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BLAMEs WIFE FOR TROUBLE.
s. II. White Files Suit for Divorce
From His SPOUSE.

Samuel NJ. White. who was recently ac-
quilted by jury Of a charge Of lunacy
preferred against him. has filed suit in the
District Supreme Court for limited d.
vorce from his wife. Rosa E. White. He
declares his wife was responsible for the
charge Of lunacy being fled against him.
They were married in Brunswick Ga.
October 3. 1901. and have no children. He
declares his wife deserted him nearly two
years ago after she had driven his mother
from his home by threats Of violence. and
had advised him to go also. He charges
she has continued TO harass and annoy
him.
Justice Barnard. at the request Of At.
torney B. r. Doyle, issued a rule on Mrs
White to show cause next Friday why she
should not desist from molesting or inter.
fering with her husband.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-16
TELLS GRAPHIC WRECK STORY
Woman and Fifty-Two Survivors
Live Ten Weeks on Barren Rock.

SAN FRANCISCO. December 16-Mfss
Sarah Campbell, q trained nurse who was
on board the freight steamer Aeon when
the ship was wrecked on Christmas Is
land last July. returned to her. home in
this city today on the steamer Alameda
Miss Campbell tells a graphic story of the
wreck and the stay Of the fifty-three sur
vivors on barren rock of the South Pa
cific for ten weeks.
She declared that Capt Downie of the
Inflated ship risked his life to aid his
passengers and crew. The captain made
two attempts before he reached the cable
station on Tanning Island III an effort
to obtain assistance for the castaways
Miss Campbells hair. which was brown
without a trace of gray when she sailed
on the Aeon, is now almost white as a
result of the privations and nerve strain
endured on the island.
1t was Miss Campbell who carried a
twenty-fOur-h our-old baby through the
surf to the boats that came to the rescue
Of the Castaways
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for the extension of the work in new
sections. The convention will also APP
point delegation to go to the world
missionary congress to be held in Edln-
burgh, Scotland, shortly after the ad-
journInent of the Sunday school conven-
ton.
Fully 1000 accredited delegates are
expected to the convention. and there
will be many visitors. Of the delegates
there will be 800 from all parts of the
globe outside of America. The regular
sessions of the convention will be held In
Calvary Baptist Church. and the big open
sessions will be held in Convention Hall.
The convention will be in session from
Thursday of one week until Tuesday night
Of the next.
Worlds Executive Committee.
Following the meeting of the executive
committee of the International Sunday
School Association at the Ebbitt House
yesterday, lasting until O'Clock. the
worlds executive committee went into
session at the same place. In TINS meet
ing questions which touch upon world
wide Sunday school work were discussed,
attention being especially called by Chair
man Bailey to the great awakening In
South America. southern Africa, China.
Turkey. Japan and many of the old coun-
tres wnere heretofore il has been al
most impossible to introduce the Bible
and its teaching. The committee is now
planning work which covers the world
and is also looking forward to the next
great worlds convention, which is to be
held in May or June, 1910, in this city.
There were present of the American
members Of the worlds committee DR..
George w Bailey of Philadelphia CHAIR
mani w. n. Hartshorn of Boston. Ma
rion Lawrance of Chicago. general sec
rotary; Frank L. Brown of New York,
Justice J. J. McLaren OF Toronto. Cana
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Save the Wild Birds.
from the Providence Bulletin.

From the Providence Bulletin.
The tight for the wild birds that the
National Association of Audubon Socie-
ties is making should stir the sympathies
of all lovers OF nature. These beautiful
creatures are fast disappearing. II the
destruction is not soon checked they may
be as much curiosities to our children as
the bison and the wild pigeon are to US.
Financially. extinction Of the wild birds of
America would be calamity. President
William D,tcher yesterday in New York
asserted At the people OF the United
States arc robbing posterity In permitting
an annual crop loss Of eight hundred mil
lions due to destruction Of insect-eating
birds. A country Of enlightenment should
not lay itself open to such charge as
this
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-16
LoUDoUN COUNTY MAN HURT.
Isaac Mills Hand Injured by Elk
plosion Of Giant Cracker

While lighting the fuse of giant fire
cracker at his home near Mountsville,
Loudoun county, Va. yesterday, Isaac
Mills, twenty-seven years of age, had his
right hand painfully injured by the pre-
mature explosion of the cracker. Sew
eral fingers were badly lacerated and
parts of the arm burned by the burning
powder.
The wounds were dressed by phvsi-
clans. but on account of their serious ma
ture Mills came to this city early today
and went at once to the Emergency Hos
pital, where the surgeons again took ex-
ira precautions to see that no serious
results occur. Mills will be at the hos
pltal for a week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-16
GREAT WORLD CONVENTION
SUNDAY SCHOOL WORKERS TO
MEET HERE IN 1910.
Plans for Big Gathering Discussed
by American Section Committee
This Morning.

