
ideal he intimated that he would set
tie $500, 900 on the lady who met his
ideal Of . wife. His story got a. wide
circulate ion, and the mails have been
filed with letters from all over the
country. i: .s=
They come from women. lin almost
every station Of life, but, tie majority
|,ot them have been written by working
Girls and servants 4 s5 whns finn phf thew
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IS Dr. Vickers Fell. WHO is now in the
eighty-seventh year Of his age. He
was one Of the pioneers Of the west,
and started the first 4Republi blican news
spk5er west Of st. Louis. II addition
to- his devotion to the cause ST anti
slavery, DR.. Fell has been deeply In
sterested II the question Of woman's
rights and temperance. The other day
while II reminiscent mood. he talked
sof his early experie In the west,
and of conditions that the present gen
seration has little conc option 81. II
speaking Of hts early history, heS said:
was born in .ancaster county,
sPennsyly s. sIS19 parents
were Quakers and were, like the ma
sjorit OF Quakerss opposed to slavery.
IN 1851 Il II estab ablished myself at Sc.
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to Gen. Robert Gibson Smith, of New
Jersey, for $50,O00. This is one of the
best-known estates in Virginia, and is
situated in Fairfax county, on the Po-
tomac river, % miles from Washing
ton:, The estate almost touched the old
Mount Vernon estate, and the own
er of Gunston hall, Mr.. George Mason,
was one of the most intimate friends
and neighbors that George Washing
ton had.
The old mansion is standing virtu-
ally as it was built by Mr.. Mason, in
1855. 1t is an imposing and delightful
old building, and is of the old colonial
type of architecture. The bricks of
which it is built were brought by ship
all the way from Scotland. They are
twice the size of modern bricks, but
are exceedingly durable as the walls of
Gunston hall will compare more than
favorably with the buildings Of the
present day. The house is 80 feet
long by 40 feet wide. The principal
entrance is on the north side of the
building and is marked by large
square porch of brick and stone and
having four heavy doric pillars. On
the south side there is q smaller porch
overlooking the wide Potomac.
This estate now consists of 615 acres
and affords fine pasture and farming
lands, besides having large orchards
containing about 10000 fruit trees.
Former Representative Thomas E.
Watson, Of Georgia.. populist and
Farmers Alliance advocate, tried to
buy this place about year ago. Mr..
Watson, despite his preaching the
simple life and antagonizing riches, is
a man we'll to do in this worlds goods,
and amply able to pay the $4,000
asked for this old estate, but some
hitch occurred in his negotiation. He
was anxious to get up into the old
colonial atmosphere and settle down
on an estate with which George Wash
ington was so familiar.
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Decently dressed alway. and cheer
full in manner. John s. nobinson, OF
San Francisco, veteran of the Mexican
war and formerly millionaire, al
lowed none at his friends to know for
two years that he was living on his
pension of $12 q month and had no
other resources. But finally he mad to
give up the struggle and now he is
dying in st. Luke's hospital, surround
ed. too late. with every possible com-
fort. = .:-.3-, arfg ..SSs< IA z.s
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a Pennsylvania man found q Kan
sas girls name On an egg. made 4
scramble 1or her and 8 now IN the
matrimonial yolk. EEgsactly: he says
Ats : shell game, and nothing % crow
ever. Z5sss5
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"Gunston Hail."

SIMPLE real es.
t q te notice in
Washington pa
pers the other
day recorded the
transfer Of. one Of
the most >histori-
cal places in the
old dominion. 1t
was the sale of
"Gunston hall" of
historic memory
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What He Learned.

II learned the game of love once"
sighed the young man in the blue waist
coat. "So?" asked his chum. "Yes;
through a school of correspondence. I
took Ten lessons" "And- did you realize
anything?" "Only that I was lobster.
She kept the letters and sued me for
breach of promise ."-Detroit Tribune.
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In Search Of a Wife.

YOUNG man Civ
Ing the name of
Henry Stark has
been causing quite
a sensation in
Washington re.
Gently and Great
ing much agita-
tion. among the
ladies. He is an
eccentric sort. t. of
an individual, if
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Snails Too Swift

A young man from Philadelphia was din
Ing with friend in downtown restau-
rant. Among the things the New York;
er ordered were snails. When the PHIL
ner he was greatly pleased.
Il never had anything that tasted so
good in my life" said he.
"Why," said the New Yorker, don't
you have snails in Philadelphia?''
"Yes," said the Philadelphian; Eyes, We
heve snails enough, I guess, but the trou-
bic is, there's nobody over there that can
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Books and Pictures,

[R GEORGE OAR
win, son of the
author of the "Or-
igin of Species, !"
was the guest of
e x Ambassador
!Choate + while in
n New York. He is
at work on a scien-
tifc book Of un-
questionable i'm
portancc'e, but he
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vivid imagination Of, Childhood.

