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Evening star., 1909-07-11
VICTIM OF TROLLEY CRASH.
Hagerstown Young Man Was Earn
ing Money to Enter Ministry.

Special Dispatch to The Star
HAGERSTOWN, Nd, July lO-While
working to earn money TO pay his way
through college. Justus George Washing
ton Fletcher, son of George w. Fletcher
of HagerstoWn, was fatally injured last
night in a trolley collision at Providence
r. /. He died this morning Two tele-
grams were received today by the young
mans father. the first telling of the acct
dent and the second announcing his death
Young Fletcher was about twenty wears
old and was preparing himself for the
ministry in the United Brethren Church
He spent two years at Northfield and the
past year at Andover. 1t being his practice
to work during the summer months to
earn money to aid him in securing an ed
ucation.
In a letter TO his father young Fletcher
stated he had secured employment on a
trolley line at Providence Besides his
parents. young Fletcher is survived by
five brothers and sisters. all living at the
home of the parents in Hagerstown. The
family formerly resided at Winchester.
Va. The remains of young Fletcher are
expected to reach HagerstoWn tomorrow
morning
Evening star., 1909-07-11
HEAD-oN COLLISION.
Engine Crew and Baggageman
Killed and Elks DELAYED.

GRAND JUNCTION, col, July 10
Three trainmen killed and one fatally in
jured and traffic tied up for more than
twelve hours are the results of a headon
collision that occurred early today near
Cisco. Utah. sixty miles west of here be-
tween section of westbound Denver and
Rio Grande passenger train No. 3 and an
eastbound sheep train.
Elks bound for Los Angeles were pas
sengers on the wrecked train
The engine crew and baggageman Of the
passenger train were killed. The freight
enginemen jumped in time to escape
None of the passengers was injured
Fourteen special trains carrying EIks TO
Los Angeles were held here all day on ac-
count of the wreck They left for the
west at short intervals, beginnng,at at 5::,O
o'clock this evening.
Evening star., 1909-07-11
SOFT YARN SPINNERS.
Southern Association Meets at Char.
lotte to Discuss Conditions.

CHARLOTTE, n. c., July 10.-The
board of directors of the Southern Soft
Yarn Spinners' Association met here to-
day to discuss existing conditions. The
situation was considered so complex and
unsatisfactory in the soft yarn market
that the board decided to call a meeting
Of the association for August 8 at Ashe-
vile TO discuss remedial measures and
take concerted action.
The board gave out statement after
the meeting advising against selling yarns
short and filling orders for prompt de-
livery that do not show profit based on
present prices.
Evening star., 1909-07-11
PRESIDENT ALONE ABSENT.
Taft Family Has Gay Outing and
Executive's Wife Shows Health.

BEVERLY. Mass. July 10.-The entire
Taft family. excepting only the President,
was able to get together for an outing
today for the first time since the summer
capitaI was established in this town
The outing came late in the afternoon.
when Mrs. Taft. Helen, Robert and
Charles Taft and Mrs. More. Mrs. Taft S
sister, and the latters husband Prof
More, enjoyed an automobile trip along
the north shore following the magnificent
ocean boulevard as far as Magnolia
Mrs. Taft enjoyed the ride immensely
and showed evidences of the marked i'm
provement in health which her short stay
here has brought about.
Evening star., 1909-07-11
EARTHQUAKES IN FRANCE
in Many Cities Camping
In the Open,

MARSEILLE July 1O.-Earth shocks
occurred last night throughout the same
region which suffered seismic disturb
ances in June. The shocks lasted four or
five seconds and were in a direction from
east to west The inhabitants of Rogues,
Lambeso and st. Cannat and other COM
munes in tile AK district were panic
stricken and rushed from their dwellings.
They are now camping in the open. At
Marseille the patients in La Conception
Hospital were greatly alarmed, some OF
them dragging themselves from their
beds. but they were reassured by the
surgeons.
At Toulon there was a slight earth
shock this evening, but no damage was
done.
Evening star., 1909-07-11
Fire in Fort Plain, N. Y. Plant.

