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BUSINESS.

Despite all the financial distress of
the fall and general business disturb
ance, it is reported that the New Eng
land cotton mills found the year just
closing the best they ever had. divi-
dends ranging from 1898 per cent. in
the Fall River district to 1878 per cent.
in New Bedford. in both cases very
considerable increases over last year.
Several leading railroads have recently
declared increased dividends, and next
month the total estimated dividends in
New York will be about $S5, 600, 900, a
decrease of only about $1,000, 900 from
January last. The interest payments,
it is computed, will be 800, 000, 600, an
Increase of $4,000, 900 over January. 1907,
VIM make quite a respectable
showing in the bank accounts.
Although in some quarters recently
there was reported industrial slackness
and the cutting down of working time.
Pittsburg reports a most cheerful pros
pect for the near future. Most of the
mills in McKeesport, Glassport, Du-
quesne and the Monongahela Valley
are expected to be in operation by the
beginning Of the second week in jan
nary. which will put 10000 idle men to
work, and all the mills in the P~ittsburg
district will be in full operation early
in the new year.
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AS TO CHRISTMAS TREES.

As might have been suspected, the
cutlery a short time g against the
denuding of our forests by the cut
ting of young spruce for Christmas
didn't come from those who wish to
preserve the forest from wanton de-
struction because of the well-known
and great evils that are sure to follow
the decreasing of a country. We now
learn that the "kick' had its origin
with the Paper Trust. This cutting of
Christmas trees has. in sections of
the West, they say. made the young
timber so scarce thai the paper men
actually have to buy their pulp wood
in Canada and haul it by rail to their
mills.
The plea from these people is
purely selfish. They have themselves,
in their selfish greed, done more to de-
stroy the forests they talk about than
any other agency. We will take Chief
Forester Pinchot's word for it that the
Christmas tree cutting is not destruc-
tive enough to hurt and that the en-
tire annual supply could be produced
in an area of 1,4OO acres. II this were
done there would be no possible
wastage from that cause, but even if
that shall not be for a while, the at
tack on the Christmas tree from the
pulp men is a great piece of impu-
dence.
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WHY IRON RUsTs.
An American Physicist Who Says 1t Is
Due to Electricity.

Ask almost any intelligent man why
iron rusts and he will probably explain
at tedious length that II is all due to the
oxygen of the air. Ever since chemistry
became a more or less exact science.
which was over a century ago, that theory
has been generally accepted. Now an
American physicist, DR.. Cushman. comes
along and announces that rusting is really
due 10 electricity.
DR.. Cushman started his researches,
says The Circle, with the object of dis
covering some method of preventing the
corrosion of wire fences-a subject of
vital interest to farmers. lie achieved
more than he anticipated. He found that
the first attack on the iron is made by
hydrogen in the form of exceedingly small
particles, but not as the textbooks have
taught us, by oxygen. This is in agree
ment with the modern theory that many
substances, when they are dissolved in
water, are ASSOCIATED into ions, or minute
particles smaller even than atoms, all
carrying electrical charges. Even pure
water contains a certain number of these.
Acid impurities multiply the hydrogen
ions and strengthen them In their corro-
siVe effect upon iron. The action is
purely electric, and involves an exchange
of the electric relations between the hy-
drogen and the iron. DR.. Cushman dis
covered that active oxidizing agents. such
as chromate and bichromate of potash, pre-
vent rusting by safeguarding 1t against
attack by the hydrogen ion BX\immers-
ing the iron in a concentrated solution OF
blchromate acid, and then washing aud
wiping it, the metal is rendered passive,
so that it becomes capable of resisting
electro-chemical attack.
The discovery OF the real cause of rust
ing and OF its prevention has great Ia
dustrial Significance. Ii means that Il
method has at last been found for pr :
tecting structural ironwork and machinery.
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Secretary Taft's relations to New Eng
land are peculiarly close. The ties of
family and education which bind him to
this section would make his elevation to
the presidency a source of some local
qualification. While New England cannot
expect often to name presidential candi-
dates, as 1t might, perhaps, have done in
the past, 1t can throw its influence towards
the nomination of men who know New
England and are in sympathy with her
great traditions and her present aspira-
tons. From this time forth it looks much
like a contest between the conservatives
and the modern school of Republicanism,
for the control of the convention, with
Cannon as the choice of the conservatives,
while the other side are dividing their sup
port between Taft and Hughes.-Boston
Transcript.
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RODE BICYCLE DOWN YUKON;
CAN MAKE TRIP

