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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-30
LIGHTHOUSE TENDER TO GO.
Violet, Used by President Cleveland,
to Be Sold Under Hammer.

The lighthouse service steamer Violet,
which has been in service as one Of the
tenders on Chesapeake bay and in the
Carolina sounds, has outlived her days of
usefulness as a lighthouse service craft.
and is to be sold at public auction to the
highest bidder. The sale will take place
at the Portsmouth, Va, station of the
lighthouse service November 10. and it is
quite probable that she will be bought
and fitted out for commercial service
The steamer was built at Eliz1bethport,
n j., In 1864 and was named the Martha
Washington. Toward the end of the civil
war she was purchased by the quarter
masters department of the army and was
used in the transport service. She re-
NAMED upon the army rolls until 1879.
when she was transferred to the light
house department.. and has since that
time been actively employed In lighthouse
work. In the years gone by during the
administration of President Cleveland,
when the President was not provided
with two fine yachts, manned by naval
officers and sailors. the Violet was often
used by him for cunning trips to the
North Carolina sounds. While Mr.. Cleve-
land was aboard the vessel she performed
the regular lighthouse duties and he paid
all bills made necessary by his presence
aboard the steamer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-30
THE NAMES OF THINGS.
How Persons Have Given Identified.
ton to Familiar Articles.

From T. P.s Weekly.
Nernier, who invented the system Of
measurement which bears his name, died
In 1881; this word has therefore, consid-
cradle antiquity. The guillotine was
named after French physician. J. Gull
lotin, who was said to have invented it
in 1ISJ; but an instrument essentially
similar was used at Halifax a century
and a half before this, and we know not
how much earlier, and another, known
as the Scottish maiden" was in use in
Edinburgh in the sixteenth century
The French guillOtine executed it's first
victim In 1132, and it is said that the in
ventor was himself condemned to suffer
by his own invention, but he escaped by
a counter-revolution and died natural
death in 1914. He devised the instrument
as means of rendering capital punish
ment less painful, and he was very much
annoyed, 1t is said, that the instrument
was called by his name
John Montague, fourth Earl of Sand
wien, when he was occupied at the gam
ing table. took his refreshment in the
form of sandwiches, whence their name.
The earfs title was taken from Sand
wlch, in Kent. The metal pinchbeck. an
ailoy OF hve Parts of copper with one of
zinc, was the invention of London
matchmaker named CHRISTOPHER Pinch
beck, who died in 1892 There is a place
named Pinchbeck in Lincolnshire.
The Silhouette is named in derision fer
a french minister of finance, Etienne de
Slihouette, whose financial reforms were
REGARDED by his contemporaries as of a
rather cheap and meager character.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-30
The Army Mule.

From the New 1oTK MAIL.
The passing summer has developed no
fiction quite so fantastic as the report that
the American government has decided to
abolish the army mule. To declare that
the army itself is to be abolished would
not be a whit more preposterous. The
army mule will not be done away with
for the simple reason that he cannot be.
He is here to stay. and in war and peace
he will continue to maintain his reputa-
ton as one OF the most useful factors in
our military organization. He is not overly
endowed with the fatal gift of beauty,
but he has grit, patience and reserve en-
erey in abundance. He is the most I'M
complaining of all campaigners. makes
himself at home in all latitudes. and
whether on the march or in camp. in bat
tie or on parade. he can be counted on to
do his full duty. He has been honorably
identified with the finest achievements of
American arms, and to abolish him would
not only be shabby return for his faith
full service, but would rob the army Of
one of it's most valuable supports. More
over there is a certain trace of obstinacy
in his makeup which leads one to believe
that the government couldn't put him out
of the army II II tried. There are emergen-
cies In which stubb0rnness is his long
suit
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-30
M. DESTREHAN'S CANAL.
Dug Amid Gibes. It Now Leads to
Wonderland.