FORT PLAIN. \. Y, July 10.-Fire to-
day destroyed the factory of the A. Wal
rath Company. with a less of S60.IO0.
partially covered by insurance The plant
will probably now locate in Syracuse,
N Y, as it is a part of the Iipe- Wal
rath Broom Sewing Machine Company of
that city.
Evening star., 1909-07-11
BALLOONS OF ALL TYPES.
International Air Navigation Ex-
position Opens.

FRANK FORT. Germany. July 1a.--The
international air navigation exposition,
which is probably the most complete as
samblase Of everything pertaining to aero
nautics ever seen. opened here today and
will continue for 1co days All types of
balloons, dir.gibies, triplanes, biplanes
and gliders which have been in the pub
lie eye for the past few years are on ex-
hfbtion, either III the original or by
means of models. The Wright brothers
aeIopianc will he shown. but arrange
ments TO flights Of this machine have not
yet been made. Several heavier -than-air
ing the exposition.
The exhibits are arranged In twelve
groups in hall +50 by $50 feet They
embrace kites, all kinds of apparatus for
balloons. scientific equipment and machin-
cry for gas compression. Besides the
main building there are four immense
halls for the housing Of dirigtbleS. which
will make short trips with passengers dur
ing the exposition. Two of these are for
balloons of the ParSeNat flexible type. an
other for the invention of Franz Clouth,
the owner of which is oscar ErbSioeh,
winner of the international cup at 81.
Louis Count Zeppelin has promised to
make an air trip before the exposition
closes
The committee in charge comprises
aeronauts from nearly every country.
Cortland Field Bishop. foreign represent
ative of the Aero Club of America, rep
resents the United States.
Lectures on aeronautical subjects will
be given. illustrated by the cinemato-
praph
Evening star., 1909-07-11
RESENT AUSTRALIANS POLICY.
Sydney IN. S. W. Chinese Want
Better Treatment or Will Boycott.
\ Cahlegram to The Star

Special Cabiegram to The Star.
SYDNEY, y. S. W.. July lo-The ar
rival of the first Chinese consul general
10 Australia has coincided with some
plain speaking on the part of wealthy
Chinese residents here.
Australians are told that unless they
modify what are held to be the insulting
features of the white Australia policy
China will boycott Australian goods.
Evening star., 1909-07-11
WR|GHTS 90 NOT TRY FLIGHT
WIND BLOWS TOO STRONG TO
RISK AN ASCENSION.
About 500 Persons Wait Vainly for
Breeze to GO Down-Better Con-
ditions Expected Soon.

There was a twelve to fourteen mile
wind at Fort .Myer yesterday afternoon
and there was no flight by the Wrights.
There had been little prospect of it all
day. The weather sharps Of the navy
who had been watching the wind said
that it was not likely TO go down, and
when the sun set there was still quite
a fair breeze blowing. There was a
gathering of about 500 persons at Fort
Myer, but that made no difference to the
Wrights. IL the people had not been
there at all, or if the assemblage had
been six times as big, the trial OF the
machine would have still waited on the
wind.
Whether tie thermometer was regard
ed as a hoodoo or not. it had been re-
moved from the top of the aeropiane
shed and put on top of the water tower.
Here it behaved, if anything, worse than
1t did nearer the ground. 1t worked
faster and more steadily. The crowd,
which was reinforced with autos and
hopeless way. Every time vehicle
moved q big cloud Of dun-colored dust
fiOated over TO the north Of the parade
ground. and finally, at about O'Clock,
the doors of the aeroplane shed were
shut for the night and the Wright BROTH
ers, followed rapidly by the crowd. wend-
ed their way TO the trolley line.
1t was a disappointment all around.
There We're still three weeks of the month
left in which to hold the official trials,
but the prospect of going out day after
day and waiting for a favorable wind or
lack Of wind was not encouraging.
No Flight Today.
There will be nothing doing today no
matter what the weather conditions, aud
tomorrow the waiting game will be taken
up afrcSh.
Secretary OF War Dickinson. Senator
Depew. Gen. James Allen. the Mexican
ambassador and a number Of others
prominent in the official life of the capt.
tai were among those disappointed. The
aeroplanists expressed the opinion that a
period or fine flying weather would fol-
low the windy weather of the past few
days. y. NJ. Herring. the New York
aeroplanist, who has a contract TO deliver
IN aeToplane to the government vester-
day obtained an extension OF The time
In which he is to deliver his machine go
that he will have until August to COM
plete the trials.
Evening star., 1909-07-11
College Bred Brakeman Killed.

