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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-20

! Rev. DR.. Benjamin f. Bittinger. re-
garded as the .Nestor of Presbyterian
| ISM in this country, formerly pastor of
Westminster Presbyterian Church Memo
| rial. and who served the presbytery OF
| Washington city for thirty-six years as
stated clerk. resigning in October, 1909.
when he was succeeded by Rev. r. T..
Davis, present pastor of Westminster
Church, died at his residence, 6sS +
street southwest, last evening at 7:20
| O'Clock. He was in his nnetieth year.
Death was due to a stroke of paralysis
yesterday at ) o'clock.
Funeral Monday.
Funeral services will be held in
Westminster Church Monday morning
at II o'clock, with Revs. Wallace Rad
cliffe, Joseph T. Kelly and T. E. Davis
officiating.
The officers of Westminster Church
will accompany the body to the grave
in Oak Hill cemetery. The palbearers
will be chosen later.
DR.. Bittinger is survived by a grand
son, Charles Bittinger. an artist of
New York city; a nephew, Henry T..
Bittinger OF this city, and a sister. Mrs.
Margaret Jacobs of Falls Church, Va
Dr.. Bittinger was the son of John
and Mary Coskery Bittinger and was
born in Waynesboro, Pa. August 10,
1894. His parents removed to Wash
ington when ne was very young and
here he resided the greater part q
his life.
He had natural taste for medicine
and intended to be a physician. but in
1874 he decided to study for the min
iStry.
He was graduated from Princeton The
illogical Seminary in May, 1917. and at
the time of his death was the Oldest liv-
ing graduate of that institution. In the
the Presbytery of Baltimore and or
dained to the ministry by the Presbytery
of LuZerne, Pa.
For ten years he preached at .Tamauua,
Pa; Winchester and townsville, Va,
and in 1851 became pastor of the Seventh
Street Presbyterian Church in this CITY.
Inc name of this church was afterward
changed to Westminster Church Memorial
Again Comes to Capital.
He remained as pastor here until 1863,
when he accepted the call of the Ellicott
City, Nd, Presbyterian Church, remain
ing there as pastor until 1853, when he
again became pastor of Westminster
Church Memorial in this city and contin-
ued until October, 1899. when he was re-
leased from the pastorate by the Pres
oytery of Washington city. and retired
from the active work of the ministry at
the age of seventy-five
For the past fourteen years he lived
In the manse of the Westminster
Church, the use of which was granted
TO him during his life by formal vote
of the congregation.
He continued working in various
churches when his services were asked
for, especially those having no pastor.
Dr. Bittinger was honored with the
degree of doctor of divinity by the
Pennsylvania College in 1877. He was
chaplain of the Presbyterian Home for
the Aged in this city until about a year
ago, when he resigned.
DR.. Bittinger was twice married, his
first wife being a daughter of the late
Joseph Sibley, a merchant in this city
His second wife. who died several
years ago, was the daughter of Capt
John Rodgers of the navy. and grand
daughter of Rev. John Rodgers, the
first moderator of the General Assembly
of the Presbyterian Church.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-20
DR.. Sun Vat Sen in Vancouver.

VICTORIA, B. c., September 20.-Trav-
cling incognito as Wong kdok Yin, DR..
Sun Vat Sen. former provisional president
of the Chinese republic. and leader in the
recent revolt against President Yuan Shi
kai, is said to be in Vancouver He was
recognized by compatriots in spite of the
fact that his appearance had been al
tered by shaving off his mustache. He
Is said to be en- route to England.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-20
Fair Exhibits to Enter U. S. Free.

President Wilson has signed the bill
recently passed by Congress providing
that all articles imported from foreign
countries for the purpose. of exhibition
at the Panama-Pacifc exposition shall
be admitted free of duty. Infringement
of the rights of foreign exhibitors would
be punished by Imprisonment or fine
both, in the discretion of the courts
Representative Kahn of California is the
author of the act
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-20
Few Forest Fires Last Year.

