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ioiwEPfr OF LAW
FOR GAME PROTECTION
Strict Observation by Wash.
ington Gunners and Dealers
to Be Fnioineri.
" N
Maj. Sylvester, who is District game
warden in addition to being chief of poll'?,
will issue instructions early in the
week for rigid enforcement of the-game
law. T'nder the laws of the District the
shooting <>:' game is prohibited, but its
sale 1- permitted during most of the
period In which it is allowed to be killed
in nearby stales.
November 1 is the date fixed by the
District Taw for beginning the eeason for
. he sale of rabbits, squirrels, quail, pheasants
and wild turkeys, most of the seasons
in the counties of Maryland and in
all the counties of Virginia cpening on
hat date. There are some exceptions in
Maryland, however, but game from prohibited
sections is not permitted to be
sold or offered for sale in the District
prior to November 1
Dates Fixed in the Counties.
In t.'harles county the rabbit season
opened October 1 There has been very
little shooting done there thus far this
season, it is reported, but the day tlie
bird season opens. November 1. there will
be no scarcity of gunners. It is stated
t bat birds and rabbits are plentiful
throughout the county.
The shooting season in Prince Georges
county for rabbits, quail and pheasants
does not open until November making
it unlawful to do shooting on election
lav. Teal and other marsh ducks are
in sea on September 1. both in the two
nearby states and the District of t'olumbia.
Reedbirds and ortolan Have about <lis
appeared :r"m this section,, but there
are still many blackbirds on the Potomac
and Patuxent marshes, and the blackbirds
are in splendid condition Many
marsh ducks are being killed, and there
is no scarcity of them in the local
markets.
Game Reported Plentiful.
Kncouraging reports are being received
from the nearby counties of the two
states. Persons acquainted with the conditions
in the two states say that birds
and ra >bit>- are plentiful, and that sportsmen
who try their luck early in the season
should have no trouble in tilling their
game bags.
Local sportsmen in the states are
getting their g tns and ammunition ready
to make a start the opening day of the
season, but those who go from this city
to the game sections outside the District
must be careful not to violate the "nonresident"
and license laws.
CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE.
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advertising when he closes his store
o keep from stumbling over the cat?
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t hand of welcome?where everythir
jy their brilliant appearance, declare
lere the show windows are kept
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ell?
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ninated?the electrically lighted stoi
lays?in fact, people unconsciously
nt, if you are a "prince of darkne
lants"?if you think the liberal use
ice, take heed now before your cor
xs.
;E ELECTRIC LIGI
Lamps Have Cut the Cost
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A FAMILY
BY WAL1
"Here's another learned article pointing
out that the jiriving horse is
j doomed," remarked Dave Leahy, private
secretary to the governor of Kansas, as
he put down a family newspaper he had
been reading. "The writer explains that
motor-driven vehicles are bound to send
the horse to the dump before long. The
horse will go to the dump, all right, but
not because of mechanical contrivances.
His own Inferiority will send him there.
The fact that there are no good driving
horses explains everything.
"When I lived at Wichita I tried for
ten years to get a good driving horse?a
horse given to plain living and high
thinking. I tried .VK) steeds and then
caral to the conclusion that the satisfactory
family hors* is a myth. So I
sold my surrey and put a gasoline engine
and speedometer in my wheelbarrow.
If there was just one satisfactory
horse in the I'nited States it would restore
our confidence In the equine race,
but there isn't. If a horse isn't crippled
physically it is crippled mentally. If it
isn't swaybacked In its vertebra it Is
swaybacked ih Its soul.
"I had a friend in the horse business,
lie had mingled with horses all his life
and claimed to know all about them. So
I went to- him and asked him. as man to
j man, if he could tind me a good, gentle,
' handsome, moral and law abiding horse
for family use. I told him I wouldn't
haggle about the price if he found an
animal that suited me. All I Insisted
I upon was that I should have the use of \
' the horse for a week, to be sure it was
! rigiit side up with care. lie said that
! wouid be easy. He knew of several ablei
l>odied horses for sale, and he'd arrange
to get one on trial tor me.
