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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-23
ON TRAIL Of BAT1LESHIpS
LIGHTSHIPS TO MAKE CRUISE
AROUND HORN.
Will Travel at Same Rate From New
York Harbor to Washington
State.

There is assembling at Tompkinsville,
N. Y. fleet of lighthouse service YES
sells, which during the month of Septem-
Der will sail on a long voyage to the
north Pacific coast of the United States,
where the vessels will be stationed.
The steamer Swiftsure, designed as a
light vessel. was few days ago COM
pleted and turned over to the lighthouse
authorities. She has joined the fleet at
Tompknsville.
The Manzanita, a seagoing lighthouse
tender, Is also lying at Tompkinsville
Within the next month they will be joined
by another lightship of the Swiftsure
type and two tenders of the same style
as the Manzanta.
These five vessels will make the 10000
mile trip from New York around Cane
Horn and up the Pacific coast to Cali
fernia. Washington and Oregon points.
This will be the first time in the history
OF the lighthouse establishment that an
attempt has been made to send a fleet of
this size from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
The cruise of the battleship fleet has
filled the lighthouse authorities with am
bitiOn to have feet of it's own 20 over
the same course as was followed by the
warshlps. A year or two ago two light
Slips were successfully sent from New
York to San Francisco. Officials see no
reason why these new ships should not
make the trip.
The lighthouse service fleet will make
the trip under the command of Capt AL
bert Mertz. U.SN. AS the vessels will
steam at a ten-knot gait on the voyage
the time for the trip will be the same as
was required on the battleship cruise.
The lighthouse tender kakai recently
built by the New York Shipbuilding Com
pany at Camden, n. j., will also take a
long voyage in short time. The vessel
Is designed for service on the coast of
Honolulu. She will make the long trip
under her own steam.
The vessel had a successful trial trim
this week and is now at the yards of her
builders receiving her finishing up work
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-23

can we'll remember the shock of surprise
with which l first heard porter shout
'Myden Lyme when We got to the station
of Maiden Lane.
You may stem the tide by teaching
elocuton in schools, but 1 am not very
sanguine about that. London has an
enormous influence on the accepted pro-
nunciation of English. and that influence
will prevail more and more. 1t is quite
possible that in the course of time the
standard of educated English speech will
be affected by it,
THAT is a matter of Importance, for, as
have pointed out before, the spoken
word and that alone, is the word itself
The written form is only its picture rep
resentation to the eye, and frequently
represents it imperfectly. Unfortunately
we are only able by means of reading
and writing to discuss i'll general the i'm
perfect picture.
There is no exact standard of English
pronunciation. That which is generally
accepted as the standard is the pronun-
citation of London-at the court, on the
stages of the best theaters. and. with ex-
ceptions due to provincial influences. in
the pulpts and at the law courts. You
can already trace tendency toward the
Cockney line for lane in the speech of
many educated persons.
Language is in a state of constant
fux The changes would be even more
general were ii not for the control exer-
cised by spelling-not that the written
word can ever adequately suggest the ut
tered sound. We have five novels in the
English alphabet. To represent correctly
the vowel sounds used In English We
should require a hundred.
THE most comprehensive alphabet in
vented for the expression of English
sounds is that employed by DIR. Wright
i'm his dialect dictionary. You have just
mentioned the phrase 'dahn tahn.' / look
I'm the dictionary and l find that DIR.
Wright has given sixteen different pro-
nunciatiOns of the word down prevalent
in various parts of England. The conso-
difference is in the vowel sounds. and
those have to be expressed by special
signs with an arbitrary value.
I'm English public schools most of the
attention is devoted to Latin and Greek
In American colleges English takes the
! first place in language studies. The stu
| dents are taught the pronunciation of
! Anglo-Saxon and middle English and
modern English is taught to them as a
matter of course. Constant attention de-
voted to the phonetic history of words
! does of itself encourage a precision and
nicely in the use of those words as en-
| ployed today.
THE prevalent dropping of the aspirate
| Is no doubt due to the disturbance of
English sounds made by the Normans.
They exercised a profound influence on
| the southern speech and the aspirate be-
came slighter and slighter in London and
the south, although ii still flourshes i'm
| Scotland. Occasionally there are reac-
| tons. The Prayer Book says AN humble
and a cOntrite heart. Everybody said
umble until the ridicue of Dickens mace
| it fashionabl to sound the III NOWADAYS
| priests say AN humble with a careful
aspiration. Again everybody aspirates
| herb in these days. Yet it is an old
| rate. and in fact used to be spelled
'erbe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-23
Revenue Cutter Service Notes.

