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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-11-08
WOULD RETALIATE,
Secretary Morton Thinks the Prcsi
dent should Exclude German Pro
duets.

Secretary Morton has come to the conclu-
sion that there is vested in the President by
law sufficient authority to order the exclu-
sion OF German products from American
ports in retaliation for German discrimina-
ton against American goods. This has an
important bearing upon the question of how
the United States will receive the announce
ment the German authorities may decide
to exclude American cattle and other goods
to prevent the possible importation into
Germany of Texas fever. The Secretary
has already suggested that some measure
OF retaliation may be secured by a strict
inspection of German wines. He now saws
that it seems to him to be fair to REQUIRE
the governments of Germany and France to
cause a chemical analysis to be made of all
wines, brandies and other liquors exported
for use in the United States.
IF neither Germany nor France will take
American pork or beef" says the Secreta-
ry, except with a governmental certifca-
ton to its wholeSomeness, why should the
United states take any edibles or beverages
from them without requiring, likewise gov
ernmental certihcation of their absolute
purity and WholeSomeness?
Germany sent to the United States in
1871, $4,000 worth of champagne wines
SSI7,OOo of still wines in cases, $5l7,ooO of
wines in bottles. In 1892 $72OOO of cham
pagnes, $9ll 900 Stilled wines $500 900 in hot
Ties. In 1913, SJ9oOp champagnes $966,OOO
stlll wines in cases, SD, 900 in bottles San
itary reasons might well dictate the ex
clusion Of these wines in view of the testI-
mony regarding harmful adultera tions
Ihey amount to much more than the Amer
lCan expectations of meat to Germany"
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IN OUR CELESTIAL SPHERE
Are Countless New and Distant
Worlds Beyond Computation

Sir Edwin Arnold in the North American Review.
Calico, in his ''Sidereal Messenger"
made map of eighty new stars which he
had discovered in the constellation of
Orion's belt and the Sword" and since
then astronomer after astronomer as IS
well known, has added various groups and
galaxles to the 1900 or 5000 conspicuous
stars of the first six magnitudes, which can
always be SEN with the naked eye.
1t is curious and not complimentary to the
good sense Of mankind that those stars
should have been looked upon as merely in
tended to spangle the sky an give light
at night. AS lamps they were always a
failure.
Sixty times the total starlight on the
clearest night would Tot equal the ilumi-
nation given by the moon, and 33, 900 900
times their radiance would be required to
equal sunlight. Yet the stars which are
seen even by a powerful telescope are now
known to be only an insignificant proper
ton of those actually existing inside "visi-
bic space
Telescope Photography, as practiced to-
day In all the observatOries reveals, in al
most every apparently blank region of the
celestial sphere. countless new and distant
worlds, lying far beyond all methods of
mortal computation and measurement.
The only foot rule with Which we can at
all estimate the scale of distances i'm the
Visible universe" is light. This travels
along the ether at the rate of $4,000 miles
in second, SO that the ray which we re-
ceive from the sun left his surface eight
minutes before 1t has reached our eyes.
By ingenious processes based On complex
arithmetic, astronomers have determined
the distance of about eighty stars, and the
nearest of all Of them to our system is AL
pha Centauri.
The radiance of this star takes. however.
al out four years to reach human visiOr
while that which We perceive from Alpha
Tauri or Aldebaran was projected from it's
gllttering source twe1ty-seven years ago,
and most of those seen deeper In the night
sky are so far off their present light left
them 800 or 400 years back.
Many are today visible whose beams have
travelled to our gaze only after lapse of
thousands of years. and there must be radi-
ant streams now on their way from heaven
ly bodies In the empyrean which will only
reach the eyes Of our very far-off posterity
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THE CITY'S ROAR.
How ii May he Nctated and Used in
the Coming Years of Air-Life.

