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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-01

Weather conditions and general forecast:
While the Mississippi valley depression has
moved but little since Thursday morning, it
has gathered increased strength and as
sumed more definite shape. 1t extends in
the form of narrow trough throughout
the entire valley, and is attended by gen.
eral rains in the great central valleys of the
south and SHOWS in the upper lake region.
There were also rains and SHOWS in the
Pacific states and SHOWS Thursday in the
plains states.
1t is much warmer in the Ohio valley and
the lake region and colder in the Missouri
valley and the southwest.
There will be rain or snow tonight and
saturday In the upper Ohio valley, the
lower lake region and the middle Atlantic
states, and rain in the south Atlantic states.
In the gulf states the weather will clear
by Saturday morning, with lower tempera-
lures. 1t Will be warmer in the Atlantic
states and colder Saturday in the upper
Ohio valley and western lower lake region.
Cold wave warnings have been issued for
the eastern portions of Missouri and Iowa,
the western portion of Wisconsin, and for
Illinois, except Chicago.
Flood warnings have been issued for the
rivers of southeastern Mississippi and
southwestern Alabama.
The winds along the middle Atlantic coast
Eill be fresh to brisk northeast to east; on
fhe south Atlantic coast, fresh easterly, and
on the east gulf coast, fresh southeast to
SOUTH shifting to southwesterly am. north
westerly.
Steamers departing today for European
ports will have fresh northeast to east
winds, with increasing cloudiness to the
Grand Banks.
The following heavy precipitation Gin
fnches) has been reported during the past
twenty-four hours: Memphis, 40; Little
Rock, 1.42; Meridian, 2.64; Mobile, 842
Montgomery, 1.32; Admission, 116; Pensa-
cola, 1.5O.
Records for Twenty-Four Hours.
The following were the readings of the
thermometer and barometer at the weather
bureau for the twenty-four hours beginning
at pm. yesterday:
Ihermometer-February %, pm, AZ; s
pm, 36; II midnight 80; March l, am,
"a; 8 am, 80; II noon, SO; 2 pm., 80.
Maximum, AZ, at Pm, February 81;
minimum, 81, at am, March /.
Barometer-February %, 4 pm, 3O.37;
pm, 3O3S; II midnight, 3O.3S; March l.
M, 3O.39; am, 3O.42; noon, 3O.45; 2
pm, 3O.35.
Tide Tables.
Today-Low tide, 3:OS am. and 3:25 pm. !;
high tide 1914 am and Ola pm.
Tomorrow-Low tide, 3:46 am. and 4:Ob
pm; high tide, 9:35 am and 9:56 pm.
Tie Sun and Moon.
Today-Sun rose, 6:34 am; sun sets, $50
pm.
Tomorrow-Sun rises, 6:33 am.
Moon rises 80 pm. today.
The City Lights.
The city lights and naphtha lamps all
lighted by thirty minutes after sunset; ex-
unSuishing begun one hour before sunrise
All arc and incandescent lamps lighted ff-
teen minutes after sunset and eXtinguished
forty-five minutes before sunrise.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-01
Petition in Voluntary Bankruptcv

Henry Mason Baum, who says he is
clergyman and author, today applied to
the District Supreme Court to be adjudged
bankrupt. His assets consist of personal
property valued at $3.50, and he schedules
his liabilities at $3005. Attorney John
Ridout appears for the petitioner
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-01
Will of Elizabeth s. QuinIan.

The will Of Elizabeth s. Quinlan dated
February IL, 1907 was offered for probate
today.
All her personal and real estate Is left
tn her sister. Katherine Williams, in trust
for their mother, Anna Quinlan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-01
Repairs to Steamer Manchester.

The steamer Charles Manchester of the
Mount Vernon and Marshall Hall line,
which has been in Baltimore for the pa st
three months receiving a new boiler and
having other repair work done. sailed for
this city last night. She is expected to
arrive here this afternoon about o clock
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-01

chased of James T. Richards and wife IA
acres of limestone land at and near Pine
burg, Washington county, Nd. for SIC, coo.
The company will engage extensively IN
Quarrying and crushing stone,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-01
WEATHER FORECAST.