Lieut.. F. c. Billiard, assistant to Capt.
Worth S. Boss. captain commandment of
the revenue cutter service, is on leave
of absence. which he is spending at Blue
Ridge Summit Pa.
Capt. Worth G. Ross, commanding the
revenue cutter service. who was on an
the stations of the service on the Atlantic
coast and the lakes, has completed the
tour and is again at his desk in the divi-
sion of the service in the Treasury De-
partment
First Lieut. of Engineers Hermann
Kotzschmar has returned from a short
leave of absence and is again on duty in
the bureau of the service in the Treasury.
Cadet Thomas S. Klinger of this city.
one of the class of cadets abo ID the
training ship Itasca. met with severe
accident at Gibralter which detained him
in a hospital there after the ship sailed
Cadet klinger was given shore leave and
while riding horseback to visit some of
the points of interest about the celebrated
rock his horse stumbled and he was
thrown. He was picked up unconscious
and taken to a hospital where the sur
geons found him suffering from slight
conclusion of the brain. While his in
juries are not dangerous they were seri-
Gus enuogh to keep the young man in
hospital after his ship sailed and he will
return home on regular liner to join
his classmates at the school of instruc-
ton at Arundel Cove. near Baltimore,
next month.
The revenue cutter training ship Itas-
ca, arrived at Gibralter August II, and
remained there until Friday, when she
sailed for Funchal. Madeira. From Fun
chal the Prov of the steamer will be
turned homeward Tuesday next. About
September she will arrive at ST.
Thomas, Danish West Indies, and Sep
TENDER IL she will leave there for San
Juan, Porto Rico. September ID she sails
from San Juan for Fort Monroe. and
she is scheduled to anchor in Hampton
roads within a week after leaving Porto
Rico. From Hampton roads the training
ship will go up Chesapeake bay and will
drop anchor in Arundel cove. at the reve-
nue. cutter service school of instruction.
about September p. The classes OF ca
diets will then take up their winter quar-
tiers and studies ashore will be resumed.
Orders and instructions to officers i'm
the service have been issued from the
office of the captain commandment. in
the Treasury Department. as follows:
Capt. of Engineers G. w. Munroe. de-
tached from the Winnisimmet. upon re-
lief, and granted thirty days leave with
permission to apply for an extension.
First Lieut.. of Engineers X. l.. Boyd, or
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-23

