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of the point where it was so photograph
ed,
INQUIRY HELD IN SECRET.
Explorers Club Committee 1nvesti-
eating DR.. Cooks Claims.

gazing 1t. looks CI01u1S.
NEW YORK, October 14.-Future
meetings and the work of the special
committee appointed by the Explorers
Club to investigate the claim of DR..
Frederick A. Cook that he climbed Mount
Mckinley in 1905 will be in secret. An
thony Fiala, the arctic explorer, who is
member of the committee, said the
members of the committee had decided
not to make public their deliberations I'M
til the investigation was completed.
THE committee considers that 1t
would be unfair to those interested on
either side of the controversy to say
anything about it until the whole mat
ter has been gone over" said Mr.. FiaIa.
THE investigation has been instituted at
the request of DR.. Cook himself, and
anything that has appeared in regard to
the deliberations in evidence before the
sourcesEfrom persons who probably are
anxious to have only one side or the
matter aired
One Of those who will probably go be-
fore the committee is Dennis Donahue
superintendent of copper mine in
Alaska who is now visiting here. In a talk
with a member of the Explorers Club
yesterday, Mr.. Donahue said that he
spent all of last summer In the vicinity
Of Mount Mckinley and talked with ma
Iit0o CUuCeIIlIB LII SOOA . ASPoAt CASoI
he had reached the top of the peak.
''They told me that Dr. Cook did not
accomplish the feat" said Mr.. Donahue.
There is a mountain 5000 feet high to
the southeast Of Mount Mckinley which
would have had to be crossed before DR..
Cook could have reached Mount Mckin-
ley by. following the course he says he
took. I tried getting to Mount Mckinley
that way and could not accomplish 1t.
1.-The natives declare that no one ever
did it. To climb the peak from that side
it would be necessary to go up a wall that
is more than LOCO feet htgh-right up the
mountain side, with nothing to hang to-.
There are also glaciers in the way, and
they are impossible. .
''There are plenty OF men in the region
of Mount Mckinley who will tell you that
DIR. Cook could never have got to the
summit by the route he describes. They
know all that goes on, and they do not
err when they say that DIR. Cook failed
to climb to the top Of Mount Mckinley
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Coroner Decides Case as Suicide.

Coroner hewitt concluded his investiga-
ton today In the case Of Theodore Baer,
the young man who was found dead in
his room at No. 223 North Capitol street
yesterday. and gave a certificate showing
the man had inhaled the Illuminating gas
with suicidal intent. Before concluding
his investigation of the death Coroner
Nevftt called upon Inspector Boardman,
and the latter had Detective Harry War
rem visit the North Capitol street house
to see II he could ascertain anything
to Indicate foul play.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-14

three men named. They told him to
plunge into pool of water in the wash
room, and when he refused to do so and
pu- up a fight he was badly handled.
Deeck is said to have two ribs fractured
and to be hurt otherwise.
Director Ralph said today that he
thought the dismissals would put stop to
the hazing practice, which had been go
ing on for some time in ar.quiet sort Of
way. The victims have heretofore made
no fight and escaped serious injury
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Whitney Declines to Talk;
MAY Testify at Inquiry

NEW HAVEN, October 14.-Harry
Whitney, who saw both Peary and Cook
in the north, has declined to make any
comment on Commander Peary's formal
in regard to DR.. Cooks claims
He said he intended to take no further
part in the controversy.
While he would not admit the truth of
the report, it is said that he is willing to
testify before the National Geographic
Society in case that body investigates the
matter.
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Star Office Visitors.

The following visitors have registered at
The Star office: ?;
Mr.. and Mrs. C. E. Herbst, Brooklyn,
N. Y.
Mr.. and Mrs. William b. Nation, Miss
Alice Dolan and Mr.. and Mrs. w. T. Mil
ler Sioux City, Iowa.
Mr.. and Mrs. p. J. Coogan, Newark
N. J..
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Stands to Reason

