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New-York tribune., 1905-12-30
LEAR TIE CHIMES ON NEW YEATS EVE

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A @ -. GGbnrch9 supper from 10 p. m aeo-Advt-
,,47.rpMBER "HosPITAL SUNDAY in your
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-18
HOW BRUSHES ARE MADE
Simple Article That Goes Through
Many Processes.

From the Lewiston Journal
The making of brushes is a decidedly in
teresting process, and a visit to a factory
of this kind is not without interest
I'VE draw our supplies from all parts
of the world" explained the superintendent
of the factory. The rice root of which
several varieties of brushes are made comes
from Mexico and is shipped here in large
bales. 1t is prepared by the natives and
costs anywhere from II to As cents a pound
Other varieties of stock used in the MAX
ing of brushes are Mexican grass, which
is exceedingly stiff and coarse and the
kittol a wood fiber boiled in oil, that
comes from the west coast of Africa The
fibers of this stock are stiff. 1t is not nee
essary to color it, and in fact it is not ad-
visable TO do so, for much of it made into
brushes is apt to get wet when used. There
is union fiber which is a mixture of bas-
sine and tampico, that comes from Tam
pico, Mexico.
1--WE find the bristle brushes more diff
ficult to make for more care. of the mate
rails is necessary. Several kinds of Chinese
bristles which come direct from China are
used. They run from two and one-half to
are always black.
I'VE have to pay a pretty smart price
for some of the bristles. For instance, the
incest bristles that come from Russia are
nice floor brushes and car washers.
THE western United States bristle is the
cheapest. These range in price from SO to
% cents for the unbleached, and as high
as $50 for the bleached. While it is not
possible to bleach them pure white, yet
the bleached bristles are of far better
quality and are only used in high grade
brush.
Making brushes is rather pretty work
The wood block, or, as the uninitiated would
| term it, the handles and the backs Tor the
| floor brushes come from Brewer, Me, and
the counter buster blocks are made In
| Buckfield. The fancy polished brushes
/ come from Pennsylvania, and are all OF
| rock maple, highly polished. In making
these handles large round block is used
| and in turning this fine friction polish Is
| secured. The block is cut into four handles
| and polished a second time.
| The drawing of these brushes is nearly
| all done by girls. They sit at long table
and pick up a knot of bristles, shaping
them between their fingers, then they dir
| the bunch into pitch. Giving the bristles
| a twist, they stick them into place. 1t is
| this little twist which gives the required
| operator can fill 1900 holes in a day A
| mill buster has forty-one holes, while q
| floor brush has 125.
The block first goes to the molder, from
| there to the lather, and Is bored then is
| drawn. From the drawer it goes to the
| glue bench, where the back Is glued, thence
| to the molding room, and from there tc
| the finishing room on an endless belt. There
| 1t is vanished, stamped and prepared fol
| shipment Thus, while the brush is COM
| plicated, ii looks very simple, and while
| the process consists of many different
| stages, yet 1t does not take very long te
make a good substantial brush"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-18
"Captain harrington"

At the Lafayette. week of March q, the
new patriotic American play, Captain Bar
rington' will be seen. introducing William
Bramwell, under the direction of Henri
Gressitt. whose former productions OF "A
Lady of Quality" and 'Zaza" have made
him well known. A unique feature In the
play is the introduction of the character OF
George Washington. The entire orlglnai
production will be used during the engage
mar
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-18

edy: Frateln Riccobono's European equine
arenic sensation. including the disrobing
horse; Troba,. the cannon ball equilibrist.
who juggles Krupp shells and a sentry box
with sentinel inside: Howard and North,
comedians and parodsts; Nine. Avery Stra-
kosch, soprano; Wenona and Frank rifle
and revolver shots; Marcus and Cartelle.
in a comic conglomeration. and the Vita
graph pictures OF an elopement under diff
culties.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-18
"Queen of the Highway

Queen of the Highway a romance of
the west. by Charles A. Taylor. with its
bandit queen and her picturesque following
of scouts, cowboys, Indians, two packs OF
real wolves, five educated horses and
wealth of magnificent scenery, comes to the
Academy week of March q.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-18
One Man-25 Votes.


