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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1905-07-20
Oldest Pythian Dead,

Rock Island. ILL.,. July 15.-Richard
Wareham. the eldest member of the
Knights OF Pythias. died of heart fail
IRE at home here. He was 20 years
old. and was the last surviving charter
member Of the original lodge organ
lied at Washington, D. c., in 1862.
Wareham was an engineer in the navy
during the civil war.
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Army Worms Ravaee indiana Farm.

South Bend. Ind, July 17.-Count-
less army worms have swept clean 500
acres of timothy, as we'll as much oats
and barley. near the southwest corner
of this county and are still advancing.
Farmers are attempting to stay the
ravages by blowing deep burrows.
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D. 3. Henderson's Condition crav.

Dubuque. Ia. July 17.-There is lit
tie change in the condition of former
Speaker D. B. Henderson, who is suf-
fering from paresis. His condition il
considered very grave by his physi-
cian
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Her Query.

Gardener-This here ia n +oh.coo
plant In full flower. Lady-How very
interesting! And how long will it be
before the cigars are ripeHNev
Yorker.
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MORE ARRESTS LIKELY
Mayor Weaver ConsuIts With His At
torneys in New York.

Mayor Weaver ConsuIts With His At.
torneys in New York.
New York. July 15.-Mayor Weaver,
of Philadelphia, held conferences here
with his counsel. Attorneys Joseph S.
Auerbach and Julien T. Davies, and
his personal counsel, former Judge
James Gay Gordon. of Philadelphia,
and Elihu Root.
In an interview Mayor Weaver ad.
mitted that it was not unlikely that
some action would be taken il Phila.
delphia within few days as a direct
result of the meetings Those posted
on the Philadelphia situation say the
action referred to by the mayor will
; be proceedings against certain con,
tractors of Philadelphia
Mayor Weaver said that, with his
attorneys, he had gone carefully over
the entire Philadelphia situation and
that all were agreed I'm their opinion
AS to what that opinion was the mayor
would not state.
Evening star., 1905-11-11
AMERICAN SCRAP HEAP.
Discarded Old Cars, Old Locomotives
and Old Machines.
From the Newark News.

From the Newark News.
One of the most significant of recent
statements is made by the Pennsylvania
railroad that it is about to send 12,GOO
freight cars. though IN serviceable condi-
ton, to the scrap heap as fast as praC-
ticable, or else sell them to the minor
roads, where the highest efficiency is less
needful. These will be replaced by cars
made of pressed steel and of the most ad
vanced type in perfection of equipment
No doubt this great railroad, which has
been in many ways the most progressive
in the world would not have ventured
on such wholesale renovation had not the
promise of present and future trans Sporta-
tion interests been SO stimulating. 1t is
most encouraging that prescjence and sa-
gacity In such high quarters point to a
coudless business horizon. Nor have there
been lacking eloquent indications on the
part of our other big railroads of a SINH
lar lavish yet really economical policy to-
ward perfecting equipment both of fixed
plant and rolling stock.
Yet the importance of the overflowing
scrap heap In all American industrial pro-
cesses has been markworthy fact for a
good while. For the last thirty years at
least our manufacturers in every line OF
production have recognized the truest
economy in keeping abreast with the very
latest improvements in mechanism The
old. however good, has at once given
place to something better, and the ex-
pense of substitution has in practice been
quickly recouped by greater effectiveness
in quantity and quality of product with
frequent reduction of labor cost per piece.
The policy In other countries has been,
on the other hand that of retaining the
locomotive, the engine, machine or what
not, as long as 1t would run with the
help of tnkering. 1t is this, with the
manufacture of duplicate parts, to save
time and labor In making repairs when
necessary. which has contributed so enor-
mously to give our manufacturing meth
ods the ascendancy which they have ac-
qured. 1t Is only just to say, however,
that foreign manufacturers have begun to
profit by our example in this way as
they have in many others, though IT will
be q good while before it will become an
indispensable feature of system.
The great American scrap heap, then.
is the mound upon which the banner OF
industrial greatness has been planted.
The Pennsylvania road, in making such
an apparent sacrifice, pays homage to a
most important principle, and confirms con-
fidence in that sagaclty which has admit
tedly guided It's management in the past.
To carry as many tons as possible with
the least expense of traction and mainte-
achieved by the biggest. most powerful
locomotives, the most capacious cars In
ratio to weight and strength, heavy met
aled tracks and the most solid roadbeds
When this betterment shall have become
common railroads will pay bigger dividends
on lower rates. The sense of true economy
finds in the continually growing scrap heal
one of the most striking factors to this
end
Evening star., 1905-11-11
McGRAW SIGNS
THREE-YEAR CONTRACT

