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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-02
DIED

BRANZEIL.. suddenly. ON Friday, February ?.
1912. JOSEPH j. BRANZELi. belo, ed son ~
Julia and the late Benjamin Bra:lzcIi OF 1871
18th street.
Notice OF funeral hereafter.
BROWN. On February .. 1872 at $50 am.
KATHERINE BROWN. l2ii 2oth sire
northwest.
Funeral private. -
CARSON. Departed this life "Wednesday,
January 81. 1872 at pm. at Lin'~'intn.
\. g.. JOsEPHINE CARSON me Carter:
beloved wife OF Albert Carson, daughter ~
Mallie Carter and sister OF Manic kendricA
ard Isabella Thompson
CHAMBERLAINE. On February 1. 1872 II
am, at his residence. lt62 ,:irard STREET
Funeral services at 2:3o saturday, February ..
at his late residence. baltimore and havre
de Grace papers please co"v'
cox Suddenly. February l. 1912. at 9:l5 pm.
!G s hpGe northwest Sa Ms Virginia Eap Olivier T.
Funeral Saturday. February 3. mt pm. from
Rhode Island Avenue NJ. 7. Church.
FRACTION Departed ! i, ,n Ifs suddenly LEI; on
dence. 1916 4th street northwest, W. W.
FRACTION. Sr.
Funeral services win he hell at his late res
dence Saturday, February ). at pm. Phila-
delphia papers please copy.)
HANCOCK On Thursday. February /. 1912, at
Fort Constitution. Portsmouth, \. H.. MAR
Ola MACLENNAN HANCOCK. wife of Gwyn
Hancock, captain. United states Army and
w
MacLennan.
Notice OF funeral hereafter.
HART. Departed this life Tuesday. January
30, 1917 JAMES HART, beloved husband
OF Elizabeth Hart. and st.pfather of Howard
Interment at spottsylvania, Va. philadelphia
papers please copy
LOWELL. On Thursday February l. 1912, Maj.
DE!.MAR \: LOWELL I: : o! A., retired
northwest. SATURDAY. February 3. at I pm
Interment Arlington national cemetery: Re-
| mains will rest I'm Mr. Zurhorst'. undertak-
ing establishment until Saturday morning.
MAKER Departed This ne Thursday. Febru-
| airy !. 1912. at an. ut her rssijrnce, 81
10th street northwest. AMELIA MAKER.
wife Of the late Jno Maker aud sister OF
| Funeral Sunday February 4. at . pm. from
Peoples Congregational Church Friends and
relatives invited.
sTRATTAN. On Wednesday. January 81. 1912.
at 522 9TH street southeast, Dr. JOHN
Funeral from his late residence Saturday. Febru-
airy 5. at 2 pm Interment at Arlington.
In Memoriam
GALLON. Sacred to the memory of EosANNA
CALLOW, who died one year ago today,
February =. 1911.
Gone. but not forgotten.
May her soul rest in peace.
BY HER HUSBAND AND CHILDREN.
DICE. In sad but loving remembrance of my
dear mother. EMILY DICE. who departed
this life one year ago today, February :,
1911.
Friendship and love have done their last,
And now 10 M more:
The bitterness Of death is past.
And all her suffrrings Ger.
By HER DEVOTED DAUGHTER, LULA
TIBBS.
HUTCHINs In sad but loving memory of our
dear mother. IDA Il. HUTCHINS who died
one year ago today, February =. 1911.
BY HER CHILDREN.
HUTCHINS. In loving memory of our dear
grandmother. IDA Il. HUTCHINS, who died
one year ago today. February .. 1911.
By HER GRANDCHILDREN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-02

'All the Money in the World" a real
life story of boyhood. by Paul West, in
our next Sunday Magazine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-02

Mr. and Mrs. Perry Belmont will give
dinner February for the German
ambassador and Countess Won Bernstorff
The dinner will be followed by dance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-02
IN THE WORLD OF SOCIETY
PRESIDENT AND MRS. TAFT At
TEND DINNER AND DANCE.
Luncheons Today for Old and Young
Weddings-Per-
sonal Notes.

