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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-09

which the highest attachments of learn
ing We're but an empty victory. This spir-
ituai side of study, he said, would enable
all who mastered 1t to understand the plan
and purpose of God and His works and
would show them, too that there was no
necessary conflict between the highest at
tainments of science and the simplest
teachings of religion.
Speaking generally of Roman Catholicism
he said that for III years old Georgetown
had been turning out graduates who had
taken their place with the best men of the
world as jurists, physicians. statesmen and
judges in the highest tribunal of the land
Whatever the opponent of Roman Cathol-
iclsm might think of 1T as whole. the
graduate of the university would find in
the world no prejudice against the Roman
Catholic gentleman, and he could point
with pride to those of his creed who had
helped to do the worlds work in the past.
proud of their religion and grateful for the
light of religious wisdom that had been
made part of their education.
The opening of the new school year Is a
solemn occasion, he said, full of possibiii-
ties for future greatness and good works
This they were solemnly celebrating. and
the object of the service was to impress
upon all the lesson of truth love and char
lty. without which other attachments were
vain and of no avail.
At the close Of the service many of the
visitors stayed to renew old acquaintances
among the professors of the college and the
members of the faculty; the graduates and
the younger students mingled in the
quadrangle and strolled through the cool
halls of the old building. fighting over old
athletic battles and planning fresh mus
cular and intellectual work for the COM
Ing year.
Among those present at the service were
DR.. George r. Kober. dean of the medical
school; DR.. M. G. Motter. professor of
physics; DR.. G. Lloyd Magruder: DR.. Cogan,
dean of the dental school; Judge Clabaugh,
dean of the law school; Mr.. George E.
Hamilton, J. S. Easby-Smith. Daniel w.
O'Donoghue, the sisters and nurses of
Georgetown University Hospital. the senior
class of the Convent of the Visitation, MAJ
Gen. Carpenter. Claud ]. Zappone and Prior
Thunte, o. p. of New York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-09
| TIMBER AND MINING
Sources of the Wealth of
British Columbia.
WASTING THE FORESTS
CUTTING BEING CARRIED ON IN
AN ExTRAvAaANT WAY.
Coal Deposits Observation-Disclosures
Profitable - Vancouver's Foreign
Trade-Chinese Immigration.
BY WILLIAM Z. CURTIS.
Special Correspondence Of The Star and the Chicago
Record Herald.

o1 WILLIAM e. CURTIS.
Special Correspondence Of The Star and the Chicago
Record Herald.
BANFF, Canada, October 1, 1905.
Taking one consideration with another.
British Columbia Is the richest of the
Canadian provinces-rich in diversified re-
sources. Its lumber mills realize about
$l5,0Oo,oOO year and ship large part of
their product to foreign countries. No Sec
ton of the world has finer forests They
take out "toothpicks." as they call them,
12 feet long by feet square without a
knot or blemisl. But the timber is being
cut Off in a most extravagant and waste
full manner, without regard to the future
and thus the richest resource of the prov
ince is being rapidly destroyed beyond re-
covery. Occasionally some wise and far
sighted man calls attention to this waste
but nobody listens to him.
The second most valuable industry is min
Ing, which amounts to about the same as
the timber. but is not SO certain. Probably
the gold and silver output during the past
hve or six years has average $10.OO0, 600
and the coal S.. 100000. The gold and silver
mines are being gradually worked out, but
the coal Is inexhaustible. The deposits on
the Frazer river and along the line of the
Canadian Pacific are probably the most
valuable. in quantity and quality, In all
America west of the Mississippi river.
There Is anthracite as well as bituminous
coal In unlimited quantities. San Fran
cisco Is at present the largest market. but
you will find Frazer river coal in use every
where on the Pacific coast.
Fishing Industry.
The fishing industry. principally salmon,
Is worth about 100000 year, and, like
the coal. is permanent. This has been
very good year. The same phenomenon
may be observed here as along the coast
OF Puget sound and the Columbia river
which is, that the salmon pack during the
years that the President of the United
States is inaugurated Is twice as large as
in any other year between times. For ex-
ample, the following table will show the
number of cases packed in British Columbia
during the last ten years:
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Creatore's Concert.

