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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-14
Luxuriating In Luxuries.

These are pleasant days for the man
who owns and maintains one Of those
chariots Of luxury and expense, an auto
mobile. Now IL Is pleasure for such
owner to HE to the garage or sporting
goods stores and turn over his cash for
accessories and supplies. Time was when
the man Of average means viewed with
some alarm the fast vanishing value OF
his machine; when he felt bit guilty Of
his rrodigality in paying the piratical
prices demanded by the wicked dealers in
tires. tubes. lamps, gas tanks and goggles
Once he bought these things and felt hurt
with the consciousness that he was being
victimized just because he was an over
jealous patron Of fascinating fad, he
felt that he was a child crying for a toy
and would have II at any price: that the
dealer knew 1t and put on the screws ac-
cordinsly.
Things arc changed now. The man who
owns a car may go to the marts OF gaso-
line. gaskets. spark plugs and patches
and buy and buy without any twinge Of
conscience. Buying these and other things
10 pleasure. and for the reason that you
get SO much more visible and tangible
stuff for your money than you do In a
grocery store or meat market. With eggs
at cents each and bound to fly to a still
higher perch OF price. with butter so high
that cottolene seems the only alternative
to unlubricated bread. with meat long ago
70 Dut TIE Hultl-mlll1OnafrS,
why should any one deem an automobile
out Of reach and under ban as too ex-
pensive? In the presence Of the prevail
ing prices in the food market, buying au-
tomobiles or automobile supplies has be-
come a pastime In which even the mi.er
can readily indulge. The automobile fs a
luxury. 1t was an eminent American who
said. however, Give me the luxuries of
life and I will do without the necessities
He Is dead. but were he alive now there
would be no need of such prayer Most
Of the Injuries are within reach OF the
humblest: II is the necessities that have
taken wing and scared away
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-14
Baby in the Shawl.

From the London Chronicle.
You must have wondered at the endur-
ance Of women who will carry a baby
and enjoy days holiday. The Eskimo
woman carries the baby on her back, the
Englishwoman carries the baby on her
arm. and there is no sadder sight than
the woman who is trying to enjoy a bit
of holiday with a baby on the arm and
the ignorance OF the mechanical con-
trivsnce that diminishes the burden. The
shawl!
A Welshwoman In London corrects a
masculine critic of the baby in the shawl
THE shawl IL put over the left arm, the
baby on that arm. the shawl Is folded
corner-wise. one end is tucked round
baby's body. the other end drawn round
under the right arm" Our Welshwoman
confesses to forty-six years OF age
claims a very upright figure. which she
attributes to carrying in early life her
mothers ten babies. But she maintains
that the chair OF the London streets
when she carried her baby Welsh fashion
was silly. And now comes the chance
OF the fashion artist. The baby In the
shawl. with the mothers hands free.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-14
Leprosy in Rats.
the Dundee Advertiser.


Some years ago the discovery Of leprosy
germs In the body OF a rat was made In
India, and occupied the attention Of medi-
cal men In that country and In New York.
In Japan during the present year two doc
tors have found similar germs I'm rats IN
Osaka and Kamamoto. According to a
japanese paper. the Asahi. the first dis
covery was made public In April last,
when DR.. kawamura read paper on the
subject at q meeting OF medical men ar
the Toxic Infectious Disease Hospital.
Later a similar discovery was made at
the KamamotO Medical College. DR. lchi-
hara, director of the Fusan Infectious
Disease Hospital, also found leprosy
germs In rats recently. He examined bOO
animals. two Of which were found to con-
tain the germs. Another leading doctor,
Dr. Shibayama, In much interested In the
matter, and has himself been conducting
Investigations. He calculates that one
rat out Of every three or four thousand
contains the germs. A dead rat whose
away has almost Invariably been found TO
contain the germs. In every rat affected
with the disease the Emphatic glands
have been found to be swollen. but not In
the same way as I'm the case ~ plague.
The leprosy germ I'm the rat very closely
resembles I'm form that found In man. III
10 not yet known whether the germs are
Identical and what connection there is be-
tween the two. and 1t is not yet practi-
cable TO cultivate those Of the rat for test
ing purposes. DIR. Shibayama intends ex-
perimenting by injecting the germs into a
monkey. II the experiment succeeds he
intends to replant the leprosy germ found
I'm man in animals in order to study the
connection between the various germs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-14
MICROBES WAR IN BOTTLE.
Multiply So Fast That the Battle
Explodes the Bottle.

