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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-22
Reporting at Leisure.

A j. DREXEL BIDDLE, at a musi-
\. cal at his Philadelphia residence
praised the marriage of a. ]. DreXel. jr..
and Marjorie Could
"A more ideal marriage couldn't be i'm
4gined,' said the young millionaire
author. .'In wealth. position, YOUTH
everything, they are perfectly matched
There will never be in their case any
doubts or misgivings-and that reminds
me of Elisha Chew.
Elisha Chew took me aside one even
ing at a dance.
II have he said, $4,000 laid by ana
/ can't decide whether to buy an aero
plane or to get married and take honey :
moon trip
DO you love the girl?' said !.
"'Oh, yes. very much, said ne
".Then,' ] advised, marry by all means
and let the aeroplane go to the deuce.
"a few months later / met Chew aealli,
He had just returned from honeymoon
tour of California. ,,a
well, Chew. said I, aren't you gao
YOU took my advice? COCO VIE
much better than an aeroplane, en-
".No doubt that is true, SAD .n
AT the same time, if my wife haP 2!s ,,a
to be an aeroplane, ten to one iu,5
thinking about this time thal lnes ;,
worked off a third-rate machine oii iiie
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-22
Valuable Hints for
the Home Gardener

Z ROM a foot to a foot and a half each
way is the proper distance apart
for Gamma plants. according to the vigor
of the plant. If you have a round bed
start with one plant in the center, put
six in the first circle surrounding this
center plant, and for each subsequent
row increase the number OF plants by six.
If the rows and the plants in the rows are
equal distances apart this rule is n never
failing one for circular beds, whether the
planting distance be six inches or two
feet.
After the plants begin to make rapid
growth they should never be allowed to
become very dry. They are great lovers
of moisture and the supply OF water
should be in accordance with the heat
Do not be lavish in watering when the
temperature is below sixty degrees or be-
fore the plants have reached a stage of
active growth.
Obtain plants of the long-spurred colum-
bine from the florist If you want d fine
display this season. The columbine starts
growth early in the season and does well
III all soils. 1t requires little attention
except to be kept free from weeds The
long-Spurred type are artistic and pleas
ing in color, ranging from white through
various shades of light pink, blue and
yellow with often combination OF two
or more colors. Remove seed pods as
fast as formed to extend the Towering
season.
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Fumes at Gas Works Cure for Whoopinq Couch


almost miraculous. Nor are they con-
fined. to my certain knowledge. to the
disease of whooping cough alone. A
gentleman who is now a vice president
of a local bank was troubled for some
time with a dry, hacking cough. He
was becoming more emaciated every
day, and his cough was growing worse.
OF his own volitiOn. he decided to try
the gas purifier cure, and was a regular
attendant in the room whenever a box
was opened. He would inhale the fumes.
too from the lime regularly each day.
The change that soon became apparent
in his case was truly marvellous. From
giving every evidence of incipent con-
sumption. he regained weight and vigor,
his hacking cough left him, and he is, l
believe. a thoroughly hale and hearty
man today for his age.
'Of the workmen I have noticed since
have been here. who have been engaged
in the purifier house, three, to my abso-
lutte conviction. were afflicted with tuber-
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High Cost of Living.

fl( IFFORD PINCHOT." said a New
" York physician. has America
forests almost on the brain. He couldn
love them more if they were his own
private property.
Talking to me about the millions lost
annually in forest fires Clifford Pinchot
asked angrily why the people didn APP
preciate the proved value of their forests
as they appreciated the still improved
value of Metchnikoff's Tactic ACID NIL
crobes?
He said that In a restaurant that
morning man complained to waiter:
Waiter this milk is sour.
If you use Ii, then sir, the waiter
answered quickly, wei have to charge
you extra Sour milk's gone up tremen-
dously. sir. since they discovered that u
cured old age"
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The Perverted Germ.