From the New York sun.
II See" said Il well-known musician
"that the Sun has been publishing the
opinion of some artist fellow that each city
has its color tone. L suppose he's right; L
don't know much about red splashes and
green smeaTs. But the publication of that
item brings up to utterance point some
thing that I've had in my mind for many
years. and that is the actual tone, the
sound tone, the keynote of cities.
You know every sound of nature has
its notation, whether it is the buzz of in
sect life in August or the roar of Niagara
in late April So too, 1 believe that every
city mas its especial sound, and that the
roar OF its traffic could be reduced to no.
tatiOn and individualiZed. L am positive
that the roar OF no two cities is alike, any
more than the roar OF two lions is alike.
"Of course, the roar of a city differs In
depth and intensity according to the time
of the year. week and day. The roar or
New York on Sunday morning in August,
for instance, is a very different thing from
that OF New York on a Saturday morning
in October, and, again, very different from
that of any time in the dead of winter
when all the streets are covered with snow
But these different sounds could be cata-
Iogued and herein Will lie the practical
utility of the thing. Travel and warfare
In the air are bound to come, you Know
and when they do the catalogue of city
notes viii he as much of a necessity as d
compass and barometer
"Takc an example now. You are travel
ing in a balloon, and the wind has been
blowing Il gale for a week. The captain
doesn't know how much he's out in his
reckoning. when he hears a lOud-booming
note coming up through the clouds. What
note is that? he asks of the mate. The
mate puts the eectrO-tuning pipe to his
ear and hallOOs back that II is BIB flat
below the stan. Triple fiat below the
line saws the captain, and this is Sunday,
November !. Why, that's New York. Let
out the gas there, my hearties.' And in
five minutes more you're safe at the Cen
trail Park Aerial Landing Enclosure. Why,
sir is Ine thnnght of the age"
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Largest Family on Record.

From an Exchange.
In the Harlem manuscript, Nos. $50 and
q, IN the library of the British Museum,
mention is made of the most extraordinary
family that has ever been known in the
worlds history. The parties were a Scotch
weaver and his wife mot wives). who were
the father and mother OF sixty-two chill
dren.
The majority of the offsprings of this
prolific pair were boys exactly how many
of each sex Is not known, for the record
mentions the fact that forty-six of the
male children lived to reach manhCOd's es-
tate, and only four OF the daughters lived
to be gro.Tn-up women. Thirty-ninc of the
sons were still living in the year 1890 the
majority Of them then residing in and about
Newcastl"-un-Tyne. 1t is recorded in one
of the old histories of Newcastle that "a
certyne gentleman of large estaytes' rode
thirty and three miles beyond the Tyne
10 prove this wonderful story" 1t Is fur
Their related that Sir J.sBOwers adopted ten
Of the sons and that three other LANDED
gentlemen took ten each. The remaining
members of this extraordinary family were
brought up by the parents.
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Did Col. Clay shoot This Moose.

From the Boston Herald
One Of the finest specimens of the mon
arch of the forest ever seen in the eastern
part Of Maine was brought into Bangor a
few days ago. The moose was a magnifl-
cent animal 1t was shot near Chairback
mountain, in the Katahdin iron works re-
gion. The animal was placed in front Of
one or the city markets which had also
fine display OF other game. such as deer,
caribou. partridge, wOOdcOck, ETC. giving
the market more the appearance of a hunts
mans camp than u shop in the middle of a
city. Photographs of the whole were taken
with the large moose we'll IN front The
animal was purchased by S. l.. Crosby, who
will mount II entire 1t weighed 1000
pounds. was seven feet in height at the
shoulders, measured nine feet from the tip
OF the nose 10 the root OF the tail, and the
Rntlers spread four feet and four inches
The antlers were a fine set, and the whole
animal was remarkable in every way
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The NaIe-PrincetOn Game.

Yale and Princeton will play their annual
foot ball game this year. They will play
it December l on Manhattan field, New
York. The decision was reached by the
athletic committee of the University A. G.
after about five minutes conference yester-
day afternoon. Whether the University A.
c. will manage the game will be deter
mined this evening by the club.
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Forfeited to GeOructOxvn.

