davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-10
WANT 1T EASIER TO DIG UP
REMAINS OF LONG DEAD
Commissioners Ask Change in Code
to Relieve Conditions in Aban-
doned Cemeteries.

To make il easier to d,sinter bodies
from abandoned cemeteries than under
existing laws the Commissioners seek
amendment to the code. II is now prac-
t.cally Impossible to disnter remains OF
those who have been long dead.
a bill has been sent to Senator Cal
linger covering the matter thoroughly.
A detailed explanation of why this
amendment s wanted is appended.
nealta Officer Woodward explains that,
with proper supervision. graves Of per-
sons who have died of certain contagious
diseases may be opened without injury
TO the public health. incidentally. in add
ton to making it possible to remove
bodies of such persons from abandoned
cemeteries, it will enable the Commits
soners to meet frequent requests from
relatives for permission to disinter bodies
for purposes of reinterment elsewhere.
4 provision in the code now makes 1t
necessary that written permission from
the nearest relative or from the legal
representative of the deceased shall be
obtained before a grave be opened in an
abandoned cemetery or anywhere else.
In the case Of old hurying grounds this
Is impossible, in many c>Ses. because
even identity of graves cannot be estab-
lished always.
Should the bill become "A law 1t is ex-
pected that the owners Of certain old
cemeteries will use the lands for build
ing purposes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-10
MRS. LUCKETT ELECTED
SUCCEEDS TO POSITION LONG
HELD BY MRS. HAMLIN.
Meeting Of the Woman's Home Mis-
sionary Society of the Presby-
terry of Washington.
the latter takes charge OF
Harris Ewing rhnto.,

Mrs. 5. u Luckett was elected president
cietr of the Presbytery of Washington
in the Church OF the Covenant today. For
some months past Mrs. Luckett has been
acting president of the society in place
of Mrs. Teunis s Hanlin. wife of the
late pastor of Covenant Church. Mrs.
llamlin is now in Europe and near the
opening of the session today il was pro-
posed 10 give testimonials to both her
and Miss Fannie Chlds, treasurer of
the society They have occupied their
respective offices for twenty-five years
They have been made life members OF
the PRESBYTERIAN woman's board of
HON. missions In New York.
The other officers elected besides Mrs
Luckett, who is member of MetropOli-
tan Church. included the following: Mrs.
Thomas Noble of Washington Heights
Church, first vice president; Mrs. Donald
c. Macleod of the First Church, second
metropolitan Church, third vice president.
Miss Nettie Bradley, New York Avenue
Church. fourth vice president: Miss Shell
don Jackson. Covenant Church, CORE
spending secretary; Mrs. Harvey g. Irwin,
New York Avenue Church, recording sec
Church, secretary for Freedmen, Rnd'
Miss Fannie childs, Covenant Church.
treasurer.
The morning session closed at shortly
after O'Clock, and at > o'clock the after
noon session began. Miss Florence Ste
phenson. principal of the Home Industrial
School at Asheville. y. G.. spoke on the
work in which she is engaged. The
school has been established for educat-
ing the mountain people of the south.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-10
SCOTTISH GHOSTS.
Faith in Phantoms Still Has Strong
Hold on Sandy.
Prom Cassell's Journal.

Prom CasselIs Journal.
The faith in ghosts still haunts the
minds Of many practical Scotsmen, and
the instances OF the live supernatural
upon which 1t is fed are infinitely prefer
able to the irrational cradulities of our
crystal gazers and other romancers of the
world OF "spooks." At the seat of the
Airlies there is the ghostly drummer,
whose rub-a-dub is the invariable presage
of death in the family. At Newton Castle
still walks of a night the Green Lady. .
so called from her green silk dress: and
in Berwickshire the residence of Allan
bank is haunted by the troubled spirit of
..Pearlin Jean" She is so called from
her fondness for a particular kind of lace,
and rustles up and down stairs in her
silks.
The spirit of Lady Hamilton of Both
Wellhaugh, who was turned out naked
into the open fields. where she went
raving mad and her babe died of cold.
Woodhouseiee. CLAIMS Castle comes in
evitably to the mind. Here Earl Patie"
played, one Sabbath night. his game at
the cartes with the evil one In person.
and was destined to resume the same in
fernal accompaniment Of shrieks and bias
phenies long after he had been laid in
his unquiet grave. Here. too, is hid
eous secret contained in an inaccessible
inner room, the mystery Of which is re-
vealed to the heir and factor alone. This
evil spirit can find no annihilation. unlike
the unhappy thing that was heard crying
through the night at Whittingehame. over
the border, which, when it was hailed by
a witless drunken fellow as "Shorthog-
gers''-a facetious reference to the foot.
less stockings in which it seemed to be
clad-forthwith and forever vanished from
the knowledge of men.
In a well known country house Of Fife
shire. which has been for very many gen
erations in the hands of the same family
an unhappy leman by day and night
haunts the great stairs. Some time ago a
member Of the house party, while going
down to lunch, stopped to pick up her
handkerchief. As she recovered herself
she saw lady, richly dressed and ex-
ceedinely handsome, come from a door
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-10
Those Anglo-Saxon Names.
rom the Columbus Dispatch.

