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Evening star., 1912-03-10
Blood in Early Therapeutics.
From the Dietetic and Hygienic Gazette.

From the Dietetic and Hygienic Gazette.
Though the successful TRANSMISSION of
blood has been one Of the therapeutic tri-
umphs of recent years. the idea that by
drinking the blood or eating the flesh of
another living being something of the ma
ture of that life was absorbed Is very old
and appears in many forms. In rites of
blood-b-otherhood men became brothers
by opening the Veins and sucking one an
others blood. Savage man thinks to inn
part wisdom to the living by bathing the
forehead with preserved drippings of the
decomposing brain Of another. Indian
captives OF noted bravery and endurance
were cut in pieces and eaten to absorb
their courage. Kaff1r chiefs on their ac-
cession were washed in the blood Of a
slain brother or other relative to give
them new vigor. In the friendship-co COM
pelling charm the blood Of a relative or
kindly disposed friend was saturated with
earth and mixed with the food of one
whose favor and assistance were desired.
Blood of an animal sacrificed for the ben
eft of sick person was spread on the
wall. or patients forehead. to reviyify
him. Mayas gave new life to the land by
sprinkling it with blood of slain fowls.
Some Indian tribes started the newborn
child in life by giving it blood, or urine
as a substitute for blood. as was GUS
tom of rustic nurses in New England.
Drinking blood was an ancient Greek
test of chastity and veracity. Drinking
blood of an animal was an ancient rite
for becoming possessed with a deity. or
devil and acquiring inspiration and power
of prophecy. At the entrance of the
realms Of the shades of the dead the
soothsayer Iiresias drank of the blood
Of the sheep Odysseus sacrificed and
prophesied; then the mother of Odysseus
drank and was vivified. and
straight all the mother in her awoke,''
and as she spoke ghost upon ghost
thronged around the blood and each her
race and her illustrious deeds recounted.
Evening star., 1912-03-10
,tures market closed barely steady.
NEW ORLEANS.

NEW ORLEANS. March 9.-Cotton fu-
lures opened steady at a decline of 3 to
points. Cables were about as expected.
and the weather map showed much rain
and a little snow in the cotton belt. The
promise of better weather to follow. how
ever, outweighed all other features and
there was more selling in the early trad
ing than the ring could take care of. The
evidence was that bulls were continuing
their profit taking.
Toward the middle of the morning there
was a rally on supporting orders from
leading bull interests and the trading
months recovered to within two or three
points of Fridays close. After the New
York market had closed considerable
pressure was applied resulting froin
heavy selling on the part of the bears
who looked for fair and warmer weatiie.'
during the coming week The ring WAS
unable to absorb the offerings and the
active months fell TO level to IL
points under Fridays final quotations.
The close was steady al the decline. q
net loss of to Is points.
Evening star., 1912-03-10
POISONOUS SNAKES.
There Are Not Many Species in the
United States.
,erican Museum Journal.

From the American Museum Journal.
1t would be fortunate il there were
some certain rule for distinguishing q
poisonous from a non-poisOnOus snake.
That the non-poisonous has large scales
on the head is not an infallible guide.
since the cobras and their allies are
quite as innocent looking; that the pois-
onous has usually triangular head dis
tinct from the neck is again untrust-
worthy. as many harmless specie. like
the water snakes, when under the In
fluence of fear initiate the sides OF the
head to a semblance of concealed poison
glands. Neither does an antagonistic
manner tell much, because certain harm
less forms. like the hog-nosed snakes,
so-calIed spreading adders." are agrees
sive in a higher degree than many dead
ly species.
This lack of distinction is not, for
North America at least, the grave mis-
fortune 1t would seem. however. for there
has been exaggeration In the popular
mind as to the number OF poisonous
species. In India, to be sure, where
people go with bare feet and legs through
the jungle, the time has been when NOR
tality from snake bite reached 10000 an
nually. This was before the discovery
of antivenin. serum prepared in the
same way as germ disease antitoxins
and now for sale in India, as In other
Institute has been established. AS early
as 1887 experiments proved that repeated
inoculation of snake venom put an
animal into a condition resistant to the
venom, but not. until 1894 was serum
dispensed for practical use.
In North America accident from snake
bite has always been a rare happening,
the dangerous species being few; namely.
two moccasins, the copperhead and the
cottonmouth: two coral snakes, small.
brilliantly co!ored allies of the cobras
and thirteen rattlesnales. With the ex-
ception of the coral snakes. these are all
pit yipers.'' and can be recognized when
seen near at hand by a peculiar deep de-
preston OF questioned function between
the eye and the. nostril and also by q
vertical pupil. But for snakes in general
the venomous species is marked by no
peculiar structure except the poison ap-
parafus itself. and many non-polsonous
snakes even possess the poison glands IN
a primitive stage Of development, lacking
only the poison-conducting fang. There
fore in North America. where out OF
about one hundred and ten species only
seventeen are dangerous to man, and OF
these not often more than two occur IN
a given district, the problem OF safety
even for extended expeditions into the
wilderness demands merely knowledge
of the appearance Of the few given
forms.
Evening star., 1912-03-10

