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Evening star., 1915-02-20
TRAVELETTE
BY NIKsAH
Antofagasta.

Antofagasta is. town in northern
Chile. and it is quite as bad as it!
name. BY rights, it is no place fol
white folks to live. The huge bulk OF
a naked mountain overshadows it, and
the sun fairly shrivels it. 1t is d
blistered, dust-ridden transfer station
between the desert and the ocean.
The few sickly- looking green things
to be seen are kept alive by constan,
nursing with water that comes through
a pipe $50 miles long.
The hack drivers carry feather dust
ers in the whip sockets of their cabs
because they need them more than
whips; and the bartenders have to cater
to the tiercest thirst on earth.
When the housewife in Antofagasta
would go to market for fruit and vege-
tables she listens for the whistle of a
visiting steamer, hires a rowboat and
is pulled hurriedly cut into the harbor
When the whistle blows she can't take
much time to powder her nose or fuss
with her back hair, else all the other
housewives in Antofagasta will have
hired all the rowboats and gobbled up
all the fruit and vegetables.
On one side of the lead-covered build
tngs along the wharf the word mi
trate" is spelled in great black letters
This explains the appearance of the
white people and the town itself
of the inland mining camps the lizards
would soon be left in possession of the
shifting sands Of Antofagasta. The
white people have taken much treasure
from the desert. but they have had to
pay dearly for 1t. High up on the
mountain are the cleaning shafts OF
an overgrown graveyard. The thickly
studded headstones flash in the sun
as if to signal the deserts challenge
and It's warning.
1t is no easy matter to live where
you have to go to market on a tramp
steamer and have your drinking water
come throu :, pipe $50 miles long.
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Eau De Cologne.
the Manchester Guardian.

From the Manchester Guardian.
We are told that French papers are
suggesting new French names for eau
de cologne. But why not call il eau
de farina, after the name of its eight
eenth-century inventor? John Maria
Farina was not "A German, by the way
but Italian. The secret recipe is
supposed to have been handed down to
the descendants of his family and con-
nections, who manufacture IL under his
name to this day. Most of them are in
Cologne, but not all. To get the origi-
nal and veritable eau de cologne you
need not deal with the enemy alien.
Some of Farina's descendants are in
Italy manufacturing an eau de cologne
just as original and veritable as that
from Cologne itself
In England as i'll other places Gnclud-
ing Cologne) there are limitations OF
eau de cologne manufactured which eN-
perts say are as good as or better than
the real thing. The famous perfume
is a blend of the essential oils of neroli
(from a sort of orange). citron, berga-
mot ttwo other relations of the orange
family, rosemary and the orange it,
self The citric scent tthat OF oranges.
lemons and limes) is obviously the pre-
dominant odor
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river for a weekend outing. Both are
enthusiasts, and are not disturbed by
weather conditions. being willing to
fish in cold or hot, wet or dry weather
The anglers had good weather on
their weekend outing. They were
equipped with nothing but shad bait
for Mississippi catfish, and were not
disappointed because they failed to
catch fish of other varieties.
A ten-pound fish. caught by Charlie
Porter, was the prize of the day. Elev-
en- other fish were caught before the
sport was abandoned.
John Souder broke this seasons rec
ord Thursday afternoon fishing in Lit
tie river. When he reached viii Rey-
nolds' and asked for advice he was told
that the bright sunshine should bring
something other than Mississippi cat
fish his way.
Following the advice of several an
glers who were on the float before he
started, Souder took a supply of lively
minnows with him, crossed from the
city side of the river to Virginia and
anchored in Little river.
What does he expect to catch?" jok-
ingly remarked a friend after the an
gler had pulled away from the float
The joke was turned when Souder re-
turned to the boathouse. He displayed
a string of ten cells, one small-mouth
bass, dozen yellow perch and a few
Mississippi catfish.
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ington Gillett was speaking in words OF
razor-like efficacy and hanging upon each
syllable and upon each rock-ribbed, pie
and-doughnut accent was William Leavitt
Stoddard of the Boston Evening Tran
scripts Washington bureau. 1t is said of
the Boston Transcript that it prints book
reviews on the first page, Harvard news
on the second and that il you die and
aren't from nice old Plymouth Rock
family you can't even get funeral notice
by the city editor. So Stoddard was
listening to Gillett with that set of tradi-
tlons to uphold, when a terrible thing
occurred.
Some one caught Gillett off his
guard by asking him an entirely un-
expected question:
DO you think the President ought
to control the estimates?"
/ think 1t was DR.. Fess, the only COL
lege president in Congress. who jolted
the Massachusetts mans train of
thought. and Gillett's reply was:
There should be some one to always
with the estimated revenue"
To always compare! William Leavitt
Stoddard knew d Transcript reporter
who was fired from the Boston Press
Club for split infinitive like that, and
there are rumors of a Harvard man
having had his degree recalled for a
similar breach. And yet there was the
sole congressional representative of
the descendants of the Mayfiower Jolt
ed into similar verbal atrocity by
ident
Stoddard looked sadly away, and as
he left he turned to the author of these
lines and said:
It's good thing he didn't make
that break before election. He never
would have had the support of the
Transcript and would probably have
been defeated"
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EGYPT'S ANNUAL FLOOD.
Assouan Dam Has Mitigated Anx-
iety of 5000 Years.