From the Columbus Dispatch.
Two recruits had just been brought in
by the sergeant.
Enlisting officer Ito first onel-Whsts
your name?
Recruit-Watt. sir.
What is your name
Watt sir.
Whats your name? | ask you"-im-
patiently.
MY name is Watt. sir-W-a-t-t.'
'.Humph, Where do you come from?"
Ware. sir.
Yes. dunderhead, Where do you come
FROM
II come from the town of Ware, in
Hertfordshire sir.
"Oh, that'll do
Turns to second recruit.
Whats your nameT'
Nee. sir.
Yes. you thickhead! VIII you give me
your name?'
MY name, sir. Is John Nee
"Humph And where do you come
FROM
Hoo, sir
"Confound it. you blockhead. Don't you
understand? Where do you come from?'
Hoo, sir
Sergeant dnterposing)-The man comes
from the village of Hoo. near Chatham,
sir.
.'Oh, | see
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-10
To Dye Diamonds.
rom the Philadelphia Press

The color of diamonds Is by no means
In every case unchanging and unalterabe
Some stones are bleached by sunlight
thus a red diamond on exposure 70 sun
light Is reported to have gradually lost its
color and become white. a diamond In
the possession of the Persian jeweler
Halpen undergoes a peculiar change in
color on exposure to the heat. The color
Of diamonds is In some cases affected by
exposure to high temperature. Accord
Ing to Des Cloizeaux. pale green dia-
monds. after being heated in the oxy-
hydrogen flame, become light yellow;
brown crystals under the same conditions
become grayish. Baumhauer witnessed
the color of one diamond change from
green TO yellow. and of another from
dark green to violet, under the influence
of q high temperature. Wohler caused
green diamonds to assume a brown color
by heating them, but found that brown
low diamonds, especially those from the
Cape, retain their color at the highest
temperature.
Many attempts have been made to
transform family coiored stones into the
more valua BILE colorless stones. This is
readily effected i'll those Brazilian dia-
monds which have colorless central por-
ton surrounded by a colored external
layer of no great thickness. The outer
colored layer Is in these cases simply
burnt away by heating the stone In a
crucible with little saltpeter. The ope-
ration Is very brief, the colored external
layer disappearing in one or two seconds.
This device involves no actual change OF
color, but is simply a removal of the col
ored portions. which could have been
effected Just as we'll by the more lengthy
process of grinding. Attempts have been
made. however. to tiecolorize diamonds in
which the. undesirable pigment is distrib-
uted through the substance of the whole
| stone, but apparently has not been sue
cessful.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-10
Time to Ordain Steel Cars.


The terrible wreck near Benson, Ariz.,
furnishes another argument against the
continued use of wooden cars for pas
sengers on railroad trains. A steel bag
gage car was uninjured, but the mail
car was splintered and partly telescoped,
while the chair car and tourist sleepers
were badly smashed.
1t is time for Congress to take positive
action on this matter. A law should be
enacted at the present session requiring
all interstate railroads within seven years
to scrap all their wooden passenger cars
and substitute steel cars, changing at
least one-seventh of their entire equip
ment every year. beginning with the pas
sage of the law.
1t ia a national shame that the rail-
roads are permitted to carry coal and
coke in safer cars than they furnish for
human beings.
Steel cars have been proved practical;
they are not unduly expensive, and they
are exceedingly durable. There is no
reason why the forced substitution should
be longer delayed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-10
Unprogressive America.
Clifford Howard. in the Atlantic


