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LIKE RIPPER MURDERS.
Several Children Mutilated in the City
Of Berlin

BERLIN, July 27-The city is much ex-
cited over a series of cold-blooded muir
ders committed yesterday by some I'M
known man.
Within short space Of time the assassin
successfully enticed three girl babies, the
Oldest only five years old, into doorways of
houses and stabbed them several times in
the abdomen with a sharp instrument. AS
a result one of the children is dead, an
other is dying and the third is dangerously
wounded.
The first knowledge that the crimes had
been committed came when an occupant
of the house at the corner of Ryke and
BelIo.ter streets found the body of Mar
gartha Prawitz, aged four, lying In the
doorway batlled in blood, and the lower
part of the body horribly gashed. This
was Immediately reported to the police
who were about to proceed to investigate
the case when reports came that Hertha
Lanst. aged three, and ELY Knispel. five
years old. had been found similarly out
ragged. but still alive. in Prenzauer alice
and Hensersdorfer streets respectively.
All the available police and detectives
were ordered to scour the neighborhood.
Some parents have reported that their
children had seen a haggard man, about
twenty-seven years of age, well dressed
and wearing cap Offering candy and
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Temple are to leave this evening for James
town to complete arrangements for the
September excursion of the Shrine to that
old American port. This excursion will. 1t
Is expected be awaited of by many Shriners
and their friends who have not yet had q
glimpse Of the tercentennIal and are not
likely to take one later in the season. The
officers Of Almas hope to take along with
them one Of the largest delegations that
has yet been to the big tidewater show.
Accompanying their party will be a large
number Of the nobility Of Alexandria, who
hold membership in Acca Temple of Rich
uond.
The annual excursion or Division No 8.
A. o. H., and its ladies' auxiliary to Ches-
apeake Beach was a big success, and was
participated in by a large number of menu
bers of both the affiliated bodies. All the
local branches OF the A. o. H. are keeping
season. Division No. held a well-attend-
ed meeting Sunday last at Eagles Hall, and
Division No. has another scheduled to be-
held at Kidder's Hall tomorrow. The or
der and it's auxiliaries are fiourishing win
ter and summer alike. The location here
Of the National Hibernian, official organ OF
the order is great stimulus to the local
growth of the organization, and the offices
are also In competent and energetic hands.
Capital Lodge No. 10, Of Des Moines.
Iowa. has lately had unique celebration
of it's iftieth birthday anniversary 1t was
established when the metropolis and seat
OF government OF iowa was a mere VII
lage. Its membership has grown until now
1t is near the 500 mark, while what was at
that time village is now thriving city
of nearly 100000. There are about LOO
Masons belonging to the Des Moines lodges
and the number in the city Is above 1000
Prominent among the participants was Col.
, Joseph L. Grimths, who was the nrst mas
| ter of the lodge. Several other OF It's
| charter members have survived the hair
| century that has elapsed since the lodge
| was founded The celebration took tho
form of big picnic at Union Park. The
| speakers for the occasion We're Crom BOW
! en-, past grand master, who gave a ms
| torical sketch OF the lodge from lis IN
ception up to the present day, and Willard
| l.. Eaton of Usage. past grand master eX-
| sneaker of the iowa house of representa-
! tives.
| Cincinnati won the prize offered by the
! Grand Lodge of Elks at Philadelphia Tor
| having brought the most ladies with the ant
| Tered visitors Brooklyn came second best
| and Buffalo a fair third The prize was
! a cash award of $3.50.
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France has survived q crisis and the
wine growers strike is checked.

