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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-08

had never seen me. They had heard of
me as an Indian fighter and frontiers
man.. AS they had been told that l wore
often the costume of a savage, they veri-
ly expected me to come clad in the skin
Of wild beasts and to see barbarian.
who for. g. brief time was a sojourner ia
the midst OF civilized peoples. But when
1 appeared arrayed in the most skillful
product of the sartorial art. bowling to
an acquaintance first upon this side and
then upon that as l moved down the
aisle, upon my word, a hum of admira-
ton filled the hall.
Il proceeded to speak in my own de-
Tense, and, turning to one member who
had been specially officious and offensive
in his zeal against me, / said:
And dareSt thou, thou whited sep
ulcher. asperse the name and fame OF
Sam Houston?'
They convicted me, of course, and
condemned me to be reprimanded by the
Speaker. The Speaker said: Gov. Hous-
ton, 1 am directed by a vote of the
House to reprimand you. Consider your
self reprimanded." He bowed and
bowed and the farce was over And
there was a twinkle of triumph in the
eye. Of the old man as he remembered
not only how lightly the House of Rep
resentatives of the United states had
dealt with him. but that it had declined
to deny him the privilege of the floor, to
which he was entitled as an eX-member.'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-08
COFFEE HEART
Very Plain in Some People.

A great many people 90 suffering from an
Doying ailments for a long time before they can
get their own consent TO give up The indul-
sence FROM which their trouble arises
gentleman in Brooklyn describes his expe-
rience follows:
IL became satisfied months ago that
owed the palptation Of the heart from which
l suffered almost daily to the Use Of coffee IL
had been coffee drinker for 20 years.. but /
found 1T very hard TO give up the beverage
"One day l ran across very sensible and
STRAIGHTFORWARD presentation of the claims of
Postum. and WAS impressed thereby that
concluded To give il a trial
My experience with IT was unsatisfactory
till 1 learned how il ought to be prerare,I-by
thorough boiling for not less than l., or a)
minutes. After l learned that lesson there was
trouble.
Postum proved to he a most paIatabie and
satisfactory hot beverage, and l have used 1,
since.
The effect my health has been mos,
sslutary. The heart pslpitation from which
used TO suffer much. particularly after break
fast. has disappeared and i never have a return
Of 1t except when I dine or lunch away from
home and drink the old kind of coffee because
Postum is served. I find that Postum
cheers and invigorstes. while il produced NJ
harmful stimulation Name given by Postum
Co.. Battle Creek. Mich.
Ten days trial proves an ere opener to many
Read the little book. The Road 10 MELVILLE. :
in pkgs. There's reason
Ever read the above letter. 4 new
one appears from time TO time. They
are genuine, true and full Of humnn
Interest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-08
KAISER CONFERS HONOR.
Crown Order Bestowed Upon Pro-
fessor at Johns Hopkins.

NEW YORK. April SIT is announced
that the kaiser has conferred Tie crown
order of the second class on William
Henry WEIGH. professor of pathology at
Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
and known the -'nestor OF modern
American medicine"
Tie honor TO DR.. Welch is conferred in
recognition of his services in propa eating
German medical science in the United
States and for spreading the use of the
German language in the medical schools
mere. The German ambassador at Wash
inston will deliver the kaisers order in:o
Prof. Welch's hands
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-08
Afidavits Against Stribling.

Affidavits against Stribling stated that
as chief of police of Danville he shot two
men, both in the back. Mr.. Cameron, a
Columbus, Ga, lawyer, testified that he
recognized Stribling as the leader of a
mob that hanged two negroes in Column
bus.
In letter the editor of the Danville
Va.) Register stated that few of the best
citizens of Danville wanted Stribling back
there.
In closing his plea for Stribling Attor-
ney Miller said:
''Cornett boosted openly. brazenly of
himself as wrecker of homes. Would
you give such a man chance any more
than you would a rattlesnake? Nobody
outside of Cornett's relatives and a few
OF his friends doubt for moment that
Stribling was justified in shooting Cor
nett, and no man can blame him for it
except perhaps for the manner in which
it was done
Stribling called Cornett to a window
and shot him.
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PARDON FOR STR|BL|NC
AVORED BY BOARD
Commission Recommends Re-
lease of Man Who Killed w.
J. Cornett Years Ago.

