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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-07
CHRISTIAN ENDEAvoR NOTES.

At the meeting of the District of Column
bia Christian Endeavor Union last Monday
evening Rev. Walter Brooks of Nineteenth
Street Baptist Church reported on the
Seattle convention, prefacing it with a
pOetical outline of the sightseeing trip
taken by the District of Columbia delega-
ton on the way to and from Seattle. DR..
Brooks talk was followed by a talk by
Mr.. Edward Tarring, president of the
union, who told about some OF the delight
full incidents OF the trip. About the ros-
trum were about dozen c. E. convention
flags The meeting was well attended even
though It occurred on a holiday.
The meetings of the Christian Endeavor
Society of First Baptist Church, which
were discontinued for some weeks during
the heated season, were resumed last Sun
day evening. After the reading Of tie
Scriptures on the topic for the evening, Il
Can and Can't" by the leader, Mr.. T.
Gary. the roll of the members vas called,
II being the conservation meeting The
pastor, DIR. &. F. Winbigler. and Mrs Win
btgler, who have recently returned from
= visit TO the Pacific coast, brought echoes
from the Seattle convention. Convention
souvenir flags and badges were exhibited
and the entire meeting was made very
interesting and helpful.
The Takoma Park =. E. Society was
treated to talk yesterday evening on the
tI4l' from W washington 10 the convention
held this summer in Seattle Wash. The
lecturer was Edward Earring. president of
the local G. +. Union, who was the Irinci-
pal speaker at the annual banquet of the
TakOma society, which was given in the
Sunday school room OF the Presby terrain
Church at that place.
The banquet is given annually, and yes
terdaS's was one OF the most successful
which has yet been held. Mrs Campbell
was todstmistress. and after very elaborate
refreshments had been served she called
for speeches from the various members.
Nr W .Iliams spoke in place of Mrs. Ter
finger. Prof. Williams was followed by Mr.
Earring, who described at length the trip
which the Washington delegates took. Mr..
Earrings speech was followed by two Sc
kCtious from a quartet Of the society con-
ssting Of the pastor. Rev. Thomas u. c.
Clark. Mr.. Walter Wakefield Mr. Hugh
Davis and Mr.. J. Bond Smith.
Mr.. Knight then responded to a call 10
talk ON the junior society. He was fol-
lowed 10y Miss Katie White who responded
very Clrvcrly to the toast The Girls" In
reply to Miss White. Mr.. Wakefield spoke
Our Boys" The last speech was given
by Or. Clark who chose for his subject
THE G. r.. Movement
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The Fat Athlete.
from the New York World

FROM Inc New YORK World
The visit of the japanese wrestler
Hitachiyama, Is of interest because of the
bearing his generous physique may have on
the question of weight and athletic fitness.
A champion athlete who tips the beam at
$50 pounds is calculated to upset establish
ed notions OF training.
Have Anglo-Saxon trainers been wrong
in insisting on the removal of the last
ounce of superf1uous flesh as a preliminary
to successful competition? Too often ath-
letes, under the double strain of exhaust
ing exercise and a rigorous diet have gone
stale at the moment when theoretically
they were in the pink of condition. Col
lege oarsmen have benefited from the lib
eralization of the training table, but they
still have something to learn from the freer
and easier methods OF the English.
Training down to the bone is legacy
from pugilism. 1t Ia not impossible that fat
has been unduly despised 1t nourishes the
nerves for the ordeal Of a contest requiring
endurance. 1t counts in heavy athletics by
reason of the bulk it furnishes. Track ath-
letcs, Jockeys and feather-weight boxers
may do without it. But it Is useful in mod
Grafton to the hammer-thrower and the
shot-putter and to the wrestler, to Judge
from Hitachiyama. Perhaps Japan may
give US another idea in athletics, as before
In the case of jiu-jitsu. Let us see what
Mr.. Hitachiyama can do.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-07
NAVAL BUNTING.
Costly Dress Suit Flag Outfit Of Our
Warships.

