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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-16

cred by a para graph or two, it is readily
understood why Bancroft gained little
material from the newspapers in writ
ing his earlier volumes.
Letters, journals, diaries and public
documents then as now were invaluable,
but in recent times their relative value
as compared with that of the newspapers
as chrOniclers of the events OF the time
has greatly decreased. AS James Ford
Rhodes the historian, in speaking before
the association on the use of newspapers
for history in the period from 1880 to 1871
remarked, they are indispensable TO get
at all the facts. to go to the bottom of
things Mr. Rhodes also acknowledged
the aid he derived in the period men
toned from the editorial comment of such
great journalists as Greedy, BigeloW, Ray
mond, Webb Bowles, Thurlow Weed
Schouler and Medill.
No historian of any period since the
modern development Of the newspaper
would dream of writing history without
consulting the newspapers or the DAY as
to use Mr.. Rhodes language, an ample
and contemporary record of the past.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-16
Preventable Blindness.
g Columbus Dispatch

From the Columbus DlspdtcH
An Interesting revelation In the report OF
the Ohio commission for the bhnd Is lne
fact that there is already law enough u
prevent the cases of blindness that gro"
out of inattention to the eyes OF chi'ui ~
after birth. The trouble in Ohio, as In
Pennsylvania, has been not lack OF law
hut lack of enforcement. And mere, as
there, one third of the cases OF olhoness
are attributable to neglect Of very slnpIe
treatment in infancy. 1T IS ahlaliiis tna
60 much blindness may be prevented. that
The means of preventing it has been pro-
vided and that. it has never been EN-
Moved. If the commission acconpiishes
nothing else. it will have more than JUS
tilted It's creation. If it shaii securs ,,t
enforcement of this forgotten law and put
in operation the agencies that will prevent
the loss of sight in so many cases.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-16
NEW METHOD IN SURGERY.
Which Reduces the Amount of
Anesthetic Necessary.

From the Medical Record.
Perhaps the greatest single factor in
diminishing the danger of anesthesia is
the use Of as little anesthetic as is neces-
sary. The administration Of narcotics be-
fore anesthesia is one of the methods
adopted to reach this end.
To this Knapp has recently added an
other method. namely the artificial dim
mutton of the circulating blood during
anesthesia by stopping the circulation in
the extremities with the help of elastic
bandageS.
Experimental work on animals has uni
foImly shown that such diminution of the
circulating blood enables the production
of anesthesia with a much smaller amount
Of the anesthetic, while the awakening
from Inconsistencies very rapidly follows
the admission of the circulating blood to
the vessels of the eXtremitieS.
DIR. EUR Verth had an opportunity to try
this method in Bier's clinic in Berlin. and
reports very favorably upon 1t. He ad-
ministered anesthetics in over 100 cases
after preliminary bandaging of the lower
extremities; the arms were never cut on
from the circulation because of the great
er danger of injury to the nerves in the
upper extremities.
The results fully bore out the data of
experimental work: Less anesthetic was
used in all these cases than usually,
strong individuals being easily anesthe-
tized by means of the ether drop method;
the recovery from anesthesia followed al
most Immediately the removal Of the
bandages from the legs. no injurious after
effects were noted.
Besides these manifest advantages of
the new method one more Is mentioned by
EUR Verth. the possibility. namely. OF per-
forming what may. be called autotrans-
fusion in case of any accidents during an
esthesia; in case of chloroformS especially
the blood Of the extremities rich in car
bonic acid gas may act as a powerful
physiological stimulus to the respiratory
centers that are SO powerfully depressed
by this narcotic.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-16
A Pair of Rabbits.
From the Ohio State Journal.


