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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-02
FIRE DESTROYS REFINERY,
Ten Thousand Barrels of Sugar
Burned: Loss, 100000.

HALIFAX, February 2.-Fire last night
totally destroyed the Woodside plant of
the Arcadia Sugar Refining Company
here, causing a loss estimated at more
than 81 ,OOO, O0O One employe is missing.
The fire started in q large wooden ware
house on the water front, where 1000
barrels of sugar were stored. The flames
shot across the railway tracks to the
seven-story brick building of the refinery
proper The spread of the blaze in this
structure was so rapid that some of the
workmen had difficulty in escaping.
Besides the refined sugar destroyed,
more than 5000 bags of raw sugar were
consumed A number Of loaded Inter
Colonial railway cars We're burned. The
steamer Aurora of the Pickford & Black
line was lowed to safety in midstream.
but the sugar she had discharged during
the three days she had been tied up at
the wharf was burned.
The loss is partly covered by insurance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-02
KILLED HIS HALF-BROTHER.
Negro Boy Murderer Says Child
Told Tales on Him.

SALEM, \. j., February c.-Richard
Simpson, the negro boy arrested Sunday.
charged with numbering Clarence Wright.
a lad Of eight years, has made Il full con-
fession. He is held without bail
When first arrested after the tragedy at
Bushtown, a small negro settlement near
Woodstown, Simpson declared that
Wright accidentally shot himself, and
later, when taken before the authorities
d Salem he said that he aimed the gun
at the boy and pulled the trigger. not
knowing that it was loaded Finally he
sent for Prosecutor Sinnickson, and said
that all he had previously told was false.
Simpson now says that Clarence, who
was his half-brother. had told his par
ents stories that caused him to get a se-
we're whipping. He planned then to Kill
the lad and the opportunity came sun
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-02
MEMORY Of DICKENS
Centenary of Writer'S Birth to
Be Observed in Schools.
PUPILS TO BE IMPRESSED
Great Pleasure Found in Meeting
His Characters, Theme Sug-
gested for Teachers.

Tuesday, February Z, the centenary of
the birth of Charles Dickens will be made
memorable in Washington by it's celebra-
ton in every public school in the Dis
trict Of Columbia. 1t so happens that
Supt. Davidson is an admirer of Dickens,
knows the characters Of Dickens as well
as he knows the living characters Of his
official life, and can confess without the
slightest shame of having shed tears at
the stories of Tiny Tim, Little Nell and
little Paul Dombey.
Therefore, at the suggestion Of men,
Der Of the Dickens fellowship Of Wash
ington, DR.. Davidson will send cir
cular letter to every school, asking the
teachers to make this hundredth birthday
the opportunity for impressing on the
$1,000 school children Of Washington the
wonderful pleasure there is to be found
In meeting the stored people of this
greatest of all prose writer's.
Take Delight in Dickens.
1t is characteristic of school men and
women that they seem to take delight in
the opportunity to use the pages of
Dickens in their school work. The matter
of Dickens day was suggested a year
or more ago to A. T. Stuart, at that
time superintendent of schools and he
fell into a reminiscent mood. telling story
after story to show his appreciation of the
great writer, to whom the modern appre-
citation of children and Christmas stands
almost as a monument to the writer who
brought these two great institutions from
obscurity to warm corners in the heart
of the whole big world.
1t is perhaps too bad that the very lit
tie children will have but slight part in
Dickens day, but. of course, the stories
particularly for children of the golden
age of nine years and younger are few
and far between. However the stories
about children will be exploited widely in
the public school on that day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-02
MRS. MARTHA KEMP DEAD.
Passes Away at Her Home at
ClarksbLrg, Md.

