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Evening star., 1907-09-03

the contest of s. E. Thompson against DR..
J. b. Gould. After considerable discussion
the papers were ordered filed and DR. Gould
was permitted to take his seat in the coun-
clL The matter of the contest went over
until the regular meeting Monday night
George l.. Erwin was then elected mayor.
II. A. d. Crocker clerk and George E. Nc
Daniel town sergeant.
The old town council held it's final meeting
Saturday night to receive the financial re-
port of the town sergeant retiring A. A.
Soule. which showed that the total receipts
for the year ending August 81 were 81 100 SO
and disbursements $l649 a, leaving a ball
ance on hand of SJ11.14.
The school board of the town has decided
upon number of important improvements
In the conduct of the new term commence
ing September 10, the most important being
the establishment of high school course
free to pupils from any part Of the county.
Five teachers have been engaged for the
school term-Mps. George c. Birch princi-
pal, at s75 month: Mrs. Emma j. Haight,
first assistant. $50; Miss Emma Seaman,
second assistant, $40; Miss Lillith Campbell
third assistant, S45 and Miss Brownie
Arundel, primary teacher, $50.
Evening star., 1907-09-03

He made gesture of disdain, with the
cigarette held in his fingers.
Slowly the auto-car had moved, we
were in the street below the Poplars He
glanced up at the house and tossed the
cigarette away.
That's your final word, is it?' he asked
MY final word is that 1 defy you and Will
put you through!' declared. And if you
call at the Poplars to make trouble III
have the servants throw you out"
You won't go down to the hotel and see
Mrs. Trencher?"
Certainly not. Why should I? I don't
know her.
But she knows you!"
The automobile came to a stop.
"Tll give you twentyfour hours to think
1t over,'' he said, reluctant to drop 1t thus
His tone was conciliatory. Il ask you to
come down to the Bay View and see Mrs
Trencher'
"Will you get out of this auto" I
shouted, "or shall l throw you out?"
He began to get out with tantalizing
slOwness, when l started the car with a
jerk and he came near falling. He turned
toward me. white-faced and painting, as l
steered toward the avenue of poplars.
That's all right" he said, an unpleasant
light in his cold, blue eyes. 'If you want
war you can have 1t"
(TO be Continued Tomorrow
Evening star., 1907-09-03
NEWS OF VIENNA.
General and Social Notes From Near.
by Virginia Community.

Special Correspondence OF The Star.
VIENNA. Va. September 3, 1907.
Miss Fannie. Day, sister of l.. G. Day of
Vienna, who has been visiting her brother
and other friends here during the summer,
and who has assisted in a number of
musical entertainments in Vienna, has re-
turned to her home at Columbus, Tenn.
Mrs. o. F. Jones, who has been very Ill
at her home on Windover Heights has
been removed to George Washington Uni
versity Hospital. Washington city, and is
reported to be doing we'll
Thomas Jackson of the interstate COM
merce comm. sion and family and r. D.
Edmonds, who spent the summer at Vienna,
have returned to Washington. Mr.. Ed
monds will spend several weeks in Phila-
delphia
D. J. Toulman and Mrs. Touman were
out from Washington yesterday to super
intend the construction of their new home
on Windover Heights, which is being
erected near the site of the one which was
destroyed by fire.
Mrs. Smoot has issued invitations to the
| members of Fairfax County Chapter,
Daughters of the American Revolution, for
Saturday afternoon next.
Clarence M. Leigh of Vienna and Ralph
Coleman of Herndon have accompanied
Washington friends on a yachting trip
down the river The jamestown exposition
will be visited before returning.
j. F. Jerman has sold a 81 GOO property at
Falls Church to Mr.. Litell of Richmond,
Va.
Miss Corinee Bracket has returned to the
city.
The republican committee of Fairfax
county will meet at Vienna September to
arrange for the coming campaign.
The public school board Of Providence
district has voted to devote 1000 for the
improvement Of school buildings, and work
Is being done on the buildings at German
town, Brooks, Andrews Chapel, Lewins-
vile and Hallmark. An increase of Is per
cent in teachers salaries has also been
made.
Miss Bessie Rich of Richmond, Va, will
be the principal teacher of Clark School
near Vienna.
The schools Of Providence district will be-
gin September % and continue for eight
months.
Mrs r. D. Leith and daughter are visit
ing Mrs. Leiths old home in Loudoun coun-
| ty, and the Benton camp meeting.
The Vienna town council met last even
| ing and organized by the election of ]. w.
Echols mayor. The council is composed of
w. H. Bowman, A. L. Cross, l.. G. Day, Jo-
seph Berry, A. E. Corning, Rev. F. w
Fisher, treasurer; E. S. I. Bouton, clerk
and A. l.. Corning, sergeant,
Evening star., 1907-09-03
Falls Church Council Meets.

