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LOOKING AFTER MR TRADE
GREAT BRITAIN HOLDS A SECRET
CONFERENCE WITH PREMIERs.
No Reporters Are Admitted and Only
Censored Reports Of Proceedings
May Be Had.

LONDON, April 15-The fourth confer
ence between the premiers of Great Brit
aims self-governing colonies and the Brit
ish colonial secretary was opened this
morning at the colonial office, under the
presidency of the Earl of Elgin secretary
of state for the colonies. Reporters are
not admitted to the conferences. so the
public will have to be contented with
strictly censored official summaries of each
days proceedings until a blue book on the
conference is issued, months after its final
adjournment. The premiers present in
GUIDED DR.. Jameson, Cape Colony; Gen.
Louis BOtha. the Transvaal; Alfred Dea-
KIM Australia: Sir Joseph G. Ward New
zealand: Frederick r. Moor. Natal. and
Sir Robert Bond of Newfoundland will ar
rive In the middle of the week. The ore
mlers were accompanied by their advisers.
number OF British cabinet ministers at
tended the morning session.
Premier Bannerman Opens.
Premier Campbell Bannerman opened the
proceedings with a speech of welcome In
which he outlined the subjects for discus
sion, such as preferential trade between the
colonies and Great Britain and among the
colonies themselves, a project providing for
a permanent council. imperial defense
SC -emes and emigration, with minor ques-
lions ike penny postage, naturalization and
patent laws
The premier earnestly expressed the hope
that the deliberations would have useful re-
suits Each of the colonial premiers made
brief reply, after which the conferees
discussed the procedure and adjourned
Meetings will be held three times a week
and they are expected to last at least q
month.
Tariff Preferences.
Premier Campbell Bannerman only touch
ed lightly on the subject OF tariff prefer
ences. which. to the colonial representa-
tives, Is the most important matter to
come before the conference and one on
which they hope an agreement will be
reached satisfactory to all parties con-
cerned.
In regard to the decision not to admit
reporters to the daily sessions, it is stated
that the colonial representatives were. as
a rule, in favor Of publicity. but the home
government was opposed to it, and it is
understood that Premier Laurier supported
the home officials in the matter. Full
censored reports of the speeches made to-
day will be issued tonight
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-15
NEW COMET DISCOVERED.
Astronomer Says the Earth is in No
Danger

MADISON. Wis. April 15.-While stand
ing in his back yard with a telescope. ].
f. Meilish. an amateur astronomer at Cot
tage Grove. Wis. discovered a new comet
on the night OF April 10. This comet was
last night sighted by Prof. G. c. Com
stock and A. S. Flint of the University of
Wisconsin observatory.
The comet. they say. is quite faint. 1t
IS moving eastward at the rate of about
cight degrees day. but they cannot say
whether il is approaching the earth or
reCcding from il. DIR. Comstock adds that
the earth is in no danger from it.
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INCREASE IN COMMERCE.
Country's Exports and Imports
Greater Than Last Year.

: Both imports and exports of the United
States have increased over the figures
of last year and over the correspond
ing nine months of 1906. The statement
Just issued by the bureau of statistics
placed the total imports of the United
States for March. 1907, at $E'3. .523. OS1
against $l13 .597. 81 for March of 1906. The
imports for the past nine months over the
corresponding nine months of 1913 were
sI5o 5O4S14 The total exports for March
were $182 6S9,9.O against sli5.olO.7OI for
March, 1906. The increase of exports for
the past nine months over the correspond
ing period Of 1906 was sl0S.O02. ISL.
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Fate of Norfolk Berry cron.

NORFOLK, Va, April 1.-THE fate of
the strawberry crop in this section will de-
pend largely on whether or not there is a
heavy frost tonight. which experienced
farmers greatly fear. The fields were
frozen this morning. ,ut the young berries
can stand that IL there Ia no frost tonight.
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Crowds Disappointed.

With the expectation of seeing William
Jennings Bryan, the auditorium of the
First Presbyterian Church. John Marshall
place. was filled to OVERLOOKING yester-
day morning.
At Has Mr.. Bryan sent his regrets. stat
ing that he arrived too late to attend the
services. He later informed DR.. Macleod
that he would be in Washington again in a
short time. and would take great pleasure
in then addressing the congregation and
Sunday school.
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Noted Virginian Dead.