NEW YORK, November 1.-THE rumors
that John j. McGraw was to quit base ball
were dispelled yesterday by his signing
three-year contract to manage the Giants,
after brief conference with President John
I. Brush. The plans for next year were
discussed, and the advisability Of taking
the team TO California or to Cuba for train
ing were taken under advisement 1t is
possible that the former ground will be
selected, although nothing definite has
been determined upon. A very inviting
proposition has been made to the Giants
10 go to California, as the populace of that
section are very anxious to see the world S
champions. Manager McGraw fears, how
ever, the effects of the long trip eastward
after the team has gotten into shape.
McGraw will remain in New York for a
while, and after the holidays will probably
go 10 Hot Springs, where many of the
Giants usually Join him after the first of
the year.
Mike Donlin, the Giants center fielder,
has taken up his residence permanently in
New York having given up his Cincinnati
home. He Will be here most of the winter.
Evening star., 1905-11-11
Oddities of the Telegraph.

From the ST. Louis Globe Democrat.
The telegraph operator, seizing favor
able lull. said:
In my business a man has strange expe-
riences. 1t was only yesterday that l sent
this message TO a White mountain hotel:
Hold room for self and wife. Ten days
The answer came back at once: We don't
take dogs and the couple that wanted to
go 10 the hotel were horrifed Later the
explanation came. My message IL seems.
had been incorrectly transmitted as Hold
room for self and wife. Ten dogs
Two sportsmen, one in Chicago and one
in New York, played a game Of billiards by
telegraph three years ago. The two tables
were divided into small numbered squares.
and at the end of each shot the location of
the three balls would be telegraphed 10 the
other town, where they would be set up and
tackled anew. The game lasted four days.
and would have cost mint of money only
the players happened to be telegraph oper-
atoTs
kilograms are never punctuated. You
know that Well. this fact lost Wash
ington man $500 last May His wife was
very low and he wired to a Philadelphia
specialist to come on. An hour later the
woman died, and the husband sent another
wire saying: Don't come. Too late
But since the message arrived unpunct-
uated the Philadelphia specialist aban-
doned everything and shot into Washing
ton on a special train sOf course, he had
TO be paid, special ira and all. 1t was
case where a lost period, a lost fiyspeck of
ink. was the same as a lost purse contain
ing five crisp 800 bills.
Evening star., 1905-11-11
LIGHT IS NOT NEEDED.
Scientist Says Suns Effect on Man is
Bad
From the Chicago Tribune.

From the Chicago Tribune.
DR.. Charles E. Woodruff has made an ex-
ccedingly interesting investigation of the
effects of tropical light on white men, The
origin of his investigation was an attempt
to prove or disproye the theory that the
skin fermentation of man served 10 ex-
clude the short or actinic rays of light.
whose action Is to destroy living proto-
plasm..
If this theory is true 1t will explain at
once many anthropological riddles We
find in it a reason why white men, while
capital colonizers In cold or temperate re-
gions and sagacous administrators of trop-
ical colonies, have failed when they at
tempted themselves to colonize in hot coun-
tries; why blond types prevail in the
cloudy, almost sunless regions of the north
of Europe brunette types in the dazzling
light countries bordering on the Mediter-
ranean, and the negro In Central Africa
of the countryman who has during a large
portion of his outdoor life the protection
Of woodland and orchard.
DR.. Woodruff soon felt bound 10 admit
that the sun is not the beneficent deity we
thought him to be as we worshiped but
that he delights In sacrifices and slays
ruthlessly those who trust him. 1t Is hard
to believe that man does not need light
and It is almost a shock to be made to real
live in absolute darkness" Yet DR.. Wood
ruff leaves little reason to doubt his state
ments for, beside the cogency of his rea-
soning from universally accepted facts he
fairly bristles with authorities whom he
cites In support of his position.
Evening star., 1905-11-11