Spot cotton-Steady, unchanged: mid
ding. 1916: sales on the spot, Leo
bales: to arrive. 400 bales: low ordinary.
67s, nominal ordinary. 711-1G, nominal:
9lk: low middling. 1916: strict low mid
ding, 10 3-16 strict middling, 1O7s: good
middling. Ills: strict good middling.
IL 5-1s: middlng fair. 11S; middling fair
bales stocks, 267.524 bales.
The net change in prices in the mar
ket for cotton futures this week was l6
to % points in favor of the bull side.
This advance was more the result OF con-
tinred unfayorable weather In the cot
ton belt than anything else. although the
leading bulls offered good support at
times. and there was always more or less
The high prices of the week were made
Friday and the low prices Monday. At
the highest the trading months were 81
to 3S points over last weeks close. and
under. Reports from the interior Of the
cotton belt during the week were uni
formly unfavorable. Even Texas sent in
gloomy reports OF the backward crop re-
sulting from the long-continued rain and
cold weather.
The result of these pessimistic reports
was to turn speculative attention strongly
to the new crop months which made
wider rises in prices than did the old
crops. At the end of the week the mar
ket was depressed on profit taking by
longs, and fresh selling for short account
on the forecast for fair and warmer
weather for Sunday. The labor situation
in Europe necessarily attracted much at
tention, but as market factor IL was
given second place to crop news, even in
the Liverpool market In the spot de-
partment a very good business was done.
and prices rose one-eighth. middling clos
ing at 10 9-16. against 10 7-16 last week
and II 9-16 this week. last year. Sales
on the spot amounted to 10.35O bales.
against 1910 last week and 3.223 this
week last year: sales to arrive amounted
to 3,94O bales, against 2095 last week and
5, 79S this week last year.
Evening star., 1912-03-10
The Kings Chapel Owl.
he Boston Transcrip,

fTOm tne bOstou lfduStTipt.
The presence of one owl after another
perched high in a tree in the Kings
Chapel burying ground during the last
year has caused many citizen to look
UP, then to walk into the yard of City
Hall and stand there gaping and to fol-
low with eager eye some ones directing
finger. The owl has been a novelty to
the busy city people and they have won
dered about his goings and comings.
There have been explanations. but now
comes what is vouched for as the reason.
Somebody who has an Office in the
neighborhood is greatly annoyed by the
English sparrow. and to rid the burying
ground Of them he has an owl sent to him
periodically: he looses the wise bird
among the trees nearby and the sparrows
at once begin to disappear. When the
owl is SO stated that he seeks a change
of diet and leaves the neighborhood,
another owl Is imported, and once more
the sparrows are raided.
Evening star., 1912-03-10
A Unique Verdict.
From Harper,s Magazine.


A Wheeling CIV. Va lawyer says that
he has heard many queer verdicts in
his tinre but that the quaintest Of these
was that brought in not long ago by a
Jury of mountaineers in a sparsely set
tiled part of that state.
This was the first case for the majority
of the jury. and they sat for hours ar
guing and disputing over it in the bare
little room at the rear of the courtroom
At last they struggled back to their
places, and the foreman, a lean gaunt
fellow with a superlatively solemn ex-
preston, voiced the general opinion:
THE jury don't think that he done 1t.
for we allow he wa mt there but we tn nix
he would have done 1t ef he'd had the
chaust."
Evening star., 1912-03-10
NEW YORK METAL MARKET.