"So one day ne brought me a beautiful
black animal that looked as though he
would nil the bill to a dot. He was
j gentle and affectionate and looked like
! a horse in u nietnro. I drove him a
! couple of mile* and was delighted with
him. Then I turned him around to drive
hack to my friend and teil him I would
buy that horse. I was afraid somebody
else might come along and take himWhile
I was driving back the horse got
his tail over one of the lines. Then, in
the feeble minded way of horses, he
pressed his tail down on one line so I
couldn't get it free, and while I was
leaning over the dashboard trying to pry
his tail up with my umbrella the carriage
upset and I was spilled out.
"My friend was much chagrined when
I came hack to town carrying the horse
under one arm and the buggy under the
other. He said he wouldn't have had
that happen for S4.UM. However, he
knew of a better and nobler horse that
was for sale and he would get the animal
for me so I could try it out thoroughly.
He brought the horse along
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peach. I couldn't see a blemish on it
anywhere and my friend guaranteed
that It was .perfectly conscientious. I
hitched it up to my surrey and took a
little jaunt into the country, taking a
couple of neighbors along for company.
"All went merry as a marriage bell
for a half mile, and then the herse
stumbled. It stumbled so earnestly it
broke the checkrein and hit its nose
against the ground. One of the neighbors
said that was an accident. Anyhorse
would stutnble now and then. 80
I started ahead again and traveled about
a quarter of a mile and .then that horse
stumbled again. This time he stood on
his head and broke most of the harness
and one of the shafts, and we had to
haul the surrey back by hand.
"My friend was greatly discouraged
over this, but he said he'd get a horse
for me next day that would make my
life seem one round of pleasure. 80, next
day he came along with a big handsome
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fry a Sunday school superintendent, and
I started out driving- that evening with a
heart full of enthusiasm. But I hadn't
gone far before the animal had a stroke
of apoplexy or something. It turned
around and climbed into the buggy and
wrecked everything.
"This sort of thing went on for ten
years until my friend's reason forsook
its throne, and he was taken to the
foolish foundry. Every evening for ten
years I tried out a horse and found none
that was satisfactory. I tried all the
horses In southern Kansas."
"You had your nerve." commented
John Dawson, the attorney general. "A
man who will use borrowed horses for
ten years ought to take ofT his hat and
apologise every time he meets a fourlegged
plug."
RESULT OF ACCIDENT
Three Persons Injured?One Conveyed
to Emergency Hospital.
Several persons were injured in accidents
about tlie city last evening, among
them being Mrs. F. E. Pedrue, a seamstress
at the Raleigh Hotel.
Mrs. Pedrue was crossing the street
at 12th and E streets northwest, shortly
alter u o clock, ana was knocked down
by an automobile owned and operated by
G. T. Santmyers of 1821 Jackson street
northeast. She received a bad cut on
her head and was taken fo the Emergency
Hospital In the ambulance. It
was stated at the hospital last night
her injuries were not regarded as serious.
In a collision between a bicycle ridden
by William McDougel of 1?>14 Rhode
Island avenue northwest, and an automobile
operated by J. R. Francis of 117
C street northeast, at 14th stfeet and
New York avenue northwest, McDougal
received an Injury to his knee.
Edward Thomas, colored, seventeen
years old, of 12410 Half street southwest,
was knocked down while crossing the
street on F street between 10th and 11th
streets northwest, by a bicycle ridden by
Amos Dean, also colored. Thomas was
slightly injured. Dean was arrested and
taken to the first precinct station on a
charge of colliding.
HIS VIEW OF BASE BALL.
Bishop Cranston Comments on Excitement
Attending Recent Contest.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
CUMBERLAND, Md-, October 28?
Bishop Earl Cranston, who stopped In
i.umoerianu yesterday on his return to'
Washington from the West Virginia conference
at Elkins, preached at Grace
Methodist Episcopal Church South, Cumberland
Illustrating a point in tiie course of his
sermon, Bishop Cranston deviated from
his subject to make a reference to the
recent excitement throughout the country
over base ball. He said: "There are
enough Idiots in this country to fill every
asylum in the United States."