The New York market reports quote
rabbits at S1.2J a pair. That ought to
raise this clean and innocent little ami
NAL up on the plane of aristocratic de-
sire. Out this way it commands no such
price. Instead of a pair. one can get
half a dozen for that price. And when
he does he gets meat that belongs TO
the scale of canvasback ducks and Eng
lish pheasants.
A nice broiled rabbit is a luxury. 1t
lives on the sweet little green things of
the nature world, and gallops about in
the sunshine and catches the spirit of the
woodland ways, all of which things one
can taste in the lilywhitc texture along
the back or the big, plump muscles of
the limbs. That Is what these fellows
taste who pay S1.2J pair. They know
the virtue Of the rabbit.
But around here. where one costs ~
or % cents. we jump at the conclusion
that they are a sort of soup-bone diet
There are so many people who canno,
trust their judgment as to the merit of a
thing, except by consulting the price,
and so they avoid the transcendent little
rabbit and buy an old hen or a piece OF
pig. But that is a concession to all
us esthetic lovers of good things who do
not want to be shut out of rabbit at
20 a pair
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-16
VALUABLE CoUNTERFEITs.
Forged Coins Which Are Worth
More Than the Genuine.


The unusual occurrence of a counter
felt coin bringing far more than the
value it was originally intended to rep
resent by it's makers took place last week
when spurious Spanish doubloon of
Charles " OF Spain, dated 1901, was
sold for $50 at a sale of old coins at the
Collection Club in this city.
The coin was of excellent workman
ship and there was really no striking
difference between it and the genuine,
but instead Of being struck in gold it
was composed of platinum of the purest
quality which had been gilded.
The intrinsic value of the Spanish
doubloon in gold is about $15.61. The
platinum counterfeit weighs 40 grains,
which at the prevailing market rate of
95 per cent a pennyweight for platinum
would give this piece an intrinsic value
of $17OO.
Platinum was a favo1ite metal with
counterfeiters some years ago, when its
intrinsic value was about So an ounce.
Many spurious ten and twenty dollar
United States gold pieces were turned
out chiefly composed of this metal. The
coins of Great Britain were also tempered
with in the same manner.
Spanish coins have been much counter
feited, perhaps more than the coins OF
any other country. Even at the present
time Spain is redeeming counterfeit
five peseta pieces. These coins Were
made by private persons and were equal
to the regular government coins in point
of fineness and weight the manufacture
ers being satisfied with the seigniorage
or difference between the face value vi
the coin and it's value in bullion silver.
So difficult are these illegal coins to
distinguish from the genuine that the
government has authorized their redemp-
ton at bullion value. 1t is said that
but little distinction has been made in
Spain between the regular issues anG
the counterfeits, the two issues being
accepted freely everywhere, and it is
declared that it is not at all unlikely
that fair proportion Of the 100000, 00f
five peseta pieces held In reserve by the
Bank of Spain is made up of counterfeit,
coin.
Some years ago, when silver had a
very much higher value than at present
and the Mexican dollar was worth intrin
sically about 95 cents, a counterfeit Mex
lean dollar came into the possession OF
the United States assayers at the Phila
delphia mint. They assayed the coin an6
found it to be worth intrinsically $1.0a
1t seems that the mine from which the
counterfeiters got their metal produced
silver that was very strong in gold. Thus
the forgers lost money by making coun
terfeits.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-16
DWELLINGS RECENTLY SOLD.
Home Purchased by Rev. Herbert
Rex johnson for $4,000.

Some Of the recent transactions in realty
as reported are as follows:
The dwelling 1902 Cliffbourne street, be-
longing to Miss Ella NJ. Tybout, has been
to Rev. Herbert Rex Johnson. The con-
sideration was 5000.
Stone & Fairfax Real Estate Corpora
ton has sold for NJ. A. Sype the two
story brick apartment at 634 Orleans
place northeast and for NJ. j. Tyner the
two-story brick dwelling 2O34 j. street
northwest. These properties are under
rental and are acquired for investment
purposes. The total sum realized from
the sale Of both was $1,000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-16

furnish heat and light for every building.
Enough water rolls past St. Louis to turn
all the wheels of the United States. ana
it is said. upon excellent engineering au-
thority that enough water power is still
undeveloped in the state of Massachu-
settS-where water power is already eX-
tensively utilized-to equal the flow of
Niagara. The extent of the water power
going to waste in this country is beyond
the average human comprehension and
intelligence.
1t is good that this is so, for we shall
need II shortly.
Already the finger of progress points
knowingly toward the rivers and streams
for future power, and the throbbing, sib-
liant voice OF the steam engine echoes the
warning of the engineer that the coal sup
ply is rapidly being exhausted. Then the
people will have to flock to the torrid
zone to keep from freezing in the winter,
and the wheels of industry will stop UNI
less all the water power is developed and
the energy turned into heat and power.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-16
Newspapers as Sources Of History.
From the NeN York World


