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mifed specimens for the microscope. pr. Ruffer says he felt satisfied beyond a doubt that "the old Egyptians suffered as much as we do now from arterial le- sions identical with those found at the present time. Moreover, when we consid- CT that few of the arteries were quite healthy, it would appear that such lesIons were as frequent 5000 years ago as they are today"
 As to causatives, Dr. Ruffer considers that tobacco can certainly be eliminated. as this drug was not used in ancient Egypt. While alcoholic beverages played part in Egyptian social life, Dr. Ruffer holds that It is clear that the Egyptians, as race, are not, and never have been. habitual drunkards. Moreover Dr. Ruff fer has found the disease just as common in over 800 post-mortems of Musselmans who had certainly never touched alcohol in their lives. This fact has led him to call in question the importance of alco- hol as a cause of arterial disease. As to the increased wear-and-teaI" theory of modern life, he did not find any evidence that old Egyptians worked 100 hard, either mentally or physically; the time tables of workmen which have been discovered show that the Egyptian day laborers of ancient times toiled practi- cally the same hours as the Egyptians do new. Meat, too, is something of luxury in Egypt, and Dr. Buffers experience in Egypt and the east has not strengthened the opinion that meat eating is cause of arterial disease. Finally, he holds that strenuous muscular exercise can also be excluded as cause, for there is no evil dence that ancient Egyptians were great ly addicted to athletic sports, though they liked watching professional acrobats and dancers. In the case of the priests and priestesses of Reir-el-Bahari, which formed the greater proportion of those whose mummies were examined, it is highly improbable that they were addicted to much muscular exercise.
 
 known as PeniuS-tlat brought fame to
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Roy MecardeII.s Fortune

Roy l.. McCardell of New York, who was some years ago a resident of Birmingham and an Age-Herald work CT, has won the first prize of s20O0 in cash and solid silver trophy in the shape of shield, valued at 5000, in the Rice Electric Display conlpany's g Leaders of the World" advertising phrase contest. This was for the famous moving chariot race electric light sign at Broadway and Thirty eighth street tic largest electric light sign in the world. There was total of S1 1000 in cash prizes and there were many con- testants Those in charge, in making their official announcement to Me. Me Cardell, said:
 You stand without a rival In hav- ing the greatest number of ideas ac- cepted. You can best appreciate the recognition and honor that this be- slows upon you when you realize that there were over 25o, 900 ideas submitted in this contest from all parts of the world"
 The advertisers were for g of the leading concerns of America-such as -AihiOui N Soi oiipOidil 1ituHir gu Oats, Waltham Watches, New Haven Clock company, Ford Automobile, Thomas Edison, etc. Each contestant was to submit no more nor no less than two catch phrases or slogans, and Mir. McCardel had a perfect score.
 A Birmingham citizen who is per sonally acquainted with the winner said: Roy McCardell was always full of grit. He was a very bright young man when I knew him, and l am not surprised at lis great success in New York. His old friends will certainly feel like congratulating hins'
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oLIvER's AMBITION.

ol-l lstt S AMBITION.
 Acton Davies, the dramatic critic tells story of Oliver Herford, the humorist. Herford never had a serious thought in his life As baby, feeling the prick of q pin which fastened his little bundle to- eether, he used to laugh instead of cry about 1t. "Herford sat next to a soulful poetess at dinner one night" Davies re- lates, and that dreamy lady turned her sad eyes upon him. Have you no other ambition. MT. Herford,' she demanded, than to force people to degrade them- selves by laughter?'
 ''Yes. Herford had an ambition. A whale of an ambition. Some day he hoped to gratify it. The lady rested her el- bows on the table. and propped her face in her long, sad hands, and giowed into Mir Herford's eyes. Oh, MT. Herford she said, Oliver! Tell me about it. T want to throw an egg into an electric fsn. said Herford, simply. ."-Cincinnati Tlmes-Star. PAUL COOK.
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COMPANIONABLE LONELINESS