Following the outburst of -indignation
against what he considered undue excite- ,
inent over a trifling matter, the bishop
declared he was not opposed to athletics,
and liked base ball within reasonable
bounds.
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Fruit Crop Worth $58,000,000.
SAX FRAVCISfO October >?.?Cali
fornia's 1912 orange and lemon crop will
be worth 95&.OOO.UUO and will require
5.1,000 railroad cars to move it. Railroad <
officials made public these estimates to***'
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I PRESIDENTIAI
XIV?T ippecanoe
By Frederi<
I"
The presidential election of 184^ was
fought without an issue. The opposition
to the dominant democratic party was
made up of so many diverse elements
that it was impossible to adopt a platform
upon which all could unite. Therefore
the whips passed up the making
of a platform, nominated a war hero and
set about a campaign of clamor with
victory as its only object.
The democrats had their troubles in
this campaign when they got into their
convention, which, 'by the way, like several
others, had convened hpon the call,
not of any national democratic organization,
but upon that of the democratic
members of the New Hampshire legislature.
When the convention tried to
nominate a Vice President to run with
Van Buren there was a hopeless split.
Vice President Johnson had been elected
to that position by the Senate, no one
having received a majority of the electoral
vote for Vice President in 1887.
The opposition to Johnson had not forgotten
its grudge against him, and his
fritends were the more lirm for him because
of that fact. The result was that
the convention adjourned without choosing
a vice presidential candidate. This
led the whigs to remind the country that
the democrats could not agree on a candidate,
which brought the retort that it
? *?tcQuae nritl His* I
was ueurr lu aijicc uii
agree on men than it was to agree on
men and be split hopelessly over principles.
There have been two occasions in the
history of the presidency where an unfortunate
remark by the opposition gave a
party its cue and swept it into the
White House. One of these was when
the editor of a Baltimore paper wrote of
William Henry Harrison, that if he were
given a barrel of hard cider* and a pension
of $2 000 a year he would sit content
by his "sea coal" Are in his log
cabin in Ohio the rest of his days and
study moral philosophy.
That settled it. What finer opportunity i
could there be for an appeal to class
prejudice? The whig took it up and
straightway It became the log cabin and
hard cider campaign?a campaign in
which a war hero was simply sung and
shouted into the presidency. There was
absolutely nothing to it after that. With
such a rallying cry as a democratic
editor had given the whig forces, arguments
were wholly lost, and a supply of
songs gnd shouts and campaign lies, the
like of which has never been equaled
in American politics, was soon on tap.
*
* *
The whigs got busy early *n the campaign
of 1840. They held their national
o o n vention
Whigs Got Busy Early the first
in Hnmnnitm of 1840. wee*
?----X o? cemoer, ,us5?.
Before that time the party leaders were
busy appealing to the rank and tile to
send unlnstructed delegations to the convention.
What was wanted was a man
upon whom all anti-Van Buren sentiment
could unite. Victory was the thing the
whigs were seeking, and they sincerely
wanted to pick the strongest candidate.
Henry Clay was again in the race, but
his Freemasonry weakened him in the
east, and his tariff views hampered him
in the south.
It was admitted that Gen. Harrison had
carried the whig banner nobly four years
before, and many leaders thought him
the strongest entry in the lists. Clay
wanted to be President, but he early
announced himself as for the man who
had the best show to win. He wrote that
If his name should create any obstacle
to union and harmony, then "away with
it!" Clay led on the first ballot, but Harrison
was nominated on the third. John
Tyler was nominated for Vice President,
it was claimed, as a result of a deal between
Henry Clay and Tyler over a Virginia
senatorship. Tyler, rather than
obey instructions from the Virginia legislature,
resigned his seat in the Senate,
and he and William C. Rives were candidates
for the senatorship in 1839. Clay
agreed with Tyler that if he would
leave the.senatorship to Rives he would
use his best efforts to put Tyler into the
vice presidencj*. If this well attested
story be true. Tyler got to be President
simply by giving up what seemed a
losing fight for a senatorship.