ATLANTA, April S-The Georgia pris
on commission has recommended to Gov
Brown that he grant an unconditional
pardon to Thomas Edgar Stribling
So profound is the popular sentiment
in favor of his pardon and so deep the
sympathy for Striblng's wife and their
IDENTIFY he will be a free man soon. Gov.
Brown announced that he cannot reach
the case before next week
Stribling killed William j. Cornett in
Harris ccounty, Ga, fourteen years ago
for attacking his sister, Mrs. T. H.
Durham. At his trial Stribling's de-
Tense was based on the unwritten law.
Convicted and sentenced to life impris-
onment, he escaped. Calling himself r.
E. Morris, he was chief of police Of
Danville, Va, for six years. Stribling' s
identity was discovered last month and
on Gov. Browns requisition he was
brought from Danville and returned to
prison to- complete the sentence which
only death or pardon can end.
Testimony Against Cornett.
Sensational testimony presented to the
prison board painted Cornett's charac-
ter in blacklist lines. H. w. Cornett
swore he told w. J. COrnett. his kins-
man, the afternoon Stribling shot him
that if he did not stop talking about
women there would be funeral and that
Cornett would be prominent figure
in it.
"Oh, that's all right" Cornett an
swered: IF there's a funeral I'll not
caught mapping"
"Cornett was absolutely without morals
and had no respect for virtue" swore
J. n. Miller, formerly in Cornetts en-
ploy Another affidavit stated that Cor
nett boosted that Stribling knew he had
good reason to be jealous of him.
so I'll kill Stribling." Cornett was
quoted as saying.
Mrs. r. H. Durham testified that Cor
nett came to her house. asked her to kiss
him and advanced upon her: neighbors
forced him to desist. She told her hus-
band and Stribling, her brother.
G.. w. Davis of Harris county swore
that Cornett bore a bad reputation, and
that he had mo respect for virtue or
that his constant thought was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-08
STILL POUNDING THE TEXAS.
Ten Torpedo Boats to Finish the
Work of Destruction.

Ten torpedo boats. composing the
seventh and eighth divisions of the At
lantic fleet. shortly will open fire on the
old battleship Texas, which has been
lying in the mud in Chesapeake bay since
the bombardment she received from the
big guns of the New Hampshire several
weeks ago.
The torpedo attack is expected to smash
what is left of the old ship to scrap iron
Department to ascertain what can be
done with war torpedoes. Many naval
officers will witness the test.
The torpedo boats that will participate
In the tests are the Smith, Flusser Lam
son, Preston, Reid. Paulding, Drayton
Mccall, Roe and Terry.
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TWO MIR. SPEAKERS"
One Bears the Title Legally, the
Other bY Courtesy.

There are two MIR. Speakers in the
House of Representatives now. The title
sticks to the former Speaker. notwith-
standing his retirement. Mr.. Cannon and
Speaker Clark, who are on excellent
terms personally, met in the corridor yes
terday.
Good morning, Mr. Speaker said
Clark.
Good morning. Mr.. Speaker" returned
Cannon. The two walked off. apparently
discussing speakership problems.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-08
All Must Fight Rats
No Other One Cause Destroys as
Much Property Every Year.

Rats destroy moro property in year than all
the fires: they carry disease germs into the
houses; they a serious menace in city and
country.
Everybody should join in fighting these dan
cerous pests and exterminating them with
Stearns' Electric Rat and Roach Paste. the
standard destroyer of rats. mice. cockroaches.
waterbugs and other vcTmin. Ready for use;
always reliable; money back IL ii fails.
Sold everywhere. Be sure 10 get the genuine
&c and 500 Stearns' Electric Paste Com
rsuy Chicago. I'll.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-08
Shorty in Cuba.

Sewell Ford recently made a trip to
Cuba and while there got the inspiration
for the Shorty McCabe story that appears
in our next Sunday Magazine. Missing
Out in Havana" he names it, 1t is a typi-
cal story of this series, for Shorty, i'm his
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-08
AT MERCY Of THE GALES,
VESSEL CREW IN PERIL
Schooner Reaches Port With
But Little Food and No
Water Aboard.

