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wait for objections. but took over the
command as one in authority.
Think we can't do it? I'll show
you. Up on that tank, one of you,
and heave down the jacks and frogs.
Wen have her on the steel again be-
fore you can say your prayers"
AT the hearty command, churlish
reluctance vanished and everybody lent
willing hand. In two minutes the
crew of the Limited" knew it was
working under master. The frogs
were adjusted under the derailed
wheels. the jack-screws were braced to
lift and push with the incest accuracy,
and all was ready for the attempt to
back the engine in trial. But now the
engineer shook his head.
81 amt the artist to move her gently
enough with all that string o dinkeys
behind her." he said unhopefully.
"No?" said winton. Come up into
the cab with me and I'll show you how"
And he climbed to the drivers footboard
with the donbting engineer at his heels.
The reversing-lever went over with a
clang; the air whistled into the brakes:
and Winton began to case the throttle
open. The steam sang into the cylin-
ders. the huge machine trembling like
living thing under the hand of master.
Slowly and by almost imperceptible de-
grees the life of the pent-up boiler pow
er crept into the pistons and out through
the connecting-rods 20 the wheels. With
the first thrill Of the gripping tires Win
ton leaned from the window TO watch
the deraned trucks climb by half-inChes
up the inclined planes OF the frogs.
Al the critical instant. when the en-
tire weight Of the forward half Of the
engine was paiFinE for the drop upon the
rails. he gave the precise added impulse.
The big ten-wheeler courhed hoarsely
and sp7t fire; the driyinE-wheels made
quick half-turn backward. and q cheer
from the uulookers marked the little
triumph Of mind over matter.
Wintnn found Miss Carteret holding
his overeoat when he swung down from
the cab. and he fancied her enthusiasm
was tempered with something remotely
like embarrassment. But she suffered
him to walk back to the private car be-
side her: and in this sudden retreat from
the scene of action he missed hearing the
comments of his fellow-craftsmen.
you bet. he's no prentice" said the
fireman.
Not much," quoth the engineer.
Hes an all-'round artist, that's about
what he is. Shouldn't wonder If he was
the travelin' engineer for some road
back in Gods country"
"Travelin' nothing," said the con-
ductor. More likely he's a train mas
ter r p'raps a bigger boss than that.
Call in the flag. Jim. and We'll be get
ting a move"
oddly enough. the comment on Win
ton did not pause with the encomiums
of the train crew. when the Limited"
was once more rushing on its way
through the night. and Virginia and her
cousin were safely in the privacy OF their
state-room, Miss Carteret added her
word.
DO you know. Bessie, think II was
Mr.. Adams who scored this afternoon"
she said.
How SOP" inquired Ia petite Bisque,
who was too sleepy TO be overcurious.
Il think he took rise out of me, as
he puts It. Mr.. Winton is precisely all
the kinds of a man Mr.. Adams said he
wasn't"
The newspaper., 1907-02-22
Commercial. Printing.

OF every sort and kind prompt
ly turned out at this Office. Give
US a trial order We want to
prove that we can please you.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-26
News Of Congress HEIGHTS.

Rev. Willard G. Davenport. rector of tho
emmanuel Protestant Episcopal Parish. Of
nclated al the holy communion service
SUNDAY morning last in Esther Memorial
protestant Episcopal Chapel, Nichols ave-
nue. Alter the service there was meet
ing of the board of managers of the
chapel when the question of procuring the
services OF rector to have charge Of the
local PARISH was discussed. 1t was voted
TO authorize Mr.. Davenport to take such
steps as may be necessary in order to pro-
vide the chapel with a rector, who shall
reside in the town.
The Ladies' Guild associated with tho
Esther Memorial Protestant Chapel of Con-
gress Heights, held its last meeting at the
secretary, in Park place. Mrs. George
Blaine presided. There was a discussion
as to how the society might best assist
the managers of the Bell Winter Home for
Children. in Anacostia. and it was de-
cided that each member of the orsaniza-
ton should donate quantity of iellies and
preserves for the use of the home Mrs
NJ. j. Fillius and Mrs. a. r Grimes were
named as committee to visit the home.
The resignation of William NJ. Srich as
secretary OF the board of managers of the
Esther Memorial Protestant Episcopal
Chapel of this place was rendered at the
last meeting of the board was accepted
and Alfred T. Grimes was elected to hll
the vacancy.
The funeral of Olga V. Pennington, the
nington, occurred this afternoon. Rev H.
G. Spencer offcated. The interment was
in Congressional cemetery.
The announcement is made of the fourth
quarterly conference of the officary of the
Methodist Episcopal churches at Congress
Heights and at Oxon Hill. Prince George
county, Nd, which will take place Thurs
day evening next in The local edifce.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-26
Expenditures of Railways.