Special Dispatch 10 The Star.
BOfDS, Md, February 2.-Mrs Martha
Kemp. widow of James Kemp, for years
well known in this state and in Wash
inSton, as collector of tolls for the Ches-
apeake and Ohio canal, whose appoint
ment was made by the late Senator Cor
man. died at her home at Clarksburg,
near Boyds. at noon yesterday of Bright S
disease, aged seyenty-two years. Mrs.
Kemp was wealthy woman and was
born at CIarksbtirg, where she always
had resided. Mrs. Kemp was Miss
Powell, daughter of the late Isaac
Powell of Montgomery county. She had
no children Her husband died about
fourteen years ago. An only brother,
William II. Powell. who resided with her
at ClarkSburg, survives.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-02
MYSTERY IN MURDERS.
Crimes in Macedonia Believed of Pc.
litical Inspiration.
Foreign Correspondence OF The Star.

Foreign Correspondence OF The Star.
CONSTANTINOPLE, January IS. 1912.
According to private letters, the situa-
ton in Macedonia grows worse and worse.
Further murders have taken place in
the Ishtib district, where two Bulgarian
bands are at work, while succession Of
mysterious murders of Bulgarians, resem-
bling the crimes perpetrated at Florina
last spring by a Turkish secret associa-
ton, have brought the Komitadjis into the
field in the Langaza district. near Sa-
lonki. The increase of political crime is
accompanied by a revival Of commercial
brigandage, especially in the Albanian
marches
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-02
PEACE IS HIS TOPIC.
japanese Scholar to Lecture at the
Carnegie Institution.

DR.. Inazo Nitobe, exchange professor
from Japan, who Is in this country to
lecture before several of the big UNIVERSE
ties and who has been in Washington for
the past few weeks, will lecture at the
Carnegie Institution this evening, his sub
ject being Peace
Following the lecture the trustees of
the Carnegie Foundation will give re-
ception to DIR. and Mrs. Nitobe. Mrs.
Nitobe was the guest of honor this after
noon at a tea given by Miss Ruth Put
nam.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-02

nights. or until definite signs of decom-
position have set in. During this period
the tests given in a pamphlet by Sir
Benjamin Ward Richardson, The Signs
and Proofs of Death shall be applied,
and during this period a bell shall be at
tached to his wrist which can be easily
audible within and without the room.
When decomposition has set in a sur
geon shall completely sever the spinal
cord high up I'm the body, and the coffin
then may be lightly fastened, but shall
not be screwed down until the twelfth
day after death. His remains then shall
be cremated and the ashes scattered to
the four winds of heaven.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-02
STRANGE PRECAUTIONS
AGAINST BURIAL ALIVE
Englishman Wanted Body Left Out
Four Days and Spine
Severed.
Foreign Correspondence Of The Star

Foreign Correspondents or The Star.
LONDON, January 30 1872
Explicit directions for the avoidance Of
premature burial are contained in the will
of Thomas Douglas Murray, who died
November 81 last. aged seventy years,
leaving an estate valued at S141, 40.
He directed that on his apparent death
his body shall be kept in a we'll warmed
bed for thirty-six hours thereafter. His
body shall then be placed in coffin in a
warm room with the windows partly
opened, and watched for four days and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-02
CHANGE IN PANAMA.
Arosemena Steps Out; CHAR Re-
places Him.

PANAMA, February 2.-Rodolfo CHAR,
third vice president of the republic, was
sworn in as president to replace DR.
Pablo Arosemena, who has retired on a
leave OF absence. The ceremony was
conducted by the president OF the
supreme court
DR.. Arosemena says he will remain in
Panama until April, when he expects to-
leave for the United States, unless po-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-02

Benjamin +. Huber siXty-five years old
a farmer, died at his home near st.
Thomas, Nd, Tuesday.
Miss Olive Miller died Monday at the
home of her father, Jacob Miller, near
Milestone, four miles east of Hancock.
Md, aged twenty-four years
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-02
Former Gov. ROBBIE Dead.

GORHAM, Me-, February 2.-Former
Gov. Frederick ROBBIE died at his home
this morning at the age of eighty-nine
years. He had been in failing health, due
largely to his advanced years, for some
time He was Governor Of Maine from
1888 to 1887.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-02
After a Buck, Shot a Cow.

