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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-01
POTOMAC RIVER BOATS.

THE STEAMERS OF THE MARYLAND, DEL
aware and Virginia Railway Co.. commencing
Sept. 2, will make three trips weekly between
Washington and Baltimore, weather permitting.
The passenger accommodations are UNSURPASSED
By any on the Chesapeake Bay or tributaries
They are electrically lighted and the cuisine 10
perfect. Steamers leave Washington every Sun.
day. Tuesday and Thursday at pm. and Bal.
timore every Tuesday. Thursday and Saturday
at 8 pm. Time Of trip. about SO hours. Fare,
$3.50. Staterooms. $l.50. Meals. 5Oc and 75c.
staterooms and further Information apply to
STEPHENSON & BRO, Agents.
Telephone Main 745. 7th street wharf.
T. MURDOCH. Gen Pass. Agt.. Baltimore. Nd.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-01

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WASHINGTON & POTOMAC STEAMBOAT CO.
randall Line)
STEAMERS FOR POTOMAC RIVER LANDINGS
pm, and Saturday, 7 am, for river landings
to wicomico river and Nomini creek landings.
Lower MaCbodoc creek Monday and Wednesday
only. Returning, steamer arrives In Washington
Wednesday and Friday mornings and Sunday
Afternoons
Steamer Wakefield, Sunday. Tuesday and Thurs
day at I am, for river landings, including Grin
ders wharf. Port Tobacco creek and Maddox
creek Returning arrive In Washington Monday.
Wednesday and Friday afternoons. nol6-tf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-14

and still more to the growing children, for the plan gives them that much more opportunity to enjoy the sun light. It is well ascertained that chil- dren who live in four-roomed houses are larger and heavier than children that live in two-roomed houses, and it will be ascertained after a while that all who have for recreation purposes 210 extra daylight hours are healthier and happier than those who are forced to work according to an arbitrary al- manac schedule.
 England herself Is considering the adoption of the plan of her two colo nies, and perhaps after while the daylight reform may spread to this country. New South Wales and Cape Colony have found no serious difficult ties in the application of moyeable working hours, even when extended to the railroads and to all contractual dates.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-14
Close oi inc Baseball Season

The favorite national outdoor sport will be brought to close in this city oday, and if the home team should win the two games it is to play today will close the season at the head of he second division. This, of course, $ not so good a place as the head of he first division but no one team ,eed expect to monopolize the place hat Birmingham won by consistent md persistent playing last year. There really no occasion for grumbling ver the outcome, especially if we sue .eed in securing the top place in the Iecond division.
 The mistakes internal and external If the present season need not concern IS. for tomorrow we will put them be- lind us. Manager Vaughn and the lome association need not he troubled " the past. It is their duty to look head to the next season, and to be-. ,in to equip themselves for it and to teep up the lick to the opening day iext April.
 This town loves the national game, put in order to bring that love to the oox office it is necessary to get to- rether a frst-division team-a team, hat Is to say, which will not for day irop to the second division. It is easier to call for such team than to 70 out and secure 1t, especially when ve must give up Pitcher Wilhelm and ,tart anew. However, we have a man iger of ripe experience, wide acouaint- lnce and a deep knowledge of the yame and all its peculiarities. He can 70 out to a wide country full of base ,all players, and get winning team ind this is what Birmingham expects dm to do.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-14
Piu Iron Production

The falling off In iron production Tn August was 36,773 tons. The product of August aggregated that much less han Julys. Fewer stacks were in ,last, and the output was decreased, although it was a month of 31 days. September has but 30 days, and the loss of a single day means decrease In the months total of about 10000 .ons.
 Alabama did well in August, how ever We had thirrty-one stacks in blast in August, and out of them was poured in that month 144,949 tons, as against 137,1s tons in the previous month. But this district stands al- most alone in the table of gains.
 Despite the increased production his district was outranked In August by New York, which is camping on sur trail. New York made last month l50,9S5 tons, and we made but 144,949. No doubt the figures for the year will ,ut this district below New York We will then be outranked by Pennsy- Tania, Ohio, Illinois and New York, lrd when Gary gets into full operation NC will have to bow to Indiana and be content with sixth place.
 But all the producing states will loon appreciate that this district has come to stay The drill of the scien- fife engineer demonstrates that the team of iron ore in Shades valley is practically inexhaustible-tha we will iave almost incalculable quantities of after the Mesabi and Vermilllon 'anges have been exhausted. The per nanency of production in this district it's strong point.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-14
The EpIsoopal conventlon.

