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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-06

THIRTY thousand Seeding potatoes
Were. harvested this year by the De-
partment OF Agriculture on the PO-
omac flats: 30. 900 varieties, all brand-new,
he possibilities of which not yet
;nown. Next year $4,000 or 10000 more,
low in greenhouses, will be set out in the
ield. and the year after that still more.
md SO on until the right potato is de-
'eloped.
Thirty thousand are quite some" po-
atoes, to use New York colloquiaiism.
n one might say provincialism Anyway,
chap who saw the trouble Secretary
Wilson has been to in this matter would
think so. The Secretary. who is a pref
" good practical farmer himself. has
oeen troubled because he could not find a
potato which was perfectly adapted to
trucking conditions There was some
thing radically wrong with the constitu-
ton. disposition internal behavior OF
every potato in the list: and the Secretary
has some 400 varieties on his list and in
cold storage, in fact, at the Arlington
farm. this very minute, to be used as
seed on the various experiment farms he
runs all over the country. He has also
almost as many more varieties from Chile
and other countries.
II might seem queer IHat WITH 50 HdHy
varieties. all possessing more or less rep
utation according to the seedsmens cata-
logues, the Secretary could not find one
which came up to his ideas of what a re-
spectacle potato ought to be- But 1t isn't
funny when one knows. In fact, most
people can't see anything funny In
potato, anyway. This is especially true
with the head of the house. who goes
to market and buys a collar box full Of
tubers at about the price he used to
pay for oranges, and finds. on taking
them home. that some secret malady has
been gnawing at the vitals Of every
blessed potato. If he does not find 1t out
sooner he is likely to become acquainted
with the sad truth when the tubers are
served on the table.
The trouble with the potato is not al
ways internal. More often perhaps 1t Is
external 1t may be anemic. giving it an
underfed or understood look. or 1t may
have an unhealthy complexion, with
freckles and warts and other blemishes.
And these facial blemishes are likely to
be more than skin deep. What tubers
pass muster and are dumped into the
pot with fond hopes that they will come
out mealy and arm are wont to dis
appoint the hopes by sopping up all the
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Jncle Sam Attempts to Originate New Potato

water available and coming out decidedly
waterlOgged and soggy, or discolored,
passe and generally debilitated. The po-
tato question is one of perpetual dis
quietude to the careful and particular
housewife.
1t finally came to this, that Secretary
Wilson issued the ukase. Develop a po-
tato that shall meet the most exacting
demands on it, And the Secretarys
scientific sharps went to work.
Plant breeding is no summer days pas
time. 1t takes years to develop a new
variety possessing qualities desired. 1t
was learned by the scientific investigators
who looked up the family tree of the
potato that there had never been a true
hybrid with the original stock. and SO it
was determined to see what could be
done by going back to where the potato
originated and starting out anew on the
trail of the perfect tuber. There is an
American gentleman living in Chile.
whence we got the Irish potato, named
Jose d. Husband. He furnished the De-
partment of Agriculture with the seeds Of
200 varieties of Chile potatoes. and with
these the plant breeders made crosses with
the best varieties to be found in this coun-
try and in Europe. The young plants were
carefully brought up in three greenhouses.
Their early life was a pampered one.
When big enough for transplanting they
were transferred to pots, and after
time they were set out in the seven-acre
tract on the Potomac flats. where the de-
post of silt for centuries had produced
fine alluvial soil deemed ideal for the
experiment. These young potatoes were
most carefully hand-reared. Their well
fare was most sedulouSly looked after.
The result showed that care would be
repaid with love and affection even by as
lowly a thing as a potato. Ordinarily,
seeding potatoes are about the size of
marbles. These, however. were of good
size. and on harvesting them it was found
that half of them would weigh a pound
each. and as the product of a single seed
a full peck was sometimes found In hill.
Prof. William Stuart. who made the
crosses and conducted the experiment.
was delighted.
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IL M XII nom

been numerous riots between these
Greeks and the foreign monks, and not
long ago the people demanded that the
patriarch, or head of the Greek Church,
resign. The native monks threatened to
put him out, and the Mohammedan au-
thorities here wired Constantinople as TO
what they should do The sultan has
favored the outsiders. He telegraphed
the patriarch to hold on but nevertheless
there were more riots the people rose
and the patriarch is here now only on
sufferance.
The fight among the Greeks is to some
extent sentimental, but it is also largely
one for the loaves and fishes The
Greeks are the most powerful religious
body in Palestine, and their property
runs high into the millions. They have
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An inherited Vice.

