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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-08
Take It Easy.
From the Manchester Union.

From the Manchester Union.
Worry kills more quickly than anything
else It Is insidious and the poison works
slowly, but II reaches. There isn't much
use in repairing a broken bridge until you
get to 1t. Therefore. pick a few wild f1ow-
ers on the way. and take 1t easy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-08

Mr.. w. J. Bryan need now feel no further
hesitation about climbing over to the very
foremost seat in the democratic band
wagon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-08

Some Of the Caaifornians. not having had
Sufficient trouble with earthquakes. are
looking for more with the japanese
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-08

Mayor Mcclellan doubtless feels like say
ing great deal. And yet. all that Is In
his mind has no doubt been very ably
expressed by others on numerous occasions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-08

Count Boni has dealt the European title
market a blow from which 1t will be a long
time in recovering.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-08

Richard Croker has brought long dis
lance politics to state of perfection never
heretofore deemed possible.
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Cold Calculation.

you should do something to claim the
gratitude of posterity''
What for?" asked Senator Sorghum II
don't know that posterity win have any
thing l especially desire; and If it should
have. there is no way for 1t to deliver the
goods
de man dat trusts to luck said Uncle
Eben "is' mighty liable to turn up as an
other victim of misplaced confidence
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-08

The Castellane case makes Pittsburgs
occasional family Jars seem mild and
friendly by comparison.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-08

1t may az well be conceded that the por-
trayal of an opponent in prison stripes has
about lost its efficacy as a campaign argu-
rnpnt
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-08
Carried the Crowd.
From the I

From the Toledo Blade.
Some of the trolley campaign parties have
acted wisely In taking crowd with them
on their spellbinding trips.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-08

Mr.. Hughes aeems earnest in his ambi-
ton to deserve some of the complimentary
things that Mr. Hearst said about him
a long time ago.
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Mr.. Hobsou,

From the Rochester Herald.
Judging from the way he talks on various
government features. the Speaker of the
next Congress is going to have his hands
full Of Capt. Richmond Pearson Hobson.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-08
still Has Nerve.
From the Newark News.

From the Newark News
Stin, Sir Thomas IL the only one Of the
foreign yachtsmen who ventures to even
talk about lifting the cup.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-08

Poultney Bigeaow Is not volunteering any
suggestions at present as to the best way
of seeing Panama.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-08

Mr.. Bryan took good care that the result
in New York should not be attributed to any
unguarded utterances on his part.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-08

1t looks a great deal as If the people who
arrange election betting odds had inside
information.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-08

The new and revised edition of the cabi.
net may be regarded as about complete.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-08
Government ON Trial.

Democracy" writes Goodwin Smith, las
q general form Of government Is on trial"
1t Is fair to remind Prof. Smith that every
other form OF government Is also on trial.
The only one that isn't Is a government
that is dead.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-08
Perpetual Discomfort.

1 pick the winner: yet / sigh
For. later, when his course I scan,
+. I nearly always wish that 1
Had voted for the other man.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-08

u In order 70 avoid delays on account OF
personal absence. letters 10 TIKI stan
should not be addressed 70 any individual
connected with the once. but simply to
THE STAR. or to the Editorial or Busi.
porposs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-08

The new Persian Band
Dress Trimmings to be
acc yard. 8Sc yard for
the SIPS Betting.
The Paiais ROYAL.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-07-22

