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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-01-18
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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-01-18

mon carriers, which they subsequently
share or pool among themselves, aad
that their scheme contemplates aof
only the pooling Of these unlaWful
rates. but the exclusion of all outside
competitors from obtaining them. II is
claimed by counsel that such acts are
not wrongful Counsel have overlooked
section 10 Of the Interstate Commercc
law of 1887, by. which it is made an
offense, punishable by fine or ,impris-
onment for any persons to'induce COM
mon carriers to discriminate in his ia
,or against other shippers in the trans
portation Of his property. Here, the
attempt is not to suppress compafl-
ton between themselves, but by OBJ
tanning unlawful advantages to drive
all their competitors out Of business.
such an attempt comes clearly un-
der Section 2 Of the act Of 1890. 1t IS
clearly an attempt to monopolize in
terstate commerce. No competition
can long endure against those who are
secretly and in defiance Of the law en-
loving rates for the transportation OF
their property in interstate commerce
which constitute a preference over
all others in the same business. NO
more fruitful source of monopoly can
be found than the enjoyment Of pref
erential rates.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-29
The Danger Spot in India.
New Orleans Picayune.

From the New Orleans Picayune
1t seems rather strange that at the very
time Russia appears utterly exhausted by
a disastrous war the British empire should
be carefully and Systematically strengthen
ing its defenses in India. That 1t has been
always Russias ambition to reach the open
sea through the conquest of India is a fact
too well known to be even called into
question That her defeat at the hands of
Japan has in any way altered that deter
mination is not at all probable; on the con-
trary, the failure to secure the coveted
ports in far east Asia has probably In
creased the desire to secure them else
where, either on the peninsula of India or
in the Persian gulf. An attempt in either
direction England would be compelled, in
self-defense, to oppose.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-29
ALUMINIUM PAPER
Now Manufactured in Germany and
Used Instead of Tinfoil.

According to United States Consul Gen
eral Guenther at Frankfort. aluminium pa
per is now manufactured in Germany ana
recommended substitute fer tinfoil. 1t
is not the so-called leaf aluminium. but real
paper coated with powdered aluminium, and
is said to possess very favorable qualities
for preserving articles of food, for which
II is used covering. Chemical analysis
has proved that aluminium paper contains
but few foreign substances. Occasionally
it may contain up to per cent OF iron.
but never any arsenic or other poisonous
metals. Hence 1t appears that the pow
dered aluminium used for the manufacture
of aluminium paper is relatively pure.
The paper used Is sort OF arinciaI
parchment, obtained through the action OF
sulphuric acid upon ordinary paper. The
sheets are spread out and covered upon one
side with thin coating OF solution or
resin in alcohol or ether. Evaporation Is
precipitated through a current of air and
the paper is then warmed until the rosin
has again become soft. Then powdered
aluminium is sprinkled upon 1t and the pa
per subjected to strong pressure to fasten
ing so obtained is neither affected by the
air nor by fatty substances. Aluminium
paper is much cheaper than tinfoil and VIII,
so il is thought here, become strong COM
petitor thereof.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-29
PUT UP A BRAVE DEFENSE.
Six Men, Surrounded by 200 Indians,
Hold Out Until Help Comes.


A detachment of six men was carrying
dispatches from a command near Red river
to Camp Supply. OF the six two were
scouts. Amos Chapman and William Dixon
The others We're cavalrymen. Far from
any refuge they were surrounded by nearly
200 Indians. They sought shelter in a bus
falo wallow and prepared to hold their
ground. The attack came at 6 O'Clock In
the morning, and the long, long day
stretched before them. In the first rush
vate Smith mortally. The other hurts were
severe.
They were hemmed in on all sides in an
open plain, and were outnumbered almost
twenty to one. One of the scouts, while
severe fire was being poured in at them at
close range, succeeded in throwing up a
scanty intrenchment with his bowie knife
and his bare hands His comrades held the
Kfowas and Comanches off until this little
help was ready as refuge and they moved
into the trench, the wounded walking with
brave and painful effort.
Although private Smith was wounded I'M
to death. he sat upright in the trench to
conceal his crippled condition from the foe.
From early morning until night this hand
full Of Ave men was under an almost con-
slant fire, often at such short range that
they could bring their pistols into play
Thus they fought for their own lives and
defended their dying comrade, without food
and for drink only little muddy rain water
mixed with their own blood. They killed
more than dozen Indians and wounded
above score.
Relief came that night, but 1t was thirty
six hours after the first attack before
medical aid and food could be given them
at the nearest post. Private Smith died be-
fore camp was reached. Every man was
wounded Scout Chapman severely and
Scout Dixon several times, but not dam
gerously. This band of four soldiers and
two scouts were of those who had been
fighting and marching for weeks amid the
most dreadful privations. They were worn
to skin and bone, but their souls were as
''big as all outdoors" and they finched at
no odds under heaven. And by such men
as these was this nation made.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-29
ALMOST OBLITERATED.
Famous Mason and Dixon Line Has
Been Restored.

