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Evening star., 1909-06-05
WIN TWO GAMES EACH.
DR.. Lasker and Janowski Divide
Chess Contest Purse.

NEW YORK, June 5.-Chess enthusiasts
in New York have received cable advices
from Paris saying that the series of
four games at Paris between DR.. Emanuel
Lasker. the worlds chess champion. and
D. Janowski, the leading French expert,
resulted in each winning two games and
in the division of the purse of 900
francs.
After the champion had scored the first
game and lost the second Janowski won
the third after forty-nine moves. thereby
assuming the lead with a score of two
points to one. In the fourth game, how
ever, the champion gained a Slight advan-
tage and played classical ending, win
ming after forty moves.
Evening star., 1909-06-05
Sues City Traction for $4,000.

Sylvester Lamb, who gives his occupa-
tion as carpenter and piano player,
filed suit today to srecover $4,000 dam
ages from the Washington Railway and
Electric Company for an alleged injury
to his left arm and hand. which has and
will continue. he declares, to prevent his
following his vocations. He says that
when about to board a car on 9th street
near E street northwest September 26
last. the starting of the car threw him
against the rear dashboard Of the front
car. On account OF the alleged neglect of
the company to protect the opening in
the middle OF the dashboard. he says, he
fell through 1t and under the trailer and
sustained the injury.
Evening star., 1909-06-05
6. v. U. COMMENCEMENT PLANS
MEETING OF THE BOARD OF
TRUSTEES LAST EVENING.
Commissioner Macfarland Reelected
President-Baccala Ser
mon Tomorrow.

At a meeting of the board of trustees
Of the George Washington University
held last night Commissioner Henry B. F.
Macfarland was reelected president c.
w. Holmes was made treasurer and H. c.
Davis secretary.
Details Of the program for the COM
mencement ceremonies have been ar
ranged. The commencement day process
sion will be formed in front of the uni
versity building at 9:3O am. June 9, and
the awarding of the diplomas is to take
place. Graduates in pharmacy, politics,
diplomacy, law and Jurisprudence, den
tistry. medicine. engineering, education,
architecture arts and science and candi-
dates for higher degrees will form in
that order at the head of the procession.
The faculty will form in reverse order
OF academic seniority, followed by trus-
tees, official guests and the president of
the university.
Graduates in Procession.
The graduate section of the procession
will form in column of twos on the south
side Of II street. between 14th and 18th
streets. facing west. The faculty will
form in the library and the trustees and
official guests in the presidents office.
Arriving at the Belasco Theater. the
procession will halt The two files will
face inward The president. guests, trus-
tees. faculties and graduates will pass
between the files, reversing the order of
procession.
The class president of each graduating
class will assemble his class on the south
side Of H street between 14th and 18th
streets at 9:3O o'clock
For the baccalaureate sermon the
fC fo0 ~,
candidates for degrees will assemble
at the university at 3:3O o'clock tomor-
row afternoon, and will march to the
New York Avenue Presbyterian Church.
The president. trustees. guests and
faculty will form I'm the library, the
candidates for degrees forming on the
south side of II street, facing west. IN
reverse order of the commencement
morning formation.
The faculties of the law and medical
departments of the university met last
night to pass upon the final examina
tions. which closed yesterday. and to
arrange for the degrees of law and
medicine to be issued to the gradual
ing class.
Evening star., 1909-06-05
KENTUCKY SCHOOL SCANDAL.
Two Negro Women Held for Alleged
Sale of Examination Papers.

FRANKFORT, KY, June 5.-Accordine
to evidence collected by State Superin-
tendent of Public instruction ]. j. Crabb
an organization with probable headquar-
cers at Louisville exists for the sale OF
answers to the examination questions for
colored teachers for the colored schools
of the state.
Two negro women found in possession
of the examination papers have been ar
rested.
4 negress who could not read or write
was enabled to pass with an average of
So per cent at recent examination.
Evening star., 1909-06-05
Illuminated Address for Angel.

ANN ARBOR. Mich, June 5.-Solid
cast st-silver covers inclose illuminated
address given to President James b. An
gell of the University of Michigan.
former United States minister to China
and Turkey. last night as a token of
the respect and affection of the members
of the university senate, which comprises
the combined university faculties.
The address is engrosed on parchment
handsomely illuminated and bound in
leather and attached TO it are the sigma
lures of the members of the faculties.
Evening star., 1909-06-05
Parker Lodge at Church Service.

