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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-29
DOCKHANDS IN RIOT
Strikers Beat Non-Unionists
on Amsterdam ouays.
TROOPS SAVE POLICEMEN
Many Of Latter in Danger of Being
Thrown Into Sea.

AMSTERDAM. June 2.-The striking
dock hands terrorized the quayside to-
day. beating non-unionists and molesting
their wives and children and smashing
the windows of the ship stores.
Policemen who tried to intervene were
saved from being thrown into the sea
only BY the timely arrival OF troops.
LIVERPOOL. June 29-The Cunard
steamship Company this afternoon
agreed TO recognize all the seamen's
unions, including the lockers organiza-
ion. The strikers are returning to work
Ship Unable to Berth.
In the absence of the shore gang. which
on strike, the steamer iceland OF the
Red Star line. from Boston. was un-
able 10 berth at her landing stage
this morning. and her passengers were
anded from a tender. The men due to
relieve the Zeel1nds crew at Mersey
ii2htship refused TO go on duty.
The strike has had q serious effect on
the distribution OF American and Cana
tian foodstuffs The Quays are Uttered
ard and butter. which the dock hands
prevent the carriers from handling.
The merchants are much perturbed. as
heir stocks I'm hand are limited. The
.rade IN Manchester Is equally dfSOrgan-
zed. From forty to fifty ships, includ-
ng many transatlantic vessels, are tied
lp as are a number OF fruit-laden YES
sells and those having other perishable
,argoes.
Situation Gets Involved.
LONDON, June 29-The situation re-
suIting from the seamen's strike was
much involved today. but standing on,
Joldly was the fact that the strikers
measures for obtaining increased wages
we're effective In many places.
The Canadian Pacific railway and thu
Alan line yielded this morning. The stew
ards OF the Empress OF Britain have re
urned to work and the loading Of the
Tunisian has been resumed.
The stewards OF the Arabic OF the White
star line, due 10 sail for Boston Satur-
say. and the Bowie and Sucvic. OF the
same line. quit today and have pisketed
heir ships.
MONMOUTH. England. June 29.-The
Bristol city line yielded today. completing
The local victory Of the striking seamen
2nhor trouble here u anticipated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-29

Victor Caplon. q merchant Of Brunswick.
Nd. discovered q burglar under his bed
as he was about TO retire. In his excite
ment, intending to call assistance, he
by mistake sent In q fire alarm ana In o
few minutes his house was surrounded
by firemen and neighb0ro.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-29

day for the last month or more. The
trail led to the Moore woman's house.
where Detective Kleindienst ana Foice-
man Harvey surprised her last Sunday
morning with q room full OF customers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-29
FOR SHAFT TO GEN. LYON.
Monument Proposed in Bill Offered
by Senator Cummins.

4 monument to Cen. Nathaniel Lyon.
to be erected in this city at q cost Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-29

100000 is proposed in bill that sena-
tor Cummins of Iowa introduced today.
The chairmen OF the Senate and House
committees on the library and the Sec
retary of War are to direct the work.
Gen. Lyon is regarded as having been
one Of the bravest OF the civil war lead
ers, although he lost his life In the battle
of Wilson's creek, Mo-, early In the
struggle.
The Washington times., 1911-06-22
THE STAGE DOORKEEPER

materializations have gone entirely out
of style and nobody believes in EN- any
more, and to put something like this
act over means a lot. There is none
of the cabinet or coarse work about this
act and it's right up to the minute.
It's the hoatin' lights that do the work.
Here's about fourteen staid and par
TALLY sober citizens sitting in a circle
on the dark stage thinkin'. thinkin.
thinkin', and then somebody says
'OOOO-EEEE. look at that and there
goes the light
The Power Was Of
That psychic power is great stuff"
said the stage-struck youth. but what
was the matter last night when the
lights refused to become visible?"
Well" said the S. D. K. The pro-
fessor usually has the stage darkened
by signaling the man at the switch
board to turn 'em out. When he sig
nailed last night 1 turned them of out
side and there was no power any place
in the theater, not even where the pro-
fessor's apparatus cut in on the cir
cult. He was some peeved about 1t.
but I'm not afraid to look over my left
shoulder any more"
The Washington times., 1911-06-22

