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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-17
WIFE IS BARRED FROM
HOME OF GEN. S|CKLES
PaWned JeWeIry to Pay His
Debts, But Is Denied Ad-
mission to His House.

NEW YORK, September 17.-That all
hope for a reconciliation between Mai.
Gen. Daniel E. Sickles and his wife, who
have been separated for nearly thirty-one
years. has failed became known yester-
day when it was learned that since last
Thursday, when she pawned her jewelry
to prevent personal property of the gen.
eral from being sold at public auction,
Mrs. Sickies has been turned away from
the generals home without being permit
ted to see him.
Twice Denied Admission.
Twice since the day she sacrificed her
pride and walked into a 9Th avenue pawn
shop to obtain the money which she took
personally to the Lincoln Trust Company
to meet a debt of $500 of the generals
Mrs. Sickles has called at the Sickles
home % 9Th avenue. and been refused ad-
mttance by servants, who said they had
orders from the housekeeper. Miss Flea
nor Earl Wimerding, not to admit either
Mrs. Sickles or Stanton Sickles, her son.
The son telephoned to his counsel, John
Reilly, and the latter called at the 9TH
avenue address to deliver Mrs. Sickles
message to Gen. Sickles. Mr.. Reilly aft
erward said he was received by Miss
confidante and housekeeper for fifteen
years When Mr.. Reilly informed her
that he had come to say that the judg
ment against the general had been salts
fed Miss Wilmerding quickly replied that
she already knew TIE facts
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-17

fever, and yet it is too small to be seen
even with the microscope eyes Of the lab
oratory The same is true OF measles
The laboratory expert is able to inoculate
monkeys with these microbes. but he cam
not see them. The same is true of rabies
Malignant tumors have been transmitted
BY these invisible microbes. and typhus
fever may be reproduced In the labora-
which causes it refuses to make itself
known through the microscope Thou
sands of germs have been found and
their life histories written as accurately
as are the life histories of chickens and
sheep. but the bacteriolog!st. having
reached the limit of the power of his nil
croscope. has set to work to locate 9TH
ers by circumstantial evidence. He has
succeeded in prov.n- the existence of
some that cannot be seen and he hopes
to add a long list of others and incident
ally to gain Few insight to mysterious
diseases.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-17
DR.. GARDNER RETURNS HOME
for
Mysterious Disappearance
Months Is UNEXPLAINED.

SWANSEA. Mass, September 1s.-Dr.
Clifton r. Gardner. an inferno at the
POSTGRADUATE Hospital I'm New York
CITY whose mysterious disappearance
from that institution July % led police
and private detectives to a country-wid
search for him, is at the home Of his
father in South Swansea.
1t Is said that he returned home unap-
nounced two days ago. His parents d.
cline to give any information as 20 his
health or the cause of his long absence
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-17
General Makes No Comment.

Gen. Sickles. who had been taking an
afternoon nap entered the room as Mr..
Reilly was speaking. Mr.. Reilly then in
formed him personally that the debt had
been paid by Mrs. Sickles, and Gen. Sick
les stated he was glad to learn of it. He
made no other comment on his wifes act.
While Mr. Reilly was conversing with
Gen Sickles there was slight commo-
ton in the hall of the house. 1t devel-
oped that Mrs. Sickles and Stanton Sick
les, firing of waiting for MIR. Reilly to
reappear. had entered the house despite
the servants. Before they could get to
the room of Gen. Sickles Mr.. Reilly met
them and they were informed that the
general was too fatigued to see them.
Since that time they have not been near
the house.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-17
Prominent Jesuit Priest Dead

JERSEY CITY, September I7.-The
Rev. Francis Casey ~ st. Pster's Gel-
lege. Jersey City, one''of thel oldest and
best known Jesuit priests In America, il
dead OF cancer at st. Francis Hospital
had beesszS0uHeed for various seegns in
New York, Baltimore, D0ston and Troy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-17

made by the senate committee which in
vestigated the affairs of Albany city and
county. today ordered a recess OF the
court until September %. In the mean
time the special grand jury will continue
it's investigation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-17

The most destructive and spectacular
fire in the history of Martinsburg, W.
Va. occurred Sunday night. when the
plant Of the Stewart Vehicle Company
was destroyed. together with hundreds Of
completed and partially made vehicles
and a vast quantity Of material.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-17

