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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-31
Homage to Drawn.
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.

fUm tHe fHIIaueIpHIa fuDIIC Ltuger.
The triumphs of the scholar the public
regards as individual: the prowess of the
athlete is popularity held to establish the
name and fame Of his college. OF course.
this is unreasonable. for the reputation OF
a university as an institution Of learning
should depend upon the liberal educa-
lion she gives to those within her gates.
But 1t is quite true that. despite the ex-
cellent reasons why it should not do so.
the public continues to pay homage to
Drawn rather, than brain, in SO far as
the undergraduate Is concerned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-31
Wood Alcohol Poisoned

recent report to the Navy Department
speaks Of thirteen cases of wood alcohol
poisoning among the crew of the U.S.S.
st. Louis. 1t appears that some of the
enlisted men obtained a can of rubber
cement used by the workmen of the yard
in laying linoleum, and precipta ing the
rubber from it drank the resulting clear
fluid. chiefly wood alcohol mixed with
milk and sugar. There were three deaths.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-31
Examination of Midshipmen.

The semi examination Of mid
shipmen at the Naval Academy has just
been completed. The report of the exami-
nation will be forwarded to the bureau of
navigation, as usual, in the case of those
midshipmen who are found deficient The
impression prevails that larger number
of deficients will be found this year than
has been the case in several years The
results Of the examination will probably
be known within the next two or three
weeks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-31

Mrs. Mary E. Merrill, Misses Annie P.
Goebel. Belle Paine Margaret Warren,
Hazel Dakin. Pauline Potter, Margaret
Potter. Marian viii, Margery Hadden,
May Frost, Annie Saunders and Prof.
Thomas +. Will. Prof. Frederic NJ. Noa,
DR.. Charles Holmes, Messrs H. A. Mar
mer George A. Warren, Lawrence VIII,
Leland p. Shidy, Ellis Wilson and l.
Victor Stone.
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Death of Lieut.. Alderman,

The Navy Department is informed that
Assistant Surgeon c. G. Alderman of the
navy uied at Lawn. Pa, yesterday. Lieut.
Alderman was from Indiana and entered
the Naval Medical Corps in July. 1D07.
since which time he was attached to The
naval medical school In this city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-31

The German Language League. of
which Arnold Werner-Spanhoofd is presi-
dent met last night at Carroll Institute
Hall. The special feature OF the program
was a comedy, "Blondine and Brunette"
by l.. Startz, produced under the direc-
ton of Miss Anita Schade, who repeated
her success of two years ago in the char
acter of Blondine. Miss Bertha Gericke
was also in the cast.
The nightingale Dancing Club gave a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-31
AS one grows
old the bowels

grow less active. Some
then take harsh cathartics,
and their bowels harden. Then
they multiply the dose. Some
take candy Cascarets. They act
in natural ways. and one tablet a
day is sufficient
Vest.peehet boz. 10 cents-at druf.storss.
People ssw sss .ilisa boxes .ssthly. 90
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-31

airy and musical program vas given:
Piano solo, Mrs. f. V. Carr; paper on
kipling. Mrs. Boynton; vocal solo, Col.
Ross; paper on Edgar Allan Zoe. Mrs.
Beaton; reading from Poe. Mrs. Trauty,
and a vocal solo by Mr.. Frear.-s
Brief remarks on tn, papers read were
made by Maj. Lawrence, Mr.. Hunter,
DR.. Mckee, Capt. Hart and others.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-31

Worlds Dpensay Medical Association, Pierce,
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The Young Peoples Union of the Peo-
pies Church met Friday evening at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. George j. He's
selman, 1856 Monroe street Mt. Pleasant
Miss Stella NJ Wilson was appointed
press agent for February
After the conclusion Of the business
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-31

An interesting meeting of the Capitol
Hill Literary Society was held at the
home of Mrs. Beaton, 103 Sd street
southeast. Monday evening. After a
short business session 1.-The following liter.
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George Craig Leidy Washington High
School boy now assistant superintendent
of the Pennsylvania Steel Co.'S coke oven
plant at Steelton. Pa. has been elected
president of the Central Pennsylvania
Club of Lehigh University
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-01

