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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-14
TO STOP CHOKING ATTACKS
Spells Wsrded Off Completely by New
Discovery.

The awful choking sensation. familiar to
asthma sufferers. when the patient Is awakened
In the night and Is hardly able to breathe, Will
no longer be feared or dreaded when 1t is known
that the famous specific. ascatco, will prevent
1t II used when the sufferer feels the paroxysn
coming on.
This Is one Of the best evidences OF the won
derful properties OF ascatco positive cure
for asthma in all its forms. The disease may
be entirely eliminated from the system in -four
or fve weeks by the use OF ascatco. no matter
how long the patient has had the disease
On account OF the large demand for ascatco
from sufferers in Washington. the Austrian lab
oratory has decided to have Ogram's and O'Don
nells drug stores carry a supply of the prepa
ration I'm two sizes-the ffty-cent size for mild
cases and for the prevention of night attacks,
and the 81 size. containing enough for a month";
treatment. in which time a cure will result.
The Austrian laboratory. 50 West 25th st.
New York city. will send free experimental
treatment 10 all who write for It,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-14
When They Jeered at Folks With
Boards.

Special Cablegram to The Star.
LONDON, February 13.-The modern
custom of growing a beard appears to
have had a religious origin. The late
George Jacob Holyoake remembered the
tive when only four men In Birmingham
had the courage to wear boards. They
were followers of Joanna Southcott- They
did it in imitation Of the apostles and were
jeered at In the streets by ignorant Chris
tians' George Friedrich Muntz." adds
Mr.. Holyoake, lone of the two first mem.
bers elected In Birmingham. was the first
member who ventured to wear a beard in
the house Of commons. and he would have
been insulted had not he been powerful
man and carried a heavy cane which he
was known to apply to any one who Of
fered him a personal affront.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-14
MUsURGIA CLUBS CONCERT.
Attractive Program Prepared 70
Next Thursday Evening.

The Mursurgia Club OF Washington
under the able leadership Of Edgar Priest.
its musical director. will give the second
concert OF the season In the New Masonic
Auditorium, next Thursday. when a
splendid program Of solos and part songs
will be rendered. The club is singularly
favored by having Mrs. Thomas C. Noy es
as the soloist Of the evening and she
will be heard in two groups Of songs.
In part one of the program, 1.-The
Desert" symphonic ode by Felicien
David. will be rendered by the club and
Minister'S full orchestra. The beautiful
tenor solos in this work will be sung by
Joseph F. Matthew and the oral descrip,
tive parts will be read by Edwin Callow
The Musurgia Club has in the short
space Of two years become favorably
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-14

Wednesday. Mrs. Harris said tonight a4
her home that the chauffeur did every.
thing in his power to prevent the acci-
dent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-14
MANY TEMPT FORTUNE.
Gambling an Absorbing Passion in
st. Petersburg.
Special Cablegram to The Star.

Special Cablegram TO The Star.
ST. PETERSBURG. February 13.-
Gambling has become such an absorbing
passion in ST. Petersburg-even ladies ne
glecting all other occupations in order to
tempt fortune-that the police have been
compelled to take action. women 8
gambling den in one of the chief streets
was recently closed. and today a raid was
made at the great railway terminus.
known as the Warsaw station, whence
the express trains leave for abroad.
A detective officer, Col. Ladkovski. dis
covered a gambling club in the station.
It is alleged that the club was kept by a
police inspector named Tsheikokon and
by a railway cashier named Vassilieff.
who were arrested
1t is stated that wealthy passengers
awaiting the departure or arrival of trains
were invited to play and even 'feeced
of their railway tickets, which the cash
Ter. it is alleged. resold. The police seized
81, 600 found in the club.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-14
Many Students Sentenced.

Special Cablegram to The Star.
BOMBAY. February Efficiently three
journalists were sentenced at Kolhapur
for preaching the doctrine that killing
the British Is no murder. Later three
students were found guilty at Kolhapur
Of stealing chemicals in order to manufac-
tuFe bombs for the purpose Of murder
and were sentenced to four years rigor-
Gus Imprisonment each. Another batch
of eight students Is under trial for dis
tributing bomb recipes and melting peo-
Die to murder.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-14
New German Airship a Wonder.
Special Cablegram to The Star.