DICHARD HARDING DAVIS, at a foot
~ ball game in Philadelphia. praised
the voices of the young undergraduates
shouting their weird college yelIs
1T makes me think of Locust street
BRIDE" said Mr.. Davis smiling. "She
turned to her husband one night at dinner
and remarked:
my DEAR the first time saw you was
at Franklin Field. Your head was thrown
back your mouth was wide open and
your face was very red-you were yelling
your college YELL
man.
land / noticed she continued, what
a remarkable voice you had
"'Yes, you spoke Of it at the time
said he. But what makes you think OF
it now?
oh, nothing said the bride. Only I
wish the baby hadn't inherited it. That's
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The CIaque.
AVID BEL.

AVID BELASCO. in an interview in
New York, said that without atten-
ton to the minutest details theatrical
success could rarely be attained.
And yet" he added, smiling. even
this grand virtue of attention to details
may be carried to excess. Thus a certain
playwright said at rehearsal TO his lead
ing man:
Now, remember. John, after you
speak this line, Helen, I will save you
though l perish pause and wait for the
applause
But the leading man sneered and an
swered cynically:
How do you know there'I be any ap-
plause?
That is my business, not yours,
JOHN the playwright answered with
calm confidence
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Samos and other places now hold all the
fat jobs, and that they are compelled to
work for something like 81 each per
month. They do the pastoral work or
the villages and act as the priests of the
towns. On the other hand, the outsiders
have amassed fortunes. They pretend to
be hermits and devoted to fasting and
prayer, but they are accused of living
luxuriously and of keeping establish
ments which are by no means as good
as they should be.
Indeed, the fights among the warning
Christians are such that the Mohamme-
dan soldiers have to use whips to keep
them i'm order. The Turks are always
on guard in the Church of the Holy Sep
uIcher. | have seen them there at Easter
time. when they were whipping the quar-
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gold. In the meantime each Of the bish-
ops has cast one of his shoes. and he
holds his bare foot out to be washed. The
patriarch does this quickly, splashing the
foot with water and drying it with a
towel. AS he finishes this operation he
kisses the foot, and then goes on to the
next one in turn. l have seen this
ceremony with my own eyes in COM
pany with 10000 more sghtseers and
pilgrims.
But let me tell you about my talk with
his beatitude 1t was arranged by an Of
fetal of the church. and the audience took
place in the patriarch's house, a great
stone building near the Pool of Hezekiah.
and not far from the Church of the
Sepulcher. His beatitude lives there
with ore hundred monks, and many fine
looking Greek priests stood about as l
went up the stairs of rose-colored marble.
/ passed through several rooms filled
with hfgh-capped, black-gowned eccie-
siastics. and as I waited priests and bish-
ops from the four quarters of Greek
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Catholicism passed in and out One of
the priests, who spoke English. went
with me into the audience chamber, and
gave me a seat at the right of the throne
He asked me to wait, telling me that his
beatitude would be in very shortly
In the meantime there were others who
had come for an audience and the long
table in the center of the room and the
chairs on each side of it were soon filled.
The most of the men We're bearded,
fine-looking priests, dressed in black
gowns and high caps.
As We waited servant brought in
silver tray containing plate of rose and
white cubes of Turkish delight and sew
eral glasses of water. Upon the tray
We're many silver forks, each having two
fine tines as long as my little finger Az
the candy was passed each man OF us
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he grim skeleton
that long has lain
at Uncle Sans
postern gate is at
last to be diSinter-
red and searched
for the long-sought
clue to the blacklist
maritime mystery
that ever veXed
the world. The un-
dertaker has been
rirked end is all
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THE Greek Church and Its

