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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-31
MEDICAL MYSTERY.
No Recognized Treatment for Pneu-
monia

monia.
From Parsons Magazine.
In the treatment of pneumonia there are
tors in the world.
To discuss the different means used to aid
in curing this malady would be to write
technical treatise, which this is not in
tended to be.
In speech before the Chicago Medical
Society last spring, DR.. Arthur D. Bevan
said: j.
Drug treatment is useless in cases of
pneumonia. The medical profession as far
as medicines are concerned, can be of no
assistance in the fight against this disease
The sooner the profession will acknowledge
this to the public, and set to work to dis
cover some specific to save pneumonia pa
tents, the better for all concerned"
Several physicians arose to take issue
with the speaker, but in the end most of them
admitted that the doctors chief value in a
pneumonia case lay in his ability to give
moral support and to advise the patient
how to take care of himself.
First and last, then. pneumonia is a gil
gantic mystery. 1t is enough of terror in
itself, without telling how many times it
has led the way to tuberculosis and slow
death. Prevent pneumonia and you will
forestall in a large measure the harvest of
the more lingering curse. Fight them BOTH
individually and by teaching others, and
you will be aiding in a war against hu-
manity's most dangerous enemies.
Medical men believe that the solution of
the pneumonia question is not far distant
With the start already made, there is little
doubt of it's ultimate untangling. But
when the problem is solved theoretically,
whether theories can be transferred into
practical results.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-31
PINFHURST PLEASURES.
Amateur Minstrelsy and Other
Features.

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
PINEHURST, n. c., December 80. 1904.
The holiday season has been particularly
gay, and pleasures both indoors and out
have been given special prominence owing
to the delightful weather which has pre-
vailed. The daily arrivals now very
large and the Holly Inn and Harvard are
comfortably filed. with many waiting for
the opening OF the Berkshire. which occurs
Monday and the Carolina, which comes a
week later.
The special holiday feature of the week
was an entertainment by the Megacephalio
Mastodon Ministries at the Holly Inn for
the benefit of the childrens Christmas tree
and the Episcopal Church organ funds,
which takes it's place as one of the most
amusing varied and finished amateur pro,
auctions given here In addition to the
usual olio with It's songs and jokes, whish
included many hits upon local individuals
and conditions, there were various special
ties musical, terpsichorean and athletic.
Through the efforts of large committee
of women some 500 was raised for Christ
mas trees for the children of the village and
both white and colorcd, and three
trees were given, one Monday evening, ans
other Tuesday afternoon and a third Tuess
day evening. The programs were followed
with interest by many of the guests.
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Il grows continually hotter and hotter, and
that lust before II forms a crust 1t shines
out with more light and heat than at any
previous time. Others therefore beneSe
that Sirius is an old and very much con-
densed star which will. in a comparatively
short time. solidify and become cold
Discovery of Invisible Stars.
To the east and above Sirius cat P) will
be seen the Lesser Dog Star Proeyon. In
1874 the German astronomer. Bessel, be-
came convinced from n profound mathe-
NAUTICAL study that Sirius and Procyon were
each disturbed in their motion by the pres
ence of some unseen body. He believed
these disturbing bodies TO be heavy. DARK
stars which would remain forever invisible
to us. In 1851 DIR. Peters found just what
the weight of the invisible companion 10
Sirius must be. and just how 1t was m03-
ing about the bright star. In 1874 the as
tronomer. Otto Struve. made the same con-
putation for Procyon.
The mathematical discovery of these two
bodies is one of the Justly celebrated events
of modern astronomy. for up to this time
NJ one had ever seen either of the com =
panions. 1t was not until 1862 that the
little attendant to Sirius discovered
with the telescope. and it WAS then found
to be in the position predicted by the ma:h-
ematical astronomers. and to be moving
just they had shown that it must move.
And finally. III 1896. the companion of Pro
cyon was discovered with the great tele-
scope of the Lick Observatory in Califor-
pia.
Figure 1 shows Sirius and the path
which the companion follows around IL.
The little star moves around and around
the large one in the direction shown ny
the arrows going entirely around the cl
Eptic curve in fifty-two years. At pres
ent it is in the position marked a. rhe
companion is little further away from
Sirius than the planet Uranus is from the
sun. Thus til, system, made up OF two
enormous suns revolving around one anoth-
er, is a truly magnificent one.
Between Aldebaran and Sirius are the red
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No Clothes Cure.

