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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-24
Movements of Naval Vessels.

The Secretary of the Navy has been ad-
vised of the arrival of the San Francisco
at Beirut the Culgoa at Port of Spain, the
Olympia at Colon and the Bennington at
San Francisco.
The torpedo boat fotilla consisting of the
Lawrence, Stewart, Truxtun, Whipple and
Warden arrived at Key West yesterday.
The Eagle left Bahia Honda yesterday
for Key West.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-24
THE TREATY WITH CHINA.
Has Been Sent to Tien Tsin to Be Sign
ed bv the Viceroy,

Under Mr.. Conger's persistent urging the
Chinese government has taken another step
toward the final ratification of the trade
treaty with the United States ratified last
week by the United States Senate. Mr..
Conger cables from Peking under today's
date as follows:
1.-The memorial for the ratification of the
treaty has been sent to Tien Tsin to be
signed by the viceroy. 1t will then be re-
turned to Pekin and promptly presented by
the prince (Ching) to the throne for ratifi-
cation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-24
TOOK AN ORIGINAL PHASE.
Annual Christmas Festivities of Chief
Clerk IreIau's Assistants,

The annual Christmas festivities of the
clerks in the room of Chief Clerk Irelan OF
the patent Office took on an entirely orig
inal phase this morning. Each year the
young en- and women employed In Mr..
Irelans office are guaranteed happy
Christmas through the efforts of their chief,
and this year the entertainment prepared
is entirely unique. On the swinging door
leading into Mr.. Irelan's private Office Q
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-24
Conference Regarding the Maine.

Captain Leutze, commanding the battle
ship Maine, was at the Navy Department
this morning to consult the officials regard
ing the future service of that vessel. The
Maine is at the New York navy yard, re-
having repairs to her machinery, having
recently returned from a short stay at
Colon for that purpose. It Is understood
that the vessel will be ready for sea In a
short time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-24
Infantry Sent to Fort Crook.

Colonel Andrews, acting adjutant general
of the department of California, reports to
the War Department that headquarters.
band, 1st and Sd Battalions. 3Cth Infant
twenty-five officers and 355 enlisted men,
who recently returned from the Philippines
left San Francisco yesterday for Fort
Crook, Neb.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-24
HAS MADE REQUIsITIoN.
Secretary Hitchcock Calls for Money for
Building Site,

The Secretary of the Interior made requi-
sition on the Treasury Department this
morning for $743. .O5 to be paid to the
owners of property in square 690,'which has
been condemned by the government for use
for the construction of the House office
building. The money will be made out in
the form of a check to the order of the Su-
preme Court of the District of Columbia
and will be paid to the property owners by
the court. This terminates the connection
Of Secretary Hitchcock with the matter. 1t
is expected that the money will all be paid
out by the middle of January. Property
owners will look to the court for their
awards.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-24
TRAGEDY IN sERVIA.
Robbers Murder Prominent Family in
Belgrade-Fatally Wound Servants.

BELGRADE, Servia, December 24-For-
mer State Councillor Davidovics, his wife
and daughter were murdered today by
three men who broke into his house with
the intention Of robbing It,
Two servants were fatally wounded, and
others We're dangerously injured. One of
the murderers was captured.
NJ. Davidovics was the oldest and rich
est citizen of Belgrade.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-24
Krag-Jorgensens for Schools.

The Secretary of War has approved
recommendation made by the general board
that Congress enact legislation permitting
the distribution to military schools of OBJ
solete ordnance. The report has particular
reference to the proposed issuing of krag-
Jorgensen rifles to schools having a course
of military instruction, and Congress Will
be asked to grant such authority.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-24
POSTAL CHANGES.
E. II. Thorp Made Superintendent of
Citv Delivery of the Post Office

E. H. Thorp, post Office inspector, has
been appointed superintendent of the city
delivery division, the place formerly held by
Charles Hedges. who was removed. w. r.
Spilman has been appointed superintendent
of the rural free delivery division in place
of H. Conquest Clarke, who has been made
superintendent Of the Atlantic division Of
rural free delivery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-24
Justice Ellis Of Delaware Dead

Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.
LAUREL. Del, December A.-Justfce
Ellis, who was stricken with paralysis yes
ferday died this morning. Gov. HUM will
have two justices to appoint here this
month. as Maj Hearness term expires this
week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-24
From Printers Ink.

