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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-17
800 Quarts of Nitro-glycerin Ex
plode.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

oFF'IdI UISPdlCH 20 The SAT-.
BOWLING GREEN. Ohio. December IL.
Six hundred quarts of nitroglycerin in
the Du Pont powder works. two and hal.
miles from here. exploded last night. Six
men employed in the powder house narrow
ly escaped with slight bruises. Windows
in houses mile distant were shattered.
theory as to the cause is advanced that
"yeggmen' in attempting to replenish
their supply of the explosive for use in
safe blowing dropped some of it. Color
10 given to this by the finding of n mans
vest and a horse blanket near the scene.
but no human flesh was discovered. The
plant is Isolated. II was badly damaged.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-17

on leave and others who had been dis
charged because OF the completion of
that portion of the construction work
upon which they were employed.
Work on the canal excavation is pro-
crossing finely" said Col. Cocktails. we
are actually making the dirt fly. We
have 80 COO men at work and can easily
secure more when we need them. In fact,
we have turned away many applicants. l
shall see the President but my visit to
him will have no special significance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-17
Back Prom Panama.

NEW YoRK,/December 17.-Col. w. G.
Goethals, chief engineer of the Panama
canal, and Col. J. C. S. Blackburn. gov
ernor Of the Panama canal zone, arrived
here yesterday on the steamer Colon from.
Cristobal. Both Col. Cocktails and Gov
Blackburn are on six weeks leave Of alb
sence. The Colon also brought a large
number of canal employees, some of them
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-17
Funeral of Abram Acwith.

The funeral of Abram Acwith, an en-
ploye of the bureau of engraving and
printing, who died last Saturday, took
place at O'Clock this afternoon from
the family residence. 1920 r street His
wife. Mrs. Frances Acwith Survives him.
Mr. Acwith was born October %. 1915
He entered the service of the Treasury
Department in 1898, being credited to
Pennsylvania. His legal residence is
given as Philadelphia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-17

Rev Peter Ainslee OF the Christian
Temple, in Baltimore. announces that An
drew Carnegie has agreed TO contribute
81. $50 toward defraying the cost Of q new
organ for the church.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-17
Girls Stylish Coats,
Sizes s to 10
Years of Age.
Regular Prices,
$40 and $1,000

This be practical Crsmas-and such sensible ar
ces these in demand for the daughter OF the house
The opportunity of choosing from makers line of samples
representing the and desirable styles up
this seasons and at the time buying savings
half and should help decide the right
Sizes to fit girls from to Is years of age.
of
and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-17

The Chilean congress has suppressed the
import duty on Argentine cattle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-17
HAPPENINGS IN ALEXANDRIA


Special Correspondence OF The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. December IL. 1907
In the circuit court for Alexandra
county Judge Thornton presiding. grand
iury. with Arthur w. Veitch as fore
man, yesterday afternoon reported four
indictments against Isaac c. Burrell a
justice of the peace of Jefferson district
three charging him with extortion and
the fourth with compromising a felony,
The indictments are an outcome or the
arrest ana conviction of three Italians,
charged with engaging in discharginS
firearms on a public highway. heard be-
fore Justice Birrell December 90 1906. The
defendant is represented by Attorneys Ma
chen and Moncure The prosecution will
be conducted by Commonwealth Attorney
Mackey.
The case OF Joseph NJ. Stickley, admins
traitor OF the estate OF William Lovelle
Stickley, against the Southern Railway
Company to recover damages In the sum
OF $1,000 for the death of Will Lowell
Stickley, is being heard today. Judge Har-
rison of Winchester. Va, presiding. The
case will not, II is thought be concluded
until tomorrow.
Frank Hitchcock. charged with attempt
Susie NJ. Beach. will be tried Friday. The
alleged offense occurred near Walkers
Chapel, August last.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-17
As to Railroad Rates.