From the Finland Bulletin.
The number Of votes now held by the in
dividual elector amongst the burghers in
Finland varies according to the taxes paid,
so that a man who pays one tax unit has
one vote, while others command a much
greater number of votes. In most towns a
maximum limit--in some towns twenty-five
in others ten-has been agreed upon 1t is
now proposed that all voters shall have
one vote only.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-18
Frost on the Pumpkin.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
Susan Brett-"What were you with this
season."
Hamlet Fatt-"A rural drama called
The Punk'n.'"
Susan Brett-"How'd you make out?"
Hamlet Fatt-"Oh, we got frosted, Of
course
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-18
Red.

From the Houston Post
Mamma, this paper says man commit
ted cardinal SIM"
HE perhaps painted the town like pa
does occasionally"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-18

Lena Ashwell recently signed a contract
with Charles Frohman. engaging to play
the title role in Leah Kleschna" when that
piece is presented in London.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-18

T. Daniel Frawley will follow the exam
pie of the late Daniel Bandman and get
out a book of his travels. 1t will be called
THE Theater in Forty Countries
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-18
FRUITS FROM AFAR
A VARIED ASSORTMENT ON THE
WASHINGTON STANDS.
How to Eat Manages if You Have the
Price-Peaches at
Fifty Cents.

South African fruits are coming to the
eastern market, and they are filing a gap
when for while both home and California
fruits are out of season. This is a great
boon, for there is certain class of rich peo-
pie who would rather pay high price for
something that is out of season that eat a
better article at cheaper price during the
time when 1t is found close at home. One
can now get peaches, nectarines and plums
from the Cape of Good Hope served on the
table in Washington in good condition CAL
ifornia fruit of the same species has been a
staple article of trade here for some years.
and is almost good and great deal dear
er than the summer fruit from "Annrandle"
or Prince Georges counties. But the South
African peaches and plums come when
neither the home trees nor those of CalifOr-
MIA are bearing, and cost about four times
as much as the California sort. Consequent
ly they are a great deal better in the eyes
of the people who like that sort of luxury.
The British government now has fast
steamers that carry the fruit from the Cape
to England, though there is not yet a regu-
larry subsidized line like that which takes
the West Indian fruit from Jamaica to Lon
don. The cases intended for the United
States are picked over, repacked and trans
shipped at the London docks without even
going up to Covent Garden market, and are
rushed by the fast mail steamers to New
York, where they are sent by express to
such points are willing to pay for the
fruit in the east
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-18

FRITZ Scheff will make tour or the
large eastern cities this spring, present.
ing ''Fra tinitza" and "Boccaccio."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-18
Long-Distance Peaches.

Peaches are a thing that Washington
people relish when they can get them for
10 cents a basket in summer. When it
comes to paying 10 cents each for the Cali
fornian species later in the season the av-
erage department clerk thinks he is about
going the limit. His wife or some one else's
always admres the fruit as long as posi-
BILE before eating it, for while the long-dis-
lance peach is a thing of beauty it does not
taste quite as peachy one might expect
from the outside. But when you progress
as far as the South African peach from 80
cents to a dollar each it makes one wonder
if the fruit store could not do a retail
business with the INDECENT but peach-Ioving
public at so much per bite. But for the
consolation of the common people who
merely look at the dollar peach afar off it
may be confided that they are really get
ting the best of 1t, for the luscious looking
peach very often tastes much like turnp
Washington is surely coming on in the
fruit line and pretty soon there will be
nothing that money cannot buy here, if
you only have the money. The known
fruits of the uncivilized world will soon be
exhausted by the importers but those who
give high priced dinners and fabulous pink
teas still have some hopes left in the upper
reaches of the Amazon and the more thor
ough exploitation of Central Africa.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-18

While Miss May De Souza of the Babes
In TOyland" company was riding horse
back in Central Park, New York last Sun
day she was thrown to the ground and
badly bruised.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-18

Peter F. Baker, the singing Dutch come
serted the legitimate for the vaudeville
stage. and has since toured this country
and several foreign lands. is to return to
the legitimate stage next season in new
play written for him by Pierce kingsley,
author of Deserted at the Altar"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-18

A theater exclusively for the use OF com
panies of colored people is to be pullt at
Greenville, Miss.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-18
Pomegranates and Others.