From the London News.
 There is loneliness in the highlands that is not loneliness. Fishing by little blue lochs hid far up among the hills, drifting with the wind, swelling your Tug sail among the islands. groping your way beneath the rowans and the dwarf oaks up a narrow glen, where the burn leaps blithey down from rock to rock among the fern and moss, sitting still of an evening on the hillside watch ing the wonderful changing coors of the sunset and the gloaming, you are never lonely.
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ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

 his living as female ifnpersonator in vaudeville. and being tough while of duty is the way he gets lis recreation" "A POOR MAN. 'Dr Wiley says every healthy man ought to be worth s12.0Oos Then my health Is wretched"
 THRILLED. Miss Gladys Law, ff She almost died
 When first she saw
 The spiral glide.
 NEVER. A poet sings the value of Nx A sympathetic smile, But women never get it if Their clothes are not in style.
 MUSHY. He fingered late
 She didn't mind; He was her "fate"
 And love is blind. f
 Birmingham Age-Herald. They we'd and then
 It was his fate
 To catch it when
 He fingered late.
 Springfield Union.
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Tine tracing of the ancestry of Johndee back to the Planta agenets will harm no one. The Plantagenets are dead and there is no one to object 10 the adoption of any family crest that the oil king may
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A FATHERS SACRIFICE.

Dad" said young Jack Shiftless of Os- horne to his father, Old Bill Shiftless. the other night, T want to go to the show tonight "A show at night is no place for a kid like you. You should be at home in bed But I peddled bills and nave two tiekets,' said Jack as he began to sniffle. All. right then," answered old Bill T will go with you to see that you don't get into trouble. ."-Osborne Farmer.
 OUT OF THE WAY.
 That. traveller ss
 I've yet to see.
 Who's ever been
 To Tripoli
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Senator Stephenson was either fright fully careless with his money or else ne Knew where it was going and what il vas bringing in.
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Ex-Solicitor McCabe will not be a can didate for President or Vice President on the standpat ticket next year, however
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AN INVITATION

From the Atlanta Constitution,
 Birmingham is invited to send 1900 peo- pie over to see what a new modern tour ist hotel is built like.
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The Wrights are conducting experi- ments with their new buzzard aeroplane at Kill Devil Hill on the North Carolina coast. The entire business has an eerie sound
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The pure food act is about to go in op- oration after years of suspense. Still, tlat Remsen board of referees stands in the way
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k1IIl.IOYS.

MILLIONS What foolish wights are they who think This good old world is on the blink; Who can not see ray of light, Or any good, from morn to night; Whose faces are so wondrous long, Thcy'd freeze the fountain source of
 song And startle off sweet happiness To find a more benign address. They merely growl when others smile And wear a dark frown all the while. Their grouch Is so intense we fear That nothing on this earth could cheer These mortals cold. who cast a blight on every blooming thing in sight And make of life, ofttimes so fair, A dreary round of bleak despair. W hene'er we see folk such as they, Who drive all lovellness away. Whose very presence seems to chill Our budding hopes and make us ill, With hshlilSe eyes. complexons green, The thinnest lips you've ever seen And every attitude so grim We'd like to tie can to them.
 HOPELESS. "Baklns is the most impractical man | ever saw
 ''Is he really?" "BeyQnd doubt Why, he is just the sort of fellow who would open a soda water store in Germany
 AUTUMN LAY. How mefrily the poets sing About the fall of frost! Ye plumber doesn't, chirp,>by jng!- He simply counts the cost Of mendine pipes and adds thereto A profit very pleasing, For having so much work to do Just when the weather's freezing.
 TOO BUSY. Do you believe that married life is Lest for man?n Well, 1 know one thing" And what is that?" "A man can't do much mischief when he is holding a pair of twins"
 HOW NANNY
 How many of us are unto
 Our imperfections blind,
 Particularly people who
 Are lazy in the mnd
 A POSER. Think you are smart. don't you?" "Oh, 1 don't know, Well, then. let me hear you give a ouicl< definition, right off the reel of con- structive philanthropy"
 CONTRAST. "IIe semes to be what is called tough guy Don't be too hard on him. He makes
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installment plant The birds do ike wise.
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Intere.t in Rellgion