France has survived q crisis and the
wine growers strike Is checked.
Checked. not ended. IL the proper word,
for even the most hopeful view Of the situ-
alton does not warrant the statement that
by promising to have laws passed that will
aneiorate the condition Of those who work
in the vineyards. Premier Clemenceau has
done anything more than delay the final
issue.
The tremendous demonstration developed
In only a short time. an uprising that forced
the strong man Of France to most vigorous
reprisal in order to prevent the overthrow
OF his administration. gave the wine grow
ers taste OF power. 1t showed them what
they could do. They withdrew for a time,
because first Of all they have the economy
OF the French peasant. and second, they
believe the promises of Clemenceau that
something will be done to i4elp them.
But should the promise be disregarded,
should Clemenceau. having tricked one
threatened revolution into auetude. scorn to
make good his program Of reform, another
storm is sure to break out that he may not
be able to quell
Revolution and poverty alike are in the
air In the two towns that saw most of the
trouble. Montpelier IL in the department
of the Herault. and Narbonne is in the
Aube. The two provinces are on the shores
of the Gulf OF Lyons. and form part Of the
ancient country Of Ianguedoc. which lay
between Gascony on the west and Provence
on the east.
Always Strife.
Strife has marked the entire history Of
the two provinces. In the early middle
ages their cities retained large measure
OF the independence which they had in
herited from the Roman dominion In the
early part OF the thirteenth century the
people Of Languedoc and Provence seeded
from the Church of Rome, and after the
pope had issued a bull against them for
heresy they were subjected to the most
ferocious religious persecution. To this day
there is a large sprinkling of Professionalism
throughout this section of France, genera
ton after generation having stubbornly ad-
hered to the faith for which their fathers
suffered.
Two Of the most famous heretics that
France has given the world were residents
Of Languedoc and perhaps gained their in
SEPARATION from existence in an atmosphere
that has never been without protests and
revolts of some form.
The great humorist, Rabelais was a stu
dent at Montpelier In 1880, and his life is
largely associated with the district, and
August Comte, inventor of the system
known as the Religion of Humanity" was
The great inspiration of the troubadour
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poets was found In the wars of the cru
sades. Lauguedoc was a center of poetry,
and here fourished many noted bards OF
the Middle Ages, many Of whom were pro-
fessors in the schools and colleges Of Lam
guedoc, which at that period formed the
center Of the educational system Of Europe.
Italians, never denied the immense influ-
ence that the troubadours had exercised on
them.
These early writer's defed form, and In
vented their own means Of carrying the
poetic thought into verse that would en-
dure, and writer's who followed, imbibed
some of the same spirit Of independence
Adopt French Language.
After the absorption Of the provinces by
France, the use Of the French language
gradually became universal. and provencal,
like Gaelic and Chech, fell into disuse.
But men Of might were continually rising
to battle for the tongue loved of the peo-
pie. The poet. Frederic Mistral. devoted his
life to renaissance Of provencal and i'm
parted new spirit Of nationalism to that
part Of France
When the wine growers followed Mar
cellin Albert in their battle for Justice. 1t
was not the first time they picked peasant
Rene boasted Of being both poet and peas.
ant, and at Aries he surrounded himself
with a court Of noted men OF letters. In
GLIDING especially poets and philosophers
daSCoNt pIO01oCO ehS "oiAoShiuA
tagnan' and the hardly less remarkable
"Cyrano de Bergerac." while near Avignon
in the town Of Tarascon, Daudet got the
idea for his Incompatible "Tartarin. In
fact the town Of Narbonne bristles with
important history. It suffered severely dur
Ing the suppression Of the Algigenses, and
1t was the birthplace Of three Roman en-
perors, one martyr and at least two ia
nous troubadours.
In q country Of such traditions. 1t Is not
hard to understand what willing listeners
Albert found when he sought to rouse the
people to a demand for Justice from the
government.
A certain poetry has even been infused
into the business of wine growing. Peas
ants whose families for half a dozen gen.
erations had been engaged in the manufac-
ture of wine We're proud Of their product.
They knew no other calling, wanted none.
The joy of working in the open In the
vineyards and of turning out the national
beverage seemed a poetic and proper way
to make a livelihood. They ha- a pride in
keeping the output up to standard.
But the vineyards were too prolific The
soil grew too freely Of that which makes
the bottled joy. The effect Of overproduc-
| ton began to be felt about eight years ago
| Large companies went into the business OF
wine making, and not only increased the
| output enormously. but with their superior
| facilities, reduced prices, and forced smaller
concerns to the wall.
| In the year 1904, when the business reached
It's climax, France produced more than three
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SERVED ON FORCE a. YEARS.
Baltimore Detectives Anniversary Of
Event Tomorrow.

