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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-07
Reports Are Conf1ic ting.

Reports as to the extent of Bilbos in
juries conflicting. A physician who
attended the injured man at Alderman is
quoted as saying his skull is fractured.
Mr.. Henry was witness before the
legislature investigating subsequent to
the charges of Senator b 1bo that he had
been paid sum of money to forsake for
mer Gov. James K. Vardaman in the
senatorial caucus of last year, which
elected United States Senator Leroy
Percy as the successor to the late Sena-
tor A. j. McLaurin.
Following the legislative inquiry a
court trial was had of a Percy supporter
in the senatorial campaign and he was
acquitted of the charge of bribery pre-
fered by Bilbo. During the present polit-
ical campaign charges and counter
charges between several Of the candidates
have followed fast, and partisan feeling
has reached a high tension.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-07
WEATHER
Probably Fair Tonight and Satur.

Probably Fair Tonight and Satur-
day.
For the District of Columbia, probably
fair tonight and Saturday; moderating
temperature: light to moderate north and
northeast winds.
Maximum temperature past twenty four
hours, 90; year ago. 81.
A marked change to cooler weather has
taken place in the north Atlantic states
and the lake region. and somewhat lower
temperature prevails in the Ohio and up
per Mississippi valleys. The tempera-
lures are rising again in the northern
Rocky mountain region and the northern
plains states. and a change to cooler
weather has appeared over the north Pa
cific states. where temperatures are I'M
seasonably low.
There have been local rains in the
north Atlantic and south Atlantic states.
the gulf and middle plains states. the
Ohio valley and the Rocky mountain re-
giOn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-07

Maximum temperature past twenty four
hours, %; year ago. 81.
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Ex. Div. = American Sugar Refining
Company pfd.. IL and !. extra: New
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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-04-16

Many diseases have been cured by the
use of water and air alone Benjamin
Franklin, the great American philoso-
pher, said that the air bath and plain
living would cure all diseases. He gener-
ally sat for an hour entirely naked while
writing or studying and then dressed
for breakfast. Another method Of TAX
ing the air bath is to expose the naked
skin of the whole body to the air for ten
or twenty minutes a day, walking and
rubbing the skin at the same time.
The sun bath has been highly recon-
mended for all nervous diseases, as a
tonic in all diseases. and in cases of bad
nutrition skin diseases, consumption,
dyspepsia, partial paralysis, neuralgia,
and rheumatism.
The method is to expose the naked
skin of the whole body to the sunshine
daily, beginning with ten minutes and
increasing gradually TO thirty. the patient
lying with the head out of the sun. This
is always followed with a sponge bath in
tepid water.
The use of water in various ways. with
out the aid of any kind of medicine, is
highly recommended by many of the best
physicians in the world for the cure of
disease, even acute diseases in their worst
forms. The majority Of physicians who
favor the water cure recommend fasting
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-04-16
Skeleton of Man Found in Thames that
Proves by Its Location to Be at
Least 10000 Years Old.