The concert given by Creatore and his
italian band al the New National Theater
last evening was listened TO by large audi
ence that expressed its appreciation of the
bands work by liberal applause. The pic
turesQue gesticulations OF the eccentric
band leader seemed more subdued than on
his former visits to Washington and this
fact did not detract from the actual en-
joyment of the program.
The most pretentious number was Crea-
torres own arrangement of Tschaikowsky'
grand overture, ISL" which served to-
close the concert in a crash of harmony.
Other interesting and enjoyable numbers
were the Tannhauser march, Offenbach's
overture to Orpheus and Eurydice, and
selection from "Traviata." The soprano So
DIST with the band, Nine. Barili, was
heartily applauded in her principal number,
Ardite's waltz song. LIE Saran Rose"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-09-14
DECLINE OF GREAT RIVER.
Water Level of the Niger, in Africa, ! Is Slowly and Steadily Sinking.

The Niger Is the third largest river in Africa and one of the great rivers of the world. If a channel as long as the Niger were to be cut across our continent in the latitude of New York Ut would make an island of the north. 'ern part of North America. But the Niger is now showing more evidences of the desiccation that is gradually spreading over large parts of Africa than any other large river, for it is the run off for the waters of great part of the western Sudan, where the decline in rainfall has been uncom- monly marked for a considerable period.
 The British have made several futile attempts in the last two years to reach Jebba from the Niger mouth with their steamer Nupe. Ten years ago this point, where the railroad from Lagos is to cross the Niger, was accessible at all stages of water to light draft steamers. At Timbuktu, some 1,200 miles up the river, the French report that the water level Is slowly but steadily sinking. This is very apparent among the islands that divide the Niger into many channels from 100 to 300 miles above Timbuktu. As long as we have had knowledge of these islands some of them have been completely covered at high water so that the native inhabitants have been compelled to make an annual SO. journ on the mainland till the fall of the floods. Not single island is now abandoned, for none of them is GOV. cred even when the flood is unusually high.
 The French officers Toutee, Hourst and Fourneau proved the possibility of carrying supplies from the mouth of the Niger to the upper river in spite of the long stretch of rapids about 800 miles above the delta. Hun. dreds of tons of freight have thus been distributed from the ocean among the French posts in the western Sudan, and as late as last year some supplies were still forwarded by this route; but this highway to inner Africa, hail. ed as a great discovery when the French declared its practicability, has been abandoned this year. The wa. ter is so low in the rapids that no boat can get over the rocks.
 Fortunately for the French they have completed their railroad from the Senegal river to the upper Niger, giving a new inlet to their Sudanese possessions. But geographers are wondering how long tho drying up of Africa is to continue. It has been marked within the last ten years by the disappearance of Lake Ngami, in the south, and the diminution of Lake Chad, 2,400 miles further north, to a fourth of its former size, and there are as yet no signs that the great de- crease in rainfall is merely a tenn. porary phenomenon.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-09-14
BONE INSERTED IN ARM.
Remarkable Operation That Was Per-
 formed Over Twenty . Years Ago.

