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Evening star., 1912-11-03
Grant in Hour Of Victory.

Morris Schar, in the Atlantic.
Well, Grant seated himself in front of
his tent, and what do you suppose he
talked about? The surrender, of course.
No. he turned to Ingalls, and inquired:
''Ingalls. do you remember that old
white mule that So-and-so used to ride
when we were in the City Of Mexico?"
"Nhy. perfectly" exclaimed the diplo-
matte ingalls,. one of the best poker play
ers of the old army, who, having to dra W
suddenly on his wits dt is barely possible
that he had never even heard of the old
mule before), filled his hand as usual.
Ingalls, was clever. l used to look at
him with boys keen interest. A man
of the world, true as steel to his friends,
and a most efficient officer.
Grant, until supper was ready, went on
recalling the antics of the long-eared
nimble- footed animal In those far-back
times; times and mule doubtless evoked
by his interview with Lee. His detached
naturalness and summer calm in this
hour of victory ! could not have believed
possible, had I not seen him sday after
day on the field.
After supper. to the surprise and disap-
pointment of his staff, who We're looking
forward to witnessing the ceremonial sur
render, Grant announced that on the fol-
lowing afternoon he should start for
Washington. He also expressed, with
customary inforrality, his conviction that
all the other Confederate armies would
now lay down their arms and that peace
would soon prevail And thus, without
vainglory. before his campfire on that
KNOLL where now the asters and the bind
weed bloom. Grant ended the great day
when the sun of the Confederacy set, one
among the greatest days, / think in the
annals of our country
Evening star., 1912-11-03
Daily Bath in Agra Jail.

From the Wide World Magazine.
One of the humorous sights of India
is the daily bathing parade in a native
prison. In the one we witnessed were
youthful, habitual criminals, varying in
age from nine to fifteen years. taking
their daily dip at Agra jail While the
governor watches proceedings from the
shade of a tree the prisoners, each man
fettered and carrying a bowl of beaten
brass or steel, are led out in double file
to stone pavement. on each side of
which runs a shallow trough of water.
At the command of a native warder bowls
are filled and Waistcloths are washed. At
u second order the prisoners scoop water
to their launches, one behind another.
in parallel lines. Again comes a snappy
order from the warder, and each man
begins vigorously to rub the back of the
fellow in front of him. When the warder
Judges the massage" Is complete his
voice brings the two lines to a smart
right-about-face, still on their launches,
and the vigorous rubbing begins again.
each man doing for his fellow what his
fellow did for him The process, while
comcal, is a genuine illustr: tion of the
saying: You scratch my back and Ill
scratch yours" except, of course, to the
prisoners whose fate brings them to the
head or tail of the line. where they re-
ceive only half the treatment" of their
follows.
Evening star., 1912-11-03
Our Superior Girl Babies.
Racnrd-Harald

From the Chicago Record Herald.
Girl babies are said to show a marked
superiority over boy babies at the health
contest in progress at the Iowa state
fair. Almost all the girls are bigger
and heavier than the boys, according to
the medical experts who have examined
them.
Yet within the last week man in
Chicago to whom had been born a third
daughter committed suicide because of
that fact. Much fear was expressed in
the home of Mrs. John Jacob Astor
that her posthumous child might be a
girl. and the birth of a son brought re-
joicing. 1t is evident that even though
girl babies are superior and daughters
have a better chance to develop along
natural lines today than they ever had
they are not so much desired in some
homes. of the rich and poor, as boys.
Why?
Perhaps because. in the case of the
poor boys usually have a greater earn
ing power; perhaps, in the case of
the rich, because of the old idea that
man is the superior of the sexes or be-
cause he will carry the family name
But this is the age of woman's advance
ment, and the superiority shown by the
Iowa girl babies probably marks only
beginning. AS they grow into woman
hood those daughters of the Hawkeye
state may so far excel, in every way,
the present boy babies that no one will
ever again express a preference for
bow
Evening star., 1912-11-03
THE ARGENTINE CENTENARY.
Enterprising South America Re-
public Celebrates Next Year.

