Evening star., 1901-02-16

washington Is regarded as the home of
almost every officer in the navy" explained
a naval officer to a Star reporter, though
as matter of fact II Is the home of but
very few of them. 1t matters not in what
part of the world they find themselves,
they are more interested in the happenings
at Washington than even in their real
homes As officers grow along in years
this grows with them, they almost for
get home affairs and are interested in those
OF their adopted home, which is their official
home well, Washington. When they pick
up newspaper in any part of the world
they display but little interest in it except
the news. telegraphic otherwise, from
Washington. This is read and reread until
II is almost memorized. L can compare 1t
To nothing except a remark | once heard the
late Fred Douglass make at a religious
gathering up at Portsmouth n. II. The
question under discussion was how to in
crease the interest in the Bible and to en-
large the numbers of it's readers All sorts
of suggestions were made, but they were
along about the same lines, and those lines
practically Sunday school lines. Mr.. Doug
lass offered a suggestion that he thought
would increase his own interest he said,
and that he also thought would have the
same ERECT upon many others, and that
was to have the Bible printed in chapters
from time to time in the various newspa-
pers under date line of Washington. He
said his experience had been that anything
from Washington attracted attention and
that the plan might secure readers for the
Bible that could not be obtained in any
other way, at least as easily"
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ne word or term financed applied
TO the work of the professional gentlemen
who arrange the hundreds of details in the
organization of the various business COM
5!nations of the day explained a we'll
kF.1EQ hank to
i new one. and none OF the encyclopedias
or dictionaries has treated it yet 1t is
here however, to stay Formerly such COM
binations or organizations of business in
tereSts, or trusts if you want it that way.
were arranged by what were known as
promoters. Often they were the parties In
interest, but not always so, for now and
then lawyers Were called into consultation
in connection with the matter But the
lawyers are nowhere TO be seen in any IF
the Dig combinations that have started out
during the new century. and 1t looks as if
'Helf occupations have fled. Business men
can stand lawyers when it comes TO pure
law ana law matters. but they have no pa
uence with them in business affai,s The
lawyer, from his study and force OF habit
looks to precedents and forms. and some
II the forms are tiresome. He hesitates
20 take sharp turns around corners or run
across lots. The fact of the matter is.
arranged combinations of the past few
weeks, involving several billions of dollars.
When it was with thousands and even
millions the financial lawyers We're of some
use, but when il got up into the billions
they We're left severely alone and business
men preferred"
Il don't know that people hereabouts are
overloaded with pearls" remarked an ex-
pert In gems to a Star reporter, but if
they | safe in Da,r
are not a safe investment, that is, not a
permanent one, for they are sure to fade.
or course, they are not rapid faders. but
in the log run, in hundred years or such
time, they do fade and lose their shine 1
have had a number of examples of this
fading, but none of them We're SO marked
as when, during recent visit to Spain 1
saw the pearls that Queen Elizabeth pre-
sented to Christopher Columbus in honor
of his discovering America The hundreds
o. years have wrought sad havoc with the
pearls then given, and which are now on
exhibition i'm public museum there They
have lost all their brilliancy and look more
like balls of putty than anything l can
think of. Certainly they do not look as if
they ever possessed greatvaIue. am sure that
Queen Elizabeth did not run in any fake
pearls on Christopher Columbus. at least,
knowingly for the chronicles of the time
put them down specimens ard of
great value. Except for the historical
value they are today not worth any more
than china beads"
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1.-The wine makers of California can de-
fend their recent raise in its price," said
California representative to Star reporter
but they are not engaged in defending
themselves very much for the reason that
unless the price of wine stiffened somewhat
& meant that no more would be made.
circumstances entirely beyond the control
OF those engaged IN growing grapes and
making them into wine ran the price OF
Claret. which is. of course, the cheapest
IN price of any wine. down 10 twenty-five
cents per gallon free. or thirty cents, IN
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