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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-29
IMPROVING THE ARMY RANGE.
Device Designed Whereby Capacity
Is Much Increased.

A simple device for materially increas-
ing the cooking capacity of the army
field range has been adopted by Gen.
Sharpe, commissary general of the army.
1t is simply q large pan arranged in the
range in such way that 1t keeps the
direct fire away from the bottom of the
oven and adds largely to its cooking ca
pacity. BY keeping the fire from the
oven 1t also admits of a considerable de-
crease In the thickness and weight of
the metal parts composing the cooking
compartments. The improvement was de-
vised by Capt. Oscar ]. Charles of the
18th Infantry. at Fort Mcpherson, Ga.
That officer has been ordered to ST. Louis
to perfect the details for the conStruc-
ton of the range.
The interest of the commissary depart
ment in the new stove Is chiefly in it's
increased cooking capacity. Where it
was formerly necessary to carry two
stoves to supply q certain number OF
troops with their meals in the field,
the increased cooking capacity of the
new arrangement will make it necessary
to carry only one. Commissary officers
regard that as an important considera-
ton to travelling troop bodies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-29

It is said that the ancient EGYPTIAN
rulers carefully guarded the secret of
time recording
Secret OF from the people,
Recording Time. S sne 1nea u :, We
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-29
SHOOT PRINTING BILL
AIMS At BIG SAVINGS
Measure Reported, to Senate
Yesterday to Meet Deter
mined Opposition.

Another chapter in the long and in
vOlved history of the Smoot bill for re-
vision Of the printing laws, with a view
to simplifcation of methods and big finan-
cial saving, was added yesterday, when
Senator Smoot again reported the bill to
the Senate from the Senate committee on
printing, with recommendation that 1t
be passed with several amendments.
When the bill first saw the light Of day
in the Senate 1t contained a provision
for the printing of paper money in the
bureau Of engraving and printing on
power presses. That provision encoun-
tered the lighting opposition of the plate
plinters In the bureau, and a compromise
was reached. As result of the compro-
mise the money-printing controversy is
eliminated from the measure.
Employees Friends Rally.
But the opposition has not all been
swept away. The bill. as it comes from
the committee. proposes the abolition Of
the Senate and House folding rooms, and
the employees Of those offices-about Sow
enty-dve in number-are rallying their
friends on the floor Of the Senate and
House to fight for the continuance Of the
ofhces, and incidentally Of the employees
in them.
AS reported yesterday, the bill elimi-
mates the second volume of the blue book,
in which are published the names Of all
employees of the postal service. This is ex-
pected to effect a saving Of $25, 600 each
time the blue book is issued.
Several other changes in the bill were
made by the committee looking to econ
omy. it is estimated several hundred
thousand dollars will be saved each year
II Congress agrees to the bill.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-29
TAILORS WILL NOT ENLIST.
Clothes Cutters Refuse to Work at
Army Paw.

While the enlistment of men as COM
pany tailors. recommended by several
officers of the army, would be a very de-
sirable asset to the army, it Is pointed
out by officials Of the War Department
that the plan Is impracticable.
Although much better fit and appear
ances could be obtained by having the
clothes of the various companies con-
structed by an enlisted tailor, under the
supervision Of the company and regi-
mental commanders. there would be great
trouble in getting tailors to enlist It is
declared. for one thing. that it would be
necessary to pay higher salaries to at
tract such artisans. In some foreign
countries, where every able-bodied, man
Is subject to military service for some
period, 1t is easy to take advantage of
the various tradesmen enlisted. Not SO
with this country, where there Is no COM
pulsory service law.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-29

Inc next calendar revisionist is sal,
by many to have been Moses. When tn
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-29
SICK STOMACH, INDIGESTION OR
CONSTIPATED BOWELS CASCARETS

80 That awful be,ehng Of acid and foul that
ng feeling OF nes dizziness and sick headache Indigestion
1t somach's -
the and fermentng food
waste matter and poison from the bowels Then
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-29