dered to the Winnisimmet upon expira-
ton of leave of absence.
Capt. r. c. Crisp granted thirty days
leave.
First Lieut. III. III. Wolf granted thirty
days leave with permission to apply for
an extension of six days.
First Lieut.. f. c. Billiard granted fifteen
days leave.
First Lieut.. of Engineers K. p. Web
Der granted thirty days leave.
Capt. j. c. Moore granted thirty days
extension sick leave
The competitive examination for APP
pointment as cadets in the revenue cutter
service school of instruction at Arundel
Cove, Md, will open in all the larger
cities of the country Monday, and IL is
stated that nearly 200 young men have
been authorized by the Secretary of the
Treasury to take the examination, either
for appointment as line officers or as
engineers.
Twenty-one young men have qualified
to take the examination in this city. and
of this number three will take the exam
ination for cadet engineers and the re-
mainder for cadets of the line. Seventeen
of those who will take the examination
here are from the District and the other
candidates are from Arlington. White
Stone and Alexandria, Va, and kensing-
ton. Md.
The examination will take place i'm the
Treasury Department and will be con-
Quoted by officers of the service. On the
completion of the examination the papers
, from all over the country will be sent 10
this city and will be marked by a board
OF officers detailed for the service. 1t will
be two or three weeks before the result
of the examination is made public.
The following is the list of those who
will take the examination at this city:
For cadets of the line-W. n. Baldwin,
500 11th street northwest. Washing On,
d. c.: M. r. Daniels. 1888 Newton street.
Brookland. d. c.; G.. c. DeNeal, 3236 18th
street northwest. Washington. ID. c.: Il.
w. Higgins, Arlington, Va: II. G. Hem
ngway; 2s / street northeast. Washing
ton, ID. c.: III. r. Ingram, White Stone.
Va: w. NJ. McIlvain. 1905 14th street
northwest. Washington, ID. c.: j. S. Nc
Kinney, 600 21st street northwest, WASH
ipgton. d. c.; Frank Messenger. WASH
ington. ID. c.: Samuel Peacock. I'll A
street southeast. Washington. d. c.; ID.
I. Ramsay. Alexandria, Va; A. G. Rudd,
1871 Irving street northwest, Washington.
d. c.: L. F. Ruoff 1647 Lamont street
northwest. Washington, ID. c.; W. III.
Rupertus. 122 V street northwest, Wash
ington, d. c.: O. Z. Stearns. 1102 street
northwest. Washington. ID. c.: j. j. Tall
colt, 1899 + street southeast. Washington,
d. c.; c. A. Warthen. Kensington, Md.
and J. r. Webb. Washington. d. c. For
cadet enGjneers-J c. Dallas, 1a.O T street
northwest; c. u. Edwards. 1701 Adams
street northeast, and J. S. Thorp, all of
this city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-23
Whereabouts Of River Men.

f. B. Coakley has returned from a
visit to the fisheries at Long Branch.
Asbury Park and other points on the
New Jersey coast. Mr.. Coakley spent
ten days investigating the fisheries
Chief Engineer Van Alystin. Of the
steamer River Queen is confined to his
home in this city by illness. Chief
Engineer Sandy Watts is temporarily in
charge of the engine room.
Chief Engineer Jack White of the
steamer Harry Randall, who was on a
short leave of absence, returned to duty
on his steamer. yesterday morning.
Capt. George Windsor is acting as pilot
of the steamer jamestown during the
absence of Capt. George NOVEL;. tempo
rarily in command of the ferry steamer
Lackawanna on the Alexandria Wash
ington route.
Capt. James Fales. who purchased the
interest of Capt. Willard Wade In the big
schooner William H. Yerkes. has assum-
ed command of the vessel and has sailed
aboard her from Portsmouth, N. H., for
Baltimore with ice.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-23
BoATHousE FOR ENGINEERS.
Quarters for Small Craft Used BY
Army Corps.

Workmen have been employed for ten
days in constructing a boathouse on the
pier on the harbor side of Washington
Barracks Park, which, when completed
will shelter small launches and other
boats used by the Engineer Corps of the
army.
The house is built over two slips con-
structed in the pier when built and
which are in service as mooring places
for launches. Over these slips boat
hoists will be rugged. that in the win
ter. when the river is ice-covered, the
boats can be taken from the water and
stored In the house, where they will be
protected from the weather. and where
repairs can be made with ease
The house will be one of the largest of
its kind on the river front. and will have
accommodations for several large
launches. 1t will be completed and
ready for service in about a month or
six weeks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-23
SUSPICIOUS.

CENATOR PENROSE. a few days be-
- fore he set out on his hunting trip in
the Rockies, said of a political movement
to political reporter in Philadelphia:
Their words are suspicious, like the
words of wine merchant and his wife,
This couple were inspecting a building
on the Penrose estate that they thought
OF renting. The water was, unfortunate
ly, poor.
Tasting the water, frowning and
shaking his head. the merchant said:
Ut would do, at pinch for my inferior
wines: but how about my chateau and
vintage vines?
Couldn't you filter it?' the wife
asked"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-23
CHANGES IN COCKNEYISM.
London's influence on Educated Eng
lish Speech.
From the London Mail.