/ rom the New York sun.
For the people of this country there is
a real as we'll as sentimental interest
in the centenary the Argentine Republic
is TO celebrate next year. Nowhere else
in the world have the ideas promulgated
in the Constitution of the United States
been more faithfully copied and nowhere
else in the world Is there nation which
in the past fifty years has risen more
rapidly to commercial prosperity or ma
tional greatness than has Argentina.
OF the growth of Buenos Aires every
new traveller supplies additional testi-
mony. Its press, it's parks. it's transcon-
tinental railroads. its docks. its popula-
ton. Is now rising to a million and a
half. which Will make ii perhaps tomor-
row dispute with Paris the title of the
first Latin city in the world. as ii has
already distanced Rome. Naples and Mad
rid for second place-these have already
become the common coin of every con-
Sular and commercial report.
Yet IL is only by an occasional citation
OF facts that a real measure of Argentine
progress is supplied. With area a
third as large as Canada, ii has today a
greater population. il exports more and il
imports but little less than the Dominion
OF the 7.oG0go population which the las,
census disclosed. not less than 100000
represent the survivors of the descendants
OF the 100000 Europeans, half of them
Italian and a quarter Spanish, who have
emigrated TO this southern republic in
the past half century
The Argentine Republic had it's origin
in the consequences Of the Napoleonic in
vasion of Spain. While still a loyal col
ony, its inhabitants captured one British
army and defeated another. The 25th o,
May. 1910. which Argentines still cele-
Drate as national birthday, saw the
formation of that junta which superseded
The government of Spanish viceroy
and from then until 1922 Argentina played
an honorable and conspicuous role in the
battles of South America, the contests
OF Peru. Chile and other Spanish colonies
for liberty.
II the earlier years of Argentine his
tory were marked by revolution and dis
order. the influx of Spanish. French anC
Italians tand Argentina has steadily at
rracted the best class of Latin emigra
tom has wholly changed the conditions
Even the disagreement with Chile. it.
rival in politics well as progress. has
at last been settled pacifically, and toda,
one completed trapscontinentai railwa.
and one shortly to be completed indicate
the growing commercial solidarity of thes.
two progressive South American coun
tries.
1t will be a fortunate thing If the com
ing celebration shall open the way to
closer relation between the United State;
and the great South American republ1
which will then observe the anniversary
Of its first century of independence
Despite the ties of race. language anC
religion which bind the ,Argentines L
Europe. there is certainly in similar con
sttutions and similar ideals of an indie
pendent America basis for greater sym
pathy, closer commercial relations ant
better knowledge of each other for tn,
United States and the Argentine Republic
Evening star., 1912-11-03

of the civil war period and study them
closely. Surely those women won ad-
miration from the male sex in spite OF
the manner in which they garbed them
selves and not because of 1t. Coilars;
sleeves bosoms, waists and skirts all
looked as if they had been cut out in the
dark and without patterns. Do not, love
ly woman go back to those hideous
things! But there is one detail OF the
costume feminine which will admit of I'M
mediate Improvement and for a reason
precisely opposite to that offered by the
reformers This detail does not disclose
too literally, but on the contrary con-
ceals altogether too much of the charms
of our partners in life. This detail is the
hat. When a beautiful. or even toll
erably good-looking, woman puts on a
Evening star., 1912-11-03
OLD AGE A DISEASE?
Speculation on Preserving Body
From Unfriendly Bacteria.

