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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-07
SOME GASOLINE DoNT's.
How Not to Blow Up the House and
Your Family With It.

From ale New York Sun.
Mr. H. D. Davis. who is the state fire
marshal of Ohio, and who has prepared some
very unpleasant statistics in regard to
gasoline stoves. has prepared also the FOL
lowing "Gon'ts' for gasoline consumers:
Don't fill the stoves reservoir while the
burner is alight. Vapor of gasoline. boag
heavier than air. will reach the fame and
the flash will so fHghten the filler that
more gasoline will be spilled and the room
Instantly filed with flame.
Don't fill the can quite full. for gasoline
expands much more than water When II De
comes warm and Is likely to force open d
seam in the reservoir.
Don't fail to turn the burner shut before
filing the reservoir, for the fluid leaking
through it will make vapor which Will set
on fire one who strikes match TO hght the
stove.
Don't allow too much fluid to flow into
the burner or fail to close it tight when put
ting the fire out.
Don't pour gasoline from one vessel 10
another in room in which there Is hfe
or light because the invisible vapor OF
gasoline will be drawn to any nearby fire.
lamp. candle or gas jet. .
Don't fail to watch closely for leaks III
reservoir or burner; because gasoline, pc
ing but two-thirds as dense as water will
exude through a smaller hole. Remember
too that when the leak Is small there Is no
drop or damp spot anywhere to snow us
existence. because the gasolihe Vdpoii@es a.
fast as 1t exudes.
Don't slop the stuff, for 1t Is more dan
perous than powder. Three-fourths of the
stove accidents occur while filling the reser-
voir.
Don't keep gasoline in any jug or IN a
can larger than two gallons. because it Is
difficult to pour the thin stuff from either
without splitting it.
Don't get your gasoline and kerosene
cans mixed. That error cost two lives III
Ohio last year.
Don't leave any gasoline can open, be-
cause currents of air draw out the vapor.
The reservoir of every gasoline stove
should be outside the building. the feed
pipe passing through the wall. If so placed
heat from the stove cannot burst It, leak
Is harmless and vapor cannot ignite While
II is being filed. The stove should be hxed
to a permanent foundation so that 1t can
not be set against any infiammab.e ma
terial. ..
All gasoline stoves should have bottom
and three sides closed to prevent COM
bustib!e material from reaching the dame.
and the main burner CRATES should be two
feet from the floor. Finally. don't hunt the
source of an odor of gasoline with a light.
The result of finding 1t is always instan-
taneous and disastrous.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-07
The 1gnoble Quack.
rom the Philadelphia Ledger.

From the Philadelphia Ledger.
At least one topic that came before the
Homeopathic Medical Society early in its
session appeals to the lay citizen as truly
as to the physician. This is the existence.
the methods. the accessories and the effect
of the ''quack.''
The duack doctor is one who boastfully
makes pretense to medical skill. His mod
ern plan is to resort to advertising The
publications that accept his advertisements
must be regarded as sharing his guilt The
result of publicity is the creation Of a be-
lief on the part of the impressionable that
they are afflicted with an ailment from
which they may, in fact be wholly Free BY
turning themselves over to the attention OF
a quack they are robbed Of money, de-
to be in need of this. and subjected to the
dangers that must arise from the use of
spurious remedies prescribed by an incom-
petent and constituencies practitioner.
The favored form of advertisement Is cum
ningly devised. 1t details set of symptoms
that. perhaps, are normal manifestations
arising from conditions to which every indi-
vidual Is liable. and it labels these as the
indication of some deadly disease There is
added the information that the only way
to be restored to health is by resort to the
particular quack who has nostrum, an
appliance a System to sell to dupes.
Often the advertiser appears in the guise' of
philanthropist. devoted to the physical
betterment of the race. possibly one who
has been sufferer" and who accepts
money only as necessary and rather dis
agreeable incidental
The statement of the quack is apt to be a
lie SO bald that marvel arises that it should
deceive. but it does deceive, and herein is
only part of the evil. 1t generally is curbed
In terms sedulously avoided by persons
prone to decency, and in many instances is
accompanied by illustrations repellent and
disgusting. 1t is a habit of the principal
offenders to print their own pictures, and
the worst of the degenerate. lot so familiar
in photographs have been shown up again
and again as frauds. swindlers and igno-
ramuses. possessed of no skill, and proving
upon the susceptible. They are being
crowded out of journals that seek to keen
on respectable plane. but the fact is to be
regretted that they still can find means to
invade the home with their unclean mes
sages. doubly potent for mischief In being
both degrading and false.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-07

