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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-10
FUSS IN GOAT ALLEY.
Belligerent Uses Brick and Downs
Adversary.

Goat alley, between 9th and eth and l.
and NJ streets northwest. was the scene
about 9:45 O'Clock last night of an en-
counter between two negroes, Robert
Hall and Clarence Patterson.
Men, women and children of the alley
turned out to witness the mixup. Before
there was time to make bets however
Patterson threw a brick and disappeared
Hail. who is fifty years old, went down
with a cut head. His wound was dressed
at a drug store. The police were told
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-10
Funeral of James o. Carter.

The funeral of James o. Carter. who
was stricken dead with heat yesterday
afternoon, will be held from his late
home, 1914 street southwest. at 2
O'Clock Tuesday afternoon Interment
will be at Rock Creek cemetery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-10

themselves In the long run only that
which is worth while can survive"
Opinion of Clergyman.
From the Rev George A. Miller was
received:
II desire to express to you my thanks
and the thanks of the eleven hundred
members of my church for the stand
you have taken against tn showing in
our city of the moving pictures Of the
Jeffries-Johnson prize fight.
1T would certainly create race preJu-
dice, and be corrupting to the youth of
the city. l trust the capital of the nation
may be spared the degrading spectacle.
Speaks for Citizens Association.
W. Nick. Clayton wrote:
For the Federation of the Citizens AS
ISOLATION and for myself l desire to
thank you for the views and intentions
expressed by you in an interview pub
lished in. last evenings. Star in relation
to the prize fight pictures. 1t was to the
point. struck fair, and brought the right
ring.
I desire, also the opportunity present
ing to congratulate and commend through
you the splendid morale of the police
force as demonstrated on the night OF
July f. l can bear personal testimony
that only cool heads and courageous
hearts of the men of the force prevented
near riots from growing into a saturnalia
of crime. That Washington came through
this unexpected and terrific strain upon
peace and good order so well is due to
the men your have the honor to command
Thanking you again for the stand you
took when the best interest of Washing
ton were to be served"
"Civic Righteousness"
Preventing fight pictures, civic right
eousness.' wrote George W. Cook
Thanks of public due YOU
chapla ain George Robinson wrote:
ALLOW me to signify approval of the
prevention of the moving pictures of the
late. fight"
.. Charles P. Neill Well Pleased.
From Charles P. Neill was received the
following message:
May 1 take occasion to congratulate
Won upon the excellent stand you have
taken in the matter of the moving pic
lures Of the Johnson-Jefries fight. In
case there is any issue over the matter
am sure you will have the cordial and
active support of the decent element IN
this town in the stand you have taken.
j. Russell Verbrycke wrote:
II cannot refrain from expressing to
YOU nv great appreciation of the stand
taken by yourself relative TO the dis
play of the moving pictures Of the Reno
fight I am sure your attitude meets
the hearty approval of every loyal citl-
zen Of Washington who desires a pure
clean city
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-10

I'D at the southwest corner of 9Th and E
streets, will result in materially changing
the appearance of that side of the block
and giving to nearly the entire eXter or
the frontage improvements of a modern
character in place of the old-time dwell
ings.
The Holbrook news., 1910-11-04
HOW BAD NEWS IS BROKEN
TyroIese Peasants Notion of Announc. ing Disaster So as Not to
 Cause Shock.

The eminent poet and student of Ty- rolese peasant life, Peter Rosegger gives an interesting instance of the manner in which bad news Is broken by the villagers of his country. It re- calls the famous ballad of the knight whose page took the news of the war rior's death to the lady and began by telling her that her little dog had been injured.
 After a recent heavy thunderstorm a Tyrolese peasant came into the will lage inn and joined lad of eighteen, who had been drinking beer and smok- ing pipe. and was just going back to the having" now that the rain had ceased.
 Sit still awhile" said the newcom- CT. you can afford it." After standing at the table for some minutes he went on: Well, my dear Mat. you've grown a rich man within the last half hour"
 And Mat, remembering the fearful thunderclap of half an hour ago, turned white as sheet The peasant then explained that his father. two sis ters and brother, who had taken shel- ter from the rain under an old fir tree, had all been killed by the lightning striking the tree.
The Holbrook news., 1910-11-04
HUNG HER CASH OUT TO DRY
Bills Until 1t Was Almost Too Late.

