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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-02
ROLLING HOOP.
Sport Children Enjoy-If HOPELESS
Anything Round Will Do.

From the New York sun
Scientists may not yet have discovered
just why children like to roll hoops. but
that all children do We all know; as also
that children of the hoop-rolling age will
roll hoops wherever they nave be, and
that if they can't get regular hoops to
roll they will roll anything else that Is
round
So you may see i'm even busy sections of
downtown Broadway young children come
up from cross or parallel tenement streets
rolling hoops and intent on that and moth
ing else.
But the children you thus see here don't
bring their hoops with them-lerhap De
they haven't any-the hoops they roll
here are such as they pick up; and chill
dren in any other street would pick ul
anything round ard roll it just the same.
You might come anywhere on child
rolling the tireiess discarded rim of
bicycle wheel-Wi.en bicycles were more
common this was not an unusual sight
The childts- natural hoop-folling impulse
comes with the discovery of the rim.
when such a rim is found the discovereI
at once seeks d stick with which to drive
it and promptly sets off rolling il.
1t would be just the same {. he found Q
barrel hoop of wood Or the iron hoop of q
barrel or a cask. This last may have beer
shaped TO lit the barrel. SO that ii is al
the time lnCllnsO 10 ron III a Circle a very
difficult sort Of hoop to roll and keeI
going straight; but the youngster adj
dresses himself to the task valiantly ant
with much hard work.
Thus children will roll barrel heads Il
they chance to find one. or bend over ant
laboriously roll the detached wheel of
broken-up wheelbarrow that they hav,
somewhere picked up. If they have ne
regular hoops they will roll anything they
can get that is round or near round. Thii
brings us back again to Broadway. wher,
there was seen recently a small boy roll,
ing what seemed to be the queerest Of al
substitutes for a hoop. the rim of d chair
seat
1t must have been before il was cas-
out a pretty well worn chair. for there
We're now sticking out from its inner edg,
only a few short ends of the rattan will
which the seat had originally bean caned
1t was now only hoop far as the alb
sence of anything within its inner edge
could make it so. and this chair rim wal
nearly round. 1t only bobbed a little as
rolled. and now. while tn" great stree
hustled and hustled all around him Will
constant. steady roar, the small boy VIII,
had found the seat rim was rolling
along the sidewalk up Broadway, Quit
absorbed in his occupation and manifest
ly finding in it keen enjoyment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-02
of learning what he knows. He never

of learning what he knows. He never
confuses one language Or dialect with
another. he AYERS. in spite OF their form-
dable number. He believes that, had he
not had to devote himself to what he
looks upon the more arduous' task of
missionary work. he could have gone on
learning more of the 100 and more dis
tinct Chinese dialects.
Work in China.
Father Montanar went to China fifteen
years ago. He was assigned to work in
the south of China. He came as young
seminary graduate, a native of Marseille,
without any especial linguistic knowledge
He soon showed signs of a facility in the
Cantonese. He had to. II was sent
out on my mission alone he says, land
had neither Europeans for company nor
servants to take care of my needs. Under
those circumstances l could not very well
help learning the speech of the inhabi-
tants among whom l lived
During his fifteen years mission in
China he made frequent changes of resi-
dence and travelled constantly from
place to place. and indeed from village to
village. 1t thus happened that he was
often busy wrestling with the requirement
OF severalty of dialects at the same
period
While not ready to speak of the diff
Guilty of learning the tongues of the Celes-
tails, the missionary did not deny any Of
the things that have been said of the
obstacles involved. Chinese in any Of
its branches has been called the most
simple and the most difficult Of tongues
The Chinese system of speech is based
on principle of expression unknown to
the western mind and so alien as to be
scarcely within its grasp. Chinese is
described as being made up of certain
number Of monosyi!ables unchanged BILE
in form, which are neither nouns verbs
adverbs, nor propositions. except by their
lntonation and their position in the SEN
tence. The same word is noun verb
adjective, adverh proposition or other
part OF speech. as the case may be- No
way to distinguish exists. save to under
stand Chinese usage in pronunciation and
sentence structure. Some 25OOO or more
syllables. distinct and unrelated, form
the body Of the Chinese language. Each
word. however. has a variety of utter
ances. not different in pronunciat ton. but
In vocal infection. The pitch OF the voice
used in other languages to indicate the
course of the phrases and limited to littl,
more than plain rise or fall at comma
or period. is employed In Chinese TO i'm
part the meaning that the word rudi-
ments require. The Chinese ear tuned for
the catching of changes in the voice level
distinguishes many as eight yaria-
tons to some words, all separate and
not to be confused.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-02
END OF WOOD IN SIGHT
Supply Will Last Only Twenty
Years, Report Says.
GREAT DRAIN is FOR PULP
Conservation Commission Today
Discusses Forests.
OUTLOOK APPEARS APPALLING
Government Experiments With Corn
Stalks as Basis for Paper-Elim-
mating Wasteful Practices.
OUTLOOK APPEARS APPALLING

