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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-27
Col. Francis Dilemma.

Somebody has sent me very clever car
toon appearing in the Butte CMont.) Inter
Mountain representing David Rowland
Francis of st. Louis, late president of the
Louisiana purchase exposition, between the
horns of a dilemma. He holds in one hand
"a copy of bill rendered by the collector
OF customs at Washington to Alice Roose
welt for the lawful duties upon the gifts
presented her by sovereigns and other peo-
pie of the east while in the other hand he
has his credentials commissioner to
thank kings and potentates for sending eX-
htbits to the st. Louis fair. The inference
is that Col. Francis is worried for fear he
will be compelled to pay duty on the pres
ents he is likely to receive during his tri
Umphal march around the world. And ii is
no doubt, a weli-founded apprehension. But
the solution is simple. All Col. Francis has
to do is to ask Col. Carter of Montana to
Introduce resolution rendering him the
freedom of the custom houses of the United
States, and have it passed by both houses
and approved by the President before his
departure. Nothing is simpler, and Col
Carter will also send. under his frank, GER
tiffeG copies of the resolution to all kings.
emperors, potentates sultans, begums and
maharaiahs who are at work, SO that they
need not hesitate to hand out plenty of
presents to Col. Francis in the fear that
he may have to pay duty upon them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-27
Alleged Corset swindle of $500, 600.

On the charge that the concern was con-
Quoting swinding operations and that peo-
pie in various parts of the country have
been mulcted of more than 100000, detec-
tives Saturday entered the offices of l.. ID.
Abbott & Co, manufacturers OF skirts and
corsets. Chicago, and arrested E. e.
Hughes, said to be co-partner and former
ly preacher, and r. B. Hamilton, and G.
M. Reed, employees. l.. D. Abbott is said to
be a real estate agent In East st. Louis, I'll.
The alleged fraud consists, 1t is said, of OBJ
tanning deposits of money from persons VINO
are required to obtain subagents and on
their failure to do so, their money is re-
tanned by the firm. Hughes, who was ar
rested six months ago on a similar charge
and was dismissed when the case came TO
trial. declared after his arrest today that
him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-27
NEW AND DEADLIER TORPEDO.
Missiles Equipped With Turbine En-
gines Navy's Latest Acquisition.

Ihe government is supplying its navy
with new engine of destruction. the en-
pioyment of which win be deadly step IN
the evolution of modern warfare Tins
agent is turbine torpedo intended to SUI
persede the old Whitehead. 1t is said that
me turbine torpedo will travel nearly
twice as far as the Whitehead, and at
ieast eight knots faster The new inven-
.ioh Is known as the Bliss-Leavitt torpedo
These turbine dirigible torpedoes are
being built at the E. w Bliss Compauy's
WORKS IN Brooklyn. The government has
let contract to the company for 800 of
them, and upward of fifty have already
been delivered at the naval stations
A naval inspecting officer and a force
OF naval experts are supervising the con-
struction of the torpedoes. and 800 me-
ciaH cS are engaged in the work. Sew
erai OF those turned out have already been
tested Noyac Bay, Long Island was Sc
lected as the proving ground with a
fifty-yard net as a target. The tornedoes
We're discharged from the steamer Sarah
Thorp at a distance of 200 yards The
center of the target was struck three
times IN success: on.
The torpedo itself is a marvel of me-
chanical skill. 1t weighs l,2291S hounds
and Is a cigar-shaped shell, the COM
ponent parts being adjusted with such
nicely that scarcely Joint is visible II
is enough like the Whitehead in its sew
erai lines, however, to permit of it's use
In the old torpedo tubes. and this has the
advantage of ii considerable saving to the
government. The torpedo is 161a feet
long and 11ai inches across at its great
est diameter. The shell contains a 100
horse power turbine engine, and an air
flask % inches long. made to stand a
pressure of $50 pounds to the square
inch There remains enough space for
26S pounds of explosive. and the ma
chinery to set 1t off The air flask con-
tains the compressed air TO drive the en-
CINE and propel the torpedo. This air is
heated by an alcohol lamp. which lights
automatically. The new t0rpedOs chief
superiority lies in the improved air cham
Der and the turbine engines. If it is en-
ployed in naval battles the engaging ships
VIII attack from a greater distance than
In cases where the Whitehead has been
used
These torpedoes will cost the government
from Sl,UJ0 to $1,000 each
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-27
POLITICIANS BEATEN FOR ONCE.
Iowa Veteran Law Held Good-Joke
on Legislature.