Details of the features of the world s
sixth Sunday school convention. to be held
in this city in May or June. 1910. were dis
cussed at length by the American section
of the executive committee Of the World S
Sunday School Associate at the Ebbitt
House this morning.
The committee aims to make the COM
ing convention the greatest missionary
Sunday school gathering ever held" de-
clared DIR. George w. Bailey, chairman of
the executive committee, in telling Of the
plans outlined today.
There will be huge missionary eX-
hibit, showing the methods of Sunday
schools all over the world and the need
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-16
RICHMOND SUICIDE MYSTERY
Man Found in Forest Hill Park Be-
lieved to Be r. Carlson.

RICHMOND. Va, December 16.-The
suicide found in Forest Hill Park Monday
afternoon. and supposed to be Hans Moran
of either New York or Cleveland. is now
believed. in the light of later events. TO
be r. Carlson of Sacramento, Cal. In the
room occupied by the man at Gilbert s
Hotel the detectives found thrown under
the bed fragments of an envelope which
the young Dane had addressed to w. Gil
lenwater, state pententiary, Nashville.
Tenn.
CLEARWATER will be asked to throw what
ever light he can upon the mystery. This
was the only clue found in the room. with
the exception of the words: Bennett
Cleveland, ;" which led to the supposition
that he might have been from that city.
He was registered at the hotel under the
name of Moran.
Hl-health. dependency and temporary
insanity are advanced as possible reasons
for the suicide. Absolutely nothing can
be learned regarding the man here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-16

The regular price of this
milk Ia 10c. Don't buy a
can or so-buy a case.
You'll save 96c on every
case.
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nocent to the army whenever he is
satisfied that any of them were blame
less. He condemned the Foraker bill
which he said, attemps to force back
into the army not only innocent men,
but men who were guilty of a serious
crime. He made an exhaustive argu-
ment on the unconstitutionality of the
Foraker bill, which obliges the Presi-
dent to re-enlist these soldiers whether
he thinks they ought to be re-enlisted
or not Such an act would be an en-
croachment upon the constitutional
rights of the President. It would be
subversive of discipline in the army.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-16
Steel Passenger Coaches.

From the newark News
Steel passenger coaches on the railroads
in this section are no longer the rarity
they were twelve months ago. They are
to be seen by the score daily. During the
mast summer all steel cars have formed
the largest portion of some OF the shore
trains on the Pennsylvania. and on the
same road there is scarcely through
train which is made up In part or DAY
coaches that has not one or more steel
cars attached On the exterior they
haven't quite the smooth. finished appear
ance of a coach made of hardwood panels
The rivets ara seen where the steel plates
overlap. vet unless attention is called to
them they are SO like an ordinary car that
they are apt to pass unnouced. In their
interiors they are plain. but very neat
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-16
Mass Meeting Tonight.

This evening at 80 O'Clock there IS 10
be a mass meeting of all the Sunday
schools of the District in Calvary Baptist
Church. corner of 18th and III streets.
There will be a praise service led by
Percy S. Foster. The main address will
be by Marion Lawrance. the secretary OF
the International and Worlds Associa-
tons and a speaker On Sunday school sub
jects OF worldwide reputation. Other mem
bers of the committee will be present and
make short addresses. To this meeting
the public generally is invited. From Mr..
Lawrance and other speakers the Sunday
school workers OF Washington will learn
Of the work being done in all parts of the
world and also something of what will be
expected of Washington in 1910.
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Self-selected champions of these SOL
diers in various parts of the country
sought, he said, not for equality before
the law, but for special treatment for
the Brownsville soldiers on the ground
Of race. LAS a friend of the negro
race i deplore the agitation which had
this end in view he said: these SOL
dlers are entitled to the same treat
ment as soldiers and citizens that white
men would be entitled to, neither more
nor less" He deplOred any appeal to
sympathy for criminals, which he said
has become the fashion of the time. If
action in this matter is to be deter
mined by sympathy. he said, his SYM
pathy would not go to the men who
did the shooting. but to the harmless
boy who was killed, to the lieutenant of
police dangerously wounded and in
jured for life in the performance of
his duty and to the women and chill
dren. covering on the floor while bull
lets crashed through the thin walls of
their dwellings,. Brushing aside the
question Of sympathy he wished exact
Justice so far as 1t could be attained
The crime OF these men was made
greater because they were United
States soldiers employed for the pro-
lection of the people.
He favored the Warner bill. which
allows the President to restore the in
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CHAS. r. EDMONSTON,
fhns GasS and 1905 Pennsylvania Avenue
Petit g. Co.