NEW YORK. March 9.-The metal
markets were generally quiet and nom-
inally as usual Saturday. Lake copper,
14lsa14s.; electrolytic. 14lzal5h: casting.
137sa14a. Tin A. 50a42.S5 Lead, 4.O,a
4.l0. Spelter. 6.90a7.00. Antimony- --cooks
sons, TBS. Iron, unchanged.
Evening star., 1912-03-10

One investigator, the chronicle goes.
DR.. GosiO by name. was anxious to
find out something concerning the
vitality OF human cells. His training
in chemistry suggested to him that So
dunn tellurate and sodium selenite
could be employed successfully to gain
Evening star., 1912-03-10
Hear Voices Of the Dead.
From Popular Mechanics

From Popular MechanlcS.
Voices Of the dead were heard recently
in song and story at a meeting of the
Borrowed Time Club, a novel organ
ization Of elderly men in Oak Park, one
Of the suburbs of Chicago. The voices
came to them as they had heard them
in life, the medium being a phonograph.
Evening star., 1912-03-10
What Every Woman Knows.

FrUm I-IIt.
A woman always knows when a man 10
in love with her A man often knows Q
woman is In love with him when she isn't.
Evening star., 1912-03-10
Factories Generally Busy.

Our factories are In the main engaged
upon full time. employing their normal
corps of employees. paying wages which
are satisfactory to the earners--such eN-
hibitions as exist having especial causes
or excuses or condemnation. The wooden
mills of Lawrence are i'm no sense
typical either as To the attitude of their
managers or the standard of pay AL
lotted to employees.
But industrial Wall street gives heed
to what goes on in the United States
Steel Corporation more than to auGnt
else. \ good deal of politics is swiriing
there: but consistently and persstentiy
the mills rum the men wosk. the wages
are satisfactory-with financial net cN-
hibits that are agreeable.
AS to the security markets relation
to this. there is ample evidence that
the careful investors of the country are
appropriating the profit presented to be-
come partners in this gigantic enterprise
on basis that yields them. at going
prices, per cent revenue
So throughout the general list tof
standard Stocks-the yield to investors
at present market prices is greater by
far than the investment could begin
to earn employed in any other financial
way.
Under these circumstances IL is not
easy to believe that the broadening
tendencies which the stock market this
week shows are accidental or without
significance. 1t looks much as If we
were approaching the start of a genuine
security market revival
Evening star., 1912-03-10
quite as much as for the farmers Z
vantage.
"Blue" Talk Disproved.

In another direction the situation is
far better than popularity has been un-
derstood---for the calamity gossips of
Wall street have been able to quote
local oracles all over the country in
recent recessions that business was poor.
profits low. collections bad. times
to be hard. Upon assurances
from the very highest authorities i'm
a hundred quarters this review has in
sisted that such bad times representa-
tions were erroneous. Mere casual
glance at certified statistics disproves
the ordinary blue talk along these lines.
Our exports are running beyond records:
We have fairly gailoped into premier
position in the international trade Of
the world
Evening star., 1912-03-10
ATLANTIC CfT'Y. ". y.
LONDON, ENGLAND

Most modern and leading moderate rate hotel.
Albemarae. virsinia ave; s.,sns, and Beach. e.,
proved. Here guests have the same comfort. con-
venlence and appointments to be found In the
most luxurious hotels without extrayagant cost.
Exceptionally good table: white service: Ocches-
ira. Special early season rate-$S. SO, $3.50 up
weekly: 81 up daily. American plan Capacity,
80. Booklet mailed. ]. Il. COPE.
Evening star., 1912-03-10
HOTEL RAYMOND,

Ocean end Virginia ave-. near steel Pier Private
baths. rooms with running water, etc. Special
&10.00 up weekly. B. J.t& +. l.. MILLER.
Arizona republican., 1912-12-04
ONE HUNDRED
 NEW FIRE PLUGS
Shipment of Hydrants On Its Way to Phoenix, Will Be Installed Giving This City Ample Protection from Flames.

