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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-28
MUSIC BOXES.
More Sold Than Ever, Despite tho
Photographs Competition.

From the New York Sun
Now you'd think said the man in the
music store, that monographs and gramo-
phones and mechanical piano players had
cut into the music box business. They
haven't; the contrary, there are moro
music boxes manufactured now than ten or
fifteen years ago, when the photograph
was only a wonderful new invention which
no one could use, and the mechanical piano
player was never thought of.
There has been only one change. we
don't sell many of the big, expensive
boxes as we used to. There was a time,
about fifteen or twenty years ago, when
they were made costing as high as $3.50
or $1,000. Those boxes were as big as a
piano. They had all kinds of arrange
ments of bells and drums and string ef-
fects. Some of them were combined with
mechanical toys For example, there would
be a line of little drummerS TO ring the
bells, and they'd wiggle their heads in a
life-like manner as they worked their drum
sticks. The makers were trying to get as
near the effect of full orchestra as they
could by mechanical means.
when the photograph was made pracu-
cal, some six or seven years ago, 1t knocked
the pins out from under these makers
The monograph could reproduce whole
orchestra of sixty or more pieces, and the
music box was nowhere in the game. me
makers gave 1t up. Nowadays about 500
is the limit of price.
1.-THE demand for ordinary boxes, costing
up to $50, has kept up steadily and even
gradually increased. I suppose that the
monograph got people into the habit OF
using mechanical music makers
Music boxes are now made on the disk
plan A whirling disk catches the teeth
in little holes punched in Its surface. Inc
tone is not so good as In the cylnder boxes,
hut the disks cost only 80 or 10 cents. The
best boxes are still made on the cylinder
plan.
although there are factories in New
Jersey, by far the greater part of the
worlds supply comes from Switzerland.
They are called Geneva boxes, because that
town is on the line of tourist travel, but
they are mostly manufactured in ST. Croix,
back in the mountains.
THE Swiss make the best and the poorest
boxes too. They make the very high
priced ones. and also those cheap MUS
half dollar affairs which are given to chill
dren to smash at Christmas. The American
boxes run through the middle grades.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-28
chessboard Marvels.

Paul Severing in Everybody's Magazine.
There are 31s,979, 584, 900 ways of play
ing the first four moves on each side Of
chessboard. Yet Harry N. Pillsbury has
played against as many as twenty-five
different boards at one and the same time
without seeing single board. and has
won large majority Of the games.
Seated with his back to the other, play
ers and constantly smoking a big cigar,
he is apparently able to visualize and to
remember twenty-five different pictures.
in each of which thirty-two chessmen are
being changed about in an infinite variety
Of combinations There is seldom any
hesitation on Mr. Pillsburys part in re-
calling the picture presented on any given
board. The referee calls the number Of
the board and the move made by the
player thereon, and instantly the reply
comes back from the master, with re-
quest for the move on the next board.
Before Pillsbury's time the record for
blindfold play was sixteen games played
in two days by Kukertort. In Chicago, in
1900, Pillsbury played sixteen stimuli
taneous blindfold games in four hours
and fifty-fve minutes. winning twelve
drawing three and losing one.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-28
TRAVELS OF PRAIRIE CHICKENS
How the Birds Have Adapted Them
selves to Conditions.
From the Emporia Gazette.

rIou tue EmpOf1a Gazette,
An Emporia man advances the theory thar
prairie chickens are so scarce about Elm
porfa now because they migrate west every
spring to hatch their young This sports
man was out trying to find some the other
day and failed, although he went clear to
the Flint Hills
All the farmers along the way told the
same story. Each said there was a big
bunch of chickens on his farm until spring
and they then disappeared. The farmers
thought 1t was nothing strange that the
chickens should go west to hatch their
young, and are looking for chickens TO
come back next winter.
AS a matter of fact, prairie chickens are
not among the migratory birds, but the
chickens in this part Of the country seem to
be adapting themselves to conditions. This
under the plough, and the birds want wilder
territory where their young will be safer
than in q well-settled locality. Then in the
winter the birds come back to the cult
waited country because there is plenty or
food in the fields.
Last year the attention of sportsmen was
attracted by great flocks of chickens that
came in from the northwest in the duck
season. 1t was the first time they ever saw
chickens migrating. A flock was seen near
Americas which was said to have had 4OU
number Of flocks of chickens within four
miles of town, which was an unusual thing.
The birds were supposed to have come In
from western Kansas to get the beneft OF
the plentiful supply Of kaff1r corn, which
the chickens relish.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-28
Struggled Prayer Books.


