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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-06-02
new YORK. AFTER 1878
Ellis Parker Butler Tells How
the Big Town Was Madc(s)
Into a Modern Venice.

Ellis Parker Butler, author of "Pigs
is Pigs tells in the June American
Magazine of "Wetter New York In
1913" The photographs" that 70
with the story show the streets filled
with water and occupied Ivy boats.
Mr.. Butler has not been drinking.
He is merely telling the tale of Bill.
lionaire Markright who, in 1918, tried
to myoe Manhattan Island to the Med.
iterranean and failed.
or the condition of the city's streets
now-that Is, sometime after 1913
Mr.. Butler says:
"The man who now rides to his
home on Fifth Avenue from his office
in Wall Street, In his yacht, and
watches the ripples play across the
surface OF Fifty-ninth Street, knows,
however, how much the town is i'm.
proved. So does the woman who, In
her little gasoline launch, visits the
great stores on Sixth Avenue or
Twenty-third Street, or who drives in
the park in her whitcwinged catboat.
Even the washwoman, carrying home
some ones weeks laundry in her lit.
tie cnnoe, has word of thanks for
INC, whlc the visitors to the city who
sec It's beauties from the decks of
the excursion steamers are informed
by the man with the mcgaphone that
all this peace and beauty are due to
my efforts.
For those who, In the old days.
used the surface cars, there are the
fleet passenger boats, and the users
of the subway are provided with the
nice warm submarine boats. Instead
OF the Fifth Avenue stages the con
s"rvatives arc provided with fleet
of properly slow and worn.out lum-
Der schooncrs. The honi of the au-
tomobile no longer frightens tho wits
out OF the pedestrian.
Occasionally man who has mar
taken of too much wine falls into
Broadway and is drowned and now
and then n sloop is wrecked while
rounding the windy corners from
Broadway into Twenty-third Street,
but no one is killed or MANNED by tho
street cars, or rudely hustled into
eternity by II fool in an automobile.
iWetter New York is Il nice place In
which to live
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-06-02
M Audience Then

"Yon women complained Mr..
Knox, "are forever discussing the
faults of your neighbors. If you'd
only gossip about their good noints it
would be more edifying."
Perhaps" replied his wife, "but
who'd care to listen to us?"-Catho.
lie Standard and Times. =.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-06-02
HOLSTERS
Rocky Mountain Tea Nuggets
a Busy Medicine Tor Busy People. :

Brings Golden Health and Renewed vgor.
A specific for Constipation. Indigestion Liver
and Kidney troubles Pimples Eczema Impure
Blood. bad Breath. Sluggish Bowels Headache
and Backnche. Its Rocky Mountain Tea In tab
HoLLIsrER DRUG CoMP3Nr. Madison, Wis.
GOLDEN huGGET& FOR sALL0W PE0PU
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-06
More About Deutzias.

One of the hardest deutzias is the species
parvif1ora. a native of northern China. A
native Of China and Japan is deutzia sea-
bra, usually sold in nurseries as deutzia Gre
nata 1t varies in height from six to ten
feet, according to conditions, with stout
yellowsh branches. The upright spiked
white clusters come into bloom in June, and
last until July. There are good many
forms of this deutzia in cultivation, diff
fering in semi-double, double and purple
or rose-tinted blossoms.
Deutzia watereri has large, double rose
tinted flower which is very snowy. DeutZla
discolor, native of China, is graceful
shrub, growing three to four feet tall, with
white flowers tinged with pink on the outer
side of the petals. 1t needs protection from
the cold in New England winters. Deutzia
Kalmaeflora Is a beautiful shrub with
large white distinct blossoms, slightly tint
ed with rose, but should be well protected
in winter.
A large number of forms and hybrids have
lately been sent out by French originators
in which the parentage of deutZia Sracills
on one side has been largely used, and
which are conspicuous for rose tlnts, large
bell-shaped blossoms and more conspicuous
clusters.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-06
Sheridan Twice Married.