Big Berlin Philanthropy.
More than $4,000 children were en-
abled by the authorities Of Berlin to
spend this summer on land within
easy reach of the city limits. They
were assigned plots where they could
play and cultivate gardens profitably
with the help of their families and the
advice of public instructors.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-01

900 yards, valued at than $4o0 o000 0OO
If confront the ordinary ubant satistcian with
the cold analysis of abroad the reoinder
is apt to be that after ALL America for has
had Favorable balance of trade" In recent opt-
mistic review of Americas foreign it is set
forth with much eation that the of exports
imports in the past fiscal year amounted in value
$446,0O0000 But to get those figures had to count
in $4S2 100000 worth of cotton shipped abroad and
If we cross out raw cotton from the record foreign
commerce reveals export trade considerably less than
our import and unmanufactured cotton is sold abroad
through no enterprise the part of America but is
rather traffic resulting from neglect of opoor
unity there is nothing in the totals of foreign
traffic to warrant the compacency of statesmen
There time when Yankee packets carried
American wares around the world, but have aban-
doned ships and they have all but vanished
The federal hand has been busy building break
waters. scoopng harbors deepening waterways
Now cutting channel through the hemisphere.
Conscious of strength and in the presence bew
dering achievements at home, find it difficult to
realize that our dominion pauses at the shores of
The decline of merchant marine the days
of great achievements is the result of any de-
crease in national vgor The energy genius of
the American people have simply been withdrawn from
the We have expended ingenuity ard strength
and riches in exploiting the continent, least the
northern and western of it, with the that we
have developed between the two the most
successful industrial nation the world has known.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-01

Bits of skin of famous racehorses
of the past are very much priced by
superstitious jockeys, who would as
soon think of riding without saddle
as without this peculiar talisman. If
a bit of skin cannot be obtained the
jockey contents himself with a few
of the hairs out of a famous race
horses tail.
One well-known jockey was in the
habit-and so far as the writer is
aware he continues the habit to-day
of carrying a small prayer book in
his riding jacket. Quite a romantic
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-01

story is attached to this mascot 1t
was sent to the jockey by an old lady
who, requiring certain sum of money
to aid her daughter and not knowing
where to get it, had the idea of back
ing the horse ridden by this jockey.
She got a friend to make the bet,
and, the horse winning, she obtained
all the money she required. Two or
three days later the jockey received
the little prayer book, with note ex-
planning the circumstances and saying
it was the old lady's first and last bet.
She would never forget the jockey.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-01
JOCKEYS AND ODD MASCOTS

for sixpence and regard the animal
as an emblem of good luck. l have
christened it Arranmore, and it will
accompany me wherever l may be
riding"
Plant is by no means the only
jockey who is superstitious. AS a
matter of fact, most jockeys carry
talismans in one form or another.
These range from sbits Of straw and
horseskin, acquired in some curious
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-01

OF died, when I read about Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound; so I
began to take it, and am well again and
relieved of all my suffering."-Mrs.
GEORGE JoRDY, Box 40, Maflton, NJ.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, made from native roots and
herbs, contains no narcotics or HARM
ful drugs, and to- day holds the record
for the largest number Of actual cures
Of female diseases we know of, and
thousandsof Observation-Disclosures
on file in the Pinkham laboratory at
Lynn, Mass, from women who have
been cured from almost every form Of
female complaints, Inflammation, ul-
ceration, displacements fbroid tumors.
Irregularities, periodicpains, backache,
indigestion and nervous prostration.
Every suffering woman owes it to her
self to give Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound trial.
If you would like special advice
about your case write a c0nfden-
ttal letter to MEs. Pinlham, at
Lynn, Mass. Her advice is free,
and always helpful.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-01
manner, to teweled whips and dia'
mond pins presented by owners.