Rain and Warmer Tonight and Satur-
day. Fresh Winds.
Forecast till p. m. Saturday:
For the District Of Columbia, rain and
warmer tonight and Saturday; fresh east
to south winds.
For Maryland and Virginia, rain and
warmer tonight and Saturday, except colder
Saturday in extreme western portions
fresh east to south winds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-01

Minimum temperature past twenty-four
hours, 81 a year ago, 80.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-01
FRATERNAL NOTICES.

ANIGHTS OF PYTHIAs.-THE MEMBERS OF
Equal Lodge, No. IT, are requested to attend
special meeting, Pythian headquarters. this
sNehIng NJ 1880. to make arrangements for the
,onr ID. Z. BROWN, x. Of r. and ..
ROBT- SROUFE. c. C.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-01

PROBATE CoURT-Justice. Gould.
Estate of Thomas Montgomery; petition
to cucumber real estated filed; attorney,
Robert Preston Sheaiey.
Estate of John C. Albrecht; letters of adj
ministration granted to Agnes NJ. Albrecht;
bond 81. 500: attorney. w. NJ. Ofiey.
Estate of Christine Hinrichs: will admit
ted to probate and letters testanaentary
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-01

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN THAT +. P. NAY
ruary. 1907. been incorporated under the name of
+. J.. May Hardware Company who assume all
the assets and liabilities of F. p. May & Com
pany. FRANK p. MAY
GEORGE ]. MAY,
ARTHUR J. MAY.
JAMES B. BROWN
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-01
SPECIAL NOTICES.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT TIE CO.
partnership of Frank p. May and George j. May,
trading under the nrm name OF r. p. May & Co.,
is by mutual consent, this 2sth day Of February.
1907 dissolved.
FRANK p MAY,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-01

BANKRUPTCY COURT.-Chief Justice
Clabaugh.
In re L. C. Bailey: argued and submit
ted.
In re Henry Mason Baum: adjudication
The Carlisle independent., 1907-11-21

rum ms merliL III InlS respect to say, what is perfectly true in his case as in that of the Chinese and Japanese, that his impassiveness where pain-produc- ing circumstances are concerned, pro- ceeds in great measure from insensi- bility. Ultimately this means the pos session of an exceptionally healthy and robust constitution; and health and strength, which certainly are among the inheritances of the Turk, are great virtues. The discipline of the Turk does not show in superficial mat ters. He reserves his salute for full blown generals and otherwise behaves towards his superiors with a sans gene which produces bad impression on those who are accustomed to con- meet obedience with complicated dis play of respect. But his submissive ness to those in command is quite extraordinary, though under the pres ent government of Turkey the con- ditions of his military service have become so intolerable that mutiny has become frequent occurrence in, the imperial army. The wonder is that any discipline at all exists in it's midst. The reliant and resourceful, I should add that this last quality is characteristic of all. the inhabitants of Turkey, who. in the semibarbarous condition of the courts, ars constantly forced to exercise their wits with great keenness to preserve their late existence.
The Carlisle independent., 1907-11-21
Jet Returns to Favor.

While the trade in diamonds has lately been reported as languishing, and the ruby mines are threatened by the chemists laboratory, the com ing season, it is said, is to see a tre- mendous boom in a humber kind of ornament For years jet was out of fashion, but last year there was an unprecedented demand for it, and the factories have lately been hard at work to supply the great quantities soon to be used. Paris has been show ing much ingenuity in the invention of new designs, and one of the great jewelry shops in London lately gave up an entire window to exhibiting the possibilities of jet, which is no long. CT associated specially with mourning. Most of the jet used comes from the territory or secondary rocks of York. shire. and the supply is fairly abund. ant.
The Carlisle independent., 1907-11-21
BRAVERY OF sl5;rKs
NOT THE RESULT OF RELIGIOUS.
 INSPIRATION.
Writer in the Contemporary Review Declares Indifference to Danger Is Purely Racial Char
 acteristc with Them.