We OF this big republic complacently af-
firm the glory OF our national achieve
ments, and are not without temptation 10
acclaim them as proof OF superior craft
and Judgment But hefein do we forget
that We are on record as having cast our
vote against every move that has con-
tributed TO the present centurys devel-
opunent We raised our voices in con-
temptous protest against the first pro-
jected railways. Had the locomotive
awaited its signal from the people
Ii would not Yet have started
When the electric telegraph was shown
10 us we brushed il aside as
a toy and laughed its inventor to scorn
when he offered to sell US his rights for
a few thousand dollars. We put into
jan as an imposter the first man that
brought anthracite coal to market. We
broke TO pieces Howe's sewing machine
az an invention calculated to ruin The
working classes: and we did the same
thing to the harvester and the binder
We scorned the typewriter as plaything
We gathered together in mass MEETINGS
af indignation at the first proposal to in
stall electric trolley lines. and when DR..
Bell told us he had invented an instru-
rnant by means of which we might talk to
one another across the town we responded
with accustomed ridicule. and only the
reckless among US contributed TO its be-
tng.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-10
LONDON's POVERTY.
An Englishman Explains Why It Is
Squalid and Brutal.

Letter 10 the New York sun
The submerged tenth is brutally
prominent in London. 1t stares at you
with repellant ugliness that must strike
visitor from this country with horror
and disgust: 1t does that to some Of US
who were born in London. The East Side
of New York. which in a way corresponds
to the East Side of London, is not
depressing quarter to walk through, as
are Whitechapel. Bethnal Green and
Bermondsey. This is due take It, to
the absence Of smoke here and also to
the greater opportunities for a poor man
TO get on in New York than In my own
city. Hope is in tho hearts OF most on
the East Side here: hopelessness, that
dull acauiescence to what is melted out by
fortune. is the worst feature OF London
poverty.
Bur all old cities get an accumulation Of
the uncomfortable. The unfortunate. dis
contented unfit. drift to large cities and
London, which In its way is as cosmo-
roltan az New York attracts Just this
class. and sinking, as they do. lower and
lower. a picture Of sordid Wretchedness
is TO be seen In my city that so far as
know New York, is happily not to be
seen here.
The gentleman from Boise. Idaho, per-
haps does not realize that half the popu-
lation IF the United Kingdom Ia occupy
the Union land that not the iargest), con-
sequently opportunities for getting on are
necessarily far fewer than here. where
there is still much land to develop What
George Bernard Shaw has in mind, and
in this h reflects the opinion Of a good
many Britishers, In that America with
her advantages. resources. opportunities.
unique position. ought not to have the
poverty YOU see In London and other
large cities in Great Britain. and ought
not to have so much misery, due to hope
less poverty. as she has.
/ venture to say that II the United
States of America had the same condi-
tons obtain today II my country she
her present problems are ''as water unto
wine
This country Is fed. regards popu-
lation. from the best OF the old world
consequently the less efficient. lacking
initiative remain behind. largely to be
a burden on those already working hard.
Mr. F1enner should recall the fact that
TO give all old persons over seventy who
have not had poor relief or committed .
felony a pension of ) shillings a week
will cost my country anything up to 10
millions sterling a year. and I may re-
mark I'm passing that Lloyd-George' s
budget which the lords turned down had
that, among other items, TO raise by tax
alton. -----..--.
We English look to this country to
solve some of those social problems
pressing so heavily upon old countries,
but when comparisons are made quality
az well as quantity. excellence as we'll as
cheapness, should decide The issue.
FRIED MILLAR.
New York. December -.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-10

opening on the landing and hurry down
stairs. AS neither at table nor in the
drawing room did she again meet this
stranger, she mentioned the fact to her
host, who inadvertently turned the topic
of conversation. The next day while
going through the ancient mansion with
her host and hostess. among other rooms
they looked into that out of which the
lady had emerged. The walls were lined
with family portraits, but one place was
unfilied-its picture lay face against the
floor. Said the host: ''Oh. Miss So-and-
So. You have heard of my great-grand-
cousin who was rather a disgrace to the
family early last century? This is her
ROOM. Saying this, he bent down and
turned the picture round. What do you
think of her beauty" There We're the
very face and figure his guest had seen
upon the stairs,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-10
Appeal to a Thief.
'aris Correspondence London telegraph