If the American people could be taken,
one by one. through the great laboratories
of the country, where patient scientists
are investigating the causes of diseases,
they would see realms undreamed of in
all their philosophy. They no longer
could assume that satisfied air of skepti-
cism when the medical world says that
diseases are produced by microbes and
that certain microbes produce certain all
ments. For seeing Is believing, and a
modern medical laboratory is a place
where one may see with his own eyes a
thousand wonders that he never knew
existed before, and who goes there in
evitably comes out knowing not which
to marvel at the most-the infinitesimal
worlds revealed to him or the genius of
the men who reveal them.
Millions upon millions Of people do not
believe such a thing as a germ exists.
And when even those who are credited
with being people of high intelligence are
told that there are germs SO small that
the populati of a drop of water might
be as great as the human population OF
the earth they think ii is only fairy
tale of the medical world. And yet the
bacteriologist can tell you more about the
life habits of germs OF that size than
the average reader can tell Of the life
habits of SO familiar SlSht as the
English sparrow.
The germ may be an animal like the
one that causes malaria. or vegetable
like the o e
Germs Found that produces tu-
in Various Forms. germ may be fond
of oxygen or may detest it. Some OF
them die in the open air and some die
when they cannot get it, Some germs
are round like periods. others are long
like dashes. and others are shaped like
a series of commas tied together. Some
can stand all kinds of heat and some
can resist all kinds of cold. Some germs
cause sickness and others promote
health. The cross-examiner Of the labo-
ratory makes the germ on trial tell to
which class he belongs. Some absorb
colors and others do not, and the cross
examiner forces Mr.. Germ to tell to which
faction he belongs. Some are able to
swim around like fish in the water. while
others are as helpless as q piece of drift
wood. Some, when they get in tight
place where death seems to be their only
portion. form spores. which can stand all
sorts of hardships and afterward turn
into natural germs again.
Some " them are repelled by certain
SUBSTANCES which attract others; some
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-17

can drink carbolc acid solution as we
drink lemonade, while to others it as as
fataf as arsenic Is to mankind Some die
on exposure to moisture, while others are
killed by drying. Some are so fastidious
that they must have the most delicate
broth Imaginable to live in, while Others
can flourish like CLAIMS at high tide on a
piece OF old shoe leather. and some trans
manufa cture sugar into glucose. These
and a hundred other different traits are
characteristic of germs. and by the time
Mr.. Germ Is made to answer every such
question the Psychologist knows en-
actly where he belongs just as well as the
farmer knows sheep from COW.
And by the time the layman has fol-
lowed the bacteriologist through this
course of cross
Wonderful Field examination he
Of Bacteriologist. p1nnot 'a vi. TO ap
derful work. He is the biggest vegetable
and stock grower in the world. He grows
tens of billions of plants and animals And
he studies their tastes and traits as care
fully as ever q hotelkeeper studied the
tastes of his guests. He gives them ster-
ilized food to eat, keeps their surround
lnSS thousand times cleaner tnan a
queens kitchen. keeps their rooms heated
exactly to their liking. and surrounds
them with everything imagina BILE to make
them healthy and prolific.
When the bacteriologist wants to grow
a large family of germs-lle calls it a
colOny-he puts some of them into a ster-
ilized preparation which hardens. There
Is then no chance for their moving
around. So each little germ settles down
to itself and begins to break in two, and
then each of those pieces into two other
pieces. and so on. until the family be-
comes as numberless as the sands of the
seashore. When he wants to take the
census of the germ population of given
colony he puts them into sterilized
fluid. adds ten times as much more fluid,
and then ten times as much more and so
on until there as SO many drops of fluid
that each can have only few germs in
1t. Then he puts one drop under the
microscope and counts the nhabitants
in it, BY the reverse process; he is able
then to calculate automatically how
many germs were in the entire colony
In well equipped labora tory there are
germs of all kinds. Here is a great mass
of matter OH q
Microbes Disclosed slice of Irish Pc
Under Microscope. tato' repre-.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-17
PROCEEDINGS IN ONE LUMF
Government Decides on Single Con.
demuatiou for Whole Territory.
CASES BEFORE JUSTICE GOULD
Three Commissioners to Hear Testi-
mony and Present Findings
to the Court.

