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REVoKES RrI.ING As no
MISUNDERSTANDING FINE

Judge west announced Yesterday that
INC court had revoked its former rlIl-
ING under which all persons indicted
'or selling liquor. VINO would plead
guilty would receive Zines OF SIS with
no Jail sentence. The iud-c s,o,.j
mat in the future the question OF i'm
posing the jail sentence would res, in
the discretion OF the court, in accord
ance with the recommendation OF the
commonwealth attorney The court
he said reserves the right 10 imnos.
such penalties as may be deemed
proper under the the circumstances
Under the blanket arrangement Of
fered by Judge West on August .,
etShtH-ninc persons charged with sell
ing !ntoNicants at Hopcwell pleaded
guilty, Each was given a fine Of s75
and placed under a bond OF $500 to be
Of good behavior for twelve months
Sufhcicnt time has been given the other
defendants to take ADVANTAGE Of the
arrangement. and the cases of the de-
lin1nents Will rest on the individual
merits OF each.
PORTER TAKES STAND
~ HIS OWN DEFENSE
II now appears that the Porter case
VIII not be concluded until Monday or
Tuesday. Porter was on the stand YES
terday afternoon. when court adj
Journed, and Will he further cross
examined by Special Prosecutor, George
II. wise to-day. The defendant made
good witness for himself. II Is said
re is man Of sto!id countenarce and
on powerful physique, being more than
SIN rect three inches tall and weighing
about go pounds
Porter admitted having given q. NJ
reeves. supervisor Of the Du pont no.
lice force. s.5. but asserted that the
money was To defray tile expenses OF
Reeves to the police chiefs convention
al Newport News on July lS Reeves
the principal witness FOR the Common
wealth, had testified that Porter gave
him s25 rs bride to prevent inter
ference with certain gambling opera
lions in Hopewell. Porter denied any
wronEdoing during his service on Inc
Hopcwell police force.
The escapade OF T.. g. Lucas. the
juror In the first Porter trial. who
landed In Jail for contempt OF court
rs result Of visit 10 Hopewell with
other men under Indictment for brib
cry, was aired in court during the
cross-eNamination Of John l.. Goodman.
an attorney OF IIopewcll. who was y
witness for the defense. Goodman adj
mitted I'm rcD!r {" questions by Mr..
Wise that he was under Indictment for
'tampering with a juror" and this
gave the Commonwealth an opport,n
ity to show the cause for the ABRUPT
ending Of the first trial.
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Local Rainfall.

kaInfall last twenty-four hours Non,
'chc'ehcy in rainfall since March
bcncicncy III rainfall since Ian
"arE Observation-Disclosures. -
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General Wcnthcr Condi,inn.

ASHINGTON. September 1.-THE
inuiGation3 are that there viii he gen
,cnperaturc Saturday and sunday in
the states east OF the Mississippi Iiivcr,
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MARRIAGE LiJENs:..

4 marriage license was issued bv the
clerk Of tho Hastings Court yesterday
to thastain L.. Northern and Alice {;
Henley, both Of Richmond
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III STINGs TRANSFERS.
Two Deeds az BnrGnln and SnIr
tmRuntIng 10 St.550

Henry :. Wallerstein ct ux. to w
&C.. lett. G:Nl4S feet west line Thirtietl
street 60 feet south Of Davis Street
Septembor ]. 1915: tax. 81: $40
j. l.. Taylor ct IN. 10 w. w Allen
&c l-2 feet on III" east side OF Spring
hill street. in Woodland Heights An.
gust - 1915: tax. s3.S0: $40
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uusriNGs DEED OF TRUST.


Lucinda Barnes 10 ID. +. Bragg trus-
tee. 81 1-oXl30 feet north line Holland
street. hrin" LOT II In block 3 i'm the
plan or Hollands Addition. August
- l0ln SoHlhn
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nm>r,co DEEDS Of Tnu So.

-Four Deeds of Trust, Amounting
to Sf,135.a5.
Mary l.. Freeman ct vir. to w. L.
Redd. trustee, 50X120 feet. lots 23 and
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THE WEATHER


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temperature: 81: humidity. II: wind
direction. southwest: wind ycIocity
miles; weather. partly c,oudv
Evening star., 1915-06-06
BOOKS RECEIVED.

