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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-09
LIFE OF VIM. CRANCH.
Justice Hagner Accepts Invitation to
Read a Paper.

Justice Hagner, retired. Of the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia, has ac-
copied an invitation of the Bar Associa-
ton of the District of Columbia to read
paper on the Life and Character Of Will
liam Cranch,' one of the earlier justices of
the District courts, and who for many years
was chief justice Of the Circuit Court of the
District. The lecture will be delivered by
Justice Hagner tomorrow evening at 8
o'clock in the hall of the George Washing
ton University, at the southeast corner OF
18th and H streets. Those interested in the
subject or in the history of the District Of
Columbia have been invited to be present
The committee of the Bar Association in
charge of the lecture will be Messrs J
Hubley Ashton, VIM. S. Mattingly, John B.
Larner, D. W. Baker and Clarence R. VIII
son. The paper to be read by Justice Hag-
ner was one prepared by him at the request
OF the law department of the University of
Penns yvania.
Thomas Lemon, young man of Frank
lin county, Va, was burned to death in a
schoolhOuse on Shooting creek.
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TO RELIEVE THE CHINESE.
Three Hundred Tons Of Flour Soon to
Be Shipped.

The American National Red Cross has
ordered. through the commissary generals
department of the army, the purchase OF
300 tons of -four for shipment to China
by the steamer Coptic,s sailing from San
Francisco for China on the 18th instant.
This -four is for the relief of the famine
sufferers Of China and will be purchased
with the voluntary contributions received
by the Red Cross for this purpose from
every section of the country. This is the
first shipment, and it is expected that other
consignments will follow shortly. The fact
that free transportation has been arranged
for with the Pacific Mail Steamship Com
pany makes it possible to expend the entire
amount of contributions for the actual pur-
chase of food supplies.
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THE FoRT1FICATIoNs BILL.
Decrease From Current Appropriation
of 1857 OOO

The Notifications appropriation bill was
reported to the House today. The amount
carried by the bill is SAL 600, a decrease
from the appropriations for the current
year of 1857, 600. The estimates submitted
by the Secretary of War aggregated in
round numbers 81, 100000.
The chief item omitted from the bill was
for the creation and fertilization of an
artificial island between Capes Charles and
Henry, at the mouth Of Chesapeake bay,
as recommended by the Taft board. The
idea of the projectors of the scheme was
that the proposed fertilization would pro-
tect the cities of Baltimore and Washington
and surrounding territory at the least ex-
pense.
The subcommittee which framed the bill
inserted a paragraph for a survey of the
location site of the proposed island, but
the full committee disapproved entering
upon the project, and reference to 1t dis
appeared from the bill.
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j. Gordon and Commander John B. Briggs
were elected members, Master Osman
Sureyea Bey and Master Ali Haider Bey,
sons of the Turkish minister were adj
mltted to membership in the children's
branch of the society A vote of thanks
was rendered Mr.. c. A. Snow Mrs Flor
ence Murray and Miss Addison Mitchell
for donations during the month of De.
cember.
communication from the Commissions
ers OF the District was read, declining to
comply with the request of the society
that sand be placed on the hills of four
streets during icy sleety weather on
the ground that the expense of distribute.
ing such material and removing same afs
ter it had served it's purpose would be
very great and that there was no appro-
prtation out of which such expense could
be met. 1t was stated by several mem
bers of the committee that a cheap and
from slipping and falling on icy streets
is to wrap their feet with gunny sacks
or other suitable material. A resolution
was passed that 1t was the sense Of the
committee that the attention of owners of
horses hauling on icy streets be called to
the fact, and that they be requested to
furnish their drivers with sacks or other
suitable material for the purpose.
The report of the treasurer for the
month Of December showed the society
to he in q prosperous condition financially
and the reports of the, agents show In
creased activity in that line. Agent
Haynes reported the number of animals
examined $40; cases prosecuted %. Agent
Wright examined POO animals and prose-
cuted IS cases of cruelty. Agent Norris
examined los animals and prosecuted 9
cases Agent Johnson examined 275 ani>
mails and prosecuted il cases. Agent Pal-
las examined 400 animals and prosecuted
Is cases. Agent Barnes examined $50 anil
mails and prosecuted 81 cases. Agent
Reilly examined $50 animals and prose-
cuted IS cases Agent Leaman examined
2s7 animals and prosecuted IS cases, max
ing a total OF AHA animals examined and
I35 cases Of cruelty prosecuted In the
Police Court.
The annual meeting of the members OF
the society viii be held next Tuesday,
the 18th instant. at the office of the so.
ciety Room "a, Warder building.
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Miscellaneous Notes.