This city used to be called Bad bir- because there was so many homicdes hereabouts, but 1t strikes me
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Pure food is looking up. Tn the days of McCabe the interests were cared for rather than the public health.
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No senatorship is worth S107,0oo, and Lorimer and Stephenson both paid too much.
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The Portuguese royalists either need more supporters or better press agent.
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TENDER MEMORIES

known as genius-that brought fame te the Santa Fe man.
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The critics of hymns are not writing better ones so far as any one has o6- served
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MT Borden of Canada and AIr Madero Of Mexico are now in the throes of pick ing cabinets. and neither is happy
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+ Judge Grosscup does not resign until criticism of his acts cease he will serve 10 the end of his days.
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The yellow peril will disappear when tie Panama canal is opened It stays even now against all reason and common sense.
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The Tripolitans simply folded their tents like the Arab and silently stole away.
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Ii is proven that 45,0o0 cigars and 20,- o0o glasses of beer elected a senator in Wisconsin.
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Judge O'Rear, the republican nominee for governor in Kentucky, is striving to stay in the front despite his name.
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The conquest by Italy of Tripol closes the last slave route to Mohammedan countries.
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Mme Nordica Is in favor of woman suf- frage, but the position of Lillian Russell on this great question remains undef1ned.
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President Taft is in the land of the Recall. but he is himself beyond it's range at least until November of next year.
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4 POSER.

A POSER. Think you are smart, don't you?' "Oh, 1 don't know, Well, then. let me hear you give a otlicl< definition, right off the reel of con structive philanthropy"
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TELEPHONE

Bell (private exchange connecting all departmental No. 1900.
 Peoples: Editorial rooms, 231; busi- Ress office, 230.
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AUTUMN LAY.

HOW MANY How many of us are unto Our imperfections blind, Particularly people who Are lazy in the mind!
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CONTRAST.

guy
 Don't be too hard on him. He makes
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uOPEIESS.

"Bnl1ins is the most impractical man l ever saw
 'Is he really?"
 Beyond a doubt. Why, he is just the sort of fellow who would open a soda water store in Germany
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Entered at the Birmingham, Ala, pcstoffiee as second class matter under act of Congress March 3, 1879.
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revision upward of the country's dams is demanded.
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one. The Plantagenets are dead ant there is no one to object to the adoption of any family crest that the oil king may desire. The Wrights are conducting experi- ments with their new buzzard aeroplane at Kill Devil Hill on the North Carolina coast. The entire business las an eerie sound.
 Ex-solicitor McCabe will not be a can didate for President or Vice President on the standpat ticket next year. however much the interests may admire him.
  1 Senator Stephenson was either fright mlly careless with his money or else he knew where it was going and what il vas bringing in. , The pure food act is about to go in op- oration after years of suspense. Still tbat Remsen board of referees stands in the way.
 The yellow peril will disappear when tie Panama canal is opened. It stays even now against all reason and common sense.
  Mime Nordica Is in favor of woman suf- frage. but the position of Lillian Russell on this great question remains undeflned. ---e.--- President Taft is in the land of the Recall, but he is himself beyond it's range at least until November of next year.
  Judge ORear, the republican nominee for governor in Kentucky, is striving to stay in the front despite his name.
  Mr Borden of Canada and MT. Madero of Mexico are now in the throes of pick ing cabinets. and neither is happy.
  Pure food is looking up. Tn the days of Mccabe the interests were cared for rather than the public health.
  1T Judge Grosscup does not resign until criticism of his acts cease he will serve to the end of his days.
  Ii is proven that 45.000 cigars and 210,- ooo glasses of beer elected a senator in Wisconsin.
 The conquest by Italy of TripoH closes the last slave route to Mohammedan countries.
  The critics of hymns are not writing better ones so far as any one has ob- served.
 No senatorship is worth S1070oo, and Lorimer and Stephenson both paid too much.
 The Portuguese royalists either need more supporters or better press agent.
  The Tripolitans simply folded their tents like the Arab and silently stole away.
  A revision upward of the country's dams is demanded.
  Uncle Ike Stephenson was no tight Xad"
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MRS. O'LEARY's cow

Uncle Ike Stephenson was no tight X5ad
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-01
The Chinese Situation.