From Printers Ink.
"The Washington Evening
Star is generally considered one
OF the ten or twelve choicest
advertising mediums that can
be named among all the
dailies published throughout the
United States"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-24
BRAZIL DECLINES.
Will Not Reduce What Are Regarded
as Excessive Duties on Butter.

United States Minister Thompson has
cabled the State Department from Rio that
the Brazilian government has declined to
grant his request for an abatemer- of what
is regarded by the State Depart aent as ex-
cessive import duties on Americ N butter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-24
The Chicago Market Advances.

CHICAGO, December A.-Infiuenced by
report indicating an acute situation in the
far east, May wheat advanced to "a. May
corn rose to Az on bad weather. Small re-
ceipts and a good shipping demand sent
May oats up to 37&.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-24
Congressional Library Closed

The reading room and all divisions except
the copyright division of the Library of
Congress closed at l o'clock today. The
building and the copyright division will
close at 4 o'clock. The building and all di-
visions will be closed all day tomorrow.
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THE EVENING STAR,
PUBLISHED pAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Business oss, l1tA Street and Psnnsylvania Avsnus
The Evening Star Newspaper Company.
9. Il. KAUFFxANN, President

Chicago 0iHcs Tribune Building.
The Evening Star is served 10 subscribers in the
city by carriers, their own account. at 10 cents
per week, or a. cents per month. Copies at the
counter cents each By mai-anywhere In the U.
D. or Canada-postage prepaid-50 cents per month.
Saturday Star. 30 pages, 81 per year; with tor.
eign postage added s3. 60.
(Entered at the Post Office at Washington, ID. q.
second class mail matter.l
O All p1afl subscriptions must be paid IN advance.
Rates Of advertising made known on application.
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Steward Hsro Of the Occasion.