1t is the custom of Myron NJ. Parker
Lodge. No. q, F. A. A. NJ, to attend
divine service specially arranged for its
members once in each year. The men,
bers will meet in their lodgeroom at Z
O'Clock tomorrow evening and proceed in
body to Douglas Memorial NJ. E.
Church. corner 11th and H streets north
east, where the recently appointed pastor,
Rev. DIR. w. W. Barnes, will deliver a
sermon.
Evening star., 1909-06-05
Click Convicted at Wilmington. Del.

Information has been received at the
civil service commission of the convic-
tion at Wilmington. Del. Of U. G. Click,
charged with soliciting and collecting DO
litical contributions in federal buildings
Click was fined 500 In each of eight
cases. The case against Click was start
ed by the civil service commission. which
unearthed the violations OF law while In
vestigating another matter.
Evening star., 1909-06-05
Beautiful Lingerie
For june Brides.

6S1 IS we'll known import all French Underwear
)4 irec-pesonay select choosing such refined styles
Q1 adapted the of those OF customers who
: regularly purchase this dainty lingerie.
Particular following French
Cemse Drawers and Petticoa made OF fine na1nsoo
trimmed in the refined and effective
They represent most excellent values.
eek ant short kr
with hand enrdeea & Special price, EACH
rbbon Drawers, of Frenchna tdmme
each with hwider dem
f-'
Tne f1encn n nnsoek Special price, 75c
Special prices s. and ST. oeach
chems of fine French nanook Special price, $225 pair
dembr ed n d
trimmed
Third sr EetenS qiIo ~ Special price, S175 each
Evening star., 1909-06-05
LaVettes | and Outfits
For Infants.

~ HERE increasing recognition by discriminating
that ready-towear outfits for babies lack nothing
~ Of the dantness and w1nsome qualities which were tor
Evening star., 1909-06-05
Dwellings to Be Built.

In connection with the construc-
ton of the road comes the announce
ment that the Federal Realty Company of
this city which has acquired in the neigh
borhood of three hundred thousand dol
lars worth of ground along the line of
the railroad, and the Keystone Realty
Company of Pennsylvania will start the
Evening star., 1909-06-05

n,+e+ NJ Consists of three
D Bands. three Shirts,
three Gowns. three Flannel Skirts, two
White Skirts, three Dresses. two pairs
Bootees and two dozen Diapers.
Fl pieces for $1,000.
With each outfit.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1909-04-24
JOB PRINTING At
THE RECORD OFFICE

The RECORD office Is the best
pace In southern Nevada to get Job
pruning done. Neat work and moder
ate prices.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1909-04-24

violation of this act, and to proceed
to prosecute such district attorney
for smisdemeanor in office as afore-
said,
Evening star., 1909-04-25
Washington IN Spring Is Poets Dream Realized