II don't know whether you believe
in spooks or not" volunteered the stage
doorkeeper, as he looked the stage
struck youth over carefully to ascer-
tain if he were of the credulous type,
but 1 must confess that my grand
mother back in the County Glare used
to have me Iookin' over my left Shout
der for the banshee and It took long
time for me to get out Of the habit
Gave Ne the Shudds .
When I learned that spooko was
billed here ! had a neat little bunch
OF shudds, for anything that leans
toward the eerie always gets me. He
always works on a dark stage and
that's enough to make anybody nerV-
GUS Say. when he calls for volunteers
to come up on stage you couldn't get
me in that there list with 1000
horse team. At least. you couldn't have
done It up till yesterday. Say, when
them blue and green lights begin to
float away up into the borders and you
get to notin' their resemblance to souls.
why you're willin' to believe most any,
thing
The old slate writin'\ tricks and
The Washington times., 1911-06-22

The Joneses Is our neckst doaf
naybirs. Ma ses they are not nice
people and ] am not aloud to go with
Freddy Jones, altho l can lick him
easy.
The othir day the Joneses got a
fonograff, witch they put in thare
sitting room, witch is rite ackross
from our sitting room.
Holey smoak. sed pop. wen the
fonogran furst startid to play. watts
that, a fire.
A Fonograff
No. sed ma. the Joneses have got a
fonograff.
The Joneses have got a klossil
nerve, sed pop.
G, sed, the Joneses are playing
Kasey Jones. I CESS he must be sum
relashun to them.
Kasey Jones was awl the Joneses
scanned to have to play avn thare
fonograff Kasey Jones is fine
peace. but jest bekaus you're name is
Jones and you got a fonograf. that
don't say you hat to play it awl the
time.
This is orfnl, sed pop, aftir 1 had
kountid twenty-three Kasey Joneses
played in two hours on the Joneses
fonograf.
I don't think it's a good fonogran
enyhow, sed Mr.. Johnsstn, wich is
pops friend.
Good, sed pop, who. was sitting
The Washington times., 1911-06-22
ACCORDING TO SAMMY

rite by the windo and tawked very
loud wen he sed this so the Joneses
Good heer HIM may be. It's a soap
books mashine. that's wat it is. They
got it with soap rappers, he sed. and
I don't think evin the soap was eny
good. I no wat I'll do, pop sed. III
by a mekanikul peano II it brakes
me.
So wat shood KUN to the house
last mite but a mekanikul peano.
witch you play with yure feat and do
watever you want with yure hands,
evin read with them if you want to.
As soon as Kasey Jones startid on
the Joneses' fonograff, pop startid
the mekanikul peano, witch made
moar noize than the fonograh and
soundid mulch bettir enyhow.
Jest got one peace, sed pop. and
it's Mr. Dooley. I had an orful time
to get il, to. he sed, bekaus the man
sed the deelers don't karry Mr..
Dooley eny moar.
| Pritty soor- Mr.. Jones stuck his
he'd out the windo and looked ovir
and so did Mrs Jones, witch was aftir
our mekanikul peano had played
fourteen Mr.. DooIeys. Then the fono-
graft stopped and pop stopped the
mekanikul peano.
Neether of them has played sinse,
but pop has put Mr. Dooley on the
windo sill ware the Joneses can see
it in kase they start Kasey Jones.
The Washington times., 1911-06-22

the inside Is about twice as large as
the ordinary tunnels in macaroni, and
gives each piece a located, look.
They're regular pea shooters.
Pea shooters. Keep that word in
your mind, Will you? It's the plot Of
the story. As soon as the boss saw
we weren't selling enough macaroni,
Re put the pea shooter idea into exc
cution.
The errand boy did the demonstrat-
ing. The boss set him up on the edge
Of the counter, gave him a piece Of
macaroni and a lot of dried peas,
sno told him to shoot And whenever
a customer came in with a kid, Il
was pit! pit! pit! dried peas like hail.
For the benefit of the kids. seer
You ought to see their eyes pop out
when they saw that italian raa
shooter.
Mommer, get some macaroni! We
amt had any for an awful long
ahile!' And. generally speaking,
mamma would.
The Washington times., 1911-06-22

squaws had their beaux (bows, a play
on the name of primitive Indian
weapon of warfare).
shh! A distant rumble notified the
waiting Indians of the approach Of
the stage coach. R-r-r-rumble.
"Gid-dap!" shouts the driver to his
racing horses. "Gid-dap. Don't YOU
know the early settler catches the
worm"
The great vehicle swayed past and,
with a loud warwhoop, the Indians
sprang upon the road and gave chase.
Suddenly something happened. One
Of the wheels of the stage coach
came on and seven early settlers
spilled upon the ground. Nonplussed.
the Indians stood stock still in Cher
ckee bewilderment. Twas then that
Buffalo Bill himself appeared on the
scene OF action.
owing to an accident to the stage
{ coach" he announced, the great
stage coach scene is called of for the
evening"
The Washington times., 1911-06-22
Reddy Smith on the
Nervous Woman

