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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-13
ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS
Death of John R. Cross, Con-
federate Veteran.
FUNERAL OF MRS. BERRY
Minor Cases Disposed of in Police
Court-Recent Sales of
Real Estate.
Special Correspondence Of The Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, August 13, 1910
John Reed Cross, seyenty-five years old
died last night at the Alexandria Hospita
following a lingering illness. Mr.. Cross
was a native of this city. and was a car.
penter. He served in the Confederate
army. He was formerly identified with
the Friendship Veterans Fire Associa-
ton The body was taken to Domaine S
undertaking chapel and prepared for bur-
ial
Walter D. Trimyer, son of John II.
Trimyer, died late yesterday afternoon at
his fathers home. at Braddock Heights,
Alexandria county. He was eighteen
years old and had been i'll a long time.
His funeral will take place at 5 o'cloca
tomorrow afternoon from the Methodist
Protestant Church.
Mrs. Mary J. Berry, sixty years old.
died yesterday afternoon at her home in
St. Elmo, Alexandria county. Three
daughters and one son survive. Her flu
neral took place at 3 o'clock this after
noon from her home. Rev. j. w. Lang
ford, pastor of the Del Ray Baptist
Church. conducted the services, and the
interment was made in the Methodist
Protestant cemetery.
In the Police Court.
Cases disposed of in the police court
this morning were as follows: Abraham
Ray and Charles Lucas, colored boys,
disorderly conduct and fighting. fined
81 each: Mamie Fuller. colored.
vagrancy, fined So; Rufus Robinson and
William Brent, both colored. disorderly
conduct and fighting, the former acquit-
ted and the latter fined So; James Wells
and Pearl Brown, both colored, dis
orderly and fighting. fined s. each.
George r. klipstein has sold to Ed
ward G.. Haynes a two-story brick
dwelling house on the west side OF Pat
rick street between King and Cameron
streets The deed was placed on rec
ord today in the office Of the clerk of
the corporation court.
Thompson & Appich. real estate deal
ers, have sold for Frank La Redour.
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Rules for NJ. DIS.
the British Medical Journal.

From the British Medical Journal.
What is the manner llat is most effec-
tive for doctors to assume at the bed
side?
No general rule can be laid down, for
the manner must be adapted to the pa
tient One thing however, may be said.
Won may be rude like Abernethy, genial
like Sir Ashley Cooper. courtly like Sir
Henry Halford, but, like st. Paul, unless
YOU have charity--that is to say, practical
sympathy-you are nothing.
There Is nothing the patient resents so
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-13
Prof. Peck Leaves G. w. U.

Paul r.. Peck has rendered his resigna
ton as assistant professor Of mathe-
mates at George Washington University
to take effect August 81. Mr.. Peck will
devote all his time hereafter to the work
of q preparatory institution he founded
last year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-13
FOR zones [IH|REPEATS HIS CHARGE
Food in Panama Canal Dis BrstOW Insists AdriChs Rub
trict Carefully Inspected. Der Company Is Trust.
SUPERVISION OF RESIDENTS TRADE CONTROL ALLEGED
United States Is Taking Benefit
Care of the People. Aldrichs Customers
THREE CLASSES OF EMPLOYEES NO NEED FOR THE INCREASE
Laborng and He Has Not Gone to const
tenn of Meals uentsW a Lie ION
Food in Panama Canal Dis
trict Carefully Inspected.
SUPERVISION OF RESIDENTS
United States Is Taking Paternal
Care of the People.
THREE CLASSES OF EMPLOYEES
Workers Divided Into "Gold," "Sil-
yer" and Laboring Men-Sys-
tenn of Meals.

Down in the Panama Canal Zone the
United States government is taking the
most paternal sort Of care of the popula-
ton. and the experiment is working well.
whether it would work so well with a
population of millions scattered over a
big continent as it does with population
of less than JnUO confined to the small
zone strip. is question, but some of the
facts are of interest.
The people of the zone live under strict
supervision. Every one knows about the
corps of assistants. They have drained
sUamps, killed mosquitoes, screened
houses and cleaned up, the back yards as
well the streets, much to >.,ssust
of the natives. who thought that this was
an unnecessary, IL not an unhcly, pTac-
tice. But the supervision uoes not stop
there. All the food is inspected, and, in
the trouble and cost of refrigeration and
the expenses of transportation and loss
in a tropical climate the prices a;e ac-
tualIy lower in most cases than they are
in Washington.
The Department of Agriculture has
been called into service in connection with
the food, and, in addition to carrying out
the provisions of the pure food and druS
act that obtains in tins country, there Is
special inspection OF all toodStuns m
tended for the zone, with the result that
the residents of that strip come near get
ting what they pay for. and pay less io'
IL than if they were living AT nome in the
land Of tho more Or less free.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-13
Florida, to Mrs. Sarah James, a far
located in Fairfax county.
New Sidewalks on King Street.