THE Greek CnurCn anu 1ts
i Factions-Palestine as a
Show Proposition and How
the Monks Are Working It
Christians Flogged by Mo-
hanmedans - What the Ma
tives Want - An Interview
With the Patriarch of Jeru-
salem-He Is the Pope of the
East, and Controls Millions
His Beatitude Says the World
Will Be Christian-He Sends
Blessing to the United
States.
Copyright. 1910. by Frank G. Carpenter.l
Special Correspondence Of The Star.
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ready to ply his spade. Ere long the cor
oner Will be sitting upon tn crumbled
bones and then-lest they might rattle
again in some neighbours closet-they will
be consigned for all eternity to the
lethean depths.
Excuse me, sir, but 1 have to inform
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JERUSALEM.
| l. Z S T l y f. 1 S
boiling and seeth-
ing with the quar-
relS OF religious
fanatics. Every
sacred place in
the country is
claimed by the
Greeks, Latins, Ar
menians and Copts.
The hottest spots
are divided up into
sections, and lines
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-06

monasteries. converts and hospices scat
tered over the Holy Land from Dan to
BeerShSba, and at all of these the pill
grims who travel over the country make
contributions. Some of the places are so
valuable that the priests in charge are
said To pay a lump sum of a thousand
dollars or more year for the privilege
or presiding at each of them, expecting
TO recoup themselves from the gifts of
the pilgrims. Here in Jerusaem there are
thirty-five Greek monasteries and other
big buildings managed by 600 monks
The Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the
greater part of which belongs to the
Greeks, brings in tens of thousands of
pounds every year to the church There
are thousands of Russians who make pill
grimages to this city, and each is ex-
pected to leave an offering according to
his wealth and spiritual desires
The Greek Church also owns the shops
of new bazaar which has been opened
near the Holy Sepulcher, and ii holds
the titles to the most valuable of the
buildings about the Jaffa gate and
David's tower. including that in which
the Grand New Hotel is.
The native monks say that the Greek
priests who have been imported from Con-
stantinople, Athens, Smyrna, the Isle of
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1t will take perhaps four years Yet to
sort out all the undesirable potatoes and
try out those which are saved with thor
oughness After this has been done the
Secretary will consider himself lucky If
he secures three or four or five really
promising varieties. If he should sue
coed to this extent he will have the prom
sing candidates tried out still further
on the experiment farms in various parts
of the United States to ascertain whether
they like the conditions in the various
localities. Potatoes are likely to prove
fanciful. When a potato does well at
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are drawn here and there indicating the
church to which each part belongs. The
various sects are divided among them
selves as TO who shall control the mon
asteries, converts and other institutions
belonging 10 them, and the quarreling
goes on over the very spot where Christ
was born and upon that where ii is sup
posed the crucihxion took place.
These quarrels are serious. Knives are
frequently drawn and many are killed.
A short time ago monk was shot by an
Austrian pilgrim in the Church of the
Nativity at Bethlehem. nd just before
last Easter gigantic candle was sent to
Jerusalem addressed TO tie care of GER
tain priests. This candle was nine feet
high and two feet thick, and as far as
its outward appearance was concerned
seemed TO be entirely of wax IL was
shipped in from abroad and was intended
10 be lit inside the Church of the Holy
Sepulcher, and to burn there while the
celebrations were at their highest. At
that time the church would have been
filed with Greeks. Armenians. Latins and
Abyssinians. When the candle came to
Jafa the customs officers held it for
duties. and sent word To the priests to
come and get it. They failed to appear,
whereupon il was cut open and five thou
sand little dynamite balls were found
inside il Had il exploded at the time of
Festivities ten thousand or more people
would probably have lost their lives.
That candle was probably sent by
Greek who is disgruntled at the church.
and in his desire for revenge cared not
how many he killed. There is a great
war going on among the Greeks and 1
am told that some of the factions have
refused to go to the Church of the Holy
Sepulcher until their wrongs are righted
turkey mas now a new constitution, by
winch II IL provided that every sect
shall own and control its own churches
and church property. The Greek Church
here is ruled by outsiders, and the Greeks
who are natives of Palestine claim that
they have the right to the church and
church property. There have already
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a MERH TIGHT FENCE
%SEEZ

W7ATER-TIGHT Fence of
w Steel Built Around Her
Then Water Inside Pumped
Out-Propped and Carefully
Dug Out From Mud by
Water Jets, She Will Stand
Again on Her Keel While.
Final Postmortem Is Held
Then Injured Bow Cut Off;
Hull Calked and Floated-
Finally lowed Off for a Deep
Sea Burial.
Copyright. 1910. by John Eifreth watkinsl
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Il

OCopyright. 1910. by John Elfreth watkin.l
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-01-24
MAN WAS
SERIOUSLY HURT
Henry Parker, Son Of e. q. Parker, Of
EiiisviIie, Fell From Train and
Is In Critical Condition.