Did yu notice de one dat jes passed,
Jimmie? De little wuman wild de big
hat-de one dat seemed tn be all wurk-
ed up uhbout sumpin'?
knew yu seen hur. Yu cuddent have
missed her, cause she bought uh pa
per of 700.
She's wat yu call uh bunch Nv
nerves" She's wun Nv dem kind, jim
mie, dat amt strong enouf tn keep
frum worrin' uhbout nuthin'. She don't
have nuthin' at all tn worry uhbout,
Jimmie; she's got uh good home, uh fine
husban' an don't have tn scratch tn
git uhlong. But, II don't make no diff
f'rence what happens-ur don't happen
she worries jes de same.
I heard hur talkin' tn hur husban de
udder day, an she wus worried fur fear
he'd die in uh cuple Nv years, an den
what wud she do?" She wus so wur-
ried cause she thot she might loose
hur 'husban's lection sum day, UT dat
he might stay late at de orfice jes' tn
meet uhncdder CURL, dat she cried right
on his shoulder in de square.
Denis only uh few NV hur worries.
Jimmie but DER enouf. An, say, JIM
ME. If sum day de papers tell uv-dem
g:ttin' divorced, b'leme it'll be uh moo
cause dey'll create, fur he'll institute de
proceedin's cause 'his wife worries too
much" B'lemeL
The Washington times., 1911-06-22
Loretta's Looking Glass
A L G Y

Of those in her immediate neighborhood
a protracted misery in their efforts to
pull her out.
You moody girls never act as II you
were the least bit grateful for the
frantic attempts that may be made to
drag you out of your doldrums. You
Just seem to like to sit down in the
The Washington times., 1911-06-22
SHE HOLDS IT UP TO THE
Girl Who Is Moody

abyss of your own self-alloved woebe-
goneness and enjoy being silent and
distant and disagreeable to others.
The natural variations of mind and
manner that make people agreeable are
all so accentuated with you that every
change is slaringly apparent. You are
riotously happy at one minute. The
next, some one steps on your corn or
the window curtain drops and darkens
the room-and you are human tomb
stone,
There is no possible way of avoid
ing things that give you the megrinhs.
because the same thing never affects
you the same way twice. You work
on an emotional schedule that is all
exceptions and specials. And you are
the most tormenting creature to live
with that mortal man ever encoun-
tered.
H.. A Double Header
Men know MOODY girls. And the
wise ones avoid them as they would
a plague. The pouting girls can be
coaxed into good humor. And pouts
can be rather becoming so that the
ewes of the beholder are not actually
blasted. But the MOODY girl who
suddenly. and without any more
cause than that her egg is too soft or
the corner of the toast burned, takes
9 double header into the black depths
of a mood is an absolute undesirable
in the matrimonial market.
I, You are a MOODY girl. You will
never get permanently out Of the dis
NAL depths and into the matrimonial
haven unless you pull yourself up to
an emotional level by the aid of your
own boot-straps.~ II you are wearing
pumps, take a firm hold on your sup
porters of determination and lift your
self into permanent cheerfuiness and
endurability. .... ..
The Washington times., 1911-06-22
Humorous Mavericks
Without a Brand
POOR FATHER

Visitor-Goodness! How quiet 1t IL
around your house today. Is anybody
dead?
Willie-No; but pas standing on tip
toe on the dictionary on top of the
three-legged chair putting on a gas
mantle. and baby's leaning against the
chair jogging it, and mas sitting on
the floor hoping pail burn his whis-
kers and bust the mantle, so she'll
have a chance to say II told you So
The Washington times., 1911-06-22
To Arms! Indians!
Or, Early Settlers

The Indians, redskins that they
were. were about to make an at
tack on the early settlers.
Crouching in ambush, even the
The Washington times., 1911-06-22

Prob1y faint somepn he didn't conversation with
though he had much idea of
hen has O. gettin' into the
Mamie Didn't Want To Talk
Before half round the floor | he almost
think for and
I'd started enjoy the dance much I'd almost forgot he
and couple
of gasps. he hnIly loose from original idea
Amt the floor great?" he
didn't him, thnkin that the best to let him
how | felt about the conversation idea
We took another around the floor and could feel second
uggn panfny from the middle OF his chest TO MS
head all the around
at certnly floor" he
tried share the silence that means
pe undrsandn him. but it wouldn't take After still
preparation he fired again
Gee, what perfec' floor he
he that sank the camels back, Belle.
What do you think O the windows" ! says
punishment enough made him sit out the
rest the dance his while he tried
factu more When Bill dance with the
have him duce his deaf
and dumb friend.
The Washington times., 1911-06-22
Drawn for The Washington Times.