hree times an hour will check the spread
Of the eruption. solution of part Of
hyposulphite of soda to three of water ap-
piled constantly to the affected place is a
good remedy.
The precipitated lead compound must be
removed from the skin. as it is gradually
decomposed and the oil set free again to
continue it's irritant action.
The use of soap and water and good
hand brush is the simplest way of getting
rid of oil. Alcohol in full strength dissolyes
and removes the oil, but does not neutral
lie it,
Care should be taken lest the alcohol
with oil in solution flows over a part as yet
unaffected, as it may cause further erup-
ton. The use of ointments and fatty SUBJ
stances is wrong. as they serve to spread
the irritant oil of the poison
Clothing that may have been in contact
with the plants will retain and transmit the
irritating quality. doctor says he has
been poisoned by a pair of shoes worn
while collecting ivy plants the previous
year.
The Ivy plant is usually a climbing or
trailing shrub. but sometimes assumes an
erect habit Of growth. On the seashore
along the Atlantic coast 1t sometimes COW
ers hundreds of acres on islands and
spreads over large areas.
The trunk Is buried out Of sight below
the surface. and the branches rise erect
out Of the sand like separate plants In
such forms of Ivy growth the poisonous
properties do not seem to be so powerful
and active.
1t is not generally known that If boiling
are often poisonous, and that the smoke
from bonfire of Ivy brush is as dangerous
to inhale as the breeze which blows OFF the
vines in June.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-07

seize the opportunity by which he secured
the Louisville and Nashvillep roperty.
The Belmont FANNY have .been closely
associated with politics The father was a
democrat. casting his first vote in 1874
He served the Austrian consul general
in New York from 1914 to 1850, and later
was appointed by Preside Pierce United
where. upon the elevation of the mission
in 1855 he became minister to Holland An
earnest supporter of Lincoln during the
civil war he brought his Influence to bear
to prevent the recognition of the belliger-
ence of the south. and personally visited
England in 1861 and France in 1863. OF
the three sons who survive him and his
WIFE, who was daughter of Commodore
Mathew c. Perry and granddaughter of
Commodore Oliver H. Perry of Lake Erie
fame. each has now taken hand in the af-
fairs of the democratic party. The youngest
sons perry BelmonD career in Congress
was highly creditabie. and President Cleve-
land nominated him to a foreign minister
ship. His brother. Oliver H. P. Belmont,
had but short period of public service.
with 1.-The Verdict than his term in Con-
gress. Of late, August Belmont has step
| ped from his counting house and taken up
the traditions of his father. He has been
! spoken of as ambitious, ike the father, to
be the supreme engineer OF his party's Or
! ganiZat.on.
/ Mr. Belmont is president of the Hemp
stead National Bank, acting president of
tLe Aunt NoiiiPdHy, VICE " eSiuciLl u ehc
Kings County Elevated Railway Company
and director of the National Park Bank,
the Bank of the State Of New York, the
Manhattan Trust Company. the Guaranty
Trust Company. the Fifth Avenue Trust
Company. TIE Equitable Life Assurance
Society, the Chicago Milwaukee and st.
Paul railway, the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad Company. the GAINESVILLE and Ohio
Railway Company, the Long Island Railway
Company, the Brookland and Jamaica rail-
road, the Mechanical Rubber Company, the
New York Betting and Packing Company,
| the United Electric Light and Power Com
pany, the Westinghouse Electric Manuac-
| turinging Company and the Westchester
| Racing Association. He Is president of the
American Kennel Club and of the Ameri-
can Jockey Club.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-07
News Of Falls Church.
pecial Correspondence of The Star.