DUNELLEN, y. j.. July 10.-Wade
Hampton Davidson of Hampton. near
here. a graduate of Lafayette College.
was killed here today by falling beneath
train of which he was a brakeman.
Davidson was graduated last year and,
being out of employment. accepted a sill
alton as brakeman the Long Branch
division of the Central Railroad of New
jersey.
Evening star., 1909-07-11
Probable Length of Conference.

Few members of the conference com
nittees are willing TO place the time
necessary for the completion of the bill
N conference at less than ten days, not
Tithsfanding the large number of purely
verbal amendments. Some OF the con
fcreeS place the probable length of the
co1fcrenCa at fortnight or more. In
support Of their view they point to the
tatt tnai the Senate put in the bill an
entirely new maximum and minimum pro-
vision, the corporation tax amendment.
provision for the establishment of IA Gus
toms court and a new administrative
act, covering multitude OF questions not
raised in the House. In addition TO all
these now features the Senate struck out
The House amendment for the imposition
- federal inheritance tax and It's new
drawback feature
Questions OF So much importance can
not be disposed OF In day or a week.
said one of the ConfereeS last night
Then there are 4 host OF changes in
import taxes that Will take time. 1
guess We will he locked mp in this build
Iug for two weeks at least"
Evening star., 1909-07-11
Federal Jurisdiction Needed.

1t is recognized that the federal gov
ernnent could acquire the necessary juris-
diction over tracts of land in individual
states.
The provision In the bill for the con-
demnation of the land, it is understood
was inserted to enable the Commissioners
to buy suitable tracts at reasonable prices.
The prices set by owners of land in Mary
land offered for the reforInatory site are
regarded as too high. This additional
legislation, it Is believed, will be a wise
move. 1t Will also overcome the diff
culteS of clouded titles, IL any are found
Evening star., 1909-07-11
Women Ask Fund for Airship.

LONDON. July 10.-The Woman's
Aerial League is sending out an appeal to
the women of England to unite in sub
scribing funds to buy an airship as a
present to the nation. to be used as
model for testing and improving. 1t is
also publishing the first text book on
aero engineering that yet has appeared
in England. 1t is a translation from the
French.
Evening star., 1909-07-11
WEATHER.

Fair Sunday and Monday,
moderate southcrly winds.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-10-29
Blanks In the Matrimonial Lottery

Blanks In the Matrimonial Lottery.
Cooking" said May Irwin, '1s
cure for nervous prostration. This
cure is cheaper than European trip.
1t commends itself better to husbands,
too.
For my part 1 like the kind OF
woman who prefers the cooking to
che travel cure. Deliver me from the
kind of woman who is 100 big for her
job.
up near Irwin Island / know one
OF these Objectionable women. Her
husband was going fishing the other
day. He said bitterly:
my fishing trousers haven't
single button on themr
How fortunate" said his wife.
Now if you're drowned it will be so
easy to identify your body. won't it,.
dear?'
NO the husband roared. For
all the other chaps in the crowd are
married, too!'"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-10-29

Few Women Vote Who Have Right.
There are 605,906 women in Eng.
land and Wales qualified to vote for
members of county councils; 265.S62
women to vote for county borough
councils, and 137324 women are quail
fed to vote for non-county borough
councils These totals have just been
completed and they are being used as
an argument against the suffragists.
They provide strong argument, too,
for the women who exercise their
franchise privilege form only trifling
fraction of the total. These qualified
voters show the Indifference which it
is charged the average woman would
show were she to have an unresisted
ballot. There are many boroughs in
England in which the women might
WELD the balance of power, but they
exert no influence as they do not go
to the polls. This is the first time
the noses of the women voters in Eug-
land have been counted, and the COM
pleted lists, contrasted with the scat
tering votes actually cast, mean one
of the hardest blows the suffragist
cause has received since it became a
live issue several years ago.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-10-29
PENSION EXPERIMENT.
Interesting Plan Being Tried by
Mercantile Concern.