his friends in this country would have
heard little of his doings there.
But it so happens that he did manage
'to fall into the hands of the ubiquitous re-
porter through the exigencies of the Jap
anese campaign. and the reporter did not
hesitate to make voluminous notes of what
he saw, for it was most interesting. &c
cording to some of these notes, which have
found their way to Washington, Major
Kuhn is rated as a man who showed most
peculiar talent for finding work to do and
who worked harder and accomplished more
than all the other attaches put together.
Dispatches from the front from the time
of the sinking of the Varag to the treaty
OF Portsmouth made frequent mention of
the fact that the Japanese army was rest
ing" Major Kuhn was with the Japanese
from start to finish, but history does not
relate that he ever rested. From what has
been heard from Japan within the past few
weeks. he did not even rest when the war
was over and the armies had started home.
Evening star., 1905-11-11
CHASED BY SHARKS.
Made for Shore When They Saw the
Voracious Monsters.

From the Philadelphia Press.
That a shark is voracious Will be attested
to at any time by Capt. w. ]. Bounds and
r. j. Stewart, two-weu-known fishermen
Of Wlcomico county. Sharks. vicious and
Voraclous sharks. of the man-eating tribe
are numerous in the waters Of the creek
during the closing days of summer. Their
appearance in tSe creek there, which usu-
ally occurs aboGA this time of the year,
renders IL extremely dangerous for devo-
tees of the rod anA reel to engage in a
days sport, and more }han one local sports
the shore" or stand battle with the angry
and hungry sharks.
The other day Cabt. Bounds and Capt
Stewart. the venerable fishermen OF Wicom-
leo county had quitS an exciting run
from school of thu man-eaters. which
they will not be apt t6>forget soon. The
two were in midstream enjoying the sport
of pulling in fish at a lively clip when q
school of sharks made its appearance
around the bend about 200 yards ahead of
them. The admiral. of the shark fiotilla,
big fellow, who seemed TO be leading the
way. upon seeing the fishermen, rang up
and headed for the boat occupied by
Bounds and Stewart bow on. They were
coming with the speed of a torpedo boat.
and as 1t was mealtime both of the fisher
men and the sharks, the former were not
long in finding it out and making up their
minds to eat their dinner on the banks of
the creek. They Immediately put oars to
the boat and pulled for their lives and the
shore.
The sharks were gaining on them, but
the fishermen didn't stop to measure dis
tances, as it dinner hour for all con-
Cerned. With superhuman effort they bent
to their oars shooting the boat through the
water, and finally reached shore. Two of
the big fish, the leader and his closest fol-
lower, ran in too near the shore, and be
came stuck in the mud fiat. Capt. Bounds
seized his rife lying in the boat and dis
patched them both. The men declare that
the larger of the two sharks would measure
nearly eight feet and the smaller one about
FIVE and half After killing their leader
the other sharks, some half dozen in num-
ber, sank below the surface and were seen
no more
The two men didn't care to take chances
on rowing home, so they took the land
route. Capt. Stewart says there Is not
enough fish in the Atlantic ocean. If they
were all IN the creek, TO induce him 10 go
fishing again until cool weather sets in.
Evening star., 1905-11-11

him. If there was one such application
there were half a Dozen
Gen. John NJ Wilson was then chief OF
engineers and he also wanted the services &c
numerous plots to secure the services OF
his assistant he went in person to the Sec
retary and had Capt. Kuhn fixed as nrmiy
and as permanently slated in the depart
ment as the detail system would permit
There he stuck throughout the war, with
never a chance in the field. When some
new duty that no one knew anything about
would come up in the course Of days
administration of the affairs OF the army
1t was given to Kuhn to work out When
new engineering problem arose kuhn
was the man sent for to solve 1t. He was
given commission as major OF volun-
teers, but never got away from the once.
Goes to Philippines.
Mai. Kuhn had the details Of fortihcations
down to the fine point, and when 1t was de-
cided that some one ought to go to the Phil
ipp,nes who knew about forts and such
things. he was the man selected. He start
ed and worked for a time in Manila, and then
japan and Russia went to war. The United
States decided to send officers representing
all arms of the service with the contendlng
armies and a party under Col. Crowder was
sent out from the United States. Maj. kuhn
and Capt John F. Morrison, Twentieth In
fantry were sent from the PhlhpplheS u
Join the other attaches.
They were tied up in Toxic by the Japa-
nese government. Marking time 1t mas
been CALLED by Richard Harding Davis, VINO
was there at the time. 1t might have been
marking time for some Of them. but not
for Maj. Kuhn. He and an officer or the
English army refused to be idle. They had
each heard something of the Japanese ana
of their craft in the arts OF diplomacy, and
they considered it would be good thing
for their governments to know whether the
effusive hospitality of the Japs was rea!
feeling or whether it was just sample or
their skill In diplomacy.
Maj. Kuhn and the Englishman left To-
Evening star., 1905-11-11
Foot Ball, Racing
and Other Sports
Continued from Ninth Page.)