The whigs worked themselves into a i
rtne frenzy over their candidate. They !
built log cabins on wheels, with bunks i
in them, for traveling campaigners; I
Cities and towns had whig cabin raisings i
and housewarmings Miniature cabins,
with a barrel of hard cider and a cdonskin
nailed on a piece of plank by the
door, were everywhere in evidence. In
big parades there would be log cabins
on wheels, with live coons disporting
themselves on the roof and loyal whigs
sitting inside eating johnny cakes and
ABANDON WINTHROP RANGE.
?
Grounds at Indian Head to Be Given
Up for Annapolis Site.
It is probable that the WInthrop rifle
runge established at Stump Neck on the
naval proving grounds at Indian Head,
Md., three years ago, will be #abandoned
about December 1, and another range established
in another locality near Annapolis.
Experience has shown that the ,
existing range is not suitable for the
purpose; that it is not only dangerous to
thf. nnoimantii ihni that its UfiA intorfprpc
with the operations of the proving station
only a short distance away. The rifle
range is in the direct line of the fire of
guns under test at the proving grounds
and cannot be used when such tests are
being made. Moreover complaints have
been made against the use of the rifle
range by the owners of adjacent property.
When permission was originally given
for the location of the marine rifle range
on the naval proving grounds it was
with the understanding that it would be
revoked in case it should develop that
such use interfered with naval ordnance
experiments. Although not entirely settled
in the temporary absence from the
city of Gen. Biddle, commandant of the
Marine Corps, the present disposition of
the naval authorities favors the transfer
of the range in the near future to
some other locality Regular target
practice is now in progress at the Winthrop
range and will be continued for at
least a week or two.
LOTS OF WEATHEB ON TAP.
Several Summers and Winters Seen
by Ship's Crew in One Year.
The average person seldom sees more
than one summer and one winter in a
single year, but Capt. Quick and the crew
of the big sailing ship Edward Sewall
will have had the unique experience of
seeing several winters and summers In a
year when the vessel completes a trip
from Philadelphia to San Francisco.
May 10 last the Sewall left Honolulu
with sugar for Philadelphia. The ship
passed through summer weather on Its
WAV tn tho smith Pkriflp And In tho smith .
temperate zone and around Cape Horn
winter weather was encountered. As she
came north mild weather was met with,
and she reached Philadelphia October 5,
at the beginning of cooi weather.
Within the next week she will leave
Philadelphia with coal for the Pacific
coast, and as she proceeds south she will
run into warm weather and will round
Cape Horn this time in the middle of the
summer of that region. Steaming north
In the Pacific, she will gradually leave
the -summer behind her. and when she
reaches San Francisco It will be In the
middle of winter. To provide for the
weather changes members of the crew
carry heavy overcoats and palm-leaf fans,
and they will have use for both before
the voyage Is ended.
, ELECTIONS. |
: and Tyler, Too.
: J. Haskin.
chewing home-grown tobacco. The
latchstring in the Harrison establishment,
they were given to understand, was always
on the outside.
*
*
"Contrast with the simple life of this
an nf thp
Comparison of Men people." ex?*
j i * m . claimed the
Used m the Campaign. w h { g st
"that, of the court of Van Buren, with
Its ruffled shirts, its dainty clothes, satin
chairs and damask sofas. Listen to the
fawning minions of power casting sneers
at the venerable hero of Tippecanoe on
account of his poverty. Hear them urging
against him that he is only a clerk
in a county court. He who has fought
more anrl harder battles than any other
warrior now living In the United States
(this notwithstanding Jackson was alive),
who gained more splendid victories than
any other living American, who was governor
of the northwest territory, a representative
in Congress, a United States
senator and a minister to a foreign court,
has come out of all these offices poor.
Had he been as unscrupulous as they he
might have been as rich as Jackson and
as wealthy as Van Buren."
