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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-03
Remarkably Beautiful Pictures Free
with Elk Grove Butter Coupons 900 La. ave.
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Capt. Jay J. Morrow, assistant engineer
commissioner in charge of the District
highways, accompanied Representative Gill
lette chairman of the subcommittee of the
House committee on appropriations, on
tour of inspection about the city yester-
day. Mr.. Gillette was anxious to see the
various streets mentioned by the Commits
sioners in their annual estimates for i'm
prOVementS.
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While working at Havenners bakery last
evening about S:45 O'Clock Joseph H. JEFF
fries, forty-four years of age, who resides
at 1896 Wylie street northeast. had his left
hand caught In a roller. He received a
severe injury. He was taken to the Emer-
gency: Hospital for treatment.
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Office Rooms.

For rent-two very desirable o:icc
rooms in The Evening Star Building:
one exceptionally well lighted and suited
for artist; heat and janitor service in
cluded. Apply at Business Office.
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Southern Railway Company.

Notice to the Public.
Very many important changes in schedules
OF passenger trains will be made effective
Jan. 6, 1907. details OF which will be fur
nished later by publication in folders, ETC.
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Florida and the South

The "Southerns Palm Limited"
via Southern railway, resumes service IAN
uary Z, 1907. Pullman's finest equipment.
brilliantly electric lighted. Leave Washinp
ton 6:15 pm. week days.-Adyt
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Anacostia Branch Star Office

Charles G. Lohr's Printery, 25 Monroe
street, receives advertisements for The Star
at regular rates. The best help Is obtained
through The Star at l cent word
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Keep You Warm.
Purity Has ALWAYS Been the First

consideration in producing odd Glory beer.
Choice materials. careful brewing and thor
oush aging make it the most healthful dark
beer. For "ase phone Abner-Drury Brew. Co.
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Judge Mullownv Absent

Judge Alexander R. Mullowny of the
United States branch Of the Police Court
was absent from the city today on a visit
to sick friend near Annapolis In his abb
sence Justice Of the Peace L. l. O'Neal pre-
sided over the court
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-03

Hunton Leith, thirteen years of age,
whose home is on N street, was struck by
street car while in the vicinity Of 18th
and G streets about $50 o'clock yesterday.
He was slightly hurt. The injury was
dressed by the surgeons at the Emergency
Hospital
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CITY ITEMS.
A Resolution You'll Keep.

You won't break a resolution to use only
Jno. G. Meinberg's Bread. None other salts
fies, once the acquaintance of this delicious
loaf is made. Grocers. Bakery. ZIG 18th Sc.
1t
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Pies That Are Surprisingly Good.
Try Connecticut Pies when you want some
thing good to eat. All kinds. At grocers'.-
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Good, Comfortable Rooms

are always in demand. You will I'M
doubtedly find plenty of occupants IL you
advertise them IN The Star. Costs but l
cent per word.
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Notably Beautiful Floral Decorations.
When GUIDE has your order you can feel as
sured results will satisfy. 1914 F.-Advt.

Daughters Of Confederacy Election.
Announcement is made that the annual
state convention and election Of officers of
the District division of the United Daugh-
tiers of the Confederacy is to be held to-
morrow afternoon at / o'clock in Confed-
crate Veterans Hail. 1410 H street. It is
stated that none of the present officers IS
eligible for reelection.
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Intrust the Floral Decorations
to Shaffer, 14th & l, when you entertain.
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Choice Yellow Onions, zoe. PIX. /;

74c. bu. Potatoes, 69c. bu.; OTIS. Beans,
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Private Stock Whiskey, 75c. ct. Bot
In this kind Of weather bottle of Rye
in the house comes in handy. Order to.
day. Donnelly's, 14th and I SITS. Phone
M. 1885, 1t
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Exclusive Styles and Quality Work.

manship are distinguishing features of Owen
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Ice Cream That's Rich, Delicious.
c. & S. excellent Velvet Kind. Druggists
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Weschler,s, $40 Pa. Ave. N. W.,

a reliable place to dispose Of your surplus
furniture, etc, by auction. Next sale Sat
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Art Pictures Of Great Beauty Given
with Elk Grove Butter Coupons. 800 La. ave.
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For Steam Heaters,
Sudden Death.

Hard Egg Coal. ]. Maury Dove Company
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Selected Hard Egg Coal.
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v. Baldwin Johnson's Coal, Gig 9th St
auto Accident Starts a Romance.