The bravery, of the Turkish "Meh- med" (Tommy) is well known. Ac- cording to A. de Bilinsky in the Con- temporary Review, it proceeds from. the absolute unconsciousness of dan ger. In it's blindness it is almost ami mal-like, but, precisely on that ac-- count, knows no limits. It's nature is best revealed by the attention the Turkish soldier is capable of giving in the thick of battle to trivial details of ordinary life, such as the -undoing of his boot strings, which he will sit down calmly and unconcernedly to put right, or the flight of bird, which he will follow in it's course, or humor- ous incident which will set him laugh ing. It is purely racial character istic. Contrary to what is generally thought to be the case, religious in- spiration has little or nothing to do with it.
 Islamism only adds to the warlike enthusiasm of the Turk. It makes him more eager, more strenuous, more en- terprising in battle with the infidel, since death in such case secures to him the transcendent rewards ,Sf martyrdom. But his fearlessnessS IS not greater when he is waging Wal against the latter than when he Fs
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The Carlisle independent., 1907-11-21

maintained in that stretch engineers longer terminate at the Mississippi delta, but will actually stretch 1,600 miles inland to the shore of Lake Michigan.
 Immeasurable good, it is confident ly asserted by champions of the Mis- sissippi valley ocean highway, will come from the establishment of a 14-foot channel between Chicago and the Gulf of Mexico The annual value of the internal commerce of the United States is $22,000,000. This is the amount fixed by statisticians of the yearly value of the international com merce of the world It is confidently asserted that with the 14-foot water highway through the length of the Mississippi valley the internal com merce of the United States would be immensely increased Hundreds of millions of dollars worth of materials, it is declared, now go to waste in the great middle west because of the ina bility of the railway systems of the country to transport them. The con- gestion, it is pointed out, on the au- thority of such experts as James j.. Hill and E. H. Hartman, is becoming greater every year without prospect of increasing railroad facilities to any considerable extent
The Carlisle independent., 1907-11-21
Difficulties to Overcome.

DlHlCuitieS 10 overcome.
 Between St Louis and Cairo diff faculties that few years ago would have been regarded as insurmountable will unquestionably be encountered. The slope there averages only seven inches per mile for the entire distance of 16S miles. At normal low water the volume between those two points is 56,000 second feet. With the river in normal flood it rises to ten times that flow and in times of extraordi- nary flood has reached between 800,- 900 and 100000 second feet. A flood volume of such magnitude on a slope so deep produces waterway of inn mense breadth with uncertain depth at low water.
 The low water season, when the riv- CT depth is frequently less than 12 feet, averages 120 days yearly in the district between St. Louis and Cairo. The alluvial deposits incident to the flood overflows must, of course, be taken into consideration in any scheme for the curbing of the Mississippi's s width that has the maintenance of an all the year round deep channel as it's objective. Saving banks and exten. sive levee construction must be under. taken, it is conceded, in such a way
The Carlisle independent., 1907-11-21

Tn the opinion of Lyman E. Cooley, of Chicago, one of the greatest en- gineering authorities of the country, the practicability of carrying the big inland water highway to successful completion depends upon the mastery of the middle Mississippi between St. Louis and Cairo. The total distance of the projected continuous navigable channel from Lake Michigan, at Chi cago to the Eads jetties, in the Gulf of Mexico, is 1925 miles, and the fall is 579 feet from the lake level to the Gulf level
The Carlisle independent., 1907-11-21
Birds Spread Infection,

A serious risk of tuberculosis from pet birds is alleged by Dr. Tucker Wise of Montreux, who records 33 cases of apparent infection, with other evidence from eminent physicians. The life of caged birds-like canaries. pigeons and parrots-especially favors tuberculous disease, and the fiutter. ing of their wings and the action of flies readily convey infection to the family
The Carlisle independent., 1907-11-21
To Keep the Course.