From the London { fnntr4c-
June IS is in Egypt an anxious time,
for then it is that there comes the
first indication of the annual flood.
The amount of the rise has been acca-
rately recorded every year from 5000
p c. to \. ID. 1913. for there is only a
foot or two between starvation and
plenty, and between plenty and devas-
tation. The rise Is recorded by the
nilometer constructed by the khalif
Mutawakhul more than ten centuries
ago, on the island of Rhoda. opposite
Cairo. A square well. from the water
or which rises a marble column, is
connected with the river by canal
AS the water rises more of the pillar
is hidden. When the rs cubitS" mark
is passed the starvation specter van
ishes, the 'i9 cubits' marks awash
stops the grumblers. and ''22 cubitS'
completely satisfies the optimist. But
if the '24 cubit'' mark goes under
devastation is at hand. But the As
souan dam has mitigated the anxiety
of 5000 years.
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he was just as bold, Happy Jack fol-
dowed. Looking inside. they saw
Farmer Browns boy standing in the
middle of the room holding out a dish
of nuts and smiling at them.
This was the chance Happy Jack
wanted to try the plan he had thought
of the night before.
nut" said he to Tommy Tit. He hoped
that Tommy would be afraid.
But Tommy wasn't anything OF ths
kind. Dee. dee, dee, Come on" he
cried, and fitted over and helped him
self to a cracked nut. and was back
with it before Happy Jack could make
up his mind to jump down inside. or
course, now that he had dared Tommy
Tit and Tommy had taken the dare, he
just had to do il, too. 1t looked q long
way in to where Farmer Browns boy
was standing. Twice he started and
turned back. Then he heard Tommy
Tit chuckle. That was too much He
wouldn't be laughed at. He tusA
wouldn't. He scampered across. grab
bed a nut, and rushed back to the win
dow sill. where he ate the nut. II WIS
easier to go after the second nut a q
when he went for the third he had
made up his mind that it was perfectly
safe in there, and sat up chair
and ate it. Presently he felt quite at
home, and when he had eaten all the
nuts he wanted he ran all around the
room examining all the strange things
there
This was a little more than Tommy
Tit could make up his mind to do He
wasn't afraid to fly in for q nut and
then fly out again. but he couldn't feel
easy inside house like that OF
course. this made Happy Jack feel ~nol
all over. You see, he fell that no h
really did have something to boast
about. No one else in all the Gre n
Forest or on the Green Meadows CO j
say that they had been all o"7r - m
er Browns boys room as h h" 'ian-
py Jack Swelled himself q the
thought Now everybody wot say:
What bold fellow.
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Scotch Spelling.
From the London Chronicle,

Kant, the Scoto-German, began his
name with an alien * on the same
principle that caused Murdoch, the
Scottish coal gas discoverer. to bring
his to an end with a "k.' If you turn
to Murdoch's biographers you find them
explaining that Murdoch with * is
the English form of Murdoch with an
n But the great gas man himself
explained that he made change in
spelling ito oblige the English among
whom he lived" He found that they
had a difficulty in giving the full gut
tural pronunciation" to the last sylla-
ble-arid so he made things easy.
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Little SORES
10 Bedtime
BY THORNTON ". BURGESS.
Copyright. 1915. BY J. q. LloydJ
Happy Jack Dares Tommy.

