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diet. with morphine and chlorai lot
relishes, and laudanum to wash IT down.
l am going to stop my subscription 10
this sheet as soon as ! get down town.
and read the Supreme Court reports py
preference of an evening hereafter
Anything particular on tonight !
asked.
Worse than ever replied my srouchy
friend. disgustedly II can't pick up
paper nowadays without reading dope
story about some poor but honest youth
who started on Monday morning with a
red. white and blue patch in the seat OF
his trousers and four cents In smali
change concealed on his person ana
wound up Saturday night of the same
week with a fur-lined overcoat and mil
lion in the bank. 1t makes me III
That's a very slight eXaggeration, too.
Last Monday the first thing ] saw when
I unfolded' my paper was yarn about
one of these heroes. who ought 10 stay
where they belong. between the covers Oh
a bunch Of fiction. properly adver'l sec
as such. This particular youth had
started out shining shoes in front OF a
bank. The rest of 1t is the same old story.
One day a depositor who had been III the
bank to draw out little cigarette money
dropped couple of hundred thousano on
the front steps Bootback picked it up
and galloped with it into the institution.
The president fell on his neck and wept-
of course, gave him fine job-and now
he owns the bank.
And the very next day. continued
my grouchy friend, getting grouchier
every minute, there was another. This
time it was the old familiar newsboy.
Father dead, mother in the hospital no
fire in the house, and seventeen small
children crying for food. NeWsooy went
out barefooted the day before Christmas.
got a bunch OF newspapers on credit and
stood in a couple of feet of snow trying
to sell them. Man dashes up and takes
paper throws the boy $40 gold piece
instead of penny-they look SO much
alike-and hurries along. Does that young
hopeful annex the twenty and scoot for
home to fill up the seventeen starving
brothers and sisters he left there? Not
on your life. He CLUES himself to the
corner until the next morning. when the
same man drifts along again. Then he
produces the bunch of coin. cuts loose
with a fine line of weeps and tells his
story. Man happens to be a magnate, one
Of those millionairish magnates. He
clutches the boy to his bosom of his Chin
with the seventeen brothers and sisters.
Newsboy now worth twenty-seven mil
lions, guessing low.
Ny grouchy friend seemed overcome.
But after clearing his throat and shaking
his head resignedly. he started In again:
Next day." said he, there was an
other This time it was the poor but
proud country lad. tastefully clad in blue
jeans and a solitary gallus. He came to
the busting city to clear off the mortgage
on the old place. Got q job on a fish
wharf cleaning shad at 10 cents a thou
sand. Capitalists daughter trips down
the dock. Just what said capitalists
daughter was doing at the fish wharf
the deponent saith not. OF course the
lady falls overheard. Poor but proud
country youth drops his shad and dives
to the rescue. Capitalist arrives on the
scene, gathers them both into his shirt
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the track mile or so on his hands, flags
the express and saves the whole push.
Now he owns the road and few others.
And my grouchy friend mussed up the
offending paper some more with his feet
and reached for volume of Jules Verne.
THERE is rumor around-in fact. it
took the form of a newspaper para
graph the other day-that the Holy
Jumpers. dissatisfied with the attitude
of the people Of the Caro'inas toward
their sect. are thinking Of moving their
headquarters to Washington. They will
have a lovely time here. Maj. Sylvester
and the local authorities. I can imagine.
would be just crazy to have wild-eyed
bunch like this blow into town and start
to whoop things up. The whole bunch
would he in Jail inside of twenty-fo
hours. Somebody must have been giving
the Jumpers the wrong kind OF a steer
When ! was in Danville, Va. year or
so ago the Jumpers were in their prime
down there. They had been operating
for year or more and were still an at
traction to the good people of that CITY,
And l could readily see the reason why.
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plates It will doubtless be detected
within few months, and by the end or
the next year will be conspicuous object
to the naked eye.
August Shooting Stars.