The work of laying five granolithic
sidewalks on the south side of King
street between Washington and St.
Asaph streets, has been completed.
Elmer Thompson, who has been spend
ing his vacation at Colonial Beach. has
returned.
A meeting of Potomac Lodge of odd
Fellows was held last night and consid-
cradle routine business disposed of.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-13
In June.

From the Megeendorfer Batter.
First Beggar-What are YOU doing here.
Peteo | thought your stand was on the
bridge.
Second Beggar-Oh. | gave that 10 my
son as a wedding present.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-13
Foruet the Warm Weather

by reading the delightful notion and the
entertaining special articles in the Stars
Sunday Magazine.
The features include:
MY POCONIO PRINCESS by Emmett
c. King.
THE END OF THE CAPTAINS
THREE, by Roy Norton.
TOUCHING ON TINk FUTILE, by
Sewell Ford
WIZARDS IN JUGGLERY, by Ed
ward Bonnie.
SEEFASDAY THE WHOORACIDE,
by r. St. John Perry.
FUN ON THE LYCEUM PLAT
FORM. by Strickland w. Gillian.
Another installment of CYNTHIAS
CHAUFFEUR, by Louis Tracy.
And a double-page drawing, HER
MOTHERS MOTHER, by James
Montgomery Flagg
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-13

The first opportunity to test the eff
ficiency of the new machine came in 1863
in quar-
First Opportunity to rel with
n - r,r d emma r k
AS0S 'A~ ~'~" over [ h e
succession to the ducal throne of Schles-
wig-Holstein. Bismarck craftly induced
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-13

decreased importations. Mr.. Aldrich, in
his statement admits that it was right.
Then Mr.. Cannon made the misstate-
ments.
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MOON LIKE HADES
Earth's Companion a Dead
and Deso|ate Globe.
MYSTERY OF ITS cRATERs
May Be Due to Meteors or to Former
Heat of the Earth.
LUNA'S FACE WELL MAPPED
Its Surface Better Known to Selen-
eographers Than Earth's Is to
Geographers.
LUNA'S FACE WELL MAPPED
By Edwin Fairfax Naultv,

OF all the spectacles of weird desolation
that the eye Of man has ever beheld
the surface of the moon presents the most
awe inspiring. The most arid and broken
desert on the earth il garden spot
compared with the pitted and leprous face
of our satellite. Even a lava bed looks
fertile in comparison. 1t seems improb-
able that a greater contrast could be
found in the heavens than the supremely
vital earth and her companion, the dead
cosmic cinder, that keeps place with her
in the heavens. II Mars is puzzle to US
what a puzzle the earth and her mort
bund twin must be to the Martfans.
The artist, drawing on his imagination
for an inferno. could produce no more
desolate picture than that presented by
a photograph OF the moons surface or
by the vision of the moon in a large tel
escope. In the last the apparition. Is
somewhat softened by the beautiful effect
of refracted light on the eye. but the
camera lends no such guile to its record.
The Brahmins believe that hades is In
the shadow cone of the moon, but even
the part of the moon in full sunlight is
dreary and desolate enough for our dear
est enemy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-13
A Supreme Contrast.

No greater contrast exists in our solar
system than that of the live earth and
the dead moon apparently eterually
linked in companionship. That leprous.
cosmic skeleton, Haunting it's sun bleacbed
bones across onr sky, that celestial
sphynx. that sepulcher of creation, is
a nightly reminder to us OF the imper-
manence of all matter. Yet though the
moon be orsanically dead, it is not a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-13
Foul Air From Sewer Traps.