Since the two-cent rate went into effect
large number of passengers dsembark
at the Union station here when their
destination is Washington. and take
trolley car to that city, and those
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1907-05-23

ing with other varieties Of the
same blooming period for best
results, Truly,
G. A. Schattenburg.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1907-05-23
FRUIT TREES EXHAUST
THE SOIL.

why apple and other fruit trees
do not bear as many or as fine
apples as they did in the early
days, writes Professor H. Gar
man, of Kentucky Experiment
station, | have been impressed
with the Importance of supply
ing the trees with fertilizers as
the soil becomes exhausted, and
am satisfied that the greater rel
ative difficulty experienced now
adays in keeping fruit trees in
good condition is in part due to
an exhaustion of the soil.
Trees forage more widely
than smaller plants, and may not
show the effects of starvation as
suddenly or as soon, but they
must show it in time if grown
long on the same land without
anything being returned to the
soil to replace materials re-
moved by the trees. In this re-
lation / was struck recently by a
statement which l encountered
in Professor Voorhees, interest
ing little book on Fertilizers. He
says that twenty crops of apples
of Is bushels per tree, and 35
trees to the acre, equal 1887
POUNDS of nitrogen, 80 pounds
of phosphoric acid and 1906
mounds of notaSh
Twenty crops of wheat, of Is
bushels per acre, equal $50
pounds of nitrogen, 211 pounds
of phosphoric acid, and 1924
pounds of potash.
Therefore, according to Pro-
fessor Voorhees,, twenty crops of
apples remove more than twice
as much nitrogen, half as much
again phosphoric acid, and
nearly three times as much pot
ash, as twenty crops of wheat.
A good farmer would hardly
think of growing twenty success
sve crops of wheat on the same
land, no matter how good it
might be-. and it would seem to
be still greater folly, according
to the figures given, to attempt
to grow twenty successive crops
of apples without returning any
| thing to the soil.
The Atlanta Georgian classes
Bryan, Folk, LaFollette, Roose-
Welt, Hughes and Tom Watson as
good Democrats" The list of
bad ones would probably take
up too much of it's valuable
space.
If Bryan keeps hanging
around Boston, old Madam
Democracy will begin to call him
Hubby"
The Rhode Island Legislature
Just couldn't decide which mil
lionaire's money was the best,
and adjourned without electing
anyone to the Senate.
After lifelong search for
rest and sleep, our old friend
| Mark Twain mas, at last discov-
cred Annapolis!
4 A Chicago dispatch says "tlie
4 Standard Oil Co.. has not given
\ up" Certainly not. 1t is the
practice of the Standard to- rake
j in, not to give up.
! The Chicago Clergyman who
says the world is too light
.I.hearted evidently hasn't fallen
in with E. H. Hartman lately
The fruit crop has been killed
= so early this year that there may
2 be time to grow aGother Just as
= good. /
| The plain people out In Ohio
: must be doing an awful sight O.
J, thinking for they are not saying
e much.
0 The next attack on dementIi
r Americana is expected to occu
S in Chicago.
# The President has been pre-
n sented with a baseball pass
re Next we shall hear of the Bi
@ Rot
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1907-05-23