A story Of courage and heroism seldom
equaled is told Of Benjamin Nichols. stew
ard on the dining car. His name Is being
sung with praises by railroaders and the
Continued on Seventh Pagel
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clean sandbars, 'its transparent waters
gliding rapidly over a pebbly bottom" In
the old days the river was always green,
but now only in its August vacation-moods
it throws heavy, long. green rollers behind
the ferry wheels, sends white-foamed ocean
breakers singing up the beach. or lightly
losses, far out on the stream, lovely white
capped waves of olive green and submerged
yellow. With Indiana interurban cars
swinging along the bank, electric lights
and telephones at the wharves, and all
manner of latter-day commercial evidences
on both shores, it is difficult to pull the fancy
back to old times and this placid and pic
turesque Ohio river. But "old days and old
ways are pure gold" Jordan Hall says, and
to go back, in a sense, is to go forward.
For every wave on the river, no doubt,
could be revived some spot or incident of
local history. Down this splendid stream in
the infancy of the country, and this glo-
rious pageant of rolling water. romantic
woodland and azure sky, wealth of Won
drous human interest has passed. Over
these waves once floated every known
species of early water craft-"the barge
the keelboat, the fiat or family boat, the
pirogue, the primitive scow ferry, skiffs,
gondoias, batteaux, dugouts. canoes, and
many others In great numbers. From
''F'lints Recollections" of these old river
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days is quoted this simple but charming
picture: 1.-THE boatmen are dancing to the
violin on the deck of their boat They scat
ter their wit among the girls on the shore
who come down to the waters edge to see
the pageant pass. The boat glides on until
it disappears behind a point of wood. At
this moment, perhaps, the bugle, with
which all the boats are provided, strikes up
its notes in the distance and echoes over
the beautiful water Much can be for
given the author of 1.-The New Purchase"
for his soul-felt admiration of the great
Ohio, and his beautiful raft ride, on a raft
three hundred feet long and fifty feet
broad, amid the witching sunsets and twi-
lights. to magic flute echoes, when "the
MUSES. haunted the forest-clad banks and
cliffs" before 'the noisy and fierce and
fiery spirits of the steamers had driven
away the gentle birds and heavenly
echoes
In the early days, sea-going vessels were
built at Frankfort, Ky, and passed down
the Ohio river the way TO the Gulf of
Mexico. Indiana, from its fertility, was
once the most densely peopled heart of the
Indian country in the West, and the north
side of the river was called the Indian
side" Before old Fort Steuben was built
many slight craft filled with fleeing pio-
neers. has crossed this broad river for
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jostle down the hill. Now runs down the
boulders a stout negro preacher, carrying
a big palm-leaf fan, wearing bright green
socks with the customary black" Again,
the bell taps on fat white man. leisurely
eating a banana as he strolls down the
levee. He jumps to the signal and his wide
gray trousers flap entertainingly as he
makes a mad down-hill gait for the gang
way. Dudes the pilot can't abear, and they
always have to race. Silly-looking girls,
too, he loves to set on an affected tiptoe
prance down the rocks; but he respects the
aged woman with bundle and the young
woman with a babe over her shoulder. Now
comes q young woman who has been shop
ping in Louisville with a baby buggy; it is
heaped high with vegetables and bundles.
Thinks the pilot, I'll see her run a little;"
twenty taps goes the bell, and down races
the baby buggy, bundles bouncing, woman
skipping-an amusing scene of absurd pell-
NELL.
Wonderful color phases has the magnfi-
cent old Ohio river, and now, at low water,
shows it's natural, unperturbed. most
quisite mood of green-blue and blue-green-
true child of the ocean and sky, revealing
its inmost poetic soul of summer beauty. In
1923 the Ohio river was chronicled as
stream of notable clearness, with broad.
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refuge in the earlier Kentucky block
houses. All the hills along the river were
once called the ''Ohio hills" as they often
tower majestically northward from the
very waters edge. Below the lower rail-
way bridge, fiat, rugged stretch OF bar
rem sand and blasted rock is all that re-
mains Of the once fine Island of the
Falls" from which, in batteaux, George
Rogers Clarke and his four companies of
soldiers set off down stream to conquer
Kaskaskia and Vincennes. On this Jeffer-
sonville beach. in May, 1926, General Lafay-
cite, as the guest of Indiana, landed with
his suite from the steamboat General Pike,
with a military salute from the artillery of
Charlestown and Corydon. He partook of
a ''sumptuous dinner" at the late Governor
Posey's residence, about 8 o'clock, and re-
turned at evening to Louisville.
But the August day wakes on toward
noon, with a more commonplace history
of hay wagons and beer wagons passing
across stream, towboats and dredgeboats
up and down stream. That unpoetic man
may live in greater ease and luxury ciyili-
cation robs the world of poetry At the top
of the sunny hill the drivers of the hay
wagons slide off and bask in the shade of
the hay while the horses rest OFF up
stream to Fern Grove for the day is the
big steamer Sunshine" loaded with fresh
air folk. Between meals on the little tow
boat VIVIAN red table cloths are hung
out to flutter in the wind and give the river
scene brilliant dot of color. The sun is
now high, and the Corot landscapes along
the island front have lost their misty wells
of enchantment and show only as lovely
green forest trees against the high white
sky. Half way across the great stone
piers points the bridge dial shadow on the
water as a band of gypsy women, bearing
eight great peddler packs, troop over the
ferry and up the hill from Louisville. Over
her shoulder the youngest woman carries
plump, black-eyed. brown midget of
LADY, and shields its bare, black head with
an umbrella; at her back hangs a heavily
packed burden Alas. oh. glorious George
Borrow. Oh, "Romany Rye" 1.-The world is
too much with us" when the Romany chi
wears 59-cent gorgio shirtwaist and
sunbonnet. and gypses tramp from camp 10
town with gorgio telescope bags and UNI
brellas. EMMA CARLETON
New Albany. Aug. %.
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The SchOOIboy of 1905.
Judge.