BOSTON, April SAN unusual tale Of
hardship at sea was told by Capt.
Robert Rickson of the three-masted
schooner ]. Manchester Haynes, when
the long-missing vessel arrived here in
tow of the revenue cutter Gresham. thir-
ty-nine days out from Brunswick, Ga.
There was very little food and not a drop
Of fresh water aboard. the decks were
almost awash, and nearly every member
of the crew was suffering from weak
ness due to lack of food. Capt. Rick
son had not slept more than three hours
day for a month.
Captains Desperate Measures.
Several of the crew bore bruises, which
the captain said were the result of blows
There was no hard feeling in the
blows" Capt. Rickson said, but 1 just
had to make them work in order to
save our lives
After leaving Brunswick. Ga, February
%. with load of lumber, the Haynes
Cape Hatteras. Then a nor'wester of
hurricane velocity drove her halfway to
the Canary Islands. A succession of
gales followed, during which the vessel
seams opened AID water filled the hold.
From this time on every man aboard.
except the mate, who was confined to his
bunk by illness. labored almost incessant-
ly to rid the vessel Of water. Donkey
Engineman Moses l.. Wright, colored, of
Wilmington, Del, was up with Capt.
Rickson five days and nights without
any sleep.
Encounters Second Gale.
After being driven north many days
the Haynes was caught in another gale,
which almost capsized her and washed
off her deckload Of lumber. Beating his
way south. Capt. Rickson brought the
Haynes Oft Cape Cod last Saturday. Here
Boston fishing schooner supplied a
small stock Of necessaries in the expec-
tation Of the Haynes reaching Boston in
a day or two. But outside Boston harbor
the Haynes made three vain efforts to en-
ter. Adverse winds drove her away each
time. and her failure to arrive, though re-
peatedly sighted, mystified all who were
anxiously awaiting her.
Gresham Gees to Her Aid.
When the Haynes finally did approach
the harbor the Gresham was dispatched
to her aid.
Among those who greeted Capt. Rickson
was his bride of about five months. She
accompanied him on their honeymoon
trip last November in the schooner Cox
and Green, which Capt Rickson was
forced to abandon in midocean.
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THE LINOTYPE'S BIRTHDAY.
By FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

| cessity more steadfast, more sober and
| more Industrious than his prototype at
| the case in the hand-set days. 1t takes
| a man to run a linotype. There is a
| JOY in the rattle and click of the COM
posing room. a delight in the odor OF
the hot metal. thrill in the whir OF the
| motors, that never had their counterpart
! I'm the good old days. No man who has
once known the spell of the linotype ever
can escape its influence.
The projections of the Mergenthaler
have been lauded in a dozen tongues; it's
shortcomings have been apologized fer in
a thousand editorials, but no one but the
men who work with this machine have
any notion of how god-like are it's viz
tues. how human its faults. In the old
days tramp printer occasionally would
fall from the water wagon just when he
was most needed, but never vas there
man so perverse a. linotype on spree.
All over the country there are hundreds
of we'll behaved linotypes that never
strayed from the narrow path of virtue
that are model machines that never have
stayed out nights and that don't know
the first rules of pOker-but there isn't
one of them that isn't waiting quietly
and patiently for that time when the
whole shop depends upon it to get out
the paper and the machinist is out to
'onch. When that time comes even the
best and noblest linotype will go on a
spree. They are ma chines, but they are
printers.
The man in whose brain this machine
was conceived was Ottmar Mergenthaler.
He was born
Something About in wurtem-
.Ottmar Mergenthaler. w us h hm ns
up in the clock-making trade, and came
to the United States In 1872. His idea
for the linotype was originated in 1883
the first machine was built and patented
in 1885. and the perfected principle was
applied, as has been said. in the machine
patented twenty-one years ago today. Mr..
died at his home in Balti-
more in 1899.
The linotype has revolutionized the
business Of printing and thereby has made
a new era in Journalism. Without this
machine the huge newspapers of today,
with their wide variety of matter de-
signed to please the fancy of a wide va
riety Of readers, would be utterly inn
possible.
TomOrrow-BANDSO OF MERCY.
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WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS
FOR FILIPINO LABORERS
Legal Step Taken to Prevent the De-
sertion Of employees of
Planters.