The supply of wood in this country
eighteen to twenty years.
The foregoing assertion, regarded as
startling. was made in a report read at
the session today of the conservative COM
mission.
Forests were the subject for discussion
at the meeting, which was held in the
Congressional Library. The report for the
section in charge was delivered by Over
ton Price. the secretary. 1t covered the
area of the remaining forests of this coun-
try. their uses. the waste methods of pro-
lection and the like.
Subject a Big One.
1t was big subject and one with many
ramiiications. 1t touched the everyday
life of the community in the matter of
wood. for everything from boxes for
breakfast food to material for collins 1t
was vitality connected with the question
of fuel. not only for burning, but for
snoring up mines, in order to get out the
coal. 1t was brought out incidentally that
the cost of timber for coal mines aggre-
gates about 50 cents for every ton mined,
and that when the labor Is added the
cost of timber and timbering constitutes
almost half the cost of mining.
The outlook. according to the report, is
regarded appalling. The drain on the
forests Is about three times the amount
of wood replaced BY annual growth. The
timber cut for lumber alone is as much
every year the forests make in new
growth, and the lumber cut is only a
small portion of the total drain on the
wood reserve. Pictured on the graphic
chart, If lunchroom pie were cut as
usual. two of the slices would represent
all the annual growth of the forests and
the remainder OF the pie would be the
excess use of wood.
Probable Life of the Forests.
Eio,rac n, +ba ,,roh,h,a re- re tbo 60,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-02
MASTERS CHINESE TONGUES
PRIEST SPEAKS LANGUAGES
AND DIALECTS.
Father Montanar Knows More About
Chinese Than Most of the
Natives.
From the New York Evening Sun.

From the New York Evening Sun.
LIE Pere Valentin Montanar is a tall man
in Chinatown, who goes about. notable
by his long black beard and his clerical
garb, and talks to each Oriental In his
own tongue. 1t is only recently that the
discovery was made that white man had
come to Chinatown who could speak Chi
nese, the speech that white men learn
The Chinese-speakin priests place in
Chinatown is unique one. He Is the
one man of European race before whom
the inhabitants of Mott, Pell and Doyers
streets need lower their voices or to
whom they can impart their condolences.
The faculty is more remarkable than at
first appears. According to the mission
airy, by no means all Of the Chinese in
Chinatown can understand one another.
Instead of speaking the game tongue they
talk in several languages and numerous
dialects. The Cantonese. the general
speech of Chinatown, is not understood
by any means by all of the Chinese. Ii
is the native tongue of the bulk Of China
towns settlers, but numbers Of others
who are not from the province have at
most only the small store of words Of
Cantonese needed for common use. They
can buy and sell what they need and
have and get along day by day. but are
unable to indulge in the Chneses chief
diversion Of chat.
AS FOR Father Montanar he modestly
owns up to three Chinese languages and
eight chief dialects. He denies that he
is linguist. Outside of French, his
native speech, and priests Latin, he Is
without the European tongues. he says,
and can but shruG his shoulders in
English. German and the rest.
He does know Chinese.
The Cantonese.
He knows the Cantonese to begin with
which is the speech of some 10.0O0.0O0 in
habitants Of China and most of the Chi
nese in the United States, who chiefly
originated near the city of Canton. In
addition, he has mastered the Hakka
language entirely incOmprehensible to
the Cantonese, the speech of the inland
Hakka race of Chinese. sometimes known
as the mountain language and spoken
by some of the folk in Chinatown. FL
nally the Mandarin or literary Chinese
completes the Frenchman's Chinese ac-
compiShments. But it should be noted
that his command of Cantonese and Hak-
ka includes the mastery of eight radically
different dialects chiefly in the Cantonese.
all more or less incomprehensible to one
another'S users.
Father Montanar apparently does not
as laborious as some Of the European
scholars who have studied it. He says
that he spent fifteen years at the task
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-02

