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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-09-07

the picnic must be subject to the APP
prevail of Commissioner c. F. GAZETTEER,
and that any structures erected shall
be placed under his direction, and
where the least injury TO the park will
be done. The members of the board
feel that as they are the ones respon-
sible for the care of the park, arrange
ments for any picnic. and particularly
one in which several thousand people
are to participate. should not be made
without consulting the board. The NJ.
w. A. committee were not aware that
Mayor McCaskrin was not speaking
for the park board when he advised
them that the park might be used.
improvements Progressing Finely.
improvements at the park are pro-
crossing rapidly, and with the cool
weather of the next three months even
greater progress is expected. The eff
forts now are being centered on the
of the driveways. When
the grading is completed to the second
plateau, work will be commenced on
the second lake, to be built about half
way between the levels of the first and
second plateaus. The lake will con-
meet with the lower one by waterfall
and water course.
The park is daily growing more at
.ractive, and in another year will be |
me of the prettiest spots in this local |
ty.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-08
ANACosTIA is THRIVING.
improvements in Progress Across
Eastern Branch.

Aracostiag is no longer to be considered
a suburb of Washington. but may now be
c;assed almost as part of the city itself.
all sections of the city, and q new bridge,
T. Is brought into close touch with the city.
During the last few months improvements
were commenced in Anacostia which VIII
do much for the development OF that part
OF the District The coming of the Firth
Steel Company will bring business and an
Increase In population. Ground has been
broken for the building of the branch OK
/ the Union Savings Bank, and that structure
will be an ornament to the city. as We'll as
do much for It In business and financial
way. Mr.. Floyd L. Davis has Just put on
the market lots In subdivision which he
has made of a part of the old Gunton Tenn
pie estate, situated on Nichols avenue ana
Shannon place. These lots will be sold at
such prices and such terms as will
make IL easy for people of limited means
TO buy. Several have already been sold,
and the purchasers intend to build at
once Mr.. Davis contemplates erecting
some houses In the subdivision himself, and
when the lots are improved with houses
a large section of Anacostia which has
long been woodland and Idle Will TEEN
with life. Any one not familiar with the
situation. 1t fs stated, would be surprised
to see the substantial improvements In this
section. Houses OF q beautiful and artistic
style OF architecture. costing 5000 ana
$1,000, abound.
Another matter OF interest to this Sec
ton, as we'll as to the whole District CT
costa flats. With these things assured,
Anacostia promises to be one of the most
important and thriving of the outlying Sec
tions of the District.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-08
LOST NECKLACE.
Property Of Wife Of Administrator
Delegue.

Special Cablegram to The Star.
PARIS, April 5.-Mme. Auboyneau. wife
OF the administrator delegue at Paris
Of the Imperial Ottoman Bank, who went
to Constantinople IN january last with her
husband to spend a fortnight lost, while
making visits In carriage to her friends.
a necklace OF one row OF pearls only, but OF
a value of $500.
Notices were published for q month In all
tho local papers. promising a reward Of $500
to the person who should bring back this
object, but all the researches and promises
were useless. and NJ. and Mme Auboynean
left for this city without the necklace.
Besides the intrinsic value Of tho 1sweI,
Nine. Auboyneau priced 1t much because
her husband gave It to her on ths occasion
OF the birth Of their first child, and he
added one pearl at each new birth.
Tbs necklace was forgotten, when one
day this week a functionary OF the public
debt IN Constantinople informed the presi-
dent, Commandant Berger, that he saw on
the neck OF his servants little girl collar
which 1t was said had been found In the
street.
This collar was really the lost one, and It
was RENTED absolutely intact to IL Berger
against the reward promised The servant
declared he found II in the street, and
never reading the newspapers and knowing
nothing Of jewels. he believed Il was Q col
lar of glass beads
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-08

