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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-24
The Charleston Heavens.

From the Charleston News and Courier.
Do you ever look up to the heavens,
which were framed by the hand of tho
Almighty? To the moon and to the stars,
which He ordained? Or do you keep your
eyes fixed upon the earth, the fading
grass the falling leaves, the desolateness
which comes with the dying year? Have
you looked at the skies in Charleston
during the last week or two? Did you
gaze into the heavens last night? What
a wonderful spectacle they presented OF
the majesty and glory of the Divine hand
which made them and established the
consultations in their courSesi There is
nothing in all the range of creation tnat
can be compared with the magnificence
of the skies I'm this latitude at this sea-
son Of the year. The unreasonable vault
in which the panorama Is spread: the un-
fathomable depths of blue, the glory I'M
approachable of the worlds upon worlds
moving in their appointed orbits. serene
in their spiendor and majestic in the order
of their procession.
Do you ever look at the sunsets In
Charleston? There Is nothing to COM
pare with them anywhere else In this
world that We have seen-their changing
hues. their gorgeousneSs of color, the ex-
Quisite harmonies into which the clouds
are fashioned, the enchantment OF the
mountain ranges lying against the sunset
sky, the higher peaks Of glory upon which
the sun fingers with caressing touch. tne
somber shadows along the shore and the
glow Of the receding waters as they touch
the grasses at the edge Of the marshland.
There was never such sky as that last
night in Venice. Look up at the
heavens and rejoice that here in Charles
ton we have spread out before our eyes
every day with the rising as we'll as with
the setting Of the sun pictures of such
fascinating beauty that we may all thank
God that here we have foretaste OF that
other and better world where the noon
day of glory externally reigns."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-24
Adamless Eden In London.
rom the Dundee Advertiser.

The coming summer will witness an in
teresting attempt to solve the housing
problem Of the woman worker in London
"a problem that has as yet been bare
ly touched save by private enterprise
and very crying is the need. The solution
offered by the Improved Industrial DWELL
ings Company. Limited at Golders Green,
In the Hampstead Garden Suburb, is a
block of flats for women earning their own
living. 1t puts into material form what
has always been one of Mrs. Barnett S
cherished schemes in connection with the
Garden Suburb. The new block provides
forty-nine flats, each containing a good
sized living room, bathroom, lavatory and
soul cry, and from one to three bedrooms
according to rental. The flats are built in
the form of quadrangle, looking on to a
grass Enclosure inside the court with ten
mis- and croquet lawns for the tenants
use. The quadrangle is approached by a
covered way that communicates with
cloisters which run al the way around the
inside Of the quadrangle. A large dining
room, where meals can be had at a rea-
sonable charge. and common room are
moulded in the scheme for the general
use of the residents. and service in the
fats will be provided at very moderate
charge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-24
Making Ideal Servants.
From the Pittsburg Gazette Times.

Reference was made in these columns
recently to the policy of the New York
German housewives in awarding prizes to
domestic servants for faithfulness and
ability. 1t was hoped that the object les
sons thus afforded would have the effect
of elevating the standard OF domestic
service. Now the London county coun-
ell, which is thf official guide. philosopher
and friend of some 6OOO,O 900 people, an
nounces a much more radical action to-
ward the solution of the servant problem.
A home Is to be provided near London
under the auspices of the county council
where girls will be trained in the arts Of
cooking, housekeeping. waiting at table
and caring for the baby. During the
twelve months course of tuition all their
expenses will be paid by the council,
and in addition they will receive a regu-
lar allowance for pocket money. Upon
their graduation they will be given GER
tificates of competency, and it is expected
that their services will command a some.
what higher rate of payment than those
of the unframed domestic. Eventually it
is hoped to establish a large number Of
training schools of this kind throughout
the county and when housewives see the
kind of servants that are turned out they
will decline to employ any others. Thus
the scheme would benefit both employers
and employees. raising not only wages.
but the standard of efficiency.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-24
INLAND CITIES AS sEAPoRTs.
Outlay on Internal Waters Would
Bring Marvellous Returns.