Johns Hopkins and the Maryland Agricul-
tural College were scheduled for game of
foot ball yesterday at National Park but
Johns Hopkins had to cancel the game ow-
ing to the fact that Capt. Janney and sew
eral other players are injured. The second
team from Georgetown College took the
place of the Baltimoreans, and started to
play before 100 spectators. A decision of
the umpire did not suit the Marylanders
Georgetown.
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HNI to Give Ii I'm,

Frank Albert, who was endeavoring to
break the bicycle road record between New
York and Chicago, arrived at Rochester, n
Y, Tuesday night. While in a restaurant
eating his supper, his wheel was stolen and
he had to abandon his trip
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Parks New Record.

j. ID. Park, the young Denver wheelman
who recently lowered the worlds record I'M
paced for three-quarters of a mile has now
cut down the record for a mile unpaced
with flying start to pa.
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New State Record ut Belmont.

The weather was not propitious for rec
ord breaking yesterday at Belmont Park,
Philadelphia, and the cloudy sky and bleak
air kept many hundreds away from Bel
mont Driving Park, where Alix (2.03 80,
the queen of the trotting turf and Directly,
the champion two-year-old PAGER, went
against their records.
Nine heats were trotted and paced in less
than 2.19, and Alix made a new record for
the state, her mile in 2.OS 81 being exactly
two seconds faster than that made at Bel
mont in 1886 by Jay Eye See
Directly made an attempt to beat his rec
ord of 2O7 81, and he would have been sue
cessful but for an unfortunate break just
after leaving the three-quarter pole. He did
the mile in lib a.
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LATE SPORTING NEWS
Yesterdays RACING.
Two Favorites mt st. Asaph Won and
Four on the Island.

Backers had much the worse of the arSu-
ment with the bockies at the ST. Asaph
track yesterday, but two favorites winning.
The other races were taken by second
choice and three outsiders. The attend
ance was the smallest of the meeting. and
the rumber Of bookmakers was also the
smallest, but fourteen doing business. Specu-
lation was brisk and the racing good. The
track was safe, but a new top dressing OF
sand made it the least bit slow.
The winners were leonardo, Z to 10 and
cut; Amsterdam, and 2; Mcintyre to 8
and to s. Star Actress and to 8; Re-
straint, and 3, and High Point Belle, D
and to 8.
AT the Alexander Island track the talent
had 1t practically all their own way, CASH
ing on four out of the five races. The track
was in very good shape, the entries large
and the racing excellent.
The winners were Columbus, 10 and 4;
Bayberry, and 1; Jack Wynne. to > and
to D; Cossack, 1 to and out; and Jersey
even and out.
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November
Clearance List, 1894.
Secondhand and Shop
worm Wheels.
PNEUAiATICS.


PRICES, NET CASH.
1 No. Diamond Rambler, No. 1886. $500
2 No. Diamond HANDLERS, Nos I22I and
Sl35, each. Observation-Disclosures. 1900
In good condition, entirely new.
1 '1rwell," No 26S7, @. ]. "a pneu. tires 5000
Brand new, simply shop-worn; 30-in. wheels.
1 Ladies' Lowell Safety, G. 4 ]. tires,
tirely new, but shop-worn; price reduced
from SllO to-. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. COCO
1 Prince, 26-in. pneumatic tires; second hand;
list 5000. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 5000
Combination Ramblers, wheels 26x30 in.;
used some, but in good riding condition;
Nos. PITS and 4493 each. ............. =. 5000
Century Columbus, '93 pattern: 81 G. 4
J. tires; Nos. 1889 and I506S; newly REIN
ished, each. Observation-Disclosures. 1000
l Dart, G. ]. pneumatic tires, "a pattern,
3O-in. wheels. Observation-Disclosures. sou
1 Columbia, model "a; "a pattern; Hartford
tires Observation-Disclosures. oo.O0
CUSHION TIRES
1 Ridge, model d." No. 1870; new, and in
fine shape: cut from $4,000 to........... COCO
1 Psyche, very strong and durable wheel; fer
merly $4,000, now cut to................. 1000
l Girls Ideal Rambler; No. 1852; almost
new, cut to. Observation-Disclosures. 2o.W
SOLID TIRES
Junos, ladies' wheels; cut from S65.00 to
Drop frame; ball bearing, and In good condition.
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uddsn Painting Spells,

