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The Washington times., 1908-07-27
BOLD THIEVES LOOT
CHURCH MONEY BOX
St. Mary's Entered and
Funds Collected for Sanctu-
airy Society Are Stolen.
WASHINGTON TINES BUREAU,
ALEXANDRIA. VA, JULY 2

A bold attempt at robbery was made
at St Mary's Catholic Church yester-
day afternoon after the vesper service
Thieves broke open the box used for
collecting money for the Sanctuary So
clcty and stole what money there was
In the box
1t IS not known what amount OF
money was IN the box. but IL Is thought
to have contained a considerable sum,
it not having been enptied for some
time.
About 40 O'Clock yesterday afternoon
the Rev. Father Kelly was in the
church baptising an infant He noticed
a strange man kreeling IN one Of the
pews IN the rear Of the church, but
thought nothing Of this. The man at
tended the vesper services at O'Clock
and remained in the church after the
congregation had left
About $50 o'clock Father Cutler, pass
ing through the church, noticed that
the Sanctuary Society box had been
pulled from the wall, and was lying on
tho church floor. An examination show
ca that the box had been forced open
and the contents rihed. Police head
quarters was notified and Chief Goods
made an examination Of the church,
but nothing else was discovered missing.
Il was announced today that the in
junction proceedings over the posses
h.on Of Armory Hall, which were 10
have been heard before Judge Barley
/ TINS week, had been postponed until the
September term OF the corporation
court. In the meantime the new mill
tary company viii remain in possession
OF Armory HAM
-
The steamer ST. Johns, which was on
her way up from Colonial Beach yes
I terday evening, ran aground near Mar
snail Hall. and was delayed reaching
night.
Capt James T. Webster. the veteran
cx-chief OF the Alexandria police de-
| Als daughters farm. across Hunting
creek chief Goods IS acting as clerk
OF the police court Ia his absence.
Thomas Farrell, colored. was before
Justice eaton. In the police court. this
morning charged with assaulting Mamie
Jackson also cOlored- He was fined SO
At the First Baptist Church yesterday
| the Rev. Richard r. Reidel OF Wash
ington, occupied the pulpit at all the
/ services.
4 ilN 2Ath- gDot sllA II CENleTs VIE ana
child. left Alexandria today TO spend
/ ten days at OCEAN City, Nd.
The funeral o: Samuel II. Dement,
was held from his sisters home. Mrs
I Charles H Steele. at 40 South Fair
fax street. yesterday afternoon, and
was largely attended The Rev Edgar
Z Carpenter, rector Of Grace Protestant
| Episcopal Church. conducted the funer-
! al services. and the burial was made
l in Bethel Cemetery. The pallbearers
/ were F. NJ. Hamilton, Y. J. Wilkinson.
Machen X HammNl. J. p. Steiner. z.
I G. Arnold, and .. W. Phillips.
] J. P I Petty. an employee at the Po-
| toEac yards, while working at the car
repair shops yesterday. was injured by
being struck in TIE back Mr. Petty
was removed 10 his hCme in Delray.
| Edward Burke and John Wells were
[ charged with vagranCv in the police
court today Justice Cation fined them
1 SO each.
The Washington times., 1908-07-27
STORMS IN ITALY
CAUSE MUCH LOSS
Bridges and Crops Destroyed by
Overlooking Rivers Genoa
Railroad Tied Up.

PIAONZA, Italy. July ZT.-NIuch dam
age has been done by storms Streams
have overlooked in this province sweep
ing away bridges and destroying crops
The Trebbia IS out OF its banks and
traffic on railroad lines at Bobbil and
Genoa is suspended.
The Washington times., 1908-07-27
PEABODY ADMITTED
AS THAW'S LAWYER
Takes Place of Graham in Appeal
From Habeas Corpus Proceed
ings Decision.

POUGHKEEPsIE. n. Y. July n
Justice Tompkins today granted an or
der for the substitution OF A Russell
Peabody as attorney in person in behalf
ot Harry Thaw. in place OF James
Graham, OF Newburgh, who conducted
Thaw's first habeas corpus case.
Justice Tompkins limits the substitu-
ton - the appeal from the decision OF
Justice AOrsChaUser. and does not elm
mate Graham from the list of Thaw's
attorneys
The Washington times., 1908-07-27
BOY PHARMACIST
STIRS Up INQUIRY
No Expert knowledge Re-
CURED Official Thinks
Law Wasn't Violated.

