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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-11

weather forecasting Of his own look upon
the weather maps and predictions OF the
weather bureau as mere guesses and
promptly forget the ninety that are verified
and remember the ten that fail
AS matter of fact, from the very nature
of things meteorological, the predictions OF
the weather bureau cannot be always cor
rect. The system is based upon what knowi-
edge is possessed of meteorological laws,
which is not full and complete, and the at
mospheric conditions as ascertained by
various instruments. If all the weather
changes depended upon the lower atmos-
pheric conditions the instruments used by
the weather observer would promptly and
correctly indicate them and make verifica-
ton of every prediction possible, but Il
must be remembered that the sudden ana
violent changes carried in stock In the
upper strata of the atmosphere, too Tar
away to have any influence upon the
barometer. thermometer, thermometer ana
other weather instruments. These condi-
lions Of the upper air may swoop down sud
denly and upset the predictions of the most
careful weather expert. The government Is
fully aware Of this limitation to its prog
nostications and hence they are warranted
good for only twenty-four hours.
The Oldest and most universal method OF
forecasting weather conditions is by OBJ
servation of the phases of the moon. 1t Is
the simplest, the easiest learned and the
easiest to remember, and requires no IN
struments and involves no intricate calcu-
lations. 1t consists simply in observing the
position of the new moon. If 1t lies level
on its back. It is a dry moon, because 1t IS
In position to hold water, but If 1t hangs
by one corner II is wet moon, because the
water can easily spill out. This is all there
Is to 1t. except that if the new moon is far
south 1t will also be warm moon, but If
far north 1t will be cold moon. There is
a class of moon weather prognosticators
that hold to the theory that when the new
moon lies level on its back 1t will be wet
moon. because it is in a position to hold
water and If 1t hangs by one corner 1t Will
be a dry moon. because all the water has
already run out. To an ordinary mind these
two moon theories contradict each other,
but In reply to this 1t can be said that pre-
dictions of the kind of weather that Is to
come, based upon either of these appar-
emily contradictory theories, verified
about as often on one theory as upon
the other, and so 1t matters not which
theory the forecaster adopts he will hit IL
right half the time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-11
POWER OF ENDURING PAIN.
Many Undergo Surgical Operations
Without Taking Anaesthetics.

From the Chicago Chronicle
The incident of a physician with a dis
located shoulder going from one doctor to
another to get it set without an anaesthetic
and finally securing the heroic treatment at
Bellevue is today much out Of the ordi-
nary that 1t secures liberal space in the
alton was performed without chloroform or
ether Is itself thought worthy of notice.
The refusal of several physicians to per-
form 1t Is eloquent of the state of surgical
practice
Now and then In some doctors Office or
medical museum we see a case of instru-
ments which seem better fitted for the car
penter's bench or the butchers block than
for the surgeons table There are knives
as large carvers for cutting through
quivering and sensitive flesh with free
sweep and swift stroke, as IL 1t were dead
meat, and great saws for severing human
homes like firewood. The sight Of them is
enough to make one glad not to have lived
in the old days. 1t Is much more COM
Portable to be carved up now.
II anybody doubts that anaesthesia was
the greatest blessing of the nineteenth GEN.
fury to humanity the threat of an amputa-
ton with these old instruments is likely to
change his opinion Out of the football
field men now and then get joints dislo-
Gated and stoically have them set without
ether and rush back into the scramble
Battle and accident and disease still infiict
untold suffering under circumstances which
no anodyne can deaden.
But in ordinary life for the most part we
have become so accustomed to relief from
physical pain In surgical practice that the
deliberate preference for endurance rather
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-11
HAVE MUCH TO LEARN.
Scientists Have Not Yet Reached the
Limit of Human knowledge.

