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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-24
RoBBER EARLY ON HAND.
Beats Widow But Fails to Get Hus-
bands Life Insurance Money.

CHICAGO, November A.-Demandins
81 600 which she was supposed to have re-
ceived as insurance on the life of her
husband. a man last night attacked Mrs.
Mary Bahawk and her two-year-old
daughter in their home at Hawthorne. a
suburb, the man not believing her assertion
that she had not yet received the insur-
ance. The robber choked the woman un-
til she was almost insensible, chloro-
formed her, and locked her and her child
in a room while he searched the house.
Neizhbors saw a man run from the
house and called the police, who found
Mrs. Bahawk unconscious. Mrs. Bahawk
was taken to the county hospital, where
she revived and told the story Of the at
tempt at robbery.
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A marked high area apparently from
the Hudson bay country has reached the
Gulf of ST. Lawrence, and In connec-
tion with the southern remnants OF the
disturbance of Tuesday is causing con-
tinuance of the rains along the Atlantic
coast with high northeasterly winds. In
the interior of the country the weather
was partly cloudy with light SHOWS in
the upper lake region. Rains also con-
tinued over the northern dist cts west
Of the Rock mountains.
1t is decidedly colder throughout the At
lantic states, and warmer from the up
per lake region southwestward through
Texas.
New England and near the middle At
lantic coast, and tonight or Thursday In
the upper lake region. In the Ohio val
ley, the lower lake region and the south
the weather will be partly cloudy with
rising temperature Thursday.
1t will be colder tonight In New Eng
land and the northern portion or the
middle Atlantic states.
Storm warnings are displayed on the
Atlantic coast from Delaware Breakwater
to PASSPORT.
The winds along the New England
coast will be high northeast to north: on
the middle Atlantic coast high north to
northwest, diminishing by Thursday
morning: on the south Atlantic coast
Moderate northerly; on the east gulf
coast light northeast to east.
Steamers departing today for European
ports will have high northeasterly winds
with rain to the Grand Banks:
The following heavy precipitation lin
inches) has peen reported during the
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CENTER MARKET,
The Great Market Center.
Only One Car Fare
From Amy Section of the
District.
Ladies' Waiting Room,
B Street Wing.
Ladies' Cafe,
9TH Street Wing.
Thanksgiving Week at
Center Market.
On Tuesday, November
%, Open from 5 AIM.
Until 3 PM.
On Wednesday, November
"a, Open from 5 AIM.
Until 9 PM
On Thursday (Thanks=
giving), Open from
5 AIM. Until m AIM.
Patrons are urged to
make timely purchases
for Thanksgiving inn order
that the dealers and their
employees may also enjoy
the day.
ID. S. SMITH, Clerk.
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past twenty-fou. hours: Thomasyille.
| 1856; Halifax, LIS.
Records for Twenty-Four Hours.

Records for Twenty-Four Hours.
The following were the readings of the
thermometer and barometer at the wealth
err bureau for the twenty-four hours be-
ginning at pm. yesterday:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT %, p.m, Il:
pm, So; II midnight. So November
"a. am. 35: 8 am, 30: IL noon. 30:
PM, -. Maximum A, at DIM. No.
vember %; minimum, 50, . pm, Noyem-
Der "a
Barometer-November o3, pm, oe.S.:
pm, 23S1: II midnight, 1894: Novem-
Der "a. : am. 1892; 8 am, 1898: noon,
1892; PM, $3.50.
Tide Tables.
Today-Low tide. II 80 am; high tide.
sos am. and go pm.
Tomorrow-Low tide. 1912 am. and
1921 pm; high tide, sos am. and
6:21 pm.
The Sun and Moon.
T6day-Sun rose 6:51 am; sun sets Al
pm.
Tomorrow-Sun rises 6:52 am.
Moon sets 800 am. tomorrow.
The City Lights.
The city lights and naphtha lamps all
lighted by thirty minutes after sunset:
extinguishing begun one hour before sun
rise. All arc and incandescent lamps
lighted fifteen minutes after sunset and
sunrise.
Up-River Waters.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
HARPERS FERRY, W. Va, Novem-
Der 24.-Both rive clear.
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Maximum temperature past twenty-fou
hours, "A; year ago, IL.
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CHURCH NOTICES.
EPISCOPAL.
METHODIST EPIS,
PRESBYTERIAN.