In answer to inquiries, I would say that
Rio de Janeiro is the second city in popu-
lation in America outside of the United
States and has sl1 ,265 inhabitants. Buenos
Ayres has 919,235 population by the last
census.
Last year 81, 400, go kilograms were sent
over the wires In the United States, an in
crease from 79,696,227 during the previous
year
lished in the United States.
London is still the greatest port in the
world The following table will show the
standing of the different cities in the mat
ter of foreign commerce. The figures are
given from British authorities in pounds
sterling:
London i2s5 900 o GOO York 1921 600 600
Hamburg. $50 900, 600 Antwerp. $50, 0Oo. 600
Hongkong probably ranks next, but 1t is
impossible to give the exact value of the
trade because it is free port. There is no
custom house, and no statistics are kept.
Some Odd Epitaphs.
Mr.. E. R. Harlan of Keosauqua, Iowa,
calls my attention to an epitaph in a little
cemetery at Croton, Lee county, Iowa. on
the left bank of the Des Moines river. The
deceased, TO whose memory the stone was
erected, was killed by the bursting of
grindstone in a pillow shop at Athens Mo,
which Is situated Immediately opposite Gro
ton, on the right bank of the river
Robert Hanson.
Died July 10. 1862.
Aged 81 yrs. 8 mos. and II da.
An accident it seemed to be
Which brought about my end
But God does all things for our good
And Christ is cur sure friend.
Then why should 1 fear Deaths stern looks
Since Christ for me did die?
For all In Missouri. old and young
The force OF death must try.
Last summer. In the churchyard of the
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News of Falls Church.
cial Correspondence of The Star.

Special Correspondents OF The Star.
FALLS CHURCH, Va, January o. 1907.
At the January meeting OF the Village
Improvement Society in the absence of the
president Rev DR.. Noble presided The
following We're elected members: Mr. ana
Mrs j. B. Blackburn, Mr.. and Mrs. IL. Js
King, Mr. and Mrs. b. NJ. Downing, Mr..
and Mrs F. Z. Parker, Mr.. and Mrs. A. II.
Barber. Mrs. T. b. Snoddy, Prof. j. X,
CrandeI Mrs ]. +. Amos, Mr.. r. l.. Nc
Nair Miss Tinnie Merrifield and Mrs. Fox.
After discussion as TO what section the
society would next aid in laying brick
sidewalk, 1t was voted that preference be
given to continue the walk from the post
office building on Broad street to the public
school building. 1t was voted as the senti-
mcnt of the society that the town council
should assess abutting property owners
where X was decided to construct new
walks with One-half the cost.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-09
UNIVERSAL MILEAGE BOOKS
Hearing by House Committee on Mr.
Sherman's Bill.

The Sherman bill for universal inter
changeable railway mileage books at the
rate of cents mile was the subject of a
nearing yesterday before the House COM
mittee on interstate and foreign commerce.
ii. L. Bond, second vice president of the
Baltimore and Ohio railway; T. B. Harri-
son. jr., representing the Louisville and
Nashville, and a score of other railway men
attended the hearing.
George T. Nicholson, third vice president
of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe. was
the chief speaker. He said the bill was so
broad that it practically amounted to the
fixing of cents a mile as the maximum
rate for all railroads in the United States
on all passenger business, and asserted that
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1T WAS JACKSON DAY.
Mr.. Gaines Directed Attention to the
Battle of New Orleans.