Vivid Imagination Sof Childhood.
Early mental processes easily par
take of the fanciful. It lis for this
reason that many children lie. They
cannot di1erentiate truth and false
hood. They must learn by experience
the distinction dis n between y reality and
dream Impressions. There issa famil-
lar story about woman Who was
seeking to teach her little girl ]. the
value Of truth. The girl had been
told the story Of Ananias and sapphtra.
Don't you know what happened fto
them q asksd the nstructor. "a ;,
replied the child. q They fell dead.
and I saw them carried into the 60, cor.
sner drug store.'{ Yet theresW noth
5ingwicked. ins sthisayo youngster nor hone
4 less IN her outlook. Still, her imagin-
@atton could not be said to- need sttn,-
uniting hiladel elphta5 Ledg #.
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Delicate Instruments.

OR the past few
weeks nobody has
been thinking of
much else except
the, San Fran
cisco earthquake.
: Washington scien-
lists have been
very much inter
ested in the cause
of . that terrible
disaster, but they
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/ One of the Original Group.

] NE r Of the old orig
inal group Of abo-,.
litionists It'll of which.
Horace Greedy,
Wendell Phillips
g and William. II Lloyd Z
Garrison W eIr e
!. types, still resi- des
I, i n y WN1'asiht:il:nl Ia tl:l:nl gtt'olnr, t'lr
and m talks most In.
terestingly Of the
/. oorlv DAYS Thio
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Disaster as a Show.

r course the earth
quake is to be
turned to account
by those ingenious
gentlemen W h O
run that greatest
show on earth
Coney Island. 1t
will di sp | a c e
Mount Pelee, Pom
peii-the old one
(there will be q
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Peacocks~ and SUPERSTITION

HE artist must not
make any decora-
tive peacock feath-
er in introducing
this paragraph. I
insist upon. re-
specting tradition,
even while I am
helping to destroy
it, and it is the
!. t r a d i t ion, of
course, that pea
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In R0P0l|||S''' S
IF NEW YORK WE'RE SHAKEN
Z BY AN EARTHQUAKES. 3;
so FAR VERY FORTUNATE.
The Thoroughly Up-to-Date Attrac-
tions Sat Coney Island-A Theat- ):
'srical Bradstreet- The Pub. !, q. e
. lie over ttDone.'' ,..z~

EW YORK.-!!Every
town in America
has had time to se-
riously conjecture
as to what it would: !.
;doiwith. an earth
ltquake-after the
earthquake h a d
done with it: New
York has seemed
to be particularly
prolific of guesses.
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Beauty in the .ttCard Index,

big theatrical syn
dicate-n o t t h 9
great trust by
the way-has in
" vented a simple
device that Gre
ates one ne Of the
2 most .'lt,'Is' n entertaining
!. .cc''ulrioesit1ies Gu = IS | IN New
York. e k ]. The !: {, 8 new e de-
vice takes the
place OF I much
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Garfield Tea is Natures remedy for liver
and kidney diseases. -
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I ! GOSSIP '||.||''
GEN. FUNSTON RIGHT MAN IN
RIGHT PLACE. s.,5
PRAc cTIcALs ENTHUs UslAsT.
Record Of Crossing Of Earthquake
Tremors Transfer Of Historic
> Place in Old .Dominion-A s.s
s: ss@g Peculiar Hoax. -
A s II Ing TO N.

A s II In GT,O N.
The old saying
about Roosevelt
luck has now been
changed to. Fun.
ston luck. !" Brig.
, G en-. Frederick
Funston has again
been the right
man in the; right
place. AS com
mander of the de-
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+ There are occasions when it IL perjury
10 forget. ~ Ill. W. zs + Z. &.
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p. Powerfully comon consent an admir-.
able training for mental and moral perfec4
tion-in others-Century.
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Garfield Tea, the herb laxative, is mild,
effective, ,health-glvEs-a faultless prep
aration. 1t cures constipation.
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SEVEN YEARS OF SUFFERING.
Ended 1t Last Through Using Doan's
Kidney Pills. .

i Mrs, Selma Jones, OF, 200 Main ST.,
Ansonia, Conn.,. saws s If It had not
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There are times, to be sure, when We
doubt our own wisdom, but these are
never concurrent with those occasions
when we contemplate the proper policy for
our friends to pur: de-Puck. +.
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Life would be stale, fat, and unproft-
able without its illusions. sss
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He Knows It All.

DO you believe that one mind can alb
sorb the sum total of human intelligence?"
"Well, I dunno. : I've got boy who
is a senior in college, you know.
land Plain Dealer =
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A,:nil: ,:nil:s'so,,sltina! {

81 Ont IL
r. 8. Coal Mliner, of Hole-in-the.
sGrourd q y Is spending q vacation on tho m
faceS OF the earth. Bal ltImore sun,
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early days. This
Evening star., 1906-09-09
NEWS FROM LAUREL,
Program for Prohibition State Con-
vention-General Matters.