difficulty, but this was only OCCASION
ally the case.
AT Kaltag, on the river, l struck
across to Unalakleet, on Norton Sound,
and from there went across the Sound
to Golofin Bay, stopping at a road
house known as Dexter's. and going on
to Nome from there, arriving In twen-
ty-eight days from the time 1 left Daw-
son.
1T is my opinion that the present
race will be started too late. The en-
tire party ought to be at Valdez by the
middle of February instead of leaving
New York at that time. 1 believe they
will find the Yukon River in such a
condition when they arrive at Tanana
that 1t will be impossible to proceed
down the river on the ice, and they win
be compelled to proceed by steamer to
st. Michael and Nome.
II also think the autoists will en-
counter difficulty in getting across the
Sierras. There would be no trouble in
getting across In summer, because the
roads are good at tina time of the year,
but the snow in winter piles up very
deep in the Sierras, and it is for that
reason hat the Southern Pacific main
tain many miles of s~nowsheds. ] do
not see how the autos can get through
these sheds, for there is but q single
track, with places for other trains to
turn out.
Nevertheless, l believe the trip to be
feasible, so far as travel in the United
States is concerned. l know nothing
about travel conditions in Siberia. But,
as I say, l think the start will be too
late to reach the Yukon River before
the thaw sets in. The contestants GER
tainly will nave no time to lose along
the road; every day will count"
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IN VEIN.
A Fren1Ied F~inancier.


Mother wants q new silk waist,
New gloves, a morning gown;
A pair OF slippers and a hat,
A quilt of esderiown.
Sister wants a party dress.
An opera cloak and fan:
A pair Of side combs for her hair,
A walking skirt of tan,
Shed like to get a diamond ring,
A locket and a chain,
A. silver ~man.curing set,
A bag called chatclaine.
Brother wants another sled,
An engine run by steam;
He wants a rugby football, for
He plays upon a team.
lie wants a pair Of racing ckates,
A set of Optics books;
And he expects to get them all,
Quite plainly, from his looks.
The baby must have building blocks,
A rattle and a drum,
A colored linen picture book
About Sir Thomas Thumb.
Then Uncle Jim must get a pipe,
Aunt Susan collar tops;
To Cousin May we have to send
A box of chocolate drops.
Onr nirces and our nephews, too,
Now number twenty-four,
And everyone of them must be
Remembered, as of yore-
On top of his a score of friends
That we must not forget,
Because they la remember us
o, there are others yet;
The janitor must have a tip,
The barger waits his share;
The elevator man has placed
A bank upon his chair.
The shopping day list is now complete,
As Christmas day draws near,
/ realize that I must be
A frenzied %finaneier.
Detroit Free Press
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NEW YORK, Dec. 2s.-R. e. Whit
comb, who lived in Alaska for sew
eral years, is very much interested In
the New York-to-Paris automobile race,
having himself made a remarkable trip
down the Yukon River in 1900. Mr..
Whitcomb was living in Dawson at
the time. Deciding to go to Nome,
more than 1900 miles distant, he
mounted a bicycle and made the en-
tire trip over the ice and snow-covered
tundra, arriving at his destination in
tw~enty-eight days in excellent condi-
ton, while his bicycle was in no way
injured by he journey.
II left Dawson on the 9Th of March;
1900" he said yesterday, o an or
binary bicycle. having plain pneumatic
tires. OF course, I travelled light, de-
pending upon obtaining food chiefly at
the roadhouses and other places along
the way. Before reaching Tanana l
encountered trouble as a result of the
thaw which had started, but it soon
turned colder, and I proceeded without
more difficulty from that cause.
81 passed over a good deal of ice in
the trail, which was very rough at
times. Horses had passed on ahead,
and their hoofs had made holes in the
soft ice which afterward froze, making
it pretty rough going for the bicycle.
Still, l did moi have a single puncture
during the entire trip, and, in fact, did
not have to initiate the tires very often.
II found roadhouses n camps of
wood choppers and others about twenty
miles or so apart, and hence did not
suffer for food or for want of a place
to sleep. In places I found the ice so
smooth that the tires of my wheel
would not stand up, which caused some
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Alaska-Yukon-Paciac Exposition