From the London Tatier.
Gustave Nagel was very delicate child,
and grew to manhood almost chronic in
valid. His parents had spent fortunes on
medical attention for him, and he had con-
sumed barrels of medicine. but all to no
effect Some years ago he conceived the
idea that modern man lived too far from
the state in which nature intended that he
should and he resolved to return to the
habits of his primeyal forefathers and be-
come strong or die in the attempt He dis
carded all clothes. except what the law re-
quired, ate only raw foods and no meat
and bathed only IN water of natural tenn
peratnre.
At first. of course. he suffered severely
but in a few years he was able to walk
barefooted in the snow with as little dis
comfort as the ordinary mortal suffers GO
ing shoeless on sandy beach in summer
When he bathes he never dries himself
when he sleeps he prefers the cold, bare
ground; he never has his hair cut short
dceming it a protection from the weather
given man, by nature; his food is of fruits.
vegetables bread and nuts. Nagel is about
To be married, but / am not able 10 say
whether the lady of his choice is a new
woman or has primeval tendencies like his
own.
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her name and address. Yesterday she was
fined So and costs for disturbing Minister
Vale in his grafton. She might have got II
far worse had not Minister Vale CALAMITY
sent the Judge open letter asking that
she should be spared.
There is nothing particularly gallant ABOUT
his appearance. He is fifty-nine years oiq'
bald-headed, fat, and since he has become
minister wears simply a mustaehe and
saucy goatee trimmed to a point. Previous
ly, when he was at once senator ana prac7
ucing lawyer, he wore the Parls lawyer
mutton-chop side whiskerS. AS a pupilc
man he arose to celebrity rapidly IN June,
1902. He comes from the champagne couh-
try. AS long ago as 1889 he was eiecteu
republican deputy from Epernay' ana 50
remained for years. His name became
vaguely known as the reporter of the com.
mission that inquired into the anairs OF
Panama. He exercised his office diScreetiy
end faded from public view again. In 1913
he was for a short time under secretary TO
the minister of the interior, and in the
same year he was elected senator from the
Marine district
Always a Lawyer.
During all this time as deputy, functlon-
airy and senator. he never ceased TO prac-
tice as a lawyer. Even in France this SORT
of thing is looked on with disfavor in SVEN
professional circles. Waldeck-RousSeau'
for example. gave up an immensely lucra-
tive practice when he became minister.
Yet this doubling of employment turned out
lucky for Minister Vale, for suddenly, when
the great Humbert swindle was attracting
the attention of all Paris, IL was Ernest
Vale who had the honor of prlcking the
bubble He was the lawyer of the banker
Cattaui He was also senator-belonglns
to the solid block in power. All Paris
stood in admiration of him as he fearlessiy
went behind the minister of justice or the
hour and took out by force warrant
against the dangerously Influential Hum
bert woman.
Things moved quickly in those days. NO
one knows just what happened. The Hum
berts were in flight. And another cry OF
admiration rose when the lawyer Vale was
suddenly made minister of justice.
Time passed Well time passed. / think
that Is all. The Humberts were hard TO
find. When found they got short terms or
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-31
Wedding at Crimson.
From the New York Tribune.