Chester pa Cor. New York Mail
The resurvey Of the historic Mason and
Dixon line has been completed by the
corps employed Jointly by the states of
Pennsylvania and Maryland
When the legislatures of the two states
decided not to allow the famous boundary
line to disappear SO far as visible signs of
Its location were concerned they under
took work that proved very difficult
and tedious. The surveyors were obliged
to cut path through the mountains, and
they found many of the old markers and
crown stones displaced.
In Adams county one stone was used as
a doorstep in a dwelling, another in a
church; some were doing duty in bake
ovens and others were lying miles from
their original places. All were recovered,
although not without vigorous objection
on the part of the persons who were
using them.
The work of establishing the line
was very carefully done and the old
stone posts set along it's course after
Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon mark
ed 1t out in 1853 were reset in solid ce-
ment bases. and iron posts We're substi-
tuted In places where the old posts have
disappeared.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-29
French Statesmen In Retirement.

Paris Cor. Pan Mall Gazette.
Like Cincinnatus, NJ. Loubet is preparing
to return to the plough at the end OF his
office. When he leaves the splendor Of the
Elysee to resume his simple life of a bour-
geoise. he will occupy house in the Rue
Dante. NJ. Delcasse, fallen from power, re-
sides In the unfas hionable region of the
Boulevard de Clichy, In the heart of Mont
martre; NJ Combes lives quietly in the Rue
Claude Bernard, one of those ancient thor
ougtfares In the old quarter OF the Pan
theon. 1t Is a somewhat curious fact that
all three politicians occupy the second floor
in their respective houses. Very often the
famous of the earth lives the sky
as he can get-to the establishment OF the
foreigner, principally the Anglo-Saxon, who
is apt to associate a worldwide reputation
with wealth and outward display. MY re-
spect increases with every step i take
said some one when climbing five flights to
very vicssitudes OF public life in France
conduce to a certain simplicity among the
politicians the most zen vue." They must
preserve the decent exit when they are no
longer on the stage Thus the advocate
dons again his robe; the scholar turns to
his books; the journalist rearms his PEN
NJ Camille Peletan, for instance, writes
once more in the Matin: NJ. Gabriel Hano-
taux in the Journal and in one of the or
gans of Nice; indeed. every newspaper OF
repute has an ex-minister or two among
its contributors.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-29

out under unusually severe conditions
which were quite new to them. The little
craft withstood every test.
What Canoes Can Do.
The canoe used most was of the most
simple padding type-sixteen feet long and
cen inches on bow and stern. where there
was a light covering deck OF Spanish
mahogany. Cedar was used throughout the
hull and everything was copper-fastened
and riveted.
In the northern waters this canoe trav-
eled more than 500 miles through streams.
rapids. log slides and ponds, and traversed
lakes twenty miles and more long. An ex-
perience while fishing for muskallonge
showed graphically what the canoe can do
in It's home.
fnuskallonge and black bass lay in the very
center of wild white water caused by the
shock of a waterfall that cascaded heavy
and unbroken like solid green glass. So
fierce was the rush and turmoil that the
moment trolling spoon was cast into 1t
the water snatched it SO impetuously that
the reel handle whiZZed as If mOnstrous
fish had struck it.
The canoenan calmly padded the dancing
little thing into the very heart of the whirl.
where the water actually piled up mound
that never fell, so savage was the boiling
below; and finally during the progress of
the casting the boat was laid against the
very fall itself, that the green water
flashed almost on its gunwale.
The moment the paddle released it the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-29
LONELY LIFE.
Spent by Alaska Fur Trader Finally
Yielded Him Fortune.

