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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-02-01

Popular Pure Food.
There are any number OF SO-Calied rye
breads. but there's only one genuine rye
loaf-Bcreus'. Finest materials. including
specially mtlled rye. are used. and the bread
is mixed i'm the real German fashion. De
licious and Satisfying-nighly nOurishing.
Serial No 5o9i, Dept Agriculture, vouches
for the purity of BeTeuS BTead.At grocers
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-02-01

20 always send Jno. G. Meinbergs Bread
viii insure the very best for your table
It's pure food scientifically made and
baked. Ask for il. Bakery, 7l6 18th sc.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-02-01

Have National Inverted Gas Light put
up save gas. &. 4. Muddiman & Co, 10,
Il 81. NV.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-02-01

Outrageous travesties Of justice have
occurred under the general power of the
court in dealing with divorce cases is
a statement contained in a brief relating
to House bill zlGi2. ITO amend the practice
in suits and divorces in the District of
Columbia" submitted 20 the Commission
eTs yesterday by c. 3. Hemingway, 100
Fourth street northeast Instances of
wives, who have no valid reason. but who
are induced 70 bring suit by counsel are
brought to the attention of the Commits
sioners. In reference TO the subject Mr..
Hemingway says:
The existing law provides that the
court may award alimony pendente lite
20 the wife, and require the husba.Hi 10
pay court and her counsel fees. Left to
the discretion Of the judge the greatest
variety OF practice obtains. ! am informed
that one judge has a practice of not al
lowing the wife's counsel fees until the
suit is settled. and allows no fees if the
suit is dismissed. And I know that an
other judge allowed the wife's counsel
fees within a few days after the summons
was served, and before the answer was
made, and that It was collected after the
wife had requested in writing that the
suit be dismissed
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-02-01
LOCAL MENTION.


Hungarian Gypsy Orchestra at Park
Hotel, Winter Garden, RathskeIIer. n Y
ave- and nth ST. r Endres. Prom
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-02-01

The Washington Herald has but
one name 1t is The washington
Herald every morning in the week,
Sunday included. Telephone, Main.
$500
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-02-01
Tnstructions to Yonr Grocer

ReiSiD@er Makes the Best lee Cream,
81 ga, soc lz-gaL 235 G. Tel. NJ. z767.
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Patrons Of IS ID. -. a. Info-.,.

Meet We Tonight az the Auto show.
Admission, Z5c- list and II. Jan. 2S-Feb .
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-02-01

Sec the Smallest Woman in the World
making hats at SIC 1lth 81 NV to-day.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-02-01
Practice UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

1T is highly probable that this practice
is unconstitutional. but the victims Of it
are without power OF the means To carry
the question to the Supreme Court for de
termination. because they are always per
sons without property.
Imprisonment for debt in this country
Is inhibited What must De thought of a
legal practice which anticipates possible
debt on the fimsiest evidence, and in
cases where the fact is hardly probable.
and imprisons thereon. The court has
power 10 sequestrate the property Of "a
husband and 81 be has nothing but his
earnings. it is wholly unjustihabie 10
compel him. on pain of Imprisonment To
live here when be might do better else
where, or make him undergo the heavy
expense Of q legal fight 10 secure release.
Il Is nothing short of peOnagc.'
Mr. Hemingway requests that he be
given a hearing on the subject before the
COMM sSloltTs
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-02-01
DIVORCE LAW SCORED
Attorney Hemingway Sends
Brief to Commissioners.
PRACTICE UNCONSTITUTIONAL

General Power of Court Permits
Outrageous Travesties of Justice
IN Occur, Claims COunseI-Many
Cases Instituted by RHscaIIy ShyS-
teTs-Husbands Arrested on Writ.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-02-01
Guides FIOrnI Work


for weddings. receptions. &c. invariably
| meets with unstinted praise. 1914 F.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-02-01
RascaIIy Counsel.

