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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-12
Santiago de Cuba Placed Under Alb
solute Quarantine,
GEN. WOODS STRINGENT ORDERS
Determined to Protect Health and
Lives of Americans
LIQUOR SELLING FORBIDDEN

SANTIAGO DE CUBA. July 12.-Gen.
Leonard Wood, in command of the de-
partment of Santiago, issued general order
No. 81 today establishing absolute quaran-
tine All officers of the government and
employees are forbidden to enter the city,
with the exception of those belonging to
the department Major Carr and Surgeons
Mendoza and Nurez are detailed to take
charge of the fever patients in the city,
which is placed under strict regulations.
Other officers will have charge of the yell
low fever hospital on the island.
American Hotels and Saloons Closed.
The mayor is directed to close all Amer
lean hotels and saloons, to forbid other
liquor dealers to sell intoxicants to Ameri-
cans and to arrest all intoxicated Ameri-
cans or loiterars in saloons. The principal
hotels and saloons are designated by name.
Pack trains have been ordered to estab-
liSh camps outside the city, and all the
troops will be moved to Songo, except one
company at Moro Castle.
No Ships Permitted to Touch.
The headquarters of all the departments
were moved today to Cristo. and the rail-
road and steamship lines forbidden to
bring Americans into the city No ships
are permitted to touch at the wharvas.
The strictest regulations have been
tablished for the protection from fever of
the company of soldiers at Moro Castle.
Supplies are to be left at road depot, and
will be taken to the soldiers by teams from
the camp.
No travellers will be permitted to leave
here without having undergone five days
detention in camp.
Gen. Wood proposes to adopt heroic meas
ureS to stamp out the fever.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-12
Movements of Naval Vessels.

The Annapolis, with the naval cadets
aboard has been ordered from West Point
to Tompkinsville
The Dolphin has sailed from Province
town for Boston.
The Machias has sailed from Pensacola
for San Juan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-12
THE STAR BY MAIL.

Persons leaving the city for any
period can have The Star mailed to
them to any address in the United
States or Canada, by ordering IT at
this office, IN person or by letter.
Terms: Is cents per week; 25 cents
for two weeks. or so cents per
month. Invariably In advance. Sub
ecribers changing their address from
one Post-offlce to another should
give the last address as well as the
new one.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-12
The Trade with BraaiI.

Contrary to common belief, the trade be-
tween the United States and Brazil last
year showed falling of, both in exports
and imports. The figures quoted in re-
port to the State Department by United
States Consul Hill at Santos show that
while the exports to Brazil decreased half
a million dollars in the last year, the i'm
ports fell of no less than twelve million
dollars.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-12
HOPES OCCASION WILL NOT ARISE.
Great Britain VIII Gladly Accent
Volunteers il 1t Does, However,

LONDON, July 12.-The British govern
Mt, replying to the offer of the govern
ment Of Queensland to send 80 volunteers
and a machine gun to South Africa in the
event o: war between Great Britain and
the Transvaal, has expressed the hope that
the occasion viii not arise. adding that If
u does the government will gladly avail it.
self OF this patriotic Offer
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-12
Going to Long Branch.

Secretary and Mrs. Alger will leave Wash
ington Friday to spend Saturday and Sun
day at Long Branch with Vice President
Hobart. The Secretary was the guest of
the Vice President last week for day or
two, and was so well pleased with his en-
tertainment by Mr.. Hobart. who is his inti-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-12
mother Idle Furnace Start. Up.

BETHLEHEM. Pa, July -. - The
Thomas Iron Company's Hellertown fur
mace was put in blast today. giving employ
nent TO 40 hands. after a long suspension.
The company's iron ore mines near Heller
town are being got in readiness for mining
again after twelve years idleness.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-12
Concession to Government Creditors.

A cable message has been received at the
State Department from United States Min
ister Hunter, saying that the president of
Guatemala has issued a decree extending
Until October 81 next the time in which
creditors may present their accounts against
the government for conversion into bonds
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-12
Lightning Destroys Half Town.

JAMESTOWN, N. Y, July 12-Lightning
caused the destruction today of half the
business portion of Frewsburg, near this
city. Loss, $40, 600. The village has no ap-
paratus for fighting fires. This electrical
storm was the most severe ever known
here, and continued throughout the night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-12
TRIAL OF DREYFUS.
His Counsel Confers With President
of the COurt-MnrtiaI.