and comfortable: they run smoothly. ride
easily. make no more noise than the or
binary coach. and they impart to the pas
sengerS a sense of security that makes
them very popular They may be heavier,
than wooden coaches but the travelling
public has no interest In that except as II
may afford them better protection In case
of accident. But il Is hoped the accident
will be very long in coming.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-16

da: Fred A. Wells of Chicago, w. A. En-
dale of Cincinnati. Ohio; f. Fl. Nichols
OF Chicago Mr.. McCrillis of Rhode Is
land, treasurer Of the worlds convention;
DR. Elliott and others.
In the evening at 8 O'Clock there was
a Joint meeting of the two committees
with the local committee, considering
plans for the worlds convention. This
meeting was we'll attended and great in
terest was shown in all the plans pro-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-16
A New Years Suggestion
NEWS FROM HOME.

The best New Years
present you can give any
one is a subscription to
THE EV EN- IN &c and
SUNDAY STAR, or
either. Send it to your
Father, Mother, Sister,
Brother or Friend who has
left this city for residence
elsewhere.
The Evening and Sunday
Star mailed to any adj
dress, postage prepaid. 90
cents a month or $40 a
year. The Evening Star,
so cents a month. The
Sunday Star. including the
Sunday Magazine, $I.so =
year. The Saturday Star,
$I.oo a year.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-08-13

plan is good, and cheap, considering
the capacity 1t gives. In weaving
calves, pigs or colts several small
lots are necessity A farmer may
easily lose the price of the whole
system of lots by not having adequate
means of handling and weighing his
stock in buying or selling same.
l used nine-foot posts and native
lumber fencing) 11Sx6 inches, writes
farmer in Wallaces Farmer. In
circle of chute l used fencing Ax6
inches (fresh sawed elm).
The dipping tank A is made of an
eight-inch brick wall laid in cement
and cement plastered, with bricks pro-
jecting two inches in inclined walk
out of tank to make steps B. c is a
trap door nailed fast to an axle which
turns in recess in wall of cement tank.
Chute to which a wagon is backed up
to load live stock can be set at d.
When dipping tank is not in use l
have a movable platform OF floor to
place over 1t 30 that the chute can
be used for loading, branding, mark
ing, etc.
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MUSICIANS OF TENDER YEARS.
Many "Youti,fui Prodisies" In the
World Of Melody.

Like SO many of the worlds great
composers, Sir Edward Elgar was a
youthful prodigy" Of exceptional gifts.
as was proved by a recent perform.
ance of a suite composed by him at
the immature age of IL. But even 81.
Edward was probably not as preco'
cious as one of his English predeces-
sors, Samuel Wesley, who in his eighth
year heard regimental band play a
march which he had composed for it.
At IL Franz Schubert had already
placed several songs, string quartettes
and piano pieces to his credit Han
del's first attempts at composition
were made at eight. and Vieuxtemps.
who began to scrape the strings Of n
tiny fiddle at two. Is said to have been
even more precocious Sir Charles
Halle was only four years old when he
played in public sonata expressly
composed for him; List was a public
performer at nine, Chopin and Ruben
stein at eight, Lady Halle and Joachim
at seven, and at five Mozart composed
a piece OF music almost too difficult
for his father to play.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-08-13
CHAPTER III.