After having been treated as joke with
frank avowal on the part of nine-tenths
of the Iowa legislators that they only voted
for it because of their confidence that the
courts would hold it unconstitutional
Iowas soldier preference law has been sus-
tanned by the supreme court, and the joke
is on the Iowa Legislature. And a very
serious joke ii is.
The soldier preference law provides that
veterans of the civil must be given
preference in all appointments to public
Offices city, county or state. Politicians
who had come to think the old soldier vote
too insignificant to deter them from APP
pointing younger and more active bench
men TO public Offices find themselves COM
PEELED to give place to any old soldier who
may wish it. What is still worse, those
old soldiers already holding office so
protected by this law that they cannot be
removed and in that way the plums that
have heretofore fallen to the custody Of
every incoming official are limited to those
which do not involve the removal of an
old soldier.
This soldier preference law was passed
by the last general assembly. 1t was in
troduced by Representative Behler, an aged
veteran of the civil war, who possessed
little influence in the legislature. But 1t
had its embarrassments, despite the fact
that II was looked upon as q joke. Mem
beers of both houses openly declared that
they were virtually compelled to vote for 1t
or forfeit the old soldier vote in their re-
SpectiNe districts. 1Uey OlQU WISH see
the bill become a law, but they didn't dare
vote it down.
Then came the alleged discovery that 1t
was unconstitutional, for the reason that it
was class legislation. Its opponents-and
they We're nine to one--thereupon surprised
its advocates by unanimously supporting
It. and it passed with but half dozen OPP
posing votes The legislators laughed in
their sleeves and felicitated each other on
the joke they had played on the courts by
placing the burden of estranging the sol
der vote upon the judges.
It was but few weeks until the ineyi-
table test case developed. 1t was an action
in mandamus brought by an ex-soldier at
Marshalltown to compel his retention as
city clerk. The lower court decided against
him, holding the law was unconstitutional
for the reason that it was class legislation
favoring the civil war veteran over all
other citizens, including the Mexican and
Spanish-American war veterans. But the
supreme court, by divided opinion, de-
cided this week that the lower court was
wrong and that the law was constitutional
The old soldiers have now turned the laugh
upon the legislators.
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compelled to order the removal of a grove
Of date palms that have been growing nice
L.. t., Ilaatl 1, NALL (,ali-

compelled to order the removal of a grove
of date palms that have been growing nice
ly down in Death Valley, southern Call
fornia because the Salton sea is rising so
rapidly that they would soon be destroyed.
The break in the Colorado river has not
been repaired and the engineers now pro-
nounce it an impossible task. 1t looks as
IL the course Of the river had changed for
good The old bed running to the Gulf of
California is practically dry, and the new
channels, which follow the irrigating bitches
of the California Development Company
carry the water into the Salton sea, a lake
without any outlet, in the center of Death
Valley, nearly 400 feet below the Pacific
ocean. When the Salton sea rises to the
level Of tidewater, 1t will, of course, find
an outlet, but the rise Is so gradual, the
area If the sink is so great and the evap-
Grafton In that torrid zone is so rapid chat
1t will be several years before Death Valley
is filed with water
The government palm grove, however, is
situated at low level and Secretary Will
son has ordered its removal. The trees
We're brought from Africa last year by Mr..
kearney, a special agent Of the bureau of
plant industry, who was sent to the Desert
of Sahara to collect such vegetation as gave
promise of being fit for our own arid sec
tfons. He found several cases where the
Arabs have large quantities of date palms.
which they are cultivating with great profit.
He selected lot of young trees, analysed
the soil and studied the climatic conditions
and the methods of cultivation. Then,
when he brought them to this country. he
set them out in southern California, In
the Colorado desert. not far from Yuma
where the soil. climate and other condi-
lions are similar to those of Africa. They
have been growing in their new environ
ment for more than a year. and Secretary
Wilson has been watching them with great
interest. He believes that the Introduction
Of the date palm into our arid regions will
contribute considerably to the wealth and
the prosperity of the people.
On the particular oasis from which these
date palms came the Arabs have an average
of six inches annual rainfall and have dem
onstrated their ability to cultivate dates
without irrigation with that amount of
moisture. They plant the trees eighty feet
apart and cultivate the soil between them
thoroughly in order to maintain a dust
mulch on the surface. This retains the
water at the surface of the ground. Gapil-
larry action stops at the bottom of the dust
and will go no farther The cultivation is
perpetual and each tree produces half a
ton of dates.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-27
The Story a Fake.

