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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-14
Motor-Driven Ship.

+ The announcement that a motor driven
ship Of 1900 tons is in contemplation
suggests a notable advancement. There
is some obscurity as to the size of the
considerable number OF such vessels
which are now under construction, but it
is probably not an exaggeration to say
that, the projected ship will be nearly
twice as big as any of them. There is
no real ground for establishment in this,
for there was never any reason to sup
pose that the limit to the use Of the in
characterization engine had in any de-
gree been reached. But what may still
be called more or less experimental
application of the motor. there should be
this readiness to embark upon the con-
struction of such a huge Dissel-engtned
vessel It indicates a confidence in the
oil engine which can hardly turn out to
be unjustified.
There is some reason to believe that
this l4,OO0-ton ship Is to be built and
engined on the continent. II SO, it will
only be in strict accord with the enter
prise which continental owners have
shown. At the present moment the prin-
cipal shipbuiiders in this country stand
ready to construct Oil-engined ships of
practically any size. but from the usual
channels of Information little Is to be
gathered which shows that British ship
owners are ordering at all freely. On
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-14

and now ii is going to try what is styled
devils skim. This was at first thought
to be "A joke. but the statement runs:
A new fatigue and summer uniform
Will now be tried. IT is i'm cotton velvet
called devils skin. and consists of a.
vest, overalls and puttees Ga gray green
cloth Ii will be experimental upon by
the 10th Infantry at Courevoie. the 21th
Dragons at Versailles, and the artillery
batteries of the Military School of Paris
The last batch of reseda unlfor.n cost
$4,000. II is to be hoped that IL the
devils skim is to be tried on the same
extensive scale il will have a longer
lease of life. One of the newspa pers is
unkind enough to remark that there are
more important reforms required. and
perhaps better ways of spending the
money, such. for instance, as improving
instruction camps, increasing ammuni.
ton reserves and adding to the field ar
tillery. Devils skin" is a kind or
corduroy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-14

ms is In obedience to a quaint regula-
ton whereby prisoners are never sent by
train from place to place, as there are no
funds set apart for railway fares Con-
sequently four or five times as much is
spent In food. drink and lodging for the
escort as would be for the ticket: but the
regulations are observed. In such cases
the police often use the "poucettes,
though, strictly speaking. this instrument
Is not legal. 1t Is a sort of loose thumb
screw, which Is fixed to keep the two
thumbs comfortably together so long as
the man does not struggle. but a twist of
the string held by one Of the police is
enough TO destroy any wish to escape.
perhaps. but the 'cabrioiet' may be rec
commended to the police generally as a
very light. handy and effective substi-
tute for the double handouts
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-14
Love in a Lightship.

James B.. Connolly's story. "Lightship
81. in our next Sunday Magazine, is
right up to the highest standard Of fiction
that this famous author has produced.
OF course. it is a tale of the sea, as sea
stories are the basis of his reputation.
Lightship folk have all the rugged quail
ties Of men whose life has to do with
ocean craft, and their sentiments and
points Of view are generally direct and
of a primitive character that admits Of
no deceit. The author shows these ele-
ments at their best and worst; with, uit1-
mately. the best triumphant, as it usual
ly is in such cases.
1t is the old tale of two men and
woman, with the inevitable Jealousy and
grief for one, who, for a time. Is taking
an awful revenge; against all the tradi-
tons of his class. 1t is too bad that
the story is too long for entrance in our
prize story competition; for 1t would
surely have been a formidable competi-
tor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-14
FRANCE TOEXPER|MENT
WITH ANOTHER UNIFORM
It Will Be a Kind of Corduroy
and Is Known as
"DeviPs Skin"
Foreign Correspondence of The Star.