The Board Of Pharmacy Of the Dis
trict Will soon be called upon to deter
mine whether il is a violation Of the
law for a drug store proprietor to allow
small boys or anyone but a licensed
pharmacist to fill quinine capsules and
perform other such work in a drug
store.
Inspector Estes, who. with Inspec-
tor Saunders. has been at work on
Child-labOT Investigations in connection
with the granting Of work certificates,
is today looking into the case of the
fourteen-year-Old cOlOred boy wlo pre-
scented himself for a certificate and de-
clared that he performed all kinds Of
work IN "a pharmacy short Of filling
out liquid prescriptions.
The druggist who employs the boy de-
clared this TDUming that the permit
authorities had been given a wrong i'm
preston, and that outsida OF washing
soda glasses and wrestling with a floor
mop the boy is never SLOWED to do
anything but occasionally I'll capsules
with a prepared quinine compound
This, he says. requires no skill as no
mistake can be made To make the
capsules all that Is necessary is to fill
them with the compound and close them
up.
Inquiry Is Ordered
WSen the matter was reported 20
Commissioner mcfarland today he dl-
rected Mr. Estes 20 look into il
thoroughly and report tomorrow. The
boy might have given a false impress
sion. he said. but the question was a
serious one, and deserved investigation
Chairman Frank C. Henry. OF the
Board Of Pharmacy, said ais morning
that il the boys duties were confined
20 the filing Of capsules with a pre-
pared compound OF quinine OF anything
else there was no violation OF the phar-
macy law and no license as a registered
pharmacist was ueeled.
The matter has not yet been brought
20 my attention officially" said Mr.
Henry. but as soon as II IS I shall see
that It is looked ic,o. on the face Of
It, however, It does not seem to NE that
any druggist wOJ ID allow a fourteen
year-Old boy 10 90 any more than that.
Easy to Make Capsules.
i'Any boy with little practice can
make capsules and so long as the com
pound is all prepared by a registered
pharmacist 1 do not think there is any
violation Of the law. I am not sure
that one not a registered pharmacist
could not prepare compound II he
die It under the personal supervision
Of a pharmacist, although 1 am sure
no fourteen-year-Old boy would be al
lowed 70 do SO"
The boy presented himself before the
permit clerk at the Franklin School
Saturday, and informed him with all
mOdesty that he was employed I'm q
drug store and filled out powder pre-
Scri7tiOns and made up capsules lie
admitted somewhat reluctantly, that
some OF his other duties We're 20 wash
So1a glasses and wresLle with The nOOr
mop every morning.
rIe was not giveH permit, and VIII
rot until Com missioner mcfarland has
received Mr.. Estes report and passed
upon the matter.
The Washington times., 1908-07-27
THE CURB MARKET.

Quotations furnished BY E. F. Hutton q
Co. members New York Stock Exchange,
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The Washington times., 1908-07-27
PRICES FOR TODAY ON
NEW YORK EXCHANGE

CQuotationS furnished by W. 3. HIbbs &
Co.. bankers and brokers, Hibbs BuiF3ing
members New York Stock Exchange. Wash
inston Stock Exchange and Chicago Board Of
Tradel
The Washington times., 1908-07-27

7nero are q good many
house renters In shis city A
hundred Ct these vo7id maks
good tenants Cor that house q
yoUrs-ten Z this hundred az
reading tbs To Rent aAA.
every DAY nov.
The Washington times., 1908-07-27

The Rev. Joseph r. Sewer. wife and
child. left Alexandria today TO spend
ten days at OCEAN City, Nd.
The Washington times., 1908-07-27

J. P T Petty. an employee at the Po-
toIGac yards, while working at the car
repair shops yesterday. was injured by
being struck in TIE back Mr.. Petty
WAS removed 10 his home in Delray.
Edward Burke and John Wells were
charged with vagranCv in the police
court today Justice Cation fined them
SO each.
The Washington times., 1908-07-27

At the First Baptist Church yesterday
the Rev. Richard r Reidel. OF Wash
ington, occupied the pulpit at all the
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1908-09-17
Natures Law Of Justice.