Stretched out along an enormous path.
which extends from the sun to nearly
twice the distance of Neptune, Is an i'm
mense stream of meteoric particles.
through which the earth piows every
August; each particle, as it is burned up
by it's friction with the air, forms a
shooting star. The bright comet Of 1862
is moving along exactly this same path
and is believed to be nothing more than
the densest part OF the swarm. II. as is
probable the stream of particles Is mere
ly the remains OF the comet which has
been stretched along its path by the tidal
action Of the sun, the present swarm must
be very old inha bitant of our system.
for the stream is now SO long that year
after year the earth always encounters
it, The distance through the stream Is
so great that the earth, although moving
more than eighteen miles second. re-
uuires more than a month 10 pass through
it. The densest part. however. is reached
about August II, at which time the shoot.
ing stars will be most numerous. Every
few moments one Of these will be seen to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-07-31

~vHE farmer Is the keystone of
the social arch; his is the
greatest of all professions, for
all professions have to depend
upon him. The farmer is SCI
enlist and an artist combined. his theod-
olite the pillow, his canvas the soil. He
may not be learned after the fashion OF
the book-men, but it is incumbent on him
to be a graduate Of the University of
Nature. He must know the soils, their
textures and qualities and productive
properties as a skilled anatomst knows
the muscles and nerves: he must study
the various crops as an ethnologist studies
the different families of mankind and
find out what season and what food are
adapted to their wants, he must be an
all-round naturalist.
Ignorance in farming will never pay.
for time it may succeed in any other
profession, but in farming it is a dead
failure from the beginning; therefore 1t
would be we'll for the young man who
thinks the avocation of a farmer below
his dignity and unworthy his talents to
consider that the farmer, in the first place
represents the most honorable of all pro-
fessons. and. second. that his is one
which calls for the greatest skill and eX-
perience.
From a financial standpoint the farmer
may fall below the others. but he is most
" ALWAYS sure of his dividends. as his
investment has a solid foundation and
there is very little risk of his going to
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1t was for all the world like the broncho-
busting feature of Buffalo Bits WHO
West The same horses are exhibited
every day. but not one of them cuts up
twice just alike. That is the way with
the Holy Jumpers. The same old reSu-
lars turn out for every service-if their
antics may be tiignified by that name
but the fits they throw are assorted. vari-
Gus and different
When I was down there the Holy Jump
ers' hang-out was a battered. shattered.
painless building, used in the days OF
old Rameses az some sort of lecture
hall. The walls and the floors and ceiling
were grimy and gray with dirt and age,
and in the whole place there wasn't a
single thing attractive. In the front of
the long room, which would seat about
500 people in pinch. stood the pulpit. a
boxlike affair. of sap pine Stats. resem-
bling combination piano crate and
chicken coop: the rest of the space was
filled up with wooden benches, frail and
dirty beyond belief.
Then the Jumpers came in. all Of them
marked by a slant Of brow and CLEAN
Of eye that would have made watching
alienist snort with Joy and reach for his
notebook. Their minister--though they
don't call him that-climed into the chick
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COON the Little Princess
- Victoria Louise, Only
Daughter of the Emperor of
Germany. Will Bid Farewell
to the Quiet Life That Has
Thus Far Been Her Portion
will Take Her Place in
the White Blaze of World
Politics - She Comes Out
Next Month, and That
Means Much in Germany
The Clergy Will Test Closely
Her knowledge Of the Bible
and of Religion Generally
There Will Be an Elaborate
Ball. Which the Represent
atives of Every Nation in
the World Will Attend.
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her mother. is to serve both as sewing
table and writing table.
The princess is very skillful with her
needle and some of her embroidery deco
rates 4the working rooms OF her father
and her mother.
Her dressing room is painted light
green. Her boudoir and reception room
are walled with imitation marbles. For
maple wood the princess shows strong
liking, and as many rooms as possible are
to be paneled with this timber and pol
ished. The chairs and sofa in the
boudoir are in pale pink silk. the princess
favorite color. In this she differs from
her sister-in-law, the crown princess.
whose delight is in pale blue, and from
her mother, who loves all shades Of
purple and lilac.
