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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-02-10
MUTILATED MONEY.
Singular Cases That Come Before the
Experts of the Treasury.

From the Philadelphia North American
The regulations Of the Treasury Depart-
ment require that at least three-fifths of a
bill shall be recovered before the govern
ment will pay for the mutilated bill. Each
mutilated bill is carefully pasted on r
backing OF paper the SIZE of the complete
bill. The expert has piece OF glass the
exact size of the bill. This glass is divided
into forty squares. When placed over the
bill. IL the expert can find thai the rem
nants of the bill fill twenty-four of the
squares or three-fifths Of all OF them, the
bill will be redeemed.
A case within the last three weeks came
from farmer of ST. Clair county, Mo-,
who while STOPPING over 10 feed his hogs
dropped his purse inside the pens. An hour
later, when he missed his purse. ne found
the leather receptacle inside the pen. but
nothing of its contents. There was a
saughtering which II had been his inten-
ton not to have until several days later
What resembled the remains of the money
was found and sent on 10 Washington.
Three hundred dollars was returned 10 the
Missouri farmer.
Burned money is the hardest for the gov
ernment experts to work on. with the ex-
ception Of the money that has been gnawed
by mice. Saturday afternoon there came
into the department cigar box fun Of
money that had been sent from Philadel-
phia with the necessary affidavit showing
structed safe, and had been burned TO the
condition in which 1t was forwarded
Evidently with the idea that the original
package ought not to be broken, the send
er inciosed the charred pieces with some
silver coins that had also been badly burn
ed in the same safe.
During the passage of the money through
the mails the heavy silver was shaken
through the charred bills until there was
hardly piece left big enough to cover
more than the head of a pin. Each Of the
pieces looked as though taken from a CRATE
into which papers had been thrust Mrs.
Brown. who Is In charge of the experts
that handle the mutilated money. all OF
whom are women did not despair, although
she deplored the thoughtlessness that had
allowed silver and charred paper to be
packed together. She called two of her as
sistants and the three. by the aid Of magni-
flying glasses. soon brought out four SO
bills. and within hour recommended
that they be redeemed blythe treasurer
The mice-chewed bills make puzzles for
the experts which can only be solved with
infinite patience and care. Each Of the
pieces is carefully laid ont on a hard. fsr
surface. and then with the assistance of
strong glasses magnified SO Il can be placed
in proper position in relation to all OF
the others. The experts have a COPY of ey-
cry bill that has ever been printed by the
government. These are used as models as
soon as enough OF the bill has been laid out
to establish its Issue.
No bill has ever been received at the
Treasury Department in a condition that
has made " impossible for the experts to
straighten II out and establish its charac-
ter beyond doubt,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-02-10
The Origin pf the Sabbath.

TruM tne Ihdenendent
The Sabbath as a religious institution II
far older than the Pentateuchals Ieglsla-
ton. 1t. too. can be traced back to a
Babylonian prototype. not. however. as a
day OF rest from Iabor,-but a. q kind of
atonement day. when by various rites. and
by observing certain restricted regulations
the anger of the gods could be appeased.
On this old institution the Hebrews In
grated their religious ideas and produced
the unique Institution OF a day observed az
q respite from the weeks tod. and which.
from being an .inauspicious" occasion. q
dies irae. Is viewed as delight"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-02-10
Titanium the Wonderful.

From Science Strings
The properties Of the metal titaniun are
many and various. 1t gives hardness and
toughness to steel and a fine iuster to sill
yer, while. added to carbon used for arc
lamps it increases the brilliancy Of the
light. Titaninm IL also added to the fer
tilizers used on tobacco piantatfons. and It
is said to improve the flavor of the leaf.
The oxide increases the briliiancy OF incan-
descent gas Hantles: It's strong afi1nity for
nitrogen promises cheap means OF pre-
pairing ammonia direct from tile atEnos-
pherey while with carbon 1t yields a product
hard enough to scratch diamonds
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-02-10

There's 4 great deal that's
general about our advertising.
We may tell you of only one
pricc-but it's an illustrative
price. Lots of others on a par
with it. The article advertised
may not be just the one YOU
want-but your ideal may be
right next in line to it, priced SO
that it's equally as good a
value.
The Dresser illustrated to-
day-onc from the long lines
picked to price for you. In
four woods, curly birch, birds
eye maple, mahogany finish and
quartered oak, highly polished,
full swell front, 4 drawers, cast
brass trimmings, with French
bevel plate mirror. The draw
work, or to speak technically,
the case work. is as perfect and
clean as dreSsers priced up as
high as $50. This piece COM
pareS with anything anywhere
at S22 to SIS. Well sell it for
SI6.65 tomorrow.
w r. MOSES & SONS, + ST, COR 1lTH.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-02-10
Az Explained.
From the chicaro Newr.