One hundred and seventy thousand
years ago an Englishman was drowned
in the Thames some miles above Graves
end, and his body was never recovered
until recently.
The remains of this unfortunate Briton
now lie in state in the British Museum
more than any one else to prove the great
antiquity of the human race in its pres
ent state of physical development.
For man. according to these recent dis
coyeries, is infinitely older than has here
tofore been supposed. Only a few years
ago, comparatively, the most popular
theory on the antiquity of the world was
that of Archbishop Usher, who had COM
puted that earth and man were created
in the year 1904 B. c. 1t seems laughable
now that such a childlike estimate of the
worlds age should have been accepted
less than a hundred years ago by men Of
scientific attainment. But such is the
fact.
But II was not until the discovery of
the early Briton who had been drowned
in the Thames that the most daring mind
ventured beyond 10000 years for tho alb
solute limit of human life. A second
feature of this discovery, Of remarkable
significance, Is the fact that this man Of
10000 years ago was not near-ape- He
was a man whose personal appearance
was almost that of the man of the pres
ent day.
When the fact of mans antiquity be-
gan to be accepted IL was with a reser-
walton. 1t was commended that while man
the animal had been on earth for many
thousand years. II was not until a COM
paratiyely recent date that he assumed
his present physical characteristics. I'm
til within the last ten years 1t was held
by DR.. c. w. Saleeby and others that
man became a psychic. seif-conscious
animal not more than 5000 years ago.
Prof n. S. Shaler. the Harvard geol-
ogist found some evidence that prehis-
toric man had reached his development
from the apelike state in the tools of his
manufacture. The Caloveras skull found
in California was that Of a toolmaker
who. according to calculation, lived $1,000
years ago. Some doubt has been cast on
the authenticity of this skull, and II
this doubt is wei founded We have no
absolute evidence of man as a thinking
creature more than 10000 or 1900 years
ago.
Evidence in Tools of Manufacture.
But the skeleton found at Galley Hill,
above Gravesend, in what was the bot
tom OF the Thames River 10000 years
ago, contradicts all theories of the re-
cent development of man from the ami
NAL state. His skull and frame CORE
spond so closely to those of the modern
man that there can be little doubt that
he had as much OF mental development
as the savaSes of the present day.
Prof. Arthur Keith, CONSERVATION of the
Royal College of Surgeons, demonstrated
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-04-16
APPARATUS FOR INCREASING
CROPS BY ELECTRIC SHOCKS

petition and they usually own their own
farms, so that they have greater induce
ments to make experiments.
The principal Scottish station is on Mr..
Lows farm at Balmakewan. Kincardine-
shire, and in England there is one on Mr..
Bomford's land at Stafford, Priors, and
the other at G. R. Newman's nursery
at Bitton, near Bristol
The apparatus consists of an engine
running a special machine. which sends
only positive electricity along the wires
These wires are thin and, therefore.
they discharge a lot of electricity into
the air. The current Is sent along them
at high pressure.
The wires stretch across the field or
garden at a height of twenty feet The
escaping current reaches the plants and
stimulates their growth.
San increase of 80 per cent in the cleo
trically shocked crop, as compared with
one grown under ordinary conditions, is
not considered high.
In the case of wheat II has not yet been
possible to get out figures showing the
profit resulting to the farmer. because in
some cases the wheat is not yet thrashed-
An installation to electrify the crops on
300 acres could be fitted up for $500.
The treatment is no good for peas or
beans. It acts as a stimulant and not as
a food, having the same effect on plants
as sunshine.
Plants are always taking electricity
from the air, and the apparatus only
supplies them with more. 1t is worked
from spring until the end of summer.
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Electric shocks for crops. Sunshine
turned on by a switch. .Stimulants by
wire for plants.
In the race for efficiency between sci
ence and nature, science has taken an
other step forward, and the above mar
wells are already an accomplished fact
You can now buy an electrical appa-
ratus for shocking your crops into growth
from a company that has come into be-
ing as the result of experiments con-
Quoted by Sir Oliver Lodge, the famous
scientist, who is principal of Birming-
ham University.
Seven installations have recently been
erected in Germany. and there are two
in Scotland, two in England. and another
now on the high seas on the way to
Java, where it will be used to stimulate
the growth OF sugar cane.
AS association of the sugar growers
there has bought it, and it is going to
give it exhaustive trials, though it is
mate there are adverse
The stations in Great Britain are more
or less experimental, but the German in
stallations have been put up as CONNER
cial undertakings.
The German farmers are much keener
on new scientific apparatus than the Eng
lLsh. probably because they are better
educated as regards science.
Their crops are also worth more to
them because they have no foreign COM
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-04-16
HARIK KARI IN JAPAN FOR FAKE
DIR. COOK" OF IMPERIAL NAVY

