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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-14

principal business streets of the city, ahd'
unless all signs fail. YOU will meet with
ample diversion and forget that there
are such things as blues
To the observant the passing crowd IS
the greatest show on earth. Watch II
as il hurries along, each man intent on
his own affairs, preoccupied and indifer-
ent TO his surroundings, when something
unusual happens, and then. lmpelied as
II by common impulse, old and young
alike rush off to discover tue cause busl-
ness time. pleasure AMI even meals are
forgotten while curiosity holds them cap
tive with her insidiouS ANS
Since all mankind is tarred with the
same brush all Eumanit:. whether con-
eciously or not, is imbued with the same
vagaries and inconsistencies guided by
the same impulses and controlled by the
same passions in various degrees. Curl-
osity and sympathy are alone enough 10
make the whole world kin, for whether
IL be baiky horse OF a bdiky aUtomo-
bile, a fist fight. the demonstration OF
the virtues of rev cellar button a
murder every one within sight or hearing
hurries TO the spot and stops, regardless
of time and reckless OF consequences
The attention or the general public may
he caught and held by the smallest ripple
upon the monotony of the daily routine
Anything which breaks the serenity of
the atmosphere or disturos the surround
ing landscape claims Immediate interest
from the passerby.
With the street as the Kaleidoscope
stage ard the passing crowd the spec
tators, the vaudeville show of each
days allotment goes on with its ever re-
curing comedies and tragedies constantly
springing into life by the combination of
chance OF accident. The actors are per
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-14

Washingtonians were treated to novel
and at the same time awe-inspiring spec
taclc in the recent construction of the
wireless station on the top of the Evans
building on New York avenue. Thousands
of people craned their necks and nervous
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-14

F You should hap
pen to be tired of
life. ennuied and
bored with the
everlasting same
ness of your daily
existence - melan-
choly to the point
of debating upon
the quickest and
ca Siest road to
oblivion>just take
q stroll alcng the
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The Two Ginks and a Long Shot


remember and get thatD Just like soused
mariners. They didn't care
They were out for action. and they OBJ
tanned IL Cod was as naueht to them.
MoochlnS along, way after midnight
looking for another place that might lie
open for liquid calls. the two tall and
vide young huskies fell to talking of the
wars.
Their idea of the wars was the recent
Jen-Johnson thing, and they combed that
stuff over with a close-toothed rake
Dwelling as they did for long time
upon this wariike .heme. it fell into their
minds that they, too, belize, were there
or should be there with the warrior stun
Not to put too shrewd point upon the
matter, they then and there decided that
the thing which allied them was tina, they
had not. respectively or severally, slaugh-
tered anybody very recently.
IL was that, they both considered in
loud unison which was making them so
lonesome and heavy at heart of late.
What they required was the early on
portunity to pull somebody or other TO
pieces with their nude digits and then
fire loud and triumphant vocal yolley
over the remains of their victims.
Their recent lives, they felt. upon due
consideration, had been marked by a
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So here we draw the curtain, after
stating briefly that the things that those
First Two Ginks, viz, the pair of linemen,
did not do to the pair CT warriors could
have been described in a dolls book.
The things that the linemen did to the
brace of warriors couldn't have been de-
Scribed between the covers of NulSate
of the fourteenth century. In doing these
things the linemen, needless to say, used
as tools those cute little things with
sharp spikes that t>ley fasten onto their
legs wnen they want to do bit Of climb
ing on poles.
The pair of warriors may get out OF
their sheaths of sticking plaster in time
to take in a moonlight excursion on the
Potomac about two weeks from next
Thursday.
There's no chance to beat long shot
unless you play it to lose, and then you re
liable to get stung, owing to the sheer
and arbitrary divvlement of the things
CLARENCE l.. CULLEN.
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liz O@GzW GR1Rz1ER