This table shows that the railways spent
over $SOOCO,O0O in the four states and ST.
81 600 in North Carolina furnishing new
and improved transportation facilities to the
people in four years. This is more than the
people of that state have spent for live
stock; it is fifteen times as much as they
have spent for farming implements and ma
chinery it is four times as much as they
have spent for municipal improvements, and
vet the legislature of North Carolina is
now PROPOSING to cut down passenger rates
to cents a mile. The committee on rail-
roads voted twelve to three in favor of such
a law, which, however, applies only to the
Atlantic Coast Line and the Southern rail-
way
I have not heard of any bill being intro
duced to reduce the price of steel rails or
ties or bridge timber, or the wages of rail-
road employees, which have recently been
increased 10 per cent on the entire Southern
system; nor is there any proposition to fix
the price of fuel or flour or lumber or
bricks. The only object of attack is the
railroads and that is for personal and po-
litical reasons. Every article of produce
every article of merchandise. everything
that is bought and sold in North Caro-
lima, has increased in price within the last
six years except railway passenger fares
and freight rates. Nevertheless they are
the only commodities whose price is now
being reduced by law, although there is no
complaint petition, memorial or other ap-
plication or suggestion before the legislature
for that purpose. The movement to reduce
fares is epidemic throughout the country
and 1t is due directly in many case to the
for members of the legislatures and other
politicians. These classes of people who
have been accustomed to ride free appear
to think that the railway managers are re-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-26
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-26

before admittance to the building is allow
ed. Thus provided the visitor drives to the
kiosk, in the neighborhood Of the Yildiz
Palace, there he is met by group of uni
formed officers, who examine him to see
that he carries no deadly weapons. Even
canes and umbrellas are not permissible in
the observation building.
Present Sultan Not Safe.
But even all these precautions" stated
the diplomat, may avail Abdul Hamid
nothing. They may have saved him so far,
and Of course that is something; but IL
anyone wishes to give his own head for that
of the sultan, assassination is not impossi-
BILE. What is not possible is flight after the
deed.
VERY soon there will be serious talk in
'egard to successor of Abdul Hamid. This
rumor, which has already reached the inn
perial Turkish ears, is not welcome music
The sultan is not willing to give that which
he fought so hard to get, and held at the
cost of many fears and suspicious"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-26
CATARRH GROWING LESS.
Due to the Use of Hyomei. Cures
Without Stomach Dosing.

Inquiry at the local drug stores shows that the
sale Of remedies for eatarrh has decreased very
much In the last year. Some medicines which
were formerly bought gross at time are now
purchased In halfdozen lots and are rarely called
for.
There Is one notable exception to this decrease
in sale, and that is Hyomei This remedy is, in
fact. responsible for the decrease In sale of
catsrrh medicines. 1t has made so many cures
OF catarrhal troubles that naturally there is much
less demand for remedies for that disease
People who have been trying different medicines
for catarrh during many years were induced to
begin the use OF HyOmei by Henry Evans and J.
o'Donnelrs guarantee that the remedy would cost
nothing unless cured Much to their surprise they
found that Hyomei did what 1t claimed Qf It did
not. Henry Evans and J. oDouuell could not sell
II under this guarantee and they soon become
ardent advocates OF the of Hyomei.
There Is disagreeable stomach dosing with
Hyomei; 1t is used by being breathed through
neat pocket inhaler. The complete outfit costs but
dollar, extra bottles. IL needed. fifty cents
With every Hyomei outfit Henry Evans and J.
O'Donnen give their personal guarantee that the
money will he refunded unless the treatment cures
% that you run 10 risk at all In buying this re-
iiable remedy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-26

passengers; in Ohio. New York and New
England, the ratio is one piece of baggage
to every twelve and fifteen passengers. The
report of the Interstate commerce commits
sion shows that the railways in the South
Atlantic states earn an average of S1.03 per
train mile, while the railways in the north
earn more than twice much. On the
Southern railway the highest earnings were
$l. 40 per train mile on the most remunera-
tive division Of the system. and the lowest
was eight cents per train mile on the least
remuneratve. At the same time it costs
more to run the profitable trains than it
does the Improbable ones. because on the
former 1t is necessary to have electric
lights, Pullman sleepers dining cars and all
the novelties and accessories Of the most
improved service which cost great deal OF
money. but are necessary to keep up COM
petition.
Rise in Cost of Materials.
Fares and freights have been continually
reduced during the last ten years while the
cost of everything used by railroads has
increased. Mr. Finley, president of the
Southern road, told me the other day that
since 1898 the principal items in the cost
of building and maintaining railroad had
increased follows:
Locomotives. from $11 1872 to $4,000 and
100000; passenger coaches. from $6,315 to
S9,46s; freight cars, from $500 to $765; coal
Se'iS, HUN Sooo " 9i, idDOT, per nile or
road, from 81 621 to s2,S74; bridge timber.
from 1875 to s2O.52 per 1000 feet; cross-ties,
from % to "a cents each; steel rails from
$17.75 to $2S ton.
The late Samuel Spencer, shortly before
his terrible death, made speech before the
Agricultural Society of Alabama, in which
he alluded to these matters and called at
tention to the fact that the taxes assessed
upon the Southern railway have increased
BAL per cent since 1895. and that the YER
nj in For. ftut,n
the road We're very much larger.
Coupled with these increased expenses"
Mr.. Spencer said, there has been a con-
slant reduction in rates. and today the per-
centage contributed by transportation rates
to the cost of whatever the people con-
sumo Is much smaller than ever before in
history, and smaller in America than in any
other country in the world"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-26
Leesburg and Vicinity.
1ecial Correspondence of The Star.

