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The Ordway new era., 1907-10-04
A Terrible Possibility.

Little Lucy came home from school
crying pitcously. IL was some time
before the family could learn the
cause OF her trouble. but finally the
sobbinE grew less violent and she
walled out:
Teacher says-if don't get my
spelling lesson-shc's going to make
an example OF me. and-if she puts
me there. Tm-afraid the scholars will
une.
The Ordway new era., 1907-10-04
As to the Scorehers.

do many endurance race autos
pass here?" asked the city boarder.
peering down the road. Yeas. stran-
ger" replied the old farmer. They
are all endurance racers to us" "To
you?" Sure. 1t IS an endurance test
OF patience to keep from blazing away
at them every time they run over q
COW or scare a horse"
The Ordway new era., 1907-10-04
IVY Docs DAMAGE.

An Ivy plant which established II.
self In n crevice OF the tower OF st.
John the Baptist church. at Var.
borough. Lincolnshire. Eng. under.
mined the foundation and lifted stones
out OF place until It cost over $4,000
to make repairs.
The Ordway new era., 1907-10-04

BY following the directions. which
are plainly printe. on each package Of
Defiance Starch. Mems Collars and
Cuffs can be made just as stiff as de-
sired, with either gloss or domestic
finish. Try It, 1e OF. for 10c. sold BY
all good grocers.
The Ordway new era., 1907-10-04

Preparation is the basis of power:
and the whole secret of success in
life is for a man to be ready for his
opportunity when 1t comes.-Disraeli.
The Ordway new era., 1907-10-04

SASy oSs-0ut VI o'~
It causes backache,
headaches. dizziness,
languor and distress
ing urinary troubles.
Keep the kidneys
well and all .hese
sufferings will be
saved you. Mrs. s. A.
Moore. proprietor OF
a restaurant at Wa
terville. Mo-, says:
The Ordway new era., 1907-10-04

Sore disappointments OF to-day often
prove the grand blessings OF to.mor.
row.-Faber.
The Ordway new era., 1907-10-04
Toveh proposItlon.

"The devil take him!"
"Hushl 'Twixt Jon an ms. don't
thtnk u devil Wants himi"-lou1a-
V1no oouP1oRl1ourn0o, X 2 4, .y .,ttsss1
The Ordway new era., 1907-10-04
TIRED BACKS.

Tho kidneys have great work to
do In keeping the blood pure. When
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-04
Encountering a Tiger.
From the Chicago News.


How he met tiger in an Indian jungle
is told by hunter: II was out stalking
with a very light rifle. accompanied BY
two native shikaris who had no weapons
at all. We were passing through some
rather thick jungle when heard sounds
as If a tiger afoot. and, glanctng at my
men, saw that they were looking rather
queer All of a sudden, with rush
and roar. very large tiger sprang
out of the jungle about thirty yards of
and made straight for US. He passed
close along our front. went a few yards,
then turned round and sat growing and
watching us. After this he charged
almost up to us. but did not come quite
home, and then passed backward and for
ward in front of US two or three times.
Ny men behaved exceedingly WE'LL stand
ing quite steady facing the tiger, shout
ing and throwing stones and bits of stick
at him. Had either of them tried to turn
have been on us for a dead certainty.
Il reserved my fire for the last emer-
gency. not caring. unless absolutely
driven to- it. with light rife. to risk a
shot which would most probably fail to
stop the tiger. The tiger continued to
giving us an uncommonly bad time for
about ten minutes. After a while we
managed to back slowly over the top Of
some rising ground behind us, and, once
we were out OF sight am not ashamed
to confess that we went for all we were
worth, hating occasionally to make
sure we were not being followed. until
to our great relief, we got out into the
open. :
The above is. luckily somewhat un-
usual experience, for a tiger generally
avoids the presence of man If he can
Had 1t been tigress, with young cubs
suddenly disturbed by one of US, one
could have understood her behaving in
this exceptional manner, but this was q
male tiger, and there is no way Of ex-
planning his conduct
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-04
A Compact Kingdom.