rToul the LNuuuu Ddily
Soon after the opening Of the medical
exhibition at the Horticultural Hall,
Westminster. a large glass bottle which
had been betraying symptoms of uneasi-
ness exploded and scattered its contents,
creamy foam. over the rest of the stall.
Originally the bottle contained milk
just milk and a few millions typhoid ba-
GILL. which lived and grew happily to-
gether in this culture-medium. Then, for
demonstration purposes. horde of To-
1900 hungry monsters known as the
bacilli Of MassoD were introduced into
the cultured civilization Of the unhappy
typhoid tribes. and remorseless war was
raging In q moment.
A storm In a teacup was nothing to the
battle In the bottle. The milk grew turgid
with the bodies OF the slain. and still the
Massol militia murdered and devoured
their victims. When a Massol bandit had
filled himself to bursting point--he burst,
and each Of his 10000 or 1,OOO.00 frag-
ments became hungry young Massol ba-
cillus which fought and ate In turn Final
ly the milk foamed up with the rapidly
multiplying generations OF Massolites and
the bottle exploded.
The demonstration arose out of Prof.
MetchnikoffS claim that the bacillus of
Tactic acid (the Massol bacillus) destroys
the bacilh which cause Internal putrefac-
ton of food. The Massol bacillus. he
holds. by rendering the internal organs
antiseptic. lengthens mans life to an
extraordinary extent, and he quotes the
exceptional number of centenarians in
Bulgaria. where the Inhabitants live
largely on soured milk, which contains
this bacillus.
Massol bacilli are now presented in a
novel form-that Of chocolate creams
each containing 100000 bacilli-and il
was one of these chocolate creams which
caused such havoc among the innocent
typhoid microbes in the bottle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-14
NEW CULLINAN STORY.
Said to Be Fragment Of a Gigantic
Stone.

From the London Express.
The Cullinan diamond. the largest and
most valuable gem the world has ever
seen. has been the subject of many fan
tastic story. the latest of which Is told IN
the Transvaal Leader
The Cullinan stone was found. II Will De
remembered, about four years ago at the
Premier mine. but only portion or IL.
according TO the South African newspaper,
reached England.
There is said to remain from the Culli-
nan a stone weighing ABB carats, or ~
inc6es in circumference and o3f lncnes In
diameter, though the Transvaal Leader
carefully refrains from youcnins Ior 'hs
accuracy of the statement.
The story continues: THE finer and
larger portion of the stone had been dis
covered by native workers. and removed
TO safe hiding in the Magato Businesses OF
the Zoutpansberg. Several prominent
Dutchmen in this part or the country Sc
cured knowledge of the district In which
the gem was concealed. and negotiations
were set on foot for the recovery or the
stone $780,,
"The native chief to whom the diamond
was originally intrusted has now, II IS
understood, Travelled to Pretoria ana
handed over the stone to the rtghtful
owners on payment of a sum Of f1OOO
and a guarantee of indemnity against
prosecution under the Illicit diamond buy
ing law The negotiations were conduct
ed by a Dutch-speaking Transvaaler, VINO
received, 1t is said. large sum Tor having
been instrumental in the restoration OF the
colossal gem. .
Nothing Of the story IL known In the
London offices of the Premier mine. nor
does the rumor seem 10 have reached the
great diamond market of Hatton Garden.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-14