NORTHMINSTER. II. !. AVE. AND 18th NV.
Rev. George r. Wilson. D. D., pastor.-Thanks-
giving day service. II O'Clock am.
CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH SOUTH
Assembly,. Sd and ] n.w.-Than ks.ivtns
day services, 1890 am; preaching by the pas
tor. Rev. James H. Taylor Offering for the
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DISTRICT COURT-Justice Stafford
In re condemnation Of squares 226 to
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The congregation of Cabell Street BAp-
fist Church In Lyncl1burg. Va. has had
plans drawn for a. new church building
about eight squares from Its present To-
cation. The building will have seating
capacity of 1000. and will succeed the
present congregation under the name Of
the Rivermont Baptist Church.
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Up-River Waters

Special Dispatch to The Star.
HARPERS FERRY. W. Va, Novem.
Der 24.-Both rive clear
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go: award of commission approved and
compensation of commissioners; appeal
noted.
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go: award of commission approved and
compensation of commissioners; appea
noted.
CRIMINAL COURT NO. 2-Justice Stat
ford.
Falk agt. Phillips; appeal dismissed
with costs: plaintiffs attorney. K. b
Behrend: defendants attorney c. Albert
White.
Hoover agt Whitfield & Co: on trial;
plaintiffs attorneys, E. F. Colladay and
Sleman & Lerch; defendants attorney
NJ. ]. Keane.
PROBATE COURT-Justice Barnard
Estate of Mary A. Jaquette; Will dated
July 10, 1909, filed with petition TOT pro-
bate; attorneys. Lyon & Lyon.
Estate of Endicott King; order OF sale
Estate of Mary mcdaniel; order TO
sell notes.
Estate of Minnie Yeager: letters OF ad'
ministration granted to Harry w. Pad
gett: bond. 500; attorney, Joseph D.
Sullivan.
Estate of Honorine Jarden; Will admit
ted to probate and letters testamentary
granted to Eugene NJ. Marc; bond. S1,o0O
attorney, c. H. Stanley.
In re Robert Pace; order appointing
Ernest Stevens guardian; bond. $1,000
attorney, r. III. Yeatman.
Estate Of Frank B. Macoboy; orde'
authorizing compromise; attorney Ed
mund Burke.
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re you want work read the want col
umns Of The Star.
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CONGREGATIONAL.

THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
invites the Ingram Memorial and Mt. Plea ant
Churches to unite in Thanksgiving service at
the First Church, corner 10th and G'sts. n.w.
Scrvice at II am. with sermon by the Rev.
Samuel III. Woodrow .. ID. Special music by
the quartet and chorus choir.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-08

antiseptic. Thousands of soldiers treated with
standardized amounts of this vaccine to whether
the results justified the trouble dsa effects
Of the treatment there great diversity of opinion
The statistics of the British office considered
unfayorabl and the prophylactic NEGOTIATIONS have
officially discontinued Wright has claimed that the
general results were favorable and in this opinion he
IS supported by the majority of the medical who
followed the experiments.
Metschnikof las placed the great weight of his judg
ment in favor of the utility of continued trial
prophyacc. According to Wright, the most data
are those in regard to the army isolated the
siege of Ladysmith and here there only
many cases among the vaccinated among the
vaccinated with the mortality very much lower in thu
former Wright has found that especially good protec
ton is afforded by successive vaccinations He
njects simultaneously in the first dose about 100000
dead typhoid bacili and in the second given approx
mately week later 2,Oc0.O00.-Harpers
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Motorman Goes 10 Prison.