One of the most popular attractions of
the street, which is not governed by sea-
sons, is the ever welcome organ grinder
with his old-time barrel organ and" his
agile little monkey, which performs, bows
and dances for the children and the pen
MES. Up one street and down the next the
old man plods on, patiently grinding out
the same old wheeZy tunes over and over,
to the accompaniment of the ring of the
coins and the laughter of the little folks.
Only few days past small monkey
deliberately dressed in scarlet and gold
lace furnished amusement for children
and grOWn-uPs one whole afternoon by
searching the chldren's pockets. He had
a positive way about his business meth
DDS too for he would take hold of the
hand outstretched with a coin and hold
fast to it while he made thorough
search. so as to be certain that some OF
the fingers were not cOncealing other pen
MES.
The ''hurdy-surdy' is a favorte with
the children, but it can never really COM
ones to be trimmed. cleaned. put away,
etc, etc.
So they said unto the two artisan-like-
looking persons,in tone denoting deep
disregard:
Hey. you NUTS
Just like that, you know, as it is here
set down.
"Wot's that?" inquired both of the
artisan like-looking persons, in a voice,
hating suddenly.
Come over here N get your beans
pushed Off" demanded the two warriors
We've made a little agreement between
ourselves to saw and split the first two
NUTS we met, and you're the two. How
dye think you'd prefer that stuff-to be
bounced off the side o. Gerstenbergs or
to be just stepped and paraded on for
about fifteen minutes or SOP"
Then it was the time for the two arti-
san-iike-looking persons to exchange
glances.
Now right here is where that long shot
thing comes in.
After the air of warriors had decided
that the situation required thai they
wallop the first two ginks they met. the
simple mathematics of the game would
allow for these first two ginks to be per-
sons of almost any non-athletic occupa-
ton. In fact, the chances enormously
favored such fact. There are not, after
ALL many athletic occupations, and 50
these first two ginks might well have
been non-sinewy and. in fact, fabbv
piano tuners, haberdashers manufac-
turers of paper flowers, perfumery clerks.
pharma cists out of condition, or any OH
er of long list of non-husky occupa-
tons or avocatiOns.
But nix.
These first two ginks. long shots of the
darkest degree, just happened TO be line
men.
You say, !.,lcrc~, an. ne ;.us.k.! :;
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automobiles, together with the effort to
avoid being run into. the poor beasts had
not A peaceful moment. and just as soon
as they had reached the Virginia shore
one of the leaders lay down in the middle
of the roadway with an air of such
lief and satisfaction seemed to show
that he was glad that he had left the
citys turmoil behind and that home and
peace were beyond
With Arlington so near Washington
necessarily has many military funerals,
and. even though this is true they are
still source of wdeS pread interest to a
least a portion of the great populace, and
the church and route to Arlington are the
objective joints of a goodly crowd whose
only excuse for coming rs curiosity. To
the. curious-minded there is something
very satisfying in the contemplation OF
such a cortege. 1t beSpeaks the full
measure of achievement. for whether
death came in the flower of youth or the
fullness of years, the man 10 be thus hon
ored had earned his right to be accorded
a place among his countryS fallen heroes
The store which has its periodical bar
gain sale is always certain to have a
throng of shoppers to push and jostle
one another in the wild clamor for the
marked-doWn assortment of remnants
and odds and ends. If, by any chance. a
custom. and plans 20 give away souvenirs
there will be stream of people long
as the supply holds out Many will de-
vote the best part of the day to getting
for nothing a trif1e, and what is funnier
still, many show that they feel aggreved
and cheated of their rights if they happen
to arrive too late to be supplied.
There quite few business places
in the city where the name of the proprie-
tor suggests his calling. There are talors
whose names spell their various imple
ments, and almost every calling has some
instance where the name is suggestive
of the vocation or so closely associated
with the mans work as to cause COM
ment whenever it appears on a sign.
Foxes, wolves and some of the curing
processes proclaim the furrier. Physi-
clans are tc be found whose nomenclature
reminds one of their doses jewelers. and
bakers are designated by the materials
they use and SELL and in several instances
emphasis is given to an already strikingly
appropriate name by the addition of the
wordsmith.
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Il SZEERGEL4CH
MM4KS DRAWS
ATTENTION