PARIS, December 4, 1911
All through the summer the troops of
most regiments in and near Paris were
dressed in "mignonette green" but the
minister of war has now repudiated this
as a general color. and decided Ito in
trust two great artists with the task of
preserving in French uniforms the ma
tional and artistic characterics" Hith-
erto what was sought was "a color that
will harmonic with various crops and
the change Of seasons" but this chame-
leon-like tint was finally recognized to
be unattainable In attempting to real
ize it the French army has successfully
gone through shades Of blue gray, blue.
gray, gray-green and grsy-mignonette.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-14
The Way in Germany.
From the Rystander.

From the Bystander.
Last year a Russian traveller asked a
Berlin railway official on which platform
a. train of a particular city would arrive.
The official nodded to one side. The Rus
sian interpreted this as permission to
cross the rails in the direction of tho
nod.
A shunter engine went over him and
cut of his arm. week later in hospital
he received a Strafmandat requiring him
to pay 45 marks for ''unauthorizedly and
to the state railway regulations contrary<
ingly crossing the line"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-14
Socialism at Oxford.

\ writer in the Daily Express" pro-
tests against the teaching of socialism
now going on at Oxford University. He
says that if people only knew to what
extent the doctrines preached by social
lists are gaining ground for serious con-
temptation and discussion among the uni
versity students they would be positively
alarmed.
You have only to listen to a debate of
the Union Society when some of the so
ca lied advanced members are speaking
on political and social questions to realize
that underlying their views, though they
only express them specifically at the
union, there nevertheless is the wild and
idealistic teaching of the socialists slow
ly and stealthily creeping into the minds
of deep thinking, sturdy, practical young
men.
There is that GLORIOUS ideal state OF
the socialists turning the minds of these
young men and shutting out the hard,
actual facts of everyday life. 1t is most
extraordinary to notice how these young
men are becoming purblnd to actual
facts
The advent of DR.. Gore. the new bishop,
will not improve matters. as he Is a
"Chrstian socialist" AS is also DR.. A J.
Carlisle and Canon Scott-Holland. L am
'donS'' are really socialists, but in their
dispense their socialism for the delecta-
ton of their hearers in a highly seasoned
dish and delivered in a "high-falutin"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-14

the Clyde Messrs. Barclay, Curle & Co.
have just launched the twin-screw oil-en-
gined JutIandia, of 5000 tons gross, but
she is not for British owners, but for
the East Asiatic Company of Copenhagen
This vessel will altogether dispense with
steam, even her donkey engine being
oil driven. The saving of space and
weight. as compared with steam-driven
Ship is well eXemplified in the Jutlandia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-14
ODD HANDCUFF DEVICES
USED BY FRENCH POLICE
Prisoner Sometimes Made to
"HobbIe" Himself by Placing
Hands in Pockets.
Foreign Correspondence Of The Star.

PARIS, December 4, 1911.
Scarcely day passes without a picture
in the press of a prisoner being led OF 10
the station by a policeman and the de-
scription, 1.-The Apache being taken away
handcuffed by the agents" AS a matter
of fact handouts are altogether out OF
date in France and are never used. In
stead of the bracelets" every policeman
carries "cabriolet," which Is a very
rough ana massively made article, resem-
bling . huge watch chain some ten inches
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-14
Famous Old Church Burned.
'spondence Of The Star

BERLIN, December 2, 1911.
: The charming old church of Tharau,
near Koenigsberg. has been destroyed by
the Teutonic orders and is noted as the
church where "Aennchen Won Tharau''
worshiped and where her father. old Pas
tor Neander, was minister. 'Aennchen''
Is the heroine of one of the sweetest
German lyrics, known all over the world
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-14