every man she met. The jury
must have been composed en-
tirely of married women.
A man arrested for bigamy
was found to be the wearer of
two hero medals. There should
be no longer any doubt as to
whether he deserved them.
In the interest of peace, it is
to be hoped that no one will go
to the trouble of informing Mr..
Stead that the Baltimore News
has referred to him as an inter
national blatherskite."
Mayor McClellan's father was
called Little Mac" But the son
seems to be hitler still.
j. P. Morgan has reached the
age of three score years and ten.
Pity the sorrows of a rich old
man.
After a new whiskey nomen.
clature goes into effect, a man
can explain to his spouse that he
is merely suffering from a rush
of "E Pluribus Unum" to his
head.
In Indianapolis they are talk
ing of erecting a better and larg-
er poorhouse. In time of pros
perity prices, it is well to pre-
pare for the consequences.
And now the insurance COM
panies have cut out the blotters
and calendars, which was all the
graft the common people got.
Missouri proposes to tax.
bachelors, and also raise the
price of marriage licenses. That
certainly looks like playing both
ends against the middle.
A Chicago University pro-
lessor proposes that gate re-
ceipts be abolished and college
athletics endowed. Here is a
chance for Mr.. Carnegie to even
up with Mr.. Rockefeller.
Don't eat much meat if you
want healthy children" says DR..
Watson of Scotland. As long as
price remains at the present
level, a great many people will
unscieusly take hjsvadvice.
Congress will adjourn soon,
but the country will still be af-
flicted with the Thaw case. Thus
there is always trouble of some
kind to conted with.
Congress has approved a.law
providing for increased air
space in vessels. Thank God,
it's provisions don't extend to
Congress itself.
AS the Storers have gone to
France to live, France might
send Maria as a special envoy at
Washington.
San Francisco druggists are
now putting Japs heads on poi
son bottles instead of the skull
and cross bones.
Ex-Governor Black says that
| a politician can be killed quick
| by calling him cold. Then Fair
banks must be dead already yet.
| With Senator Tillman, Jeffries
IDavis and Bob Taylor in the
Inext Congress, the tickets to the
lgaIIeries have already been ex-
Ehausted.'
England is agitating in favol
Eof a written constitution just as
1.-THE American people are begin
lining to think that the English
pIan is better. 1t. is hard fol
some people to be satisfied.
II Congress will leave defici
hole almost large enough TO
Bryan to crawl through.
Toledo, Ohio, is also vigorous
~,
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1907-05-23

There is still hope. There
seem to be almost as many Re
publicans opposed to the ship
subsidy as there are in favor of
tariff revision.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1907-05-23

A man arrested for bigamy
was found to be the wearer of
two hero medals. There should
be no longer any doubt as to
whether he deserved them.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1907-05-23

cause she insisted on kissing
every man she met. The jury
must have been composed en-
tirely of married women.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1907-05-23

In the interest Of peace, it is
to be hoped that no one will go
to the trouble of informing Mr..
Stead that the Baltimore News
has referred to him as an Inter
national blatherskite."
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1907-05-23

The Atlanta Georgian classes
Bryan, Folk, LaFollette, Roose-
Welt, Hughes and Tom Watson as
good Democrats" The list of
bad ones would probably take
up too much of it's valuable
space.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1907-05-23

And now the insurance COM
panies have cut out the blotters
and calendars, which was all the
graft the common people got.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1907-05-23

Missouri proposes to tax
bachelors, and also raise the
price of marriage licenses. That
certainly looks like playing both
ends against the middle.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1907-05-23

Toledo, Ohio, is also vigorous
ly objecting to the appointment
of a negro collector. After all,
South Carolina did not make so
much fuss about it as Ohio is
doing.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1907-05-23

A Chicago University pro-
lessor proposes that gate re-
ceipts be abolished and college
athletics endowed. Here is a
chance for Mr.. Carnegie to even
up with Mr.. Rockefeller.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1907-05-23

Don't eat much meat if you
want healthy children says DR..
Watson of Scotland. AS long as
price remains at the present
level, a great many people will
lnscieusly take hEadvice.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1907-05-23

Congress will leave a deficit
hole almost large enough for
Bryan to crawl through.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1907-05-23

If Bryan keeps hanging
around Boston, old Madam
Democracy will begin to call him
Hubby"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-10-08

opportunity to obtain an education, and, l may say, no amusement is too expressing to distract the attention of the children from their books. Nat urally, the result of such interest as this is manifest everywhere. The pro- gress of the people of the islands mentally has been really astonishing since the Americans came into pos session. In an industrial and com- mercial way, too, the development of the Philippines has been wonderful.
 Tn Manila, living is cheaper than it is in the United States, partly for local reasons-the luXuriance of ev- erything that grows being remark able-and partly because no duty is paid on imports to the islands from Europe. Every important article is cheaper in Manila than it is in Amer ica, but, of course, the people do not make so much money in wages as they make in this country.
 'The natives who can read English literally devour our library. It was founded by Mrs. Harry Egbert and she today is the librarian. We have about 26,OOO volumes, about one-third of which is fiction. Our books circu- late largely among the army posts and camps in the islands. The libra ny has accomplished a great good in the islands and is being the more widely and generally used all the time"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-10-08
0AsTo7TA. p..,.+h. oIhe Kind You faye Always Bough '':::::': s';:; 5; :': ,;:;:;z2;! Z; Z; z; z: ''''
MAKES ATTACK
 ON HARTMAN