FALLS CHURCH. Va. October 6. 1906.
Reports by the teachers of the public
graded school covering the first month of
the term shows total enrolment of 1873
scholars, with an average daily attendance
of 123. In the room of the principal, j. R.
Crandal. the enrolment was twenty-five,
and the average daily attendance nineteen;
first assistants room. c. H. Anderson, the
enrolment was thirty-seven, and the aver
age attendance thirty-three;r second assist
ants room. Miss Lillith L. Campbell. enroll
ment thirty-three. and average attendance
twenty-nine. and in the primary depart
ment. Miss Brownie Arundel teacher. en-
rollment forty-six, and the average attend
ance forty-two.
At the October meeting Of the Village I'M
provement Society the new officers were in
stalled and committees appointed under the
new constitution.
DR.. and Mrs. N. +. Graham have issued
Invitations for the marriage of their daugh-
ter. Harriet Ferguson Graham to Mr.. Phil
lip B. Nourse at the old Episcopal Church
Wednesday evening. October II at
O'clock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-07

Mr. Pen Morris of the United States CEN
sus bureau, who, with a staff of assistants,
came here several months ago to examine
the divorce records of city courts for the
purpose of securing information to be used
by the federal government. is nearing the
end of his task. 1t is expected that he will
have the report completed early in Novem-
Der. Mr. Morris began his research with
the year 1887 and has carried it down to
1901. In that period. 1t is stated. he has
tabulated more than 5000 divorces of Bal
timoreans. How much this number will be
increased by the addition of the divorces
granted during the five intervening years
may not be conjectured. 1t is understood.
however. that during the past few years
been heavy and increasing rather than de-
creasing. J. M. D.
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Fined Four Hundred Dollars.

Robert Bell, colored, was before Judge
Kimball in the Podce Court yesterday on
charge of keeping an unlicensed bar,
and his honor imposed sentence Of $500
fine, or six months in Jail.
The testimony showed that Bell was a
walking speakeasy. His stock in trade he
carried with him. and he was seen fire.
quently in the alleys in Foggy Bottom
Three pints were found in his pockets when
he was searched at the station house.
Sergt. Evans. Policemen w. s. Newton and
Creagh of the third precinct made the ar
rest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-07
Steamer Endeavor Ready for Service.

The United States coast and geodetic sur
vey steamer Endeavor. which has been at
a Baltimore shipyard for several months
past undergoing an overhauling and being
fitted with a new boiler. is ready for serv-
ice and during this week she will go into
commission under the command Of Capt
]. B. Miller. Her officers and crew will be
assigned to her during the week and she
will be coaled up and stores put aboard
ready to sail. The Endsavor has been as
signed to the work of surveying the waters
about the jamestown expedition grounds
and ia expected to leave Baltimore Tor
Hampton roads within the next week.
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POISON IVY.
In Your Summer Rambles Look Out
for It's Three Shiny Leaves.
From the Boston Traveller.


From the Boston Traveller.
Poison ivy grows wild throughout the
whole land. It's leaves are in threes.
smooth and shining on both surfaces, with
margins which may be toothed or even.
There are flowers in May and June and
fruit in the autumn smooth, white, wax
like berry.
The poison is a non-volatile oil found in
all parts of the plant When 1t touches the
skin of susceptible person it produces an
eruption of an erysipelas like nature. In
severe cases the point affected frequently
becomes irritated year after year.
person is particularly susceptible to the
poison in warm weather. when the blood is
heated and the skin pores are open. 1t is,
however, dangerous at all seasons.
To relieve the Inflammation and dry I'D
the pustules powdered sugar of lead dis
solved in alcohol is highly recommended.
Tincture of grindelia diluted with three
times its bulk Of water and applied two or
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-08-05
SOME OUTDOOR PHYSICS
Queer Misunderstanding Caused Pleasant Recit
on the Day After.

Queer Misunderstanding Caused Pleasant Recitation
the Day After.
(Prize.)
ID ROFESSOR P was dreadfully "out of sorts.' Had
he not carefully explained to the class down the
track how he wished them to wave before and after
shooting9 To be he had and they vexed him by
doing just opposite to what he wished We had been
the tracks around Sbey for about three hours "
ing to perform experiment in sound and had received
no satisfactory data. ''Mr IT, - said Professor P,
you go down the track and tell that class the
kerchef three times before shooting and twice after We
will do vice versa Mr. T. started out, but unfor-
tunately the orders became trife mixed the way,
with the result that he gave the professors instructions
in this uncertain Before shooting wave twice
and after shooting three times. forget what he
said they would do.'' How to know that I. g
walk down the track would confuse matterss We pa
enty waited for the angered professor wish to be full
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-08-05

'twaves,' and still sswaves,' kept pounding
my and disturbing quite little
Then-a pause. had been asked question! He
must be back the lesson again. I pulled my mind
back from delicious veal pie say family, I don't
know" and pay strict attention the rest of the period
Soon the gong rang and passed sadly out, wondering
what that would do to my marks. -. Z
Flora Wetherbee,
Eleventh Grade. Marshall, MINI.
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-08-05
A DIVIDED MIND
Double Duties Made the Cher.
ished Marks Fall,
(PriZe.)