Rehoboth, Del-A weeks washing of $5 bills. pinned on a line to dry, was the result of a bath which Mrs. Daniel Townsend took and in which no one can understand why the money did not drift out to sea.
 Mrs. Townsend Is the wife of a prominent Rehoboth hotel man, ana in taking her usual surf bath she did not remove that portion of her apparel which the average woman uses as her pocketbook.
 During the bath the surf played its usual pranks, and, although the bands used to hold the money in its place were several times loosened, the money was found intact, although re- duced almost to a pulp when Mrs. Townsend started to remove the bath ing apparel
 It took several hours of careful dry. ing on an improvised linN before the bills were in shape to be taken to bank and redaamed for more sub stantial ones
The Holbrook news., 1910-11-04
PRAYERS TIED TO NIGHTlEs
New York Woman Has Unique Cure All and Lots Of
 Patients.

New Difference of opinion as to the therapeutical efficacy of scribbling hieroglyphics on note paper and then tying the paper prayers" to lady's affected arm, head or leg led to the arraignment of Mrs Eva Stein before Magistrate Butts in the York vile police court. Mrs. Stein Is ac- cused by the County Medical society of attempting to diagnose the ailments of patients and of then offering to cure them by sending them to bed with paper prayers tied to their nigh ties and with still other written pray CTS under their pillows.
 A woman detective in the employ of the medical society submitted an afh- davit which tells of her experience as a patient" with Mrs. Stein, whose charge for treatment, the detective says, is only 15 cents.
 So pleased was the upper East Side with Mrs. Stein's methods and prices, says the woman detective, that when she called to see the alleged healer to test the treatment she was obliged to stand in line for about four hours while the crowd ahead paid out its dimes and nickels to be cured.
The Holbrook news., 1910-11-04
GOVERNMENT OWNS RECLAIMED
 ACRES.

In execution of the project for i'm proving the channel of the Potomac river along the water front of Alex about A acres of land in Battery cove just above Jones point. The question of title to this land has been in dis. pute for several months, and it re- quired an opinion of the Attorney General to settle it.
 The river and harbor act of the re- cent Congress contained an appropria- tion of $60,000 for the improvement of the Potomac opposite Alexandria. The ing the river channel A feet deep along the water front of Alexandria and depositing the dredged material in Battery cove. That cove is within the limits of the District of Columbia, and the jurisdiction and ownership of the United States extend to high-water mark on the Virginia shore
 To use the cove in the way pro- posed, the construction of bulkheads and retaining walls was necessary Interested parties owning adjoining land offered to make these construc- lions at their own expense, provided the government would not dispute their title to the land thus reclaimed. The engineers regarded that arrange ment as economical and advantageous to the United States. Before entering into any formal agreement, however. 1t was decided to ask the Attorney General for an opinion as to the own ership of the artificial accretions when made as proposed. In his opinion the Attorney General reviews the law in the matter and holds that the sub merged area will remain the property of the United States up to the pres ent high-water mark on the Virginia shore Capt. W. T. Hannum, the en- gineer officer in charge of the project cd improvement, has made an esti- mate that the reclaimed land will be worth from s2O.OOO to s6O,OO0
The Holbrook news., 1910-11-04
SHOWS SAGAcITY OF SHEEP
Are Not Devoid of h. teIiigerce.

Sheep are not usually considered sa- gacious, but the following incident will show that they are not devoid of in- teiligence. A eve gave birth to a lamb which was totally blind The eve soon realized that something was wanting in her offspring, and be- slowed especial care on 1t, so that it grew up a fine, healthy animal. One day the farmer was driving the ewes and lambs to a field of fresh pasture. On the way they had to cross a small river by rude bridge that had no railing or defence of any kind at the side. The farmer forgot all about the blind lamb, but the mother eve did not. On reaching the bridge she turn ed quickly round and. seizing her o1- spring by the ear, walked slowly back ward over the bridge, drawing the lamb after her and making mur- muring noise all the while. Nor did she quit her hold till safe on the other side. while the farmer looked on in amazement.
The Holbrook news., 1910-11-04
STRAW KILLS TONS OF FISH
Indiana Health Expert Believes He Has Solved Puzzle Where Fac
 tory Refuse is Dumpted.