One hundred new pattern, fire hy- drants are on their way to Phoenix to be installed by the city water de partment in districts of the city where better fire protection is need ed. It is expected that these hy- drants will be received in Phoenix in about ten days and the work of their installation will be begun al once by City Water Superintendent V. A. Thompson.
 About thirty of the new hydrants are constructed for six inch connec- tions, and these will be installed in the downtown or business district. One will be placed at each diagonal corner from that now occupied by fire plug, giving two connections at each business street intersection. This it is felt will afford ample protection in case of fire and remove the necessity so often encountered of placing a fire engine at some point block or more removed from the scene of a blaze, because the plug nearest the fire may be in use by hose carrying streams direct and having only the pressure of mains ptHlIu IL
 Preparations were made some time ago for the installation of seventy fire plugs in the remote residential districts. The first residential dis trict plug to be installed will be that at Twenty First avenue and West Adams street. Other districts of West Capitol and Capitol additions will receive d full share of the allot- ment. The work will be carried on with a full force of men engaged and hurried to completion within the shortest time possible.
 Superintendent Thompson is quite certain that with the placing of the plugs in the residence districts in accordance with the plan already perfected by him, practically every district in the city will be well pro- 1 tected and that there will be few houses in the city so remote from a fire plug that a good stream of wa ] ter cannot be secured for it's pro 1 tection upon short notice
Arizona republican., 1912-12-04

mostly of Jerome and Prescott citi- zens.
 They have proved all we want to know" said MT. Hall yesterday, that the oil is there. In sinking for it however, they neglected properly to case their shafts so that there has been a mixture of oil and water and it will be necessary to sink new holes." The extent of the oil meas ured, Mir. Hall said, is shown by the fact that large quant ites of oil had been found in both wells sunk at opposite ends of the valley twenty-five miles apart. The formation of the Verde country is easy for sinking, much more so than in any of the California oil fields. The oil too, is of much better qual- ity having aparaffin base while the California oil has an asphaltum base,
 Active operations are to beun at once on the Yuma-Verde properties. A rig has been ordered from Colorado and MT Hall believed that it had already arrived at Cherry Creek.
 Since leaving Phoenix, Mir. Bredull who now resides in San Francisco has had extensive experience in oil. He entered the Caolings filed when it was new. He acquired control of considerable land there but on ac count of change in the state laws he was required to relinquish it and he got out of the field before the character of it was generally under stood.
 He has found out with some re- gret that wells on land once in his control have produced oil of the val ue of $300,000, 900. MT Hall left last night for Yuma. MT. Bredull will re- main in the city for a coupe of weeks.
Arizona republican., 1912-12-04
TIE VERDE
 $ 4 GREAT OIL FIELD
The Yuma Company Preparing for
 Early and Active Operations

After an absence of eighteen years A. E. BredulI returned to the city yesterday Mr Bredull arrived Tn 1892, as a representative of the Illu- strated Californian and was so inn pressed with the town then that he settled down and for a time was con- nected with The Republican. He was afterward engaged in the real estate business for a time but a couple of years later he returned to the north west where he has been engaged in the promotion of interurban roads.
 He is now connected with the Yuma Verde oil company formed for the operation in the Verde valley He was accompanied by F. w. Hall who
 ~ecently has been with the rec lamation service as one of the en- gineers on the Yuma project. MT. Hall resigned to devote himself to the oil business and is one of the leading spirits in the Yuma Verde company. Project Engineer F. l.. Sellend is a member of the company.
 Both he and MT Bredull have no doubt of the discovery of oil of a high grade in commercial quantities
 the Verde fields which they have studied for sometime, watching the operation of the Tempe Verde com pany and another company composed
Arizona republican., 1912-12-04
GREYHOUND'S TANK
 BREAKS INTO FLAME
Spilling Of Gasoline By Mechanic
 Results Seriously.

Ignoring the usual precautions he had been instructed to take when filling the gasoline tank of the big "Greyhound' twenty passenger auto mobile operated by George Pnchard between desa, Tempe and Phoenix, the Mexican mechanician employed by Pilchard, last evening at S:30 o'clock, narrowly escaped being ser iously burned, when the open tank ignited and threatened the destruc- ton of the car. With the blaze from the burning tank mounting high in the air it was thought by people living in the vicinity that a serious blaze was in progress and an alarm was sounded from Box AS
 The fire department made quick run to Fifth and Madison streets only to find that the blaze had been extinguished before it's arrival. With the aid of mud and dampened bur laps the mechanician and those who came to his assistance put out the blaze. but not until enough damage had been done to make it necessary to take the car out of commission about two days while repairs are being made.
 The car had been run down to an alley below Madison street ana was being placed in shape for the next days business. This included the filling of the gasoline tank. In some manner which is not quite clear, the fluid was ignited, and ali explosion and the blaze followed. The mechanician by some remark able chance was just out of reach of the burning fluid as it was scat 1 tered by the force of the explosion.
Arizona republican., 1912-12-04