From the LONDON Mali
DIR. Skeat, professor OF Anglo-Saxon at
Cambridge University made an interest
ing statement yesterday concerning the
campaign for the reform of the Cockney
dialect Prof Skeats lifework has been
the st1dy of words-ther sound. spelling.
meaning and history-and he is one OF
Inc foremost .philologists of the world.
"Cockneyisms change rapidly" said
Prof. Skeat 1.-The Cockneyisms of to-
day are quite different from those re-
corded by Dickens. i was born in Lon
don and ! lived there for ten years. Not
until thirty or forty years ago did
ever hear the substitution of j. for "a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-23
One Way to Keep Cool.

There is only one domestic problem
and the sun seems to extend its gener-
osity to every side of the house at once.
There are always faddists who insist that
stale air of moderate heat Is more bear
able than an atmosphere twenty degrees
hotter. but infinitely fresher. and insist
I am. until sunset by way of existing
through the broiling midday hours. To
many people. however, the STIFFNESS of
an airless house is worse than the wave
of heat that comes through open Win
dows. and some other solution of the
problem has to be found.
Much has been done of late by the
use of ice-wrung cloths over the windows.
A yard or two of blind calico, made ice
cold by wrapping 1t around a block of ice
for five minutes. is hung up over the
open windows and the blinds let down be-
hind it. SO that the warm air from the
street or from the garden may be cooled
insidiously as it enters. Cool rooms
are also possible if sufficiency of ice
is provided. Baskets of all shapes and
sizes. lined with tin. make excellent re-
ceptacles and these, placed close to the
table when reading or working, or used
instead Of center piece of flowers
where the dinner table is concerned. will
do much to freshen the air. In the hall
or passage tub. furnished with large
block of ice, will last whole day. and
possibly longer II placed on square of
blanketing, while. to economize. all the
ice left in the house by evening may be
collected and wrapped in bags of thick
felt
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-23
Communion swine"
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor OF The star:
The people who are stirring up fuss
in Georgia about not being able to pro-
cure wine for communion services in
churches are away behind the times In
most churches only the pure sweet Juice
of the grape is used without fermentation.
The juice being pressed from the grapes
is Immediately canned and is ready for
use. MRS. H. X. AVERILL.
Ocean City, Md.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-23
Irish People Are Law Abiding.

But Ireland is not a disorderly coun-
try. Generally speaking the Irish are
one of the most w-abiding people In the
world, and the criminal population is
very much smaller than it is in any other
part of the United Kingdom. Last year,
including all the cattle driving and boy
cotting and other political disturbances,
there were only about 1890 persons con-
victed of crime, while the number in
Scotland was nearly twice as large and
in England nine times as large Last
year one person in 2.096 of the population
was convicted Of crime in Scotland; one
person in 2.O99 in England, and one per-
son in 1886 in Ireland
The police records of Dublin show that
nearly all the arrests are for drunken
ness and disorderly conduct caused by
drink, 40 in 1905. 4,SO6 in 1905 and
500 in 1907, of whom 1,SS1 were women.
Ireland has recently been suffering from
an unusually long and severe heated
spell. and although the thermometer has
seldom gone above eighty. the population
are so unaccustomed even to that temper
allure that there has been a great deal of
suffering, sickness and anxiety. The
newspapers have been filled with admoni-
tons and suggestions for the benefit Of
the public. The editor of the Dublin
Evening Mail has evidently been ex-
perimenting and has discovered a method
of mOderating the temperature that will
interest the people of the United States
who are similarly situated And this is
the result in his own words:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-23

1t pays to read the want columns of The
s star, Hundreds isnd of situations are filled
Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1908-07-01
Public Sale Of Valuable Lot Situated in
The Town Of BerryVilIe