The newspapers recently printed a dis
patch from Kokomo. Ind, announcing that
William Elliott, veteran of the civil war,
had declined an accumulated pension of
nearly $4,000 because Christ refused to
accept money for the performance of His
duties and / will not take it, When you
see a story like this In the newspapers 1t
is always best to reserve your opinion and
in this case 1t turns out that the $4,000
pension is a myth. Commissioner Warner
says that the name of William Elliott APP
pears several times upon the pension rolls.
Men of that name receive pensions at both
the Indianapolis and the Columbus
agencies. But he is not aware that either
of them has accumulated pensions and pro-
nounces the whole story false He has
written to the pension agents at the points
named for information on the subject.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-27

department, gratifying as have been the
results, be 1t remembered that we are still
AT the threshold of agricultural develop
menf. and that the educational work which
mas led to such grand results has. only been
extended as yet to a portion of our agricul-
tural population. There is not an intelli-
een' patriouc citizen in the Union who
will not say with his whole heart Let the
good work go on
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-27

Goaded by jealousy, Steven czintel killed
his wife and then himself at their home in
Dorothy, a little mining village mile west
of Latrobe, Pa, last evening. The two were
twenty-three and his wife, widow of six
months, was twenty-six. The husband was
iasanely Jealous of a butcher of Allegheny
and had threatened to Kill him.
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ATLANTTC COAST / lNE

Effective November 20. 1905
40 10. housekeeping Cars New York to
Jacksonville, Fla.
3 40 pm. dsiiy-Sleeppg Cars New York to
Jacksonville. tia.; New York TO Port Tampa Fla.
via Jacksonville. New York to Augusta. Ga; New
York TO Charleston. ). c.; Washington ID. c.. TO
Wilmington. y. q. Connects at Petersburg foi
Norfolk via y. w. DINING CAR SERVICE o..
this train.
Fos tickets Frd all information apply at the
OFkICE OF THE LINE, COL PENNsYLVANLi
AVENUE NORTHWEST, AND PENNSYLVANIA
RAILROAD STATION.
GEO. y. JAMES
District Passenger Agent, Washington, ID. @.
W. J. CRAIG, II. ". EMERSON.
Gen. Pas. Agt. Traffic Manaxef,
$3.50 d.eSu
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-27

Word has been received of the sudden
death of Joseph c. Foley of Detroit who
for sixteen years was Identified with gold
mining in the Rainy river district OF north
ern Ontario. Mr.. Foley left recently for
Wildwood, Ont, to look over the Hake-
spear mine, of which he had just been APP
pointed general manager. The family heard
only that he had dropped dead in the mine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-27
Looking After Her Subjects.

The solicitude with which the Japanese
government looks after its subjects was in
Dictated last spring, when a medical COM
mission was sent to the isthmus of Pan
ANA to vestigate the sanitary conditions
before any japanese coolies were allowed
to go there to work on the canal. The re-
port was in the negative. The inspectors
informed the emigration bureau at Toxic
that the sanitary arrangements and the ac
commodations provided for the laborers
were entirely inadequate, and therefore no
japanese coolies are working on the Pan
anna canal.
Last spring emigration inspectors of
Japan made a thorough examination of con-
ditions in the gulf states. where labor is
very much needed. The character of their
report Is not known, but 1t Is safe to say
that 1t was conscientious and complete
If the Chinese government should make
some such arrangement and adopt some
similar regulations for the restriction OF
immigration to the United States and else
where there might be less difficulty In max
ing a satisfactory treaty. 1t would be
harder, however, to enforce such rules in
China. The Chinese do not have the same
reverence for the authorities and respect
for their government that is found among
the Japanese,
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Chesapeake & Ohio Ry.

Schedule efectiye November 20. 1905.
Trains leave Pennsylvania Station.)
e3O PIN. Daily-CHICAG0 AND ST. LOUIS SPE.
CIAL- Solid vestibule. electric lighted Dining
Car train to Cincinnati. Reaches Cincinnat Il
500 am. Louisville Il 100 m, st. ouis 80
pm, Chicago. $50 pm. Pullman service to
louisville, Cincinnati. Indianapolis, Chicago and
st. Louis. Connection for Virginia Hot Springs.
Dining Car from Washington; meals la carte.
II 10 pm. Day-F. r. ". LIMITED. Solid ve1.
Thule, eectric-lighted Dining Car train to Gin.
cinnatl. Pullman sleepers to Cincinnati, Lax
ington aud Louisville without change. Com.
partment sleeper to Virginia Hot Springs daily
except Sunday. Sleepers Cincinnati to Chicago
and st. Louis Dining serving meals q 10
carte.
Reservation and tickets at Chesapeake and Ohio
Office 5l3 Pennsylvania avenue; 600 Fourteenth
street Lear +, and at the sta ton. Telephone call
l6AO for Pennsylv ania r. R. Cab Service.
FL w. FULLER.
OILS ain AVen
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-27

Publicity is best bought
through the recognized family
newspaper. And the best news
paper offers the cheapest and
most widespread publicity.
Such is The Evening Star.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-27
Don't Keep Useless Articles.