HE young man was quite glow
ing with eulogistic ardor about
-. you as he saw you approaching
along the street. He had met you for
the first time at party few even
ings before. He actually believed
and delighted in it!-that he was ia
vored of the boy-god and shot to the
heart with the blissful arrow the very
instant that his eyes and ypurs met.
He thought he loved at first sight!
Cold and inexpensive
You came nearer. The face that
had been wreathed in smiles when
he had seen it first was now dull and
heavy. The eyes that had shone were
cold and inexpensive. You looked like
another girl
He saw-and what was more disas-
trous-he felt a change. There was a
morose and brooding gloom in your
manner. If be had known you longer
the revelation might have meant less.
He would have looked into himself for
a reason to account for the change.
He would have tried to think what he
could have said or don. that displeased
you. But he could not do that now.
You had burst upon his delighted eyes
in one of your gay moods. He had
not seen you since. Yet, here you were
glowering at him as If he had mis-
treated you.
The optics he had believed blinded
with the glory of first love became sud.
denly clear. He could see that the girI
he faced now was the same as the one
| he had looked at then. But she was
cross. She had gotten out of the wrong
side of the bed. Some one or some.
thing had vexed her, Or she had sunk
| into one of those dismal depths that
! gulp the moody individual without
| rhyme or reason and make the lives
The Washington times., 1911-06-22
Dead Against He

II don't believe she'll ever get mar
ried."
Why not?"
Her friends have started telling
! what a good wife she'll make for some
man some day"
The Washington times., 1911-06-22
ENGLISH JOKE FOR TO-DAY

The Mexican president at one time
announced his intention Of dying in
harness.
oh, well-we suppose he can Diaz he
likes.-The Pink I'm.
The Washington times., 1911-06-22
The Old and New

Modern Actor-I can't play in that
piece. The role does not fit me.
Old-time Manager - 1 thought you
were an actor.
Modern Actor-No, only a star.
The Washington times., 1911-06-22
Necessity

out you
Foolish talk, duke. How can you Ak
upon a specific length of timer"
''Ze landlord fix on II, miss, not l."
The Washington times., 1911-06-22
Our Grocery Clerk
Saws Mind Your Eve!

Take a look at a sample OF this
n.acaroni before the last three boxes
60 It's good Italian fruit, under
stand, but the cavity that runs along
The Washington times., 1911-06-22
WHEN NOAH WAS A BOY

His mother wanted to go to the coro'
nation, but felt that she couldn't
because her dress had worn thin. But
Noah's pa bought can Of paint and
got her dolled UP In no time.
The Washington times., 1911-06-22
Thorough Schooling

Blobbs-That girl has been remark
ably successful
Slobbs-Yes, she used to work in a
nail factory, and now she's a mani
cure,
The Washington times., 1911-06-22

let don't they VIII
not l argument don't about
Society be earning and doing some thing
the world. sorely tempted but e perhaps
could tell better We have quaeled and quaed
till tabooed subject, the deter
heart that much bigger something to do
Big Problem
questions big problem The girl who
wishes who herself off from home
family bitterness deep in her SOUL and brings
for her the biggest Of life
Yet these the for they forcing
breaking bonds that should fret gall
evolution of the world and make girl
of yesterday of one of today
They should give she girl
should But Office work the only
thing that girl do.
There work the chldIen there
that be followed within home walls there
of every kind open girls nowadays
such with heart with
no comfort sympathy advice face
world aonethat something that should attempt for
her doubly vulnerable
hurts of the work-day world.
The Washington times., 1911-06-22
M A ME TELLS BELLE
When II Comes To
Approaching Silence
DANCING is FINE TRAINING

Ii and took in the FREELY social last night, Belle
For real live dance, with music that helps along
the plot the book reviewers say of the illustra-
tons, give me the FREELY socials. l on'y had four
partners all night that stepped my feet, and at
fault
Dancin' is lib'ral educ alton, Belief teaches
you to balance your temper we'll your body,
graceful art O. conversation-well, it's got evenn'
comp mics and pink teas dashed to the mast.
Take las night, f'r instance. The best partner
The Washington times., 1911-06-22
THE RIGHTS OF GIRLS
Commented On After the
Receipt Of Letter
BY PEGGY VAN BRAAM

