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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-06
New Bedford's Whalers.

From the New Bedford Mercury.
We have raised a race Of men who have
gone down to the sea In ships on the most
hazardous of enterprises. No men have
hourly for lifetime taken such disastrous
chances as our whalemen. and their voy-
ages have been frequently crowded with
moving accidents, hair-breadth escapes and
distressful strokes. And we go to these
men, like Desdemona. with a greedy ear
to devour up their discourse" The records
of the thrilling voyages of our whalemen
are kept in log books. and in the hundreds
of volumes stored In old san lofts. How
many of us have pored over them to have
our nerves played upon after the manner
of the fictionists, but It Is not there. And
we seek out the man whose ship Is struck
and sunk by whale in mid-ocean, and
who takes to the boats and reaches land
after weeks of buffeting. and the men
whose ships are crushed in the ice, and
their story Is as prosafc as the story OF the
man who goes to the days work In an cleo
ney of DIR. Kane. of a tramp In the arctic
ice by hansen. Last week man arrived here
who had made a boat journey in Hudson
bay as remarkable as the journey OF Dr.
Kane and he had nothing to say excepting
that 1t was four weeks and five days from
the time he left his ship In whaleboat
with two comrades until he reached FUR
station. In answer to persistent questioning
a reporter dragged from him that 1t was
hard work." and shipmate spoke up for
the adventurer and explained to a reporter
that there was not a minute of those five
weeks night or day, when the little boat
was not menaced by the floating ice which
piled up about them. on occasions. as high
as the church steeples. And against Nan
sens performance we can produce whale
man who put half dozen pieces Of hard
bread In his pocket and. In midwinter. left
his ship I'm the arctic. In latitude 20 or
Whereabouts. and walked 500 miles back to
civilization. And. to save. him. he couldn't
understand why the reporters wanted to
talk with hiE..
Hence 1t il our habit to say, often in the
spirit OF criticism or at least regret, that
our whaleman y not '.imnkfnaffYe.o -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-06
A 'Philanthropic Grocer.

From the Chicago Tribune.
A. F. Norton, who bought the Lancaste:
general. store at Converse, Ind, a short
time ago, has disposed Of the stock OF
cigars and tobacco. He says that he has
conscientious scruples against the sale of
tobacco. He expects to run the store las
Christ would run it,
Mr. Norton will sell for cash, will pay
his clerks at the close of each day, and
will not deliver goods. Under no circum-
stances will the store be open on Sunday,
and it will close every evening at O'clock.
Should the profits any day exceed $2G
Mr.. Norton says he will sell the remainder
of the day at cost. The clerks viii be
given a percentage on all the profits aftes
Mr.. Norton's actual living expenses are
paid, and all Will get groceries out of the
store at cost. The poor are to be charged
the actual wholesale cost, and those I'M
able to pay are to be given bread ard
molasses free.
Mr.. Norton expects to give away zoo
loaves of bread to the poor each day, and
Is counting on this as part of the ex-
penses of the store. No packed eggs,
chickens or butter will be sold. Mr.. Nor
ton will buy directly from the farmers, and
viii charge 1 cent dozen profit for eggs
and 1 cent a pound profit for chickens. II
he has an order for a fine quality from n
rich person he will charge a higher profit.
He believes that the rich should pay higher
prices, in order to allow Of more being
given free to the poor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-06
COLOR CHANGES WITH SEASON.
What Protects the White-Tailed Ptar-
migan From It's Enemies.

