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country. with here and there a distinct
ly London pronunciation as, for in
stance when he read: 1.-THE last
y-e-a-a-h" etc
Mr.. CCckran's translatiOns were not
without the necessary Local color. He
has toured through France. so he knows
all about H. and as he read he would
shrug his shoulders as he bumped into
the word which was the key to the
whole sentence. snap his fingers as he
mastered its sense. and then rattle on
with noise Ike his own French auto
mobile with its muffier of.
They Had Enough.
When the committee had listened to
two pages somebody said Enough"
and Mr. Cochran reluctantly laid down
the book.
Investigation points strongly to Mr..
Gaines as the person guilty Of calling
off Mr.. Cockrans display Of erudltion
but whether it was because he thought
the translation too literal or disliked
the French language spoken I'm English
with an Irish brogue cannot be learned.
The fact remains, however, that shortly
gentleman from West Virginia an
nounced that he had something to be
read IN order that IL might go into the
records. It began at the very point
where Mr.. Cochran was interrupted by
The expressive Enough" Mr. Gaines
had his translatlng done by a real
Frenchman.
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COCHRAN A LINGUIST
AND PROVES CLAIM
Translation of French Teen With Local Color and an
Added Touch of Irish Brogue-Loud Cries
of Enough" ---@.sa1-@

Loud cheers" said Nicholas Long
worth at the conclusion Of a remark
able display of knowledge Of the French
language by Bourke Cochran.
"A very excellent exhibition" muir
INJURED Mr.. DalZell
Was Cochran really reading French
and talking English?" asked Chairman
Payne In voice that indicated that
he had long underestimate the scholar
~ attachments of Charlie Murphy's
chief enemy.
Let some one else read the rest Of
it" cruelty suggested Mr.. Gaines of
West Virginia
Mr.. Cochran looked injured-reaIIy
seemed to be grieving.
If the chairman really wishes some
one" he began.
Go on and read it," said Mr.. Payne,
and Mr.. Cochran went on.
Volunteer Interpreter.
glass manufacturer had introduced
a book in French to support his argu-
ments for a higher duty on glass. and
was about to call an interpreter when
the gentleman from New York voIun-
teered.
Il shall be glad TO read il - the com
mittee," announced Mr.. Cochran. and
he proceeded to do so. He drank in
the French words. gave them TO the
committee in plain United States tine
tured with the brogue OF his native
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The New Inaugural Chairman.

An appointment based upon good cit
izenship and personal ability.
That is the foundation of Mr.. Taft's
selection of Edward J. Stellwagen to
be chairman of the new Inaugural
Committee. An honorable and con-
spicuous success in the local field Of
business, a steady and courageous sup
port of somdS movements for the bet
terment of the Capital, and an active
leadership in its development along par
ticular lines sustain the choice.
But there are particular circum-
stances which make it unmistakable
that here the President elect was choos-
ing foI good citizenship and good man
agement. Mr.. Stellwagen is not a mem
Der of Mr. Taft's party. On the con
trary, he is an avowed Democrat, and
a. such could not see his way TO con
tribute toward the election of Mr.. Taft.
Moreover, when the Republican leader
first indicated his desire that Mr.. Stell-
wagon should serve, the latter clearly
stated these circumstances. And the
effect OF that frank avOwal, with its
eonirmatory revelation of character,
was to confirm Mr.. Taft's Judgment
and elinch it. Furthermore, it is not
mimportant that Mr.. StelIwagen Is
neither reactionary nor demagOgue.
Washington viii find abundant oc-
casion to be glad for this choice be
You'd these considerations and the fur
Their fact that the new chairman Is bv
birth and life work a true District
man. For the pride in the Capital
City, the enterprise, the good taste
which made possible the erection of
the Union Trust building promise much
for the Inauguration ceremonies.
Quadriennially they have grown bet
ter; but the time is not so distant
that young men cannot recall the his
toric Avenue of the parade plastered
with tobacco advertisements on March
4 and the very latest Inauguration,
good as it was, left still room for
marked improvement.
To the making Of that Improvement
the new chairman is pledged by the
circumstances of his appointment and
his personal character. As far as in
his power lies he viii make the Undue
ton of Mr.. Taft a ceremony of dig |
nifty. empty of tawdriness, EXPIRE ssive
OF the best impulses of American life. |
in that work he has the right to ex-
poet and The Times believes he will |
obtain the friendly and warm hearted
support of all his neirhbors-
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P. Mccartney. aunt Of the debutante,
who viii wear a beautiful directoire
gown OF pale pink directOirs satin and
lace. and Mrs. AttWeu. wife OF the
naval attache Of the American legation
In Argentina Presiding IN the dining
room viii be Mrs. Hall. wife Of Gen.
W. T. Hall, and Miss Alma RuggIes. as
sisted by Miss Carolyn Nabuco, Baroness
Marie Won PaumEartteu. Miss Murray.
Miss Carolyn Murray. Miss Jane Sands,
Miss auth Bliss, Miss Henrietta Fitch,
and Miss Dorothy MiIlen
Friday afternoon Mrs Irwin, Miss r.
win and Harrison b. Irwin. a Prince
ton student viii leave Washington for
Philadelphia, where they will attend
me army and Navy game Saturday
They will be guests at the ReIIev.ie
Stratford. until Monday, Mrs. Irwin.
ana Miss Irwin returning 10 Washing
ton, and Mr.. Irwin going on TO college.
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Miss Collins Becomes
Bride of Mr.. Grove
This Morning.