One why the little classified in The Star
cesu is that everybody knows they're offering good values and
chance for good advantage People who expect get
orbant price, high profit their offerings don't advertise
The Star Fair profit for the seller good value for the buyer
square deal and quick sale the wachwors the market
place you can't won't offer fair DEAL
keep of the market place Whether want to sell your
services skill and time whether you to find boarders for
your empty whether you selling goods property
anything you'll find quick deal and square DEAL by adj
vertsing your among the other live busy entepsng of
ers The Star classified columns Isn't better to deal quickly
and at fair price other and lot
of valuable time trouble get exorbtant price? Scores
and hundreds people have the better adj
vantage the Mmnimaker way.
Dear Mr. Munnimaker, The Star Classified Col
Through little Munnimaker Classified AID in
The Star made quick sale of my typewriter
Yours truly, A WRITER.
Write Mr. Munninaker, of The Star or phone him.
AGO. whenever you want anything
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The Weaver-knowlton Stone Company,
which recently was Incorporated with
500. 600 capital stock will equip and OPP
crate stone quarries near Morgantown,
~. Va.
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Built No Snow House.

Of DR.. Cooks book above mentioned is
entirely false, as we never built snow
house on the trip. although the diary, as
dictated by the doctor says so; nor did
we shake hands or have any other similar
ceremonies as stated in the diary.
1.-THE drawing opposite page 200 of the
Doctors book is also false. We never
climbed anything half as steep as there
shown and we never established any
camp nor slept as there shown. We slept
every night upon comparatively level
spots.
1.-The photograph opposite page 226 in
the doctors book. entitled In the Silent
Glory and Snowy Wonder Of the Upper
World Is 400 Feet was taken two or
three hours before the taking of my pic
ture with the flag was taken in the am
)phitheater about one mile northeasterly
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-14

MONEY LOANED SALARIED PEOPLE
without security; easy payments: Offices In IS
principal cities: save yourself money by getting
my terms first. D. II. TOLMAN. Room sos,
533 18th st. se29- tf,6
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MONEY LOANED sALARIED PEOPLE AND
others upon their own notes. without security, In
Guiding women keeping house; easiest terms; con.
ddentfal Knowing ones who have dealt elsewhere
especially invited. My proposition will please.
II. ELWOOD. RIM. 416. Jenifer bldg, 7th & D.
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Write Mr. Munninaker of The Star or phone him.
ago. whenever you want anything
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With Cook Every Day.

'T was with DR.. Cook continuously
every day during the time which he was
trying to ascend the mountain in the
year 1906, and the nearest point to the
summit of Mount Mckinley which we
reached was at least fourteen miles dis
tant from the summit of that mountain.
and at no time did we reach an elevation
In excess of 10000 feet, and the doctor
told me when we were at the place where
my picture was taken that we were not
over 5000 feet high. I neglected to state
that on the 10th of September. and on the
evening Of September 8. DR.. Cook asked
me IL l was willing to stay with him. i
said yes when he said. I will see you
get 500 extra for doing So
1.-The photograph opposite page I'll In
Dr Cooks book above mentioned and
described therein as 1.-The Eastern Cliffs
Of Mount Mckinley are not such cliffs
but are a part Of the eastern slope Of the
eighth peak Of the peaks above men
toned and drawn by me in my diary at
tached hereto.
1.-The photograph opposite page 1872 in
DR.. Cooks book was taken the evening
of the same day that he took me with the
flag at what he claims as the top of
Mount Mckinley and was taken at Camp
6. shown on attached exhibits &C. and
"D." The camp in this picture Is noted
therein to be at 5000 feet. This being so
the point where my picture was taken
with the flag should not exceed 1000 feet
as the 5,OOO-foot camp was established
from six to eight hours after my picture
waS so taken.
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what Innuences Men.


Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait. presi-
dent of the Equal Suffrage Union,
does not in any way suit the descrip-
ton usually fitted by chivalrous men
to woman suffragists. Far from being
plain-visaged, badly-gowned, rather
pugilistic person, Mrs. Gait is alto
gether charming, a delightfully."- wom-
anly woman and quite interested as to
the style and beauty of her dresses
and hats. Nothing in the world so in
censes Mrs. Gait as for person or
a newspaper to mix her personality
with her propaganda.
Zone of the most brilliant writer's
on woman suffrage" she remarked
not long ago, ELLIS Meredith, Of Den
yer, has this to say about certain
phase of enfranchised women, and
wish all men who discuss the subject
would treat 1t as a tract. 1t Is says
this caustic chronicler. a singular
fact that men seem unable to consid-
er the abstract question of voting
quite apart from its personal bearings.
For instance, a well-knewn Denver
writer laments that since the disas-
trous year OF 1898 he has seen upon
the streets of Denver the sad faces of
unloved woman. Both before and
since that time the sad faces Of I'M
loved and unlovable men have not been
absent from our thoroughfares. but
who ever thought of such thing as
DISTINGUISHING a man in order that he
might be rendered attractive? So
crates would never have received even
honorable mention in beauty show.
Yet this sort of thing is accepted Sc
riously, and men are Influenced, not
by arguments, but by the personality
Of the one who represents them when
1t is a matter Of woman's enfranchiSe-
mcnt' Yet | question if judge ever
thinks whether the pleader before him
is good to look on or the opposite, or
whether his collar is clean, and his
face showing the effects of morning
soap. 1t is his brief which counts
That is all women ask, that their brief
be given respectful and diligent medi-
tation"
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isn't always conspicuous Cor beauty,
this clever girl; she is often rather
plain than otherwise, but when it hap
pens, as it frequently does, that she
combines beauty with cleverness, she
has pretty nearly everything her own
way. She is ever well-poised and never
appears extensively learned nor boldly
aggressive. Neither is she retiringly
shy. She lets her cleverness be re-
spected rather than known, and at the
apropos moment she shines forth like
brilliant light In the household
she may seem rather like a Gagged
bird, but when the right man appears
on the stage of life. her huttering
ceases. and with the steadying int1u-
ence of real love the clever girl is
transformed into the clever wife and
mother. and because her home affairs
run smoothly her husband IS satisfied,
devoted and proud, and her children
rise ND to call her blessed among wom-
en-. May the clever girl never grow
less.
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en- employed in this city as clerks,
bookkeepers, cashiers, stenographers.
filing clerks, saleswomen, etc.-the fol-
lowing seems to be true:
They generally begin at )$7 or IS
Per week.
1t generally takes about three
years to advance to $40 or $12 per
week.
1t generality takes five or six years
more to advance to SIS per week.
Not more than 10 per cent ever go
beyond SIS per week.
Advance in wages is very rare after
ten years service, except with the 20
per cent who develop peculiarly strong
characteristics and are advanced to adj
ministrative positions.
1t must be remembered that this COW
ers only employees who can properly be
classed as 1.-THE best" Others begin at
So, 81 and s. a week, and rarely rise
above 81 or IS a week.
1t seems also true that the younger
women and the better-equipped women
crowd out the older women, as appears
from the fact that except among "the
best few remain after 80 or 80 years,
and even among ''the best few remain
after 40 or Is years.
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muttered. discontenredly ~Lncl.y them
coast guards didn't see me como ashore
If they did. though it wouldn't signify !:
for what's floating on the sea belongs to
him as finds it,
sound startled him as he spoke, and
looking round suspiciously. he saw Matt
entering the room, loaded with broken
wood. But she was not alone STANDING
behind her in the shadow was a man
none other. indeed. than Monk, of Monks
hurst
While Matt entered the room to throw
down her load of wood. Monk stood in the
doorway. His quick eye had noted the
movements of father and son.
More plumber. William Jones?" he
asked. grimly.
In a moment Within Jones was trans
formed. The keen expression of his face
changed to one of mingled stupidity and
sadness; he began to whine.
More plumber. Mr.. Monk" he said
No. no; the days for finding that is gone.
Matt and me has been on the shore forag
ing for a bit O. firewood--that be ALL
Put it down, Matt; put it down."
Matt did as she was told opening her
arms, she threw her load into a corner
of the room; then William Jones hurried
the whole party back into the kitchen.
ITO be continued.)
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READING IN BED.
This Dear Delight Is Said to Be
Bad for Us.