None better White Ash 40 cents a ton O
for cash, city delivery.-Advt.
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Money to lend at 4, and en on real es-
tate. Frank T. Rawlings Co., 1906 Pa. ave-
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A Leap to Fame

TN the Smithsonian Institution at Washington
IS case containing stuffed cat. card
attached to the case, setting forth the reasons
why this particular feline is known to fame,
gives official sanction to tale that is in every
respect as remarkable as any emanating from
the nature takers. The story of the cat is as
follows:
Many years ago, while the Washington Monu-
ment was still in unfinished condition, an
adventurous and patriotic cat assembled the
interior of the shaft by means of the ropes and
scaffolding. When the workrnen arrived at
the upper landing the next morning and began
to prepare for the days work, the cat took
fright, and, springing to the outer edge, took
the leap of over five hundred feet to the hard
earth below.
In the descent, which was watched closely
by the workmen, the cat spread herself out
like a flying squirrel fell slowly and alighted
as cats always do, on all fours After turning
over on the soil few times, if dazed, she
prepared to leave the grounds. She had pro-
ceeded almost beyond the shadow of the
monument, when stray terrier pounced
upon and killed her.
One of the workmen rescued the remains of
the cat and turned them over to the Smith
sonian Institution, which caused the skin to
be mounted and placed under the glass case.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-29

doze in the sun. Ducks are always most ac-
tive during the night, and choose the day for
sleeping
But to return to the swan. Ii YOU find one
of these birds some distance from the water
and startle it, the swan will rush n few feet
toward the pond, and then drop down on the
ground and try to 60 through the motions of
swimming, apparently unable in its fright to
realize that it has not yet reached the water
Neither Is the common swan good fighter
The black swan, although one-ha1f its size is
invariably the victor in the combats which
are sometimes engaged in, and generally kills
its antagonist. The black swan usually pro-
vokes the fight too, for it is rather quarrel
some bird
The common mute swan (the latter is
the correct name) is really an English bird,
though it is better known, less rare and less
expensive than the three American breeds,
the whisting swan, the trumpeter, and the
whooping swan, named obviously for the pc
culiar note each sounds. American swans are
less common than the mutes, because of the
fact that they will not breed in captivity, and
also because they are being killed in great
numbers by hunters, especially by the Eskimos
during the breeding season, when the birds
fly far north. The swans mott early, before
the newly Matched birds are able to take care
of themselves, and it is a popularity of the
mott that all of the wing feathers drop off
almost at the same time, leaving the birds
helpless. While the swans are in this condition
the Eskimos slay them with clubs, and the
destruction of one pair of adult birds of course
means the death of nestful of little ones.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-29
Our Pulling Language

OF all modern languages, English is un-
~ doubtedly the most difficult to acquire.
In addition to the ordinary pitfalls of forms
and idioms that entrap the foreigner struggling
for mastery of a strange tongue there IS one
so peculiar to ours that nothing even remotely
similar presents itself in any other language,
whether ancient or modern.
This is the paradoxical word; the word which
has two meanings Numerically opposed to
each other. 1t is not enough that, with all
the wealth of words borrowed from half
score of other languages, we must impose a
double and often multiple burden on some
poor little, monosyllabic word like get"
for instance, whose meanings are legion. Our
language must needs confound the student at
the gates with the paradox. To give few
examples:
The word "let" means to ALLOW" or per
NIT and likewise to prevent" hinder"
or refuse" meanings Numerically opposite:
Il will let you do it in the former sense is
hardly more common in use than the phrase
without let or hindrance," and Shakespeare
has it, BY heaven! III make ghost OF him
that lets prevents me-"
"Cleave" means to split asunder, well
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-29
SENSE AND NONSENSE

as to "a,lhere" or bind closely Scott
makes Marmion threaten to cleave the Doug
las head while Holy Writ enjons upon the
husband to "cleave unto his wife"
Another example is lurid which means
both dull red and also pale green"
hue,-tints that are exactly opposed in the
scale of colors While the former is the more
common meaning, the latter is more scholarly
correct, as the word is derived through the
Latin from the Greek adjective meaning
"greenish hued."
Again we have fast" A horse that is
fast may be in rapid motion or standing
tied stockstill. In either sense whether Of
motion or immobility, the word emphasizes
the idea.
Examples of this bewildering pitfall of our
tongue might be multiplied indefinitely. 1t
may be said of the English speaking world as
it was said of the old Romans: that their
supremacy is due to the fact that they do
not have to learn their own language
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-29
The Chilly CONGRESSMAN

