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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-08
RULES FOR WAR BALLOONS
NO DROPPING OF SHELLS ON UN-
DEFENDED TOWNS.
England Yields and Votes Against
the Use Of Dum-Dum Bullets-Dis-
position of War Prizes.

THE HAGUE, August Sat the meeting
of the commission dealing with hunanita-
rian usages in warfare Lord Reay yesterday
gave Great Brtains adhesion to the dec.a-
ration Of the conference in 1859 against the
use of dum-dum bullets. 1t may lie recall ed
that Gi.a1 Britain at the first conference
for.f ally announced that she would not sign
sl;ch a e. cfgion.
The main purpose of the commission s
meeting va to seek to frame regulations
for balloons and other aerial adjuncts of
warfare. Russia, Begun and Italy had
proposals which were formulated eventually
by Count Tornielli, as follows:
ANY balloons used for destructive pur-
poses in warfare should be dirigibe and be
manned by regular military crews"
Balloon Bombardment
The vote on the proposal stood to 6 in
favor of it. Eleven delegates abstained
from voting. France headed the DIRECTORS,
meir tanning that the b-st course would be
to simply apply the rules already existing
on bombardment and the use of mines. Ger
many shared this view.
second proposal forbidding the drop
ping of projecties on undefended towns
and villages or the discharge of deeterious
gases thereon, but permitting the dropping
of projectiles over regularly beleaguered
garrisons, carried by vote of 30 to 2
There were three abstentions. Nine dele
gates were absent. which means that they
had received no Instructions from their gov
ernm, nts.
The COMMISSION dealing with the capture
or destruction of prizes and the private
maritime property of an enemys citizens
failed entirely to make any progress. NJ.
Renault oc France introduced declaration
that it was desirable to abolish the practice
of destroying prizes and that the principle
of, indemnity should be established Ger
many, Turkey and Russia supported the
first proposal, but reserved their votes on
the second England, through Sir Ernest
nifty was under consideration by a
British royal commission, and that in re-
gard to the destruction of prizes Great
Britain would maintain the right to take
advantage of actual practice.
Disposal Of Prizes.
Mr.. Choate of the American delegation
was also against the, French proposal. He
explained that the American law had abol-
ished prize money.
The vote on the proposal to abolish the
destruction of prizes stood 16 in favor of ii
to 4 against. There were fourteen Austen
tons. Twelve delegates were absent.
The vote on the proposal to establish the
principle of indemnity was In favor and
13 against Fourteen abstained from vot-
ing. Twelve delegates were absent. Both
proposals We're sent before an examining
committee, where, in view of the impor-
tance of the opposers, they will be sup
pressed.
The reasons given by Sir Ernest satow
for retaining the right to destroy prizes
were stress of weather. inadequacy OF
fective condition or the approach OF an
enemy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-08
ANOTHER ANTITRUST IDEA.
Mr.. Lightfoot Of Texas Would Restrict
Corporation Stock Holding.

AUSTIN, Tex, August s.-J. P. Light
foot, assistant attorney general, who is In
charge Of all antitrust prosecutions in this
state, will attend the conference of attor-
neys generaUof different states, which IS to
be held at ST. Louis next Monday for the
purpose of arranging for convention Of
the chief law officers Of several states to
be held this fall.
1.-THE states should refuse charter or
permit to any corporation having stock
holder who ever held stock in corpora
ton charged with violating the antitrust
laws" said Mr.. Lightfoot yesterday, "and
an afidavit should be required Of every
stakeholder before a permit IL granted to
the effect that he never held stock In a
corporation charged with violating anti
trust laws. The Same affidavit should be
required Of a stockholder where transfer
ain other words, whenever any citizen
permits the corporation In which he holds
stock to violate tho laws Of the land that
individual should be deprived OF the right
| to hold any public franchise Whatever, as
| hs cannot be trusted honestly 10 employ
| the powers granted to him by the govern
| ment. This will prevent individuals VINO
! conspire to violate the laws from reorgan-
| izing a corporation and continuing an I'M
| lawful business where it has once been
| convicted of violating the antitrust laws.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-08
ASSAULTS ON GIRLS
STORIES OF THREE BRUTAL NEW
YORK CASES.

