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DIR. SONNENSCHMIDT.

1907 St. NV,
Has resumed his treatment Of chronic diseases BY
means of nascent OXYGEN, which has proved en-
inently successful In incipient tuberculosis, weak
lungs, catarrhal and skin diseases neuralgia rhe-
matism. insomnia. melanchoiia scrofulous and ner-
vous complaints. This eatment Is beneficial Ia
oil chronic diseases. Booklets on application.
mole 26ts-l0
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-08
FROM PARKWAY EGYPT.
George T. Salem Wants Information
Regarding Local Police Force.

Major Sylvester received letter this
morning from George T. Salem at the
agricultural college at Quizeh, Egypt, ask
ing what are the essential conditions for
appointment on the local police force. He
also asks under what conditions he may
become naturalized. He says he is twenty
one years old. Major Sylvester will give
him the desired information.
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COLD WAVE TONIGHT.
Tuesday Fair and Cold; Northwesterly
Winds.


Forecast till pm. Tuesday-For the Dis
trict Of Columbia. Delaware and Maryland.
fair, much colder tonight, with cold wave.
Tuesday fair and cold; northwesterly winds.
diminishing tonight.
For Virginia, fair, much colder tonight,
cold wave in northern portion. Tuesday
fair and cold; fresh northwesterly winds.
Weather conditions and general forecast:
The entire interior Of the country Is COW
cred by wave Of abnormally high pres
sure, accompanied by low temperatures. the
zero line extending to the Iowa-Missourt
line. The minimum reading reported was
80 degrees below zero in the Canadian
northwest. The temperatures range from
8 to 80 degrees below the seasonal average,
and at no place east OF the Rocky noun
tains are they above. except at Jupiter. Fla.
The moderate depression noted Saturday
morning over upper Michigan developed
Sunday and Sunday night into quite a Sc
we're snow storm, the snow extending as
far south as the District of Columbia.
There were, however, no high winds, except
northwesterly winds over the lower lakes
during Sunday night. There was no other
precipitation Of consequence east OF the
Rocky mountains except IN Texas. Rains
and SHOWS continued over the northern dis
tricts west Of the Rocky mountains, and
another storm is moving In on the north
coast
The high pressure and low temperature
for the next few days in the east and south,
and 1t will, therefore, be generally clear. ex-
cept in the lower lake region. with lower
temperatures. There will be a cold wave
tonight in the upper Ohio valley, the lower
lake region and the greater portion OF the
middle Atlantic states, with temperatures
ranging from to Is degrees above zero.
1t will also be colder in the south Atlantic
states, with freezing temperatures, except
on the immediate coast.
On the middle Atlantic coast winds will
be fresh to brisk northwesterly; on the
south Atlantic coast fresh northerly; on the
east gulf coast fresh north to northeast and
on the lower lakes high northwesterly, d.
minishng by Tuesday morning.
Storm warnings are displayed on the lower
lakes from Cleveland to Oswego.
Cold wave warnings are displayed in in
terror Of western New York. in eastern
Pennsylvania, interior New Jersey, Della
ware, Maryland and the District of Colum-
bia.
Steamers departing today for European
ports will have fresh to brisk westerly
winds and fair, cold weather to the Grand
Banks.
The following heavy precipitation Tin
inches) has been reported during the past
twenty-four hours: Boise, 1.24; Portland,
Ore, LOO.
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FINANCIAL.

FINANCIAL STATEMENT IN THE NATTER OF
the HNorthneld Extension Movement IN the
meetings lately held In this city by Mr.. Morgan:
Receipts from the nine offerings. $394.S1
Expenses; Board printing, Jani.or, &C.. l1e.7o
Mass, for Mortified Extension SIT. e.
TEUNIS s. HANLIN,
g. H. GREENE,
J. G. BUTLER,
F. d. POWER,
L. B. WILSON,
r. II. McKIM,
s. NJ. NEWMAN,
Committee of Arrangements.
THOMAS W. LOCKWOOD, Jr., Treasurer. 1ts
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Records for Twenty-Four Hours

The following were the readings Of the
thermometer and barometer at the weather
bureau for the twentyfour hours beginning
at pm. yesterday:
ermometer-December Z. 4 pm, A; 6
pm, 20; IL midnight, SO. December 8, 4
am. SO; am. 80; IL noon, 20; pm, d.
Maximum, A, at pm. December Z; mini
num- %, at 2 pm, December 8.
Observation-Disclosures Z, 4 pm, 1910; 8
pm. BOIL; II midnight. 3O.13. December
8, am. 30.13; am, 3O.17; noon, 1924; 2
pm, 1923.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