From the New Orleans Times Democrat
Harveys canal was dug eighty years
ago by certain NJ Destrehan, grand
father of the present Harvey family.
doubtless it was dug by the labor of his
own slaves, with the idea of opening .
way to Bayou Barataria. and doubtless
his friends and neighbors stood around
and laughed and called him a fool in ex-
Cellent French, for the man who con-
structed this canal was a good many de-
cades ahead of the time. But at any rate
he did his work and for eighty years the
boats have glided up and down this
smooth ana silent waterway, making their
way out of it through many devious
channels. AS the years passed the various
streams have been widened and deepened
new stretches of canals have been opened
until now the boats go threading their
way 10 the gulf through half a dozen
cleaning water roads. The lock at the
head of the canal will even allow the
wayfarer to come in from the river. He
may come from st. Paul or ST Louis OF
Chicago even, and being told that Louis
lana has toward her southern borders the
StranSest of wonderlandS will turn his
boat in through the lock.
Such fleets of boats as keep the ripples
stirring along the shining surface of the
water roads. Little steamboats, ply their
way up and down, their wheels churning
the canal or bayou into foam; schoonerS
and luSgers making their serene and un-
hurried way, tOwboats bringing up lines
of crosstie laden barges or drawing great
RATS of cypress logs to the mills, gasoline
and naphtha launches bent on business OF
pleasure, shallow pirogueS laden to the
waters edge: up and down they go in one
long procession. Another Holland it is,
with none of the placid Dutch content;
another Venice, with not a palace to be
seen II there be a sail anywhere it is
likely to be a red One-a glowing red
sail. floating double in the air and in the
water. lending the one touch Of brilliant
color to the landscape.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-30
Desertions From the Army.
From the New York Sun.

fAoM euC &sc" 4oiA
A certain undertaking magazine has
taken up the subject of assertions from
the army and is profusely illustrating its
articles to show that the enlisted men
are habitually required to perform mental
duties. undergo needless hardships and
generally render degrading services
FIFTY thousand men have deserted in the
last twelve years." declares this maya
zine. and the pictures are given to tell us
why. There are pictures that show men
shoveling coal into bins. running lawn
mowers over some dandy officers prem
ises, carrying food to the messrooms and
washing dishes afterward, pictures of all
kinds. In fact, that are calculated to
arouse indignant sympathy for the en-
listed man and make desertion look like
solemn duty for all high-Spi-ited persons.
There Is a great deal Of desertion. No
doubt the undertaking figures are COR
rect. Desertions have been steadily in
creasing ever since the canteen was abol-
ished. The soldiers life is one of rather
colorless routine. OF course assignments
are regularly shifted and there is ro-
taGon of duty and locality. Enlisted men
are at intervals transferred from Fort
Smelling or Fort Riley to Washington or
New York, Chicago. Atlanta and SO on,
where the clustered life finds its conso-
lationS and where the rumshop supplants
the once sufficient charms OF the canteen.
Less than ever before are the enlisted
men VI Tie army lOOdy JeQulIcQ 10 go
outside their strictly military duties.
Cooks and assistant cooks are enlisted
as such. Men care for the horses. ETC., Of
officers under their own application, by
their own preference and at extra pay.
They do not need to do 1t unless they
wish to make the money. The messroom
service is arranged by regular detail. and
then only by members of the mess
Much of the mental work is performed
either by civilians hired for the purpose
or by prisoners sentenced for good cause
to temporary servitude. Our enlisted man
under the present dispensation has more
privileges than he ever had before, better
pay and more considerate treatment
with his allowances for quarters. food
and clothing he is better off SO far as
concerns mere money than the average
city employee at SIS a month. and II he
wishes to he can lead a wholesome and
self-respecting life. And promotion with
much higher pay and perquisites is
within his reach.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-30
ANAC0STIA.