NEW YORK, August Sized prisoner by
two men for more than a day, and terribly
abused, Isabelle Ensler, seventeen years
old, Of No. 40 East 18th street. staggered
Into the German Hospital last night, and
fell fainting into the arms of nurse.
She stated after she revived that she was
walking along lower Mulberry street In
search OF work. when she was seized by
two men and dragged up flight of steps.
The door was barred and the two men bru-
tally attacked her.
She was taken into the house. she says,
Tuesday morning about IL O'Clock, and held
prisoner until late yesterday. During that
time, she says the men subjected her to
every conceivable indignity, and most of the
time she was unconscious.
Late yesterday they took her to the street
door and pushed her out. She wandered
about the streets, dazed, until she reached
the hospital. The physicians say she is in
a critical condition.
Miss Ens.er says that one of the men was
called John by his companion. He was
about five feet six inches in height, wore a
brown mustache and had on a black coat
and gray trousers. The other man was
called Tony. He was about feet inches
in height weighed about 100 pounds and
was clean shaven. He wore a red flannel
shirt, brown coat and straw hat. Miss
Ensler says she would recognize either of
the men.
Capt Cooney of the East 9th street police
station has placed all his detectives on the
case.
William Brown. a roustabout, was ar
rested yesterday evening in the home of his
sister, Mrs. Catherine Cardin, at No III
Baltic street, Brooklyn, on a charge of mall
treating his seven-year-old niece, Helen.
The child made the accusation against her
uncle, and her sister Catherine, two years
physicians made an examination, which
corroborated the statements of the chi dren.
The police of the Amity street station
had to fight off nearly 300 persons who tried
to take Brown from them. After they got
the man to the station house mob be-
tween $500 and 5000 made a demonstration
outside, and it took the reserves half an
hour to- disperse the angry gathering.
In the station house the mother of the
maltreated child tried to stab her brother
with a hatpn. Capt. Devanney, who COM
mands the Amity street precinct, caught
her arm as she lunged at the prisoner and
the hatpin ripped his thumb open.
Unmindfu of the odds against her, Mary
kehoe, young, pretty and slight of figure.
last night trapped a man she accuses of at
lacking her little niece, and then helped a
policeman save him from a mob
The prisoner says he is john Rucek, an
Austrian, thirty-eight years old, and lives
at No Ala East I'D street. He was cap
turel in a vacant lot in last 9th street
near Avenue A.
Miss Kehoe. her dress torn and a great
bruisc on the side of her face where the
mans fist had struck her. tod the story in
the East 9th street station amid the ad-
mring comments of Capt. Cooney and all
the reserves.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-08

the captains of all warships in the North
Atlantic squadron and to the commander OF
every ship in the service asking for sug-
gestions July IS last.
The enlisted men. practically to man.
are DESTROYS Of obtaining coats and visor
caps. Many of them want the wide fiarinS
trousers, the world round, immemorial cut
peculiar to sailormen, changed into the or
binary pattern.
But the chief grievance of the sailors re-
lates to the blouses and the ridiculous. old
fashioned pancake caps. These caps are
said by all seamen TO be absolutely useless
on windy day, as they cant be kept on
the head They afford no shade to the
ewes and seem to exist merely as rene
of the past The seamen want Vlsoreo
cap. on the order of those worn by the ma
rines and the petty officers.
The protest over the blouse Is considered
well justified in the navy. In the irst
place the seamen object to the Wide coiissr
winch blows UP around their ears on WINDY
DAYS They want shorter neckerchlefs, ana
coats cut like those Of the marines.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-08