A large mercantile company, which
has branches in nine of our cities, has
put into effect an employees old age
pension system, which is an interest
ing experiment. To this the employees
themselves contribute nothing, but all
are eligible at sixty years of age II
they have served the company for 20
years. Provision, too, is made for
those who, at any age, are incapaci-
tated for work after 20 years of SER
vice. The amount of a pension is
based upon the salary of an employe.
The salary figured on is the aver
age salary during the five years pre-
ceding retirement, and the pension
amounts to one per cent. of this, null
tiplied by the number of years of ser
vice. Thus, man whose salary is
$4,000 a year, upon retiring after 25
years service, will receive pension
of $780, The smallest pension paid is
$500, the largest $1,000 so that the
system strongly favors those who
have received small or moderate sal
aries and who, unable to save as they
have gone along, have looked forward
to old age with CONSERVATION
Worlds Work.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-10-29
Cipher Dispatches.

The result of the Presidential elec-
ton of 1876 was long in doubt, and
depended upon the electoral votes OF
four Stetes-South Carolina, Florida,
Louisiana and Oregon. This entire
number was needed by MIR. Hayes, the
Republican candidate, while only one
vote was necessary to secure the elec-
ton of Mr.. Tilden. the Democratic
candidate. While awaiting the result,
many dispatches In cipher passed be-
tween Tilden and his friends relative
to the States in dispute. They were
translated and printed by New York
newspaper in 1877, and suggested at
tempted bribery. The charges were
Investigated by a committee of Con-
gress, which declared that Mr. Tilden
WIS not implicated in The affair On
October 16. 1878. Mr.. Tilden published
a card in which he publicly disclaimed
knowledge of the dispatches.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-10-29
Tubcrculous Children.

In the cities of New York and Boston
there are, according to special COM
missions which recently investigated
the subject, over 10000 children in
these two cities alone that have tu-
berculosis. On the basis of these and
other Investigations it is estimated by
certain authorities that there are
nearly 100000 school children in the
United States to-day who will prob
ably die of tuberculosis before they
have reached the age of IS. This
would mean that the public is paying
annually about $7500,000 for the edu-
cation of children who will die before
they reach the age of Is.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-10-29
May Soon Breathe Again.

We are living in an era of eXpan-
sion in more ways than one. For in
stance, now, from some indefinite
source (you never can tell where to
lay the blame. or exc the credit for
such things), comes the news that
the directoire gown is to yield even
the scant space it occupies, and to
pass from sight to memory. In It's
place our sidewalks and street car
seats are to be crowded with more
voluminous skirts. The Inhabitants
of these costumes, freed from fash
ions policy of repression, will like
wise expand to more normal condi-
tions and comfortable sighs.-lndian-
apolis News.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-10-29

Thomas A. Barrett, Of Pine street,
has curiosity in the form of an oys-
ter shell which grew inside the neck
of broken bottle, the latter remain
ing around the centre OF the shell.
which accommodated itself to the un'
usual shape, while the ends continued
to grow, fan shaped. He came upon
it about six inches under the surface
of the sand while claiming, the oys-
ter being alive at the time. The thin
side of the shell has since been
broken off, leaving the thick side in
it's original shape. The glass which
forms the band around it was appar-
emily the neck of pint flask, inside
OF which the oyster grew perfectly
round, the shell pressing so closely to
the glass that it is immovable.-Prov-
idence Journal.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-10-29

MA wants two pounds of butter ex-
actly like what you sent us last. If it
amt exactly like that she won't take
it," said the small boy.
The grocer turned to his numerous
customers and remarked blandly:
"Some people in my business don't
like particular customers, but l do.
It's my delight to serve them what
they want. l will attend to you in q
moment, little boy"
"Be sure to get the same KIND" said
the boy. "a lot of pas relations is
visiting at our house and ma doesn't
want 'em to come again. "--Tit-Bits.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-10-29
The "Elack Rice"