RENNES, France, July 12.-Maitre De-
mango, counsel for Captain Dreyfus, had a
long conference this morning with the pres
ident Of the court-martial regarding the
procedure and the date of the trial. which
Is not Yet fixed. The lawyer afterward had
two hours interview with Dreyfus
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-12

The Cup Challenger Fenced in and
Guarded by Police.

SOUTHAMPTON, July 1.-THE cup chal-
lenger Shamrock will sail only one race
with the Prince of Wales cutter Britannia
and will then proceed to the Clyde to be
fitted out for her voyage across the Allan
tic. She is still III dock, with her so-calIed
"petticoats" on. A fence has been built
around the dock and the gates, which are
guarded by police. are kept locked
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-12
Australian Cricketers Win.

BIRMINGHAM. England, July 12.-The
Australians won the cricket match with
the Midland County's eleven by A runs.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-10-05
THE CHARM OF YACHTING.
Elements That Lend Test to Ride
in Sea Racer During
blow.

The charm of yachting rests very
sive are the elements of air and water
that from the moment when she is set
afoat until she is hauled out for repairs
a vessel is never at rest. The sea is for
ever seeking to force an entrance into
her from below, and the winds of heav-
en- are ever ready to snap her spars and
rend her canvas overhead. 1t is largely
luck if when she is first set atloat she
settles nearly enough to her estimated
water-iine to satisfy the ideas of her
designer, and nothing but the keenest
watchfulness can keep her up to per-
feet standard of effectiveness when she
is called upon to endure the complicated
strains of sailing match in smart
breeze, says Lippincotts.
If anyone questions the difficulty Of
such navigation, let him take the fam
lily umbrella and try to make it pull or
push him across the lawn against the
wind This is precisely the problem
that confronts the yachtsman, save
only that in place of the umbrella he
has to manage a towering structure Of
bellying canvas held aloft hundred
and more feet by slender spars and a net
work of cordage every fathom of which
must be under absolute control if the
beautiful-almost sentient-creature of
canvas, wire and steel is to acquit her
self with credit
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-10-05
QUEER BIT OF EUROPE.
Small Community Where There
Are No Rulers, Soldiers =
Nor Taxes.

About five miles southwest of Aix-la-
where so many summer tourists jump
in and out of trains, there is a tiny lit
tie village community called Altenberg
or Yielle Montague, says the London
Daily Mail. ',E .; 81 e. s-.'
This little strip of a few hundred
acres owes allegiance to no king, kaiser
or president. 1t is an autonomous re-
public, smaller than Andorra or the
principality Of MONACO: It's population
is nearly 5000, and they are mostly
farmers, agriculturists and miners.
There are no police, no soldiers and
(happy landD there are no taxes to pay.
In 1916 this little corner of Europe
was declared by the powers to be ''neu-
trail ground" and it has maintained its
independence ever since. There is a
burgomaster and council of elders of
the village community. They admin
lister such law as is found necessary, but
are not overworked in this respect, as
crime is practically unknown. The
country IS picturesque, and for such a
small domain, fairly varied in its seem
cry. The land is split up into little in
dividual allotments in the manner so
familiar to travellers on the continent.
The prosperity of the inhabitants de-
ponds upon certain valuable calaminc
mine but small amount of farming is
also successfully carried on.
Both French and German are spOken
and are often mixed up in most curl
Gus manner.
Altenberg's chief claim to notoriety,
however lies in the fact that the bor-
der of this tiny domain actually touch
es those Of the adjacent countries of
Belgium, Holland and Germany. -
Of the thousands who pass through
Aix-la-Chapelle on their summer holt
days to one of the many German baths,
few are probably aware that they arc
so close to this quaint little community.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-10-05
DEWEY'S RABBIT HUNT.
A Sporting Experience in Virginia
That illustrates the Noble Quail
tiles of the Great Admiral.
before,

