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tial pressure OF his honest diamond
making: and as soon as the experts
were allowed to examine the stuff
seized in Lemoine's laboratory these
cibles fell to the ground. The crucibles
were not brasqued or of refractory
earth. but simply carbon.
Carbon for electrodes" wonders
Francis Laur. THAT looks like real
business. Chemically it is very elegant
to have in contact with the raw ma
terial carbon lining that does not
melt. but burns little by little. furnish
carbon vapor to help make the dia-
monds!"
The crucibles are massive cylinders of
retort carbon. Their carbon corks are
also massive. They had to be pounded
in with hammer. All of which speaks
1900 ampere current that Lemoine was
using. even at the rue Lecourbe.
Certainly, the vibrations of this cur
rent caused the landlord to give Lee
window panes broke. the floors trem-
bled, the pianos in the, upstairs apart
ments played all by themselves. And
certainly the electric power plant near
Jackson's diamond making was ar
ranged to furnish currents such as
Moissan never had at the SOrbonne.
Even Lemoine's massive carbon corks.
sledge-hammered In. are eloquent not
only of terrific heat, but pressure"
Andre Normandin, another O. enlist.
once associated with Lemoile. who
dropped him when he got into the high
company of Wernher. Jackson and Lord
Armstrong. laughs at Oates alleged
test of the cut diamond.
mo chemist will accept the test Of an
Oates cut diamond surreptitiously placed
in the crucible," says Normandin. Except
in the one case that it were found intact
beside alleged new diamonds. Oates pre-
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Paris jeweler. Let men make the stone
which we all love SO for its beauty, purity
and virtues. and its value faints and
fades. Whole trades will be ruined. Vast
wealth will shrink to naught!
And when the syndicate makes itself
party-civil to the prosecution, is il with
such thoughts?" the interviewer asked.
I'VE desire to know the worst" replied
What would be the worst?" he was
asked
Ito have Lemoine let off without in
vestigation-to go manufacture diamonds
With some private party.
But suppose the judges order Lemoine
to demonstrate before experts: and sup.
pose he does make diamonds before
them?'
THAT would be almost as bad" replied
the president of the jewelers. syndicate.
The bottom would fall out Of the mar
ket."
And Lemofne would lose the millions his
discovery ought to be worth to him. None
of them seem to think OF that They
would be glad to have the exhibition be-
fore experts-on condition. that IT prove
Lemoine a trickster:s Otherwise no. And
Lenoines illustrious- elawyer, Maitre La
bori, has a case for unique blunng. *
his client is innocent he must act as gull
ty-refuse to demonstrate. If his client
is guilty he must act as innocent-refus-
ing equally to demonstrate.
In one case only can Lemoine demon
StrdIe before tnS court cAQcItS "isHoS
loss either Of his secret or his liberty 1T.
being a trickster. he could trick the ex-
perts he would be discharged with honor
and the valuable reputation OF dia-
mond maker. Again they would ask him:
What is your price to suppress the So
cret?'
Why not? Why should he not trick
the experts? Oates and Wernher are the
highest kind of experts; and they say that
Lemoine tricked them! Wait and see: H
is not over! STERLING HELLO.
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presentive measures. presided. Enthusiasts
tic anti-ratters cheered his periods as he
indicted the rat at the bar of civilization.
He described the familiar rodent as an
awful thing. wilier and mora poisonous
than the serpent-the dissem,nator of
plaques and all their unhoiy terrors-"a
ghoulish garbager whose fecundity was
something terrible to contemplate" One
pair of rats. he said. under favorable con-
ditions would produce 500. each one of
which might become vehicle of the
most awful scourge that could affiics
humanity.
The rat. he told his audience. had been
proven to be mainly responsible for the
propagation of the plague in India and
had there caused the death of 100000 of
people since 1896. The rat was the great
reservoir of diseases. and the flea was the
channel for its carriage. and II plague
was to be got rid of they must fill up the
reservoir-stamp out the rat.
Sir James called upon the assemblage to
adopt the role of the modern pied piper.
He advised all earnest rat exterminators
to avail themselves of the discovery of
DR.. Dansyz. This distinguished French
man had evolved "a deadly virus, harm
less to other animals. which when spread
on bread and butter or toasted cheese,
forms a dainty dish for the rapscallion
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provided that Lemoine were quick
enough to get the crucible out at ex-
actly the right moment" suggested the
interviewer; otherwise the newly
liberated diamonds would be burned"
Exactly answered Gautier and no.
tlce that Lemoine admits he does not
always succeed. Jackson Oates Wern-
her and Lord Armstrong all tell how
at times they found no diamonds. De-
cidedly l would suspect the black
powder
Inquiry. however shows that the
black powder was not lumpy. The Eng
ilsh rival of Sir Julius Wernher. Mr..