America In large numbers, they havs been
sailing for the TransvaaI by the thousa nds
and the tens of thousands. and they will
feel the matter OF the stoppage of their
emigration keeniy.
Inc rate of wages is far higher than they
would earn in their own homes. and In
addition to this. their superior food and ac
coinmodatlons place them in a far better
position on the Rand than in their cwn
country. Many letters have been received
from South Africa expressing satisfaction
with conditions there, ana IN many cases
sums OF money have been RENTED TO their
relatives here. The opinion is expressed
mere that nearly all would IF offered a free
passage pack TO China at the expens4 OF
the BRUSH taxpayer, nevertheless ,,Ject TO
remain in the Transvaal Among sucb a
number or men here are undoubtedly rnany
pad sheep and there may be q certaio
NUMBER OF pad characters and gamblers
methoas who would he only too pleased to
return 10 their native haunts But those
rule. " eNAiSi al
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-08
RUMANIA'S PROBLEM.
Is It Possible for the Soil to Support
Foreignersp

Carmen sylvia IN the Century.
The problem that eonfronts us Is,
whether foreigners can find subsistence in
Rumania In hard times It IL not a ques-
ton Of whether they should or could be
harbored. but whether 1t lie possible for the
soil to support them-a question surely of
too grave moment to be dismissed with a
stroke OF the pen, and one moreover, that
no one who has not lived here and studied
the situation for himself is capable of
judging.
There 10 not another civilized country in
the world wholly without industries OF It's
OWN, importing even its most trihing ar
ticles, and confronted every year with the
uncertainty as to whether q sufficient sum
OF money will como across tho frontier to
replace that which has gone out. And 90
the problem resolves itself into a purely
economical one. Can we honestly welcome
q class that takes money out Of the coun-
try, but never brings my In? For It Is a
faot that no money has ever been intro
duced Into Rumanaa through any one In
trade. Any that such q man may possess
goes abroad, first to purchase his stock and
outfit, and later Tor supplies to carry on his
business, even such articles AZ buttons and
the cosnmonest kinds of braids not being
manufactured here. except ON the smallest
scale.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-08
PROGRESSIVE DEALER.
Mr.. Norman L. Sansbury Engaged
With Several Projects.

Mr. Norman L. Sansbury Is regarded as
one of Washington's most progressive real
estate men. In the few years he has been
in business he has made marked progress
in handling realty. His well-established
offices in the Builders Exchange building,
719-721 18th street. were recently enlarged
in order to accommodate the volume OF
business. For the past four years he has
been located as stated and during that
period he negotiated some of the largest
transactions in local real estate His eli
erts are said to be among the best In the
city and are of representative character.
Mr.. Sansbury, 1t is stated is especially
adapted for handling rental business. his
experience in the hotel business previous to
entering the real estate field, proving III
valuable for handling the apartment
branch
Mr. Sansbury was engaged in the real
estate business for a short period prior TO
accepting position with the Ebbitt House,
where he served for thirteen years during
which time he filed every position from
clerk to assistant manager. 1t was during
that period that he formed an extensive &C
quaintance with public, professional ana
business men, which has served him eX-
tensively In his present enterprise. He is
said to take first rank as a salesman.
Mr. Sanshury is graduate of the Spen-
cerian Business College. member Of the
Columbia Heights Citizens Association
and the Washington Board of Trade and is
secretary of the Capital City Improvement
Company a corporation which at present
is engaged in extensive building operations
in the northwest section of the city. Mr..
Sansbury has associated with him a COM
petent corps of assistants. In the sales de-
partment are Mr.. NJ. II. Calfee, Mr.. Charles
F.. Morrison, Mr. J. w. Craig, Mr.. Thomas
j. Taylor and Mr.. David Barry. The rem
tai department Is In charge of Mr.. Leroy
Gaddis and Miss +. B. McGraw
Mr. Sansbury at present has several I'M
portant projects on hand. including the
property known "Ingleside Terrace.
situated at 18th and Newton streets, over
looking Rock Creek Park. The property Is
on an elevation, each OF the twenty-nine
houses containing ten rooms. modern bath,
porches extending across the entire front
age. with colonial effect, and an unob-
structed view OF the surrounding country.
In addition to this section Mr.. Sansbury Is
actively engaged in handling realty in CO.
Iumbia Heights, Mount Pleasant, Bloom
ingdale Washington Heights and many
suburban points His close attention to the
business in the past few years has enabled
him to come In touch with large NUMBER
of buyers and sellers Of real estate, result
ing In his being one Of the largest operators
In the city. During the coming spring and
summer he predicts an unusual season OF
activity In all sections OF the city as We'll
as the suburbs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-08
CHINESE LABoRERs.
win Be Prohibited at Mines OF the
Transvaal.