these. clad in snowy beauty. look like
brides. and when the sun shines on their
petals 1t turns them all to silver.
Over in Rock Greek Park. the dogwood.
the red bud and the locust burst into
prodigal splendor, and huge splotches of
blackberry blossoms appear, looking for
all the world as If they had been splash
ed down by some gigantic whitewash
brush. Everything is glowing and blow
ing and bonny. and over all is a warm
tender sky. as blue as the Madonna's
robe.
The days grow in loveliness and charm
as they advance: as a German writer
puts it, Like a chain Of pearls. increas-
ing in beauty and preciousness as the
chain lengthens.' until In June 1T an
eliminates in a grand burst of co'or, tie
street a cool green cloistered aisle, form
ed by the branches Of the trees over
head
On Dupont Circle is wistaria vine that
people should make piigrlmages 10, !.
so extremely beautiful. 1t compieteiy
covers two large gray, green houses. ana
the effect Of those thousands OF grace
full purple clusters against that pack
ground is indeed exquisite. o;o,,s Wnusous
planted that vine was an unconscious
benefa ctor to numbers of his felloW-meh,
for scores Of people regard 1t with actuai
affection, and eagerly watch FOR lts nios-
Soming every year , -,
Another interesting wistaria Is the one
covering the side Of the old house Wnere
Edgar Allan Poe lived when IN Wasning.
ton. 1t was spring when the poet was
here and he must have seen the vine II.
bloom. One hopes that the sight OF US
loyeliness may have given some smai
measure of happiness to the poor, Tor
tured harassed genius. who was such
passionate lover Of beauty in every 1ofnl.,
over i'm the Capitol grounds group OF
English hawthorn trees tries its naruest
TO show what an English hawthorn tree
should he. The result is not exactly sue
cessful, for only a few fugitive blossoms
reward its efforts. The gardeners say
tho climate is uncongenial-too dry anu
not foggy enough, I dare say.
No one who has ever seen an Ehgilsn
lane bordered by hawthorn hedges IN
bloom can ever :; forget the charming
sight. The hawthorn, or may" as 1t is
called like the primrose. is entwined In
the affections OF all English people. It's
charms have been celebrated in song ana
story. 1t forms the subject OF many
poems and the great French composer,
Charles Gounod once said. that the mose
beautiful words. in his estimation, 70
which he had composed music were the
words of the song beginning "Oh that We
two were maying: -,
The japanese weeping cherry Tree OH
Connecticut avenue is a vision OF AIRY
grace, and seems in itself the incarna'loh
Evening star., 1909-04-25

The quartz holds only about the sixth
Of grain 'of radium bromide, but it
costs $500.
There are thirteen tunnels under the
Thames.
The United States ranks third in the
production Of barley.
Laughter is considered undignified and
effeminate in Persia.
Figures show that the coffee habit is on
the increase in the United States
scientific writer In the London Graphic
has the following to say about cancer:
There is no reason whatever for believing
that cancer is hereditary. Moreover. so
far as the continued observation of those
Evening star., 1909-04-25
A cLuMP OF B1ooDRooT IN BLOOM.
100000

with endless weather observations on the
busses. in the BARRIERS chair. in the Office
and at ones restaurant. 1t is the al
most invariable way of opening CONVEX
sauon. But in the past few days Lon
doners have outdone themselves in this
respect. The coming German invasion,
thu budget, the maintenance of the two
power standard and even the result Of
the oxford and Cambridge boat race have
all had To take back seats in ones list of
topics of conversation. Usually the tone
is one of pleasant anticipation, and the
question, when is the rain going to
stop?' Now the tone is one or moody
pessimism and the question. THE sun
shine surely cant last much longer?'
AS sample of what is to be expected
in London at this time of the year take
the dreary month of March, out Of which
Evening star., 1909-04-25

ticular portion of the globe had enjoyed
$4,000 square miles Oe sunshine. Just
how these figures were arrived at 1t is
hard to say. but the telegraph lines from
all over the country have been busy re-
cording the surprising absence of fog.
mist and smoke
Londoners will probably tell their grand
children in years to come OF the hrst
week in April. 1909. for it is SAID that
during that time the city had sixty hours
of sunshine. Just what that means To the
inha bitants will be realized when II is
said that the corresponding week of last
year was considered exceptionally fine
when We saw the sun for only thirty
hours. In 1907 twenty hours was the
record.
The weather is always the chief topic
OF conversation in England. One meets
Evening star., 1909-04-25

who are devoting their lives to the study
of cancer has yet gone. there is hardly
any such thing, and probably there is no
such thing as hereditary predisposition
to cancer. Weak lungs may run In fam
lilies. and, therefore, consumption may
seize the. weak-lunged children of weak
lunged parents, SO that 1t almost seems
as if a tendency to phthisis might be in
directly inherited. But there is no such
inheritance of cancer. The predisposition
to cancer is acquired during an individu-
ais lifetime. In DIR. Rashford's words.
Cancer is a foe to all men, and the
liability to it being in all probability ac-
quired may ultimately be found to be
avoidable." No diet causes cancer: no
community or race enjoys immunity
FROM cancer. 1t attacks vegetarians as
frequently as meat-eaters: 1t is common
Evening star., 1909-04-25