From Army and Navy Life
Few realize the number of flags carried
by a warship, nor the cost Of all the gay
bunting which flutters from mast to mast
at holiday time In addition to fleet COM
munication, necessary during all forms of
maneuvers in home waters, the ship must
be equipped with an extensive array of
flags stored on board for various forms Of
ceremonial and official occasions. This
dress suit" outfit Of bunting. therefore,
consists of $50 different flags, the material
and making Of which costs just $4,000.
Each ship is entitled to a new flag equip
ment every three years, though flagship
will often require new set Of signals,
owing to their constant use and handling, in
about a year.
A great deal more time and labor are re-
quired to finish certain Of these flags than
generally supposed. For instance, the
Presidents flag requires the longest time
Of any to make, as 1t takes one woman
life sized eagle, with long outstretched
wings, and other emblems. are all hand
sewed and involve the most patient work.
The most difficult, and likewise consuming
the longest time to make, are the foreign
flags. This is especially true Of the South
and Central American ones. A half-doZen
specially skilled hand device sewers, each
having acquired the knack Of making GER
tain Of the center designs in these to per-
lection. are continually kept on these re-
spective flags. Every battleship carries
forty-three foreign flags, twentyf1ve feet
by thirteen wide.
The most expensive ensign to make is
the German, which. owing to the delicate
scroll work Of the large imperial eagle and
royal crown, necessitating delicate, slow
and careful sewing, costs $3.50. The dragon
flag Of China consists of 200 separate pieces.
Twelve to fourteen days are ordinarily con-
sumed in finishing this flag, which costs
s5175. The flag of Siam. with the huge
white elephant. costs s3s. The Mexican.
with it's center design of q large eagle
The cheapest foreign flag made is the Moor
fish, which costs $21.
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OFFICE BOYS WANTED,
New York Demands 10000 a Year.
The Supply Low.

From the New York Tribune ~ "
In about one month, with the ending Of
the summer season, the metropolis will be
crying for fifty thousand Office boys, the
old-fashioned kind preferred. Each year
the cry for boys that goes up from the sky
scrapers becomes more insistent New
York's greedy business NAV gobbles up
some seventy thousand youngsters a year
as office boys, and, though there are Just
about enough boys to supply the demand,
business men complain that to secure the
right kind of boys is very difficult matter
indeed.
1t is a curious fact about New York's
great army Of office boys that a small pro-
portion of them are graduates Of the public
schools. The schools graduate less than ten
thousand boys year, and fully half of these
enter the high schools to equip themselves
for business or other careers so that prob
ably not more than four thousand of these
annual graduates become office boys. The
average age Of these young business men Is
fourteen years and six months. OF the
residue Of the annual contingent of office
boys, the great majority are youngsters who
for some reason or other have been COM
PEELED to drop out Of school before complet-
ing the course.
Boys enough there are, then, but business
men lament the passing of the old-fa shioned
Office boy, who as type Is taking his place
with the dodo and the mastodon. He was
the boy who came early and stayed late,
who busted. swept, scrubbed, cleaned the
windows, filled the nkwells and, in short,
was chambermaid and waitress and office
assistant all in one. If there was an errand
to be run he was there and back in jiffy.
He apparently had a mother who kept him
imma culate in all details from fingernails to
| shoes. He said Yes, SIR" instead of
Sure" and, incidentally, he could add and
write fair round hand" and had work.
Ing knowledge of geography. He rose rap
idly from the office boys job and, of course,
married the boss daughter and became head
of the firm in time
This paragon of lad, according to bus-
ness men, has passed. OF course business
conditions have changed, too. The windows
in a modern business house are cleaned by
the window-cleaning trust: the offices are
scrubbed and cleaned up by armies Of
scrub ladies'. The average boy has a
habit of getting down to the office after the
boss. and his eagerness to leave early is
equaled only by his gross ignorance of the
uses of ordinary office apparatus. The NOR
tality among his relatives during the base
ball season Is something stupendous. and he
must be constantly adjured by his employer
that soap and water are good things for the
health
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appalled, me. They seemed sure proof of
that deterioration of the moral fiber which
inevitably Furnishes the wrongdoer.
I was not only weak and unnerved, de-
serted of courage. but my conscience was
frlghtfully awake and loud-voiced. 1t
seemed to me that had not only acted the
part of a poltroon, but that the egotism
which had made me believe Mrs Randolph,
! after an understanding of my baseness and
duplicity, could accept me in the place of
the husband she had loved and lost was
monumental and bordered on the decisions
Of the insane
see me since l had been brought to this
place, and l regretted l had not asked the
attendant. Jerome had been there, l was
sure and would come again. But now
did not want to see even Jerome. For that
overpowering feeling that had been wrong
fatally, foolishly. wickedly wrong-from
the first, combined with strange and
sickening sense of defeat, made me wish to
see no one who had known in any way of
my illguided and ll-starred attempt
In this period Of depression wild thoughts
of flight came to me, which cryStalliZed
into desire to hide myself amid the scenes
of my childhood; l suffered from the In
tense longing of inconsistencies. The way
ing trees and green fields; the roadsides,
which In this month of june were pink with
masses of wild roses: the cool, leafy lanes:
the pools of water under the pollard will
lows, where in the heat of the day the
cows used to stand; the long village street
with the white church spire rising at the
end of it: the country store and the post
office, with their groups of gosspers and
loungers-I saw them all.
The desire for flight, for seclusion, for a
backward leap into a past that might to
some extent take me away from the pres
ent, that might somehow, l did not know
how. sprinkle me with perfumes from
Lethean waters, grew until at last L arose
from my bed.
l was not so weak as / had thought and
desire gave me strength. l found the win
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-07
Where Animals Beat Men.