Judge.
Tommy, have you been vaccinated?'
Yes. ma'am."
Have you had your vermiform appendix
removed?'
Yes. ma am"
Have you a certificate of incubation
for the Group, chicken pox and measles"
Yes. ma am.
Us your luncheon put up in DR.. Koch $
patent antiseptic dinner pail?'
Yes. ma am.
Have you your own sanitary slate bag
and disinfected drinking cup?'
Yes. ma am.
DO you wear a camphor bag around
your throat, a collapsible life belt and i'm
sulated rubber heels for crossing the troll
ley line?"
"All OF these"
And a life assurance policy against all
the encroachments of old age?"
Yes. ma am"
insulated peg and proceed 10 learn along
sanitary lines"
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As the hoy saw IL,
Brooklyn Eagle.

Brooklyn Eagle.
Ex-United States Senator BILLY" Mason
once took his fivc-year-Old son with him
into barber shop. After they had reached
home the little fellow was overheard telling
his sister all about what he had seen
Papa sat i'm big chair up high" said
he. and black man breathed on his
shoes and then rubbed the breath la aud
made them all black and shiny
what did he breathe ON them Tor the
sister asked.
why To- make then. black. OF course.
You never saw anything 80 black as that
colored mans breath was"
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The Long Road.

It's long, long road 20 the sun
Millions OF miles," they said
Yet when the day done
And the heart OF the west glowed red,
There were only the pasture barr,
And a glimmcr Of shore and sea.
And the FIRST Of the friendly stars.
Betwixt the sun and me.
Ida whipple Benham. 90 Mouths Companion.
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German Dress Linens ives. Aisle.

green that have sold right along at 39c and 5Oc De-
46-inch German Linen Canvas in pretty mixtures, for
shirtwaist suits former price ST. reduced to close Coz
during this sale at yard. .............. w
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equivalent to R7o0o.oo0 and given con- stantf employment to about 6Oo.oOo work men for the past four generations.
 Railway Signaling
 When the first British railway was built from Stockton to Darlington, the trains were signaled by night by a can- dle burning in the station window. With out the modern system of semaphore signaling the express service of railway communication we enjoy today would be an impossibility. Yet the very name of the inventor of the method of working semaphores from distance has been forgotten. It Is said that this idea orig mated in the contrivance of a porter on the London and Northwestern railway.
 Having two signals at some distance apart under his charge, he conceived the happy notion of counter weighing the handle of one and attaching to 1t a clothes line so that he could work 1t from the other. An. inspector saw the ingenious device and elaborated it, with the result that signal cabins were es- tablished all over the country.
 The name of Mcintosh is commemor- ated forever in the waterproof garments which have, in the country. at least, al- most superseded, the umbrella. Yet an article In the Annals of Philosophy" dated 1918. proves that 1t is another man we ought to thank. instead of Mcintosh, for the blessing of the waterproof. In the article referred to, Prof Syme an- nounces his discovery of the powers of benzine to dissolve india rubber, and tells how he rendered silk cloak and other garments perfectly waterproof by brush Ing them over with a thin solution.
 In TITO. Captain Pianta, a Swiss officer of engineers, after years of patient ex- perimenting, produced steam carriage which ran on the ordinary road. Twelve months later, a French engineer, whose name has been forgotten, improved upon Captain Plantas machine, and produced an automotor which he exhibited before Louis XIV and his court at Versailles. It is this machine which still stands in the Paris Conservatoire.
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ANeWP Poem by
 1 alvin Markham

". Let there be no more battles. field and
 flood Are sick of bright-shed blood. Lay the sad swords asleep; They have their fearful memories to keep. These swords, they in the dark of battle
 burned Burned upward with insufferable light Lay them asleep; heroic rest Is earned. And in their sleep will be Kinglier
 might Than ever lowered upon the front of
 fight. And fold the flags; they weary of the day. Worn by their wild climb In the winds
 wild way Quiet the dauntless flags. Grown strangely old upon the smoking
 crags- Look where they startle and leapi Look where they hollow and ieapl Tremulous. undulanA banners. fiared and
 thinned, Living and dying momentiy Tn the windl And wars imperious buglos, let them
 rest Bugles that cried through whirlwinds
 their behest-- Wild bugles that held council in the sky. They are aweary of the curdlng cry That tells men how to die. And cannons worn out with their work of
 hell. The brief. abrupt persuasion of the she'll Let the shrewd spider lock them one by
 one, With flimy cables glGncing in the sun: And let the throstle in their empty
 throats, Build his safe nest and spill his rippling
 notes.
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PEACE OVER AFRICA

