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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-06

Presently he was surrounded by a bunch
of sporting men whom he had known for
q good many years. In this group were
two very well known bookmakers. who no
longer go after the small change at the
shrunken race track gatherings In New
York's neighborhood; a man nationally
known as a stakeholder for sporting
events and elections: a man who used to
referee some Of the big lights; four or
five writer's on pugilism. and the under
signed. They were all old friends Of JET
fries None OF them, 1t happened. had
been on hand to see JEFF shuck his toys
for inspection on the first day of his ar
rival, and all OF them wanted to see how
he looked without his raiment on.
Jeffries numbered away from the bunch
to say a word to his wife. who was
starting of on a shopping expedition.
When he rejoined the bunch they began
10 nag him to go up to his rooms and doff
his clothes SO that they could see for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-06
1.-The managing editor laughed.

''The managing editor laughed
Now, what dye suppose the people
Of California care about the army In
India? he inquired. still chuckling. Still.
I'll look at your stun. Got any OF the
stories with your
"Kipling had one of the stories with
him and he left IT with the managing ed
itor. Now. don't laugh. But dye know
what story that was that Kipling left
with the managing editor Of the Chronicle
that time? Why, 1t was the story-you've
read 1t I'm Soldiers Three about a thou
sand times. / presume-about the lone
someness OF Private Ortheris, and how
Private Mulvaney comforted Ortheris ont
of his lonesomeness; one of the great and
wonderful stories in the English language.
that's all.
"A day or 80 later the managing editor
called Kipling into his room and handed
him back this story with a smile and told
Kipl!ng that there wasn't anything essen
TALLY interesting about il and that India
was a long distance from Market street.
anyway, and that, moreover, the story
wasn't quite up to the papers standard
for stuff of that sort.
.'Kipling left San Francisco few days
later.
i've told you some exact facts. But It's
all q kind Of q dreary joke. chr
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-06

hand. Cecil It looked as big a. an I'M
abridged dictionary!
Here, dtnge.' John L. called out in
that awful rumble OK his to his black
porter, switch on the light there. will
you? It was sort OF dim where he waa
sitting. The black man turned on the
electric light and John L. opened up the
summons. Now. under ordinary circum-
stances I'd have been on my way down
Broadway or 9Th avenue by that time
IL my man had been anybody else. that
is-but l couldn't move a step just then
1 was what's called rooted to the spot
My legs and feet weren't on the Job.
John L. saw what the paper was. and
he grinned.
''All right. young feller.' he said to
me-and say! maybe that rumble didn't
sound musical then!-'Have a drinkr
IL stammered q nix on the drink thing
and faded. You don't know how good
the sunshine looked to me when I got
out into 42d street! Because, you see
thought sure that the old boy would swat
me Just one for>luck, anyhow, even II he
didn't pulyerize me. / was pretty strutty
when / got back to the ONCE and told
the boss that I'd served the summons on
John L. But when I got home my wife
jawed and fused at me for having taken
the chance. Like a woman, wasn't It!
I'd come through safA all right. but that
didn't make any difference to her.
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Sitting in a Corner, His Hands
Thrust in His Pockets"

Thrust In His Pockets"
phere. Of the San Francisco water front
appealed to Kipling, a born cosmopolite,
and he suggested to the city editor that.
In his opinion, some quite entertaining
waterfront stories could he worked up
for the local pages. He suggested that
he'd write one two OF them and hand
them in. SO that the city editor could
Judge If he'd care for that kind OF stuff.
1.-The city editor sat down on the idea
hard
Tush. he said. We're not looking for
fine writing here. Your idea is to just sit
down and write. and not. go hunt for
stuff. isn't il? That would be pretty
easy, Ell? Well, we don't care for that
sort OF thing. A water front is water
front the world over and a water front
is pretty dirty job. anyway you take it.
Forget tt
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-06