From the New York Tribune.
1.-THE Booster" of Crimson (Mo) de-
scribes the first wedding celebrated in that
metropolis as follows THE first wedding
of a Crimson person in Brimson occurred
Monday evening, when Miss Mary Salyars
and John Mack were married at the resi-
dence of the brides parents, in North Han
nah avenue CBrimson). at o'clock. They
were married by the beautiful silver dollar
ceremony, the presiding officer. Judge
Seymour oyler. instructjng, the groom to
present that much of the fee to the bride.
The bride wore a blue dress, with skirt of
three cores, tastefully trimmed in brass
buttons, and later entertained the company
by singing unaided that beautiful ballad
entitled The Boy Who Broke the Sabbath
and Got Into the Penitentiary.' The bride
has lived here only short time and has
made many friends. The groom is an in
dustrious young man. and The Booster
wishes them great happiness. They are
visiting at Tindall, but Mr., Mack may join
his father-in-law in the blaeksmithing bust
ness here" $50
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the naked eye these stars differ greatly in
brillancy and color; to an astronomer each
has It's own individuality, each differing
from the others in it's constitution, size,
heat and physical condition.
All of these bright stars are suns, greatly
larger, hotter and brighter than our OWN
sun. and enormously far away. For IN
stance. Capella tat c on the map emits $50
times as much light as our sun, while It's
distance is so great that IL one inch is
taken to represent the distance from the
earth to the sun the distance away OF
Capella on the same scale will be repre-
sented by more than thirty-three miles.
Similarly the distance of Aldebaran. the
reddish star below Capella. at A, will be
represented on this scale by twenty-seven
niles.
Perhaps the most interesting star Of all
is the Dog STAR Sirius. which, on ac-
count of its extraordinary brightness, Is
yet an unsolved puzzle to the astronomers.
This star is but two and three-tenths times
as large as our sun. but it Is more than
forty times as bright. 1t Is knows to be
surrounded by great masses of hydrogen
gas and some believe that the whole star
is an ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. almost nebu-
lous mass of gas. But it Is known that
when nebuia slowly contracts into sun
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-31

forced by the nature OF his power 10 I'M
ceasingly plan campaigns and lead vast
armies Yet Napoleon Bonaparte, the fllil-
tary genius, found time ana lhcllId.ioil "
nresent his country with a complete new
body of written law so practlcapie as
whole and such an Improvement on WHAT
had preceded it that it has ever since re-
manned the law of France.
The code of Belgium is copied from IT,
Last March the lawyers of that country
celebrated its centenary; and its systematic
framework still regulates family relations
property holding and transfers. ana IN
general all contracts between inhabitants
of that part of Europe swept clear OF COP
webs by the great French revolution. IL
gives shape to the laws of Holland Chteu
Italy has secured Judicial unity along us
lines 1t has profoundly impressed Spain,
where the careless observer does not al
WAYS recognize the depths of revolutionary
change under the peoples attachment
to rancid castilian eXterlors- Inc Ten
the German states has been in the
same direction And, even in the
United States. the code Napoleon still has
force in louisiana
Will Be Revised.
And now the code that so imposed itself
on Europe is itself to be revised,
now and immedia tely the civil sec
ton OF it. and later, inevitably, the
criminal political parts that still preserve
too much of the ways of the old inquisition.
On the commission appointed by Minister
Vale are president. judges of the court of
cessation and the Paris court of appeals,
a prOcurator general, senators, deputies the
dean of the law faculty, the secretary OF
the minister of justice and Paul HerVieu,
the celebrated novelist and playwright.
There have been omitted from it, however.
the three most powerful legal luminares of
present-day France-Prof. Guillouard of
the Caen law faculty, the learned con-
tinuer of Demolombes "Cours de Code Ma
poleon;" Baudry -Lacantinerie, doyen of
the Bordeaux faculty. author of the classic
"Precis de Droit Civil" and the director OF
a body of collaborating professors engaged
a vast tretise on the civil code. and
Prof. Planiol of the Paris faculty, author
of the "Traite de Droit Civil" that is a
handbook for every French lawyer.
1t is quite probable, indeed that Minister
Vale, following the practical modern sys-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-31
THE CODE NAPOLEON
A Commission to Report On
Needed Changes
IN CIVIL LAWS Fl RST
THEN THE CRIMINAL AND PO-
LITICAL PARTS.
Other Countries Have Modelled After It,
Though France is Dis
satisfied.
ial Correspondence of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
PARIS December Il, 1901.
The code Napoleon is to be revised. Err
nest Vale. the present French minister OF
justice, has just appointed a commission
to report upon the needed changes. All
France will soon be discussing, Therefore
habeas corpus, compulsory bail exemption
and stay of execution laws and other
flowers of the free American system; for
all eyes In Europe now turn naturally TO
the west; and comparisons with our ways
are indeed, at the bottom of the proposed
revision alike OF the law code of en-
lightened France and the constitution of be
nighted Russia.
The code Napoleon! y hundred years ago
a young French artillery lieutenant had
arisen by his military genius to be en-
peror of France and conqueror of Europe.
Throughout his wonderful career he was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-31
Names That Are Household Words.