The President and Mrs. Taft will give
their annual Supreme Court dinner to-
night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-02

Mrs John r. Drexel of New York gave
luncheon yesterday at her home for
the Spanish minister and Mme de
Riano, who are visiting MIR. and Mrs.
Peter Goelet Gerry The guests were
twenty in number.
In the evening Mr.. and Mrs. Gerry
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-02

The Misses Williamson, zoos r street,
will be at home tomorrow with their sis
ter. Mrs. .Carvel Hall, and Mrs. Thorn
Williamson, jr.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-02
Miss Frances Nelson is now in Wash
ington, stopping at the Raleigh Hotel

lngtOn, stopping at the ftalelSH 11otel.<
Miss Mabel l.. COldenstroth delightfully."-
entertained the young ladies of the grad
uating class of Webster School at a
luncheon given at her home, 1413 Penn
sylvania avenue northwest, where they
were the recipients of dainty favors. A
theater party followed The following
were present: Miss Hazel c. Bowen, Miss
Ella Boss, Miss Sarah Goldman. Miss
Olive E. Litchfield. Miss Ellen Marguerite
Meyer, Miss Dorothy Terry. Miss Elsie
v. Tydings, Miss COrrinne z. Hutterly,
Miss Helen f. Clarkson and Miss Mabel
L.. Coldenstroth. They We're chaperoned
by Miss f. M:-BrOwnell and Mrs. George
w. Coldenstroth.
February 5, at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs r. L. Shuman, 1913 14th street
northwest. Mrs Mary c. Walker an
nounced the engagement of her daughter
Jane to Mr.. William F. Fletcher. scien-
tific assistant in pomology, United States
Department of Agriculture.
Preceding the announcement a dainty
supper was served. An elaborate color
scheme in red was carried out I'm decora-
tons and throughout the courses.
Those present were Mrs. Mary G. Wal
ker, Mrs. r. l.. Shuman, Mrs. r.. L. "
aStratton, Miss Louise May Farrow. Miss
Lillian Spoor, Miss Beatrice Spoor, Miss
Edith Larimer. Miss Mary Appier, Miss
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-02

s.Mrs.-~J--Fairfield Carpenter and her
son. Mr.. Henry Ten Eyck Carpenter. are
spending the winter at the New Willard.
Mrs. Carpenter entertained at small
bridge party this afternoon in compli-
ment to Mrs. G. c. Yohe of Chicago. Mr.
Henry Ten Eyck Carpenter has gone to
New York for the week end.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-02

The President and Mrs Taft met at the
dlnner gwen by the Secretary of the
Navy and Mrs. Meyer last night Senator
Lodge. Senator Root, Senator and Mrs.
Crane. Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd Griscom. Mr..
and Mrs. Whitney Warren, Rear Adj
miral and Mrs Wainwright, Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Goelet. Mrs. Helen Morton, Mrs.
Richard Townsend, Miss Ruth Draner
Maj. Butt and Capt. and Mrs. Gibbons.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-02

Mr. Irven w. Robey and Miss Sophie
Brandt were married by the Rev. r. T..
Fultz last evening at the parsonage of
the German Lutheran Church, corner Az
and f. streets southwest Edward Creecy
acted as best man and Miss Ethel Robey
was maid of honor. After the ceremony
a reception was neId at the home of the
brides uncle. Mr.. Herman Behrens. l:'oS
Fl street northeast. MIR. and Mrs. Robey
will be at home to their friends at 1859
II street northeast.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-22

in his death. She stated, in so many words.
that she could now compel Claude Waverton
to marry her; that her life had been WASTED"
by Kyrle; that she was resolved to end the
bondage: and that she might in her frenzy
resort to desperate measures. He says he was
afraid of her. Somehow, don tquite credit it.
All this of course, you have read. | am just
tabulatlng my own expressions here, and 1t
will be valuable to learn how far they agree
with or differ from yours. | must add instantly
that Mrs. Delamar s account of the final argu-
1nent-(as shown by the scraps of her letter to
Tearle) carries the story little farther. She
seems to have won her point as to the divorce;
but the threats appear to have been not entirely
one-sided. However, she did not scruple to lie
to her confederate at Narragansett Pier, be-
cause she travelled to New York on Wednes-
day, and not. as she tells him, on Tuesday;
and, whosoever may have been " Threatened,
it was kyrle who died.
At present shall not disclose a word of the
information have gathered. 1 do not purpose
seeing Mrs. Deamar or the servants at the
Rosery. In fact. after | have made certain
inquiries here. | shall return to New York.
| absolutely agree with you as to this
having features" l am beginning to think
that the track of real big thing. If
Mrs. Delamar wanted to marry Waverton, and
Tearle was anxious to marry Mrs. Waverton,
not only was Kyrle's death necessary, but the
foundations of the plot were laid months ago,
and long way from Absecon.
| am sending the owl to the taxidermists
place on Broadway. Will you kindly call there.
and explain that l want it mounted with wings
outstretcfed and claws extended for attack?
Do you recall the singular use of the word owl
ish in Kyrle' letter? Some Frenchman has
a theory about human souls passing into the
bodies OF lower animals. and l fancy he would
claim boldly that Kyrle's spirit inhabited the
owl. Its quare. that it is, as my local guide,
philosopher. and friend says. l shall tell you
more about him. He is only a country police
man; but in his way he is quite - char ac-ter.
TO use his own phrase.
To be continued next Sunday
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-22