From the Chicago News
Space-"Izow 1t It that humorists are al
ways writing . lot Of stun about cheap
boarding housss and financial distressy"
Quads-'Oh. / suppose Il comes natural
for people to write OF the things best known
to them"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-02-10

Thousands of situations have been OBJ
Star.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-02-10
NATIVE-BORN CHINESE
THEY PLAY NO PART IN GOLDEN
STATE POLITICS.
Philippines Should Be Admit
ted to Citizenship.

'To be native son of the golden west is
an honor much esteemed by, hative-born
white Californians," said representative
in Congress from Pacific coast state to a
Star reporter this morning, and likewise
carries with it not only that honor, but citi-
zenship to such Chinese who may first see
the light in the golden state -.
The term native SON is distinctly Cali
fornian in the sense used, and the organiza-
ton known as the Native Sons of the
Golden West is an order of much social
and political power there. The native-born
Chinese, however, play no part in its coun-
ellis.
1.-THE native-born Chinese of our popula-
ton at present constitute too small a pro-
portion of our citizens to cause any. imne
date apprehension. but If it should be de-
termned and declared that all native-bornl
Chinese in the Philippines are to be classed
as native born and entitled to the result
ing privileges of American citizenship, a
proposition would be presented which COM
mands the utmost consideration and care
full elaboration as to probable results on
no of al
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-02-10
The Communication of Disease.

The police. when suspicious Of the VIOLA
ton of the ordinance. watch a laundry
carefully, and when the time is ripe for a
raid. descend upon it suddenly, breaking
their way through the barbados These
Chinese work In close, air-excluded rooms
hour after hour, night after night in an
atmosphere which would suffocate a white
man. .7 .-F
THE second ordinance is against Chinese
laundrymen squirting or spraying water
from their mouths In dampening washed
and unfrOned clothes. White people sprin-
kle clothes by dipping the fingers in water
or by spraying with an apparatus. The Chi
nese have sitting on the ironing board
bowl filed with water. to the surface Of
which they apply their lips. and suck In q.
quantity OF its contents, squirting It out
ir fine streams all over the clothes.
1T Is seen at once that this Is disagree
able practice at best and on second thought
1t Is realized what very dangerous one
1t Is. Consumption and other communica-
BILE diseases of serious and specific nature
afiict the Chinese race, and the danger OF
contagion and infection to the wearer I, Z
the clothes by this means is at once appa-
rent and Is the reason for the existence of
the ordinance. 5000
1.-THE thought of Chinese afflicted with
a specific and probably fatal disease SQUIRT
ing water from his mouth over the clothes
which you are to wear Is the same In the
minds of the residents of San Francisco as
it Is in the minds OF the residents of Wash;
ington. who may now fully comprehend the
reasons for the ordnance, and why it Is
rigidiy enforced by the police OF San Fran
CISCO"
Milford chronicle., 1902-03-07

An exact definition of the "Celtic
fringe" will be welcomed. The number
Of people in Brittany and the British
isles whose mother tongue is Celtic is
100000, according to statistics quot
ed the other day by Professor AIagnus
Maclean of Glasgow university. They
are distributed thus: Gaelic. $4,000
chiefly in the highlands of Scotland
Irish, CSC, west Of a line in Irelan,
from Dungarvan bay to Tough Swilly
Manx, 1000; Welsh, 100000. and Bre-
ton, 100000 These flag ends are a sad.
" dwindling minority of a once mighty
race. Modern industrialism, says Pro.
fessor Maclean. is wooing the Celts
away from their native strongholds
and the separate units get absorbed
in the common national lie and the
common civilization.
Milford chronicle., 1902-03-07
IFAvonE-D sPor.

There is a small ard specially favor
ed territory which embraces the east
ern half of South Dakota and tile
northwestern one-fourth Of Iowa
where, timely rains falling, most
magnificent crop Of corn was securet
about the best ever raised in that see.
ton. It is needless TO comment upon
the kind Of prosperity which follows IN
the wake Of fifty bushels of corn 10
the acre at 60 cents al bushel 1t meaIls
the doubling Of form land yalu,s
whereon the crop was raised, mort
gage extinction, new houses With
modern improvements, the substituticn
Of elegant carriages for lumber wagons
when the corn raiser goes to kirk or ID
wedding o.. funeral it means COLLEGE
for the boys and girls, new steel
range for mother in the kitchen and a
piano for the girls in the parlor. Whit
about the fellow who is forced to buy
this corn Mt this price? Oh, that's alp
other question and hot a part of this
item.
Milford chronicle., 1902-03-07
rRoFITs or COTTONWOOD TIMBER.