The proceedings at Koenigsberg on Fri
day and Saturday revealed a pretty state
of affairs on the Russian frontier. Snug
Cling was shown to be a matter of daily
occurrence There are well-known resorts
on both sides Of the frontier which are
haunted by the smugglers, and the evil
dence strengthened the suspicion that the
frontier guard on the Russian side closed
one eye to this Illicit traffic, for a consid-
Grafton, of course 1t was incidentally
mentioned by one witness that 10000 pray
er books in the Lettish language were an
nually smuggled into Russia, the reason
being that the Russian government insists
on the Let's reading their language with
the Russian characters, and as they can
only read Latin or Gothic type they draw
their supplies contraband from Germany.
An interesting witness was the Russian
consul in Koenigsberg, who when asked to
find certain passages in the sequestrated
tracts which he alleged were REASONABLE.
could not discover them. 1t was also an
nounced that the Prussian government had
determined to give number of Russians
recently expelled from Berlin to Switzer-
land safe conducts to Koenigsberg. They
will testify to the harmless character OF
the Russian political agitation, judged
from German point Of view.
During Saturdays proceedings some OF
the smugglers interested the court by the
selling information to the police on both
sides of the frontier. They informed
against one another in most indiscriminate
fashion. The proceedings in the cellars OF
the Vorwaerts office, on which the prose
| cution SO much relied, do not seem to have
been so mysterious after all. One crown
witness deposed that no one was permitted
| to enter the cellars except certain selected
Russians, and that the Russian literature
stored there was kept under lock and key
| 1t now appears that this very cellar was
used by the Vorwaerts employees as a COM
| mon cloak room, and that the fearful" lit
IxriY1 a nr P1,r 20
anime who wished to do So It further
| transpired that one of the crown witnesses
named Abel, on whom the prosecution re-
| lied for much of its information, had beer
| dismissed from the Office of the Vorwaerts
| and had been several times in Jail for theft
Matchmaking and other malpractices.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-28
The Decline of Latin.

From Adolescence, by G. Stanley Hail.
In the day of it's pedagogical glory Latih
was the universal tongue of the learned.
But how changed all this is now! Statisucal
studies show that five hours week Tor
wear gives command of but few hundred
words, that two years does not douple
this number and that command OF tne
language and it's resources in the original
is almost never attained but that II -
abandoned not only by the increasing per
centage that do not go to college, but aiso
by the increasing percentage VINO crop ~
forever at the college door.
It's enormous numerical increase oue ~
high school requirements SasI
been attended, perhaps inevitably oy s'eaayt
pedagogic decline despite the vaunted naEk
methods, until now the baby Latin In I'm
average high school class lie kind OF sareS
tif1ed relic, a ghost of ghost, suggesting
Swift's Struldbrugs. doomed to physical
mortality. but shriveling and with tncreeet
ing horror of all things new.
In 1892 the German Emperor declared ~
a shame for a boy to excel in Latin co9s
position, and in the high schools of SwedM
and Norway 1t has been practically abaus
doned. =.
In the present stage Of its educational
decadence the power of the dead hand -
strongly illustrated by the new fnstaiias
ton of the old Roman pronunciation, with
which our tongue has only remote anel0s
gies which makes havoc with proper
names which IL unknown and unrecog.
nized In the schools of the European cons
tinent, and which makes a pedantic aneo~
tation out Of mere vocalism.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-28
Industrial Training.