Frtm the Louisville Courier, Journal
II was after a buck" explained tho
city sportsman, 'but | seem to have shot
your cow
shes worth jest fifty bucks" spond-
ed the farmer. kindly hand 'em over"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-02

day, when his parents went to visit a
neighbor. He then picked up a gun, and
held it so close to the child's face that
the powder burned his face and hair. and
the shot passed directly through the right
eye into the brain.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-02

The contract was let Wednesday for a
new dormtory building at Martha Wash
ington College, the Methodist school for
SO 900.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-02
litical events compel him to resume the

The cabinet resigned Yesterday prior
to the retirement of President Arosemena
who, however. refused TO accept the ne
gotiations. II is known that President
CHAIR will appoint "A new cabinet imme-
Giately.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-02
GETS NEW LOCATION
George Washington University
will Move.
GIVES WAY TO new HOTEL
Former Building Of st. Rose Indus
trial School to Hold Three
Departments.

George Washington University is to
move from its present quarters on
street to the st. Rose Industrial School
property, at 2023 G street northwest. The
change OF location is made necessary ii
is announced, because OF the desire of the
company which is to construct the New
Arlington Hotel to begin tearing down
the buildings occupied by the university
by May 1. How soon the University will
move has not yet been determined, but il
will be within the next three months.
Three departments Of the university and
the university executive offices are To-
Gated in the I street buildings. They are
the college of arts and science, the col
lege of engineering and mechanical arts
and tho teachers college. These depart
ments, 1t Is expected, will be moved tc
the st. Rose Industrial School buildings.
Well Suited for University.
Richard Cobb, secretary Of the uni
versity. speaking Of the proposed change
in quarters, said today:
although not as centrally located O.
the buildings in 1 street. tho former st.
Rose School is we'll suited for the univer.
sity's uses.
with little cost the building can be al
tered in such way as to provide suit.
able quarters for three departments.
believe that because Of the peculiar con-
struction Of the school it will be better
suited for the uses of the university than
the buildings which we now occupy on
street.
1--WE realized that the I street buildings
would some day have to be vacated, but
hoped that it would not be necessary to
make the change until the present school
term was completed. In leasing the build
ings We agreed to vacate upon ninety
days notice.
term of lease on the St Rose school
property. as that has not been definitely
arranged"
Recent Sale Of Building.
The st. Rose Industrial School build
ing is large, containing about twenty
five large rooms, one of which measures
100 by 30 feet. 1t also contains a chapel
measuring 80 by 30 feet The property
has q frontage Of 80 feet on the north
side of G street and a depth Of $50 feet.
The greater part Of the property is &C.
cupied by the school building. A two
story brick stable in the rear, with lit
tie alteration, can be used as labora-
tories.
The property Is said to have cost the
St. Rose School corporation approx
mately $50, 600 This includes the original
cost Of the ground and building and i'm
provements which were added from time
to time. About two years ago. upon the
completion Of modern and larger
building at California avenue and Phelps
place northwest, the school vacated its
old quarters, which were then offered for
sale.
About two weeks ago the Old school
building was sold. The consideration in
the deal was not announced, but IL is
understood it was in the neighborhood
of $4,000 or $4,000. Title for the prop
erty was taken by Barbara M. Graf, act
ing in behalf of the real owner, whose
identity has not been disclosed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-02
The Hope Diamond.

Mrs. Edward B. Mclean today is the
owner of the celebrated Hope diamond
through the purchase Of the gem by her
husband Mr.. Mclean late last night
reached a compromise with the jewelry
firm of Cartier of New York and Paris
which had sued Mr.. and Mrs. Mclean to
recover $1SO,OO0 the purchase price of the
diamond under an alleged agreement to
purchase, which had been repudiated by
Mr. Mclean on the claim of misrepresen-
tatfon as to value.
Dismissal of Suit Ordered.
Attorney Wilton J. Lambert of council
for the McLeans today filed in the Dis
trict Supreme Court an order of Attor-
neys Clarence w. De knight and Bran
denburg & Brandenburg. for the Carriers,
dismissing the suit, trial Of which was
set for March.
The compromise is the result of several
conferences during the past week between
Pierre Cartier who came from New York
for the purpose; Mr.. and Mrs. Mclean
and their respective counsel. An agree
ment was also reached by the conferees
that no statement of the terms of settle
neft was to be announced, except that
Mr.. Mclean was satisfied with the ar
rangement, as were also the Carriers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-02