SpeclaI tOTftsilOnuthce OF Star.
LEESBURG. Va, February 26, 1907.
Mrs. Opheia Laycock. wife of Mr. James
Laycock of near Mt Gilead, Loudoun coun-
ty. died. after a short illness of grip. at her
home last Saturday. She was fifty-eight
years of age. Deceased was a daughter of
the late John Orrison of Hamilton. Her
husband and one daughter, Mrs. Oscar KEEP
hart. and one son, Mr.. Lee Laycock, sur
vive her.
Mr.. George D. Baker. a prominent citizen
of LOvettsvile. this county, died at his
home In that place Saturday, in the fifty
second year of his age. Death was due to
paralysis. He leaves wife and several
children.
The residence of Mr.. John Symonds on
the farm near Bluemont. this county, of
Mr.. James c. Hooe of Washington, d. c.,
caught fire last Friday and narrowly es-
capped complete destruction.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-26
POET ALDRICH ILL,
Friends Fear for His Life After Or
Grafton.

BOSTON. Mass. February 26-Thomas
Bailey Aldrich. the poet who for about a
month has been ill at the Homeopathic
Hospital, is reported to be in a serious
condition. Mrs Aldrich is in constant at
tendance at his bedside The poet is sew
enty years old.
Mr.. Aldrich was taken ill early in Feb
ruary and after few days was removed
to the hospital where he underwent a Sc
rious operation. For a time it was feared
he would not recover, but recently the doc
tors have been very hopeful
In order that she might be near her hls-
band night and day, Mrs. Aldrich left her
home. in Mount Vernon street, when her
husband was removed to the hospital two
weeks ago. and took up her residence in
an apartment adjoining that in which her
husband lies ILL.,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-26

Three persons were injured one very seri-
ously and many others were severely shak-
en- up in a collision of trains in the Cohasset
(Mass.) yards of the New York, New
Haven and Hartford railroad last night.
NJ N. Buchanan, a brakeman, was caught
between a locomotive and car and badly
hurt. He w2s taken to the hospital. A
young woman. who refused to give her
name. and Edward w. Arnold of Wey-
mouth, were cut about the head.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-26

David Breverty, a sixteen-year-old boy,
killed Frank opposite an Italian barber as
the result of a trivial quarrel in New York
yesterday. Breverty had two revolvers and
emptied both into the Italian.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-26
BRYAN
BEv i

MOT since the ardent days preceding the Civil
~ War have the people of this country been
u so aroused over public questions. Never
since those days of national life-or-death have
problems of such immediate personal concern
presented themselves to the people for solution.
Every man that earns dollar and every man
that spends dollar is interested in their settle.
ment. Interested because his rights and his
property affected; because the problems
touch both his patriotism and his pocketbook.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-26
The Presidents Response.


The President replied as follows:
MIR. Ambassador: l have the pleasure to
receive from your hands the letter whereby
his majesty. King Edward the Seventh, &C
credits you in the high capacity of his am
bassador to the United States of America.
The excellent relations which have so
long existed between the governments of
the United States and of Great Britain
offer a conspicuous assurance that IN
the fulfillment of the important mission
with which you are charged, you will find
agreeable the task of contributing to the
maintenance and strengthening of those
relations auSpiciously aided by the like
earnest desires on the part of this govern
ment and by the good will which happily
exists between the people of the two coun-
tries. The responsibility which rests upon
you in this regard rests no less upon the
officers of this government with whom you
will have intercourse. Our two countries
being inspired by the same cordial purposes
! doubt not that your mission will be as
successful as i trust it Will be agreeable to
YOU.
You come among us. Mr. Ambassador,
not as a stranger, but as one whom our
people know and esteem throug h long
previous acquaintance with your labors
a student of high destines of self governed
communities, and friend of moral and
social advancement in the paths trodden by
your country and by our own. The aims
of the Anglo-Saxon race, wherever estab-
isheu throughout the WORLD are AKIN IN
the furtherance of the great principle of
representative government, and of that
community of material interests whereby
the most complete stability individual de-
velopment and national prosperity may be
achieved. In coming among US you but
transfer your life WORK to new fields of
practical opportunities like those for which
You have labored earnestly and honorably
through useful lifetime. and I trust the
continuance of your efforts in the mission
TO which you are called will be as con-
genial To YOU as they acceptable to us.
For myself. Mr.. Ambassador. / bespeak
no less cordial welcome by our commun-
ity than your distinguished predecessors re-
Ccived.
Il beg you to convey TO your honored SOW
ereiSn my cordial wishes for his personal
welfare and for the prosperity of his coun-
try and people"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-26