Somehow Happy Jacks day had bean
spoiled He knew that he had no busi-
ness to allow II to be spoiled; but Il
been all puffed up with pride because
he thought himself a very bold fellow.
That very morning he had for the first
time gone inside Farmer Browns house.
To be sure, he had gone no farther than
the inside sill of an open window. but
this was far enough to say that he had
really been inside. and he had felt quite
puffed up about it. But when he told
Tommy Tit the Chickadee about 1t
Tommy had said: Pooh! I've done that
often
That was what had spoiled tho day
for Happy Jack. He knew that IL Tom
my Tit said that he had done a thing
he had. for Tommy always tells the
truth and nothing but the truth. So
| Happy Jack hadn't been so dreadfully
| bold after all and had nothing to brag
about. 1t made him feel quite put out
He actually tried to make himself feel
| that II was all the fault of Tommy Tit.
and that he wanted to get even with
| him. He thought about II all the rest
| of the day, and just before he fell
asleep that night an idea came to him.
| Il know what I'll do I'll dare Tom
my to go as far inside Farmer Browns
| house as I do,' he exclaimed, and went
to sleep to dream that he was the bold
est. bravest squirrel that ever lived.
| The next morning when he reached
the tree close by Farmer Browns
house he found Tommy Tit ALREADY
| there, flittiAg about impatiently and
| calling his loudest which wasn't very
| loud. for you know Tommy is a very
little fellow and his voice is not very
| loud. But he was doing his best to call
| Farmer Browns boy. You see, there
| wasn't a single nut on the window sill,
and the window was closed. Pretty
soon Farmer Browns boy came to the
| window and opened il. But he didn't
put out any nuts. Tommy Tit at once
flew over to the sill. and. to show that
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HEARD AND SEEN HERE AND THERE.
By Earl Godwin.

Representative Fitzgerald of New
York says he would just as soon be
confined in st. Elizabeth as he a mem
ber of the congressional party, number
ing 500, that has been spoken of as a
possible feature of the formal opening
OF the Panama canal. He says it for
quotation, and says 1t in the pages of
that mausoleum of ideas, the Congress
sional Record
In A more or less circuitous route
the information has reached me-" said
the cayenne representative from Brook
iyn' that the program for the opening
OF the canal contemplates a charter or
Two, three or more vessels on which
to embark, like the animals in Noah,s
ark, all the members of Congress. I
can think of nothing in all sacred or
profane history that would picture this
procession more than the old song of
The animals went in one by one.
Zone more river to cross)
SAYS the ant to the elephant,
Nv ho are you pushingf
zone more river to cross
be these ninety senators and 430 rep
resentatives after having been carried
by sea to Panama.
1T all reminds me of the story told
by Tim Sullivan. He had been in poll
tics for great many years, and was
finally elected to the House of Repre-
sentatives. After being here short
time he returned, and some one asked
him what he thought of Congress and
Washington. He said, Well, when I
was an alderman I would visit the city
departments in New York and be re-
ceived with respectful consideration.
Later in life 1 was elected a member
of the assembly in the state of New
York and found a little keener regard
for my official position in the city, while
1t was possible for me to enter some
of the state departments. Later than
that 1 was elected to the state senate,
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Plain inscriptions.
From the London Chronicle.

Some people would be disposed to find
fault with the brief inscription to be
found on the Victory, Here Nelson
fell" An eminent Danish philologist,
DR.. Otto Jespersen. points out that the
large classical element in English has
produced in us an unnatural prefer
ence for strange and exotic words. and
that by its very structure it offers a
better soil than any other for the
growth of stilted language. AS an IL
lustration he recalls the fact that when
Canning wrote the inscription engraved
on Pitts monument in the Guildhall an
alderman protested against the phrase
He died poor" and wished to substi-
tute He expired in INDECENT circum-
stances
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TAKING A FAMILY
BACK TO THE SOIL
Being the Experiences OF . Gov
ernment Clerk Who Sets Out
to Lower the High Cost Of
Living.