German Dreams Of Empire.
Speaking OF the German dreams of empire,
a book by Imperial Councillor Rudolf Mar
tin, entitled Kaiser Wilhelm II and King
Edward VII" just published, Is undoubted-
ly exciting extraordinary interest in political
circles.
! In this work Prof. Martin asks why the
British, headed by their king, are so in
tenseiy suspicious of Germany, and re-
and other far-seeing Englishmen recognize
that Germany is bound to expand into a
great world power. Within the next twenty
or thirty years, he asserts, Germany is
bound to absorb Austro-Huns,ary, the Bal
kan states. Turkey and Asia Minor, and
the German empire will extend from Berlin
to Bagdad.
Further when the decisive moment comes
she will strike decisive blow at her rivals.
Prof. Martin says that France will be the
Flctlm or German anger, and that the Ger
man army VIII inf1ct a crushing defeat on
the French forces and take possess on of
the greater part Of France.
Having achieved a military victory Ger
many will proceed to annex the northern
part of France, in order to gain possession
thereby securing a most favorable base for
successful operations against England.
IN annexation of Belgium would follow
and Germany, being in possession of the
coast line, could easily make a successful
invasion of Great Britain. Sooner or later,
ne thinks Germany will declare war against
England to defeat Engiand's anti-German
designs, and this war, he declares, will
sound the death knell of British supremacy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-08
TRAMP TRAIN BEATS JAILED.
Crusade Against Patrons Of the Side
Door Pullman.

PHILADELPHIA. August s.-Of1cial fig
ures, now filed. show that on the eastern
lines Of the Pennsylvania railroad during
the month Of May 900 arrests were made
for illegal train riding. The largest num-
Der was on the eastern Pennsylvania divi-
sion, which comprises most Of the main line
between Philadelphia and Pittsburg. The
Erie division and Northern Central had 90
arrests, the western Pennsylvania 80,
B. & A. V. division Il and the New Jersey
division 8.
OF the 900 persons arrested, 102 were fined
and 141 were confined in jail from one to
thirty days. In Is cases the sentence was
suspended while principals were dis
charged
Strenuous efforts are being made by the
Pennsylvania management to put an end to
illegal train riding, which has increased
very greatly in the last few years. On the
Erie division of the Northern Central rail-
way alone last year there were over 1000
arrests for Illegal train riding, while on the
entire system there were over 5000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-08
TUBE NEARs COMPLETION.
South Bore to Long Island City Prac.
tically Finished.

NEW YORK, August S.-The south tube
of the Belmont tunnel under the East river
is due to be completed today Yesterday
morning only four feet of earth and rock
separated the two headings, and that could
have been removed by nishtfall were it not
for the extreme caution that marks the
work at present.
The character of the river bottom is such
that there is great danger of a blowout and
the engineers are going slow. Only one
gang of men are at work, and they are in
the section of the tube that runs from
Long Island City. The completion of the
south tube finishes the work of eXcavating,
and all that remains to be done is to put
on the finishing touches and lay the tracks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-08
ACCUSED OF TRYING TO BRIDE.
$50 Left in Telephone Booth Cause:
Mans Arrest.

NEW YORK, August S.-Reuben Elm
stein, who says he is a wrecker, of 1414
Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, was arrested
yesterday at 40 Park row by Lieut.. Rein of
the detective bureau on charge of at
tempted bribery. The complainant is r. G.
Wilson Of so East 23d street.
Wilson reported to the police yesterday
that he was an important witness in a suit
In the first municipal court in which the
Manhattan Wrecking Company was in
volved. He said that Einstein had offered
him $50 II he wouldn't testify, arc had
arranged to pay him yesterday afternoon.
Rein went with Wilson to 40 Park row,
where Wilson met Einstein. 1t is charged
that Einstein put $50 in telephone booth
there and told Wilson to go ir and get it.
Rein went in and found the money and ar
rested Einstein.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-08

The wise business man places
his inducements to customers
in the widely circulated news
paper, like The Evening Star,
because he knows it pays him
to make public announcements
rather than to waste his time in
attempting to do business BY the
circulation Ct pamphlets. book
lets and the like through the
mail
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-08
Was Frankly nti-British.

DR. Peters was frankly anti-British-
that is. he was frankly opposed 20 Brit
ish activities in Africa. Personally, he
openly declared that he had a great ad-
miration for the coioniZing qualities of
the British race, and he did all that he
could to induce his countrymen to initiate
British cOloniZing tactics. Perhaps his
most distinctly anti-British move was
when he headed the German Emin Pasha
relief expedition. It's outward aim was
to rescue a distinguished German sub
ject from a position of danger. but Its
real object was to get there before the
British relief equatorial expedition I'M
der Stanley could grab equatorial At
RIGA. The troubles of DR.. Peters with
Admiral Fremantle, who seized the great
err part of the arms and ammunition of
his expedition to Zanzibar, did not make
him any the more friendly to the British
flag. His expedition, of course. failed
of its object. bat it gave the doctor the
opportunity to write a very interesting
book and brought his popularity to the
zenith. DR.. Peters never got on well
with Ma j. Won WiSsman. and though they
had to serve the same administration to-
gether there was no love lost between
tneTn. The doctor frankly admitted that
lie believed in the rife as a civiliZing
force, and that when the rifle would not
accomplish the purpose the Maxim gun
ought to be brought into play. Like
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-08
Stone for Municipal Building.