sponsible for the anti-pass section of the
rate law enacted last summer, and in al
most every Legislature they are getting their
revenge without regard to any other con-
sideration than political capital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-26

II you want work read the want col-
umns of The Star.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-26
Increase in Southern Wealth.

The following table shows the various
forms of wealth in North Carolina. South
Carolina, Georgia and Florida. III 1900 and
in 1904, and the increase during that period,
according to the official returns of the CEN
sus bureau:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-26
MESSAGE UF THE KING
EXPRESSES WISH FOR LASTING
FRIENDSHIP.

When the new British ambassador was
presented yesterday afternoon he addressed
the President as follows:
Mr.. President: l have the honor, by
command of the king my august sovereign,
to deliver to you a letter accrediting me
as his ambassador to the United States of
America.
when he intrusted to me this high mis-
sion his majesty directed me to assure you
of his earnest wish that the cordial rela-
tons which happily exist between Great
Britain and the United States should be
maintained and strengthened: and has i'm
pressed upon me the duty of doing what
ever may be in my power for the attain
ment of this end.
NO one car be more sensible than 1 am
of the responsibility which such commits
sion imposes and however unequal to so
great a task L may feel myself to be, 1t
shall be my constant effort to discharge 1t
in the spirit which his majesty has indi-
Gated to me, and In which my three last
predecessors, all distinguished men and
true friends to the United States, sought
to fulfill their duties
1T has been my good fortune to have
been frequently in this country a pri-
vate traveller and student of its institu-
tons. to have been received in it with I'M
failing kindness, and TO have learned not
only to admire the untiring energy and the
intellectual ardor of Its inhabitants, but
also to appreciate their devotion to the
cause of moral and social progress and their
passionate desire to make the lives of the
people worthy of the material blessings
which Providence has bestowed upon them
with so bountiful a hand. Observing how
much they have in common with the nation
from which l come, and how similar are
many of the problems which lie before
each for solution. / am glad to believe
that each is and indeed must be. intf-
mately interested in the fortunes of the
other and that their reciprocal good Will
will be for the true benefit of both, and
indeed for the benefit of the world at large.
Il may perhaps be permitted to add that
in expressing my sincere respect for you
personally, i am expressing the sentiments
of my sovereign and of his subjects gen.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-11-15
One of the
Essentials

OF the happy homes of to-day is q
vast fund of information as to the
best methods of promoting health and
happiness and right living and know.
ledge Of the worlds best products.
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reasonable claims truthfully presented
and which have attained to world.
wide acceptance through the approval
of the Well-Informed of the World;
not of individuals only, but of the
many who have the happy faculty OF
selecting and obtaining the best the
world affords.
One of the products of that class,
of known component parts, an Ethical
remedy, approved by physicians and
commended by the Well-Informed of
the World as valuable and whole
some family laxative is the well-known
Syrup Of Figs and Elixir of Senna. To
get its beneficial effects always buy
the genuine, manufactured by the
California Fig Syrup Co., only, and
for sale by all leading druggists.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-11-15
why MIX Costs More.

why uAilk CObtb more.
Interesting statistics as to the cost
OF milk production are given by the
local milk dealers of a Massachusetts,
town In an announcement made of an
Increase In the retail price of milk to
seven cents quart during the winter
months. On this announcement we
find the following suggestive compari-
sons:
Twenty years ago mill feed cost $14
per ton; today SO per ton. Then cot
ton seed cost $18 per ton; today $34
per ton. Then, farm labor cost 500 per
month; today, $26 per month. Then
milch COWS cost $45 each; today, SOS
each. Formerly milk dealers outfit
consisted Of about 25 till cans, costing
about SIS. Today, for the same busi-
ness, 1t requires bottles, boxes, filters,
coolers, etc., costing $3.50. Our plumb
ing, carpenters repairs, blacksmithing
and other like expenses have increased
33 per cent. Added to the above are
the constantly increasing restrictions
Of state and local boards of health,
which undoubtedly improve the quality
of the milk, but at considerable in
crease in cost, which Increase has fallen
on the producer and dealer, when 1t
should be paid by the consumer"