HOME UNIVERSITY LIBRARY oE
MODERN KNOwLEDGE-Mn.T
BY John Bailey. author OF The
Claims of French Poetry" etc. New
York: Henry Holt & Co.
HOME UNIVERSITY LIBRARY or
GUM. BY r. C X. Ensor. sometime
scholar of Balliol College. Oxford.
New York: Henry Holt & Co.
THE EXPLOITS OF ELAINE. a De-
tecttve Novel. By Arthur B. Reeve
author OF Guy Garrick,'' etc. Dram
auzed into a photoplay by Charles
w Goddard. author OF ''The Mis-
leading Lady" etc New York
Hearsts international Library Com
pany.
THE PERILs OF PAULINE A Motion
Picture Novel. BY Charles Godoa ra
author of The Ghost Breaker" et,.
New york: Hearst's international
Library Company.
MOUNT VERNON. The Home Of WASH
ington. BY J. E. Jones. Washing
ton: U. s. Press Association.
BANKRUPTING A GREAT CITY. Til.
Story Of New York BY Henry H.
Klein. author of STANDARD Oil or
the People" etc. Chief investigator
for aldermanio street cleaning com
mittee. New York city, 1907, etc
New York: Published by the author.
UAoDkSAefS r MOn-
etary Systems, Intrinsic Euuiva-
lents and Commercial Rates Of EN-
change Of all Countries and Their
Relation to United States Money.
BY v. Gonzales. foreign trade and
banking expert OF the National As
sociation of Manufacturers of the
United States. New York: C. S.
Hammond & Co.
HOME UNIVERSITY LIBRARY OF
MODERN KNOWLEDGE - POLTTI-
CAL THOUGHT IN ENGLAND, From
Herbert Spencer to the Present Dny.
By Ernest Barker, author of The
Political Thought Of Plato and Aris-
totle." New York: Henry Holt & Co.
A WAY TO PREVENT WAR. BY Allan
Z. Benson. Girard, Kan: Appeal to
Reason.
HOME UNIVERSITY LIBRARY OF
MODERN kNOWLEDGE- HIS
TORY OF PHILOSOPHY. BY Glenn
ent c. J. Webb. New York: Henry
Holt & Co.
Evening star., 1915-06-06

early adopted by San Marino. The pub
lie funds are in the hands Of treasurer
and the government issues its own post
age stamps, from which it makes consid-
erable revenue; also its own copper COIN
age, which circulates in Italy. Italian
money is also used
San Marino is represented by diplomatic
agents in several countries. In France
she has a charge daffaires and consul
general, a consul general at Vienna and
consul at Trieste An extradition treaty
was ratified between the United States
and the republic in 1908.
Since the early centuries, with the ex-
ception of the threatened invasion by Aus
tria in 1S49. when she sheltered Garibaldi
and his men who had been defeated by
the empire, San Marino has remained al
most wholly unmolested. With small
armed force she has maintained her SOW
ereignty, observing with few exceptions
strict neutrality with the outside world
and receiving the respect and good will
of all
/ After the victories of Lodi, Arcole and
Montenotte had given Napoleon posses
sion of the Italian peninsula, and he was
portioning out the territory to his family
and favorites. the tiny republic became
alarmed for fear Of its freedom. But
Napoleon gayly remarked: LET us pre-
serve 1t as the model of a republic" and
from Pesaro sent cordial greetings and as
surances of the involable friendship Of
France.
The "rnodel of a republic" so patroniz-
ingly spoken of by Napoleon, has outlved
the kingdoms established by the conquer
or. has seen his beloved France twice be-
come a republic since his reign and was
Ia silent witness to his suffering and
death at st. Helena.
San Marino, tradition says, was found
ed by ST. Marino, pious monk of the
Evening star., 1915-06-06
4 NOTES AND REVIEWS OF NEW SUMMER PUBLICATIONS

matters as they were in the Canal
Zone in the days of the second isthmian
commission" There is a frontispfece
portrait of Col. Roosevelt, and the book
is dedicated ito all the men who did
the work--in whatever capacity" - to
bring about the achieving of the Pan
anna canal
THE EDGE. a Novel, BY John Cor
bin, author of The First Loves of
Perilla.' etc. Frontispiece in color
by Katherine Gassaway. New York
Duffield e. Co.
a pair of poor young lovers whose
lot is cast with the idle rich must
either abandon their hopes of matri-
mony or be, content to change materi-
ally their mode of life. This is the
story of a couple who tried desperate
ly to make some sort of living agree
ment with matrimony, poverty and the
smart set. Failure is the foregone
conclusion of this experiment. In a
long and roundabout way. n way that
plays and loiters and at times forgets
itself completely. this novel works out
the renunciations and compromises that
finally spread a smooth and happy mat
rimonial road before the young couple.
A well defined purpose does not appear
to have animated the making of this
story. The plot is loose opening at
every point to admit irrelevancies of
farce and broad fun-making. 1t is
overstocked with the improbable and
unplausible. Mr.. Corbin has done much
better work than this.
Evening star., 1915-06-06