What's useless to you may be useful to
some one else Costs only 1c. a word to
advertise for an exchange In the Trade
column Of The Star. Minimum charge. l5c.
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SeabOard Airline RAILWAY,

TlCkET OFFICE, 1927 PENNA. AVE.
For Petersburg, Raleigh, Wilmington, Columbia,
Savannah, Jacksonville, Tampa. Atlanta, Birmin2.
ham Mobile Pensacola and New Orleans.
1880 AN. DAILY-Seaboard Mail-Througs
Pullman Sleeper to Jacksonville, Fla, connecting
at Hamlet with Pullman Sleeper to Birmingham.
6.25 PM. DAILY-Sea board kNuress-Sotd train
t. Jacksonville and Tampa. with Pullman sleepers.
Through .laeper to Atlanta and birmingham.
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SOUTHERN RAlLMAN.

Trains leave from Pennsylvania Station
I.35 am. Daily. Local for Harrisonburg W.s
reuton, DGnylle ana way stations.
1851 am. DAILY. Washington and Florida LIN.
ited. Through coaches and sleeper to Column Ia
Savannah and Jacksonville Dining car service
IIIb an. Daily. United States Fast Mail
llrstclsss coaches and sleeper to New Oreala
4:OI pm Week Days Local for Rarrisopb,,,
and way stations en- Manassas branch.
s55 pm. daily. Local for WArrvnton aud Chu..
7:So pm. Daily. New York and Atlanta EXPRESS.
f!rst-class coach 10 Atlanta, sleeper to Colunbun
Ca; Sunset tourist sleeper Washington to Ss o
Francisco Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays
$50 pm. Daily. New York and Florida Express
Through coaches and uleepers to Columbia, Savan.
Port Tampa. Dining car service q 10 carte.
1000 pm. Daily. New York and Memphis Lin.
ited (via Lynehburg. First-class coach and sleeper
60 Roanoke, Knoxville. Chattanooga and Memphis:
sleeper 10 Birmingham aud New Orleans Dinins
service.
1916 pm. Daily. Washington and Southwestern
Limited. All Pullman train; observation car to
Atlanta and Macon club car tc Atlanta; sleepers
u Nashville. Atlanta, Macon, Birmingham Me1.
.nss aud New Orleans. Dining car service
TRAINS On BLUEMONT BRANCH.
Leave Washington $40 am, / 30 4:4o sos
pa. week days. for Buemont; CPS pm. week
days for Leesburs only. On Sunday leave Wash.
Iugt1u 9:lO m, sos pm, for Bluemont
Through trains from the south arrive washing
am. week days and $3.50 ., m. daily from Char
lOttesvlhe. $40 am; from Lynchburg 900 n m
Tickets reepi9s car reservations and detailed
ct. 81 Ps. ave. and Pennsylvania Station. Bag.
gsse checked through from hotels and residepses
'PhcEe Main 1880 p II. n. Cab Service
II. .. SPENCER. Gen. Man.
Nov. 90 :. II. HAkDWICK. Pass Traf Mo-
1905 W. TAYLoE. Gen Pass, AssS,
II. Il. SPENCER, Gen Man
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sll.30 Pm Sieeper.
s2b7 a M. Seepers.
EVERY HOUR on THE HOUR
10 BALTIMORE WITH PULLMAN SERVICE.
Week days: 2.57, 800, Gao, TOO, 7.2O. $780, $50.
90 $40 1000. Hoo an. 400 noon, l2sDS
100 goo 800, 400, 4.45. 500, sos. $50, 600,
68O 100. 500, 1000 II. 80 ll.S0 pm.
Sundays 2.S7. 100. 40. $50 300. 1000. ll.Oo
an. LOO, LIS, 800 $50, 500. $50. $50. 800
1000 l1.So. ll.So Pi Pm
CHICAGO d NORTHWEST, s11.OO In, q. ~ pm
CINCINNATI. SIT. LOUIS and LOUISVILLE.
1905 an, .iO6 pm, sl2A6 night
PlTTSBURG. '11.O an. o. Il pm. and 'lz4e
CLEVELAND. 'aI; pm
WHEELING. 1905 an, $3.50 pm.
WINCHESTER, 1895 en-, f405, $500 pm.
ANNAPOLIS, week days 500 an. l2.os moor
pLuRAY aud EL.KToN. '4o6 pm. through pario,
FREDERICK, tss5, ss.1s. sloo5. t11.oo ,.m
4GERSfoWS. fi0.o5 am. and Is 90 pm.
lloyd and way points, 1898. 1915 am. 81.l1,
ts.oO, TO. 50. SOL 10. i'll 30 pm
an. fia5o, si.i5 1850 sos 1855 1850 f.ss.
'WASHINGToN JUNCTION and way points, ts IS.
s9.15 am. Ills, $500, 1880 pm.
'Daily. tExcept Sunday SSunday only.
Baggage called for and checked from hotels and
residences by Union Transfer Co. orders left
at ticket Offices 619 Pennsylvania ave. nv. New
York ave and 10th St. and at station.
S. r. HEGF. District Passenger Agen.
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Date Palm Grove to Be Removed.
The Secretary Of Agriculture has been
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r. S. RANDALL POTOMAC RIVER LINE CO.
STEAMER HARRY RANDALL, MONDAYS AND
SATI RDAYS at am, for landings Potomac,
Including Port Tobacco creek Maddox creek,
W!comico river and Nomni creek landings. WE'D
NESDAY at pm. for river landings, including
Landings the Wicomico river, NoInini and lower
MachodOc creeks.
Returning steamer arrives In Washington Tues
day and Sunday afternoons and early Friday
morning.
Steamer for GLYMONT and intermediate Iand.
iugs at am daily except Sunday; returning
about pm. no15-tf
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POTOMAC RIVER BOATS.
Maryland, Delaware
and Virginia
Railway Company.

