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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-05
Peruvian Title Clear.
SLAIN GIRL FOUND BY DOG.
Pet Leads Father Of Missing Child to
Scene of Crime.

WASHINGTON, Pa, August 5.-After
a search of twenty-four hours the body of
Celia Funka. an eighteen-year-old Aus
trian girl, who had been missing from her
home at Manifold. three miles northeast
of here. since early Saturday, was found
at noon Sunday near Washington by q
Newfoundland dog which had been her
pet for years.
August Funka. father of the girl, was
led to a clump of trees by the animal and
there discovered his child. She had been
choked to death. On her throat were
the imprints OF fingers. the nails Of which
had sunk deep into the flesh. At her feet
Was dress which she had been carrying
from her home to Washington. torn from
it's wrappings, and nearby were her belt
and shoes
1t was nearly midday when the dog
crossing a line between two farms north
east of Washington, suddenly stopped
and gave a mournful howl. With the
father of the girl close at his heels, the
animal put his nose to the ground and
ran until he finally stopped a, what APP
parently appeared to be a pile Of grass.
AS the dog whined and howled the father
threw aside the grass and found the body
OF his daughter.
A posse led by Sheriff r. G.. Luton is
searching in this vicinity for the mur-
derer The father of Celia Funka says
that when he found the body he saw a
strange man in a nearby field. The
stranger, Funka says, disappeared when
he looked up.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-05
TO GATHER
ON WHITE HOUSE LAWN
President and Mrs. Taft Hosts
to Congress of Applied
Chemistry.

Many novel features will form part of
the program for the eighth International
Congress of Applied Chemistry, which will
be held here September 4. and at which
nearly 5000 scientist from all parts Of
the world will attend. Each speaker
will talk into a dictagraph at the ban
quet, and small telephones connected at
every guests plate will carry the address.
President Taft will preside at the initial
session the morning of September 4, and
later in the afternoon the President and
Mrs. Taft will be hosts at garden party
at the White House lawn.
Will Tour the Country.
The congress will meet for one day
only in Washington and will hold similar
sessions in the principal cities Of the
country in special train visiting manu-
featuring centers where applied chemis-
try is a factor in the manufacture
who will take part in the proceedings
are Sir William Ramsay, X. c. B., F.
r. S., the great authority on radium;
Sir BovertOn Redwood, d. Sc. who has
visited every mineral oil district in the
world and is the leading authority on
petroleum.: Sir Robert A. Hadfeld, D.
Met. F. r. S.. who developed the man
ganese. nickel and other methods Of
hardening steel: DR.. Samuel Eyde of
Norway. who developed the electrical
process OF extracting nitrogen from
the air for the manufacture of ferti-
lizers; Prof. NJ. L. Lindet. representing
the French ministry of agriculture. the
foremost proponent of establishing in
ternationally uniform methods Of
analysis. and Prof. William H. Perkin
of the Victoria University OF Manches-
ter. who Is the father OF the aniline
dye industry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-05
Ian TEN WEI HAS FLIGHT.
General Says Chinese Army Will
Adopt Aviation.

SAN FRANCISCO, August 5.-The only
Chinese aviator in the world, Tom Cunn
made an aeroplane flight at Alameda yes
terday with Gen. Ian Tien Wei. formerly
in command of the Manchurian army of
the Chinese republic and now in this
country to inspect the American army.
The general was taken 1000 feet up and
carried through turns and dips in fear
less fashion. When he set foot on earth
he announced unqualifiedly that aviation
would be introduced into the Chinese re-
publican army.
Tom Gum wishes to be aviator In chief.
He is only nineteen years old. but re-
markedly cautious for his years. He be-
gan his apprenticeship in an aeroplane
factory. believing, as he said soberly that
lit is better to learn this business from
the ground up than the other way
around.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-05
THINKS REFORM IS NEEDED.
Wilson Relates Personal Experience
Of Newspaper Inaccuracy.

