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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-14
REsETTLING SOUTH AFRICA.
Britons Being Rushed to the New
Colonies to Repair Wars Ravages.

From the New York Sun.
Even before peace with the Beers was Of
ficially announced England had begun to
carry out her plans for resettling South
Africa with her own people. Months ago,
under official promptings, the immigration
associations of London set about bearing a
hand with the settlement problem. The CO.
lonial immigration Society began it by
sending out delegation of several hundred
women to Cape Colony for distribution at
various points where female help could
command high wages and loyal English
feminine influence could do the most good.
The Scottish Settlers Associa ton an or
ganizatiOn originally formed in Rhodesia
under the patronage and with the assist
ance of Cecil Rhodes himself. has taken up
the work almost quickly and on even a
greater scale. Four months ago band OF
ltD Scotch farmers and laborerS was sent
out to the Orange River Colony to settle
there on the land vacated by burghers. The
association was in such a hurry to get its
men on the ground that it-Sent them lit
tie too soon When they arrived in the new
colony it was found that local conditions
were hardly ripe for their reception, and Mr..
Rhodes assistance had to be sought. He
solved the problem by providing the Scotch
men with grants of land from his own
farms in Cape Colony. Now that peace has
been declared. preparations for extending
the scope of the work are being made The
capital of the association has been raised
to half million dollars and English and
Scotch agriculturists are to be rushed to
South Africa to people the new colonies
to readjuSt the balance of population there
and, by Outnumbering the Beers. to rem
der impossible even the fainteSt chance of
a recurrence of a rebellion against British
authority.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-14
IS THE WEST ovERcRoWDEDP
Horace Greeley's Advice to Young
Men No Longer Good.


From Harper's Weekly.
Horace Greeley's advice to the young man
to ''go west" is apparently out of date.
The Western Labor Union states that there
is no chance in the west for any young man
except the young man with capital. The
union condemns the railroad advertising
which paints the resources of the west in
glowing colors, and brands such state
ments as misleading in character" and
criminal in their effect" Many influential
papers in the west indorse the statements
expressed by the president of the Labor
Union. They all admit the brilliant oppor-
tunities for the investment of capital in
the west, but say that the poor man has no
chance.
The expression of such views as these
seems unfortunate and uncalled for at this
time of general prosperity. In every COM
munity that has been doomed" beyond it's
real producing capacity it is inevitable that
there should be numbers of idle men. This
Is also true of every agricultural cOmmu-
nifty at certain seasons. But these condi-
lions are temporary land right themselves
in short time. The Western Labor Union
states that the resources of the west ARE
lim1tless-to men of capital Where there
Is room for investment, capital generally
goes-and where capital goes there is bound
to be room for labor. The west may be a
little overcrowded with labor just at pres
ent. but there Is nothing to be alarmed at
In this condition. and there is certainly no
sane reason for the hue and cry that the
Western Labor Union has raised.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-14
Scent in Birds.
From Outing.


Animals follow their noses with unerring
instinct. A dog Identifies his master by
smelling him. A goat picks her kid from
an Enclosure OF hundreds with her nose
After a separation a COW Is never satisfied
with her calf until she has thoroughly
smelled it. The feathered family are so de-
flcient as to smell and taste that they go
anywhere and eat anything. I have seen
birds contentedly brooding about slaughter
houses and sewer discharges where the air
was so contaminated that my horse would
turn up its nose, draw its lips back from
it's teeth and groan. and I could only Sc
cure my material by working with a cloth
dipped In disinfectant bound over my lips
and nostrils. The birds eat unspeakable
things. 1t is nothing to find them raking
the river banks for worms at the very
mouth Of sewer discharge Beyond all
question the birds have sight and the ami
mails scent. but where each is defective In
one of these senses. 1t seems compensated
for the greater degree in which 1t possesses
the other.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-14
PING-PoNG TENOsYNoVITIs.
The New Ailment That is Affecting
Devotees Of the New Game.
From American Medicine.

