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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-26
"REMINISCENCES Of TEIACKERAY
By John Habbe reom
Habbe rGOm

Iabbe T&Om
conscience pricked him bit, and he
wrote to the publishers that the proper
correction should be made His sug
gestion was acted upon promptly, to
the dismay of printers, who have looked
into later editions that they might feast
their eyes upon Thackerays supposed
compliment to their profession.
SUCH IS FAME
WHEN Thackeray returned to Lon
w don after his American tour he
told with delight the following story
against himself:
New-Yorkers were unceasing in efforts
to do him honor; but at that time the
city contained few places of interest
distinguished foreigners could be shown
little except the Palisades, the navy
yard and the institutions on Blackwell's
Island But the famous sailing match
in which the yacht America won the his
toric cup was still wonder to English
men, and Thackeray, who loved sport
for its own sake, no matter who the
winner might be, expressed desire to
meet George Steers, the Americas de-
signer and builder.
At that time Steers was the most
famous if not the busiest of American
ship builders; he almost always had on
the stocks at least one of the swift Cali
fornia clippers" which were the wonder
and envy of the maritime world, and he
just had completed for the United States
the steam frigate Niagara, which was con-
coded by naval officers of all nations to
be the handsomest war vessel ever
launched. Steers was hearty, genial
chap, of high general intelligence; but
his mind was so entirely in his work that
he seldom had time to think of anything
else. In the party which accompanied
Thackeray to the shipyard was an editor
who knew Steers well and of whom
Thackeray was fond, and he aspired to the
honor of bringing the two great men
together. So he searched the yard for
Steers, who always dressed as shabbily
as any of his workmen, and when he
found him he said:
George, knock off work for a moment
and listen to me. Do you see that tall
gentleman in eyeglasses and a high
hat?"
"Eh?" Steers responded. That big
wasted, tall gawk with broken nose?"
'Sh-h-h! Yes. That's Thackeray"
Who in the deuce is Thackeray?"
Steers replied.
After repeating this story, Thackeray
always said in conclusion Such is
fame! Still, became we'll acquainted
with Steers afterward, and found him
indeed a sympathetic nature, for he could
and did eat as many fried oysters as l
and the American fried oyster is some
thing that opens new vista of life to an
Englishman."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-26

THOMAS elder could
B1dee Junction African NJ E. of Bill Nye touching lines:
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-03-16
The Curse of ElanneIs.

At the age of | found myself--in-
feliX!-removed to town possessing
a bleak climate and many wooden man.
ufactories. 1t was the custom OF the
house mothers to buy flannel by the
piece, direct from the factory; red
flannel, hot, thick, felled like Lap
lander, and the invention of Lucifer.
Out of this flannel was cut garment
continuous, all-embracing garment,
of neuter CENTER in which every child
in that town might have been observ-
ed flaming Mephistophelian-li after
the morning bath. A pattern was CIV
en- to our mother. The hair shirt
laugh when | read! By definition the
hair shirt must have possessed geo.
graphical limits of attack, but my
flannels left no pore untickled, untor-
tured; they heated the flesh until scar.
let fever paled into mere pleasantly,
and they soured the milk of amiablity
within me forever. The rotation OF
the autumn, when the happy fowls and
foliage alike moulted, shed the super
fluous, when bracing October set the
body in a glow, alone of living things
must be done up in flannel!
And spring, that season of vernal
bourgeoning, was the time when |, too,
like any other seedkin, slipped free of
all stuffy incasings, and could sprout
and spring in air and sun, clad in
blessed muslin. | shall never forget
the corroding bitterness induced by
flannels. At times they absolutely re-
duced me to flsticuffs with my relig-
ion, so that filial piety, the ordaining
of the seasons, and the very catechism
itself, hung in the balance of the CON
flict. | believe | can hardly overesti-
mate the spiritual detriment done me
by my flannels.-Atlantic Monthly.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-03-16
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Keep your blood clean as you keep your
body clean. You don't wait until your
body is foul before you cleanse it.
II is n matter of surprise that many peo-
pie who are so careful to have clean bodies
make no effort to keep the blood clean.
Everyone knows that uncleanness breeds
disease; that those who do not keep their
bodies in a wholesome condition and who
dwell in filthy surroundings are the first to
fall when some epidemic of disease sweeps
the country. But foul blood is more dan
gerous to the individual than foul body.
An unclean body is rather a passive than
an active hindrance to health. But urclean
blood is an active threat against the very
life--it makes the body a prepared breed
ing place for disease.
1t is part of Natures plan for human
safety that in many cases where the blood
is impure or corrupt she sets sign OH the
body in proof Of the corrupt current that Is
flowing through the veins. Scrofula with
its disfguring sores and scars, eczema with
Its irritation, salt rheum, tstter, erysipelas
boils, pimples aud other eruptions arc only
the outward signs of the irnpurity Of the
blood. But often in the earlier or simpler
stages of the blood's impurity there are no
outward signs of this condition; only dull,
languid, sluggish feelings, which are com
monty attributed solely to the slugGishness
of the liver.
OF all preparations for purifying the
blood Dr. Pierce's Colder Medical Discov-
cry easily takes the first place. It elimin-
ates from the blood the elements which
clog and corrupt 1t, and which breed and
feed disease. II acts directly on the blood
making glands, increasing their activity,
and so increasing the supply of rich, pure
blood which is the life Of the body.
Accept no substitute for "Colden Med.
ieal Discovery" There 10 nothing "just
as good for diseases of the stomach
blood and lungs
DR.. Piercc's Medical Adviser, paper COW
ers, is sent free on receipt Of Il one-cent
stamps to pay expense Of mailing only
Address DR.. R. v. Pierce, Buffalo, N Y.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-03-16