And Kipling walked back to his desk
and waited for a regular assignment
think of what a newspaper would bo
willing to pay. II it only could know for
exclusive waterfront stories written by
Rudyard Kipling, But how could the city
editor have known? In fact, however.
this city editor was dead ag'n the kind
of writing that Kipling naturally fell into.
Whenever the city editor caught sight Of
the literary vein that Kipling couldn't
help indulge in. even I'm writing his orr
binary stories. he'd growl and call Kip
ling up and ask him If he thought he was
working for the Forum or the North
American Review. -
'Kipling stood the gaff as long as he
could. and IL was a pretty irksome gaff.
too. All OF this time Kipling had i'm his
pocket a letter to the managing editor OF
the Chronicle which he hadn't Yet pre-
sented. When he found that he'd never be
able TO tolerate the reporting work he
decided to present this letter to the Chron-
icle's managing editor for the purpose OF
asking for chance to write specials for
the Sunday paper; fiction and the like.
He did present his letter to the man.
aging editor. brusque, busy man.
WANT to write stories for the Sunday.
EN-? said the managing editor to Kiplins.
What kind of stories"
WELL replied Kipling, know a LOT
about the army in India, and
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corn that my wife will be calling me
names in the divorce court and that
won't have any more character than q
chorus girl with thirty -four diamonds.
Listen! ] was as innocent as a babe
and then some. but according to the cards
string OF circumstances that tripped me
started in about a week before last
Christmas. I'd been shopping until I was
black In the face and was just about to
take a car for home when I remembered
I'd forgotten a couple Of dinky little
things my wife wanted to use In her
Christmas kinkeries.
80 I hiked for the place where they
sell 'em and drove into the crowd. But
couldn't make 1t. Every time I'd try a
rush through center I'd shed q couple OF
dozen packages and when I stopped to
pick EN- up people put their feet on me.
Finally I got 'em all together again and
fought my way to the door. where I stood
on one leg gasping for breath.
Says l to myself. when l got my wind
back, If could only shed this long pack
age that looks IKE a wrapped-up cable
car and this bulky parcel which might
contain q coal hod and an ironing board.
could break in there and get the frill-
cries without any trouble. But I'm car
rying too much weight to make the
run
You said this to yoursek?" asked.
81 said So" replied my fat friend, bel
ligerently, land meant II. And I'd hard
" closed my teeth on the last word when
a woman who was standing near me steps
I'D and says, as nice as you please, I'm
waiting for some friends here and I
wouldn't mind keeping your things for
you till you come out
WELL you could have laid me out. I
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that getaway thing and ii has saved mo
many a clip on the jaw.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-06

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-27
Have Your Soul Weighed.
From Success Magazine.


When we get things down to a finer
point and figure out a few things that
are still haZy, we can all get our souls
weighed This. at least. is the opinion
recently expressed in London by Fourier
d Abe secretary of the Dublin Society for
Psychical Research. He says souls are
made out of ''psychromeres, and that
enable us to see. weigh and measure them
After death. says d Abe, our 'psychro-
meres'' which hitherto have been scat
tered all over our bodies. unite into a
.soul-body" which henceforth floats
about subsiSting on sun-rays and paying
no board bills. The soul. he says, prob
ably weighs about one-t housandth part OF
the body, so that if you weigh one hun
dred and fifty pounds, you are constantly
Juggling about two and one-half ounces OF
soul.
There are a lot of questions that we
shall want Mr. d Abe to answer when Inc
gets his soul-weIghing machinery in ord r
Do women have husky souls as men:
DO poets and bricklayers have the same
size? Have any traces of one ever bean
found in the coal trust? Are congre S.
men born without them. or do they lose
them through long disuse? When we are
| able to drop one cent in a slot and have
our souls weighed. what a lot we shall
know about our neighbors that now we
| only suspect,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-27
BROTHERS AvENGE MURDER
THREE DEAD, FOUR WOUNDED
IN MEXICAN FEUD.
Drunken Men Who Made Trouble
and Man Who Tried to Pacify
Them All Killed.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
TORREON. Mex, January 27-Three
men are dead. another man. a woman and
two children are wounded and two young
men are fugitives in the mountains with
a large force of rurales hunting them, fol-
lowing a gun fight which took place at
the Torrecellas ranch settlement between
Velardena and Pedricena, this state, yes
terday.
The fight was begun when Jose Herman
DEE attempted to quiet disturbance
which was being raised by Juan Gamboa
and Hiliaro Arrieta. both intoxicated.
Hernandez tried pacific methods at first
The men resented his interference. Words
soon led to blows.
Hernandez suddenly drew a revolver
and shot Gamboa dead. He also wounded
Arrieta. The latter had also drawn his
weapon and wounded Hernandez so that
he fell dead as he ran toward his home.
A brother of Gamboa appeared as Her
nandeZ fed. Seeming danger, he returned
to his house. HernandeZ's two young
brothers made for the scene of the af-
fray.
Finding their brothers bullet had not
killed Arrieta. they killed the wounded
man with knives and hacked his body to
pieces. Gamboas body was also mutt
lated.
boa's brother in his house. He escaped
safely. The wife and children of Arrieta,
who lived in the same house. We're wound
ed by pistol bullets that were fired
through the windows
After the shooting the young men made
for the mountains. The wounded woman
and her children We're taken to che Ped
ricena station for medical treatment. The
rlirales garriSoned there were at once or
dered out in pursuit of the murdererS.
AS it is thought that the Hernandez
boys will attempt TO cross into the United
States "a close guard has been established
along the river banks. The United States
authorities have been asked to keep a
watch for the fugitives
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-27
The Great Berlin Library.