From American Medicine.
The fascinating game of ping-pong, it
seems, has an even wider vogue, II posi-
bic, III England than with us. AS in every
instance when people unused to much mus
cular activity take up an uraccustomed
form of exercise enthusiastically. painful
conditions of joints. especially In the ankles
and wrists, have developed in those devoted
to the game. The pins-pong ankle Is quite
fashionable in London at the present time,
and win be with soon, if it is not already
here. At times, besides the painful condi-
ton, there is actual swelling due to the
fact that the unusual exercise causes irri-
tation and lowgrade Inflammation in the
burSaS of the tendonS around the ankle.
1t is at least fortunate thing that the
true eitolOgy of the affection is recognized,
and that it is not called rheumatism as is
so often the case with obscure Joint pains
Occupation neuroSes of the most varied
kinds occur that follow no type described
liz the text books. and this would seem to
be characteristic example of them. Rest
is the best form of treatment for the new
ping-pong tenoSynovitis-a medical term
that is sure to be popular because it is so
Sphlnx-like and mouth-filing.
For the prophSlaxis of the affection it is
especially important that the ankles should
be supported by reasonably firm snug we'll
fitting high shoes. High-heeled house Slip
pers and very low-cut shoes predispose to
the occurrence of this kind of strain The
new affection is en- interesting type of Ger
tain subpathologic conditions, most of them
related more or less closely to good old
fashioned tiredness that the fads of fashion
have been bringing to physicians for treat
ment in recent years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-14
Acts of God.
From the London EXPRESS.

From the London Express.
The discussion as to what Is IAN act Of
Cod Is being renewed in insurance circles
by the receipt of the news of the Guate-
malan earthquake. A large proportion Of
the white population of the Island of Mar
Unique are insured in the Jamaica Mutual
and French companies With the wiping
out Of st. Pierre 1t is presumed that all
documents have been destroyed. It would,
therefore. be a somewhat difficult task for
the beneficiaries to establish their claims
against the insurance companies. Light
ming and earthquakes have been ruled "acts
of God" hence the companies involved In
the Guatemalan disaster are safe SO far as
liability Is concerned. But with the islands
of Martinique and St. Vincent the case is
different. there being no provision for
mountains in eruption. 1t is almost certain.
however. that the insurance companies will
treat the destruction of property as an
"act of God" though they will be unable
to do SO In the case of loss of life. AS a
rule. life policies do not contain the 'tact of
Cod provision
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-14
Two Kinds of Dreariness,
From the Century.


You hear often from car window observ-
ers of the ''dreary" desert the hopeless"
the cherries" desert. But the desert de-
serves none Of these adjectives. It is dread
full. If you wish in the way in which it pun
ishes the Ignorance and presumption of
those who know not the signs OF thirst; it
Is sometimes awful In its passions of dust,
torrents. heat: 1t is even monotonous to
those who love only llthe life of crowded
cities: but 1t Is newer dreary or cheerless.
Hopelessness may well apply to the des-
erts Of Mulberry street.. and Smoky hollow,
with their foul oders. their swarms of
crowded and hideous human life; but the
desert of the arid land Is eternally hopeful,
smiling. strong Rejoicing in Itself The des-
ert Is never morbfd IN Pts adversely: on the
other hand, it Is calm and sweet and clean
the cleanest of aIia land. Not till man
comes bringing his. ugqy mining towns and
his destructive herds. does it bear even the
vestige of the unciean;st dreary, the I'M
picturesque. al r.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-14
AFRAID OF WATER.
People Who Have an Antipathy to
Performing Their Additions.

