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Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1906-02-17
BERNARD SHAW'S WALL.
Critic Says We Have Cured Him of
vanity, Curiosity and Ambition.

Vanity, Curiosity and Ambition.
"'Nanity of vanities, and all is van
ity,' and I've had enough of it," is the
burden of a letter sent by George Der
nard Shaw, the English critic ana
dramatist, to a press clipping bureau of
New York city The supreme egotist
has at last been beaten at his own
game, says the New York News. Here
is how he admits his defeat:
/ never want to see an American paper
again You have cured me OF vanity, of
curiosity, of ambition You have shown
me that modesty and retirement are sweet
er, easier and much cheaper than public
ity. l find the average charge for press
clippings is about 1914 per item of news.
There Is one paragraph containing five
lines of nonsense about my whiskers, of
which you have sent me scores. Now, l
do not blame you for this. l told you it
would happen to subscribers like me, who
have silly little jokes copied from paper to
paper throughout the states. l, therefore.
confess that I have had enough of it, The
day you receive this send me a final ac-
count, erase my name from your books
and never let me see the name (of the
clipping bureau) again.
1 wish you well. | forgive you Thank
you. Bless you. And farewell.
G. BERNARD SHAW.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1906-02-17
New Rmles For Powder Cars

The accident on the PENNSYLVANIA
railroad last July, caused by dynamite
III transit, has led to reform in the
method of transporting explosives by
rail-. New rules have been adopted by
three principal roads running into the
mining districts and will doubtless be
extended to other systems.
Under the new regulation explosives
are limited to one car on a train, and
the car must be steel lined. with air
brakes, and the whole train must be
controlled by air brakes The powder
must be placed in stronger receptacles
than formerly, aad the nitroglycerln in
compound must not exceed 50 per cent.
II IS also required that the car be full
and the powder packages so small as
to be easily handled The industries
OF the country call for the transporta.
ton Of high explosives, and their trans
1t should be made safe without serr
ously interfering with traffic and trade
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1906-02-17
NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that |, Jo-
seph Farnsworth, am the legal owner
of military bounty land warrant No.
38oO8 for so acres, issued under the act
of 1850 and No. 241S2 for 80 acres,
issued under the Act of 1855 in the
name of Joseph Farnsworth, and that
said warrants having been lost or des-
troyed, | have made application to
the Commissioner of Pensions for du-
plicates. Joseph Farnsworth. ct.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1906-02-17

DR. Eydam, Il noted German me.
teorologist, has discovered new and
extremely simple kind Of barometer,
says Electricity. 1t consists of the tel
'egr2Uh Wire which is strung from pole
to pole along the roadsides. DR.. Ely
dam declares that by listening closely
to the sound made by the wind blow
ing across the wires any one can tell
exactly what the weather is likely to
De several days in advance. If the
wires emit a deep, mellow and sus-
tanned note, like that Of an organ, ii
means that the weather will be show
cry. with possible gales. \ sharp
high note fQretelIs cold, stormy wealth
or, with. in winter, snow and sleet.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1906-02-17
MAKING HORSES INVISIBLE
Methods For Warfare BeinE CoAs1a-
cred By German Commissf0a

Methods For Warfare BeinE ComelA-
cred By German Communication
A special military commission has
been sitting In Berlin considering the
best means of making cavalry as invis-
fble as possible in warfare. SAYS the
London Express.
Harmonizing the mems uniforms
with natural conditions as much as
possible is not enough, and the com
mission has been discussing the advis
ability of dyelng the horses or screen
ing them with light canvas trappings.
At the British war office the other
day it was said that several expert
ments had been made In this direction
during the war in South Africa.
One official said; MANY horses were
dyed, but it was found that the dye
soon washed off all except gray horses
Several vegetable dyes and Il diluted
fluid were used, but the experiments
proved Of little value Canvas trap
pings made the horses perspire and
impeded their movements, and besides
when the sun is behind the cavalry the
horses legs can be seen through the
canvas.
"The best screen for cavalry used IN
South Africa was a combination of
various heatherlike shrubs picked un
on the veldt These plants were in
many cases strung upward and down
ward from the trappings and gave the
appearance, when cavalry were moving
slowly across the sky line, of waving
vppnto fions'
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1906-02-17
The Man with the Ballot.