This Dear Delight Is Said to Be
Bad for Us.
One of the simplest delights that OF
reading in beds denounced by a med
zeal journal.
OF course. our doctors must find
something at which to tilt. They can
never leave us alone for long, and,
after all. we go on doing very much
as we like and continue TO live quite
as long as we ought. But it is appall-
ing to think of the amount of pleasure
all sorts and conditions of folk would
lose If they took to heart the solemn
warning uttered in respect of reading
in bed. Is there ever time when a
story more closely holds ones atten-
ton. when one more completely un-
derstands a difficult passage, when a
poem reveals its beauties more clearly,
than when all is quiet. and, with the
whole body comfortably relaxed, you
give yourself up completely to your
book?
If II is in the dead vast and middle
of the night you experience a kind OF
satisfaction Mt cheating Morpheus; if
il is in the morning you have the ex-
ouisite knowledge that you are playing
the slugyard when you ought 20 be up
and doing. II you are well 1t is
sweet form of idleness: II you are III
ii is a welcome diversion for the mind.
BUTTS awful TO think of parting
with health and beauty in consequence.
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Matt
A TALE
OF A CARAVAN
By
Robert Buchanan
CHAPTER 1v.-tContinued.,

CHAPTER lN.-tCOntinued.)
A short plump. thickset man, with
round, weather-beaten face, which would
have been good-humored but for its ex-
preston of extreme watchfulness and
greed. The eyes were blue, but very
small and keen, the forehead low and
narrow; the hair coarse and sandy; the
beard coarser and sander still. He might
have been about fifty years of age His
dress was curious, consisting of a yellow
sou'wester. pair of seaman's coarse can
vas trousers, and blue pilot jacket. or
namented with brass buttons which bore
the insignia of naval service
Presently, without turning his eyes
again from the far distance, the man
spoke in a husky, far-away whisper:
Matt, do you see summat out yonder?"
Matt strained her gaze through the
dazzling sunlight, but failed to discern
any object on the light expanse of water.
Look We now" continued the man
''it may be drifting weed or it may be
wreck; but it's summat. Look again"
Something black, William Jones?"
eyes. Coming and going. Now it
comes, and it's black; now it goes, and
the water looks white where il was. If
1t isn't wreck, it's weed if it amt weed
it's wreck. And the tides flowing. and
it'll go ashore afore night at the Caidron
Point. if | wait for it. But / sha'
wait" he added. eagerly. I'm go and
overhaul it now"
He locked round suspicious, and then
said
Matt. did you see any of them coast
guard chaps as you come aIongY"
No, William Jones'
Thought not. They're up Pencross
way, fooling about; so there's a chance
for an honest man to look arter his liv-
ing without no questioning. You come
along with me, and if it is summat, I'll
gle thee tuppence some O. these fine days"
As he turned to go, his eye fell for the
first time on her attire.
What's this, Matt? What are you
doing in your Sunday clothes?"
The girl was at a loss how to reply.
She blushed scarlet and hung down her
head. Fortunately for her, the man was
too absorbed in his main object of thought
10 catechise her further He only shook
his fat head in severe disapprobation, and
led the way down to a small creek in the
rocks, where a rough coble was rocking
secured by a rusty chain.
Jump in and take the paddles. I'll sit
astarn and keep watch"
The girl obeyed and leaped in; but be-
fore sitting down she tucked up her dress
to her knees to avoid the dirty water in
the bottom of the boat William Jones
followed, and pushed off with his hands
Calm as the water was, there was a heavy
shoreward swell, on which they were i'm
mediately uplifted with some danger of
being swept back on the rocks; but Matt
handled the paddles like one to the man
ner born, and the boat shot out swiftly
on the shining sea.
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Triffes to Know.

That persons who do not wish to
lose their books, mark their name not
on the title page Only, but on a GER
tain fixed page in a book as well.
That what is known as steel wool
is an excellent cleaner for sinks,
kitchen utensils, wood floors and for
rubbing down paint.
That shiny clothing will look much
better if the shiny spot is rubbed light
ly with fine sand paper and then
pressed on the wrong side.
That in starting hem on the ma
chine, the needle will be less apt to
clog if a piece of paper is placed I'M
der the needle and sewed through for
about two inches before going on to
the hem. The paper is later pulled
away.
That kerosene is an excellent polish
er for rubbing UP furniture. 1t may
be applied with a soft, wooden rag,
rubbed In well and later dried off with
q clean piece of flannel.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-02-16
MEMS DRESS UP CLOTHES.