fF'Hl TIE 'bFnhlll Magazine
Once in little town in the Cevennes 7
was called to year-old baby; noticing the
irritated state of the skin. / asked the
mother if she ever washed him
Washed him." she replied, Indignantly.
no. indeed. madam What makes Won
think l would do such thing He has al
ways been delicate. but it is not nv fault.
Tor 1 can truthfully say 1 have never
touched him with water. hot or cold
That the preceding generation had an
equal antipathy to performing their abIu-
lions discovered one day when letting my
baby boy paddle in the brook A dear old
Iady over seventy. the nurse of the village.
watched him with great interest: then she
turned 10 me and said:
There. nowi and to think Won are not
afraid of the little dear wetting his pretty
feet. Why. have never put mine in water
since | was born"
was consulted for girl who had taken
emil. ordered a hot bath. The messen-
ger assured me no one would take the re-
sponsibility of administering so heroic a
remedy Would L come and superintepd?
agreed 10 DO so. and gave directions to have
every thing ready by the time 1 arrived.
L found the mother and sisters asserp
bled at the patients bedside. looking like
people prepared for the worst coaxed
the girl INTO the bath. and. tucking I'D my
sleeves, took advantage of the chance of
soaping her well When she had sat a few
it's quite nicer'
After she was snug in bed again. a knock
was heard. and neghbor put her head in
her face full of the deepest concern. She
said: '-Ae
II heard your poor Vasti was to have a
bath. L have come to see if she is still
aIiver' ''A
Luckily the girl recovered in few DAYS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-14
rII.fIEDf
MORSE CODE IN A FLAT
Telegraph Operator and His Wife
Worked yUnieue system.

From the Chicago fHterr iBtean
Il suppose" SAIL Mr. FlatdwelIer, that
there are plenty of people living in flats
who have signal 7syst en- by which they
communicate from the vestibules TO the fiat
Itself. announcing tRsif arrival, and some
other points of info5 nation, as for in
stance. whether they have visitors with
them. ~ :: .r". g. ...
"All there is TO this. You know. is that
each member of the househald has a ring
of his own; say one has one short ring; an
other has enc short and one long touch on
the bell. and so on; while some general pre-
arranged signal, added to the regular ring
of any member Of the household means
that visitor is coming also.
mat system of fiat signaling, 1 guess, is
now pretty common But it had never oc-
CURED to me that it might be greatly ex-
tended until one day when l came into the
VeStfbule of our house and found our new
tenant one fiat higher up on the other side
OF the halls. standing there with an inter-
eSted look on his face, and apparently lis
tenfng to something. - 49,
The latch of the street door was clicking
away, with somebody upstairs pressing the
button to let him in, but he didn't go in
ne just stood there. and in minute, when
the clicking stopped, he turned with a smile
on his face to the letter box and began
pressing the button under it.
"A minute later the door began to click
again. anu he began TO ASten once more,
and pretty soon he says the clicking still
going on. this as though he was talking to
somebody:
'Sho. Go way! You don't mean it,"
But very good-naturedly, you know;
smiling all the time, and when the clicking
stopped again he pressed the letter-box but
ton couple of times and the door clicked
a couple OF times and then he turned and
went out.
Well. all there was to that. you know,
was that our new tenant was a telegraph
operator, and his pushing in of the let
ter-box button and the clicking of the door
opener simply were he and his wife tele-
graphing to one another over the bell wire
and the door-opener wire. With the push
button In the vestibule for one key, and the
button In the fat working the door opener
for the other. and bell and door opener
for saunders they could talk as freely as
two operators could talk over q telegraph
wire.
"Of course this. you know, made the old
nat signaling system as followed by the
rest of us. and which we had always
thought was pretty good, look like childs
work, and now everybody in our house is
studying Morse"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-14
Egyptian Telephone Poles.