Il
/ * X
by many to have been Moses. When the
exodus out Of Egypt
Moses Adopts came Moses decid-
Egyptian Year. to e'' adont IS tn asS r
tan year. A number of circumstances
point to the probable correctness of this
theory. the most striking being that there
| after the Egyptian and biblical chronol-
osies essentially coincide. That the Egyp-
| tians had remarkably accurate system
OF reckoning time is recognized by all
Psychologists.
The present Hebrew calendar is not ex-
actly the same as that Of the ancient He
brews. although the changes have been
very slight. 1t is a calendar based on
combination Of the movements of the
sun and moon. The ordinary year is :,54
days long. while the embolismic years
scattered through cycle Of nineteen
years. The Jewish New Year falls on or
immediately after the new moon after the
autumnal equinox
worth Of England that the explanation
Of the mysteries Of the pyramids of
Egypt Is that they were the great and
enduring clocks by which the Egyptians
measured their years and their centu-
ries. He finds that the great pyramid
was built so that it would consume its
own shadow on the day Of the equinox
Mr.. Cotsworth has pursued his theory
to all parts Of the world. and cites much
strong evidence in support of the idea
that, whether they be found in Egypt,
IN Mexico. in China. in England. in As
syria, in the United States or in Peru,
the pyramids mounds, obelisks or what
not represent the efforts of the ancients
to fix the length of the tropical year and
master the secret Of the seasons.
1t is said that the ancient Egyptian
rulers carefully guarded the secret of
time recording
Secret OF from the people,
Recording Time. s ne u :, We =
valuable asset in their hands This was
especially true in the Valley of the Nile,
where plenty or famine was largely de-
pendent on a mastery Of the calendar.
Furthermore. just as many rude saw
age has In more modern times had mis-
eyes opened in wonderment when pale
face successfully predicted an eclipse of
the sun or the moon. SO could the Egyp-
tian ruler impress his people with his
intimacy with the gods by forecasting
the next rise Of the Nile.
The Egyptian calendar had twelve
months. 1t began with the autumnal
equinox and had 800 days, with five in
tercalary days at the end of every year.
Counting nothing for the one-quarter
day at the end Of the year. the Egyp-
tians found that their civil New Year
occurred upon each of the 365 days OF
the solar year during a period of 1,461
years. The leap year was added at the
time Of the Julian reform. In this way
the civil year and the solar Year gradu-
ally drifted apart, and today the mod
ern Coptic calendar is exactly as far out
Of harmony with the solar year as is
the Julian calendar of Russia and Greece.
The Egyptians had seven planets in their
astronomy, which included the sun and
the moon. It was by this that they fixed
their week. giving each planet a day.
Their months were uniformly thirty days
long.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-29
Funds Used Up, Says Durand.

Director Durand, speaking Of the dis
charge of the clerks. said today:
Owing to the meager appropriation
made by Congress it was necessary to do
away with the temporary force. We kept
these clerks until the last. owing to the
fact that they were in two Of the most
important divisions where the work is the
heaviest. A slight delay in the work Of
the two divisions will be occasioned by
the loss of the clerks, but do not think
it will be serious.
THE entire temporary force which was
taken on at the beginning of the census
Of 1910 has now been laid off, This last
batch Of clerks has nothing to complain
Of, as they were given notice over q
month ago that the ak was to fall We
kept them as long as we could under the
appropriation We are getting"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-29
REVISING The CALENDAR,
IV-Egyptian and Hebrew Cycles.
By Frederic J. Haskin.
By Frederic J. Haskin.

1.-THE biblical year then was $50 days, tn,
two chronologies would tally.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-29