Jackson. who defends Lemoine and be-
walls the publicity attending On ths
prosecution, laughs at the idea that the
raw material was not as fine as flour"
Lord Armstrong says: Il myself mixed
the powders with my fingers and put
them into the crucible-which / myself
corked up
The crucibles must have been sailed,
then" said Emile Gautier There are
brasqued crucibles, lined with a cement
of rare earths or metallic oxides. Le-
moline might have hid his dia monds in
the paste When it hardened as a cru
chile lining 1T would resist up to who
knows what heat-2,O0O degrees cent?
grade. for a few minutes-and then
liquefy and liberate the diamonds"
Theories Fail to Explain.
Or, as Francis Laur. another chemical
vulgarizer. suggests, Lemoine could
have cemented diamonds up in the
small holes of porous crucibles - of
earths and sawdust, with the sawdust
burned out. To vitrify the earth that
would stand, perhaps, up to 1000 de-
grees centigrade. he might "astonish"
it. as porcelain makers do, by plunging
the crucible into water. And Lemoine
always did plunge them into water or
play hose on them.
But SO did Moisson-to get the essen
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the world which should bring the blush Of
shame to every public-spirited citizen who
lived in it. But nobody blushed.
Commissioner Nicoll of the Salvation
Army put in a good word for the cat. The
army, he said, had started two cat farms
in India and were breeding cats as rap
idly as possible-recruited by such speci-
mems of stray pussies as they could i'm
port from England. Given time and
chance, he thought the Salvation Army
cats. by killing off the rats. would accom-
plish a great deal in combating the
plague in India.
Breeding cats to get rid of rats is just
time and money wasted" shifted skep-
tic. II reckon we've got two or three
hundred thousand cats in London, and
we've just been told We have six million
rats here, too. If that don't prove you
can't fight rats with cats 1 don't know
anything about logic. Cats amt going to
do any better in India than they do in
London. I'm for giving 'em the French
poison. and I don't care how much 1T
hurts en-
Cir Lauder Brunton, another learned
physician. whose speciality is the digestive
organs. formally moved the resolution by
which the National Society for the Exter-
mination Of Vermin was ushe red into eX-
istence. 1t was carried with only one
dissentient vote. That came from Q
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Special Correspondence Of The Star.

LONDON. January 80. 1908.
- CIENCE has pronounced sentence of
death against rats. They have
been declared a menace to mankind
so formidable that nothing short of their
complete determination can satisfy the
requirements OF human progress. Their
creation. 1t seems. was a mistake. Their
continued survival has only multiplied
the proof Of their unfitness for existence
In the modern world. They have got to
go-every last one of them. And the<So-
ciety for the determination of Vermin
has been duly formed. organized. con-
stituted. and all the rest Of it, to rid
these islands Of them.
Doubtless the cables have already fash
ed to America the bald story OF the for
nation of the society am its full pur-
pose 1t was at the Hotel Metropole, the
other night. while pleasure-loving London
ers, unwilling Of the dire diseases that
threatened them from the myriads of rats
in the sewers beneath their feet, were
focking to the theaters and music halls,
that the decree Of determination against
the rats was pronounced. Sir James
Crichton Browne an eminent physician
who has little faith in the efficacy Of
drugs. but great faith in the value Of
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tends nothing of the kind He found only
his cut diamond, intact. Evidently the
current was not strong enough that Gay
to burn the cut diamond
"Or liberate sailed diamonds from
their crust?' the interviewer asked him.
That's absurd" he answered. Nelther
a chemist like Oates nor technlclan IKE
Lord Armstrong, any more than l mHseli'
would have accepted lumpy raw materIai
No, no, I have much to complain or LIE
moline; but the explanation is not there.
AGGREGATES Little Diamonds.
Nothing is more instructive than the
way these Paris chemists are hedging. IL
Lemoine does not make diamonds. per-
haps he remakes them? Here. indeed. is
a very elegant speculation, says Prof. LIE
Chatelier, who took Moisson's place at
the Sorbonne.