From tn. Seattle Times.
With Alaska furs. valued at $50 600 from
Nulato, the Lower Yukon, Garrett
Busch has arrived in Seattle after eight
years spent in traffickiHg with the Indians
In the wilderness which he was the first
white man to penetrate trader. When
Mr. Busch reached Nulato August u, 1897,
with a miners outfit as his sole possession,
he foresaw in that gloomy solitude trade
in the furs which protect. animal life from
arctic winters which would exceed in re-
turns the reasonable possibilities OF mining
ventures.
Mr.. Busch settled down at the place
where the little town of Nulato now stands.
He built a one-story cabin with lumber
which he sawed from the native tim
Der and began to trade his miners supplies
to the natives for the furS which they
knew SO well how to trap, but of whose
value they had conception. Through the
first winter he lived alone, except when an
occasional squad of Indian trappers came
by and stopped in curiosity to learn what
manner of man had settled In so lonely
spot. To these Indians he traded his hum
Bile supplies except the provisions which he
actually needed to sustain his own exist
ence until spring.
far between. The solitary trader was often
homesick he sat through the almost
perpetual darkness of the arctic winter.
In the short hours of glimmering daylight
dragging them through the snow, and then
sat through the long night counting off the
days on the calendar until spring. His near
est white neighbors were at Anvik, 200
miles down the Yukon, and at Weare, 24O
miles up the stream. He never saw white
face until nearly year after his arrival at
Nulato.
When spring broke upon the lonely her
NIT life assumed a more cheerful aspect.
The fame of the new white trader had
spread far through the Indian settlements
and the natives began calling regularly at
the post with their stock Of furs They
same from Koyokuk, from Innoko and
from Kuskokwin, some of them travelling
nearly SEQ miles
The prospects Of the fur trade became so
bright that Mr.. Busch sent to New York
for his wife to come out and join him.
She did so, taking with her their two
babies, a boy and girl. These children
have learned to speak the Indian language
fuently, but last fall were sent back to
New York to be educated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-29

his naked muscle-the glory of fighting.
Sailing a canoe is the nearest a man can
get to flying till actual aerial flying ma
chimes are invented.
The sailing canoe has been wonderfully
developed In the past twenty years. 1t
has as many refinements and scientific
improvements today as the sailing
yacht. The lore of canoe sails is almost as
elaborate as the lore of large vessels cam
vas There are scores of varying rigs. rad
ically different in principle and form, and
scores of variations of these varieties.
In the development of both sailing and
padding canoes, but sailing canoes particus
larly, the American Canoe Association has
played the leading part, and a most admira-
BILE one. Few lines of sport have been cul-
tivated and advanced with a more thor
oughiy sane and practical tendency govern
Ing the whole A, few fads have been in
troduced especially by the ultra-racing
element but in few other sports do fads
play SO small part as in canoeing.
Most Practical Graft.
The result Is that the standard canoe to-
day is one OF the mort practical Of craft
Like a gun or a horse 81 q yacht or a
rowboat, the canoe is dangerous for the
man who is not cut out to handle 1t prop
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-29
In the Sand.

From tbs New York Tribune.
pile OF sand In Mail street in front OF
the post Office gave unlimited enjoyment to
children to whom Coney Island and the
other beaches were denied last week. 1t
was a pitiful yet amusing sight to see them
reveling in the sand, the hot breath of
the asphalt pavement and the furnace rays
of the sun encrcling them instead of the
seashore breezes that should accompany
playing in sand. Nevertheless. the little
ones built their castles and made their mud
pies and got as dirty as their time would
allow, dreary eyed mothers watching them,
and occasionally taking them to the foun-
tain in City Hall Park. Some one with
kind heart could do untold good, at a small
expense, by keeping a pile of sand in that
spot throughout the summer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-29

erly: but for the man who belongs into 1t
1t is the ideal North American boat. With
canoe a man Is Independent of railroads
wherever there are waters of any size at
all 1t is possible today to go by canoe
from Cape Cod to Florida. with only a few
short portages or carries" by wagon or
rail- sixteen-foot canoe will carry two
men from New York to Chicago without a
break in the continuity of the Journey
From Chicago canoe can go to New Or
leans without risk or trouble. The St Law
renee river has been navigated by more
than one canoe clear to its mouth. and a
delightful trip 1t is.
A canoe trip means a trip without any
expense except that for food. A sixteen
foot canoe will carry two men and tent,
cooking outfit, etc, up to the weight of 400
pounds without any trouble. An eighteen
foot canoe of good beam will carry two
men and 500 pounds of "duffe" Thus the
canoeist carries his hotel with him. 1t is
the most independent form of travelling on
earth today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-29

the seas storming straight in from two
thousand miles of Atlantic ocean. Though
IT seemed certain that the sixty-one- pound
toy could not survive, there was no recourse
except to press on, for II would have been
absolute disaster TO turn, both on account
of the danger of getting beam sea and the
tremendous surf that was running on the
nearest shores.
The seas came rolling straight on, in APP
parently endless ridges, so that sometimes
there appeared to be half a mile and more
of green wall with every inch of the top
crowned with foam that fixed and frothed
as the big water raced on.
The waves ran tall at last that the oc
cupants of the canoe could not over
their crests, and at times, when they fell
into the trough, there were waves that
rolled at least seven feet high
Whipped by the steady, ceaseless gale.
every other billow was breaker, and de-
spite the skill of the Canadian in the stern
l.: was impossible to evade more than two
breaking out of three. Every third
one was almost sure to arch over the canoe
and again and again the crests broke right
in the face of the man in the bow Yet
each time, though apparently overwhelmed
Icy solid green water, the boat partly slid
off. partly slid up the roaring incline, and
shook OFF the sea clean.
When at last the canoe made shore she
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-29
STRANGE COMMUNITY.
Modelled After Looking Backward"
Found in Paraguay.