Under the existing law many wife
who has no valid ground for. but Is excit-
ed over some insufficient cause, is induced
by rascalIy counsel to leave her husband
and bring suit The solicitor then secures
fees from the husband by order OF the
court, and fees from the wife out of the
alimony pendente lite ordered paid by the
court; and when he has thus gotten about
all he can expect advises the wife that
she cannot make her case, and dismisses
the suit. or failed to prosecute H. leaving
the husband under a burden Of costs often
Tuinous.
IN one case the wife was earning 81
week and the husband earned $40 "a
week and yet he was required TO pay her
SO a month while the suit was going on;
and this before any proof 10 show that
the husband was in the wrong.
1T is beginning % be a common prac-
tice 10 arrest husband on writ Of ne
eXeaJ. This IS done under the general
power OF the court II seems remarkable
that such is the case in view Of the grave
Importance Of the fact AS a result most
outrageous travesties of justice have oc-
Cured.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-02-01

Special sale OF Millinery.
Everything y price Luke * Co. SIS nth.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-02-01

Your Favorfte College COIOrs.
~ Pias. Pillows, and Badges. CUstinett's
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-02-01

White House Bread
Is the ideal bread for the
home table. Best for send
wiches. and makes the finest
and crispeBt toast.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-05
The Orient's Great Medium

pUT crude bar silver is the great medium of ex-
- change in China, Burma, and Siam. In the vii
lage street sits the money changer who will hand out
SO many strings of cash in exchange for sycee bar
of any shape size. The ingot known may
weigh pound; it also passes current in Indo-
China, stamped on side with Chinese inscrip-
ton, giving the weight, with the merchants name
who weighed it, and its estimated value Woe unto
that if he has erred dishonesty in ignorance
Then there are hat money, shoe money, boat
money, snailshel money, and willow leaf money.
All these derived from the actual form taken by
the silver after leaves the crucbe and mold The
oldest of them is the snailshell money which is
really bubble of silver solidifed into the shape of
a shell. Each piece bears marks of Identification
showing the crucible in which it melted In
the same category one should put the bullet money
of San-crude globes of solid silver bearing tiny
stamps The largest is an ounce in weight but
there specimens fine small shot. The
gamblers of Burma and Siam porcelain
rency bearing grotesque emblems, with an inscrip-
ton in Chinese stating how much this or that mer-
chant will give for them.
Perhaps the queerest money in the world how.
ever is represented by the boy and girl slaves of
Mohammedan Africa. One of these will buy two
camels. 1t is a currency much favored, for it will
carry ITSELF and increases in value like the best real
estate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-05

MOT even the story of the mutiny on the British
IN ship Bounty and the extraordinary voyage in
open boat of R1gh and his unfortunate companions
is remarkable the story of the rule of the last
of the mutineers, who discovered twenty years
later in the person of Alexander Smith DIETER known
perhaps by his assumed name of John Adams) the
benevolent despot of Pitcairn Island
Smith had not only taken active part in the
mutiny, but later, after settling, with Fletcher.
Christian seven other mutineers, and eighteen
murdered of his white companions the last
but remaining), in 81 order to avert possible
danger from the natives, whom this man had in
suited.
Perhaps by this very act he obtained the absolute
power in the little community which was his up to
the time of his death But the remarkable discovery
made by those who found the colony grown to forty
persons in 1903 was that this uniearned seaman,
this rebel and murderer, had guided his people in
such exemplary fashion that old and young were
animated by high moral principles and were living
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-05
KINDS OF MONEY

uniforms full of gold braid and scarlet stripes,
cooked hats stage shoes of gold and silver fabrics
and Christmas tree junk of glass balls. and airy
trhes of that kind
Cninese money is traced PACK tnree tnousand
copper coinage, gathered whole issue together,
buried it deep into the EARTH and threw in on top
the workmen employed in digging the pit. The pu
of cloth knives for barter and in existence
from about the seventh to the second century
before Christ. The commonest of Chinese money is
the cash, round metal disk with a square hole in
the center; thousand of these are worth barely
seventy-fve cents. Ones cook in China goes to
market with great strings of this heavy money
round neck, shoulders, and waist; but even when
weighted with much strong carry,
very little of money is represented. On the
RussoChinese borders green tea pressed into bricks
years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-05