Ihe Most Ceremonial Were Once
Worn for Every Day.
Men change the style OF their dress
slowly. their tendency being TO develop
the useful and convenient. says the
Queen. The present state dress,
whether 1t be the robes of church or
law. or civic dignitaries, is very largely
the survival OF what was once the
everyday fashion for men.
The tendency is not entirely to do
away with a mode of dress that has
become inconvenient for ordinary occa
sions. but to give it sort Of superla-
tive or best clothes place.
The usual dress for a football match
formerly was frock coat and a high
hat, and high hats are always seen in
engravings of ancient cricket matches.
The competitors also in the Oxford and
Cambridge boat race used to row in
high hats In early Victoria. days
every one who was any one wore
frock coat on quite ordinary occasions,
and west end cheese mongers wore
high hats behind the counter.
Utility has now said that The frock
coat is too cumbersome for knockabout
wear. For all that, the frock coats
star is in the ascendant. The twentieth
century Bachelors book says that "cor-
rect dress for weddings, receptions. af-
ternoon calls and matinees is frock
coat and high hat; the same applies to
Sundays" Evidently the frock coat Is
being promoted TO strictly best wear,
but, although no gentleman can dis
pense with 1t, 1t Is worn far less than
it used to be.
And although the frock coat is so
sacred a garment, yet for certain wear
it Is not good enough. There are oc-
casions when the swallowtail coat is
more esteemed still.
The swallowtail coat has not only an
older origin than the frock coat, but
more utilitarian one. for it is sur
vival of the everyday coat worn by
men in the time of the Georges, and it
is certainly less in the way than
frock for general use.
Thus it comes to pass that in one
day a man often wears the fashions of
three periods, and the more of state
there Is in the occasion the further he
looks back to find the appropriate
dress. He goes TO his Office in the
morning wearing a morning or perhaps
a lounge coat, he makes a call on
lady during the afternoon properly at
tired in his nineteenth century frock
coat When he goes out to dinner he
dons his eighteenth century evening
clothes. and if he were attending
levee his knee breeches and silk stock
ings would be very reminiscent of the
everyday dress of gentlemen of the
Stuart Period.
The wig, which is now associated en-
tirely with legal state dress, was in
Stuart times the ordinary wear of gem
tlemnn. Gradually changes came, and
the Wig became less and less worn.
until .t was reserved entirely for judges,
barristers and other legal dignitaries.
Mayoral robes have their origin in
the ordinary styles worn in Tudor days.
Ecclesiastical 1obes have certainly a
more ancient history than. any other
ceremonial dress, yet even these may
be traced back to the usual dress worn
in the very early centuries.
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The Clever Girl.

The Clever Girl.
It's rather hard on the girl who
is clever to feel that she is regarded
'Dy the majority of men-the sort CT
men IN whose hearts turks the old
Fashioned idea that Al woman is some
thing of household chat ELS some
thing that should be seen and not
heard Perhaps, however, writes Kar!
Kramer, 1t is just because she is clev.
er that she can rise above this mascu-
line prejudice and keep right on in her
own way. 1t takes a clever women
to live down mans prejudice Then.
TOO, poor little girl, she can't help be-
ing clever, and, on the whole, the clever
girl Is one Of the best In the entire
category of the fair sex
She's never tiresome, always enter
tanning and companionable, and makes
the best kind of friend to fellow
Her cleverness helps him over bad
places and her advice is always good
She's the girl that appeals, first to
mans brain and intellect, and then.
If he is real man, to his heart, which
she holds, even against himself. She
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-02-16

1t is an excellent plan to battle the
eyes with the lids wide open. To do
this bright silver coin should be
tossed into a bowl of clear, cold water.
1t will, of course, sink to the bottom,
and when the face is plunged into the
water the eyes should be firmly hSed
upon the glittering silver bit. Then
let the eyes be kept open and the head
gently moved from side to side. The
men and women who will persist in
this daily bath will soon find that
their eyes are brighter and stronger
and it will preserve the sight beyond
what IS supposed to be its allotted time.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-02-16

A primary requisite in keeping the
teeth clean is suitable brush. adapted
to the fern and position of the teeth.
For babies the very best brush that
can be made is piece of soft linen
wrapped around mothers finger and
dipped into glass of water. When
the gums are infiamed it is soothing
snd comforting. For children small
soft brush should be used up to about
the tenth year, then the sitter brush
substituted. Many complaints incident
to childhood could be readily averted
BY mothers teaching them the import
ance of the daily care Of the teeth
and mouth