From the London Morning Post
Many conjectures have followed Metch-
nikoff's fantastic speculation that old age
is merely disease, due to the invasion
of bacillus, and that if this unfriendly
mlcro-organism could but be eXtirpated
life might be prolonged, if not indefinitely,
then at least considerably. Most physiol-
ogists reject any such idea, and believe
that living cells. living tissues and living
organs having done their work. having
undergone, or having effected, a certain
number of transformations can do no
more; and, in a word, that death is a
function of life. Some have suggested,
however. that If the body could be ster-
iliZed of its bacteria, as Cohendy, a
French biologist, has sterilized chicks,
and could be preserved from their ad-
vances, and if, furthermore the pro-
cesses of life could be slowed then 1t
might be possible to preserve an indi-
vldual for some years in a state of sus-
pended animation The idea is of course
as old as Indian legend, and depends for
its practical realization on methods which
we do not at present possess of steriliZ-
ing and preserving the body, as we'll as
of suspending and of restoring it's activ-
tiles at will. Moreover. the proSpect of
| being sterilized and sealed up in paraffin
wax tfor example) till year 1000 AD
would not. except as a scientific expert
ment, appeal very strongly to those who
have business interests or social interests
| in the year 19l2-besides the risk.
But the possibility of making the ex-
pertinent is recalled by some investiga-
tionS mentioned in lecture by DIR. Marie
| Phisaix to the Paris Museum of Natural
History on the poisonS of the toad. One
| of these poisons seems to be connected.
according to Nine. Phisalix, with the
power of abstaining from food for long
| periods of time-a power which Is GER
| tainly possessed by the toad. and which
| is associated with legends of the dis
covery of toads inclosed in trees or even
blocks of stones. Several other traditions
| concerning the toad were shown by the
lecturer to have some foundation. For
| example. the poison in the skin glands
| of the toad Is said to have the same
/ effect as digitalis-that is to say, it is, In
| suitable doses heart tonic. The SINH
1 lar secretion in the salamander has an
| action like that of strychnine. In both
/ these creatures there are two kinds Of
| poisons-the poison OF the mucous glands.
| which forms in some species of toads a
| drug more powerful to cause sneezing
| than any known. and that of the large
| glands of the back, or poison glands
| properly so-called. The toad poison
| from these if administered to cats Oh
| dogs in sufficient quantity causes diff
| Guilty of breathing and sickness. The
| salamander poison is more dangerous and
| produces commissions and death. Nine
| PhisaIix says that the presence of these
| poisons in the animals secreting them
| confers immunity against snake bite.
Evening star., 1912-11-03
Causes Defendant to Weep.

You have heard a great deal about
mineral poison and this. that and the
other medicine he shouted. Il call your
attention to the com mbination of poison
and insurance, it was bad medicine for all
her kim
Mrs. Lindloff then started to weep.
Attorney Guerin demanded verdict of
acquittal for his client. The state ridi-
culed her story he said, because they
could not disprove it
The case is expected to reach the jury
Monday afternoon.
Evening star., 1912-11-03
Modern Languages Most in Favor.

From the Westminster Gazette.
The Mercure de France has been max
ing some inquiries as to the respective
popularity of the various modern lam
guages in the schools of Europe, and it
finds that French is still far ahead of all
competitors 1t says that in England
German finds less and less favor and
that pupils who have any option in re-
gard to a modern language always choose
French. In France, however, since 1870.
German has perhaps secured a preponder-
ance over English in the Lycees. In Ger
many the study of French has progressed
to the detriment of English but the gov
ernment has intervened in order to de-
velop the teaching of English, which it
regards as of great Importance in COM
mercial matters. Freuch is now taught
in Italy more than ever before but Ger
man is also gaining some ground. espe-
cially in the north. In Spain French has
more pupils than any other foreign Ian
guage, and English comes next.
Evening star., 1912-11-03

Charles l, if he does not speedily
mend his ways. He suggests as a fit I'M
perial residence the castle where the mad
King of Bavaria was allowed to exercise
his erratic energies without injury to the
commonwealth. At the mention of Charles
the chamber was in an uproar, and
amid a tumult of angry voices the session
was brought to close.
In Russia, unseemly clamor is kept
from the carefully guarded ears of the
czar. There art ccnspires with nature to
produce peace. We read of the cars re-
cent visited to his ancient capital. THE
police during the previous night made
three thousand arrests The car and
czarina drove through the city amid the
ringing of bells and with banners flying"
On reading this item the American
reader plucks up heart. If. during the
Chicago convention, the police had made
three thousand arrests the sessions
might have been as quiet as those Of
the duma.
Evening star., 1912-11-03
The Dress Reformer's Cry.
From the New York Sun.

r rom the New 1Ork
The dress reformer is abroad again.
She rises now to declare that the present
style of gown, or frock. is such that 1t
shows a woman's entire figure, with all
its defects, even to knock knees. She.
therefore, demands a reformation in
styles. She clamors for wide skirts and
general indefniteness in lines. Let us all
hope that she will fail to obtain the de-
sire of her restless soul. Let us all en-
deavor to convince her that the present
style of woman's frocks. when not over.
done, is one of the most graceful and be-
coming that she has ever worn. The sim
pie lines OF this present style are its
highest recommendation. The straight
fall of the skirt Is something to admire
1t has something Of the grace Of the
classic drapery. It is only when the un-
wise woman who always 'goes the limit"
has her skirt cut so narrow that 1t
cramps the freedom of her stride that
the lamentable revelation of knock knees
takes place.
Every woman who Is moved by the
cries of the dress reformers should get
out the daguerreotypes Of her ancestors
Evening star., 1912-11-03
No One Should Go Hungry.
From the Atlantic.