GRISCOM PRATT, the insurance ex-
A.pert talked at a dinner in New York
about success.
Success he said, comes to the man
who sees the public need for new things
and supplies this need-in the shape, for
example, of moving picture shows. or
aeroplanes. or microbes to ward on old
age.
"A backleg had a kind of perverted
success germ in him when he complained
to another blackleg:
II suppose you heard about the scrub
woman at the Fiasco Theater? Well.
she found last week a magnificent dia-
mond stomacher in a box in sweeping up.
The honest old soul determined to re-
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his yield Is not preserved, but he got
more rice, by long Odds than the aver
age return in the established rice-grow-
ing districts.
A second years planting. on a larger
scale, gave still better results. In 1904
again he played this card to win plant
ing seventy acres. which gave him crop
of seventy-four bushels per acre-two and
one-haf times the average returns Sc
cured by experienced rice men in the low
coast fields: and his grain was OF the
very highest quality. In the same year "A
planting was made near by by the ex-
periment station men of the Department
of Agriculture, whose crop ran ninety
six and one-fourth bushels per acre. An
other patch gave seventy-one and six
tenths bushels: another eighty-nine bush
els In every case the grain harvested
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-22

void of their pristine luster and brilliancy.
The memory of these wonderful hues. at
their rising upon the surface OF the lime,
or the permanent stains which they leave
in that substance, doubtless forms a last
ing impression through life to many of
the juveniles who have come to the gas
works, and whose condition of disease
Joined to their tender years renders them
acutely sensitive to outward things.
The lime iron oxide mixture remains
lmpreSnated with the sulphur and am
monia fumes long after the passage of
the crude gas. and. as the used tanks
remain open. the children often play in
them, thus converting this peculiar heal
ing device into a place for recreation at
the same time. The atmosphere of the
purifier house is also charged with the
pungent and healing fumes for a remark
ably long time after the opening of a
box, and so the ci.idren have opportunity
to profit by the curative process during
the intervals between the opening of the
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Worse and Worse.

(OV HUGHES, at dinner in New
oYork, was talking about an eXplana-
ton that had been suggested for a crook
ed political deal.
1T was an explanation that made mat
ters worse' he said 1T was like the
remark of the Atlantic City landlady.
"A gentleman. at an Atlantic City
boarding house shifted at the fish set be
fore him, and. calling the landlady. he
said:
Look here, this fish isn't as fresh as
that / get in New York.
Why, that's strange said the land
lady. All our fish comes from New
York."
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Kill Them tDeader Now.

A PHYSICIAN 1t dinner in Denver
\ sneered at certain biblical miracles.
Lazarus" he said, was raised from
the dead-and yet l don't see any dead
folks being raised in our time.
No" said the Rev. Herbert H. fresh
am, the biblical scholar, with q smile
Modern medical science has progressed
too far for that, chg"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-22

The children. as remarked by the SUPER
intendent, exhibit the buoyancy charac-
teristic of their years by the facility with
which they convert their unique sana-
forum into place for play and recre-
alton. One of the games which they are
fond of playing in the purifying tanks
or boxes tends especially to aid their
cure This sport consists of one of the
youngsters, upon whose lot it falls. Sc
creting an article of value to the child
ish mind in the lime or other purifying
substance while the others are blind
folded or hide their eyes:
These latter then start hunting for the
secreted article, inhaling in the process,
of course. the curative fumes from the
purifier. This game has been a standard
recreation at the gas works for many
years past, and was devised by an in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-22