The remaining area required for the
proposed extension of the Capitol grounds
to the Union station plaza is to be &C
quired by the United States in a single
condemnation proceeding. The two
squares Immediately north of the Capt.
toll grounds were condemned in a suit
filed by the Attorney General last year.
and the impression had become general
that the work of condemnation would
proceed at the rate of two squares each
year until the whole area had been ac-
quired. Vice President Sherman, Rep
resentative Cannon and Elliot Woods.
superintendent Of the Capitol building
and grounds. who are in charge of the
purchase of the land. decided. however,
to include all the remaining squares to
be condemned in one proceeding. and
late yesterday afternoon, through United
States Attorney Wilson and Assistant
Attorney General Strickland, began suit
to acquire nine and one-half squares of
ground.
The property involved in the new pro-
ceeding is known on the plat Of the city
as squares $50, $50, 6S1, 49,, $685. 6S4,
721, 100, 72S and all of square 633 lying
east of Arthur place. The area is in
Guided within these street lines, begin
ming at the Senate office building. run
ming north on LIST street east to the
north side of D street. thence east to
2d street northeast, then along the
west side of that street to F street, and
across the plaza to North Capitol street;
along the east side Of North Capitol
to D street, west along D street to New
Jersey avenue, to street. to Arthur
place. to B street; then back to New
Jersey avenue and c street.
Congress Makes Appropriation.
Congress has authorized the appropria-
ton of $3,5O0.OOO for the acquisition of the
entire area, including the two squares
already bought. The whole cost Is to be
which three have already been made.
The last Of these payments will not
be available until July, 1915
The purchase of the two squares cost
S1,119OOO and took more than two of
the annual installments There will be
left about $2,350O 600 to pay for the land
and Improvements included in the nine
and one-half squares yet to be acquired.
Chief Justice Clabaugh at the request
of Mr.. Strickland has issued citations
against all the owners of land within the
area to be condemned. This order OF the
court requires that any objection to the
condemnation of the land be presented
to Justice Gould, who will be presiding in
the District Court, October %. at 10
o clock. Three commissioners will then
be selected by Justice Gould to view the
property. The commission will hear testi-
mony from owners of the property and
from experts offered by Mr.. Strickland
for the government and will set a valua-
ton on each parcel of land included with
in the area to be condemned and will
report its findings to the court.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-17
Inquiry Court Takes Recess.

ALBANY, y. Y, September 17.-Justice
Merrill, who is presiding at the extraor-
binary term of the supreme court called
by Gov. Dix TO take up the disclosures
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-17

may be seen with the high-powered micro
scope the doctor uses. Here is row of
little tubes with cotton for shoppers. Each
of them contains typhoid germs enough
to start a big epidemic. Here are some
tubes containing tetanus germs, which
under a microscope look like little drum
sticks, and the poison or toxin they gen.
crate is so powerful that the eightieth
horse a poison that makes the venom of
the rattiesnakc seem harmless in COM
parison.
of paraffin so thin that one might stack
up ten thousand of them in pile an inch
high are a lot of little colored bodies
taken from the spinal cord of dog. They
are called Negr bodies from the name of
their discoverer. and when those little
specks are visible under the microscope
you may be sure the dog had hydro
phobia. If you do not believe 1t, put
some of it into mouse or guinea pig
and see how certainly it will go mad.
Then here are tubes OF measles germs,
typhus germs. malarial germs, pneumonia
germs. a thousand different kinds of
germs. and the doctor always has meth
DDS of proving that what his eyes tell
him is right.
In studying microbes the laboratory eX-
peri must have infinite patience. He
must have the touch of an artist the i'm
aginatio of a poet, the hard sense of the
farmer. the passion for exactitude of the
mathematician, the tenacity of a bulldog
and the open mindedness of the man who
accepts nothing as proved until it cannot
be explained in any other way. He must
make the most painstaking measure
mentS keep his instruments absolutely
sterile. try every theory he advances with
the acid test of practical application and
make as sure as 1t Is humanity possible
that his reasoning is correct.
What the study of microbes has brought
to the human race in the way of better
health and longer lives is inestimab BILE.
Asceptic surgery has saved it's tens of
thousands in peace and in war, both by
preventing blood poisoning and the like,
and by making possible operations that
otherwise could not have been under
taken. Since Koch discovered the germ
of tuberculosis the death rate from the
white plague has been cut in twain.
:: ::
Typhoid, diphtheria, yellow fever, q
hundred diseases of man and animals
have been rob-
Many Diseases bed Of their
Robbed Of Terrors. and all that Is
now needed Is the acceptance by the peo-
pie of the knowledge that the laboratory
has developed about germs and their
ways, and a nationwide and unrelenting
warfare on the bad ones, with the medl-
cal fraternity to captain the fight.
Much will be heard al the 1nterna tional
Congress of Hygiene and Demograph:
about what the world has been doing dur
ing the past five years in its efforts COM
pleteIy to master the microbe. There arr
scientists everywhere engaged in efforts
to run down new microbes. and this now
is a fight largely to prove the existence
of germs that are too small to be seen
even with the most powerful microscope
For instance, nothing is better proved
than the existence Of the germ Of yellow
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-07-15
PROBLEM OF CANAL
UP TO THE SENATE
Continued from Page ~