In attacking Van Buren they exclaimed
from every hustlng: "What do you think
of the democracy of a President who
sleeps on French bedsteads, walks on
royal Wilton carpets, eats his pate de
fole gras from silver plates, with forks
of gold, dips his soup a la Relne with
a gold ladle from a silver tureen, and
rides In a gilded maroon coach of British
make?"
The democrats complained that they
could not get the people to listen to argument
or reason. At last they Jumped
Into assailing Harrion. "Keep it before
the people," they said, "that Harrison
supported the odious aJien and sedition
laws; that he wore the black cockade;
that he voted for Belling white men into
slavery, a law that would make It possible
for a free negro to buy a revolutionary
hero and to administer thirty-nine
lashes if the latter attempted to escape.
Keep It before the people that as Governor
of Indiana he cut out all citizens
from the right of suffrage who did not
own fifty acres> of land, and that he resigned
his commission in the army in the
hottest of the fight In the last war."
*
* *
On both sides there was a world of
campaign lies and half truths, but the
whigs had
Lies Elld HElf-Trnths the edge on
U?d on Both Sid... rd t~:
er let up. The democrats forced the whig
candidate to take the stump, and thus
started the American custom of presidential
candidates devoting much of their
time to speechmaking. They charged that
Harrison was a fitter subject for a session
of a lunacy commission than for the
White House, and asserted that he was
kept in the background because he would
ruin his cause if he should open his
mouth. The whole whig party was declared
a party of padlocked lips. The result
was that Gen. Harrison went on
the hustings and won many a vote by his
speeches.
Horace Greeley became editor of the
Log Cabin that year, and his trenchant
editorials and sharp paragraphs
were copied by whig Journals throughout
the country. His paper was a repository
of more campaign slogans and
political songs than any other campaign
paper ever brought out. it mattered not
that Johnson, the vice presidential candidate
on the democratic ticket, with
his own hand had slrflrf Tecumseh;" the
chieftain for whose defeat Harrison became
"Tippecanoe." He could not get
into the hero class with Harrison at
all, and In spite of the fact that his
friends tried to make the most of his
feat, the hero-worship still continued
with Harrison.
The triumph of the whig cause in the
states which cast their vote early was
the occasion of great rejoicing. In one
great rally a huge ball, ten feet in
diameter, was rolled through the streets
at the head of a procession of "young
whigs." When It had done service in
Baltimore It was rolled to Philadelphia.
It was supposed to typify the gatherlngas-It-goes
progress of the whig cause.
But in the midst of the Philadelphia procession
it collapsed, and the democrats
promptly asserted that the whig cause
would collapse with It.
BiTt as a matter of fact the whigs had
sung and shouted themselves to victory
in nineteen of the twenty-six states,
and the returns showed them in possession
of 2U electoral votes to 00 for Van
Buren, and In very truth, "Little Van was
a used-up man."
TO REMOVE SUNKEN BOAT.
Contract Awarded Baltimore Company
to Clear Bay Channel.
Col. Beach, United States engineer in
charge of the channels leading to Baltimore,
has awarded the contract for the
removal of the hull of the schooner Andrew
Johnson, sunk In the channel of
Chesapeake bay near Seven-foot Knoll
light station, to the Baltimore Wrecking
Company, and the work of raising the
vessel will be started next week. I'nder
the terms of the contract the Johnson
must be -removed as a whole out of the
fairway of vessels, and to do this powerful
derricks will be employed to lift the
vessel, from the bottom and carry her
into shoal water, where she will be out
of the way of commerce.
The Johnson, loaded with oysters and
bound to Baltimore, was run down by a
larger schooner outward bound from Baltimore
one night about ten days ago.
She was so badly damaged that she sank
within ten minutes after being struck.
Her crew was taken off by the vessel
with which she collided, which was prac- i
tieally undamaged in the collision. The
vesel after being sunk was abandoned
by her owners, and the United States
Army engineers, office took charge of her
removal, as she was a menace to the
safety of 'navigation on the bay. ^
TUG CASTLE BETUBNS.