SEAGIRT. n. J.. August 5-Gov. Wood
row Wilson's sudden entry into the po-
litical limelight with a squad OF cor
respondents and telegraphers, camped In
tents on the meadow near his cottage,
has given him a novel experience The
governor remarked today that, while he
papers, he could not understand some
Misrepresentation and Inaccuracies.
For example," related the governor,
when was president OF
Princeton University I delivered an ad-
dress in a certain city in which I said
that public opinion was not developed in
great congested communities. 1 said that
public opinion was developed in the cross
roads store. where the farmers sat
around. chewed tobacco, spit into the
sawdust and exchanged ideas. I added
jokingly. that no matter what might be
said against tobacco chewing, it must
be admitted that 1t made men think,
and that wherever you found men chew
ing tobacco together you found the real
public opinion Of the country:
Imagine my horror when the newspa-
pers the next day ignored the rest OF
my speech-which l thought not without
gave prominence to what
said about tobacco chewing. declaring in
the headlines that said tobacco chewing
made thinkers"
The governor added that a big tobacco
company also made photograph of one
of the newspaper reports and used 1t In
their advertising, stamping him las a
college president who advocated chewing
tobacco to develop the mind"
wrong" remarked the governor. land
should in some way be made impossible.
for, even though untrue, doubt IL it was
libelous."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-05
WILL BE BURIED WEDNESDAY
Coroner hewitt Certifes to Accidental
Death of Amos Brown.

Coroner hewitt today gave a certificate
of accidental death in the case Of Amos
Brown. cabnlan who died at the Elmer
gency Hospital this morning as a result
of injuries he sustained Friday morning
when he fell from his cab at 18th and B
streets northwest.
Brown was on his way to a steamboat
wharf with a passenger when the acct
dent happened. Two men working near
the scene Of the accident put him in the
cab and drove him to the hospital.
Brown. who was fifty-seven years old,
was known about the stand at the old
Baltimore and Ohio depot number of
years ago.
Funeral services for the cabman will he
conducted at Lees chapel at = o'clock
Wednesday afternoon. Interment will be
at Rock Creek.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-05
AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW.
THE INCOMPETENTS.
By Walt Mason.

could cook things with skill and judg-
ment. But she also had her drawbacks.
She was a sociable creature and she had
so many friends they'd have made a
tertained them all at our house. They
sat on the front porch and in the gar
den swing. They were comedy youths
and maidens, but they were too numer-
that my wife and I would he backed off
our own premises to make room for this
merry throng: so We had to invite the
gregariOus damsel to depart.
We hired girl after girl and every one
had some serious drawback. Not one
was fitted for the walk OF life to which
she had been called. No doubt they
went away from our place embittered,
saying that we were hard to- please; no
doubt they wrote communications to the
newspapers saying they were the victims
OF a gross injustice. but the truth is that
they were all incompetent. and as time
went on we began to wonder whether
there was In all the wide world a girl
ordinary homework The incompetents
give hOusework a bad name and make 1t
unpopular. and there are so many of them
that their clamoring fills the country.
and was engaged She made no boast Of
her SKILL She did not claim that she
had been employed in the cars winter
palace. She didn't insist that she could
w q Ju6SHHS STUNT Win q COOK stove.
She was quiet and unassuming. but as
soon as she put her apron on and went
to work We saw that she was a past
master There was no idiotic haste about
her. She was calm and deliberate and
every motion counted. She had no
grievances. no equal rights theories. She
did her work and drew her pay and
treated us. her employers. with a certain
cool reserve approaching hauteur. She
permitted no familiarities and we soon
learned
she still abides with us, but we are
In constant fear that somebody will kid
nap her or beguile her away. We have
raised her wages three times without be-
ing asked to, and We try to make our
home haven for her. That girl should
be placed on exhibition as an object les:
son to the young women who consider
homework beneath their dignity. No
woman I'm this town occupies a prouder
place or 10 more independent than she.
And It's all because she has made house
work a study and believes in art for
arts sake"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-05
WILSON'S NAME FORGED.
Man Who "Hobnobbed" With Ohio
Officials May Be Man Hunted.

