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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-16
HOGS HOO TODAY,
Bv John w. Carey.

Whose map. Of old. was wont to
grace the sheets most every day
when nothing went in old New
York without his own .. h:
Whose specialties, as we recall,
were filling up the jails with ginks
who dealt in policy-and rolling
coffin nails? Who mixed with
Tomnie Lawson, in an after-din-
ner spiel, and put your Harry
Kendall Thaw behind the doors OF
steel: Who failed to hitch with
Tammany and played his hand
alone and beat the Tiger at game
it thought was all its own: Who
knows the limelight now no more
and fingers close to home, with
makin's always near at hand?
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-16
Health Officer to Make Trip.

DR.. John l.. Norris. assistant health Of
ficer of the District of Columbia. will
leave tonight on trip to Cleveland. Ohio.
Rochester and Buffalo. n. Y, for the pur-
pose of inspecting the health departments
of those cities. 1t Is the intention of DIR.
Norris to make a general Investigation of
the health regulations of those cities and
the work undertaken by the departments.
He will be absent from the city about
ten days.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-16
BOAz v. LONG CHOSEN
AS CHIEF OF BUREAU
Placed in Charge of Latin.
American Affairs in State
Department.

In the appointment Of BoaZ w. Long
| to be chief Of the bureau OF Latin
, American affairs. Secretary Of State
Bryan has selected a man from COM
mercial life whose acquaintance with
| Latin America, as he states 1t, con-
| sists of knowledge acquired In old
| Mexico In the course Of travels during
three months in the year during the
| past nine years. Heretofore the in
cumbent of the post has been man
versed in diplomatic affairs, with con-
siderable experience. and-with one
exception-of ministerial rank.
| Mr. Long is the son of Elisha v.
Long. chief justice of the territory Of
New Mexico during Cleveland's admin
istration. He is native Of Indiana.
and about thirty years Of age. His
home is at Las Vegas N. NJ. He comes
to the Department of State heavily in
| dorsed
Knows the Mexican People.
Mr.. Longs acquaintance with old
Mexico has been obtained in the pur-
suit of his business interests an adj
vertising man. He has little acquain-
lance with official Mexico, he states.
although his business brought him into
contact with many state governors and
other state officials He believes he
knows the Mexican people The failure
| of his prospects in old Mexico, incident
to conditions Of unrest and rebellion
| forced him to seek elsewhere a field of
| endeavor. The State Department at
| fOrds him opportunity.
William +. S. Doyle. his immediate
predecessor, while never holding line
rank in the diplomatic service filled
| many posts and specially represented
tad in a =
| portant and delicate negotiations. He
| was counsel for the United States as
| far back 1902 in the Plus fund arbi-
| tration case with Mexico. He was
| secretary to Secretary of State Root
| in the South American trip of 1906.
Among the many duties he has per-
| formed are those as special representa-
tive of the United States in the arbitra-
counsel for the United States. when
! the Venezuelan case came before the
Hague. and special commissioner to
1 Santo Domingo. He was made chief
of the Latin American bureau June u,
1911.
Others Who Headed Bureau.
| Thomas Cleland Dawson. the first
chief of the bureau. and H. Percival
Dodge, who followed him and preceded
Mr.. Doyle in that post both had held
commissions as ENJOYS extraordinary
and ministers plenipotentiary before
they were called to the Latin American
desk. Mr.. Dawson had been minister
to Santo Domingo and to Colombia.
| Mr. Dodge represented the United
States in similar capacity successfully
/ at Honduras, Salvador and Morocco.
Both Mr.. Dawson and Mr.. Dodge held
the title of resident diplomatic officer
at the same time they were charged
with the conduct of the Latin 'Ameri-
can bureau.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-16
Mcdonald Sentenced to Jail.