It is difficult to estimate how many
of the Chinese have acquired the use
of opium. Various estimates, accord
ing to e. W. Thwing. secretary of the
International Reform Bureau. claim
that a moderate figure would be be-
tween 10 and 20 per cent. of the male
population for 9 1-2 to 5 per cent of
the total population. 1t is said that
in some places so per cent. of the
adult males use opium, and at least
one-tenth of the women. Before the
present anti-opium campaign began
there were over a thousand registered
opium dens in the city Of Foo Chow
alone. The Chinese often call opium
the black rice"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-10-29

ing election. Next year we must elect
Governor Stuart's successor and other
state officials, new legislature that
will elect Senator divers successor,
and congressional delegation. A re
duced majority in November would
not only be backward step; 1t would
encourage the Democracy and inspire
1t with hope of success In 1910.
"The Republican party in Pennsyl
vania has never been in better con
dition than it is today. But, as have
said, it is necessary that every Re.
publican do his duty on Nov. g."
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-10-29
Doubtful Devotion.

certain small boy who lives in a
historic town along the Hudson, views
the Decoration Day doings there with
mingled emotions. When the process
sions of school children go to The
cemetery with their wreaths and gar
lands he has been known to weep
with chagrin because his family
boasts no grave of their very own"
to trim. Last year he reserved his
tears till bedtime. when he shifted
back the threatened food to kiss his
mother goodnight. "Never mind, ma
ma" he sobbed on her shoulder, IN
wait as patiently as l can. I'd ruver
put flowers on yours and dacdy's
graves, anyway. than on any one
alse's!"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-10-29
A PENsioNED PONY.
Life Of Ease For 2s-Year-oId Trick
Circus Horse.

CIRCUS Horse.
New York can boast OF many PAM
pered pets, but down at Garden City
there is one living in luxurious ease,
the guest for life of big hotel, with
a Japanese valet to care for him,
even though he has not registered
since his arrival.
This is Tom. the first trick pony
of the now extinct Barnum & Bailey
Circus. which at the age of twenty
eight years is living as the guest OF
the Garden City Hotel, pensioned for
life by Robert Stickney.
The aged pony, according to Brook
lyn Life, has not only p sumptuous
box stall but a Japanese valet as well'
who daily leads the animal out for its
exercise, during which II is the re-
cipient of gifts and attention from
a large circle of boy and girl friends.
While advanced years have brought
stiffness, the pony still attempts
few of its old time tricks.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-10-29
LAW Of Attraction.

The attractions of men to women
and women to men are full of the
most perpleXing Inconsistencies and
contradictions imaginable, 1t is, for
instance, a physical law that magne-
tism is not simple attraction Of one
thing for another, but the difference
of two opposing forces of attraction
and repulsion, of which the former is
the greater. The same law holds in
relation to the attraction of men and
women for each other, in which, as a
rule, the masculine is the superior
force.-T. P.'s Weekly, London.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-10-29
What She Did with the Scum.

4 rate clerk in the Sarta Fe gen
er4l offices in Topeka, Kan, recently
brought a bride from San Francisco,
81, had never kept house and knew
but little about things in the kitchen.
A ew mornings ago she got after the
milkman.
What is the matter of your milk?''
said she with great vehemence.
II don't know" he replied. What
d. you find wrong with it?"
Well" said she, every morning
it is covered with nasty Shiny, yel'
low scum"
And what do you do with the
sc",n?"
why, l skim it off, IF course, and
throw it in the garbage"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-10-29
Good knowledge for Divers.

AS part of the education of the Eng
lish naval divers, the beginners are
taught how to save themselves, should
they become exhausted, by allowing
their suits to fill with air and shoot
ing rapidly upward to the surface,
where they are dragged into the boat
by the attendants.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-10-29
Makes a Living as Pawnng Agent.

a woman who appeared in a Lon
don police court the other day was de.
scribed as a 'pawning agent" She
makes her living by pawning things
for her neighbors, who pay her a COM
mission because they believe she can
secure larger loans than they could.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-10-29
HearIno Another's Burden.

"I never knew any man in my life
who could not bear another's misfor-
tunes perfectly like a Christian
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