1t seems from the present outlook in
Europe that legislation through assem-
bGes elected by general suffrage will
be in vogue all over the continent with.
In few years. France and Germany
already have universal manhood suf.
rrage, and doubtless the very idea
that led Bismarck TO counsel the new
departure will prevail in other cont
aental lands. Bismarck believed that
the great mass of grownup men could
be made more amenable to imperial
authority than the few when guided
by the "mtellectuals," as the political
" active middle class is called in Rus
sia. At present the great battle
grounds of general suffrage are Hun.
gary and Russia. The passion fol
equality among the French has estab.
lished the principle ia France beyond
MI probability Of restriction. Both OF
the Napoleons popularized the uni.
yersal franchise in the days of imperial
sway.
In Hungary the experiment of what
amounts to universal suffrage will
doubtless be made before long The
mere Introduction of the proposition
aroused recently such an outburst OF
national enthusiasm that the granting
Of the franchise may prove to be ex.
pedient for the peace of the empire
It is not strange. either, that the vac
Hating car of Russia clings to the
idea of giving the masses the ballot
1T can do for Russia what it did for
Germany-str the crown at the
expense of the middlemen, who are
as stubborn as were the kings of old
IN claiming it their special privilege te
make the laws 4 monarch who cal
have the masses with him is independ
ent of the cabals and cliques which
surround the court and if he choose
of the parties which assume to dispute
the sovereign will
The vote of a general assembly
Which has been elected by universal
suffrage has something of the mora,
and imaginative weight of a plehis'
citum, which has for the time beina
irresistible momentum. Even a DIES
pQtic monarch will acknowledge thai
his people when acting together have
rights which he is bound to respect
and to safeguard. Oriental deSpots
have been known to acknowledge their
obligation to the peasant class and to
plead their welfare when resortinG to
the most savage despotism in dealing
with the official class which intercept.
ed their direct authority. Selfish and
headstrong kings often fear and dis.
like the people less than they do Sc
| lected classes, whose sole claim to i'm.
portance is class privilege.
The first use to which the man wttr
the ballot will put this weapon is tc
increase his share in the general com
fort, and what he gets extra will not
stint the king, for it comes from the
opulent classes, which the king loves
none too well. Henry ". wished thai
every peasant had a fowl in his pot.
for he knew that if he had the gran
deur and the security of the crown
would be augmented. If the masses
rise the kings head is i'll danger, but
# the classes rise the King and his
people" can bring them to terms
Socialism may take on startling phases
while the war for the ballot is on, but
when the prize is secured the move
ment will be upward until peasant and
king shake hands in seeking the uni
versal welfare.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1906-02-17
FRISCO KIDS" EXPLOIT
,Usndering Bootblack's Novel
suggestion to His Mother
rrr1s HOW TO WORK NEWSPAPERS

