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The Washington times., 1907-08-12
HAVE THE TINES MAILED TO YoU
MONDAY, AUGUST z, 1907.
The Spy Crop.

Another Japanese spy has been
discovered This time it is in Port
land, Me. There is no doubt that
he was a japanese spy because:
He had a drawing board and a
camera, and was seen to make re-
peated attempts to photograph the
interior of Fort Williams.
Some of the details arc lacking.
There is reason TO believe, however,
that the Japanese spy had not only
a drawing board and camera, but
he carried also an easel n palette,
and a large umbrella. japanese
spies are not only very numerous,
but they are very thorough.
Fort Williams is the one fortifca-
ton in the world that the japanese
desire to know all about They are
anxious for photographs, drawings
oil paintings. and water colors
Given complete data concerning
Fort Williams, in Portland harbor
Ne, and they would be prepared al
once to lombard the Pacific coast.
Atlantic City will probably be
the next to sound the alarm. There
are rumors that japanese spies, dis
guised as summer girls, are trying
20 take snapshots of the boardwalk
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the surf for Bruno toHdive for and bring
back 70 him. The dog heard the scream
OF the drowning girl and quit the stick
game in the middle Of a dive and swan
toward her with prodigious, encouraging
barks.
Miss Cohen was Up for the third time
when Bruno got a clutch on her shoul-
der Though she was unconscious, and
dead weight in his mouth. the sturdy
bull never dropped his burden until,
after a quarter of a mile swim, he had
the half-drowned young woman lying
safely on the sand before the crowd
from the hotel could reach the beach.
DT. Hatfield and several others rolled
Miss Cohen on the ubiquitous barrel for
fifteen minutes, and brought her around
all right She spent the rest OF the day
feeding Bruno sweetmeats and kissing
him. and the big dog looked back at her
as though the reward for his heroism
was quite enough.
When she goes back 10 los Madison
street for the busy season again. Miss
Cohen says she's going 10 send Bruno a
collar OF the purest gold. Hes the
owner OF four others already. donated
by grateful girls whom he has saved
from watery graves.
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Bulldog Sapes Girl;
Is Rewarded With Kiss
ROCkaway Canine Makes Fifth Rescue of
Season and Gets Gold Collar
From Fair Miss.

NEW YORK, Aug. R.-Down at Rock
away Beach IL has reached the point
that any luckless bather beyond his
depth and sweeping out 10 sea simply
yells three times. and Larry Lawrence's 5
brindle bull, Bruno. swims out ana saves
him.
Miss Estella Cohen. a pretty guest Of
the Hotel St. George. is the fifth this
year for whom Bruno has performed
this service. Miss Cohen was showing
about a hundred other girl vacauonists
how cheap one can make mermaid
look If one only has the face and form
and a becoming bathing suit-when an
ungentlemanly comber caught her UP
and ran out TO sea with her. and set
her down IN a hollow between two
pillows.
Miss Cohen is a good swlnmer-inside
the life line-but the rude conduct of
the wave frightened her so that Sc
swallowed almost too much water 20 be
able TO cry for help. All the other girls
yelled and ran for the shore.
Mr Hare. who Is the Schilling Hotel S
frankfurter man, was tossing sticks into
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Starving for Music.

Music, with laughter and the soul,
is one of the distinctive possessions
of humanity. Men there are whose
minds are as low as animal instinct,
whose material instincts, indeed,
are lower still. But there are none
whose aspirations for n future life
are altogether dead, whose days are
not sometimes frightened by mirth,
whose monotony of existence is not
sometimes varied by music.
And this exaltation Of melody
and harmony above the light and
shade of painting, or the form of
sculpture, or the proportions of
arCSitecture is universal. Among
the American Indians, the brown
men of the South Seas, the primi-
tive peoples of every quarter of the
globe. il has the form Of a "tum-
tum" which is maddening to our
ears. The mountaineers of Asia
and Europe salve their loneliness
with the either or the clarionet. As
civilization grows, come the guitar,
the violin, the harp, the piano, the
organ.
All this is finding a wonderful
expression in this month Of August.
and the year of Our Lord 1907, ND
in whirring, confused, struggling,
material New York. In six small
rooms at No. 90 Norfolk street, 100
young children of the poorer classes
are sacrificing, studying, working,
to learn 10 make music. In two
months their number has passed the
century mark; they have formed a
junior orchestra Of eighteen pieces,
and a senior orchestra of twenty
eight; they have classes in sight
reading and harmony, and they have
given one concert.
The story of all this in these six
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WOMAN OBSERVES
IO4TH BIRTHDAY