NORFOLK, Va, April ID. C. Apper-
son, aged seventy years, prominent in his
home county of Mathews. Va. where he
had served as a magistrate for thirty-two
years. died today in Portsmouth. Va, where
he was recently assaulted and robbed by an
unknown highwayman near the home or
his son, whom he was visiting.
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Racing at Aqueduct.

AQUEDUCT. L. l.. April 15.-Racins
opened here today. The first. for three
year-olds and upward. selling. five fur
longs, was won by Athlete. IL to l and to
/; Keator. 1 to 2 place. second; DR.. Hollis
third. Time, LOO 20
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-15
Building Permit Issued.

A building permit was issued by In
spector Ashford today to II. r. Wager
for one three-story brick apartment house
at 1914 G street northwest; architect. T.
+. Myers: builder, H. r. Wager; estimated
cost Sl2.On
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-15
JAPANESE wARsHIP LAUNCHED
Notable Event at Kure Today-Tur
bine Engines

KURE. Japan. April l5.-The battleship
Aki was launched here this morning in the
presence of a representative of the Japa-
nese emperor and Vice Admiral Sir Arthur
William Moore. commander -in-chief of the
British eastern feet. 1t is said that the Ali
will be fitted with turbine engines
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students are understood to have suffered
losses. The robbery is believed to have
oeen committed by some one familiar with
the premises and who knew when the
students would not be in their rooms. A
quiet investigation has been under way
since the occurrence. and il is said an
rest Will be made probably this evening.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-15

The Aki is of 19, 900 tons. has an armored
belt five to nine inches thick and win carry
four l2-inch, twelve l0-inch and twelve 4. /
inch gum
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SEMINARY ROBBED.
Young Ladies at Forest Glen Lose
Valuables and Cash.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ROCKVILLE. Nd, April 15.-Several
days ago National Park Seminary, the
school for young ladies at Forest Glen, this
county, was entered by sneak thief and
money and jewelry of the value of $500 or
more were stolen. Four or i've Of the
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A Clear Claim.

