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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-05
Misplaced Confidence.

From Harper's Weekly.
Il reckon you have to watch your
pocketbook an overcoat, an watch, an
SO on. pretty close. don't you?" a west
ern visitor to New York asked a friend,
native of that metropolis. as they were
starting out to view the city. and. de-
spite the citizens assurance that no more
than ordinary vigilance was required, the
westerner proceeded ito keep his eye
skinned much to his friends amuse-
ment.
Presently they entered cafe for
luncheon. The New Yorker was discours-
ing gayly upon the greatness Of his native
city, when he observed that the other had
an expression on his face much like that
of a cat at mouse hole.
What are you watching SO closely?"
he inquired.
Just keepin' an eye on my overcoat."
the other replied.
The New Yorker laughed.
'Oh, the coats all right. I'm not worry
ing about mine. you see, and they are
hanging together
mo, they amt, the westerner drawled.
Mines still there, but yours is gone
Teller walked out with ii bout ten min
utes or SO ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-05
BREAKING OLD BELIEFS.
The Literary Iconoclasts Are Abroad
These Days.

From Scrbner's.
For the sentimental no greater foe eX-
lists than the iconoclast who dissipates
literary legends. And he is abroad now
adays. Those golden times when they
gossiped of De Quincey's enormous opium
consumption. of the gin absorbed by gen
tie Charles Lamb. of Coeridge's dark
ways, Byrons escapades and Shelleys
atheism-alas, into what faded limbo
have they vanished. Poe too: Poe whom
we saw in fancy Keeling from Richmond
to Baltimore. Baltimore to Philadelphia.
to New York. These familiar. fascinating
anecdotes have gone the way of all such
jerry-bult spooks. We know Poe to have
been man suffering at the time OF his
death from a cerebral lesion, man who
drank at intervals and but little. DR..
Guerrier of Paris exploded darling
superstition about De Quinceys enormous
opium eating. He has demonstrated that
no man could have lived SO long-De
Quincy was nearly seventy-five at his
death-could have worked so hard, if he
had consumed twelve thousand drops of
laudanum often as he said he did.
Furthermore, the English essayst's de-
scription of the drugs effects Is pro-
nounced ineXact. He was seldom sleepy
a sure sign, asserts DIR. Guerrier. that he
was not confirmed victim to the drug
habit. In old age he was sprightly, and
his powers of labor were prolonged until
past threescore and ten. His Imagination
needed no opium to produce the famous
Confessions Even Gautier's revolution
airy red waistcoat worn at the premiere
of Ernoni was, according to Gautier, a
pink doublet. And Rousseau has been
whitewashe So they are disappearing,
those literary legends, until. disheartened,
We cry out; Spare us our dear old
fashioned. disreput able men OF genius!
But the legend of Charles Baudelaire Is
seemingly indestructible This French
pOet-whose name should be unforgotten
by Poes American admirers-himself has
suffered more from the friendly malig-
nant biographer and Partisan chroniclers
of the small beer of literature than did
zoe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-05
dumb" Meetings.
Berlin Dispatch to London EXPRESS.


The curious method adopted by the op-
pressed Poles in Germany to evade the
provisions of the new law relating to
public meetings was revealed in the trial
of three Polish residents of Ruhrort in
Westphalia, who had convened politi-
cal meeting.
Paragraph 10 of the new law relating
to public meetings compe!s every speaker
to use the German language. The Poles
circumvent this enactment by holding
dumb meetings. at which no word
whatever is spoken.
At the beginning of this particular
meeting the chairman wrote on large
blackboard on the platform an announce
ment that no speeches could be delivered
owing to the prohibition of the use of
the Polish language. Tine contents of the
lecture which would otherwise have been
delivered would be distributed among
the audience in the form of pamphlet
This pamphlet was read by the whole
audience in perfect silence. The resolu-
tions to be submitted to the, meeting
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-05
COST OF KISSES.
Tax on Forcible Oscillation in the
British Isles.