In these days when every home ana OF"
flee has from one to q dozen current cal
endars and almanacs there is difficulty In
imagining the situation Of primitive man
before g. calendar was constructed and
the return Of the seasons understood.
Neither can It be, easily understood how
serious were the effects Of manipulations
of the calendars in those later times when
the rulers knew the secrets OF the sea-
sons and the populace did not. OF course,
the calendar, like every other invention
Of mankind, is the result of long process
Of evolution.
In his earliest existence man could not
thought by most people to be probable
that the week, as the nearest approach to
the quarter-moon time, was the first unit
of time beyond the primary divisions Of a
day and night. How mans ideas expand
ed to comprehend the month, how they
came next to embrace the half year, and
finally heightened to include the tropical
year: how the exact duration Of that year
has been thing a hundred generations
have sought to fix; how the nations have
worked from the remotest antiquity to de-
termine a method Of time reckoning that
would keep the civil year forever stable;
these things constitute fascinating story
in the book of human progress.
The first glimpses Of antiquity which
history afford seem to be of time when
the week was the
Week the standard unit of
Standard Unit. W = In 9 xs !. o y :.
slider that it was q God-fixed unit through
His six days Of labor and one Of rest, or
whether we regard it as the quarter
moon, established by mans observation of
the luminary Of the night, 1t still seems to
remain the first unit of time. Later on
begins to hear Of the month. which was
originally the measure Of the time from
full moon to full moon.
There naturally is a tendency with men
today to consider that the civil year has
always been the same, approximately the
length of the solar year. But there are
many who do not share this belief.
Rather, they believe that the year has
been q variable unit and that at first 1t
measured the time for complete luna
ton of the moon, instead Of the time for
journey OF the earth around the sun.
Later, say those who hold this view, it
expanded SO as to embrace the time be-
tween equinox 'and equinox. They offer
the Bible as confirmation Of their view.
They say that it is not scientifically pos
sibie that the span of life could have
been so remarkably shortened In the
thirty two generations between Adam
and David as the biblical story would in
dictate. and that IL we consider that the
year heightened rather than that life
shortened, we will be on safer ground.
/.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-29
TEMPORARY CLERKS
Of CENSUS ALL OUT
Exhaustion of Appropriation
Causes Dismissal
of 281.

The ak fell at the census bureau again
today. looping of the official heads of oS1
temporary clerks, all that remained Of
the several thousand employed on the
thirteenth census. The census force Is
now reduced to the permanent employees
Those temporary clerks who were let
out today were in the population and ag-
r1cultural divisions. Thirty-eight states
are represented in the discharge and
twenty-six Of the clerks are from the Dis
trfct Of Columbia. The clerks were paid
of today. q
The discharged clerks bore their fnisfor-
tune as philosophically as possible Some
OF them were hard hit and others had al
ready obtained other employment, having
been notified January 10 that they would
go out Of the bureau with the end Of Feb.
ruary. Many have taken civil service
examinations and have had places ten
dered them. It was stated today that
there Is little chance for the DISCHARGED
clerks to get into the permanent census
force, as under regulations adopted at the
beginning of the census temporary clerks
are not eligible for transfer to the per-
manent force.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-29
Antediluvian
Ages Explained.

antediluvian year was measured by ono
lunation Of the moon, It will be found
that Adam. under our method OF time
reckoning, would have been seventy-five
years and three months old at the time
Of his death, while Methuselah would
have been only seventy-eight years and
nine months old. The proponents Of this
view Of the matter say that this coin
cides with the psalmists span OF life,
three score years and ten. They argue
that there could not have been q change
in mans constitution in the thirty-two
generations which Holy Writ says there
were between Adam and David-a change
that would have served to shorten the
span Of life to one-twelfth its former
proportions.
It also ia claimed that after the del
uge there came q lengthening Of the
biblical year to 100 days. and that this
year continued from Noah to jacob. who
made another revision OF the calendar.
This again, 1t IL said: would make the life
with that stated by David It would
make Isaac seventy-four and Abraham
seventy two at the time or their deaths.
When Jacob came to revise the calendar
Of the year to $50 days. dividing the sea-
sons into winter and summer. The Bible
states that he took rods Of green pop
lar and Of hazel and chestnut, and put
white strakes in them. and students OF
time-reckoning systems think he used
the rods to AK the dates Of the solstices
and eQuinoxes.
Tending to confirm the idea that in the
days OF Jacob the year was $50 days
long Is the statement Of the Bible that
Egyptian chronology places the sojourn
at Us years. Accepting the theory that
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1912-09-14
WILL SPEAK HERE
Gillhaus of the Socialist La
Dor Party, Coming.

Announcement was made today that
August Gillhaus, vice presidential can
didate of the Socialist Labor party, in
his campaign tour of the country, will
be in Richmond on September 19. The
Socialist Labor party is not to be con-
fused with the Socialist party, headed
by Eugene v. Debbs, according to a
statement issued today.
THE Socialist Labor party" de-
clares Gillhaus, holds in this cam
paign the unique position of being the
only party in the field that bears aloft
the banner of Industrial Democracy.
The party represent as vice presi-
dental candidate is the political stand
ard-bearer of the economic and politi-
cal movement of the working class
which is moving on to the overthrow
OF autocratic and irresponsible indus
trial administration by corporations.
trusts. private proprietorships or 9TH
erwise, and to the establishment of a
responsible. representative industrial
administration"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1912-09-14
STREET REPAIRS
MUST WAIT NOW
Commissioner Gem Claims
that Annual Appropria-
ton Is Too Low.