Muncie. Ind.-A complete investiga- ton of the slaughter of fish in the Mississinnewa river, when tons of fish were found dead in the stream, Is be- ing conducted in DeIaware and Grant counties by State Fish Commissioner Miles.
 The secretary of the state board of health, Dr. J. N. Hurty, has advanced a new reason for the death of fish in streams that are used by strawboard companies. He says that in his opin- ion there is no poison in the refuse emptied into the water from straw board and paper mills that is destruc- tive to animal life, as has always been supposed, but that the fish are killed by minute particles of straw, from this refuse, entering their gills and shutting off their supply of oxy- gen.
 The strawboard companies say, as indicative of the purity of the water in the streams below their mills, that cattle on farms will leave the pure water of the streams to drink that which is slightly colored with the ref use from the strawboard mills, and the companies further say that milk and butter from cows drinking the adulterated water Is purer and sweet CT than any other
The Holbrook news., 1910-11-04
Pretty Strong Proof.

John D. Crimmins, at St. Patrick's s day dinner in New York, was praising the good that Irish stock had worked in America. "The proof of this good, ? said Mr. Crimmins, 'is as strong as the proof of Dawson's marriage A man, you know, asked another man If Dawson was benedict or a bachelor We'll was the reply, I don't know Dawson, so I can't say positively; but last Sunday morning I saw him push ing baby carriage, with a woman on either side of him, and as passed the younger woman said: You brute, you've been like that twice this week you can't deny it!" And then the older woman. who looked like the younger ones mother, exclaimed: Lizzie, if you don't make him put an- other thousand on his life before his liver's altogether gone, you're bigger fool than I took you fori"'"
The Holbrook news., 1910-11-04
Carriage Makes for Beauty.

A graceful, dignified carriage uI. doubtedly sets off beautiful clothes. There Is little use in having them if we cannot set them of in that way. But the old clothes, the simple, plain, everyday clothes-why not give them that same benefit? Better the sim plest clothes with fine carriage than the most elaborate clothes with an awkward carriage. One forgets that the clothes are plain if the figure in- side them is carried with grace, dig nity and boise. One can even forget figure that is far from perfect in proportion and a face that has no claim to beauty. To carry oneself well morning, noon and night, indoors and outdoors, is to make the most of all the beauty one possesses, to make others forget the beauty that does not exist, and to make the best impression possible everywhere. That is surely worth while.
The Holbrook news., 1910-11-04
DAD SAID TO "GIT"
THE BOYS DID so, AND EACH
 MADE BIG FORTUNE.
Four Brothers Who Left Farm Fifty Years Ago With S7oo Apiece and Plenty of Good Advice Now
 Worth $25,ooo,o 1000.