one OF the influential papers Of Tokyo,
placed itself at the head of the Expedi-
ton Supporting Society, of which the
fiery Count Okuma was made president
Benefit wrestling matches and theatrical
performances were given in Tokyo, Osaka,
and Yokohama, and everything seemed
to be running fairly.
But recently enthusiasm began to
wane when II was seen that though the
head of the expedition had all of the
funds necessary he was making no move
to be off. The lieutenant, on his part.
said that he could not find the proper
ship. Every time he tried to buy a boat
its owners conspired to beat him on the
price. Then disorder broke out in the
picked crew which had been selected
against the time when boat would be
purchased and the expedition would be in
readiness to start 1t was said that Capt
Nomura- the navigator. was inclined to
court the sake jug too often and that
discipline fell to pieces.
So last month the Asahi withdrew
its support from the project and re-
pudiated Lieut.. Shirase. Then Count
Okuma allowed that he had been be-
trayed into a false position and he. too.
withdrew his support The count is now
trying to refund the contributions which
had been put in his hands, and some Of
the refunding will probably have to be
done out of that wise statesman's own
pocket.
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about 1000. This part u to be dedicated,
not consecrated. and will be used for
worship and for meetings for the present.
To maintain services here viii cost
$4,000 a year. There is endowment bring
ing in $25. 900 a year and wealthy people
have pledged the balance for a period of
five years. A choir school like West
minister in London will furnish singers,
and daily services will be maintained.
In structure itself there is a stone from
the ancient Cathedral of St John the
Divine at Ephesus, where st. John is
said to be buried. and throughout will
be found all of the features, showing
careful planning and study, that the
guide-book users look for when abroad
That is, America has built its greatest
cathedral with as much thought and as
many brains as were employed by Eu-
rope in the building of great cathedrals
there.
Some young men, 500 in all, with per-
mission of the Bishop of New York, and
taking care to have him present to speak,
christened the new cathedral, so to speak
That is, they gathered in its choir and
sanctuary ahead Of everybody else and
to the music of the great organ, for the
first time II was ever used, sang THE
Church,s One Foundation Is Jesus Christ
Her Lord These young men wanted
the Cathedral of New York and the New
World to stand for men and religion and
for young men and Christian leadership.
They wanted to start right, so to speak.
A photograph of these 500 young men
was taken. In the group almost every
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principal church in the city. and some
from New Jersey and Brooklyn, Is rep
resented.
The St. Paul Cathedral.
The new Cathedral of st. Paul. now
building under direction of Archbishop
Ireland and the people OF St Paul, rep
resents cathedral building in its best
form in America among Roman Catho-
lies. The cathedral projected by Arch
bishop Glennon and the people of St.
Louis does the same, and both stand for
the cathedral-building sentiment that is
everywhere prevalent The St Paul ca
thedral will be 275 feet long. 214 feet
across transepts, and seat $500 in pews.
with a total capacity for 1000 persons
Its cost will approach $4,000. 600. and to
date sS51. 900 has been expended. A pro-
cathedral Is also building in Minneapolis
The St Paul site is on the brow Of st.
AnthoEy's HILL An avenue was moved
by the city in order to improve and en-
large the site, and now literally the great
structure will be able to overlook the
whole city. The style is French Gothic.
and the symbolism to be put into 1t will
show it to be quite the equal of any Eu-
ropean cathedral 1t was begun in 19oi-5.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-04-16

They have a new remedy in Japan for
the cure of polar explorers who are sus-
pected of taking. 1t is harakiri, which
the discredited discoverer is urged to
perform upon himself with the aid Of a
short sword.
The Yamato, Tokyo newspaper, makes
this recommendation to Lieut.. Shirase,
of the imperial navy. the japanese DR..
Cook. The lieutenant's case is even
sadder than that of the Brooklyn ex-
plorer. for far from plodding over purple
snow fields and feeding gumdrops to the
little children of the frozen world, Lieut.
Shirase has not even left Japan on the
antarctic expedition which he had
planned. Now his countrymen have be-
gun to believe that he never intended to
leave Japan, and certainly that he never
will. The situation which Lieut. Shirase
faces is embarrassing.
About a year ago this officer announced
that he was going to head quick dash
to the south pole by way of New Zealand
and the Auckland Islands, and that he
intended getting away from his base
before Capt. Scott. at the head Of the
British antarctic expedition. had made
start.
As a matter of course. contributions to
equip the lieutenarts expedition began
to come in to him plentifully. The Asani.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-04-16
WATER AND AIR ALONE
CURE MANY DISEASES