Bring Marvellous Returns.
From Success Magazine.
We are spending hundreds Of millions
of dollars upon Panama. partly as a mill
tary measure, partly to enable ships to
save two transfers and a rail-haul in
carrying between the east and west
coasts. partly In spirit of idealism-de-
string to give a great free roadway to
the world. II we spent an equal sum or
even less upon our internal waters. under
a systematic plan of conservation, we
would make virtual seaports of Sioux
City. Omaha, Kansas City. Pitts
burg. Minneapolis. ST. Louis and
and overland rail-haul which now bur-
den the grain Of the northwest and the
iron Of Pittsburg; would make it possible
for gunboats Of considerable size to
hasten to points nearly everywhere in
the interior Of the country, and to de-
fend with equal force the shores of the
great lakes and those of the gulf; and in
the end we would have. not from tolls,
but from the by-products Of our industry
q net return Of more than the original
individual All this from the proper con-
s1deration Of floating squash.
We know from long and careful obser-
vations at what times that water will
fall-a vast amount in spring and very
little in autumn and winter Our task is
SO to conduct 1t that there shall be at all
times fairly standard amount in the
great rivers; that it shall do, in passing
to the sea, all the good it is capable OF to
agriculture, forestry, commerce and in the
development Of power; and that it shall
be prevented from doing any damage by
soil wash, by flood or by any other means
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-24

duty on oxalic acid. A duty Of 20 per
cent ad valorem has been recommended
for benzoic acid now admitted Free A re-
quest has been made that number of
coal tar products now on the free list
should be assessed duty Of per cent
ad va,orem.
To increase the duty on coal tar colors
and dyes from the present rate OF 80 per
cent to 40 per cent ad valorem was the
desire Of one Of the witnesses who ap-
peared at the hearings just concluded. A
number Of importers and manufacturers
of coal tar dyes and colors have made a
strong protest against such an increase.
The subcommittee has not yet under
taken the consideration of a change in
the wording of the enacting clause of the
tariff law. It has been suggested that this
new law should be made to go into effect
on the day after 1t is signed by the
President instead of ION and after the
passage Of this act as the present law
reads, in order to facilitate the work of
the customs officers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-24
MEDICAL SPECIALISTS.
Some of Them Have Special Knowl
edge and Some Have Not.

Some of Them Have Special Knowl-
edge and Some Have Not.
From the Literary Digest
Not every one who poses as 'speci-
alist'' has really special knowledge, If we
are to believe an editorial writer in Amer
lean Medicine. The medical specialist, he
says, was until recently always the prod
uct Of gradual evolution from the general
practitioner. Instead of being ready
made, as is now often the case. he served
an apprenticeship in general medicine be-
fore taking up his special line Of work.
But
Nowadays we see many young grad
uate look with disdain upon the career
of general practitioner; nothing Will
satisfy him but to start as full-tiedged
surgeon or gynecologist, or some other
species Of list Is it any wonder, then,
that the physician is apt to regard speci-
alism as menace to his own field of USE
fulness? The surgical fiedgling. whose
education has been acquired In a post
graduate course Of instruction, and whose
sole conception of treatment is summed
up in a cutting operation, is all too COM
mon. Unlimited assurance-such as
ignorance often confers-and business
ability may give him an undeserved
prominence in d community: but viewed
in his true light he is a disgrace to the
specially he processes to follow, and to
him is attributable no small share of the
distrust on the part Of the physician to-
ward surgical modes of treatment in in
ternal diseases.
Prom what has been said. the infer
ence must not be drawn that the surgical
aspirant of the present era must have
devoted many years to general medical
practice before taking up his special line
of work. Life is too strenuous nowadays
for such an evolution, however desirable
it may be in some respects.
But the profession has the right to
demand-and SO has the public-that no
one shall be entitled to practice general
surgery until he has fulfilled certain
fundamental requirements, and these, at
the minimum, should consist OF an in
terneship in the surgical service OF a
hospital and an adequate term of clinical
work under the supervision of a COM
petent surgeon, at least as regards major
operative technic.
Every one who reads the signs of the
times is aware that much more will be
required Of the coming generation of
surgeons than mere technical skill. The
days of thrilling exhibitions of operative
dexterity are passed.
The leaders In modern surgery are
not only good operators but equally good
diagnosticians; they know not only how
to cut, by why to cut. This development
of diagnostic acumen cannot fail to act
as a wholesome check to reckless opera
lions and to unnecessary exploratory pro-
cedures. 1t gives assurance to the prac-
titioner that surgical consultation
means something more than resort to the
knife-that he will not be superseded In
the management of the case unless the
conditions so demand.
Thus the surgeon will become not so
much a specialist as a physician who
knows how to use the knife
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-24
Beet Sugar In This Country.
From the New York Sun.