THERE is member of the House of Rep
resentatives whose manner is so habitu-
ally frigid that it has been declared it gives
one cold to shake hands with him.
One day Hemenway of Iowa observed to
Uncle Joe" Cannon that he thought the
man under discussion was certainly a cold
proposition.
Yes assented Cannon. why, l under
stand that it's the custom in this town when
you give that chap dinner party to ice the
claret to keep it at the same temperature as
the dining ROOM
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-29
A Guess and a Reckon

A YANKEE who visited my town of Tupelo,
Mississippi said Private" John Allen,
certainly got off good one at the expense of
one of our townsmen. The two had been dis
cussing the differences between the North
and the South, when the Mississippian OBJ
served:
well. after all, as near as can see there
isn't much difference between us and you,
except that we reckon" and you guess
True, answered the Yankee; but you
mustn't forget that we "guess" a blamed sight
better than you reckon '''''
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-29
Affecting Mortals

Women love dress because they enjoy the
admiration of men and the chagrin of other
women.
Life without love is a forest deep,
Where Songbirds never wake or sleep,
Where all is silence shadow gloom,
That makes of Life soulless tomb.
People who always are reaching out for
greater things rarely have sense enough to
grasp those at hand.
Girls,-'Tis better to have loved them all
Than never to have loved at all
\ woman may not reason; but she can rem
der decisions that would put supreme court
Justice out of business
Many women are like walking dolls with
phonograph attachments.
An ordinary mortal may try to represent
himself as an angel who CHANGED to alight on
the wrong perch.
When a man is rank failure he always
blames some woman; when he succeeds, he
forgets to.
1t would take an awful lot of soft soap and
silver sand to wash out some peoples pasts
If some people could not have their say,
they would either explode or choke.
When a man thinks that he understands
woman, he gets some awful jars
Some people go through life as if driven by
a blind bride.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-29
The Wrong Prescription

a WE'LL known physician was telling
friend of the humorous phases of the
practice of medicine, when he reminded
of the sad case of patient who came to him
suffering from hay fever
Now, it is fact" said the physician,
that in hay fever there is no absolutely in
fallible treatment. Sending one patient to
would not materialize in the case of another.
As rule | advise the one afflicted to take
sea trip. In this connection, l once encoun-
tered great surprise. A large, fine looking
fellow came to me one day suffering from hay
fever in it's most aggravated form. | made
the usual suggestion that he take trip at
He gave me look of disgust and prepared
to depart. 'Doggode i'd! he exclaimed, I'b
dee capdid of ad ocead lider. lib ad seal"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-29
Grandfather or Grandmother

a BREWER in Philadelphia says that one
morning he observed an unusually ex-
pansive smile on the face of the iovial German
who is foreman at the establishment. An in
teresting event had occurred at the house of
the foreman the night before
Il congratulate you, Hans smilingly said
the employer. "Of course the new arrival
is a wonder!"
"Of course it is!'' was the emphatic
reply. Dis baby ways more und fifdeen
bounds!''
Splendid! And is it a boy or a girl"
"Py golly!" he exclaimed in chagrin. In
der excitement l hat forgot to find out vedder
vos grandfather or a grandmother
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-29
Turning Sound Waves

ONE OF Uncle Sans" scientists at Wash
~ ington gives an interesting explanation
of the action of the wind in preventing the
spread of sound toward the direction from
which the wind comes.
1t is, he claims, not the wind, as SUCH that
prevents sound from travelling against it, but
differences in the strength of the wind. If,
for instance, the wind is stronger above than
below, stronger at one side, its effect will
be to tilt the sound waves in one direction
another.
Differences of temperature in the air also
cause detection of the waves of sound. Other
atmospheric causes exist which defect sound
from a straight course and prevent it from
going as far in certain directions as it may
have been expected to 60
Some of the sirens in this country, says the
scientist, produce sounds which ought, theo-
retically, to be audible at distance of fifteen
hundred miles, but in fact the authorities are
satisfied if they are heard only two miles
away. The reason for the discrepancy be-
tween calculation and experiment was prob
ably atmospheric detection of the sound.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-29
The Stupid Swan

TO the mind of the average farmer nothing
which walks on two legs is quite stupid
as hen. He is mistaken, though for there
still remains that beautiful, graceful nincom-
poop, the common swan The swan is so
stupid that it will stand in the shallow part of
pond and allow the water to freeze round its
legs till the ice is thick that it cannot lift
its feet and, it is stuck fast. Not infrequently
owners of these handsome but witless birds
compelled to chop away sufficient ice to
make it possible for them to withdraw their
imprisoned feet
The stupidity of the swan in this respect is
emphasized by the intelligence exhibited by
ornamental ducks when the weather turns
cold. As night comes on and the water begins
to freeze, the ducks begin swimming in wide,
well defined circle. Round and round they
go during the entire night, keeping all the
when the day dawns they can float about and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-29
When "Drammers Come Easy