PROM the New York Evening Post.
The number of volumes on the shelves
of the Berlin Royal Library is about
million and quarter. On the first of
August, 1908. there We're employed forty
five librarians. tifty-seven male and female
assistants forty-five attendants, and so
ON. making force of more than loo alto
gether. The number of volumes lent out
during the last year was '44, 900 in Berlin
and 900 elsewhere. while the daily de-
mand in the reading room averaged SIS
volumes. Sixteen persons are kept busy
in the cataloguing department; the num-
Der of leaves added TO the catalogue with
in a year was 800. and the titles of -,
100 new volumes We're registered. The
number of volumes. old and new, adde d
TO the collection was 5000. In pursuanc
of a new policy some valuable old books
and MSS. were obtained from other
libraries among them 800 books of the
sixteenth century, contributed by He'll
genstadt. In 1906 musical department
was added. The scores and volumes in
these were contributed largely as gifts by
various publishers. and how greatly this
new feature is appreciated is shown by
the fact that no fewer than three libra
rians, two directors and fifteen assistants
are already kept busy in this youngest
branch of the institution.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-27
CELEBRATE STATES BIRTHDAY
MICHIGAN ASSOCIATION MEM
BERS AT BANQUET.
Seventy Second Anniversary of Ad-
mission Into the Union Observed
With Feasting and Speeches.

In celebration of the seventy-Second an
niversary of the admission of Michigan
into the Union about 100 members of the
Michigan State Association of Washing
ton and their friends gathered around the
banquet board at Rauschers last even
ing and toasted the Wolverine state. Rep
resentative Edward J.. Hamilton acted as
POSTMASTER. The opening after-dinner
address was made by c. O. Markham,
president of the association, who well
coined the guests:
Representative Joseph w. Fordney told
means committee in drafting a tariff bill.
Il believe the tariff bill, when pre-
sented. will be an honest revision" he
declared. Il have every faith in the re-
publican party in its intentions regarding
revision. In spite of occasional reports
to the contrary, the committee is exert
ing every means in its power to obtain the
fullest and most impartial facts to aid it
in its deliberations
Others who spoke were Senator Julius
{. Burrows, Senator William Alden Smith.
Representatives Edwin Derby, Charles f.
Townsend, Samuel w Smith, Henry Nc
Moran and George A. Loud, Henry NJ.
Rose, assistant secretary of the Senate;
Gen. George B. Davis, Gen. John c.
lain of the House: Capt. J. c. Wheeler.
deputy commissioner of internal revenue
Edward b. Moore, commissioner of pat
ents; Hiram Johnson and Maj. George a.
Armes
Others present were Representative
Washington Gardner. Representative a. b
Darragh, II. Olin Young C. O. Mark
ham. acting president of the society; w
l.. Agnew, treasurer: Col. Edwin S. Pierce
Fred G. Coldren, Seth u. Gage, Mai
Henry NJ. Brown. John c. Scotield, w. p
Huxford, G.. G. Maynard, Col Robert +.
HILL Alexander Grant, Alexander Scott
Dr. Thomas w. Burke. DR.. James A. Will
son, Andrew f. Dinsmore. Wells f.
Harvey. Col. William 3. Thompson, w
w. Baldwin, Col. J. D. Summer, Capt
Henry Sherwood. -. r. Campbell, Ralph
II. Chappell. Prof. Walter F. Smith. Bur
ridge Wilson. L. E. Gridley. Roswell P
Bishop. George Nj. Buck. NJ. H. Pun
phrey. w. T. Moore, Jason Waterman
II. V. Bisbee, b. II. Brockway, G. c.
Thompson, F'ayette johnson, l.. Fl. Will
cox, J. H. Ruckman, w. S. Ruckman, II
w. White H. 7. Newcomb. II. L. Burton
w. u. Thayer, ]. NJ. Wolcott, l.. NJ. Miller
Norman E. Webster, jr., Duane +. Fox
Elias Shafer. J. r. Lott, G. Nj. Curtiss
NJ. c. Huggett. E. G. Runyan, F. G. Wix-
son. j. A. Fenton, a. l.. Bowen Capt
John White, c. Ct. Townsend, Fred A
Maynard. c. c. Billings, o. H. Simohds
and w. T. Gridley.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-27
The Epileptic Voice Sound.
From the Medical Record.