DIVIDEND NOTICE-THE DIRECTORS OF THE
Masonic Hall Associate of the District OF 90
lumba have declared the usual annual DIVIDEND
of four per cent payable to the stockholders az
the Office OF its secretary No. 91S st. NV on
and after December o. 1902
de6-3t NOBLE ID. LARNER, Secretary.
THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCkHo Oh,
Of THE PEOPLES FIRE INSURANCE co ~
PANY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLuMBIA 10,
the election Of a Board OF Fifteen Irustees anu
for other purposes will be held at the company
office 328 Penna. southeast, Nohaa!, Sa""-
airy IL 1908. Polls open II M close pm.
JOHN r. HERItELi- feesiueh''
Attest: HENRY X. SIMPSON, secretary
deG-3t
THE BEST REASON
There are a number Of reasons why you should
Mace your vacant houses with us THE BESI
REASON is THAT WE WILL SOON RENT
THEM: we will secure prompt-paying tenants
We rent houses because that's our business: we
give IT our attention. We not builders or
Spectators are we engaged In any outside
enterDrises to detraet from our business We are
In position TO give your interests our entire at
tention: one front room devoted TO rents. Give
a trial.
STONE & FAIRFAX.
S06-SOS street NV.
Telephones Main $50 and 1855.
de6-5t
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Minimum Temperatures.

The following is the minimum tempera-
ture in the twenty-four hours ending at
a. m. December s in the cities indicated, as
reported to the weather bureau:
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

THE MEMBERS OF THE PRESBYTERIAN AL
tend its ANNUAL meeting TUESDAY. Dec g.
at 4:3O pm, in the New York Avenue Presby-
terrain Church. Election OF officers. &c.
II IRWIN b. LINTON, Secretary.
The Grit-advocate., 1902-03-07
HEAVY FALL OF SNOW.
Death and Disaster in the Present, But
1t Will Benefit Farmers Later On.

Snow has fallen generally to a con-
siderable depth throughout the ranges
of the state.
Ouray has over two feet. SilvertOn
reports about the same amount, and at
telluride the storm which caused the
fatalities elsewhere related, was still
raging Monday evening.
\ rumor is prevalent that n slide had
come down on the Sunnyside and Iowa
Chief. over the Red Mountain line, kill
ing seven miners.
\ number of snow slides have oc-
cured.
The stage of the Red Mountain and
Ouray line was snowbound ut lronton
three days.
Word was brought from Gladstone
by Il man on snowshoes that the eight
cen -year-old son of Richard Tovey was
killed at the Fisher mill, one mile be-
low Gladstone, last night, in II snow
slide.
Telephone wires between Silverton
and Gladstone have been down for
twenty-four hours.
Five snow slides so cffcctually block
AIDED the Gunnison branch of the Colo
RADIO 4 Southern between Bucna Vista
and the Alpine tunnel that it will be at
least forty-eight hours before the track
is cleared The largest slide was 300
feet long, forty feet wide and twenty
feet deep.
Aspen has been cnveloped in the
storm for forty-cight hours and the
warm temperature is causing slides in
every direction. Phil Sheridan. lum-
herman. was caught by slide up Cas-.
tie creek and he and his team were
swept over the grade. Help was nea:
Mt hand and Mr.. Sheridan was dug out
of the snow, but little the worse.
Gunnison and Lake City also report
very heavy SHOWS.
The Grit-advocate., 1902-03-07
cATTLEMEN MEET IN DENVER.
Speake Montgomery Has a Verbal
Tilt With the National Live
Stock President.