did you ever hear of Dewcy's rab-
bit hunt over in Virginia." asked
war department official.
well, it was one of the first things
| thought of after | heard of his vic
tory at Manila. Several winters ago
Admiral Dewey, Capt. Frank Hume, A.
b. Harlow, several other gentlemen,
and myself concluded to take a rabbit
hunt over In Virginia. We had plenty
of guns and ammunition, without any
rules as to what kind of shooting should
be done. There was seven inches of
snow on the ground and we found an
abundance of RABBITS. We had dozen
or more when Harlow shot one in his
bed. Dewey walked up and said
"'Well, that does settle it. Any man
who would shoot a rabbit sitting in
its bed would rob his mother-in-iaw.
Why, Harlow, you would be drummed
out of Vermont if you did such thing
up there.
"The fellows laughed, and after little
while we continued the hunt. Every
thing went swimmiIgly until about two
hours later Hume pulled down rabbit
without giving it a chance to run for
its life Dewey called him down by
saying: Gentlemen, believe in Civ
ing everybody and everything show
fighting chance. \ man who cant
kill rabbit on the jump has no bust
ness with gun. 1t is taking an un
fair advantage of the little fellow to
shoot him in his bed. Let's have no
more of this kind of sport. Give EN-
chance, boys; give 'em a chance
The boys then began to realize that
Dewey really meant what he said aud
though the hunt was continued all day
no more rabbits were killed in their
beds"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-10-05
EXTRACTION IN NEURALGIA.
Removing the Teeth Affords No Re-
lief and Is Sin, Says
This Authority.

The extraction of teeth for tri-
facial neuralgia is a sin for which both
dentist and physician are responsible,
and in about the same degree-the
physician for sending the patient to
the dentist, and the dentist for extract
ing the teeth in such conditions. says
the Philadelphia Medical Journal.
Members of both professions should
have sufficient common sense, if net
professional education, to recognize the
fact that the extraction of sound teeth
not only gives no relief, but that it is q
most useless mutilation. which the pa
tient is sure to regret deeply because of
the injury to personal appearance and
the interference with digestion, and
for which their professional adviser is
certain to be severely censured. This
mistake might be more common. bet it
is common enough, as is evidenced by
the statement of a prominent surgeon
that he has been consulted during the
past two years by no less than six pa
tients. who had had the teeth in both
jaws uselessly extracted for tic doulour-
eux. The medical treatment of this
condition is not encouraging in its re-
suits, il is true: nevertheless, ii should
be given thorough trial. and if perse-
vered in will sometimes give permanent
results. In any ease extraction of teeth
can have no possible permanent value.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-10-05
AS THE PIONEERS JouRNeYED TO RhoDesIA

passed forts were erected and garri-
might he kept open. The methods OF
century ago were obsolete, and new
empire was TO be builded in a day al
most To do this these forts were a ne
cessity, and before the first move was
made the British South Africa COM
pany knew that they would be built.
1t was September when the party of
fortune seekers, empire builders, and
their escorts reached the end of their
journey, at what is now the tlourishing
town of Salisbury, and here the last
fort was built, and the little band of
pioneers disbanded.
Mr. Brown, in his book ION the
South African Frontier" says of the
end of that long and memorable march:
ION September 10. 1890, we held a
grand parade, and, in the name of the
queen, formally took possession of all
the unpossessed land in South Central
Africa, and as much more as from time
TO time it should be desirable 10 add.
The British flag was hoisted by Lieut..
Biscoe, Canon Balfour offered prayer,
three cheers We're given for the queen,
a salute of q guns was fired from the
seven-pounders, and another jewel was
added TO the British crown"
The Rhodesia of nine years ago was
"A great wilderness, peopled by one of
the most savage people of Africa, gov
erned by bloodthirsty monarch who
ruled by rod of iron. Its mineral re-
sources undevelopcd, its fertile acres
given over to savage race who knew
practically nothing of their cultivation.
How does the Rhodesia of to-day COM
pare with it?
The rough wagon road that was con-
structed by the pioneers nine years ago
has given way TO steel rails and loco
motives: the native kralls have been
replaced by the comfortable homes or
prosperous people. Instead of the
| savage cruelty of a native potentate,
we find the Anglo-SaNon with his laws.
| his language, his customs, his schools,
/ his churches. his libraries. his clubs. his
/ newspapers, his courts of justice and,
in fact. all the component parts of a
modern civilization. To-day one can
journey into Salisbury from the Cape of
Good Hope or from the shores of the
Indian ocean by railway, can go any
where within the vast territory on good
road wagons, and all of this is the prod
net of England's present-day method
of empire
DA MEL. CI IrN I, TnN
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AFRICA'S COMMERCE.
A study of Figures shows That IT
Is of Great mportance-Last
Years Business.