John f. Mcdonald. alias Louis G..
Baldwin. accused of attempting TO obtain
$50 from Peter GrOgan and Sons by
false pretenses. pleaded guilty today
when given his preliminary hearing be-
fore Judge Pugh in the Police Court He
was sentenced to serve six months in
jail, without the alternative of paying a
fine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-16
| 81 1 PENN.
Avenue

this dealer asked s15O a dozen for
Florida and is of fine size and quality.
Other vegetable prices today: Potatoes.
new, 60 cents peck; old, 30 cents a peck
beets. cents a bunch; turnips. cents
a bunch; carrots: 5 cents ns bunch CAB.
! each; old onions. Is cents a quarter
peck: spring onions. punches for
cents: sweet potatoes. 20 cents guar
peck; lettuce. 5 and cents a head:
kale and spinach. Is cents half peck;
caulifower. Is cents each; radlshes,
| punches for 5 cents: egg plants. 10 to
| 20 cents each;- cymlings, 8 cents each
celery. 10 and Is cents bunch: parsley
| or water cress, cents buncn: asparaoo
cents a large bunch: rhubarb, cents a
| bunch; tomatoes, 10 cents pounu.
string. beans 10 cents box, ABOUT
quart: new telephone peas. ~ cents a
bo&. cucumbers and cents each;
sweet peppers. for cents
Apples Getting Scarce.
/ Apples are getting scarce. and the
quality is nothing to brag OF. but prices
remain high Cooking apples retained
TODAY at from so to IS cents a peck
| while eating apples sold at three 1or
10 cents. Strawberries are becom-
ing more plentiful. and were to be mao
TODAY at prices from 10 cents TO 30
cents a box. according to quality. the
first cherries of the season were us
played today. the fruit being the Dig
black oxhearts. They brought 10
cents a half-pint box. Other fruit
prices: Oranges, 20 to SO cents dozen:
lemons. 20 to 80 cents dozen: lines,
az cents a dozen; grapefruit. from .
cents each to two for rs cents; pine
APPLES, 10 to % cents each; bananas
* to 20 cents dozen.
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| WILL TAKE ADVANTAGE
Of FREE MEAT ENTRY
Foreign Packers Ship Frozen
Beef and Mutton to This
Country-Cuts Cost.

Four hundred thousand pounds of
frozen Australian beef and mutton,
the first shipment Of it's kind to the
Pacific coast, were landed in San Fran
cisco yesterday from the steamer Ia
hiti The meat was sold In Australia
with the understanding that. only
| nominal profit should be made in San
Francisco. II the agreement is vio-
lated Australia will ship direct, elm
mating the middleman's profit and as
| Stunning all the risk. An immediate
fall in prices is expected. California
and the Pacific coast states eat meat
raised west OF the Rocky mountains.
and comparative tables show that the
average of prices is higher in San
Francisco than in Chicago.
In an effort toward reduction in
dependent dealers arranged for the
Australian shipment
The Union Steamship Company is so
| certain that the trade will be perma-
| nent that 1t has placed orders for four
refrigerator ships, to be used ex-
clusively on the Australian-San Fran
cisco run.
May Import Argentine Meat.
There is talk that two steamship
1
Republic and New York plan to take
advantage of the entry of free meat
into the United States. South America
has been gradually cutting this coun-
try out of the meat trade with Eng
| land. Where this country eleven years
ago shipped more than 100000 car
casses of meat animals to England, the
statistics show that last year we ship
ped only $4,000 carcasses.
On the other hand South America
| raised her shipments to England to
more than 100000 carcasses.
| The expectation now is that the tide
| OF shipments. both from Australia and
South America. will be turned to this
country.
Promises Cheaper Meat.
| Officials of the Department of Agri-
culture say this will mean a material
reduction in the price of meat Another
thing, according to the bureau Of ami
NAL industry of the department.. that
will help the domestic meat supply Is
| the eradication Of the cattle tick that
carries the Texas fever in the south.
This pest has always prevented the
| rearing of profitable beef cattle in the
| south, but since 1906 the department
has been cooperating with the south
ern states in clearing the cattle pas
| lures Of the south from ticks.
| This looked at the outset like an al
most impossible task, but surprising
| progress has been made. More than
one fourth of the southern country
has been declared ..tick-free" and re-
| leased from the cattle quarantine.
| This will largely increase the supply
| of American grown beef. and the gen.
| eraI prospect. the Department Of Agri-
| culture thinks. is for cheaper meat.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-16
ROCKVILLE AND COUNTY
NEWS ITEMS AND NOTES
School Commissioners Appoint
Observation-Disclosures
Buys Hotel Property.
Special Correspondence OF The Star.