From the New 1ork Aiipuie'
One of the latest additions to the inter-
esting collection in the pathological de-
partment of the American Museum of Nat
ural History is large case showing the
changes which take place in the coloring OF
the plumage of the white-tailed ptarmigan.
The range of this bird is from the submits
of the Rocky mountains to New Mexico,
and north to British America, west to the
higher ranges OF oregon, washington and
British Columbia.
The handsome case at the museum shows
in four divisions miniature pictures Of the
seasons, and in the midst of them are the
lifelike birds in the plumage as nature pro-
yides 1t at the various times of the year.
The bird which forms the central feature of
the summer scene is brown and black. The
autumn bird is grayish, mottled, and the
winter dress of the same bird is as white
as the snow by which 1t is surrounded.
mounting and sffeather growth, and not
by change in the color of the existing feath-
ers and the cOlors protect the birds from
their enemies by keeping them in harmony
In speaking of the group and the pecu-
liarities of the ptar12igan, one of the scien-
lists connecteds with the museum said:
ct is law among birds that the adults
undergo complete moult Immediately
after the cares .ofltthe Nesting season are
over and that there shall be no further
feather growth until the following spring or
summer. The fptarmigan, however. obey
only the first portion of this law. In re-
Spouse to what arAl evidently imperative
physiological demands. they moult directly
after the nesting season; but If they were
to pass at once into their winter plumage,
become pure white before snowfall, and
hence be made conspicuous by the plumage
which is designed to protect them.
ITO bridge over the period between the
nd f6a
of snow, an additional plumage is assumed
on the exposed parts Of the body. This is
worn only during late summer and early
fall. and is Immediately succeeded by the
white winter plumage. The changes in the
nature Of the birds surroundings are, there
FORE as 1t were. initiated by the birds.
which consequently are always difficult to
see in the treeless regions they inhabit."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-06
Lack Of Foreign Tongues.

From Harper's baZar.
A serious defect in the education of most
American women is their failure to acquire
in their youth conversational facility In
other languages than their own. Many girls
include foreign tongue or two in the list
of their studies but 1t is simply eye skill
that they secure. ability to read and write
the language with varying degrees Of ex-
cellence. When the ear test comes 1t Is the
exception when they are not almost help
less An English girl is not considered ed
ucated until she is fluent in at least one
other than her native language. and she
often speaks two or three easily. A trip
abroad illustrates and emphasizes the fact
that Americans are very provincial in the
matter Of languages. In group Of for
eigners taken at random, German, French
and italian, together with English. one OF
the hardest tongues to learn, will be heard
Interchangeable among its members; 1t is
not until an American Joins the group that
the talk. through courtesy to his or her
limitations, becomes restricted to English.
In Sweden. French, German and English
are obligatory studies in the curricula. The
kindergarten children are taught the Ian
guages in delightful fashion, the girls with
their dolls and kitchen-garden classes, the
boys with games and sports and the like.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-06
DAILY VACCINATION.
Cures Severe Cases of Smallpox in q
Short Time.

From the New York MedId,l Journal
Smallpox is by no means an innocent dis
ease, though the ancient statistics of NOR
tality have been long since done away with
Yet mortality of from Is to 10 per cent is
not rare, even In vaccinated persons, and
various complications are often met with
Hubert QS09) found that repeated vaccina-
ton was useful In the treatment of small
pox, but only In the prodromal stages of
the disease. Kotowschikoff went further
ton, performed daily for number of days,
had marked significance upon the course
of smallpox, not only in the prodromal
stages, but also in the beginning of the
written on the subject. In order to test the
therapeutic value of repeated vaccination
in smallpox. the author tried this mode of
treatment In eight cases. The majority of
these patients entered with smallpox rash
fully developed-five in the popular stage
one In the purulent stage and two at the
end Of the prodromal period.
The vaccinations were made twice daily
three scarifications being made each time,
and were performed in the two patients
that entered during the prodomal period
only after the rash had fully set in. The
test was, therefore, directed solely to find
the value Of repeated vaccinations In the
advanced stages Of smallpox, not in the
early part Of the disease. OF the eight pa
tients. two had a mild form of the disea Sc
from the start, the others a severe FORM
Az SShcfdi, the Use OI repeated vaccinations
gave more or less favorable results. In the
severe cases the Improvement was appar-
emily connected with the use of repeated
vaccinations, yet 1t is difficult to say wheth-
er the cases would have taken Just such a
course IL no vaccinations had been made
The author concludes that, in smallpox, re-
peated vaccinations should be used the
earlier the better. and that the largest use
fulness could be expected from this treat
ment in the earlier stages Of the disease. A
larger number of cases should be observed
to determine its value in the later stages
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-06