COLUMBUS, Ohio. August 5.-That the
man who ten days ago gave his name as
J. A. Giles. said he was a sherin in Texas.
and asserted that he had come here to
present Gov. Harmon with a fine saddle
horse may be John Thomas OBrien.
wanted in New Jersey for forgery. is the
belief of several of the state officials.
Giles also passed worthless check on a
state house attache while here.
Frank Moore. superintendent of the New
Jersey reformatory. in 4 letter addressed
to Gov. Harmon to-day inclosed a photo
graph and description of O'Brien. saying
that the latter forged the name of Wood
row Wilson to q check. The check which
the "Giles" passed In Columbus bore the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-05

II have been trying for three weeks
to engage young woman for general
housewOrk," complained the school SUI
perintendent. land all in vain. All the
young women seem to be otherwise en-
gagged
They're all studying painting on china,
or music. or. elocution, or some other I'M
profitable thing" remarked the village
patriarch. This country is full OF in
situations Of learning. but l don't know
Of any that graduates skilled domestics,
and we need something Of that kind the
worse way. Girls have a prejudice
against housework for wages They'd
rather stand behind a counter and sell
things until they fail exhausted. They
think there isn't any dignity connected
with housework. but they are wrong. A
really competent girl is monarch OF all
she surveys.
I'VE have such girl at our place.
Before we SECURED this pearl Of great
price We had the most distressing ad-
ventures with girls. My wife was driven
to a feeble-minded condition. 1t was
early in the spring when We advertised
for a handmaiden, and about a hundred
came around the next morning My wife
held a levee on the front porch and
finally selected one who claimed that she
&as extremely skillful with cook stove.
That was the chief thing. We wanted a
girl who could distinguish a head of cab
bage from q mock turtle and who could
cook simple viands without straining her
intellectual faculties.
This girl created the impression in my
wife's mind that she had cooked for all
the crowned heads Of Europe. and we
thought we had drawn prize. But she
demonstrated before she had been on
duty a day that she couldn't even boil
an egg She was the most helpless fe-
male / ever saw. She was always rush
ing into the sitting room where my wife
and I were seated reading work on
veterinary surgery. to ask how much salt
she should put In the coffee or whether
eggs should be peeled before they were
fried.
1--WE cast her into outs1 darkness and
hired a dashing brunette, who really
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-05
HAS MARRIED 5000.
Bristol, Tenn, Preacher Has United
Four Thousand Couples in Wedlock.

BRISTOL, Va.-Tenn., August 5.-Rev.
Alfred Harrison Burroughs OF Bristol
now in his eightieth year. has married
upward of 1000 couples in the last
twenty years.
II had no thought of making this a
business said the minister. 81 was
licensed to marry people many years ago.
me in August of 1880 in the little brick
hotel. the Nickels House, I consented to
marry them more as a matter of accom-
mediation than anything else.
The modest fortune made by the clergy
man he has invested for the most part in
western mining stocks. He had been ad-
vised against them. and thus far they
have yielded him only the most meager
returns. Most Of them have yielded MOTH
ing. but he confidently expects them to
make him rich.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-05
GOES TO RUBBER FIELDS
ON OFFICIAL INQUIRY
American Agent to Probe
Charges of Cruelty in Pc
ruvian Territory.