He. nevertheless, exhibited gameness by
taking a severe punishment. In the fourth
round Sullivan knocked him down with
right swing to the jaw, but the gong saved
him after the referee had counted eight
During the rest Lowe recovered enough
to go on until the seventh round, when he
twice dropped to his knees without being
knocked down and took the count of nine
The referee warned him against this, and
in the eighth round, after Sullivan had
landed number of body blows and right
and left jab to the jaw, Lowe again drop
ped without being struck, and Sullivan was
declared the winner.
Sullivans seconds were Al Herford, Skip
Warren, Young Peter Jackson, Sammy
Harris and Herman Miller In loves cor
ner We're Tommy Connors, Terry Martin,
Billy Whistler and Kid Egan. The time
keepers were Jean Herman and Patrick
Connor.
The semi -wind-up between William Pey-
ton and John McWiliams, both colored. or
Washington. resulted in easy victory
for Peyton. In the fourth round Peyton
knocked his man down three times in sue
cession with blows on the jaw, and the ref
cree stopped the fight and declared Peyton
the winner.
Evening star., 1905-11-11
MAJ. KUHN'S SERVICE
American Officer Who OBJ
served and Took Notes.
RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR
WAS LONGER IN FIELD THAN
WAS ANY OTHER ATTACHE.
Hard Worker Who Obtained Elaborate
Information for Governments
Archives-Arrived Today.

Major John f. Kuhn, Corps of Engineers
United States army. returned to Washing
ton this morning after an absence of three
years, the better part of which have been
spent in the field with the Japanese army
as one of the official military attaches
from this country. Few people in this
city beside the immediate friends of Major
Kuhn were aware that there was such
an officer with the contingent of attaches
who went 10 the front. Major Kuhn is one of
those IN the army who look at publicity
through the small end of the telescope and
it Is probable that if he had not been forced
to associate with particularly fair-minded
and observing correspondent in Manchuria
Evening star., 1905-11-11
TURF AND TRACK NOTES.

The Asbury stable claimed Roycroft from
J. Grant Lyman out Of the second race for
81 800 at Aqueduct yesterday. The claim
was said to be of a friendly nature
After Pretension won the second race al
Auueduct yesterday E. Wishard bid him UP
$500 on his entered selling price of S1,SoO
and bought him for 81. 600. There were those
who recalled the fact that 1t was J. A. Ben
net who bought Jocund out of selling race
from ]. A Drake for whom Wlshard trains.
George Wheelock won $4,000 on Hermi-
tage in the first race at Aqueduct yesterday.
The books really opened this colt at even
money, but as there was no play the price
went up to to /. Then Wheelock and his
agents went the rounds betting any amount
that the layers would take They got on al!
of S12 900, If not more, the clubhouse con-
tingent following suit.
Seven races will be decided at Aqueduct
to-day. Twenty-Five entries We're received
for the second race, and the Queens County
Jockey Club, with its usual liberality, de-
cided to split it, the horses drawn going in
the seventh race. 1t was wise move, as
there is little competition promised In the
first race.
Sewen, whose spectacular fall in the first
race at Aqueduct yesterday would have
caused most boys to give up their engage
ments for the day. showed his nerve by ac-
cepting a mount in every race. He was sec
ond with Roycroft, Miss Ogden and Maid
of Timbuctoo and third with Lindale-quite
a round for one day.
Shaw surprised his warmest followers al
Aqueduct yesterday by accepting -four
mounts and bringing three of them home in
front. He rode Hermitage, Massive and
Pioneer and in each case he was alert al
the post and full of energy at the finish II
reminded race folk of the days when Shaw
was the hero of the piker and plunger
alike. There was no hesitancy about draw
ing his whip and using it, either and he will
hardly be able to pose again as a no-whil
jockey. McDaniels, Miller and l. Smith were
the other winning jockeys.
No wise money has ever been burned uI
so quickly and SO completely as that con-
sumed by My Buela in the last race at
Aqueduct yesterday. My Buea was evi-
IDENTIFY framed for great coup. for the mo-
ment the layers put up to ] against her
there was fierce rush to get all sorts of
wagers down, until the Meddler fllly was
backed down to IL TO 5..On the way TO the
post My Buela, who was sweating profusely,
suddenly took the bit in her teeth and. In
spite of all little Miller could do TO restrain
. her, ran away at u terrific clip for the en-
tire circuit of the track. Realizing that the
money placed on her was lost, those that
had bet on My Buela ran pel nell back TO
the betting ring to hedge on Pioneer, VINO
had opened at to 5, but had receded to ii
to because of the play on the runaway.
But the layers Were wary and onered only
even money against Pioneer, who was back
ed off the boards even at that short price.
Evening star., 1905-11-11

