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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-01-12

Captain Frank Schoeffel, who COM
manded the detachment which recently
repulsed a large force of bOlomen and
who was wounded. is a hero of Pekin
and a fighter of note among the gal
liant men at arms of the Fighting
Ninth"
1t was company of this same regi-
ment that was surprised while at
breakfast at Balangan. Samar. Sept.
% last. and fought with bare fists the
800 fer0CiCUs bOlOmen who surprised
them and massacred nearly all of the
detachment.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-01-12

were all tired by Schoeffel.
Captain Schoefers war record is in
accord with his school day achieve
ments and his showing in the engage
ment in the Philippines is no surprise
TO his friends.
At San Juan he was one of the first
up the hill. In the relief of the Pekin
legation Captain Schoeffel was in the
van of the dash of the Ninth. which
cost that regiment its commander and
many brave men. In this attack his
daring won him distinction and a Chi
nese bullet.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-01-12
HATED BEYOND IMAGINATION.
Chamberlain the Most Detested Man
in Europe.

Chamberlain the Most Detested Man
in Europe.
(Ralph D. BlumenfeId in Brooklyn Eagle.)
The most hated man in Europel
What distinction Napoleon I bore
this honor 100 year ago with imperial
indifference. After him came Bis
narck. who cultivated the enmity of
his foes rather than the adulation of
his admirers, seeing therein the
strength Of his position. The success
sion to this enviabla or unenviabIe DO
sition-it has its merits and dement's
has now come to the Rt. Hon. Joseph
Chamberlain, NJ. P, his majesty's min
lister for the colonies.
There is not a single country in Eu-
rope in which the name Of Chamber
lain is not detested beyond magma
ton. In France he is regarded as the
incarnation Of evil, for was he not the
man who humbled the Gallo pride in
the Fashoda affair by brusqUely ad-
monishing Jean CraPaud TO observe
better manners in future? Fashoda
has been craven side by side with Sc
dan, on the hearts of Frenchmen. who
can never be brought to believe other
wise than that but for Mr.. Chamber
trenched on the branch Of the Nile. to
the discontinue Of the Union Jack and
the consequent Qualification Of the Tri-
color.
. o o
In Spain Mr.. Chamberlain is regarded
as the power that persuaded the Brit
ish cabinet to take sides with the
United States in the Cuban war and.
though the Spaniard has already recon
ciled himself to the inevitable, he does
not easily forget the man whom he
rightly. or wrongly, looks upon as the
one person in the world whose aid al
the proper time could have prevented
the dislntegration Of the great Spanish
empire.
In Austria Mr.. Chamberlain is looked
upon with horror because of his sup
posedly anti-papal proclivities. He is
known 70 be an ardent non conform
list and, therefore, naturally presumed
! to be the enemy Of all priests of The
/ holy Roman church, and those who
know their Austria can easily under
/ stand the unfeigned detestation which
| every true Catholic under Francis Jo-
! seph has for the British statesman.
/ The Italians, who have long since
! given UP their dreams of colonial ex-
/ pansion since their memorable over
/ throw in Abyssinia have, somehow OF
| other. confused Mr.. Chamberlain witt
] the causes of their downfall forget.
/ ting, Of course, that it was their owr
| lack of craftsmanship and military
! prowess, which contributed to thi.
state of affairs. There is not a singI,
Italian who can tell you how Mr.
! Chamberlain could have saved Italy
from the disgrace of Adowa.. yet they
all dislike him for some mysterious rea
son and talk of him as the peace dis
turber of the world, just as they for
merly did Of Bismarck
But it is TO Germany where one mus
go to see the real simon-pure anti
ChambeT1ainite5 There the cult ha.
reached a high state of perfection 1
is considered unfashionable and un
patriotic to even suggest the. defens
of the areh-demon tShamperlin'' Lit
tie children are frightened by their Ell
der brothers and sisters with the spool
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-21
BACTERIA IN DIGESTION.
Chickens Die When Fed on Sterilized
Food.