But there is something that the sewer
trap does when not properly cared for, and
I think il is worse condition than the
breeding OF mosquitoes. l refer to the
way people let their water seals in sewer
traps evaporate
IN these traps the water evaporates
at the rate C one-eishtl of an inch a
dav. In twenty days all the water i'm the
ma jorty will be gone, and the pipe being
clear fou! and noXious All will come from
the ripe, making life a burden TO those
who are near 1t. This happens in the
case of people who leave their houses
shut nm for the summer In the old
fashioned trap the water evapOrated in
much less time
"kerosene poured in water traps will not
only kill mosquitoes of any exist. but it
will nreyent the water from evaporating.
POM q little of it into the drains when
voU 20 away and they will be full of
water when you get back.
DR.. Woodward's Observations.
Notwithstanding what Mr.. McGonegal
ba. To say about the breeding of mos
,u,toes DR.. Woodward health officer,
ravs considerable attention to the claims
of Dr. Howard. DR.. Woodward said that
he has found malarial mosquitoes breed
ing in a back yard sewer trap, and that
IL he could he would have every sewer
tran drain and everything else that
could possibly contain standing water
treated with enough kerosene to kill all
tbe WriggIers that eventually take wings
and become disease bearers.
II cannot 10 it now because l have
MT enough men. | am handicapped in
that way. In the matter OF the law on
the subject, it would be only technical
violation of the law to have man shin
over the back fence of vacant house
10 pour kerosene down the trap, and
think no one would object to it..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-13
Watch for Exhausted Spices

Exhausted spices are another thing
that the department is on the lookout
for This happened recently as last
May, when there was seizure made of
4.OeO bales of cloves that were about as
much good for flavoring as though they
had been whitfield out of mahogany. They
had been put through the extracting proc
ess for getting out oil of cloves, which
sells for a good price, and then they
were to be turned back into the cham
nels of trade, looking much like ordinary
cloves and good enough to adulterate
real cloves with, but about as full of
aVoring a. so many small sponges.
The laboratory has ways of telling
whether canned chicken has ever been
one of Alarys little lambs and whether
chocolate is all from the tree or how
much oxide of iron it has had mixed
with ii. There are also tests that tell
whether sweetenins in given article is
due to sugar. saccharine or glucose.
All these tests, and good many more,
are made of every consignment before it
is accepted, and the inspectors have what
is TO some contractors most unpleasant
habit of picking out samples at random
from a shipment just before it goes into
the hold Altogether the food that goes
to the Canal Zone gets about as thor
oughly inspected before it goes as is pos
sible. Whether IT is because of this or
not, nobody undertakes to say. but the
health of the canal community Is UNI
doubtedly very good and housekeepers
say that 1t Is satisfactory section of
the world in which to live. partly because
the prices are low, or lower, than
they are in the states and because when
one buys from the commissary he or she
knows what is being bought
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Added Duty Not Needed.

He admits that the increased duty on
the manufactures Of rubber was an add
ed protection given to the American
manufacturers when it was not needed :
that as a result OF this increased duty
they could advance the price to the
American consumer without danger of
competition. from foreign sources, and
therefore Mr. Aldrich's company would
be able to sell its product to them at
higher prices. II they refused to patron
ize him. under his charter he has ample
mower to engage i'm any kind of competi-
ton with them and would be backed by
the Ryans. the Guggenhcims and Rookie
feIlerS. and no sensible man In business
would desire to undertake to compete
with those powerful interests.
Mr.. Aldrich further admits that the
increased duty OF manufactured rubber
resulted in decreased importations. This
Mr.. Cannon i'm Kansas denied and stated
| in public address at Emporia that |
| made false statements in regard to such
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-13
Many Eating Places.

For the benefit of those who do not
keep house there are three classes of
eating places; hotels, for the gold men
messes, for the silver men, and kitchens,
for the iaborers. The Tivoli Hotel at
Ancon Is also run by the railroad, but
caters to travellers as well as to the COM
mission employees. so il is rather out OF
the commissary class; although its food
is from the same government INSPECTED
source. The hotels. exclusive of the tt
voli furnished 2,179,2sG meals last wear.
The messes issued i4I,J99 rations of three
meals each, and the kitchens 1IIlJ11
rations, lso OF three meals each There
are IL hotels, 10 messes and u kitchens
An effort is made to serve the meals a,
cost, counting in both the cost of the
food and the labor. This made meals
AT the hotels cost 10 cents al the messes
~ cents per ration. and at the kitchens
al cents per ration.
What will interest the WASHINGTON
housekeeper most Is the weekly schedule
Of commissary store prices published in
the Canal Record. This Record is the
official newspaper of the zone The com
miesary prices occupy just a column and
include fresh meats and fish, cured and
picked meats, dairy products pouJtrv
and game and fresh vegetables.
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Railway Buys Food.