DR.. j. d. Donald of this City was
summoned yesterday evening to Ell
iisville to render surgical aid to Hen.
ry Parker, the eighteen-year-old son
of Mr.. E. B. Parker. Of that place, the
young man having been seriously in.
jured in an accident late yesterday
afternoon.
1t appears that the young men of
Elhsville have been accustomed to
jumping upon trains at the water tank
at Ellisville and riding down to the
depot, and young Parker was one of
number of boys who jumped the
train yesterday afternoon. The young
man caught the car and was holding
on to the ladder, it is said, when a
gust of wind threatened to carry his
hat away, and in an effort to catch it,
lost his balance and fell against a
cattle guard, suffering severe and per-
haps fatal injuries.
The young man was taken imme.
diately to his parents home, where
he received medical attention, but is
still in a critical condition.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-01-24
Ink at $500 a Pound.

'The best India mkt should really
be called China ink-never leaves Chi
ma" said Il missionary. 1T costs 800
pound. and the scribes use it in writ
ing the correspondence of the royal
family and the mandarins. India ink
is made of the oil of poisonous seeds
of the sesamum or COLA tree. Varnish
and pork tat are added to the oil. and
then. by means OF combustion. nll is
changed to lampblack. The lampback
paste mixed with glue is beaten for
days on an anvil. and musk il gradu-
ally mixed i'm 10 give perfume and the
purest gold leaf to give a rich luster
Finally the inl, is dried lin molds for
about month. What makes the best
India ink so costly is Its purity and.
above all. the long time given to its
combustion and subsequent beating.
If you saw its beauty You wouldn't
think it dear ut 500 pound. "-Phila-
delphia Bulletin. itts
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-01-24
OF THEa
UNITED STATES
Principal Articles Exported, December
and IL Months Ending With De-
cember, 1908 and 1909.
(By Associated Press.)

Washington, Jan. a. Detailed
statements of the exports of the Uni
ted States during the calendar year
1909 have just been completed by the
bureau Of statistics of the department
OF commerce and labor. They show
reduction in the value of exports of
nearly all the important agricultural
products except cotton, and in this
article the increase in value of ex-
ports is due entirely to higher prices,
the quality exported in the year being
less than in the preceding year. Speak
ing in round terms, wheat exports
amounted but 81 million dollars
against % million; flour, 80 million
against 81 1-2 million; bacon, 90 mill
ion, against nearly 2S million: lard,
40 million, against "a million: hams
and shoulders, 20 million, against "a
Million fresh beef, 1-2 million,
against 16 million; and cattle. 1G mill
ion, against "a million in the proceed
ing year. Raw cotton exported is val
ued at 462 million dollars, against 439
million in the preceding year, though
the quantity in 1909 was 1891 million
pounds, against 4,347 million in 1908.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-01-24
G0VERNOROHOLDS n
UP Appointments NJ
Is Awaiting the Creation by LeaisIa.
ture Of Several New Circuit and
chancery Districts.
Special to The Neaos.