Special C8biegram 10 The Star.
PEKING, April 5.-The news that Chi
uese laborers viii be prohibited at the
mines in the TrausvaaI In South Africa has
t..eu carried back here and It IS adding rot
I'll little 70 the ant'-foreign feeling and agi-
tatlou Though the government OF Great
Britain in response TO the protests Of the
British workingmen. IS said to have Inter
f-rcd with the emigration Of coolies 70
South Africa on the ground that II was
nothing more nor less than a form OF
white slavery the Chinese themselves do
rot View the subject in that light. They
yhiuk that the British are trying 20 prevent
them from cmiRTatng to the colonies
where they hope TO better their condition.
n Uch as the government OF the United
= dtes. IN response TO the wishes OF the
w,t-l0lngmeu. has kept them out OF Amer
ica Heretofore the boycott has been large
ly gainst American commerce for rnls very
reason. but now that Great Britain has
takeE similar action In the case Of the
srrausvaa. and the news Is percOiating
little by little among the various classes Of
the Chinese, IL need not surprise any one
II the commercial boycott were extended to
British goods. and IL need not surprise any
one II IL were even more drastic than in
the case OF the Americans For. while II
has been many years since the Chinese
coolies have been stopped from going 10
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-08
For Colored Odd Fellows.

The members of the g. U. o. o. f. gave
a party Friday night at their hall, 10th and
M streets northwest. for the benefit OF the
colored Eastern Star Home. which is to be
founded at Deanwood. and will be for the
benefit of INDECENT and aged colored men,
bers OF the order. The ground for the build
Ing has been purchased and 1t Is expected
the building of the home will be COM
menced as soon as SUFFICIENT funds have
been raised from subscriptions and enter
tainments During the course of the even
ing refreshments were served
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-08

referring death to idleness, John Nc.
Mann. stone mason. returned TO his homo
IN 81. Louis and swallowed carbolic acid
lie lived only few minutes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-08
VIII Of John M. Fernando

The Will OF John NJ. Fernandez. dated
April IL, 1902, has been filed for probate
by Its terms his widow, Rattle X. Fernando
Is named sole beneficiary and exeeutrJx
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-08

1t pays to read the want columns OF The
Star. Hundreds OF situations are filled
through them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-08

O. r. Durham. a mining engineer. and
his wife. Mary r. Buslhaul, who, accord
ing to advices received from Columbus Ohio.
are wanted In that city q grand jury In
Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-05-19
TO RENEW OLD MISSION.
San Juan CapistranO VIII Live Again
After Long Years of Silence.

All who have heard of the picturesque
old Franciscan Missions of California
will be interested to learn that San
Juan Capistrano. the most poetic of all
these ruined structures, which contrib
ute so much to the foreign look of our
Italy," is soon again to be made the
centre of religious activity, and that
after nearly a century of neglect its
buildings are to be restored TO their
original estate.
This mission is on the railway line
between Los Angeles and San Diego,
and by reason of being visible from
the railroad is TO Eastern travellers per-
haps the best known of all California
missions. except Santa Barbara and
San Gabriel. which are among the
regulation sights for visitors to South
ern California. With the restoration
Of San Juan Capistrano and the re-
sumption of residence there by the
Franciscan Brotherhood, it, too. will
no doubt soon become a tourist resort.
The first year of the American In
dependence saw work begun upon this
ancient edifice in what was then a vast
wilderness, inhabited only by Indians.
The site is in a lovely, 6equestered val
Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-05-19