eStS, Mr.. Price said. are hard to obtain
But considering all the drains and allow
ing for the present annual growth of new
wood, 1t was declared there is about
enough left to last for eighteen to twenty
years.
Reforesting would do something to re-
plenish the supply it is set forth but it
requires about twenty-five or thirty years
Tor a tree to grow. and there will be a
period when the country will have to go
short of wood import it in quantities or
find substitute. There is little to be
hoped from importation and no substitute
has been found for wood for great many
uses
One of the great drains on the forests
Is for wood pulp. Paper is necessity
and the forest service has been working
to find substitute for pulp The service
has small mill making paper of two
grades from corn stalks The outer part
or the stalk makes a parchment grade
and the inner part a grade that can be
bleached in manufacture. and is satisfac-
tory for print purposes. The cost and
labor or making the papers in question
paper from wood pulp, so that if the
supply of corn stalks is satisfactory the
paper problem will thereby be largely
solved.
Uses of Wood.
The report goes into the uses of wood
for fuel, for lathing distillation. tan
bark and cooperage and for posts and
poles. The manufacturers are trying to
utilize sawdust for alcohol distillation but
it has not yet been done.
The question of conversation is discussed
at length. 1t is shown in the report that
by reforming wasteful practices in lum-
bering and in mills, preventing forest
fires. and by proper replanting it would
be possible to reduce the consumption
and increase the renewal. 1t is shown
also that this country spends a very
spent abroad. but that while the national
forests are not for profit there is actually
a small margin of profit in them. Com
pairing the expenditure with that bestowed
on the forests abroad it is shown that the
more money spent on the forest service
the more nation makes out of the
forests, actually and proportionately.
Members Meet Socially.
The members of the commission took
luncheon yesterday with the Round Table
Club at the Congressional Library. In the
evening Clifford Pinchot. chief forester
and chairman Of the commission, enter
tanned the secretaries of the four sections
at dinner at his home 1915 Rhode Island
avenue They were Thomas l.. Shipp.
secretary of the commission; Prof. w J
MCGEE. Overton Pierce. DR.. J. \. Holmes
and George w. Woodruff
John 4. Fox of Arkansas one of the
active workers of the rivers and harbors
congress. who will attend the meeting
here next week. has arrived in Washing
ton, having travelled 5000 miles and de-
livered 16S lectures to arouse popular in
terest in the work of the congress since
last January.
Mr.. Fox is one of the members of the
rivers and harbOrs congress in favor of a
regular appropriation annually from Con-
for inc no IL
way improvement in a systematic manner
instead of by the haphazard appropria-
lions of past years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-02
COMM|TTEEST0S7AND
Senate Changes Not Likely in
Short Session.
PLACES TO BE FILLED
Hale Expected to Take Chairman
ship of Appropriations.
PERKINS IS NEXT IN ORDER
Two Republican Vacancies to Be
Filled on the District Of
Columbia Committee.