New York, Oct. S.-Great interest is manifested in financial circles in the action to be taken by the stock holders of the Union Pacific Railroad Company at their annual meeting, to begin at noon today in the offices of the company at Salt Lake City, Utah As stated in the call, the session is for the purpose of "the election of fifteen directors of the company and for the transaction of such other busi- ness as may legally come before the meeting" The present board of di- rectors is composed of B. H. Harri- man, William G. Rockefeller, Henry H.. Rogers, Henry c. Prick, Robert w.. Goelet, Charles A. Peabody, Oliver Ames, William D. Cornish, A. J. Ear ling, Marvin Hughitt, William Mahl, R. s. Lovett, Joseph F. Smith, James Stilman and P. A. Valentine.
 While it is expected that the meet element of interest has been added by the sensational open letter ad- dresed by the New York World to the directors of the Union Pacific, detail ing the financial career of E. H. liar riman and demanding that he be busted from his position of supremacy in the affairs of the road. It says, in part:
 'You will meet in Salt Lake City to pass upon the acts of Edward H. Hartman. You will there decide whether, in the language of the prox ies soliciting votes therfor, you will specifically approve and ratify his acts.
 "In reality, what you are called to pass upon has a much broader inter- est than your own corporation. It is whether the standards of honesty, of trust, of business honor and civic
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-10-08
LET THE WOMEN
 DO THE WORK That Is Apparently the Motto Under Which Fil- ipino Men Live-Women the Brains and Hustle. MEN ARE POOR LOT Miss Dwyer, an American Girl, Tells of Conditions There-Says Educa. tion Has Set the Filipinos to Ac- tiOn-Liying Is Cheap There.
MEN ARE POOR LOT

Washington, D. C., Oct. S.-"Fili- pino women are the men of the archi- pelago. Of course, that sounds para doxical and, in physical sense, it is; but it nevertheless expresses a con- crete fact. The native women are the real factors in the progress of the islands They are making for the success of the Philippines in a com mercial and material way. They are workers, and they are ambitious and intelligent. They are full of business and the development of the islands since American occupation is due largely, if not entirely, to the women. As a rule, the men are poor lot. The women are better developed physically and mentally than the men and they are more deeply interested in the practical things of life. The men are bright enough, but they de- vote much of their time to politics, academic discussion and gossip. While the women, even the younger ones, are not speedily particular about their personal appearance, the men are devoted to ths fashions. They think more about the cut of their clothes, the style of their hats or the set of their neckties than they think of how best they may promote their material prospects. The women run the household, and they far better than the men, know what an estab- lishment costs and where the money is to come from to pay the bills"
 This curious, interesting and im- portant statement was made by Miss Bessie A. Dwyer, an American girl who for four years has been assist ant librarian of the American libra ry at Manila. Miss Dwyer, who is a daughter of the late Judge Thomas A. Dwyer, of San Antonio, Texas, went to Manila about four years ago to make her living She has won an en- Viable reputation in the work she chose to follow and is beloved by thousands in Manila, both natives and Americans;
 "Do you know continued Miss Dwyer, speaking of her experience in the Manila library, "the better class es of Filipinos are gone mad over ed ucation They actually are daft on the subject. They will go hungry in order to read and study. No sacrifice is too great to be made by parents in order that their children may have
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-10-08