Street Commissioner Gem announc-
ed today that the work of the street
department would be considerably cur
tailed. His allowance from September
13 to December 81, 1912, is more than
1000 less than the amount allowed
him last year. Street work will suffer
as result, stated Mr.. Gem.
Commissioner Genn is also peeved
at the cut in his payroll for next year.
He was allowed $25,000- His payroll
this year was $4,000. Commissioner
Gem holds that $31, 900 is not enough
to carry on the work of the depart
ment as it should be done, and that
the $4,000 allowed for next year will
not permit him to do much street re-
pairing. Last year it cost the street
department more than $25, 900 to carry
on its work, besides expending over
$4,000 in additional street repairing.
How he will conduct the street de,
rartment with about six miles of i'm
proved streets added in 1918 on a sum
that is $4,000 less than that used last
year, is puzzling Commissioner Gem
When the ordinance fixing his budget
along with the entire city budget is
presented for the approval of the city
council next Monday night, Commits.
sioner Gem will ask for more money
The deficit this year in his depart.
ment is due to the removal of $4,000
allowed for crushing stone. Commits.
sioner Gem was promised $4,000 due
the city from the street car company
and other public service corporations,
but this money was spent on perma.
rent streets.
Il can clean the improved streets
make the annual cleaning of the
streets, pay my men, watch the alleys,
and attend to other matters on the
$3.50 allotted me, but how / am to
repair streets on this. sum. without
cutting other departments is beyond
my understanding" Commissioner
Gem said today. "If heavy storm
should occur next year and damage
the streets l could make no repairs
until more money was granted me
from the general fund"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1912-09-14
MRS. HENRY {, FOX
DIES THIS MORNING.
Wife of Circuit Court Judge
Was a Most Accom- l
plished Woman. -

Mrs. Henry c. Fox, wife of Judge
Henry C. Fox, of the Wayne Circuit
court, died this morning at eight
O'Clock at her home on National Ave
nue., West. .-. . .-
Mrs. Fox, an invalid for many years,
has been i'll for the past few months
and her death was not unexpected.
While her long invalidism excluded
her from participation in social life,
Mrs. Fox's death is deplored by many
friends who enjoyed her quiet hospi-
tality and esteemed her for her intel
lectual qualities, charm Of manner and
ready wit. A woman of catholic SYM
pathies and varied tastes, Mrs. Fox
was wide reader and was fond of dis
cussing the literature of the hour and
the trend of the times and did so with
much humour and acumen.
Mrs. Fox was, before her marriage,
Miss Helen Silvia Lindsey, and was
born in Kinsman, Ohio, on June 14th,
1s43, where she lived short time, Ia
ter going for residence to Kalamazoo
where she received her education and
studied music, in which she was tai
ented and proficient.
After completing her education Mrs.
Fox went to Butler County, Ohio, and
there became connected with the mu-
sjcal department of the Seven Mile
Academy under the auspices of Pro-
fessor Handy, a we'll known musician
of that day.
On May 30th, 1861, she was married
10 Henry c. Fox and removed to
Wayne County where she has since
resided.
| Judge and Mrs. Fox had five chill
dren, two, Helen Elma and Henry c..
no longer living; those surviving be
! ing Francis L., Frederick H., the lat
ter now living in Hannibal, Missouri
and Florence l., a Well known artist
Two grandchildren, Helen and Wilbur
also survive, the latter now attending
the U. S. Naval Academy in Annapo
lis.
The funeral will be held from the
residence at $3.50 on Monday after
noon. Friends may call between seven
and nine Sunday evening.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1912-09-14
NEWSPAPER men
HELP PAY EXPENSE
SO Governor Wilson Will Be
Able to Make Trip on a
-~-- Private Train.
tNational News Association,

sEAGIRT. N. j., Sept. 14.-Gov.
Wilson will enforce in his own cam
paign trips the economy which he has
advocated since he accepted the Demo
cratic presidential nomination. This
was shown today when he announced
the plans for his first western trip
4:3O p. m. tomorrow. One of the slow
est trains on the Pennsylvania rail-
road, No. II, which is not an extra
fare train, will be used. 1t will take
the panhandle route via Columbus in
stead of shooting straight through
Fort Wayne from Pittsburg and will
arrive in Chicago at p. m. Monday.
A private Pullman will he used be-
cause the governor will be accompan-
led by party of a dozen including
his secretary, two stenographers and
nine newspaper correspondents. who
by prorating the costs will enable to
keep the expense down to about what
it would cost him to travel alone.
Il dislike the idea of a private car,
but 1t seems to be necessary" said
Governor Wilson.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1912-09-14
BOOOLERS
OUTLOOK IMPROVES
Conspiracy About the Only
Charge the State Has
Against Them.
(National News Association