The greater climax came the night
after. Lady Ellen had declined to ride
that day. She had bushes at home
as the chatelaine. Consequently, no
mishap had occurred during the day.
light. Lord Strathgate had pleaded in
disposition and had remained at the
castle also, Indifferent apparently to
the black looks of his host as he rode
away by the side Of Lady Cecily. Mis-
tress Debbie, who made not the faint
est pretense Of being interested in
hounds, and who indeed cherished a
growing sympathy for the fox, had
also refused to ride in chase of Master
Reynard Sir Charles Seton had made
an Intellectual effort to do likewise.
only to be carried off by his host al
most by violence and allotted to Mrs.
Monbrapt for the days sport.
Evening found the party assembled
in the drawingroom. Everybody was in
bad humor
The only serene one apparently was
Lady Ellen. When the men joined the
women in the drawingroom after the
late supper, it was she herself who
proposed cards.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
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would be equally at a dlsad vantage
but one doesn't look for these things
in women to-day"
There was time" interrupted Ell.
len swiftly, her lips trembling, and
indeed despite these things she was
quite woman enough then, but Car.
rington was so blinded with passion
as to be unable to Sc it.
Il have had enough of reminis.
cence," he began curtly.
WAS it in "reminiscences" cried
Ellen shrilly. that you had your arm
| around Lady Cecily In the arbor this
afternoon"
did you spy upon me, madam"
"Spy!" exclaimed the woman.
Lord Strathgate and L"
Damn him!" burst out Darlington.
What was he doing with you in the
arbor?"
He is my friend" returned Ellen,
"he and Sir Charles"
II tell you l never felt less like
laughing in my life to see you made
a fool of and those popinjays rushing
to your assistance"
Il have been made a fool Of" said
Ellen steadily. II am just beginning
to realize 1t. 1 was well enough when
you were alone with me and you
were well enough then, but when
others came"
by heavens, madam, are you con
trasting me with that dandy and rogue,
Strathgate?"
He has never spoken to me other
than in terms of the utmost respect
and consideration in my life," an.
swered Ellen bravely, "and L"
HE had better not" burst out my
lord grimly.
And l would to God that l could
say the same of my husband" she
continued disdaining his threat.
eff you treated me with any defer
ence and paid more heed to my wishes
these difficulties would not arise"
said Darlington. IF you would be
guided by me"
And what, pray. would you have
me do?"
Dance, game, act as the rest do,
and"
Lady Ellen arose as she spoke and
kicked vigorously at her stays, which
had fallen from the chair upon which
she had laid them 1t was a great
act of injustice to her husband, since
nothing would have kept her from
being in all things as like to her sisters
as she could.
But you will not overcome me
physically without a struggle which
will arouse the CASTLE" Ellen ran on
holly. Il am not made Of the weak
stuff OF your fine friends. Lady Cecily
and Mrs. Monbrant, even II l did not
ride the horse. Now, will you go?'
las you will, madam" returned
Darlington helplessly, but let me
warn you, I'll have no flirting and love
making between you and Strathgate
and Seton" he went on with increased
rigor by heaven, I'll call them both
out, host or no host. They shall play
at swords If they interfere with me-"
1t was not a pretty conversation. 1t
was not pretty age and men and wom-
en- spoke frankly to each other. / as
sure the reader that have disguised
and moderated 1t by self-restraint
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Thought She Knew Him.