lEpileptic Convul-
'aohs, or Fits, and all
nervous diseases, az
Paralysis, Locomotor
Ataxia, Epilepsy, or
Fits, St. Vitus's
Dance, Sleeplessness,
Nervous Prostitution,
Nervous Debility,
Neuralgia, Melan-
cholia, Threatened
Insanity and Kind.
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red Ailments, are treated as q speciality,
with great success, by the Staff of the
Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute,
Buffalo, N. Y. Many are cured at
distance without personal consultation
the necessary medicines being sent by
mail or express. Question blanks sent
on application.
For Pamphlet, References, and Par
ticulars, enclose 10 cents in stamps for
postage.
Address, WORLDS DIsPRNsARY MRpI.
CAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N. Y.
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ONE ENJOYS
Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gertly yet promptly on the Kidneys
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys-
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aches and fevers and cures habitual
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ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
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to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50c
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gists. Any reliable druggist who
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Interesting Experiments.

Interesting experiments have been made
with shells loaded with wet gun cotton
fired at low velocities, 1,4OO feet per Sec
ond When fired into a hillside such six
inch shells exploded with tremendous vio-
lence making a large crater and throwing
stones and mud hundreds of feet. Against
seven-inch armor plates they were inef-
fective bursting outside without injuring
the plate. On increasing the velocity to
1SOO feet per second the shell burst In the
gun. But this was owing to the thinness
of the shell walls, and 1t is now proposed
to make 10-inch shells, carrying 20 pounds
of gun cotton, which can be used in safety
at 100 feet velocity. Since October
last 41G5 tons of armor plate have been
accepted all but 7S2 tons being Harveyized
The manufacturing facilities at Bethlehem
and Homestead have been greatly improv-
ed making these firms the best equipped
In the world. The armor plate outfit has
steadily increased. with greater experience
and appliances. The Bethlehem makers
have practically completed their contracts,
while the Homestead works are we'll adj
yanced. The report says:
Should additional armored vessels be au-
thorized in the coming session Of Congress
1t is evident that the Bethlehem Iron Com
pany would have completed their present
contract when the appropriations became
so far operative as to permit the armor
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THE PARENT OF ALL DISEASE, CONSTIPATION,
permanently cured and every bone, muscle and
of the body made strong and healthy by
using DIR. Kennedy's Fayorite Remedy.
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DIR. Edison's Famous
Obesity Pills and Bands
and Obesity Fruit Salt re-
duCe YOur

weight without dieting: the cause OF obesity,
such as dyspepsia, rheumatism, nervousness, ca
tarrh, kidney troubles; keep you healthy and beau
tify the complexion.
Our supporting aud special Obesity Bands WIN
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The morning call., 1894-07-23
THE BLACK DEATH.
A Look at Canton i'm the
Plague Time.
COFFIN SOCIETY IN CHINA.
The Disposition of the Dead-Children
Thrown in the Baby Tower.
Heartiess People.

CANTON, June. 1S94-The black death
broke out in Canton during the last
week in February. and for time the
average of those who died from it was
about 200 per day. This average steadily
increased until in March and April it was
SEQ per day. and the mortality at the
present time is very large. 1t is said that
the Pearl River, which flows past the city.
and upon which hundreds of thousands OF
people live, contains many floating
corpSes, and that the undertakers are un-
able to make Collins enough to supply
the demand. In ordinary times the Chi
nese spend large sums upon their funerals.
and they are very particular as to the
styles of their burial caskets. Collins
cost all the way from few dollars up to
thousands of dollars, and it is not an un-
common thing for man to buy coffin
and keep it in his house for years. so as TO
have frst-clasS article on hand when he
dies. Children often make their parents
presents of collins, and they have their
mutual coffin supply associations, some
what like our building and loan assocla-
The morning call., 1894-07-23