From Tit-Bits.
Who was first the inventor Of kissing.
While the majority Of us may echo the
sentiments of the old-time poet, there are
not wanting those-apart from grumpy
bachelors, woman haters and medical fad
dists, who see lurking in one sweet kiss
enough microbes to fill half a dozen hos
pitfalls with patients-who, were that in
ventor alive today. would be seeking him
out with war whoop and Ratchet. For,
alas! they have found that stolen kisses.
so far from being sweetest, are sometimes
very bitter fruit.
"She was so pretty and fascinating that
could not help kissing her. was the
novel and gallant plea put forward a
short time ago by Birmingham youth
charged with kissing girl In one OF
the parks against her will. Two pounds
or fourteen days." replied the hard. un-
feeling magistrate. You must learn to
keep your admiration Of the opposite sex
within proper bounds and sorrowfully
and sadly this youth who found pair OF
pretty lips so irresistible paid over the
40 shillings.
1t was a rather dear price to pay for
little osculatory practice. but man who
was charged with a similar offense at
seaside resort last year and muicted 10
the extent Of E5 jauntily replied that the
kisses were cheap at the price. and he
would not object to another G5 worth,
But he also had to pay for his f1ippancy.
the magistrate taking such serious view
of his unrepentant attitude and behavior
in court that he added another s3 to the
fine for contempt Of court.
Exactly how much this worked out at
per kiss it is impossible to say, as no in
formation to the number of kisses
stolen was furnished. A commercial trav-
eer, however, who snatched a single kiss
from the chambermaid of Manchester
hotel was fined 92 and costs. amounting
in all to 93 IS Cd. The value Of a stolen
kiss however. seems TO vary according
to the view taken by the judge Of the
offenSe.
Sometimes the delinquent has been let
off with a caution. while in other cases,
where a girl has struggled and hurt her
self in her efforts to avoid the unwelcome
attention, the offender has been fined as
much as G10, and the writer recalls one
case in which a man was sent to prison
for three weeks. without the option of a
fine for trying to kiss a girl against her
will and assaulting her because she re-
sisted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-05
Improving the Office Boy.
From Golfers Weekly.


He is the butt of hard pressed Joke
smiths and illustrators. His lot IL is 10
fetch and carry. Often his work is that
of an automaton. Sometimes he is as
sumed to lack the most rudimentary at
tributes of intelligence. Not always. Noe
the establishment of training class de-
voted to boys who wish TO do Office work.
The assumption which underlies the work
of this class is that the boy hims IF has
ambition and is bent upon effect:ng an
entrance into a life of business. II is
first inoculated with precepts of obedi nee
and loyalty. He is then schooled In the
local geography. He is taught to copy
letters, to do up parcels. to answer te.e-
phone calls. to manipulate switch.
Finally comes rudimentary bookkeeping
how to keep simple stamp or cas.l
count. Poor little Office boy. Often
enough his life is without enough of mar
bles. tops. base ball and flying kites: with
out enough. also, of the weapons which
the school can give. Glasses for his bene
fit. ii this one succeeds, may well follow
in many towns. Here is wishing it suo-
cess.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-05
GREAT FLOODS N GERMANY
MANY TOWNS SUBMERGED AND
TWENTY LIVES LOST.
Warm Rains Cause the Rhine and
Other Large Rivers to Burst
Their Banks.

BERLIN. February 5.-The floods in
Germany caused by several days of
heavy rains and spell Of warm weather
are today taking on a serious aspect in
many parts of the country. The first
fatalities are reported from Nordhausen,
where many bridges have been swept
away and twenty persons drowned. Along
number of the smaller streams, how
ever. the freshets are subsiding.
At Nuremberg the Pegnitz rose twelve
feet las night. and this morning it Is
raging through the lower streets Of the
city. The water is higher than it has
been for thirty three years. The news
papers of Nuremberg have suspended
publication, and enormous damage has
been caused
The railroad bridge at the mouth of the
River Lain has been swept away. Seven
miners. returning home from the potash
mines near Brockhausen, Brunswick, were
drowned in the flood. and three other
victims have been reported from Gera.
The railroad station at Coburg has been
severely damaged. and is now cut off
from the town. All the schools in Coburg
are closed. Streams from the mountains
In the kissingen region broke from their
banks last night and several towns were
flooded. The people were aroused from
their slumbers and had to flee for their
lives. Bridges were carried away and
trees thrown down, and the damages gen.
orally were heavy.
F'rankfort-on-th the Main reports the
highest wa.er in fifty years on some of
the streams in the Odenwald. At Essen
the situation Is growing more threaten
ing in the territory adjacent to the city.
The town of Herdecke is flooded. and
number of dams in the vicinity of Hagen
have been carried away. At Dortmund
the floods are increasing, and the fire
department was called out last night to
rescue family from the second story
of its dwelling. Several railroads over
the continents of the Rhine on the north
side have been swept away, and all
trains from Cologne up the river are be-
ing sent over the tracks on the south
bank. At Giessen the River Lain is six
teen feet above the normal, the highest
in thirty years. The valley between
Giessen and Wetzler appears as an inn
mense lake. The rivers of Silesia also
are very high, and many miles Of terri
tory are flooded. The waters are fall
ing at Chemnitz and Erfurt, but the
Rhine and the other larger streams are
rising steadily.
A special signal service has been put
in operation along the Rhine, where 1t
is expected that the danger point will
be reached in a day or two.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-05