Gretna Green, of which we have been
hearing again in the courts, keeps Its Jubilee
this year as the Gretna Green at which the
village blacksmith may no longer unite
fleeing lovers in the bonds Of matrimony.
1t was in 1857 that the Gretna Green mar
riages were made Illegal. glance at Its
registers may yet inspire the novelist of
the future. One entry will be sure to puz-
zle. Twice within a few days occurs the
record of the marriage of Richard BriIlsley
Sheridan to Miss Grant.
There was only one r. B. S., only one
bride for the same gentleman. The double
entries are not the result of any blunder
on the part of the Rev. Mr.. Vulcan. The
parties were really twice married at Gretna
Green. Arriving on Sunday they were
duly welded, and sped away to Edin-
burgh There, however, Sheridan CHANGED
to glance at a newspaper in which ap-
peared the lucubrations of a lawyer. In
these plainly stated was the fact that no
contract executed on a Sunday is binding.
Clearly, then, the wedding was not legal.
Back to Gretna Green they scurried to be
remarked on a week day, and leave the
dual record to perplex later generations of
sympathetic searchers Of the records.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-06

with his flashing saber: not the Judge
with his spotless ermine; not the magis-
trate. nor the schoolmaster. nor the 20.
liceman, but the Christian ministers and
laymen who, with tongues Of fire, have
for over 100 years preached the old, old
story of Jesus and His love. "-Ossiau
Davies.
How to Help the Leader.
Tell Of one thing in your midst which is
a mar to the land and could be gathered
up from the way Of the Lord If all the
Christians would help.
Parallel PassagetJeremiah. xxxiii:3i
Psalms, cxxii:6; Numbers. ii:2; Numbers,
xiv:19-20; Deuteronomy, xxxiii:2; Psalms
lxxxvi:9; Isaiah, lx:1s.
Hints to the Leader-The Endeavoz
Hymnal. 211. pa. go. 221, 2sS, 2s9.
the national headquarters in Washington,
D. c., concerning the National Reform Blu
reau, and the wonderful work it is doing.
1t would give you an opportunity to sug-
gest practical things that all may do to
help to sweep sin from our fair land, as
well as from other lands There are
often bills up before the legislature which
affect Sabbath laws. Liquor laws. laws
that restrict and abolish impurity gam
bling, the sale Of medicines containing de-
structive drugs. etc. 1t is perhaps not gem
orally known that the most obscure indi-
vidual may help along such great reforms
by writing little letter to the represent
alive from his state county, protesting
against or pleading for some such bill. The
National Reform Bureau will keep all in
formed of these things If they will write to
them. Then you should have some practi-
cal everyday things to suggest how the in
dividual may help his particular neighbor-
hood. But most of all emphasize the need
Of prayer. both private and public. Close
by a season of sentence prayers. asking
that every one in the. room take part. at
IAac hxy, IL halo =, 1D,r ~
to consecrate his life to his country's needs,
and have the courage to do what is right
always. Perhaps quartet will sing Dan
iefs Band found in Gospel Hymns 1, 2,
3, 4. page 1853.
.'Watchl Though so long be the twilight delaying.
Let the first sunbeam arise on thee praying.
Fret not, for greater is God thy side
Than armies Of Satan against thee allied"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-06
Whistling Wouldn't Disturb Him.

From the Pail Mall Gazette.
The house in the Boulevard Montmartre
in Paris where Rossini lived for some
time and where he composed the Barber
de Seville" Is to be distinguished by a
commemorative tablet. The Barber was
only a qualified success, and the story
goes that when Rossini left this house TO
60 to live at Passy some one told him
that he would be deafened from morning
to night by the whistling (siftieU on the
Ceinture railway.
The composer answered with the utmost
nonchalance: After being present at the
first night of the Barber de Seville can
stand any amount OF whistling."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-06
NLOCAL CHURCHES

Friends of Rev. DR.. T. c. Easton, pastor
of the Eastern Presbyterian Church, met
ut his residence, the Lincoln, 18th street
southeast, last Monday evening and pre-
scented to him purse of 500 in gold
They had become aware that he was about
to visit his two sons in San Francisco, Cal,
and took this occasion to express their love
and appreciation of him as their pastor
Mrs. Eas;on will accompany DIR. Easton
on the trip to the Pacific coast. they will
leave on Wednesday, the 11th, and hope to
return in September.
AT the service last Sunday evening at
Marvin Nj. +. Church the following pro-
gram was carried out: Miss Maud jameson.
eoniralto solo; Mr.. Charlton Hazard. tenor
solo. Holy City" MIR. George T. Terry,
basso solo, Unanswered YET
AT the morning service tomorrow IL a :
There will be quartet by the chorus
choir. Also soprIlo solo by Miss Pearl
Grigsby. +. n. Whaley is the director of
the choir. to-
Rev. F. y. Johnson, pastor of Grace Bap-
fist Church, 9th and South Carolina avenue
southeast, has announced a series of Sum
day evening sermons on Heroes of Chris
tan History" They are as follows: Sun
day. June 10, Martin Luther. the Hero of
the Reformation;" June %. John Wesley.
the Hero OF Methodism:" June 30. George
Whitehead the Hero of Evangei SIN; :" July
Z. William Carey, the Hero OF Missions;' -
July Il. Battle Hymns of Christianity. -
These services begin at I:45.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-06