pete with monkey. The youngsters will
follow monkey for blocks, and many a
pet has gotten himself temporarily lost
by trailing in the wake of one of these
knowing little creatures.
So great has been the progress of loco
motion in the last fifty years that the old
time standby. the sturdy team of oxen,
used for all hauling and driving purposes
by our early settlers, is now quite Curl
osity.
Not long since a team of four oxen
crossed the bridge al the Speedway. What
ever the purpose of their advent to the
capltal, they were leaving it looking very
Jaded and weary. No doubt the hurry
and rush of the city was too hewildering
Between the rasp and clatter of the
street cars and the siren voice of the
of the same. You know at a glance or
thought that linemen are just about the
last people on top Of the globe that you'd
care to have to walk on surprising there
wasn't any way out of it. You apprehend
the Observation-Disclosures of linemen all
right.
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ARE DR4MS. Kz1YDREDS
OFSBECZ47ORS

CACH Trivial Incident of
IL the Streets Is Cause OF
a Crowd-Onlookers Flock
From Everywhere-A Balky
Horse or Automobile Has Its
Attraction-Dog Fight Has
Hundreds of Spectators
Fire Engines and Patrol
Wagons Bring the Curious
With Their Changing Gongs
Streets Are Kaleidoscope
Stage and Passersby Make
the Audience.
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TIE frequently. il may have
been observed. we dwell upon
the subject of long shots. 'Tis
fascinating theme. at least
fo- us. our contention is that
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HE PAIR OF "ARKlohS.
onn pay much attention to the pair OF
a q, rtlsa like looking persons. All That
tney ala was to exchange glanccs. ana 10
thus, by eye signals. decide that as these
were the First Two Ginks They Mot.
WY THESE two would haze to be the
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1910-12-22

THAT the United States army is in
/ ferior in military organization to
the armies Of every other large nation
of the world is the sentiment of II. Lee
Clotworthy, military expert, associate
editor OF the United States Infantry
journal, and formerly a captain In the
army. He asserts that Uncle Sans
military department is inefficient as a
fighting machine, and that any one OF
the big powers notably Japan--could
whip the daylights out of us without
half trying"
There are SO regiments Of infantry
in the army" he says, but hardly any
one of them has been modified to-
gether In order to give the men the
proper training They are scattered
all over the country at various need
less military posts. Consequently, both
officers and men suffer for lack of ade-
uuate drill, and would be absolutely
unprepared to fight an army of real
soldiers.
There are a great many needless
military posts. OF course, it is neces-
sary to keep men in the Philippines
and Alaska, but not in small towns
The latter type-known to military
men as 'hitching posts'-were estab-
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Soldier Serves His Country IS Years

Atlantic. On Governors Island he
married and raised his family. and
looking northward from his island
home Robertson has seen the skies
over Manhattan red with the fires nj
the draft riots and watched the trans.
PORTS which in later days sailed out
laden with troops for distant posses.
sions Of the United States. He has
seen the island upon which he lived
grow from the small unwalled SPOT
which II was when he enlisted to the
great military depot which 1t now is
ON Governors Island there still ex.
lists n little graveyard where those
who died in the great cholera epidemic
Of 1854 are buried Robertson was a
young man then and stuck, quietly and
faithfully. to his post.
Two years after the cholera epi.
demic at Governor Island came tho
yellow fever epidemic Of 1856 which
threw New York into a semi panic.
Naturally The disease spread to Gov.
'ruor's Island In 1870 there was an.
other outbreak of yellow Jack among
the troops. One of the surgeons, Doc.
tor Abbott. died of IL and Robertson
tended him In his last moments, as he
had the other victims.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1910-12-22
BUYING FAMILY MEAT
MARKET CONDITIONS SHOULD BE
CAREFULLY STUDIED.
No Matter What Cut Is Selected II
Can Not Be Utilized to Best
Advantage Unless It is
Well Cooked.