Stewart Fuller. whom the State Depart
ment has selected from it's entire list OF
capable men to investigate the atrocities
alleged to have been committed in the
Putumayo rubber country, starts today,
in company with the British consul at
Iquitos, from that remote port on the
Amazon, for the headwaters of the great
river. The purpose Of the quest is to as
certain at first hand and report to the
State Department whether the Peruvian
government has been able to redeem its
pledge to the United States and Great
Britain to extend full protection to the
unfortunate Indian rubber gatherers.
Over Difficult Route.
Mr.. Fuller will proceed by a light draft
stern-wheel steamer as far up the
Amazon, perhaps. as the mouth of its
tributary, the Putumayo. and at that
point the party will be obliged to have
recourse to small power launches. Even
these must be abandoned in the upper
reaches of the Putumayo, owing to shall
low water, and the party must traverse
long distances afoot in the jungle. Al
together the voyage up the river Will
cover about 1000 miles.
Fortunately. Mr.. Fuller will not be long
out of touch with the outside world, as
the Peruvian government has already
erected some powerful wireless telegraph
stations in the rubber country which are
capable of establishing communication
over the Andes to Lima to the westward.
Peruvian Title Clear.
A suggestion has been made that difi-
Guilty may be experienced in dealing with
the aggravated form of slavery said to
have existed in the rubber country
through the uncertainty which has existed
as to the ownership Of the land. 1t is
stated, however, that the long-standing
dispute over the possession of the famous
Acre tract claimed by Brazil, Chile and
Peru, has now been finally adjusted and
there no longer exists any question as
to Peru's title to the rubber Putumayo
country.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-05
AMENDS THE CONSTITUTION.
Resolution for Recall Of Federal
Judges Below Supreme Court.

An amendment to the United States
Constitution, making federal judges,
other than those on the United States
Supreme Court bench. subject to recall,
was proposed in the Senate today by
Senator Ashurst, democratic progress
i've of Arizona.
The bill was referred to the Senate
judiciary committee. where it will
probably remain undisturbed for some
time
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-05

A new power house is in course of con-
struction at the junction Of the Antietam
creek and smaller stream near Security.
two miles from Hagerstown. Md, by the
Hagerstown and Frederick Electric Rail-
way companies. When completed it will
represent an expenditure OF $JO0O0O. and
will place at the disposal Of this section
about 5000 horsepower.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-05
GETS CAMP OF own
District Guard to Profit More
Than in War Game.
GOES TO HARPERS FERRY
New Regulations Will Receive Thor
ough Test There.
CAMP WORK IS INTERESTING
Preparations For and Actual Care
OF Militiamen Entail a Great
Amount of Scientific Work.
GOES TO HARPERS FERRY
CAMP WORK IS INTERESTING

When the National Guard of the Dis
trict OF Columbia goes into camp near
Harpers Ferry. August IA. for two
weeks. it will follow an entirely differ
ent line Of instruction from that to be
followed by the twenty thousand
troops from several of the eastern
states which will join in the big war
game on the coast Of Connecticut this
summer. While the men Of New York,
New Jersey, Connecticut and other
states are plunging blindly about the
country. following orders from a di-
vision commander, the boys from
Washington will be gaining instruc-
ton In the elementals Of soldering.
1t is probably a compliment to some
one In the local brigade that it was
allowed an elemental camp Of its own,
for 1t is matter of common
knowledge that militiamen are much
the better soldiers after two weeks Of
elemental soldering than they are
after they have jaunted across coun-
try as mere units in a tremendous war
problem.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-05

NEW LONDON. Conn. August AL
fred III. Chappell, treasurer Of the Con-
nscticut College for Women, is dead at
his home here of apoplexy. He was
eixfy.dve years old.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-05
If Flies Were Beasts.