The canal commission proper does not
buy the. food. This is done by the COM
mssary, which is the Panama railway,
but as this is government property the
difference is slight. However, all the
food tor this big population is bought by
contract by the commissary department,
and before it is accepted II is examined
10 see that the whole comes up TO SAM
pie, and that the samples come up TO
Inc specifications. This is where the De-
partment of Agriculture comes in.
There are branch laboratories of the
bureau of chemistry scattered over the
Inited States from New York TO San
Francisco. The most of the shipments
OF foodstuffs are made from New YORK.
and the laboratory of the department at
New York does all of the testing. 1t is
assumed before the food is bought that
it complies with the requirements of the
pure food law. But after the consign-
mentS have been submitted they are SUBJ
jected to even closer inspection. There
are a good many tricks of the trade that
experience has taught the department to
look out for. When the commissary buys
n big consignment of pepper it wants TO
he sure that il is real pepper and that
there is not large admixtuIe of
ground olive pips, as has happened some
times with the commercial article.
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Some of the Prices.

There are too many varieties to ouote
all the prices but stewins lamb and muir
ton arc . cents "a pound. Whole fore
quarters of lamb, with the neck trimmed
off. are 10 cents. Legs of lamb are ~
cents. Veal chops last week were -,
cents, beef pot roasts IL cents, sirloip
roast 81 cents, porterhouse II GEMS
Poultry and game werc higher. Pheas-
SAINTS ran from 40 cents TO 81 each. t1Ir
key was 80 cents a pound and large
roasting chickens were $50 each Beef
liver was 10 cents a pound, calves Inv,
90 cents each and blue fish IL cents a
pound. Shad were luNuries a ~ cents. nd
fresh shad roes were 40 cents a nair
Butter was 10 cents a pound and Rooue.
fort cheese Is. Milk was - cents Ne,
'BriarcIiffe bottle whatever that NAV
be. and celery was Il cents a head. and
lettuce from 10 10 cents.
Much of the material beside foodstuff
that the housekeeper uses is inspected
before il is accepted TO be sold to the in.
habitants OF the zone. The bureau ni
chemistry is called on to pass on tho
percentage of water i'll the soap, and IN.
horax I've, soda and other kitchen ms.
teriaIs arc all tested or course ths
structural material is tested as we'll and
the commission has reports OH rubher
paint asbestos structural iron and steel
and cement and dynamite, all made he.
fore thsy are accepted for use i'm ths
zone. Altogether IL Is about thoro,Ip n
Is inspected a community as could he
imagined and seems TO thrive on it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-13

The king had his heart set on the plan
to reorganize the army. 1t was at this
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-03-24
JACK A. JOHNSOI.
PASSED DAY IN
IOMBS CELL
COIOred Pugilist's roll" Wasn
Big Enough for Bail
TAR 0aSY LOST his SMIH
Gloom Caused by Suit for Damage
for Breach Of Theatrical
Contract

New York, March 24.-Jack Johi
ION, heavyweight champion OF tn
lrize ring, spent five hours yesterda
n cell in the Tombs prison, NJ
inly was be locked securely for nea
y half a day in a perfectly good ce
No, 13S-but while dancing an
iinging therein process serve
hrust through the bars summon
nd complaint In a suit for s1,75Se
nd costs brought against him f
he alleged Reputation of theat
al contract TO appear in Kansa
This looks like a rough DEAL sai
ohnson, as tears came TO his eye
7 have come here on court orde
nd now they take this action agains
ge"
Johrsan is certainly getting a,
uainted with the courts. He an
cared grinning as usual charge
it'll beating one Norman Pinder,
title negro, in an uptown resor
ONE weeks ago. Pinder at the tin
declined to buy a drink because
,ould not afford wine, and that, h
idded doIefully, was all that ih
present John Arthur Johnson woull
rink With a reminiscent touch b
'ecalled that there was a time whol
Johnson was glad to drink "suds on
If a bucket The rest is containt,
IN the charges Of assault against tn.
fighter.
But Pinder and his witnesses gaile,
to appear to press the case an,
Judge Mulqueen Of the Court Of Gen
eral Sessions was wroth He was In
clined to think that the court wa
being made a Joke Despite John
sons plea thar he had hurried hithe
on "an lS-hour train, 20 honoh, b
raised the big blacks bail from
$1,000 to $4,000.
Johnson's smile vanished lik
smoke Unfortunately he said. hi
roll, fattened by lawyers. containe,
only S2.500-would the court accen
that in cash? The court would not
50 the IN nrizefightor was lnd owa
70 a cell whore he remained Unit
late in the afternoon, when a fcien
put up as security property in Brook
Ign valued at $4,000, Then Johnso
was let loose.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-03-24
Sporting Notes.