PROFITS or COTTONWOOD TIMBER.
At late meeting of the Southwest
ern horticultural Society of Iowa
gentleman of good reputation made the
following statement with reference to
the profits of timber culture on the
western prairfes: Twenty years ago
he planted a row of cottonwood slips
four feet apart half a mile along the
highway fronting his farm. The trees
grew tall and thrifty, and as they at
tanned large size drew upon his farm
field adjoining for a width of three
rods, occupying thus about three acres
Of land. Last fall and winter all but
100 of the trees were cut, and from
them were made $4,000 feet, board
measure, of seryiceable lumber and $50
cords Of wood The lumber sold for
SIS per thousand and the wood was
worth 1928 per cord, or a cash value
for the timber grown on these three
acres Of S1.O42, or S347.JO per acre, Or
an annual income Of S1737 per acre
for each Of the twenty years. 1t should
be stated in this connection that these
trees grew upon the loess soil Of the
Missouri slope. a soil wherein the cot
tonwood tree finds its most perfect de-
velopment, and we do not believe the
above record could be duplicated upon
the average prairie soils Of the west
Milford chronicle., 1902-03-07
LIE srocI1 AucrIoNEERs.

We are asked what sort of compen-
sation is received by the live stock
auctioneers-not the little fellows who
cry the common farm sale, but those
who sell the blue blooded Shorthorns,.
Doddies and Herefords at fancy prices.
Inquiry develops the information that
the best Of these auctioneers receive
from 500 to $3.50 per day for their
services and sometimes more when
they sell on a commission and strike a
good lot Of stock and buying crowd.
TO be able to command these prices
for their services, however, they must
be walking encyclopedia Of the pedi-
grees Of the best stock in the country
and possess, what is not a common
trait, the ability to in some degree hyp-
notize men and make them buy and
pay prices which if let alone they
would not do. Not many men are nat
urally fitted for this business, for a
man should have reversible con-
science and a tongue hung on ball bear
ings to make a brilliant success at it.
Milford chronicle., 1902-03-07

We know Of some men who are go-
ing to get their heads into a sling Iy
going daft over this land craze, and
these the men who buy farms at $50 an
acre, making a small payment down
and expecting to pay the balance ont
Of profits made on lhe farm. The.e
forget that these high priced farms a e
many Of them pretty well run out :
been cropped for for .y or fifty years n
and that existing high values for all
farm produce are abnormal and not dit
all likely to continue beyond the time
when the law of supply and demanu
shall eaualizs prices. 1t Is all right 10
buy such farm for an investment
paying for it when the deed is passed.
as it viii rent rsenslugh 70 pay lo'v
rate of interest upOii the investment
but this is a very different proposition
from that Of trying 10 pay for such a
farm from its products.
Milford chronicle., 1902-03-07
APPLES ON cR.AB TRUNKS.

Here is a nut for the apple man 10
crack: Two apple trees, one located
near Dubuque and the other on tile
prairie in north central Iowa, are hal
and hearty and bearing good crops Of
fruit at thirty-two years Of age. There
is nothing very remarkable about this
but when we say that both these tress
are Seek No Farther apples, top graft
ed ON the stock Of a Siberian crab, tile
Seek No Farther being an apple which
it is utterly impossible to raise upon a
root graft in the territory named, it BIZ.
comes a fact Of much interest for all
fruitmen. These trees, surviving tEe
climatic changes and shocks of thirty
two years and bearing abundant croIs
Of one Of the best APPLES in the world
on their little Russian trunks, is an OBJ
ject lesson which should be needed by
all those who are Interested in growing
fine apples We also know of Jonil.
than apples SO top worked which alt
bearing fine crops Of splendid fruit in
southern Minnesota, a territory n
which the Jonathan apple is no more
at home than is om colored brother
Facts like the foregoing should Il
needed and acted upon by our fruit
men.
Milford chronicle., 1902-03-07