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visit was raid to wnarves Along
the Potomac.
The United States Army engineers' tug !
Castle returned yesterday from a trip of :
five days on the Potomac, during which, '
it is stated, she visited the wharves 1
along the main river and its tributaries
between Stuart's wharf and Point Look- j
out. Information was obtained at the !
wharves regarding their condition, the <
depth of water at them, amount of busi- 1
ness done and other matters that will
be used when the question of deepening
the water in the vicinity of the wharves
comes up before Col. Uangfftt's office.
The Castle, later in the season, pos- {
sibly within the next week, will leave
here on a similar information-gathering ]
errand to the tributaries of Chesapeake j
bay, along its western shore, as far down i
as the York river.
Masonic Temple to Be Dedicated.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
CUMBERLAND, Md? October 2a?The
new Masonic Temple in Cumberland,
which occupies a part of the site of old
Fort Cumberland, will be dedicated November
12. Exercises will be held in the
afternoon and evening. Thomas J. Shryock
of Baltimore, grand master of Maryland.
will officiate at the ceremonies. All
the members of tbe Grand Ledge will be
present.
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Panama Canal Workers Followed
World's Series.
PLAYS FLASHED TO THEM
9
Scores by Innings Sent Across
Isthmus by Wireless.
GREATEST INTEREST SHOWN
Visitors From Washington Marvel
When They Hear Merits of Flayers
Discussed by Laborers.
Special Correspondence of The Star.
PANAMA OlT'T, Panama, October 1o. 1JM2
It's a far cry from the grandstand of
the Polo Grounds, in New York, to the
Canal Zone, on the Isthmus of Panama,
where Uncle Sam is putting the finishing
touches to the greatest engineering project
in history. But the excitement over the
plays in the world's series base ball
games between the New York Giants and t
the Boston Red Sox among the 40,<KK)
fans that have been watching the games
in New York and Boston has had a
counterpart in this strip of-American soil
amid "foreign territory, more than 2.000 8
miles from Joe Wood and Christy Mathewson
and their teammates.
On the day of the first game of the
world's series a party of visitors from
Washington, Baltimore and other cities
in the eastern section of the United
States as they disembarked from the
Hamburg-American liner Prinz Eitel
Frlederlch openly expressed their regret
that they were thousands of miles awijy.
even from scoreboards where the details
of the world's series were being ddisplayed.
But as they pulled out of Spaniwh
Colon on the observation end of the long
string of yellow cars that comprised the '
Panama railroad train their interest was
soon lost in searching for the first view n
of the big isthmian ditch. h
They were soon diverted b ya sight <]
nf Prifitnhnl thA frPOh Panal Znnp cttv S
adjoining ancient Colon, where they
caught the first glimpses of the houses on
stilts that are so characteristic of the
Canal Zone and that are designed to insure
health where fever threatens continu- n
ously. The train carried the party through
Mindi to Gatun, where all alighted for
their first close view of the engineering'
features of the gigantic project.
Inspect Wonderful Locks. n.
From the station platform they saw **i
broad stretches of concrete, huge struc- tl
lures of iron, and extending far in the 01
distance, the famous Gatun dam. The w
party was soon lost in the works of this
series of locks, where huge 1,000-foot lc
liners are to be lifted eighty-five feet N
from the level of the Atlantic ocean to a<
the level of Gatun lake. tt
"You said Boston would win. didn't al
you," they heard one blue-shirted and
khaki-trousered workman say to another, h
as the two met on the top of the wall
of concrete that formed one of tne sides .
of the giant locks.
"Sure they will." was the reply. ?
"New York got two In the third," com- p
mented the first.
"Did they get some hits off Joe Wood?"
"I don't know, but they got two runs
and first blood."