Bridgeport, COnn.-A little over fifty years ago a farmer named Miller. liv- ing near Middletown, Conn.,, called in his four sons-Darius, Frank, Nathan G. and Charles-read them a lecture on the use and abuse of money, gave them $700 apiece5 and told them to go out in the world and hustle.
 Darius, the eldest, was not 30 then, the youngest was scarcely 20. They scattered and worked, schemed and thrived, and recently they met to- gether in the home of Frank to cele- brate the golden wedding of Darius and his wife, they told how they had multiplied that $2,S00 almost ten thou sand fold The estimated wealth of the brothers today is $25, 100000
 The story reads like one from the Arabian Nights" The four Aladdins apparently had but to rub their lamps to gain power and wealth, and throughout the story the figures 700 seems to dominate, for away back in 1850 the town of Middletown agreed to pay their ancestor, Thomas Miller, S7OO for establishing a mill there. The payment was never made, but the fam fly still holds the claim for the sum with the compound interest for 26O years.
 When the boys left the old farm, Darius went to New Britain, where he put his money into dry goods busi- ness that prospered so rapidly that he Is now one of the wealthiest men in the state, owning big department store and having other large interests besides.
 Nathan G., the second son, went to New York to seek his fortune. He developed talent for high finance, made a fortune on the stock market, bought a railroad which he sold at an immense profit. organized a steamboat company, backed Thomas Edison in his inventions and now possesses mil lions.
 Charles Miller went to Waterbury to invest his S70O, and accumulated money so fast that last January he astounded his fellow citizens by turn ing over to his clerks his immense establishment. He holds great quantity of real estate. and controls many industrial concerns.
 Frank Miller started his business career in Bridgeport, studied the lum- Der market and now owns vast tracts of pine lumber in the south.
 To celebrate the reunion of the brothers and sister a group photo graph was taken-the first photograph for which Darius Miller had posed since he left the farm more than a half century ago.
 The brothers recounted their busi- ness triumphs modestly. Throughout their struggles for fortune they had kept in touch with one another and on many occasions one has helped an other through some financial pinch so that the money power grew through the united strength of the individual fortunes.
The Holbrook news., 1910-11-04

made move against the drug through
 treaty with China which prohibits
 the importation of smoking opium for the use of Chinese residents in this country. Many Americans were then engaged in the traffic and, as there was little trouble in secretly dis tributing the drug after it had been brought to the United States, the traffic continued regardless of the treaty and the drug acquired victims, white and yellow, accordingly. Last year when the statute prohibiting the importation of opium for anything but medicinal purposes was passed, there were about 100000 users of the drug among Americans. A recent estimate places the present number at 15O,OO Great Britain and Portugal are assum- ed to be the strongest opponents of this measure.
 The attitude of Great Britain will be watched with interest by the dele gates from other nations. Although in the last few years she has shown an inclination to join in the movement for the suppression of the misuse of the drug, Great Britain in the past has been open to severe criticism because of her Indo-Chinese opium traffic. It has been the popular impression, and with some foundation, that the British government forced opium on the Chi nese by the so-called opium war" It may be said in extenuation that for every pound of the drug India sent to China the Chinese produced and con. stunned at least 20 times that amount within their own borders-a fact not generally known.
 One effect of the International Opium commissions conference was pact between the British and Chi nese governments, by which the for mer agreed to reduce her production and exportation of opium to China at the rate of one-tenth a year, beginning January, 1908. Great Britain has kept her part of the contract, and China has more than kept up her end. It is claimed on behalf of China that she has up to the present time reduced her annual production and consump- tion of opium to 3S0,OOO piculs-5O.- 666, ,666 pounds-about half the former amount It Is now China's desire for a new agreement with Great Britain. by which the ten-year period may be shortened to seven or even five years.
The Holbrook news., 1910-11-04
BIG WAR ON OPIUM
Prohibitive Law May Result From
 Hague Conference
United States Takes Initiative In Fiqht Against Drug Used by 15o,ooo- The Presidents Floating
 Home.

Washington-An international agree ment for the suppression of the opium traffic may result from a conference of the interested powers at The Hague. The United States is taking the initiative in the fight and the call for the conference was made through diplomatic notes from Secretary of State Knox. The desire of this gov ernment is to see embodied in the in- ternational law some form of statute grow out of the belief that only through the cooperation of opium pro- ducing and exporting countries with our customs officials can the prohibi- tory statute of 1908 against the i'm portation of fumable opium into the United States be made effective. De- spite the unceasing efforts of customs officials it is known 6S,0OO pounds of the drug were smuggled last year for the use of 15O,00O people. Thirteen and possibly fourteen countries will be represented. They are the United States, Great Britain, Austria Hungary, France, China, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Portugal, Persia, Rus sia and Siam. Turkey may be also represented.
 The American delegation at The Hague will seek an international law requiring each country to prevent the shipment from her ports of smoking opium intended for countries where that form of drug is prohibited.
 United States Has Troubles.
 This government first came into di- rect contact with the seriousness of the problem when it started out to put the Philippines in order Investiga- ton showed that aside from the ques- tion there, the continental United States also presented serious prob lem. In 1880 this government had
The Holbrook news., 1910-11-04
The Rioht to Die.