Denver March 4.-President w.
Stock and Horse Growers Association
Monday by Introducing Governor Or
man. who officially welcomed the dele
gates.
Speaker Montgomery of the House of
Representatives and President John
w. Springer of the National Live Stock
the afternoon session. Mr.. MontgOm-
cry took exceptions to remarks made
by Mr.. Springer and the two had a
lively tilt over the fate of the stock
bill in the Thirteenth General Assem-
bly,.
Mr.. Springer declared. in the course
of a speech on the cause of the defeat
of the bill asking for consolidation of
the sanitary and stock inspection
boards, That the stockmen i'll Colorado
believed that half the state Legislators
should be wiped out" He said the
reason there was not sufficient money
in the treasury of the state of Colorado
was that the legislators and other state
closed his remarks by dcriding the
Bucklin bill. saying stockmen had
brains enough to take care of their
own business.
Speaker Montgomery deprecated Mr..
SprinEcrS criticism on the Legislature.
He explained that the bill in question
was not defeated in the House. as
Mr.. Springer had charged. 1T simply
was not reached for final consideration
in the House when the time for ad-
jOurnmcnt had came" he said. Il be-
lieve that the House would have
passed that bill if it had come to Il
vote"
He continued: Il want to impress up
on this convention the proprictE and
the wisdom of considering all the fun
damental interests within the state.
All our interests. mining. stock and
agricultural. are so interviewer. under
lying the prosperity of the state. that
we cannot ignore either of them. They
must 20 hand in hand without preju-
dice dividing"
A resolution pledging the organiza-
tion to lay side party politics in Sc
lecting members of the State Legisla-
ture and state officers was adopted.
The Grit-advocate., 1902-03-07
Lifting Water from a Stream.


of the humid portion of the United
States than few years ago was
thought possible. The solution of the
problem of irrigation rests largely in
the quantity Of water available and
ability to direct it about the land at
low cost. David Hutton of Quartette,
New, has designed novel machine for
elevating water from streams and dis
charging it ON higher land, the ap-
paratus working automatically and
without cost, after the installation of
the plant, which is in itself inexpen-
sive. In the illustration is shown a ma
chine in operation. 1t consists of
frame resting on the bank of the
stream, supported either by it's own
weight or anchored to piles driven in
the earth. with a shaft poised at an
angle of 40 degrees to support series
OF buckets, revolving between the
stream and the discharge trough on the
frame. The buckets are mounted on
arms radiating from the shaft, and be-
SIDES each bucket is broad paddle
blade which dips into the water as the
lowest point is neared, the action of
the current revolving the shaft and
elevating the buckets in turn to the
highest point Of revolution, where they
are tilted automatically to discharge
their contents into the trough Though
the strength of the current be small,
the quantity Of water elevated will yet
be large, as the flow is regular and
unceasing.
The Grit-advocate., 1902-03-07
WORK OF SCIENTISTS
3 Some Discoveries and Inventions
During the Last Week.

coiled spring At the muzzle of the
gun will be seen a bait fixed on
curved hook attached to sliding rod,
the latter connecting with trip-lever
which releases the firing pin and dis
charges the gun. To put the weapon
in operation cartridge is inserted and
gun is suspended from overhead at a
height which compels the animal to
strain its head upward to reach it,
thus bringing its head in line with the
direction Of the bullet. Oliver j. De
Roshey of Iron Mountain, Mich, is the
inventor.
The Grit-advocate., 1902-03-07

The spontaneous combustion Of coal
has always been source of danger
upon colliers and other vessels carrying
it in large quantities las it absorbs con-
siderable oxygen from the air, which,
in combination with it's carbonaceous
constituents, generates heat, and this
in turn results in combustion. Many
attempts have been made to overcome
the difficulty, but so far all have proved
futile. Thomas Clayton, of London,
England, however. it seems, has sug-
gested a method which promises to be
efticacious, and is at the same time
quite simple. After a vessel Is loaded
he injects into the hold containing the
coal sulphur dioXide gas and then bat
tens down the hatches A number Of
experiments have been tried with the
method and they all appear to indi
cate its entire success. A chamber was
filled with about six per cent Of the
gas, and upon thrusting into it light
ed torch it was Immediately extin-
gulshed. long lighted torch, inserted
slowly, was next used with the same
result. Then a broad bar of red hot iron
was tried and torch composed of
straw saturated with naphtha, also
bucket of naphtha into which red hot
bar of iron was thrust, but nothing
would ignite or explode in the pres
ence Of the gas.
The Grit-advocate., 1902-03-07
Height OF Waves,

During storm in which the wind
velocity varied from so to 15O kilo-
meters per hour go to SO miles) the
heights of waves were observed at the
Peterhead breakwater in Scotland. The
results showed the height from crest
to hollow was 12.2 meters (about 40
feet, the period from 13 to II seconds,
and the length of the waves from 152
to 213 meters (from 500 to 700 feet
These figures are larger than those
usually accepted for ocean waves,
which are approximately: Waves in a
strong breeze, about 9k feet; in a gale.
about 141h feet; waves in a strong gale,
about 20 feet waves in hurricane,
about q feet.
The Grit-advocate., 1902-03-07
Now Weapon for tho Trapper.