ROCKVILLE, Nd, May 16, 1913.
The county public school commission
ers. at meeting held here yesterday,
appointed the trustees for the various
high schools of the county. as follows:
Rockville, Washington Hicks and Mrs.
George H. Lamar; Gaithersburg. Alex
ander G. Carlisle. Thomas /. Fulks and
DR.. Horace B. Haddox: Poolesville,
Thomas Hoskinson. Arthur P. F1etchall
and Jacob Bodmer: Jamestown. Millard
Rice. James S. Windsor and DIR. Charles
n. Nourse; Sandy Spring, John c. Bent
ley, Francis w. Downey and Mrs. Emily
Coulter: Brookeville Henry Howard. ].
Clinton Dorsey and Josiah J. Hutton;
Germantown, Perrie E. Waters. Charles
T. Johnson and Upton Bowman; Da-
mascus, James W. Burdette, Philip B.
Souder and ]. Dallas Young.
The board fixed June II. IL and 13 as
the dates for the annual examinations
for certificates to teach in the white pub
lie schools of the county. The examina-
tons will be conducted by Prof Earle
B. Wood, county superintendent of
schools, and will be held in the High
school building at Rockville.
Hotel Property Sold.
The Silver Spring hotel property. at
Silver Spring. this county. consisting of
large concrete building and fourteen
lots, has been sold by d. r. Midyette
and Thomas Ruffin. trustees, to Robert
H. Mcneil Of Washington for $4,000.
Miss Carrie Thomas Andrews and
Ernest E. Phebus. both Of Gaithersburg.
this county, were married at o'clock
last evening by Rev. Richard G. Koontz.
pastor of Epworth M. E. Church. Gath
ersburg, the ceremony taking place at the
parsonage in the presence of few
friends of the. couple.
The $4,000 allotted to Maryland from an
appropriation of Congress for expert
mental road work will be used In this
county on the road leading from Rock
willie to Potomac. A like amount will be
contributed by the state roads commits
sion, and $4,000 Will be raised by bond
issue. making total of $4,000 to be APP
piled to improving the road. The, gov
eminent money was secured by the eff
forts of County Commissioner George q.
Bradley, jr.. in whose collection district
the road to be improved lies.
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DEALERS Do NOT EXPECT.
LOWER PRICES OF MEATS
Comment on Project to Import Sup
ply From Australian
Packers.