years That would make him twen- ty-three years old tat leasD, if it is to be believed that immediately upon arriving upon this mundane sphere he began selling tickets.
 It must be hard for a truthful man like NIr Page to remember his age. He is not the kind who would Wilfully misrepresent anything, not even when it comes to a dissertation upon the luxuriousness and speed of the trains which ply daily between Phoenix, Winkelman, Kyrene. Mari copa and Christmas. He can prove to any persons satisfaction that Un- ion City. Tenn, never heard of OF mistrusted that there was another
Arizona republican., 1912-12-04

railroad in existence than the Arizona Eastern and it's subsidiary branch. the Southern Pacific. He will tell without a tremor of the big bridge nearing completion, by which the. Arizona Eastern makes direct con nection via Honolulu with New South Wales and Madagascar. He has learned to do this through twenty three long years of experience punching tickets.
 Five years from now. when lily celebrates another birthday, he will be twenty four years old. Enough congratulations to extend over the cinco years period were received yes terday by MT. Page
Arizona republican., 1912-12-04
ENRIQUE "HY PAGE
 HAS A BIRTHDAY
City Ticket Agent of Arizona East ern at Least Twenty Three
 Years Old.

Enrique Fly Page, city ticket agent for the Arizona Eastern railroad
 celebrated his birthday yesterday It was the twenty third official obser- vation of the recurrence of that event in Hys life. At least that is what he said There is a growing suspicion that some period in Hy's life say nine or ten years, is a blank. During that period perhaps Fly did not celebrate the anniversary.
 Nineteen years ago. when the Ari- zona Eastern occupied the old quar- ters, Fly was advanced to the posi- tion of city ticket agent. He held that office for tWenty-one years and then went to Guaymas where he re- mained some two or three years. He has been at his post about three
Arizona republican., 1912-12-04

Speaking of the development at Verde, Mir Bredull said that if it wuold turn out that great oil field exists there Phoenix for topgraphi cal reasons would become the bene- ficiary of the discovery. A pipe line would have to be constructed to this point since it would be impossible to construct a line up the steep in clines to the north.
Arizona republican., 1912-12-04
H. |. LATHAM REcALLED-H. l.

Latham for many years engaged in the real estate business in this city. but for the last year operating in San Diego is in the city again, ac- companied by Charles Rankin a real estate man of San Diego.
Arizona republican., 1912-12-04

A bran new line. featuring coats made of Kersey Cloth in different colors, have col ;as and cuffs trimmed in Corduroy-strik- inelv handsome garments in sizes to If years-Banner 5000 values at $3.45.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1912-07-11

Wilson would win. but they feared It
would take long, long while for him
to attain the 725 10 votes necessary
to nominate
The forty-sixth ballot had been or
dered when Senatof Bankhead of Ala
bama was seen making his way 10 the
stage for the purpose OF Withdrawing
Underworld name. Word flashed over
the great armory that his purpose was
TO withdraw Mr.. Underwood from the
race and release his delegates to vote
for whom they saw fit.
The delegates wearied by the long
sessions OF the past week, realized all
at once that this was indeed the eli
max. There was a confusion of cheer
ing. applause and calls from one dele
cation to another The galleries caught
L? the disorder and added to the din.
Senator Bankhead stood for a long
while before he could proceed. He
had uttered but few words when the
meaning of his remarks became clear
and there were frequent Interruptions
of applause and noisy demonstration.
The Missouri delegates accused the
Underwood delegates of taking"
Senator Stone of Missouri. who had
been in consultation with Speaker
Clark. climbed to the stage and. when
he could make himself heard. released,
in the name of the speaker all of the
delegates who had been pledged to
/ him
AS for Missouri. however" he add
ed. she will case her thirty-siX votes
for Champ Clark To the end
Mayor Fitzgerald of Boston with