To the Editor of the Evening Star;
When does the Alaska Yukon-Paciic
exposition take place? What are its main
objects? Is it supported by government
funds? READER.
1.-THE exposition will open June l and
close October 10, 1909. at Seattle, Wash.
Its aim is to exploit the resources of the
Alaska and Yukon territories In the United
States and the Dominion Of Canada; to
make known the vast Importance of the
trade of the Pacific Ocean. and to demon
strate the progress Of Western America.
The exposition will represent an expen-
diture of $4,000, 900. The government has
been invited to make an exhibit at p cost
of 81, 175,0O0 in a main government buiid
ing and : also In buildings for Alaska.
Hawaii and the Philippines. Outside OF
its participation in this manner, the
government is not asked nor expected to
support the exposition with any loan OF
funds or other appropriations.-Ed.l
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Lhasa.

10 the Editor of the Evening Star:
Will you greatly oblige IL constant reader
by printing q history of Lhasa, the For
hidden CITY, of Thibet, which has just
been opened to communication with the
world? X. N.
[Lhasa, the Thibetan for Gods place,
or house." the capital of Tribe and seat
OF the Lamaistic dynasty, is situated on
a tributary of the Brahmaputra, at an
elevation OF 1850 feet above the sea. The
chief trade is in precious stones, gold, sill
yer and fabrics peculiar to the region, and
the chief leading interests of the city are
religious. Many thousands of pilgrims
visit Lhasa annually from Mongolia, kaSh-
mir, Nepal, ETC., the city containing a
large number Of Buddhist monasteries.
Near its centre is the Cathedral, layishly
decorated with green and gold, and known
as the Sha-K'an or House of the Lords.
In the suburbs of the western part of the
city is the palace, or Po-ta-la, of the
Dalai Lama, the head of the Lamaist
Church, and supposed TO be the incarnation
of Avalokiteshvara, the Lord who looks
down from on high" or the personifica-
ton of power, the merciful protector OF
the world and of men. The pa lace build
ings date from 1913. Other great monas
establishments in the neighborhood are
the Depung. with 1900 monks and stu
QeIlS, anu lue OCId, IA WitANh cto9N AhO'
are housed.
The population of Lhasa is not definitely
known, bu is estimated to be about 5000,
OF which 10000 are monks, not counting q
Chinese garrison Of 200 men, two miles
distant. The affairs of Lhasa are adj
| ministered by the Dalai Lama and the
Chinese Amaban or Minister Resident
| Since the end Of the eighteenth century
| foreigners had been forbidden to enter
Lhasa, but among the few who succeeded
in penetrating into the capital were Man
ming. in 1871: Hue and CADET, in 1915; Main
Singh, in 1874, and Sarat Chandra Dass
but the most effective visit was paid By
Colonel Younghusband.
In 1908 a British mission strongly sup
ported by troops. under Colonel Young
husband, was sent by the Indian govern
ment to Lhasa with the object OF obtain
ing the observance of the commercial con
ventions between Thibet and India. Aftel
hard fighting the capital was reached
August 8, 1904, and the Dalai Lama fled
Following considerable negotiation q
| treaty was signed September Z, 1904, by
which Thibet agreed to establish markets
at Gyantse and Gartok, in addition t
Yatung, with British and Thibetan Off
Gals stationed at those places, and Thibe
also agreed to pay an indemnity OF ~,
500, 900 to Great Britain, payable In seventy
five yearly instruments, beginning Jan
uary 1, 1906, the British troops In tht
meanwhile continuing to occupy the
Chumbi Valley as security. These term
were subsequently modified. The treaty
confirmed by a separate convention be
tween Great Britain and China, was
signed April q. 1906. Mail and telegraphi'
service will soon be installed in Lhasa
Ed
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MANAGING PUBLIC BUSINESS.