What particularly like about the king
dom of Belgium 1s its compactness.
Everything lies, so to speak, right under
your hand. and you can go from any
where to anywhere else in about an hours
time. OF course this IN Itself would be- of
no especial consequence II there were
Little to see and to excite your magma
ton. But every inch of Belgian territory
teens with memories and associations of
Incompatible richness. The present king
dom Is a purely modern creation. On
its soil, however, there have been wrought
out some of the most tremendously cafa-
clysmic episodes Of history. The Roman
legions Numbered over its wooded slopes.
1t drank the blood Of unnumbeted pa
triots under Spanish rule. 1t witnessed
the barbarties Of AlYa and his black
browed torture-mongers. II saw, upon
the field Of Waterloo the downfall Of
the most marvellous man who ever. tfod
the earth and who forced the haughtiest
Of kings and emperors to become his
lackeys. And yet all this is but small
part of what Belgium brings to mind
Every city street, every gabled mansion,
almost every farmhouse that you pass
unthinkingly is linked with some tradi-
ton or with some familiar name belong
ing to the imperishable records of states
manship or scholarship or art. Infinite
treasure in> a little room'--the well-worn
phrase might properly be made the motto
of country which Of all the countries
in the world is the most charming, and,
If may use the adjective, the most
lovable.
Were it only question Of compactness
some Of these things might be said Of
Holland. But unfortunately. in order to
see Holland it is necessary to have some
sort of contact with the Dutch-and this
Is quite sufficient to destroy your pleat-
ure: Moreover. Holland is so nat and
dull and ditch-like. Its maze Of bikes
and trenches and canals, with their
Shiny ooze and sluggish streams of liquid
mud. depress the mind and propagate
malaria. Holland to me at least, is an
atbhorrent hole. intended by an fnscruta!ble
design of Providence for ducks and
Dutchmen. But Belgium, from small
Namur to bold Liege. where Quentin
Durward. dagger in hand, faced the wild
boar of the Ardennes. and from the
light-hearted elegance of Spa to the opu-
lent quaintness of Antwerp-c'est Ia per-
lection meme. =,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-04
d. ..etics Of Candidacy.
rom the Boston TRANSCRIPT,

FROM the Boston Transcript
The dietetics of candidacy, long over
looked by a careless people, will hence
forth receive the attention that is their
due. Instead of merely hearing the po-
lttical lions roar, we shall see them fed
Already Mr.. La roulette has set the
fashion. Ladies and gentlemen" cries
his tanner, this magnificent animal, the
only one in captivity, subsists wholly
upon nuts. AS the poet of old hath said,
here's peanuts-that's for politics: here's
chestnuts-that's for oratory Step right
up to the cage, ladies and gentlemen.
Harmless when not out of his head, the
noble creature will eat nuts from the
hand
1t seemed for a while as if drinks were
to settle 1t, but fools. l am sure. will be
far more convincing. What are cock
tails and buttermilk compared with nuts?
What interest in seeing candidate
drink? All drinks go down in the same
simple and obvious manner. With foods
on the other hand. much depends upon
the candidate. Think you Mr. Roosevelt
could eat nuts? Not so. The nut eater
must be calm. like La Toilette, lest he
swallow the nut shell and all. And yet
considered purely as a spectacle, nut eat
Ing leaves much to be desired and Mr..
Fairbanks tanner can be relied upon to
get up a much finer show. Look. ladies'
and gentlemen &c will shout 80 abb
solutely straight is the weird creature in
this cage that he lives upon fish poles
eats 'em alive!-swaliows 'em whole! Note
how easily they go downl Note also how
they symbolic the Cleveland democracy.
which is all that remains of the republi-
can party, while they equally symbolic
that hatred of lying which is the very
backbone of republican policy!'
Nevertheless the revised Fairbanks
boom will afford Judge Taft chance to
give 1t still further revision, adapting
it to his own peculiar abilities and making
it more sensational than before The
Judge insn't saying much just now In
stead, he is thinking. So Is his tanner
Together they are planning a. way to
Guido Fairbanks. Having absolutely no
information on this subject, l can speak
freely.
Accordingly you may have it on the
word of the clerk Of the day that Judge
Tafts dietetic barker will bay these
crowds In some such phrases as these:
Behold this paragon and ne plus ultra
of gastronomics! Like yonder Fairbanks,
he, too. will swallow fish poles. Yet
observe how differently! Whereas the
Fairbanks fish pole goes down in a verdi
cal position, that of the broad-gauge can
didate goes down in horizontal posi-
tom!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-04
Will Be Ordered Here.