At the meeting of the American Histori-
cal Association at Washington this week
one of the interesting papers read was
that by William Nelson on american
Newspapers Of the Eighteenth Century as
Sources of History Mr. Nelson took is
sue with Bancroft's remark that you
cannot write history from newspapers
That might be true for the period of
American history with which Bancroft
was most interested, as the colonial press
was hampered by official censure, but in
the evolution of the press since independ-
ence, a historian, as Mr.. Nelson remark
ed, who ignores that field will miss IA
great and valuable mass of material ~
Even in "A study of the revolutionary era
the newspapers, brief as they were, throw
much light on the life of the people, and
without that our conception of events
would be fragmentary and the meaning
incomplete. In the absence of the tele-
graph, telephone and news organizations,
and with editorial comment usually COW.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-16

From the Youths Companion.
There was little doubt in the minds OF
those who were invited TO the wedding Of
Augustus Clay Johnson and Chloe Ma.
tlda Baker as to the cordiality Of the
invitation 1t was clearly printed, and
read as follows:
You are invited to attend the marriage
of Mr. Augustus Clay Johnson and Miss
Chloe Matilda Baker at the home of the
brides mother. All who cannot COME
NAV send
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-16
Big Real Estate Deals.

During the past week two large trans
actions in property. have been brought to
the attention of the public. one being the
announcement of the plans of the South
ern Commercial Organization relative to
the old St Matthews Church site at the
northeast corner OF 18th an. II streets
and the other was the placing on record
OF the deed by which the large plot of
ground adjoining the Union station on
The west and at the northeast corner of
Massachusetts avenue and North Capitol
Street was transferred to the United
States for use as the site of the proposed
building for the city post office.
s:.The difference in the location OF the
two properties accounts. of course. for
the fact that although the consideration
in both instances was about the same, yet
the post office site contained about eight
times as much ground. The considera-
ton in this latter case Is known as 1t
was given In the deed that was placed on
record as we'll as published by the COM
mission that bought the property for the
government. For the 10000 square feet
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-16
Dog Team: Beats Horse.
From the Daily Alaskan. - -

From the Daily Alaskan. 80
The sharp discussion Of the All-Alasks
sweepstakes planned for April at Nome
resulted in a challenge by Coke Hill To-
race with his dog team against Ben Frey
meyer on Dolly. a marc that has figured
in Nome horse races. The race took
pace November IA over a ten-milo
course. Dexter Creek and return. The
dogs won by fifty seconds. The stake
was $1,000. The mare slipped and lost
time. Another race is on and ZOO will
change hands on the result. :.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-16
An Unkind ish.
From the Wiener Salonwitzblatt.

From the Wiener Salonwitzblatt
Scholar-Mother's compliments, sir, and
she wishes me to stay away from school
tomorrow for a funeral.
Schoolmaster-Oh. Is one OF your near
relatives dead, then?
Scholar-No. sir; only a cousin OF my
aunt.
Schoolmaster-Well, this time you can
go. but | had much rather that 1t had
been nearer relative
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-16