Retail meat dealers Of Washington re-
fuse to take seriously the project OF
western interests. cooperating with pack
ing interests in Australia and with trans
Pacific steamship lines, to import frozen
meats from Australia to the United
States. declaring that II such importations
have any effect whatever on domestic
prices, such effect cannot be felt for
months, and perhaps not at all in this
part of the country.
THE Pacific coast people," said one of
the dealers today, use fresh meats that
are produced, principally, west of the
Rockies and along the Pacific slope.
Stock raisers of that section never have
disposed of their live stock to the east
ern pa ckers. though few years ago two
big meat packers established packing
houses at several points along the coast.
These establishments use cattle. hogs and
sheep produced In the far west, and were
established mainly for the purpose of get
ting control of the meat supply of that
part of the country, with the further
idea of cutting'off transportation expenses
from Omaha or Chicago. IL enough
frozen meat is brought In from Australia
lit may result in the packers having 10
send the locally produced meat east. ms
would mean a larger supply for other
narts of the country, but transportation
charges would in all probability keep
nrices IN to present levels, as 1t costs
money TO haul freight 800 or 3,cO
miles.
No Reductions in Sight.
Local dealers report absolutely no
change In prices of fresh meats for the
past month more. and say no reuuc-
tions are in sight at this time. Rather
they say, prices of prime beer. veal anc
nork may advance within couple OF
weeks.
Prices of dressed poultry remain hrm
ut close to previous quotations Broiiers
are 40 cents a pound. fryers, % TO q,
cants- soft roasters, % cents: fowls. -
cents: turkeys, % to 25 cents; ROSTERS,
Is cents, and ducklngs. . cents.
Retail prices Of fresh fish remain prac-
tically unchanged. roe shad bringlng .
cents each. the bucks selling at 80 cents
apiece Salmon is scarce ana nlsn. prshs
ing 40 cents a pound. an advance OF ID
nsnts a mound over last weeks price. Sea
trnut is 10 cents pound. scent reduc-
ton Flounders are 12la cents a. pound;
hIuefish. IL cents pound: rockhsl, ~
cents: porgies, 1914 cents; sea bass, i.la
cents. Boston mackerel, 80 cents eacn;
Holsters 30 cents a pound; soft crabs. oo
TO a cents dozen; CLAIMS. 80 cents a
quart.
Sweet Corn on Market.
One dealer in Center market had sweet
corn on his stand today. the price being
an even dollar a dozen ears. Last week
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Funeral Of John II. Peters.

The funeral Of John II. Peters, who
died on his farm near Rockville, aged
seventy mine years. took place from the
family residence this afternoon, Rev.
Frank NJ. Richardson, pastor OF the
Southern Methodist Church, conducting
the services. Burial was in Rockville
cemetery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-16
Sweet Corn on Market.

One dealer in Center market had sweet
corn on his stand today, the price being
an even dollar a dozen ears. Last week
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-09-05
CHARLTON BRAVES ORDEAL
Wife Murderer Calm When Cor

Wife Murderer Calm When Con.
fronted by Biood-Stained Trunk.
Coma. Italy. Sept. 5.-Interrogation
of Porter Charlton, the twenty-four.
year-old American wife murderer, by
Examining Judge Rognoni and Signor
Mellini was completed.
Charlton was confronted with the
trunk in which he hid his wife's body
In Lake Como. He gazed intently at
Z e for q few moments, looking at the
brown blood stains, but did not finch.
q The young prisoner was questioned
about his WIFE He SAID she was
forty years old when he fell in love
with her In February, 1910. She had
been married previously, but was
divorced when she was seventeen
years old. She had been an actress.
The date of the trial will be fixed
next week.
Captain H. H. Scott, u s. A., a
brother of the slain bride, has re.
tanned a prominent Milanese lawyer
ito represent his family. This lawyer
has number of letters written by
Charlton which could be used to com.
bat any claim that the young prisoner
rs or was mentally defective.
Crowds of tourists daily visit the
grave of Mrs. Charlton in the little
eemetery at Moltrasio. Others visit
ths cottage in which the murder took
place. Native folk in the neighbor.
hood say that no one will live in the
cottage, because the voice of woman
ean be distinctly heard.
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HIS VISIT TO MORGAN.