pnterprisins Young American Who
- Heen shining Shoes of Princes
potentates Advises His Mother
san Francisco How TO Make 50
80. of Change For Herself"
uo are Indebted to the San Francis.
:, chronicle for very entertaining let.
tor written by youthful American ID
no,is TO his mother in San Francisco,
COWS the New York Post. If it had q
title il would be, How to Work the
newspapers" Its author is the fftaoa
roor.old adventurer the "Frisco Kid,
who set out to go around the world ana
shine the shoes Of all the princes am
notentates who rule over the countries
no visits. From Paris came this sug.
eeston to Dear mamma: Say. now,
here's a chance for youse to make a
niece of change for yourself. One OF
youse get the S. +. Chronicle with my
nIcture in 1t and go to the manager OF
each newspaper and show him my pic
ture and ask him how much he will
give you if you tell him where l am.
And don't let him know whore | an
until he writes out a note saying how
much he Will
The boy advises his mother to sell his
photographs for $3.50 each. He tells
her that the London Express paid him
S25 for his story and declares that she
can do as well in San Francisco. But
he doubts his mothers business sagac-
ity He thinks she does not quite un-
derstand the significance of his exploit.
He goes on to explain:
1T is a Novelty. Something out of
the ordinary Something new to tile
Public. But l don't think youse IN
sierstand it. | had all kinds Of expert.
ence In my travels. Every experience
in the world, and some In the News
Papers. SO do as I ask you, and here
Is tae way to approach the manager.
Ask to see the manager. If he SAYS
what is it? show him my picture in the
chrorickle and tell him you are my
mother and if he wants to know where
| am and whose shoes | shned lately
tell him you know and ask him how
mgeh it IS worth to him Don't you
make the Price. But let him because
you don't know how much it is worth
wish was there l would show youse
how to make piece Of change for my
self. Well the manager may say
$500 or he may say he's full up on
space or some thing like that, Then he
may say $40 or $50. Then tell him
you will come back and let him know
Then YOU 80 TO the next paper ana Dc
the same and the one that gives you
the EO2I do business with him, and if
he wants my address tell him" This
Frisco kid" had news to send. and
surely it was worth whatever his fam
Hy might get for it. He sends it in Il
brief postscript: Il didn't shine King
Edward yet. l will shine him when |
60 back to London. | Shined Pres Lee
bout of France the other day and |
shlned American Ambessery of Lon
don and Consul of Southampton and
the lord mayer of London and the
mayer of Havre france and the Con
suit and the Gen Consult of Paris and
the American Ambessery."
1t IS no wonder that the youth should
implore his mother to handle such
news wisely
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1906-02-17
AN ODD REQUEST,
sOutherner Left $4,000 to Educate
Northerners In Manners.

HI hahhCESs
a. w. Carson, one Of the oldest news
paper men of southwest Missouri who
recently died at Joplin, Mo-, bequeath-
ed $4,000 for the dissemination Of
Mark Twain's How to Be Il Gentle
man" among the Young Mems Chris
tan associations of the north, says a
Joplin (Mo.) dispatch to the New York
Times. He said in his WILL which was
opened the other afternoon, that in the
south the young men did not need the
good advice contained In Mark Twaln's
work.
Mr.. Carson came to Joplin from Buff
falo, Mo. in 1872. He left an estate
valued at about $4,000, the bulk of
which will go to his sister, Mrs. Sarah
Hunt of New York city.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1906-02-17

q pet.len containing G30O54 names
~ ~ 70 De presented TO the English par
. - when 1t meets. 1t is against
sue Viyisection of dogs, and 1t is sevpa
miles long.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-02

and shook his head. He is dying l am sorry to
say" he said as gently as he could.
For instant she stood looking at dunbly;
then dropping her knees beside the COT she called
to the unconscious man. Mike! Mike! Did yez
hear what the doctor says? You're dyin', Mike
and Mother of God! what's to become of the
chlldher! Tell there's time for to fetch praist
doctor!
You will have to hurry" said the doctor
She spoke to the eldest child, boy and he
started out of the room, his wizened pnched little
face showing white in the gathering light.
My admiration for the doctor already of the
highest; but in the next half hour his resource
patience, and kindly sympathy were beyond praise
Mind you he had been at work constantly for nearly
twenty-four hours, and yet he never hesitated for
instant but strove desperately to keep alive the
Pickering spark of vitality in the dying man, until
the good priest should come to perform a final
absolution and give what comfort might be
to the woman who was left. Almost necessarily
he piled his hypodermic needle, stimulating the
feeble heart for what seemed endless minutes
but at last there was step on the rickety stairs
and we left on tiptoe as the priest came into the
room.
Out in the street the doctor spoke to the driver
" How much money have you, JIMMY
The latter fShed about in his pockets and pro-
duced fifty-cent piece
We'll, that's better than nothing" said the
doctor, and taking the coin he went back into the
house.
caught him midway up the steps.
That whole crowd than ha1f-starved,
and L left my pocket book IN my other trousers
when l changed into these ducks" he explained in
answer tony inquiry.
When he came out again 1 had decided to go
home and we shook hands.
I'll send you check, he said with apollo
getic little laugh, knowing the impossiblity, and
yet not wishing to take the matter wholly for
granted.
You'll do that at your peril" 1 said rather
stupidly-but then 1 was hardly myself.
Il shall insist upon bearing half of it, at least
he protested, and to that | had to agree. After
all, he concluded, it isn't only the sick we have
to look out for. Sometimes the well folks need us
the most Goodnight"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-02