We should carefully study the
laws of life for the same reason
that a ship should carry COM
pass. Most persons are merely
adrift upon a shoreless sea. No
chart marks destination, no rud-
der holds a course. They are at
the mercy of every adverse wind
that blows, and if they have made
a little progress when the twilight
falls at the end itis because they
have been borne onward by the
ceaseless tide of evolution, and not
because they have resolutely grasp
ed the opportunities for fair and
prosperous voyage that lies within
the reach Of every human being.
In order that we may avoid this
aimless drifting, with its wasted
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1908-09-17
81. Lawrence Island.

St. Lawrence Island. A sad in
cident took place here, and one I
shall never forget. We had learn
ed by this time that our captain
was perfect brute, but never ex-.
pected to witness such cruelty on
a ship that carried the stars and
stripes. The captain that day,
flushed with good luck in trading
and being half drunk, gave orders
that he would open the "slop-
chest" This is queer name, but
any sailor knows what it means
and as some of you do not l will
explain. Each of these ships is
supposed to carry enough clothing,
in fact everything sailor needs
and when I say the captain open
ed the ships slop-chest, it meant
that any one could draw such stuff
as he wanted. I was told by an
old whaler on board to keep out of
the slep- chest, as they always
charge double for what an article
is worth.
Well, some OF the boys took sew
eral articles and here is where the
trouble started. One of the sail
ors drew pair of WOODEN pants,
and he claimed another sailor stole
them. The captain called the one
accused of the theft on the after
deck and said: "You thief, I'll
learn you to steal" The captain
was drunk at the time. The man
claimed he never stole the pants,
and in fact it was learned later
that he never did. When he told
the skipper this, he struck the
sailor In the face knocking him
down. He then kicked him in the
face and ordered him to get up.
| He then told one of the mates to
get pair of cuffs, and after put
ting them on his wrists, he passed
a rope thru his arms and triced
him up to the rigging just leaving
his toes touching the deck. He
was left in that position forty-five
minutes. When he was let down
he fell to the deck. The captain
again kicked him in tn, face and
body, but the poor fellow did not
feel the kicks or hear the curses
that were flung at him. He had
tainted, and the sailors, thinking
| the captain had killed one of their
mates, resolved then and there to
have justice melted out to the one
who so cruelty treated their ship
mate. The captain seeing the sail
ors meant business, pulled two re-
volvers from his pocket and said
he would shoot the first man that
came on the after deck. We re-
fused to work the ship until we
ascertained the condition of our
shipmate. We carried him to the
forecastle and after working over
him for some time he finally came
to. From that time on he was al
most wreck.
While l have started this part
of the incident I will tell what be-
came of our shipmate and how the
captain got rid of him. A supply
ship is sent out from Frisco to fur
nish the ships with more provi-
sions before they go to the far
North, and we met the ship at
Teller City along about July. AT.
ter taking aboard all the goods
consigned to our ship the captain
sent the injured sailor aboard the
supply ship on some pretence-al-
SO another sailor whom he had
struck on the head with a pole'and
who lost his reason. As soon as
they were on the supply ship he
cut the ropes holding the two
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1908-09-17


energy and it's painful collisions.
we must know something of the
principles that govern this jour-
ney, something of the great oc-
cult law of cause and effect under
whose operation our existence can
be life of misery and gloom and
disaster, or life of light and love
and JOY.
If thereis one thing in this
world more certain than another
it is that We can make this Jour-
ney of life in pleasure or in pain;
amid helpful friends or surrounded
by relentless foes. We can travel
in comfort or in misery. We can
avoid suffering for ourselves and
bring happiness to others or we
can manufacture trouble for both.
We can act the part of the wise
man who makes the most of life,
or we can play the role of the
foolish and kick against the pricks.
In all the universe there can be
no such thing as chance. Nothing
merely happens. Every movement,
every expenditure of energy, every
thought, is governed by natural
law. Every cause must have
certain definite effect, modified, of
course, by all subsidiary causes.
There is no such thing as luck,
good or bad. Back of every piece
of good fortune lies the cause that
we ourselves have somewhere set
up, perhaps unconsciously, per.
haps in a previous life. Behind
every particle of i'll fortune like
wise lies the producing cause that
we ourselves have generated, We
make our sunshine and shadow,
health or disease, friends or foes,
heaven or hell. If a man really
reaps as he sows he has only him
self to blame If the harvest be
thistles instead of figs. 1t at once
becomes clear that misfortune can
no longer be called "the visitation
of God" and responsibility for
evil deeds conveniently charged
up to Satan. It makes man. just
what every manly man desires to
be, free and unfettered being too
fair to shirk responsibility and too
honest to be saved by proxy.
To have convincing proof that
we reap as we SOW, we need only
carefully observe the people about
us. We see that they are doing
this so far as causes can work out
in one life. We know that the man
who hates everybody is universal
ly disliked; that the person who
has good word for all lie himself
considerably treated; that, the
fighter is target for ,everybody's
vengeance while the man of peace
is free from assault.
Now, if thought is really the
source from which good or evil
fortune flows it is exceedingly i'm
portant that we know precisely
what thought is and how we may
direct it. Thought is force as :
certainly as electricity is force.
When We think we actually create
a thing, a thought-form. It per-
sists for length of time in pro-
portion to the intensity of the
thought. It gets renewed vitality
from each repetition of the
thought. It draws to itself strength
from similar thoughts of other
people, and it reacts upon the
mind that produced it, giving fun
Their impulse to that kind of think
ing. Thought force like all force
may be used for a good or a bad
purpose, just as electricity may be
used to light city or destroy a.
bu,nan 1;fo SO if uo fnrn this
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1908-09-17