Alligator pears are another of the luxuries
of the Washington fruit trade. They are
by no means as fragile as the guavas and
they come a a time when they are in COM
petition with the home fruits But they
cost as much as 90 cents each, so there are
a good many of them sold to those who like
The price, if not the pear. Mangoes are an
Importation since the days when we began
TO take a more than friendly interest in
Cuba. They can be had here now in guam
titles as low as 90 cents a dozen. The only
really proper way to eat mango Is to
wade out to your neck in deep water ard
take a prompt and thorough wash before
coming ashore, but at need they can be
eaten in the middle of a bath tub The
mango is a very delicious tasting fruit. 1t
was the main support of the gallant reYo-
lutonists who allowed the United States to
capture Cuba for them. 1t looks something
like a large, smooth-skinned lemon and
eats very much like a section of cocoanut-
fiber door mat soaked in a strong solution
of molasses and brown sugar. There Is
great trade in them with the Latin Ameri-
can legations. 1t may be said that eating
them properly is an inherited accomplish
ment, and rolling up your sleeves is no pro-
lection to the novice.
Pomegranates can also be had in Wash
ington at various seasons, for they come
both from Spain and California Many
people have eaten them at dollar a dozen
and always remember the feat, for they
are more or less like bag of duck shot in
a weak solution of jelly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-18

Joe Coyne has been engaged for one OF
the principal roles in THE Rollicking Giri,
soon to be presented in New York with
Sam Bernard and Hattie Williams in
the chief parts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-18

son next fall In New York. the actor viii
impersonate a man about town and club
fellow. The play Is essentially metropoil-
tan, several of the characters having orig
inals in daily life along Broadway and
9th avenue.
For the first time on any stage, Eliza
beth Lee Shepard's drama. THE Red Car
nation dealing with the dramatic at
tempt of the French royalists to save Marie
Antoinette from the guiilotine, was pre-
scented at the Yorkville Theater, New York,
last Monday night Odette Tyler had the
chief role of Elizabeth du Bots.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-18

A special dispatch from Cincinnati says
that Murray and Mack, now appearing in
that city in AN English Daisy will sep
arate tonight and the company disbanded
for the season. a mysterious quarrel is
said TO have brought to an end a theatrical
combination that has lasted fifteen years
Mr. Murray will probably star next season
in piece called The Prince From Prince
ton. while Mr.. Mack will appear in
Around Town"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-18

Miss Ethel Barrymore is expected to con-
tinue in Sunday all next season.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-18

There Is to be an American theater in
Havana. James Hurtig, New York man
ager, is said to have purchased on the
Prado site for a one-million-dollar play
house and hotel. Mr.. Hurtig and A. L.
Wilbur are the promoters of the enter
prise. The new theater as planned will be
equal to a first-class American play house
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-18
Sapadillas Are the Thing.

Washington is a great fruit-eating city.
Almost anything strange and expensive In
the fruit line will find ready market here.
The sapadilla is one of the West Indian
fruits that has recently arrived 1t looks
like a potato, tastes, well, its enemies say
something like bad persimmon, and costs
as much as an American beauty rose. But
they are the real thing in the fruit line, and
if you have not eaten them you do not want
to admit it in polite circles.
1t was only last year that the first ship
ment of guaYas was made to the United
States. Every one knows what the guava
tastes like in jelly, and it may be remarked
that long distance transportation does not
improve the fruit. But they get to WASH
ington in eatable condition and readily bring
90 cents dozen. They were formerly
thought too delicate to ship, but soon one
may expect to find even more fragile trop-
ical fruits, like the otahite apple, on the
Washington stands. 1t was not long ago
that it was thought impossible to send pine
apples from the West Indies to London.
There was a shipment of them made at con-
siderable expense in 1896, and they fetched
30 shillings, or about $3.50, in the wholesale
market there. But now you can buy very
good pine, of the sort they give away in
Port Antonio, at many London fruit shops
for about 81 cents. This only shows what
persistent experiment and paying the price
will do for fruit shipping.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-18