An official of the pension Office at
Washington offers the following ex.
cerpt from an especially amusing let
ter received from a claimant for PEN
sion:
"The way ! got my war ingery was
a-ketchin of a hog The hog were a
SOW hog aud our Capten wanted her
for forage. He was chasin the SOW
and she crawled threw a hoal in "A
rale fense-it were a big hoal and |
thot l were about the size of the
hog and tried to crawl threw. but l
stuck and trying to wigle out / throde
the rales off and one hit me on my
he'd and nocked my seaseless. | do
not think the sow had nothing TO do
with my line for daty for l did not
ketch the hog. Wich she never were
caught"-Lippi1cott's Magazine.
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signed for the maiden Of 20. slender
of outline? When will the matron Of
60 allow us to forget that she once
had a waist? My regret that she will
not ignore 1t this season was made
specially poignant by an interview
with a very handsome dowager. white
Of hair, and pleasantly rubicund Cf
face, who was wearing a Nedgwood
blue voile, made with Japanese
sleeves over white lace blouse with
a skirt cut plain in the frcnt, and full
at the back, encircled with a belt OF
blue glace, whilst upon her gray hair
she had pCrched large mushroom
hat with big ruche of blue ribbon i'm
it, and round her neck she were
large white feather boa. and on her
stout hands white kid gloves. which
extended TO the elbow Il would have
given me the greatest possible pleas.
ure to have taken her as an example
on TO a platform and lectured to the
assembled multitude on how she could
have improved her appearance with
out sacrificing her obvious desire to
be smart.
A black chiffon gown mounted over
white | would have chosen for her.
hanging In long lines just above her
waist, with a broad hem of black
glace, and black glace ribbon forming
a sort of pelerine at her shoulders to
outline vest of white which should
terminate at the bust, and a large
black hat 0f she must wear hat,
though | should have much preferred
her In a bonneD draped with a flow
ing veil of black | would have insist
ed on sleeves with a graceful drapery
falling from the elbow at the back,
held tightly above the wrist to dimin-
ish the too broad contours. Had she
had any special objection to black
chiffon, | would have suggested black
lace or net. and velvet ribbons instead
of the taffeta, and | have the remem-
brance Of small bonnet made Of
black crinoline in bow form, outlined
with Jet, which, with black lace para
sol lined with white chiffon, might
have been called into service to best
complete the effect.
Some of the newest veillngs are
cream-white tulle dotted all over with
pin points of black, and this veil is. as
l have frequently mentioned, the most
becoming a woman can adopt, ire
spective of age. For those whose com.
plexions have lost their first bloom
this veil can be lined with palest shell
pink tulle or with the same material
in pale blue. the latter being specially
flattering to dark skins.
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sure methol for combating French de-
population. Infant mortality, which
is greatest between the ages of one
day and six weeks, wastes needlessly
over 10000 babes in France each
year!
There are better ways; for France
is waking up. | have seen extraor-
dinary efforts, patriotic, touching,
lovable, in hardened Paris business
men-we are In 1907!
Monsieur, / want work"
Have you a baby?"
mo, monsieur"
Sorry. No place. Look in later"
II was at the greffe Of great Paris
shirt factory. Young women were
coming and going, early on a Saturday
morning, at the hour for engaging
hands.
Monsieur, want work." said an
other.
Have you baby2"
"Ye-es, monsieur"
"All right Come Monday morning.
Bring the baby"
/ myself would scarcely have be-
lieved it II ! had not heard II with
my own ears; but this is Paris in 1907
no isolated case, as | have learned
since. but a factory practice, growing,
growing with the beautiful ardor of a
patriotic, spontaneous movement How
long ago was it that the charge of an
infant positively injured a woman's
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and luxury! According to the depart
ment infant mortality varies between
rs per cent. and so per cent.
A celebrated doctor of the Assist
ance Publique has declared to the
Academy Of Medicine that in Paris,
infant mortality varies between Ave
and 80 per cent.-according to the
mode Of feeding and the care given
the infant.
Convinced Of the startling truths Of
the Nancy experiment, the founders OF
the Abatement Maternel are demand
ing money to do for all the poor or
working mothers of Paris what my
shirt factory is doing for its hands
and what the "Babys Smile" is doing
FOR the mothers of Nancy-giving cash
for babies.
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Paris.-There is a tragic holein-the-
wall in every ward of Paris.
II is a kind of low window. without
glass, in the side facade of the local
public charities establishment Look
ing at 1t. you perceive it ends in a
closed wooden box, movable and dis
connected with the wall inside. 1t
locks like a dumb-waiter or dish-ele-
vator.
1t is a -waiter-not fer dishes,
but for babies! Up the dark side
street there comes a wretched mother.
What shall she do with the infant in
her arms? She has reasons not to
answer questions. She shrinks from
investigation. Shall she put baby on
a doorstep2
No; everybody in Paris is aware OF
the strange, sacred holes-in-the-wal of
the Assistance Publique.
She waits until there is not a soul
In the dark side street She walks
up to the dumb-waiter. 1t is at the
height of mothers waist.
She shifts baby to IT, She hesitates.
1t must be done. She pulls bell rope.
No bell is heard; but the dumb-waiter
slides to one side-and the baby dis.
appearsl
Perhaps the poor mother stands and
looks moment at the hole. All she
can see is just another waiting box
space-the size of another baby. 1t
is waiting for another baby. But, in
side the Assistance Publique, she
knows her infant is already warm and
fed and cared for.
There. inside, a bell is ringing.
Dring! dring!
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The First Six Weeks.


France will do tiff only on the
evidence of the "Baby's Smile" OF
Nancy.
why did | stipulate for a first de-
lay of six weeks?" explained Prof.
Herrgott the other day to a rich and
influential Paris audience. And why
is the work called the 'Baby's Smile?
First because infant mortality Is most
frequent between the ages of one day
and six weeks. And, secondly, be-
cause II Is during the sixth week that
the first smile appears on baby's lips!
''Do you not know that? Well, when
a mother has fed baby at her breast
until the epoch when she sees that
smile appear, baby is saved. No
bottle for him! He will not be aban-
doned either by mother or breast"
"On condition that the mother has
the means to keep her baby with her"
interrupted one Of the vice presidents.
What are $50 bills for?" snorted
the professor. Senator Plot is right.
Every mother is creditor of the
state Pay your creditors-it is always
a good investment. Yes, pay cash for
babies. STERLING Heilig in New York
Press.
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Rooms Always Waiting.