While there can be no suspicion of
crooked dealing on the part of the
three commissioners by whom the con-
tract was given out for the great dam
in connection with New York's pro-
jocted new water supply, the fact that
the successful bidder was 1884, 425
higher than the lowest is ground
enough for Mayor Mcclellan to bring
the commissioners to book. The tech
meal charges against the three men
are misconduct and gross incompe-
tency." Possibly they may show such
reasons for awarding the contract to
the lowest bidder as will clear their
skirts. Unless they do they will be
shown to have neglected their duty
in not giving the same care and at
tention to public business as they
would give to their own and they are
wealthy, successful men of large
affairs.
1t is a commonplace to say that
no other rule should govern the
actions of men entrusted with the con-
duct of public enterprises. The city's
business demands as much ability and
integrity and diligence as any private
business and the public is entitled to
the services of competent and con-
scientious men. No men should be
given such offices whose time is too
valuable to their personal business to
allow them to take proper care of the
public work entrusted to them.
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I've always been unlucky,
Just as long as 1 kin think.
When l was two l nearly drowned
From falling in the sink.
At three l broke my co~llar-bone,
And all one side my head
Wa bald as any billiard ball,
From scalding. mother said.
When five they sent me off to school,
And there l found my sphere.
1 was the chief unlucky boy
With not a rival near.
If 1t was any little thing,
Like breaking Of an arm,
"Oh. Bill will be all right they'd say,
ut won't do him no harm"
And long owards 2 or 3 o'clock,
Maw'd say in anxious strains,
Its pretty nearly time the boys
Brought Wiilie's dear remains"
If I went skating, there was sure
To be a sudden thaw;
I'd fall in: then they'd fish me out
And take me home to nav.
And 1 suppose that when I die,
And have a golden harp,
I'll trip up on my sandal string
And land on something sharp.
HARRY DOANB.
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VIEWS OF EDITORS.



Professor F. w. Tanssig, of Harvard
University. in a comprehensive discourse
at the Twentieth Century Club on Trusts
and the Problems OF Government Control
or Supervision" said pointedly: Il be-
lieve that publicity is the logical remedy
for existing evils" The prosecution OF
offending trusts is good so far as it goes
but it does not go far enough, II a com
plete remedy for trust evils is to be found
and applied.
THAT publicity may be provided for ann
the public know just what is going on
Is the only adequate means. in Professor
Taussig's opinion. that can be PROVIDED
for effective supervision. Professor Taias-
sig's view will meet with ready acceptance
by all who have noted the effectiveness
of publicity as a remedy for wrongs whicn
had hourished with impunity and would
have continued to flourish indefinitely
against any other feasible instrument OF
correction except publicity.
1t might be added that the sole remedy
in sight today for many other evils besides
those Of the trusts is publicity, TO which.
for example, an appeal has been made as a
last resort for the reform of the aousss
of the campaign fund.-Boston Globe.
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To the Editor of the Evening Star:
Why are sailors trousers always made
so baggy at the bottom? CURIOUS.
I'VE don't know for sure. but we have
been told that it is in order that they may
roll up above he knee conveniently and
easily. Sailors are great deck washers,
and In deck washing 1t is necessary to
have the legs bare to the knees. Trousers
of ordinary cut, rolled above the knees,
would cramp the flesh Of the upper leg
and impede the circulation; but sailor
trousers may be taken by their wide bot
toms and pulled in a jiffy up to the hip.
They fit the upper leg like a hip-hoot.
Sailor trousers, In a word, have so odd a
shape because they are cut from the knee
down to fit the leg from the knee up.-EdJ
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ization in Essex County. The adminisr
tration of the committees affairs dur
ing the past year has been wise. The
policy has looked to Cancellation and
unity, and its fruit was seen last night
in a reunited party management. The
reelection of Chairman Dalrymple Is in
the nature of a triumph for him, in
view of the opposition his candidacy
encountered one year ago.
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Tommy,s Error.

Mrs. de Smythe-Tommy, do you
want some nice plum jam?
Tommy-Yes, mother.
Mrs. de Smythe-I was going to give
you some to put on your bread, but I've
lost the key to the pantry.
Tommy-You don't need the key,
mother. I can reach down through the
window n open the door from the in
side.
Mrs. de Smythe-That's what / want
ed to know. Now just wait till your
father comes home.-The Catholic
Mirror.
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Canada and the United states.