Diamonds are cut by polishing them
with diamond dust on an iron wheel.
saws Prof lie Chatelier. From the polish
ing wheel there falls an oily mud COM
posed of diamond powder placed upon the
wheel, diamond powder from the stone
being cut and iron powder from the Wheel
itself-pus the oils that prevent the dia-
mond powder being breathed in by the
c,tter .
rs Lemoine's secret here?" he contin-
ues. "Really, it may be childishly easy.
Moisson made his little diamonds from
the same material-pure carbon and iron.
Into his electric furnace he put iron. con-
tanning naturally a little pure carbon by
the aid of a sudden cooling OF the outside
of the mass he imprisoned this carbon.
And under the influence of terrific pres
sure at the center of the little sphere
white hot inside-the pure carbon crystal
ized to tiny diamonds. Who knows but
what Lemoine. employing diamond DUST
in ouantity-much carbon with a little
iron-may not get larger diamonds than
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had been doing yeoman service as
sistant secretary of the navy in achieving
that condition of preparedness which was
afterward to reap it's fruit at Manila and
Santiago.
He adorned the post. He filled 1t with
credit to his country, but the spirit Of
strenuosity told him that the field was
the place for him.
A Presidential Boost.
The Rough Riders were organized, with
Roosevelt as colonel. and from the min
ute he dorned the SLOUGH hat and buck
ram of the troop he had started his ride
to the White House. A nation cheered
the former student as he dashed up San
Juan Hill.
Knowing it to be their only chance of
victory, the republicans of New York in
their next convention traded on his great
war reputation and made him their can
didate. for governor. a nomination Iol-
lowed by an election.
He was satisfactory governor to the
people, but not to the gang. and, noting
his growing power. Platt and Quay
sought to commit llim to obscurity by
naming him for the vice presidency with
Mckinley in 1900. The unhappy off,
taking of the President sent Roosevelt to
the White House, and in 1904 he went
there again by the biggest majority ever
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thinks fit and pays for it. Thus every
body is satisfied, and those with dietetc
hobbies can indulge them without incon-
venience to the rest of the party. In
Dutch Treat" and is really very salts
factory way of meeting and having
little visit with friends, while doing away
with the sense Of obligation or necessity
for return of hospitality.
The Afternoon Tea.
Refreshments for the afternoon tea are
as rule, exceedingly simple. At a large
college tea at Hotel Majestic last week
the only refreshments were tea, with
which were passed cream an dsugar and
slices of lemon, and little salt waters and
sweet waters. At private homes there are
usually two or three kinds of sandwiches
cut in tiny strips, diamond, heart or leaf
shapes. The filings are of finely chopped
olives mixed with mayonnaise. cream
cheese put through a ricer and then mixed
with chopped nuts or olives withSor with
out mayOnnaise. minced pineapple and
cream cheese. lobster or anchovy.
A Stag Dinner.
At a stag dinner given recently by
young wife for her husband and brother
the decorations were 50 unique that they
quite brought down the house." In the
center of the round table was placed a
large cut glass tobacco jar filled with
loose tobacco On top of this perched a
bisque doll dressed like ballet dancer
with spreading skirts. About the jar was
a circle Of the small playing cards. and
from these ran a row of the cards to each
plate, forming wheel. COrncob pipes
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given candidate for the office
The war also started William H. Taft
on his way to fame. though he took no
actual part in it. Ten years ago he was
unknown. but his work of restoring order
In the Philippines disclosed adminstra
tive skill of such rarity that he mas gone
from preference to preference. and is now
conceded to be the leading candidate for
the succession to Roosevelt.
Dewey. too. might have gone into re-
tirement unknown save for his minor eX-
ploits as a young lieutenant in the evil
war. had not the destruction of the dons
at Manila bay given him a place in lie
American gallery of naval heroes beside
Paul Jones. Decatur, cambridge. Barry
and Farragut.
Dewey. only a few weeks ago. cele-
brated his SEVENTEEN birthday, wearing
title vouchsafed to few men in the naval
service Of Uncle Sam-admiral
When the Oregon completed its won
derful voyage around Capt Horn. and
dropped anchor with it's sister warships,
ready to get into action in twenty min
utes, Capt. Clark had made his place Sc
cure in the affections Of his countrymen.
and he had a chance to gain further pres
tige when in the conflict few weeks
later the American feet under Sampson
and Schley sank the ships of Cervera, and
rendered the outcome Of the war a VIZ
tual certainty.
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Schley is still living. but Sampson has
gone to his final accounting.
Of Kissing Fame.