rom the heulcal RECORD.
L. Pierce Clark and +. w Scripture OF
New York say that there is something
peculiar about the epleptic voice-it is
expressonless. all in one tone. The au-
thors have worked out graphic method Of
representing this voice. The patient
speaks into mouthpiece connected with
a metal cup. which Is covered with thin
rubber diaphragm that yields to puffs OF
air A lever connected with this mem
brane is moved by the voice vibrations
and traces on smoked cylinder record
of the voice 4 long wave indicates
slow vibration. short wave quick one.
Slow vibrations correspond to low pitch.
quick ones to high pitch. By this method
the authors have detected the disease of
a. out of 100 cases. This sign appears 10
depend on the underlying brain deseneri-
ton. of which the fits expression.
The diagnosis and prognostic value of this
voice is evident.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-27

bound the master and the slave in a
common bondage.
why should he not be placed, so far
now as sentiment is concerned, where
he may face the whole country, near
the gateway to the Capitol, through
which millions of his countrymen shall
pass each year in time of peace. and
through which, too If, unhappily, war
shall ever come again, the youth of the
country shall enter. coming from the
north and the east, the west and the
south, thank God. to defend the coun-
try? And will it not be fitting also that
their first glance shall take in at once
the memorial of the man who saved the
nation and the dome Of its Capitol?"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-27
Bull Fighting Spain.
from the London Post.

From the London losi-
1t was thought that bull fights were
gradually losing their popularity in Spain
The reports for the year 1897 seemed in
deed to indicate a distinct tendency In
that direction. Those for 1908. however
do not confirm this view. In the course
of last year 745 bull fights took place in
Spain and :.StS bulls were killed in the
arena. Before dying some of these bulls
managed to leave behind something more
than the mere record of death, for it is
announced that in the contests four OF
their human opponents were killed ano
Isl injured
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-27
An Early Riser.

From the IonkerS Statesman.
Are you an early riser, Pat?
Am /? Sure I'm SIGH an early riser,
sor, that I'm afeared some time I'll ketch
meslf gittn' up when I'm goin' to bed!'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-27
I'm $50 to Sc

here are I2o Rockers
hiding on our main
|r, in design and finish
diverse that you'll
|rdly find two alike.
The original pri &c
|anged from $1,000 for
Solid mahogany novelties
to 5000 for the comfort
able, roomy chairs OF high
ly polished or weathered
oak.
We have cut the price
ON each just
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-27
BURNHAM GIVES VIEWS
Architect Sends Cablegram
About Lincoln Memorial.
|PERISTYLE THE SOLUTION
Representative Mccall Reads Mes
sage to House.
BLOW TO RIVER BANK PLAN
Chairman of Library Committee
Says Desire Is to Make February
12, 1909, Legal Holiday.
BLOW TO RIVER BANK PLAN