Event Tomorrow.
BALTIMORE, July 27.-With the record
for the greatest number Of years for con-
tinuous service to his credit and being the
Oldest man In point Of years on the books
Of the department. Detective George WASH
ington Seibold will tomorrow celebrate the
forty-fourth anniversary of his appointment
as q member Of the Baltimore police force.
The Celebration will consist Of Detective
seibold. who Is acting captain of detectives
in the absence of Capt. Humphrey. giving
assignments to the men under him and
spending part of the day with his family.
Detective ssibold was born in this city
in 1870 He was appointed a partolman in
the western district July %. 1858. In May
1864, he was made sergeant, and March
II, 1893, was promoted to lieutenant
In the list Of notable arrests recorded to
his credit is that Of March 4, 1901, when he
arrested William Glenn Taylor OF Wash
ington. D. c.. on the charge Of numbering
his stepmother. Mrs Mary P. Taylor, by
shooting her with a pistol. The tragedy
occurred In the woman's home. in the 200
block on North Calvert street. Taylor was
convicted of murder in the second degree
and was sentenced to fifteen years in the
psnitentiary June Z. 1901 by Judge Wickes.
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In any other country, the peasant, whllo
srieved over his lost business. would have
accepted his mis- fortune philosophically. and
gone into the employ Of the big companies.
There were no riots in the United States
when the Standard OH Company. by It's
elaborate system gradually forced the In
dependent oil companies out of existence.
But the peasants of the Languedoc coun-
try felt differently. Revolt was no new
emotion to them. They believed the land
theirs to maintain themselves and families.
They declined to see II pass into the con-
troll Of the monopolists without a battle.
AS rallyinR cry they announced that the
cheaper prices of the big companies were
made possible by a system Of adulteration
with sugar. and that the pure wine OF
France would speedily lose it's fame before
the world unless the government devised
drastic measures to stop adulteration.
The government, while II sympathiZed
with the peasants, denied that sugar was a
deleterious adulterant, and declined to pass
the laws demanded.
This point would have seen the end OF
the trouble In most countries, but in the
Languedoc 1t was but the beginning. The
main committee met in the city of Ar
geliers and opening act was the resigna-
ton Of the entire municipal council. in-
lin Albert chairman of the wine growers
committee. issued a statement In which ne
asked for united action through the entire
wine-srowing district of France
means Of action, the movement quickly
took on the nature Of revolt of most
serious dimensions.
Government Acts.
The government ea,w the need Of prompts
ly suppressing the excitement in the
troubled districts before new blood was
shed in a region already deeply stained.
Promises were made to suppress wine
frauds and a measure was introduced IN
the chamber of deputies which assessed
$40 a hundred pounds on all sugar used in
the treatment of wines.
This did not Immediately have the de-
sired effect, though It meant granting moro
than had been originally asked. Perhaps
the spirit of revolution was found 30 con.
genial by these descendants Of warriors
that they could not quickly forego It's
pleasures. Acts of violence continued
throughout the land until finally Premier
Clemenceau announced that he could not
permit the open defiance Of the laws OF
France This led to the sending OF troops
| to the region, and encounters between sol-
| diers and rioters which cost many llves.
/ This splitting of blood really counts as the
most unfortunate incident OF the entire
trouble, for vengeance is fixed policy IN
| the Languedoc and at the first outbreak
| reprisals Will be made.
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H.P. Weller Drops Dead at Baltimore

BALTIMORE, Md, July 27.-Henry p.
Weller, seventy-four years old, IL South
Calhoun street, dropped dead at his
home yesterday afternoon. Death is be-
lieved to have been due to apoplexy. Mr..
Weller had retired from active business
several years ago, and on account of i'll
health took a walk in one of the parks
every day. Yesterday he went to Union
Square and stayed about an hour shortly
after he ate dinner. He returned to his
home about 8 o'clock. and as he walked in
the back door he was taken Ill. He was
seen to stand still and gaze around min
ute and then fall. Members of the family
rushed to his side. but he was dead. Born
in Germany. Mr.. Weller had been a resident
of Baltimore for the last fifty years. He
leaves three sons-Messre John P. Henry
A. and Frank Weller-and one daughter,
Mrs Carrie SchultZe
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fruit to little girls, whom he asked to 40