"The general convention of the Epis copal church of the United States, which meets in Richmond next month, will be largely attended and will be of great interest" said the Rev. pr. w.. F. Evans. rector of the Church of the Advent, who heads the Alabama dele gation to the convention. "rhe general convention Is the legislative body of our church. It meets every three years, the last meeting having been held in Bos- ton. One can never tell in advance what will be done In the way of legis- lation, but among the interesting mat ters that will be considered will be the excision of the Thirty mine Articles from the Book of Common Prayer, the creation of colored bishops, the estab- lishment of provinces and the canon on divorce. Referring to the Thirty nine Articles, the Rev. Dr. William R. Hunt ington, the distinguished rector of Grace church, New York. has written Tract 91' in which he discusses the articles from an American viewpoint He favors dropping them from the Prayer Book
 "The convention will open on Octo- Der 2 and the opening sermon will be delivered by the Right Rev. Bishop of London, Dr. Ingram, who comes as visitor to the Episcopal church of the United States. There will be over 100 bishops in attendance"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-14
WANT MANSFlElD'S PLAYs

From the New York Telegraph.
 Having respectfully restrained them selves until after the body of Richard Mansfield was laid away. A horde of man agers, actors, and playbrokers yesterday oes'eged Mrs. Mansfield with offers to purchase the distinguished actors plays costumes and scenery.
 The brokers were the most inslstent and well they may be, for several of Mr MansfieldS most successful plays haye never been released to stock companies and their value has been estimated as high as s25o,ooo. To be sure. this assess ment Is gross exaggeration but that Beau Brummel." "A Parisian Romance and others of the more popular plays in the Mansfield repertoire will yet bring In large sums Is never to be doubted.
 The actors seeking rights to certain plays along with their equipment have a poorly concealed notion that with MT. Mansfields tools of trade they may slip easily Into his shoes, forgetting that it was his intellect that counted far more than the skill of his armorers and scenic artists. Nearly every splinter and thread of the material investiture of MT. Mans fields repertoire has value to any pro- ducer of serious plays, and for that req son propositions are pouring in from them.
 Mrs. Mansfield will arrive in New York tomorrow, and then for the first time she and her attorneys will consider the numerous offers laid before them. The rivalry among the playbrokers is keen and is likely to become bitter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-14
ODD LONDON STREET NAMES.

From Cassells Saturday Journal.
 Those who know the city of London have probably at times been puzzled by the curious names borne by some of it's localities. An antiquary thus explained a few of these: "St. Margaret Pattens has no reference to footwear. The 'pattens' is a corruption of patines, the plates used for the consecrated bread. St. Mary Woolnoth took it's name from the wool market which once stood near it, 'noth being the old form of nigh. St. Mary Axe popularly pronounced Sim mery Axe gained it's name from the fact that a house with the sign of an ax once stood in the street 'Crutched F'riars,' does not, as one might suppose, refer to crip- pied monks. It merely commemorates the cross worn by an order of friars who were known as "crossed' friars-'crossed in course of time becoming 'crutched Threadneedle street was originally Thres Needle street, from a house bearing the sign of the Three Needless Bread street was once the only street where bread was sold, while Friday street was the resort of fishmongers, who provided the Friday diet of our pious ancestors .n
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-14
nue Respect for the States

In discussing the policy of the Penn sylvania railroad in fighting a 2-cent act the Springfield Republican finds much to commend There is no clash of state and federal authority in Penn sy1vania, for the Pennsylvania com pany elected to bring suit in the state courts. How much better" adds the Republican, this procedure is, as com pared with the course taken by the railroads in Virginia, in North Caro- lima, in Alabama, in Minnesota and in Missouri, every one ought to recog- nize. The superior propriety of the Pennsylyania's course from a strictly legal standpoint must also be conceded. It is a state law which Is in question. It is law applying to railroad busi- ness wholly within a state. State con stitutions as well as the federal consti- tuition undertake to afford protection to the rights of property, and if they did not the state courts are competent to entertain cases raising a question of the validity of a state statute under the federal constitutional provision that states shall not deprive persons of their property without due process of law"
 The Republican sums up the situa- tion in all the states when it says: Let us have from railroad and all other large corporations more respect for the state courts and the state au- thority and state disposition to do jus tice. The Pennsylvania Railroad com pany has set good example. To ap- peal in the first instance to federal tribunal on a question of state law as affecting business within the state is to insult the state and cultivate a hos tility of local sentiment which can never be to the advantage of the rail road or other corporation In that state"
 Pending an appeal to the state su- preme court of the recent decision in a Philadelphia local court in favor of the railroad the railroad in question proposes to put in operation a flat 9 cent rate. Common sense clearly has the upper hand in Pennsylvania, and a better feeling between the railroads and the people in that state is already apparent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-14
COURAGEOUS coWARps.
Famous Men Whose Hearts Failed
 Them in Their First Battle.
From the Boston Globe.