WATERING in the evening. besides
w aiding in the spread of fungous dis
eases, also causes ''damping off" Water
ing should never be oracticed during
heavy. cloudy weather Shade heat and
light should be considered. Plants grow
ing in the bright sunlight always need
more water than those in the shade for
evaporation and transpira ton are always
greater under such circumstances. Mid
day Waterings, when the shines di-
rectly on the foliage. will burn the TO-
liage Of many OF our common house
plants. Shading during excessive heat
will strengthen the plants and assist in
retaining moisture.
Temperature, both of air and water,
should be considered. An overheated and
humid atmosphere will cause straggly,
spindly growth, very susceptible to dis
ease. The temperature OF the water used
has been found to have a marked effect
on plants 1t has been found that the
best results are obtained when water OF
about the same temperature as the room
in which the plant is growing is used.
Although watering should not be car
ried on SO that constantly wet soil is
the result The watering should always
be thorough. The receptacle in which
the plant grows should always have one
or more holes in the bottom and when
enough water has been supplied these
should be dripping with water which has
run through tile soil and is draining out.
TREES, especially in large cities and
along roadways, are subject to many
forms of mutilation. Horses are allowed
to eat the bark and new wood: telephone
and telegraph companies cut away indis-
criminately and when sidewalks or paw
ing is to be laid the roots are hacked and
cut away without any regard for the tree.
In some of our large, progressive cities
clubs have been formed with the aim of
plttine before the careless public ideas
which will tend to put an end to all need
less cruelty Small cities and villages
should heed this movement, as it is much
easier TO accomplish results in small
places than in the larger, and results are
more noticeable.
An Injurious method, which is not SO
noticeable and not so we'll known to the
is that Of improper prun-
ing. tree is not only injured by cutting
ctr large branches, but when it is done SO
that large ragged stumps are left the in
Jury is incalculable. Although it is true
that pruning must be practiced to produce
a symmetrical shape, still the best rule is
to prune as little as possible.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-22

G. y S w o r X S
would not, perhaps.
s u z z e s [ to the
average person a
sanatorium for in
valids. Yet the
lives Of hundreds
OF children in this
city suffering from
whooping c o u 6 n
have been saved
by visits to the
gas works.
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But Fuller fancied that he knew shade
or two more about the land than any
body else. He had thought out his propo-
sition. The layer of clay made perfect
basin for retaining irrigation water in
the upper soil Plenty of water was to
be had by sinking wells through the
hard pan The surface was level as a
floor, so that flooding could be perfectly
controlled at minimum cost by sys-
tenn of cheap earthen dykes and cross
dykes 1t remained only to be discovered
whether the soil itself was suited to rice
growing A sample sent TO the Agricul-
tural Department at Washington for
ANALYSIS settled this question. Fuller
went ahead and put in small trial
planting.
AS the season advanced he felt that
he had good reason to feel encouraged
His small crop was doing very well. At
harvest time he was sure of the sue
cess Of his project. The exact record of
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Romance of Rice on "Waste" Lands

NEW worlds record in the
growing Of rice, one of the
worlds great staple crops. has
been set, in the last crop year,
by an unknown corner OF
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There's for need OF you Nothing has been
1ueH DONE Conditions change their mind day. This
old world forever keeps jogging around upseng
ing combinations getting old
No wat happened yesterday the outlook has
altered Somewhere, something has changed Someone has
dropped of the ranks lock old door,
your ability may be the key to fit it.
Ten years ago. the deserts seemed etena hopeless wastes
but between sundown and sunup dreamer figured how
bring the distant the arid sands and million Of
farms sprang into being
Within your memory chemist struck with the notion
that coal worth Investigation and the idea furnished
seed for thousand industries.
Twenty years after the first suffered and
tered and rked along billion dollars have into factories
hundred thousand mechanics have found employment
machine and lathe and foundry
On every block there is at least who is making
good because he used his for opportunity and for
With strength and vitality and honor, is
matter of ambition and patience.
No able-bodied handicapped except by his
faults and weaknesses
Your birth has bearing upon your Sken cradle
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culosiS. These consumptives. when they
began work in the purifier apparatus,
were pale. meager, with dreadful coughs
characteristic of their disease. ] watched
them day by day as all these symptoms
began to leave them. Within a year
there was not trace remaining of their
disease"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-22