Commander Abraham E. Culver. COM
handing the protected cruiser Des Moines.
now at the navy yard. Boston. will
soon be ordered to this city for duty as
naval aid to the assistant secretary of the
navy as the relief of Capt John M.
Bowyer. who has been ordered to assume
command of the battleshp Illinois In
time for the cruise of the Atlantic fleet
to the, Pacific coast.
Commander Culver is from New York,
and entered the naval service in June,
1872 He reached the grade of COM
mander In February. 1905 and has had
command Of the Des Moines since Septen-
Der, 1906. In case he succeeds Capt.
Bowyer, he will have charge OF naval
militia affairs at the Navy Department.
Assignment to Regiments. r."
The following assignments to regiments
of officers recently promoted are ordered:
First Lieut.. George F. Brady, to the 18th
Infantry; First Lieut.. Robert L. Weeks,
to the 10th Infantry: First Lieut.. Albert
G. GOODWIN. to the 18th Infantry; First
Lieut.. Charles A. Hunt. to the It'll In
fantry; First Lieut.. Leo B. Dannemiller,
to the 18th Infantry.
Naval Orders.
Carpenter P. Treutlein. unexpired por-
ton of leave revoked; to the U. s. naval
training station. great lakes, North Chi
cago, ILL.,, November 8. 1907.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-04
Exit the Pig Iron Industry

The plant OF the old Principle furnace
near Elkton Md, which has for many
years turned out a high grade of char.
coal pig iron, IS to be dsmantled and the
equipment shipped to Michigan to be used
in the erection of a charcoal furnace
there. The dismantling of this furnace
marks the c.ose of the manufacture OF
pig iron in Cecil county, dating from 1921
The first blast furnace was built at that
place by an English firm. with home of.
fees at birmingham. There are in the
possesSI IN o. the Maryland Historical So.
ciety many Interesting and we!l-preserved
records and letters relating to the early
history % this plant in which Gen. Wash.
ington was cnce interested. During the
war of 1872 cannons and cannon balls
were cast AT the furnace. and the com.
pany has II its possession many of these
interesting old relics of that historic
period.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-04
MOUNTAINS THAT DON'T EXIST.
Peaks That for Years Had a Place
on Canada's Maps.
From Outing.

rtcu outIu8
By far the neatest tale of Canadian
mountaineering concerns Mounts Brown
and Hooker-myths now RELOCATED to the
limbo of Mount Iseram In its palmy days
alchemy fostered no such credulity as
sways some scientific map makers. Unex-
listing Mount .Tillman, Alaska, which had
decorated maps for fifteen years, where
the writer in 1900 first found a nat plain.
or the rubbery height Of ST. Elias. which
has bobbed between II, 600 and 10000 feet
(even Russell cheated 1t by a sheer half
mile are not even good Jokes beside the
1900 and 1900 foot mountains which
from 1927 on have been engraved on each
side Of the pass at the head Of Athabasca
river. with the Committee S Punch Bowl
between. Now, as fact the walls Of this
pass are only a few thousand feet high,
and the punch BOWL is twenty yards
wide!
Neither the railway surveys, spending
s., O0OO nor George Dawson himself
nailed the lie. That was done in a library
by Collie after two seasons expeditions
and year Of worry. Except the maps
and hint in Palliser's journal linking
Brown and Hooker with one Douglass. a
botanist of Douglass fir Oregon pine)
fame. no mention of them could be found
In print until Collie struck Bancroft's
History of British Columbia" There the
DOtaQlSt diary was ClCeQ. come aug IL
out. Douglass had crossed Athabasca
Pass from Vancouver in 1927, camping in
the eye Of the pass on May 1. On the
north lay a mountain. he wrote, which
does not appear to be less than $4,000 or
1900 feet high But this three-mile
sheer peak he climbed in a single after
noon" which," as Collie naively OBJ
serves. was naturally absurd The
chance sayso Of a botanist, but geogra-
piers ate 1t alive! A Prof. Coleman had
been in the pass five years before, Collie,
but finding no Brown and Hooker, and
seeing higher peaks to the west. Imagined
they had been mislocated. But these peaks
then had names: the Brown and Hooker
business is no error, but hoax. During
the Klondike rush. when the writer was
just north Of this region. trappers smiled
and shook. their heads when you asked
about Brown and Hooker. They knew.
are more gutleless
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-04
Acid Phosphate.

From the Southern Farm Magazine.
Acid phosphate may be applied to the
soil in one of several ways. 1t may be
drilled with the seed with safety. and
will not affect the termination, while on
the other hand. cottonseed meal not only
retards, but destroys. the terminating
power of many seeds. 1t may also be
broadcasted and narrowed into the soil
or applied under the drill row for such
crops as corn and peas. For orchards
and vineyards it may be scattered near
the trees and worked into the soil or over
the whole surface of the land and COW
cred with the harrow. Phosphates, as a
rule. are best applied in the fall. and
this can be done with safety. as they do
not readily leach away. On land devoted
to cowpeas to be followed by wheat it is
often an advantage to put the phosphates
on the peas, as they supply an essential
element Of growth to all leguminous
crops. and there will be sufficient left, as
a rule, II the application is liberal. to
supply the needs of the wheat crop fol-
lowing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-04
Cat Has Record Tail.
From the Seattle Times.