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 12-Realizing
q wish expressed almost a year ago,
Mrs. Mary Scott, who lives with her
son, has celebrated the 1O4th anniver-
sary of her birth.
A year ago the aged woman took her
first automobile ride, and, thinking the
matter over some days after this part
OF her anniversary celebration had taken
place. she expressed the wish that one
more year might be given her to get
what she called a fading glimpse of
what great century was adding 10
It's fame.
This wish has been granted and, sur
rounded with friends and with every
nook and corner loaded with flowers.
the day marking her I04th birthday
passed.
But the call was a close one. for
about six months ago Mrs. Scott, in
coming down stairs to breakfast one
morning, turned her ankle and fell head
long tO the bottom. From this she re-
ceived a fractured hip and has been
since that time in bed.
Mrs. Scott is feeble from her illness.
but her mind is bright and keen still.
She is interested in the things that are
happening not only around her, but IN
the world at-large.
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WIDOW INVESTED $500,
INSURANCE AGENT GONE

SCRANTON, Pa. Aug. PC. F.
Washburn. an investment agent. is miss
ing. A most pathetic case in connection
with his operations has come to light.
It was the case Of Mrs. Jane A Da-
Wis. of NanticOke. This wOman's nus
band was killed in the mines recently.
leaving eight children for his widow to
support. BY the foresight Of the man
now dead the widow received from an
insurance company $500 on the death of
her husband.
]. r. Griffths. Washburn's runner. -
who has been missing since Washburn
went away. heard about ii. He went 20
Nanticoke and got the $500 from the
widow to invest with Washburn. That
was only July 5. She was to get 10 per
cert interest.
This morning Mrs. Davis told Thomas
d. Shea, an attorney, of WilkeSbarre.
Mr.. Shea spent the morning in this city.
look for Washburn. but he had 70 go
back without seeing him or a cent OF
the widows money. Mr.. Shea even had
to give the woman money to buy bread.
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AMOUNTING WITH OIL
TO HEAL THE SICK

LANCASTER, Pa, Aug. PA reli-
gious revival that Is attracting large
crowds of peonlA is in progress al
Rheems. this county. The meetings are
undenominational, preachers of various
churches delivering the sermons.
The services conducted by the Rev.
John Herr. of Abilene, Kan, devoted 70
divine healing, are attracting large
crowds. He is giving startling testi-
mony on the power of prayer. Another
service IVES devoted TO amounting the
sick. The Rev. Noah Zook. an evan
gelist Of Kansas, blessed a bottle of oil
and then as man and a woman who
were III knelt az the platform he
anointed them. offering up a fervent
prayer for their recovery.
It Is said they are recovering The
amounting service has aroused great in
terest among the people of the vicinity,
and many are asking TO be healed.
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small rooms is absorbing. It is in
very fact Peoples Music School" ="
At the rate of ten cents each, for
lessons of twelve and one-half min
utes each, the children themselves
sustain it. AS they advance they
become, in turn, the teachers of
the beginners. Fourteen of the
twenty adult instructors give their
services. The demand for teaching
and practice is so great that two
pupils have more than once been
taught at the same time, the one
treble at the right of the piano, the
other bass at the left. Singularly,
nearly all these thirsty ones after
music are Hebrews.
But the chief interest for us of
Washington is not in the account of
generous service on the part of the
teachers or in the Ingenious eeono-
mics which sustain the school. 1t
lies in the resistless demand which
brought it into being. Surely, as
the poet Lanier wrote, Music is
love in search of a word" when
children who lack for food, for de-
cent places to sleep, for every
pleasure save those to be had free
in finty streets, will save and
scrape their pennies to learn.
Here in the Capital we have music
bOunteously. Our children are
taught it in the schools, and are
able to attend the schools. Our peo-
pie hear it plentifully in the parks.
Maybe, as we consider the harmonic
yearnings of these starved little
souls of Gotham, we shall the more
fully appreciate our own fortune.
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DRIVEN MAD BY HEAT
MAN RAVES ON TRAIN

ELwOOD. Cal. Aug. 12.-H. 3.
Newell. a Santa Fe bill clerk at Bar
stow, has been taken TO his home at
Redlands raving mad. on account OF
the intense heat which has prevailed on
the desert during the last two weeks.
Newell was under a physicians care at
BarstOw for several days. and. imagin-
ing he could safely make the trip 10
Redldnds, took passage on the Salt Lake
limited Coming through CajOn pass he
became violent, creating a panic among
the passengers. II required six men 70
restrain him.
Arriving here in bonds. he was taken
70 a private hospital and kept during
the day. and was removed in a padded
ambulance to the home Of his father,
H 3. Newell. Santa Fe agent at Red
lands. Doctors state his condition Is
critical. and will be followed either by
typhoid fever or meningitis. He had
been at BarstOw only six weeks, but
was in the best Of health
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Frank Talk.