A short time ago surgeon had
three leg amputations in week. The
unusual number caused talk in the
surgeons household, and his little
daughter Dorothy was greatly inter-
ested. A few days after the last oper-
alton, the surgeons wife and little
Dorothy were rummaging in the attic.
In the trunk was found a daguerrotype
depicting a girl about eight years of
age. The portrait through a peculi-
arity of pose, showed only one leg Of
the subject, the other being doubled
up under her.
Whose picture is that, Mammal"
asked Dorothy.
Mine; it was taken when I was a
child not much older than you are
now"
did you know papa them"
mo, dear. W. do you ask"
Il thought maybe you did, cause
you've only got one leg."-Delineator.
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the society of Lady Cecily and la Mon
brant, but not without certain very
definite charm of her own. Her type
did not appeal to Darlington, however,
and therefore Ellen loved her.
Having surveyed the woman through
Ellen's eyes, we may take look at
the men through those of her hus-
band. First in rank there was the
duke OF Outward, hard drinker, a
high player and rich liver; Admiral
Benjamin Kephard, a jolly old sailor,
and General. Honorable George Athel-
strong, an Anglo-Indian soldier on the
retired list. The qualities that distin-
guished the duke of Outward were
common to Athelstrong. in a less de-
gree perhaps owing to their diner
ent stations. The party was COM
pleted by the presence of Sir Charles
Seton and earl of Strathgate. Seton.
who was Carrington's most intimate
friend, had enjoyed a weakness for
Ellen since he first saw her, but the
friendship between Darlington and
himself had been SO true that moth
ing had been allowed to disturb it
as yet! Now Seton had succumbed
to the charms OF Mistress Debbie, and
as Mistress Debbie chung to the lee
IL this were not nautical romance,
would say. sheltered herself beneath
the wing-of Lady Ellen, Seton was
consequently always about the pair,
and with masculine blindness Caring
ton jumped at the wild conclusion
that there could be no attraction for
his friend except what lay in Ellen's
charming personality.
So much by way of introduction.
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the castle to the house party. My
lord and my lady both had grievances
which each was eager to present for
the calm and dispassionate judgment
of the other.
First in Lady Ellen's mind was
Lady Cecily Darlington, a cousin sew
eral times removed of my lords. The
relationship was not near enough to
render my lord immune nor was it re-
mote enough to warrant Indifference.
Indeed, Darlington had had rather
difficult part to play. Ellen had dis
covered that an ancient love affair
had subsisted between her husband
and Cecily and she imagined = not
without cause = that Cecily, a repre-
sentative product of the vicious soci-
ETY. of her time, was endeavoring to
fan the embers into = flame. Nor
could she detect in Lord Carrington's
method of handling the situation any
very pronounced desire to quench the
fire, and his conduct toward his fair
and, IL reputation did not too greatly
belle her, frail cousin, was not distin-
guished by self-restraint. In Ellen's
eyes Darlington manifested a very
catholic taste in the eternal feminine,
for he gave much unnecessary atten-
ton to Hon. Mrs. Monbrant, a wild
ow putatively at least. for no
one knew where Hon. Mr.. Mon
brant was. His wife gave out
that he was dead, but that testimony
Was not Of great value. At any
rate if he. lived, he was wise in his
generation and he kept under cover.
In the house party there was an
ore!-feminine in the person of the
ancient and imperious duchess Of Dull
ward. Her great age precluded the
possibility of jealousy of Darlington
in Ellen's mind, but the chatelaine Of
the castle did not like the ponderous
and vicious dowager any more than
the younger pair who were making
the running apparently for the affec-
lions of her husband.
There was only one woman In the
castle whom Ellen really did like, and
that was Mistress Debbie Slocum of
Massachusetts. In making up the
house party Ellen by freak of cir
cumstances had desired to include
some one from her own land. AS for
tune would have 1t, ship opportune-
ly arrived in Portsmouth bearing Mis-.
tress Deborah Winthrop Slocum as a
passenger. consigned to her kinswom-
an and friend, the chatelaine of Car
rington. Deborah was the exact an
tithesis Of Ellen, a quiet, staid prim
little Puritan. with all the character
istics of the Massachusetts branch of
the family. utterly out of place in
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-08-13
MONEY IN DRAFT HORSES.
The Most Profitable Horse for the
Farmer to Raise.

AS a rule, the profitable horses to
grow on farm are the big draft
ers. The Drovers' Journal says that
draft horses bred now are of greater
weight than they were a decade ago.
as the trend of demand is for horses
of weight to move ponderous loads at
a moderate pace. A 1.40O-pound horse
is hardly large enough for an ex-
presser. while the industrial draft
horse weighs 1000 to upwards Of ton
A pair of extreme weight drafters
will haul load of six to eight tons
and are more economical of mainte-
nance than two pairs of lighter
horses that would be required to per.
form the same work.
The general farmer wants horse
Of docile disposition, adapted to work
on the farm and easily marketed at
8 good price. With SO many heavy
agricultural machines on the farm,
the draft horse can be utilized to bet
ter advantage in general field work
than can any other class.
Draft horses are free sellers at good
prices from weanlings to mature
classes. Their superb qualities have
been acquired by centuries of method
ical selection and breeding, and they
have achieved permanent place in
the commercial nations. Prices may
fuctuate with the times, but good
draft horses will always return the
farmer reasonable profit on the cost
of production.