The celebrated preacher, who, on
his sixty-ninth birthday, created
sensation by declaring that he no
longer believed in great God. DR..
Abbott qualified his statement, how
ever, by declaring his belief in a
great and everpresent force which
manfests itself in all the activities Of
man and the working of nature.
God is energy" he says, "intelli-
gent energy. The Bible no longer can
be accepted as the ultimate truth.
Science tells us man was not cre-
ated but is the creature of evolution.
Even the Ten Commandments were
the result of a gradual growth, not
the inspired word of Moses. God is
great yet personal everywhere, yet
near-nearer than hands and feet"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-03-16

The suggestion that Mr.. Lawson
has been stirred to ebullitions Of
special activity by jealousy of the
large place temporarily occupied in
the public eye by Mrs. Cassie Hoover
Chadwick is not entirely incredible.
Mr.. Lawson's aspirations after no.
toriety are of monopolistic quality,
and there is no doubt that Mrs. Chad
wick was making a. considerable fig-
ure in field where he might be eX-
pected to resent intrusion. But who
can tell how Mr.. Lawson's mind real
ly works? Does he work it, or does it
work him? Has he got it under con-
troll, or is it running away and drag
ging him after it? Our little world
would really like TO know, and if the
commonwealth of the State of Mas
sachusetts should see its way to send
o committee of alienists to wait on
Mr.. Lawson and report upon his men
tai condition, the report would un-
doubtedly command the best place in
the news columns of most of the pa
pers.-Harper's Weekly.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-03-16
Newly Discovered Facts.

A good deal of secrecy has been OBJ
served as to just what of scientific val
ue was learned by the recent voyage
of the British ship Discovery into the
antarctic regions. The geographical
results of the exploration are well
known but the scientific results will
take a long time to work out. 1t is
said, however. that secret has been
brought back which will shake the
foundations of many a scientific be-
lief. Certain fossils have been found
which prove beyond doubt that once
mo one yet can tell how long ago
mammals, and perhaps even men, liv.
ed upon the land where now are utter
desolation and life-destroying ice and
snow. These treasures were packed
into tin boxes and brought to London
under special escort to the British
museum, where they will await in
quiry by specialists. In speaking Of
the matter Sir Clements Markham was
most guarded. Still, he admitted that
the fossils must in any case mean
much. They may upset all the theories
as to the polar system and the geo.
GRAPHICAL origin and age of the world.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-03-16
The AlI.Ame rica Football Team