During consideration of the Lincoln holi-
day resolution in the House of Repre-
sentatives yesterday Representative Nc
Call of Massachusetts,, chairman of the
library committee, read cablegram from
D. H. Burnham, the architect, favoring
the peristyle treatment of the proposed
Lincoln memorial This is said to throw
bombshell into the camp of those who
have been urging memorial to Lincoln
on the north bank of the Potomac in the
shadow of the Washington Monument.
Following is the cablegram read by Mr..
/ Mccall:
London, January 26.-Three or four diff
ferent ways of memorializing Lincoln
have been proposed.
The choice depends largely on sentiment,
of which Congress itself is the best judge.
But entirely apart from sentiment, a
monumental architectural treatment of
the entrance-way to the Capitol is de-
manded by every consideration of artistic
unity and of sober propriety; and there is
not d shadow of a doubt that a perlstyle
extending around the plaza and up Della
ware avenue, as shown by us before left
for Europe. is the right solution.
This design should be carried out. no
matter what name it bears
NJ
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-17
IMPLICATE WOMAN
IN BRUTAL ATTACK
Wife of Contractor, Arrested
With Relatives, May Face
Serious Charge

BERKELEY. Aug. 16.-Mrs Jessie
Wood, wife Of a contractor, W. w.
Wood, was arrested by the Berkeley
police tonight for alleged completely in
the beating OF Charles Fischel, a young
Berkeleyan. who is expected to die of
injuries which he received yesterday,
when he was knocked off a high porch
and sustained a fracture of the skull.
W W. sod and his brother in law,
W. A Cox, ere arrested yesterday on
battery charges and are held in det-
inue at the city jail. Mrs Wood was
also charged with battery, and in
case Of Fischel's death the trio will be
formally charged with manslaughter.
The police aver that Mrs. Woods gave
able help to the two men when Fischel,
who QUarreled over a bill, was attacked.
-Four doctors are caring for the injured
man, and Dr. J. E. Kelsey announced
tonight that Fischel may not live until
morning.
The money over which they quarreled
was for work done by Fischel. He de-
manded $IS.75, and Wood insisted the
amount should have been only $3.50.
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-17
SURGEONS KNIFE
AS REFORM AGENT
Prison Association Favors the
So Called indianapolis Plan of
Handling Criminals

SEATTLE. Aug. 1s.-The American
prison association spent most of the
morning session in a heated debate on
paper written by DR.. H. C. Sharp.
formerly surgeon of the Indianapolis
reformatory, on the Indiana Plan" of
hopeless idiots and confirmed Grim
inals.
The president, Dr. j. T. Gilmour of
Toronto. Can, spoke vigorously in
favor of the paper, saying there had
been too much maudlin sentimentality
on the subject. He was applauded.
The speakers who wanted the paper
suppressed said the Indiana plan was
contrary to the bible
One delegate objected to the debate
being continued before women, who
composed at least third of the audi
ence. Thereupon the women delegates
at once took the lead in the con-
troversy. led by Mrs. Deborah c.
Weeks, president of the Philadelphia
social purity league.
CHLoROFORMING IDIOTS
Mrs. L. R. Eastwood of South Da-
kota, who advocated the chloroform-
ing of idiots, was greeted with roars
of laughter.
During the debate it was announced
that Connecticut and California had
followed Indiana. A motion to sup
press was not put to a vote. Presi-
dent Gilmour said it would not have
received three votes.
THE COUNTY JAIL
The county Jail has been charged.
indicted, tried and convicted time and
inns cra in 70 inc
souls of its Victims, but each time
the execution has been stayed and it
is still unwhipped of justice said
w. A. Gates, secretary of the California
board of charities, in an address at
the convention today. In part he said.
To reform the county jail and make
1t an instrument for good instead Of
evil the following steps are necessary:
District warehouses for all prison
ers sentenced to terms in jail and a
proper labor system installed therein.
A separate cell for each prisoner,
well lighted and ventilated, and sup
pied with sanitary plumbing
Sufficient rooms or apartments so
that prisoners may be classified ac-
cOrding to sex, age and apparent GRIM
inality, and each class be completely
separated from the other.
Trained jailers with humane instincts
and high character, who appreciate the
opportunity of making better the per-
sons placed in their charge.
THE LIFE LINE
The improvement of our county Jail
system. however, depends upon a gen.
eral Improvement of social order No
material advance will be made until
man puts a higher value upon his fell
low man. Society must feel that men
are worth saving before ii will throw
out the life line. This will not come
until we forsake the worship OF the
golden calf and give obedience to the
golden rule.
Gates criticised the handling and
treatment of female prisoners in sew
eral counties of California and recon-
mended the enactment of a law COM
pelling the appointment of a matron
in every county Jail.
Judge Lindsey of Denver read a pa
per on Prevention a. Probation