erned in that part of the
globe; and so, when
from sailorman he had
graduated to shipbuild-
er and man of means, he
made straight for a point
about five hundred miles
southwest of Java, and
calmly annexed the
Cocos Islands.
There was not much
to the, Cocos Islands in
those days, and there is
not a great deal to them
now, although the build
ing of a cable station is
in progress, and more is
likely to be heard of
them in the near future
than in the past. When
Ross, having brought
his family from the
farm in Scotland, where
wife and children had
lived while he made
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-05
QUEER

THERE seem no people so low in the social
scale as to be without at least some equiva-
lent of money. Even the pygnies of the Sem
lk; Forest pass slabs of hippo meat, and receive in
exc aange bows and arrows and the bushmen of
Ce trial Australia barter skins for spearheads.
The wampum belts of Indians too
familiar to call for more than passing mention. They
are made of an exceedingly hard shell known as
quahog. Hard it is however, the Indians carve
bored as beads. single string of white wampum
valued dollar and quarter for each fathoms
length; purple string represents about two dollars
Among the commonest of all savage currencies
is the SHE'LL which is found all Africa, we'll
as the coral isles of the Pacific and in parts of
Asia In remote cannibal New Britain of the Pa
ci6c, the shell money is called tambu. 1t is tiny
rare shell dug out of the sand by the natives of
Nakani, on the West Coast. When supplies of this
squats down and punches holes through the backs
of the Shells that he may thread them long strips
of cane. They next rolled into coils that vary
in length from hundred to five hundred fathoms,
and carefully wrapped in banana leaves and hung
in guarded treasure houses against the rainy day.
Buying House with Shells
THE cowry is the commonest form of small change
i in Indian bazaars. Last year intelligent
Hindu of Cuttack paid for his new bungalow entirely
in these little shells. The cost amounted in money
to two thousand dollars; and as sixty-four shells
equaed tiny copper pice equal to three fourths
of cent?, no less than sixteen million cowries
were paid to savage laborers and artisans.
In many parts of Africa and Asia long strings of
these shells adorn village gods and fetishes; and
baskets of them should really figure in every mission
airy report as having been offered by natives toward
the support of the local jungle church the Niles
sources in far Siam. In Dahomey, fierce West
African region where human sacrifice dread
fully rampant, before the French came shell money
plays important part. Periodically the savage
King goes forth in barbaric procession with all the
wealth of his treasury borne before him in hundreds
of baskets. The whole does not represent one
hundred dollars; but wild enthusiasm and excite
ment follow when the generous potentate hurs
few strings of the shells among his fierce followers
In the Solomon Islands shell money is strung in
ropes six feet long and wound grde like about the
housekeeper's waist. Their value appears to de-
pend on color and shape. The FIJI Islanders buy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-05
was induced to appropriate money, and the para

was induced to appropriate money, and the para
disc was purchased
Thither were transported several hundreds of
vance guard of an army of Negroes who would soon
be self supporting and happy. Buoyed up by the
thought Of being their own masters, and satisfied
Negroes themselves were delighted with the pros
pect. Their awakening came very soon. Left with
altogether inadequate supply of provisions face to
affrighted and strange insects poisoned, lacking
leader and utterly incapable of individual initiative
the poor people fell easy victims to disease. Many
died from malaria. and the survivors were half
starved and in aconditon of extreme debility when at
last shpwas sent to bring them back country
VIHEN George Ross sailed into the China Seas
w with the idea of founding colony and up
building the native character, he sought no title
of sovereignty from native Sultan Service in the
navy of the East India Company had made him
acquainted with the territory governed and ungov-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-05

visiting ship, Smith ex-
pressed his willingness
to return to England
and answer for his share
in the mutiny. ION
this being made known
to the members of the
little society" appears
in the official report, "a
scene of considerable
distress was witnessed.
All the women burst
into tears, and the
young men stood mo-
tionless and absorbed
in grief. On their be-
ing assured that he
should on no account
be molested, it is impos-
sible to describe the
universal joy that these
poor people manifested
and the gratitude they
expressed,
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SUNDAY MAGAZINE FOR MAY 5. 1907