Paris Correspondence London Telegraph.
The other evening NJ. Alfred Edwards
lost a pocketbook containing sum of
e444 as he was leaving the theater. This
morning a letter from him appears in the
Figaro addressed to the presumed thief
who must be most ungentlemanly one
indeed If he does not answer 1t at once.
The letter says:
"In leaving the Antoine Theater la ST
night after the 'Papillon' had been given
some very deft hand distracted my
pocketbook. containing ten bank notes OF
1000 francs each and twelve others of
100 francs. with some photographs and
papers that are important to me. II the
person who has appropriated my property
is SO we'll inspired as to read the Figaro
1 beg him to send me back the pocket
book and the papers. which are OF no use
to him. To hope that he would also send
back the bank notes In exchange for a
good reward would be exceeding the linn
its OF optimism. and | do not dare to ex-
poet 1t. But my papers-what use can
they be to him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-10
Frances Counter Proposition.

In reply to this position of the United
States, the French government has made
counter proposition which, while ma
terially charging the list of minimum
rates which the United States now en-
joys in France, tails short of the eX
pectatiGns of this government that sub
stantially the French minimum, or. in
place of these numbers necessary to re-
serve, certain compensatory concessions
should be made. The situation is some
what complicated by the tact that leg
islative revision of the French tariff is
now I'm progress
notwithstanding the limitations to
negotiations provided in the Payne
it may be legal as we'll as just to the
United States, and in our tariff relations
with other countries. to conclude an ar
rangement with France, which would
accept less than the full minimum, pro-
vided the minimum rates are obtained on
the articles of prime Importance to
American trade, with certain other COM
mercial benefits outside the tariff sched-
ule. In such an arrangement 1t must be
made clear that no undue discrimina-
ton is involved. OF that fact the Presi-
dent, under the law, is the sole Judge
notwithstanding the present unsatis-
factory condition of the negotiations
with France. the tariff officers of the
government express the hope that before
the LIST Of April next. when our maximum
rates go into operation, an amicable set
Element with France will have been
reached
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-10
Pig Iron Without Coal.
the New York Tribune

From the New York Tribune.
Pig iron is being made directly from
the ore without fuel in California, the
requisite heat being supplied by cleo
tricity The process is too expensive 10
be employed where coal is ABUNDANT and
cheap. and will not soon come into use in
the eastern part Of the country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-10
SHOOTS GIRL IN STREET
YOUTHS ACT SENDS CROWD
SCAMPERING.
Then Wounds Self in Eye-Young
Woman's Corset Steels De-
fleet Bullets.

Special Dispatch to The star
NEW YORK. March 1".-Arthur Faul-
haber eighteen years old. attempted TO
commit murder This morning on Greene
avenue, Williamsburg, in view of a crowd
TT men and women VINO were hurrying
10 work. The youth. who IS said 10 he
addicted to socialistic literature, fired
four bullets from revolver at young
woman named Bessie Eggers. nineteen
years old, while she was hUrrying along
with her sister Margaret.
The two girls screamed and then Bes-
sic, with flesh wounds in the right side
of her neck, fed down the street. while
the pedestrians. panic-stricken, fed To-
nearby doorways. Faulhaber pursued the
young woman. and let fly two more bull
lets al her back. which were DETECTED by
the steels in her corset.
After the fourth shot Faulhabe shot
himself in the right eye When a police
man ran up, all he would say was Il
shot her because / loved her
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-10
Girl Swoons.

The girl had swooned away by the time
aid had reached her. 1t was seen that
the boy was in a desperate condition
and he was hurried to the German Hos
pital.
The girls went to the Hamburg avenue
police station, where Bessie's wounds
were dressed and both were taken home
both suffering from shock.
According to the girls, Faulhaber lived
in the same house with them about two
years ago. The Eggers family moved
out of the house because Faulhaber be-
came obnoxious in his attentions to
Bessie
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-10

Diner Ito his neighbor after having
three helpings to fish and meaD-Tve got
no appetite tonight.
Neighbor-You hide IL very well, them
Fliegende Blaetter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-10

Christian &. Shoeman, sixty eight years
old, died at his home, Upper Strasburg
Md, OF general debility. His widow and
four children survive.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-10
Hats, $4.98, $40 and 1888.
Illustrating the Latest Philadelphia STYLES.