the passage IN question may be extracted:
Kyrle appears to have been wealthy man.
with leanings toward classical research. both
in the way of clearing up rival texts of ancient
documents and, when young, in the exploration
of Egyptian and Jewish monuments He was
returning to the States after a long spell Of
work in Palestine, when he met Josephine Della
mar, and. as he himself puts it. the atmosphere
of Paris intoxicated him. Possibly its wine
helped; for | find many later references to
various vintages as being helpful in banishing
that black dog. Care At any rate, he mar
ried Josephine because she was beautiful and
vivacious, as good reasons any for the folly
of matrimony, and of course she resented the
idea of burying her charms among frayed man
uScripts and weatherworn stones
Within year she had demanded liberty and
an allowance. Singularly enough. Kyrle seems
to have granted both with some alacrty. He
fancied he could go back to his interrupted
studies with renewed zest; but was only partly
successful. Every now and then he missed the
presence of his wife, and these fits of depression
of which he makes frequent complaint were
invariably induced by some paragraph in the
newspapers aluding to her.
At last, when Mrs Delamar" was anxious
to establish herself in different set. suppose,
she began to press tor complete dlvorce-on
terms, for she needed money. From covert
hints she passed to open disclosures but always
verbally, during her visits to the Rosery.
In this matter, however, his refusal to fall in
with her wishes was consistent. In his diary
he says. over and over again, Il have yoked
myself to Jezebe. a brazen woman. an adven-
turess of the worst type, and | shall pay the
penalty of my Grass stupidity by declining to
set her free with plenty of means to play her
dangerous arts on some other ninny
She may entrap fool; but she cannot enslave
him for life while she remains my legal spouse
1 have tied a milestone round my
neck. Very well, let it strangle me: l shall
not undo the knot
At last the lady's pleading turned to threats.
according to Kyrle's version, and these assumed
an alarming aspect during the visit that ended
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-22
SAVING THE PLATINUM
BY F. IRVING ANDERSON

are going to be found. Little of the gold
Alaska contains platinum 1t is found al
most entirely in the gold mined in Mexico
and South America. Gold from these dis
tricts is coming in larger quantities year after
year. 1t is found, for instance, in what is
popularity known as Guinea gold. Guinea
gold has peculiar 1uster, all its own. 1t is
highly priced in the jewelry trade for this
same peculiar color. 1t is safe to say that
not one jewelry fancier in a hundred who
prefers Guinea gold to other gold knows that
this rich, almost luminous color comes from
the presence of silver in definite quantity.
There are vast reaches of wilderness in
South America that, filled with miasmic
swamps and lurid savages armed with poi
soned arrows, have so far resisted the ad-
vance OF the white man. It seems not too
much to expect that sooner or later, when
these districts are exploited, platinum in
Bret Harte is probably aborning now to sing
the romance of Platinum Gulch. The ro-
nance of gold is founded on the very ma
terial consideration of twenty dollars and
sixty-sevcn cents an ounce, which the
Governments of the earth have decreed
must be its price now and forever more.
They will have to build second-story eX-
tension on the romance of the metal that
is worth twice as much as gold.
NOV that Uncle Sam is finding this mine
of platinum in the supposedly unalloyed
bars that the big refining companies are
sending in from their smelters, the interest
ing question is arising, Who owns the plati-
mum, Uncle Sam or the refineries? Uncle
Sam bought their gold, refined it for them at
cost, and paid them dollar for dollar out of
his pocket. Actually, he was out on the
transaction. Now that he has stopped the
leak in his drainpipe, he is a little ahead.
Naturally, if one can play at game, two
can play at the same game. Some of the
bigger smclter companies, whose output is
sufficient, have undertaken the task of
recovering this platinum themselves. If
Uncle Sam can help out his payroll with
platinum residues, there is no reason why
privately conducted smelter cannot do the
same thing. So the electrical method of re-
filming is coming more and more into use, and
in the last year or two the highbrow pro-
fessors in the minis who have been searching
for platinum have discovered that the smelter
bars sent in for coinage are almost hundred
per cent fine, without so much as smell of
platinum in them. This has become specially
true at the assay Office in New York City,
where Uncle Sam refnes at cost, for the
jcwclry trade, over two hundred thousand
ounces Of pure gold every month.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-22