From the Providence Journal.
1t Is a matter of common knowledge that
the progress of scientific discovery during
the nineteenth century surpassed both in
bulk and in Importance. the combined
achievements of all preceding centuries.
Constant repetition of this fact seems to
have produced an impression In the minds
of many people that we are nearing the
limit of human knowledge; that, setting
aside one two apparently insoluble prob
lens, there really is not much more to be
discovered; and that all that is left for the
twentieth century to do Is to catalogue and
classify the vast array of data already OBJ
tanned, to establish the relations among the
phenomena and to unity isolated facts into
the harmony of observed occurrences which
we designate as law.
No very deep inquiry into the present con-
dition of science is needed In order to show
the fallacy of such an idea. Scientific the
cries are in a state of constant fuX. AS a
matter of fact even those that appear most
solid are held only as working hypothesis,
offering today the most reasonable recon-
Citation of various phenomena, but liable to
enforced readjustments by the new discov-
cries of tomorrow. 1t Is by this process
alone that the whole body of scientific
knowledge has been built up. piece by piece,
fact after fact each generation building
upon the work of It's predecessors. No In
vestigator would for a moment countenance
the idea that a point has been reached
where this process Is no longer necessary.
For the amount OF our knowledge is, after
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-11

ALL only relatively great; 1t Is vast in COM
parison with that possessed by mankind
few centuries ago, but, face to face with
the thousand and one problems of the cos
mos to which We vainly seek answer. 1t
becomes convincingly apparent that we have
as yet gathered but a few pebbles thrown
up on the shore from the illmitable ocean
of eternity. Space. Time, Matter, Energy
what do we know about them? Little in
deed. They are convenient names, a part
of the complicated system by means Of
which we conceive and communicate ideas
In astronomy, in chemistry, In biology, or
in whatever direction we seek we soon dis
cover that the amount of our actual knowl-
edge is pitfully small The cave dweller
knew we'll we that a stone released
from the hand would fall to the earth. He
did not call it gravitation, to be sure; but
how much more do we know about 1t now
that we have given the phenomenon q
name? What Is electricity? What Is heat?
What is matter? We can describe certain
observed properties Of these and other
things, but We neither know their source
nor their essence and are by no means GER
tain of their relations.
And some of our knowledge is but half
knowledge after all. Astronomers tell US
that the solar system Is travelling toward
the star Vega at a rate of about 400, 600 600
OF miles year. but they do not know
whether this motion is a drift or part of an
orbit. The number of questions to which
such incomplete replies only are possible is
indeed almost without end.
There is plenty of work, then for the
scientists of the twentieth century in the
problems that are yet unsolved. 1t may
well be that some of these can never be
comprised by the human UNDERSTANDING Is
the universe limited or limitless? What is
life? What is the relation between mind
and body? A century may prove far too
short time to answer such queries, If any
answer Is ever possible. Nineteenth century
science has accumulated a vast amount of
data; 1t has constructed many plausible
theories and some that have strong ap-
pearance of probability. 1t remains for flu
ture investigators to demonstrate the truth
Within the last hundred years encouraging
progress has been made in explaining
how" the task of twentieth century SCI
ence is to tell why"
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|W.B. Moses & Sons, ST., Cor. Eleventh.


lively 50 36, 30 and 70 hundredweight, and
they are set to the following lines:
"All through this hour, Lord. be my guide,
And by Thy power no foot shall slide
The four bells ringing the chimes are
placed In a square around the large bell,
Big Ben which strikes the hours. Big
Ben is feet q inches high; his circumfer
ence is - feet: and he weighs 131a tons. He
is not the original striking bell here but
the second, having been put UP when his
predecessor came to an untimely end. Big
Ben's hammer now weighs cwt; it used to
weigh twice much, but was reduced W hen
1t was discovered that Big Ben was cracked.
Only twice in his career, has Big Ben stop
ped to rest; and one of those times 1T was
not his fault. In 1850 there was a stop
page of three weeks for cleaning, and the
other occasion was when a heavy fall of
snow clogged and stopped the minute hand
of the clock. There is great noise in the
workroom when the chimes are going to
ring, and worse when Big Ben" is going to
strike-for wheels with ranike arms whirl
around to give notice of what is coming,
so that men engaged in winding the clock
may stop till the striking is done.
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than oblivion excites interest and remark
Yet only few years ago such endurance
was matter of course. Today many peo-
pie, even to save their lives, would not face
the pain of the old-time practice so much
have habit and the knowledge of surgical
luxury affected us. Just as it Is impos-
slble for him who has grown into the life
of ease and self-indulgence to take up the
regimen Of early days, when he worked
with his hands and lived on hard fare, so
1t Is impossible for most of US to face pain
as our fathers and mothers did.
Some students of the Chinese tell us that
their remarkable endurance of pain is not
so much stoicism lack of sensitiveness.
They do not feel pain as the Caucasian
does. If that be true. 1t is easy to believe
in great variations not merely in self-con-
troll. but in sensory responsiveness. Per-
haps our people, besides being less habitu-
ated to the endurance OF pain as a matter
of course, are also more sensitive to 1t. not
only mentally but physically. The modern
nervous tension and quick responsiveness
may lay upon the hero of today vastly
greater burden than was borne under the
same suffering by the man of an earlier
time, who was not Drawer or more self-con-
tanned or more the master of his own soul,
but whose physical being did not vibrate
with anything like the same intensity I'M
der external impulse
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-11