Translation In Literary Digest
The results of experiments with chickens
to determine the effect of intestinal bacteria
upon the process of digestion are reported
by Professor Schottelius in a recent num-
Der of the Arohiv fur Hygiene, and repro
duced by the Stats Zeitung Chickens
were kept in cages from which all bacteria
were carefully excluded and were supplied
with food equally free from bacteria. They
ate ravenously and almost continually and
evidently digested their food well, yet not
only did they not fatten, but they steadily
decreased in weight and strength.
and positive proof that the presence of in
testinal bacteria is necessary to nutrition.
Chickens which had been Matched and rails
ed in a sterilized environment, receiving
only germ-free food, thrived for week, and
then began to decline in weight and
strength Then they were divided into two
groups. one of which was fed sterilized
food, the other on food containing bacteria.
All of the first group died in a few days,
the others improved rapidly and soon were
tCdiStinguishable from chickens that had
run free in the poultry yard. Nine. Metch-
nikof has obtained analogous results with
tadpoles which, fed for time with germ
free food, attained an average weight of %
miligrams and average length of 1915
millemeters, while other tadjoes, fed for
the same period ordinary food, had an
average weight of 142 milligrams and an
average length Of 265 milimeters.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-21
MADE POPULAR BY KING.
Things on Which Edward VII Has
Put His Approval

crOM the LONDON Telegraph.
When King Edward VII, then Prince of
Wales. made his famous tour of Egypt and
the Holy Land some forty years ago, he
found the usual form ce dress coat too
warm for comfort. He thereupon hit upon
a compromise in the shape of a dark blue,
loose jacket with silk facings and gold but
tons. All his suite adopted the same at
tire for informal dinners, and when the
royal tourist returned to Sandrngham he
did not give up this comfortable garment
1t was from this beginning there sprang
the dinner jacket of today, which, as all
its wearers admit. is a great improvement
upon the ordinary swallow-tafl.
To the kings sound common sense in
matters of everyday life his subjects, and,
indeed, the world in general, owe more
than most of us imagine. The soft HON.
burg hat, which Is such a pleasant contrast
to the hard felt, was brought to England
from Germany by the king and made fash
ionable in America. He noticed a hat of
this description in Homburg shop, bought
it, and found it so comfortable and becom-
ing that it received the seal of his royal APP
prevail, and he has seldom since then been
seen in the black bowler.
Another practice of the middle of the
nineteenth century was to sit over dinner
for at least two hours, while the men usu-
ally remained in the dining room for a still
longer period and frequently drank more
port wine than was good for them The
an excellent appetite and enjoys good
dinner as well as anyone else, showed his
disapproyal of these ways as soon as he
was settled at Sandriugham. He has al
ways liked to smoke Immediately after din
ner, and SO the long sitting over the meal
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-21
Water-Cure for Badness,
From the London Chronicle.

From the London Chronicle.
Bald-headed people who have not yet de-
cided where to go for their summer holt
day should be advised by a correspondent
Of the Queen" and go to Casciana. in
North Italy, tc test the virtue Of its waters,
which are reputed to be natural hair re-
storers, equally capable of restoring hair
to the bald and plumage to naked birds.
There is tradition that In the eleventh
century the pet blackbird of the Countess
Matilda had lost all its feathers, but re-
covered its plumage after bathing in the
marshes of Casciana. The birds example
was followed by the ladies of the court,
whose hair was greatly increased in guam
tity and beauty, and whose bodies became
stronger and more youthful. Perhaps,
however, within reasonable time one will
be able to enjoy the benefits of the Cas-
ciana waters without the long journey to
northern Italy, for the Queen" CORE
spondent thinks 1t possible a time will come
when Casciana water will be exported to
England as 1taly's natural hair restorer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-21
Shopping in Pekin.
From Japan and America.