Santiago harbor gave Hobson his
chance, and the gallant. If useless, ex-
plot of sinking the Merrimac In the
channel in the hope of preventing the
escape of the fleet made the captain an
idol. and resulted in a frenzy of oscu-
latory demonstration when he returned
home.
Now the captain. made more serious by
the ten years that have passed, has just
become member of the Houst OF Repre-
sentatives. where he promises to be most
useful to his country.
Maj. Gen. Shafter and Secretary of
War Alger. who came in for much criti-
cism during the war, have passed from
all influence of human censure Root
who succeeded Alger as Secretary of
War, is now Secretary of State and one
of the giants of the administration.
Gen. Miles, to whom fell the task of
restoring order in Porto Rico, is on the
retired list, but still holds a warm place
in the affections of his countrymen.
Mckinley and his great Secretary of
State, John Hay. have both passed to
their final rewards. the former the most
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paid great sums to Lemoine SO long as
he made no diamonds, and began the
prosecution only when Lemoine was start
ing to make diamonds with his rivals,
they Smelied out a first-clasS mystery. Is
the De Beers corporation trying to gain
time by throwing a French genius into
Jail?
You see. there are others There are
diamond experts of the stamp of Jackson
men of affairs like Lord Armstrong, and
Chemists like Andre Normandin, who,
seeing Lemoine operate, persists that he
makes diamonds. While as to the sci
enttfic world of Paris, it is interesting to
see it hedge from the vulgar fraud
hypothesis.
How Was It "Salted."
When Emile Gautier was asked how
Lemoine could have "salted" crucibles or
raw materials with diamonds. he said he
suspected most the raw material.
THE electric furnace does not lend it.
self to sleight-of-hand performances" he
said. "Lemoine was naked, to show he
concealed nothing. Oates and Wernher
put the black powder into the empty cru
cibles. They closed Them When they
treated the burnt mass with acids. They
brought out the diamonds. Lemoine
touched nothing. What was the black
powder like?'' asks Emile Gautier
i. ~ were iuihpy' IL ml8nt hoio trlck
There are refractory clays, metallic
oxides and rare earths." says Gautier,
which. dissolved. might cover small
sized diamonds with a paste and harden
to a crust that could resist great heat
Suppose the black powder contained
such cfusted diamonds? The heat of
the electric furnace that would turn
naked diamond into graphite-as prov
ed by Desprez at the Sorbonne-might
liquefy the crust and liberate the stone
that had been concealed and protected
by it,
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Purely for Sympathy.

Mrs. Clarence Burns of New York, who
is one of the leading members of the City
Federation of Women's Clubs. was talk
ing at a luncheon about children.
LAS the federation's Santa Claus" she
said, 81 often got as many as loo
children's letters day. They were in
teresting letters. Are not children al-
ways interesting? Yes. they are inter-
esting even in their tears.
"A friend of mine. young mother sat
reading Hans Andersen to her little
daughter the other morning. when all OF
a sudden the youngster began to cry.
why, what Is the natter said the
mother.
81 failed yesterday sobbed the little
girl.
But that was yesterday said the
mother. why do you cry about II to-
day.?
"'You wasn't home yesterday ex-
planned the child"
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The Diversified Librarian.

dinner, was advocating postal banks.
These banks" he said, shave SO many
good points and so few bad ones that
they who find fault with them nave to
exaggerate and dwell on their defects,
like an old librarian used to know.
This librarian was very strict and
censorious. Once, when I was a boy, I
returned volume of Scott to him. He.
as usual, looked closely into the books
condition before marking il or on my
card.
page &c. he said. glaring at me over
his spectacles, "a hole Then he turned
the leaf. Page co. he added. another
hole "
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Special Correspondence Of The Star.

PARIS. January q. 1908.
OUBTLESS the first impression
In America is that the Sir julius
Wernher Lemoine diamond
IL making prosecution is a simple
gold-brick fraud. like Armand
Schwob's. "pure amber"
The genial Schwob one afternoon
showed up at the club with superb CT
gar holder In green amber. 1.-THE splen-
did piecer' observed a company promoter.
cit is nothing" replied Schwob. You
like 1t? Keep it.'' But, my dear" mo,
/ assure you, Take it!''
The promoter learning from an expert
that his gift was worth $50 francs. was
struck to find Schwob next day. giving
a yet more superb piece to a gambling
marquis. And, each day. another and
another: until. at the tenth, they ques-
toned Schwob, who replied ulelancholily:,
They cost me 5 cents apiece. / make
them A poor old inventor. dying, left
me his discovery of making pure amber.