The Indian pupil Is allowed two months
vacation in summer. During the school
year he devotes half of each day to the
academic work of the average public
school, the other half to Industrial work.
The boys, as they advance, are taught
farming. carpentry, shoemaking. wagon
making, painting, tailoring, printing,
dairying. gardening, masonry. baking.
blacksmithing, plastering, harness max
ing, forging, steam fitting, engineering
and firing. The girls are put through
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-28

courses of sewing. blending, housework,
laundering. dairyfng, baking, cooking,
care of poultry and the multitude Of de-
tails which contribute to the successful
housekeeper and heme maker. Half of
the day these girl p&pils work under the
matron. cleaning q their dormitories.
school rooms a8d dining rooms. attending
the kitchen. Looking after poultry and in
laundering then own clothes
The greater Part az the Indian boys in
dustrial training is iMagricultural pursuits.
For some time yet he is not expected to
successfully compete with the white jour-
neyman and mechanic. Therefore the
greatest stress is being laid upon teaching
him how to successfully farm his own al
lotment. Nine-tenths of the red boys are
equipped as tillers of the soil and breeders
of stock. Even these. however, must be
trained In the minor branches of mechanical
trades, such as will fit them to repair their
FENCES and houses, mend their harness, etc
AT several of the large schools specialized
training in farming and stock raising is
given. Instruction in farming by irriga-
ton is being commenced in the arid south
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-28
"rrain catarrh" In America.

From the LONDON CnrOnlcle
Train catarrfa has as yet no name In
America or anywhere else. but here Is It's
christening The present writer has lately
spent four nights in sleeping berths on
American trains and he has spent many
other nights on continental trains. Always
there has resulted the catarrh. produced.
one may presume. by changes of tempera-
ture and dust. Many travellers have suffer-
ed IN the same way. What do the doctors
say about this form OF disease?
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-09-06
GROWING OATS PROFITABLY.
Record of Results at the Georgia Experiment Station
The ''Open Furrow' Method of Sowing Advised.
Editors Progressive Farmer:

Fall-sown oats, one year with another, all
chances taken, will double the yield of spring
sown, on the same land. An experience of ter,
years on the Station Farm, preceded by more than
twenty years experience on his own farm, j~ustife1
the writer in saying that oats should be sown in
Georgia in October and November, according to
latitude. The first week in October, and even the
last week in September in some cases, would not
be too early in North Georgia, or in the noun
talns. Throughout the month of October is the
time for the section known as Middle Georgia
Cater the farther south). November is the month
for sowing in the southern half of the State.
The rule of sowing in the twelve days" follow
ing Christmas day never had any basis in sound
reason, and it is believed to be about the most
lnauspicious time that could be hit upon, it being
generally the very coolest period of the winter.
The established practice ON the Station Farm
is as follows: Sow the larger part of the area
intended for oats Con the farm IA to 16 acresl
IN October, using Appler seed oats, and always
saving enough of this variety to SOW not less than
two or three acres in the spring. If the fall
soWn come safely through the winter, the re-
naming two acres are sown in Burt ("9O-day
oats) after February 18th. If the fall crop shall
have been killed, which has occurred twice in ten
years, the same land is sown in Burt oats. and
the two or three acres only sown Appler in order
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-09-06
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER

bag and suspend it near the top of the liquid.
In this way it will Dissolve in a few hours. If it
is placed in the bottom of the barrel it will dis
solve but slowly, even with constant stirring. it
is well to dissolve the copper sulphate the night
before you are ready to make the mixture, and it
will then be ready in the morning.
In a similar way a stock solution of lime should
be made. Quick lime of good quality, which is
not at all slaked, should be weighed out and
placed in a trough and slaked slowly, using a
very small quantity of water. By shaking slowly
in this way a finer quality of lime is secured.
After the lime is thoroughly slaked it should be
mixed with enough water to make a putty-like
mass. This may be covered with more water to
keep out the air, and may be used when needed.
Since this mass was originally weighed you can
estimate nearly enough the quantity for any given
amount of Bordeaux mixture.
In preparing the Bordeaux mixture from stock,
measure out the proper amount of stock solution
of copper sulphate and dilute it with half the
amount of water needed. In a similar way meas
ure out the proper amount of lime needed from
the stock and dilute it with the other half of the
water, in a separate vessel. The lime should be
passed through fine wire strainer af about
thirty meshes to the inch, or through cheese
cloth, in order to remove the particles of stone,
or it will otherwise cause great difficulty in the
pump nozzle when spraying. We now have the
two ingredients each mixed with one-half the
amount of water called for in the formula. All
that remains is to mix these two solutions. They
should be poured together. slowly, and with stir
ring. 1t is a matter of considerable Importance
that the stock solutions be diluted before they
are mixed with each other. The quality of Bor-
deaux mixture resulting from this method is SUI
perior in several respects to that which would be
made if strong solutions were mixed together
and afterwards diluted. The Bordeaux should
be made fresh each time before using, and any
that is left over should be thrown away.
F.. L.. STEVENS.
A. & M. College, West Raleigh.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-11-10
1t Was No DISPUTE.