II is not likely that the committees OF
the Senate will be completely reorganized
before the short session ends on March
6 next. This means that number OF
important changes Will be deferred until
after that time.
The death of Senator Allison, the vet
era1 senator from Iowa during the past
summer leaves vacant the Craftsmanship
~ the committee on appropriations. the
most important on the list with the pos
sible exception of the finance committee.
Senator Hale of Maine is the ranking
member of the appropriations. and will
doubtless succeed to the craftsmanship.
During the short session. which begins
next Monday. however, Mr.. Hale may
retain his place as chairman of the naval
committee, and at the same time be act
ing chairman of the appropriations COM
mittee. This would make him easily one
of the two most influential men in the
Senate the other being Senator Aldrich
of Rhode Island chairman of the COM
mittee on finance
Mr.. Hale was practically the acting
chairman of the appropriations commit
tee during the first session of the pres
ent Congress owing to. the fact that
senator Allison was very feeble and an
able TO attend to the arduous labor the
craftsmanship entailed.
/, has been stated many times that
Nj. Hale would not give up his naval
.hairmanship on account of his fondness
for the post While II is true that he
has made hobby of naval affairs. il
has. nevertheless. come TO he pretty gem
orally believed that he will move up to
appropriations. He will. however, retain
membership in naval affairs.
Senator Perkins Chances.
If by any -chance he should not take
appropriations il is likely that Senator
Perkins of California would be the
next chairman OF this committee, for,
while Senator Cullom OF Illinois ranks
next to Mr.. Hale, IL is conceded that
he will not give up foreign affairs and
take UP the new and arduous work.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-02
Motorbugs.
From Puck.

From Puck.
DR.. s. Weir Mitchell. the peurologist,
was escorting some New York friends
through a Philadelphia sanatorium in
which he is interested. Opening a door,
he remarked:
This big room has been set aside for
the care and cure of chauffeurs who have
broken down under the mental strain OF
driving and repairing automobiles
Very fine" said one of the doctor 8
guests. but where are the patients-the
chauffeurs?'
Under the beds, mending the Stats"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-02

owing to his advanced years With
MI Perkins as chairman. Senator'S War
rem OF Wyoming and Gallinger of New
Hampshire would be next in rank, re-
spectively, on the appropriations commit
tee.
If Senator Hale becomes the chairman
or appropriations he will be succeeded
on the naval committee by Mr.. Perkins,
who will give up the Craftsmanship Of
the civil service committee probably
TO Senator La Toilette Of Wisconsin
Senators Elkins of West Virginia and
Platt of New York outrank Mr. La
Toilette on the civil service committee,
but the former would not give up his
post as head of the interstate commerce
committee, and the latter will not be in
the Senate after March next. Mr.. La
roulette Is at present chairman of the
select committee on the Potomac river
front, which never does any work.
One very important member of the
appropriations committee will not be in
the Senate after March 4 next. This is
Senator Hemenway of Indiana, who will
be succeeded by a democrat as result
Of the election this fall. Mr.. Hemenway
is one Of the younger members of the
committee and on him a great deal of
the hard work of preparing the big ap-
preparation bills has fallen in recent
years. His loss will be greatly felt in
the future.
The defeat of Senator Long of Kansas
means that the ch2irmanship of the
census committee will be vacant after
March T. Mr. Hale ranks next to MI
Long on this committee and after him
come Senators McCumber of North
Dakota, Hopkins of Illinois and Carter of
Montana. Mr.. McCumber at present has
pensions, which he may give up. to be
succeeded probably by Senator Burnham
of New Hampshire Mr.. Hopkins has
enrolled bills, and Mr.. Carter the COM
mittee on the executive departments.
Should Mr.. McCumber not succeed TO the
census craftsmanship. Mr.. Hopkins will
doubtless take that post.
District Committee Vacancies.
After March there will be two re-
publican vacancies on the District COM
mittee, on account of the defeat of Sena-
tor Long of Kansas and Senator Hans
brough of North Dakota The latter
ranks next to the chairman, Senator
Gallinger. After March Senator Diling-
ham of Vermont will be the ranking
member on this committee. 1t is impoS
sible to say who will be selected to fill
these vacancies. Senate. Piles of Wash
ington wanted to get on this committee
last winter, but Senator Carter was
given the preference Senator Piles may
succeed next spring if he is of the same
mind.
If Mr. Root is elected to succeed Sem
ator Plat of New York ii will be in
teresting 10 see what committee assign
ments he gets. OF course, he will have
TO start at the bottom like any other new
Senator. but il Is likely that the republic
can leaders will see that he gets pretty
good assignments for ''youngster.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-02
China's Dreams.