engineers. 1t was not long before he dem
onstrated that he possessed an abnormal
appetite for hard work, and the engineer
department of the army was the place for
him to find 1t. He worked early and late
disregarding Office hours and ordinary
rules of labor with a nonchalance that
filled clerks under him with dismay.
He became first lieutenant and captain
as soon as the slow promotion of the ear
lier days permitted AS a captain he was
on duty in the Office of the chief of engi-
neers OF the army when war with Spain
was declared. When brigadier generals
were appointed to lead the regulars and
volunteers in Cuba and the Philippines the
Secretary OF War and the commanding
general of the army were importuned by
the newly made brigadiers to detail one
Capt Kuhn as q stan officer. Each wanted
Evening star., 1905-11-11
Not Off Duty in 49 Years.
rrom the London NInll.

From The London Mail
The death was reported on Saturday from
Swardeston. Norfolk, at the age OF eighty.
of Paul Hemnel who for forty-nne years
was subpostmaster and letter carrier be-
tween Swardeston and East Carleton and
had in that period, it is estimated walked
I'm the performance of his duties 10000
miles.
During all this time he had not once been
off duty for day or missed his round. Six
years ago he obtained prize offered to the
postman who had been longest in the
service.
Evening star., 1905-11-11

graphed everything worth saving He made
notes of what he could not remember. Men
were killed all around him, but he did not
seem to mind the risk to himself. He was
sent there to- work and he worked. During
the long wait after the fighting about Muk-
den and until the conclusion OF the peace
treaty the time was spent in working over
the details of administrator and organiza-
ton of the Japanese. Major Kuhn made
notes and pictures all the time During
all this period Of work, however. he found
time to partake OF some OF the social fes-
tivities. With some of the other attaches
and newspaper correspondents he attend
ed teas ana dinners and on last Fourth Of
July he was the master OF ceremonies at a
dinner given in his hut In honor of the
day. General Nogi attended the dinner and
Evening star., 1905-11-11
Difficulties of English Tongue.

From the New York Tribune.
Walter Christie. with his racing car, the
Blue Flyer, was talking to French chauf-
feaur on the Cape May beach.
TT makes warm said the Frenchman,
wiping his brow.
You mean 1t is warni--not II makes
warm" said Mr., Christie, laughing. You
remind me OF the Frenchman at the Eng
lIsh Alpine Club.
This Frenchman said enthusiastically to
a red faced. stout Englishman, with calves
as big as barrels:
'Ah, you have climb re Matterhorn? II
is foot to be proud of
Pardon me- the Englishman returned
You don't mean foot. You mean feat
''Ah. said the Fren.h .hman, you have
climb her more zan once. heinr -
Evening star., 1905-11-11
Fitzgerald Knocked Out Landers.

SAN FRANCISCO November 11.-Winle
Fitzgerald knocked out Fred I.anders in the
twenty-ffth round at Colma last night with
a right swing on the jaw. The fight was
in Landers favor up TO the fifteenth round
Then the tide turned to Fitzgerald In the
twenty-fourth round the gong saved Land
ers. In the next round he was Knocked
down three times