given my infant son to my younger
brother James, who will bring up
my son as his own.
THUS it may come to pass that the
| descendants of Nigel, my son, may be
passed over in the right of succession
by the descendants of Richard, the
eldest son of my younger brother
James, who stands well in the eye of
Cromwell the regicide and renegade.
And that this be true, and that
Nigel, supposed younger son of James
Kingscote, of Kingscote Manor, be
really the eldest son of Nigel Kings
cote, eldest son of Alaric Kingscote,
father of Nigel and James and there
fore heir to the Manor of Kingscote,
its Entertainments, m~essuages, and all
that do thereto appertain, and his
seed hereafter him, if so be there
should be any, | do most solemnly
swear and protest in the presence of
witnesses. To which [ do set my
hand and seal this sixteenth day of
March, one thousand six hundred AMI
forty-seven.
Signed: Nigel Kingscote, in the
presence of Rupert Mainwaring,
Knight Banneret of Mainwaring Hall,
in the County of Berkshire, and
Anselm Wolf, Priest"
The parchment huttered crisply
from the girls nerveless hands.
"Damaris," cried Alaric hoarsely-
"Damaris!" Coherent speech he could
not find.
The girl raised her head.
ut is true-It is truei" she said
brokenly. 1--WE father and |, are the
usurpers! K%ingscote Manor is yours,
and we are-paupersi'
"Not paupers, dearest, but partners"
answered Alaric, and in his eyes there
was that which told her how Kingscote
love stood wind and weather as
steadily as Kingscote Oak.
Squire Kingscote now sleeps with
his fathers in the little Berkshire
churchyard. But ere he died his de-
clining years were frightened by the
generous forgiveness of "the undesir-
able poor relation"
A young and sturdy sapling oak now
fourishes on the spot where stood
the ancient tree a true symbol OF the
lasting power of K%ingscote luck and
Kingscote love.-Answers.
Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-05-19
TO WICKER
CHAIRS,

To renoyate a shabby wicker chair
first cleanse the wicker thoroughly, us
ing a scrubbing brush and plenty of
soap and water. When dry, the chair
can be vanished, or it can be greatly
improved with a coating or two of
green stain.
For the seat make a cushion of green
linen or a pretty greenish cretonne.
Another cushion for the back may be
liked, and is easily made. Make it OF
the same material as the seat cushion
and of bag shape, longer than wide.
1t may be fastened to the chair by
means of tapes sewed at the top and
bottom.
If a loose cushion be preferred, a
pretty yellow linen would look nice
and contrast we'll with the green.
Make the case slip fashion, S that ii
can be easily washed. An unbleached
calico bag will be good enough for the
down with which the cushions are
filed.
Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-05-19

ley, which, beginning back in the can
yons of the coast range, winds among
grassy knobs and great treeless hills
out to the Pacific, upon which 1T opens,
three miles west of the mission. With
the aid of the Indians, over whom the
padres eXerted both temporal and splr-
itual dominion, the Franciscans estab-
lished here the most ~pretentious of all
the California mission churches. In
stead of being constructed of the Gus
tomary adobe brick of the country, it
was built of stone, laid out in the form
of a Latin cross, with a great, cloistered
quadrangle adjoining. Here, besides
administering to the spiritual welfare
of the Indians and gathering them into
the fold of the church, the fathers set
them to the care and the cultivation
of the land. which yielded great wealth
Of cattle, SHEEP grain, grapes and
olives.
Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-05-19
Smoke Two-MiIes High.

IAN enormous volume of black smoke
rises to a height of two miles above
the crater" he wrote. "Ineandescent
masses Of stone are thrown up 5000
feet. A continuous s~outheasterly wind
carries the ashes over Naples, which
is so completely enyeloped in darkness
that for three days our communications
by sea have been cut off.
.'Fissures have opened far below the
cone. emitting many streams OF lava,
one of which has completely destroyed
the town of B-Oseotrecase, which a
10000 inhabitants. Another has cached
the outskirts of Tore del Greco. others
have destroyed thousands of acres of
fertile cultivated land. with ~farmhOuses
and stock.
THE great cone of Nesuyius col
lapsed with awful laundering and
flames. and the cable railway, the OBJ
servatory and the large hotel near 1t
were all totally destroyed. The lava
carried vast masses of burnt stone and
sulphur on its surface like dross on
melted lead, and nothing was visible
toward Boscotrecase but endless acres
of dark scOriae, broken here II there
by the greenish curling smoke of sui
phur.
Al one point we found a great pine
tree, torn up by its roots and turned
to black charcoal, the air was almost
un~breathable; the heat intense. The
faces of the people who crowded upon
the edge of the arrested stream ex-
pressed terror of exhaustion from re-
cent panic.
Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-05-19