from tue seattle l1meS.
An eight-months-old Persian cat with
tail sixteen inches wide is possessed by
J. w Geltz of Rainier valley. The cat
will be on exhibition at the A.. L. Hall
store, on LIST avenue.
Geltz is interested in the Bedwell Cat
terry. located at Rainier Beach. and has
for many years made a special study
Of cats, and he said recently that he
felt confident in asserting that this ant
NAL is the only one In existence that II
possessed of a tail Of such width.
The feline In question Is black and
white, extremely large for its age. and 70
as proud Of its tail as mother OF her
baby's first tooth. She struts about tho
house switching her burly extremity side
to side and seems to understand that X
is something out of the ordinary. Geltz
is in doubt as to whether the tail Will
increase in width as the cat grows older,
but hopes that 1t will.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-04
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

MOUNT PLEASANT-Flora NJ. Schmti
ct vir. Ernest L.. to William T. Ruck.
er, lot 400; S4,75O.
18TH STREET SOUTHWEST between
B and c streets-George F. Watts ell
TX. to John w. Watts, part origina.
lot 7. square 2os; $1,000.
B STREET SOUTHEAST between 9th
and 10th streets-George j. Balson OF
ux. to Samuel S. Waters. lots 10. IL
IL. square 943; SO.
G STREET SOUTHWEST between Sd and
~ streets-salvador Warfleld ct ux
to Jeanette B. Stoddart, part Original
lot 1, square $50; $40
NOS 1oO1 AND 1908 SIXTH STREET
NORTHEAST-Be c. Stah ct vir
James W.. to Hugh A. Kane, lots 11C
and Ill. square 1856; $40.
LONG MEADOWS-J. Clarence Price, as.
signee. to Clarence I. Gessford, lot a
block o. SJc..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-04
EXECUTION POSTPONED.
Court Grants Respite to Joseph
Paoleucci, Condemned Murderer.

Joseph Paoleucci. the Italian shoemaker
who was under sentence to die upon the
scaffiold between the hours Of 10 and z
O'Clock today for the murder of Eliza beth
V. Dodge in September of last year, as
was stated in The Star. did not learn un
III nearly noon today that his execution
had been postponed. Justice Barnard
signed an order postponing the event until
December 8. Attorneys for the condemned
man have appealed his case to the Court
VI Appeals CUT 'he higher court has not
yet given any decision upon the questions
raised.
Paoleucci, who was much older than
Miss Dodge. was in love with her, as
was stated at the trial. and became zeal.
Gus OF her Meeting her on the street he
shot ana Killed her, the shooting taking
place linear the home of her mother on 5tf
street northeast.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-04

Forecast TILL 8 PM Tuesday-For
the District Of Columbia, Maryland and
Virginia, fair tonight and Tuesday; va
riable winds.
Weather Conditions and General Fore
passed out the Gulf of st. Lawrence,
but there Is another of more moderate
character over Lake Superior, and still
another over the British northwest,
each with high area to the south
ward Local rains and SHOWS continue
in New England and northern New
York, but there was no other precipi-
tation Of consequence.
Temperatures have fallen consider
ably in the Atlantic states and lower
southern states. 1t is slightly warmer
in the middle west and colder in the
central Rocky mountain region.
The weather will be fair tonight and
along the lower lakes and in the north
ern portion of the middle Atlantic
states. where local rains are probable:
1t will be somewhat warmer tonight
in the east gulf states.
The winds along the middle Atlantic
coast will be light to fresh west to
south; on the south Atlantic coast, light
to fresh north to northeast: on the
east gulf coast, light northeasterly.
and on the lower lakes, fresh and most
ly southweSterly
Steamers departing today for Euro
pean ports will have light to fresh
westerly winds and fair weather to
the Grand Banks.
inches) has been reported during the
past twenty-four hours: Tatoosh Is
land. 1876.
During the twenty-four hours end
ing am. Sunday: Concord, LA;
Greenville. 1.66; Rockliffe. 1.16; Mount
Weather. 1.12.
Condition Of the Water.
Temperature and condition of water
at am: Great Falls. temperature,
30: condition, 1870. Dalecarlia reservoir
temperature, 81 +; condition at north con-
nection, 80: condition at south conncc-
ton. 90. Georgetown distributing res
ervoir, temperature. so; condition at in
fluent gatehouse, 95; condition at eff
fluent gatehouse, 10.
Up-River Waters.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
HARPERs FERRY, w. Va, November
4--The Potomac is slightly cloudy and
the Shenandoah clear.
The Sun and Moon.
Today-sun rose, $50 a. M; sun sets.
4:5S p m.
Tomorrow-Sun rises. $50 a. m.
Moon rises 4:49 a. m. tomorrow
The City Lights.
The city lights and naphtha lamps all
lighted by thirty minutes after sunset
extinguishing begun one hour before sun
rise. All arc and incapdescent lamps
lighted fifteen minutes after sunset and
extinguished forty-ive minutes before
sunrise.
Records for Twenty-Four Hours.
The following were the readings Of the
thermometer and barometer at the
weather bureau for the twenty-four hours
beginning at pm. yesterday:
Thermometer-Novemb 3, PM, 55;
pm, Sc; 12 midnight, Al: November 4,
am, At; q. M, 46; IL noon, So; pm,
So ~. =
Maximum, 55, at pm. November 4;
minimum. As, at am. November 4.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 3, pm, 1874;
PIN, 1884; II midnight. $3.50; Novem-
Der 4, 4 am. 1898; 8 a. M, 1901; noon,
30; p. m, 1898.
Minimum temperature past twenty-four
hours, As; a year ago, 80.
Downtown Temperature.
The downtown temperature as received
from Feast & Co. records the following:
0 am. so; II noon. SO; pm. 81.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-04
Scientists and the Bacilli.