from Japan and America.
The Chinese are peculiar for many
other things than those set down by Bret
Harte in his immortal chronicle, and among
them is the extraordinary custom among
the merchants of Pekin. A Japanese cor
respondent has recently been explaining to
his busness-like countrymen the great
waste of time incurred in shopping in the
Chinese capital Frequently a whole day IS
wasted in trying to find a small article Of
daily use. This is largely due to the fact
that trading is despised by the higher
classes in Pekin, and the merchants are
scattered over the city and over a space of
three miles outside the city wall. In order
to purchase a quire of paper the Japanese
had to go to Ling Chang, three miles out
side the city, and had also to get out of the
city to buy beef. Hours a day were spent
in going from shop to shop, often several
miles apart. In what seems to be the shop,
very few articles, and they of the lowest
quality, are kept, the best goods being up
stairs and will be overlooked unless the
customer is aware of that popularity. The
shopkeeper is quite ready to detain a Gus
toner in gossip in the lower shop for sew
eral hours. The shops are open from or
o'clock in the morning until 5 or 6 In the
afternoon. and at night all are closed ex-
cept restaurants and drug stores.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-21
THE BELLS OF BOW.
London's Legendary Chimes of St.
Mary's, Cheapside.

From the London Telegraph
Up in the steeple of st. Mary-le-Bow the
bell founders are at work upon the legend
airy chimes which have kept time with
the music of humanity since London be-
came famous among the cities of the earth
For more than twenty generations they
have commented like a Greek chorus upon
all the drama of life and fate packed with
In the walls of the old capital or acted In
the modern arena that concentrates in it's
seething existence of everyday-more in
tense and innumerable contrasts of fortune
than any other environment of the world.
Turn again, Wilmington. thrice Lord
mayor of London''-what child does NOT
know that 1t was the faraway rhythm of
Bow bells which spoke sooth to the ear of
the poor apprentice in doublet and hose,
recalled him within the gates of the pic
turesque medieval city, with its pitched
roofs and gables, and made him the civic
ancestor of Sir Joseph Dimsdale? There is
no single episode In English folk-tales more
PROFOUNDLY characteristic of the spirit Of the
nation, or more expressive of the unique
place which the typical church of Cheapside
mas always held in popular imagination.
Westminster and ST. Paul's have been the
shrines of the realm associated with all the
pomps and vicissitudes of the state But
st. Mary-ie-Bow alone has been regarded
as the symbol associated with the joy and
grief the mirth and care of private men,
The lives of centuries of citizens have been
accompanied by the dancing peals or the
iron sorrow Of its bells. They have rung
the generations into being. They have rung
them away. They have been glad for births
and weddings. They have been mournful
for deaths and partings. And ever they
have seemed like the disciples to speak to
every man after his own tongue In a
word, the city and Bow bells have tri-
umphed and have saddened' together. and
the changes in the steeple have made equal
measure with the changes Of life.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-21
Public Gardens.
rom the Philadelphia Times.


1t is very great fault of our system OF
public administration that 1t Is so slow to
avail itself of the professional knowledge
skill and taste that are everywhere sought
by private individuals and corporations
All around Philadelphia. in the last few
years. the revival Of the art of gardening
has been most conspicuous. Several very
accomplished and distinguished architects
have given their attention to this field of
art with notable results. 1t is only in the
small parks and open spaces Of the city,
where the opportunity for formal garden
ing is most important, that we see little or
no artistic advance.
The city officials seem to have no better
idea for laying OUT one OF the new
squares than to spread fiat surface with
a geometrical pattern of concrete walks
filling in the interstces with grass and
few cheap trees. The geometrical pattern
may include a few geometrical flower beds
but that is the limit of the public garden
er's invention. 1t has neither the charm Of
nature nor the formal elegance of art.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-21
VIRTUES OF THE PINEAPPLE.
Juice Of the Fruit Holds an Active
Digestive Principle.