BY virtue Of a Deed Of Trust from Ribun
bnn1y 70 George G.. Gaines, Trustee. dated
the oth day OF January. 1894. and recor,ied
IN the Clerks Office of the Circuit Court of
Clarke County. Virginia. in Deed Book w
81 page aa. and by virtue of an order enter
Ell at the May term of the Circuit Court OF
StarSe County. Virginia. substituting Chas
NJ Broun as Trustee in the room and stead
OF the said George G.. Gaines Trustee. the
Undersigned Will offer az public auction to
the hlgheSt bidder IN front Of the Courthouse
IN Berryville, Virginia, on
SATURDAY, JULY IL. 1905.
all that certain lot or parcel Of land fronting
on the north side of Bundv Street and Az
Joining the property of Mrs Martha T.
Page, Martin Gilmore and Others. being the
same property that was conveyed by the
said Deed of Trust.
The above property viii he sold to satisfy
q debt due to Thomas G.. Flagg of two hun
dred and twenty three dollars and fifteen
cents lS22S.i5) rs of July I. 1908. and al
interest which will accrue on said debt up
10 and including the day of sale. and also
any unpaid taxes thereon.
TERMS OF SALE-Enouch cash i'm hand
on day Of sale 20 pay the amount due ON
SAID bonds secured under said Deed of Trust
together with costs of sale including \ com
mission Of five per cent TO the undersigned
Trustee. and all unpaid taxes due thereon.
and the residue in twelve months to be
evidenced by the bonds of the purchase
bearing interest from the dav Of sale and tu
be secured by Il Deed of Trust on the
property.
CHAS. ". BROUN.
10 tbs Substituted Trustee
Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1908-07-01
commissioners Notice

Office of Commissioner in Chauccrv.
Bcrryvillc Va. May 9. 1905
In the Circuit Court Of Clarke County. Va.
Mary NJ. Riddle and &. g. Riddle. her huS-
band, Il. II. Eushong. Carrie L Crow,
Susan +. Crow and II. NJ. Crow. Com
plainants.
vs..
Laura X. Sewers and c. X. Sewers, her hus-
band, Blackburn Smith and f. h. Whit
ing, trustees, Miss Maria L. Sveeers. The
J. l. Case Threshing Machine Company.
III, W. Scott, trustee, and Blackburn
Smith, trustee, Defendants.
IN CHANCERY
Extract from decree in above cause dated
May 80, 1905:
1T is adjudged. ordered and decreed that
this cause be and the same is hereby referred
TO one Of the commissioners in chancerv of
this Court whose duty II shall be 20 con-
vene all the lien creditors of Laura X .
Sewers and of each of the compainants
and he shall ascertain what liens If any
bind the respective and several interests of
the complaiuants and the said Laura X
Sewers IN the land and in the bill and pro
ceedings mentioned, whether the said liens
be by judgment, deed of trust or otherwise
stating the same in the order of their priority:
and the said commissioner in chancery viii
ascertain and report whether the land in the
OIL and proceedings mentioned is capable OF
partition IN kind, or whether il will be pro
motive Of the interest OF the several CO
parceners or joint tenants 70 have the said
land sold or divided in kind
And the said commissioner in chancerv
viii report any other matter which he NAV
deem pertinent, or which any party in in
tereSt may require him To state; and he will
make return of his report rs early as practi-
cable;
Before proceeding 20 execute this order
the said commissioner in chancery will give
notice 10 the parties and 10 the said creditors
OF the time and place of his proceedings by
publication in The CLARKE COURIER for AT
least four successive weeks
NOTICE-To the above named parties
and 10 the lien creditors of the compliments.
or OF any of them. and of the defendant
Laura n. Sewers Take Notice that pursuant
10 decree IN the above cause as by me
fully stated, of May so 1905, / shall on
MONDAY, JULY Is. 1905,
at my office in Berryville, Va, proceed 10
inquire into and make the statements con
corning the matters mentioned in said decree
and thereby referred TO one of the commits
sioners in chancery of the said Court As SET
out IN the above extract from said decree:
together with any other matters not specially
stated deemed pertinent by the commits
sioner, or that may be required by any party
interested 10 be stated.
JOHN Y. PAGE.
Commissioner in Chancerv
NJ. Mccormick and Harrison & Lewis, y. q.
& 10 81 = !