The man who has killed himself on Monday would on Saturday have wanted to live; but one only kills one's self once. Mans life is made up of past, present and future; so life must be a burden to him, if not for the past, the present and the future. at least for the present and the fu- ture If it is only burden for the present he is sacrificing the future. The evils of one day do not authorize ni,L to sacrifice the life that Is ahead Of him. Only the man whose life is unhappy and who could have the cer- tainty-which is impossible-that it will always be so, and that condi- tions and desires will never change, either through modification of circum- stances and situations or through habit and the lapse of time-which again is impossible-only this man would have the right to kill himself.- Napoleon Bonaparte.
The Holbrook news., 1910-11-04
Make Use of Spare Time.

Young man, don't sit with foldI, yourself. Take an hour every day from your frivolous pursuits. employ that hour profltably on some hobby, and if only of ordinary capacity you will master some science. Try the ex- pertinent. Even though you may now be an ignorant man, you may become well-informed man in ten years. Hundreds who have had no better op- portunities than you have risen above, the commonplace. But they made more of their spare time.
The Holbrook news., 1910-11-04
Origin of the Kiss.

Concerning the kiss and it's origin, opinions differ. Some wise men de clare that the kissing habit Is one of the remains of cannibalism, and that It's beginning was nothing more than the carnivorous impulse to bite. When primitive man gave kiss, he ex- pressed an affection equal to his love for his foods. The kiss meant, T love you well enough to eat you" It is certain that kissing was one of the most ancient of customs. It was cur rent among the ancient Jews, and is well known among all Orientals. Nor Is 1t to disappear. Exalted by the dying act of more than one historical hero, sung by all the poets. from Solo mon onward, the kiss is here to stay. The world could net do without it.
The Holbrook news., 1910-11-04
sAMENESs OF RIVER NILE
Golden Monotony of Light and Sound In Beautiful Land of tho
 Pharaohs.

Some people talk of the sameness
 of the Nile; and there is a lovely sameness of golden light, of delicious air, of people and of scenery. For
 Egypt is, after all, mainly great riv- CT with strips on each side of culti- vated land, fiat, green, not very varied. River. green plains, yellow plains. pink, brown, steel gray or pale vel low mountains, vail of shadoof, vail of sakieh. Yes, I suppose there is sameness. a sort of golden monotony. in this land pervaded with light and pervaded with sound. Always there is light around you, and you are bathing in it, and nearby always, if you are living, as I was. on the water, there is multitude of mingling sounds floating. floating to your ears. As there are two lines of green land, two lines of mountains following the course of the Nile, SO are there two lines of voices that cease their calling and their singing only as you draw near to Nubia.
 For then. with the green land, they fade away. these miles upon miles of calling and singing brown men; and amber and ruddy sands creep down ward to the Nile. And the air seems subtly changing, and the light perhaps growing little harder. And you are aware of other regions unlike those you are leaving. more African, more savage, less suave. less like a dream ing. And especially the silence makes a treat impression on you. But be- sssTs 1on enter this silence. between ESe amber and ruddy walls that will lead you on to Nubia and to the land of the crocodile, you have a visit to pay. For here, high up on terrace, is Kom Ombos. And Rom Ombos is the temple of the crocodile god.-Cen- tury.
The Holbrook news., 1910-11-04
Turkish Girls Do Go Out.

On summer nights in Turkey, when people should be asleep. you can see closely hooded figures fitting about noiselessly, like black ghosts. They are Turkish peasant girls. What they are about nobody knows. Perhaps looking for the moon. which will not rise for some hours. At every dark corner of a wall also you may see a young gent sitting in the deep shadow with wonderful perseverance. If you go very near. and they do not happen to see you, you may hear them sing ing songs, as low as the humming of Nees, and always through the nose.