Womens. Misses and Junior
Suits in this Rummage lot. Tai
lored of broadcloth, chevlot and
serge, in black and colors: some
plain. others smartly trimmed;
lined with reliable satin.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-02

Rummage Sale of Women's and
Misses Coats, in broadcloth and
polo cloths. The broadcloth coats
have astrakhan collars; the fancy
coats are i'm both reversible and
semi-fitting styles, with nOtched or
shawl collars.
The Washington herald., 1912-07-15
Nut Butter.

Nearly all the prepared nut foods on
sale are made by expensive machinery
and a steam plant therefore cannot be
duplicated on ones own home. Nut
butter is an exception.
The Spanish shelled peanut is the best
variety for nut butter because ii can be
easily blanched. Almonds also can be
used. Other nuts are difficult to handle
and do not make good butter.
A first essential for palatable, health
full peanut butter is proper cooking;
baking or roasting, boiling. and steam
ing are the three methods used. The
baking process is the easiest way, but
care must be exercised not to scorch
them, for scorched or burned nuts are
unfit to use In any form. Quite q sat-
isfactory way to cook the nuts is to fill
a tight covered dish about two-thirds
full, place in the oven. and shake oc-
casionally. BY this method they are
not so likely to burn and the flavor is
better retained. When cooked sufi-
GENTLY spread them out at once and
blanch when they become quite cool
Blanching nuts, of course you know,
is to remove the thin outer covering of
skin. and the baking process loosens
this so it can be rubbed of between
coarse towels; the chaff can be famed
OF or blown of while pouring the nuts
from one dish to another. Be sure to
look the nuts over carefully and remove
all defective ones and any foreign sub
stance.
Grind through a nut grinder when
fresh cooked and pack closely in COW
cred jars.
The Washington herald., 1912-07-15
By FRANCES sHAFFER.

There are not so many of them yet.
the ofiicial story teliers. whose duty and
pleasure 1t is to gather the little ones
about them in public libraries and tell
them stories that interest stimulate and
develop. But having started. there may
be long chain of them in the course
OF time, for the children respond with
natural enthusiasm. and eagerly look for
ward to the hour when they may listen
to tales Of adventure, thrilling bits Of
history. or maybe just some Of the old.
old stories that were told and retold
long ago.
And the object Of 1t all is to induce
children to use the libraries and to culti-
vate real love Of reading that never
will die out.
For about year Boston has tried the
experiment, and since the classes have
steadily grown from the first, and the
boys and girls leave each gathering with
a request for more" ii may well be
pronounced a success.
But. mind you, the story teller Mrs.
Mary A Cronan never reads a line.
Her stories are all from memory, for
then she can watch the changing ex-
pressions and learn the tastes and the
fayorites Of her young listeners.
set the evil Of some of the grosser pic
ture shows and the low-grade enter
tainment offered, it is interesting to note
Mrs. Cronan's work among the boys and
girls, the stories they like, and the way
their interest grows.
Peter Pan is one of the favorties, and
the boys all beg for Kipling stories.
They never grow weary of Oliver Twist.
and listen with delight to the adventures
of Una and the Red Cross knight. They
delight in The Secret Garden, and then
turn to the Uncle Remus stores as rapt-
ly and contentedly as does every normal
child.
And one does not realize how very
much of an art II may become and how
difficult except to one ito the manner
born" 1t takes time,s much thought,
reading and study Of the child-heart be-
fore one would dare venture upon the
work of professional story teller. Mrs.
Cronan goes about in the different IL
braries of the city, each section pre-
senting changed groups and sometimes
changed nationaltIes. and always she is
The Washington herald., 1912-07-15
"OFFICIAL STORY TELLER"
IN the lookout for new stories.