DETROIT, Mich, Sept. 14.-Prose-
cutor Shepherd said today that,
charges of conspiracy against Eddie
Schreiter, deposed secretary of the
city council and confessed CRATER
was the only one on which the prosecu-
tion could get him.
I'VE couldn't make any other stick
against him." said the prosecutor.
You know Schreiter made a heap of
money by putting matters through
the council, but much of this was
legitimate. He had an opinion from
a prominent Detroit lawyer to the ef-
feet it was perfectly legal for him to
accept fees from outside parties for
drawing up petitions, etc. He made
as much as $4,000 a year on the side"
Prosecutor Shepherd said that in
the revised Doodle list given by the
council clerk to Detective Brennan
are the names of Is aldermen, al
though only II are charged with con-
spiracy. The prosecutor says that in
the case of Alderman Skrzyzki
Schreiter neglected to state to him
that Brennan had pot that he was
going to split and thus the element of
conspiracy.
Attorneys for the accused alder
man say they will impeach Schreiter's
testimony in which he describes how
he negotiated for the payment of graft
money which was offered by Bren-
nan in the guise of a real estate agent
for the Wabash railroad.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1912-09-14
BULL. MOOSE WILL
NAME NOMINEES
County Convention Here
Next Saturday to Com
plete County Ticket.

Progressive candidates have an
nounced themselves for all offices for
which nominees will be named at the
county Progressive convention to be
held in Richmond, September q, at
10 o'clock at the court house.
Will Keller, candidate for prosecut-
ing attorney; B. F. Parsons, nominee
for recorder, and DR.. X. ]. Pierce, can
didate for coroner, who left the Re-
publican party, have accepted places
on the Progressive ticket
Cash Beall, business man of this
city; Albert Chamness, a farmer, liv-
ing in the northern part of Dalton
township. and Ed Hunt, a blacksmith
of this city. are candidates for the
nomination for county treasurer
Arthur Ballinger, a former shopman
of this city, now a farmer in Greene
township, has announced his candi,
dacy for sheriff.
Albert Anderson and Richard Dayen-
port, both farmers, are urged by their
friends to ask for the nomination for
commissioner from the eastern dis
trict.
Hugh Allen. of Hagerstown, is the
only candidate for commissioner from
the western district.
Friends of Levi Peacock, of West
Richmond, are urging him to accept
the nomination for county surveyor.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1912-09-14
UNKNOWN MAN SHOT
BY PRISON GUARD
Soldier Shoots When Sus-
pected Dynamiter Ap-
proaches the Walls.
tNational News Association,

JACKSON. Mich, Sept. 14.-An
unidentified man is lying in the hos
pital today, unconscious and fatally
wounded from a shot fired from the
rifle of militiaman guarding the
state prison here. Since the recent
prison mutiny the authorities have
feared attempts to dynamite the struc-
ture. A military guard has been main
tanned and the soldiers have been or
dered to shoot to kin any one prowl-
ing about the walls who refused to
halt instantly when commanded. Two
men were seen about the east wall
shortly before daylight They refused
to halt and the soldiers fired One
fell. The other escaped.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1912-09-14
STEAMER OLYMPIC
A HOODOO VESSEL
(National News Association)

(Natfonal News AssociatioB)
PLYMOUTH, Eng, Sept. 1.-THE
hoodoo which has followed the White
Star liner Olympic since she was
launched is still with her. The ship
arrived here today from New York
with one of the blades of her port pro-
peller missing. The accident occur
red at sea Wednesday night and caus-
ed fright among some of the passeng.
ers which took some time to allay. The
Olympic was late in getting in.
The liner was to sail for New York
on Wednesday, but the trip will prob
ably be abandoned to get her in dry
dock for repairs.