Representative Gaines Of Tennessee in the
House yesterday afternoon called attention
to the fact that it was the ninety-second
anniversary Of the battle Of New Orleans,
and he pointed out the coincidence that the
lower branch of Congress had under con-
sideration the military appropriation bill.
While he was reading from the records re-
garding the triumph OF Andrew Jackson
January g. 1914, a number of republicans
were engaged in earnest conversation on
the majority side of the chamber. Mr..
Gaines stopped his reading and convulsed
the House when he said: Il wish all these
chieftains who always talking war
would sit down, especially Jackson
day
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SYMPTOMS. If you have bit
ter or bad taste in the morning,
poor or variable appetite, coated
tongue, foul breath, constipated or
irregular bowels, feel weak, easily
tired, respondent, frequent head
aches, pain or distress in small of
back" gnawing or distressed feel
ing i'll stomach, perhaps nausea,
bitter or sour "risings' in throat
after eating, and kindred symptoms
of weak stomach and torpid liver
or biliousness, no medicine will re-
lieve you more promptly or cure
you more permanently than DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery.
Perhaps only part of the above
symptoms will be present at one
time and yet point to torpid liver,
or biliousness and weak stomach
Avoid all hot bread and biscuits,
griddle cakes and other indigestible
food and take the Golden Medical
Discovery regularly and STICK
TO ITS USE until you are Wig
orous and strong.
OF Golden Seal root, which is one
of the prominent ingredients of
Golden Medical Discovery" DR..
Roberts Bartholow of Jefferson
Medical College says: Very use
full as stomachic (stomach) tonic
and in atomic dyspepsia. Cures gas
trio (stomach) catarrh and head
aches accompanying same"
DR.. Grover Coe of New York
says: "Hydrastis Golden Seal
root exercises an especial influ-
ence over mucous surfaces. Upon
the liver it acts with equal GER
tainty and efficacy. AS a chola-
gogue Oliver invigorator) it has few
EQUALS DR.. Coe also advises it
for affections of the spleen and
other abdominal viscera generally,
and for scrofulous and glandular
diseases, cutaneous eruptions, indi-
gestion, debility, chronic diarrhea,
constipation, also in several affec-
tons peculiar to women, and in all
chronic arrangements of the liver;
also for chronic inflammation of
bladder, for which DR.. Coe says 1T
is one of the most reliable agents
of cure"
Prof. John King, M. D., late of
Cincinnati, author of the AMER
ICAN OBSERVATORY, gives it
a prominent place among the medic
inal agents, reiterates all the fore
going writers have said about it,
as does also Prof. John M. Scud-
der, NJ. D., late of Cincinnati. DR..
Scudder says: ct stimulates the di
gestive processes and increases the
assimilation of food. By these means
THE BLOOD IS ENRICHED.
X the consequent improve
ment on the glandular and nervous
systems are natural results" DR..
Scudder further says: "1n relation
to its general effect upon the sys-
tenn, THERE IS NO MEDICINE
IN USE ABOUT WHICH
THERE IS SUCH GENERAL
UNANIMITY OF OPINION. 1t
is UNIVERSALLY regarded as
THE tonic, useful in all debilitated
states ~
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A LAZY LIVER