Thomas Holden. superintendent of the
eastern station works of the gas COM
pany, cites an incident leading to this
conclusion which came under his own OBJ
servation.
"A prominent man in this city" said
MIR. Holden, who takes an especial in
terest in the curative properties of the
plant had three fine children. all o.
whom contracted the whooping cough
in an acute and dangerous form. Ono
child died of the disease, and was soon
followed by another. 1t was not until
then that the afflicted parent thought of
trying the virtues of the vapors which
arise from the purifying boxes when
they are opened. and which, indeed
permeate the purifying material for
quite a long time afterward
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purifying apparatus. And such periods
are taken thorough advantage of by the
youngsters at the command of their par
ents or guardians.
1t is truly surprising To see how the
Juvenile patients become attached to
their queer hospital, and enjoy investi-
eating its mechanical wonders. The
western station, called. at the foot of
9th street. is the largest gas manufac-
turing plant in the city, and is, perhaps.
rather more generally resorted to by the
vhooping cough patients than the one at
the other extremity of the city, near
the Anacostia bridge. This western sta
ton has three purifier rooms. the other
containing but one, and here, too lime
is. or has been heretofore, more common
~ employed in the boxes than the new
oxide of iron mixture. Both stations
are reached by car lines, and are thus
easily accessible from all quarters of the
city.
What 1t Is in the fumes that arise
from the purifier substance, said Mr..
Holden, whether the ammonia, the sui
phur. or some other ingredient too subtle
FOR my powers of chemical analysis. GER
tain ii is that the results are sometimes
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1.-THE man had been told OF the efficacy
which these sulphur and ammonia
fumes possess in the cure of the disease,
but he had regarded the thing as sort
of superstition When he saw, however,
that his one remaining child was rapid
ly following the rest, he decided TO try
The gas plant cure as last resort The
Child was brought here. and from the
frSt application of the treatment be-
gan to recover. In the course OF a few
weeks he was Thoroughly cured
have never known. in my many years
OF experience. single case of whooping
cough brought 10 the station to result
fatally"
The children who come 10 the gas works
Tor the whoopins cough cure include
those Of all classes. high and low, rich
and poor. The treatment may be said TO
be administered, in its full potency. wheli
one of the so-called purifying boxes is
opened. These purifying boxes are
contained, TO the number of some sixteen
or twenty, in vast apartment known as
the purifier room. The boxes are, in real
lily, rectangular tanks. about ten by TWEEN
- feet. containing the material through
which the gas is passed in order to free
IL from certain substances which would
impair its commercial use for illuminating
and heating purposes.
This material may consist of mixture
OF small particles of oxide of iron and
wood ShaVingS II may be lime The
latter is the best for the whoopns cough
sufferers. The Vapor which arises when
the lid of a purifying box is hOisted off
by the big overhead crane is rather too
strong for inhaling at first. In fact, the
fumes usually set the workman who ma
nipulateS the powerful crane coughing and
expectorating. while the Juvenile invalids
seek a place near the door until the
strength of the gaseous eXhaldtions is
somewhat lessened.
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Arkansas This record is not based on
the results secured by one farmer on
a single farm. 1t rests on the average
of all yields returned by many score
farms over wide district.
The worlds annual rice crop amounts
TO 175,OG1. 010,2 500 pounds. or 10
thousands of millions of pounds. If the
years rice crop were put up in hundred
pound sacks. and each sack were load
ed upon the shoulders of man, IL
would need 1850 millions Of men to
tote off the load-just about . twenty
times the total population of the United
States If it We're put into wagons
carrying a ton each it would need
eishty-seven and half millions OF
wagons to haul away the heap. That
is to say, the world produces, year after
wear, approximately one ton Of rice for
every man. woman and child in the
United States. For 81 per cent of the
human beings of the world 1t Is
practically the only article Of diet, ana
it's the principal food of about 20 per
cent.
For wears and years there has been rice
grown in the United States. once, De-
fore the war; this promised TO De quite
an industry on the southeastern COAST
but the radical change in labor conoi-
lions after the war put stop TO It's de-
velopment. For a long time 1t dragged,
dropping into a very minor place, anu