O buggles ripple and shine Ripple and rapture down the wavering
 line. Praisel Praise! Praisel For the last of the desperate days, Shake out the lyrical notes From your cavernous silvern throats; Burst into joy--mad carols once again To herald the homing men.
 o bugles, tell 1t to the opening sky, And go the roads of men with joyous cry. Peace on the wreathed and wreathless
 dead Peace over England, over Africa Peace on the living, quiet on the dead Peace on the souls hurled downward from
 the day. Hurled down with bated breath To join the old Democracy of Death. The challenge of the bugle, and the glum Rejoinder of the drum, The neigh of startled stations, The hurried rhythm of hot battalions, The blown wild scent of crushed gera-
 nium, The barley of the howitzers, the shrill Grim colloquy of hill with hill-- These had their fateful hour, but now,
 even now, A bird sings on a cannon-broken bough, Sings all the afternOon, And when the dark falls On the shot-torn walls, Frail wings, will come to wander in the
 moon Wander in long delight Through Africas star-flled delicious
 night. Wars bitter root, and yet so fair a lowerl Sing, and be glad. Old England In this
 hour; But not as one who has had no grief to
 bear, No memories, no burden. no despair. Be glad, but not as one who has no grief: The victor's laurel wears a wIntry leaf. The clarions revel and the joy-bells rave; But what Is all the glory and the gain To those wet eyes behind the misty pane Whose Africa Is crumpled to one grave, A lone grave at the mercy of the raini No; not the stern averment of the guns, Nor all our odes, nor all our prisons Can sweeten these intolerable tears, These sllences that fall between the
 cheers. In all the joy and memory cries and dwells, A heart-break of heroical. farewells.
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blood of all irritating matter and the acid particles dissolved and filtered out of the system, thus reev
 the muscles and joints and removing all danger of futu attacks. Under its tonic effect the nervous system
 gains its normal and the appetite and digestion pove resulting n the upbuilding of the general hea
 & s. S. contains no Potash or minerals of any descr ton, but is guaranteed purely vegetable. Old peoI
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other disease causes such pain, such widespread suffering. It deforns and cripples its thousands leaving them helpless invalids and nervous wrecks
 When neglected or improperly treated, Rheuma- tism becomes chronic, the pains are wandering or shifting from place to another, sometimes sharp and cutting. again dull and aggravating. The mus
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She Was a Treasure.

From the New York Press.
 Towne-That was a brave act of Ur- ban's-rushing into the water to save a woman from drowning.
 suburb-Brave fiddesticksI It was merely an act of selfishness on his part.
 Towne-Why how can you say that?
 Suburb-The woman he rescued was a cook that had been with him for six months.
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Contract to Let.

Sealed bids will be received until July 1 for contract of building Carnegie Libra ry at Cordele, Ga. Building to cost siO,000 Mayor and city of Cordele reserve the right to reject any and all bids. No bid considered unless accompanied by cash bonus of $500. as guarantee of bidders good faith and responsibility. Plans and specifications on file in clerks office.
 elf St su
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HIS WIFE A GREAT SUFFERER.

My wife had been troubled with Rheuma- tism for some time when she heard Of s 8 8. which sho tried and which cured her com- pletely. as she has not suffered since. I rec ommend s s as a good medicine.
 Okolona, Miss J. E. REEDER. ,
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of as hack of oe
 things of the blood and flows through the body deI of our rOrs in
 we never be pains inflammation and swelling and the miser
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Keep cool. Buy an electric fan. We have the best and cheapest. United Electric Go.
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We make the best ( Us in town. Age Herald Engraving Company.