cency, his generosity, his kindness,
his success, for all of the things that
they were not. Why did they hate
Jim so bitterly? Why. because it is
altogether human to hate those whom
we have wronged. AS study this
novel may be altogether dependa BILE
in it's reflection of certain types of be-
ings circumscribed and set about as
these two were. AS mere reading 1t is
about as unpleasant as reading can be
made.
WOLFINE. BY Y. New York: Sturgis
& Walton Company. Washington:
Woodward & Lothrop.
The writer calls this romance in
which q dog plays an honorable part"
Wolfine is the dog. In the beginning
this is the romance of a boy and girl
There is a secret marriage and the
mysterious disappearance Of the girl.
who is gone for a dozen years Her
return and. later. her remarriage to
the young husband, complete the out
line of the story The plot is good.
though it savors of an earlier period of
novel-making than this one. Now and
then it's events border the sensational
and the improbable. The disappear
ance of the girl is of the first order.
The failure of everybody to recognize
her upon her return after only twelve
years of absence is highly improbable
But it gives opportunity for very
readable re-wooing and may. on TINS
account, be forgiven. The writer mas
made rather better dog than he has
Evening star., 1915-06-06

a story. One wishes that Wolf1ne
could have had a larger part in this
affair than he has, for he is a fine
fellow, living up to the highest In
stincts and traditions of his kind
WHO BUILT THE PANAMA CANAL'
BY W. Leon Pepperman. New York:
E. P. Dutton & Co.
The author, like some knight of old.
charges into the field of literature to
champion the cause of those who built
the Panama canal" Whether or not
this valiant St George is able to slay
the dragon of popular opinion, there is
one thing to be claimed for Mr.. Pepper
man: His book possesses that individ-
ual value which the slang-classic de-
fines as different from the multiple
ity q other publications which credit
the building of the canal to the army
headed by Col. Goethals.
This book challenges that claim AS
"chief Of office of administration of the
second isthmian commission" it must
be granted that the author is better
qualified than the multitudinous book
writing tourist. to pass. judgment on
canal conditions and to award laurels
to those who deserve to he crowned.
Recognition is made of the splendid
achievements of the Goethals regime,
but from first to last, through many
pages of facts that have been recorded
as history, insistence is made that to
Theodore P. Shonts and the second or
railroad administration belongs the i'm
mortality of building the Panama
canal Chairman Shonts found tho
Evening star., 1915-06-06

the religion of Goethe and the facts
of his early life. There is chapter on
Goethe's relation to women and an
other on the significance of Faust
About two hundred portraits and other
historical illustrations supplement the
text adding greatly to it's usefulne IS
as well as to the beauty of the book
itself
JIM. Ey Reginald Wright Kaufman.
author of The House of Bondage e."
etc. New York: Moffat. Yard & Co.
After having read a while here one
begins to look for Jim. Reading
along still further. and Jim still not
appearing, one grows critical of a
writer who tells half his story before
Introducing the hero. BY and by,
along toward the end of the book, the
reader wakes up to the fact that he
is not going to see Jim at all Ana he
does not. The story opens with Jim's $
wife waiting for her lover. To him Sha
opens the Very neat plan by which she
will he able to lose Jim and f1nd a
new husband ia the lover. From tins
point the story moves swiftly to di-
yorce and remarriage. After that thefe
follows in most circumstantial detail.
the tawdry, mean. contemptible life Of
this pair. a life in which they destroyed
each other hated each other, and, at
tbe last. were tied in double bond by
their common degradation. jim? Oh,
inns part in the story is to be the
scapegoat for the misery of these two
Much as they hated each other, they
hated jim more, hated him for his de-
Evening star., 1915-06-06