like those of the west, SO far as the blades
are concerned. but the loops are altogether
different. The thumb loop is of normal size,
while its mate is large enough for two and
even three and four fingers. This construc-
ton gives firmer grip and stronger and
more accurate cutting quality. Curious i'm
plements the cutting tweezers. These
have straight or convex edges and are en-
ployed to remove callous dead skin, trim
nails. and to correct the growth of tissue
on the tip of the finger below the nail. For
polishing the under side Of the nail, especial
ly near the quick. little sticks of hard.
elastic wood are used These are cut with
ers to chlsel-like edges while atthirds are
cut into brush-like ends which will carry
large amount of polishing powder. Many
Chinese women. instead of cutting S the
sticks. chew the ends into little brushes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-06
RELICS OF FORGOTTEN RACE.
Mounds in Western New York Which
Time Has Nearly DESTROYED.

Warsaw Correspondence New York Tribune.
The attention of scientists and local
archaeologists has been called to the neigh
borhood of Fort Hill again by the discovery
of human bones in the pits exposed by
farmers while excavating. This part Of the
country is particularly rich in such remains,
but no spot is more interesting than Fort
Hill. What 1t was has occasioned much dis
cussion, but the majority Of the biologists
who have examined the ancient work favor
it's classification with those ascribed to the
mound builders. The earthwork, for such
it is, lies upon the top of hill in the town
of Genesee Falls three miles above Port
ageville, in Wyoming county. The Genesee
now flows half a mile east of the hill 8
foot, but as late as 1880 its waters washed
the base Of the incline.
The hill itself is peculiar, and by some
has been thought to be the work Of human
hands, not the product of the forces Of ma
ture. Its sides rise steeply from almost the
exact center Of the valley, which is here
more than a mile In width. The brisk slope
makes climbing exceedingly difficult, except
on the eastern and western sides, where the
declivity is more mild. The top is as level
as the bottom of an upturned pail, and en-
braces almost exactly one acre Of land.
At the edge a wall Of earth follows the con-
tour Of the circumference. Once this wall
was about six feet in height, but the ele-
ments have reduced 1t to about two feet; Its
outline is distinct and easily followed. AL
most exactly in the center Of this level
space so surrounded rises a small mound
shaped like the half Of a pear cut Longitude
nally and laid fat on plate. A partial
examination of this mound has brought to
light charred wood, ashes, bones which
were much decayed by time, and a few
stone implements. Many of these prehis-
toric remains are now in the private col
lection Of William P. Letchworth Of Glen
Iris.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-06
CHINESE MANICUR1NG.
How Oriental Women Prefer to Wear
Their Finger Nails.

From the New York Evening Post.
Lovely woman has the same weaknesses
in Pekin and Canton as In New York and
Chicago. The cofeur, milliner, dressmaker
and bootmaker are as important to her as
20 her American sister Like the latter she
dotes upon manicuring. but on account of
social conditions there. are no professional
manicures to employ twice or thrice a week.
Either she attends TO her own nails or else
she depends upon junior wife, a servant
or a slave TO do the work for her. The
wives Of wealthy Chinese merchants In
New York's Chinatown usually hire the
barber to look after their tapering fing-
ers.
occident, at least so far as shape is con-
cerned. Where the western makes as a
standard q simple oval which Is almost par
a.lel TO the curvature of the finger, a Chi
nese lady OF fashion wants hers to extend
we'll beyond the finger tips, so as to form
an ellipse whose major axis is at least twice
the minor. The flesh at the base is pushed
back as far as possible. so as to increase the
lunette or moon. while at the side 1t is en-
oouraged to overlap the nail.
The ends should be at least a half-inch In
length beyond the line where they separate
from the skin. The reason Of this last re-
Quirement is that the length shows that the
owner does not work. Yet as every Chinese
woman does work she keeps up the fiction
by several odd expedients. One Is TO wear
finger caps when working and when asleep.
These are often bought by Summing par
ties In Pell street for souvenirs. Another Is
10 use gloves or mittens or even stockings
upon the hands when engaged upon house
hold labor.
In manicure equipment there are, first,
toilet soap. and, second. soap wood; the
latter being also employed for shampoo:rg.
There is also jar of unguent, which cor
responds TO American cold cream. For pol
tshing powder they use pulverized cuttle-
hsh bone mixed with sandafwood. sawdust
or dried tea flowers. For applying the pow
der, they have small brush looking very
much like the western toothbrush, or a fine
silk towel. For improving the color OF the
nail many washes have been invented
Nearly ali seem manufactured upon a gen.
eral formuls, of an alcoholic base tinted pink
and containing solution of some gum
lacquer, which. when dried, remains mod
srately elastic. The nail scissors are small
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-06
PNEUMONIA.
More Contagious Than tuberculosis
and Kills More People.