German public opinion applauds the
harsh sentence of twenty-one months
Imprisonment and hard labor inflicted
on the motorman of the electric sub
way train responsible for the disaster
last September in which nineteen lives
were lost, Berlin correspondent OF
the New York Times says.
The sentence exemplifies the German
theory that criminal negligence re-
uuires to be punished TO the full eX-
tent Of the law in all cases as terri
BILE reminder to all persons whose oc-
cupation has to do with the care Of
human lives.
The motorman in question submitted
defense which would have cleared
hifn in an American court but he was
| made a martyr of the immutah,e Teu'
| ton practice of holding somebody re-
sponsible for every accident that oc-
ours on railway lines and Furnishing
| him in accordance with the damage
| done.
| The result of this system is a maxi
mum of care and precaution, which
makes travelling on German railways
safer perhaps than on any other great
| trunk lines in the world. No accident,
large or small, is ever permitted to
| pass without the most rigid investiga-
ton. and the cause and culprit are al
ways detected and penalties invariably
| inflicted This is the rule whether the
! 49, 1n,s;
vate corporation. The motorman, who
has Just been sentenced, was an EN-
ploye of a private company.
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type seize and hold everything that happens to be
knocking around and there is place for either of
them in the true democracy.
The havoc that can be wrought by single specimen
fond mother is instanced in history and has in.
spired at least great novel All the misery and
tragedy in "Triby through fond mother Of the
Malignant type This specimen said she acting for
the good of her child. To make this statement is Of
creatures habits. though she really has not tha
notion really is the good of her child
The appo owed methods of dealing with the fond moth
educat rather than destructive 1t
is possible that is past redemption. Even
may be led into ways of grace by being set to
consider offspring Let her carefully their
semblance her husbands sisters (whom she possibly
ioathes) her great-unce, who disgraced the
family a generation Let her consider how much of
them resembles else at all. Then she will begin
to realize how small share is her that her child
is member of the human family; not gift but
rious charge. When old English new, by the way,
the word fond" foolish
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tom Lead. and-let me see-there's
Miss Elizabeth Corey and her niece, Miss
Graham. of New York"
watched him out of the corner of my
eve. but his tanned face was placidity it
self
What are they like?" I asked.
Very nice Miss Corey is quite the
grande dame. in a gentle way.
And the niece?'
Now / detected shift in Islip's posi-
ton.
We'll, she's very nice. too, very nice.
| knew her quite well in town" He
broke off definitely.
l changed the subject / didn't care
very much about the rest Of the guests
at the club
A little later Islip took up his fishing
rod and his empty basket. and we walked
up the beach together. At the farther
end | pointed him ont his road home.
May | drop in on you again if I'm in
the neighborhood?" he asked as we said
good-by.
Il wish you would Next time I'll put
you on to a place where you'll get all
the fish your basket will hold. I've lit
tie place of my own
Thanks / know you don't care for
the club. or I'd ask you up to dinner.
If | get word of a sudden break in the
market. I'll let you hear"
1t was plain that he couldn't keep his
thoughts long from Wall Street. smiled
at the apparent incongruity of his words
there on the beach then | watched him
climb the rocks and disappear. 1t was
| pleasant to have company, | considered,
but for some reason 1 found the Ship,
when l climbed on board to try my
paints. rather lonely. l was not used to
having two visitors in as many days.
| Ito be continued.l
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-08
FLOATING SLUM OF CANTON.
Where the Poor of Great Chinese
City Live.

City Live.
Stand beside the imperial custom
house at Canton and let the eye range
down the river toward Hong Kong. AS
far as the sight can reach lie boats,
boats and again boats. There are no
ordinary craft, mere vessels of trans
port plying hither and thither,
but the countless homes Of myriad
Chinese, in which millions have
been born, have lived and died
They are the dwellings of the
very poor, who live in them practical
ly free from rent. taxes and the other
burdens of the ordinary citizen.
The Tankia (Which means boatdwell-
ers) as the denizens of these floating
houses are called. form sort of caste
apart from the rest of the Cantonese.
The shore jewellers regard them as be-
longing TO a lower social order, and
indeed they have many customs pecu-
liar to themselves which mark them as
a separate community. How the swarm
ing masses of them contrive to support
existence is a mystery, but their chief
mode of employment is in carrying mer-
chandise and passengers from place to
place In some cases the daughters of
the family 90 ashore To work in fac
tories, as do the girls of other coun-
tries; but the years earnings of Chi
nese factory girl would scarce suffice to
buy a single hat for her Western sis
ter. Of course as against this low rate
of pay the standard Of living is CORE
spondingly different.
The houses which make up these vast
floating slums are of all sizes Sons
are but 10 feet long. From these
cramped dimensions, however, they
range up to a length Of 80 or 60 feet
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-08