recovering slowly, heavily.
Not many farmers took very lively
interest. On its face, il didn't appear as
an attractive proposition. Rice Is a crop
which, in the growing season, requires
to be flooded with water. Naturally
enough. the old-time growers chose for
their work the sloppy lowlands OF the
coast and marsh regions, where water
already stood upon the land That was
all right enough. Ii saved the cost ana
the worry OF distributing water. But IL
made messy work for the farmers IN
cropping and harvesting time. 1t dldn [
seem to occur TO anybody that rice could
be grown on higher lands, under condl-
tons which would permit the grower TO
regulate his water supply, keep ms BOOTS
out of the mud, and at the same time get
better crop results. By unthinking COM
mon consent rice growing was a web
foot business.
THEN, along in 1902, a man living in
Arkansas conceived a new idea. His
name was W. HI. Fuller, and his home
was near the town OF Stuttgart, IN the
grand prairie district of the eastern part
OF the state His idea was that he could
grow rice on the prairies by irrigation.
His neighbors laughed at the notion-be-
cause nobody had ever tried such thing
before. The land there was famous only
for its infert.lity; nobody Whereabouts had
ever considered it worth anything. 1t
looked all right on top, but the trouble
was that little way below the surface
lay an mpervious sheet OF 'hard-pan, so
that any summer crop put upon the
ground promptly burned up under the
sun. The natives had quit try
ing to do anything with it. and We're
letting ii run wild IL. prairie grass. One
could have bought thousands of acres of
this, then, for 81 or So an acre.
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store the stomacher to its owner. and
the owner, of course, wasn't long in
turning up-a young woman, splenaldly
dressed and on the verge of hysteria.
oh have you found my schumacher"
she cried. IT is chef d'oeuvre Of La
liaue of the Place Vendome?
Calm yourself. madam said the
scrubwoman. Here is your stomacher.
And she produced il from her pocket.
The other took out a fifty-dollar bill.
pressed it on the honest scrubwoman and
departed with her stomacher hurriedly.
But an hour later another lady called.
Have you found my stomacher? she
asked. smiling. Il think | left il In my
box.
why, yes. ma am; but if it was your
stomacher, said the scrubwoman. "a thief
has got il. She got il thfs morning. she
gave me fifty dollars reward.
why. the stomacher was imitation
the lady said. 1t only cost s.. Your
thief is SO out.
Then for a long time. in silence, fhe
two blacklegs shook their heads sadly
over this episode. Finally the iirst re-
sumed:
What times these are. You can 90
your work. even IL it's crooked WORK;
tell YOU Bill. there's urgent need iouay
of an insurance company that VIII issue
policies protecting flimfiammers froih
being flimflammed.
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was an Improvement in quality over the
seed
The industry went ahead by leaps and
bounds after 1895. Planting spread from
the Stuttgart neighborhood over wider
area-to Weiner Altheimer. De Witt.
Everywhere results were the same. In
400 about 5000 acres were planted TO
rice in this prairie district. and on the
entire acreage the growers got an aver
age return of seventy-four bushels per
acre. an average price of one dollar per
bushel and an average net profit Of more
than so per acre. This year l0o.eD
acres is being planted. It's an established
industry now. The air is humming with
it, Half a dozen modern rice mills are
in operation in the field and as many
more will be at work within the new
year.
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VI A NEW CHANCE EVERY DAY HERE
BY HERBERT KAUFMAN

robes do always stretch into silk smoking The gold
spoon does guarantee golden
ditch digger managing the biggest subway under earth
Immigrant boys making LauOs the Senate Exaborers
fixing the price of the worlds STEEL Former bank
re-coloring the financial map
They didn't yait for something turn up"-they turned
themselves human pows and dug into faow fields
They had many sebacksbut they kept trying. They fell
down and barked the shin of hope-but got up again.
They sprained their confidence but despite limp
they hungry but their appetite for work strong
than that for food.
You can't have their share unless you pay your share 1t
isn't what you but what you do Get idea and then get
back of it.
Think and plan. Hunt duty and hunt down. What
if do tredits sign that your muscles busying
themselves and grouing.
What you do bHsers your hands-a blister
awhie turns into protecting caNous.
What you do become 1uearywearness simply indicates
that your brain Juggling at its taksopening convo-
ionsclearng the track for quicker and better thought
What you do? We don't know and can't tell where
belong until show belongings Pick and
pLace-back them O back