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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-09

II T is a bloody square in Virginia. with
Centerville on the east. Groveton on
the west, Sudley on the north and
Manassas on the south. and things have
not SO changed there since the battls
flags were furled but that soldiers VINO
fought on those fields may recognizertn
familiar terrain. Bells ring in the meet.
ing houses at Sudley and at Centerviiie,
and the Henry house. the Van Pelt 'house.
the Robinson house. the Stone br1dge,
the Stone house. the Chinn house, the
Matthew house and the Dogan house
wherever they were destroyed have been
rebuilt. and in nearly every case on their
ante-bellum plans.
The family names Of that region in
1861 and 1865 are mainly the family
names of that region today. The cuts
and fills of the old uncompleted rail-
road may be clearly traced. and the
same open fields and the same copses
are there The same roads, in many
cases no better than when armies and
trains ground them into smothering
dust or stalling mud. are there. The
same streams ripple across the country.
But. Of course. Manassas has grown
from a railroad junction hamlet to a
Virginia town of considerable inn
portance, with banks and newspapers
dence sections. Years ago 1t succeeded
Brentsville as the county seat of Prince
William county. This Bull Run country
is of historic and tragic interest
The proposal to make of a certain area
OF this land battlefield park comes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-09
The Ruins of Numantia.
From the New York sun.

From the New York Sun. s.
Prof. Adolf Schulten, well known ar
cheologist. publishes remarkable ac-
count of his excavations i'm Spain, which
has led to the discovery of the site of
Numantia and the camp of Scipio Afri-
canus, the Roman conquerer of the Celt'-
berians. For eight years the professor
has been at work, partly at the kaiser's
expense, and he has cleared up number
Of questions which have hitherto puzzled
historians. The first Is the exact site of
Numantia. Prof. Schulten located MI
mantia on the hill of Darray, by the
Qouro. The ruins had escaped notice be-
Ause they lay under later ruins OF n
Roman town dating from the reign OF
Augustus. Numantia is proved to have
been small town surrounded by thic.S
wall. Outside the walls on the terraces
of the hill lay a newer Numantia. The
town was built of brick and consisted OF
houses about thirty-six feet long, each
containing three rooms; In front store
room, with cellar underneath: next q
room where domestic animals were Kept,
and next a sleeping room. The cellar was
used for living in in winter. The Celti-
berian Inhabitants of Numantia lived 4
primitive life. Their culture showed itself
iIf highly developed and much decorated
pottery forms. which originated IN Greece'
but were modified by the Celtiberfans-
Enormous quantities of pottery were dug
UP. Underneath the Numantia of history
Prof. Schulten found remains of two pre-
historic settlements. the work probably or
Lfgurians and Celts. After laying bare
Numantia, Prof. Schulten discovered and
excavated seven camps of Scipio Afri-
canus the younger. With this valuable
piece of Roman history was reconstruct
ed Dr. Schulten excavated the head
quarters camp of the commander, also a
great castle on the river bank and the
thick Notifications of his camp with
towers, and he Also discovered many
relics of the Roman armies. specimens
of the legionaries' jayelin the pyium and
quantities of pottery of a novel kind
Six miles east OF Numantia on a hiii
known as La Gran Atalaya, Prof Schui-
ten discovered the Roman field camp
described by Polybius; and he later came
on THIS hill upon remains of other camps
In all numbering five. The most impor-
tant dates from 153 b. c., and agrees
with the description of Polybius. The
barracks stables and courtyards are al
distinctly traceable. To the south OF
Numantia Dr. Schulten excavated sum.
mer camp, probably that of the Consu
Noblilior Altogether in the country IN
Guided in the operations against Numaii-
tia were discovered fourteen separate
armed camps, all originally constructee
by the Romans
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-09
What Americanisms Are Not.
Prof Thomas r. Lounsberry, in Harper's Maga
zine.