 It is the working out of a system of retaining banks that will not affect the wealth of the Mississippi valley coun- try and at the same time regulate to certainty the all the year round channel depth of the river that pre- sents the greatest problem in the working out of the 14-foot channel proposition. Of course, maintained depth of IA feet will demand less width in the river in the vicinity of the bottom and will probably produce changes in slopes requiring great corrective work.
 MT. Cooley estimates that a 25 per cent. increment to the Mississippi flow is possible by using the entire volume of water that can come through the Chicago canal. He esti- mates a like increment by the es- tablishment of comprehensive reser- voirs on the upper Mississippi. This would make a 12-foot minimum chan nel during the period of low water and give the waterway a depth of from IS to 19 feet under normal con ditions. From the Red river to the mouth of the Mississippi, distance of 300 miles, the Gulf level is main tained. It is between the Red river and the Ohio, at Cairo, that the great
The Carlisle independent., 1907-11-21

est outlay for artificial improvement of the Mississippi would be neces- sary. The distance between those two
 points is 764 miles. All of the big en- gineering feats will have to be ac- complished within that territory. If a stable channel of 14 feet can be
The Carlisle independent., 1907-11-21

merous counselors who so freely offer their gratuitous recommendations form ' guarantee of safety is another question. It is possible that confusion, rather than knowledge, is the most prominent result of their efforts.- London Hospits
The Carlisle independent., 1907-11-21

On the plea of self-defence merchants and
 of the Middle West have giv- en impetus to a movement for a great in- land waterway
 system that promises to re- main in the
 forefront of national af- fairs for years to come. Prac- tically every section of the country not ac- tually within the seaboard zone has talk en up the agi- tation for a great inland  waterway and is likely to continue the campaign until
The Carlisle independent., 1907-11-21
A Different Medium,

Huggins-"Tha pretty little sculpt- ress met at your reception the other evening completely turned my head"
 Miss Peachley-"Indeed! I knew she modelled in clay, but I wasnt aware that she worked in wood"
The Carlisle independent., 1907-11-21

While the argument is made by the champions of the inland waterway project that river regulation is rate regulation and that the improvement of the great waterways of the coun- try will do more to regulate freight charges than all the interstate com merce laws that can be enacted, prac- tical railroad men declare that fur ther lowering of railroad freight rates is really impracticable. They point out that with the great rail systems of the country operating to their fullest capacity they are earning only fair return on the capital invested. Fur ther reduction in railroad charges they maintain, cannot be made while the outlay for maintenance and operation remains at the present figure.
The Carlisle independent., 1907-11-21

 the national government is commit ted to policy that will place any navigable stream of considerable di- mensions in touch with ocean com merce
 President Roosevelt is expected to make a strong recommendation in his coming annual message on the sub Ject of a lakes to the Gulf system" of water routes. Such an undertaking as at present mapped out would equal in magnitude the construction of the Panama canal. The cost of the two projects, it is estimated, would be about the same. Advocates of the in- ! land waterways assert that they would be of infinitely greater benefit to the United States than the canal, and that without comprehensive system of internal marine highways this nation would be reaping only fragment of the great commercial prestige to which the completion of the Panama canal entities it.
 Residents, officials and leaders of thought in IS states of the union are already nightly interested in the in land waterways agitation. A national commission to measure the benefits of the project is likely to be appointed within short time. The recent trip of the president through the Missis- sippi valley, 5culminating in his ad- dress before the Lakes to the Cult Deep Waterways convention, is re- garded through the central section of the country as committing the present administration to the 14-foot channel project. The annual national Rivers and Harbors congress that is held in Washington just before the regular fall session of congress begins is re- lied upon to keep public, interest arous- ed as to the necessity of the under taking.
 Chicago Canal Start.
 Fourteen feet through the valley" will be the slogan with which the ad- vOcateS of the inland waterways i'm, provement projects will press their claims before congress. They main tain that all of the statistics and argu- ments are on their side and that the present condition of affairs in the con- mercial world is an unerring indica- tion that the country's future develop ment depends not alone upon the ex- pansion of railroad mileage, but upon the improvement of the great water highways of the country
 What is being urged by the business interests of the great central country is settled policy of the improvement that will begin at Lake Michigan and terminate at the delta of the Missis- sippi. It was for the inauguration of this settled national policy that the recent convention was held in Mem phis This two days convention wound up the presidents tour of the Missis- sippi valley.
 