The Anacostia Citizens Association has
taken up with the Commissioners the
matter of placing rubber tires on the
police patrol wagon in this section. This
wagon is used a great deal for convey
ing the sick and injured to the hospitals.
and it is thought it would make the
wagon more safe on the unpaved streets
around Anacostia.
Plans are being made by those in
charge of the Episcopal Home for Chill
dren in Anacostia for the dedication
ceremonies attendant upon the compile
ton of the three new buildings.
meeting of Anacostia Council. No 16.
Junior Order of Mechanics. was held
in the Masonic Hall last week. Several
new members were admitted to the order.
George Fowler. a resident of Congress
Heights and a member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. has returned to the
Pennington Seminary in New Jersey.
where he will continue his studies for the
Methodist ministry.
Rev. Charles Sontag will conduct the
services in the Esther Memorial Chapel
at Congress Heights today. in the alb
sence of a regularly assigned minister.
Rev. Mr.. Sontag does not give his time
to this parish during the week days
and the congregation is anxious to Sc
cure permanent rector. Milton j. FIJI
lius director Of the choir. has announced
that special music is being rehearsed for
the special church days that will occur
in November and December.
Ihe married men of Congress Heights
held a gathering last evening in Whaler's
Grove. Wheeler road. whre about fifty
bushels OF oysters and other edibles were
disposed of. Samuel Burn and Milton
j. Ffllius were in charge of the arrange
ments for the affair.
John +. Fort of the Anacostfa Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, who has been
visiting Herndon, Va, for the past
month, to conduct the services in the
church there in the absence of the rector,
Rev. H. c. Wagner. who has been con-
fined to his home on account of illness.
Will be relieved of that position after
today by the Rev. F. H. Hanson
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-30
Blue Jays.
From the Columbus Journal.

From the columbus journal.
This is the season for the jays. They
are near home every morning and even
ing up in the big trees, filing the air
with their wild and hideous noises.
Theirs is the worst bird song in the
world. 1t would chord handsomely with
the filing of a saw.
In his book on OrnithOiogy Alexander
Wilson says: Wherever the jay has had
advantage Of an education from man he
has shown himself an apt scholar"
Which observation makes us wonder If
that shrill, discordant voice he gets from
man, or does 1t represent composite of
all the noises that civilized society greets
him with? What a miserable mess We
humanity are, If We have furnished him
that voice. But whether or not, there is
one that he seems to copy. and that is
breaking in upon one when he Is talking.
The jays ill manners in this respect
equal anything we have seen In human
society. We actually saw a flock Of
jays break up a porch party the other
day by refusing to divide the time with
It, LAS was going to say" remarked
a gentleman. but he didn't say It, for the
jays Clipped in and changed the utter
ance into a gasp. We wish the jays
would go. Strange wish concerning q
bird. but the Jay has the very 'old
Harry in him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-30
Uppuckering the Persimmon.
From the Chicago Tribune.

Painting the lily and carrying Goals
to Newcastle are proper and necessary
tasks compared with what the Agri-
cultural Department has set out to do
to the persimmon. 1t IS proposed to take
the pucker out of this attractive but
astringent fruit. The persfmmon. when
most attractive to the eye. is everybody s
notion of nothing to eat. 1t is edible
only when in a proper condition to throw
away The Japanese have succeeded in
unpuckering it with sake fumes, and our
Agricultural Department is smoking the
fruit with alcohol fumes, hoping to get
the same effect. The commercial prop
critics of the persimmon are at present
nil, because when il is edible it can
only be transported semi-liquid. But
we have so many fruits which are de-
hcious at almost any stage of their
growth 1t seems a work of supereroga-
ton for the government to waste much
time trying to improve fruit which,
unripe, tastes like alum. and when ripe,
like a wet sponge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-30
CATCHING WILD ANIMALS.
Traps for Leopards-Grain Jar t.
Hold Greedy Monkeys.
From the Asian.