May be only tired liver starved liver. 1t stupid az
well thing beat starved Jagged
in his work So in treating the tagging torpid liver mistake
to lash with drastic drugs torpid liver
nourised enebed body whose
work Start with the stomach and allied organs digestion
ton Put them working order and quickly
become active Dr. Perces Golden Medical Discovery has made many
marvellous OF liver complaint torpid liver
the organs digestion and nutrition normal
activity of the stomach the making
glands eanses the of poisonous relieves
the liver the burdens imposed by other organs
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famous little village of Sevenoaks, Kent
county, England. 1 found this epitaph:
Grim Death took me without any warn
ing.
Was well at night and dead in the morn
Ing"
the grave of one John Partridge, who died
July 3. 1908. leaving friends who had the
bad taste to make a pun upon his name In
his eptaph. which reads as follows:
20 Death! Fye Eye!
To kill a Partridge in July.
Another pun is found in an epitaph on
the tombstone of tailor in the church
yard at Nottingham. England. 1t reads as
follows:
"A man of stitches was Ross Hyde,
And in his work he felt much pride.
And even when this tailor died.
Twas with a stitch in his right side.
In the ancient port of Winchelsea, down
on the south coast of England. which was
formerly famous and busy place, but is
now a sleepy old village, there is a splen-
did old church Artists love it. 1t has
probably been sketched and painted and
photogra phed as often any building In
England Winchelsea is a favorite sum-
mer resort for artists and actors. There Is
quite colony of professional people there
Ellen Terry has a beautiful old house over
looking the British channel. where she
spends the summer months and entertains
house parties of her friends.
In the old churchyard Is an epitaph which
Miss Terry invariably shows to her guests,
because it contains either a puzzle or a
blunder. Nobody seems to know which.
1t reads as follows:
I'm Loving Memory
of
Mabel Ann Field Sinden.
Died October Bird. 1885,
Aged four years and four months.
No more she needs a fathers or a
mothers care.
In Heaven she rests in peace.
Erected by her loving daughter,
Mary Ann Sinden.'
How child four years and four months
old could have a daughter is a mystery,
but there can be no mistake in the age be-
cause the next line confirms the inference
that Mabel was an infant. The usual ex-
PLANTATION is that the words Erected by
her daughter" should read Erected by her
MOTHER and that the stone-cutter prob
ably made a mistake. Nobody in the viii
lage seems to remember the family.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-09

Prof. Finley Ellingwood, NJ. D.
of Bennett Medical College. Chic
cago. says of Golden Seal root: 1t
is a most superior remedy in
catarrhal gastritis inflammation Of
the stomach). chronic constipation,
general debility, in convalcscence
from protracted fevers, in prostrat-
ing night sweats. IT IS AN M
PORTANT REMEDY IN Dis
ORDERS OF THE WOMB"
(Ihis agent, Golden Seal root. is an
important ingredient of DR.. Pierce'S
tavorite Prescription for woman's
weaknesses, as we'll as of tho
Golden Medical Discovery DR..
Ellingwood continues, in ALU
catarrhal conditions it is useful"
Much more, did space permit,
could be quoted from prominent
authorities as to the wonderful
curative properties possessed by
Golden Seal root.
we want 10 assure the reader
that Golden Medical Discovery"
can be relied upon to do all that
is claimed for Golden Seal root int
the cure of all the various disz
eases as set forth in the above BRIEF
extracts, for its most prominent
and important ingredient is Golden.
Seal root. This agent is. however,
strongly reinforced, and its cura-
tive action greatly enhanced by the
addition, in just the right propor-
ton, of Queens root, Stone root.
Black Cherrybark, Bloodroot. Nam
drake root and chemically pure
glycerlne. All of these are hap-i
PLY and tremendously blended into
a most perfect pharmaceutical com-
pound, now favorably known
throughout most of the civilized
countries of the world. Bear i11
mind that each and every in
gredient entering into the Dis
covery" has received the endorses
ment of the leading medical men
of our land, who extol each article
named above in the highest terms.s
What other medicine put up for
sale through druggists can showt
any such PROFESSIONAL ems
dorsement. For dyspepsia, liver
troubles, all chronic catarrhal affec-
tons of whatever name or nature.
lingering coughs, bronchial, throat
and lung affections, the "Discovery"i
can be relied upon as a sovereign
remedy.
A little book of extracts treating;
of ALL the several ingredients en4,
terlng into DIR. Pierce's medicines.I
being extracts from standard med.l
lcal works of the different schools Of
practice, will be mailed FREE to-,
any one asking (by postal card OF
letter. for the same, addressed I'd.
DIR. K. Y. Pierce, Buffalo, n. w
and giving the writer's full post.
Office address PLAINLY written.
Don't accept a substitute of un,!
known composition for this nom
secret MEDICINE OF KNOWNl
COMPOSITION.
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It would work great hardship on many rail-
ways to make such a reduction in their
earnings.
Mr.. Nicholson discussed railway passes
at length and urged that the new anti pass
law should not be given reason for
the reduction of railway fares. He said
his railway found that 12h per centum of
its passenger traffic in June of last year
was on passes to railway employees but
that of its passenger business only per
cent was on passes
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ATTACKED BY BOIES
FORMER GOVERNOR ON Ma
TIoNAL BANK SYSTEM.