A T the Players club in New York one
evening there was a guest from out of
town playwright we'll known for his extraor-
binary facility in turning out the alleged
"drammers" that do the ten-twenty-thirt.
circuits. 1t is no uncommon thing for this
producer to grind out five six of his plays
annually.
Some one innocently asked the playwright
if it was rather difficult to find new ideas for
his plays.
Really, don't know was the frank an
swer of the man who has made thousands of
dollars from his "drammers Il have never
tried it,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-29
Natures Puzzle Book

1t seems to me that | can see,
In looking DER the land,
OF things lot that am not
Prepared to understand
The rivers, though they've far to go,
Remain within their beds,
And, still more queer, their mouths appea
Much larger than their heads.
The corn has ears, yet never hears.
Its husky neighbours stalk;
A foot each hill possesses, still
1t never tries to walk.
To see, alas! mountain pass,
I've watched in vain a week;
And | have fears that mountaineers
Have never heard its peak
Though in the race for foremost place
The cabbage gets ahead,
The spick and span tomato can
Still ketchup, so It's said.
While all agree as one that the
Potatoes sweet and good,
1t never tries to dot its eyes,
As certainly it should.
Trees sage and tall, their heads with all
The higher branches stored,
I've known to get so much in debt
Their trunks were seized for board.
So as look through Natures book,
My mind but half perceives
Her puzzles all, though every fall
| watch her turn the leaves
-Nixon Waterman
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-29
Estates in Holland Are Castles in Spain

FROM time to time sharpers work upon the
credulity of people bearing old Dutch
family names by advertising that large estates
throughout the United States. In many in
stances organizations have been formed and
money pooled to prosecute claims Since
1873 the United States ministers and consus
at the Hague have several times published
reports denouncing all such estates as purely
imaginary.
They are myths, will-o' they isps, fakes
The Bank of Holland, in which the unclaimed
millions are alleged to be deposited, does not
exist. If any such ever had bona fide
existence, they escheated to the State fifty
years ago under the statute of limitations
passed by the Dutch Parliament in 1882 Ev-
cry dollar spent in reference to these estates
is so much money wasted.
They include the following, so called: The
"Anneke- Jams" the "Cronkheit, the Ivan
Cot" the Van Dussen," the Weber" the
Brandt" and the "Metzger."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-29
A Lady of Note

She was musical, quite so she made her a
gown
Of organdie, cleverly planned
With ACCORDION plaits running all up and
down,
And futed to beat the band.
She looked truly swell, and would frequently
harp
On being high toned and all that,
And of course to B natural, had to B sharp
Enough to abide in A fiat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-20

court be deposited with the treasurer daily, and that the other revenue pro- ducing departments deposit their receipts at least weekly, accompanying them with d report to the auditor of the sources from which received.
 That all moneys shall be paid out on regularly recorded and numbered vouch- CTS, approved by the auditor, and by war rant drawn on the treasurer; that the treasurer shall pay said warrant by check signed by him and countersigned by the auditor and duly registered by the treasurer before issued. Heretofore warrants did not reach the treasurer un- til returned by the bank, and inc had no knowledge of the actual bank balance ex- cept at the end of each month
 A daily report to the auditor by the treasurer of all money received and dis bursed and on what account, said report to be immediately verified by tine auditor from his records.
 All money received to be banked by the treasurer daily and the bank to furnish the auditor with a written notice each day of the amount of said deposit.
 system of uniform pay rolls, made out in triplicate the original constituting the auditors voucher, the duplicate the treas urers check register and the duplicate remaining Wltn the OIlBliihlliS uepdil- ment. Payment of all city employees except street gangs and common laborers to be made by pay roll check issued by the treasurer and of alternating colors by months to facilitate the balancing of the pay roll account in bank.
 The financial transactions of the board of education which have heretofore been carried on through other disbursing of- ficers, will hereafter all pass through the city books, the city auditor and city treasurer having at our suggestion been elected officers of this board. By this means every receipt and payment of every department of the city government will appear in the auditors and treasurer's report at the close of the year. and the method of handling the citys business will be uniform, except that the eXpendi- lures of the Board of Education will not require the approval of the Board of Mayor and Aldermen In this connection we desire to call attention to the fact that sub. section of section 166 of the city code prescribing the duties of the city auditor, provides that he shall act as pur- chasing agent of the Board of Education; this he has not done, and whether said ordinance Is in conflict with section 5 of