on the lookout for new stories.
The girls are rather easily pleased,
but the boys must have plenty of ac-
tion. fire and excitement. 50 her ad-
vice to the prospective story-teller Is
to make for the big boys" as she
puts it; and IL they can be entertained
the rest is easy.
1t is all a. matter of looking to the
future. and with cities beginning to take
a liberal hand in the matter of child
entertainment and culture. the little folk
will have better guidance to maturity
than ever.
On their way to school a few weeks
ago I noted a group of little girls, and
they just couldn't keep from dropping
into some of the pretty dance steps they
had been learning They were very
sweet. graceful and young. and as I
looked at them, the thought came to mind
that 1t was infinitely better to recognize
their love of action and try to meet 1t
than to curb the tendency and send them
nobody knows where.
For most OF girls and boys, as they
go on to the maturer pastlmes and
pleasures. simply will find a way out Of
dullness: and II is. the part OF civic wis
dom, where II can, to help point the
way.
This is what our cities are doing when
they establish the official story-teIler. who
eliminates the bad and entertainingly
paves the way to the best in childish
books, and on to the best FOR later years.
And so with dancing. picture shows
and other entertainments. Once grown
familiar with dancing in its purity.
picture shows that bear the test of
censorship and entertainment that ele-
Yates. children will not readily fall to
the snare of the vicious.
We often hear the comment that cities
are in strange work when they pay for
the services of a teller of pretty tales,
a teacher of folk dancing and the like.
But as We think a bit OF the child
who has no well-stocked library. no
one to tell him the stories II he had
the books, none to guide his dancing in
stinct or to regulate his Unborn love Of
entertainment We know why cities are
stopping in and trying TO change the
faulty instinct to the true.
FRANCESCA.
The Washington herald., 1912-07-15
GOVERNOR BLEASE
FIGHTING MAD"
South Carolina Executive Threatens
to Kill Some of His Political
Enemies.
SAYS HE WILL SHOOT IT OUT"

Augusta, Ga. July H.-Gov. Cole L.
Rlease. of South Carolina, is 'fghting
mad" because of the charges of graft.
ranging from traffic in pardons to
rake-ofr from blind tigers" which were
brought against him by witnesses who
testified before the South Carolina legis-
lative committee. which concluded its
sessions here last night.
So enraged is Gov. Blease that he
openly threatens 20 kill any man who
tells him to his face that the charges
are true.
Blease is especially bitter against At
torney Thomas B. Fielder. OF Atlanta.
who produced the evidence against the
Governor. Blease also includes In his
denunCia rions Judge Ira B. Jones, who
is a candidate for Governor. and the
members Of the South Carolina inves-
tigating committee. The members OF the
committee he called gutter snipes and
panderers."
IF they will come to me" he con-
tinued. Il will call them something that
will make any man in South Carolina
fight
And by indirection he invited any mem-
Der OF the committee who did not like
what he said to meet him on the streets
of Columbia and shoot il out with him.
man 81 600 who will get Tom Fielder two
feet on this side OF the Savannah River
and let me be present"
The governor in denounCing the COM
mittee for meeting in Georgia instead OF
South Carolina. spoke of Georgia as "a
State that. can't raise anything but
panderers and watermelons.' and OF
Gov. Brown. of Georgia. as "A man who
did not have sense enough even to raise
a watermelon
Referring to his pardon record testi-
mony. as TO which played an important
Tart in the investigation at Augusta, he
said: They say that I have pardoned
y great many people have. and by
the living God, l proposed to pardon
more"
1T is against the law TO send chal-
lenges in South Carolina. but If any OF
that committee will come to me and
tell me he believes what Fielder sar1,
you won't need any dueIing law. and
Charlie Smith. Lieutenant Governor. will
Be your Governor