his fortune in the Far East, took possession, the
population consisted of about two hundred Malays.
They were very ordinary natives, having abiding
faith in the principle that the evils of the day
sufficient thereunto, and apparently incapable of
sustained effort of thrift and orderliness. The
only occupation that appeared to afford them any
satisfaction was that of wife beating.
Ross did not beat his wife, he did not idle, and
he did not squander He was Scot Being Scotch,
he was bent improving men and things. These
people were shiftless heathens 1t not for
mortal man to interfere with the scheme of the
universe by remaking them into Scotchmen; but
at 1eastthey might be labored with and taught that
there were such things order and the Shorter
Catechism.
The undertaking would have daunted most men,
but early reverses only served to make the Scot
more stubborn in his intention Fortunately, his
wife of great assistance, and it was, perhaps,
due rather to her work among the women than
to Ross abors with the that the first fruits had
begun to show when the ruler OF the Cocos Islands
called to give account of his stewardship His
son, who ruled in his place, appears to have
been dreamer of dreams. But if under him,
| material prosperity was not conspicuous in
the colony, the love of the natives for their
sovereign grew abundantly. Thus, when in
the course of human events the second ruler
went to his own place, the way was prepared
for one whose energy equal to that of his
grandfather, while his knowledge of local
conditions and of native character inn
measurably superior.
Under the rule of this third Ross, the set
t1ement soon became what it is to-day-a
very approach to model kingdom.
There are only five hundred and fifty in
habitants even now; but every is
contented worker, and every woman per-
feet housewife. Only, in some manner that
shall never be known, the Malays have
acquired one Scotch habit that was not
taught to them when they learned the
Shorter Catechisn. Here and there through
the islands illicit stills in which toddy
from the cocoanut is brewed in defiance Of
the Government.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-05
By HOWARD KELSEY

their food with whales teeth painted white and red
these worth twenty times much the
white teeth: One will see a Fijian millionaire
stalking nude beneath the feathery palm tufts with
his wealth carried about his neck the brilliant red
and white of his coinage forming a startling con-
trast with his glossy dark skin And when he mar
ries, his humble bride will present her dowry of
whales teeth to connoisseur who will accept
nothing but the best.
There are jade adj heads as money in the Loyalty
Islands, with queer little coins made of tufts of fur
from the flying fox. And feather money is found
in the island of Santa Cruz, of the group 1t
is made of the red feathers from the wings of gor
natives take the birds by srnearing sticks with
viscid lime Only certain of the wing feathers are
accepted genuine coin of the realm; and these
made into rolls fifteen feet long, and then coed
up and placed between two fiat boards
In the New Hebrides there are curious coins made
of quantity shaped rings of snow white quartz fiat
tened by rubbing and scraping. In certain other
isets of Melanesia mat money made of grass woven
in intricate patterns passes current In Abyssinia
bars of rock salt will buy ammunition for muzzle
loading guns; and among the Wanyoro tribes of
Uganda rough iron spear heads, known as majembe,
largely used. 1t was found by recent explorer
that two majembe suficed to support army of six
hundred natives for day.
Money and Weapon Combined
IN the Molua country of Central Africa the savages
i ingeniously combine money and weapon in the
shape of cruciform ingot of copper ore twelve
inches long. In the Niger States the money is
enormously heavy rings Of brass and ivory, worn
armlets and anklets, and so ADDING TO their use as
coin the Office of personal adornment. They
precisely like the coinage of the ancient Egyptians,
the weighty ring money, adjusted to certain
weights, which Caesar found when his 1egions in
vaded Britain.
Bales of calico, brass and copper rods specially
cast for the purpose in Europe young slaves of both
sexes, and shining beads-all form part of Africas
loose currency But perhaps the queerest, and one
that has all but passed away, is the faded hnery of
civilization decade ago ingenious men returned
from the interior to Chinde Mombasa Sierra Leone,
and Cairo with large fortunes in ivory gold, gums,
and ostrich feathers, obtained by bartering dngy
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-12-18
AMERICAN GIRLS.
Their Importance In Society Out of
Proportion to Thor Achievements.