Special Correspondence of The Star.
FALLS CHURCH, Va, September 3, 1907.
The members of the new town council
elected last June organized yesterday at a
meeting presided over by retiring Mayor
J. D. Payne. o. II. Bilingsley was elected
chairman. w. NJ. Ellison was sworn in and
the certificates of the other members who
had already taken the oath were filed
Coyncilman Birge presented the papers in
Evening star., 1907-09-03
SHOT BY SMILING VILLAIN
EXCUSE ME-" HE SAID, LEAVING
: HIS WOUNDED VICTIM.
Crime Strange One-Would-Be Muir
derer Pursued in Automo-
biles.

OXFORD, Pa, September 3.-Standing
over the woman whom he had just shot in
most wanton manner, Granville Muldoon,
near Hopewell, smiled at his victim lying
in pool of blood, and as she pleaded with
him to go for doctor he suavely mur
INJURED, Excuse me, but have another en-
gagement" With that he bowed himself
out Of the room, leaving the wounded wom-
an to her fate.
The victim. Miss Belle Mcneil, though
seriously, was not dangerously wounded
and she was able to make her way to a
farmhouse for assistance
Posses are searching for Mudoon, and it
will go hard with him if he is captured
Nearly all the automobiles in town have
been pressed into service for the searching
parties
No Motive for Crime.
The crime is exceptionally strange in that
no possible motive can be ascribed for it.
Miss Mcneil is about thirty-f1ve years
old, and for the past nine years has been
keeping house for Charles Lafferty, an
aged invalid, near Hopewer She had
known of Muldoon, but was not we'll ac-
quainted with him. This evening he drove
up to the house and engaged in conversa-
ton with her.
He began by asking if she were not
afraid to stay SO far from the road all by
herself. When she said she was not, he
asked her if she would change IS bill for
him. She went to get the change, but be-
fore she could get 1t to him, and while her
face was turned away, he drew a revolver
and shot her. The bullet took effect in
her neck, and she fell to the floor crying
My God! You've killed me-"
Ball Missed Large Blood Vessels.
The ball had entered her neck under the
left ear, and, missing all the large blood
vessels, had come out through her mouth
All her front teeth were knocked out. The
doctors say the wound is not necessarily
dangerous.
Miss Mcneil bears spotless reputation
throughout this community, being the
daughter of the late Rev. Porter Mcneil, a
preacher of some note
Immediately after the shooting Muldoon
! left for Oxford, where he returned the team
which he had hired from local livery and
made good his escape from the town. He
has not borne good reputation.
Evening star., 1907-09-03
JUDGE JOHN J. JACKSON DEAD
WEST VIRGINIA JURIST VICTIM
OF HEART DISEASE.
Was Appointed Federal Judge by
President Lincoln in 1861 and
Retired in 1904.

A dispatch from Atlantic City announces
the sudden death of former UnitedAStates
Judge John ]. Jackson of Parkersburg, w.
Va. The judge celebrated his eighty third
birthday August 4, and a few days later
went to the city by the sea- He dropped
dead there yesterday morning, and heart
failure Is supposed to have been the cause.
Judge John Jay Jackson had the distinc-
tion Of being appointed to office as a fed
eral judge by President Lincoln, and with
out exception his service on the bench COW
cred a greater period Of years than any
other jurist in a similar position in the his
! tory of the country. His death removes the
only surviving federal judge of the staff
appointed by President Lincoln.
John Jay Jackson. jr., the son of Gen.
John Jay Jackson, himself noted trans
Appalachian pioneer. was born in ParkeEs-
burg, Va. (now West Virginia), In 1924. He
received his early education in the district
schools Of the section and was graduated
from Princeton University in 2S45 Studying
Jaw under his father and Judge John j.
Allen president of the supreme court of
Virginia, he was admitted to the bar in
1S46.
His Public Service.
Two years later. when Writ county (now
West Virginia) was organized. young Jack
son was elected county prosecuting attor-
| ney, and later he was appointed to similar
Office in Ritchie county. He was elected a
| member of the Virginia legislature In 1852
and was reelected the next year. The
succeeding campaigns found him an elector
on the whig ticket in 1852 1856 and 1860.
and he was justly famed as one of the
| finest speakers and debaters on the huSt-
| ings. By his efforts. 1t was always claimed
| the Bell and Everett ticket carried the state
| of Virginia in 1860.
Jackson Was appointed United States
judge for the western district of Virginia
| in 1861 and afterward reappointed
| judge for the district of West Virginia. This
| post he held continuously for a period of
about forty-three years. He retired In
| 1904, and Aston G. Dayton, then a repre-
| sentative in Congress from second
West Virginia district, appointed to
I succeed him.
Father of Injunction.
| During his later years Judge Jackson was
! frequently termed 1.-The father of the fed
| eral Injunction on account of his famous
| strike decisions. He was rather proud of
| the title and declared he did not consider
| it one of opprobrum, because he felt that
| the right of injunction was as old as the
| law ITSELF
| Judge john Jay Jackson assumed office
| just prior to the most trying time in the
history of the country, and, holding to his
| post throughout the great civil conflict he
| did his full share toward maintaining the
| integrity of the Union When the war was
| ended Judge jackson among the fore
| most to encourage his fellow-citizens to for
| sake discussion of past grievances and to
! build up the then waning industries and to
| develop the boundleSs natural wealth of
| the country.
Evening star., 1907-09-03