of the dog, and it looks, when In the pot,
much like the flesh Of sucking pis. The
dog is killed and the hair is taken off as
we take the bristles off a pig. and when
stewed it is cut into small pieces. At this
same place | saw cat meat cooking. and
there were cats in cages awaiting the Or
ders of customers. Cat meat is higher
priced than dog or rat meat, and the tab
bieS are killed only upon order. The peo-
pie whom saw al such restaurants, how
ever, were those only of the poorer classes,
and there are IN Canton as costly restau-
rants as you will find anywhere in the
world. [ saw places where you have to
pay SIS plate for your bird s-nest soup,
and where tea is served which you can't
get for less than $40 pound.
The black plague, on account OF the
poor diet OF the people and their poverty,
will last longer in Canton than it W ould in
an American city. There are practically
no facilities for taking care OF the sick,
and Chinese medicine is worse than no
medicine. The missionary hospital will
do much. 1t is one OF the best ospitals in
the east and it does a great deal OF good.
The chief Chinese charitable institutions
of Canton are blind asylum, from which
blind beggars go out day after day over the
city; founding asylum, supported out Of
the salt tax, aud leper asylum. This last
is in banyan grove TWO miles from the
gate of the city. l. ntains about 500 in
males, and more horrible creatures do not
exist on the face of the earth. Many of
them have their fingers and toes eaten off
by the disease. Some have lost their noses
and others have skeleton-like bodies. half
of the bones and flesh of which has rotted
away. Just now these lepers are an im-
portant element of the black plague. They
blackmail the funeral professions and levy
a tribute on the mourners. If they are n OF
paid they raise hue and cry and threaten
to split open the coffins and exhume the
dead. There is not much danger of their
doing this as to the black-plague corpses,
for to touch one is almost sure death. but
the people fear them all the same, and the
leper fees are legitimate part OF the
Chinese funeral expenses. AS it is. leprosy
seems to be on the increase. There are
more lepers in Canton than can be accom-
modated in the asylum. and there are
The morning call., 1894-07-23

strikers by whose act he recently suffered
such Inconvenience. Several persons, pre-
Sumablv not relishlng some of the remarks
made. left the church. while others gave
appreciation more than once by running
vOlIey of applause.
"Thls strike has been testing our repuD-
lican institutions" said DR.. Brown, more
actively than at any time since the war
Oar liberties have been seriously men
aced. ana it is time for conservative
people to take counsel together"
Brlefiy outlining the story OF his deten-
ton while en- route to this city. he pro-
tessed aStonishment that the strikers, In
making the innocent suffer, failed TO
realize that they were infringing on Amer
lean liberty. He drew attention u the
fact that had the strikers obeyed the In
structions of Debs perfectly lawful meth
DDS only would have obtained; out later
he made it reDrnach 10 the leader OF the
\. Il. y. that only by one generation is he
an American. aud in his veins runs the
blood of a prominent French Communist.
surfeit of cheap labor aud cheap legls-
lation has provoked conflict in DR..
Browns opinion, and only remedy
sought on lines to combat these evils can
be successful in bringing relief. Drop
the tariff reform bill which has long
ceased to be REFORM" said be. land allow
10 one to be naturalized that cannot read
tile American constitution. Let no
Governor, Mayor or legislator be other
than one born on American soil where he
has imbibed the principle OF liberty al
his mothers breast"
In his peroration the speaker remarked
that the observance OF the divine law, tie
foundation upon which human law is
built, is the true key to the difficulties
surrounding the question of the rights OF
capital and of labor.
The morning call., 1894-07-23

China. Canton is the New York of the
empire. 1t is the biggest of the Chinese
business cities, and it contains something
like 100000 of people. Its boat popula-
ton is said TO number more than 100000.
ana as many people as you will ind in
Washington, Cleveland, Buffalo or Gin
cinnati are born, live ana die upon its
waters. Its people are the brightest in
China, and they are the best traders and
the best workers among the CeleStials.
They will command higher wages than
the Chinese from any other cities. and
you find Canton men engaged in business
all over China. / met them in Hankow
| found them on the business streets of
Chinkiang and Marking, and here In
Peking they own some OF the best
property, and are engaged in all sorts
OF undertakings. A great part of our i'm
ports come from Canton. and the credit of
the big Cantonese merchants is as good as
that of the most solid Americans in the
banks OF London. 1t is q city OF Million
aires and paupers, and ii contains the
richest and tho poorest of the Chinese.
When visited it not long ago | was enter
tanned by the jay Gould OF China. man
named How Qua. who is said to be worth
his tens OF millions, and in riding up to
Canton on the steamer l saw hungry
eyed boatman greedily grab at dead rat
which was thrown him from our ship, and
which | doubt not furnished the piece de
resistance for his family dinner.
have never seen anywhere such bee