One of the incidents of the late finan
cial panic is the frmness with which
land values have passed through a ma
tional crisis. In other paics of 1851
1873 and 1893 prices Of real estate de
clined both in. rural districts and great
cities. Prices for farm products ruled
lower rents reacted and The earning
ability of real estate investments de-
clned
While industrial investments suow
largely decreased earnings for the past
eighteen months. the income from az
ricultural lands has enlarged through
Increased production and higher prices
for farm products. There has been
larger migration from the cities to the
country OF people out Of employment
who had formerly worked ut industrial
production. The weakness of skilled
professions as compared with hus-
bandry Is evidenced by the great army
of unemployed that is compelled 10 ac-
cept enforced idleness through the dull
ness Of industrial enterprises.
The Independence insured by the
ownership Of country homes and the
certainty of living incomes from small
farms is turning the attention Of many
Inhabitants of cities TO the advantages
of farm life as compared to the uncer
tainty of employment in great cities
The demand for small holdings is
breaking up the big ranches and sparse
idly denselv populated by immigrants
ard energetic people who are striving
for an independent living.
The vast areas that are being re
claimed by irrigation are being sub
divided into small farms and will be
onarated under a system Of scientific
cultivation. Rev Mr.. Dedrich has set
the example Of what can be achieved
on a small farm by purchasing fifteep
acres and mourning debt Of several
thousand dollars near Philadelphia. and
operating the small farm with n dairy.
lie liqIiGated the mortgage from the
income of the fifteen acres, and demon
strated that small farms intelligently
managed are ample to support large
families.
Farm lands are steadily advancing
in value There is no method to EN-
large the area of farm land except by
reclamation of swamps and arid dis
tricts. while population is steadily III
creasing and the domestic consumption
Of agricultural products broadening ap-
nually. Under present conditions good
farm land is destined TO increase IL
yalue.-Goodall's Farmer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-08
Small Boys Pathetic Wish.

He Is poor little neglected boy.
whose mamma is so busy with moth.
ers' meetings and club conventions
and such important matters that she
really hasn't time to attend to her
children. says the New York Times
This little boy was entertaining a cas-
ual caller while his mother was up.
stairs putting the finishing touches te
her toilet. Said the little boy, whose
own toilet was sadly in need of atten,
ton:
What does e. t. C. meanT
"E. t. c. :" asked the caller.
Yes" said the little boy. ITS a sort
of word. It's in book 1 was read
ing"
oh" said the caller etc. is az
abbreviation. 1t is Latin. 1t stand:
for ct cetera.'
The little boy looked puzzled. TN
not in Latin yet" he said.
EFT cetera," explained the caller
"means--well, it means and so on
The little boy was thoughtful for 8
moment. and then he said:
81 wish my mamma could find tins
10 ct cetera the buttons on my pants y
And taking il his disheveled appear
ance the visitor murmured, amen"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-08
T'onicS,

A stock tonic is not medicine, a
cure, remedy, but an aid to the d.
gestive and assimilative processes of
nutrition. 1t is thus a preventive of
disease. A rightly compounded stocb
tonic simply supplies the animal arti,
ticially with certain necessary elements
for the perfect regulation of the proc
ess of nutrition. just as does the sup
plying of salt in the same way
Note that we say rightly compounded
tonic For either an excess or a lack
of certain ingredients depreciates the
value Of tonic, Just as an incorrectly
balanced feed lowers its nutritiye
value.
There is no secret about the com.
position of the well known stock tonics
Indeed, most states have laws requiring
that the ingredients of the contents be
plainly printed on every package.
The exact proportion of certain ele.
ments differ in different brands. but
the approximate proportions are known
to most stockmen, or can be obtained
from lue udllOlldI department OF dgfl'
culture or from the different expert
ment stations.
The question then arises, Why cannot
a farmer make his own tonics? II"
can, just as he can make his own cloth
ing. if he can spend the time. get the
correct proportions and accomplish the
most effective combination. For it
must be remembered that the right
amount of each material simply put to-
gether in some sort of Il way does not
make a suit of clOthes-no more does it
make an effective stock tonic. Not only
must the proportions be correct, but the
condition of each ingredient must be
right and its consistency such that il
will properly blend with all the others.
The makers of stock tonics have the
proportions and the proper consistency
Of the elements down fine and the
thrifty stockmen knows that he is not
only buying the right material in
reputable stock tonic. but he is also
buying the right skill and experience ii
takes to compound the tonic correctly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-08
LIVES TO A GREEN OLD AGE.