fakir, would have been impossible. After that had
no doubts.
at any rate | said stopping him from climbing in.
WHAT? he fairly yelled. You mean to say
you amt goin' to take poor man that's been near
killed to the hosptal?
"'Not to-day l said, and explained the case to
"Then the man had another fit, much worse than
the one before; but, seeing that patrol had been
sent for and that his game up he lost his temper
and sitting in the middle of the street, cursed me
steadily till we drove away.
There are all sorts and conditions of fakrs.
Malingerers call them people who go from one
hospital to another pretending to be sick just to
get a comfortable place to live. There's old
Mary for instance l don't believe there has been
a resident physician in any New York hospital for
the last twenty years who hasn't at time
other had old Mary in the bus once at least. She
acts the way Falls down IN the street and kicks
her legs about immodestly while her groans would
break your heart. The first time of sees her
he takes her in and works over her like slave,
expecting her to die on the way. Then the other
residents tell him all about her and guy him SO
numerically that he never forgets old Mary, and
when he finds her again she goes to the station
house in patrol wagon. On yes, I've had her
The surgeon risks his life on the bus Many of
them have been injured in smashups and not few
have lost their lives. Their guiding principle is
to get there. If the bus is smashed, as it fire.
quently is, he presses other vehicle into ser
vice, goes ahead on foot, leaving the driver to
send in second call. The senior house surgeon
told me how on one occasion they needed an am
bulance at fire. Two out at the time, and the
other was broken So he ordered horse hitched
to the market wagon, and, with common dinner
bell which he rang furously, rushed to the scene
He was stopped by the police, but went after
explaining to them that he had an ambulance
Except that the calls were if anything more fire.
quent and the absence of traffic gave us more room
the streets, the night service did not differ
terally from the day. Always there were the crowds
of people collected about the of trouble
Seemingly there are thousands who never sleep.
AS the day began to break in the east we left the
hospital what proved to be my last trip for that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-02
NJ A K N G

NJ late wears, the United States has dropped
into the fashion of changing the designs of
its mailing franks more frequently than
almost any other nation, and gradually the first
Republic of the New World has come to the proud
position of possessing postage stamps that more
artistic than those sent out from any other country
1t is not easy to understand what an immense
amount of work is required by the advent OF new
styles in this postal currency. What with the men
who manufacture the paper, the two or three thou
sand men and who assist in printing and
cumming the stamps, the toilers who help in trans
porting the products of the printing presses
and the eighty thousand postmasters and clerks
who sell the stamps to the public it is estimated
that fully one hundred thousand persons have a
hand in preparing for postage stamp opening. I"
Government Its Own Best Bidder
FOR upward of decade the national Govern
ment has been printing its own postage stamps
that is, the work has been done at the big nstltu-
ton at Washington, known the Bureau of Print
ing and Engraving which is branch of the Treas
ury Department and designed primarily for the
printing of national currency; but the gigantic
task may at any time revert to private individuals
a corporation, if disposition is shown to do the
work cheaper than the Government can do it.
Every year the Post Office Department adver-
tses for bids for furnishing the postage stamps,
and the Treasury Department submits proposition
in exactly the same manner as the other bidders;
tonal capital is perfectly equipped that the
manufacture of stamps be carried at cost of
less than five cents thousand, and apparently the
bank note companies which formerly supplied
stamps have concluded that there would be no
profit in the transaction at such price.
Engraving the plates which used in the pro-
duction of postage stamps is delicate operation.
Perhaps dozen different engravers, each expert
in his particular line contributes to design for
stamp that is not inch square. One supplies
the vignette, second cuts the delicate scroll work,
third furnishes the artistic lettering and on.
The original plate bearing stamp design, al
though baked until it is almost as hard diamond,
is never employed in the actual printing. 1t is
much too precious for that, since it destroyed,
it would in all probability be impossible to engrave
a plate that would be exact duplicate in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-02