There will be a tennis court. an ar
tificial ice rink and several other ar
rangements to permit the princess to
cultivate sport Hitherto she has not
shown the faintest inclination for out
door exercise. Her gymnasium is a gift
from the emperor.
The princess has somewhat improved
in looks lately and promises to develop
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front and unites them in the holy bonds
Of matrimony few years later,''
Awful" quoth T.
And this morning. cried the crouch.
encouraged by this evidence of appre-
citation. Il read the worst of all. Same
plot. but the stage settings are a little
different. The hero of this line of done
started in life with loud voice and an
ambition to become a railroad president
Consequently he got job as a train
butcher selling pink literature and Ha-
vana cabbages to unsuspecting passen-
gers
The rest is easy to guess Head-on
collision: most everybody killed and
everybody else wounded. Limited express
looping along behind at mile a minute
with thousand passengers Young train
butcher has both legs broken Does he
lie there mixed up with his pink literature
and cabbas and exercise the aforesaid
voice? He does not. Groans in anxiety,
not for himself. but on account of the
thousand passengers about to be added
to the morgue receipts Suddenly he re-
members his acrobatic stunts of former
days. dabbles his handkerchief in his
blood until it is a beautiful red ties it
around one of his busted legs. walks down
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ciaI event among the worlds rulers to
match this in Importance.
p, Princess Victoria Louise is the only
girl In the kaiser's brood His stalWart.
able and independent sons have been
much admired. but the hearts of the ma
ton go out TO this seventeen year-old
girl. Since his ascension to the throne
William. in spite of his many foibles and
the acts OF eccentricity that have brought
him censure. has nevertheless worked
wonders for the progress of the German
people.
Called the war lord and predicted to be
the man who would plunge the nation
into troubles with every people of the
world. he has been d factor for peace.
and during his stay on the throne the
power OF the fatherland commercially has
increased UNNECESSARILY. So. too. in prep
aration for a war that perhaps must
come. William has shown such genius
that today all England is thrilled with
concern at the strides the Teuton nation
has made
Every royal family in Europe will well
come the idea Of a union with the family
of one Of the most powerful of modern
rulers, and from the time she takes her
place in the arena of world politics the
Princess Victoria Louise will never be out
of the limeight.
Perhaps this will not be entirely well
come to the princess, for she is shy
and studiOus young woman, who takes
life very seriously and has little time for
the nonsense that engages other young
girls.
Recognizing this disposition in her
daughter. the empress, that most tactful
of all royal mothers purposely delayed
her confirmation as long as possible SO
that when the time came for her to set
UP housekeeping on her own account Vic
toria Louise should have as much devel-
opment as possible.
Books. painting and needlework have
been until the present time the most init
mate acquaintance Of her who next
month will blossom out as a full-nedsed
Hohenzollern princess
Lately OH one or two occasions she has
been permitted to appear at one or two
state balls but she was allowed to dance
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the dIpIonatfC lie OF Europe.
Next they will be looking for husband
for her. and soon she will be q figure in
world politics.
Since the wedding of Miss Alice Roose
Welt to Representative Longworth or the
ceremony that united Princess Ena to
the King OF Spain there has been no SO.
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With her confirmation the daughter Of
the kaiser will come into responsibilities
from which any girl might gladly shrink
Life will be very serious for her in the
future.
AS soon as she is out she will reside in
a palace OF her own. RheinSberg, a pretty
the emperor. 1t Overlooks one of the
charming lakes in the neighborhood, and
is in the midst Of a tract noted for it's
beautiful scenery.
Tn this little palace the princess will
command a staff of eight servants. and
a pony carriage and small automobile will
be at her service.
1t is the German idea that the
daughter of royalty should train early
for the life of state that the life of
the ruler imposes. The emperor has
brought up his sons with this idea rigor-
ously In mind, and the mother will see
that Victoria is early initiated into the
mysteries of presiding over an estate.