From London P. T. O.
A capital story is being told of q IA
nous scientific man who is known all
over the world for his researches into
bacteria. The other day at an afternoon
party he was given by his hostess some
Of the first strawberries of the year, and
1t was noticed that before he ate them
he dipped each strawberry most care
fully into tumbler Of water. His hostess
asked him why he did this. and he re-
piled that 1t was on account of the nil
crobes. of which there are about two mil
lions on each fruit. After he had eaten
half a dozen Strawberries he felt thirsty,
and without thinking what he was doing
he drank the water in which he had been
washing the fruit. His hostess tried to
stop him. but 1t was too late. oh. doc
tor" she exclaimed. you have swallowed
twelve million microbes Good heavens.
so have" said the scientist, and then
added philosophically. after a pause.
We'll. after all, 1t does not matter
much"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-04

Prof. Leduc of the School Of Medicine
at Nantes has discovered a way Of SUBJ
shutting anesthetics with electricity. Two
electrodes are applied to the skull. the
points of contact being careful y shaved
and a current of thirty-five volts is ap-
piled in its full strength Internationally
sleep takes place at once and lasting as
long as the application of the current
is continued Prof. Leduc says that his
discovery will be the means of robbing
the eiectrocution chair of its horrors. The
subject will be first put to sleep and then
given the death-dealinS shock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-04
No Cans for the sardine Crop.

From the Bangor News.
The American sardine BUSINESS has en-.
countered a most unexpected and serious
condition, caused by the inability Of the
packers to obtain cans owing. to the short
age in the supply of tin plate. September
has always been depended upon to, furnish
about a third Of the total output Of the
factories. and the scarcity Of tin and the
apparent ,impossibility of the packers to
obtain a supply will cause a shutdown in
most of the large factories during the very
best part Of the season. Fish are now
plentiful and the catch is just the size
most desired for sardines, yet several of
the large factories have not more than
enough cans on hand to last another day.
From present prospect 1t looks as though
1t would be impossible to operate the fac.
tories more than two days each week dur.
Ing the rest of the sea SON.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-04
Castles" at The Hague.

From Die Zeit of Vienna
While statesmen are sent Ia, The Hague
to spin phrases about peace and to boast
of humanity. Lebaudy's balloon La Parie.
in Paris. and the machine Of Maj. Grosz.
in Berlin. are executing their war maneu-
vers in the air, and the astonished~ and
anxious peoples look to a future full Of
increasing possibilities but also full Of in
ceasing terrprs Of war. The war bal
looms mount aloft-the castles-in-the-atr
of peace are falling to the ground.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-04
The Big and Little Player.

from the Atlentlc.
Suffering the big players to violate the
rules Of the game is doubly dangerous at
the present stage. In twenty years two
developments-the disappearance of free
land in the rain belt, and the triumph of
the big concern over the little-have mar
rowed the circle of opportunity for work
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-04
Money and No Labor.

The statement was recently made in the
Canadian house of parliament that sum
of money equivalent to more than $l7, 900,
900 was lying idle in Great Britain ready
to be spent in the extension and improve
ment of the Grand Trunk Pacific railway
but that 1t was impossible to proceed with
the work because Of the scarcity of labor
This was used as an argument in favor OF
the Introduction Of Asiatic labor. 1t Is
said that many industries are at a stand
still for the same reason.