Walter Camp announces in Golfers
the following names as his selection
for the first. second, and third all
America teams:
First Eeven-End, Shevlin, Yale;
tackle, Cooney, Princeton; guard,
Piekarski, Pennsylvania; centre, Tip
ton, West Point; guard, Kinney, Yale;
tackle, Hogan, Yale; end, Eckersall,
Chicago; quarter, Stevenson, Penn
sylvania; half, Hurley Harvard; half,
Heston Michigan; full, Smith, Penn
sylvania.
Second Elcven--Weede, Pennsyl.
vania; Thorpe, Columbia; Gilman,
Dartmouth Roraback. Yale; Trip,
Yale; Curtiss, Michigan; Gillespie,
West Point; Rockwell. Yale; Rey-
nolds. Pennsylvania; Hubbard, Am
herst Mills, Harvard.
Third Eleven - Glaze. Dartmouth
Buthewlcz, Pennsylvania; Short
Princeton: Torrey, Pennsylvania
Thorpe, Minnesota; Doe, West Point
Rothgeb Illinois; Harris, Minnesota
Hoyt, Yale: Vaughn. Dartmouth;
Bender Nebraska.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-03-16
CARING FOR PARROTS.
Expert Tells Of Best Food and Con
dtions for the Bird.


Women who are fond OF parrots for
pets should bear in mind the fact that
to keep them well, birds from tropi-
cal countries must be protected from
drafts and sudden changes of temper
ature. and under no consideration
should they be left out over night,
even in summer.
Miss Virginia Pope, who for twenty
years has made study OF birds, their
care and treatment, says that there
is greater mortality among parrots
for this reason than any other.
Women. who through carelessness
or thoughtlessness, have left their
pets hanging out in the dew over
night, have found to their sorrow that
If their birds were not dead by morn.
ing they were down with bronchial
pneumonia, a disease that they are
subject to-
There are certain dos and dont's
which Miss Pope suggests, which, If
followed, will so long way to keep a
bird of this sort in good health and
plumage.
Much care should be exercised in
their feeling and most important
rule to follow is to give the bird plen.
ty of water.
This is entirely contrary to the ad.
vice of many bird fanciers but Miss
Pope. by personal experience, has
found that it is most necessary. There
should be one cup for seed and anoth.
er for water. the latter to be changed
twice day. Some persons there are
who will say that the bird will die if
given water but Miss Pope says that
they will die without 1t.
Crackers which have been dipped
and moistened well in condensed milk
should be given them every morning.
Condensed milk has been found to
be better than sweet milk for the
reason that it is less likely to turn
sour, and to affect the digestive or
gans.
The milk should be thinned with
hot water first, about one.half tea.
spoonful of water to one-half cup of
milk. Toasted bread or swiebach can
be substituted for crackers If de-
sired.
The seed cup should contain sun.
flower seed mixed with hemp, about
one-fourth of the hemp to three
fourths Of the sunfower.
Parrots will not take a bath. At
least it is said that not one in a hun.
dred will of its own accord.
This Is a natural characteristic. as
in their own warm countries the
heavy dews at night serve the pur-
pose. But as some sort of bath is
necessary it is best to spray them
twice a week with an atomizer.
A spray bath is not disagreeable to
the bird; on the contrary, they appear
very grateful and will spread their
wings and show every evidence of en-
joyment during the process.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-03-16
Founding German East Afrca.

At the international geographical
congress meeting in New York recent.
ly DR.. Joachim Graf Won Pfeil un
Klein Ellguth, noted German ex.
plorer, stated that he and two COM
panions, while travelling in East At
rica in 1884, seized all that territory
in the name of Germany. They had
borrowed $4,000 to finance the enter
prise, struck across Zanzibar to the
African coast, signing treaties of ces.
sion with the native chiefs as they
went along, and when they reached
the coast the doctors companions
went to Germany to negotiate, leaving
him alone, the only white man within
1000 miles to await their return. The
proposition submitted by his compan-
ions was eagerly accepted by the Ger.
man government, warships were sent
to the scene, the region, equal to Ger
many in area, was seized, and thus,
according to the story, German East
Africa came into being.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-03-16
History of Coffee