(Prize.)
4 WAS in the schoolroom but nv
u mind was wrestling with
things far away, the most i'm
portant Of which just then was
housekeeping. Mama was i'll; the
girl had not arrived, and I was
doing housework and schoolwork
with poor success. What should
I have for support Eggs were
good, but after having them
boiled for breakfast and fried
for dinner, even our patient fam
lily might rebel. I would 90
alphabetically - "Apples, april
cots-oh, will we have enough
bread to last thru breakfast to-
morrowq'
Our teacher was talking about
some kind Of wave, as I paused
to listen. He pointed to a little
yellow box, which is the only
thing, besides the word "wave,"
that remains in my mind of the
lesson. Wave was a safe topic.
If he only would keep on! A
lovely geometry. example had
kept me from studying my les
son and I was too tired to guess
answers. In such cases waves
are delightful and to be encour-
aged. If one can understand one
little part, judicious question
may prolong the topic a whole
period. I settled back with an
easier conscience to the last ex-
ample and then on to cooking,
mhilo thr,1 L oil fkMar :,
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-08-05

crabfashion on the bottom Of the
lake, or the one who crowed over
having learned to ride and then
suddenly found it a different
matter to stay on a bucking
pony, make very good reading,
indeed, tho the incidents might
not have been pleasant to the
victims at the time.
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-08-05

have very big Imagination and
an equally great wish to be quite
exact hit upon happy compro-
mise. She told all the true incl
dents in the first person and
every now and then when her
sense of the picturesque got the
better Of her, she changed with
out warning into the third. The
result was a decidedly original
story!
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-08-05
THE. WEEKS ROLL OF HONOR

MINNEAPOLIS PRIZE WINNERS
Fannie Kilbourne Grade School, HOG
Chestnut Avenue.
Laura Mellon, Eighth Grade, Blaine School, 500 N.
Esther Reve, Eighth Grade Emerson School, 1911 Park
Avenue.
Stella Maher, Grade School,
- ant Avenue s.
-. HONORABLE MENTION. s...
MacNaughton Grade, High School,
Seventeenth Avenue s. s~-- Z. ...-
Cannon Eighth Grade, Holmes School, 400 Sew
4 enth Street Sc. ~
Gertrude Mitchell Sixth Grade School,
Park Avenue -... ~ .... III .4e.-. ...-
NORTHWESTERN PRIZE WINNERS
Flora Wetherbee, Eleventh Grade Marshall, MINI.
Josephine Riley Eleventh Grade, Normal School, Mankao
Albert Christensen, Seventh Grade Frdley, MINI.
Robert Christensen, Fifth Grade Fridley, MINI.
HONORABLE MENTION.
Elizabeth Reid, Seventh Grade, Sleepy Eye, MINI.
Marie Gage, Eighth Grade. Lakefed Minn.
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-08-05

High schools will compete with high
schools seventh and eighth grades with
seventh and eighth grades: fifth and sixth
grades with fifth and sixth grades, the fourth
prize being awarded to the second paper in
any Of these three classes, which merits recog-
nition.
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-08-05
WHEN ONE CAMPS
Continuous Mosquito Symphonies
Not Appreciated.



Not Appreciated.
(Prize.)
s'WHATEvER were mos
wv quitoes made for,
anyway?" demanded my tent
mate. II don't know,' I an
swered, "unless to make a per-
son forget his other troubles.'
We were camping one summer.
near a lake that seemed to be the
birthplace Of a peculiarly malig-
nant brand, of mosquitoes. We
thought we had made our tent
secure from their invasions by a
liberal use Of netting, but evi-
IDENTIFY we were mistaken. The
three-cornered symphony in buz-
zes going on at a dangerous prox-
unity to my left ear would have
been proof positive of our error,
even if two of the nuisances were
not waging bloody contest for
the right to bite the only spot on
my face not already sampled.
For four hours we had groanel
and slapped and scratched and
fdgeted and complained and then
my chum changed her tactics.
She vetoed my proposition to
drape our heads with mosquito
netting.
"No,' she said, decidedly,
eve must become oblivious to
such trivial annoyance. We
must remember that mind is su-
perior to matter. We must have
enough will power to forget them
and go to sleep.'
Wel," I said, cit s two now
and I'll try your plan until three.
IF it doesn't succeed by then, I
shall get up and watch the sun
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-08-05