The verita BILE heralds of the spring are
the little crocuses in the White House
grounds. They are the first of all the
flowers to bloom. Early in March thes
poke their jaunty little faces through 'iie
brown soil and beam out upon frlenois
world They are followed by the daHo-
dis that charming flower which Is SO
suggestive of the purity and innocence
of youth.
Then great masses of yellow forsythia
appear in spiotches and splashes tndl
seem like imprisoned sunshine. In rev
days the bay trees, white, PINK anu
mauve, burst as though BY magic INTO
great fragrant bouquets, and soon tne
grounds under the trees In the Whi'e
House eIlipse are blue with wild V1oiets.
After this comes few blustery winds
and warm rains. and then perfect rush
and shower of blossoms wreathlng the
city in color and flooding the air with
perfume. All the stony heroes IN the
public squares are surrounded by masses
of cheerful velvety pansies and brlght
geraniums All the little squares and
circles, that make Washington SO delight
full, are clothed In bloom. making Verita.
Bile oases' of beauty In the desert OF
brick and stone. Great trees VIII
branches sweeping the grass are wreath
ed in blossoms in tenderest green, and
masses of lilac. that dearest and most
lovable of all spring flowers. make de-
HclOuS DlurS ana snuuSes VI idNeHuei
and mauve. Brave little dandellOns gem
the shadowy grass, and soon the slopes
of the monument grounds are covered
with perfect battalions Of buttercups.
straight. slim and independent, and SO
immaculsteiy clean that they look like
a lot of wholesome children fresh from
an afternoon bath.
On the outskirts of the city the fruit
trees become great drifts of white or
pale pink glory. the most exquisite Of all
being the white plum trees. A group of
Evening star., 1909-04-25

to races which eat rice as their staple
food: 1t is found among people who live
the simplest and healthiest possible lives.
There is an agitation on both sides of
the Atlantic ocean for reduced cable
rate, and in this connection Vice Presf-
dent Ward of the Commercial Cable Com
pany maintains that a lower rate than
the present one Is. impossible because OF
the short International business hours.
The great bulk Of the cable business
takes place in about three hours each
day. during which period the working
day OF England and America overlap.
The experiment OF a lower schedule was
tried and found impractical.
Seventy thousand Americans emigrated
to Canada in 1906.
Evening star., 1909-04-25

sure in the knowledge that they will not
be disappointed The bride paths lead up
and away from the main-traveled road
ways and pass through untouched thick
cts of laurel and rhododendron. Under
the shade of mammoth forest trees where
the wild grapevines hang in knotted. looped
and massive luxuriance. the purling rip
pling flow of Rock creek Is ever present.
Now ii spreads into wide. placid pools.
Here IL tumbes in masses of froth and
spume over and around the giant boul-
ders that strew its bed 1t tinkles and
sings across the gravelly bars and shall
lows and is ever and always enticingly
lovely. The wide, smooth stretches of bou-
levard hug close beside the banks of the
creek, or climb beneath the overreaching
trees to the heights that cuddle between
them and the winding valley. These are
some of the features that make our
Evening star., 1909-04-25

Rock Creek Park one of the loveliest rec
creation spots to be found in all the
length and breadth of the United States.
Go into Rock Creek Park on any sunny
afternoon in early spring, when the trees
are beginning to show their gownings
of shimmery, misty green: climb the
side of hill where you may bask in
the sunshine and look up or down the
valley, and you don't feel like an inter-
loper. The birds are singing all around
you-carriages and autos spin up and
down in endless procession along the
faultless roadways. riders are seeking out
the bride paths under the trees every
where and the whole scene has honey
air: one feels If here one belongs
Evening star., 1909-04-25
ENGLAND MEASURES AND
COUNTS ITS SUNSHINE
1QDCOOOOOOC

Special Correspondence Of The Star
LONDON. April IL, 1909.
IN London, the land of fog. smoke,
dirt and SCOT. sunshine is SO rare
! and so valuable that it Is counted.
weighed and measured. The results of
this scientific treatment are served up to
the waiting people in the newspapers
from time to time.
For instance. few days ago after
three days of acquaintance with the suns
rays-a rare phenomenon in this city-one
- the papers announced that this par
Evening star., 1909-04-25