Rooms Always Waiting.
saw the babies in the shirt fac
tory's nursery, 140 babies from three
years Ga few among the eldest) down
to three weeks. That was three
weeks ago. There must be new
ones. Because this extraordinary
shirt factory has three sunny bed
rooms always waiting at the disposl-
tion of prospective mamas.
capable young doctor is employed
by the year to spend half his time
in the nursery. Ten maids manage to
do all the work, including every
baby's daily bath-this with the help
of mothers, who have the right TO
slip in four times a day, ten minutes
each. in alphabetic order. and the so
minutes aggregated outside the visit
of the lunch hour are not deducted
from their pay.
What does the factory give the
babies?" | asked the young doctor
"Sterilized, non-tuberculous milk
when their mothers cannot nurse
them; all their first baby clothing,
baths, hygienic surroundings, medical
attendance, pure air, sunlight, warmth.
safety-quoi! the only things a baby
needs! Apart from these things the
establishment favors mothers!".
"How?"
Had you seen two girls l saw last
week, you'd be surprised" he an
swered. Both were marriages at the
Marie, very affecting; but as | assist
ed at the preliminaries of one in par.
ticular, have conceived a great ad.
miration for the proprietor of this
factory To look at him you would i'm
agine him a hard-headed cynical bus
mess man, you would certainly have
been astonished at the tact and pa
tience he employed to persuade a way.
ward youth TO make the mother of his
babe a wife. Il refer to the youth
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When a Friend Isn't Wanted.

Women are getting more and more
opposed to shopping with their
friends" declared little saleswoman
in a Euclid avenue dry goods store
Saturday. Il heard one woman say
here at this counter a while ago that
the better she knew woman the lesa
she cared about having her along with
her when she is shopping She said
that II they were intimate, her friend
knew enough about her already with
out knowing what she paid for every.
thing she wore."-Cleveland Plain.
Dealer.
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II is impossible to write a letter on
the subject of fashions without speak
ing Of the popularity CT gray mate
rials, for they are with us, on every
side. Some Of the most effective sum.
mer gowns, Of a simple order, which |
have yet seen this year were made OF
cool gray linen will fne hand-em-
broideries, on the skirt and bolero,
carried out in silk-nnished thread.
These frocks, when worn with gray
linen shoes and gray suede gloves,
are quite enchanting in their Quaker
like simplicity. and they invite the
collaboration of cloche hats in deli
cate ivory straw, with puffed net
forming the full crown and, at one
side, near the front, a cluster Of beau.
tiful roses or Of waXen water lilies.
Some Of the newest models in voile
de sole show perfectly shaped skirts
decorated with number of tucks on
the hem of the skirt. Needless to say,
these tucks are always stitched by
hand, and they are arranged in grad
uated widths. At the extreme hem
they measure about FIVE inches, and
then they are reduced each one.half
an inch as they run up towards the
knees. For linen dresses favorite
style of trimming is a combination OF
deep tucks and hand-embroidery. three
tucks. a band of embroidery, and so
on. For afternoon gowns. voile de
sole is exceedingly fashionable. but
the material for costumes of this or
der is Indian gauze, which can be OBJ
tanned in all the pastel shades, and
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Senator Plots Good Work.