From American Medicine.
We wonder IL the fact that patients and
their friends ignore the contagiousness OF
pneumonia is often due to professional neg
igence. An exaggerated conception OF the
contagiousness of tuberculosis is held by
the lay world, but pneumonia is, of course,
far more contagious. And patients and pro-
fession alike have not realized the new fact
that the mortality OF pneumonia is in some
cities and parts of the country higher than
that Of tuberculosis. DR.. Reynolds OF Chi
cago returns to this lesson and emphasizes
the necessity Of the following measures:
Pneumonia is highly contagious dis
ease, the cause of which is a micro-organ-
ism in the sputa of those suffering from
the malady, and contracted by inhaling this
germ. Therefore, the same care should be
taken to collect and destroy the sputa that
is taken in pulmonary tuberculosis, or in
diphtheria or influenza.
During the illness the greatest pains
should be taken to prevent sofling bed cloth
ing, carpets or furniture with the sputa,
and after the illness the patients room
should be thoroughly cleansed and ven-
tilated. The fact that the disease Is most
prevalent in the winter season. when people
are most crowded together and live much
of the time in badly ventilated apartments,
makes obvious the necessity of thorough
ventilation of houses, offices, factories, the
aters, churches, passenger cars and other
public places, In order that the air which
must be breathed may be kept clean and
free from infectious matter.
Laymen should be taught not to be afraid
of a patient who has pneumonia, influenza
or tuberculosis, but to be afraid of lack Of
cleanliness about him during his Illness, of
failure to enforce prophylactic measures
and of close, badly ventilated apartments
during the season when these diseases most
prevail. Since pneumonia is most fatal at
the extremes of life-the young and the
aged-special care should be taken to guard
children and old persons against exposure
to the infection of those already suffering
with the disease and against cold, privation
and exposure to the weather, which are
potent, predisposing causes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-06
Petit Larceny in Stamps.
From the New York Times


There Is a fraud upon the public that we
would like to root out" said post Office
inspector, ''but 1t is almost impossible to
reach the culprits, and to make out cases
against them-difilcult even to get evidence
on which to base q stop order against their
mail. This fraud is simply the larceny Of
2-cent stamps by means OF fake advertise
ments In the help wanted columns Of repu-
table newspapers which have no means OF
knowing the fraudulent nature Of the adver-
.tisements. It costs only q trihe to adver-
tise for some kind of help, and some of
these advertisements will bring from 1000
to / 800 replies from people who are looking
for work or seeking to better themselves.
Four-fifths OF these applicants for the bogus
Job will tnclose stamps for reply. You
can figure 1t out. Eight hundred stamps
are worth $40. These stamps are taken out
Of the letters, done up in packages OF TWEEN
ty-1xe. or ffty and sold at small dis.
count. -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-06
Hewitt Lamp in England.
= rom the London Engineering.