In prehistoric days Vesuvius was
probably twice as high, the top having
been blown off centuries before the
eruption that destroyed Pompeii. Since
the year 1881 Vesuyius has never been
wholly 1t rest. In that year IS, 900 lives
were lost. The clouds of steam that
came from the rush of water into the
hot mass below the surface condensed
and fell in a boiling rain that seorched
everything with which it came in o IN
tact. The very sea drew back the skirts
of its dark blue robe and then swept
forward again far beyond its old limits.
The last of the great commissions be-
fore the recent one occurred in 1872.
Then, like this one, there was a great
lava flow, together with throwing up Of
burning rock and the fall of ashes upon
the surrounding country.
Vesuvius is one of a group of similar
mountains in the Mediterranean Sea,
its comrades being H1tna, Stromboli
and Vultano, which last gave the name
to all mountains of this kind. That, in
turn, was called after Vulcan, the god
who made the armor for the fighting
deities of the ancient world and forged
the very thunderbolts of Joye himself,
Ills NOGhSnOD NdS uuueI N1Ouul hslid.
There the inhabitants of the hillsides
heard him shaping great masses of
iron with his terrible hammer stroke
while the nameless slaves of the forge,
dimly imagined creatures of that old
day, blew the gigantic bellows and held
great bars in place, while the master
worked. The Greeks with even their
learning, did not inquire into the scien-
tific reasons for the mighty offerings
of the mountain; they knew what the
awful roar of those volcanic mountains
meant. And our wise men, with their
figures and books, know little of what
is going on in the fiery cayerns under
the earth's thin crust.
Nature soon heals her scars AL
ready, we are told in dispatches, spots
of green have appeared On the black
ened sides of Mount Pelee, and it will
not be very long before the olive and
the vine and the clustering villages
will find their way back again to the
slopes of VesuViuS.
Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-05-19
THE LOVE OF ALARIC.

Beneath the outflung branches of a
mighty oak tree, a giant who had
stood sentinel in that lonely dip on
the Wolds for twice three hundred
years, two men were standing, their
figures made more or less distinct by
the rays of a big, conical lantern of
antique pattern that the elder of the
two carried in his gnarled and blood
less fingers, a figure strangely akin
to the giant tree beneath which he
stood.
An aged mar was Zachary boy, his
back bent by years of hard labor such
as few of the modern generation of la
borers know; a man who had been an
experienced farmhand, while the man
beside him, his master, was still a
pulling infant.
The old fellow set down his lantern
IN the %iron-bound earth. His quaVer-
ing voice stabbed the silence. Nov,
do zee harken unto me, Master Alaric.'
he said slowly. I've served zee faith
full, you and your feyther afore zee,
for nigh on fifty year, and | tell zee
master, that what zee do purpose for
to do is again all right and reason.
This we're oak tree-the Kingscote
Oak, as all the countryside do know
her for to be-ha' bin here as a land
mark and a pride for longer than us
poor souls can reckon. To cut her
down do mean, as ! be right well as.
sured, that Kingscote luck will fail
wi 'un. If so be-
Alaric Kingscote broke in upon his
garrulity with a forced laugh.
"If Kingscote luck could fall lower
than it has, Zachary he said bitterly.
you need have little fear that |
would touch bark with axe. Now, hear
ne, old friend. This tree represents
the last thing upon the farm that can
bring in the money / must have to
tide over the bad times in store. The
merchants have offered me two hun
dred pounds for the tree. There's only
one rotten limb upon it. They'll
come tomorrow with their carts and
take it away He laid his hand upon
the old mans shoulder. Get you
home to bed, Zachary" he added gent
ly. "You can do nothing here. IT'S
9 O'Clock now. BY midnight, with
Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-05-19
THE OLD WELL IN THE COURTYARD.

for twenty-five years longer, no at
tempt seems to have been made by the
padres to restore the church edifice,
and it and its adjoining buildings and
cloisters have remained to this day an
imposing and beautiful ruin. Touched
gently by Times hand, dignifed in out
line and rich in color, it is replete with
subjects for the artist and is the adj
miration of every traveller. With the
restoration of the buildings the in
tention is to create here a college for
the priesthood as at Santa Barbara,
and to make of San Juan Capistrano
an important factor in the work of the
Roman Catholic Church in Southern
California.
Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-05-19

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