woman that ever kept a man up to
schedule. All the boys knew her,
and some of them had good cause to
remember her, too; and she could
talk railroad with Luke as well as
the best of us.
There was married daughter
out in Cincinatti. and she wanted
him to go out and live with her, but
he couldn't break away from the di-
vision; SO he just put in all his time
down at the tank. and just moped
around-after the trains had pulled
out the boys would shake their heads
and say that the old man looked as
though he'd draw his fires for good
before long.
Zone day I missed him when we
made our run through, and / felt a
little curious and uneasy; but as we
passed the siding, was surprised to
see an old engine, No. II, standing
on. It. She'd been used as a shifting
engine at Somers Junction until she
got too shaky for that, and had been
condemned.
az couldn't for the life of me
imagine what she'd been sent out
there for. Her fires were out and
there was a worn-ort baggage car
hooked onto her, and as we run past,
old Luke waved his hand out of the
cab.
81 was thoroughly mystified. won
dering what freak the company was
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up to, but none of my crew knew any
thing about 1t, and as the next day
was my layoff,, 1t was not until the
next day that / learned what 1t was
all about.
Luke was at the tank as usual
when we stopped, and as swung on
he came over to me and said:
"'Jim, It's got to be one thing or
another-either I've got to feel a
throttle again, or I'll wear straight
Jacket pretty soon-so I've bought
old II an I'm goin' to have rail-
road of my own, b'gosh!'
I'm few days the men he'd hired
had run a temporary track out into
his pasture, and that 200-foot stretch
you saw, just inside his fence, was
the Glenmere & Bull Creek railroad
as he called II. Bull Creek runs
along the foot of the pasture.
when he got the old engine In
there, he lacked her up until her
drivers cleared the rails and then
blocked and anchored her, so she
couldn't bulge an inch.
Talk about boy with new toy!
Old Luke was in 1t with him. He'd
get up steam in that old junk. and
when each train came In sight he'd
pull his throttle and send those
drivers spinning to beat the band.
..Then, as the train slowed down
and stopped at the tank. Luke would
slow down and stop also-climb out
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natured face sobered with tinge
of sadness.
I don't suppose you ever heard
of Luke Marsford? He was the old
est engineer on the line and pulled
the throttle of big &C. she's ahead
of us now for eight years.
He'd worked switch and yard,
freight and passenger for nearly forty
years, when they put him up against
the. eye test, and found he couldn't
tell green from red--or white from
either-and that was queer, too!
He'd never been OF the carpet for
mistaking> a signal. and I'd worked
Cincinnati Limited with him for
two years, and would have sworn
that his sight was a. good as mine.
well, anyway. he had to drop out.
The company was white with him
though-carried him on the payroll
on half time, and gave him an In
definite vacation"
cts all right, I s'pose Jin-and
could see that his eyes were little
moist-'there's too much back OF 46
to take any chances with the man at
the throttle. Any way, L dunno as I'd
have nerve enough, now they've told
me my eyes amt riGht: It's blamed
funny / never knew TT!
"For three or four months ne
hung around the Broomvtlle round
house and the boys always put MIN
wise to all the little gossip O the
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-07-22

San Pedro Sula, Honduras, July 20.
The vicissltudes Of trip over the
lnter-oceanic Railway are numerous
ana narrowing. Americans who howl
perpetually about the soulless trans
pOrtation companies of their own coun-
Try And themselves wordless after one
experience on this line.
Having just completed journey Of
thirtyseven miles in eighteen hours,
! speak from the card. Our leaving
time was 6 o'clock, but we didn't pull
out Of Puerto Cortes until 10 in the
morning. The nondescript affair which
they call train down here consisted
Of woodworking engine four fat cars,
and passenger car. Our crew was
composed Of an engineer, a half dozen
nremen, one brakeman and conductor.
There was an extra man, but in the
whole vocabulary of railroads find
10 name for him. His position, how
ever, was a commanding one, and as
subsequent events proved, a most ini-
portant one. He perched himself on
the front Of the engine, above where
the cowcatcher should be and upon &C.
cas- on, industriously ladled sand from
box beside him to the rails in front.
Our numerous firerlen passed the
wood from the cars to the engine, and
az various points along the road turn
cd into bucket brigade, and supplied
water from nearby streams to- the en-
glne. The engineer was jamaican
with an extraordinary pride for the
aand OF his nativity and given upon
occasion 10 declaring that he was
native OF Honduras, and was a British
object" Jerry, fear, Is something of
gay Lothario, and on his frequent
Ulps over the road has worked sad
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of his cab with his oil can. feel the
journals and potter round and then
climb In again, ringing his bell and
starting UP just as the train started.
HE always got an answer to his
whistle and as much jolly talk as
we'd time to give him; but II all
seemed sort Of pitiful to US. He
wasn't childish at all, but In such
dead earnest-talking of schedules
and rules-that 1t seemed uncanny,
"He picked up over It though get
ting quite cheerful and happy again.
He'd fitted up the old baggage car
with bed and other furnishings, and
made 1t his home, saying he felt less
lonesome there than he did up at his
cottage.
Sometimes Jim,' he told me
once-lowering his voice and looking
around to see that no one was near,
/ make a night run. That's when !
get to thinking o. Hetty an git blue
over II. It's mostly on bad nights
when the winds howlin' an, the rain
Is fallin'. Then I'll turn out an IRE
up. an work her for q couple o. hours
or 50. through the blackness of the
night an the drivin' sleet-and
think I'm on the Pacific run again.
"One afternoon we came through
on this same trip. Wed taken the
siding at the Glenmsre tank to let
No. 40 freight get by-old Luke
was In his cab ready to open h3s
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-07-22