A certain Newmarket stable appren-
tice who has ridden several winners
this year never rides without holding
in his mouth piece of straw, about
three inches long, which he found
while in the stable one day on. the
back of the first horse he was asked
to ride IL a race. For some unac-
countab!e reason he regarded the
piece Of straw as en- omen of good
luck. more particularly after he won
that first race. ~. T..
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-01

and asked him to accept the prayer
book as an emblem of good luck.
And" said the jockey some time ago,
Il firmly believe it has been my good
talisman, for l have been wonderfully
successful since l received it."-Tit-
Bits.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-01
CAMEL CARAVAN .LOADED WITH
COTTON GOODS ENROOTE EOR T4E7


on popular in all industrial centers from Manchester
% Milan, and eastward to Japan. If did not have
a plank ahoat could sell cotton to the world
America is not serious competitor for trade
In all the annals of national pride and deuson there
has been greater folly than the present popular be-
lief in the United States that we have engineered
commercial invasion abroad The trading nations
have cotton and while upward of 100 tariff walls
fence them of in their rivalry they all fear America
and carefully put raw cotton on the free list
There has been notable increase in the bulk of
our foreign commerce. but we have merely kept pace
with the whole worlds advance. In fact it prog
in purchasing of foreign nations that has
made possible heavy exports of materials We
have been boastng of outborne that
our rivals far more than they did America. When we
cite the totals of foreign trade without exam
lining the nature of that traffic blind ourselves to
the magnificent field awaiting American enterprise
abroad.
The rivalry for foreign markets, the improvements
in the facilities for reaching them cottons marvel
contribution to merchandise have revoutionized
the worlds trade that the commerce of former GEN.
turies Is insignificant in comparison foreign traf
fc of of leading industrial nations to-day ex
ceeds in volume and value the total foreign trade of all
countries combined hundred years ago! The annual
external trade of diminutye country as the
Netherlands exceeds the bilondolar mark. And this
astounding increase in the trade nations creating yr
tuay earth, is due in large measure to the VOL
of cotton manufacture the worldwide sale of
cotton goods We fail to keep in mind that in that
world traffic America does not share We have been
boasting of mere bulk-boastng while we have been
sending to industrial Europe the supply without
which it could not compete with America for year.
Gladstone estimated that the wealth accumulated by
the nations during the first so of the nineteenth
century equaled all that had been up by mankind
in the preceding 1900 years. and that their multiplying
fortunes between 1850 and 1870 duplicated the record
of the foregoing fifty So that in 70 years the in
crease of the worlds wealth exceeded by per cent
the piedup of all lands in all preceding
centuries since the birth Of Christ And the accumula
tions since 1870 are literally beyond compute
Such world with its consuming power is the market
that conronts America the country
the commodity indispensable to the nations Thus far
we have neglected stewardship. During the last
fiscal year we sold to the old world only little over
$4000000 worth of finished cotton goods Our best GUS
toner in that part of the world the United King
dom, which bought from s539S4 WORTH But while
growing foolishly proud that, England was
selling worth of cotton goods spun of our
material The itemized columns, placed side by sde
reproach to resourcefu America. Here is the record
preserved by our bureau of statistics:
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-01
One Boy Carries Piebald Rat and An
other Prayer Book in Riding
Jacket.

II knew | should ride winner this
afternoon" said J. Plant, the we'll
known jockey, after he had steered
Arranmore, an outsider, first past the
Waning post in the race for the Great
To,i, Plate at Lincoln = few days ago.
Il !;ought Diebald rat this morning
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-01

such Is the inglorious story of our traffic
with our greatest European customer. And
england is adding to it's cotton spindles at
the rate of more than 100000 every 80 days!
IN the last IL months this increase in the
United Kingdom was 2,765,0o0. And every
new mill and every new spindle in England
IS erected with the confidence that the raw
cotton can be obtained from the American
planter at prices which beggar him.
King Cotton on a British Throne.
Cotton is the worlds king, but it sits on
British throne!
Last year we exported little over 2O0.-
100000 yards of piece goods, valued at s15,-
100000, but at the same time the United
Kingdom, was selling abroad more than
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-01
Age Of Trees.