$50. Why did God lead the Israelites by
such circuitous route from Egypt to
Canaan, when in a very short time they
might have gone directly?
Answer. He intended that they should en-
camp at Mount Sinai for instruction Ex.,
iii:12). That was far to the southeast from
a direct line to Canaan. There went out of
Egypt a mixed multitude eek, xii:3S), unfit
for national life. 1t was that element that
caused trouble during the journey (Numb.,
KID. 1t was necessary to eliminate this
mass of low-grade humanity, and this was
done in the wanderings of forty years in
the wilderness Numb, Xiv:33). Had Israel
gone Immediately across by a short cut to
the promised land they would have been
unprepared to subdue the people, to set
up government or to serve the Lord and
the whole purpose of the migration would
have been defeated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-06
pRoTHERHooD OF ST. ANDREW.

Clarence Doyle OF the Brotherhood Chap
Ter OF St. Stephens parish, has been elected
a member of the executive committee of
the Washington local assembly to sue
coed the late Judge Frank H. Thomas
The Junior brotherhood Chapter, of St
Andrews Church has the following officers
for the year ending November so. next:
William Oscar ROome, Jr., director; LEON
ard Mangum. vice director; w L. Currie,
secretary; ]. II. Chew. treasurer.
The services held each Sunday morning
during the months of July and August
under the auspices of the Brotherhood
Chapters of Washington. in the Union
Chapel, Colonial Beach. Va, will be re-
sumed for the season tomorrow. morning
and will be conducted by the Rev. Edward
holloway OF Brookland.
ARRANGEMENTS are being made for the
next meeting of the Washington Local As
sembly of Brotherhood Chapters, which is
&c be held at Upper Marlboro, on the even
ing of July 10.
David B. Perry OF the Brotherhood chap
ter OF Trinity parish has been elected sec
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-06
Christian Endeavor Hou,
Conducted by Grace Livingston Hill-Lutz
Enr Snnlnr mi

Conducted by Grace Livingston Hll-Lutz
For Sunday, July Z, 1907.
Topic: How Our Lives May Be Consecrated to
Our Country" tConsecration MeetingJ Isaiah
xii lip.
l. For lions sake will I not hold my
peace. and for Jerusalems sake 1 will not
rest until the righteousness thereof 60
forth as brightness and the salvation
thereof as a lamp that burneth.
2. And the Gentiles shall see thy right
eousness, and all kings thy glory, and
thou shalt be called by a new name, which
the mouth of the Lord shall name
3. Thou shalt also be a crown of glory
in the hand of the Lord and a royal dia-
dem in the hand of thy God.
Ihou shalt no more be termed for
saken; neither shall thy land any more
called Hephzi-bah. and thy land Beulah:
for the Lord delighteth in thee, and thy
land shall be married.
D. For as a young man marrieth a vir-
gin, so shall thy sons marry thee; and as
the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride,
so shall thy God rejoice over thee
8. l have set watchmen upon thy walls,
Jerusalem, which shall never hold their
peace day nor night; We that make men,
ton of the Lord keep not silence
Z. And give Him no rest till He estab-
lish and till He make Jerusalem a praise
IN the earth.
hand, and by the arm of His strength.
surely l will no longer give thy corn to
be meat for thine enemies; and the sons
of the stranger shall not drink thy wine,
for the which thou hast labored.
8. But they that have gathered 1t shall
eat it, and praise the Lord; and they that
have brought it together shall drink il in
the courts of my holiness.
TO- Go through, go through the gates:
prepare we the way of the people; cast up,
cast up the highway; gather out the
stones; lift up a standard for the people.
11.'-Behold, the Lord hath proclaimed
unto the end of the world. say We to the
daughter of Zion. behold thy salvation
cometh; behold, His reward is with Him,
and His work before Him.
IL. And they shall call them the holy
people. the redeemed of the Lord: and
thou. shalt be called, sought out, a city not
forsaken.
The Lesson.
1t often occurs to many on Fourth of
July and other patriotic occasions that
there is really no longer any way for the
young people of America to show much
patriotism. II they have grown beyond fire.
crackers and Fourth of July picnics and
dressing UP in flags. There are no wars at
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-06
Another Shortage.
From Life,