Wilton Lackaye will begin rehearsals
this week of Les Miserables, a dramatic
cation of Victor Hugo's novel, which Is to
be brought out at McVickars Theater, Chi
cagO next month.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-18

Belasco & Mayer have purchased the
Columbia Theater, Portland. Ore, ground
and building, for $150,0Jo The stock circuit
of this firm now includes two theaters in
San Francisco, one in Los Angeles and the
recent purchase in Portland. Should David
Belasco. the playwright, send any of his
attractions to the coast he would have lit
tie trouble getting dates, as one of the
members of the Pacific coast firm is his
brother.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-18

Last Wednesday night witnessed the first
presentation in New York of Nancy Stair"
a drama in five acts by Paul Potter found
ed upon the novel of the same name by Eli
nor Mccartney Lane, by Mary Mannering
and a company including T. Daniel Fraw-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-18

BY the clauses of a two years contract
Maurice Campbell has stipulated TO ''fea-
ture' Dorothy Donnelly in a new produc-
ton next season, and ultimately star her.
Miss Donnellys work in When We Dead
Awake" led to the contract.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-18

Nora Bayes, who recently made a hit at
Chase's, is the latest music hall performer
to go abroad. She will shortly sail for Lon
don, and begin an engagement at the Pal
ace in that city, after which she will return
to New York, to begin rehearsals of a mu-
steal comedy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-18

Edna Aug will resign from the Smiling
Island" company, now playing in Chicago,
and will return to vaudeville. Robert Grau
has made her a proposition to head a big
of specialists, and she has ac-
cepted the offer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-18

AS Anna Held will not open the new Wal
dorf Theater London, until May u. she
will probably return to this country next
week and make a tour of the larger eastern
cities in "Papas Wife" before opening IN
the English metropolis.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-18

Frank Howe, jr. of the Walnut Street
Theater. Philadelphia. has purchased from
Daniel Frohman all the rights to The
Serio-Comic Governess.' and will present
the piece in cities next season not visited
by Miss Lotus.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-18

Mile Price Dow, well known in vaude-
vile circles several years ago as a sensa-
uonal dancer, and who married prominent
resident OF Buffalo, has decided to return
10 the stage, and will shortly be seen in
several of the eastern vaudeville theaters
In new act.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-18

Harry Woodruff, the well-known leading
man, has been engaged to head the stock
company at Proctor's Theater, New nolk;
making his first appearance in The Wife"
next Monday night.
The Bourbon news., 1905-12-26
Huge Task.

1t was hugh task to undertake the
cure of such a bad case of kidney dis
lease, as that of G. F. Collier, of Cher
okee, Iowa, but Electric. Bitters did
it. He writes: "My kidneys were SO
far gone, ] could not sit on a chair
without cushion; and suffered from
dreadful backache, headache and de-
preston In. Electric Bitters, how
ever, 1 found cure, and by them
was restored to perfect health. l
recommend this great tonic medicine
to all with weak kidneys, liver or
stomach" Guaranteed by Oberdor-
fer, the druggist. Price SOC.
The Bourbon news., 1905-12-26
The Paris Business College

Is now being organized by Prof. Lip
first of January. Prof. Lippard
has had large experience in
training young men and women for
good positions and placing them in
same, and every young person pos
sible should enter at the opening.
Nothing pays better than business
education. Positions secured for all
graduates, and Prof. Lippard has
calls for more graduates than he can
furnish.
The Bourbon news., 1905-12-26
No Secret About It.