A pretty we iding took place at 1880
O'Clock this morning in St Matthew 8
Church when Miss Margaret b. Collins.
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. D. j. Collins.
became the bride of William f. Grove.
The ceremony was performed by the
Rev Edward l. Buckley, assistant pas
tor OF that church
Miss Collins was attended bv Miss
Mary Grove, sister Of the bridegroom.
and Mr.. Grove had for his best man
Maurice 4. Collins. brother Of the bride.
Miss Collins wore a white broadcIoth
gown, with large white hat, and car
ried shower bouquet Of Bride roses.
Following the ceremony there was
reception and wedding breakfast for the
immediate relatives and friends OF the
young couple at the home of the brides
parents. 1165 Nineteenth street north
west. Later in the day Mr. and Mrs.
Grove left Washington for a Southern
wedding trip. Upon their return they
win live at the Raymond.
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Nursing His Hatred for Is Years
WreakS Revenge on Aged Tutor

RICHMOND, IND. Nov. 2.-After
nursing his hatred for twenty-five
years, Rooer, Gambler, Of GreensforAs,
attacked William Baldwin. more than
seventy years or age, yesterday, and
gave him a terrible beating. Baldwin
may not recover. Gambler was arrested
When Gambler was a boy Baldwin
was his school teacher. One day
Baldwin whipped Gambler for viola
ton Of school rules Baldwin used a
small whip that he carried in his
pocket for such purposes.
The boy claimed 10 have been seri-
oUsly injured a.d his parents had
Baldwin arrested, but he was acquit-
ted of the charge of assault and bat
terry, because the justice OF the peace
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SUBSTITUTE FOR MARBLE.

a great advance over other artificial
stone is now made from the waste Stag
Of blast furnaces mixed with a little
lime The Stag is crushed and pow
deredt one-seventh part of Quicklime is
added, and the mass. made into a paste
with water. is pressed into molds Of
metal. The blocks so formed on dry
ing have the consistency OF chalk They
are placed in iron cylinders. from which
the air is pumped out and then replaced
with carbOnic acid, and after a few
days in this gas the hydrate of lime
becomes recarbonized, binding the mass
into rock of great hardness. The fin
ished stone takes a high polish. II has
been made to serve as an excellent imi-
tatiOn Of the best photographic stone.
and with suitable cOlOung matters 1t
gives a variety Of fine Misunderstanding
delphia Record.
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before whom he was tried held that the
punishment was not severe.
When the teacher was acquitted
Gambler vowed to get even" If it took
life time. When he became a man
Gambler bought a farm In the neigh
b0rhOod and Baldwin retired from
school teaching. They lived within ten
miles of each other. but never met until
yesterday.
When they met Gambler approached
Baldwin. who is beat with age. and
asked him II he was the former school
teacher. Baldwin answered in the af-
hrmative and Gambler struck him in the
face with his fist.
The old man was poWerless to defend
himself ana bystanders interfered too
late.
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SOUNDS
FORESTRY ALARM

Speaking Of the necessity Of conserv-
Ing the national forests, John 3. Fin
ney, secretar7 Of the Appalachian For
est Association. said last night that "un-
less something is done, the time will
come when there will not be a stick
of timber left in the country"
Mr.. Finney. with F.. G. Plummer, Of
the United States Forest Service. and
r. II. Bolster. Of the United States Ge-
ographical Survey, spoke before the
National Geographic Society. In meet
ing. in Hubbard Memorial Hall last
night on the same topic.
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SHOOT HEAVY BEAR
AFTER 3-DAY HUNT

