Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-29


Government. The prison in Bangkok co Is
one thousand dollars year; in Shanghai
seven hundred and fifty dollars, with eight hum
bred dollars for the keeper; IN Turkey
one thousand dollars: while nine thousand
dollars is appropriated for keeping feeding,
and caring for prisoners in China, Korea. Siam,
and Turkey.
That the Government IS not through with
its criminals after they are lodged in these
foreign prisons, IS shown bv the appropriation
of seven thousand dollars for Actual expenses
incurred in bringing home from foreign co:n
tries persons charged with crime
Tips for Life Savers
JINGLE SAM is ever mindful OF the welfare Of
the men who 60 10 under the Stars and
Stripes. Every year he sets aside tortv-tive
hundred dollars to be used in acknowledging
the services of masters and crews OF foreign
vessels in rescuing American seamen from
shipwreck. For the relief and protection II
American seamen abroad he keeps ready 4
fund OF thirty thousand dollars. and contrib
uteS to the support OF hospitals for sailors It
Cape Town and at Kobe. Japan, with the
understanding that they shall be open TO
American tars Five hundred dollars a year
goes to the foreign hospitals in Panama.
Grammar school children can tell how
much the earth weighs. and most authorities
agree as to the figures; but there still must
be some doubt about IT. Dur Government IS
interested, and is paving fifteen hundred dol
lars year as an adhering member Of the
International Geodetic Association for tie
Measurement OF the Earth, which has its head
quarters in Berlin.
If one NAV Judge from the sum involved,
are more concerned over the weight of our
globe than in the suppression OF the slave
trade. \ scant one hundred dollars Is appro-
priated as our share in maintaining IN Brussels
bureau the object OF which Is 10 abolish the
traffic in human beings.
Over the coast of Morocco, within sight
and hearing of the recent uprlslngS, stands
Cape Spartel lighthouse, and the fact that the
United States has an interest IN the beacon 5
carry an item OF three hundred and twenty
five dollars for our share OF the expense 1T
tendant upon its maintenance.
Free Launch in Turkey
THE attaches OF the American Embassy ~
Constantinople, in order to keep pace with
the representatives OF other nations, tlfd It
necessary to have a steam launch TO ply the
waters OF the Bosporus, and this costs us eigh-
teen hundred dollars a year.
The Post Office Department is not generally
recognized as being III the field of publishers
vet it spends twenty-five thousand dollars i
year in compiling and publishing The Pc I'll
Guide" For the post route maps used ~
the department twenty-three thousand tlv.
hundred dollars will be spent this year.
Artificial limbs for soldiers and sailors who
suffered in the cause OF their country must lie
provided by generous Uncle sam, and this year
one hundred and twenty thousand dollars VA;
set aside for that purpose. Two thousand
dollars added to pay for surgical appliances
for disabled soldiers.
In lakewood cemetery. Chicago, is a plot
OF ground known as Confederate Mound.
where lie the bones OF Southern soldiers who
died in prison. The Government makes an
allowance every wear for the of this place
The Government long ago decided that the
public must be represented at the destruction
by maceration OF dilapidated currency, an!
was willing to pay some one to stand by with
a committee OF clerks and see the money
ground to pulp. 1t is estimated that the ser
vices OF the representative OF the people are
worth FIVE dollars a day and that he will be
engaged in watching the wholesale destruction
Of real money three hundred and fourteen
DAYS in the year: Congress has authorized
The treasury to lie ready with fifteen hundred
and seventy dollars when !. IS called for.