The choice Of meat cuts should cor
respond to the needs of the family
and the preferences of its members.
Careful consideration of market condi-
lions is always useful not only to
make sure that the meat is handled
and marketed in a sanitary way but
also to take advantage of any favor
able change In price which may be
due, for instance, to large local sup
ply of some particular kind or cut of
meat In towns where there is oppor-
tunity for choice, it may sometimes be
found more satisfactory not to give
all the family trade to one butcher;
by going to various markets before
buying the housekeeper is in better
position to hear Of variations in prices
and so be in position to get the best
values. Ordering by telephone or
from the butchers boy at the door
may be less economical than going to
market In person as the range of
choice and prices is Of course more
obvious when the purchaser sees the
goods and has chance to observe
market conditions. Each housekeeper
must decide for herself whether or not
the greater convenience compensates
for the smaller range of choice which
such ordering from description en-
tails No matter what the cut. wheth-
er expensive or cheap 1t can not be
utilized to the best advantage unless
it Is we'll cooked Poorly prepared
meat dishes are almost inevitably
wasted at the table. AS an illustra-
ton of the losses arising through I'M
wise selection and poor cooking may
be mentioned facts observed in die
tary studies carried on by the expert
ment stations. In many families
where the income was fairly good the
table and other conditions were far
from satisfactory. In such cases the
marketing was quite commonly done
by a child or someone without knowl-
edge or experience In a particular
instance the selection was expensive
steak, which later was so badly cook
ed that it was hardly possible to eat
it. A cheaper cut well cooked would
have been much more satisfactory as
well as more economical.
There is sometimes an advantage
in using canned meat and meat prod
ucts, and, if they are of good quality,
such products are wholesome and
palatable.
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Waste of Death Is Greatly Lessened

is like stopping the waste of life in a
great war, 1t is equivalent to ward.
ing off death $3.50 times every month,
1857 every week, 241 times a day.
1t averts ten deaths every hour. one
every six minutes day and night,
from one years end to the next.
If the economic value of the lives
saved by lowering the death rate T.,
the United States-the results of bet.
ter and more careful living-is placed
at no more than an average of 81 900
apiece, the effect of cutting down the
mortality $1,000 in a year is much
the same as preventing the waste OF
$S1 100000 dealing with this great
economy in human life on the hardest
and narrowest industrial and com
mercial basis.
The gradual change for the better
in respect to saving life and warding
off death is not confined to the United
States. 1t is going on in other coun.
tries, also Throughout the civilized
world, there is a general change for
the better in the conditions of liy.
ing and in the chances for life itself
The conservation of human life is one
Of the great interests and one of tho
best signs OF the times
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1910-12-22
OId-fa Shioned DumpIlnu.

Chop into a quart of -four that has
been sifted with teaspoonful of salt
and teaspoonful cream of tartar one
quarter pound suet Add onehalf tea
spoonful soda dissolved in little hot
water and enough cold water Oh milk
to make the -four into a rather stiff
paste. Roll out. handling as lightly
as possible, cut into squares and put
in the middle of each fine Juicy ap.
pie, peeled and cored. Fill the core
cavity with sugar wet with lemon
juice and a Glove or a little marina
lade, pinch the edges of the dumping
together and tie up in a small square
cloth dipped in hot water wrung out
and Toured on the inside before the
apple is put In. For this purpose
many old-fashioned bousekeepers have
crochetted dumping bags made from
stout cotton. In them tie UP the
dumping fast, leaving room for 1t to
swell Boil one hour. The water must
be boiling when the dumpiings 20 in
and not stop boiling an instant UNI
I'll the time is up Turn the bags
several times during the boiling but
keep them under water, as they must
be covered all the time. Serve as soon
as done. as they get heavy standing.
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n OVERNOR'S ISLAND is 10 lose its
VI oldest soldier. He is Sergt. David
Robertson of the Hospital corps Of the
army, who has spent SO years in the
service and now, at the mature age OF
seventy eight. has been recommended
for retirement upon full pay and al.
lowances. It will take. special bill,
of course, to thus recognize the sorv.
ices Of Robertson and major generals
and brigadier generals have recon.
mended to the secretary OF war that
he present to congress such a bill
An interesting thing about the long
and faithful service Of Sergeant Rob.
ertson Is that II has been almost con
tinually srent on Governors Island
lie has seen generals and colonies
come and go He was a veteran when
'Hancocks Superb" came to take
command of the department Of the
east and the military division OF the
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1910-12-22
Sweet Potatoes au Gratin