While Senator Pettus was strolinR
around the plantation of a friend in
Alabama he came upon one OF the old
field hands engaged I'm a violent alter
ca ton with his wife.
"Come, come" exclaimed he. This
won't do-this quarrel must cease
right away! Tell me the cause of your
dispute; | may be able to settle 1t for
you
The dusky husband. awkwardly dof-
fling his cap 20 the Senator. replied:
"Dis amt no dispute. Senator"
"No dispute!" reiterated Mr.. Pettus
perplexed.
NO sah,' rejOined the darky con.
vipcingly. ut amt no dispute. 1t lest
dis way. Use jest been paid Off an ha.
$40. My wife heah she thinks she amt
gunner git 1t, an know she amt No
dispute at all. sahv'
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-11-10
%CH00A 8
s4~ G. LE@Es


! Purdue University opened with the
largest freshman class in its history.
The University of Pennsylvania began
its one hundred and forty-ninth annual
session with an increased enrolment
DR.. c. b. Wilson, professor of zoology
at Columbia University. has been elected
member Of the Academia del Lincei.
Rome.
! Miss Eleanor Wallot has given 2OO.-
600 marks to the University Of Heidel-
berg for the higher education Of women
in Germany.
DR.. Ralph Arnold. assistant in geology
at Stanford University, has been appoint.
ed assistant to DIR. Dali of the United
States geological survey.
Prof. Koch Of Heidelberg is the only
instructor of any university in German
who lectures on journalism. He has for
several years lectured there on this sub
ject
Alexander Moffert. champion amateur
swimmer of New York, has been chosen
director of the new $6OO.OO0 gymnasium
of the Missouri Athletic Club of St
Louis.
DR.. James H. Garfield, librarian OF
Columbia University, is delivering a
course Of lectures on various subjects
this fall before the graduating class at
West Point.
For the first time in the history OF
German universities deaf mute has OBJ
tanned a doctors degree. The Univer-
sity Of lIeipsic has conferred Ph. d.
on Dr. Walter Kuntze.
Prof. w. W. Campbell. director Of the
/ Lick observatory. has been elected a
foreign member of the Society Degii
Spelroscopsti ltaliani, composed of tnir-
ty Italians and thirty foreigners.
/ Four Filipino students. sent to this
country to be educated at the expense
of their government. have entered the
Indiana University Mt Bloomington for
full three years course in law.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-11-10
NY LOVERS A ROVER.

My lovers a rover; he roams the world
over:
He fears not a whit all the tricks o
the sea.
His heart is aye burning new lands to
discover,
New dangers to brave and new faces
to see.
With a kiss on the cheek or a slap on
the shoulder
He greets all the maids and the men
he may meet
All burdens seem lighter. all spirits grow
holder
When Dick is heard whistling his tune
down the street
sit at my window and dream in the
cleaning.
When Dicks far away and It's lonely
am |:
But my heart follows. too, where my
lover is roaming
Though seem IL be watching the folk
passing by.
Oh my lovers rover, he roams the
world over
(lh" sail whltened harbOr * all | can
Spcb--
God grant you fnir winds and bright
fortune my lover
And may the next ship bring letter
to me.
My hearts a bit weary of roaming and
roaming.
l long for a rest-hut wild bird is
he,
Though lovers may wander. true mates
must be homins;
am proud of my Dick-but the poor
heart of me.
Boston Transcript.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-11-10
@jEgIN1EG;sSYk,o9!g 2.