BERLIN. February 13.-The latest
availa BILE details Of the new German air
ship Zeppelin IL, which will be launched
in March. state that the total length of
the vessel Is 446 feet, the diameter AZ
feet inches and the cubic contents about
1000 feet of hydrogen. There are sew
enteen balloonists. of which sixteen are
of India rubber treated cotton. and the
seventeenth is OF goldbeaters' skin, and is
supplied by a well known firm Of Eng
lish aeronauts. The two Daimler motors
weigh 7 cwt. 1851 pounds and produce
together about 200 horse power. The two
aluminium cars form cabins for the cap
tain, hammocks being provided for the
men. The cars are furnished underneath
with soft tenders In order to lessen tho
shock of landing on the hard ground.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-14
Stop

taking liquid physic or big or little
pills, that which makes you worse
instead of curing. Cathartics don't
cure-they irritate and weaken the
bowels. CASCARETS make the
bowels strong, tone the muscles 80
they crawl and work-when they
do this they are healthy, producing
right results. ~
cAScARErS Toe Q box for q weeks
treatment All druggists. DigEea seller
In the world. Nittjoa bo1e0 q 0Oath,
Times-promoter., 1909-07-08
Mills for Making Syrup.

The fact has developed during an ex-
perience of several years with the manu-
facture and marketing of Mississippi
sugar cane syrup that it will be neces-
sary to make more uniform article
than is possible with the horse mills
and Cook evaporators, if it becomes the
important money crop that it should.
The Importance of this has been fully
shown in former articles, and does not
need reiteration at this time. The peor
pie are fast realizing the Importance of
putting up good article and are seek
ing information concerning larger plants
to. be operated by power. Several were
built last year, and it appears that
number win be erected and placed in
operation for the crop this fall.
The Mississippi Department of Agri-
culture is in receipt of number Of let
ters recently from individuals and COM
panies asking for information concern
ing the plants best suited to our needs,
the cost, etc. The prices and descrip-
tions given herewith are taken from
tables complied last year from cata-
logues and letters furnished by the man.
ufacturers upon application of the Com
Times-promoter., 1909-07-08

missioner. 1t is supposed that the dis
| counts are about the same for this year
The figures given are from the catalogue
of the Blymer Iron Works Company, OF
Cincinnati, O., and do not radically differ
from those of other manufacturers. This
concern is chosen because it is one of the
Oldest and best known in the United
States, many of the readers of this arti-
Gle having fed their Kentucky" horse
mills while boys or drove the mules
when older members of the family did
the feeding. There are many other good
manufacturers, and the prospective
buyer is urged to get prices from a num-
Der before buying.
The following letter from M. Green,
Corresponding Secretary of D'Lo Local
Union No. 1894, is published and the
queries answered for the benefit of those
who desire similar information:
eve desire some information ON the
sugar cane syrup question, and submit
few questions below, which we hope
you can ADVISE us on:
81. What will a complete manufac-
turing outfit, with capacity of so to rs
acres for the season, cost? Please give
name and address of manufacturer.
"2. What is the price of cans
quarts, half-gallon and gallon sizes-in
10000 lots? Give name and address of
manufacturer.
"3. What is the average yield per
acre on average good land with one ton
of cottonseed meal as fertilizer?
"a. What is the average price OBJ
tanned in barrels and in cans, t. 0. b? I
IS. Can we secure quick and ready
sales?
"Any other information you may be
able to give will be greatly appreciated.
Give us number Of government bulletins
on culture, etc. We will possibly ship
several hundred gallons this season.
In the first place, good strong mill
for grinding cane is desired. A mill
with plenty of capacity gets from 10 to
20 per cent. more juice from the cane
than does the ordinary horse mill, and
those in q position to know assert that
this last 20. percent. of juice is more
valuable than an equal amount which
can beehad with small mill, from the
fact thatsft is richer in saccharine mat
ter and produces more syrup to the gal
Ion. Then, too, the mill should be Of
sufficient capacity to supply the evapo-
srator without waiting. Better to have
tile mill wait on the evaporator than
vice versa.
The mill will be dealt with first, TAX
ing. as the standard for small plants the
one listed as Colon in catalogue. In
the first column will be found the mum.
ber by which designated; in the second,
horse power required to operate; third,
capacity in gallons Of syrup fort t#elve
Times-promoter., 1909-07-08