Ines Of rail Whenever an indo
pendent company undertakes to oper
Az steamers on such WATERWAYS in
competition with railways these lar.
Il. companies install their own YES.
sells. reducing rates by water so as
TO drive out all competition. thereby
leaving the railroads masters of the
field and able to fix such rates as they
may see fit
The Panama canal was built for
all the people If the government
Should now undertake to levy a tax
or toll on cOastwise freight through
the canal, it will be reversing the
policy of hundred years. There is
no more reason for the charging of
tolls on domestic commerce through
the canal than there is to charge tolls
to ships through the Great Lakes, or
tC boats on the Ohio or Mississippi.
The policy has always been to permit
the free use of the waterways of the
country in order that they might op-
crate as regulators of railways and
any other policy would be an unjus-
tifiable tax on the whole people.
THE Democrats in the Baltimore
convention practically endorsed the
House bill as it passed that body in
SO far as free tolls and railroad-owned
ships are concerned, and | don't see
how the Democrats of the Senate can
do otherwise than support the bill
as passed by the House.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-07-15
SOUTH TO ORGANIZE.

a suggestion is made in the At
lanta Journal OF recent date that il
wise and pertinent. 1t is proposed
that competent and complete Wood
row Wilson organization be perfect
cd in each of the States of the solio
south, not only for the purpose OF
rolling up splendid majorities in each
OF these States, but in assisting the
Democrats TO win in the common
wealths where the result of the No
vember election may be in doubt, or
at least where Democratic victory is
not SO certain as in the south.
Whatever might have been the out.
come of the Baltimore convention the
States south of the Mason and Dix
ems line would have supported it. 1t
has been thus for nearly half a CEN
fury and even in that disastrous year
when Judge Parker led the party
through slaughter house into an
open grave, every State that COM
Drises the cotton south cast it's vote
for the nominees, but it is notable
that no other commonwealth did.
In view OF these facts and for the
reason that the south will have the
pleasure next fall in helping to elect
one of her native sons as well as sup
porting a platform drawn along the
:.Ost progressive lines, the section
should take delight in assisting 9th.
or parts of the country in winning a
glorious victory. Other States will
need inspiration and good fellowship
and coming down to more practical
things will need campaign sneakers
Florida can furnish her full quota of
these.
Many of the sons Of Florida having
been bred and nurtnrcd i'm this land
9! poetry and romance as well as
piaciicabiity. have been touched
with me divine spark and are clo-
l'lriit orators and logical reasOncrs
ihcll' Scrl Ices will be in demand in |
~ parts o! the country and no doub.
| nllmhcr OF them will vOluniprr thcir
rrviccs.
The south has he brains and the
'hlllty and no doubt will gladly re-
pond TO the old cry: come over
ITO Macedonia and help us" Pen
arola Journal.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-07-15
S15OOO0.O0 5 PER CENT. MU.
NICIPAL BONDS FOR SALE