for several days. followed by light diet
Of two meals 9 day to accompany it.
One of the most successful physicians
in America gives this advice:
Water alone is better than all the
remedies in the drug stores. Plenty of
hot water internally. externally, and
eternally is the best tonic. To get full
effects. drink or sip it slowly. Drinking
two to six quarts of pure water day
has caused the disappearance of morbid
growths, enlarged glands, enlarged spleen
and liver.
1T will cure kidney trouble, and is the
greatest Alternative in the world There
are few agents that possess SO many
remedial properties as water. Drink it
cold or hot and drink it often and keep
the body clean with tepid baths and the
system toned up with cold shower baths
and you will never be sick"
The same physician gives the following
simple recipe for curing chronic sore
throat with water alone:
For sore throat soaE a towel in Icy
cold water, wrap It tightly around the
throat, wrap a dry towel over it, go to
bed, and in the morning remove the
cloths before getting up. This, repeated
whenever the throat feels sore, will
harden the throat so 1t will resist all
colds and will prevent recurrence of sore
throat and tonsilitis.>
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Era of Great Church Buildings Spread
Throug hout Country -Cathedral of
St. John the Divine in New York.

The opening of the SO, 000 900 Cathedral
Of St John the Divine, New York, and
the conservation of its sanctuary and
two chapels next Wednesday, while not
able, is only a part of a great era of
cathedral building. Indeed, America is,
it is claimed by those in position to
know, quite as much in the mood of
cathedral building as the Continent of
Europe or England itself in earlier times.
In the Roman Catholic and Protestant
Episcopal churches there have long been
cathedrais. so called. Many Of them, like
St Patrick's, New York, Roman Cath
Ollie; All Saints, Albany, and st. Johns,
Denver, Protestant Episcopal, have par
ish organizations. In Cleveland, Detroit,
and dozens of other cities are churches
going by the name of cathedral, many
of them with deans and some pretensions
to European foundations.
There are. however. five great ventures
at cathedral building in America in prog
ress and several others projected. Near
" all of these ventures are comparable
with cathedral building in Europe In
matter of site and outlay. if not in
length of time under construction. Three
of the five are Protestant Episcopal, two
Roman Catholic. in New York, on a
site in Upper Manhattan that in many
respects surpasses any cathedral site in
Europe, is the Cathedral of st. John the
Divine, now to be opened in incomplete
shape. 1t has thus far cost $, 10000.
WaShington's Cathedral.
Here in Washington, on Mount st. AL
ban, a wonderful location and site. are
laid the foundations of SIS. Peter and
Paul Cathedral that will overlook, when
completed, the entire National Capital.
On Knob Hill, San Francisco. covering
the former Croc!-er block on California
street and overlooking the bay, guard
ing the Pacific gate as st. Johns does
the Atlantic. Is to be Grace Cathedral.
In St Louis. Archbishop Glennon is
erecting the Cathedral of St Louis, and
in St Paul. Archbishop Ireland is erect
ing the Cathedral of St. Paul. These five
great struCtCr 5-to-be are in the fore
front of what Christian leaders expect
to be an era of American cathedral
building that may surpass anything Eu-
rope ever knew. They say the reasons
which brought into existence the Euro
pean cathedrals exist in America thou
sandfold more potent to-day than they
did in Europe when the great fanes arose
there. However. there is some change
in the point of view.
Americans who are responsible for this
cathedral era, at least those who have
projected these great undertakings. have
a definite plan. They are not carried
away by sentiment They argue that if
commerce erect palaces fer trade, the
state erect palaces for government, So
ciety erect palace hotels for personal
comfort, and individuals who can afford
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these facts short time ago to British
anthropologists.
"One is struck by the modernity of the
type" said Prof. Keith. TT is true that
there Is probably not a single individual
in these islands to-day who shows all of
the features of this man. The extreme
length and extreme narrowness of his
head may be approached by some, his
short stature "a little over five feeO by
many, but few would show the curious
features of his thigh bone and the rela-
tive shortness of his leg bones. Very
few would be found to possess the same
relative dimensions of teeth. but in many
men an equally retreating chin and a
corresponding form of forehead can be
seen.
Modern Man an Ancient Type.
His brain was somewhat below that
of the average modern man in size. but
bigger than is often found in highly in
tellige:rt people. The lesson that has been
brought home to anthropologists and
archaeologists is that the modern type of
man. the man who has shed all traces of
simian traits in face, feature. and body
is infinitely older than we have hitherto
supposed"
The Galley Hill man had a peculiarly
elongated skull and a neck that would
be unusual on a modern man because of
its thickness. His face was much short
er than that of the average man of to-
day. But his forehead had none of the
sloping character and lack of frontal de-
velopment which We associate with the
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-04-16
AGE OF MAN SET BACK BY
DISCOVERY OF NEW BONES