1t is no secret, that for Cuts, Burns,
Ulcers, Fever Sores, Sore Eyes, BOils,
etc, nothing is 80 effective as Buck
lens Armica Salve sit didn't take
long to cure bad sore I had, and it
is all o. K. for sore eyes," writes D.
L. Gregory, of Hope, Tex. 25c at
Oberdorfer's drug store.
The Bourbon news., 1905-12-26

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The Bourbon news., 1905-12-26

THE end of the year and looking back we remember
things done should have been done and things
done that should have been DONE Let ali look with pleasure
the birth of the New Year and only the things of
the year in the sorehouse of and them
foundation upon which usefulness
errors in daily walk through life
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-09-08
IMPERIAL SIZE or TEXAS
And BENEFITS TKEREFROM
Some Interesting Facts Concerning Largest State
In Union To Which Only Greater Arizona
Will Be Second

The following statements concerning
the state of Texas are taken from the
Chicago Record Herald:
Texas is the fifth state in pOpula-
ton, having run ahead of Missouri
during the last ten years. By the
ems of 1900 it had 3,O4S, 40. OF
these the census showed 620,722 ne
groes, an increase of 220, 400 in 20
years.
Texas has an area of 265, $50 square
miles. The longest distance from
north to south is 740 miles; from east
to west $40 miles, as far as from
Philadelphia to Chicago.
Texas has a greater railway mile
age than any other state. The total
main line mileage reported TO the
Railway Commission January l, was
II, z. SO, while-Illinois had II, 229.50
miles and Pennsylvania 10, 299 miles.
Texas has the largest school fund of
any state in the union, amounting to
1888, 1928. Texas produces more
than one-third of the cotton crop of
the United States.
Galveston is the third in the list of
importing cities. During the last fis-
cal year her exports amounted to
S149,437, 544. New York and New
Orleans alone surpass her, and she is
far ahead of Boston, Philadelphia or
Baltimore.
The value Of the taxable farm
property of Texas this year is $780,
OOO, 900.
The income of the cattlemen of the
state last year amounted to more than.
$90,000,0O from that source alone.
Texas has 392 national banks, with
individual deposits amounting to $685.
$4,000.
The number of children in Texas
is larger in proportion 10 the popula-
ton than in any other state. The av-
erage family numbers 50 persons,
which exceeds that of any other state
in the Union. Although Texas is con
sidered a new state a larger per cent
of her population was born within
her limits than in most of the other
states. OF her 3,O4S.7lO population in
1900. 2,O91,77S were born on the soil,
and only 1889 were aliens, most Of
these being immigrants from over the
border i'm Mexico.
Texas has more peach trees than
any other state in the Unions, 24S,-
55S in all.
Texas is the pecan state" having
35S,S55 artificially planted trees and
over 100000 wild ones. The pecan
crop is valued at S2,50O.OO0 each year.
more than half Of il being from wild
trees.
Texas has 1,G4S,S46 apple trees, and
produced $4,000 bushels last year.
She has over a million plum trees.
more than a million pear trees. and
100000 grape bearing vines. At the
present rate of increase. Texas will
have a larger aTea i'm orchards and
vineyards, within the next ten years.
than any other state I'm the world. She
has today more than 1900, 900 fruit
trees and vines, and is planting more
than a million every year.
Texas produces one-t6nth of the
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-09-08

honey raised in the United States,
and has a larger number of bees for
taxation, which produced s515,379
worth of honey.
In 1900 there were $685. 100 farms.
They were worth 1862, 476,273.
Texas is five times as large as
Great Britain and Ireland. If all the
people of the globe were divided into
families, of five persons each, all of
those families could be taken care
of within its limits. Each could be
given half an acre of land and there
would be 10000, 900 lots of similar
size left for churches, schools, char
liable institutions, parks and other
purposes. Only one-seventh of all
this land is under cultivation. Most of
the ~unoccupied territory is for sale,
and you can realize what an empire
this is going to be some day.
The range has disappeared. The
long horn" steer has gone; the finest
herds of pure bred Herefords in the
United States may be found at Mid
land, $50 miles west of Fort Worth,