sealed bids will be received by the
board Of bond trustees of the city
OF Lakeland, Fla, until Monday
Al@. -. 1912, for $150. 900 of sew
eraar. street paving and public build
ing bonds, dated March /, 1872, and
payable thirty to forty-four years
thereafter. numbered from | to $50
OF 81 900 each. Ten of which shall!
be due and payable thirty years from
date Of issue and ten each year there
after until all are paid, bearing inter-
est at the rate OF ) per cent. per an
mum, interest payable semi-annually,
on March and Sept. of each year.
The board reserves the right to re-
ject any and all bids. Each proposal
or bid shall be accompanied by Ger
titled check of 100000 payable to
the board of bond trustees.
These bonds have been validated
under the rulings of the Circuit
Court of the Tenth Judicial Circuit of
Florida in compliance with chapter
6,237, No. lis, Acts of Legis. ature of
1911.
Address all bids to
BOARD BOND TRUSTEES,
It Lakeland, Fla.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-07-15
WHAT THE CLIENT GOT

me Ia" of the land had spoarr
ana The verdict was $4,000 danae.
fl'r tho1Sard dollars. rct-crg
IN" senior par,ner in The LEGAL fr-.
NHo had managed tho plaintiffs case
A'j 80 bad. II think il pr.tt.
-'o1' said The junior partner. I'll 81
l.a. h shall We aive oar c.scnte-
III M SAY $&po." said the s.. .a-
ihoushifally. No: stop a minnie.
We'll? Ne mustn't be too hasfr
sald the successful lawyer slowly
Perhaps you'd better write ana
promise TO pay him the three hum
ared. Detroit Free Press.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-07-15

ne sanford Herald man sn-. 81
sN's me pain 10 80 down Til. 5 r..
ana meeting one Of these I'd ,,..iA
VINO nave helped to hold Stafford bach
;" lone hear the same old star, -
mar" 'iiiieS and the wholr coan.,s ~
ING to the bowwows nv. one IL
'lh'r day and he spun No the >5r
cid yarn OF how the sanford ,.o..
were trying to build a hotel AMI ht.
they would never accomplish -
'hj'ri because they jus coulat.-
ana that WAS his only reason aas
thal Is the only reason these cid s,la-
'oa' hes give yen about cyerythin. i'm
lhH way OF improvements.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-07-15
WHAT MRS. POTTER PALMER IS
DOING AT SARASOTA

Sarasota, July lj.-Mrs. Potter
Palmer, in the possession Of 100 900
acres of land in this vicinity, with a
wealth to develop il and the ambi-
ton to do the creative work of up
building, is planning great things wei,
circulated to advance the whole west
coast of Florida She has a home a.
Osprey Point. a few miles below Sara
sofa, where she spent the winter
his, however, is but a temporary
aDldlnS plac" made available by the
reconstruction of an old building. ON,
CT the great property o. 100, o0U
acres She has selected 1000 acres on
which to build Il permanent winter
home. Her architect has been here
much of the winter studying every
phase of the landscape, the water and
inc SKY in order that the house To he
built may harmonizc with The loca-
tiOn.
EXPERTS have been gathering from
the four quarters of the world ever,
variety of flower and tree and shrub
berry likely to succeed in this climate
These are being tested, and those
who do we'll will be planted in large
numbers. The 1000 acres of grounds
surrounding her house will be given
ever largely to the work of the land
srapc engineer. the expert gardener
and horticulturist. for her aim il ~
make this place one of the beauty
Spots OF the world To as great an
extent as possible all the natural fco-
lures OF the tropical luXuriance of !!
pant and tree will be retained |
" 'halhg walks and roads are being
lhade with as little disturbance ia
Present conditions rs possible Ar
''Hian wells will furnish water for
fountains and running streams. Hero
-" 'H'l' 'lcaTcu acres Will be de-
'o'ed to Hover gardens, whore eyer
ioW"r than can grow in this climat,
WI ." given an opportunity to add
Is bealltilying power 10 the scenery
'reat vegetable gardens. orange ana ,
grapefruit groves will provide abund
Ih' supplies for the table few
lll"S from Mrs. Potter Palmor's homo
Ter sons are building large ana al
'a''lNe winter residence. where tl.1
re- to spend such rimr as They can
pare from business cngagemani
ihcr members ot the family ba,.
lS' built or will build residences.
Tong he bay front