Special Correspondence of The Star
LAUREL, Md, September 8. 1908.
The prohibition state convention will be
held here AT the Academy Of Music on
Washington avenue Wednesday, September
II. and which will be attended by delegates
from all over the state. The program ar
ranged for the occasion Is as follows: Con-
vention called to order at II am. by state
chairman; prayer; address Of welcome by
William E. Gilbert, mayor Of Laurel; re-
sponse by George r. Gorsuch. chairman
Baltimore city prohibition committee; cleo
tion of convention officers; appointment of
committees on credentials, resolutions. re-
ports of State Chairman Finley c. Hend-
rickson, Treasurer William Kleinle and of
the committee on credentials. county chair
man and others.
At the afternoon session addresses will
be delivered by Mrs. e. Noraine Law of
Michigan, National Chairman Charles R.
Tones. William E. johnson and DR.. G. H.
Mead of New York city.
A mass-meeting will be held in the even
ing. when DR.. Mead will speak. Music will
As Laurel several months ago voted against
permitting saloons within the city limits,
and elected a full ticket pledged to prohi-
btion. its selection as the place for the
session Is regarded as particularly fitting.
John Castle. the young son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Martin Castle, was caught In the ele-
vator at the Laurel cotton mill recently
and had a portion Of his scalp taken OF
and chin severely cut. He Is slowly recov-
ering from the injury.
Mrs. Albert s. Davis and daughter, Miss
Elsie Davis. of Brightwood, have been Wis
1ting at the home Of Mr.. Henry c. Frost.
Rev. ]. L. Hartsock has returned to Yonk-
ers. N. T., after visit to his parents. Rev.
and Mrs. 8. M. Hartsock, at "Har Lew
Lodge" near Laurel.
The Laurel military band will attend the
jubilee at Baltimore next week.
The funeral Of John Randolph Brown,
who was found dead IN a buggy at French's
stables here on Wednesday morning. was
held yesterday afternoon from his resi-
dence on Montgomery street, Rev. A. B.
Sites officiating. The deceased was the son
of Mr.. and Mrs. James Brown and was
forty-four years OF age. His widow and
four children survive him. Some mystery
surrounds his death, although the physi-
clan who examined him states the belief
that the fatal injury was produced by some
accident which caused his head to be
struck by the wheel of the buggy.
Mr. Wilbur A. Mcclellan and Miss Ara
minta Bevans. both Of Laurel. were quietly
married by Rev. E. Doney at Hamline
Methodist Episcopal parsonage In Wash
ington recently.
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NEWS FROM FREDERICKSBURG.
Residence Destroyed by Fire-Scholar-
ships Awarded-Pohtical Activity.

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
FREDERICKSBURG, September 8, 1905.
The residence of Mr. C. F. Hicks Of Car
oline county was totally destroyed by fire
about midnight Thursday. The occupants
of the house escaped without injury and
managed to save few things on the
ground floor. The origin of the fire is un-
known.
Mr.. and Mrs. Horace L. Ball Of North
cumberland county have announced the en-
gagement of their daughter, Miss Jennie
Louise Bell, to Mr.. Henry L. Land of Nor
folk The wedding is to take place Octo-
Der in Grace Protestant Episcopal Church
at Kilmarnock, Lancaster county.
Mr.. Enoch ID. Skinner and Miss Nellie
Hughlett, daughter OF Mr.. w. H. Hugh
lett, were married last night by Rev: X.
Aubrey Williams of the Baptist Church Of
this city.
The announcement of the marriage Of
Miss Sallie NJ. Franklin, daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas w. Franklin of this city,
to Mr.. ]. l.. Wilcox, in Washington,
Thursday came as a surprise to her many
friends in this city. By prearranged plan
passing through this city and proceeded to
Washington, where the knot was soon tied.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilcox returned to this city
today, receiving the congratulations OF
their friends and obtaining the reconcilfa-
ton of the parents Of the bride. After
spending q few days in this city they will
go to Tennessee, where they will reside.
Mr.. A. ]. Bunnell, said to have been the
Oldest citizen of Caroline county. died this
week at Lake" farm, the home of his
daughter, Mrs. J. w. Jones, In Caroline
county. He was nearly ninety years OF
age. Four sons and four daughters sur
vive him. His remains were inferred In
this city.
The republicans Of Spottsylvania county
will hold mass meeting at Spottsylvania
Court House Monday, September II, for
the purpose of selecting delegates to at
tend the congressional convention from
the first district and to elect the party Or
ganization for the county.
The public schools of this city opened
Monday with a large attendance In ac-
cordance with the agreement between this
city and the Fredericksburg College, the
following pupils who received the highest
mark in the highest grade of the public
schools last session were given scholar
ship In the college: Misses Ruth Brauer,
Eleanor Portch, Ada Brown, Laura Ter
reIl, Susie Shenton. Doris Garrison, Corinne
Stearns and Adelina Mitchell.
Mr.. E. Reginald Fauckoner and Miss
Bessie G. Tinder, daughter of Mr.. ]. s. Tin
der of Verdierville. Orange county, were
married Wednesday last in Rhoadesville
Baptist Church, that county, by Rev. w.
r. Flanagan Of Orange c. H.