island the government keeps a
large herd of reindeer, a school
house, and a missionary who has
charge Of the reindeer and most of
the schoolnouses on American pos
sessions. The minister refused to
allow the women on board, for he
we'll knew what they would be sub
mitted to.
The natives here were much
nicer dressed and had finer clothes
more Of the white mans style
than any other place we visited.
This speaks we'll for America. l
received many valuable trinkets at
this place, as the natives are taught
to make buttons from ivory and
many other things, such as knives,
forks, spoons, ink wells, pipes, etc.
Here the natives want money as
they have plenty of food The
captain did not stay long, and l
don't think he would have stopped
at all, only he had some goods on
board to be landed at the island.
He knew he could not cheat the
natives here or give away any
whiskey without being found out,
so for that reason his stay was
short.
Now [ will tell you how things
are run at this place. Each ma
tive family is given so many reln-
deer, I think 20 is the number, and
if the native is careful and trusty
all of the increase of the flock
comes to him each year and is his
own property. So you see in a
short while native may have a
herd of deer. A certain number
of the young are retained by the
government each year SO as to al
ways have a supply on hand. This
deer is the native food-and also
his horse, as it can be driven and
made to haul large loads where a
horse would be useless. The deer
in the winter time push the snow
away with their nose and pick the
moss from the ground, as this moss
is almost all they get to eat dur
ing the winter months. [ have
eaten more deer meat than any
man in this state. We used to
get it three times day, until a
piece of salt horse looked and tast-
ed like a lemon pie. Butt think
I could do justice to a few juicy
steaks about now.
After leaving the island we
cruised around again for a few
days. The reason for these de-
lays in not going direct to the
Arctic is because the ice does not
break sufficient to allow ship to
get thru along in the months of
June, July and August and the
whales during these months are
never seen. April, May, Septem-
Der and October are the months
for catching whales. For that rea-
son the captain was in no hurry to
90 farther north. We soon found
out that we were going to Cape
Nome, and every sailor on board
said that this was as far as they
would go, as we made up our
minds to jump ship at this place.
They were paying $500 day and
board all along the coast and could
not get men enough. Later on l
will tell you how we planned to
escape and how we tried and were
brought back and the. penalty we
paid for attempting to leave.
/. By A WHALER.
A - a0
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1908-09-17
SIDE LIGHTS 81 ): =:


worry does.
speech is silver silence is
golden" Around here especially.
Thomas Jefferson's slogan is in
vogue here: Equal rights for all
special privileges to none."
When an oficeholder loses his
Job he generally withers all around
and sinks into nothingness- or
less.
The inmate plumber has been
here for 81 years. No wonder he
can't succeed on the outside-he
has never learned how to charge.
"What the hell, Bill! will be in
vogue for the next four years as
either Taft or Bryan is sure to be
elected.
A fellow in the print shop says,
"don't use the word sentence so Of
ten. Use the word line. That word
sentence doesn't sound good to
me-" Now what do you think OF
that?
How would you like to be an
Esquimau? They say the Esqui-
maux do not care for money. Mel
Their does John D. Rockefeller.
But it comes to him just the same.
Every now and then we read in
this paper of some graduate on pa
role returning to this institution
voluntarily. Those fellows evil
IDENTIFY do not like the "Rain-in-
the-Face" business in the outer
world.
1 was asked by one of the cubs
the other day if printers rollers
ought to be washed. | said, "yes,
but printers towels, never" &C
cording to Mark Twain. A print
ers' towel is not printers towel
until it is black enough and stiff
enough to stab an ox-accordlng
to Mark.
One of the lady visitors passing
thru the sanctum sanctorum or
holy of holes as informed by the
usher, "this is the printing office"
"Oh, yes" she replied, 81 know.
This is where they stick type to-
gether with glue" Wise beyond
her years.
II would rather be the conserva-
tor of the nations health than it's
ruler" says Professor Bunyon. l
would rather grind out few
laughs and little sunshine for the
nearly TOO inhabitants Of this 81
lent city than be in the shoes of
some mulumillionaires and others
/ know.
"What proGteth it man if he
gain the whole world and lose his
own soul?" What goods mans
stomach if he can't use it to digest
his necessary food? Anyway Adolf
plus Busch the great brewer used
to say, whats the use of having
too much money? An average man
cannot drink more than 100 glass
els of beer a day" Sure enough!
Another pleasant one: A young
man temporarily residing here
dreamed his lady love came to him
in an airship and said: Il am 60
ing to take you away from here,
dearie." "How,?" he inquired.
"Why, 1 am going to wrap you up
in my handkerchief and carry you
away,"-she quickly replied-and
then he woke up. Too bad-too
bad.
It is reported an inmate said:
"Please poiut out to me the fat fell
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1908-09-17
BY s. A. P.

It's only an Ansonia-
But it's very sweetonia
To a chap in hook.
Tom Reed used to say, "a states
man is a. dead politician" Will
some one define a politician-one
of those iridescent dreamers who
can see the White House in his
pathway as soon as he is elected
to petty office?
Many subjects being "tabu"
here as Ebert Hubbard says, an
omission Of redhot stuff on the
living issues of the day will be
pardoned-(sounds good herea-
bouts )-tolerated-at any rate. If
this paragraph goes in you will
know all about it-and if it does
not you will know nothing about
ito use an Irish bull.
One pal asked another recently,
whats the first thing you are 60
ing to do when you get out?" sect
an oyster stew and eat pound of
butter" he replied. ooh, pshaw,"
said the other, "I'm going to have
ten stacks of wheat cakes and a
case of beer" And still another
chimed in and said, Il am going to
take a bath in few bottles of
champagne" but the last chap
''makes" money with very little ef-
fort-but all three promised they
would never come back here again
unlike the Ohio State
Penitentiary this institution has
no public restaurants for private
guests who have the means to buy
their own grub.
Several years ago [ met the mo-
ther-in-Iaw of Rudyard Kipling-a
Vermont lady. She gave me quite
a good insight into her famous
son-in. laws method and manner of
personal conduct. Among other
things she said: "Until Mr.. Kip
ling married my daughter he prac-
tically amounted to nothing. Now
he is wealthy. Mr.. kipling never
realized the commercial value of
his literary productions and sold
his best stuff for mere song-un-
til he married my daughter-(em-
phasis on the two last words, of
course.) She is his banker and
looks after his business interests.
When Mr.. Kipling has outlined in
his mind the frame work Of nov
ell or a poem he locks himself up
in an apartment. for weeks or
months as the case may be. No
one is allowed to enter his abode
NOT even his wife or children
while he is at work. His meals
are brought to him and showed
thru sliding panel in door.
When he has finished he raps and
the maid comes and removes the
debris. He is kept supplied with
plenty of tobacco and fresh briar
wood pipes. When he is done
with the work in hand he unlocks
the door to his apartment, comes
out, hands the manuscript to his
wife, who looks it over and then
arranges with the publishers for
its production and the. royalties to
be paid. Kipling goes back to his
den and starts in on something
else-or he may take q trip to In
dis, Africa or America: He takes
care of his apartment and the only
small vice he INDUCES in is that
Of smoking a pipe, but he is prob
ably the worst fend at that known
among literary men,. His mother
ln-law says that ordinarily $500
in pocket money will last Kipling
for a year as his wife pays all of
hia hills for snatananca and care