In these warm. sunshiny days Of early
spring those who are discouraged or de-
spondent, those who think they have in
durable sorrows, those worn with the
routine of making ends meet, those suf-
fering from any or all of the 'slings and
arrows of outrageous fortune should go
out to the woods for few hours AT least.
They would find that there is no grief so
biting. no sorrow so wearing. no worry so
grinding, that 1t will not be soothed and
somewhat relieved by contact with ma
ture. Hers is wonderfully gentle and
healing touch. A few hours in the si-
lence of the woods will sometimes change
ones entire perspective.
Search out some sweet. secluded spot
lay your head on the warm. brown. throb-
bing breast of the dear old earth. Look
up into the immensely of the turquoise
dome overhead. Around you is the teem-
ing life of millions and millions of grow
ing things, growing for apparently no
reason, living for apparently no purpose.
but each doing its infinitesimal best to
follow the promptings of the great force
within.
Playful little breezes will touch your
face caressingy. like the kind hands OF
some dear friend; friendly little ants and
bugs wander inquisitvely over your fin
gers: perhaps a bee, heavy with its load
of sweetness. will become entangled in
your hair. Do not frighten him by
Evening star., 1909-04-25
PROGRESS OF THE DAY.

A foreign firm OF medical and scientific
intrument makers is supplying small tubes
of radium bromide for internal therapeu-
tic work. AS a portion Of the emanations
is absorbed by glass the radium bromide
is inclosed in very small dome. about
a quarter OF an inch in height by three
sixteenths of an inch In diameter, made
Of quartz. The tube is Theoretically sealed
to rod and can be introduced into an
incision or into the interior Of the body.
Evening star., 1909-04-25

pools at the base of lichen-hecked rocks,
1t is the picture of a mountain trout
stream.
Visitors to the park Easter Sunday wit
messed a forest fire on small scale. Fire
got on the hillsides east of the creek
above the ford, and cracked away at a
merry rate for several hours. Dead leaves
fallen logs and broken branches fed the
Evening star., 1909-04-25
FRErT1NG OVER ITS ROCKY BED.

If you haven't visited Rock Creek Park
this spring do so on the very next sun
shiny afternoon. You'll find it more beau
riful than 1t was when you were there last
summer; you'll find ii satisfyingly love-
ly In its new spring tinery as any park
the country over. and every time you visit
ii you'll find new beauties or old beauties
renewed and enhanced.
Evening star., 1909-04-25

fire. which, before it finally went out, de-
stroyed much of the young growth and
green things in the way of the flames
Laurel and rhododendron th'ckets were
scorched over a considerable area. and the
hillside. during the next summer or two,
will show the scars of the blaze. which
was probably caused by some boys care
lesSneSS.
Evening star., 1909-04-25
A S IiINGTONIANS

A S HINGTONIANS
are blessed above
the residents Of
most other cities in
h a ling wi t hin
walking distance a
park such as al
most none of the
other large cities
of the country pos
sess. Rock Creek
Park. with its set
ting of untouched d
Evening star., 1909-04-25

DedUty, apprOaCnT11R
places close to actual scenic grandeur. is
a park to be proud ola place to which
one may take visitors from anywhere,
Evening star., 1909-04-25

PRING in Wash
ington is the re-
alization of a
poets dream. The
loveliness of the
panorama which
unfolds at the COM
ing OF what Ten
nyson calls 1.-The
boy hood of the
year" partakes of
the glamour ana
mystery OF en-
cllantment.
Evening star., 1909-04-25

Game he spring with all its splendor
All its birds and all its blossoms,
All its flowers and leaves and grasses.
-Hiawatha.
Evening star., 1909-04-25
MAGNOLIA TREE IN FRANKLIN SQUARE

of spring. II is very effectively placed
on this thoroughfare, and its beauty daily
gladdens the sight of the many WHO so
to and fro i'm the Mount Pleasant cars.
The old women who have stands on
the outside of Center market now appear
with awkward and clumsy punches of
old fashioned ffoWerS-Sweet william wild
Evening star., 1909-04-25

pansies and charming little bluets. These
country blooms somehow seem fresher
and more innocent than those grown in
town. less sophisticated and self-con-
scious. as 1t were.
In natures scheme Of decoration the
dogwood plays a leading part. 1t is so
brilliantly white and its branches are SO
Evening star., 1909-04-25

graceful that il is very effective. The
red bud. however seems too heavy In
color TO blend with the spring tints OF
the surrounding vegetation.
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