Although his much-discussed medicine is now
on sale at all druggists In New York, there has
apparently been no Ietup in the crowds that are
calling at the store where Cooper is meeting the
public. says the New York World June 2, Os.
In speaking Monday of his extraordinary sue
cess In New York, Cooper said: The majority
of the people who calling to get my
medicine have been sent here by friends. There
is nothing the matter with nine out Of ten peo-
pie who are in poor health but stomach trouble.
brought about by overlooking and little outdoor
any one who tries Cooper's New Discovery. AS
son as have proved it and they longer
feel tired and dull and nervous, they tell their
friends about it. and that beats anything I could
say the subject.
Il thought when / put my medicine sale
generally in New York there would be let-up
at this store, but apparently there are just
many calling to talk with me as ever. People
have not yet realized they get the medicine
Wherever ine' cnooSe' shaii con'inue 10 inee'
the public at this store during the rest of my
stay In New York
Among statements made for publication on
Monday by New Workers who strongly In
favor of Cooper's theory and medicine was the
following by Mrs. Charles Trensch Of 81 Des-
brosses street, who said: mo who has had
such an experience my husband and myself
with this New Discovery medicine could help
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-05
TERROBIzES PART OF MEMPHIS
NEGRO ARMED WITH REVOLT
YER RUNS AMUCK.
Fires Into Street Cars and Houses
and at Pedestrians Before Being
Shot to Death.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. February 5.-Follow-
ing a daring hold-up on busy thorough
fare yesterday, Henry Morton, negro,
armed with a revolver and with pockets
filed with ammunition. ran amuck. firing
repeatedly into street cars and houses
and at pedestrians and terrorized a sec
ton of North Memphis before he was
shot to death by police and citizens.
After relieving another negro of bum
die of hides. Morton endeavored to force
trade with a produce dealer at the
point of his pistol. Failing, he sent a
confederate to dispose of the booty, but
both escaped before the arrival Of the
police. The negro was finally located
aboard a street car. but as an officer ap-
preached he jumped from the car, firing
blindly several times.
Fired as He Ran.
AS he ran he continued to fire. AS
pedestrians appeared the negro shot hur-
riedly and continued his race. Several
groups of school children were fired on.
and, firing into a house, the bullets OF
the negro narrowly missed a woman oc-
cupant.
A riot call brought a squad of police,
who we're joined by several score of citi-
zenS, and Morton was finally corralled
on a porch. At bay, the negro continued
to fire on his pursuers, but his bullets
went wild, while volley from the pur-
suers put an end to the battle. Four
rounds of unspent cartridges were found
in the pockets of the dead negro.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-05
Advantage Of the Red Head.
rom the Cleveland Leade


An eastern editor is wasting time and
space showing that red-haired girls need
no pity. OF course. they don't. Men adj
mire their hair and women envy it, The
blonde and the brunette have a bit the
better of the fame-colored girl in a va
riety of colors they can use. There the
superiority ends, for. given the proper
hue the one that sets off her crown Of red
to the best advantage. the bricktop has
her sisters beaten to a FRAGILE" in the
Rooseveltian language. An artistic red
haired girl is the most striking and i'm
pressive picture that femininity makes
It's the boy with the carroty locks who
deserves sympathy and doesn't get 1t.
Red hair usually goes with a sensitive
disposition. and the hor1prs of the life
that a. bricktop leads at school and play
need a Dante of childhood to set forth.
He is the target of all the wit and satire
the schoolboy mind can conjure up; the
butt of the jokes. Even sympathetic girls
get a Roman amphitheater crust over
their kind hearts. If they don't indulge
in these scarifying personalities they
laugh at them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-05
ENDURANCE OF THE HORSE.
Driven Daily the Distance He Can
Go Is Not Great.