Prof Thomas r. Lounsberry, In Harpers Masa-
zine.
A word is not an Americanism because
the only known instance in which IL mas
baen employed has been by an American.
This sort of error is responsible for the
attribution to this country of many terms
which have never had real existence.
An American, like any one else may
choose or happen to coin new woro. ~
never becomes current. The proDaDlllties
are that no one save its inventor mas ever
found occasion to use ii. Yet IL II chance
to catch the eye of some curious but not
altogether wise collector of what ne Calls
Americanisms. it is at once ehroheu ~
his list on the strength OF TINS slhsie III
stance of its occurrence. Inc pioce
inc is absurd because the term not mere
w lacks universally of USE but reails
lacks any use at all. As matter o.
fact not a day passes out solie nv
words spring into existence sothewheie-
They are evolved on the spur OF tne iirue
menf. usually in spoken intercourse, ~
ninety-nine cases out OF huhoreu NO.
one of them ever gets into print. IL -
any accident ii gets there once, !. ne
annears again Accordingly, 1t dies uli
not;ced and unrecorded. SUCH Worus 90
not belong to the language. as used ~
America or anywhere else lhey a.
,oc,,Iiar TO a single person. often pecunsai
70 a single moment OF that person M
Accordingly, they have no puslhess III
i,mher up dictionaries. Were, lndeeo, ar
irdiyiduai coinages of this sort to De COZ
Iactad and included in these WORKS, theae
ould he little limit to the NUMBER "
volumes necessary to contain tiieni.
well might one take census ., u Ia,etb ri
s,Immer's day as to put on peIhlahents
aacord these ephemeral productions Vi
the hour.
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Why Napoleon Died.

From the lOnuoh liiie
soon after the death of the emihenl
surgeon Sir Ashley Cooper, In ISL M
collection of 1,JCo specimens of diseaseh
structures was acquired by the Royal COZ
lege of Surgeons of England ana aiiioils
them were two portions of small intestine
labeled "Incipient Fungus in the Glaiius
of an Intestine. Napoleon. Barry y Meara
70 Sir Ashley Cooper" Prof Keith, the
curator of the college museum. deHNereu
a lecture upon these specimens peiore 'i1s
Hunterian Society recently, and sho"eu
as result of the application TO them
OF modern methods of microscopicai re-
search that they afford evidence OF Na
uoieon's having suffered from lyn,phoi-
dai disease, incidental TO some OF tle III
fections current in tropical climates oe-
fore he became the subject OF the cancer
OF the, stomach from which he dieo. ~
was an open question whether Il was .ane
Malta fever or the cancer which acsua,is
Killed him, and the :. best that can De
said is that, whether in st. Helene or
elsewhere, the cancer must ultimately
have terminated his career.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-09

before Congress now and then. There
is bill in Congress now Ito protect
the monuments already erected on the
battlefields of Bull Run. Va, ana
other monuments that may be there
erected" 1t is recited in the bill that:
x x
Whereas United States troops belong
ing to the Department Of Washington IN
the month of June. 1866. took possession
of certain lands on the battlefields OF
Bull run and erected thereon two monu-
ments, about one mile apart, and dedi-
Gated the same in memory OF the patriots
who fell July q, 1861. and August 18th,
2Gth and Goth, 1862, in the battles known
as the first and second Bull Run; and
Whereas the said monuments still
stand on private property, the title to
which has never been acquired by the
United States; and
Whereas many military organizations
which took part In said battles desire to
suitably commemorate the same; and
whereas the state of Virginia has
ceded to the United States their jurisdic-
ton over land that may be acquired Tor
the purposes herein named. not to exceed
two hundred acres; Therefore.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States
of America in Congress assembled, That
the Secretary of War is hereby directed
to purchase for the United States SO much
of the land surrounding said monuments
as shall, in his judgment, be sufficient for
the protection of the same and to enable
the citizens Of the United States to visit
the same: Provided, that said lands can
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-09


lowed a few days to clean up the place.
general warning sent out that the law
will be enforced has had the enect or in'
ducing people to get busy a little earlier
than usual this spring in their back
yards.
Bishop Alpheus w. Wilson of Baltimore
the senior bishop of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church South, is to preside over the
next session of the Baltimore annual con
ference OF that denomination. which Is to
be held in Staunton. Va, beginning
March 20 and continuing about one week.
All the presiding elders of the various
districts are now holding their fourth and
last quarterly. conferences.
Judge T. W. Harrison of the circuit
court yesterday refused a temporary In
junction asked for by the Valley Turn
pike Company to enjoin all owners OF or
persons in charge Of traction engines from
using those portions of the highway be
tween Winchester and Staunton.. which
have been resurfaced with an asphalt
binder, unless filters" are attached to the
rear wheels of the engines.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-09
THE CURIOUS KUKUHUHUs.
Remarkable chronological Wonders
of New Guinea.