The lesson of modern industrial history
has been that an increase of one factor
ordinarily compels a more efficient rear
rangement of existing forces. and thus
secures larger product. AS long as the
supply Of laborers augments in amount
and I'm skill. as long the motives oper-
ate that lead to the accumulation of cap
ital by the foregoing of present for future
satisfaction. as long as the secret ener-
gies Of nature continue to be unearthed
and utilized, as long as captains of indus
try are evolved with gifted faculties of
leadership-so long will the total product
OF industry increase in greater proper
ton than those whose wants it must sup
ply. This is true even as to primary
food. In the last fifteen years the popu-
lation of the civilized world. excluding
China, has been increasing at the rate
of about ! per cent year, whereas the
average annual increase in the five great
cereals. wheat, corn, oats, rye and barley,
has been about % per cent In other
words, production has increased two and
half times as much as was necessary
to keep per capita consumption constant.
Evening star., 1912-11-03
Decorous Doings Abroad.
From the Atlantic.

While the unaccustomed ears of Europe
were shocked at the shrill cries from the
rival conventions at Chicago and Balti-
more, there was equal turbulence in the
Italian parliament at Rome. There were
shouts and cat-calls and every sign of
uncomfortable violence. What are the
reasons annexed" to all this uproar? l
do not know. In Budapest such unparlia-
mentary expressions as Swine" liar.
"thief'and ASSASSIN" We're freely used
in debate. An honorable member who had
been expelled for the use of too strong
language, returned to shoot up the
house. The chairman, after lodging
three shots, declared that he must posi-
lively insist on better order.
In the German reichstag a member
threatens the kaiser with the fate of
Evening star., 1912-11-03

hat which slides down over her head till
ii hides every bit of her glorious hair
and proceeds onward till it covers her
eyes. and leaves only the tip of hef nose
and her chin to be seen, she is guilty OF
public affront. Every man has a right
to enjoy the glory of the world in which
he lives, and the most glorious thing in
ii is a beautiful, wholesome, clear-eyed
woman. Let the female of our species
reform her hat. Let her wear something
which will show to it's fullest advantage
the shape of her head the color of her
hair. the light of her eyes and the
shine of her smile. She will find for one
thing that mere man will readily forgive
her for modifying the present tight skirt
that no more knock knees will be re-
yealed.
Evening star., 1912-11-03
eft-Handed Linguists.
From Harper's Weekly.

From Harper s weekly.
For the last twenty years systematic
attempts have been made to teach chill
dren to use both right and left hands
indiscriminately. But the results have
been amusingly unsatisfactory. The ex-
planation apparently is that the power
of the hand is intimately associated with
the unfolding of the language sense and
that the cerebral centers which regulate
language are located on the left side
that is to say. in relation to the centers
which regulate the control of the right
hand and arm. The examination of thou
sands Of human skeletons has demon
strated that in all cases in which the
right arm is better developed than the
left there is evident a correspondingly
satisfactory development of the left side
of the brain. 1t follows that left-handed
persons must have less linguistic ability
Evening star., 1912-11-03
Bombardier Wells Coming Back.