The Washington members of the party
had to think hard to realize they were C
not at 11th street and Pennsylvania avenue
Instead of 2,000 miles away. They
dodged a gong iron plate tnat one of the
huge cranes was carrying aloft and were
thus brought back to earth on the Canal B
Zone from dreams of base ball diamonds, to
rhe guide, C. H. Ourand of Washington, a
D. C? suggested that the visitors de- .
scend to the bottom of the lock, and they
climbed down' the 200 or more steps of c'
the temporary stairway to the cement n<
flnnr anil wcrp kcnt busv (lodgrln - what I
looked like open manholes In the floor, ri<
the openings through which water will y?
flow when a boat in the lock is to be n<
lifted or lowered. ei
"Did Boston get the two back in the el
fourth T" ?aked riveter, Just as he ?
picked up a red-hot rivet with his tongs, ti<
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>reparatory to plugging a hole through
ne of the big plates on the gigantic Iron
fate now nearlng completion.
"Still two-nothing in favor of New
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i y> a, i c^iiiru uiir ui nit* uiur-aiiu iru
nen who had just come down from the
op of the lock.
'Hear Score by Innings.
As the visitors went from one part of
he work to another they heard the score
>f the game by innings. Almost simulaneousiy
the word spread over the imnense
field of operation telling of the
esult of each inning of the Giants-Ren
battle, 2,000 miles away. And the
eport of a run always brought up & discussion
of the relative merits of Joe
iVood, Jeff Tesreau, Marquard, Mathewon
and others.
Some time before sunset?and it could
not hare been many minutes after the
ictual ending of the game on the Polo
Grounds?all the Americans over that big
3atun project knew the result of the
irst test of prowess between the Giants
Hid Red Sox.
The score by innings .was sent from
'the States" by cable to Colon, and was
lashed across the isthmus to the various
colonies of canal workers by wireless,
l'he receiving operators at the various
itations told the enthusiastic "dyed-in:he-wool"
fans, who remained near h's;
>ffice for the news, and the fans passed
ihe world along to other offices and to
those passing from the office to the
works.
Few of the workmen who discussed the
elative merits of Mathewson and Wood
ind the others had seen a big league
fame in several years, it was found
ipon inquiry. But most of them, it was
'vident, had been reading the ' dope" in
he papers from "home." and they could
liscuss the features of the contenders
or the world's championship seemingly
is well as any fan in Washington, New
fork or Boston.
Wonder at Interest Shown.
The party of visitors wiio had marveled
it the base ball interest to be found at
latun had occasion the following day to
ake a boat from Colon to l.imon. Costa
tica. It was the Guadelupe of the French
ihe, a vessel that runs between ports of
France and ports in Central and South
America, not touching the I'nited States
n any way. It was found to be a
horoughly French steamer, with French
:rew and stewards throughout. Leaving
^olon in the middle of the afternoon, the
ravelers were discussing what they had
leen along the Canal Zone, when they
vere interrupted by:
"It's a tie, five and five in the ninth.
rhat just came by wireless."
The group from the United States didn't
leed to be told the New York-Boston
>ase ball game was spoken of. But<they
iid marvel at the international interest
hown in the series. J. B. S.
POLICEMEN "TAKE THE POT."
'hen They Charge Daniel Matthews
With Violating Law.
"I'll take the pot."
That remark, made last night by a
lember of a raiding party of policelen,
startled several card players in
te house of Daniel Matthews, colted,
908 New Hampshire avenue northest.
Sergt. Lord and Policemen Cox. Scan>n,
Lake and Carlin did the raiding,
o trouble was experienced in gaining
["cess to the house, the police say. and
le surprised card players remained
bout the table until the police had
ilten possession of $1,16, alleged to
ave formed the "pot."
Matthews was escorted to the police
Lation and charged with permitting
amlng on premises under his control,
e will be given a hearing in the
olice Court tomorrow morning.
SENATE nraUIKY HALTS,
amp&ign Probe May Not Be Be nuiaf)
TTtifi'l Affav X*1
OIUUVU VUVU Mi tvi MiVVUVlli ,
After hearing former Senator Albert J.
everidge tell of returning $57,590 sent
? him for campaign use in 15)04 the Sente
campaign contributions committee
day adjourned indefinitely. Chairman
lapp believes the committee wiil hold
) more hearings until after election.