runs. He looked SO sort of hungry
for 1t all land he went among the en-
gines and patted them-that's what!
actually patted them. You see he
knew every one of them when they
had come on the road, and their good
and bad points-knew them all!
There were two big moguls put
on the division at that time.H but he
wouldn't look at them-had no use
for any but old friends.
"And he petted the wipers, too;
the poor devils who CRIME away in
the pits and get all the kicks and
dirty work, waiting and hoping,
month after month. and sometimes
year after year. for chance to get
a cab and shovel coal. Many one
took new courage after little talk
with old Luke.
well, after q little while his wife
persuaded him to move to Glenmere.
He had a little farm there, and was
we'll fixed, for he'd always been a
careful man and shrewd enough to
invest his savings wisely.
after that the boys didn't see so
much of him altogether he kept him
self down at the tank most OF the
time, to see his old pets pull In and
take water. and have few minutes
chat with the crews.
Then his wife died. 1t must have
been pretty rough on the old man.
She was the iolliest. best-hearted
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fore it strikes the ground. Only one
bunch is produced by tree, but from
the roots several other. stem are shoot
ing up, and. each in turn will bear It's
bunch. Bananas are. never ripened on
the tree. They are always cut green
and ripened in dark place. Natives
seldom eat them raw, regarding them
as fever breeders.
| acquired a good deal of informa-
ton about bananas, and as / expect
very soon to leave their habitat, pro
pose to unload some of it right here.
The banana is species Of gigantic
lily, which attains a height of thirty
feet in less than year. 1t isn't a
tcee, for it has no true stem. Its trunk
is formed by the sheathing of its
leaves, and only one bunch is grown
on it. Bananas grow on the bunch
just the opposite of the way you see
them in the store, upward instead
of downward The banana and its
brother, the plantain, enter as largely
into the domestic economy of this
country as the potato does in Ireland.
At Rio Blanquito (Little White
River We stopped for refreshments
and l drank a cup Of coffee in sight of
the trees from which the fragrant ber-
ry was picked. The cafe tai (planta-
tion) was not well kept, but the coffee
was all right was much interested
in the plantation and wandered around
picking ripe berries. Coffee grows on
a sort of bush generally, though l saw
some trees thirty feet high. 1t is kept
trimmed down in order to facilitate
picking. The berry looks almost ex-
actly like cranberry or cherry, and
grows out on the limbs just behind
the STEMS of the leaves. The berries
are gathered and placed on, drying
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floors. Later they are run through
rollers to remove the dry skin, then
through other rollers, which take on
thin, transparent covering. Each
cherry contains two coffee beans, the
fat sides resting face to face.
The Cocoa Tree.
The most interesting thing on the
place, however. was the cocoa tree,
which produces our cocoa. These trees
were as large as our apple trees at ten
years. shapely and with rich, glossy
foliage. It's fruit is contained in a
long pod, which holds from six to ten
beans larger than castor beans. The
remarkable feature is that these pods
grow out of the hard bark of the main
trunk and largest limbs. In season
the bark cracks open, a tiny purplish
blossom comes out, delicate as wax,
and very fragrant. From this bios
som the pod grows. A ten-year-old
tree will produce several pounds Of
cocoa beans, worth 40 cents pound.
The natives make a very fair imila-
ton of chocolate from the pods and
ship the dried beans to Holland, where
they undergo several processes and
mixings, finally reaching US in the
form of per cent chocolate and SO
per cent brick dust. At least that ia
according to the pure-food tests Of the
agricultural department.
1 spoke of the sociability Of the ma
tives. Well. it is not confined to the
members of the human family. Even
the hogs; dogs, and chickens are So
Il l. IL r. q -
lot of comfort, for in my innocence
permitted their near acquaintance,
and too late discovered that / had ac-
quired a choice and hungry collection
of fleas, which has adopted me as their
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-07-22