From the Minneapolis Journal.
Mature taking aside, said John Lover,
the Zoo keeper, mice won't eat oleo. 1t Is
a fact. Lay pat of oleo and pat of but
ter side by side and in the morning the
butter will be gone, but the oleo will re-
main untouched.
"Oh, yes, some animals are incredibly
nice about their food. The otter, when liv-
ing wild, will only eat one piece. one mouth
full, out of each fish he catches. He will
land a beautiful trout, but only one bite of
1t, from the back just behind the neck is
good enough for him. The rest he losses
aside. This epicure often kills dozen fine
big trout to make one meal.
"Chimpanzees have very delicate tastes.
banana or a pineapple that 70 you seems
delicious to a chimpanZee may be revolving.
His taste is keener. Grapes grown in hot
houses where ulphur fumes are used an
insecticide taste all right to a man, but
chimpanZee will have none of them.
THE ichneumon loves eggs. He can tell
a fresh from stale one simply by tapping
the she'll
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QUESTIONS ANSWERED.

Any person may send any biblical ques-
ton to DR.. Gilbert, 1903 r street north
west, this city, and receive answer in The
Star. .'.-'.'
1885,. What are the first rules Of nterpre-
taton as applied to a passage of Scripture?
Answer First, carefully study the con-
text and then compare the passage with
other Scripture.
2S7 What was the mama given to
Israel in the wilderness Of sin?
Answer No one knows 1t was called
the corn of heaven" and angels food"
psalm, lxxvii:24, 25.) 1t was such mys-
FERROUS thing that the people gave 1t the
name mama, that Is, What is it?' The
speculations on this subject would fill a
volume.
2SS Might the Biblical writers have been
inspired and yet not preserved from error
on some subjects?
Answer. 1t is conceivable that the spirit
of God was given to the Biblical writer's
only to guide them into spiritual truth, but
not to deliver them from mistakes in ma
terial matters. Some scholars SO claim
and the book with that view would be of
incalculable value. The greater number of
orthodox scholars hold that inspiration
pertaned to the entire composition, and
that the writers did not err in any par
ticular.
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RIGHT HAND OR BOTH.
Four-Fifths of the Babies Said to Be
Ambidextrous.