There Wasn't Much Said, but It Was
All Right to the Point.
A well known insurance official said
the other day at the Auditorium. in
Chicago:
'In the beginning of my career, when
was only humble insurance agent, l
gained access one morning to the all-
gust and formidable presence Of j.
Pierpont Morgan"
mol"
YES" the official insisted-"yes, it's
q fact Don't ask me how / did 1t.
though. for that's secret. But at 10
O'Clock one morning behold me. a
young insurance agent. standing be-
fore the desk of the great ]. Pierpont
with my big envelope of life and death
statistics, twenty year endowments,
and so forth. in my hand l was, 1
have since learned, the first and only
Insurance agent who ever managed to
meet Mr.. Morgan face to face"
"Well, what happened?"
"'Mr. Morgan l began hurriedly,
you ought to carry more life insurance.
You see, sir
"And lucidly and cogently and brief
~, wasting no words, laid my insur-
ance proposition before the great finan-
cier
HE listened in silence. Those fierce
blue eyes of his bored through me like
lances When I stopped at last all he
said was:
"'How did you get in hereY
"'I walked in I answered.
"Well,' said he, walk out New
York Tribune
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KIDNAPPER is INSANE
Samuel Sinclair, Jr., Sent to Asylum
After Alleged Attack on Girl.

Samuel Sinclair, Jr., Sent to Asylum
After Alleged Attack on Girl.
West Chester, Sept. Samuel
Sinclair, Jr, of Kenneth Square, who
was in-the- linaeligAt- recent --whaa-
he and a companion attempted to kid
nap Miss Alice Steckel. daughter of
an Allentown millionaire. is now an
inmate of the Pennsylvania hospital
for the Insane, where he was sent
following an attack on Margaret La
Rue, sixteen-year- old colored girlo
this place.
When Sinclair was released from
prison after serving a portion of a
term imposed. having been pardoned
on account of his apparently weak
condition of mind, he was sent to a
sanitarium, where he so far recov-
cred that he was transferred to the
home of HIS brother on farm, where
he worked as. farm hand. and was
apparently recovering his reason to
some extent.
The La Rue girl was sent to the
Sinclair farm as a servant by an en-
ployment agency, and few days later
a letter was received by the agent that
she was lii, and he was asked to visit
her, which she did, and she then made
a statement as to the crime and &C.
eused Samuel Sinclair. The latter
was at once taken in charge by a
commission of physicians, who pro-
nounced him insane, and recommend
ed his removal to the asylum, which
followed as soon as arrangements
could be made. Sinclair did not deny
his guilt.
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CHARLIE ROSS CLAIMANT

Great Lakes Sailor Believes He Is
Famous Stolen Child
Philadelphia, Sept Sin an en-
deavor to establish proof of his iden-
tity, Charles Brewster Ross, who be-
lieves he is the Charlie Ross who was
kidnapped near his home, Washington
lane, Germantown. July 1, 1874, has
gone to Cleveland, where he will
make affidavit as to his birth and
parentage.
The new claimant as the kidnapped
boy has been a sailor on the great
lakes, and his Identification is hinged
on proofs at Pegtown, N. j., which
Ross says will show he was hidden
there by his captors.
Pegtown, is among the clay banks
near New Brunswick, and although
most of the old clay diggers who
Ross says would identify him have
died, he visited the district with Chief
Of Police Boyler, and the man who be-
lieves he is the kidnapped boy pointed
out an abandoned pit where he says
he was kept with man and woman
and suffered unspeakable cruelties.
The story Ross tells is that his kid
nappers were Mosher and Douglass,
the burglars who were killed in Bay
Ridge, and John Halenen, in whose
care he was left at Pegtown. He was
was ambitious to become pilot on
the great lakes, and to obtain his
license it was necessary to clear the
- l. h
this purpose In view he engaged a
firm of lawyers in Cleveland, who are
confident they will prove the sailor is
the same child who was carried away
from Germantown.
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MYSTERY OF THE PLAGUE.
How and Why Did 1t Disappear From
England In 1857