generally believed. To take IL in fully,
the attention must be fully given. We
must look or we shall not see.
The accounts OF polar spiendors bring
to mind the injunctiOns and commenda-
lions received long ago from an old artist
and engraver who had a passionate love
OF nature and a chronic quarrel with the
common blindness OF his fellow-men. His
highest praise for one who was young
and dmpressionable was. You can see.
You can do anything (Which meant you
can learn a little bit about art), for you
can see!' And then he pointed out In
the winter scene the truth which he put
i'm words-''SnOw is almost never white.
1t Is either yellow or blue: yellow I'm sun
light, blue In shadow. Rarely. In a gray
day. the snow is really almost white" I
have still In my possession little land
scape i'm water color. painted i'm the high
hills of Berkshire. which reused his en-
thusiaSm. The color throughout. though
tender. Is exceedingly pure and high, and
all In these snowy purple-blues and yell
lows.
The appreciation of color is part of
the great art OF seeing. for IL is really
no small art. In a very large degree we
see what We are prepared to see. The
botanst sees on his walks a very differ
ent world from that Of the ornithologist.
1t Is q wonderful effect OF training that a
tiny plant. differing I'm the most incon-
spicuous way from 10.0o others around
il, will catch the eye of one vino knows
plants. at Q considerable distance and be
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-14

unerringiy seized with triumph as q dis
covery. taking no account OF the surpris-
ing acuteness i'm seeing by which n was
found. Imagination has a hand I'm all
these wonders. We have an tmave
formed already which foreruns the fact.
The beauty OF the earth I'm these RoIde1
October days may well stimulate us to
cultivate the art OF seeing The love of
beauty Is I'm itself one OF the proofs of
the higher nature of man. II is one of
the few entirely disinterested faculties
that we possess. There Is nothing selfish
I'm the joy that we feel In seeing a mag.
nihcent view. a grand mountain or a
glorious sky. II is a pleasure that we
would be glad TO have the whole world
share. Its appeal is to the spiritual self.
AS noble writer has said: This Il is
that tells us how God lives In all that
He has made: and in the words OF the
same writer: 1T is by moments OF in
tense beauty that life 10 lived, as much
as by the things we do I'm worldly ways"
Strictly practical ends do not demand
all of life. Education widens the world
for us I'm an indefinite number of ways.
and it is perfectly lawful 10 prize those
which are human rather than material
Through that beauty which II fed by See
ing, on the inexhaus variety OF our
wonderful world. may we not reach up
TO realize something OF our own OWNER
part?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-14
Mimicry in Fishes.

InF I<lHtInn trTohe.
In lecture on fish photography at the
Royal Photographic Society's exhibition
DIR. Francis Ward said that the power
which certain fish possessed to change
their color in harmony with their environ
ment resided In the eye He placed a pike
in suoh a position that it's head was in a
dark chamber. while the rest OF its body
lay in bright Sunshine. Although its rest
ing place was perfectly white, the pike re-
manned black in color. But when he re-
versed its position and caused its head TO
be In the sunlight Its color changed to a
very much lighter hue within the space OF
a few minutes. 1t was evident that in Ash.
which possess protective powers OF this
kind to a greater extent than birds or
any other creatures, the light acted upon
the optic nerve, thus causing the pigment
cells all over the skin to contract or relax
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-14
CAPTIVATING ART OF SEEING.
Having Eyes, Many Are Blind TO
Natures Beauties.

From the Country Gentleman.
In descriptions OF the arctic ice ana
the various strange appearances OF those
landscapes void OF life. which interest
the whole world Just now. the vivid color
is ono Of the most emphatic points. We
read OF "the endless fields OF purple
SHOWS" OF plains Of gold furled in pur-
pie walls" we note the striking contrasts
bet ween "vioIet barriers and gold ana
burning columns" and again we see those
icy plains 'fn every shade OF purple and
blue" No doubt to many such phrases
constantly repeated give sense or un-
reality. And, indeed. these burning coiors
Joined with q deadly intensity or cold
must produce. in fact. terrible dream
like feeling Of ilIusion. But this mag &C OF
atmospheric color is something that one
need not 70 to the pole to see.
There are sunri:es and sunsets every
where that. If placed upon canvas In
their full intensity. combined with such
anasing delicacy. would be pronounced.
II seen in any gallery. impossible" And
in full da enthusiastically In strong sun
light In q clear. dry air-the atmospheric
effects or winter I'm a cold region have
much more Of this keen brilliancy than Is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-14

II you want work read the want eoj-
umns of The Star.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-14
Collecting Fads Is Not Dead.