rom tne Lancet
The partaking Of a slice of pineapple
after meal is quite in accordance with
physiological indications, since though it
may not be generally known, fresh pine
apple juice contains remarkably active
digestive principle similar to pepsn. This
principle has been termed ''bromelin." and
so powerful is it's action upon proteids that
1t will digest as much as 1000 times its
weight within a few hours Its digestive
activity varies in accordance with the kind
of proteid to which it is subjected. Fibrin
disappears entirely after a time With the
coagulated alhumen Of eggs the digestive
process is slow. while with the aIbumen of
meat It's action seems first to produce a.
PUPPY gelatinous mass. which, however
completely dssolves after short time
When a slice Of fresh pineapple is placed
upon raw beefsteak the surface Of the
steak becomes gradually gelatinous owing
to the digestive action of the onzyme Of
the Juice.
OF course it is well known that digestive
agents exist also in other fruits, but when
it is considered that an average-sized pine
apple will yield nearly two pints of juice
1t will be seen that the digestive action of
the whole fruit must be enormous The ac-
tivity of this peculiar digestive agent Is de-
stroyed In the cooked pineapple but unless
the pineapple is preserved by heat there is
no reason why the timed fruit should not
retain the digestive power The active d.
gestive principle may be obtained from the
Juice by dissolying a large quantity of COM
mon salt in it when a precipitate Is OBJ
tanned possessing the remarkable digestive
powers just described.
Unlike pepsin. the digestive principle of
the pineapple will operate in an acid neu.
tral, or even alkaline medium, according to
the kind of proteid to which 1t is presented.
1t may therefore be assumed that the pine
apple engine would not only aid the work
Of digestion in the stomach. but would con-
tinue that action in the Intestinal tract
Pineapple, it maybe added contains much
indigestible matter Of the nature of woody
fiber, but 1t is quite possible that the de-
compensate for this fact
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-21
PROFESSIONAL INDEXERS.
Special Requirements of a New Field
of Work.
;yening Post.

From the New York Evening Post.
II call myself an indexer and scrap
per- said the occupant of an office not far
from Madison Square. by scrapper l do
not mean a pugilist, but a professional
scrap book maker. In these two fields. or
| really, one field. because no scrap book is
of value until 1t has been indeXed, l am an
expert. That does not mean much, because
there are only six or eight of us in New
York. Our calling is the result of the clip
ping bureaus, of which there are now some
thirty or forty in various parts of the coun-
try You subscribe to a bureau and order
| clippings upon any particular subject or
subjects. These are furnished to you by
tens hundreds or thousands, according to
the subject given. Each clipping is mount
ed upon slip, which gives the name place
and date of the paper from which it is
taken. If you are wise you will now en-
ploy an fndexer and scrapper to put these
into permanent and valuable form. If you
do not care to engage expert for the en-
tire job you will find it advisable to con-
suit with one for information and advice.
In the choice of scrap books beware of
the .gaudily bound affair with which the
market is flooded. They are poorly bound
and go to pieces before they are half filled
with scraps. What is even worse, the pages
are made of thick wood pulp paper. which
dries, cracks and breaks ere a year las
gone by. l have seen scores of nice-looking
scrap books which were masses of frag-
ments by the time the last page was pasted
with clippings. The only kinds of paper
which should be used are either the best
linen or else Manila hemp. Literary people
may profit by the usages in business offices.
The books there which are made for the
heaviest wear and tear have their pages of
yellow or brown Manila hemp paper This
is particularly the case with all first-class
| invoice books. which Will last till the day
of doom. Most of them will outlast their
bindings and for this reason nearly all are
cd hot ha hno,
1ngs can be removed without trouble and
handsomer ones put on when SO desired
What is more, they are very economical A
23o-page invoice book costs $3.50, which is
less than most of the pretty parlor-table
affairs which contain but a hundred pages
and the poorest wood pulp paper
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-21
Chip Wreck.
ON the San Francisco Chronicle.