According to the Department OF Agri-
culture the losses by fire i'm the national
forests for the calendar year 1912 were
the lowest of recent years; less than one
acre. to every thousand of timbered lands
were burned over and the total damage
is estimated at SI5.a90 or less than 81 to
every 2.000 acres of area This good
record is attributed, first. to favorable
weather conditions in most localities
and, second. 10 the increased efficiency of
the fre-fighting organization.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-20
DISCOVERY OF METHOD
IN POISONING CASES
Possible to Determine Quickly
Whether or Not Persons Are Suf-
ferine From Drugs.

BALTIMORE. Md, September oo.-Bv
means of an appliance devised by Prof
w. W. Abel, head of the department of
pharmacoiogy of the Johns Hopkins
University, it has been made possible. II
is declared today. to determine whether
persons thought TO be suffering from the
effects of poisons are really under the
influence of drugs and to be able to dis
cover almost Immediately the poison
they have taken
The continuance consists of series OF
coils and tubes which are submerged in
saline solution, and its action is said
to be the same as that of the kidney.
In making the test for poison it is
necessary to have the blood stream flow
through the tubes. This is done by CON
Meeting the tubes with the jugular vein
and the carotid artery. The blood passes
through the tubes, which are then i'm
mersed in a pan containing a warm So
llfipn
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-20
DR.. Grenfell Best Man for Sayre.

PHILADELPHIA. September 20-Dr
Wilfred r. Grenfe'l. head of the Labra-
dor Mission for Deep Sea Fishermen.
will at as best man for Francis Il.
Sayre when he IS married 20 the Presi-
dents daughter. Miss Jessie wilson at
the White House NoVen. Der IS, il is
said Dr and Mrs. GrenfeH. the latter
Bryn Mawr graduate % the class OF
'06. are expected I'm Philadelphia in
few days. Tney are planning to spend
the winter in England.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-20
FOREST RANGERS KILL
MANY BEASTS OF PREY
Their Skill as Huntsmen Saves
StoCkmen Thousands of
Dollars Yearly.

During the past fiscal year $50 prtda-
tory animals were killed by federal off,
GERS on the national forests, according TO
an actual count of carcasses. An indie
terminate number of animals. whose
bodies were not found, are presumed t.
have died from poison.
The rangers bag of beasts of prey this
year. as shown by forest service figures
was made up OF POS bears. 3.5il coyotes
1873 mountain lions, CO lynx, So wildcats,
Ga wolves and % wolf pups The fig
ures indicate that the national forests
are becoming cleared of wild animals
that prey, upon domestic live stock ana
game. for the forest ranger fills ia odd
moments between other jobs by thinning
out undesirable citizens Of the animal
world
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-20
Statues by Eminent Sculptors.

Statuary Hall has frequently been criti-
cised and has been at times called a
chamber of horrors" Nevertheless it
contains many statues by eminent sculp-
tors. This hall, formerly the hall of the
House. was established as Statuary Hall
by act of Congress July >. 1864.
BY this act national hall of stat
uary was created, and the President
was authorized to invite each state to
contribute to the collection to be
formed two statues in either marble
or bronze of deceased citizens of the
state, who, for historic renown or
from civil or military service" the
state should consider worthy of COM
memOration.
There are at present forty-one such
statues in statuary hall, contributed
by twenty-four of the states.
Mr. Fairman has included in his work
on the art objects of the Capitol the
mural decorations well as the portraits
and other paintings. and the statue of
Freedom" SO often misnamed, by
Thomas Crawford, which stands at the
top of the dome. A list of the originals
of the portraits and statues would in
clude practically all of the most famous
men in the history of the United States.
His biographies of the artists constitute
a history of the lives of the most cele-
brated artists this country has produced,
as well as of those of other nations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-20
Contact With Saline Solution.

BY means OF a porous substance con-
Meeting the glass tubes the foreign and
poisonous substances in the blood filter
through into the saline solution. The
solution. being of the same temperature
and consistency as the lymph in the
blood, none of the natural ingredients
which make up the blood are taken up
by the solution of salt.
After allowing the blood to flow through
the tubes for a given time a specimen
of the saline solution is taken and then
it is but a simple matter of chemical
analysis to find what poison or foreign
substance is present in the system of
the patient.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-20
Three Die From Blowing Out Gas.

ROCHESTER. y. Y. September 20
Three foreigners blew out the gas in
hotel here last night. This morning they
were found dead
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-20
WOMEN And THE FARM
By Frederic J. Haskin.