immense possibilities of aerial navigation
are not yet fully realized; failure or sue
cess might be finally determined by the
employment of this new arm. One re-
suit had. however. already been pro-
duced by the use Of air craft in maneu-
yers-the ordinary typographical features
portance to the conduct of war had large
ly lost their significance.
Forests. hills. streams no longer con-
stituted insuperable obstacles or impene-
trable methods for the concealment OF
troops. The principal function Of the
military aeroplane is reconnaissance.
Even today an average type Of machine
could be depended on to make success
full flight of $50 miles with one two
passengers on eighty per cent OF the days
of the year. Moreover. the early hours
of the morning and the hours preceding
nightfall, which are usually the decisive
periods of the day, are precisely those
hours when owing to the comparative
calmness of the atmosphere, the aero
plane can be used to best advantage. a
commander can then rely on dispatching
a staff officer as passenger on board an
aeroplane to a point sixty miles distant
and on obtaining reliable information
within three hours.
On the outbreak of war each army can
send out its fleet OF aerop.aneS on recon-
naissance bound. The first day will brin e
the rival air craft in collision, with the
inevitable result that the side possessing
the greater number of good aerOplanes
will sweep the sky and remain in COM
mand of the air
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-14
The Aeroplane in War.

Capt c. j. Burke of the government
air battalion has delivered lecture on
1.-THE Aeroplane as an Aid to the SOlu-
ton OF Strategical Problems" Capt
Burke stated that the principal point to
be considered was the manner in which
the coming of the aeroplane affected the
two principal schools of military thought
in Europe. Even at the present time the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-14

1t pays tor read the want columns of
The Star. Hundreds Of situations are
filled through them
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-14
New Story of King and Queen.

Earl Grey, for more than thirty years
a champion of copartnership housing
schemes, told new story of the king
and queen the other night. when he was
welcomed home by a large gathering Of
garden city enthusiasts.
Two years ago, he said. he came over
on a holiday to England, and one Of the
first pleasures he allowed himself was a
visit to the Hampstead garden suburb.
The same day he took luncheon with the
Prince and Princess of Wales, now king
and queen. He pressed upon them the
desirability Of seeing the spot for them
selves. The prince called for his engage
ment book. After glancing over it he
said regretfully. that he had not an after
noon free.
Then the princess spoke. But we must
go there" she urged. We've just got
to find time" And they did.
Even kings" commented Earl Grey.
get their best inspirations from their
wives
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-14
READY TO COL0N|zE
Many Applicants for Duke of
SutherIand's Offer.
TRY SCHEME IN CANADA
Plan Is to Furnish British Settler
With Funds for Farming.
SCORES TEACHING SOCIALISM
As Doctrines Are Taught at Oxford
University, Writer in London
Paper Sees Harm.
BY w. HAMILTON RHODES.
eign Correspondence of The Star.

correspondence VI Int ctdi.
LONDON, December 1, 1911.
There is likely to be no lack of appli-
cants eager to take advantage of the
Duke of Sutherland's great colonization
scheme for Canada. Already a large
number of persons have asked for further
particulars of the plan.
The plan, as explained by the Duke of
Sutherland, is to give the British settler
help and cement when he most
needs tat the beginning. There are
two definite methods of doing this. One
is to provide ready-made farms to those
with a little money of their own with
which to buy their stock. payment for the
farm being spread oven ten years at a
low rate of interest. Under this plan the
settler simply comes in with his family
and his stock; there are no weary months
of clearing and building.
The second plan opens Canada to the
man without capital who desires to work
on the land. \ large tract Of land in
Alberta has been purchased by the Duke
of Sutherland and those i'll association
with him. and it will be maintained as
"A mode! farm by farm manager.
1T will be. in d sense the duke states,
"a school for farming, where an I'M
trained man or youth may learn the
farmers art. The wages of the men Will
be double the amount they receive here. .
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-14
Not Apparent to Passersby.