A pamphlet published by an Arab
sheik in 1866 sheds light upon the
origin and early use of coffee. This
Arab sheik asserted that coffee was in
troduced into Arabia from Abyssinia
about the opening of the fifteenth CEN
tury and that it had been known as
beverage in the latter country from
the most remote period. Its peculiar
properties were taken advantage of
by the Mohammedans in connection
with their prolonged religious cere-
monies but its use as a devotional
antisoporific stirred up the fiercest
opposition on the part of the ortho-
doX element of the priests. Coffee
was declared to be an intoxicant and
was accordingly prohibited in the kor-
an, but in spite of this the coffee
drinking habit spread rapidly. For
two centuries the worlds supply of
coffee was obtained from the province
of Yemen in southern Arabia, where
the well-known Mocha is still cult
waited.
knowledge of the taste and value
of coffee spread but slowly, so that it
was not until the middle of the six
teenth century that it reached Con
stantinople. Here it also melted the
bitter hostility of the priests. An
excessive tax was imposed upon coffee
houses, Notwithstanding which they
fourished and extended. After the
lapse of another hundred years coffee
reached Great Britain, where it was
introduced by one Edwards, a Brit
ish merchant long resident in Turkey.
The first coffee house in London was
opened by his Greek servant, Pasqua
Rossie, in 1862. and the introduction
of the beverage into England met with
the same opposition as in the east.
In 1875 King Charles II. attempted
to suppress coffee houses by royal
edict, in which it was said that they
were the resort of disaffected persons,
who spread abroad divers false, ma
licious and scandalous reports, to the
| defamation of his majesty's govern.
ment and the disturbance of the peace
and quiet of the nation" In England
as well as other countries, the most
| effective check on the consumption of
| the beverage was found to be a high
| duty, which led to much smuggling
| Coffee was used in France between
1910 and 1000
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-03-16
Some Curious Caves.

"Spelaeology" is scientific cave
hunting. There is a society for that
purpose with headquarters in Paris
which recently investigated the caves
in the Mendip hills in England. These
caves are of vast extent, perforating
two masses of limestone, lying on ell
ther side of a core of old red sand
stone, forming the center of the Men
dips. Some are "swallet holes" alb
sorbing rivers, others stalactite cav
erns. One, called Wookey hole, marks
the emergence, in the form of the
river Axe, of two streams swallowed
some miles away. One of these swal-
lets is 500 feet deep. Another cave,
called Swildon's hole, is draped with
wreaths and festoons of pure white
staactite. Lambs Lair, on the moth
ern side of the hills, is the most mag
nificent stalactite cavern in Great
Britain; while adjoining Wookey hole
another chamber has just been found
with 10000 stalactite pendants, all of
dazzling whiteness. The famous
spring which gives its name to the
town of Wells is believed to come
through hidden caverns from the
higher parts of the Mendips.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-03-16
A Hint to Farmers.

The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany is to plant 500, 900 trees this
year on , 900 acres of its land along
its principal divisions. This will
be in addition to the setting out OF
a58,53 seedlings, which recently
was completed. These trees are
being planted to insure the road of
sufficient ties.
When RAILROAD companies find it
necessary to give attention to tree
growing it is time for farmers to be-
stir themselves in the same direc-
tion. There is demand for all
the timber that can be raised within
the next so years.
Professor Stewart Of the western
N. Y. Horticultural Society gives
this advice: "all forms of ill-treat-
ment including bad planting,
growth OF weeds, and total neglect,
is as harmful to fruit trees as to
permit the grass to grow around
them
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-03-16
GRAND JURlEs ABOLISHED.
Radical Action Taken by the People
of Minnesota.