Our horse has recovered so rapid
1y from the injuries he suffered in the
runaway when Ned's arm was broken
that / was able to drive to the station
Friday morning for the first time in
more than a week. 1t went pretty good,
let me tell you, after walking four
miles a day in the kind of weather we
have been having.
I haven't bought any kind of a We
hicle yet to take the place of the
smashed-up dayton wagon, but Mr..
Brown lent me an old buggy he had
in his barn. He said he hadn't used it
for several years, and had no expec-
fation of using it. and urged that 1
take it, I was a little nervous about
letting Jim drive the horse back from
the station, but it had never occurred
to him that he ought to be afraid, and
didn't like to put the idea into his
head In response to my repeated eau
tionings that he be careful he declared
he always was careful, SO there wasn't
much more to be said on that score.
Proud of Broken Arm.
Ned is all puffed up over his broken
arm and is disposed to look upon him
self as good deal of hero. He still
insists that he doesn't know what
made the horse run away. but I think
can make a pretty good guess He
has let drop several remarks about a
chariot race he was having, and last
night he boasted that he would have
beaten Ben-Hur a mile if it hadn't been
for the smash-up. | haven't had him
on the carpet yet for cross-examina-
tion. but | think it is pretty safe
venture that he was using the whip
and probably standing up in the wagon
and yelling at the horse.
If it develops that is true eXplana |
tion of the runaway it will go long
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contains the towns of Shutesbury and
Sunderland. Wendell and Whately, AM
herst and Deerfield. Belcherfield and Aga
wan, Longmeadow and South Hadley? !?
Nay, what would one expect from a rep
resentative who not only lives in Spring
field, but who was born in Westfield,
banner. who was not only graduated from
Amherst, but also from the law school at
Harvard.
The writer Of these lines was brought
forcibly face to face with these conditions
one day while gazing upon the House
from the press gallery. Frederick Hunt
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Birds of Different Feathers.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer
IF they persist in teaching the boys
in the schools military tactics, 1 don't
believe our Willie would go in for it"
DO You mean he's too chicken
hearted?"
mo, he's too pigeon-toed."
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Along That Main Line.
From the Philadelphia Ledger.

From the Philadelphia Ledger.
Employment Agentess-You want a
cook who will appreciate a good home
and good treatment and
Employer-But in the meantime. send
me cook.
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day with the horse j reckon we can
haul ice home when ice cream is to be
on the bill OF fare.
We started the incubator off Monday
with IS eggs aboard 1t has a capacity
of 1i0 eggs, but our flock of race sui
eide" hens refused to lay enough eggs
TO fill it, Just TO show how contrary a
bunch of hens can be, no sooner had
started the incubator than they
took a brace in laying and this week
they have almost doubled their former
output. We are glad to get the eggs,
of course, but we would have liked to
had them in time to I'LL the incubator.
Early Hatched Chicks Wanted.
We are anxious to get just as many
early hatched chicks this year as pos
sible. and we are going to crowd the
pullets for all they are worth. We
want some eggs next fall when eggs
are bringing top prices. 1t IL coming
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Chance for Better Crops.

With all that crimson clover to plow
in this spring. my soil ought to be in
condition TO raise d good deal better
crops than l raised last year. Besides,
have lot of manure-from the
stable. chickenhouse and pig pen
and shall buy commercial fertilizer
only for potatoes. Not only had this
ought to put plenty of fertility into the
soil. but it will save me very con-
siderable item of expense. My fertilizer
bill alone last year was almost enough
to wipe out any profits from the gar
den
I have about given up hope that any
ice will make on the pond thick enough
to put in my new icehouse, but l am
consoling myself with the thought that
the icehouse will come in mighty handy
for root cellar. 1t will hold enough
carrots and nangles and turnipS to
feed the COW and chickens all through
next winter When il comes to dollars
and cents the roots will be more profit
able than the ice would have been, but
we had our hearts set on having our
own ice crop
AS matter of fact, except for max
ing ice cream, we have no very great
need of ice. The cellar under the house
is deep and cool and there is a trap
door in the cover to the well through
" which milk and butter can be let down
on rope. Last spring, when We first
got the COW, ] bought several deep,
narrow pals with tight-fittine lids,
and Jane kept her milk in the well all
summer. Lovitt, at the station. has an
icehouse, and as We are there every
Evening star., 1915-02-20
Tissue Lives Outside the Body.