support a whole family. Land is so
precious in Japan that 1t would be looked
upon as criminal waste to use so much
of it for fence stakes as we do in this
country. The eXhausting of the soil in
New England is already serious propo-
Sition. Hundreds of WORKOUT farms,
once worth millions of dollars, are ADAM
doned in New York state, though they
formerly produced the finest wheat in the
country. The cheapest and best way to
revive this unprOductive soil is to feed 1t
with heterogeneous fertilizer obtained from
the free air by an electrical process, al
ready employed in Sweden and other
European countries, where cheap electric
ity from water power is available. When
all the little streams are generating cheap
electricity the farmer will have an abund-
ance of the best fertilizer for the asking,
and there need be no more exhausted
land
The farms are crying for more help,
but greater still is the call from the rural
districts for more power!
With power-cheap. reliable poWer-the
farmer can run more labor-saving ma
chinery and do with fewer hired hands.
He can produce and harvest his crops
with less cost and greater profits.
If farm products are to be kept in
reach of the city workingman the farmer
must have more power and a cheap fer
tiliZer.
1t was the noisy cataract that an
swered when the world lifted up it's voice
for more mechanical energy to drive the
industrial wheels of the cities. Now it is
the whispering meadow brook which vol
unteers, in it's silvery, murmuring tones,
to do the hard work of the country dis
tricts, to enrich the soil and to take the
place of coal. The streams which for
ages sang in musical accompaniment to
the muses. of poesy now dance in me-
chanical rhythm to the enchanted pipe
of the fair goddess Electra" To the
ears Of the electrical engineer Tennyson' S
brook now sings:
Engines may come and engines may
go, but I give power forever
Water Power Cheapest.
And water power is the cheapest as
we'll as the most permanent source of
energy in the world.
Just as coal energy is the heat Of the
sun stored for our use. even so is water
! power heat energy stored in the streams,
awaiting a harness and bride to do the
work Of man. Every drop of water
sucked UP by the heat of the sun from
the seven seas and carried by the wind
borne clouds, to be deposited in the dis
tant mountains is just SO much stored
energy to be used in racing back to the
great oceans. Few and scattered are the
great waterfalls giving millions of horse
power, but the land is spider webbed with
countless streams, big and little, which
represent enough energy to do all the
| farm and industrial work in this country
many times over. and leave enough en-
! ergy to light every city and town and To
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-16

1t matters little what it is that you
want-wnether a situation or a servant-a
want ad. in The Star will reach the per-
son who can fill your need.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-16
Teeth Chatter.

From Puck.
The Gold Tooth-Say. you'll be pulled il
you keep on disturbing the peace.
The Troublesome Molar-Hooray! I'm
just aching to get out of here, you know
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-16
Taking Nitrogen From the Air.

AS the land loses its fertility and the
population OF the country increases it is
necessary to introduce more careful meth
DDS of farming. In number Of countries
in Europe land is so valuable and care
fully cultivated that an acre is made to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-16

the sum of $3.50, 600 was paid. which is an
average OF about SEAS per square foot.
Price Paid Conjecture.
What was paid for the 222,212 square
feet of the st. Matthews Church property
is not known. for the reason that thus
far 10 deeds have been passed and no
statement has been made by the interest
ed parties as TO the exact figures. At
the time it was given out that the south
ern organization intended to buy the
property it was said the consideration
was about 100000 which would be about
ST. square foot. But some Of the men
who are familiar with what was asked
for the church property are of the Opn-
ion the consideration was between $780,
600 and $4,000. or at the rate of about
SIS or $40 a square foot. OF course this is
merely conjecture.
But these facts or guesses al the facts
in the case of the transactions mentioned
are of interest as showing the relation
between the sale prices OF property or
rather what is obtained for property and
the assessed value. In the case of the
ground near the Union station the latest
assessment book shows that the official
value ranged from So to Y4.2o square
foot, while for the st. Matthews Church
property the same source shows a vaua-
ton of So square foot
Improving a G Street Corner.
Inc old building at the southwest corner
of 18th and G streets has been torn down
and deep excavation made for the foun
| dalton of substantial business structure
which has been designed by j. Stanley
| Simmons, architect, for De Mol & Co
/ The new building has been planned spe-
| cially for the uses intended, and the first
| story will show a broad eXpanse of win
| dow openings filled in with plate glass. so
! that the corner will present decidedly
| changed appearance
| The Improvement is in continuance of
what has been done and is still going on
! along G street and the intersecting streets
| in the way of adding to the facilities for
| business.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-16
WATER POWER RESOURCES
RIVERS MAY DO THE WORK OF
THE UNITED STATES.
Nearly Every Farm Has a Brook
That Could Be Utilized in
Making Electricity.