The pine reaches a maximum age
of 700 years; the silver fir, 425; the
larch, 275; the red beech, 245; the as
pen, 210; the birch, 200; the ash, 1905
the elder. 145. and the elm, 13V.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-01

An analysis Of this trade 10 cotton goods reveals that
of exports more than f60O00O0 worth consists of
unbleached cloths. while 'df tur imports than
$22o0oo00 worth consists of fner tabrics including
broderes, laces and curtaius Altogether the figures
show that while exported in the 10 months ending
with October 1sos $220o0oO worth Of the output of
cotton mils the nations sold to almost 100
cent more than we sold to them. -
It is grotesque and almost unbelievable item in
the commerce Of this age that resourceful nation like
America the producer of tho worlds cotton should buy
back dollars worth of cotton goods for every dol
lars worth it ships abroad - =
When competitors buy from us eight or nine mil
lion bales of unmanufactured cotton it is mark of
their enterprise not of The greater part of
foreign is the result of suction abroad
of propulsion from America. The need of the nations
for cotton and they send their ships get it,
If we were aborignes raised cotton we could sell it.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-01
AFTER
SUFFERING
TEN YEARS
Cured by Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable COMPOUND

MARLToN, MI feel that L Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-01

gwen me new life.
/ suffered for ten
years with serious
female troubles, in
fammation, ulcer
alton, indigestion,
nervousness, and
could not sleep.
Doctors gave me
up, as they said my
tr r0ubles were
chronic. I was in
despair, and did not
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-01


S1gnihcanee ~ In the facts~thataAp allen
nations that never saw "a cotton sbH1e
have long since entered the Kingdom
of Cotton and now divide dominion
among themselves, excluding the
United states-the country; in which
the cotton is grown.
The reign of cotton is forever. AS
long as the race survives cotton
goods will be worn in multiplying
forms, but the countries that now sell
the finished products of cotton to the
world have no assurance of perma-
nence in that trade. Americas ulti-
mate control in the cotton world is
inevitable. Our manifest destiny as
world trader in cotton goods looms
as menace across the horizon of
European states. Americas future
IN this fabric has a awakened the
statesmen of all countries save our
own. The wealth and progress of
the United States are enduringly in
terwoven with the coming civilization
OF all cotton-consuming continents.
The home for the dynasty of cotton
is IN the land of Dixie, not in London
and Liverpool.
Knowing our latent power, we can
afford to look candidly at some .con-
temporary facts. They are not hat.
tering to our national pride. They
reveal world Of opportunity passed
by.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-01
| l)NV,

N ALL discussions regard
ing cotton two facts art
paramount; first, that cot.
ton controls the world p
and second that the ma:
t1ons that reap a prodigal
harvest from the sale OF
cotton goods depend upon
America for the raw sup
ply.
The American people.
haun haunn To raaliza tho.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-20
NIAR YnRK nnTrnnr.

New York, Jan. Is.--The cotton market was rather nervous and unsettled today with the close at a decline of S@b points. Sales were estimated at 250. 900 bales. 167. points, under realizing and local sell ing, althouh cables were better than ex- pected and there seemed to be nothing of q fresh bearish character in the general news.
 market of late was not in evidence howev- err and following some little early irregu- iarlty the marxe deVeoped declining tend ency. under further realizing by commission house longs and professional selling on the reaction theory. After showing net loss rally but the market weakened again. reaching the lowest point during the after noon, when the active months showed net loss of about ' 61O points. The close was "a little pp from the lowest on covering.
 It Is generally supposed that some of the recent large buyers peduced their lines somewhat during the day.
 Southern spot markets, as officially re- ported were generally unchanged to hc higher, and there was nothing in private re- ports to indicate weakening on the part of the interior holders.
 Further rumors were circulated. placing the probable amount of cotton ginned dur ing the period January 1-1e. below 100000 baies but local statistieians seem to ex- pect that the census figures on Saturday will show nearer 300, 900 bales or about 1&,- 500. 900 bales ginned to January Is.
 Receipts at the ports today 50.to0 bales against Ts.4T last week and 4o.sSs iast year. For the week 235. 900 bales, against 242, 100 last week and 2s2.7Or last year.
 Todayss receipts at New Orleans 1lo17. against Is,574 last year and ct Houston 5e12, against 9.009 last year.
 Etstst steady.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-20
NEAR-BEER REPORT
GRAND JURY REGENTS STATE
 CHEAusTss ANALYsrs.
The Report Was Reaa to che Grand Jary at Eelma Bnt Has Net
 .Fct neen snGaae