While we don't know ladies OF the Quaker City
asked for these hats do know that each
here at dollars less than its actual value
While all have condemn the late dsgraceful exhibit
boodshed the have
good OF the merchants who the
refined who have been kept prisoners indoors.
these hats that OF marked
been reduced S408 Of the $1,000 hats
s.. 49, that ST. be only S8SS
viii not tonlorows sale OF Philadelphia Washington Hats
be the most important this side OF Easter?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-10
T|E-UP ON THE TARIFF.
NEGOTIATIONS WITH FRANCE
PROGRESSING SLOWLY.
Higher American Minimum Rate
Responsible for Hitch in the
Bargaining.

Little progress is being made in the
tariff negotiations between the United
States and France. and at the present
moment the prospects of speedy set
tlement of the questions involved are
not encouraging.
The United States has insisted from
the outset upon the French minimum
rates for the minimum rates of the
Payne-Aldrich act, and up to this time
the procamations issued by the Presi
dent extending these rates to foreign
countries have been based upon like
concessions to the United States.
The great obstruction that was en-
countered from the first in the negoti
atoms with France was that the
minimum rates of France ranged from
to 10 per cent ad valorem, while the
average ad valorum rates of our pres
cnt minimum tariff is approximately
45 per cent The law. however, gives
little or no latitude for negotiations,
and the tariff officers of the govern
ment are compelled to insist, notwith-
standing this great difference, upon
subs tantially minimum for minimum
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-09-29
MURDERS AND SUICIDES.
Census bureau Report. 2,S5i ana S,tO2
Respectively.

Washington. Sept, 2s-In 1909 there
were 2.S54 homicides In that portion
OF the l.. S. covered by death registry
laws. and in the same area S,i02
deaths due to suicide, The figures are
supplied by the census bureaus an
nual report on mortality and cover
about IS per cont. OF the population.
There is an actual falling off of 149
pared with 1905. while there is a de-
crease Of the rate of suicides COM
pared with population.
Poison was the most commonly en-
ploYod instrument of suicide, 2,464
cases being due to 1t. Firearms with
23qi cases were "A close second as a
means of self destruction. while hang
ing was responsible for l,el5 cases.
The report also supplies an enumer-
alton u accldt ntal deaths for 1909 as
follows: Railroad accidents, 6,659:
drowning. 4.5ts; burns 3,a92; injuries
at birth. 3.50S; injuries by horse Ve-
hiclos and horses, 2.152; street cars.
1.723; automobiles. 832; accidents In
mines and quarries 1897; inhalation
of poisonous gases, 1877; other acct
dental poisonings i,7I9; accidental
gunshot wounds. GA, heat and sum
stroke, SIC, cold and freezing, 25l;
lightning, $50
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-09-29
COLT RACE. PURSE SIS.
MAY VISIT TWO STATES.
Washington County Good Rond~ Tour
Plans Shaping Themselves.

Montpelier. Sept. ga we'll attend
ed meeting of those Interested in good
roads was held this evening to CON
si'er plan for taking the senator's
and representatives from Washington
county on two days trip over high
ways of Vermont, New hampshire,
and possibly New York state. The
proposition was enthusiastically re
ceived by automobile owners in Mont
pcllcr and Barre, who will furnish
rhcir cars
\ committee composed Of DR.. x s
Cleavcs Frank F. Lowe and Fred
blanchard of this city. a. G.. Martin
and w. g. Reynolds of Barre was ap-
which the trip will he taken and to
make all noces AIRY ARRANGEMENTS. The
date whom the party VIII start was left
20 this committee but 1t was tentative
IS fixed FOR Friday. October :.
As soon as the Legislature cOnvores
the Washington county delegation in
the Senate and House will be called
toKonther and consulted as to their
Convenience IN going on this tour
This proposed trip is similar to
those taken in Franklin and Caledonia
counties to give the LEGISLATORS hrst
hand information IN regard to the
roads in this and other State. In
addition to the 30 representatives ana
three senators in the county It is prob
able several road commissioners and
perhaps some State officials will he
Invited to go.