The three-masted schooner William Cobb,
laden with granite or marble from Blue
Hill, Me-, which was brought up the river
Monday afternoon by the tug Camilla,
was berthed at the Littlefied-Alvord pier
at Georgetown to unload her cargo. The
vessel It is stated, has aboard a cargo OF
about 500 tons of stone for the new mu-
ncipal building now in process Of erection.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-08

Ashnrv Sheppard, colored. 14b3 Parrish al
lev. baltimore. Md. rolled of on Lafay.
cite avenue, near Appleton street and
awoke II the street to find that he hao
broken his right leg at the knee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-08
Chief Witness Was Insane.

But it was notorious that the chief wit
ness against him was Lieut.. Won Bronsart
Schellendorf, one of the officers who served
under him. The value of this particular
evidence can best he understood when it is
remembered that only few weeks after
the trial he Lad to be locked up in a luna
tic asylum. and it was proved that he was
more or less out of his mind when he was
In Africa and when he gave evidence against
his chief It was this one fact more than
all others which caused the imperial gov
eminent 10 restore DR.. Peters his tte of
imrer al comm ssary on the retired list,
which carries with it the much-pri2e1 title
of excellcncy. But his pension of 81 G00
a year was not restored to him. which
showed that lie not entirely white
washed by the breakdown of Lieut.. Won
Schellendorfs testimony.
One thing is certain, DIR. Peters is the
founder of the present German colonial
empire in Africa. and though like Warren
Hastings in India the means he employed
to secure the results may be questioned,
nevertheless there is little disposition to
question the results. DR.. Peters belonged
TO the epoch when German explorers, &C
companied by a corporals guard. went
about hosting the German flag on territory
as big as all Prussia and then leaving
WIhelmstrasse to disentang'e the compli-
cations thus caused. But some of those
flags stuck and are there to this day.
Mai. Won Wissman. Eugen Wolf. DR..
RumiIler. Count Pfeil and half a dozen
more followed in the footsteps of DR..
Peters. supported at home by sCch Co
Ionial fanatikers." as the Germans call
them, as DIR. Areltdt and Prince 'Aren-
berg. Their methods We're. as Count Ca
privi once said in the reichstag, 20 paint
the map of Africa blue" They annexed
territory right and left--territory good,
bad Indifferent. The consequences were
the business of the colonial department
of the foreign office.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-08

findings of the disciplinary tribunal which
twelve years ago dismissed DR.. Peters from
the colonial service was "a disgrace to the
German people The fact that DR.. Peters
won a libel suit in which the defendant
simply repeated the charges brought
against him is in fragrant contradiction to
the finding of the disciplinary court. AS
one of the results of the already long
drawn-out litigation growing out of the en-
tire situation at Munich it is threatened
that additional confidential documents
which were laid before that court will be
published. so that very pretty colonial
scandal is in sight.
The worst of the entire affair appears to
he that for years it has been a matter of
political passion. The social democrats
who are opposed to German colonial policy
paint DR.. Peters in the blacklist colors. If
they are to be beliaved the Spanish con-
quistadores were mild and gentle indivd-
uals when compared with the imperial COM
missary of the kilmandaiaro district OF
German East Africa. The partisans of CO.
lonial expansion. on the other hand, repre-
sent him as the victim OF political rancor.
an energetic and conscientious official who
has been the victim OF calumny.
AS usual the truth undoubtedly lies be-
tween the two extremes. Those who know
DIR. Peters best say that he is not the mon
ster of cruelty which he has been pictured,
and on the other hand he undoubtedly made
many mistakes, to say the least. in dealing
with tho natives of Africa. He himself has
that he has had to contend with has been
the want of comprehension of the situation
In the colonies on the part of the great
mass of lis fellow countrymen.
The delicate point that the disciplinary
court had before it at the previous trial
of Dr. Peters was as to whether he had
exceeded his powers and had treated the
natives with unnecessary harshness. AS he
was dismissed from the colonial service the
court was evidently of the opinion that he
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-08
FRANCE AND GERMANY
Situation in Morocco Nearly a
Deadlock.
IMPERIAL LOAN A FAILURE
Colonial Efairs in Germany Widely
Discussed.
COMMENT On DR.. PETERS TRIAL
Government Restored His Title of I'M
perial Commissary-opposition to
British Activities in Africa.
aNTFNT On DR.. PETERS TRIAL