Boil sweet potatoes and cut In
slices after peeling. Butter baking
Dish and fill with alternate layers of
the potato, little chopped green pep
per and some cream sauce. Cover
the bottom Of the dish with the sauce
then alternate with the potato and
chopped pepper, and every now and
then a bit Of butter. Have the upper
layer very smooth anG bake III brown
1 AXE an egg and separate the yolk
IRON the white. Beat the latter to n
cream and place in drift.like ar.
rangement on top Of the potato. AL.
low place in the center and Law the
yolk OF the egg In this depression,
Return to the oven, and leave there
for seven minutes, The egg will be
cooked through and the white ambush
delicate golden color.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1910-12-22

I Asst year the death rate in the
Il United States was probably the
lowest ever known. 1t certainly was
less than the mortality of any other
year since vital statistics have been
collected in a sufficiently large part of
the country to indicate clearly the
general state of the public health.
In 1909 the death rate in states and
cities which contain more than half of
the population Of the United States
was almost exactly 10 to every thou
sand persons living. 1t was not quite
one in the thousand below the aver
age mortality rate of the preceding
five years. The fraction was nine
tenths. That means nine lives in
every 10000 Of the population 1t is
800 in every million inhabitants, or
81 900 in 90,000,000.
The cutting down of the death rate
enough to save 600 lives in a year
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1910-12-22
Stepmother Of Mint Julep.

Romance and poetry have delighted
to weave garlands with which to cele-
brate and perpetuate the glory OF the
blue grass in old kentucky, famed for
it's fine horses, beautiful women and
mint
Kentucky has been designated as
the home of the mint julep, and its
colonies have become famous all over
the world for the easy and graceful
way in which they drink whisky with
a little dash of sugar and sprig or
two Of mint in order, chiefly, to over
come the necessity for a large amount
of water In the beverage. The true
Kentuckian doesn't want his whisky
drowned.
1t transpires, however, that the real
home Of the mint and the mint julep
is right here in Missouri, whose crop
of mint last year amounted to 1858
pounds, or enough to make 1,224,320
tuleps. This amount includes the mar
keted product only, no account hav-
ing been taken of the countless thou
sands of juleps which were compound
ed during the year with a base of the
undiluted moonshine whisky that
never paid cent of taX.-St Louis
Star
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cars of the largest size. That means
about rs long trains.
The physical bigness of Uncle Sam
is impressive If viewed from any d..
rection or calculated upon any ba-
sis. If the average consumption Of
solid food-bread. meat. potatoes and
other vegetables. cake, pie, fruits,
etc.-is only pound and half day
that means 100000 pounds. or 67.'
500 tons, every "a hours.
On the strength gained by such in.
roads upon the food stores of the
world the people Of the United States
can easily lift 100000 tons at the
same instant. If they walk only a
mile apiece in a day, which is Ger.
tainly too low an estimate, the total
is equal to walking three times
around the earth at the equator, and
more than half way around the
fourth time.
There are about 50,O0O,OOO hogs in
the country, but they do not more
than balance the human inha bitants
L.
men, women and children outweigh
the sheep, and they weigh fully half
as much as the 100000 horses, more
or less. The people of this country
weigh about as much as the apple
crop, In an average year
If the clothing worn by the people
of this country averages five pounds
weight, shoes and hats included, Of
course, 1t follows that when every
body is ready to go outdoors the ma
ton Is about 225,OO0 tons heavier
than ii is when ready for bed. When
Uncle Sam puts on his collar he uses
more than 5000 miles of cloth bands.
without taking Mrs. Sam into ao
count at all.
Truly we are big nation. We bulk
tremendously on the scales and I'M
der the tape measure. American
quantity will evidently care for it.
self. Quality requires more attention
in all countries.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1910-12-22
Kent Umbrella Thirty Years.

A faithful old umbrella which ha.
shielded the family of DR.. James A,
Mullican Of Greenwood avenue from
the storms of 80 years, was stolen on
Sunday During the rain on that day
the physician lent the umbrella to E,
A. Seek, and while the latter was in a
store some one stole it.
The umbrella belonged to my faith
er and has been in the family for
more than thirty years" said Doctor
Mullican the other night. 1T has been
covered several times.
ITO persons who are unable to keep
the same umbrella for more than thir
ty days this may seem incredible. but
1T is true" concluded Doctor Mullicap
with a smile.-Chicago Tribune.