One of the most prevalent Of the
MANY forms of insanity that affect this
ami American people is the habit of
ming every summer to place called,
% keep from swearing by calling its
,ea, name, summer hotel. This
term rhymes nicely with its title.
The ostensible object of this COM
mon midsummer madness is pleasure.
This would be a joke, If 1t were not So
sad The pleasure in the game is so
deferred. 1t comes next winter when,
beside our CHEEKY fireside or within
our snug fat, we chuckle and breathe
aeon signs OF content to know that,
even though the janitor treat us like
,Soss. We are not at summer hotel,
hanyway.
Most summer hotels are located be-
aide form OF moisture called lake.
And there is invariably one-some-
Zines two or three of him, more's the
tpity-red-necked and perspiry person
twho dabbles in that noisome lick from
LGen. P. G. T. early dawn to Admiral
George Dewey eve and catches finch
leyiathans that are lied on until they
; weigh each from one to seven pounds.
Enough sinners are hooked annually
Sin that way to glut the sardine market
Of the world.
These fishermen are not fond of this
sport. They find 1t so much more
unpleasant than anything else that
they forget for the time being that
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that he goes away and commits felo-
de-suicide.
Also, at some hotels they have a
tennis court. This might as well be
mere picture of tennis court. No
body ever uses 1t. A normal, healthy
man would as soon think OF using the
cuspidor at railway station as to
play tennis at summer hotel When
the season first opens, the men who
come to do penance for the summer
all bring their tennis clothes and
rackets. They play once each unless
there are too many of them, and then
half of them play once each. They go
at it with great enthusiasm. which
dies out in day. From that time IN
those that belong to the same lodge
60 somewhere for quiet. game of
poker, while those who do not coagu-
late naturally or art .ficially, sit around
on the piazzas with their wives and
hate their fellowmen impartially and
impersoually.
On the Tennis Courts.
Alongside the tenn court there are
always some red benches for the
wives Of the tennis PLAYERS to. SIT on
and quarrel about the SCORE, while
their husbands tear up the gravel in
their wild attempts to swat the easy
lobs. Each player starts n with the
belief that he is he-edition Of MAY
Sutton, and quits with the bitter
truth firmly fixed in his mind. He
cannot talk anything but tennis be-
fore the game and prefers to talk
about anything else afterward
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-07-22