the Jungles with a series of leans and
BOUNDS. ihree minutes later almost every
Iaii on the train was in hot pursuit He
was captured by the owner and ra.n,N
fined In the baggage car but this tjne b.,
was placed ANONYMOUSLY In a hen COON
s HHere ne covered In corner. as il mortt-
iiea AT being Kept such close prisoner,
, 81 was just on the other side of TERRA
piahca that the monkey became imbued
with the idea that he was a much rnaiiened
ana much abused passenger While nc
owner enjoyed cushions In the day coach
ne was ooNSed to content himself with the
man and his assistant were yiauing ~
scenery when one of them let out a startled
yell " 'iiN eu
Caramba! The monkey has gone
me next instant the engineer noticed a
oeclded yank on the train cord and elanc
ing back. saw baggageman leaning
far out of his car and fourishing a large
bandanna handkerchief The fireman re
ported that the assistant baggagemau was
doing a similar stunt on his side of the
| ear. Quicker than thought. the engineer
threw the air. reversed his lever. sanded the
track SAID his prayers and prepared to
jump. he believed there was a wreck
"hen the train came to a stop down
Jumped the assistant baggage smasher He
broke In a run for the jungle, yelling the
news at the top of his voice and followed
by the directions of the baggageman such
as. There he goes. He's jumping the corn
rows Hid out in a bush. Climbing a tree.
Leaped to another" Behind the baggage
assistant loped the monks owner shouting
blessings on them for letting the monk get
loose, while behind him trooled the entire
male population of the train. They freed
Mr.. Monk In large scrub oak where he
couldn't jump to another tree. Fifteen
| minutes cajolery on the part OF the owner
and the display of sugar and fruit brought
the monk within reach, and he was soon
again in the baggage car. but safe under
the hen coop.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-11
The French Soldier.
From the London Chronicle.

Soldiers in France travel by railway at
reduced fares. 1t is now urged that the
Paris concierge, when he visits his kinsfolk
in the provinces, should have the same priv
ilege. He has journal devoted entirely to
his interests-it is as If we had in London
The Hall Porter's Gazette or THE House,
maids Mercury'-and he reads in this or
gan, not sensational crimes or silly ro-
mances, but grave matters affecting his per-
scnal welfare. Cheap fares for the cons
ciergee Is the cry of his journal. Most
Parisians would like the holidays of their
concierge TO be frequent and prolonged.
Deputies can travel by rail for nothing at
all; why not the concierge? So a waggish
commentator has invited new political
shitboleth: 1.-The railways for all-frees
compulsory and anti-clericalI'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-11
GUESSING AT THE WEATHER.
One Method Of Hitting It Right About
Half the Time.
rom The Southern Lumbermal

From the Southern Lumberman.
So important Is a foreknowledge of COM
ing weather to the business interests of the
country that some years ago our govern
ment established and yet maintains at enor-
nous expense. a weather bureau for the ex-
press purpose of furnishing reliable daily
predictions and probabilities. With that
class of our people to whom scientific ip-
vestigation appeals the weather bureau has
become highly popular. and its predictions
are relied upon by them with good deal
OF confidence. Another very large class
whose membere each has . system Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-11
Eat Stewed Kittens.