With the disappearance Of the pine
forests Of Michigan, Wisconsin and
Minnesota big forests Of Oregon ana
Washington are beginning to be drawn
upon to supply the demand for lums
Der in the central west. Dimension
lumber-boards, scantling and joists-
up to sixteen feet in length Of this Pa
cifc coast product is now being laid
down in the towns and cities of the
central west for $21 to SOD per thou
sand feet by the carload, or at price
which brings it into direct competition
with the product Of the northern pin
cries. This coast lumber sells at the
mills for 81 to IS per thousand feet.
and the freight is about $14 per thou
sand feet The great benefit Of reduc-
ed rates from the coast is thus easily
seen, and it is likely to materialize be-
fore long.
Milford chronicle., 1902-03-07

In the preface to a recent collection
Of university sermons the editor gives
some curious statistics as to the lengths
Of sermons. He tells us that it had
been found early necessary in some
universities to pass statutes de guam
titate sermOnum, and a time limit was
fixed at Ingoldstadt Of an hour and
quarter, while 1T Vienna the allowance
was an hour and half or at most two
hours. Even this was exceeded by the
two and a half hours which DR.. Tath-
am Of Lincoln spent in 1902 in defend
ing the genuineness of the disputed
verse in John i, Z. while DR.. Pussy
was also very long. The extreme limit
in regard to brevity was probably
reached in Haarne's record of March
20, 1922, in which he speaks Of a ser
mon at st. Peters in the east by viii
liam Pecke, which was not above FIVE
minutes long or very little MORE
London News.
Milford chronicle., 1902-03-07
BRANCH ROADS.

neloware. MARYLAND q virginia r. H.
reo1-e HARRINGTON for Franklin City and way
siatious 10 IS a. M. daily and u p. M week
DAYS Returning, train leaves fran KIN OiDy
"a Il. IA. week and l-32 pm. week days.
Leave Franklin City for Chincoteague VIA
steaIner) "A p. m. week Gays. hssulhlhs'
lea xe ChincOteague 81 a. M. week uay9'
Tenves Harrington for Georgetown and
Rehoboth at 10 80 a. M. GA p no. weet-ei,y =;
Returning, leave Rehopobh poo a. ~ anu 4'oi
p. m weekdays
Leave Harrington for Berlin, 1905 q. M.
..nd ana p M. weekdays. Returning, ieaNe
Berlfn So a. m. weekdays ana 80 p M
oneen Anne q Ken R.R.-Leave Towns,
end for Centreville and way stallons. . =
a, m. and 0S p. m. week days. He il
leave Ceufreville 81 a. M. and % p m.
week days.
Del. chesapeake r. R.-Leave Clayton foi
oxford and way stations at IS q. M. ana pa
D. M. week days. Returning leave OAlolo
b55 a. m. and sip. M. week days.
Cambridge & Seaford r. R.-Leave Seaforo
for Cambridge and intermediate stations at
III II q. IA. and @ 81 p. m week days return
ing train leaves Cambridge at W ana ~
.. m. week days.
t,oyNEcTroN.-At Porter, with Newark 4
Delaware City Railroad. AtIownsendi VIII
Queen Anne's & Kent Railroad. Az clay
tom with Delaware & Chesapeake Railroad
and Baltimore IL Delaware BAY rtaliroad a
Harrington, with Delaware, Maryland ~ Nlr
Qinia Railroad. At Seafordi with Cambridge
4 Senford Railroad. At Delmuri with New
York, Philadelphia q Norfolk, Wyeomlco
pooomoxe, and Peninsula Railroads
}. b. HUTCHINSON, General Manag
r. WOOD, General Passenger Agent.
Milford chronicle., 1902-03-07

OUR FARM MACHINES IN RUSSIA.
American reapers, harvesters, horse
rakes and mowers are being adopted
in nearly every part Of agricultural
Russia to the exclusion Of all other
kinds. Few people realize the enor-
nous field this opens to the American
manufacturer of farm machinery, the
cereal producing area Of Russia far ely
ceeding in extent that Of this country
There are vast sections Of Russia
where even vet the Russian peasant
cuts all his grain with scythe or crl-
die, tramps the grain out with oxe b
and winnows it with the wind, as 10
the old Mosaic times Born serf oft
Of a generation Of serfs, this Ignorant
vodka drinking, illitarate clod Of tile
soil is slow to sense his opportunities
and waits tile magic touch Of moder Il
progress to enable him to build statiis
like those of our own northwest out ,'i
the Siberian wilderness.
Milford chronicle., 1902-03-07
THAT ARE KLLIMo THE PEOPLE.