IF flies were wild beasts" the maya
zine says, we would not submit help
Iessly to their invasion or be satisfied
to bar our doors and windows against
them. We would not rest until they
were exterminated. Just because they
are so numerous and ali-pervasive We
have assumed there is no hope of rid
ding the world Of the nuisance.
Until mosquito bars and wire screens
gave us respite, we lived in darkened
rooms and fought for food. Scientists
have recently evolved plans of outdoor
determination. Flies have breeding places.
They are limited in flight. In spite Of
their enormous capacity to increase, they
succumb like all living things to the per-
sistent ravages of war. The enormous
spawning capacity of fish does not pre-
vent the depletion of rivers and lakes.
1T is not necessary to catch all OF the
flies in order to free the world Of the
great source of annoyance and danger.
All we need is the same attitude toward
the fly out of doors that we have have
for 1t in the house. There must be
determined spirit of cooperation and pub
lie housekeeping. The saving OF expense
and suffering to both man and beast, to
say nothing Of the prevention Of illness
and death through disease, should arouse
every community to. a sense of response
bility in the most important work of fly
determination.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-05
ALEXANDR|AAFFA|R
Buildings Raced to Make Way
for Sunday School Home.
STRUCTURE TO BE MODERN
Auditorium Of Second Presbyterian
Church to Be Remodeled,
It Is Reported.
Special Correspondence Of The star.

special correspondence OF The Star.
ALEXANDRIA. Va, August ). 1912
The work of razing the small brick
buildings at the northeast corner of
Prince and st. Asaph streets, preparatory
to the erection of $4,000 Sunday school
building for the Second Presbyterian
Church. was begun this morning by Con-
tractor Joseph F. Rodgers.
The structure will be two stories high.
with basement, and will be of brick and
modern in every detail.
In the basement will be a gymnasium
and shower baths, and on the first floor
proper will be located the Sunday school
rooms of the church. The second floor
will be used for an assembly hall or lee
ture room.
AS soon as the building is completed
the Sunday school classes of the church
will be transferred to this building. Aft
erward, it is understood, the main audi
torium of the church will be remodeied.
Hibernians Report.
F. r. Quinn, state secretary, and NJ.
J. Mcfarland. delegates to the national
convention of the Ancient Order of
Hibernians, held recently in Chicago.
submitted their reports at meeting
of the local division held yesterday
a afternoon at St Mary's Hall. The meet
ing was largely attended.
The Columbia fire engine company will
hold meeting Wednesday night. at
which time delegates will be chosen to
the state convention. which will be held
in Roanoke. Va. August 1880. The two
other fire companies have already elect
ed delegates to the state convention.
The Holy Name Society of st. Mary's
Catholic Church last night held a meet
fr,Sr
Lyceum Hall. at which time further
plans for the recently organized band
of that organization were discussed and
other business disposed of.
in the police court today. most of the
cases being for drunk and disorderly con-
duct.
Justice Cation on Leave.
Police Justice H. B. Cation accom- aniei
by his wife. has gone to Atlantic City,
where he will spend a week. During
his absence the police court will be pre-
sided over by Justice l.. H. Thompson.
n. S. Greenaway, clerk of the corpora
ton court. has gone to Ocean Grove.
n. j.. where he will spend his vacation.
The remains of LESSEE Peregoy, fifteen
months old. son Of Mr.: and Mrs. George
w. Peregoy, who died yesterday at the
home of his parents 916 Franklin street.
were shipped today to Fredericksburg,
where burial was made.
Mrs. Joseph Fields underwent an oper-
alton today at the hospital
Mrs. Joseph Hansborough is reported to
be critically i'll at her home, 231 North
West street.
r. z. Lee Camp. Confederate Veterans
will hold meeting at its hall tonight
The Alexandria Musical Association will
give its annual excursion to Marshall
Hall tomorrow
Little Virginia McCuen. who was so
badly burned July 4 by skyrocket, is re-
ported to be rapidly recovering.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-05
Doubly Beneficial.

1t is believed here that this result will
have a doubly beneficial effect. In the
first place the national government will
be assured of the financial means neces-
sary to support it. and in the second place
the provinces will have their interests
quickened in the maintenance OF the re-
public. at present somewhat weakened
by intense local feeling.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-05

The supervisors of Lancaster and North
cumberland. Va. have appropriated $3.50
from each county to supplement the
amount appropriated by the federal gov
eminent for the purpose of employing "A
scientific farm demonstration for these two
counties.