AS many wild animals prowl at night
and remain in their lars all day.
many schemes are devised by the hun
ter and trapper to slay them or cap
ture them twin automatic traps, which
have only to be set in their path to
tempt them with the bait and take
them unawares Below will be found a
new contrivance for this work, de-
The Grit-advocate., 1902-03-07
Paraguay Tea.

Mate, or Paraguay tea, which is the
favorite beverage among a population
of some 20,0O0,000, grows wild in the
woods Of the southern half of South
America. For many years its cultiva
tion was lost art. Although large
plantations were planted by Jesuit
missionaries more than century ago,
later attempts to raise the plant were
fruitless, and not until recently have
new plantations been established in
Paraguay. The secret OF cultivation, it
is alleged is that the seeds will not
germinate until treated with a potas-
SUM salt. The leaves are usually pre-
pared for market by roasting over
brushwood fire, grinding to powder,
and ramming into rawhide bags; but
the dried leaves are sometimes merely
broken. With liberal supply of mate.
native Paraguayans are said to do hard
work for days at time with scarcely
any food.
The Grit-advocate., 1902-03-07
Rich Discovery in Finland.

1t is reported from ST. Petersburg
that Russian engineer, NJ. Berislow-
ski, has recently discovered extensive
deposits OF ozokerite (mineral wax in
the extreme north Of Finland. The de-
posits are located on the Kemioki river
and are said to be very rich in parat1n.
The Grit-advocate., 1902-03-07

wolves and other large game. AS will
be seen, the implement is sort Of
gun, designed to be suspended from
the limb of tree or other convenient
support 1t has barrel adapted to
carry cartridge. the tube proper be-
ing inserted in larger wooden case
for weight and protection. breech-
block is mounted on one side of the
barrel, and an opening Is made
through the case for the insertion OF
the cartridge in its chamber. The firing
pin is mounted In the end Of the
breech block, and Is actuated by u
The Grit-advocate., 1902-03-07

Irrigation at Low Cost.
It is becoming more and more ap-
parent that irrigation is destined to
have a larger place in the agriculture
New-York tribune., 1902-02-09

tines have neither the notions nor the principles
of a citizen of of the Western powers. They
look upon affairs in altogether different
light, and this together with their local rela-
tionships led them often to sacrifice the interests
of the government to which they had given their
allegiance to other considerations. II was then
that the English Government instituted the eX-
ceilent rule since adopted by all other Western
nations, requiring that the dragomans Of the
various embassies and missions should he native
born citizens of the country which they help to
represent, instituted a regular service of inter
prefers, and endowed the status of the latter
with a prestige and distinction which it had
not until then enjoyed.
In England admission to this branch of the
foreign service Of the crown is obtained by
means Of competitive examination and the sue
cessful candidates are thereupon attached as
student interpreters to one or another of the
New-York tribune., 1902-02-09

legations in the Orient. with salary from the
very start of $1,000 year together with their
passage money, lodging and sundry allowances.
After a certain time they required to pass
examinations in the language of the country
in which they are stationed. and usually at the
end of three years sufficiently qualified to
act as what are known consular assistants,
with considerable increase both of pay and
allowances Their next stage is that of vice
consul. assistant dragoman. of the legation
of the country. in which they are located, and
after that the next step is that Of consul, with
salaries ranging from $1,000 to $1,000 a year or
dragoman. that is. Oriental secretary and chief
interpreter of the embassy. with pay and al
lowances of a similar amount.
Some of them eventually rise to the rank of
ministers plenipotentiary, in point being
that Of Sir Ernest Satow. now British envoy TO
the court of Pe<ing with a salary of $4,000
New-York tribune., 1902-02-09
OTHERS REMAIN ALWAYS
NECESSARY SPECIES
OF EVIL.