No other plaster, no other medicine or APP
plication, can compare with them. Coughs,
colds, backaehe, rheumatism, lumbago,
kidney and liver troubles, asthma, infiu-
enza,-they all go down before Benson's
Plasters like a snow image in the sun.
You can't throw money away on Benson's
Plaster. Everybody is going to use them
tins season. But make certain you get the
genuine. All druggists, or we will prepay
postage on any number ordered in the
United States on receipt of 25c. each.
seabury & johnson, Mfg. Chemists, N. Y.
Milford chronicle., 1902-03-07
THEY CRUSH THE POWERS

This is written in mid October. The long,
oppressive summer is quite gone. Fading
leaf, whitening tree and the rustlng corn in
the fields are signs of the season. Fog,
frost, rain, snow,-they are coming. You
remember last winter; of 1900 and 1901.
the weather was cruel. Ali the thous-
ands it killed, and the hundreds Of thous-
ands it MANNED and crippled. Oh, the
rough grasp it laid on men at work, women
at home, and children in cribs and cradles.
Coughs that began before Thanksgiving
Day are racHng and tearing them still; yes,
and growing worse as they dig deeper into
the poor, tired throat snd lungs. Many
were cured by using Benson's Porous Plas-
tiers. For the soothing and healing power
If these Plasters is wonderful They con-
0uer the complaints
Milford chronicle., 1902-03-07

It is a matter of history that hun
bred years ago, before the fine roads
Of England had been built, the farmers
living contiguous to the city Of London
vigorously protested against the use of
public money for the Improvement Of
the fearful winter roads leading to the
city on the ground that such improved
highways would hurt their sales Of
produce by enabling farmers from a
distance to bring their stuff to market.
The years may come and the years
may go, but old human nature remains
Just the same.
Milford chronicle., 1902-03-07

A man was bothered almost to death
with a flock Of his neighbours turkeys.
Kindly request and protests were no
good. One day he took his gun and
bagged the best bird in the flock and
had an notwithstanding dinner.
Next day the turks disappeared and
never bothered him after.
Milford chronicle., 1902-03-07
PATE DE FoIE GRAs.

The above is the name of a high
priced delicacy much affected by the Sc
called epicurean rich, and what is III
A matured goose is shut up in a box DC
small that it can just stand upright
and stick its head through the hole in
the top. It is then fed the most coneeil.
trated foods highly seasoned with cob
diments. This feeding is done forciblF
the food being forced down the gulla
Of the bird with stick made for that
purpose. Soon after this treatment be-
gins the liver Of the bird becomes ell.
larged and diseased and keeps oE
growing in size until it will weigh DIS
much as the liver Of a good sized calf
The bird is kept until it is just ready L
die, when it is killed and the liver talk.
en- and given a special secret treat
ment. when it is packed in jars AND
gold labeled and then passes through
the usual channels OF trade to the cpl
curean consumer. These diseased liz
ers bring the producer, the small farm
ers of Alsatla, from 81 to "a apiece
and the more diseased the goose which
produced them the higher price the!
bring Now, if tempted to order pat,
de foie grasr on Your bill Of fare d
some tony restaurant you will kn0l
just exactly what you are getting AM
eating.
Milford chronicle., 1902-03-07
TREE PLANTING.

It will soon be tree planting timis
again, and we would like to offer d
suggestion about tree planting around
the home lot. Please do not set the
trees out on regular lines, squares and
the like. The only trees set in rows
should be those bordering the street
and those in the orchard. The best
model for tree planting for home EN-.
Enlistment is to be found in the nativi,
forests or, rather, in the openings at
the edge Of the timber-natural and
artistic combinations of forest tree,
shrub and vine, with an interval OF
grass meadow between. Find some
pretty spot Of this sort and study the
way nature has arranged the trees and
shrubs. Another thing, don't get the
trees too near the house. They seem
all right when young and do no harm,
but they soon grow, and then you see
the mistake you have made, and rare
" can there be found man with coui,-
age enough to lay the ak to the root
of the handsome and thrifty tree which
he has himself planted. Nothing SO
StOAS lHS AApht 9tiAu VI ldWA as Il cOtl-
pie of evergreens set twenty feet dii,-
tant from the house. Evergreens are
all right, but they should grow alone
and be grouped with other deciduOus
trees to give a fine effect. In home
decoration more attention should bE
given to the common woodland shrubs,
The common hawthorn tree, Thu
wild crab apple, the sumach, the elder
berry, the wild cherry and in vines thu
Virginia creeper, the partridge berr,
and woOdbine should each have {;
Mace on the home gEQunds.