From the New sun.
One Of the most important of the in.
dustries developed in recent years is the
production OF sugar from sugar beets
More or less desultory work was done on
sugar beets as far back as 1857 In 1892
only six factories were in operation in
this country. the combined output of
which was a little over 100000 pounds
of sugar.
According to the National magazine.
there are now no less than sixty-four
factories in operation, with a combined
output of approximately 100000 short tons
of sugar manufactured from beets, with
factory value of $45,O00,00O
One most important factor has been
the production of high-grade sugar beet
seed. For many years American growers
have been dependent almost exclusively
on foreign countries for our sugar beet
seed, but for three or four years past the
Department of Agriculture has been en-
couraging the successful growth OF sugar
beet seed in this country. It has shown
] that the seed can be greatly improved by
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-24
President Of Switzerland.


The announcement of the death Of NJ.
Temp, a Swiss ex-president, suggests a
short examination paper that would
plough probably every reader of this coll
umn. When was NJ. Temp president
Who succeeded him? Who is the Swiss
president now? Among the many thou
sand English visitors who flock to Swift
zerland for summer or winter sport, those
who know that unassuming functionary s
name in any year could be counted on the
fingers. And the Swiss themselves gener-
ally cannot satisfy any one who chooses
to be curious on the point. AT one holi-
day resort the writer has found walters
and hotel proprietor alike ignorant of the
presidents name. At another, even the
native orator who had been extolling his
country's glories in set speech c-o the
national fete day, August 1, was stumped
Zermatt guide has wider fame than the
Swiss president.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-24
DIED WHERE HE PLEASED.
Actor Refused to Get Off Macready's
"Spot.'

From the New York Telegram.
Robert Nantell enjoys this story of
Macready. the English actor. who was
a stage tyrant at rehearsals and quite
unpopular among the actors in his sup
port. The great tragedian insisted upon
holding the center of the stage at all
times, and his will was law until one
night when playing Hamlet at New
Orleans he met his match in the person
who was playing the king. Just as Ham,
let stabbed the king the latter resolved to
die in the center of the stage, In Mac
ready's spot. The poison was burning in
Hamlet's veins and he was in the agonies
of death when he observed the king
writhing upon the spot selected by the
Dane for his dissolution.
Get out of there!' whispered Macready
TO the dying king. that is my spot
I'm king and I'll die where / please
responded the actor, with an extra writhe
of agony. Pick out place for your
self"
And Macready let out his soul further
up stage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-24

arm projects, and hanging from the end
of the arm is bar. to which Is attached
piece of cloth which creates a gentle
breeze by f1uttering to and fro over the
sleeping infants head as the arm moves.
The upright shaft has q footpiece at the
bottom by which 1t may be actuated in
one direction, while spring turns it in
the other. Any person who has tried
tanning another for any length of time
will appreciate how welcome this inven-
ton is to mothers who have hitherto been
obliged to protect their children from tho
heat and the annoyance of flies by tho
manual operation Of q palm leaf.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-24

breeding. tests Of beets from American
grown seed running as high as II, IS and
sometimes 20 per cent sugar.
The department is also continuing in.
vestigations to determine the best locali-
ties for sugar beet production. When we
remember that less than one-f1fth OF the
sugar consumed in this country is pro-
duced in the states it Is plain that there
is abundant opportunity for development;
and 1t is certain that wherever a sugar
factory is located labor is Immediately in
demand at higher wages and the value Of
farm lands increased from % to so per
cent
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-24
"Billycocks."
Erny,, <Ln ArAon CtarHor1