The question as To China now appears
10 De not so much whether the Manchu
government will be able TO maintain It
Self as whether the successful revolution
Will carry 10 the point of a complete
practical reorganization with everything
hanged from the old regime The old
order has already crumbled before the
advance OF the new spirit of protest. The
empe or has IN series OF edicts ac-
knowledged his shortcomings and prom
ised certain Of the reforms demanded.
some Of them. however. remain unsat-
isned such az tile immediate oreaniza-
zion OF "A parliament; guarantee that
constitutional amendments should origi-
nate In parliament. that the army, though
subject TO the control of the emperor. be
not used in domestic troubles except un-
der regulations adopted by parliament
that parliament elect premier. he ia
turn 10 appoint tho ministers Of state
that parliament approve the budget and
all treaties aiecting the general peace
e The country, aud that the qualifications
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-01
of electors for members of parliament be

of electors for members of parliament be
defined
What has been granted is the assurance
that the emperor is no longer to have
absolute power of life and death. the par
doning OF political exiles. establishment
of a responsible cabinet and the exclusion
OF royalty from the cabinet. Thus it
would appear that. despite the remark
remains to be done before the revolution
is complete.
The whole difficulty in China arises
from the fact that the government is in
the hands OF race alien to the great
ma iority of those who are known to the
world as Chinese There is traditional
hatred between Manchu and Chinaman.
a hatred 81 bitter that at times it has
caused violent outbreaks Tile Manchu
dynasty has been maintained by military
power since its eStabli shment in 1914.
The government at Picking has been al
ways careful 10 man the Garrisons at
important points with Manchu forces,
pla cling no dependence in the Chinese for
military strength. All officers Of the gov
eminent have for centuries been Man
chus and. with rare exceptions. the per-
uuiSiteS have gone to the ruling race.
The population of China proper is about
10000 900. of whom probably not 10 per
cent are Manchus.
The most sinister suggestion in the sit
uation today is that the Manchus at
Picking have become desperate and now
threaten 10 call a massacre of the Chi
nese as last resort TO check the agrees
sions and demands of the victorious rebel
army. \ disposition is said 10 prevail to
takes revenge for the massacre of Manchu
soldiers and civilians at Taiyuan-Fu, when
fully 1000 lives We're sacrificed. A most
serious situation exists at the capital. but
fortunately the legations are much better
prepared to defend themselves against
mobS or organized hostile forces than
they We're in 1900. when the Boxers be
sieged them. There is no suggestion of
anti-foreign fanaticism in the present sit
uation. Indeed, it is indicated in some of
the diSpa tches that the Manchu man
darins may ask protection from the lega-
tions in case the government at Picking
collapses under rebel pressure.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-01
The Districts Share of the Cost.

1t is especially gratifying to find that
the District of Columbia is practically
through with its grade crossing damage
cases with less cost than was anticipated
when the work of providing proper rail-
road terminal for Washington was under
taken. According to the final report of
Special Counsel Sinclair. it was estimated
at the outset that the damag eS.assessab BILE
against the District would amount to
fully S60o,oD in the neighborhood of the
Union station alone. The actual pay
ments TO owners of property in that part
of the city have been s379.2t 10, or $500
1890 less than the amount estimated
nearly 81 per cent. So often is it quite
the reverse in actual experience that this
saving is especially welcome
With only four cases to be disposed Of
the total grade damage cost TO the Dis
tiict, including all parts of the city, has
been S446,SS3.1O. The District paid in adj
dition half of the bonus granted by Con-
Sress TO the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road Company for the surrender of it's
right of way. This sum, $4,000 added
10 the grade damage awards brings the
Districts share of the expense of Union
station installation. exclusive of the cost
y otiuSc app odSIeS, up 10 ~, l3p, Sb3. 10.
not recrcai95 the interest paid bv the Dis
trlct upon the money advanced by the
federal Treasury on the bonus payment
account. In all there has been probably
an expense to the District of about
S1.JuU.oOt. The United States mas paid all
OF the bonus to the PENNSYLVANIA road
in consideration OF its removal from the
Mall, S1,iUu.OOu, and half of the bonus TO
the baltimore and Ohio, s7.DtssL a total
federal payment of S2,2JO,Oup together
with half the cost of the approaches of
the bridges and subways. Thus, excIu-
sive of the bridge and subway PAYMENTS
the United States mas paid about 81 oy3 l6I
more than the District, owing to it's gen.
crosby to the Pennsylvania for the re-
iinquishment of a right of way and a
station site the free use of which for
years had more than paid for any equity
which could logically have been claimed
The District has never felt that it
should have been required to pay any
portion of bonus to the Baltimore and
Ohio for its abandonment of the grade
crossing system of entering Washington
and the substitution of less deadly
mode. The bargain TO pay the bonus was
made by Congress without consultation
with the District and without reference
TO the local ability TO pay.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-01
Joseph Pulitzer's Ambition.
the New York World.