From the Japan Daily Herald.
DR.. Bruno Beheim gives the following
description of the mysterious and little
known race of the Kukuhuhus OF New
Guinea: The Kukuhuhus live in a part of
English territory through which runs the
River Lukehamu and which Is situated
near the German boundary. This terri
tory is looked upon by the said race as
their inalienable birthright, and every
usurper is regarded with hostile eyes. No
European has been able to meet the
Kukuhuhus in their dwelling places.
PROSECUTORS and English officials have
made repeated attempts to approach
them, but their camps were invariaoiy
found empty, often with the camp fires
still burning.
Many a time have Europeans left pres
ents highly priced by other na.ves' susn
etc, in the deserted camps, In the nope OF
tablishing friendly relations with these
people. But on returning to the same
places a few days or few weeks later,
although the camp showed recent traces
of occupation, such as live cinders ano
fresh footprints, the goods intended for
presents remained untouched where they
had been placed.
Kukuhuhus as poison. They have learned
| to their cost what 1t means to cross the
| boundary. Some disappear for all time.
while others are found dead. thrust
through with spear wounds. The kuku-
huhus, however. do a bartering trade
with other natives In the following way:
| The latter bring salt. earthenware, dried
fish. etc. and deposit them In a certain
| indicated place. They then retire for Q
| few hours, being notified to do so by g
curious cry from the distance. The timid
mountain dwellers then descend to view
the goods offered for sale. II they want
them they put down other goods, such az
skins, feathers and other jungle produce
next to those articles wanted by them
Then they retire in turn. and when the
/ way seems clear the coast jewellers ap.
| proach again. II the latter are satisfied
| with what is offered in exchange the,
take the goods put down by the mountain
people and go away: IL not satisfied they
retire again as before with empty hands
These business transactions between wild
| races show q sense Of honor that resem
bles careful thought.
/ DR.. Beheim regards the Kukuhuhus a.
the most remarkable of the ethnologica
wonders OF New Guinea, and he was no
successful in discovering the secret q
their origin.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-09
LINKING UP ELECTRIC POWER
Project for Transmission System En-.
bracing Large Cities.
From Popular Mechanics

The linking up of the electric power
stations of the large cities Of the coun-
try so that these stations can help each
other supply energy during the periods
Of the maximum demand upon each IS
an economic transmission development
that may be expected in the future. SUCH
a development. IL carried to It's Iuiiest
possibilities, would comprise a NETWORKS
of energy transmission lines covering the
country just as the railroads do today,
making it possible to take advantage OF
the difference in time Of different cities.
New York, Philadelphia and Boston, ior
instance, might be connected up with
Buffalo. Cleveland, Detroit. st. Louis. I..i-
cago and go on, across the country. Inc
period in which the demand for power Is
greatest in one of these cities Will an
fer from that of some other one, ana.
with the stations interconnected. they
could help each other meet the maximum
demand, energy being transmitted from
one section to another. az needs required.
The growth of such a system would pc
gin with the doing away OF the village
and small city generating plants In favor
Of the substations of big systems. these
will tend to approach one another, ano
there will come q period or era of CO.
operations resulting In all the systems be-
ing connected with a network OF lines
a
believe will come out Of the endeavor 70
more fully Utilize the diversity factor. or
| in other words. to make the demand for
power during every part of the twenty
four-hour day come nearer to q steady
amount. The cost of producing electric
energy depends to a large extent on thu
load factor The station must be such al
is required by maximum demand. but the
income depends upon the average de
mand AS an example Of the diversity
to be obtained by connecting the trans
mission systems of different cities, there
| is an hours difference in the STANDARD
/ time in the areas to the east and to thu
| west of Buffalo. The peak or max
imum loads OF the two areas. therefore
are not likely to coincide. making pos
sible a decided economy in the first cos
of a station serving both areas. as com
pared with a station supplying two areas
with coinciding periods Of maximum de
i mand.
1 Were practically all the power demand
of the United States met by unified
system Of generation and distribution
there would be, according to c. p. Stein
metz, a much better load curve on tn
whole system than on the most modern
stations at the present time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-09