At the annual gathering of the Glass gow university club, at Sunderland, recently, Sir William Macewen, who was concerned in an extraordinary op- eration upon a child over 20 years ago, introduced the patient, now a full grown man, to the medical men present, and explained the nature of the remarkable case.
 The child was born without bone in the right arm, the boneless limb hanging helpless by its side. The mother. who took the child to the Glasgow infirmary assumed that tho arm must necessarily be amputated. But the surgeons determined to make an attempt to save the limb.
 Small sections of the bone taken from the tibis, or lower portion of the legs of other patients. who were under treatment for the cure of bowlegged- ness, were transferred to the boneless arm, there to continue their growth and to become amalgamated-in fact. event. ually supplying the place of the missing numerous.
 Sir William Macewen kepNin touch with the boy. who at the age of IA left Glasgow for Sunderland, where he had worked since The young man bared his arm to the guests present and gave the company abundant proof of thesus- tained serviceabieness of the limb, de- spite several accidents. including . compound fracture, which had befallsa if
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-09-14

and told her that we might possibly go along, too. was intending to speak to you about it.''
 That might be first rate," said Wids derpool. The Whimsaps are pretty good people-our kind. Where is this placer
 Another week went by in the beatific contemplation of various terrestrial paradises. Several final decisions were made and then Widderpool said he thought there was too much society business and white duck trousers about these summer resorts anyway. What he wanted was to put on an old flannel shirt and get down close to nature. He had scheme of an automobile trip with portable shelter tent and camp outfit-just nowhere in particular. I"We'll be irresponsible vagabonds for a few weeks," he said. Gypsy along without hurrying, stay where 1t suits and move on when we get tired. It would simply make new woman of you"
 "I'd sooner do 1t than anything you can mention" said Mrs. Widderpool. Its lovely idea"
 Let's make little list of the things we will want" said Widderpool, get. ting out his pencil.
 The end IS not yet, but, judging from the experience of the past, Widderpool will eventually decide that the really sensible, practical, restful thing to do will be to stay at home. Here we are nicely settled now" he will argue. We can, have the fatness and fullness of the earth on our table, comfortable beds, and our morning baths. If we pine for nature we can get on a street car and in an hour have nature to burn. We can go on lake excursion when We feel inclined, and take in the roof garden or some show or another. We can do thousand things to pass the time agreeably. tell you this go- ing out of town is a superstition. Sup pose we just see what we can get out of Chicago. Chicago Record Herald.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-09-14
.WoMEN'S NEW EMPLOYMENT
Hired to Run Elevators in Buildings Devoted to Female In- L,.., , terests.

Women always seem to be abis to establish some new kind of work. Now Boston has in several buildings devot- ed to women's interests, or largely patronized by women, girls employed to run the elevators. The idea was in. troduced by the Women's Educational and Industrial union, and the Young Women's Christian association soon followed. ...
 Except for one janitor," said the superintendent of the latter institution, ''we are all women around here, and to have two or three boys about to run the elevator was an unmitigated nuis- ance. So We discharged the boys and hired the girls. Since then we have been much more comfortable" The New England hospital for women in I,oxbury has also introduced elevator girls, and some of the millinery and women's furnishing goods stores in Boston are taking up the idea.
 The girls are all doing the work to the complete satisfaction of their em- ployers and have at the same time sug. gested a solution for the perplexing question of what to do with girl who has to earn money at an early age. She can run an elevator until she is old enough or has acquired the neces- gary training for something better. Formerly she might have been a cash girl, but now various mechanical de- vices are taking the place of the cash girl and leaving her without employ. ment. Several of the girls employed as elevator girls in the buildings just mentioned are studying for better posi- tions and one is glad to earn three dol lars a week while her eyes are recover ing from the strain of her high school course.
 To run an elevator is not difficult work, but requires careful attention o business. For this reason, according to the testimony of their employers, girls do 1t better than boys. They are more conscientious and trustworthy The girls seem to enjoy the work, and though the hours are long the work is not tiring. At the Young Women's Christian association the elevator girl goes on duty at seven o'clock and works till 12. Then she has two hours rest. In the afternoon she works from two o'clock until five, when she has an intermission of half an hour. resuming work at 5:30 o'clock and continuing till seven.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-09-14