From What to- Eat
The lower order of Chinese are content
to devour. upon festive occasions. stewed
kittens, harricoed puppies, rat soup and
a bonnie bouche composed OF fowls heads
and claws. earth worms. sea-snakes and
black frogs. 1t may readily be seen that
a Canton butchers stall presents rather a
motley appearance. II a man who has a
fondness for the cup that cheers and also
inebriates should. by chance, find himself
In one of them. he certainly would believe
he had them again"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-11
TRAIN HELD FOR MONKEY HUNT
Travel in Mexico Delayed While a
Simian Passenger Was Caught.
From the Mexican Heralt

From the Mexican Herald.
Twenty precious minutes on the Vera
Cruz and Pacific railway were lost Monday
by reason of the engineer having to stop
the train for a large monkey which had
been a passenger in the baggage car until
he made up his mind that he was tired of
1t and promptly BIT the rope which held
him and ieaped from the car Barely had
he touched the ground whsn he started for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-11

All overproduction of crude oil. coupled
with adverse legislation. Is assigned by the
Standard OIL Company as the reason for
the dizziness of the crude oil market and
the low prices paid to producers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-11

Kulikovsky who on July IL last assassis
mated Mai. Gen. Count Shuvaloff ct Mos
cow. Russia, has been sentenced to impril
onment for life.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-09-27
wILLIAMsTowN.

Van AcAllister went to Barre yester
day on business.
Miss Efie Whitney is again quite il
and under DR.. Tindalrs care.
Herbert Martin has been quite III the
past week, but is improving,
Quite good number from here went
to the fair at Washington today.
Mrs. Seayer, who Is i'll with measles
at the Gulf is doing as well as could be
expected.
The electric light poles have been
shipped here and are at the station,
ready to be put up.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. n. Farnham and Mrs.
Harley I. Martin left yesterday on the
excursion to New York
AIRS. Mary McAllister wishes to thank
all who 50 generously helped her in
getting the votes for the Quaker range.
The ladies of the Universalist society
will hold their annual vegetable and
plant sale and hash supper Thursday,
October 5.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-09-27

Treaty Between Japan and England a
Brief Affair.

+ London, Sept. 27.-The text OF the
new agreement between Great Britain
and Japan, which was signed BIZ Lord
Lansdowne, the British foreign secre-
tary, and Baron Hayashi, the Japanese
minister TO Great Britain, on August
u, was issued By the foreign Office
late Monday evening. The momentous
document is brief one, comprising less
than 500 words, including eight articles
and a preamble.
Accompanying the agreement is let.
ter from Lord Lonsdowne to the British
ambassadors at st. Petersburg and Paris
for transmission to the Russian and
French governments respectively, in
which the foreign secretary courteously
redeems the agreement and fully points
out that the new decisive alliance IS
not intended as a menace, but rather
Jas a guarantee Of peace and prosperity
IN the far east, in which all countries
may participate.
The main features Of the new agree
ment have already been forecasted in
dispatches from London and Paris. The
pithy articles of the official text, how
ever, bring out forcibly the tremendous
Importance to both countries OF this
alliance, which practically makes Great
Britain and Japan one for the purpose
Of defense in the regions OF East Asia
and India"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-09-27
BETHEL.

While Liveryman Kempton, accom-
panied by his hostler, Mr.. Wilcox, were
cut driving on River street Saturday
evening, the horse became frightened at
some object in the road and in turning
out ran the wagon on some gravel piled
up in the gutter, tipping the occupants
out. Mr.. KemptOn escaped uniniured.
while Mr.. Wilcox suffered a fracture Of
the hip and injury to spine. Rev. Geo.
+. Fortier of the Universalist church
caught the animal
During the hours Of Saturday night
Landlord Pratt of the Bethel Tavern,
while trying TO quiet some boisterous
fellows about his premises, was as
saulted by three of the disturbers, to
his personal injury. Some furniture
about the office was destroyed by the
intruding parties. Officer Cushman was
called and placed under arrest William
Brooks. Tuesday morning Brooks was
brought before Justice r. J. Flint and
also John Wood OF Barre by war
rant, charged with assault upon George
Pratt. They were found guilty and
each paid a fine and costs amounting to
over $40. While Officer Cushman was
placing Wood under arrest one, Oscar
Recor, took fight and never came back
The officers are still looking for him.
Both Wood and Recor are working on
the concrete walks in the village. Land
lord Pratt was reimbursed by the first
two for the damage done to his proper
w
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-09-27
IA TuBEReuLosls sAN1TARIunl. :