We paid our board for three weeks
in advance, as our baggage didn't
look good to the clerk. But at the end
OF two weeks. in spite of the fact that
I felt bound in honor to fulfill my con-
tract and stay, the temptation to fly
was irresistible. / had lost enough
weight to make flying easy, only
feared was not dirigible. So, one
night when all was as near still as It
ever gets in one of those Warehouses,
when somebody was apparently using
the untuned pianoforte in the parlor
as q springIboard and a blonde girl
with a fand-turned voice was giving
an unattended imitation of an auto
mobile horn In crowded street, and
a game of bridge whist among the
drug store adbinos was making itself
heard above all the rest, we let our
trunks down from the window with
ropes, tobogganed the fire escapes,
and ran two blocks TO railway sta
ton. While we waited at the country
whiSthng post for the train that was
to take us back to home and freedom
We chung to each other and listened to
the baying of the porters and bell
boys tand chambermhands that had
been sicked upon our warm trail
when our escape had been noted. It
was almost unpleasant, for half an
hour or so, as if we had stayed the
other week.
| would not go through the expert
ence again for the summers receipts
Of the righest-priced insane asylum ad-
vertised In any of the railway COM
panies' resort folders.
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On these red benches, which were
there last summer also land which
sat there all through the winter,
freezing passers by with the sugges-
ton of sitting on them in the snow ),
are number OF loose screws that
Erotrude. each a quarter. of an incl
above the stats OF the seat. This is
so that when a man sits down on
them he will not notice the difference
them squirm around on the seat until
nicely impaled. When fhe arises he
has a tailor bill to pay and has open
ed up new account with the re-
Cording angel. -@All, that next white.
a BIT of white duck, with raveled
edges, will fiutter gayly from the
masthead Of that single screw. No
simmer hotel is complete without
this seductive bench. They are sup
piled by the clothing trust. and cost
the propretors of the hotels nothing
whatever.
There will be found also, if you
seek diligently for IT. pool table,
with intermittent green cloth, hidden
somewhere in an attic. Do not dis
turb it. 1t is altogether allegorical
and to tamper with. it Is pure vadal-
ism, and not In the least customary
|. Two cid ladies and crippled man
play .croqret for three days, or dur
ing good behavior. The game is too
boisterous to last, however, and is
soon frowned out of countenance.
The meals at a summer hotel con-
sist of the. following:
Breakfast.
Damp napkins Ice water
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very own. There Is one thing In this
country which Is not idle, and that is
the festive flea. He Is not given to
vain Boosting; he is most modest and
retiring. but night and day he never
rests. He Is busy this minute in an
unreachable portion Of my anatomy
with a diamond drill and a suction
pump.
PICTURESQUE Soldiers.
At Chaloma we took on a squad of
soldiers escorting a prisoner to San
Pedro's jail. The Honduras soldier
is picturesque character. He Is call
ed a volunteer probably because he Is
forcibly impressed into service. The
life of the gallant soldier in Honduras
Is almost as attractive as that of the
soldier of Uncle Sam in the Philip
pines. Under the laws of this coun-
serve a portion of the year in the
army or furniSh a substitute. The
manner of enlisting volunteer army
Is unique. An officer with a squad OF
soldiers descends upon the town at
night or very early in the morning.
They enter each house and drag the
men to the cafbildo or town hall, where
a guard is placed over them. This per-
Torrance continues until the required
number Of men have volunteered
The government pays the munificent
sum of 20 cents day and supplies a
gun and a pair of overalls. Each vol
unteer furnishes his own rations and
bedding. Devoted wives and sweet
baortS GARRY food throa fiuoc q dov
to the Quarters.
Flea bitten. tired and sleepy we
drew slowly into San Pedro just as the
blushing moon had begun to smile
upon the mountain tops.
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throttle and start his drivers run
ming.
Dick Saltcr was handling the
freight, which was an unusually
heavy one, but he had one Of the big
moguls and down grade, and came
pumping her along at pretty close
to 40-mile clip.
las she got nearly abreast Of
Luke's engine, side rod broke, and
whirling around damned the ground
throwing her nose in the air. Shs
jumped the track, pointed straight az
old II and leaped down the embnnk-
ment like q cat, striking rock on
the near side breaking off a cylinder
head.
Then with q fearful howl Of
rushing steam, she gave another
mighty leap and plunged square on
to the poor old junk, throwing Il on
to its side and perching astraddle of
II, Kissing and screaming like q
furious wild thing over its prey.
1--WE got poor old Luke out after
while, and 1t was easy to see that he
had made hts last run. although he
was conscious. / knelt beside him
and held his hand as he murmured
In broken gasps:
The-air - wouldn't - work -
jim Send a flag forward-old
46's-neariy duet Then more faint
time - Hetty!' - and
50 be passed away."