Dolly Gray is the only southpaw
pitcher on the Washington clubs ros.
ter. The remaining American league
clubs will all try out at least three
southpaws each.
William J. Glover of Baltimore, who
claims the long distance swimming
title, has begun training for a swim
from Charlestown bridge TO Boston
light, in Boston harbor. next summer.
San Francisco is likely to witness a
six day auto race the coming sum
mer. II will be run on the bicycle
race plan. three drivers to a team,
working eight hours. and the greatest
mileage wins
Pal Moore, the wonderful seventeen
year-od pugilist is growing fast and
finds II difficult TO make the bantam
weight limit any more. He will soon
be fighting featherweights aud then
lightweights. He may be sent against
Abe AtteIl before the year is over.
Manager Jennings of Detroit has re-
ceiyed a letter from Charles Mccarthy,
coach of the Kelo university team at
Tokyo. Japan. asking him to obtain
permission from the American league
to play games with all the American
league teams. The Japanese are now
planning 10 visit America 10 play col
lege teams.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-03-24
EXPLAIN DEFEAT TO TAFT
Senators Lodge and Crane Make
Light Of Foss' Election

Washington. March 2S.-Politicians
in Washington talked much today
about the Congress election in the
Fourteenth massachusetts District
yesterday. With one accord the
Democrats were jubilant over the vic
tory of Eugene \. Foss over Mr. Blu
chanan and with equal unanimity the
Republicans were downcast. The Va
riety of explanations for the defeat of
fcred b. Republicans was amusing,
but when they were all examined it
was made clear that in every case
the reasons put forth did not account
for all of Mr.. Foss' majority and that
the only explanation which will
reach the heart of the matter is that
several thousand Republicans voted
for a Democrat.
Senators Crane and Root saw the
president soon after his return this
morning and talked over this cleo
ton for some time. Senator Crane
put forward the suggestion that the
defeat of Buchanan was due largely
to his own unpopularity and to the
popularity of Foss.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-03-24
Pen, Pencil and Brush.

The reputation of Edwin Rowland
Bashfeld. the artist. rests mainly on
his mural decorations. one OF the
largest OF these was the decoration of
the dome IT the Congressional library
at Washington. the theme being the
Progress Of Civilization"
John McCutcheon. the Chicago car
toonist has been bunting in Africa
with the ex-presidenI aud has eslab-
lished some prowesS as Il slayer OF
wild beasts. Two lions and rhinuc-
eros or two laid their lives at his feet
ton urgent compulSionl, 10 say uoihiug
of smaller game
Mrs Hodgson burnett is often
thought to be an American. but thar is
a mistake The first diteen years Of
her lie were spent IN Manchester
England. aud there it was that she
gained her intimate knowledge Of
Lancashire life and dialect. Reverses
of fortune caused her parents to 90
to America and settle at Knoxville.
Tenn. where. at the age of eighteen,
her first short stories were written.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-03-24
SIZES AND SONS.

~ r Arnett and his son. Lewis W
Arnett are members of the senate OF
Kentucky
DR.. Samuel Plautz OF Lawrence col
lege is the new president OF the Asso
citation of Methodist College Presi
dents.
Herbert Gladstone has accepted what
his father. the great commOner. Wi
liam Ewart Gladstone. twice refused
a seat in the house OF lords.
Sir Mortimer purand. former am.
bassador TO the United States, was de
feated in the recent English elections
contesting seat in parliament FROM
the city of Plymouth
Judge II X. Hanna. circuit judge OF
the First judicial district of oregon,
has just resigned his position after
long service on the bench. Judge
Hanna had passed his eightietb ami.
versary some time before he resigned.
Joseph H. Choate, now nearing four
score years. recently delivered an ad.
dress before the United States circuit
court in SO mastery a style that many
of his auditors declared il would rank
rs one of the great speeches in the his.
tory of the American bar
James A. Bradley, Asbury yark' +
founder. quietly celebrated his eight.
ieth birthday anniversary al the st.
Denis hole New York. where he aud
Mrs Bradley have resided for many
years. Mr. Hradley no longer takes an
active interest IN the affairs OF The
seashore city which he founded forty
years ago.
\ Vanderbilt of the fourth genera
ton has entered the directorate OF the
New York central railroad. William
Is Vanderbilt. Jr.. having been chosen
few days ago 10 fll one o ne vacan
cies recently ,t,uel in thal directo-
rate Ne is of the fourth generation
frat the creator OF the New York
Cgu'rai system