On and after September steamers will leave
9TH st. wharf every Sunday. Tuesday and Thurs
day at pm. for Baltimore and river landings,
arriving in Baltimore early Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday morning. Returning, leave Balti-
MORE Pier No 8, Light St, every Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday at 5 pm, arriving in
Washington early Thursday, Saturday and Mon
day morning.
All river freight must be prepaid.
Accommodation for passengers unsurpassed.
I. MURDOCH. STEPHENSON L. BRO,
q. Z. Agent. Agents.
sel.tf 25 Telephone Main AS.
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5. S. Deutschland to Italy,
IN LESS THAN EIGHT DAYS.

s. s. Hamburg and Furst Bismarck are new res.
sells OF the most modern type ard of about 10 900
tons
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Mediterranean Service.

'F. bismarck ....,....... Dec e noon
prinz Adaibert. Dec. 49, II an; Feb 8. Mar. 70
Hamburg. Jan. 6. 2:30 pm; Feb. II, Mar. 81
Prinz oskar Jan. ID, IL am; Mar. q Apr. 10
iDeutschland. ............. Feb. @. 2:3O d M
Rates LIST Class $40. SIS, Sis upward, according
TO steamer selected.
'Can at Gibraltar. tGrin ROOM
SIS Moltke TO Madeira. Cediz Gibraltar MALAGA
Alsiers AID Genoa Jan. 80, 1900
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-27

Neutrality-suspicious. LINE. 81 B'wAY. N. T.
Z. 7. DRoop SONS. 02S Pa. ave.
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Scores Cotton Gamblers.

In dealing with the crop report leak
gross breach of trust on the part of one
of the employees of the bureau of statistics -
says: This department acted with vigor
and dispatch when it got evidence of wrong
doing on the part of its own officials, but
we have no evidence of disciplinary or pre-
ventive action at the traders end of the
line, where gamblers interested neither in
production nor consumption, disturb values
to the injury Of both, and make loud outcry
when creatures of their own kind corrupt
oHlclais to betray confidence for the love of
money. The responsibility for this leak
is shared by every one who, to get money
without work, CANDLES in farm products
When this form of industry c,eases these
parasites who tempt department officials
will have to work for their bread"
The method of handling crop reports he
says, has been thoroughly recast during
the year. There has also been a decided
chanSe In the methods of work prescribed
for field agents. Each agent Is now con-
hned to definite group of states, with
which he becomes thoroughly familiar by
travel each month.
Analyzing the principal crops for the year
the Secretary says that corn reached its
highest production, with 2,T0S 900 900 bush
els, gain of 100000 over the next lowest
year, 1899; hay is second: cotton comes
third with a valuation of s575. 600 600:
wheat 1925, 600 900: oats $3.50 900 600. pota-
toes, S13S 0o,oo0: barley, SIS, 600 600; tobac-
co, $4,000, 600; sugar cane and sugar beets
soo,W0,O00; rice, $l3, So, 900; dairy products
SGo5ooo,oOo, an increase of $54, 600, 900 over
last year.