than those described, these only being in
tended to give an idea of the cost of a
small plant. In addition to the mill and
evaporators here shown, an engine and
| boiler would also be necessary. The peo-
| pie are too well acquainted with the
prices of these to require attention here.
1t is well to bear in mind, though, that
boiler should be of sufficient capacity
to not only run engine, but to steam the
evaporator as well. The "B" evaporator
requires 8-horse power boiler, the "C'
1O-horse power and the "D' IL. If a
plant with capacity of 400 gallons in
twelve hours was being purchased, it
would require a No. mill, which uses
4-horse power, and ID" evaporation,
which requires 12; 4-horse power en-
gine and 16-horse power boiler would be
necessary to run the plant. 1t is well
to be liberal in supplying such capacity,
and buy both engine and boiler with
something to spare besides necessary re-
quirements.
There was discount of Is per cent
on evaporators last year, and will likely
be the same this.
AS to the size mill required for crop
of fifty acres, there is difference Of
opinion. While the capacities of plants
as shown above are for twelve hours
only, many operate them continuously
and get twice the output. With plant
Of 300 gallons capacity in twelve hours,
and averaging the fifty acres Of cane at
300 gallons per acre, it would require
fifty working days to make it up; but
by working continuously it would, Of
course, take only half that long. Each
community must determine this matter
for itself
Cans can be had at prices varying
with the season. They can be bought
cheaper in the spring than in the fall.
4 dealers price before the writer is as
follows: For 3-pound can, quart, per
hundred, April delivery, $1.7O; May,
$1.S2k June, $1.75; remainder of sea-
son, $1.771. In ten thousand lots, s
cents per hundred less Half-gallon and
gallons cost little less per gallon than
quarts. This for solder top cans. Eric.
tion tops cost little more and are all
right for home use or for the local mar
ket, but are not safe for shipping. The
rough handling on railroad springs a
slight leak, allowing air to enter and
syrup ferments. The outfit for solder
ing costs from $3.50 up, and is easily
learned. Caps with the solder already
on can be had at about s1.0O per thou
sand, and are easiest handled. Nicely
printed p labels, II a So3qkHsd sost sl.oo Tor
500, $3.50 f4RBEd I 900 and md less as the
quantity aineYfiasses
edEhe writerohas, always urged the use
Of full-weight cans for our syrup, three
pound for quarts, six for halves and
Times-promoter., 1909-07-08

twelve for gallons, but TO meet competi-
ton a great many shorts are being usedI
two and one-half for quarts, five for
halves and ten for gallons. These cans
cost little less than the prices quoted
above. The Department OF Agriculture
has been furnishing a small semi-offcial
label to those who would guarantee their
syrup and make it good if spoiled free
of cost, hoping to assist in establishing
market, but the meager appropriation
for support of the department viii pre-.
vent this again.
The approximate average for the
state, under any and all conditions, is
between 800 and $50 gallons per acre.
With the liberal use of fertilizer, as sug-
gested by Mr.. Green, it would be much
larger. AS much as $50 gallons have
been made from an acre. Stable manure
cannot be used, as it is readily detected
in the syrup. Cottonseed meal is con-
sidered the best fertilizer.
The price that it will bring in barrels
in large quantities is from rs to 80
cents per gallon except where local
market offers more. The mixers will,
not give more. In cans it brings from.
so to so cents per gallon +. o. b. cars.
The cost of cans, labels, ETC., is approx.
imately 10 cents per gallon. price Of
so cents will net the grower about 40 for
the syrup made up.
The market for canned syrup is not a
ready one, by any means. While the
syrup can be had in barrels at less
price during the winter and spring, there
is, of course, little demand for the
higher-priced article. When the weather
gets hot and it cannot be handled in
barrels, then comes the market for the
canned goods.
The people are cautioned against GO
ing into the growing of cane on too large
scale, but to plant some and develop
as the market grows. The Mississippi
Department of Agriculture has given a
great deal of time and attention to the
developing Of this market, and regrets
that more funds for such purpose are
not available. The work will be prose-
cuted in the future, as in the past, as
the facilities at hand will permit. There
is great deal yet to be done and too
few to do it. The assistance of every
person interested in the future welfare
of the state is desired and expected.
+ 81 -ua&# i L
Times-promoter., 1909-07-08

hours, and the last column, price. This
price was subject to discount of IS
per cent. last year, and viii likely be
the same this.
Times-promoter., 1909-07-08

The eyaporators are OF the steam
train type, having coils of pipe running
through them, supplied with steam from
the boiler that also runs the engine. No
fire Is used under the evaporator and the
danger Of scorching or burning is elimi-
mated. A uniform grade of syrup can
be easily made with proper care and at
tention. In the table shown. the fxst
column gives number as shown in cata-
logue,; the second column, capacity in
gallons of syrup for twelve hours; the
third, price for galvanized iron lining,
and the last for copper lining.
No. Capacity. Price. Price.
B...... 200 $4,000 $225,oo
C......... 800 10000 10000
d. 400 $4,000 $4,000
Outfits Of larger capacity are made
Times-promoter., 1909-07-08
Plant Hay and Food Crops.