writer's who have not yet learned take hold of that
picturesque feeling when it and get it under
their thumbs The sentences that written straight
from the imagination and worked into story tho,
seldom have true ring and easy distinguish.
One Junior girl who did know this happening to
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-08-05
A. TOSSING WORD
Fluttering Signals or Heaving Waters Make
Changes in the Course of Events for North
western Juniors
TOPIC-WAVE.

NE of the most original and amusing misun-
derstandings of the topic that the editor
has ever noticed came up this week. To
distinguish clearly the true stories from
the imaginative ones, the true stories were
to be told in the first person and the mag
NATIVE tales in the third. AS every story
teller knows it is the easiest thing in the
world, when one has warmed up to his story
well to add few picturesque touches that
may not be quite exactly true. That little
failing is rather common AMONG Jnnior
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-08-05
VACATION PRIZES

During the summer vacation, eight prizes
of 81 each will be awarded weekly, four 60
ing to Minneapolis, and four to Northwestern
Juniors. H. -.
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-08-05
A S ONE TALKS.
Failures to Practice What Has Been Preached
Give Minneapolis Juniors Many an Anus
ing Story to Tell. -.. T..
TOPIC: "PREACHING AND PRAcT1cING."

AUGH and the world laughs with you, . is
!.
| ~ | saying Junior writer's generally live up to,
IL in their papers, at least. The best part
| | N Of the stories this week that in the
IIALI majority of cases, Juniors told when their
MTl own preaching had failed in practice
llW IL They told the stories, too in a way that
W. made the point pointed as if it were
~ at somebody's else expense. That is the
~ best kind of way of looking at things
1- that could possibly have. There was
such variety, too in the subjects of the
preaching Once it about mice, again about
squitoes, and still third story told of the overconfdence
of 13year-old which ended in her getting nineteen
blocks away from the street that led home. The
pleasant surprises that to the Junior who thought
she could SWIM and found herself unexpectedly walking
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-08-05
THE WEIGHT OF ONES TEENS
Policeman the Way Home, Even Tho She
Was Dignifed Thirteen.

Glad Policeman Way Home Even Tho She
Was Dignifed Thirteen
=..~. (Prize) ~
n BOUT four years ago, when the dignity Of my early
4 teens rested heavily upon me- was very fond Of
giving advice to younger sister and brothers When
all other subjects exhausted, neverfang topic to
preach about the strangeness of the city the chill
dren and the necessity of their staying near home.
You must not wander off, - would warn them, ttfor
you might get lost and then pause which predicted
many dire results followed. For myself had fears
for not thirteen years DID, and entirely capable Of
caring for myselff
One day, however, my sefconfdence in that direction
Continued Page Six.
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-08-05

$50 shall T. but won't, said my chum, and with
this comprehensive remark she ]apsed into silence
Left to my resources. tried her scheme long
enough to convince myself of it's futity and then
dered mosquitoes until fell asleep from sheer exhaus
ton .-|'.
[ awoke to find the sun streaming into my eyes and
my chum missing. -.
"Where have you beeng" demanded as she re-
turned. .=- .~@.
''I-I couldn't sseep,'' she stammered, 'tthat isl
wished to the rise. It very pretty,'' she
added with dignity. Fannie Kilbourne,
A Tenth Grade, 11O6 Chestnut avenue.
Central High School,
Newport daily independent., 1906-02-17
NO VERDICT IN BUTT TRIAL.
Senator Must Stand Second Trial as Jury Could not Agree After Nineteen
 Hours DeliberatiOn.

PerryviIIe, Feb. 16. Senator F. o. Butt, charged by indict- ment of the Pulaski County Grand Jury with giving Senator K. R. Adams a bribe of $1OO, will not know his fate until the August term of the Perryville Circuit Court.
 After 19 hours deliEeration the jury which heard the evil dence in the present case an- nounced to Judge Lea that an agreement was impossible, and at 5:23 o'clock this evening the jurors were discharged.
 On the final ballot. seven voted to acquit, five to convict, though on a previous secret vote nine stood for conviction.