If a plan the Secretary of Agriculture
has on foot is as productive of results
as he hopes, the country soon will know
what the farmers wife thinks are the
drawbacks of the life she leads and her
ideas of how these difficulties may be
overcome There are $1,000 prominent
farmers in the United States through
whom the country gets its information as
to crop conditions. These crop corre-
spondents are scattered through all the
counties In the country, and are repre-
sentative farmers in their respective
communities.
I'VE have been getting their views on
crops and other matters" reasoned Sec
rotary Houston, land their views have
been of great value Now, it is certain
that their wives are as representative
class of rural women as they are OF
farm-operating men. They must have
some views on the needs and the neces-
sites of farm life that are valuable and
some suggestions that will be OF great
help, SO we will write to them ana ma
out what they think.
Secretary Houston laid his plan before
the men who help him with the work OF
the department and they pronounced 1t
good. So a letter was drawn up and is
going forward to the womenfolk of the
farm. In this letter the farm women
will be asked a number of questions to
elicit the information most desired, and
they will then be requested to add sucn
other information as they deem worth
while. and help their Uncle Sam to bring
to them and to their sisters the assist
ance they need. What the department
wishes mainly is not SO much mere crti-
cism of existing conditions, but rather,
criticisms with suggestions for improve
ment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-20
Skins Bring High Prices.

The skins of the predatory animals kill
ed by the rangers are either kept as SOU
venrS or sold for a price or for bounty
Wolkskins in the west are said TO bring
from 81 to So for robes and rugs: a
mountain lion skin SO to $40. and
bearskin anywhere from $50 10 $50. ac-
cording to size and species. In addition
to this there are bounties on bears. hons
and wolves in most of the western stock
states Wyoming. in ten years, has paid
out it is said. more than $500 in bopn-
ties on wolves alone and $4,000 more on
coyotes and mountain lions.
Through his activity against these pests
the forest ranger. il IS said, has saved The
stockmen many thousands of dollars dur
ing the year. while the protection 10
game animals. such as deer elk and an
telope is of almost equal Importance
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-20
Works of Historical Painters.

Among the historical painters who
lection arc John Trumbull, John Van
derlyn, Robert w. Weir. w. H. Powell
j. G.. Chapman, Seth Eastman, James
Walker and A. G. Heaton. Landscape
painters are represented by Bierstadt
and Moran; allegorical and decorative
painters by Constantine Brumidi,
Emanuel Leutze and Philippe Costag
gini.
In sculpture the works of Franzoni.
Causici. Persico. Vincent and Gagliardi
illustrate the Italian school. Those of
Greenough. Crawford. Rogers, Powers,
development of American sculpture under
European influence.
More distinctive American expression
in sculpture may be seen in the works
of John Frazee, Hezekiah Augur. Eras
tus Dow, Palmer, Fl. X. Brown, Charles
Henry Neihaus, Daniel Chester French,
Richard T., Brooks and Augustus Saint
GaudenS.
Works of art in the Capitol, SO Mr..
Fairman shows, have been acquired by
gift from private individuals interested
i'm the preservation of the historical. BIZ
ographcal or pictorial art of the nation:
b. gift from the states and by purchase
by the government.
AT the present time" says Mr.. Fair
man there is no specific appropriation
available for the purchase ot works of
art. \ general supervision of the art
works Of the Capitol is exc cised by the
Joint committee on the library. This
committee also has charge of all Access
sions to the art works of the Capitol eX-
cent as otherwise provided by law
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-20
Wolves Most Dreaded.

Wolves are said TO cause greater
losses to western stockmen than any
other of the predatory animals. Ii IS
estimated that a family of wolves VII
destroy about $4,000 worth of sto K
per annum. and that one able bodied
individual costs the grazing industry
5000 a season.
The wolves are of two classes-the
smaller prairie wolves or coyotes. anu
the larger gray, black or timber wolves
called ''lobos" These latter are the
great stock destroyers against which
the campaign of the rangers has been
waged.
The methods of hunting wolves in the
west vary on the plains wolves are
sometimes hunted with dogs and horses.
but this way is considered expensive ana
often dangerous. This sport is described
by Roosevelt in his earlier hunting books.
On national forests the rangers elthef
set out poison or haited steel traps. or, by
watching trails and hiding near a wot $
den, are able to shoot one or both of the
old wolves when they return from foraG-
ing In no other way. according 10 the
forest service can the number of wolves
be kept down so well as by finding their
dens and DESTROYING the young.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-20