Was Ancient Tree Before White
Faces Were Seen in West.
The most ancient living thing on
earth is q tree. Exactly where that
tree stands is Il moOted question, for
many localities lay claim to it: but
there have been scientists curious
enough TO investigate the various
claims. and we can probably arrive at
a pretty exact result by a few compari-
sons.
Recently somebody has put forth the
claim of the so-called "Old Green Tree
of the Mississippi Valley which
stands near the river in lie Claire,
Iowa, says the New York Times. Its
trunk is more than 100 feet in cir
conference and its branches shade a
circle of more than 300 feet. 1t was
an ancient tree when the first white
man stood under its branches, and has
place in the traditions of the Indian
tribes of the Mississippi valley dating
back long, long before the first white
face was seen on the shores of the
western world.
There are certain yews in England
that were stalwart trees when Caesar
landed on her shores. More than
century ago a scientist named Ocean
dole proved to the satisfaction of bot
anists that a certain yew standing in
the churchyard of Portugal, Perth
shire. was more than $500 years old,
and he found another at Hedsor, in
Buclas. which was 3,240 years old at
that time.
Humboldt refers to a gigantic boa
bah tree in Central Africa as the old
est organic monument in the world
This tree had a trunk Twenty-Five feet
in diameter. and AdansOn. by series
of careful measurements, demonstrated
conclusiyeIy that it had lived for not
less than $50 years-and it lives to-
day. But even Humboldt was wrong
in his premise. 1t has recently been
| proved that there is a tree in the new
world which. of verify, has lived to
"a green old age" for it antedates the
scriptural food about 1000 years.
This is Il cypress tree standing In
the province of Chapultepec, Mexico,
with a trunk 11S feet 10 inches in
| circumference This has been shown
| to be (as conclusively as these things
| can be shown about 6,26O years Of
| age. Nor Is this so remarkable when
| one stops to think that, given favorable
| conditions for its growth and susie
nance. the average tree will never die
| of old age. Its death is merely an
accident. Other younger and more
vigorous trees may spring up near it,
| and rob its roots of their proper nour-
ishment; insects may kill it; floods or
winds may sweep it away, or the
woodmans AK may fell it. If no such
accident happens to it tree may
| flourish and grow for century upon
century and age upon age.
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and cultivating necessary, therefore if
you can double the yield of strawber-
ries by making the soil very rich, YOU
will be more than repaid by adding this
excessive supply of fertility.
Remember that your strawberry
plantation will require no more hoeing,
wedding or horse cultivation on rich
soil than on poor soil. Tins, if YOU
can increase the yield from 100 bushels
an acre TO 200 bushels an acre by add
ing $50 worth of commercial fertilizer
or other fertilizers, you can readily see
how profitable will be the investment
III this Fertilizer.
1t is true that you can raise good
fair crop of strawberries on almost any
soil which will produce good fair
crop of corn or potatoes. Most people
are satisfied with an ordinary crop of
Strawberries. such as can be secured on
this ordinary soil. but / state positive
ly that You can make no better invest
ment than to heavily fertiliZe every
inch of the land you have planted to
Strawberries
When To enrich the strawberry plan
tation is an Important question If you
intend to apply barnyard manure. il is
we'll to spread it upon the land the sea
| son previous to setting out the straw
berry plantation. If YOU can not apply
| 1t then, another good plan is to cover
| the strawberry plantation with good
stable manure at the opening of win
ter or during winter. This will enrich
| the bed if left on until the spring rains
are over. but the objection to this plan
is that the fruit bearing beds are re-
seeded with the weeds IF seed ard
grass which can only be removed at
considerable expense. If commercial
fertilizers are to be applied, you should
wait until the strawberry plants have
made some growth. so that they may
be ready to take up the plant food.
Therefore, in July. go over the newly
planted strawberry bed and scatter the
| fertilizer between the plants and be-
tween the rows so that it covers pretty
nearly all of the ground Be careful
not to allow the fertilizer to fall upon
the leaves Of the plants. especially if
they are moist. as commercial ferti.iz-
ers will often burn the leaves.