Mr.. G. A. Phillips, who died recently
was a principal in a we'll known firm of
Nuneaton hat makers. The business was
established about two centuries ago at
Atherstone. and subsequently passed by
purchase into the hands of Joseph Will
day. whose family conducted it for more
than a hundred years. AS early as HAS
the round hats made of soft felt, then
known as "Atherstone cocks" were not
only sold largely In Great Britain. but
sent to the American plantations. Mr.
Willday so increased the manufacture of
these cheap felt hats that they became
known as "Willday cocks from which
name arose the term "Billycocks.'' The
English armies which fought in America,
India and at Waterloo were supplied with
hats from WiIlday's factory.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-24
No Book Hunters Now.
From Hearth and Home.

From Hearth and Home.
A well known provincial member of tt at
very honorable trade of second-han
said recently: THE hunt after
rare books is as keen as ever but
chiefly miss the young men who would
mark down a book in my street-stall and
would save up to buy it. There Is plenty
of book-buying. but there is no longer
any book-hunting.'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-24
Meeting OF Committee
Hearty Welcome Assured All Visit.
ing Delegations and
individuals.
QUARTERS BEING LOOKED UP
M. I. Weller Is Busy Over Public
Comfort Affairs-No Way to Tell
What Troops Will Come.

The inaugural committee will not un-
dertake to offer free entertainment to any
of the visiting organizations next March.
The language Of the resolution adopted
by the committee at its meeting this
morning in the Willard Hotel is similar
to one passed four years ago:
cit is deemed advisable that, while the
inaugural committee will spare no pains
to extend to all visitors a hearty welcome
and make every possible provision for
their comfort. whether coming as individ-
uals, associations or military organiza-
tons, a free entertainment to any one is
impossible; and no application for such
entertainment can be considered. nor can
the committee provide for the payment Of
any portion of the expenses of visiting
organizations.
1.-THE committee hopes, however, to keep
prices down to the usual rates.
Subscription Funds Grow.
1t was reported to the committee that
$4,000 had been already subscribed. Clar-
ence +. Norment reported that of this
amount 500. 3S2.50 was already in hand.
Scott c. Bone reported that the printing
committee had perfected its organization
and that the first meeting would be held
Saturday.
The committee on public comfort,
through M. I. Weller, the chairman, out
lined the work it had been doing in visit
ing all parts of the city to find suitable
quarters for every one who will be here
during the inauguration.
Gen. John A. Johnston. in behalf Of
Gen. Bell, told the committee that the
grand marshal would not know exactly
what military organizations would be in
the parade until after January 10. Every
state has been Queried.. AS there are
about thirty changes in governors to oc-
cur between now and January 10, how
ever, the full information cannot be OBJ
tanned until after then.
The question of whether the stands cast
of 18th street should be limited was dis
cussed and referred to the next meet
ing, which will be held two weeks from
today, instead of one week. At that
meeting also will be brought up again
the discussion as to whether the fire
works celebration shall be on March 3
or f.
Mr.. Brooke. chairman of the committee
on medals, said that the medalist Bren-
ner had offered to make the designs for
the badges and that the committees ideas
are now in his hands. The medals for
1909 will be two and d quarter inches in
diameter.
The question of whether or not the
Philippine Constabuary Band should
take part in the parade was discussed at
the meeting, but no action was taken.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-24
Wild Animals and Snakes in India.
From the Indian World.