There has been one happy phase OF the
Northwest in that Canadians have evil
IDENTIFY learned to appreciate American
settlers as much superior to those coming
from any other country. American readers
of the English magazines, it must be con-
fessed, have been not a little eetertained
by the articles explaining why Englishmen
are not popular In Canada The develop
ment has been, probably, a somewhat
painful shock to British pride, inasmuch
as in going to the Dominion an English
mar feels that he is merely entering one
of his imperial possessions over the seas
a region especially reserved for him by
the builders Of the greatest empire the sun
shines upon. Yet this very feeling ac-
counts partly for the appropriately he
seems to achieve on Canadian soil. The
American in Canada, on the other hand,
is an entirely different creature. He has
been reared on the same continent, In
much the same social and business at
mosphere and with the same conception
of Industrial progress as the native Cana
dian. -Springfeld Republican.
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PEOPLE OF NOTE.

The Paris Museum of Decorative Arts
has lust received as q present from an
official of the Chamber Of Deputies the
throne which was made for Napoleon's
use at the opening of the Chambers, and
which was afterward changed a little in
the time of the Restoration, and subse-
quently served for Louis XVIII. and
Charles x. on similar occasions.
For eight years past Representative
Lamb, of Richmond (Va.) district, has
been unavailingly asking Congress to
place a suitable monument over the grave
of President John Tyler.
Mrs. Thomas p. Gore, wife of the blind
Senator from Oklahoma, accompanies her
husband to each session of the Senate
n watches every gesture of the man in
whose election she contributed more than
any one else. The Senator himself calls
her his eyes and right hand" and says
she knows more about parliamentary law
and politics han any other woman in the
country.
Charles Curtis, Junior Senator from
Kansas, Is one of the most modest, UNI
assuming members Of the upper House. A
self-made man, having been newsboy,
bootblack and Jockey, he made himself
proficient in law by studying after hours.
Countess Tolstoi is in Moscow super
vislng the organization of a museum In
honor of her illustrious husband. The
museum will contain a great mass of let
ters received by the count, many of then
being from America, one from John ID
Rockefeller asking the Russian philoso'
piers opinion as to the best way to en-
ploy his money. The countess Is at present
writing her memoirs, and her husband i:
at work on his book, "A Round of Read
ing"
The sturdy Americanism of her brothers
Alfred G.. and Reginald-is credited will
having Influenced Miss Gladys Vanderbilt
to halt her marriage to Count Szechenyi
the Hungarian, after he had demurred al
the proposed amount Of the marriage set
Element to be made to him.
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simple lives they did of necessity in the
early days has it's effect. AT any rate
the decrease in the rate after a GER
tain period of growth is so well estab-
lished that it is relied upon as a factor
in all statistical calculations.
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Fnncifni a

''Tlme,' remarked the wise person, us
money"
Perhaps answered Sirius Barker, f'but
1t should be brought to the attention of
some banks ! have heard of. Instead of
clearing house certificates they may find
1t comfortable and convenient TO issue
eight-day clocks.-Washington Star.
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answers to Correspondents.

G. K.-rhere must be two witnesses to
the will. Otherwise, except in very excep-
tional cases, it will not be recognized as
legal,-Ed.
ships and four feet a~uxiliaries that left
Hampton Roads on December IS for the
Pacific cruise. Fleet ~colliers and pro-
vision ships and the torpedo boat destroy
ers squadron had preceded them to Trini-
dad.-Ed.
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To the Editor of the Evendng Star:
Please publish a lis. OF all the republics
in North and South America. w. +.
UNITED States of America, Argentine
Rep Iblic. Bolivia. Brazil, Chile. Colombia,
Goa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic,
n 1uador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras.
IqIexieo. Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay,
cru, Salvador, Uruguay and Venezuela
Ll.d
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Three of 'Em.

ut is quite truly said" remarked the
tiresome t~alzer, that fire is a good servant
but a very bad master13
And scr is water. returned the THU
little man.
And" chimed in the third man, so
Is firewater philadelphia Press.