That connective tissue may not only
be kept alive, but may be propagated
outside of living bodies is now a we'll
established scientific fact.
The most successful experiment along
this line has been performed by Dr.
Carrel of the Rockefeller Institute for
Medical Research. He has isolated a
fragment of connective tissue from the
heart Of chick still in the embryonic
condition in the egg. and this is now
in the third year of its life in vitro.
1t is now proliferating-that is, put
ting forth new tissue cells-more rap
Idly than ever before, and has become
permanent existence, Independent of
time.
The medical value of this discovery,
of course. depends largely upon its
successful application to human tis-
sue, and experiments looking to that
end are now being performed in the
Rockefeller laboratory. Already hu-
man tissue outside the body has been
kept alive for considerable periods, and
attempts have been made to cultivate
human malignant tumors in this way.
Should malignant tumors. such as
cancer. be successfully propagated out
side the body. the growth and nature
of these mysterious and deadly diseases
| could be intimately studied. and in
this fact lies the chief importance of
the discovery to medical science.
Evening star., 1915-02-20

Nature balances things by marrying
a fussy woman to a quarreisome man.
Evening star., 1915-02-20

Love makes the world go round, but
revenge tries to square it,
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If man is miserable it is usually
because he thinks he is.
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and I found out that the fact that I
was a state senator was an open
sesame in every department in Albany
and the city of New York. Then 1 was
elected to the House of Representa-
tives. Why, they tie horses to con-
gressmen in Washington on Pennsyl-
vania avenue.
Amy historian describing this horde
Of members of the House and Senate
landed on the Isthmus of Panama for
the formal opening, with the President
and the cabinet and the other distin-
guished officials of the government, and
the representatives of foreign govern
ments. and the army officers and the
navy officers. would tell of their hang
ing their clothes on the members of
Congress. That is about all the use
they would be-"
When Frederick Huntington GiIlett,
representative in Congress from the Sec
ond district of Massachusetts, arises to
address the House on some topic it is
quite sure to be an anti-democratic epic
couched in words Of purest English The
spirit Of Amherst and Harvard hovers
about Gillett like an unseen halo, and his
crisp Springfield accent brings with 1t the
suggestion that what he is about to say
is thoroughly approved in advance by the
CabotS, the Lowells and the sacred cod
You can almost scan Gillett's prose, it is
so pure and poetic. but what else would
you expect from man whose district
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4 fke Searchli8llt
The Gold Supply.

The gold supply of the world is mat
ter of vital Importance because upon
the abundance or scarcity of this metal
depend to some extent the prices of all
other commodities. 1t is well known
that some economists believe the pres
ent world wide high cost of living Is
due, in the last analysis. almost en-
tirely to overproduction of gold.
A steady and uniform supply of gold
is of the utmost Importance, and yet
the production of this metal has al
ways been more irregular than that o.
most of the industrial metals. When
ever new gold field is discovered,
there is at first an era of overproduc-
tioD while the easily accessible sur
face deposits are being worked. Then
comes a short reaction followed by a
gain In production as slower and more
expensive underground mining gains
headway. Unless new gold fields are
discovered before the deeper veins are
exhausted there will be a shortage.
The last two decades have seen a
number of great gold fields opened up
and the annual production of gold has
steadily increased, until ii has out
stripped the worlds industrial growth.
The result has been the cheapening of
gold, and the relative increase in the
price of all other commodities.
The European war has an interesting
relation to the gold question. for the
immense issues of fiat or paper money
by. the belligerent nations will prob
ably at some time require an increased
metallic coinage. This increased de-
mand for gold for coinage purposes
would naturally tend to reduce the
prices of all other commodities.
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way toward relieving my anxiety re-
garding James use of the horse. / don't
believe she would indulge in any Ro-
man chariot races.
OF course. l am thankful that we
didn't lose the horse, for he is to play
very prominent part in the program
1 have mapped out for the coming sea-
son. The manufacturer out in Illinois
has notified me that the one-horse cul-
tivator l ordered has been shipped,
and j am going to plan my garden SO
that j can do most of the cultivation
with il. 1t will work between rows as
close together as two fee, so there
will be no beds" in my garden this
year. Everything will be planted in
long rows, and there'll be no hand
work except tc cut down weeds close
in to the plants
' realize that the cost of the cultiva-
tor and the expense of keeping horse
would not be justified for the garden
alone Where / expect to make it
profitable is with the corn and pota-
toes. Without the new implement
would have had to hire my corn and
potatoes cultivated, and We have the
horse anyway, every dollar L save will
be almost all clear profit
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Silence may be golden or it may be
an admission of guilt.
Evening star., 1915-02-20

People boast of their ancestors only
after the world has forgotten their
records.
Money talks. but it doesn't save half
as much as the wife of a man who de-
clines to give UP.