From the Boston Globe.
 It was fortunate for Frederick the Great that he was not under the com mand of General Bingham. the police commissioner of New York. If, instead of a prince, he had been "one of tine finest" he surely would have lost his badge and been kicked off the force, snar- ing the hard fate of the policeman who was degraded last week for fleeing from man with a smoking revolver
 Frederick never would have received a second chance after his celebrated funk at Molwltz. It would have been all over with him when he fled from that first bat tie. There was no door for him to get be- hind, as there was for the terror stricken patrolman, and so he spurred his horse till he was miles and miles from the frightful scene, where he had abandoned his army and sought safety In flight. Late at night he was found covering In an old mill and his humiliation was only deep ened when he learned that his troops had stood their ground and that he had fled from field of victory.
 Frederick, however. was King, and there was no one to strip him of his badge. If he had been a private soldier he would have been shot in those times. As 1t was he lived to fight another day, and to glorlfy the whole race of towards by nls daring in many a battle.
 Few soldiers with courage enough to tell the truth, will deny that they longed to run from their first encounter with a Mo ha achn nd fn confess that he is in the same class with Grant.
 That general, In his plain, unvarnished tale, his Personal Memoirs" says very simply and frankly, My sensations as we approached what I supposed might be a field of battle were anything but agree able" That was at the outset of his civil war career He had, 1t Is true. been in many engagements in Mexico; but now he was in command and he confesses: 1 would have given anything then to have been back in Illinois"
 Nevertheless he did not turn and run like Frederick. Mo- but he modestly says that he did not flee because "l had not the moral courage to halt and consider what to do; I kept right on" In the end he learned valuable lesson. He found that the enemy had fled before him, and then it occurred to me that Harris (the Confederate commander) had been as much afraid of me as l had been of hi,n. This was a view of the question hao never taken before; but 1t was one never forgot afterwards From that event sto the close of the war l never eXperl- enced trepidation upon confronting the enemy. though 1 always felt more or less anxiety" ,,,-
 Lighthouse Harry Lee Is another soldier who had to acquire his courage by ex- perience, for in the early part of the rev olution Washington was moved to com mend him by chilling irony for his pru- dence." His hot retort was, T shall un- dertake to show you, sir, that possess no more of that cowardly virtue than you 1ourself." And no schoolboy today LOOKS upon Lighthouse Harry as model or prudence or caution.
 Fear in itself is not shametul tnihs' but it is shameful to yield to It. Napoleon was afraid of a mouse, but he had the courage to face Europe armed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-14
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Talladeua County,

M. H. Crittenden has just returned from Talladega Springs, where he has been spending month with his family, who are there for the summer. Said he:
 T do not understand why our Bir mingham people insist upon going out of the state for rest, recreation, cool breezes and pure, health giving waters every year. We have them all right here at our very doors. Taladega Springs Is famous health resort. and there are more like unto it in Alabama, We ought to patronize our own state institutions in every way possible and encourage them in their efforts to build up.
 'Talladega county is in excellent con dition. The farmers over there are prosperous and strong, and the crops this year are accounted an average, while they tell me that the people who make the em are less in debt than they have been since the war"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-14
AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS.
List That Shows the Penalties of Care
 Iessness.
New York Times.

From the New York Times.
 There is rot much of exaggeration In saying that the lists of automooil seel- dents printed yesterday and today as the records of Sunday and Monday are appall- ing. It Is not to be supposed that Sun days list. for instance was anything like comnlete as to injuries, however. 1t may have been as to fatalities, and yet the brief narratives filled two whole columns of our space.
 Carefully examined, they showed pc culiarity to which we have already called attention more than once.s once in sin gle instance was the accident due to failure of any part of the machine to function properly, and even in that case the breaking of a steering gear-t Is probable that expert examination made before starting out would have revealed plaLrly the need of repairing or replac- ing this most vital part of the car that later ran away and killed It's titled owner. Every other one of the disasters had the sufficient explanation either of recklessness or of carelessness-if there be any difference between the two.
 One chauffeur raced freight train to a grade CrOSSing-anu lOSt, SecOn1 rushed at full speed along an unknown road and went over an embankment at an abrupt turn; third ignored the fact that when trolley cars stop somebody is likely to step out from behind them, and so killed d child; a fourth failed to notice the red light over an excavation a fifth dashed at the rate of forty miles an hour into pocket made by three carriages and a sixth thought he had time to cross between two trolley cars before they passed each other. only to discover that the time was considerably too brief.
 And these are all called "automobile accidents!' They, are, on the contrary, the natural and inevitable results of an obstinate or stupid refusal to do or to refrain from doing things that, done or not done, would make automobiling at least as safe as any other way of getting over the ground at much more than half the speed which is entirely reasonable for a motor car under skilled and careful control.
 At the root of the trouble is the incom- potency of chauffeurs, amateur and pro- fessional. The automobile is an extreme ly complicated and powerful machine, with all the faults of it's good qualities. or, to put the fact accurately, with every one of Its enormous possibilities suscep- tible to misuse The temptation to ex- cessive speed is always there. but for those who can resist it the dangers of automobiling are, or with knowledge can be made, almost nothing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-14
Cannot Buy School Books.