Special Cahccruu to The star
RrFI.TN. August s-The somewhat mys-
,err.,.- mission OF NJ Etieunc To Germany
.. g.y.r- l.-e to considerable amount OF
s,,---,sr.,, both in France and in Ger
NAVY An attempt was made when the
rois.. received Vi. FL, me to represent the
,,eatfrr as a mere commonplace act of po-
l,t,.,.s, toward a distinguished tourist pass
,,q ftrolsa klcl Hut when the interview
an t,lr.. tl, royal Yacht was followed up
tv q rnnf,rcr. 50 between NJ. Etienne and
tho t--p,rlsl chancellor at the W helm
strasse TIE ro'.ti al Importance of the m ct
ing l,.ar, easy to understand. 1t is not
dffl.al To- guess Ie=ardiag the subject of
IN. ,ar,y,rs,t .ous N. Etienne is the presi-
dent 10. t.. Frtacu committee of the parla-
r,ert OH Moroccan affairs. That alone is
sufficient ro al I,as, indicate the trend of
,t, DISCUSSIONS during 5 two impor ant
conferences. EEt In addition NJ. Etienne be-
longs .r t.at small "ut active group in the
Frsa,. chamber which occupied itself with
rolan.a. affairs. To tbs group belonged NJ.
Iel.ass,. NJ francois Deloncle and Prince
I4ra1hf.E They occupied in the chamber
a pos ton so1s, thing h the famous fourth
party M the British house Of commons.
As nearly as can b. ascarta:ned NJ.
Etitua. Was s-rt t. sound the German
government as. to what concessions il was
PREPARED = make-tOr a cCnstd ration. CT
cOurs-.a Morocco. The present situation
in Morocco is in reality pretty nearly
deadlock. Each If the powers practically
prevents tLr either from making any move.
and rta sultan generally plays one against
the other. Ruughiy speaking, it may be
said that already the entire Morocco I'M
hrog,io Las run tie gat1ut from tragedy to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-08
French Ambassador Aroused.

L IS reported here that NJ. Cambon, the
French ambassador in Berlin, is not any
TOO We'll pleased al NJ. Etienne's incursion
IN lis domains one story is that he jour
neyeG all 0. ,Ae way to Paris to tell NJ.
F."c1n So In Tie p,ainest of terms. 1t is
understood. however, that the matter has
ben snoJ.asa over and NJ. Cambon con-
NAt-4 ,aa; there was not the slightest in
ttti o. a-r-.g his feelings.
colonial affairs .u Germany really are the
order ~ 'ar DAY. N~thing Of the kind has
hee9 a. widely discussed in years as the
tlai 70. I1 Peters. Gen. Won Liebert, the
cs.3-.a. ln;s1Gr. even went so far as to de-
c1!T 10 garn court at Munich that the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-08
German Dreams Of Empire.

| other great explorers and men of action,
| he did not regard these things as cru
| eltieS-he regarded them as necessities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-08

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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-01-11
POINTED PARAGn1H..7o.

DO something for somebody Il: Il I'
It now.
Thinking we'll doesn't count Gn!e's
you act well.
Don't follow in the footsteps of your
competitors. Set the pace.
Life Is not worth living unless You
live for the good you can do.
There are times when an ounce of in
genuity discounts ton of energy.
The more sunshine there is in some
mems lives the less hay they make.
No man ever got Il pain in his back
from carrying his neighbours burden.
Many of our anticipated pleasures
are anything but pleasures after we
get them.
Some men are able to bear misfor-
tunes and some others have sense
enough to avoid them.
Only a mother can distinguish be-
tween the mischievousness Of her boy
and the badness of the boy next door.
Chicago News.