Plant Hay and Food Crops.
Four weeks ago the department OF
agriculture, through its official means OF
communication with the people, gave
summary of crop conditions in Missis-
sippi that might have been termed rath-
er gloomy, and that was the only way
in which it could be sensibly viewed.
Three weeks of incessant- -and, in many.
localities, enormous-ra had fallen,
and the crops wererin an especially bad
condition. This was followed BY few
days of good weather, and then cama
the rain again, not in such quantities
as before, but local showers that scarcely
missed q section Of the state, which con.
dition prevails at the time this is writ
ten.
Crops are small today for the season
of the year where worked out and gem
orally grassy. A considerable portion
of the cotton has not been worked, and
will not be, having been necessarily aban-
doned. Some of the older corn has been
lost for lack of work, becoming hard
and round and beyond the stage where
it can recover and even make half a
crop. We are in pretty bad shape, and
no amount Of persistent work can or will
make good the losses sustained; then it
behooves our people to do that which
is next best. Mr.. r. L. Murdock, of Car
roll county, gives some pertinent advice
along this line, which is here reproduced:
"You ask me if could suggest any
thing that would probably be of benefit
and interest for the general good of the
country. | think / can. We are having
one of the most disastrous years in the
history of the country for growing crops.
Rain, rain, and more rain. Crops are
choked up in the grass, and if we had
dry weather from now on there would
be no possibility of making and harvest,
ing full crop. What want to say is
this: 1t seems that the day Of cheap
foodstuff for both man and beast has
gone by, never to return again, and that
you would be doing the country a serv-
ice to warn our people Of the impending
danger that threatens, and urge the peo-
pie, through the excellent means at your
command, to begin at once, the prepara-
tion for sowing q bumper crop Of fall
oats and the gathering of all hay possi-
bic. Also the putting up and caring for
food crops for themselves. Give the
alarm and sound note of warning.
It should not be necessary to add any
thing to the suggestion made by Mr..
Murdock. The matters he proposes
should be taken care of every year, and
more especially this If our regular
money crops are not up to the standard,
more Is the reason that every precaution
should be taken against the necessity Of
buying the following year. Mississip-
plans have always handled such propo-
sitions in d sensible manner, and it is
safe to predict that this will not be an
exception.
The proposition to hold an educational
exhibit on the subject of consumption IN
Jackson during the state fair this fall
was endorsed by the State Medical Asso-
citation at their regular meeting. It is
to have no connection with the fair
whatever, will be in building outside
the grounds, and will be absolutely free
to all
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31
OUR BIGGEST SHIP LAUNCHED
Il Fifth Of All Big Gun Type Yes
sci Launched.

neutrality-suspicious. to have no
equal aloat as a first-class fighting ma
chine, the battleship Utah, the greatest
warship ever built in the United States,
was launched from the yard of the New
York Shipbuilding Company at Camden,
N. j., Thursday, in the presence of sew
eral thousand persons who crowded the
docks and every vantage point in the
vicinity of the yard.
AS the big hull started to leave the
thickly creased ways, Miss Mary Alice
Spry of Salt Lake City, daughter of the
governor of Utah, raised her arm, and
with a swift, hard swing, broke a gaily
b~eribboned bottle of champagne against
the keel of the great ship and spoke the
words that gave the vessel a name.
The Utah is the fifth of the all-big-
gun type of battleship for the United
States navy to be launched. When com
pleted she will be more powerful than
the Delaware aud North Dakota of the
Dreadnaught class. The Utah has a
length on the load water line of SO feet,
or 521R feet over all, and a beam of 8S
feet 2 inches. Her trial draft will be
1872 feet; displacement, 21,825 tons, or
1000 tons greater than the Delaware
and North Dakota, and her speed is eX-
pected to develop 2OA knots or more an
hour.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31
DROP IN OIL EXPORTS
SHOW DECREASE FROM $1,000
600 TO ONLY $40, 263.
Oil Exporters Are Alarmed; Start
Movement to Renew Reciprocity
Treaty, Expired.