skulls found at various times in caves
and gravel pits. The mans chest was
narrow and his legs slightly more bent
than is usual among modern man. But
he was not hairy and hideous ard ape
like He must have been, according to
Prof. Keith, a presentable sort Of an
cestor.
The great ,remoteness of the time in
which this Galley Hill man lived and
died is figured from, the erosion of its
valley by the Thames. The glacial drift
in the English river valleys IS found ao
or more feet above the present water
level. The Galley Hill man was found
in this drift. in the ten-foot gravel STRAIT
UNI which covers the chalk and Is known
as the 100-foot terrace, and is regarded
as the former valley of the river. The
bones were found at the bottom Of the
gravel by employees of cement factory
who were removing this covering in or
der to get at the chalk formation.
The skeleton lay in deposit Of sandy
clay, which denoted a pool in the bottom
of the old river. The river must have
carried a far greater volume of water in
those days, for in some places it has
worn out its valley .tosa width Of six or
eight miles. $50.
Skeleton Found In Clay Deposit.
The river is now 100 feet below the
level where the body was found, and it
is known to have at one time occupied
a bed forty feet below its present level
so that since the Galley Hill man was
buried at its bottom the Thames has.
lowered and raised its level at least 1Io
feet.
AS the level of the river is known to
have made an almost imperceptible
change since the period OF Roman occu-
patton, it will be seen how vast a period
of time has been required for this erosion.
II rate of one foot for each thousand
years Is allowed. it will be seen that the
Galley Hill man. the Oldest known Brit
on. must have lived at least 10000 years
ago. and perhaps at a much earlier date.
This being true, the average man Of
the present day is a far more distant
descendant of Adam than he had sup
posed himself to be.
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Mezor gfMe GHeN<zl

money; but leaders are as keen in the
church as in commerce They have well
digested plans. There is a cathedral
building era ahead, but it is an era I'M
der control.
st. Johns, New York.
St John the Divine, New York, was
begun twenty years ago by the Right
Rev DR.. Henry Goldman Potter. Bishop
of New York His vision was ridiculed.
Even a Vanderbilt said s10,00O0O0 was
too much to raise and fifty years too
long to be in building. He offered s1.00O,-
goo and proposed five years for compile
ton of the structure. The bishop de-
clined so brusqucly. as has always been
said, that his larger project, launched
on his original lines, did not receive
Vanderbilt bequest in any sum. But
within twenty years the large statesman
ship of the late Bishop of New York is
seen by practically everybody. Bishop
Potter was ahead of his time. New
York is beginning to realize the value,
even the economic value if you will, of
the great cathedral project just now to
be secured in its partially completed
stage.
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CATHEDRALS IN AMERICA
APPROACHING COMPLETION

The site Of st. Johns Is the center Of
New York to-day. and unless Manhattan
Island loses its prestige some time in the
future it will always remain the center
On an elevation to which has followed
the cathedral many institutions, of which
Columbia University is the chief, there
is gathered here the most wonderful
group In the world; and on its own close
the cathedral is to be surrounded by
diocesan structures, making it in turn
the most complete working plant of its
kind in the world. A part of this plant
Is to be a great hall, to be for New York
what Albert Hall is for London, while
the cathedral itself is to be not mere
Protestant Episcopal place of worship,
but a religious center for all New York.
for all America, for all the world, and
not religious center merely, but a mis-
sionary and a civic one. The Sunday
night following its opening there is to
be held in it a great world peace demon
stration, in which Great Britain and the
United States, through rulers of both,
will express their sentiments on this