Their Importance In Society Out of
Proportion to Thor Achievements.
An editorial In the December Cen
fury OIL "Tryin& to Spoil the American
Girl says that ''the Importance of the
young woman In American society is
out of MI proportion TO her achieve
ments. and naturally where such I'm
portance Is the rule the social tone.
however gay Is unintellectual and
devoid of the mellowness which makes
the formal Intercourse of human be-
lngs an institution. Instead or being
taught in childhood that her business
Is TO serve and that her only chance OF
happiness is i'll service, she Is virtually
taught that everything must be done
for her. The rewards of woman's
existence-love, respect, Difference
are thus placed Mt the wrong end Of
life. TO begin with. the sense of val.
ues Is lost by the profusion OF Christ.
mas. Easter ana birthday presents
showered upon her every year. AS
Whatcly said of literary style. He who
'accentuates everything accentuates
nothing
III suCu cAtIuNiSulce inc Deuutv OF
simplicity disappears, anu beside the
luxury of such II girlhood the gifts of
nature and of common human life lose
their prcclousness. 4 glorious sunset,
the nightly miracle of stars. the treas
ures of noble poetry-the heritage of
humanliiud-what are these to most
debutantes compared with spectacle
of colored lights at the theater? Space
fails to follow up the theme-to speak,
for instance, of the approximation of
the life of girls to that of their elders
in dress and entertainments. which is
but part of the lavish and unappre-
clated idolatry that attends from era
die to altar-none the less monstrous
folly that 1t is committed In the name
of parental love-"
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-12-18
THE CARE OF LAMPS.
absolute Cleanliness aa to Burner,
Wick and Chimney.

absolute Cleanliness as to Burner,
Wick and Chimney.
Few people understand the proper
care of lamps and lind them rather II
tax to care for, but IL lamp is prop
rrly looked after 1t will give good
tlear light without odor IL there Is
sbsolute cleanliness as to burner wick
and chimney. DO not leave the care
Of the lamps until they are needed Mt
night, for this is dangerous, and never
clean lamps on Il table where food Is
prepared, but have IL special place for
the work. Spread several newspapers
over the table or shelf ana upon these
set the various parts. Some house
Keepers think 1t better to wipe OF the
burned portions of the wick Instead OF
cutting II. The main thing is TO re-
move 1t evenly. Any pieces of wick
dropped Oh the burner will c;9se an
odor when the lamp Is lighted About
once month the wick should be re-
moved and the wick boiled In hot soup.
suds or solution OF washing soda.
Wipe the inside of smoky chlmneys
with tissue paper before washing
them. Care should he taken that they
are thoroughly dry or they Will break
easily when heated. When first light
Ing lamp keep the wick low. to allow
the chimney 10 heat gradually and do
not leave II Immediately after lighting
1t. Many ceiling has been ruined by
n smoky lamp.
Each day clean every portion of the
burner with piece of channels. Lift
the top of the burner and see that the
smnll air holes In the burner are not
stopped up with dust or charrcd wick.
This Is often the cause of II dim light
and all Ill smelling lamp.
DO not allow lamp to burn after
the oil Is exhausted nor tcmporize by
turning 1t down. Both burner ana
wick Will be saved by putting the
lamp out. When cleaning the lamp
rub of the charred portion of the
wick with the finger or n match stick /;
never use scissors. In renewing the
wick screw it up almost out of Its
socket and immerse for five minutes
In oil; then lower the wick to proper
height and screw the burner on firm
ly. If the lamp has been allowed to
burn dry, similar treatment Is nd
visable
If lamp Is constantly used. it
should be filed every day. the wlcl,
trimmed and the burner wiped on: the
chimney and shade also being looked
after.