zone in a dep1orable condition. Hope
less workmen were deserting and those
unable to leave could not make money
enough to buy food. Wages had been
raised twice, but each time Panama
merchants raised the price of supplies.
On the first night of his arrival Mr..
Shonts esta blished commissaries that
sold good food at cost, and started
the sanitation machinery which cleaned
the isthmus and gave 10 Gen Gorsas
the world-fame he deserved. Living
quarters were built. and, with the COM
ing of wives and children. the zone
was no longer an "EveleSs Eden y
when Col Goethals began his extra
ordinarily successful labors two years
afterward the Canal Zone was as
healthful a place to live and work in
as most parts of the United States;
the plans for the canal had been
worked out and its construction was
under way" OF John F. Stevens. chief
engineer, under the personal direction
of the chairman of the commission. the
author says: at was his personality
that inspired the industrial army at
Panama with the enthusiasm that Col
Goethals was SO fortunately able to
retain in it, and which made it the
best working force ever got together
in a tropical country. Joseph PEN
nell, whose drawings interSperse the
book. is given a page of appreciation,
in which the writer says that the
building of the Panama canal lis illus
trated as no other man could have il
Illustrated it and that the work has the
approval of one who has had every
opportunity of knowing the truth Of
Evening star., 1915-06-06
I Twm@-D@af Men Cannot =
Hear Melody or Song

whom that sense previously seemed to
be lacking, or at least was dormant In
other cases musical education seems to
stunt the musical sense Of some per-
sons who apparently have the music
faculty. Often the musical faculty and
the musical sense develop together
tremendously. and the product of such
development is musical competence,
sometimes musical excellence and oc-
casiona1y musical superiority.
Turning back to tune deafness, there
is another form of defective fntelli-
gence or defective nerve system which
might be called tune -distaste. Many
men in other ways great and distin-
guished have had this defect They
have the ability to recognize tunes but
do not like them. Such sensation mu-
sic gives them Is unpleasant 1t has
been written that Napoleon disliked
any form of melody. He knew tunes
when he had heard them a few times
but If they moved his emotions at all 1t
was in disagreeable way. Victor HUI
go felt no exhaltation at the sound OF
music. To him the melodies which are
generally agreeable to normal persons
were noise Empress Catherine Of Rus
sia is recorded in history as dislikins
music and as having said that the mu-
sic at her court was a 'nerve-trying
din"
Evening star., 1915-06-06

socialism, however, as the remedy for
this obviously unjust situation, he is
less definite about the exact operations
of socialism in it's remedial capacity. he
is less coherent. less convincing, than
in his mastery pictures of human ham
dicap on the one hand. or of human n
greed and rapacity on the other. He
promises, but he does not prove. He
cites other countries as examples of
what socialism is doing. but other
economists certainly of equal rank
either deny wholly the rosy reports of
socialists at this point or so modify
these as to subtract considerably from
the sum Of the socialist claim. pref
ace to this edition discusses the war
in relation to the promise that with
socialism as a universal political doc
trine there could be no war.
GOETHE, With Special Consideration
OF His Philosophy. By Paul Carus.
Illustrated. Chicago: The Open
Court Publishing Company.
Paul Carus here makes>a profoundly
appreciative and sympathetic study of
Goethe for the sake of considering.
from the viewpoint of the present,
those phases of Goethe's life which
mark him as a man of great powers OF
philosophic thought, as a thinker who
had arrived at dominating and con-
trolling conception of the universe OF
life The consideration of this topic IS
the purpose of Mr.. Carus' study In
addition, he submits some of Goethes
philosophic poems, hitherto not put
into English. Besides this, he discusses
Evening star., 1915-06-06
His Finish.

THE late Charles Frohman, on one OF
q his last Atlantic crossings, told a
story that New Yorker recounted the
other day with sigh.
Il imported once from London" Mr..
F'rohman said, "a comedian expected
great things from. But he turned out
to be a frost So after putting up with
him for fortnight, 1 sent for him and
said:
You've been a frost from the start.
Here, now, is my last proposition to
you. I'll look in on you tonight. and II
you don't get laugh out of the house.
why, you Observation-Disclosures next
boat sails Saturday
'The comedian brooded over this
warning long and hard. By the time
the afternoons rehearsal came on, he
mad thought of a new gag. This might,
perhaps. save him.
Look here he said to the orchestra
leader. III lean over to you tonight
q anu ASK you; why is an old maid IKE
Why Is an old maid like a tomato?
NO. sir. 1 can't answer that, sir. Why,
then, Is an old maid like a tomato"
And then I'll say Because she has no
one to mate her. See?
Yes, 1 see,' said the leader doubt
fully.
The evening arrived. 1. as manager.
according to my warning, took my
place In stage box. The comedian
came on and asked the orchestra lead
er in due course. Why is an old maid
like tomato?' The orchestra leader
said in answer. give it up Why is
an old maid like a tomato, sir?'
And then the comedian smiled In
triumph, and looked out over the audi
ence, and-happened to catch my stern.
cold eye. Instantly his smile vanished
and he gasped:
because the next boat sails on Sat-
urday."
Evening star., 1915-06-06
MonocIe introduced at
the Congress of Vienna