fruit to little girls, whom he asked 70 40
company him
A man was arrested shortly aftefward
who Tailed somewhat with this indefinite
description Later he was confronted by
the two wounded children, who, however,
were too weak to respond to the questions
put to them
The man was then taken in q cab guarded
by police to the police station. The crowd
outside the station, believing him to be
the murderer. attempted to drag him from
the vehicle and lynch him, and he was only
saved by the policemen drawing their
swords and holding the crowd at bay.
The people then attempted to storm the
station. and the prisoner was removed to
the central station for security
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-27
DRIVING OUT GERMS.
Insular Clerks Quit Work While
Rooms Are Disinfected.

The three rooms of the insular bureau
in the War Department building are being
thoroughly disinfected today under the su-
pervision Of officers Of the army medical
bureau because Of a fear on the part OF
Gen. Edwards, chief of the bureau, that
they were infected with the germs Of
tuberculosis. A clerk in one Of the rooms
died Of consumption a few days ago, and
since then another clerk in q room across
the hail has been taken Ill with symptoms
Of the same disease.
Az measure Of precaution It was decided
to fumigate the rooms with formaldehyde
AL the employees were excused for the day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-27
CoLLAPSIBLE PAIL.
When Empty Can Be Stored In Very
Small Space.

Collapsible boxes Of all descriptions, col
lapsible chicken crates, collapsible barrels
and numerous other collapsible devices
have been forced on the attention Of the
public, but the latest and most unique 10
the collapsible pail shown here. The prac-
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The wheat crop in Talbot county, Nd,
this year will be much larger and of bet
ter quality than 1t has been for number
of years. In some cases the yield has
been between thirty and thirty-f1ve bushels
an acre. The average yield. will be from
twenty-three to twenty-eight bushels an
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teal uses for such a device are many and
varied. Milk and similar liquids could be
transported to their Notwithstanding,
say, a dozen cars-and the empty pals re-
turned in one car. The saving of space
would be enormous and the charges rela-
lively So The pail is constructed Of several
metal sections, which can be readily locked
together and the whole pail still be water
tight
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Attacked in Central Park.

Two hours later Virginia reached home
and told her father that two Of the men
had dragged her into the bushes and at
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IT.
Girls Clothes Torn to Shreds.

When she appeared at the Victoria Hotel
her clothing was torn to shreds and COW
cred with mud and dirt She was a mass
of bruises and scars from head to foot, and
her mind was evidently completely unbal-
anced. Frank Cavallo, proprietor of the
Victoria Hotel, gave her room for the
balance of the night.
Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock Capt
Callagan, of the beach police force, who
is also deputy sheriff was driving along
the beach road when he saw woman run
out TO the end of the coal pier and plunge
into the water, which at that point Is about
fifteen feet deep.
Thinking 1t was case of suicide the
captain whipped up his horse and started
toward the pier. Before he could reach
the scene, however, the girl swan ashore
and started running rapidly down the
beach. Callagan pursued, but it was not
until she had run about 1000 feet and
clambered upon the boulevard that he
q
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-27
WAVE Of CRIME IN
NEW YORK CITY
Young Women and Children
Were the Victims.
THIRTY-SEVEN IN A WEEK
Six Attacks Reported to Have Been
Made Yesterday.
ONE IN POWER OF NINE MEN
Held for Three Days and Her Clothing
Torn Into Shreds-Her Body
a Mass of Bruises.
ONE IN POWER OF NINE MEN
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, July 27.-By far the worst
period in the wave of crimes against won-
and children in this city was reached
yesterday. No fewer than six cases Of this
character were made public. Two Of them
were of atrocious character. The notable
instances reported were:
Virginia Ida Barligh, seventeen years old,
of No. 41O East 10th street, kept prisoner
three days near North Beach, L. l., by q
band of men and terribly ill-treated. She
fled at night and is insane in the Kings
County Asylum.
Annie Fowkowski, five years old, OF LIMO
leumville, 8. l., found unconscious and
dying in the hallway of her home by her
mother Joseph Macwyak is under arrest.
A mob tried to lynch him.
Angelina SantanSel, thirteen years old, OF
No. los Cherry street, kept prisoner three
days in a tenement house. Pasquae Morale
is under arrest charged with abduction.
Ellen O'Shea, five years old, Of No. 121
East SSth street, attacked by a man in a
old, is under arrest.
Peter Corteres of No 2O21 Sd avenue,
under arrest charged with attempting to
ent!ce twelve-year-old Goldie Garman OF
No. 215 East Seth street into his home.
Katie Teitschler, eight years old, of No.
$40 East 18th street, IL missing and Is sup
posed to have been abducted. Mother 10 in
a critical condition.
Exceeding in its details and disastrous
effects any of the numerous attacks upon
women and girls in this city recently is the
experience of Virginia Ida Barrigh, pref
ty. delicate girl, who resides with her par
ents at No. 41O East 10th street
In the power of nine brutal men for three
days, she was beaten and mhsused in such
manner that she is now in the Kings Coun-
~ Insane Asylum, a maniac. Her body Is
covered with bruises and scars.
Mentally incapacitated from telling a con-
nected story of her terrible experience,
there are certain portions of her ordeal that
can only be surmised.
She became separated from her brother
and sister Saturday afternoon In the park
at the foot of East Seth street. She was
not heard of again until Wednesday morn
ing at o'clock, when she down the
hill, and hammered wildly at the door Of
the Victoria Hotel at North Beach, Long
Island, beseeching the proprietor to pro-
tect her, she was pursued by band Of
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Revolt and Monopoly.