st. Paul. Minn.-Tne Grand Jury
system of indictment for criminal Of
fenses has been abolished by vote
of the electors of Minnesota, who
have adopted constitutional amend
ment to this effect.
The Legislature of 1902 created an
act to amend the general laws, which
had for its object the changing of a
law adopted in the Constitution and
organic act of the State. 1t was in
the nature of an amendment and was
submitted to the electors at the cleo
tion on Nov s, and adopted by an
overwhelming vote.
Attorney-General w. j. Donnahow-
er, one of the leading attorneys Of
the State, interprets the amendment
abolishing the Grand Jury system in
the following legal terms:
"The effect of this amendment will
be to give the Legislature the power
to determine the manner and form Of
charging persons with the commits
sion of criminal acts. AS the Consti-
tuition now reads, the procedure by
which person is held to answer for
a criminal offense is by presentment
or indictment of a Grand Jury, or by
criminal warrant issued by a Justice
of the Peace. In place of a Grand
Jury, or a warrant issued by Justice
of the Peace, it is proposed to sub
stitute any procedure which the Leg
islature may deem due process Of
law.
Now, as to other reasons for elimi-
mating the Grand Jury system Crimi-
nal court statistics for twenty years
prove that thirty-five per cent. Of
those indicted have proved their inno-
cence and have been acquitted in the
trial by jury. While there are no
statistics available to determine the
bribery effected or friendship ex-
pressed by members of the Grand
Juries, for corporations and individu-
ais during the last decade, there Is
ample evidence in the way Of civil ac-
tions, which have been successfully
carried on by the State, to show that
corruption has prevailed and no
bills" have been returned in crimi-
nal actions, where afterward the
same parties have been convicted Of
the same offenses.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-03-16

In the March "Arena" Rudolph Blanken.
burg describes the ripening ard revealing oi
political corruption in Pennsylvania under
the Quay regime. This paper contains the
startling expose of the criminal acts OF Sen.
ator Quay which threatened to land him in
the penitcntiary; and the interest in .he re-
cital is much heightened by the reproduction
of telegrams and autograph letters. There
are also n number of portraits of men who
figured conspicuously in t..is great drama OF
modern political corruption. Mr.. Blanken.
burg's series of papers is probably the most
important contribution to the literature OF
the new crusade for political morality OF the
present year. Other papers OF special value
to people interested in the larger questions
of life are David Graham Phillips interest
ing description Of Socialism in Europe today;
"a Pen Picture of Great Radical Meeting
in Iars," by Frances Hardin Hess, The
Arenas" Paris commissioner; "The Present
Status of Cooperation in Great Britain"
compact and lucid story of the rise and
present status of The great cooperative move
ment of Great Britain, by !. c Gray. Cen
eral Secretary Of the Cooperative Union Of
Great Britain; and "The Nevada Reeren-
DUN Victory" 10y Eltweet pomeroy, Presi-
dent of the National Direct Legislation
League. Mr.. Flower contributes two papers
of special interest. In one he sharply chal-
lenges many of the conclusions and deduc-
tons of Professor Munsteiberg in his notable
work, "The Americans The other is con-
cerned with the rise, domination and over
throw of the Tweed RING, and is illustrated
with reproductions oi cartoons drawn by
Thomas Mas, during the famous battle be
| tween entrenched political corruption and
good government. The strongest purely
literary feature OF the issue is Professor
Archibald Henderson's discriminating and
| thoughtful criticism of the dramas ana social
| ideals of Gearhart Hauptmann. Another
view of the divorce question is presented by
| the well known educator, Professor fiawn,
| though a strong champion of the home and
the family is not in favor of restrictive di.
vorce legislation. He makes some admirable
suggestions not altogether unlike those which
| have been so successfully introduced in the
| Swiss Republic. Among the full page pie
| lures printed on Indha.tint paper IN deep
| sepia ink, which are features of this number,
| are portraits of Nj. Jaures, the great French
| statesman, David Giaham Phillips, the bril-.
| liant young novelist and essayist, !. c. Graz,
head of the co operative work in England,
and remak kably beautiful half-tone photo
graph of William Ordway Partridge's cele-
brated "Malonna." Altogether this issue
| of "The Arena" is one OF exceptional
strength and cannot fail to prove indispens-'
able to the more thoughtful people who
wish to keep in touch with the vital problems
OF the day.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-03-16
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