r rom the London Engineering.
The remarkable mercury vapor lamps
devised by Mr.. Peter Cooper Hewitt are
now being exhibited at the offices of the
Westinghouse Company. These lamps can
be run on any ordinary continuous-cur-
rent electric light supply system, and show
an efficiency of two to three candles per
watt, or for the same lighting require
only about one-ninth the current taken
by ordinary glow lamps. The sole draw
back to the light lies in it's extraordinary
color. There is total absence of all red
rays, and consequently all tints red by or
binary light are curiously perverted. A
lady's lips look purple; so that at present
no attempt is being made to utilize the
light for domestic purposes, as feminine
opposition would be too strong. In other
cases. however, the light has very great
advantages. It is stated that 1t is an
excellent light to work by. and this we
can we'll believe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-06
CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL.
Archbishops That Are Buried Within
It's Walls.
From the London Chronicle.

From the London Chronicle
Although since the reformation no Prot
estant archbishop of Canterbury was buried
in his metropolitan cathedral until leave
was obtained for the interment Of Arch
bishop Benson in 1895, the dust of many
famous prelates lies within these ancient
precincts. Cuthbert, the eleventh archbish-
op of Canterbury, powerfully affected the
fortunes of the cathedral by obtaining per-
mission from Pope Gregory, nearly twelve
centuries ago, that henceforth all the arch
bishops might be buried within the walls of
their own cathedral. Accordingly, from
Cuthbert to Cardinal Pole, in 1859, the
earthly remains Of all the bishops lie there
at rest, including those of st. Odo, st.
Dunstan, st. Alphege. ST. Anselm, st.
Thomas Beckett. Hubert, Walter. Stephen
Langton. Archbishops Peckham, Winchel-
sey Bradwardine, Islip, Simon de Sudbury,
Courtenay, Arundel, -Chichley, Baurchier.
Morton, Warham and other saints and
statesmen, famous in history for their high
services to church and commonwealth.
The interior Of Canterbury CATHEDRAL is so
carefully preserved that 1t gives one the
impression of extreme newness. Yet the
whole choir and east end OF the cathedral,
as it now stands is mainly the work of
William of Sens and William the English
man, who fourished toward the end of the
twelfth century. But the cathedral and the
many buildings in its precincts are a per-
feet museum OF medlaeval architecture.
Next to the transitional style, which is rep
resented in the choir, comes the first point
ed or early English style, which came about
half century later. To this period belongs
the far-famed 'archbishops chair usually
called the chair Of St. Augustine on
which the archbishops are enthroned, and
which was naturally the object Of much in
terest at the funeral of recent date. It is
deliberately carved, and is made of three
pieces of Purbeck marble. From the style
of its decoration it is believed to have been
first placed in the cathedral in 1920, at the
superb ceremony of the translation of Beck
cts remains from the crypt to his priceless
shrine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-06
Free Trade Indicated.

From the LONDON Ec0n0nhlc REVIEW.
The natural outcome Of free trade Is the
decline OF British industries. Only thirty
years ago England took the lead Of all ma
lions of the earth In productive industry.
She was supreme In commerce and pre-
eminent in invention and enterprise. At
the present day her supremacy is gone, her
commerce is declining. and the Inventive
skill and pushful energies Of her people are
disappearing. Thirty years-oniy short
span in the life Of nation-have sufI1ced
to produce this change
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-06
Real. Fame.
From Tobacco. New York.

From TOBACCO, New IOfK.
While many persons might object to hav-
ing their pictures used in connection with
advertisements for liquors and patent medi-
cines, most men and not few women es-
TEEN It high compliment to have a brand
Of cigars named In their honor, and prac-
tically all who have been asked to allow the
use OF their portraits In that connection
have graclously consented.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-06
Marcousp

From the Charleston News and Courier
A discussion is in progress on the question
OF name for messages sent by wireless
telegraphy. .Marconigrams'' is the term
commonly used. but others are proposed.
Why not call them "marcons?" It is brief
and Significant and we have the precedent
OF volts aud ''ohms"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-06

After the hardest and closest fight of tho
session the senate Of Utah has killed the,
initiative and referendum bill by . tie vote.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-06

Il you want work read the want columns
81 The Star.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-06

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