In the French senate there is a man
who already forced the general gov
ernment to begin handing good money
to families of five children. This is
Senator Edme Plot, highly remarka-
BILE personality.
Son of a Burgundian family so poor
that he was kept from school to work
in the fields, he broke stone on the
highways and worked over all France
as a NAVY; but as early as 1854 he
was taking small contracts on his own
account; and he finally became the
greatest of all French railway con-
tractors.
Becoming very rich, Senator Plot
has made himself famous throughout
all Burgundy by a special kind of
liberality-the financial helping of
poor parents.
Actually he is the great authority
on depopulation; president of the
senate committee relative to subsidies
which the law already permits to be
granted to communes for distribution
to families of five and more, and au-
thor and untiring pusher of bill for
the subventioning of every mother of
newborn child.
you ask working mothers TO
suckle their babes for a full year
TO give you population" he says.
What have they the right to ask
of you? Cash, cash. Give cash for
babies!"
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which gives lovely effects when inset
with old yellow lace and adorned with
ribbon-work embroideries.
The walking frocks of this season
are very charming, and delightfully."-
impractical! They are not long, in
the sense that they can be held up;
and they are not shert, in the sense
that they can be trusted not to assist
IN keeping the streets clean! When
correctly cut and when worn over ex.
actly the right underskirts, these new
skirts are altogether lovely, but It is
useless to deny that they are extrava.
CANT All women know that II is quite
impossible 20 hold up a gown which
does not possess a train, even a very
slight one, though something may be
done by judicious twitch at the back.
But 10 turn from the dress to the
dressee. strange, is it not, that women
OF the age Of 60. with portliness to
match. insist upon wearing models de.
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II Makes a Difference.

who is that large. fat. overdressed
pudgy woman in the box?" asked the
stranger at the theater.
THAT? Why, that is Mrs. Gottalot.
You know she is worth about fifty
millions, and"
But the stranger had turned to the
friend he had brought along and was
whispering;
DO you see that plump lady In the
box-the one with the beautiful
clothes and the diamonds? That ss
the famous Mrs. Gottalot. Judge.
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Plumbago.

Plumbago, popularly black lead,
scientifically graphite, got its name,
says the lronmonger. from the as
sumption that II contained lead; and.
indeed, certain lead ores and oxides
have at times been called plumbago;
but Enkel found in 1897 that what we
now call graphite yielded no lead, and
he called it sterile plumbago. scheele.
in 1889, proved that 1t was an allo-
tropic form of carbon.
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and founded as early as 17S4-acts on
the principle of rendering girl.mothers
pecuniarily attractive. Its vast influ-
ence is exercised in every ward of
Paris and its unique gesture is to
offer money inducements to young
men to marry their victims-in a
country like France, where the in
quiry into paternity" much more the
swearing of a baby, is not enforceable
by law. On condition that they marry,
the Charlie Maternelle will lavish at
tentions on the couple; but, as the
young satisfactory doctor points out
the girl being nearly always willing
why should she and the baby lose
their chance to patronage by the back
wardness of an uninterested third
party?
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"BabX,s Smileu

0dpJ OT1lles
What Paris had neglected-because
modern maternity science had not
sufficiently insisted on it-Nancy in
augurated by enlarging and municipal
izing the private Oeuvre de la Ma
ternite of Prof. Alphonse Herrgott,
called "Babys Smile"
Prof. Herrgott was convinced that
the only way to combat the phenom-
email infant mortality of France was to
prevent any separation of the mother
and her unweaned child.
IF | give money at the start" he
argued, how will it be employed?
VIII | get results? No"
Therefore he said to each mother
quitting his Maternity hospital:
Nurse your babe from your breast;
and in six weeks come back and see
me. The babe will be weighed and
examined. If 1t is in fine condition,
I'll give you $40 cash"
1t was the first cash for babies in
Funce!
And the results were magical. In
couEse of time Prof. Herrgott had so
many mothers proudly bringing him
their superb babies-and demanding
money at each weighing-that the
private fortune of the good man
melted. Fortunately private donations
and substitutes from the department
came to his aid. Now the municipality
has it in hand; the work extends over
all Nancy, where the infant mortality
has fallen to three and one-half per
cent.-lower than in the rich wards
of Paris. where ive per cent. was con
sidered phenomenal.
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babe, of course). Two philanthropists,
young widow and a discreet retired
business man, friends of the boss,
spend their time visiting the homes Of
our work women and girls"
How are those with babies ia
vored?" | insisted.
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Paris Takes Up Work.

In Paris the work has been taken
up by the Abatement Maternel-"The
Mothers Nursing"-to which in the
last ten years of his life Casimir-
Perier gave much of his energies and
considerable sums of money and
which Senator Plot would possibly Sc
lect as a nucleus for his great system
in which the state is to pay cash for
the babies.
You have doubtless heard Of French
depopulation; but only figures can
bring home TO you the long-gathering
result of concentrated French civiliza-
tion--minRinR stresses of economy