Winston Churchill will not stand for
reelection to Parliament.
John Jacob Aston has ordered thirty
horse power automobile in Paris
Tama gno. the noted Italian tenor. is
IN politics. He wants to go to Parlia-
ment.
+. Komolsky. Hungarian artist. is
painting two portraits of John ID. RocHc-
Teller.
The wife of the Archbishop of Cantor
bury is the daughter of her husband
predecessor.
Sir John Usher. who died at Cairo the
other day, was a great Edinburgh phi.
lsnthropist.
The Sultan has sent a valuable collec-
ton of Assyran weapons as a gift to the
King Of Italy.
The wedding presents of Emperor Viii
liam, or some Of them, will be on exhi-
bition at St. Louis.
Herr Schabelitz, well-known Zurich
publisher, who died recently, did all his
correspondence with postal cards.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-11-10

k ag|ez2e&'''
~O0O~OO~-

A census was taken OF the popula ton
| of Buenos Ayres One million were re-
corded.
Russia is irritated over the Anglo
Thbetan treaty, but England has won
/ In the game.
A treaty has been exchanged between
Thbet and Great Britain. both sides re-
leasing prisoners.
The Japs have taken possession Of tho
coal mines at Ientai. whore their main
force is now stationed.
Nicaragua and Honduras have settled
their differences and Honduras has with
drawn her troops from the territory Of
the former.
At recen, concert in Warsaw the
hall was suddenly invaded by spiders,
which. attracted by the sound of vio-
! lin, came from cracks ana crannes in the
building. The other lovers Of music left.
The Mort heastern Railway Company,
| England. has arranged for number Of
It's leading officials to visit the United
| States to report on the newest ethods
for dealing with passenger and freight
| ira ffic.
DR.. Watanabe. the japanese mining
|
the new Iwate gold fields he examined
will yield $5O0OOO,OOO. The other three
fourths is being explored by the Japan
ese government
A German chemist named Blau has
succeeded in liquefying Illuminating gas.
in that form it gives good light which
is useful in country houses. railway
trains, etc. 1t costs more than ordinary
coal gas, but less than electric light.
America is to Manufacture typewriters
for Syria, the machines being fitted with
a new alphabet Of fifty characters. which
was arranged recently by Selim Haddad.
Syrian artist and inventor. The actual
Syrian alphabet contains $50 characters.
! Some Of the leading French statesmen.
| including Rouver. Comics and Trouillot,
have given their sanction to the socialis-
tic scheme Of granting every person aged
over 60 a pension of ST. a year This
scheme, II carried out. would cost the
country $60O0O,OOO a year.
The only Persian newspapers which
resemble those published in other coun-
tries are those issued in India and Egypt,
which copy English models. The few
papers published at Teheran contain lit
tie beside the Shah's proclamations and
pictures of prominent officials.
An officer sent to investigate the at
fairs of government farm in the Trans
vaal, near POtchefstroOm. found an ex-
pert at $4,000 year an assistant ut
1000 and another at sl5OO in charge
OF 200 chickens. Similar management
had resulted in loss, to date. of 81. 800
OOO
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-11-10


Among female Moors birthday cele-
bra tons are unknown A Moorish
woman considers II a point of honor
to be absolutely ignorant of her age.
The ordinary marriage customs Of
the Orient are reversed in Tibet. In
stead of the men having a plurality of
wives. the women have the privilege
Of ii plurality Of husbands.
Mdlle. Gauchin. girl of 20. living
In n suburb Of Paris. has lately been
awarded prize of f23 by the munich
pality for supporting her OctOgenarian
grandmother, her invalid mother and
her six brothers and sisters
A would-be bridegroom in Kamchat-
ka has to serve some time In mental
position in his prospective father-in-
laws household in order that the
brides family may have an opportuni-
~ Of observing whether his habits and
temperament are worthy of her
In Japan well-bred woman does
not 20 to the theater until she is old
aud ugly 1t is not thought proper
for her to understand music. If she
Is religious she Is termed Eighty" She
spends most Of her time at home tend
Ing to her children and servants and
performing all sorts of mental service
for her husband and his family.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-11-10

either automobiling. street wear o..
travelling.
Armholes are hiding under a mar
row adjustment of trimming.
Ruchngs. ribbon scrolls and cord
ings distinguish the new blouses.
Necklaces of amethysts are in high
favor for wear with white dresses.
A new, chiffon veil can hide multi
tude of sins in the way of shabby
hat.
There are bags OF that bright new
orange which appears so startling IN
belts.
1t is said that mitts will be worn
in the house this winter with elbow
sleeves.
Yokes take on a pointed effect. fol
lowing the lines of the directoire
glrdle.
The modish long and tight cum Of
fers a pretty opportunity for a series
of tiny bows, which may seem to et-
feet the closing.