Leopards were caught in moses made
Of cat or monkey gut. The tiger, the
leopard and the panther have all the cats
habit of sharpening and cleaning their
claws on tree trunks, but whether it
is true that preferably they will use a tree
that bears previous claw marks 1 cam
not say.
1t would be interesting to have the opin-
ion Of some one experienced on the sub
ject. However, the pursuers are believed
to have selected such a tree and round
and about the trunk of it set their strong
gut snares, and sometimes the cheetah
remained secured by the leg. Sure it is
that some snare is used for these beasts,
for they are still to be found in the ma
tive state of Rajputana and probably
elsewhere kept for hunting purposes.
leopard secured for hunting must be
caught when he is full grown and accom-
pltshed in his knack of pulling down
game, otherwise. however much he were
trained. he would never acquire the
qufckness and perception as in the wild
state when he has to secure for himself
each and every meal he partakes Of.
have seen these cheetahs tied to ordi
nary charpoys and taking quite a place
or their own among their keepers fam
lilies, who seem to fear them not at all.
They are carted to the scene Of action
with hoods on. which are removed when
the animal is shown the object of his re-
quired exertions
have been told that they are always
rewarded for a successful chase with a
cupful of fresh. warm blood from the
victim, and some even say the liver, cut
out then and there. is given them. To
take possession Of these creatures when
only noosed to tree by one leg must
need great courage and dexterity, though
It seems an easy enough matter to tame
them once they are captured.
Monkeys can sometimes be secured by
the absurdly simple method of putting
some grain in heavy but small mouthed
chatty or gharrah. AS soon as JACKIE
knows what is inside he pops in his fist
and fills 1t full. The object Is to have
the opening too small to allow his doubled
up full fist to be withdrawn. He has
not the sense and cunningness that is
generally attributed to him evidently, for
1t does not occur to him in this instance
to empty his hand of grain and so get
free. for he will go on struggling inef-
fectively without doing so, as often as
not proving his own undoing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-30
CHINESE WOMEN RESTLESS.
Tendency to Stray From Beaten
Path of Their Grandmothers.

rom the New York Tribune.
The modern woman's tendency to do
improper things is evidently resistless
Even Chinese women. with their Ban
daged feet. are getting it. Miss Wal
Chi Chau Of the School for the Blind
at Canton, China, who visited New
York last week, i'm the course of a tour
she Is making for the purpose Of study
ing methods Of teaching the blind In
the western countries. admits that the
conduct OF young Chinese women now
aoays Is not SO commendable as was the
conduct of their grandmothers
Many CT our young women are mis-
interpreting the word liberty. They
are ahead of the nation in proeressive
thought. and they grow impatient Of re-
strictions which ii is not Vet safe IN
ignore. They believe they have the right
10 90 what they lke--to 60 out alone at
nlgnt for instance. just like men. II
won 90, because our streets are narrow
them who are still without the respect
for women which l hope all Chinese men
VIII have by and by. But Chinese girls
are like the rest of their sex-the fact
mat they live in the orient doesn't make
them easy to hold"
The Canton School for the Blind in
which Miss Chau teaches was the first
of Its kind to be established in China
IL mad hard struggle until about a
year ago, Viceroy Chau CHANGED to visit
It with his retinue. So delighted was
ne with what be saw and heard there
the exhibition of handicraft work of the
blind pupils, with their skill in playing
on musical instruments. singing songs
and repeating things from dictation, that
he declared his intention of helping the
work He made good, too. sending his
check the next day for 5000. Others be-
gan to inquire about the school. and In
a short time enough was contributed to
put up $4,000 building in place of the
old rented house and mud huts in which
the pupils used to study and live
The new building accommodates sixty
pupils. and there they learn music, the
branches of an ordinary education. how
to sew and make baskets and various
other things. and how TO read and write
the Chinese characters by the Braille sys-
tenn.
Miss Chau has visited Egypt, England.
Germany. Switzerland and other Euro
pean countries, and before she returns to
her work will visit Hawaii and Japan.
She is accompanied on her tour by Miss
Lucy Durham, an American woman, who
has been a missionary to China for the
last eight years and who is also teacher
In the school for the blind.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-30
The Arab Ploughman,

From the Wide World Magazine.
To see an Arab steering a yoke Of
oxen, one hand pressed upon the sim
gle stem of the plough and the other
holding the long. slim goad. is to see
living illustration Of how Elisha
looked and moved when Elijah found
him ploughins and cast his cloak upon
him in significant symbolism of his
destiny. 1t has often been remarked
that while imperishable relics of Ro-
man stonewOrk abound in northern
Africa, in the form Of bridges, aque-
ducts, and SO forth, the impress left
on the people themselves by the great
est clvifizing power that ever existed
is extraordinarily slight. Only in some
such insignificant details as the names
or the months in the kabyle dialect is
the stamp Of Rome still visible. and in
the system of hiring labor in the Tell
there survives custom belonging to
the early days OF the Roman republic
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-30
SCIENCE NOTES.