Peking and Toxic the first drasoman- -.
Peking he is called the Chinese secretary -
at Toxic the Japanese secretary-is the -
ego of the envoy to "A far greater extent ~
any other member of the mission All deaBn--
with the under secretaries of State. and ar c.
stantinople to great extent with the rnipistsr,
themselves, are carried on through the draso-
man. not as the interpreter, but as the repra
sentative of the envoy 1t is he who confAr.
with the native dignitares, who CONVEYS 4.
them the wishes of his government in all r,i,o-
matters. and in all routine intercourse the an
voy himself only appearing on the scene WIZ,
questions of great Importance arise This :,
course, adds to the prestige of the ambassado,
and gives additional weight TO his intervent,,
in any matter In this manner the dragons.
comes to have the entire work of the missin.
all its projects and its negotiations at his =,
gers ends. and this in itself renders him n.
most useful of all the members Of the star -
the mission to his chief The dragoman ranE,
with the second secretary of the embassy o.
legation. This is relic of eden times yrha,
the dragOmans were mostly OF foreign birth. and
a movement has already been started to give
from henceforth tSe chief dragoman rank i'm
mediatey next to the first secretary, with the
privilege of becoming charge d'affaires in tbs
event of the latter's absence at the same Tina
as that of the envoy. This prerogative he does
not now enjoy
One word more in conclusion about Sir Ernss.
SatOw, who is one of the most remarkable mon
In the diplomatic service OF Great Britain His
knowledge of Buddhism acquired in Japan and
Siam is so extensive that he is regarded bv thu
high dignitaries of this religion in the Orient
one OF its most learned doctors. and throusb
his acquaintance with the Chinese classics
which is vastly superior 20 that of most Chi
nese HteTati, he is pre-eminently the man quali
fled to impress the Chinese authorities Aside
from Sir Robert Hart, there is no Europesn wb0
is so thoroughly equipped 10 understand and
appreciate the peculiar workings of the Oriental
mind and view, and thus to place himself IN
official negotiations on the same plane as thosa
with whom he is called upon 20 deal Reteept
and reserved in manner. with a most perfect
control of his impulses and utterances he pos-
sesses the gift of charming every one bv his
brilliant converse tion and perfect manners tbs
latter imbued with something of the stately
dignity of true Oriental courtesy.
EX-ATTACHE
New-York tribune., 1902-02-09

and while his nominal wage is 81 a day. his
actual plunder is only restricted by the size Of
his employers purse OF course. there are some
relatively honest dragomans. who are content to
thieve on small scale. But they are the eX-
eeprions that 20 to constitute the rule, and as
a class jhe dragomans of the tourists may be
described as thoroughly dishonest and recruited
TO such an extent from the nondescript scum oil
the Levant that one shudders sometimes to
think of the extent TO which one has been at
these mems mercy.
Pranzini who met with his death on the scat
fold at Paris, was for several years a draSomah
in Egypt and the Holy Land, and there are
many other dragomans of the same stripe whose
careers have been brought to a close in Euro
pean penitentaries. When Lord Nolseiey maze
his memorable expedition up the Nile IN a VAIN
attempt to rescue General Gordon at hhartoum'
he engaged a number of these dragomans as
third and fourth class interpreters of the army.
But so bad was their conduct that many of
them had to be drummed out of camp and sent
down the river in irons and il may be of inter
est to add that one of the dragomans thus sent
down for offences officially described in Lord
Cromers dispatch dated August 20. 1SSo as
"irregularity and bad character turned up
some time afterward here in the United States,
posing as a professor Of Egyptology, as an inti-
mate friend and comrade of Gordon, and actu-
ally had the audaclty to secure connection Win
one of the leading universities Of this country
before being exposed.
If l have thus eXpatiated on the character tof
the dragOman Of the type killed by the hotel
porter at Cairo the other day, it is for the pur-
pose of rendering still more pronounced the con-
trast that exists between them and the dragO-
OF the embassies and legations in the
Orient They too, it is true, are interpreters.
But nowadays they required to be men of
gentle birth and breeding natives and citizens
of the country to the diplomatic service of which
they belong ana to he possessed not only of a
greater range of learning than IS required of
their fellow secretaries Of the mission, but like
wise of the exceptional gifts Of discretion tact
and intuition in dealing with the complexities
of the Oriental character. Formerly it is true
this was not the case.
At time-it in the early part Of the
last century-the dragomans Of the various EN-
bassies a Constantinople were almost every one
of them Levantines, many of them related TO
one another But the diplomatic Intercourse
of the Sublime Porte with the Western powers
increased in Importance, and international ri
valries on the shores of the Bosporus became
more acute. the disadvantages Of the system
became more and more apparent. There was
continual leakage of diplomatic secrets. Levan-