From the American Review Of Reviews.
A stream of mineral oil running over
the ground is quickly noticed and the
waste Immediately stopped. A coal mine
afire is apparent to all and everything is
done to eXtinguish it. But because es-
Gaping natural gas is invisible people do
not recognize and appreciate its intrinsic
value Water power may be neglected
but it cannot be totally wasted and ex-
hausted- for water power will always be
here so long as gravitation exists and the
sun shines. 1t does not hurt water power
to be utilized; after the water leaves the
turbines there is just as much of it as
there was before In developing water
power we are utilizing the force of grav-
ity-the greatest natural force-which is
pulling the water toward the center of
the earth. Water power is but the energy
of the falling weight
America Is still too large, too rich in
natural resources and too young to be
compelled to harness every small stream
at once; but experiments have already
been crystallized into practical applica-
tons. The farmers are busy today
Harvesting their small water powers, and,
as the necessity for electrical power in
creases, the small rivers, streams and
brooks will be made to turn countless
electrical generators to light the build
lnSS IurnlSn an abundance or neat and
drive the wheels Of every industry.
The development of the water power of
small streams is just beginning but the
movement is general all through this and
foreign countries. Nearly IS per cent of
the 5,737,372 farms in the United States
boast of small creek or two rioting
boisterously through the bushy glens and
rocky ravnes or singing and playing
through the daisy spangled meadows.
Nearly every one of these streams is
aYaila BILE for horSepOWer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-16
IMPROVEMENT OF THE
OLD SCHUETZEN PARK
One Hundred Buildings to Be Erected Growth
of District North of the City---Large Loans
Actions of the Past Week.
Price Paid a Conjecture.

the sum of S45OOO0 was paid. which is all
average OF about $2.2S per square foot
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-16
Beyond Brightwood.

Active building operations are in prog
ress at the northwest corner of Adams
Mill road and Lanier place for the erec
ton of large apartment. The building.
which will be seven stories in height. will
Overlook the plaza formed by the juncture
of the Adams Mill road and Calvert
street just west of Columbia road
Another large building OF this type is to
be built by Harry Wardman at the south
west corner of Connecticut avenue and
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-05-13
4 Thousand Pounds oI D,n1
mite I|url Twenty Men
to Death.
Blasts Expected 10 DisIodqc 10000
Tons Of Rock Are prcmalurcIy
Sci 0II-Bodies Badly
Muhlaied

Albany N. Y. May l3.a-At least
twenty men were Killed yesterday by
premature blasts Of dynamite in a
stone quarry operated by the Gala
nan Road Improvement company
near South Bethlehem, eleven miles
southwest of Albany Among the
dead are John Hoyt Callahan. vice
president and general manager of
the company, Charles u. Callahan,
a brother of the manager, and Leroy
Mcmillan. assistant superintendent.
One thousand pounds of dynamite
exploded and the bodies of the VIC
Tins were hurled hundreds Of feet
and 50 badly mutilated as to be al
most beyond recognition As dark
ness was falling, a wagon drew up
to the engine house loaded with bod
les that had been picked up back Of
the quarry hill.
The Callahan Road Improvement
company furnished crushed stone for
road building. The preparations for
yesterdays blasts had been going on
for six weeks. Thirteen holes seven
ty-fve feet deep, had been drilled at
points about twenty feet back OF the
face of the big quarry and the eX-
plosion of the dynamite with which
they were to be loaded, was expect
ed to displace 10000 tons OF rock.
over 5000 pounds OF dynamite were
to have been used, The workmen
had placed 500 charges in six of the
holes and were working on the sew
enth when a percussion cap was pre-
maturely discharged. A terrific eN-
plosion followed which hurled tons
of rock into the air and threw the
bodies in all directions,