w. H. Richards, jr., who has been chief
clerk of the Piedmont, Fredericksburg and
Potomac railroad. at Fredericksburg, for
he last twenty years, has resigned, to take
effect today.
Evening star., 1907-09-03
U. s. Engineer Band Concert.

The United States Engineer Band, julius
Hamper, bandmaster, has arranged the fol-
lowing concert program to be given at
Smithsonian grounds this evening begin
ming at 7:30 o'clock:
March, "Old Faithful" .......H .Holzmann
Overture, Poet and Peasant" Suppe
Cornet duet, Two Little Bulfnches". Killing
Principal Musician Wintermyer and Corp.
Hess.
Selection, "Maritana". a"................W Wallace
Waltz, "Enchantresse" ............... Blanke
Spanish serenade, La Paloma". .... Balfour
Selection, THE Red Milr' ............ Herbert
Fantasie, MY Old Kentucky Home"
Langey
1.-THE Star Spangled Banner"
Evening star., 1907-09-03

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have to typewrite any longer. These
are our two children"
what are you doing here?"
The tears sprang to her eyes; she
dropped them, but did not answer.
Don't mind me, woman. /, too,
have hidden bells l don't want the
world to see. Don't mind me; tell
me your story. 1t may do you good;
it may do me good; yes, it may do
me good"
/ had dropped into a seat a few feet
away. Both were too much occupied
with their own thoughts to notice me
or any one else. / could not overhear
their conversation, but long after
ward, when / mentioned our-old stem
ographer, Bessie Brown, to Bob, he
told me of the incident at the Bat
terry. Her husband, after their mar
riage, had become infected with the
safeguarding microbe, the microbe
that gnaws into it's victims mind and
heart day and night, while ever
fercer grows the 'get rich, get rich
fever. He had plunged with their saw
ings and had drawn a blank. He had
lost his position in disgrace and
had landed in the bucket-shop, the
sub-cellar pit of the big stock ex-
change hell. From there a week be-
fore he had been sent to prison for
theft, and that morning she had been
turned into the street by her land
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Sample of American
Christmas Push.

%IR THOMAS Upton had been
y compliinented by a New York re-
porter on the cup he had just offered.
81 ought to offer a cup" said the
genial Briton, ito the retail shop-keep-
err who does the biggest Christmas
trade. The size of your Christmas
trade amazes me-its size, and the
dexterity with which it is handled.
81 heard the other day Of a great
Christmas bargain sale in Quincy. TO
one of the bargain counters a mar
was rash enough to venture. he
struggled heroically a little while
among the press, then, with a loud
cry, he sank.
"'Help, help!' he shouted from the
floor. Help! My leg is broken
"The clerk, dextrous in the handling
of Christmas crowds, got him.
"'And you'll find u Christmas
splints and curtches, sir he said, on
third floor back, fifth aisle to left.,n
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Sam SmaII's Hypnotism
Didn't Work.