guides. You know precisely what you are up against"
 T think If could see the pyramids l should be perfectly happy" said Mrs. Widderpool, enthusiastically. Lets go, Tom"
 "All right" said Widderpool. wen go. That's decided and of our minds. |"
 Shortly after he rose and, running his eye along the shelves of a book case, pulled out Richardson's Travels Along the Mediterranean" extracts from which he read aloud to Mrs. wid. 'derpool. The next morning he called at the steamship agents and got a large bundle of Literature" the De- rusal of which occupied them a week. They trayersed in imagination all the holy places with a solemn and exalted interest. they studied Egyptian dynas. ties and mythology. They rocked fin fancy ia Nile dahabeahs and saw the spreading brown sails of the feluccas reflected in the waters of the Mediter- ranean-
 1t was beautiful while 1t lasted, but not long after Widderpool met man who h,ld been to the Yellowstone.
 'It is one of our national follies," he said that sening, ito go trapezing of across the seas to see trivial foreign scenery and the decayed ruins of effete monarchies when our own great coun- try affords the most sublime natural spectacles on the face of the globe, and when we may, by a few days travel, be afforded a glimpse of an empire magnificent and powerful beyond t4-e widest dreams of a Caesar or an Ale-- ande-. I don't say that the other Is not very well in It's way, and we may do it some time, but let's take west ern trip first and get a realization of what Americans have to be proud of 7
 "I think there's a good deal of sense in that" agreed Mrs. Widderpool- I'm sure I'd just as soon go vest-and sooner. It will be more comfortable travelling. I know that
 Think of the romance of the vesti- said Widderpool. Can the old world show anything like it Think of the great canyons, the forests and prairies. I'll tell you. ve1l go to California and then go north clear up to Seattle I'll bring home soms railway folders and ven fx up route
 He did 90. and he and Mrs- Wilder pool saturated themselves with Bret Harts, Joaquin Miller and the vss thorOugbIy for a week or two. ThsE 1Utdsrpool began to have his riissfv-
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-09-14
INSURANCE PROFITS.
New York Life and Mutual
 Officers on the Stand.
COMBINATIONS ARE NECESSARY.
That Way Only Can Millions Be Han- died to Advantage, Says Cromwell. Method Profitable to the
 Policy Holders.

NEW YORK, Sept. 14. - Financial representatives of two big insurance companies were examined yesterday by the legislative committee in the aldermanic chambers, and they explain ed in greater detail than in the pre- vious four days sessions the princi- pal syndicate transactions of the two big companies. Assistant Treasurer Shipman of the New York Life and Frederick Cromwell, treasurer of the Mutual Life, were the principal wit nesses. MT. Shipman said that when the New York Life went into a joint account arrangement with one or more bankers to buy and sell securities at a profit for its policy holders the com pany put up all the money, but shared with the bankers one-half of the prof it's, holding the bankers, however, re- sponsible for one-half of the losses should any losses occur. That arrange ment, he said, for utilizing the compa- ny's funds had proved more economical than an attempt on the part of the company to buy and sell securities di- rect
 Treasurer Cromwell of the Mutual Life said that his company had cleared $500,O00 on its s5,0OO,OO0 participation in the Cuban bond syndicate with Speyer & Bros. MT. Cromwell said further that the methods of modern finance made 1t imperative that every large insurance company buy its se- curities on the ground floor through the syndicate method instead of doing as they did in former years by buying from brokers after one or two profits had been made by outsiders. Compari- sons between the new and the old method, he said, would show that the syndicate method was far more prof1ta- ble to the policy holders. He added that members of the finance commit tee of the Mutual Life frequently back ed up their judgment as insurance com mitteemen by buying on their private account some of the very same class of securities which they advised their company to buy.
 The first witness at the fifth days session Frederick H. Shipman, assist ant treasurer of the New York Life, explained some syndicate transactions of the company when it participated in an issue of bonds of the Toronto, Ham, ilton and Buffalo railway Mr. Ship man admitted that, although the New York Life made about $4,000 as origi- nal profits for it's participation in the purchasing syndicate, 1t subsequently, charged up as profits S40000 more be- cause the bonds had risen In the mar ket from 91 to 99, a rise of points, but that as matter of fact the insur- ance company had not disposed of it's holdings and that the bonds were now quoted at 9S bid and 99 asked. |
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-09-14
IF YOU WOULD BE POPULAR
Some Excellent Rules Given by the D.o Editor of Success on Question o' t of Social Duty. ~9~ .