WILKESBARRE, Pa, Nov. 25.-After
three days effort, Fred Chase and Elihu
Smith, OF Parsons, managed to get home
today with the largest bear shot I'm this
part of the State in many years. He
weighed 600 pounds and was shot near
Bear creek
He crawled into a cave after being
wounded, and the hunters had hard
work killing him. When he was dead
they had TO haul out the carcass with
a wire rope and an improvised windIas
The hide measures a few incl es mora
than seven feet from nose to I'll OF tan
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NO CATTLE DRIVEN
OVER PUBLIC ROADS
Pennsylvania Quarantine to Stamp
Out Disease Grows
Rigid.


PHILADELPHIA. Nov. with the
issuance Of an order by the State live
stock sanitary commission, closing to
cattle public roads in fourteen counties,
the quarantine 10 stamp out the foot
and mouth" disease in this state has
been made rigid. The counties affected
are Clinton, Snyde-, Union, Juniata,
MontOur, Northumberland, Dauphin,
Lancaster. York. LeEigh. Montgomery,
Chester. Delaware. and Philadelphia.
This order makes 1t a violation to
drive cattle, sheep, goats, or swine over
the public roads in these counties unless
written permission is first obtained from
an authorized agent of the sanitary
hoard
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denee- 1t viii do business much as
other people do; it viii be flush in good
times and poor in bad times, and it
will try honestly 10 save when it feels
poor. This is going to be one of the
saving winters.
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HIS PREPARATION.

Tom-Tm going to ask your father to-
night for your hand.
Tess-But you don't seem to be q bit
nervous.
Tonne; I've been both a life insur-
ance agent and a book canvasser-
Pick Me-Up.
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Miss Edith Birney, daughter Of former
District Attorney and Mrs. Arthur A.
Birney, was married last eevninz in the
home Of her parents on Nineteenth
street to DR.. F. Marion Barker. Of Chi
cagO, the Rev. c. Ernest Smith, rector
Of St. Thomas Church. officiating, in
the presence Of a party OF relatives and
intimate friends.
The drawing room was beautifully
decorated with palms, ferns, and white
roses and Chrysanthemums. The recep-
ton room was in green and yellow, and
the din!=E room was in green and Law
ende-s the candles having dainty layen-
der silk shades and a Centerpiece OF
lavender chTysanthemums on the table.
The bride wore d handsome white
paOn velvet gown, made empire style.
and trimmed with Irish point lace and
seed pearl embroidery. Her veil Of lace
was fastened with a diamond crescent.
a wedding gift She wore a gold chain
with a pearl pendant. the gift OF the
bridegroom. and carried a shower Of
Bride roses and lilies Of the valley.
Miss Katherine Blrney. sister Of the
bride, was maid of honor, and wore q
lavender satin gown made empire.
trimmed with pearl trimmings, and car
ried a shower bouquet Of violets.
Miss Edith Ruth CAN'T. the little niece
of the bride, was flower girl, wearing
a dainty froCk Of white batiste elabor-
ately trimmed with lace, and carried h
basket Of yiolets,
The brides mother wore a beautiful
pale blue satin gown trimmed with rose
applique.
Dr. A r. Sheldon. of Chicago, was
best man Tor Dr. Barker.
A large reception followed the Ccre-
mOny. Among the out of town guests
were Dr. and Mrs Hiram II. Birney,
Mr.. and Mrs Winthrop Sargent, OF
Philadelphia Mr., and Mrs. Charles r.
Gantz, Miss Lucy GantZ. Miss Florence
Ingram. Mr.. and Mrs. A r. Mitchell.
Miss Mitchell, Miss Mary Mitchell and
Miss Josephine Mitchell. of Baltimore;
Mr.. and Mrs. Nerplank BiTney, OF New
York; Mr.. and Mrs. NeiZle. and Mr. and
Mrs MaCFarland, Of Atlantic City.
Later ia the evening DIT. and Mrs.
Barker left Washington for a Southern
rip, Mrs. Barker wearing a travelling
suit of brown brOadclOth with a brown
nat and furs. After December l they
viii be at home in Chicago.
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Entertain Mr.. and Mrs. Herrick.

Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas F. Walsh were
hosts at dinner last evening in compIl-
ment to the former Governor of Ohio
and Mrs. Herrick, Invited to meet them
were the Vice President and Mrs. Fair
banks, Lieut. Gen. and Mrs COrbin,
Rear Admiral and Mrs Clover, Mrs
William F. Draper, Mr.. and Mrs. Thorn
as Nelson Page, William J. Boardman
and Miss Boardmsn, Mr.. and Mrs
Laurence Townsend, Mr.. and Mrs. Clar-
ence Moore. Mrs. Nicoll Ludlow, Mrs
Charles Muna, Miss Bryan, Charles Q.
Glover, Charles BOettcher. Of Denver:
Captain Fenton, L. 5. A and Mr.. Barry
The Librarian OF Congress. Mr.. Put
nam, left Washington for New York
Yesterday 20 meet Mrs. Putnam and his
younger daughter who are due t9 arrive
today from Europe, whore they spent
the summer and autumn in Fra nee and
Italy
Mrs. Putnam Will spend but little time
in Washington this winter. remaining in
New York most of the time TO super
SIse her daughters stUdies-
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Dr.. and Mrs. Henning Return.

DR. and Mrs. Carl fleming, whose
wedding took place recently, have re-
turned to Washington from their we'd
ding trip.
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Senior Guzman, first secretary Of the
Colombian legation, and Sonora Guz-
man are being congratulated upon the
birth of a son. Monday, November %,
at the legation on y street, where
Senior and Sonora GuZman make their
home, with the Minister and Nine.
COrtes, the parents of Sonora Guzman.
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The British Ambassador and Mrs
Bryce were hosts at dinner last evening
at the embassy. in compliment to tile
Japanese ambassador and the Baroness
Takahira and the members Of the jap
anese embassy staff.
The Ambassador and Mrs. Bryce will
entertain at dinner December Us, and on
December n Mrs. Bryce viii give q
tea on December ard December II
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inches. They are mouse-colored above
with white sides with whitish dots and
lines on the abdomen. Below they arc
blackish, with legs whitish and tipped
with black.
The stories that the spider goes
frisking about in the sunshine on the
hot sands looking for its prey and
ready to attack anything that moves
are pronounced fiction. 1t strictly
avoids the sunshine, and during the
lay hides in its hole, coming out only
At shutdown, looking for caterpillars
grasshoppers, beetles or some such
small game. 1t feeds on anything but
gasps, of which it has deadly fear,
since the wasp is its most dangerous
,nemy. The tarantula thrusts its nee
ile-pointed fangs thru it's prey, which
it drags off into its burrow to grind it
up with its powerful mandibIes and
suck out its liquids.
The tarantula is quiet so long that
it does not require much food, and
one good-siZed insect serves it for near
ly a week, according TO c. E. Hutchin-
son. The male spiders fight most in
teresting battles, sparring with their
1eadly weapons with the skill of fenc-
ers. The duel is always to the death,
md the victor does not release his hold
until he is sure of the death of his an
'aSonlSt. Inc poison docs itS Work In
from 10 to 20 minutes. Each male
has flock Of about seven or eight fe-
males, which live in burrows that other
animals have made. These they line
With silk for the reception of the young
md there they hibernate during the
Winter Between 200 and 800 egg,
ire produced by each female in June
and each egg is inclosed in silk bag
sufficiently large to allow it to turn
freely. This bag is so closely woven
that the finest dust is excluded Only
two or three out of every hundred
tarantulas arrive at maturity, and
reach the allotted age of Is or 80 years
The tarantula requires about 20 years
to reach maturity, and sheds its skin
In Midsummer of every year. The great
mortality of the tarantulas is largely
due to large and conspicuous wasp
called a tarantula killer. 1t is more
than two inches long, with head, tho
rax, abdomen and long, spiny legs black
and wings of reddish brown. 1t seeks
out the tarantula. stings it, deposits an
egg in the wound and then buries the
spider In a hole about five inches deep
after the manner of the digger wasps
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men are occupying lands allotted to en-
rolled citizens, and they, of course, will
have to be elected.
Forests to BE Cleared.
Much of the timber on Indian reser-
vations in the Southwest is said to be
"overripe," and in dying effects loss to
the Indians of millions of dollars every
year. Commissioner Leupp intends to
induce Congress to permit him to put
the Indians in that section of the ccun-
try at systematic work of cleaning up
and the cutting of matured and diseased
trees, which he believes will improve
the forests at large and eliminate TO n
great extent the danger of forest fires
and allow the grass and young trees to
grow He thinks if this We're done the
Indians would learn the value of their
timber, and it is to their direct interest
to protect it from forest fires. 1t Is also
thought that much of the Indian reser-
vations is underlaid with minerals. and
these mineral resources it is the inten-
ton of the Department to have devel-
oped. 1t is thought that the Indians
will derive a good revenue not only thru
the medium of royalties, but by the in
creased opportunity for employment at
gainful labor. It will also help the de-
velopment of the country in which they
are living. On many of the Northern
and Western reservations there is a
good deal of logging carried on, and the
Indians are really making bank ac-
counts from the sale of the logs from
their timber.
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and not extended, as in the case of the
others, in tower. When the towers
are completed they will be decided ad-
ditions to the landscape of the city, as
they will show gracefully tapering Gu
polas, with tall lantern lookouts rising
far above the mass of high buildings
The Singer Building will have a total
Soor space of nine and a half acres
There are really As stories if all the
floors are counted. The main building
has IA stories. There are four ele
vators rising to the 14th floor and four
more rising to the 35th floor. The CITY
Investing Building is on Cortlandr
street, occupying the entire front be-
tween Broadway and Trinity Place. and
has 80 stories, the last three of which
are in sloping gable, rising 400 feet
above the street. 1t is faced with white
stone for the first six stories and above
that with white brick and terra Gotta
trimmings. 1t opens on to Broadway
with magnificent portal, which is con-
sldered highly artistic piece of work.
The first two floors are each 90 feet
high, and above that the floors are ali
IA feet. The building will cost aD0,.t
$1O'oO0,OO0, and will be ready for oc-
cupancy next May
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RIFLED PIPE.