From La Revue Generate. Brussels.
The adoption of western civilization
would secure China hut one advantage: it
would give us a navy and an army capa-
BILE of realizing the dream of all of US
to turn you out of our country The day
we hunt you out of our land-you your
ministers, your missionaries of all de-
nominations. your innovations and your
abuses-a great cry of relief and of Joy
will 80 up from the land between the
four seas"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-02
Idle Questions.

From the Madrid Mundo.
This may be an age when time is money
but first reflect on the number of. useles
questions which We ask each other ever,
day and to which we neither receive no
expect answers
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-02
Too Serious for Sport.

From the Torc-' Canadian Courier
In Canada business dominates sport
Figure it all out and you will find tina
Canada's motto is Sport for boys. busj
ness for men,"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-02

II you want work read the want col
umnS Of The Star.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-12-15
GLAz|ER TRIAL
IS UNDER WAY
JURY MAY NOT BE SECURED AT
ToDAY's sESSiON@UDGE
DENIES NOTION.

LANSING, Mich, Dec. 15.-tSpe'
citl. when recess WAS taken az
noon today in the GLACIER case all but
two OF the regular panel OF peut
jurors had been summoned and exam
ined. During this morning threo
jurors had been excused for cause aud
three on peremptory challenges, the
prosecution using their rights In thse
respect twice and the defense onco.
Jury may not be secured today.
Judge West denied motion TO Quasa
the indictment and the trial of OK State
Treasurer Frank p. Glazrer, under an
indictment returned by the InghaM
county grand jury, last March, began
in the circuit court yesterday afteS-
noon.
The indictment contains 81 counts.
II covers the use OF money which. 1t Is
alleged, Glazier placed In the Chelsea
bank and used in the business OF the
Glazier Stove Co. This amounted To
approximately s6s5,000. A specific
charge Is made that Glazier approprt'
ated money given into his keepan8-as
state treasurer.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-12-15
WOULD BROADEN
WORK Of HUMANE
ASSOCIATION
OFFICIALS OF STATE oRGANiZA-
TON PLAN TO HAVE PRlNCl-
PIES TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS
OTHER PROPOSALS.

The proposition TO broaden the
work OF the Michigan State Humane
association was discussed in meet
Ing of several members of the execu-
tive board, Tuesday morning, In the
Office of Attorney James F. Hill, in
the Breitmeyer building Among 9TH
er things. II was proposed that COM
mittee be appointed TO secure the
passage OF state law providing for
setting apart a certain time each
week in the public schools to teach
the objects and aims OF the society;
also for the establishment OF hui
name bureau in Lansing.
A committee consisting Of G. G..
Kleinstuck. of Kalamazoo; j. +. Hill,
of Detroit; Jefferson Butler. Detroit;
+. Paine. of Lansing, and l.. H. Ran
dolph, OF Grand Rapids, was APP
pointed to inquire into the manner OF
feeding live stock in transportation.
1t is said that at present there is a
law which provides for feeding cattle
being shipped. but as calves will not
eat hay, and no other feed is furnish.
ed, many OF them die.
A legislative committee. consisting
of Attorneys James F. Hill and JEFF
ferson Butler will ask the legislature
for special charter for the incor-
poration of the association, and may
ask the state for an appropriation TO
pay for printing and other incidental
expenses OF the society. This COM
mittee will also endeavor TO bring
about some changes in the laws as
they now stand on the statute books.
One instance is cited where the agent
finds a horse In bad condition. There
is a question as to whether he can
kill the animal without the consent OF
the owner.
II was also proposed to have a
state lecturer TO assist the members
OF the association in organizing new
societies in the state. At present
there are % societies, and an effort
is being made to have representation
in all OF the cities OF any size in the
state. IL was decided to hold the
next meeting of the organization in
Kalamazoo, probably in June.
Among those present at the meet
ing Tuesday were President w. +.
Tallmade, Grand Rapids; b. A. Fin
ney, Ann Arbor. Leonardo Laurense,
Detroit; Angelina Fowler Branch,
Manistee; +. ID. Taylor. Jefferson
Butler. and James F. Hill. Detroit
Senator Thomas w. Palmer was also
present and told of the work being ac-
complished by the society for the Pre-
vention OF Cruelty to Animals.