Be sociable.
 Be unselfish.
 Be generous.
 Be a good listener.
 Never worry or whine.
 Study the art of pleasing.
 Be frank, open and truthful.
 Always be ready to lend hand. Be kind and polite to everybody. Be self-confdent but not conceited. Never monopolize the conversation. Take genuine interest in other peo- pie.
 Always look on the bright side of things.
 Take pains to remember names and faces.
 Never criticise or say unkind things of others.
 Look for the good in others, not for their faults.
 Forgive and forget injuries, but never forget benefits.
 Cultivate health. and thus radiate strength and courage.
 Rejoice as genuinely in anotheris success as in your own.
 Always be considerate of the rights and feelings of others.
 Have a good time. but never let fun degenerate into license.
 Have a kind word and a cheery, en. couraging smile for everyone.
 Learn to control yourself under the most trying circumstances.
 Be respectful to women. and chival. rous in your attitude toward them. Meet trouble like a man, and cheer fully endure what you cant cure. Believe in the brotherhood of man. and recognize no class distinctions. Do not be self-opinionateu, but listen with difference to the opinions of oth- CTS.
 Never utter witticisms at the risk of giving pain or hurting some ones feel ings.
 Be ambitious and energetic. but never benefit yourself at the expense of another
 Be as courteous and agreeable to your interiors as you are to your equals and superiors. Do not bore people by telling them long, tedious stories, or by continual ly dilating on your own affairs.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-09-14
A BADGE OF BRAVERY.
Some of the Men Who Wear the New Medal of Honor Given by the
 United States Government.

The recent change in the design of the Medal of Honor again calls atten- ton to the decoration which stands for the highest honor our government can bestow upon its soldiers-a decoration ranking in the same class with the Famous Victoria Cross of Great Britain Sand the eagerly coveted Iron Cross of Germany. The Medal of Honor is con- ferred by act of congress only for some 9distinguished deed of bravery or gall lantry while in service. In the winning of it officer and private met on com mon ground, and such care is exercised by the war department to prevent the honor from being unworthily bestowed &lhat out of more than two millions and half of men who served in the civil war less than 1000 have been awarded Medals of Honor. And of those nearly =Dne-half were voted outright to an en- tire regiment, the Twenty-seventh Maine volunteer infantry, whose term Df service expired on the eve of the battle of Gettysburg, but whose mem- bers volunteered to remain and enter that fight.
 The idea of the Medal of Honor, says the New York Times, originated with the late Gen. B. D. Townsend, adjutant general of the army during the civil war, and the regulations which gov ern the awarding of it are so stringent that it may be said to stand in every case for heroic and distinguished serv- See. Hundreds of those who wear it.,
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-09-14
EXQUISITE LACE TATTINc.
Pretty and Durable Trimming Back
 Again in Full Favor and Not Hard to Make.

Materials required: Cotton No. IS, tatting shuttle, and fine crochet hook.
 Two threads are needed for work ing this pattern. On the leading thread work 6 double knots, 1 picot, 7 double knots, picot, 6 double knots.
 On the shuttle thread work double knots, draw the end of the leading thread up in a loop and pass the shut tie through it, double knots, 1 picot, 3 double knots, close; 4 double knots, draw through the picot on last closed eye, double knots, 1 picot, double knots, 1 picot, double knots, picot, 3 double knots, picot, double knots, close
 Now on the leading thread work ' double knots. For the next closed eye on the shuttle thread work double knots, draw through last picot on last closed eye, 3 double knots, picots sep arated by 3 double knots, 5 double