AS girl right to go work if her parents object
for that matter, have parents right 70 prevent
girl from making career for hersef-for doing
something more worth while than idling about the
house all day, wasting Gme and the education
Pretty big questions aren't they? Yet they
are asked and reiterated in the hastily, angrily
scrawled letter signed I'll F. R." which reached
me today
81 want to go To- work." the writer declares.
Mother doesn't need me. to help at home; we have
servants and are comfortably fixed And that, by
The Washington times., 1911-06-22
Was Superstitious

But why did she marry him."
Superstition, my dear. She no
ticed that she always won when she
met him at a bridge party, so she
took him as a mascot
The Washington times., 1911-06-22

Getting Signatures
How did higgins get all those sig,
natures to his petitton?"
The INSCRIPTIONS villain purloinec
his daughters autograph album
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-05-11

to have a creditable color bearer in this his
tory-making spectacle that our latest dread
naught" has been ordered to cross the At
lantic.
Uncle Sans participation in the coronation
will have preludes Of a social nature in the
United States prior to the departure Of the
special embassy for London. The British am
bassador to the United States may be expected
to entertain the special ambassador, and prob
ably all the members Of the special embassy,
at a formal dinner, provided he follows prece-
dent in the matter, as doubtless he Will, Tor
Hon. James Bryce, the present British am
bassador to the United States, has earned a
reputation for doing the right thing at the
right time and, moreover, he Is strongly IN
sympathy with everything American. This
hospitality will doubtless be returned by Am
bassador Hammond, who Is well equipped Tor
entertaining, having, in addition to his spa
cious summer home at Gloucester, Mass, a
rented house in Washington which he mas
leased at a rental of upward Of $4,000 a year
and where he Is residing with his wife and
children pending the completion OF a mansion
specially constructed for him at the nationai
capital.
And speaking of Ambassador Hammonds
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-05-11

family it may be noted that Mrs. Elaninon1
is as well qualified for the duties OF specAai
ambassadress as Is her husband LOT 'ho poos
of special ambassador. Prior to her maiiiae.
she was a resident Of the state OF Mlsslssipp,'
hut since she formed a life partnership VIII
the mining engineer she has traveied y. W.
the world-one OF her latest jaunts peihs "
st. Petersburg, Russia, whittier MT. fia"lhonu
was summoned by the car only a rev hon
ago for a consultation regarding the uevelop
ment of Russian and Siberian MINES W
over, Mrs. Hammond has lived TOT cons.ue. ~ ~
intarvals in London during the time that ner
husband was associated with Cecll Hhoues
and the British capitalists who developed
south Africa. so that she has had considerable
experience to fit her for her duties as a nos
tess during the gayest social season IN inc
interim of the worlds metropolis.
If INGREDIENT is followed In the case Oh the
coronation of King George COMMEMORATE
services will be held in Washington lahu III al
the worlds capitals where Great brlIain has
embassies and legations) simultaneously wiz
The significant ceremony In LONDON. ouen
commemorative exercises when unoer Lis
auspices of British diplomats are always espe
cially impressive, one OF the most houaois
within the memory of official washington DC
mo tha memorial service in honor OF the late
King Edward, which was held In Washingtoi
at the same hour that the funeral was neld II
England. Such services are attended by TN
president of the United States and the mem
hers Of his cabinet and by all the members Q
the diplomatic corps in full uniform Wher
as In this case, the services are IN honor OIL
British monarch, they are always heid IN a
Episcopal church, that being the uenomins
ZION of the Church Of England. The scene c
s,ch commemorative events in Washington
old st. Johns church, the famous "Coui
church" or Church Of the Presidents whic
is located directly opposite the White Hous
Unfortunately the general public gets never
peep at such ceremonials because the churc
is a tiny one, seating only a few hundred pc
sons and virtually every pew in the edif1ce hs
to be reserved for the diplomats and publ
officials who by virtue of their positions al
entitled to attend.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-05-11

fighting men on the faraway battle
fronts.
Already more than n great mill
tary and naval captain has suffered
disquieting visions of what Will nap
pen when, maneuvering u%nopposed
and unseen in the obscurity Of the
night, not merely one or a few, but
veritable swarms Of light %aeroplanes,
in 10000 lots, costing no more than
single dreadnaughts, commence trail
ing asortments of high explosives at
the end Of 1000 foot lengths Of piano
| wire over cities and palaces and
through fleets and armies.
Many authorities are inclined to@dis-
parage the lighting ability Of the aero
plane, basing their views on the TACT
that 1t has been demonstrated exceed
ingly diflcult to drop bombs with any
considerable accuracy from great
heights. But from a slow-movine
aeroplane flying very low it should BIC
an easy matter to cast generous par
cells Of picric acid or illuminate Of mer