Few Of these devices are apparent to the
casual passer-by. who often wonders at
the passive docility with which some vii
famous looking individual under arrest
follows his captor to the station. Some
times on a country road one may meet a
couple of .gendarmes, on foot or horse
back, leaaing q prisoner between them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-14

long. with a stout wooden crossbar at
either end. An expert can slip this over
the wrist of an offender in a twinkling
and. with both the crossbars in his hand
has only to give 1t a twist to infiict the
most excruciating pain and compel instant
and lamb-like submission.
Another common method OF preventing
escape is to make the prisoner place both
his hands in his side trouser pockets and
then pass a string around his wrists and
around his waist and bid him march. He
can walk at a very smart pace. but any
attempt to run out OF a shambling trot
Immediately brings him down. nose to the
pavement IL no string is handy. all the
brace buttons Of the trousers are cut of
and the culprit is made again to put his
hands in his pockets. AS In the former
case, he can only walk. since SO soon as
he frees his hands his neither garments
fall about his legs. and he is .'entrave' In
the latest fashion.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-08-28

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A TEXAS WONDER.

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The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1911-08-26
ARBITRATION IN DANGER

The Senate adjourned without pass
ing on the arbitration treaties with
Great Britain and France, and these
measures of first Importance go over TO
the regular session.
None of the arguments advanced
against the treaties are of any weight,
and some of them are positively silly.
The out-of-date Monroe doctrine is
the principal scarecrow held up by
some senator's to the public gaze. They
have lost sight of the fact, if they ever
were aware of it, that both Great Brit
ain and France have American possess
ions, the formers flag covering more
square miles than our own. The Mon
roe doctrine was good thing a hun
|dred years ago. but about all it is good
for now is to enable the thankless
greaser republics to the south of us to
avoid payings their debts.
President Taft, in his speech at Ro-
chester Wednesday made an earnest
plea for the ratification of the treaties
by the Senate in the same shape as they
were signed.
The president in referring to objec-
tons that have been made against the
| treaty brought up a question of in
terest to the South when he said:
with reference to the right to in
volve the United States in contro-
versy over the obligation of certain
Southern states to pay bonds issued
during reconstruction which have been
I repudiated, it is sufficient to say that
such a question would not, come within
the treaty for the treaty only affects
leases hereafter arising, and the cases
of the Southern bonds all arose years
lago."
| The gist of the whole matter is tina,
some small-bore and pompous men are
trying to inf1ict their egotism on not
only their own country but the entire
world. And the worst of it is that they
may succeed.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1911-08-26
.. s~CASTLES IN SPAIN

After having spent the greater part
of two months in Spain, not only in the
cities, but in the smaller towns, J.
Hamilton Lewis of Chicago returned
a few days ago and makes the follow
ing interesting statement regarding a
delusion of the Spanish people:
"In the outlying districts" said Mr..
Lewis, Il found the people to be in a
peculiar state of mind on account of
the raising of the Maine. The senti-
ment in Spain is that the Spanish gov
eminent is using the reports that the
Maine was blown up from the inside
as the basis for an alleged demand
upon the United States for an indem-
nifty. The government. of course, does
not seriously consider this, but at the
same time the whole Spanish nation is
alive to the proposition that the Unit
ed States is to return to Spain the
Philippines and possibly Porto Rico
The revolutionary politicians are stirr-
ing up the people with these idle re-
ports. and the country is in turmoil
America is being used as the basis
for political advantage in Spain, and
it is pitifu1 to see the masses implic-
lily believing that the Philippines and
Porto Rico will again come under
their rule"
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1911-08-26
SIDE-SADDLE OR STRADDLE

The Short Talks man of the Times
Union, whose effusions are always
eagerly looked for by his brother news
paper men, adds the following to the
literature concerning the way the la
dies should ride:
''The Ocala Evening Star has been
discussing the much talked of sidesad-
die and its ultimate rejection and rele-
cation to oblivion, from which it came
a few hundred years ago with no bet
ter excuse than to allow a crippled
queen to follow her favorte mode of
exercise. That the women of today are
becoming more accustomed to the
proper way of riding is apparent to
|any observer. Sidesaddles are going
out and with them will pass the op-
portunity for some dreadful and much
regretted accidents The physicians do
not hesitate to say that the horseman
and horsewoman' should ride in the
same fashion. and the idea that ridng
lastride is immodeSt unwomanly
must go out with some other unreason-
a BILE theories and suggestions Horse
back riding is one of the most health
full and pleasant forms of exercise and
should be promoted. among men and
women, girls and boys. and every rider
block in a position to control his or
her own movements as we'll as those
of the horse. The girl or woman on
"a side-saddle is taking serious and un-
necessary chances"
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1911-08-26
COMES BACK TO CROWD