From the Strand.
Many reasons have been advanced for
the prevalence of right It is
by some said to be the result of nursing
and infantle treatment, to be due to early
practice In writing and drawing, to be the
outcome of warfara, education and hered-
ity, the result Of mechanical law and other
remote causes. Sir James Sawyer declares
that the preferential Use of the right hand
Is due to the fact that in primitive days
man used the right hand for the purposes
OF offense, so as to keep the heart-the
vital spot-as far IS possible from the as
sault of an adversary. Recent experiments
and observations, however, prove that SIN
gle-handedness is merely the result OF
faulty or restricted education
1t is a curious instance of human con-
trarineSs that should one eye, one ear or
one leg Of a child show signs OF diminished
vigor the parents would instantly seek the
cause Of and If possible the remedy for
that lamentable condition: yet for some in
applicable reason or prejudice the left hand
of the average child is ruthlessly and de-
hberately neglected. until in mature years
1t Is undeveloped. useless and almost
unnecessary appendage.
Careful observations have shown that
cut of every hundred persons born into this
world eighty are congenitally aTnbidextrous
that is to say, they Will insttncttvely
reach for an object with either hand, and
ing to develop both hands and arms to an
equal degree of strength and skill.
OF the remaining twenty seventeen Will
be right-handed while the other three will
show natural bias toward the left hand.
The cultivation of ambidexterity therefore
offers insuperable difficulties, and the
economical, physiological and psychological
advantages are enormous.
It Is said that the Japanese soldiers can
use their weapons with equal skill in either
hand, for they are trained to be ambidex-
trous from childhood. At school they are
taught to write and draw with both hands.
In drawing and painting no supporting de-
vice whatever is used, the entire arm being
employed
The German educational authorities too,
are at present giving considerable atten-
ton to left-hand work, especially in their
technical and mechanical schools. The stu
dents are taught to saw, plane and ham
mer as well with the left hand as with the
right, and the economical and industrial
Importance Of ambiNerity Is firmly i'm
pressed upon the minds Of young men and
women.
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Curious Coincidence.

From Army and Navy Life
The first colonel Of the 23d Infantry was
James Chrystie; the present colonel is
Philips Reade An interesting incident con-
nected with the visit of Col. Reade to the
old cemetery at Fort Niagara was the dis
covery Of the monument of Maj. James
Chrystie Of the revolutionary army, after
ward colonel Of the $50 Infantry, and In
spector general Of the Northern Division.
U. 8. A. This officer was wounded at the
of October. 1912. and died a few weeks
later Both sides claim the victory at
Queenstown Heights, but Col Chrystie con-
coded that the British commander, Maj
Gen. Sir Isaac Brock, X. c. B.. was vic
torious in the action where he fell on the
18th of October, 1912. Col. Reade was born
on the 18th of October. and the coincidence
Of the date of the battle as to month and
day but not, Of course, as to year, was
noted by him in connection with his pres
ent position and that formerly held by Col.
Chrystie.
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ing one-flfth of the population, have adopted
the Gabesberger system as the standard
for public schools. Henceforth no varia-
tons from this standard will be allowed in
schools except by unanimous agreement of
the five governments.
By a recent census of shorthand writers
the Gabelsberger system is used by 30 COO
stenographers in Germany and by 1900 in
Austria-Hungary. The Stolze system has
II. 600 adherents, the Schrey 1890 and others
from 4.00O down. The Gabelsberger system
is the one chiefly used for the languages of
eastern Europe. 1t has been introduced In
the United States. where also the French
PERRIN, the English Gregg and other foreign
systems add their compexity to the Mum
son, Cross. New Standard and others de-
rived from the Isaac Pitman original in
troduced in 1874 and still the main one here
in England.
With US business use has brought about
working uniformity by which the student Of
one system may familiariZe himself with
another by a little practice.
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The Horsepower of a Porpoise.

From the London Times.
We have received a letter from E Ed
wards in which he calls attention to the
power exerted by the porpoise. 1t is well
known that a porpoise Will maintain a high
rate of speed through the water for long
periods of time Our correspond ent cal
culates that 10 horsepower Is exertgd by the
animal when II is moving at twenty miles
an hour, and he asks how such power could
be acquired. He suggo SITS that the eXplana-
ton may lie in the reduction OF the skin
friction by n system of glands which con-
tinually eXude oil, and that therefore such
a calcula ted power Is not developed and. he
asks whether mechanical imitation of ma
lures process might not be possible for
the hullS of ships.
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Franking Privilege for Militia.

From Army and Navy Life.
It was source of keen regret to the
whole National Guard that Congress did
not see At to take up and pass the May
nard bill, giving to the guard the frank
ing privilege for official business The bill
was approved by several National Guard
Association conventions and the military
committee. Postage, especially in country
districts, where orders and notices are
served by mail. and in large states where
all business with regime ntal and state head
quarters Is necessarily conducted by mail,
is a very large item in the annual bill Of
expense Of the guard, and now that the
guard is officially declared a national force
On peace as we'll as war, the courts of the
District of Columbia say there can be no
satisfactory reason for depriving it of privi-
leges enjoyed by other branches of the gov
eminent. The National Guard should i'm
press upon senators and representatives,
who at this season are at home. the neces-
sity for the passage OF a similar bill, at the
next session.
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He Set a Date.
From Harper's Weekly.