While the general amounts of the vaous
national campaign funds of recent
;ars have been given to the committee.
) detail of the amounts contributed and
cpended in the various states has been
icited, and It Is expected that the comittee
will take up this line of lnvestigaon
after election.
From Evenlug Star. 0,-totn?r :>?.?
CARE OFJE EYES
Extreme Caution Necessary
After Any Illness.
EFFECT OF POOR FOOD
Many Children Suffer Through Lack
of Proper Nourishment.
SHOULD READ BY GOOD LIGHT
Flaring Gas Jet, Brilliant Kaatla
and Central Chandelier Are
All Harmful.
(Contributed Uy the Medical Society.V
During and after an illness or operaion
the bodily resistance Is lessened. At
his time an error in the eyes, not necessarily
of vision, but of strain, which ia
tot noticeable during health, may be felt,
tnd use of the eyes become pa nful. l*uther.
during some diseases, especially the
levers, there Is a moderate inflammation
>f tile inside of the eye. so that light is
inpleasant.' unless very aubdm-d. It will
>e apparent that during these times all
'eadlng or sewing should lie prohibited.
Cven after the convalescence, alaiwes for
i few months are often necessary, until
the eyes and tiody regain fully the normal
tone.
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CONFESSES HIS CRIME;
HIS LIFE THE FORFEIT
Former Minister to Die in the
Electric Chair in South
Carolina.
GREENVILLE, S. C., October 38 ?
Found guilty today of aseau'.tlpg three
little girls in the South Carol'n.' Odd
Fellows' Home, of which he was superintendent,
the Rev. Thurston J. Vaughn,
once prominent as a minister, will pay
the penalty of his misdeeds with Hs life.
A motion for a new trial was overruled
by Judge Purdy and the prisoner wu
sentenced to electrocution in the state
prison at Columbia on December 3t?.
The trial was brought to a sensational
close when Vaughn broke down and confessed.
He named two otiier victims in
addition to those included in the indictment.
The Jury, out but four minutes,
made no recommendations of mercy.
Brings Tears to Judge's Eyes.
Tears streamed down the face of Judge
Purdy, named by Gov. Blease as special
judge for this trial. Many jurors, court
officials and spectators alike made no
pretense of hiding their tears, as Vaughn,
j*ile and broken, acknowledged his crime.
When court opened this morning there
was no liitimulion that the accused wotil<!
make a confession. His attorneys had
fought stubbornly since the begitininp oi
the case to b:eak down Hie strong evidence
developed by the prosecution's witnesses.
! mmt-.Uu it-lf uftiu* intilt i Mill IV
iiiiiin umi' ? .? ?? ? ?' i v vui v - f-** ""VM
attorneys of both sides consulted. n suiting
in an agreement to let Vaugnn
confess in an effort to save his own life
and that the case would go to the jury
without argument.
"I have acted devilishly. I have acted
shamelessly." began Vaughn. "The devil
tempted me and 1 have fallen."
Begs for His Life.
He pleaded eloquently, but vainly with
the jury to save his life. He begged t Injury
to spare bis life, not so much for
his sake as for his wife and little daughter.
Neither Mrs. Vaughn nor her little
daughter were in court today, though
they had l>een with the accused since tbe
trial opened. He was formerly assistant
superintendent of the First Baptist
Church Sunday school, one of the largest
and most fashionable in this city. 11was
a ministerial student and frequently
occupied pulpits of churches lit and
around Greenville. He owns considerable
property.
Pensions Decrease London's Paupers.
Special Cablegram to The Star.
1XJ NDOX. October 2t>.?Paupers in Kngland
and Wales are. according to a gov
ernment report. me on ivioni
since 1 S7*J, the total being Tlie
decrease is largely due to the old-age
pension act.
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A PARADOX.
VIf T ^ ia l>ern
iniM m. ruvfi icai ? 11 M v lis * r
loved and lost than oerer to have loved
at all.
Mr. Knox?Sure. That'n a case wbvre
you win when yon lose.
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