them; that the education children We're
getting at rural schools did not attain
its purpose: that there was a little, one
horse grange in his community, but that
every darned member thought he ought
to be king; that renters seldom made
good living because they spent too
much time hunting a better job; that
there was a scarcity of labor because the
people had gone out of the baby bust
ness: that sanitary conditions We're not
satisfactory, citing that in the wall of
one neighbor's well he had counted seven
snakes. and that the farmers wife had
died since, leaving him to look for an
other.
When the results of the present inquiry
are all in and tabulated. Secretary Hous-
ton expects to do everything that is
within his power to carry out the
worthy suggestions that it brings forth.
What can be done without further con-
gressional authorization that the general
powers already confer upon him will
be promptly undertaken. What he can
not do under these powers will be re-
ferred to Congress with a request for
money and authority.
There are perhaps 100000 wives and
do,,ohfarS of farmers in tho J-pifa1
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-20
Deal of Information
Received in Replies.

the Department of Agriculture, state eA
pertinent stations and farmers socie'ies'
The letters went to farmers. physicians
ministers. members of women's clubs, ru-
raj free delivery carriers and other peo-
pie foremost in the average farming COM
munity. To these about $4,000 answers
came. Some of them contained great
deal of inflammation and many helpful
suggestions.
A farmer from Missouri wrote that ne
was the father of eleven children and
that he and his wife were each hfty-two
years old. He was the owner OF ."
acres of land. not an acre OF which was
encountered. He wrote that lew iaIhi
homes were what they should ne De
cause of the mortgages that were over
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-20
Views of Neighbors reques
Also Are Wanted. go,

bring the matter up at the sewing circle.
the missionary society, or at the meet
ing of any other sort of womans or
ganization of which she happens to be Il
member She is requested to transmit
to the department the views of her
friends as we'll as her own.
AS soon as the replies are all in the
division of information will card-index
them and prepare a sort of digest OF the
Information they contain for the use oil
the Secretary. The department will then
do the best it can to give the results OF
the inquiry to the public. and to let the
whole country understand just what the
wife of the farmer thinks is lacking IN
lfe and just what she believes can be
done TO improve those conditions. 1t will
be chance for the farmers wife to
make her voice heard to the ends of the
nation and to take some part in the pro-
gram of helpfulness which Secretary
Houston hopes to carry out during his
incumbency of the agricultural office.
: 1t is hoped by the department that TINS
will, in some ways, prove the most lal-
reaching and valuable inquiry into the
affairs of the women of the farm tnat
ever has been undertaken. 1t Is an IN
vestigation that concerns itself only win
the women. 1t leaves the men and their
affairs entirely out of the reckoning
There have been numerous other IN
quiries into country life conditions, the
most interesting of which was the work
of President Roosevelt's country life COM
mission.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-20
WORKS OF ART IN
CAPITOL BUILDING
Senate Document Shows 1t Is
VeritabIe Museum Tor Rare
Paintings AID Statuary.

The Capitol is a veritable museum of
art 1t contains a collection of art OBJ
1ects of which any museum in this coun-
try or abroad might well be proud. But
SO huge is the building and so scattered
through the vast rooms and corridors
are the paintings and statuary that the
Capitol is rarely considered as an art
museum.
The Senate. however, has just had
printed as public document Works of
Art in the United States Capitol Build
ing. compilation of great value, by
Charles T.. Fairman of the Office of the
superintendent Of the Capitol building
and grounds. which tells just what art
objects have been placed in the Capitol
IT gives in addition the biographies of
all the artists and scu!ptors whose work
IS represented in the Capitol.
How large has been the task of MIR.
Fairman can readily he understood
When 1T is shown that nearly 40
paintings and 100 pieces of sculpture,
by the most eminent artists this coun-
try has produced and by eminent Euro
pean artists, are hung or stand in the
Capitol.
The collection includes portraits by
john Singleton Copley. Benjamin West.
Gilbert Stuart. Chester Harding.
Charles Wilson Peale Thomas Sully,
Rembrandt Peale. John Vanderlyn. AIRY
Scheffer. John Neagle and John Singer
Sergeant
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-20
About Is 900, 0c0 Hard
Worked Farmer Women.