Both of the royal parents have been
busily engaged in getting matters into
shape. They visit Rheinsberg daily, and
every detail is infinitely examined into
genius for this kind of work.
The princess taste in the decorating
of her new home is of the simplest char
acter The rooms she is to inhabit will
be made as light as possible: the furni-
ture and hangings are all to be in bright
or light colors. Her bedroom will be in
no sense different from that OF any other
well-to-do German girl.
There is plain brass bedstead, and the
other articles of furniture are all white
handsome little white table, a-gift from
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ERMANY'S little
princess. as the
people Of the ia
therland call the
only daughter Of
the kaiser. is about
TO come out"
Next month will
see her launched
socially, will mark
the end OF her
childhood days and
give her a place In
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ure.
The first of the month the planet Mars
rises at twenty minutes past and before
midnight shines out high up In the east
ern heavens. Toward the end of the
month it rises nearly two hours earlier.
1t is approaching us so rapidly that dur
ing this time it will increase more than
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will have a much whittier. slvery hue.
The first planet is SO large that not
withstanding its enormously greater dis
lance 1t will seem to have more than
twice the diameter of the second. Au-
gust II the narrow crescent moon will
pass above the two planets. The three
bright bodies so near together will then
form q most striking and interesting fig
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-07-31
By Prof. Eric Doolittle Of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania.

versity of Pennsylvania. y
VO those who are interested In
watching the heavens there
will this month be presented
several interesting astronomi-
cal events. In the first place.
there occurs a very near approach OF
Jupiter and Venus, so that for several
evenings the two planets will look like
a bright twin star in the western sky.
Then there is the return of the planet
Mars. and September the rare phenom-
enon of the passage of the moon between
us and this body-a most beautiful sight
when viewed with a small telescope. And
this month also is the annual shower OF
yellowish slowmoving meteors known as
the August shooting stars
The Planets.
The great planet Jupiter, which has
been slowly sinking toward the ground
in the west, will set few minutes be-
fore O'Clock August !. and is therefore
just beyond the borders of our map
During the next two weeks 1t will still
be conspicuous object In the western
sky. but before the end OF the month will
be hopelessly lost in the suns rays, al
though it will not pass to the east of that
body and become morning star until
September 49,
The planet Venus is each evening grow
ing brighter and moving SO rapidly up-
ward that it reaches the middle OF the
constellation of the Virgin by the end of
the month. 1t passes closest to Jupiter
August l. at am. At about this time
the two worlds will form a most beauti-
ful object in small telescope. The plan
ct Jupiter. crossed by its system Of bands
and attended by its four brightest moons,
VIII be seen to be Of a reddish yellow
color. while the only partly full Venus
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,as always had the speed bug. He Is
wealthy. can crafty every inclination and
desire along that line and is generally
supposed by his colleagues to buy about
two cars a week. One automobile man
says il is only necessary to assure Mr.
Ames that there is a new automobile out
that will beat everything else that ever
burned gasoline and he will buy it.
One day this spring. when there WASH t
much doing around the Capitol, Mr. Ames
took newspaper man out for little
run in big-bonneted. overenglned whale
of a car he had bought a month or SO be-
fore. They scooted around town on the
low gear, and finally started up the Con-
duit road toward Cabin John bridge. Mar
shall Collins being temporarily dlscon-
nected from the sweet little suburb OF
Glen Echo, the Massachusetts congress
man. who was acting as his own chauf-
feur. kept throwing in a little more gas
oline and little more spark and speed
ing a little faster every minute. Finally
the newspaper man got scared TO death
and hung on with hands and feet. He
nearly dropped dead when Mr.. Ames
turned around and yelled at him, above
the noise of the car: Il wish we had a
good straight stretch of road so we could
go a little bit fast. We are not going
much more than fifty miles an hour, and
this car is guaranteed for eighty-fve."
They do say that when the pair of them
landed back in town the newspaper man
was in near-faint and had to be revived
with three drinks. all in a row.