6n9idfO III ioof
Why did the plague disappear from
England? Mr.. Bernard Shaw Incl
dentally asks this deeply interesting
question in a letter to the Nation, and
we cannot say that we are satisfied
with his answer. He says he" knows"
that plague has been 'extirpated" by
common sanitation"
Until the recent sporadic imported
cases, the last recorded cases Of plague
in England occurred at Nottingham in
1867. In that year plague vanished ut
terly from England for two and half
centuries. No one who has examined
the records of the seventeenth century
can believe that 1t was "extirpated" by
sanitation. Very gradually In the sue
ceeding century and a half plague
withdrew from Europe also.
The date of its disappearance from
Constantinople has been fixed at about
the year 1S41 1t remained endemic
only in a few lonely places in the
world, such as the highlands of west
ern Arabia, Yunnan in China and Mes
opotamia. Sanitation, though an ex-
cellent palliative, certainly never drove
the plague from STEAMBOAT and Cairo
and the southern Mediterranean, any
more than it did from England.
The shrinkage Of plague is as great
q mystery as the recent outburst which
infected the whole world. Perhaps the
explanation is that in a few years bac-
terra may go through the myriad trans
forming processes of evolution which
In the case Of humanity take cons to
complete.-Pall Mall Gazette.
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DANES AND DAUGHTERS.

Forty-nine years as teacher in the
public schools of Chicago is the record
Of Harriet N. Winchell
Mrs. Cora Wilson Stewart, originator
Of the "moonlit schools" in Kentucky,
has taught more than a thousand H.
literate adults 10 read and write in
side Of two years.
Nine years perfect attendance at
school has been completed by Phyllis
Hare. aged thirteen, of Woodston, Pc
terborough, England. She has never
been absent since the age Of four.
Mrs. JOHNSON, the only woman light
house keeper in England, WHO has
Just retired after twenty years in the
lighthouse at Hale, Is known all over
England as the heroine of the Mersey.
Miss Ina Shepherd of Birmingham,
Ala, ia credited with being the first
woman to have charge of clearing
house. Miss Shepherd for several
years has been secretary of the Bir-
mingham Clearing House association.
and each month the clearings from
eight banks. amounting to from So.
100000 to $15.OOO,OOO. pass through her
hands.
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DANCING MASTERS
BAR TURKEY TR0T
approve Tango and Others, II
DecorOusIy Danced.

Bridgeport, Conn, Sept. 5.-Of all
the espeed" dances which have been
analyzed by the International Asso
citation of Masters of Dancing, which
began a three days session here, the
stango," the hesitation waltz" the
shitchy koo" and the peacock glide
are all right if danced with decorum.
This is the opinion laid down after
first consideration of the steps in
these dances. P Kelly, of Holyoke,
Mass, secretary of the association, de.
clared that the turkey trot," the
horse trot" and the grizzly bear
we're vulgar. I'VE will never recog-
1ize them" he said "The dancing is
from the hips up instead of from the
hips down, as is proper. 1t is not so
much what the turkey trotters do
with their feet That does not count,
It's the position which lends to vul,
garity."
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-09-05
Gaelic.

Gaelic is the language of the high
landers of Scotland The name belongs
also to the sister languages of Ireland
and the Isle of Man. hut these have
other names more commonly applied
to them-Irish and Mainland the
term Gaelic is usually reserved for
that spoken in Scotland The three
languages We're originally one and
now stand in much the same relation
to each other that broad Scotch does
to kings English.
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GENERAL MARKETS

PHILADELPHIA = FLOUR fl m;
winter clear, $3.75@390; city mills,
fancy, IS. 25@5.60.
p0f barrel.
WHEAT quiet; No. 2 red. new, 500
CORN firm; No. yellow, 85@S5bc.
CATS steady; No. 2 white, 1870
41c.; lower grades, 47Rc.
FOTATOES steady; per barrel, Csc.
ER0ULTRY: Live steady; hens, 100
Ia. old ROSTERS, 121ac. Dressed firm;
chofce fowls, 18c.; old ROSTERS, 1870.
BBFTER firm; fancy creamery,
$50. per ib.
NGaS steady; selected. 80 a 35c.;
nearby, Sic; western. Bic.