NEW YORK, November 2--Bombardier
Wells, Englands heavyweight champion.
has announced that he is to sail in a
week or two for this country. He hopes
TO be able TO strengthen the oppression
followers of boxing on this side of the
water have of his prowess. and, of course.
gather in some money. When he makes
his temperance here he will fin' plenty
of work to do, provided he does not de-
mand more than his services are worth.
Evening star., 1912-11-03

than the right-handed and that children
obliged to use both hands indiscriminate-
ly will have a diminished power of ready
speech and an ability markedly less in
learning and retaining languages.
Evening star., 1912-11-03
SHORT ON PLAYERS
High School Foot Ball Teams
Forced to Drop Some.
BEHIND IN THEIR STUDIES
Mckinley Manual Training Loses
Five, While Others Also Suffer
More or Less.
BEHIND IN THEIR STUDIES

Raw and presumably unconditional
men will have to uphold high school hon
ors on the foot ball field, if the teams
play under the rules and drop the stu
dents who have been held ineligible IN
der the faculty advisory marks. Five men
We're dropped from the Mckinley Man
ual Training School team Friday be-
cause the faculty decided they had fallen
behind the proper marks in their school
work.
With this situation facing the school
officials, there is silent war going on in
the high schools. Many members of the
faculties believe foot ball should be abol-
ished entirely from the school life, while
others are strongly in favor of it,
If a team from Manual Training School
meets Central High School on the grid
iron this week. it will be team of con-
ditioned players, or no game will be
played, if the determination of Coach
HecoX is carried out.
With players hurt in nearly every game
this season, high school foot ball people
understand thoroughly that one more
serious accident is likely to stop the
game entirely, and for that reason are
taking particular pains to make the
games as safe as possible, and to put
men in uniforms who will not be ex-
hausted easily.
Others Also Lose Players.
Mckinley Manual Training School is
not the only one of the high schools to
lose men through advisory marks. Prac-
tically every other team in the scholas-
tic circuit lost good players, who will
have to pay some slight attention to their
studies before they will be allowed to de-
fend the honor of their school on the foot
ball field again.
1t is very difficult to come up to both
athletic and scholastic requirements in
the high schools If coaches and faculty
live up to their ideals. The fact that
many boys have to work until midnight
on their books, after having practiced
foot ball for two or three hours in the
afternoon, is regarded decidedly bad
training for mind or body.
Coaches in the high schools know this
and have to face it the best they can.
In one of the high schools the accusation
is made against another big school that
scholastic requirements are winked at
during foot ball season, and that boys
are allowed to play on base ball and foot
ball teams who never get far enough to
take graduation examinations.
Evening star., 1912-11-03
ARRANGE SPECIAL TRIPS
OVER AUSTRIAN EMPIRE
Plans Are Made for Excursions
for Benefit of American
Tourists.

With the view of conducting many ex-
cursions through Austria for American
tourists, the Canadian Pacific railroad
has arranged with the Austrian state
railways to run special trains of cars
of American design over the empire. The
service was started last August and met
with so much SUCCESS that new cars of
the designs used by the Canadian rail-
road are now being constructed in Aus
tria and will be ready for the spring
travel.
Not only are the cars modern in every
detail. but special observation features
will be found. At first there will be
three itineraries-Vienna to Innsbruck;
Innsbruck to Buchs. and Salzburg to
Trieste. On each route various interven-
ing cities and points of interest will be
visited 1t is said the plan of the Ameri-
can railroad has met with much ap-
proval in Austria, with the result that
many of the cities are trying to have
themselves put on the new railroad map.
The American tourists who, last Au-
gust. toured Austria in American style
were entertained by municipal officials
and various civic organizations. They
took the Vienna-lnnsbruck trip. In VII
emma they breakfasted at the kursalon,
Schlossrestaurant Kobenzl At the Rat
haus they met many public men, promi-
nent in the official life of the Austrian
Evening star., 1912-11-03
Found No Evidence of Disease.
Wholesale Murder Engineer. )"

Attacking Mrs. Lindl.-- bitterly, Assist
ant States Attorney Francis NJ. Loves
characterized her as a Wholesale MUIR
der engineer"
He accused her ef having sent her
whole family into eternity that she might
profit through insurance.
And before her Joys body was cold,
he added, 'She sent her sweetheart tC
an insurance office to obtain blanks sc
that there would be no delay in delivery
of the money.
She looked through her magic crystal
ball of fate, and she read in it's depths
not the fate of her dupes, for she knew
that: but she found therein the computa-
ton of her death profits, CLEANED from the
demise of her own flesh and blood"
Mrs. Lindloff WINGED at the bitterness
of the prosecutors denunciation and look
ed at her attorneys pleadingly. They tried
to engage her in conversation, but she
refused, sitting aghast at the severity of
the prosecutors arraignment.