So those members of the House who
know Mr.. Ames' propensities say that he
is just waiting for the chance to buy the
first Wright aeroplane put on the market.
in order that he may make an intellectual
effort to break his cultured neck. Incl
dentally he has had some little expert
ence with aeroplanes. but as the Wright
machine apparently is the most success
full one ever seen. in this part of the
world at least. he will probably go for 1t
at the first opportunity.
THERE are lot of grouchy people
I among the inhabitants of this vale of
tears I have friend who Is built that
way. We were sitting together reading
the other evening when he growled threw
his newspaper on the floor and mussed
il up with his feet.
Il am tired of reading rot said he.
From the truck l see in the newspapers
nowadays it's as plain as print to me
that every man who shoves a pen for
living eats opium and cocaine for steady
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it is said that her English is excellent.
better. in fact, than her German. This
may be accounted TOT IN the Iact tnat
consolation for the fact so irritating to
England that there are some members of
the royal family of Britain who know
more German than English.
Princess Louise is not, however, with
out interest in things philanthropic She
has given close attention to the kinder
garten work in tenants homes and in
alternating the condition OF poor mothers
with large families. In fact, Louise has
a mania for children. and it is along this
line that most Of her work in a charity
way will be done.
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T is pre- di C ted
around the Capitol
that the first man
TO buy a Wright
a e p ] ane after
they are put on the
market. as UNI
doubtedly will be
the case before
very long, will be
r pr S e n tative
Butler Ames OF
Massachusetts. Mr..
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VO those who are interested In
watching the heavens there
will this month be presented
several interesting astronomi-
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date both planets may be seen together
in a small telescope
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1909-06-08

Heinemann, the European publisher,
once noticed two peddlers standing side
by side. selling toy dolls. One of them
had a queer, fat faced doll, which he
was pushing into the faces Of the pass
ersby. giving it the name Of a well
known woman reformer then promi-
nently before the public. His dolls
were selling rapidly, while the man be-
side him, who had a really more at
tractive doll, was doing comparatively
little business. A thought occurred
to Heinemann. and he tried an expert
ment. Calling the second peddler to
one side, "My friend" he said, do you
want to know how to sell twice as
many of these dolls as you are selling
now? Hold them up In pairs, two to-
gether in each hand, and cry them as
The Heavenly Twins" The toy vend-
er somewhat grudgingly followed his
advice. 1t was at a time when Sarah
Grand's famous novel was at the
height of its popularity, and the title
Of the book was on every ones tongue.
Perhaps 1t was merely luck, but the
heavenly twins dolls were an instan-
taneous success, and within one hour
the vender Of the woman reformer
dolls gave up the fight, acknowledged
himself beaten and moved five blocks
down the street to escape the ruinous
competition Lorin f. Deland in At
lantic.
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The supreme Gift.

Man has no wings, and yet he can
soar above the clouds. He is not
swift Of foot. and yet he can outspeed
the feetest hound or horse. He has
but feeble weapons In his organization.
and yet he can STAY or master all the
great beasts. His eye Is not so sharp
as that of the eagle or the vulture.
and yet he can see into the farthest
depths Of sidereal space. He has only
very feeble occult powers OF communi-
cation with his fellows. and yet be
can talk around the world and send
his voice across mountains and deserts.
His hands are weak things beside a
lions paw or an elephants trunk, and
vet he can move mountains and stay
rivers and set bounds to the widest
seas. His dog can outsmell him and
outrun him and outbite him, and yet
his dog looks up to him as to god.
He has erring reasons in place OF I'M
erring instinct, and yet he has changed
the face OF the planet.
Without the specialization Of the
lower animals-their wonderful adap-
tation to particular ends their tools,
their weapons, their strength, their
speed-man yet makes them all his
servants. His brain Is more than a
match for all the special advantages
nature haa given them The one gift
of reason makes him supreme IN the
world.--JoLn Burroughs In Atlantic.