HE monocle has never had q very
strong hold on the American eye
and has never and probably will never
become a prominent feature of the
American face. Americans reserve this
as one Of the Identification marks OF
the stage Englishman. who bears the
same relation to the commonplace
Englishman as does the stage Irish
man with green whiskers, who Is for
ever biting of pieces OF his clay pipe
to the normal son Of Erin.
But the monocle has played its shin
ing part In certain very respectable
elements of English society. 1t had
quite a vogue at one time; then its
popularity waned and reports have 1t
that 1t seems again to be coming into
favor.
Toward the end of the first quarter
OF the nineteenth century the fad OF
wearing the monocle had become Sc
popular that the writer of a book on
the care of the eyes and preservation
of the vision inveighed against it.
The name of that writer was DR.
Kitchiner, and in 1923 he published
Economy of the Eyes" Among many
adverse references tos the monocle he
wrote: "A single glass, set in a smart
ring, is often used by trinket-fanciers
for fashions sake. These folks have
not the least defect in their sight, and
are not aware of the mischievous con-
sequences of such irritation"
1t has been said the English army
authorities once issued an order that
officers should not wear eyeglasses or
spectacles, these being looked on as
evidences of defective sight. A num-
Der OF army officers then took to wear
Ing the monocle. disobeying the army
order by safe margin and giving to
themselves, as it was thought at the
time, an air of distinction, somewhat
or the thought which now prompts so
many military officers as well as men
70 carry a "swagger stick"
one of the interesting things written
about the monocle is that the fashion
was introduced at the congress Of
Vienna, the congress which remade the
map OF Europe and to which so many
references have been made by writer's
ON the remote causes of the present
war. Sir Horace Rumbold. in writing
on the subject of the origin of odd
fashions and customs, said that
Dutch exquisite. Jonkheer Breele. was
the first man to wear monocle ana
showed the then brand-new fad to the
diplomats and others assembled at the
congress of Vienna. After that intro.
duction the fad spread to all parts OF
Europe, but took it's deepest noid on
certain members of the English we'll
to-do classes.
Evening star., 1915-06-06
English Scientists Take
Up Case of the FLY

~ REATER attention has been given
VI to the fly within the last five
years than he had been honored with
in all the preceding centuries of his
busy. buzzy career. When he was
charged with malevolence toward the
human family. the family which had
encouraged him with its dirt, made his
breeding possible and which had so
long supported him. he came to bulk
large in human affairs. From q harm
less. though somewhat pesky little
creature, he was transformed into a
monster Germs Of typhoid and of very
nearly every other disease which dig,
graves and fills the world with mourn
ing were found on his wings or sticky
Lee1. @ ne was caught with the goods on
him. His death sentence has been pro-
claimed around the world. Some time
the future entomologist will chase a
hy-just the common rouse f1y-in
order to capture what to him will be
a rare insect. That time has not yet
energetic fiy-swat campaigns have
been waged, but such a thing NAV
come to pass.
Since wise mon have taken up the
study of the f1y a great number of
things concerning his character and
two Of these strange things are that
the fly is not a high nier, and that his
wings do not carry him far from the
place where he was born. He Is not
exactly standpatter, but he is no
eagle. He does not often wander from
his own fireside. cream jug or sarba Re
can. Some English experimenters saw
that they have proved that a mile Is
about as far as a fly ever travels on
his own wings, and that that Is a much
greater distance than the average fly
can go. The British government car
r1ed out some experiments in a Suf-
folk village by busting a large number
OF files with white powder and re-
leasing them. Two days later the
farthest straggler was found not quite
mile away, while the others were To-
Gated within radius Of 200 yards.
The other fact which has been found
out about the fly Is that he does NOT
fly high. No altitude record for himi
He seems to have no ambition to vie
with the aeropiane OF condor or to ride
the clouds. The earth is a good enough
place for him. 1t Is said that he rarely
flies higher than eight feet from the
ground or the floor. He will 20 nm
stairs to higher floors, but even then
about forty feet Is his limit. It is said
that if one finds him higher than that
he was born up there or transporter