Observation-Disclosures by a drop of q
million dollars to $26,263 in mineral oil
exports to France in q month, American
oil exporters have begun a movement
to induce congress to renew with the
French government the reciprocity
treaty which expired on Oct. 81 last.
Exporters also hope for the renewal of
the treaty with Spain, also large i'm
Porters of American oil, which will Ox-
pire on Aug. 81, 1910.
Notwithstanding the abrogation of the
reciprocity treaty with France, the re-
ports to the bureau for November, the
first month under the new order of
things, show larger totals in both i'm
ports and exports than in the CORE
spending month of last year. Raw cot
ton, which is imported into France free
of duty and hence is not affected by
tariff changes, is largely responsible for
the increase of exports, while art works
twenty years old and over are admitted
free under the new law. Diamonds and
hides were responsible for the increased
imports. The falling off in the imports
of champagne from France, due to the
increased tariff, was most marked, de-
Ginning from s5s4,674 in November,
1908, to SIS, O62 in November, 1909.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31
COOKS FLIGHT
IN DISGUISE, HE WENT TO
EUROPE UNDER AN ALIAS.
Changed His Clothes When He
Was Making His Escape.

New York-Just how DIR. Frederick A.
Cook, the discredited pole finder, fed
from New York in disguise, took an as
rope was made public Sunday by
Charles Wake, formerly a staunch Cook
supporter.
Just before he started north for the
pole he asked me to accompany him."
said Mr.. Wake, "but 1 was unable to go.
The next l heard of him was when he
cabled from Greenland on his way south
that he had reached the earth's top.
II met him on his arrival in New
touch with him until he went to the
Hotel Gramatan, where he thought he
could work undisturbed on his data for
Copenhagen. Later he asked me to see
him about a plot to deprive him of his
records. He had received various let
ters, he said, and believed that his enc
mics might even take his life to get pos
session of his adta.
81 also received similar letters,
threatening death to DIR. Cook. What
also made me share in the apprehen-
d. ACoo III IL SOON dA40 1IO WIG a
the knowledge that large sums of money
were spent to shadow him and myself.
His telephone leaked and so did mine.
cat last the doctor became so fearful
of harm that at his request 1 spent
every night at the Hotel Gramatan from
Nov. 10 up to the time he left. He was
unable to get any sleep, and became a
nervous wreck. Meantime he grew more
taciturn. I could get hardly a word out
of him.
"It was finally arranged that Mr..
Lonsdale, DR.. Cooks secretary, should
sail for Copenhagen with a typewriter
copy of the records and that the doctor
and his wife, with the originals, should
sail for Genoa under assumed names on
the Cedric, leaving Nov. 81. Lonsdale
was to meet DIR. and Mrs. Cook at Stet-
tin, Germany.
"'They left the Gramatan the after
noon of Nov. "a, and by q circuitous
route reached the Pennsylvania station,
Jersey City. On the way the doctor had
his moustache shaved off and exchanged
his derby for a SLOUGH hat"
"The next heard from DR.. Cook was a
letter from Toronto, received on Nov.
81 by his wife. He asked her to meet
him in Europe. In it he said, My wife
ter On Dec. 4 Mrs. Cook sailed for
Europe with the original records. On
Dec. 10 1 received a cablegram from DR..
Cook from Lisbon, Portugal. 1 have
no idea where the doctor is now"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31
TO KILL MOTHER
Would-Be Murderer Is Barricaded in
House and Heavily Armed.

Memphis, Tenn.-Heavily barricadei
in a little house on Fay avenue, armed
with a heavy shotgun and a pistol, and
swearing that he will kill the first man
who attempted to take him, James Frank
lin Roach, the young man who attempted
to kill his mother, Mrs. Sallie E. Miller,
is hemmed in by a posse of officers, who
slowly but surely are drawing the lines
of their dragnet closer about the man,
who, from present Indications, will never
be taken alive.
Goaded to desperation by the thought
that he had killed his mother, and igno-
rant of the fact that physicians have
strong hopes of saving her life, Roach
is a desperate At
Frenzied with rage because his mother
had upbraided him for an alleged theft,
Roach, who is 20 years old, walked into
the rear room of his mothers little dwell
ing, and without a word of warning sent
a bullet crashing into her head. With
a groan she staggered to her feet, and
then, after tottering several steps,
pitched forward on the floor