billion gallons Of wine as much as Tho re-
mainder OF the world nMt tnEnlhnr.
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Phone John Hartung Cphone n.
1880 for absolutely pure all-cream
los Fla ave.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18
The Three Years of Alexis.

From the New York World.
 Monday brings an imperial anni- versary in Russia. The Prince Alexis will be three years old. Save for the royal babes of Italy and Spain the lit tie Romanoff Is the youngest heir ap- parent in Europe, and Prince Humbert is but one month his junior.
 The advent of Alexis was hailed with great acclaim In 1904. It seemed possible that his birth was of world importance. Many things besides the peace of Portsmouth have happened since then to raise grave questions for tnls princeling's future. Revolutionary tremors have shaken Russia. Only last May an internal machine found Its way mysteriously into the very palace where were Alexis and his retinue.
 A crown prince, staff officer of the Chevalier Gaurds and the Empress Dowager's Cuirassiers. Grand Hetman of the Cossack regiments, Knight of the White Eagle and of St. Alexander Nevsky, a member of the Orders of St. Anne and St. Andrew and St. Stan islas-young Alexis Is all these. But he Is also a blue-eyed, golden-haired boy, two and half feet tall, whose long lashes droop modestly to his cneeks in the presence of strangers.
 Clad in white, the young prince stands at attention and touches his cap to the cneers of thousands and thousands of his Cossacks passing in review. It is is his moment of glory. Yet with all a childs impatience he turns from his place of state, as the end of the march ing line is In sight, and hastens to his interrupted play.
 A pathetic figure Is this of the Czare- witch in the light of menacing events. One thinks of him and of the princes in the tower, with the lost dauphin. who might have been Louis XVII, and with L'Aiglon"-the eaglet who never was Napoleon II.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18
The Ignorant Waitress.

From the New York Press.
 NO, madam said the waitress; I'm sorry, but don't know the name of that flower. In fact, can't tell you the names of any of the table flowers. We had only a year of botany in college, and I am not familiar with the flora here" This reply to idle questions proved a staggerer to the guest of a fashionable hotel on Lax @ George, leaving her for a moment un- able to speak. At last, regaining her composure, she raised her 1orgnette and, staring at the young waitress. said: Tt strikes me, miss, that per son of your attainments had better be doing some higher order of work. Thank you madam was the response. q hope soon to be doing something better, but it is the money I have earned as a waitress that has enab,-d me to learn. I shall be graduated from college next year and have beer promised a position as teacher in the prep" school I attended" Curiously enough, the woman of fashion found it difficult after that to maintain the air of superiority and patronage she had affected toward the waitress. A friend of hers recalled that she had enjoyed only a grammar school educa- ton.