=
A man of wide culture. commanding
intellect and compelling genius died yes
terday in Joseph Pulitzer. That he was
much more than this ny reason of his
tireless zeal in the public service, the
World is the imperfect but sincere wit
ness This. paper is his chief lifework.
1t has been his absorbing passion, not
as an end, but solely as means to the
expression of his ideas and ideals for
human welfare. Mr.. Pulitzer brought
from his cd world association with po-
lit cal wrongs and social abuses deeper
appreciation Of free government than
most men feel who were born to a share
in its birthright. He brought also q
high regard for order and authority, and
this grew stronger with him to the end.
He saw no true progress without law;
no true growth without justice. no true
democracy that was not broad enough
to shelter all. He saw in our government
Of checked and balanced powers the
highest type of human admin stration yet
dav's ed, and against strange new doc
trines. whether of executive usurpation.
or of shortcuts to hasty popular action.
or Of conquest and dominion over men of
other lands and races, he burned as liv-
ing flame.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-01
Peach Trees Blooming.

II is reported that peach trees are pink
with bloom in Georgia, and that because
OF this peach growers have no hope OF
peach crop next year and are contem-
plating chopping down their orchards and
planting cotton in their stead
This seems a ruthless way OF Furnishing
the trees for their indiscreton. The au-
tumn sun and wind playing springtirne
antics deceived these poor trees, and now
not the tempter. but the tempted. is to
suffer II is often this way. The sea-
son wooed these peach trees. they blushed
pink. and now they are to be chopped
down for their Irritation.
The peach tree Is too trustful. few ray
Of March sunshine will wake IL from IL
other pink and pretty things. Is capricious
Sometimes when the seasons WOO IL in
good faith Il declines To yield fruit.
Ru; he who faises peach trees knows
the risks he takes, and II days seem cruel
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-01
The Kaiser's Indiscretion.

Emperor William has got himself into
a pickle through an indiscreet speech
once more. The other day, talking with
bishop who heads certain German mis-
sions in East Africa, the kaiser said that
the menaced spread of Islam was en-
dangering the colonies and urged that
energetic missionary work be done TO
counteract the evil. This was printed in
leading religious newspapers and was i'm
rnediately rebuked by the secular press,
which pointed out the tactlessness of a
criticism of Mohammedanism which
might undo at one stroke all the work
r the German diplomatists in seeking to
gain the confidence of the Ottoman en-
pie il was indeed strange utterance
FOR him who has been hailed as the pro
tcc:or Of Islam" The kaiser has seen
tho point and issued a semi-officia de-
ria stating that he had not criticised
~, Mosiem activity. but simply expressed
lis conviction that the German missions
would not fail 10 carry out their work.
THIS incident suggests that the spirit
that once animated the emperor and that
kept all Europe in a nervous tension has
not entirely departed. Essentially impul-
sive. William has been perhaps the luck
lest monarch in modern times. He has
-sAsd enough indiScreet things since ne sue
ceeded TO the throne TO embroil him i'm a
dozen wars but he has not one on the
record UP 10 date In this latest happen
ing he has not been quite as fortunate as
heretofore. for his Reputation of the
criticism OF Islam ascribed to him has
left him exposed To sharp criticisms at
home for virtually temporiZing with Mo-
hamneia nlSm at Il time when the powers
are seriously asking whether the day has
not arrived 10 drive the Turk out OF
Europe.