Some of the Southern newspapers
are talking instructively upon the
subject of the new suffrage law in
Georgia, by which nearly all of the
negroes in that State will be dis
franchised. 1t is claimed that the
law has been drawn so as 10 make
It constitution proof as one ex-
change puts it, ''but it can be, and
doubtless viii be, so administered
as TO make the negro a wholly neg
ligible factor in Georgia politics"
The News and Courier, of Charles
ton, S. c., talks very frankly con-
cerning the new law. Among ether
things, it says:
II would be far better. OF course.
IL the elective franchise could be taken
away from the negro by a repeal Of so
much of the war amendments to the
Federal Constitution as conferred upon
him the right 20 vote. but that being
impossible at the present time Il has
been regarded entirely proper, or the
ground OF the public safety. to resort TO
extraordinary legislative measures for
his elimination as a possible political
factor in the South
Replying 10 a suggestion by the
New York Evening Post that the ne
groes organize in defense of their
rights, the News and Courier says:
We hope. sincerely that the test
which our contemporary suggests will
never be attempted, but If II should be
made we have no doubt that the Georgia
legislators who have passed this law.
or their descendants. will be able TO
take care OF themselves in any contest
Of the sort threatened by our infatuated
friend IN New York.
That means something consider
ably more radical than a lockout in
response TO strike or boycott.
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BLUE LAW INVOKED
TO STOP SUNDAY WORK

PITTSBCRG. Pa. Aug. R.-BCrgesS
Arthur Stuart. Of Williamsburg, instructed
the borough police that. IN pursuance OF
an ancient blue law that has not been
enforced for years, they shall arrest al
persons who drive wagons OF any de-
scription over the streets Of the borough
between o'clock Sunday morning and
midnight.
The penalty is a fine Of s95 or impris-
Onment.
Burgess Stuart issued the order at the
request Of some OF the best citizens %
Williamsburg, who complain that the
wagons are a source Of annoyance
When asked whether he would start
a crusade against druggists and stores
selling soda water on the Sabbath. Bur-
CESS Stuart replied that he would not
unless complaints are made by citizenR
The Washington times., 1907-08-12
Keeps House in Terror;
Monkey Comes to Court
Jess Led Dignity PeTSonified Up Fire Escape
and Back to Nature in Italians Fruit
Stand-LandIord Sore DiSpIeased.

who. despite an apparent perverSion Of
terms. appeared in John Doe proceed
ings. IS unusually intelligent II left 70
itself it finds nothing easier than 70 slip
its belt around and unclasp the chain
that was depended upon 70 make the
animal a fixture OF the Walsh apIrt-
ment
y has performed this feat rather fire.
guently Of late. much TO the annoyance
Of James Burton. marine photogra pher.
VINO has his studio on the top floor OF
Go What damage an inconsiderate ape
might work among his negatives. II il
got IN the place unawares, is too evident
u call for comment
Furnished a Eighstick.
Mr.. Tnson. realizing this. armed Mr.
Burton with a nightsticlS 70 repel any
invasion OF the animal But for all that
AIr. Burton developed and printed all
the plates Of mis- LarChmont week re-
gatta series with his windows shut down
tight. and in this muggy weather at
that, But Mr. BurtOn's hours are lr-
regulaT-this being his busy season-and
he found no opportunity 70 use the
nightstick, so Mr.. Tilson took IL back
again. That was lucky, for things
reached a climax last Saturday
True 10 her practice, Jess slipped her
chain. and once outside her quarters,
amused herself by jumping on the head
Of a woman tenant OF the house Mr.
TiIson heard the screams. and seiZlug
his nightstick. rushed TO the scene The
monkey fed up one OF the hre ESCAPES
In the rear. and Mr.. Tilson went UP after
the brute
Naturally one who has been a sue
cessfui business man, established IN
one place for forty years. has no chance
with an agile monkey on IRE escape.
The beast escaped, nd with the ala
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Small PIunder From Stand.