WATERLOO, Iowa, January 9.-Former
Governor Boes addressed the Jackson Club
on the subject, Currency Reform last
night. He said:
Our national banking system may have
been necessity of the time when 1t was
conceived. With naked treasury, pros
trate national credit and an overwhelming
public debt it probably was impossible for
the wisest Of statesmen in that hour of
financial distress to formulate a better
scheme for national relief. But the system
long since outlived the necessity that gave
it birth.
Instead of relinquishng it's hold upon
the finances OF the nation as it ought to
have done, 1t has steadily progressed in the
opposite direction until it has removed every
safeguard but one that was originally de-
signed for the protection of the public.
Last Safeguard Threatened.
To-day it is before Congress with a meas
ure that proposes to remove the last of
these safeguards and allow national banks
of the country to pour 5000, 600, 600 of notes
of private corporations into the circulating
medium Of the country without guarantee
of any kind for their redemption other than
the personal liability of the issuing corpora
tons backed by bare 3 cents deposited
with the Secretary of the Treasury for each
dollar so to be issued.
Instead of an effort on the part Of the
Congress to comply with both the letter and
the spirit of the Constitution as interpreted
by the highest court of the nation and sup
ply the country with currency that is in
fact that which 1t purports to be, the effort
has constantly been to withdraw as far as
possible from circulation what little lawful
money must necessarily be held and fill it's
place with the illegitimate promssory notes
of private corporations to circulate as
money for the personal gain of individuals
instead of the general welfare of the great
mass of our people,"
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Pure Food Law Positions.

Examinations will be held throughout the
country on February s, proximo, for posi-
tons in the Agricultural Department under
the pure food and drugs act. The exami-
nations will be for one chief food and drug
inspection chemist at 5000 a year. several
food and drug inspection chemists at $1,000
a year, and a large number of food and
drug inspectors at 5000 year. In all,
about seventyfive appointments are to be
made The list of eligibles will be certified
to the department as soon the papers of
the applicants can be examined after the
examinations
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-09
Cruel Punishment Abolished.

Upon a memorial from WI Ting-fang
who will be we'll remembered IS minister
at Washington for many years, the en-
use of the cruel forms of punishment that
have been customary in China for many
years, such as death by slicing" that is,
Slicing the living body of the condemned
with two-handed sword. The penalty of
death by the dismemberment of the body
by twenty-four cuts has also been abol-
ished. This was terrible The limbs were
amputated in sections, the shoulders and
the hips were cut off and, at last, the
head Slow strangulation has been abol-
ished. Branding the faces of criminals
they may always be identified has been
abolished; all forms of torture is forbid
den and a board, of which WI Ting-fang
Is the chairman, has been appointed to
revise the criminal code, the prison regu-
lations and the various forms of punish
ment.
1t is a common practice in China to try
criminals by torture on the theory that a
prisoner must acknowledge his guilt if he
is properly punished. When he has con-
feSSed his statement is written down and
signed with his thumb mark for a seal. so
that it can be held over him in the future
Innocent persons often confess to crimes
cape furIner crueltieS. 1t has also been
customary to punish the families of Offend
erS when the guilty persons themselves can
not be captured. This is on the theory that
some one should suffer a penalty for ev-
cry crime. The Chinese law has hitherto
sibiity of family for the acts of all
of it's members This, too, has been for
hidden. The new code has not yet been re-
ported The commission is still at work.
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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETS.
Transaction Of Business Of the HUI
name Society.

At meeting Of the executive commit
tee Of the Humane Society at the society's
rooms in the Warder building Monday
evening Mrs. Frank Hatton, Mrs. John
Dalzeil, Mr.. Wallace Nen, Miss Bessie L
Kibby, Miss a. G. Gordon, Major James
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Back Ache

gencsaiy signifies kidney trouble. DIR. Edwardse
Comp. Dandelion Tablets and Pills VIII Won.
They sold by all druggists. Free trial packN
ages at Ameck's drug store. 1929 Pa. ave. n.wa