From Country Life in America.
what is a fair days work for a
horse?" is a frequent question. and very
difficult to answer. The London bus
horse does eighteen miles day at rate
Of seven miles an hour in double harness
with a four-ton bus; a pair of post horses
used to do twenty-six miles with a one
ton coach at eight miles going and at six
returning.
II have known the horses in the heavy
deer van of H. NJ. Buckhounds to do over
eighty miles in a day, but they were
never worked more than twice week.
A good horse will trot his twenty or thirty
miles a day for several days consecu-
lively. but cannot keep it up: he may
do sixty miles in one day, but then must
have a rest the next.
Small horses. other things being equal.
stand more work and recover more
able instances Of the powers of ponies
are given in William Days book. which
records run of 1O7 miles in fourteen
hours by two boys on ponies. and one OF
172 miles in twenty-three and a half
hours by a twelve-hand pony Qed). which
beat the coach from London to Exeter;
the times given included all stops.
''ToWn work, on account of the fire.
quent stops and the hard pavement, In
duces fatigue, and especially leg weari-
ness sooner imam country WOTh lWO
horses worked we'll within their powers
will always prove more economical in the
end than one that Is habitually driven to
the utmost limit of his capacity.
There are. however, many cases where
from different causes one horse repre-
sents what the schoolboy called the IRE
ducible maximum; then the animal par
excellence to be brought is the cob.
though he will not be too easy to find In
this country. where the love Of fast trot-
ters has dominated the question of gen.
eral utility.
'Yet the true cob, sturdy in build, with
plenty of bone, but enough blood to keep
him from being sluggish. is one Of the
most useful specimens Of the equine race.
We'll under fifteen hands, he Is easy to
mount and sufficiently short in his stride
to be a comfortable hack for even elderly
men, and he is up to quite considerable
weight; In harness he is sprightly, quite
fast enough for ordinary purposes. and,
being low and thick. is capable of sur
prising power of draught.
I'm England. where he is as common as
he Is rare here, he is the mainstay of the
small and the general drudge Of the large
establishment, and is usually an ornament
to both. He should carry his head we'll.
have undeniably good shoulders. a short
back and powerful quarters. being, in
short, big horse in small compass"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-05
Bridge Between Life and Death.
from Success Magazine

About a year ago an eightand- a-half-
pound baby was born into the home of a
young New York physician. To all ap-
pearances the child was perfect-strong.
robust, healthy. On the fourth day 1t de-
veloped d raging fever. AT the same time
hemorrhages of bright red blood issued
from the child $ nostrils neck. ears, scalp.
diffusing into it's eyes and causing tenn
porary physical blindness. II was the one
cas2 in "a thousand of the dreaded melaena
nconatorum-the hemorrhage of the new
born" The verdict was: No hope. AL
ready the little sufferer was waxen livid.
D ath was only a question of hours.
They strapped the child to an ironing
BOARD. On a table next TO ii the father
lay down and stretched out his arm. The
attendant surgeon cut the pulse artery
at the wrist and sewed thu end of the
artery to a vein in the child's leg. AS the
new blood began to course through the
chiId's body the color Of the skin changed.
From a livid white 1t grew pink. then
red The hemorrhages stopped. The
response was a lusty cry. Nourishment
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-05
Freak Laws and Annual Sessions.
From the Lowell Courier Citizen.


Massachusetts is overloaded with laws,
and yet each year finds some new ones
added to the old array of annually unsuc-
cessful blisters. The fanatic has one eX-
cellent quality that might be applied with
prof: to many better cause, to wit, he
is ordinarily very hard to discourage.
Nevertheless the legislature of this state
keeps on meeting annually and sitting for
nearly or quite six months. when most
other states are content with legislatures
meeting every second year and sitting for
only three months. They get along quite
as well as we. on the whole: and we sus-
pect they get along very much better 1t
is pity that Massachusetts cannot bring
herself to this, save in money and in
trouble, and in the end get rather fewer
needless laws enacted. 1t would be dis
tinct advantage to have our elections more
seldom held. to have the sessions shorter,
and il possible to have the volume of petit
lions curtailed to something within reason
Much time is wasted now on the most
pathetic nonsense devised by sedulous
seekers after freak reform.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-05
Kissing the Book.