night. 1 went into the poverty stricken little
with the doctor and found there all that makes for
human suffering bare with single cot
which lay breathing his last, fact evident
sat an Irishwoman with a baby in her lap, while
three other children lay asleep the uncarpeted
floor. The only light in the room came in gray and
cold through a narrow window beside which the bed
had been pushed.
It's glad you've come, doctor" the woman
said softly. Il msdoubt Mikes pretty sick He's
been ailin good bit here lately.
The doctor bent the patient, felt his pulse
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-02
S T A NJ p S

ditions between ten million and twenty million
stamps printed at the building during ordinary
usual conditions, when the great print shop has
been in operation night and day, average of
forty million stamps has been produced every
twenty -four hours.
Inasmuch the average consumption of stamps
at the present time about sixteen million day,
the bureau can usually more than keep pace with
the transient demand; but the law requires that
there shall be kept on hand in the storage vaults at
the Bureau one hundred million one-cent stamps
and twice as many of the two-cent denomination,
and is required to to it that this
ure is not depleted.
In the Same Category as Money
THE manifold precautions surround the
manufacture of postage stamps that characterize
the printing of currency. Each sheet of stamps is
counted dozens of times during the process of manu-
facture, and if single sheet is missing when the
hour arrives for ceasng work. every employee of
the division where it has disappeared is compelled
to remain in the building until the misplaced bit
of paper is found. At night the plates from which
the stamps printed carefully checked off
and locked up in great vaults fitted with time locks,
ing unless all three of the in charge present,
it being necessary for each to manipulate lock of
which he alone knows the combination.
When an old issue of postage stamps is retired
and new series comes to take it's place there is a
great confagra ton in specially prepared furnace
in the basement of the general post office at Wash
ington; for here all the leftover stamps
mated. Many preliminaries are gone through with
before the burning take place. The chief task
is, of course, the accounting
Uncle Sam maintains bookkeeping account with
every postmaster in his service, and when issue
of stamps is called in for retirement every bit of
paper received at the postal headquarters must be
counted and credited to the postmaster who
turned it. Occasionally the Government finds
itself with heavy stock of superannuated stamps
hand and no chance to get rid of them. Thus,
after the close of the Pan-Amercan exposition the
condemned stamps which had been issued in
memoration of that show, but remained unsold and
were fed to the flames, had face value of over
million dollars.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-02
pos T AGE
By Frank H. Sweet

every delicate detail. Accordingly, the original
plate constitutes steel die, with which impressions
made soft steel, and these latter, termed
replicas, used, after hardening for the actual
printing.
Postage stamps printed in sheets of four hun
dred, and all the printing is done in immense
room known as the beehive, containing over three
hundred hand presses each requiring for its manip-
ulation the services of two operators one expert
plate printer, and the other his woman assistant,
whose duty it is feed the press the blank sheets
of paper and remove them after they receive the
impression. The ink is applied by means of hand
roller, and nasmuch as the varied hues inevitably
tnge the hands and faces and clothing of the work
ers the immense press room presents picturesque
spectacle of kaleidoscope color.
Cumming the stamps is important process
and those persons who never moisten postage
stamp without momentary uneasiness regarding
the possible presence of germs other evils, would
doubtless be treasured could they realize the many
precautions surrounding the preparation and appl-
cation of the sticky stuff most familiar to the Amer
lean tongue. The cumming is done by electrical
machine and each sheet of stamps, after receiving
the baptism of mucilage, is carried by an endless
chain, operating ike miniature moving sidewalk,
through wooden tunnel, where the temperature
is one hundred and thirty degrees Fahrenheit, and
from which the sheets emerge with the mucilage
perfectly dry