It's a long lane that has no turning. If
Won don't believe it, hear the doleful plea
of the senior vice president of the New
York Central, wherein he implores the pub
lie to be fair with the railroads. Was 1t
not president of the New York Central
who said THE public be damned!'?
The beauty of our civilization seems to be
that it isn't the pregnant hinges of the
same fellows knee which are all the time
having to be crooked. The shoe does at
length get on the other foot, somebody
elses OK does eventually find himself gored,
and there comes the time, now and then,
when the worm gains more by turning than
the mere physical exercise.
Owing to the hard winter, or something
or other, there is likely to be rather
marked shortage of other cheek for quite
a spell to come.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-06
Lizards Destroy Fish Spawn.

Jerry Thompson of Howe township,
Perry county, an experienced fisherman,
says that the scarcity of fish in the Juniata
river Is not so much due to the baskets
and nets as to the ugly black lizards. The
river is said to be full of these reptiles and
they live entirely on fish spawn and fish.
Many of these lizards have been caught
in nets and killed, and upon examination
have been found to contain fish from one
inch to six inches long. Whence they
came is a mystery. but the damage they
are doing, according to Mr.. Thompson and
other fshermen, is no secret.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-06
Pageant Period Now On.

The pageant period of the year is close at
hand. and this will be great year for such
shows. Romsey leads off on the oath and
oxford follows on the 9th Of this month
Bury st. Edmunds has one the week be-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-06

25S. Why was Moses called a meek man
Answer. This was a scriptural designa
ten (Num., Mi:3).
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-06
QUESTIONS ANSWERED.

Any person may send to Dr. Gilbert 1903
R street northwest. this city, any biblica,
question and receive answer through The
Star.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-06

rotary to the chairmen of the several COM
mittees in preparation for the International
brotherhood convention. which is to be
held in this city next September.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-06
for SUNDAY ScboolS.
STAR LESSON FOR JULY 7,
By Rev. ]. E. Gilbert, DID,,

SECRETARY AMERICAN SOCIETY OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
"Gop FEEDS ISRAEL WILDERNESS" Exodus Lis.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-07-27
Judiciary of Cook County.
APPELLATE COURT JUDGES

FRANCIS ADAMS. Presiding Justice.
J. BROWN. JESSE HOLDOM.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-07-27
BRANCH APPELLATE cOUR

HENRY V. FREEMAN Presiding Justice
FRANK BAKER, FREDERICK A. SMITH,
A. r. Porter Clerk Appellate Court.
New-York tribune., 1907-09-22
VICTORY FOR WHITNEY
Manager Claims $50 Of 295 Dete
gates to State Contention.

Boston Sept 21.-Of the 343 cities and to"hS
of the state in which Democratic primaries were
held last night for the choice Of delegates 10 'io
coming state convention at Springfield 295 nave
been heard from, and results indicate that
majority of the delegates will favor the nonli-
nation Of Henry NJ. Whitney, of Boston, lol
Governor as against General Charles w. Bart
lett, of Newton. OF the 479 delegates chosen
last night 1SS are favorable to Mr. Whitney, S4
to General Bartlett and 191 are unpledged'
There are still fifty cities and towns, Win aC-
credited delegates numbering seventy-hVe' 10 DC
heard FROM and it is known that a NUMBER OF
these places held caucuses whatever. Inc
remainder Of the caucuses will be held on tues
day night when 293 delegates will be chosen
More than half of these will come from Boston
and nearby points. The following statement
was issued shortly after noon to-day by Man
ager Daniel F. Buckley from the Whitney mead
quarters:
From the returns received this morning. with
those already published. I am convinced that the
sentiment is more strongly in favor of MI whit
ney than ever We have heard from all the
cities and most Of the towns and 1t Is strongly
for our candidate We expect TO get 80 out
of the 293 delegates that remain to be elected
New-York tribune., 1907-09-22
BULLETS FOR TOLSTOY.
attacks by Peasants Mar Celebra-
ton of Literary Jubilee.