EVEN the United States Government has
II become possessed of the present day
fever to eliminate any waste and stop leaks
in the methods of doing things. The results,
particularly in the minis and assay Offices,
have been remarkable.
For instance, the old method of extracting
gold from baser metals when it came from
the mint consisted merely of treating the
smelter bars of gold with nitric acid, which
dissolved out the baser metals, leaving the
gold, with a small percentage of impurities
that could be removed by fusing with inter.
Germany went the United States one bet
ter in this The professors over there, men
whose genius for scientific detail is unsur
passed by those of any other nation, per-
fected process for refining by electricity.
Simply stated, it is nothing more nor less
than electric plating. The smelter bars are
deposited in an absolutely pure state, leaving
the base metals behind in solution.
1t was this residue that interested the
highbrow professors. The fact that plati-
mum is frequently found with gold has been
recognized ever since the science of metal
lurgy was in swaddling clothes; also the fact
that gold and platinum have one quality in
common, L. e., that no single acid known will
dissolve them 1t takes combination Of
nitric and muriatic acids to get either Of
these two metals in solution. Silver, on the
other hand, is readily soluble in nitric acid.
No one ever thought of testing nitric acid
solution of silver for the presence of plati
mum, because of the theory, sound as re-
ligion that platinum could not be dissolved
by nitric acid. Therefore, it was argued if
there wasn't enough silver in the solution to
make it worth while to extract it, then Of
course there could not be any platinum; so
into the sewer it went.
THE professors began to experiment. At
the first step they uncovered the dusky
gentleman in the woodple. They discovered
a curious fact, i. e., that, while platinum alone
was not soluble in nitric acid, some alloys
with silver were soluble. For instance a com
position of five per cent. platinum in silver
is readily soluble. Right there was the clue
leading to the discovery that for years out of
memory untold quantities of the precious
metal, essential above all others in electrical
manufactures, had been running into the
sewer. All solutions were carefully tested.
Salts of iron were added, prcciptatcs sup
posedly of silver were analysed, and since
then platinum at the rate of five thousand
dollars a month has been offered for sale by
Uncle Sam.
1t is interesting to trace the sources Of this
gold in that the facts suggest that sooner or
later deposits of platinum in large quantities
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1912-05-03

The modern home needs the electric
light, and the modern home-maker de-
serves 1t.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1912-05-03
OF SMALL CONCERN TO HIM
Why Uncle Eph Refused Information
He Felt to Be Altogether Su-
perfiuous.

When Robert H. Davis was young
and loose in the feet he once wan
dered into a little Mississippi town.
1t was a bright day in the early spring
and he walked down one street. BY
and by he came to the county jail
two-storied affair. standing flush
with the sidewalk There was a ne
gro pressing his face against the
barred window on the second floor
said Mr.. Davis, holding on to the
bars and yawntng. BY and by an old
negro came limping along the street
toting a whitewash bucket
Hello, Uncle Eph M says the one
in the window.
"Howdy,' says Ephraim, limping
on.
"'Wait a minute, uncle says this
lonesome negro in the window. What
time Is it, uncle?'
Uncle Ephraim limped right on.
He hardly looked up.
"'What diffunce does 1t make to
you, niggeh?' he asked You amt
goin' nowhere New York Letter to
the Cincinnati Times-Star.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1912-05-03
Telephones and Tuberculosis.