 .c6Dy of s5o,ooo, 900.
 Already start on this lakes to the Gulf waterway has begun. The Chi : cago drainage canal, extending from the shore of Lake Michigan at the Chi cago river to a point between Lock port and Joliet, H.. is regarded as the initial stretch of the great highway.
The Carlisle independent., 1907-11-21
Medical Advice.

The public nowadays has no need to complain of lack of advice on med ical problems. But whether the nu
The Carlisle independent., 1907-11-21
My of $50, 900, 900.

Already start on this lakes to the Gulf waterway has begun. The Chi : cago drainage canal, extending from the shore of Lake Michigan at the Chi cago river to a point between Lock port and Joliet, H., is regarded as the initial stretch of the great highway.
The Carlisle independent., 1907-11-21
dOSEPH B.RA,N5DELLe

as not to deprive the bottom of the enormous wealth of alluvial deposits following floods.
The Carlisle independent., 1907-11-21
Railroads Reach Limit.

During the last decade the internal commerce of the United States has in- creased more than 100 per ce nt., while the railroad transportation facilities have increased only 25 per cent, and are now practically at standstill. All of the railroad transportation ex- perts admit that the big transconti- mental lines are being worked to their fullest capacity. Millions of busI of grain could not be moved last y because of the railway congestion, the west suffered a coal famine cause cars were not available and
 limit of transportation had reached in other ways.
 James J. Hill has pointed out not only has the limit been reache the movement of freight, but
 should cars, locomotives and tr
 be supplied, there is now and is Dc to be for years to come dearth
 terminal facilities. MT. Hill has e mated tSat the cost of construc'
 suffi cient railway lines to meet the
 mediate demands for moving the co | merce of the country would require
 outlay of s5,O00 100000. This esti- mate, he declares, gives little or no consideration to the future. MT. liar riman a short time since announced | that in order to meet transportation requirements the gauge of the railways of the country and the rolling stock would have to be doubled. | Some time ago." MT. Hill said, Il asked a real estate man what it would cost to get tier of blocks, one of the narrowest, from the Harlem river to Thirty-third street, New York. He came back in week and said that $350, 900 would not buy it. That means that for terminals alone It would cost $165,000 a mile for every mile from Chicago to New York be- 1 fore the line was built. The railroads can't pay rent on such high-priced terminal property.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-02-17
RADFoRD
Especial 10 Tho Times plspatch.l
tor here

Il ~
1sADFORD. VA, February l6--Rnd-
ford has O. now club called the We'd
nesday Musical Club, after the We'd
.nesdny Club at Richmond, Tho first
meeting OF the club was held ut tho
home OF Mrs. Pearl Rosenfeld Satur-
day, when tho following officers We're
elected: President. Mrs Oscar .. Pryor;
President. Miss Sallie Harris;
Secretary and Treasurer. Miss Lillian
Longloy. The club begins its exist
ence with seventeen members and
about dozen honorary members
among the. gentlemen. The club Will
meet every two weeks at 4 o'clock
"Wednesday afternoons, when the com
posera will be studied and original
papers read on their lives and works,
with musical programs from tho COM
poser under discussion The club will
give concerts later.
The president, AIrs, Pryor, Is an ac-
complished pianist and an ardent
music lover and is Very enthusiastic
over the future of the club. The next
meeting viii he held ut tho lomo
Tor the president Wednesday. when
Mandelssohn Will heytaken up.
Mrs. j. II. *. Cowan was hostess
/ To this Afternoon I6lers Saturday. WHEN
Ia large number OF visitors besides
iclub members were present, The deco
ratipns we've carnations and roses. a