Other names. more or less household
words in this land of money kings, which
figure in the roster OF 190is benefactors,
are J. o. Armour of Chicago, with $3.50, 900
to his credit; c. NJ Schwab and George
Foster Peabody, each of whom gave away
500 600; ex-Mayor Grace of New York and
John Hays Hammond, the famous engineer,
each 100000; W. W. Aston, with $4,000; j.
Lowber Welsh of Philadelphia and Zenas
Crane of Dalton, Mass, each $4,000, and
James Stillman and Henry Phipps, each
$50, 600.
January seems to have been the best
month for giving, its total of S14. 524, 900
leading easily Aprils So, 161 500 Novem-
Der takes third place, with $9,94S500. and
February trails along No. H. with only
81, 097, 1873 to her credit.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-31
HEAVENS IN JANUARY
When Air is Clear and the
Stars Are Bright.
SIRIUS COMPANIONS
HOW THESE TWO DARK BODIES
WERE DISCOVERED.
The Consultations and Planets of the
Month-Venus is Rapidly Increas-
ing in Brightness.

Written for The Evening Star by Prof Eric Doc
little.
AS midwinter approaches the evening
sky Is growing continually more and more
brilliant. The large, faint, autumn con-
stellations have been gradually drawing
nearer to the sun, and therefore sinking
from view in the west, while to take their
place the bright considerations of winter
appeared one after another in the east. and
have each evening mounted up higher and
higher in the sky. This has gone on until
now the whole eastern half of the heavens
is filled with bright groups of stars But
the western half is far fainter, for the au-
tumn considerations, though low down in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-31
evening of January o, at 10 O'Clock, eastern

evening of January 8, at 10 o'clock, eastern
time
Mars is slowly drawing into more favor
able position, but it cannot yet be well OBJ
served until several hours after mid
night.
Jupiter is in the constellation of the
Fishes and Is still in excellent position for
with Venus the distinction of being the
brightest object in the western heavens.
Neptune is also in excellent position for
observation with a small telescope, but
Saturn and the other planets have drawn
so near the sun that observation on them
ERIC DooLITgLE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-31
A Useful Goat.


From Ph"E.
Casey-"oi bought me little bye, Timmt
a goat fer Christmas.
Dolin--"Phat else did Jimmy get?'
Casey--'.Nawthint OF tied tn goat tf
the Christmas tree and he ate every otheo
present but tn tub
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German Judge and "Parsifal."
ON the London Chronicle.

One may sympathize with the German
Judge who has forbidden "Parsifar' as the
name of brand OF motor car. Such trans
ference-we will not call it degradation-of
great names from the men who made them
is to be deprecated. Why should We be
compelled, when we hear of the meeting
of Wellington and Butcher, to think Of ILL
assorted boots. And, In spite of the bag
and baggage" policy. 1t is hardly fair to
Gladstone that Gladstone" means mere
ly bag.
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FIG. 1-sIRIUs AND ITS COMPANION.