ct HE late Sam Small had his faults"
said an Albanian, "but he did not
dodge the penalty Of them. When he
went wrong, he owned up like a man,
and if punishment was due, he took it.
"That was the doctrine Sam Small
preached. He hated dodgers. He
used to laugh bitterly at the plea OF
hypnotic influence that used to be
put up by nearly every murderer.
81 once heard him ridiculing hyp'
notism. He said that he bought pref
ty heavily one year for Christmas, and
when the bill came in for turkey and
mince meat, candy, ducks, chickens,
plum pudding, fruit cake and so on,
he thought to himself that here was a
case for %hypnotism to be tried.
"He went first to hypnotic the
grocer. Approaching the man, he
looked him squarely in the eye, at the
same time repeating, slowly and I'm.
pressively:
"'My bill Is paid
"A change came over the grocer's
face. His color faded, his eyes grew
dull, his expression blank. And in a
strange, mechanical voice he NUT.
tered:
you're a liar"
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fee Of Randolph & Randolph. Bob
was now moving with a long, hurried
stride, as though consumed with a
fever of desire to get to Beulah Sands.
For the last Is minutes | had with
difficulty kept him in sight. Had he
arrived at a decision, and IL so, what
was it? l asked myself over and
e again as | plowed through the
crowds.
Bob went straight to Beulah Sands
office, l to mine. / had been there but
a moment when / heard deep, guttn-
raj groans. l listened. The sound
came louder than before. 1t came
from Beulah Sands office. With a
bound 1 was at the open door. My
God, the sight that met my gaze!
1t haunts me even now when years
have dulled it's vividness. The beauti-
full, quiet, gray figure that had grown
to be such a familiar picture to Bob
and me of late, sat at the fiat desk
in the center of the She faced
the door. Her elbows rested on the
desk; in her hand was an afternoon
paper that she had evidently been
reading when Bob entered, God knows
how long she had been reading it be-
fore he came. Bob was kneeling at
the side of her chair, his hands clasp
ed and uplifted in an agony of appeal
that was supplemented by the awful
groans.
(To BE coNTINUED)
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"'Have you no regard for your
reputation, Calhoun"
"rMah reputation hain't muffin to
me-, sab, 'londside O. nah life.'
"The captain smiled and twirled his
mustache.
"'Even if you should lose your life,
Calhoun he said, you'd have the sat
isfaction of knowing that you had
died for your country
"'Wot satisfaction could dat be to
me, sab, when de power O. feelin' 1t
wuz gomez
""Then patriotism ean nothing to
your
Muffin, sab. I wouldn't put man
life in de scales agin any government
dat eber existed, for no government
could replace de loss o me-
calhoun, if all soldiers were Xix
YOU, the worlds governments would
all go to pieces
"'On de contrary, sab, dey'd last
forever; for if all soldiers wuz ike
me, den dere couldn't neber be no
fghtin'.'"
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He went into the Battery. The
benches were crowded with that jet
sam and fotsam of humanity that
New York's mighty sewers throw in
armies upon her inland beaches at
every sunrise. Here a sodden brute
sleeping of a prolonged debauch, there
a lad whose frankness Of face and
homespun clothes and bewildered
eyes spelt from the farm and moth
er's watchful love-" On another bench
an Italian woman who had a half-doz-
en- future dollar kings and social
| queens about her, and whose clothes
told of the immigrant ship just into
port. Bob BROMLEY apparently saw
none. But suddenly he stopped. Upon
a bench sat a sweet-faced mother
holding a sleeping babe in her arms,
while a curly-pated boy nestled his
head in her lap and slept through the
magic lanes and fairy woods Of dream
land. The woman's face was one Of
those that blend the confidence Of
girlhood with the uncertainty of WON
anhood. Twas a pretty face, which
had been plainly tagged by its Maker
for a light-hearted trip through the
world, but it had been scared b.
the iron of the city.
"Mr. BROMLEY" She started Il
rise.
He gently pushed her back with
"hush," unwilling to rob the sleeper
of their heaven.
what are you doing here, Mr.
-" He halted.
"Mrs. Chase. Mr.. BROMLEY, whel
went away from Randolph & RaI
dolph's office I married John Chase
you may remember him as a deliver
clerk. / had such a happy home an
my husband was good; / did nc
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Inu Roh tnkA Prom his pockeI