Special to The NeUs.
jackson, Miss, Jan 24.-Governor
Noel continues to hold up all judicial
appointments, awaiting legislative
action on the recommendation in his
biennial message that several new
circuit and chancery court districts be
created.
The terms of one or two members
of the judiciary have expired and they
are being allowed to hold over until
the legislature determines whether
additional districts are necessary in
order to properly handle the states
volume of litigation.
A Joint committee is at work on tae
question, and several sittings of the
body will be held during the current
week. 1t is expected that by next
Saturday the committee will be able
to formulate bill showing the new
districts and present it to the two
houses for passage.
The task is one involving a grea
deal of labor, and many conflicting in
terests, especially in view of the iact
that-the legal fraternity has a large
representation in both branches of the
legislature, and these members have
their own ideas on the subject, and
some of them have selfish interests
that they desire to have fully consid-
cred
1t has not yet been determined
whether to create two new chancery
and three new circuit court districts
or only one new chancery and two
new circuit districts. This is one of
the principal points at present under
discussion.
In the meantime Governor NOEL is
being allowed to give mature consid-
Grafton to the qualifications of the
numerous applicants for judgeships
and chancellorships that have been
filed in his office. However, legisla-
tive matters have occupied his mind
So HuCH uuIiHS lie past IHTee weeks
that he has given but little attention
to the patronage question.
The Governors recommendation for
the creation of the office. of county
attorney as an auxiliary to the jude
larry system seems to be meeting with
much favor in both branches of the
legislature. Some of the members
however, are strongly opposed to Gre
ating this office on the fee basis, be-
lieving that the incumbent should be
paid stated salary. The general
tendency in Mississippi for the past
fifteen years has been to. get away
from the fee basis in arranging COM
pensation for public officials, and
there are very few officers in the
state who do not receive stipulated
salaries.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-01-24

Hagenbeck IN his book says that bah
oons are caught in traps made much
like the huts of savages. Food is put
into the huts. and once the balloons 60
inside a trapdoor closes behind them.
Outside balloons make a great to do
and urge the prisoners to escape
When the trappers come the captured
balloons are terror stricken and try to
force their heads through the walls of
the huts. One baboon. was caught
three times in the same trap. and sew
eral when turned loose got back into
the same trap second time. When
the balloons are carried away all their
comrades thereabout climb into trees
and scream out to the prisoners, who
answer in sad. mournful voices. On
one occasion some big Arabian bah
Oons were trapped. when 1000 or 5000
balloons hurled themselves upon the
trappers. who had hard work to save
themselves with firearms and clubs
As the trappers were forced back the
victorious balloons tore up the trap
and turned loose the captured balloons
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-01-24
H0KE Smith MAY
TRY FOR GOVERNOR
Prominent Georgian Thinks the ex'
Governor viii Try to Beat Cover
nor Brown to t,,,e se;ond Term.
OBJ AsSo ted I esq.,

New York, Jan. "a OF. John y.
Armstrong. of G-J4gi.-, VINO was Ill
New York recently, says that there
are liable to be some interesting poll
tics in the Empi e state before long.
Il wculd not be at ali surprised to
see Governor Brown have to fight for
his second term he said. You
know he broke the precedent that "a
governor shall have second term I'M
opposed by running against and de-
feating former Governor Hoke Smith.
Il do not think | will be accused OF
going too far when | say that Gov,
Smith does not hold the record for
meekness and the habit of turning the
other cheek when smitten on one. He
is withal a man of force with a large
following, and would not be at all
surprised if he gave Governor Brown
trouble.
Georgia is going along IN the even
tenor of her way industrially and is
happy and prosperous. do not look
for q re-opening of the prohibition
question for while yet anyway"
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-01-24
STEAMSHIP LIABLE
TO HEAVY PENALTY

San Francisco, Jan. 24.-The Ham
burg American steamship, Cleveland.
with go passengers from New York.
is due to arrive in this port in few
days, and the customs officials have
asked Washington If the landing of
her passengers is violation of the
coast-wise navigation act.
This law prohibits, under heavy
fine, the transportation of passengers
betweent ports of the United States in
foreign vessels.
The Cleveland is foreign vessel,
and the question is whether her round
the-world cruise from New York to
San Francisco brings her within the
application of the law. The penalty
is 5000 for each passenger SO carried.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-01-24
FLOOD REACHED
CRITICAL STAGE
River Seine Has Reached Greatest
Depth Since 1909, and RaInstorm
Adds to Peoples Terror.
tBy associated press.)

Paris, Jan. 24.-The flood situation
reached its most critical stage this
morning. The Seine river registers
flood stage which is the highest re-
corded since 1902.
A terrible tempest of rain and wind
broke over the city at daylight, adding
10 the horror of the situation and to
the suffering of the poor and the home
less.
The underground systems, as well
as the street railways, have not as
yet made an effort to resume opera
tion.