Yes, the profits would be great If one
should start factory; but I've always
been too lazy"
In a word, the clubmen ''bit'' They
were done out of some 1 900 600 francs
And Armand Schwob was heeled again.
Now, had those clubmen all been amber
experts-living among amber-do you
Yet this is the exact situation Of Sir
Julius Wernher and Oates. the head
chemist of the De Beers Diamond Com
pany of London. Diamond experts Of
the highest, they accuse Lemoine of hav-
ing tricked them. again and again. by
seeming to make great big diamonds right
before their eyes.
When Parisians learned that wernher
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spoonfuls fresh butter, two tablespoonfuls
anchovy paste. half dozen minced olives,
a teaspoonful lemon juice and dash
each Of mustard and cayenne or paprika.
Spread on thin slices of whole-wheat
or graham bread, press the slices together
and with tin cutter stamp into small fancy
shapes.
Lobster Sandwiches.
Pound two tablespoonfuls lobster meat
fine, add a tablespoonful coral, dried and
rubbed smooth. two tablespoonfuls butter
a teaspoonful lemon juice, quarter of
teaspoonful paprika and a grating of nut
meg Mix to a paste and spread between
slices of white bread, then stamp in fancy
shapes.
Four-Story Sandwiches.
Cut white or whole wheat or rye bread
in thin even slices and spread lightly
with butter Arrange wafer-thin slices
of cold boiled smoked tongue on the
white bread and equally thin slices Of
Gruyese on the rye or brown. Then put
together Put under a weight and let
in thin slices. Arrange on a pretty plate
covered with dolly.
Tomato Jelly to Serve on Lettuce
Leaves With Mayonnaise.
Cook together one can of tomatoes. half
a dozen cloves. two bay leaves. two slices
of onion. tablespoonful thyme. table
spoonful salt, teaspoonful sugar and
half teaspoonful pepper. When the
tomato is soft take from the fire and stir
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Here's to the hostess who has worried all day.
And trembed lest everything go the wrong
May the grace of eontentment possess her at
May her guests-and her servants-an do the
right stunts"
Small. cheer and great welcome make a merry
feast. Shakespeare.
MENU FOR VALENTINE PARTY.
Oyster cocktails.
BOuillon In cups with hearts shaped sandwiches
of Boston brown bread.
Chicken patties.
Tomato aspc Jelly salad in heart shaped molds,
resting on lettuce leaves.
Cheese straws.
Fancy ices In heart-shaped paper cases and
heart-shaped cakes.
Olives sailed nuts and bonbons in heartshapeo
dishes
VALENTINE REFRESHMENTS NO. 2,
Grape fruit cocktails.
Turtle doves in love apple sauce.
Arrow sandwiches. Love apple salad.
Kisses Dates True love knots.
Valentine sherbet. Angel food.
SIMPLE REFRESHMENTS 996Is2 FOR AN "Ar
Very small sandwiches.
Chicken and lettuce.
Olives and cream cheese and plain bread and
butter.
Small fancy cakes and waters.
Tea with lemon cream. or frothed chocolate.
cHILpREN's VALENTINE OR BUTTERFLY
PARTY.
Cold chicken.
Parker House rolls.
Date and nut sandwiches
Ices in butterfly molds.
Bonbols and fruit lemonade.
A MANS LUNCHEON AFTER COLD RIDE.
Bouiilon.
sirIoin steak with French fried potatoes
Crisp and brown
Spaghetti
Tomato and lettuce salad.
Fruit pudding.
o'are'' o'nee
" FEBRUARY. by common consent,
n seems to be a sort of clearing house
d for social obligations and privileges,
with lat homes" teas. kaffee klatsches.
card parties valentine parties and lunch
cons. Washington birthday suppers. sew
ing bees. showers of every sort for pros
pective brides, high teas and the old
fashioned tea party"
Fortunately for the woman who car
ries a teapot in her SOU" to quote Sidney
Smith. and delights in having her friends
with her. Dame Fashion is on the side Of
simplicity in viands. but everything best
of its kind. In Harper's Magazine for
January there is a lifelike description OF
the old-time tea party that has now
mainly gone into apogee. "Bein' as
yes all good reachers." said the hostess.
'jest help yourselves to the vittles an
try an make out a meal" She had ar
ranged the table so that this was posi-
BILE All of the food which she had
worked so hard to prepare was placed
on the table together Her four differ
ent kinds of cake, her three sorts Of pie,
her two platefuls of damson-plum tarts
and her floating island custard formed a
line along the center Of the cloth. the