From the Detroit Free Press.
Though souvenirs are out OF fashion
and our teaspoons are rolled I'D In cam
phor instead Of being submitted to our
friends for admiration, the collecting fad
isn't dead yet. IL is the correct thing TO
collect something. and many wealthy
women have a hobby which takes them
TO queer places. Among the things col
lected candlesticks are perhaps the most
common: pitchers come next.
An Evanston woman has a collection
of wonderful teapots: some are valued
for their age and uniqueness. others for
their value and rarity. A Chicagoan col
lects boxes-boxes or rare carved wood,
enamel. slippers took the fancy of a
young lady--not slippers for wear. but
models OF this charming footwear. II is
not recorded that she possesses Cinder-
elias famous glass slipper. Brasses.
china cats. bells. crosses and articles in
usiniature are affected by other women.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-14
Clothes Made Of Fish Skin.

From the Philadelphia Record.
The skin OF a certain FISH is used as
material for the making OF clothes by q
tribe OF Tartars OF Manchuris who in
habit the banks OF the Peony river and
live by fishing and hunting. During the
last hundred years the Tartars have be-
come nearly extinct. owing to the in
vasion OF their domain by agricultural
Chinese. They are known as Fishskin
Tartars. The fish they use Is the tamara,
q species OF salmon. Both flesh and skin
OF this fish are supposed to possess
wonderful heat-giving properties.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-14
BURNING THE BOOKS"
English Naval Maneuvers Report to
Be Destroyed.
From the London Express.

From the Lcndon Express
The admiralty have given orders Tor
the parliamentary report OF the naval
naneuveres of 1915 to he destroyed" says
the Pail Mall Gazette. ''All ships ana
establishments possessing the book are at
once 10 make away with II and notify the
commanders-in-chief when they have
done 60.
why this order? Is ii issued for the
purpose of Kidding official bookshelves OF
what Is regarded as lumber. or is there
weightier reason for H.?
However this may be, those intrusted
with the destruction OF the volumes will
doubtless see that the thing Is done In
different fashion 70 what a similar order
was obeyed few years ago.
Then il was a series OF signal books
which the admiralty ordered to DO de-
stroyed. In at least one case these were
simply pitched overheard, with the result
that one or two copies were picked up In
a foreign port and forwarded TO the ad-
mirslty through official channels, under
the Impression that the books were lost
property.
And the admiralty had something TO
say about the manner in which their or
der had been carried out
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-14
Nelson Monument.
From the London Chronicle.


How many OF these who gazed on Mel
sons monument yesterday have any
idea OF the actual size OF Baily's statue
Of the great admiral perched away
there close on 200 feet above the
ground? Only when public aeroplanes
are running over London will the ordi-
nary man be able to gaze on the full
eighteen feet OF the statue, which looks
so small to an upward view. How
many again could say offhand the da te
of the monument? II was set I'D in
IS43. but Cunningham, writing in is4s.
SAYS: ITO the great diegrace Of the ma
tion and the government this monument
10 the nobiest of our naval heroes is
still unfinished" OF the four bas.re-
liefs on the pedestal, -two-those OF St.
Vincent and Copenha gen--were then un-
done. Each. 1t may be noted, is by a
different hand. AS for Landseer's lions,
il was not till 1857 that they put the
finishing touch to the memorial
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-14
Flying Machines and Animals.
From the Dsutsche lager -Zeitung.