Salesman Wanted-We want good salesmen to sell lots in New Oklahoma towns just opening up, exclusive territory given to general agents, good proposition and big commission, experienced men pre- ferred, write stating experience. Rock Island Pacific Development
 Company.
 Suite 4O1-2-3 Frisco Bldg.
 St. Louis, Mo.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-10-08

responsibility of the leaders of if
 nance in the Uinted States shall be ,, high or low. Specifically, you are , called upon either to approve or dis approve the acts of Edward H. Har-
 riman and to signify whether he is your ideal of corporate manager, of trustee, of a financial leader, or whether the acts which he has con- fessedly done are such as to demand his and their repudiation by you and to disqualify him from further con tinuance in any place of public pow CT or responsibility.
 "The present prevalence of finan- cial distrust, popular apprehension
 and credit disorganization is due more
 directly to Edward H. Hartman than
 to any other one person. In the
 successive disclosures of Equitable
 corruption, Union Pacific corruption,
 Chicago & Alton corruption, and po-
 litical corruption both in the state affairs of New York and nationally, Edward H. Hartman has stood forth as the master mover and chief cor ruptor. He is the pre-eminent figure in all these transactions, and the just
 public demand for his punishment should be fulfilled. So long as. his control is continued, so long as his methods are tolerated, so long as he is protected by directors morally re- sponsible for his practices, just so long will the American public believe that Harrimanism is typical of all American railroad and financial man. agement and just so long will it be useless to try to ctem the tide of
 public resentment gainst all great corporations, good or bad, honest or corrupt
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-10-08
NOTICE

Is hereby given that, on Monday, October 14, 1907. as administrative of the estate of Robert Jackson, de- ceased, I will apply to the Probate Court of Jefferson county, Arkansas, for an order to sell lands belonging to the said estate for the purpose of paying the debts of said intestate.
 ELLA JACKSON,
 Administrative.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-10-08
NOTICE

Is hereby given that, on Monday, Oc- tober IA, 1907, as administrator of the estate of Wiley Jones, deceased, we will apply to the Probate Court of Jefferson county, Arkansas, for an order to sell lands belonging to said estate, for the purpose of paying the debts of said intestate.
 PINE BLUFF TRUST COMPANY,
 Administrator
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-01-07

The typhoever Mont Clair reported in the Bulletin
November 10TH promptly checked stopping the
wells whose showed contamination The
that time that the infection carried in the
from the several wells referred the samples of milk and city
examined good Further investigation however, during
following few days. established the fact that practically all the
families having the of fever reported obtained their
milk supply from local dealer whose had had attack Of
typhoid fever years ago The well this place only owo
feet from Clubhouse whose vault full level with the ground
the time of examination Although the house supplied with city
there indications that the we'll occasionally
to wash the milk pals and utensils
MANY of the wells in the neghborhood dry during
As occurred in families using only city water and
the widely scattered probable that the sup
ply directly responsible above indicated The fact that the
samples OF milk examined pure may only indicate
the contaminated had been discontinued before samples
secured.
The Department at least considered the milk suspicious
erected the sterilization OF the implements the dconnuance
of well water and stopped the milk for two weeks No
casesr resulted"
Ihat shooting up Of Bownv
prove pretty serious affair." especially
II 1t snashes
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-01-07
An Important
Anniversary


Virginia There had been many previous attempts at settlement by
English successful until the colony
that numbered its members Captain John Smith settled the
the James River and named their settlement honor of
their King.
previous successful and permanent settlements by the
Spanish boundaries of the United States ST.
Augustine Florida had been settled in the previous century And
what the Territory OF New Mexico thou
inland thousands miles the Atlantic and desert
1t would though the of adventure could
the of Fe time its settle
In the heart whose shores yet
nged with the settlements OF civilized people, Spain planted its civil
Ezaton its church, and its life But the life agnaed The settle
planted there. 1t did die but did grow
exercised only nhntesma influence any, the
the country.
The jamestown settlement the other hand fruitful in Unfit
From dates the beginnings and history the United States
The inevitable exposition be held celebrate seventeenth
century that much for the future of religious
liberty throughout the world 1t Jamestown English chris
tanty introduced to America The three hundredh anniversary
Of that fact to be observed by holding the enna Convention Of
the Protestant Episcopal Church. Richmond Virginia
where the first parish organized The English
church had frequently been used America before
with the settlement jamestown that the English church and
Ter services established in America In the previous century
services OF the English church had been said
Of America When Sir Francis Drake sailed
Coast services said land within what limits
Francisco, well as, perhaps, at other places.
The jamestown anniversary both its civil ecclesiastical
aspects, is interesting