From the Chicago Chronicle
A community which closely approximates
Bellamy's Looking Backward" is Cosme,
little settlement near Asuncion. Paraguay,
described by Wilhelm Lacmann in the Leip-
sic Grenzboten. Equality, democracy and
community of wealth and work are the
principles on which 1t was founded in 1894
by a split in a colony of Australian immi-
grants to Paraguay. THE houses of the
settlers lie together and form small VIII
lage. and are small. pretty and clean; they
have only one story and are built of boards
and shingled or rooted with mazega grass.
The roof hangs far the side walls and
is supported by posts, a detail which al
lows for a wide veranda-a most welcome
adjunct in the hot weather. On one side of
the house is small outbuilding which con-
tafns the Kitchen, and every. house has its
garden. Little plantations of sugar cane lie
between the houses and the gardens.
up to the present the dwelling houses
cover only a quarter of the space which
has been reserved for the village, and when
Herr Lacmann visited the place there were
some twenty houses occupied and 10S in
course Of erection. In time the buildings
will form great square, which will lie
about larger open square In addition a
number Of smaller public places have been
provided for, which will lie, as those al
ready in existence, between the houses
There is an absolute community Of goods
in Cosme. the only exception being that OBJ
jects Of household or personal use-furni-
ture. cooking utensils, clothing and food
remain the property OF their users When
one enters the colony he must bring his en-
tire property in with these exceptions
when, however, one wishes to withdraw
he does not receive back the amount of his
contribution. but only the amount which
corresponds to his share for the last work
ing period"
Every one must go through probation
airy period of one year, and before this
period Is completed no membership is OBJ
tanned nor any contribution of goods made.
Every applicant upon entering must pay
into the treasury $25 for each adult mem
Der of the family and half of this amount
for each child. If then the probationers de-
eide not to remain in the colony their ex-
penses to Buenos Ayres are paid, but this
Is not done unless the applicant remains in
the colony three months. The only require
ments are that the applicant be strong and
healthy. Under no circumstances are
colored persons admitted"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-29
THE POPULAR CANOE
North Americas Ideal Craft
for Work and Pleasure.
BOAT OF THE PEOPLE
EASY TO HANDLE AND NOT EX-
PENSIvE TO KEEP.
Journeying by Canoe the Most indie
pendent Form of Travelling
on Earth.
BOAT OF THE PEOPLE

Written re- The Star
The man whe has never been in canoe
Is almost sure to view the craft with open
scorn at first sight. 1t seems such an alb
surd thing to launch on water of any size
hardly more than a shaving; a ludicrously
deadly thing to put afloat and sit in.
Every carceisi who pushes Into parts of
the country where the craft is unknown
has to cultivate equanimity regarding the
opinion Of his fellow man; for he will surely
be viewed with a mixture of contempt and
condescerd.ng amazement
In the south some old darby. sitting in
a worm-eaten box of a batteau so ancient
and infirm that he dare not wiggle his bare
feet for fear they will kick the rotten bot
tom boards apart will exclaim, 70 de hub
a helm. boss. you'se IL git drownded
shuah,'' to the canoeist in his hundred dol
lar mahogany and cedar beauty
A country boy. splashing heavily with
oars of unhappy design and sadly unequal
weight and length, as he pulls a skif of
Unmatched boards held together with rusty
nails. will ask him patroniz!ngly what he
expects to do with that thing"
Gangs of extremely amateur oarsmen.
beating the air wildly with interfering
blades. Tipping fountains over each other
with every stroke that succeeds In hitting
the water at all steering crafty to star
board, port, sternway and every other way,
will try desperately TO follow the polished
little canoe to see it tip over.
Sarcastic Salts.
Anywhere along the selshore the canoeist
needs his utmost philosophy, for the men of
the salty seas have a mistrust of the canoe
that amounts almost TO fear They look on
the canoeist as a man whose small wits
incline him to suicidal folly. Even after
they have seen canoes live in seas that toss
large ocean craft uncomfortably they will
admit only grudgingly that them toys amt
SO bad as they look to be.
Men who go forth unawed through spring
and autumn gales In semi-submarine sneak