HONOLULU, April S.--A writ of habeas
aboard the steamship Senator, and des-
tined for the Alaskan can1eries. was is
sued in the federal court here yesterday
United States Marshal Eugene r. Hen
drick will attempt to serve 1t tomorrow
1t is another move in efforts made by
local planters to prevent removal Of
laborers whom they have brought here
ut great expense.
Coast Guarded by Police.
The Senator still is cruising back and
forth off Pearl harbor. The entire coast
Is being guarded by the police, and Jap
anese power sampans are kept under
espionage. No one is allowed to leave
shore for the Senator.
Capt F. L. Miller and his crew of the
local steamer Makee. who were arrested
while waiting ready to take laborers out
to the Senator. were released on their
own recognizance.
F. r. Craig. representing the Alaskan
packers. Is expected to come ashore from
the Senator tomorrow. being under bond
to appear in court. II he comes he will
be arrested.
Action by Legislature.
The legislature today passed an act
making II a misdemeanor to solicit labor
ers within thirty days OF their arrival in
the territory. This is designed to prevent
efforts to divert a crowd Of immigrants
due here from Portugal next week on
the steamer Oteric.
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of wrecking homes and of destroying vir-
tue. Also that he went about armed
and sold whisky.
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Conquered the Opposition.
BY WILLIAM F.. CURTIS
Special Correspondence of The Star and the
Chicago Record Herald.

I'm an interior town in which there re-
men of opposing political faith. and
where the sentiment against his position
on the Kansas-Nebraska bill had aroused
bitter antagonism to him, he rose by
previous appointment to deliver a speech
in the courthouse, the usual place for
public speaking in those days.
when he rose he was greeted by de-
risive shouts, cat-calls and other mani
festations of i'll feeling and discourtesy.
1t was his first experience of that kind.
own people had ever shown him even the
appearance of disrespect. He quickly
perceived the prevailing sentiment and,
bowling with stately courtesy, said:
~ beg your pardon. l have no right to
speak here; do not live in this country
tribute directly o. indirectly to buy sim
gle brick or beam or rafter in this build
ing. and l have no right to speak here,
and I crave your pardon. But'-and he
drew his towering form to its full height
If there be q man within the sound of
my voice who desires to hear Sam Hous-
ton speak and will follow me hence to
yonder hillside, under the shade Of yon
spreading live oak on the soil of Texas,
1 have right to speak there, for I have
watered it with my blood
when he reached the climax his voice
rank like a bugle call and thrilled the
great throng until they burst into wild
An Estimate of Houston.
HE was an able man. a man of intel
lectual power; 4 man endowed with the
elements Of successful leadership. and
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The Mergenthaler linotype, that wonder
full machine which put this article into
type for printing, is twenty-one years old
today. If newspaper men and printers
were not too busy to do anything but
work they might have celebrated the
day as a great holiday, with thanks
givings and burnt offerings and libations.
for without this machine the newspaper
of today could not exist.
The linotype was not born, Minerva
like. from any Jov!an brow, but. as it
stands today, is the product of the minds
of the many master mechanics who have
added improvement after Improvement,
until the projections and the perversities
of the machine make it seem body OF
metal endowed with q human heart and
brain.
The idea upon which the linotype was
perfected was, however, the conception
Of Ottmar Mergenthaler, whose name
the machine bears. and whose heirs col
lect a royalty of $50 on every machine
sold. This idea took shape in 1888. The
first Mergenthales machine was built in
1885, and the second one later in the
same year. Machines of the type of the
second model were used in many news
paper and job offices, but there was ret
something lacking. In 1890 the shortcorn-
ings of the older machines were recog-
nized and Mr.. Mergenthaler perfected
and patented a machine which embodied
all the essential principles of the linotype
of today. That patent was granted April
S, 1890, and therefore the linotype is twen-
ty-one years old today-old enough to
vote.
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Company Formed
to Sell Machines.