"In this day of increased demand for more and better schools for our children, would it not be well for those in author ity to investigate the manner in which school books are furnished" asked man from Cordova last night.
 "As I understand 1t, there is a law now in effect which denies all save one firm in each town the right to sell school books that a contract Is made by this one firm to furnish the books at stipulated prices, and that 1t Is unlawful for them to sell books to people of another town where there is a contract holder What are children to do when tho agent in their town hasn't the necessary books and makes no effort to supply them? Must our children miss few weeks of school. while awaiting their convenience? School books can't be bought in our town-our agent has not yet received his yearly supply and both myself and one or my neighbors have made a trip to Birming- ham to try to get them. Both received the same reply there: We can't sell school books to you And our children are unable to go to school for that req son.
 What justice is there to the taxpayer In a regulation of the sale of school books, when that regulation absolutely re- fuses him the right to buy? What benefit are better schools to us if we can't buy the books necessary for our children to have that they may attend? It seems to me that our lawmakers have under stepped themselves. The same law that gives firm the exclusive right to rur- nish school books in its district should also carry a penalty for failure to sup ply It is less an injustice to us than to our children. It is for us to see that all school laws that do not benefit them are repealed"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-14
UtiIizinu Daylight Hours

In New South Wales and Cape Col eny a way has been devised to make .he most of the daylight hours which summer brings and to give to workers more hours of play. This is accom-. olished by means of changes in the rorkday. Tn April the clock is set lhead twenty minutes on each of its bur Sundays. In September the clock lands are put back in like manner. What is the net result? The factory he bank, the store, the household, is ,tarted earlier, and all work is out of he way that much earlier in the even ng. There is a gain of play time in he summer months of 210 daylight ,ours in the warm months.
 This means a great deal to adults.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-14
LONDON BRIDGE.

By Frederic Edward Weatherly. Proud and lowly, beggar and lord, Over the bridge they go; Rags and velvet, letter and sword Poverty, pomp and woe. Laughing weeping, hurrying ever, Hour by hour they crowd along While. below, the mighty river Sings them all mocking song
 Hurry along,
 Sorrow and song,
 All is vanity meath the sun;
 Velvet and rags,
 So the world wags,
 Until the river no more shall run.  Dainty, painted powdered and gay. Rolleth my lady by; Rags-and-tatters, over the way. Carries a heart as high. Flowers and dreams from country mea- dows, Dust and din through city skies, Old men creeping with their shadows, Children with their sunny eyes
 Hurry along
 Sorrow and song,
 All is vanity meath the sun;
 Velvet and rags,
 So the world Wass,
 Until the river no more shall run. Storm and sunshine. peace and strife, Over the bridge they go; Floating on in the tide of life, Whither no man shall know, Who will miss them there tomorrow, Waifs that drift to the shade or suni' Gone away with their songs and sorrowi Only the river still flows on.
 Hurry along,
 Sorrow and song. All is vanity meath the sun,
 Velvet and rags,
 So the world wags.
 Until the river no more shall run
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-14
Quick Transit,

All obseryant people are interested m transatlantic ship speed" said a man in the lobby, "and are talking much to- night about the record smashing of the new ship Lustana, but l doubt if one man in two knows what a knot Is as compared with a land mile. There Is 800 feet greater distance in a knot than in a mile, so you must allow this 800 feet to every knot made by the new ship, and you will get a real landsman's idea of the rapid flight across the Atlantic.
 The ship being new could not do her best work on the first voyage. Being somewhat familiar with the seamanship. I am sure that five days is now to be tho fixed time between Queenstown and New York, and the time will be shortened yet under the inventive genius of this very century,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-14
EXPLANATIONS OF GREAT MEN.

From the Kansas City Journal
 Very heavy are the burdens of some of the high offices In Great Britain and leaders have been driven to curious methods to prevent breakdowns. When Robert Lowe was chancellor of the exchequer he laid down ninety feet of asphalt and got himself pair of roller skates. That was his method of master ing a liver and the fatigues of office Earl Spencer, when in Ireland during the darkest days of his office, found rid ing fast and far the one thing to re- lleve his spirits of gloom. Gladstone cut down the trees and translated the clas- ses Lord Randolph Churchill went racing