St Petersburg Sept. 2-The jubilee of Count
Tolstov's literary activity was marred by at
tack on his residence at Yasnaya Polyana. near
Moscow made by armed peasants of the Ifeighbor-
hood according to reports received here to-day
from Moscow.
Several peasants It is stated advanced to within
one hundred yards OF the counts house on Sep
ten1ber II and opened fire IT with fntlock guns
and pistols but driven off by the gardeners.
Although his family much excited by the Incl
dent Count Tolstoy refused to summon the police.
saying he had need of defence against the peas
ants o whom he had devoted whole life of labor
and love.
The next night. however, the same party OF peas
ants again approached the Tolstoy homestead and
fired at the windows. breaking them and shattertng
mirrors IN the rooms. This created a panic. and
although gardeners and others advanced against
the peasants. who sought refuge in flight, not one
OF the attacking party captured
Tolstoy thereupon consented 10 call the rural
constabulary assistance and the latter searched
the houses the peasants in the neighborhood and
arrested three of them suspicion OF being con-
cerned In the attacks Tolstoy. it is added re-
manned calm, throughout the affair and simply ex-
planned that the action of the peasants was due to
mere spirit of mischief
+ The incident, which Ia interpreted showing
that the life of Russias Grand Old Man was
endangered in q stupid fashion by the peasants
who fred at his house has caused painful i'm
nression here. The newspapers reprint the article
entitled Don't KIN of which Tolstoy is the au-
thor with large omissions, due to fear OF the
censorship.
New-York tribune., 1907-09-22
BINGHAM INsTRUcTs INSPECTORS.
Must Do Police Duty on Primary Day and
See That Order Is Preserved.

All of the police inspectors Of the five boroughs
before Commissioner Bingham yesterday and
heard some sharp talk concerning what is expected
OF them in preserving order on primary day
ION primary day. said the Commissioner, every
inspector must police duty. He must that
citizens not interfered with by rowdes at the
polls. Tho other day received letter from the
District Attorney saying that he expected trouble
six districts. He intends assigning 20 go all
over the city, and they will work in conjunction
with the police. You inspectors must be vigilant
and on the job primary day"
When asked IL he had been requested to transfer
any captains before primary day General Bingham
said he had received letter from John J. Hassett
New-York tribune., 1907-09-22
THE PRIMARY OUTLOOK
Lantry and Featherson Look Like
Winners- Other Contests Minor.

Charles r. Murphy told HIS friends last week at
Tamrnany Hail that there would be no changes IN
the Tammany executive committee as result of the
primaries Tuesday. In the 10th District. where
his fighting Fire Commissioner Iantry.
and IN the 20th, where he has put UP two or three
candidates against Maurice Featherson, he has
failed 10 make any substantial gains and Lantry
and Featherson will probably take their seats in
the Tammany executive committee IL they want TO.
Lantry expects 20 carry BlackwelIs Island because
many of the employees there got their places under
him Commissioner OF Corrections
The contests IN the other district are spectacular
but unimportant. In the 5th Peter ]. Garvey
backed by Devery following IS making a little
but there is little chance that he will win
In the 18th District ex-senator George W
Plunkitt is making noisy campaign against Sen
ator Thomas J. McMenus. Murphy is not taking
hand in the fight. but the Sullvaas are. They
are giving McManus all the help they can Nc
Manus's record last wiLter at Albany is being
used against him, but the Democrats Of the dis
tric know that II Plunkitt had been there in place
of McManus his record would probably have been
as bad.
John J. Dooley and Richard II. Smith are CIV
ing Thomas f McAvoy a lively tussle IN the 23d
District but the chances that McAvoy will
win The opposition TO McAvoy is always going
to whip" the chairman of the Tammany executive
committee but somehow other McAvoy on
primary day gets the necessary votes to retain
control
In the 31st Isaac A. Hopper Is trying to oust
william J. Wright, the present leader. The fight
is productive of Joy among the small fry Mr.
Hopper's managers spending money freely
and that is something unusual in Tammany Hall
these DAYS