The scientific results Of the first cruise
Of the vessel Carnegie in magnetism,
electricity, atmospheric refraction and
gravity embrace one of the most extern
sive researches in the history of modern
scientific investigation. The first six
months Of the Carnegie cruise the dis
lance of more than 5000 nautical miles
was covered in the North Atlantic ocean
between the parallels 81 degrees north
and 10 degrees north, touching at the
year the vessel started once more, this
time on decentralization of $4,000 miles
to extend over a period of three years
and to embrace the Atlantic, Indian and
Pacific oceans. The vessel has already
completed voyage of nearly 1000 miles
since she left last June and is now at the
mouth of the Amazon river. The pres
ent voyage has not only cut across the
first cruise, but is so arranged by the
introduction of loops as to interSect itself
also at various points.
1t is now conceded that the results of
those special observations which have
been made by the Carnegie show con-
clusively that with a non-magnetic vessel
like the Carnegie and with the instru-
mental appliances and methods used it is
possible to secure, an accuracy in the
magnetic results approaching that of
land observations.
array of consultations and minor celestial
phenomena unequaled at any other month
Of the year.
Mercury and Venus will be in conjunc-
ton November ..
Mars and Jupiter will be in conjunction
November 3.
Jupiter will be in conjunction with the
moon November 49, 1t will then rise be-
fore the sun and be the morning star.
Saturn will be an interesting object
for the telescope during this month, when
it is the most wonderful of all celestial
objects.
The classification and cataloguing of
the Simon Newcomb Library, which has
been acquired by the College of the City
of New York, have been completed by
Miss Edyth l.. Miller. This collection of
1000 volumes and 5000 pamphlets. which
cludes many important items In as
tronomy and mathematical publications.
Among them is the first edition of
Euclids Elements, PaciOli of 1894
Ptolemy." The library will soon be off,
cially presented to the college by Prof.
Compton, head of the department of
physics.
The United States fisheries steamer AL
batross has recently returned from her
Philippine cruise in the interests of the
archipelago, and is now at SausalitO,
Cal The chief naturalist of the Alba
tross. F. NJ. Chamberlain, will spend the
winter in Washington engaged in the
study of the fishes collected in the Philip
pines. Waldo l.. Schmidt of the United
States bureau of plant industry is to be
assistant naturalist CT the Albatross
The next meeting of the American Orni-
biologists Union will be held in Wash
ington beginning Monday, November II.
The ninth annual meeting of the central
branch Of the American Society of Zool-
ogists will be held in joint session with
section f of. the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, at Min
neapolis, beginning December q, 1910.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-30
Old Boss.
from Our Dumb Animals.

she was OF very sensitive nature
and while she would resent an unkind
act or word she would as quickly re-
spond to kindness. After she became
fully ingratiated into the family she
showed a devotion and affection equal
to any dog.
We moved to Iowa, putting the COW
in one end Of the car and the house.
hold goods in the other. l went with
the car, and some Of the time would
lie on a sofa in the car where she
could see me. and she was perfectly
contented, but let me leave the car and
she would call for me continually. We
landed in a new town where the cattle
all roamed at will about the village.
Old Boss would follow any of US around
like dog, and accompany me to my
work. She would browse around till
l was ready to go home, then she
would go with me. Sunday she would
follow us back and forth to church.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-30
Vendace of Lochmaben.
From the Court Journal.

From the Court Journal.
Last month an interesting old custom
was observed at Lochmaben, in Dunn
triesshire. when the townspeople exer-
cised an ancient right granted by charter
of James vi Of netting the lochs sur
rounding the burgh for vendace, a very
rare fish. The fishing, however, did not
prove productive. very few vendace being
captured, though in former years they
were plentiful. This fish. which is pc
culiar to the Lochmaben lochs alone
takes no lure and dies Immediately when
taken from the water. It's length varies
from six to eight inches, and it is greatly
priced by epicures. being a fish of great
delicacy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-30
Sweden's Church Boat. -

From The Wide World Magaziue
The church boat" is popular in
stitution in Sweden. 1t brings fam
lies to service from the farms around
Lake Siljan to Leksand The water
route is the nearest and most con-
yenienf, and so the big boat goes from
farm to farm along the shore pickinp
up the churchgoers, who later return
by the same route