BY the munifcence of Senator Red.
field Proctor the state of Vermont will
be provided with means for fighting
consumption and will, therefore, take
its place in line with those other states
which have undertaken the work ii
combating the white plague The
great lberality Of the gift makes posi-
BILE a larger work than was anticipated
by those who have been directly inter
ested in the matter. For three years
tile State tuberculosis Commission has
been working for the sanitarium, be-
lieying that an intelligent fight against
the spread Of the disease required the
erection Of an institution where incip-
lent cases might be treated. Just be-
fore the last session of the legislature
the commission had a plan to ask the
state to appropriate a sum Of money
for sanitarium. But as it early in
the season became evident that the ses-
sion was to be great game Of grab
the commission wisely decided to post
pone the request to more favorable
opportunity or until some individual,
q individuals, should make endowment
for the erection and maintenance Of an
institution Of that nature.
That there has long been the need Of
place for treatment Of consumption
has been recognized and now that the
institution is assured the education OF
the people 70 the best means for pre-
venting the disease win be greatly ex
pedited
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-09-27

Although he was not a resident Of
this city, George Rowland, whose death
occurred at his home in East Montpelier
earlier in the week, was greatly inter
ested in Barre and everything which
pertained to Barre's growth and prog
res. AS president Of the National Bank
Of Barre and vice president Of the Barre
Savings Bank and Trust company, his
financial interests were quite largely
centered here, 80 that in actuality he
was one Of our substantial business
men. As such and also as a citizen he
commanded universal respect.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-09-27
A Problem in Proportion.

II notice here an account of a wedding
feast in Illinois where the guests con-
stunned five barrels Of sauerkrant and
$500 pounds Of meat"
"And how much beer2.
Il suppose the beer il understood"
But they should mention the guam
tity as long as they itemize the other
Injuries"
"Oh, figure It out for yourself. If
one barrel Of sauerkraut equals $50
pounds Of meat, and and one barrel of
beer equals two quarts of kraut. and
land two quarts OF kraut equal six
teen degrees Of thirst, and and say. /
used to know how to do that kind Of
an example, but I've forgot now wheth-
er you add or multiply ]" Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-09-27

One enthusiastic man wants to con
fer upon Roosevelt the title Of Supreme
Arbitrator and Peace Plenipotentiary Of
the World. Another proposes that he
be called Theodorus Paeifcator Maxi
mus, A third suggests that a statue Of
heroic size be erected to the great
peacemaker" at The Hague. Plain com
nonsense people, however, continue to
call him Theodore Roosevelt, president
Of the United States.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-09-27
aThemy Not aIt.p

Dumley Say, old man, bought a
birthday present for my fiancee today
and wish you'd take it home and let
your wife see it.
Benediek What for?
Dumley-Well, when / looked at the
thing in the store thought It was a
necklace, but they sent a pair Of them
home and I'm sure they're not brace
lets. Philadelphia Press.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-09-27
SHOT HIS WIFE In SALOON.
She Had Asked Him for Money He
Laughed When Arrested.

Niagara Falls, n. Y, Sept. 27.-John
Stetz, saloonkeeper and butcher, and one
Of the richest men in the tunnel dis
tirct, is under arrest, charged with
shooting his wife. Mrs. Stetz was found
lying in the yard at her home with
bullet in her stomach. She told the
police that she went to her husbands
saloon last night and asked for some
money. Stetz picked up revolver and
fired twice, one bullet striking her. She
will die. Stetz laughed and joked about
the shooting when placed under arrest.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-09-27

II the new pastor Of the Congrega-
tional church in Mortified breaches with
the same determination with which he
walks, then we congratulate the church
on securing him. To walk IS miles
to FIJI an engagement in the pulpit and
to preach after having had no sleep for
As hours i an effort few men would
undertake. Yet Northfield's Walking
Parsonp did it.