porated, as has been said, every essen
tial feature of the machine as built to-
day.
After the first machine of 1885 was
constructed a company was formed to
make and sell the linotypes. This COM
pany was bought out for 100000 by
syndicate of newspaper publishers COM
posed of Whitelaw Reid of the New York
Tribune Walter N. Haldeman of the
Louisville Courier-Journal, Victor Law
son and NJ. E. Stone of the Chicago News,
Harry Smith Of the Chicago Inter Ocean.
w H. Rand of the Rand-McNally Com
pany and Stilson Hutchins OF the Wash
ington Post.
The first machine to be used CONNER
cially was set up in the office of the New
York Tribune. In 1888 Mr.. Mergenthaler
and the factory of the company was
moved to Brooklyn, Mr.. Mergenthaler re-
manning in Baltimore. The wedge-shaped
justifier. a device introduced in the sec
ond Mergenthaler machine to Justify
the lines of matrices dhat is. to make
them fill the line by spreading the spaces
between the words). became the subject
of litigation. and for years, there was a
quarrel in the courts about thousand
and one details now happily forgotten.
In the end all the disputes were settled
by purchase. and when the perfected ma
chine of 1890 came out arrangements
we're made by which the company and
the Inventor shared in the profits.
The profits were soon to be very large.
for when the practical machine was pro-
duced almost every
Profits Soon newspaper wanted IL
at once. For sew
oeCdInc Ad1Se' eral years the fac
tories were behind on orders. and the
linotypes were to be had only for cash
fob While the litigation over the pat
ents was pending Mr.. Mergenthaler in
vented another kind of justifier. but it
was abandoned when the settlement was
made.
The first machine OF the 1890 type-the
modern and perfected linotype-was used
in the Office of the Brooklyn Standard
Union, the next in the Office OF the New
Orleans Times Democrat. The Brooklyn
Standard Union also was the first news
paper to use the linotype with union
labor The Typographical Union at first
was inclined to oppose the introduction
of the machines. but its men soon bowed
to the inevitable and hustled out Of the
dusty alleys of the old hand-set COM
posing rooms to learn to operate the
machines.
With the introduction of the linotype
shop from the realm Of the handicrafts
to the dominion of machinery, 1t was
said that romance would die out of the
printers trade. OF course, IL wasn't the
death of romance that the printers un:oI
objected to; ii was the substitution of
one machine with one man for eight men.
But as the newspapers, being assisted by
the discovery of cheap processes for
making spruce wood pulp paper. at once
expanded. so that the composing room
now employs nearly as many men as
in the old hand-set days, and at better
| wages, the unions fears were soon al
rest.
x X
The printers know, and the editors who
work with them know, that the Mergen.
thaler has added
IinotYDe'S influence to. rather than
All. detracted from
11Vsee e"eASAA' the glory of their
jobs. The man WHO sits at the keyboard
of a Nnotype is BY cOmpulSlon Of ne
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The printers know, and the editors who
work with them know. that the Mergen-
thaler has added
LinotYpe'S influence to. rather than
na.:, detracted from,
11VscS 1eAo"eA"a' the glory Of their
jobs. The man who sits at the keyboard
of a linotype Is by compulsion Of ne
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1885 and the machines Of 1890 was so radi
cal that the real
Great Changes Made reign of the Mer-
in 1890 Machine. ss;d 20 " date te
from the Introduction of the latter type.
Since that time 1t is true that thousands
Of improvements have been patented and
applied to the machine but none Of them
has radically interfered with the prin-
ciple of the patent Of 1890 Perhaps other
improvements yet will be inadvertently
some inventive genius ought to devise
system of balancing the casting lever so
that every operator would not hang
tin bucket Of type-metal pigs on the
lever of even the newest machine in the
shop. But that is bit Of technique.
The real reason why the linotype leaped
into universal favor as soon as it was per-
fected in 1890 was that it was the first
practical machine to offer substitute for
the slow and labOrious process of setting
type by hand. Scores of inventors had
tried for years, with more or less sue
cess, to construct a type-setting machine
so many had failed was that he discarded
the idea of setting type and substituted
for it the idea Of casting type, line at
a time.
number of vertical, movable bars, into
each of which were cut the dies of all the
letters of the alphabet, small letters and
the figures, characters and other
signs used in printing. BY touching a
key on a keyboard. like that Of type
writer, the bars would fall until the die
with the letter on the key
board presented itself exactly before the
orifice Of a mold, connected with a pot
of molten type metal. When a whole line
IF had hoen assembled in this
fashion the metal was injected into the
mold and line of type was cast-thus
the name line o type, linotype. The sec
ond machine Of 1885 was constructed on
the theory that the long die-bars were
too cumbersome. 1t had an Independent
matriX, or die, for each letter or figure.
These were forced down through upright
slots into the casting box by currents of
compressed air. The machine was prac-
ticable but it was liable to get out Of
order, and it did not meet with universal
approval. About 200 machines of this
kind were built.