Africa is taking prominent place in
the commerce of the world, as last year
the imports amounted 20 $4o0, 900 900.
while the exports were S350,000, 900. OF
this amount this country sent s1s,OOO,-
900 worth of goods and received in re-
turn Slo,ooO,0U0 worth of the product,
of Africa. Naturally large proper
ton of the commercial business of Az
RIGA is transacted through the British
colonies, their share being S131 600. 900
Of the imports and $132,OOO,OO0 of the
exports. II -. E -.
The trade of the South African re-
public, or Transvaal, is attracting much
attention. It's imports amount to S1O4.-
O0O,0GO and its exports S54,000,00O. The
chief exports are gold and other min
erals. French Africa imported goods
valued at over S70,O00,O and exported
nearly an equal amount. Turkish At
RIGA, principally Egypt, imported s54,-
100000 and exported $62,00O,000 while
Portuguese Africa, whose ports on the
eastern coast are adjacent to the gold
and diamond fields, is also a scene of
commercial activity, the importations
being $12,000,0QQ and the expectations
nearly 100000. - - -r....-.-
Physically the African continent is
unique. Five thousand miles in extreme
length and over 1000 in breadth, its
area is greater than that of any other
continent except Asia, the latest esti-
mates being 11,s74,000 square miles. Its
coast formation is peculiar in the alb
sence of deep indentations, bays or
harbors and the small number of wa
terways which offer entrance to the in
terror Not until the explorations, of
Livingstone, Stanley and others was it
known that vast navigable streams ex-
listed in the interior. When these CON
dltions were known modern ingenuity
and energy soon found means of trans
porting steamers in small pieces upon
the backs of men through hundreds of
miles of dense forest. These were put
together and set afloat, and steamers
which penetrate thousands of miles in
the interior develop facts never known
Detofe, -.H rnsJ~,s... ss.,-- l.r
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asserted, and with some ground for be-
lief, that the vast riches that had
marked the ancient Asiatic courts had
come.
The English, the French, the Dutch
and the Portuguese, all more or less in
terested in the development of Africa,
coveted this land of fabulous wealth
which none seemingly dared to enter
for fear of the terrible vengeance of the
native potentate, 10 Bengula.
1t was Englishmen, the Englishmen
of South Africa, that finally broke
through this barrier of fear and con-
quered the land, even though they did
not find the fabulous wealth Of which
rumor had told them. In 1883 Cecil
Rhodes sent three commissioners to
visit Lo Bengula for the purpose of OBJ
tanning from him, if possible by peace
full means, a concession granting him
and his followers the right to mine the
land. The visit of the commissioners
was a successful one, and in EXCHANGE
for pension of c 100 per month, 1000
martini-henry rifles, 100000 rounds of
a
boat on the Zambesi river he granted
to them complete and exclusive charge
over all the minerals contained in his
land, with full power TO do all things
which they deemed necessary to win
and procure the same.
1t was a broad concession. and only
such a one as an uneducated monarch
I l.,
would repudiate the whole agreement
neither Mr.. Rhodes nor his followers
probably never doubted, but the exist
ence of it gave them the rights they de-
sired, and England would see to it that
they We're protected in the enforcement
of the agreement. just as she had as
sisted the East India companies that
eventually gave to her her great eastern
empire
This concession was the basis upon
which the South Africa company was
formed. and to which a royal charter
was granted. As soon as the formation
of the company was complete active
preparations was begun to invade The
promised land. At Cape Town corps
VI 1tihN BlOHttIS WAS organized III
which was to be found almost every ma
tionality on earth. Americans were not
lacking. and it is to one of these, Will
liam Harvey Brown, that the world is
indebted for an excellent book upon the
whole subject of the founding of Rho
desia and the trials undergone by the
sturdy men who carried practically the
first touch of fertilization into the strong
holds of the savage monarch of Malta
beeland.
1t is impossible in the short space of
newspaper article TO tell of he,hard-
ships endured by that band of $50 pio-
neers whom the South Africa company
had engaged u lead the advance of
civilization into the land which they
had practically purchased at so small
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-10-05
MEN AND METHODS THAT HAVE
CONQUERED VAST TERRITORY
= In SOUTH AFRICA. z