When Zeppelin III made the flight from
Dusseldorf to Essen last month II was oh.
served that horses and cattle ran wildly
about the meadows as 1t approached. and
sheep crowded with loud bleatings around
their shepherd. From these facts Coun,
Zeppelin concludes that the employment
OF airships OF whatever type will have q
disastrous effect on furred and feathered
game. All animals show fear at theil
approach: partridges. quail and other game
birds cover and hide themselves. and do.
nestle cocks utter warning crows as II
they perceived some gigantic bird OF prey
Van Honken, the Swedish aeronaut. wher
al moderate height. watched elk, foxes
hares and other animals take to fight
and dogs rushed bowling into the house.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-27

. backslider is. has he been enlight- ened. If so, after have thus been lost.
 'nsss sns tssrs sss ssIns % ony s the Lord Is dealing with, e backslider may entertain hope that the enlight- ening he has may probably be dark ness instead of lisht.
 ets aes s0 wo s likely to on De lined np by and with the Bible, on this prohibi- tion question.
 Paul condemns the taking of our lis- erty, on account of anothers con-
 The Son of Man iJesus christ) came eating and drinking, and was con demned as a wine-bibber and a glut- ton, Matt. xi, IS.
 The sboys statement is repeated in
 Let no man judge you In meat or in
 Drink no longer water but q little wine for the stomach's sake. 1 Tim.
 Eat and drink what so ever your soul lusteth after, either for wine or fnr strong drink. Deut. xiv, 26. who art in heaven, haliowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as 1t Is in heaven Matt.
 we see that the Lord is going to give us wine well refined in this ''7gdom Isa. XIV, 6, 8; Isa. xl, 5.
 We know the Bible condemns drunk enness, and also gluttony, but 1t does not say a drunkard shall not have drink, or that the ~'ntton shall not have something to eat.
 Who Is this that nes fallen away af- ter he has been entghtenedf Very re- spectfully.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-27
Zach McGhee Writes Of
 Trade and Tariff in England

he tells me they were made at Mos ron, In Lancashire, England. The erss Seutn n s Soses ts ooSi srses ssnts ss 'dearer," as they say here. than in America, where there is a duty of
 Senator Gallinger, of New Hamp- shire. who Is over here now as member of the Waterways Commits sion is delighted to learn that matches America. It Is his favorite theory that the duty is not added to the prioe to the consumer But if the duty of raise the prices of matches from "thrr pence" to "fo' pence" a dozen boxes, I haven't been able yet to figure out priest S i pis sIn going en to put nS his surplus s 100000 Londoners to earning living making matches. These 800 rosy checked. healthy-looking match mak- ing girls in Liverpool seem to be liy- ing very well and helping their pa- rents some on their Is to 20 shillings a week.
 whom I talked on the subject of Eng lands economic policy, had different views. He was sure-enough h'Eng- lishmau, hspparently 'appy, too. And of his people were workingmen, he said. in the various factories around eirmlngham. but he himself seemed You will not find any workmen in England clamoring for protection" he said. The ones. who are urging policy are the capitalists and land- lords. The workingmen do not want to pay higher prices for their neces- sites. and they have no faith in the idea that their wages would be tn- creased in proportion"
 My Irish-London priest himself told me that he personally knew that some of the London unemployed who took part in the recent We Want Work" parade were paid to do so. One man he told me of had a good job offered him, to begin on a Manday. The man begged to be allowed to postpone It till Tuesday, for he said he had bet ter paying job for Monday, to, take part in the parade of the unemployed.
 I asked the priest who paid them. He did not know. but admitted that his suspicious were in accord, partial ly, at least, with the positive state capitalists who were trying to force tariff "revision'''-whieh here means strations of the unemployed.
 How would you like to get job as one of the unemployed? think I shall try for it myself when go
 But" said the priest in the end we are being, dreadfully injured by this free trade"
 So there are two sides to the tarin and many sides to England's indus trial and economic life. l expect to make my own observations, allowing you however, to draw the conclusions. A mere suggestion of the situation from the two opposite viewpoints Of
 Copyright. 1909. by Zach McGhee)