from the San Francisco Chronicle.
A mass Of poker chips, melted together,
and inclosing fragments Of playing cards,
was washed up on the beach at Angel Is
land yesterday morning and found by a
soldier. 1t Is shapeless tumble Of red,
white, blue and yellow bits Of celluloid, all
retaining their brilliant color and some Of
them helding their shape. From the center
protrudes the ragged and water-washed
ends Of an entire pack of cards, and the
fancy scroll-work from the backs Of others
are imprinted perfectly on some of the
chips Similar impressions were made by
cases inclosing other packs, which had once
been q part of the mass.
The oldest mariners in San Francisco bay,
who have seen all sorts of things come out
OF the depths Of the ocean at one time or
another. were unable to figure with any
degree of exactness where this came from
or what 1t meant. The chips do not seem
to have been touched by flame and the
cards are not burned two facts which show
that they were subjected to a high temper
allure but not to a blaze. steam might
have melted them together. Along the
waterfront it was figured out that the thing
came from the stewards cabin of the
wrecked Rio Janeiro. No other sunken
vessel in the neighborhood that is known
about would be likely to have carried such
an equipment. and 1t Is too bulky a thing
to have f1oated for any very great distance
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-21

might give some idea of how accurately
the whereabouts of car can be known at
all times said Mr.. Beecham. Here is a
furniture car which started from Racine on
OCTOBER or last year. 1t was probably
loaded with furniture when 1t began its
journey, as it is among our furniture equip
ment. 1t left that point via the E., ]. and
E., which intersects all the great lines run
ming into Chicago. The next day 1t was
transferred to the Chicago and Eastern Il
linois, the day after to the Evansville and
Terre Haute, on October to the Ken
lucky Iron Bridge Railway, then to the
tober IL to the A. W. P. 1t then started
west by way of the Nashville, Chatta-
nooga and st. Louis on October D. but was
turned back south via the Southern railway,
the same route and switched off west again
to the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas
Pacific on December 10.
The Southern railway again took II on
January 8, turned It over to the Georgia
Southern on the 9th, from which road il
started north again by way of the Louis
Vile and Nash1ille on the 18th; the Balti-
more and Ohio Southwestern took 1t over
on the 10th, used it until February IL, on
which date 1t was transferred first to the
Big Four and then to the Louisville and
Nashville; 1t then went back to the Big
-Four on the 18th to the E., ]. and E. again
on the 18th, the Chicago and Northwestern
on the 10th, to its owners on the 22d, and
to the Chicago and Northwestern again on
March Z, which date it was again de-
livered to the Chicago, Milwaukee and St.
Paul at Racine. having covered several
thousand miles In the four months and a
half at the moderately slow rate a freight
car travels. The average mileage of freight
cars is thirty-three miles day, although
some of them out-distance passenger cars
and travel 300 miles a day on the fast
freight lines across the continent,
THE life of freight car IS about twenty
years. The only ones ever really lost are
those destroyed by fire. when no record can
be found. After certain time one of these
pegs will show for itself that the car IS
not being traced, when an inquiry will be
made. 1t may have been heard of last in
the vicinity of Milwaukee at about the time
a great fire occurred or wreck, when it is
reasonable to suppose the car was burned,
although no actual proof is ever furnished.
Again proof may be given within a few
hours after the car is destroyed. Then we
turn the peg wrong end foremost and pay
no more attention to it,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-21
GEOGRAPHY.
Importance of the Study in Elemen-
tary Schools

From the Forum,
The branches of study pursued in the
elementary schools are chosen for the pur-
pose of securing two useful and reasona bile
ends. In the first place. they are chosen
to give the child of ability to understand
his environment. and to come into a mas
terry of it SO that he can make Il useful to
himself. He is taught arithmetic I'm order
that he may divide and conquer; In order
that he may measure the things and forces
of his environment, and learn how to ada pit
other. He is taught geography = order
tions existing between his habitat, or the
well as other systems of things and events
on the earth.
On the other hand, a second reason for
adopting a branch in the course of study
is that il develops some faculty or power
In the child, and gives him possession of
himself in that respect; for one of the pri-
mary objects is to develop the intellect,
the memory, the judgment or the heart.
Some discipline in school. like writing,
drawing, calisthenics or manual training,
finds its place in the curriculum because OF
its power to develop the Will the tenacity
of purpose, the ability to pay long and con-
habits of industry, cleanliness. regularity
and punctuality, and thus acquire those
virtues which make a man a better citizen
than he could possibly be without them
which make his service of more value TO
his feilow-men and give him the ability to
get a larger share of service from them
than he otherwise could.