lord. sxw Bob take nom his pocket
his memorandum-book, write some
thing upon q leaf, tear It out sad hand
it to the woman, touch his hat, aud
before she could stop him, stride away.
1 saw her look at the paper, Clap her
hands TO her forehead. look at the
paper again and at the retreating form
of Bob BROMLEY. Then l saw her.
yes, there in the old Battery park, in
the drizzling rain and under the eyes
of all, drop upon her knees In prayer.
How long she prayed l do not know.
| only know that as l followed Bob
1 looked back and the woman wa5
still upon her knees. / thought at
the time how queer and unnatural the
whole thing seemed. Later, Learned
to know that nothing is queer and
unnatural in the world Of human suf-
fering; that great human suffering
turns all that is queer and unnatural
into commonplace. Next day Bessie
Brown came to our Office to see Bob.
Not being able to get at him she ask
ed for me.
"Mr. Randolph, tell me, please,
what shall do with this paper?" she
said. II met Mr.. BROMLEY in the Bat
terry yesterday. He saw l was in
distress, and he gave me this, but l
cannot believe he meant it," and she
/, showed me an order on Randolph &
Randolph for a thousand dollars. /
cashed her check and she went away.
From the Battery Bob sought the
wharves, the Bowery, Nvs Points, the
hothouses of the under world OF
America. He seemed bent or pick
ing out the haunts Of misery in the
misery-infested metropolis of the new
world. For two hours he tramped
and 1 followed. A number of times
1 thought to speak to him and try
to win him from his mood, but l re
Trained. I could see there was G
soul battle waging and I realized thai
upon its outcome might depend Bob''
salvation. Some seek the quiet o
the woods, the soothing rustic of thu
leaves, the peaceful ripple of tn
brook when battling for their soul
but Bob's woods appeared to be thu
shadowy places of misery, his %rustlin'
leaves the hoarse din of the multitude
and his brooks ripple the tears an
tales of the man-damned Of the grea
: city, for he stopped and converse
/; with many human derelicts that h
Y met on his course. The hand Of tn
clock on Trinity's steeple pointed t
t four as we again approached the o
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Brief
Tales

MAYOR STOY of Atlantic City was
W talking about Christmas dinners.
AaIf n is going to give a Christmas
dinner" he said, lit is best to give a
good, even a lavish one. Then one
doesn't get up from the table with re-
morse gnawing at the heart, as was
the case last year with an Atlantic
City young man. He took his hancee
and her mother to a Christmas an
ner in a New York restaurant. Arriv'
ing at the restaurant a little before
the ladies, he ordered the dinner, and
then said to the waiter;
"Look here; I'll call for two quarts
of champagne after the fish, but you
lust bring that champagne cider IN
the fancy bottle instead. It's good
stuff, and the ladies won't know the
difference
every well, sir said the waiter.
"Then the ladies arrived, and the
dinner progressed splendidly. The
champagne was ordered, the cider was
brought, and neither guest ~cel
the deception. On the contrary, they
both praised the champagne. They
drank heartily of it,
"But when the bill came at the DIN
ner's end, the young mans face dark
ened. He beckoned to the waiter, and
with mods and winks galore, pointed
to the wine item.
"'Waiter, there's some mistake
about this charge, isn't there?
"'Oh, no, SIR said the waiter, 'Twt
bottles of champagne, eight dollars
That was what you ordered, sir
"'Certainly. Two bottles OF cham
payne. We remember your ordering
them the ladies chorused.
"'But-' said the young man, wink
ing and nodding like a steam engin
at the waiter.
"'The bill is quite correct, SIR sal
the waiter, firmly.
"The ladies looked at him reproacf
fully, and the young man could d
nothing but pay up"
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1t Was a Sure Proof

of Lunacy.
n UFUS L. GRISWOLD, the Cleve-
X land educator who holds that it is
wrong to let children believe in
Santa Claus, was arguing about his
strange views at a dinner.
"Why lie to children?" he asked.
why let them believe in a myth?
Whenever l hear mention of that
loathed name of Santa Claus, l think
of a ~lunatic. Some years ago | at
tended a trial. A witness was be-
ing examined as to the sanity OF
one of the inmates.
"You hold that this inmate is in
sane, do your a lawyer asked.
az do was the firm reply.
"'Why are you so sure?
""The man. the witness said, goes
about asserting that he is Santa
Claus
and said the lawyer, you hold,
do you, that when a man goes about
asserting that he is Santa Claus, it's
a clear proof of his insanity?
az do
WHY
Because said the witness, in a
loud, indignant voice, I happen to be
Santa Claus myself"
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pounds to the square inch. The
staunchest ship ever built would be
crippled under this awful pressure
like an eggshell under a steam roller.
A pine beam, Is feet long, which held
open the mouth of a trawl used in
making a cast at a depth of more
than $4,000 feet, was crushed fiat AS
if it had been passed between roll
ers. The body of the man who should
attempt to venture to such depths
would be compressed until the flesh
was forced into the interstices of the
bone and his trunk was no larger than
a rolling pin. Still, the body would
reach the bottom, for anything that
will sink In a tub Of water wilt sink
to the utteimost depths Of the ocean
Eugene Willoughby In Tho Ocean.