Selma. Jan. 1S.--(Spec1al )--rhe grand jury of the iCty Court of Selma this morning sreceiycd the analysis from State Chsinist smith of the sew eral bottles of near beer which was sent him last Tuesday to analyxe.
 It is understood that upon the res port from the State Chemist that the same was read to the grand jury by the foreman but 1t Is not thought that the near beer" question will be taken up by the jury until tomorrow morn Ing.
 In what terms the report of the State Chemist dealt with in the an- alysis of the bottles of near beer which was sent him, is not Known. No information regarding the report of the State Chemist would be given out today 1t being maintained that the re- port was a grand jury secret and that 1t could not be divulged until after that body had adjourned
 The report of the State Chemist on his analysis of the near beer" will rpobably be made public inc the final report which will be made by the grand jury. It Is expected today that the grand jury will make it's final re- port about noon tomorrow and ad- journ. There has been much specula- tion today as to what the report of the State Chemist was and it's public re- port is being anxiously awaited.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-20

but one of the eighteen pension agen- >cies throughout tho country. The bill. which carries a total appropriation of S160.s69 .0O0 was passed practically as reported by the Cornmittee on Appro- priations. A plan to pay pensioners quarterly was defeated.
 The urgent deficiency bill. which car ries appropriations amounting to $t,- 02s,4 was passed after roll call and several votes had been called for an amendment offered by Representative Henin (Ala-), providing for an appro priation of sSs0.000 for further dis tribution of seeds by the Department of Agriculture.
 Representative Toss of Illinois. chair man of the House Committee of Naval Affairs, brought up the naval appro- priation bill, which probably will oc- cupy the attention of the House for a day or two. The bill carries an appro. priation of $133,662.SSST
 A message from the President, rec. ommending an appropriation of S20.000 for commission to investigate the conditions in the Republic of Liberia, Africa, was read.
 At 5:1S the House adjourned.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-20
THE STOCK MARKET

New York. Jan. 1s--The stock mar ket today fell into neglect so pro- found as to resemble stagnation. The professional traders on the floor Of the market to themselves and their ef- forts to move prices met with SO lit tie success that they practically aban- doned them and left the market in its
 sad of sa sessio 'sass TSe ss position of the market was called kooJ in that the floating supply of stocks seemed to be small and conn
 n snyRs m yaee oTsers This fact. however. seemed to offer small encouragement to the pursuit of any extensive operations There were exceptions in some stocks. particular ly in the class of small railroad sys- tems. Conjuncture continued busy. with the possible disposition of this system in the process of lconsol olidations indicated by the cases Of the Colorado and Southern and the Wisconsin Gen. pointed to as protected link in the Hartman system by traffic agreement. The C. and O. was indicated as en- gagged in consolidating its own system by purchase of 2. controlled link and was favorably affected. The supposi- ton that E. H. Hartman Is to assume closer relations to the New York Gen. trai continues strong in speculative quartsrs1y and that element looks for developments in that direction at to- rporrow's meeting of directors Some strengthening influence. of a more sen- timentAl< character was due to reports of an intended move among the insur- tion of the law calling for the sale of stock-heiders in the series of these companies. within q stated period. This possible liquidation has hung over the market ,t for two years pss. with ,s,, de- road stocks one Influence of depres- sion especially in foreign markets is the attitude of waiting on Russian ,oa ssa issue in Paris Paris on Friday. The The slightly today and sterling exchange advanced sharply there with a cores bonding relaxation in the private dis count rate in London.
 gold here for shipment to South Ameri- ca. but none fsfors any trans-A Atlantic
 That London will draw some gold in pcctation. A steadyfng effect on the. local money market Is Beginning, to be apparent but the high premium under which New York exchange rules at Chicago Indicates ready response York for placing funds. Chicago banks are reporteds to be seeking bonds as an alternative ito. the slight opposi- tions in the loan marlxet. ,.
 Issuance of corporation bonds to bankers make the dTstinctive feature or the present situation. A further yielda' ing in the price of copper metal here and in London was not followed by the copper ndustriaIs which were inclined to rally The various fluctuations left end of the day.
 Bonis were steady. Total sales par value Ss. 66es0e0. ..se ,-..l Y
 United States 4's coupon declined T. is per cent on calL sas 54 gsi1- :. ' i, CLOSING STOCK LIST.