The company operating a large telephone
system in Egypt has experienced great diff
ficulty in securing suitable pole. The
climate of the country is so hot and dry
that good timber to. use for pole line for
the transmission of an electric current does
not grow. and timber imported from other
countries dry-rot and becomes useless in
very short time. A certain pole imported
from Sweden proved to be the most valu-
able. but its greatest life was not over four
years.
The company began negotiations, there
fore, with cedar pole firms in the United
States. with the result that arrangements
have just been completed with W. c. Ster-
ling Son OF Monroe, Mich. wholesale pro-
dncers of cedar poles, ties and posts for
the shipment of Loo poles OF the white
cedar variety. Michigan grown, to Alex
andria and Cairo, Egypt
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-14
THE END OF GERMANY.
German Prophets Predict Something
Shocking Will Happen Soon.


Within the last week OF two a number of
| prophets have sprung up in Germany. and
| a feeling Of superstition has arisen there
which no officialism has been competent to
| uuell. The movement has taken place
mainly In the south. and from all quarters
come rumors of coming wars and the down.
fall of Germany.
1t is difficult to say how the rumors have
originated or who has started them, but
| they have become so general that the kaiser
has actually been taking steps to try to re-
press the superstition Of his people-steps
which have been attended, naturally
enough. with very small success, for su-
perstition is not a thing that can be con-
trolled by law.
In the northern provinces folk are whis-
pering the famous. prophecy of the Monk
Hennin- who. several centuries ago, an
nounced that one day the Hohenzollern dy-
nasty would be re-established, but that the
third emperor Of this great family would
come to violent end and that the dynasty
would fall with him. The kaiser. 1t is said
dislikes to have Hennin's prophecy men
toned. and it is certain that the official
papers nave lately been publishing articles.
IN which pains are taken to prove that the
latter portion which points to the kaiser S
violent end was unauthentic.
In Suabia itinerant singers go about sing
Ing the prophecy of St. Ingebert, a nun who
is said to have had communion with spirits.
and whose prophecies have until now come
true When Germany is at it's greatest
said st. 1ngebert, 1.-The fall will come. 1 see
rivers of blood in all the German valleys,
and Cossack horses drinking in the waters
of the Elbe and of the Rhine" In Bavaria
a professor of the University of Wurzburg
has just returned from Italy with prophe-
cy of woman called Rosa Columbia who
died in 1887 She was an ignorant peasant
woman of Taggia. a little village in the Ri
vera. but she correctly predicted the fall
of Louis Philippe, the defeat and exile of
Charles Albert of Sardinia, the restoration
of Pope Plus TX ''by a Napoleon the de-
feat of Austria. and the re-establishment
of the kingdom of Italy. Rosa COLUMBIA
predicted one thing more. She announced
another Italian revolution, and at the same
time a great European war during which
the Russian soldiers will put up their
horses in the church adjoining the convent
at Taggia."
OF course. many people will smile at these
prophecies, and yet one cannot help re-
Numbering that France was oyerrun
with supernatural stories during the year
which preceded the Franco-German war.
Renan himself, who was not a supersti-
tious man.. wrote, it may be remembered
Throughout the history of the world
whenever great events have been about to
happen. vague rumOrs, sometimes precise
and nearly always realized, have warned
nations of the dangers with which they are
threatened. l can but point out this mys-
FERROUS instinct, / cannot explain it." And
Germany. without trying to explain, is
vaguely uneasy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-14
o1L-cARRY1Na FLEETS.
Their Number Makes the Question d
Danger Important.