q price. They started on April IS, 1890.
1t was a journey of l,7OO miles, more
than 1000 miles Of which had to be
made on horseback and accompanied
by heavily-laden wagons with their OK
teams. Much of the way was d vast
wilderness, land where roads were
unknown, and where 1t was necessary
to manufacture them as they went
along. Heavy timber had to be cleared
away TO allow for the passage of the
wagons, rivers had to be, bridged or
forded, and through large part of the
way was the ever present danger OF an
attack by the savage natives. Lo Ben
gula's warriors almost instantly over
stepped the bounds of the agreement
made with the white men from the
south, and were ready to fall upon the
little party at the first opportunity.
England, true TO the policy that has
characterized her for many years, took
immediate steps to protect the pioneers,
and sent with them into the country
some 500 troops from the force of Dor
der police. The pioneers themselves
were an armed force under military
discipline, each man having signed "a
contract with the company to submit
to such discipline for the period Of six
months. But once that force should
get into the promised land, it would
disband as body of soldiery to become
gold hunters and farmers and hunters,
and then the border police stood ready
to protect them in the rights which
Lo BenguIa's agreement had given the
company and its agents.
In the wilderness through which the
party of pioneers and their escort
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-10-05
Catering for Fat People.

y New York restaurant recently I'M
dertooll to cater exclusively for obese
people. Nothing of fattening char
acter was served. The establishment
was hailed with delight by a large
crowd of banters. Its history was
about as follows: The first day 100 ate
there, the second 90, the third so. and
so on down until the proprietor found
himself without single patron until
the sheriff came and took everything
in sight.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-10-05
COFFIN OF WILLIAM PENN.
Biundcr in Relating a Discovery
In the village of Penn.

The London newspapers the other
day printed an account of the distov-
cry III Penn, little village in Bucking-
hamshire. under the floor Of a church,
ct the collin of William Penn. Ihe oak
OF the coffin is black from age, but per-
fectly sound. OF course the discover
ers Of this coffin are mistaken in iden-
tifying is as the founder of Pennsy!-
vania. since the date of ii is 1898. Viii
liam Penn, who founded the American
colony, died in IT'S, and these hast,y
writer's might have readily discovered
that they were in error if they had
taken the trouble 70 investigate the
matter. Furthermore. the celebrated
William Penn was buried at Jordans,
eight miles from the village of Penn
1t is probable, however, that the re-
mains are those of some ancestor of
the great colonizer. His father, Sir W.
Penn, the associate of Samuel Pepys,
died many years after the date on the
coffin.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-10-05
II "A 7HILE England builds empires

II A DHILE England builds empires
NV the remainder of Europe looks
wv on with jealous admiration.
One of the latest of England's efforts at
empire building is Rhodesia, South At
RIGA. an empire in itself of which any
monarch, or any people, might well be
proud. And yet Rhodesia is an empire
builded within less than decade of
time. -<z4-.---.---.-5 .4Ezs -Ss---1sS NO.
1t was on April IS, 1890, that virtually
the first step was taken in movement
which was to wrest this vast country
from the hand of the bloodthirsfy and
crafty monarch who had ruled it for
wears and add it as another jewel to the
British crown. At that time the north
ern boundaries of the Transvaal marked
the limits of civilization in southern
Africa, and even there the widely scat
tered settlers were not free from moles-
tation by the savage natives. To the
west of the Transvaal was another great
stretch of territory which the ciyilizing
hand had hardly touched. From Cape
Town north railroad extended as far
as Kimberly, distance # some 600
miles. while the new land to which
England aspired was thousand miles
further to the north.
> In 1sS7-SS there had come to the Brit
ish colonies of South Africa stories of
fabulous wealth in land to the north
OF the Transyaal. Exaggerated stories
of gold and diamonds were circulated
freely. Explorers, hunters and ,adven-
turers had traversed the land and found
therein evidences of past civiliza ton
that was credited to the times of the
queen of Sheba. and from here il Was