the Round memorial. In August. Hs,f'.
the Grand Army I'm its national encamp-
ment at San Francisco indprsed the id9a.
and has since then maintained perm :
nent committee for the promotion OF He
plan. April ID. 1912. another hearing Yh
the subject WAS held by the committee 9n
military AFFAIRS Of the House.
There are numerous ways of .reachiF :
these Bull Run fields. but a prontal e
way is to leave the ear at Fairfax Court
House and walk on to Centeryiile,s across
Cub run, and Bull run at the stone
bridge. At the junction of the W3rren-
ton turnpike and the Sudley road one can
either turn south to Manassas or keep
on westward to Gainesville.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-09
The Science of It.

From the Birmingham Ase-Hcrad-
..Do you believe love makes the world
go round. professor
hem OF course not. : The earth frs
acuuired its rotary motion when thrown
on from. the sun In nebulous form. It's
force being counteracted- TO
certain extent by the superior attraction
of the solar body from which it originally
emanateds
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-09

YERE giye you another Interpretation OF the picture
- you OF. Brton Riviere's "The King Drinks"
In the great grim painting. at the lip Of water
hole under sandchs Of desert lion laps
with blinking eyes laid-back ears! lonely pic
turo With humanityno love that OF
the painter his subject OF the alooness and rag
edy Of animal life
-Tls King" goes to his drak alone. He is huge. sax
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nursery rhyme arunnine round It, and hif drink ID just
white milk. Around him there il love-LOvE and the
padded. kind interior that Is ill the work Of his fathers
hands.
One King drinks the clear cold water under the
wide sky with the world OF ali live things his enemy-ths
other King from cosy bit OF blue china milk spe
caly his dads rooxee, with Ill his little
world kind one In New York English sEyery6odys
Tor hims NELL BRINKLEy.
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All His Little World Kind One

age ank. with great wdress unconquerable.
another King who drinks This Ia all softness
tho laughter and dovelike murmurings OF a little
human mother the dandeonop head Of curls like many
little gold feathers. Of that spendidest atom called
"baby" with his deepcreased wrists and knees and his
little soft body. Tin mothers language little
stove"
And he drinks-"The Kins"-from big blue bowl, viii
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Good for Evil.