S4Ell AUAA OlaAA4a
Vito was some little distance away
at the moment and the monkey had
messed things up somewhat among the
pyraids Of peaches and oranges before
he could get the intruder expelled As Il
was the animal carried of two blue
plums ard a pear
The policeman on post was ap-
pealed to. but he couldn't see his
way clear 10 do anything The
Board Of Health thought that Police
Headquarters should move IN ths
matter. while the latter fancied a civil
action afforded the only chance for re-
LEI.
Then Mr.. Tiison went down 70 Jener-
son Market and got a John Doe war
rant. There was no response 10 lnaI,
so Yesterday he got a second one IN
response 10 that Mrs. Walker appeared
in lieu Of the owner of the animal, who,
She said, was too III 20 appear
The complainant dwelt at some length
on the manner IN which the monkey
had terrorized his woman tenants. Mag
istrate Harris INDUCED in some literary
illusions 10 POe's tales OF the Murders
IN tht Rue MorgUe which alluslons
seemed 20 fall on unaCcustoIned ears
for the most part. Then ne decided that
the animal would have 20 ce removed
from the premises or srerner measures
would follow
The case comes UP again, and then
the fate OF Jess VIII oe known
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GRABS SHARK BY TAIL;
BATHERS IN A PANIC

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va, Aug. IA
Seeing a Dig shark coming through the
life ropes. Fletcher Davis. a young ath-
lete, and a good swimmer, from Okla
homa City. Okla. struck out for the
monster. rounded him up. and drove
him within the lines, causing a panic
among the bathers.
Mr. Davis then caught the shark by
the tail and dragged him to TIE shore.
The sharx weighed more than 100
pounds. The daring exploit of Mr. Da-
Wis was a thrilling spectacle to the great
crowd present.
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TIT FOR TAT.

Police Officer Keegan-AIister Raf-
ferty, Oi love your daughter, an would
most respectfully ask you for her hand
in marriage.
Mr. Rafferty-Arrah. We shnake. one
year ago today ye arrested me for
droonkenness. an dubbed me all the
way 10 the station house. Now OF hev
my opportunity to git aven. Ye can
hev her.-New York Mail
The Washington times., 1907-08-12
Summer Shopping.

Summer is widely supposed to be
a poor shopping season. The buyer
has assumed an attitude of exten-
sive purchasing in the spring or
waiting until the fall. The mer-
chant, corresponding, has laid his
plans for fall, winter, and spring
trade, and has passed the summer
over as a season for marking time.
Yet-as a matter of fact, as the
teaching of practical experience, as
the more and more impressive
showing of summer after summer
the months between spring and fall
are months of golden opportunity
for buyer and merchant alike. If
you doubt it, consult your Washing
ton tradesmen.
One firm has just completed a
great sale. It's receipts, it reports
were greater than for any equal
number Of days in the history of
the stOre-not excepting even the
Christmas holidays. Another has
been making Il comparative table of
its summer sales for years past
They have been advancing in jumps
of 10 per cent. Another has been
embarrassed in giving the clerks
their customary holidays. Another
has just bought and placed on sale
all the special summer wares in its
line it could pick up in July from
the manufacturers. And every cent
of this total represents advantage
| for the customer.
Why? The reasons are not hard
to find.
First, ii is a mistake 70 assume
that Washington or any other city
is deserted in summer. Never more
than 10 per cent Of our people are
away at a time. The others must
have groceries, dry goods, hard
ware, furniture, luxuries just as
during the remainder of the year.
Second, the merchant finds his
market a little circumscribed, not
seriously, but enough so to require
special effort to produce business
The average customer must save
something above his pay for his
vacation period to meet the ex-
pense of his outing. This is not sc
great an item as it was once. fol-
men and women are becoming less
and less inclined to pinch six
months for the sake of spending g
fortnight at a resort. But it is still
worth calculating.
Recognizing this, the merchant
plans special sales. He calculates
for the conditions of summer, ano
it is a curious fact that food and
everything else, even the smartest
wearing apparel, are less expensive
than the corresponding articles fol
winter use. Then the merchant cuts
his profits all along the line to offset
the prejudice against hot-weathe1
buying. Finally, he makes room fol
his fall stock by feature sales ot
wares not specially designed for
summer use.
All this is not theory. 1t is tn,
confirmed practice of retail trade
It can be verified any day before
September IS or October 1 by 6
careful study of store offerings
The wise shOpper-woman or man =
viii take advantage of il.
The Washington times., 1907-08-12

NEW YORK. Aug. 12.-There are mo-
mentous doings up at S35 Sixth avenue.
"Al' Walsh's pet monkey, Jess. has
been loose agaiI4, and the might Of the
Law has been invoked to prevent any
further excursions on that lively ami
mails part.
q. Tilson. as every old-timer in the
The Washington times., 1907-08-12