oils long distances from the other fields
made this a failure. Now there has
been adopted a rifled pipe line eight
inches in diameter, with pumping sta
tons only 121A miles apart. Water is
introduced at the pumping stations, and
the effect of the rifiing is to produce a
whirling motion of the liquid, which
throws the water to the outer side to
form a film enveloping the oil and re-
1ucing FRACTIONAL resistance. The pipe
IS an eight-inch steel tube, tested to
1,200 pounds pressure per square inch,
md rified hot by rolling machinery. A
complete turn is made in every 10 feet.
The discharging pipes are automatical-
ly adjusted so that the delivery of oil
is at plane marking the division
between it and the water. thus making
the division of the two fluids easier.
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alupe Hfdalgo, or for any other group
OF stranger people whom it has taken,
wholly or in part, under it's protection i?
If not, then, why for Indians? In To-
cal schemes of popular education, it
has pleased certain communities to
separate the races according to what
seems the best interests of the social
vicinage; but for the Government of
the United States to do so is quite
another proposition. Everywhere /
am striving to erase those lines.
There is great rejoicing among the
followers of Commissioner Leupp over
the final allotments of land to the In
dams and the breaking of the tribal
relations, which it is believed will go
further toward lessening the expense
of caring for the Indians and of max
ing them self-supporting than anything
else that could possibly have happened
Under the agreements with the Five
Civilized Tribes it is the duty of the
agent OF the issuance of an allotment
certificate to place the allottee in pos
session and to remove from the land
all persons Objectionable to him. This.
OF course, has created a great deal of
confusion, because there have been so
many people on the land that had no
right. there, and yet who claimed the
land by right of possession. 1t is esti-
mated that some 1000 persons who ap-
piled for enrolment as Cherokee freed
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Rifed Pine Line for OIL.

A singular discovery has been made
that pipe line for oil will deliver its
product much more rapidly if 1t is
rified like a gun. The Southern Pacific
Railway Company is now expending
between 100000 and $5,000,000 in
laying rifled pipe lines for conveying
crude oil from Oil City to Porta Costa,
Cal, distance of 2S5 miles. Before
he adoption of the rified pipe various
experiments were tried, all of which
allied One was to heat the oil. This
Helped its delivery for short distances.
out on longer ones the oils cooled and
became sluggish. 1t was also tried to
pump water along with the oil, but it
vas found that the proportion of water
vas so high and the resulting emulsion
If water and oil so difficult to separate
hat the plan did not pay. Next, it was
ried TO mix lighter oils with the crude
5iscous product which has an asphalt
oase. The expense of pumping light