From the Indian World.
A return issued by the government Of
India shows that the total mortality
among human beings reported to be due
to wild animals in 1907 amounted to 1886,
as compared with 2,0S6 in 1906. The total
is the lowest on record since the practice
of collecting these statistics was initiated.
The most noticeable variations from the
figures Of last year occur in Bengal, the
united provinces and the central prov
inces, while In Madras there was COM
paratively large increase-from 167 to 201
in the number of persons killed by IT,
gers. The total mortality among human
beings caused by snake bite fell from
22S11 in 1906 to Fl, 419 in 1907. So low a
figure has not been reached since 1897.
The Lauder-Brunton treatment of snake
bite by incision and application of per-
manganate Of potash and the ustribu-
ton OF lancets continues, but, as usual,
the value of the results is discounted by
the absence of Identification of the snake
that inflicted the bite. In Bur1nah nearly
all the deaths occurred in the paddy
tracts, where Russell's viper is particular
~ prevalent. Steps are being taken in
this province to insure q wide ddstribu-
ton of Brunton lancets. It Is too early
yet to pronounce with any certainty as
to the result Of the experiment, but a
number Of favorable reports have been
received. 1t is reported that in the Pegu
district six men and one buffalo bitten by
Russelps vipers were operated on by
headmen, to whom lancets had been is
sued, and all but one man. who was I'M
conscious, recovered. Eight cases are re-
ported from the united provinces of the
successful use of DR.. Calmette's anti
venene. In two of these cases the per-
manganate of potash treatment was also
employed.
The number of wild animals destroyed
was 18Th, as compared with 1885 in
1905. The total number of snakes killed
was 61.734, as compared with 6l,S3O in
1906, and the amount of the rewards
paid for their destruction was 2,67O ru-
PEGS, as against $3.50 rupees in 1856. 1t
would therefore appear that in the strus-
gle between man and his hereditary en-
envy India still kills only three snakes for
every man that is killed by them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-24
WORKS AS CRADLE ROCKS.
Fan Adds Much to Comfort OF
Babies In Hot Weather.

An inestimable boon to babies and tired
mothers is the cradle fan. invented by a
Tennessee man. This not only makes life
happier for infants in hot weather. but
relieves their parents OF the tiresome ne
cessity of waving a fan back and forth
by hand for an hour at a time. An up
right shaft is attached to the head OF
the cradle in such a way that when
the cradle rocks the shaft rotates. At
right angles to the top Of the shaft an
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-24

that has ever been given in the ordinary
way before a general audience at popu.
lar theater. 1t would be interesting to
know how the censors scruples were over
come The production was extremely
beautiful, the role of Hannele being excel
lently done by Miss Marie Lohr.
L. H MOORE
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-24
One of His Trials.

From the Yonkers Statesman.
Yeast-Do you believe in trial mar
riages?
Crimsonbeak-Well mines been q trial
to me, all right
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-24

Parke-I don't know what / am ever
going TO do with that boy of mine. He 10
careless and absolutely reckless OF con-
sequences and doesn't seem to care Tor
any one.
Iane-Good! You can make . taxiooA
driver out of him.-Lffe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-24
Superstitious as Ever.
from the Vienna ZeiS

Superstitions are as numerous and ~
absurd today as during the middle ages.
gut instead of burning our sorcerers. for.
time hunters. palmists. and crystal
gazers we pay them. Remarkable prog
reSS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-24
Subscriptions to Fund.

Milton T.. Allies, chairman Of the finance
committee. today submitted to the in
auguration committee the following ad-
ditional list of subscribers to the inaugural
pYra RI nfee fund.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-24
Millions for the Unemployed.

The local government board has sane
toned further loans in the case Of Man
chester and Liverpool for dealing with
the unemployed. More than $125OO.OOO
have now been sanctioned by the local
government board. and in London alone
there are at least 10000 men who are
being employed by the county councils.
the borough councils. the water board or
the central distress committee. Nine hun
bred loans for the unemployed have now
been sanctioned in various parts Of the
United Kingdom, and at the present rate
before the winter 10 over another 1000.