4 crowd of ships is termed a fleet,
while feet of sheep is called a flock.
\ flock Of girls is called a bevy, a bevy
of wolves is called pack, a pack of
thieves is called a gang, a gang of an
gels is called a host, a host Of pOr-
poiSes is called a shoal, a shoal of buff
faloes is called a herd, herd of child
rem is called a troop, a troop of part
ridges is called a covey, a covey CT
beauties is called a galaxy. a galaxy
of ruffians is called a horde. a horde
of rubbish is called heap, a heap of
oxen is called a drove, drove of
ackguards is called a mob, a mob of
whales is called a school, a school of
worshipers is called a congregation, a
congregation of engineers is called a
corps, a corps of robbers is called a
band, a band of bees is called a swarm,
and a swarm Of people is called a
crowd.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1911-08-26
CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY
CALLED TO CONSULTATION
j. III. BENJAMIN, Editor.

A great concIave Of trust ma gnates,
labor leaders, economists and legisla-
tors is to meet in Washington between
now and the reconvening Of Congress
to advise together on the economic
crisis which the nation faces.
John D. Rockefeller. J. Pierpont
Morgan, Judge Ebert Fl. Gary Of the
United States Steel Corporation, Geo.
w. Perkins, Samuel Gompers, John
Mitchell and others will be cited to APP
pear before a Senate committee and
give expression of the Sherman anti
trust and the interstate commerce
laws. whether they should be repealed
or abandoned, and if the latter, how?
These labor chiefs and captains of
industry will be requested to discuss
the advantages and evils of competi-
ton and combination respectively.
They will be asked to go into the
question of the relation Of employer
and employed. In brief, the question
which they will be asked to assist in
determining is whether it is better for
the commercial health of the country
that combinations now in restraint of
trade be legalized, or that they should
be dissolved and free and unrestricted
competition be restored.
Senator Albert B. Cummins Of Iowa
at the head of a subcommittee Of five
senators, will conduct the investiga-
ton. The investigation is intended
primary to assist the Senate commit
tee on interstate commerce in fran
ing a law to meet the business condi-
lions of the present day. Senator
Clapp Of Minnesota has turned the
matter of conducting the investiga tor
over to Senator Cummins, who is now
arranging for the interviews with the
great captains of industry and labor
which will begin in Washington or
December Is.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1911-08-26
another BIG INDUSTRY
Homemade Fertilizer for the Farmers
of Georgia and Florida

Mr.. j. G. Eubanks Of Union City, Ga,
IS in the city guest Of the Monte
yuma. Mr.. Eubanks is president Of
the Union Phosphate Company and IS
one of the largest manufacturers and
shippers Of fertilizers in the state of
Georgia.
Mr.. Eubanks' company bought a
tract of land one mile from Early Bird
four years ago from Capt. 5. r. Pyles,
who retained stock in the company.
The company will commence next week
to mine the boulders on the deposit,
which experts say is practically mex
shipped to Union City, where it will
Next year the company will put in a
big plant at the Early Bird tract and
take out the deeper deposits. The
company is capitalized at $4,000 and
is almost exclusively a farmers enter
prise. the stock of the company being
almost all owned by farmers of Geor-
gia and Florida.
The Star has often wondered why
more of our phosphate was not manu-
| featured into fertilizers at home in
stead Of being shipped abroad. while
our farmers spend fortunes every year
! buying foreign fertilizers.
| Mr.. Eubanks and his associates have
fertilizer manufacturing plants in sew
eral different Georgia towns and do al
enormous business. Mr.. Eubanks ha:
shipped to these plants this year more
| THAN 500 carloads of phosphate from
! Port Inglis.