A merchant in Wisconsin town who had
Swedish clerk sent him out to do some
collecting. When he returned from an I'M
successful trip he reported:
"Yim Yonson say he will pay ven he sells
his hogs. YIN Oleson, he will pay ven he
sell him wheat, and Bill Pack say he Will
pay in january
WELL" said the boss. that's the first
time Bill ever set date to pay. Did he
really say he would pay in january
saw IL ban ,a dam cold dad dav vle ven e1et yc,, re
that money. / tank that ban in january"
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Uniformity in Shorthand Writing.

NeW 1UrK NUFIu.
Stenographers who follow some one Of
the two-score or more varieties of short
hand in use here will watch with interest
the efforts in Germany to secure a unifica-
ton of systems.
Since the first steps toward reform were
taken by the German congress of stenogra-
pliers in January of this year the Prussian
legislature has requested the government to
consider the desirability of uniformity of
instruction in shorthand throughout the en-
pire. Five OF the twenty-six federated
states-Bavaria. Saxony, Oldenburg, Sake
Weimar and Saxe-Coburg Gotha-represent-
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Christian Endeavor Hour
condnclcd hy Grace I.LvIngston nnI.Lutn.

Conducted hy Grace Livingston Hill-IGtz.
For Sunday, September S 1907.
fop". God : omnlpIesencp.' Psalm cxNNix IL =.
l. Lord, Thou hast searched me, AID
known me.
= Thou knowest my downsitting and nine
uprising. Thou Uuderstandcst my thought
afar on.
3. Thou compassest my path and my lying
down, and art acquainted with all my
ways.
4. For there is not word in my tongue.
but, 10, % Lord, Thou knowest il altogether.
! 8. Thou hast beset me behind and fore,
and laid Thine hand upon me.
, 6. Such knowledge is too wonderful for
me. II is high. | cannot attain unto it.
:. Whittier shall so from Thy spirit? or
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BROTHERHOOD OF ST. ANDREW

1t has been definitely decided to hold the
next meeting of the Washington Local As
sembly of Brotherhood Chapters, at St.
PauTs Church, Washington Circle, Monday
evening, September %, and it is proposed
to make the meeting in the nature of a
preparatory service, for the local brother
hood men and boys for the approaching
brotherhood convention.
The chapter Of Trinity parish will resume
regular meetings for the fall and winter
next Tuesday evening.
j. Lewis Gibbs, pre- dent of the Junior
local assembly, and Bert t. Amos of the
senior local assembly spoke in the inter-
ests of the international convention at a
brotherhood meeting held in Baltimore last
Thursday evening.
Preparations are under way for the or
ganization of a chapter of the Brotherhood
of st. Andrew, at st. Johns Church, Be-
thesia.
Augustus p. Crenshaw of the Brother
hood Chapter of St. Thomas Church has
been appointed vice chairman Nof the hos
pitality committee for the international
brotherhood convention to relieve Gen. Cecil
Clay, who has been forced to give up active
work on account of i'll health.
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felt Gods presence with them constantly.
ASK for suggestions how to realize that
God is always with US. At the close ask
that the heads be bowed while you sing
abide With Me" as a prayer.
In finding Thee all things round Us found,
In losing Thee are all things lost beside;
Ears have We, but in vain sweet voices sound,
And to eyes the vision is denied.
Open eyes that that world may see;
Open that we Thy voice may hear;
And in the spirit land may be,
And feel Thy presence with US always near
ZONES Very.
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The mattresses used in the German ARM
are stuffed with little rolls of paper and
are said to be great Improvement on
straw.
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for SUNDAY Scboola.
STAR LESSON FOR SEPTEMBER
By Rev. J. E. Gilbert, DID,,

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
THE BRAzEN SERPENT Numbers :1e
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In the absence of the pastor, Rev. Mr..
Marshall of North Capitol NJ f. Church,
Miss Jennie Smith, railroad evangelist, will
conduct the services at that church tomor-
row, morning and evening.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-07

Rev. Dr. John Lee Allison, pastor of Gum
ton Temple Memorial Presbyterian Church,
has returned from a vacation spent in the
mountains OF Virginia, and will occupy his
pulpit tomorrow morning.