hard. even in well-to-do families In
some places this is the result of a feeling
on the part of the farmer that all hands
must work to make buckle and tongue
meet-and there are tens of thousands
ditions In other places the womenfolk
of the farm must work because the am
bition of the farmer and his wife is to
leave all of the members of the family
modest patrimony in property and
valuable one in industry and frugality
No people are SO provident as the
farming class. The hand-to-mouth exist
ence that characterizes the average city
dweller does not appeal to the farmer.
At all hazards he wants to leave some
thing for his children. Then there is
very large class of farmers womenfoll1
who have to work simply because they
cannot get help. The working girl goes
to the city and takes a shopgirls job at
low wages servants place where the |
duties are light. There is consequently
no help to be had.
Here is a man who owns a fifteen
thousand-dollar farm. He married the
daughter of a man who owned three or
four such farms. They have six children
the Oldest thirteen. There are three hired
hands to cook for. They have six or
eight cows to milk and the milk and
butter to look after two or three hun
dred chickens to feed garden to at
tend to. Help in the house cannot be |
had for love or money. The cannery. the i
shirt factory and the city job have taken !
away all available help So it is work. /
work, work from o'clock in the morn |
ing to s at night for all hands. indoors
and out. The farmer is worried to think /
that his family must work this way. but ,
there is no. other way except to sell out |
and buy a small farm or go into some I
other kind of business. There are tens !
of thousands of farmers with this prob
lem.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-20
The Farmers Son Has
a Hard Time of It.

of cattle. two
The Farmers Son Has dozen hogs, a
I'LL flock of sheep
S " ~ and sixteen or
twenty horses. 1t 81 winter At ) o clock
in the morning all hands get out. The
boys take their lanterns and go to the
barn. One of them feeds and curries
the horses. while the two others must
look after the other stock. Everything
is fed by breakfast time, which the girls
of the household have ready by daylight.
After breakfast the stock must be turn
ed out and other chores done. and the
schoolhouse, mayhap a mile away, must
be reached by 8 or half-past. School is
out at 4. A half hour later the boys are
back home feeding the stock. Maybe
they get that done by dark, but if the
weather is bad they do not. Supper is
eaten after dark. and by half-past the
childrn turn to their books. They must
get up their lessons before going 70 bed.
A hard way to go to school? Yes.
And the picture of the city boy getting
up at half-past ., having his bath, eat
ing a breakfast prepared by a servant,
going to school on a street car. getting
the remainder of the day in play and
study does not add zest to the life of
the country boy. But that life either kills
or cures. census of the bar, the pulpit.
the counting house, the forum, Of every
profession shows that hard life though IL
may be, the farmers son is well repaid
for it ALL
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-20

In addition to holding hearings in many
places, the commission sent out about
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-20

And the farmers son. Here is repre-
sentative farm, with 300 acres, sixty head
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-20

Nor is the recipient Of a letter restrict
ed wholly to her own experience and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-20

There are perhaps 100000 wives and
daughters of farmers in the United
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1913-08-29
Express Companies Refuse II
Handle Rum In Delaware
Dry Counties.

Tipplers in Kent and Sussex counties
are grief-stricken because the Adams, Ex-
press Company has sent out notices to its
agents notifying them that the recent
order permitting the delivery of interstate
shipment of liquors has been rescinded.
officials of the Adams Express Company
are understood to have held conference
with their counsel and the decision to
rescind the order permitting interstate
shipments is said to have been reached.
The annulment of the order means a
victory for Attorney-General Welcott's
office. The men who insist on having
their rum in the lower counties are now
expected to adopt their old ruse Of having
consignments shipped to the nearest
towns on the Maryland border line.
Following the general understanding
that the court would be obliged to sem
tence agents to prison for second and sub
sequent violations of the Hazel law. the
feeling in regard to testing out the law by
continuing to make deliveries in Kent
and Sussex counties changed.