From the Boston Transcript.
Pedestrian-Here, why did you strike
that boy?
Urchin-He hit me first.
observation-disclosures he did: don't you
know you should return good for evil?
Urchin-Well, an didn't l soak him
good?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-09
VALLEY OF VIRGINIA
Fruit Growers Big Crop of
Apples This Year.
TREES ARE, IN GOOD SHAPE
Washington and Lee University Has
Plans for Modern Gym"
Notice to Physicians.
special corre.popdence Of Tn. Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
WINCHESTER, Va, March 8, 1918.
Fruit growers of the Winchester apple
belt. who were in town this afternoon,
expressed themselves as being much
pleased with the present condition Of the
trees in the apple orchards OF Frederick
and several adjoining counties Of vir-
ginia and West Virginia, and it
was predicted that another bump
er crop of apples will be harvested
this year II the weather continues to be
as favorable as 1t has since the first of
February. There has not been enough
warm weather to cause the buds to make
any development. and the horticulturists
are not only much encouraged in regard
to the apple crop. but also look for large
crops OF early. fruits, such as peaches,
pears and plums.
What Is planned to be one Of the largest
and most complete gymnasium buildings
i'm the state VIII shortly be erected BY
Washington and Lee University at Lex
ington, on the site OF the old structure
which was burned down last week, the
fire having originated near an overhead
ed stove. While the loss amounted to
$500. upon which there was $1,000 in
surance, 1t was the intention to raze the
building this spring, and, In fact, plans
had already been made for the new sym
nasium.
Enough clay to last for 500 years for a
brickyard having a daily capacity Of
$4,000 paving blocks and 6O.O00 building
bricks Is about to be developed by Wash
!ngton. West Virginia and other capita
lists at North Mountain, near Martins
burg. More than 100000 bricks were
used In construction Of twenty contin-
uous kilns.
DIR. William p. Mcguire of Winchester,
who on Thursday received a message
announcing the illness OF his son-in-law,
Lewis Huntington Hyde. a lawyer of
New York city. left at once for the lat
ter's bedside. but arrived about an hour
after the patient had died, death being
due to DneumOnia
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the Potomac in 1905 and by the people
of Prince William county, Va, Is gen
Eeraily called the apostle of the Bull run
jubilee. "shas hunted the history OF these
1.-The army commanded by Gen. Lee
surrendered April .. 1851, at Appomattox.
Gen. Johnston surrendered at Durham
station April 20. 1855 May = and - tne
grand review was held on Pennsylvania
avenue. May. %, 1865, Gen. William
Gamble. commanding the Union forces at
Fairfax Court House, issued an order Tor
the erection of the Henry monument.
This was approved by Gen. Augur. COM
handing the department. and Gen.
Meade, commanding the Army of the 20
tomac, and the monument was dedicated
June H.. 1865, in the presence OF the
quartermaster general OF the United
dedicated ON the same day. These We're
the first monuments that were built IN
connection with the great war, and the
only ones built by the veterans them,
selves. their last act before their final
discharge.
"The inscriptions on the two monu-
ments were written by Lieut. Col. Tay-
lor. chief of Gen. Augur's stan. Sew
eral inscriptions were proposed, but they
were brushed aside.
1.-THE building Of these monuments was
superintended by United States Ofhcers
every blow was struck by a soldier In
| blue uniform and all the tools and ma
terials were furnished by the United
States government
| This plan. which would create a battle
park close to Washington, came into pub
lie notice in 1901. when Lieut.. Round pre-
scented to Congress a memorial asking
| Congress that these bloody lands be taken
for the purposes Of battle park. A few
days after the presentation of this me-
mortal Representative Rixey introduced
| a bill to appropriate $4,000 for the park.
/ In 1902 the Virginia legislature passed
| an act ceding to the United States not
| to exceed 900 acres for a battlefield park.
| April q 1902, the committee on military
affairs OF the House held hearing on
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stands in the shadow of cedars that have
grown up since the civil war and close
by the side of a long, narrow, canal
like trench which. because of the pine
and cedar growth in its bed and It's
eroded Sides tells that it was built many
years ago. It is the old railroad cut. Be-
fore the civil war there was projected a
new railroad to ruin from point on the
Manassas Gap railroad southeast OF
Gainesville to Leesburg, spanning Bull
Run at Sudley Springs. once a popular
health resort. The way was surveyed
and in part cut, filled and graded. The
civil war came on and this work was
abandoned before the rails were laid. The
line of this old railroad grade marks APP
proximately the front of Jacksons corps
Of Lees army on the 10Th and Goth of
August, 1862. At this cut near the red
brown sandstone monument the heaviest
fighting of the two days took place.
x X
On the Henry hill, close to the back
of the Henry house. and looking across
the valley through which part Of the
pike runs on its way from Stone bridge
to Groveton and looking north across the
fields toward Sudley stands another
rude monument dedicated I'm Memory of
the Patriots Who Fell July 81, 1851. "
These are truly soldier monuments, hav-
ing been erected by men who fought
over these fields and they were put up
almost before the fires of war had been
extinguished. Lieut. George c. Round OF
Manassas, who is the author of the bat
tie park idea, is president of the Veteran
Z. s. Signal Corps Association, was vice
president Of the Society OF the Army OF