star Betelgueze Cat b, and the blue star
Rigel Cat RI. The former has a small
electromagnetic companion which is it
self double: the latter is also a very beau
tful double star in a moderately large
telescope and Is often used a test object
for such glasses.
The twin stars Castor and PolluX cat r
and W are both double also: the first is
made up of two great suns which revolve
about one another in about 600 years, while
the second has a faint distant companion.
Castor is white and PolluX is red the Tor
mer is approaching us at the rate of eight
een miles a second, and the latter is draw
ing away from us with the comparatively
low velocity of one mile second
The last of the nine bright winter stars
is the magnificent blue star Regulus. This
will be seen low down In the east at the
end of the handle Of the sickle in the con-
stellation Leo Major or Greater Lioux. L:
is very hot and very distant star, much
resembling Sirius, and has a faint compan-
that it has been described as looking as IL
1T were STEPPED in indigo.
Star Clusters.
West of Regulus in the position marked
H on the map there is a hazy. diffuse OBJ
ject, which is very clearly visible even to
the naked eye. This is the Praesepe, whose
singular greenish light was supposed be-
fore the invention of the telescope to ema-
nate from a group of three nebulous stars.
If the observer will examine 1t with an
opera glass, however, he will at once see
that it is a star cluster, composed of about
$50 stars packed quite close together
The group of stars at l. will also well
repay examination. This is the magnifi-
cent double cluster in the sword handle
of Perseus, one of the most beautiful OBJ
jects within the reach of a small telescope
There are here an immense number of stars
condensed into two compact groups. Near
the center of the west is a heo Fl
full coronet of bright stars, thickly sur
rounded by the multitude of fainter ones
The east group is somewhat more con-
densed; near the center of this there is
fine ruby star. above which and to the left
is one of pale garnet tint. 1t is impossi-
BILE to contemplate these two great swarms
and not to infer that they form a single
system in space.
The Planets
Venus will Immediately attract attention
in the southwest. Each evening it is
found a little higher in the sky than the
evening before and its brightness is rapidly
increasing as it draws near the earth. The
crescent moon will pass the planet on the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-31
The Winter Stars.

In the eastern and southeastern sky the
observer will notice number of very
brilliant stars. If he will count the most
striking of these he will find that alto
gether there are nine which far outshine
the other stars of the heavens. Even to
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Its Origin.
4So OAASAs
.imore American.

From the Baltimore American.
Having grown weary of his latest con-
nubial venture, Henry VIII, signaled to the
headsman to get busy with his ak.
And this was the origin of the now ia
nous "hlock-signal' system.
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tenn. has appointed personal friends and
political comrades to places on the commits
sion Thus we read the name of his own
secretary as its secretary general; and
among others those of Ballot Beaupre and
President Loew. No foreigner has been
spite of the fact that the code needs libcr-
alizing in both their respects.
Women Are Against 1t.
French women, when they occupy them
selves with the subject. are against the
code. 1t was drawn in military age I'M
der the eagle eye of conqueror who never
understood them, who never had any luck
with them, who in founding the girls
schools of the Legion of Honor decreed that
the poor things must make their own
gowns. The strongest women's rights or
ganization in Paris is the "Solidatite des
Femmes." and the rich and beautiful young
Madame Kaufman is its secretary Well.
TO know what she thinks of the Code Napo-
leon, observe her conduct during the CEN
tenary ceremonies that came off about a
month ago in the Sorbonne. Minister of
Justice Vale was Grating in its honor. Sud-
denly he felt a hostile influence. He he
came aware that he was no longer holding
his audience. There was buzz of CONVEX
Sation- The audience moved A thousand
eyes turned toward the ceiling.
High above their heads a toy balloon was
floating. Painted on it in the biggest pos
s!bIe letters they read: THE Code OPP
presses Women" Then another balloon
arose; and then another and another. Ma
dame Kaufman of the "Solidatite DIES
Femmes" was letting them loose as a pro-
test. They politely led her out and took
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but one which contains the brightest of
all the stars in the entire heavens-the
splendid Dog Star Sirius. Near the ground
below Orion are, two compact little groups,
known as Lepus, the Hare, and Columbia,
the Dove, while to the west is the long,
struggling constellation known as Erida-
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A cowardly fellow having kicked a news
boy for Fostering him to buy paper. the
lad waited until another boy accosted the
gentleman and then shouted: It's no
use to try him, JIM he can't read. '-Mel-
bourne Times.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-31

A higher court decision: Crawford-"foid
his lawyer tell Henpeck that he couldn't
get divorce?" Crabshaw-"No; his wife
did. Town TopicA