Their Number Makes the Question Of
Danger Important.
From the London Petroleum.
In connection with the mercantile marine
nothing can be said to be more certain
than that the oil-carrying fleets Of the
world will be considerably increased In the
course Of very few years A growing de-
mand for crude and refined petroleum, the
discovery of new OIL fields and the all
round development Of the trade will necss-
state the building OF new tankers. At the
present moment there must be nearly a
score Of these vessels on the stocks In
British and American shipyards. 1t is a
new branch of the shipping industry, and
one which ought to attract great deal Of
attention. The tanker has. more expen-
sive and complicated equipment than the
ordinary freighter and this demands the
display OF engineering and scientific knowl-
edge quite unique among specialist work
in the art of shipbuilding. Ou-fred steam
ers. both cargo-carrying and passenger.
will also become more numerous during the
next four or five years. Oil as a fuel and
cargo Is one of the most promising liquids
of commerce.: it has a future that Is both
interesting and important.
There Is a certain unaccountabie antipa-
thy to petroleum. Some practical men
think 1t constitutes dangerous cargo.
They are mistaken. Still. we think it is in
the pest interests OF this growing trade
that the transport of petroleum in bulk
through narrow and crowded waterways
should be carried on under proper condi-
tions, and in such a manner that. while
the owners of oil-carrying vessels will have
no cause for complaint, the interests of the
commissioners or companies controlling
navigable waterways will have their i'm
portant interests properly safeguarded.
The mishap to the Bulysses, and the more
serious destruction of the Nerite by fire,
took place in the Suez canal. This was,
geographically. unfortunate; if the acct
dents had happened anywhere else there
would have been no attempts made to draw
lessons from them. The transport of Pc
troleum through the canal, in many re-
spectS unique waterway, is an old
question; ten years ago it was beginning
to come to the front. and at that time
British shipOwners and the officials of the
SueZ Canal Company exhibited a great deal
of interest in it, We have before us re-
port by Sir Frederick Abel and DR.. Bower
ton Redwood on the proposed transport
of petroleum in tank steamships through
the Suez Canal" p" Then there were be-
tween sixty and seventy petroleum tank
steamers. and of these they said many
carry from 900 to 1000 tons of OIL" now
there are three times that number of tank
ers, and the largest. trading and building.
are designed to carry from 5000 to 10000
tons.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-14
The Queen Bee.
From Ainslee's Magazine.

from AinSlee'S Magazine.
She possesses the power of choosing
which of her offspring shall be drones and
which workers. Some have thought that
this was automatic, and that the narrower
worker cell touched the button so to speak,
that brought forth fortified egg. But
the queen will lay worker eggs in drone
cells If she thinks fit, so that settles that.
II the drone is male and the queen fe-
male. what Is the worker? The new wo-
man of Beedom. She has given up her
motherhood for business career Some
times. though. she lays eggs. but they al
ways hatch out drones, of which 1t Is
strictly true to say they have a mother, but
no father. If the queens wings are Grip
pied so that she cannot make her marriage
flight her children are all drones. An Ital-
ian queen In a hive of black bees will beget
workers of mixed blood. but her sons arc
pure Italians Dropes are useful as fathers
OF workers. but they cannot collect the
honey they eat. Their tongues are too
short. Z
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-14
Bootblacking Merger.
the New York Tribune

NpW Irfbune.
italian bootblacks who have been paving
% annual license fee for every chair which
they have been using at their stands b,,t
who have contrived a merger" and a
community of interests by setting I'm n
single bench with three or four seats and
paying only half eagle for their entire
arena OF work, deserve honorary member
ship in the lists of citizens among the
Connecticut and Massachusetts, Yankees
They are entitled to the legitimate adyau-
tages of their shrewdness; and they couId
hardly do better If they started mills for
the manufacture of hickory nutmeps
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-14
sIS s,iin -
AssaSsln
From the London Chrpnicle.

From the London Chrpnicle.
In the last century twelve chiefs of states
were assassinated Onciuding the Austrian
empress). All these murders occurred In
the seven months beginning with March
and ending with September. March claims
three paul I. Charles III of Parma. Alex
ander ID: June has also three (Michael .of
Servia. Abdul ASH CarnoD; July claims
Garfield and Humbert: the other months,
separately. Lincoln QS65}. the shah QS98.
Daniio of Montenegro 1850 and the EN-
press Elizabeth tiBs3S5: The winter months
seem. therefore, to be close season fol
mOnarchs. Republican presidents occupy
three out OF these twelve places. and we
have Tin this century, to add the name OF
Mckinley. 81 - @-''