Many attempts have been made to
modify the mouthpieces of public tel
ephones in such way as to provide
against the possibilities of transmit
ting tuberculosis. 1t has been sug
gested that the form of the mouth
pieces should be regulated by law.
None OF the ingenious projects con
ceived so far, however, has met with
much favor From time to time va
rious devices have been tried here
and there, only to be rejected in the
long run as troblesome, impracticable,
or even useless in a Drophylactfc way
1t is reassuring, therefore. to learn on
what appears to be excellent author
ity that the danger OF acquiring tuber-
culosis through the use of telephones
is practically inconsiderable.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1912-05-03
Art of LiSteninu.

There is some ground for the com.
plant that in the matter of listening
our modern manners are bad. The
children who were brought up to be-
lieve that they must listen to wisdom
of mamma and papa without Interrupt
ton or criticism, were in a fair way
to become pleasanter company than
generation of people who want always
to hear themselves talk. The art OF
listening is not now understood. 1t
does not consist in suffering bores
gladly; in sitting like cistern for
the dull drip of desultory declama.
ton" 1t involves some capacity for
directing and managing the stream
of talk Almost everyone has some
subject or other on which they can
say things worth hearing. No doubt
it is generally shop" But if you have
no capacity for being interested in
other peoples shop. you had better re-
tire to a hermitage.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1912-05-03
Milk Pitcher of Six Millions.

"The sight of one of his good COWS
standing under a tree down the lane
at milking time would throw the mod.
ern dairyman into fever" writes
Charles White in the current issue of
Harpers Weekly. "The harmless,
necessary COW of these enlightened
times stands in her highly hygienic
stall, which is f1oored with concrete
and frequently scrubbed. The COW
herself is curried and brushed every
day. Where is the haymow? Gone;
gone with the milkmaid, the dodo, and
the aux into the obsolete past. One
listens in vain around the barn for the
old slogan, git over thar, gol ding
YET with the accompanying bump of
the knee against old bossy's ribs All
that has gone out, too. Cruelty is cost
1y. Kindness pays. In these days of
conservation the man who mistreats
animals is picking his boss pocket"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1912-05-03

A blockish- built mare with large
barrel on short legs is likely to pro-
duce better foal than the tall leggy
kind
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1912-05-03
TO KEEP THE SKIN CLEAR

For more than a generation, Cuti-
cura Soap and Cuticura Ointment have
done more for pimples, blackheads
and other unsightly conditions Of the
complexion, red, rough, chapped
hands, dandruff, itching, scaly scalps,
and dry, thin and falling hair than any
other method. They do even more for
skin-tortured and disfgured infants
and children. Although Cuticura Soap
and Ointment are sold by druggists
and dealers throughout the world, a
liberal sample Of each, with 32-page
book on the care Of the skin and hair
will be sent post-free, on application
to "Cuticura," Dept. L, Boston.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1912-05-03

continued its use until was made well.
Mrs. HENRY LE1sEBERG, TAB Adams st.
Kearneysville, w. Va.-"I feel it my
duty to write and say what Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has
done for me. I suffered from female
weakness and at times felt so miserable
I could hardly endure being on my feet.
"After taking Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound and following your
special directions, my trouble is gone,
Words fail to express my thankfulness.
I recommend your medicine to all my
friends. - Mrs. G. B. WELLINGTON.
The above are only two of the thou
sands of grateful letters which are con-
stantly being received by the Pinkham
Medicine Company Of Lynn, Mass. which
show clearly what great things Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound does
for those who suffer from woman's ills.
III you want special advice write to
Lydia e. Pinkham Medicine Co. Conf
dentiaD Lynn, Mass. Your letter will
be opened, read and answered by q
woman and held In strict confidence.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1912-05-03
kA Aoped So Ton

Nellie Mccoy tells the story of an
advance agent of transforming
show that nearly closed every Satur-
day night, but rested over Sunday and
started in bright and fresh Monday
morning.
His mother was Quaker, and when
he wrote that he was the business
manager in advance Of the show, she
wrote him:
MY Dear Son-I am very sorry that
thou art in the show business, but l
am glad that thou art ahead of the
show! l trust that thou wilt always
stay ahead of it."
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1912-05-03

Large yields make cheaper feed.
Therefrona arise the easiest profits Of
farming.