From the London Chronicle.
kissing the book an act for which
Sir Gorell Barnes is very willing to see
witnesses substitute the Scottish fashion
Of swearing-is a rather late development
of the mere touching of the Gospels with
the fingers. which dates from the sixth
century. 1t is likely that the kiss was
originally intended not to increase the
solemnity OF the oath, but to signify
reverence and affection toward the book.
The kiss appears to have come into fash
ion toward the end of the sixteenth CEN
fury. and would seem, from what George
Fox says of 1t. to have been Protestant
innovation According to him. the unre-
formed method was simply to hold the
Gospels with three fingers above the
book, typifying the Trinity. and two fin
gers below. typifying the twofold destruc-
ton. of body and soul, that an oath taker
invoked upon himself if he swore falsely.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-05
THE EARTH's MAGNETISM.
Electric Currents Encircle Globe East
to West Traced to the Sun.
L.

Electric Currents Encircle Globe East
to West Traced to the Sun.
From the Literary Digest.
That the earth is great magnet we
all know. and it was long ago suggested
that it is an electromagnetic its mag
netsm is due to electric currents en-
circling it from east to west. But what
causes these currents? 1t has seemed
likely to many students of the subject
that they are in some way connected
with the earth's rotation-that the earth
is like the armature of great dynamo
in the suns magnetic field. This view
seems essentially that of DIR. F. A. Black.
who contributes an article on 1.-The Earth
as Magnet" to Harper's Magazine.
Says this writer:
1.-THE advances in electrical science. in
it's relation to nature. have of late
years brought many to believe that
the sun is our great storehouse of cleo
tricity: that the ether of surrounding
space is electric in character, and that
electricity itself may be even atomic in
structure.
and heat, is believed to be also pour
ing cut electricity, or electric energy.
to all surrounding space. Whether in
the form of waves of the surrounding
ether or OF physical particles, this cleo
trical stream flows on to the earth on the
side Of the globe which is exposed to the
sun. AS the earth in it's daily motion
rotates eastward, causing the sun APP
parently to pass around the earth daily
in a westward direction, this stream or
flow of electricity is caused to wind con-
stantly around the earth in a westward
direction. COIL SO to speak, being COM
pleted in each daily rotation. Thus the
magnetiZation of the earth very probably
results in a manner exactly analogous
to that employed when a needle is mag
netized by an electric current through a
right handed spiral coil.
There would seem to be reason for
believing. at least tentatively: % That
the earth in it's physical structure con-
sists to such an extent of magnetizable
material that it is capable. as a whole.
that an electrical stream, OF current, is
received by the earth on the side ex-
posed to the sun, which. through the
earth's rotation. is coiled around the
earth from east to west, causing the earth
to become an electromagnetic; 90 that the
conversion of the earth into an electro
magnet in this manner is the cause of
the directive tendency of the magnetic
needle. both in declinatiOn and dip; while
the diversties and peculiaritieS connected
with the method Of magnetiZation are
the cause of the constant changes and
anomalies in the movements of the needle,
and a. that the method of magnetization.
and the character of the exposure of the
are the causes which decide the position
of the terrestrial magnetic poles and
equator, and the changes which occur in
relation thereto
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-05
Sixty Different Kinds Of Bananas.
From the Los Angeles Times.

To most persons In the temperate
zones a banana is banana. But the
truth is that there are over sixty known
varieties of the fruit, with great or
greater variation in character as In the
different kinds Of apples Hawaii is said
to have something over forty distinct va
rieties Of the fruit. most Of which have
been introduced by the whites. Some Of
these are of extremely delicate and de-
licious flavor, while other kinds are used
If at all only when cooked in various
ways. There is scarcely cty house lot
or country "kuleana" or homestead which
does not have a clump or two of bananas
which grow with practically no care. new
plants, or suckers, shooting up to replace
the ones which have fruited and been re-
moved.