Il simply forgot my orders, that's all ="
said a conductor whose train was
wrecked at the cost Of three human
lives That's a poor excuse. but it's
better than blaming the catastrophe on
somebody else, or following the example
Of the Westerner who said the lightning
did It,
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Commander Robert z. Peary is to
wait year before turning the North
Pole into a mast Cor the Roosevelt. Can
it be that he. too. depends upon gas
and hot air?
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PRINTING INDUSTRY LEADS
IN NUMBER OF CONCERNS

Number of printing and publishing estabshments 2622
Value of products S496O6l57
every inhabitants compared with
establishment inhabitants
Tons paper used soey newspapers periodicals.
9OooO oned of the entire output of all paper mills the
country.
Number of copies of newspapers aud periodicals pub
shed .1o3254318s
Number OF copies per Sunday edition of
dailes 11539O2
Circulation daily papers
Circulation weelies 36732O7
Circulation monthes e43O615
The Washington times., 1907-08-12

The Democrats in Pennsylvania might
make capital out of reviving sorre OF
the ether Commandments as we'll as the
eighth.
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1t is hardly to be expected that other
spinsters will follow the example of her
who. in Pittsburg, got Il husband by
posing in The Bath
The Washington times., 1907-08-12
KOREAN PRINCE u
WOULD MISS MOOSE
Sentenced to Be Hanged,
He Doesn't See Use of
Going Home.

NEW YORK. Aug. l2-Notihed by ca
bic from the Orient that he has been
sentenced 70 be hanged as soon as he re-
turas 70 Korea. Prince VI. Of the Hermit
Kingdom. isn't so sure as he was that he
will soon return 70 his native country 70
accept what Fate has IN store for him.
The prince announced on his arrival
here from Europe that he had positive
information of Japan's determination 10
stop at nothing 20 punish him for visit
ing The Hague 10 appeal TO the powers
10 save his country from japanese op-
preston He expressed the opinion that
he would be assassinated in New York
and declared there was no doubt. even
II he escaped here, that death awaited
him in Korea Nevertheless, he an
nOunced. he intended to 60 home as soon
as he had completed his work in the
United states and paid a short visit 70
Russia, provided. Of course. he survived
so long.
Must Die for Going to The Hague.
Last night came the news that the
new Korean Emperor has sentenced the
prince e. the Ribbet The reason given
was the princes action IN falsely repre-
senting that he went 10 The Hague as
the deposed rulers official representa-
tive. The sentence fails 10 explain it's
seeming inconsistency with the japanese
announcement that the former Emperor
was deposed for sending emf ssaries to
The Hague. and sentenced 10 life i'm
prisonment.
OF course. the sentence IS really an in
spiration Of the japanese. says Prince
II interviewed at the Broadway Central
Hotel.
Il blame the japanese less. however,
than the Korean traitors who have sold
out to japan.
Doesn't See Use of Dying.
The order for my execution will GER
tainly be carried out If I venture within
Korean or japanese jurisdiction. If /
could gain anything for Korea by ac-
cepting this fate I would gladly do so.
but I do not see what I could accom-
plish anything by running my head into
a moose"
President Roosevelt has replied to the
princes request for an audience that
he will have no time to grant suah a
meeting at present The prince says he
will accept this as a refusal of aid and
will make no further effort TO secure
American aiG-through official channels
at least-for Korea just yet
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Friends Of one Haywood viii serve
him by keeping him quiet
The Washington times., 1907-08-12

nentIy dignifed boot and shoe business
at the number referred 70. II is not
Ike other shoe businesses II takes il
self seri 7usly and prides itself On its
stall and exclusive patronage Hence
the utter incongruity of these monkey
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Of q shutter, a window ledge, and q
convenient awning landed in the center
Of Vito Barroni's fruit stand on the
corner and reverted 10 normal instincts.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1907-11-09
s,eerino = 6io shin.

The work OF steering big ship, even
with the aid OF all it's machinery is
much more delicate than one would
imagine. The larger and faster the
ship the greater the difficulty II is not
enough TO hold the wheel in the same
position 10 Keep the ship on her course.
for the wind and waves and the cur.
rents OF the ocean tend constantly 90
knock her on The great wall OF steel
offers broad target for the wind and
the waves, The art in steering is 70
adapt the ship 10 these forces and
when she is DETECTED TO bring her back
quickly 20 her course II you could
watch the pinnacle. especially In bad
weather, you would see the needle OF
the compass constantly shifting from
side to side. which means that the
great steel PROV is not going forward
in perfectly straight ine.-Chicago
News.