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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-12
Interesting Bits.
From the Chicago News.

CuIcdgU -NtWs
There are no undertakers in Japan
When a person dies it is the custom for
his nearest relatives to put him into a
coffin and bury him, and the mourning
does not begin until after burial
Stockings made from human hair are
worn by Chinese fishermen as the best
preventive of wet feet. They are drawn
over ordinary cotton stockings, being too
rough for putting near the skin.
WOmen's hairdressing was expensive in
the sixteenth century. Queen Elizabeth
at one time was possessed Of no fewer
than eighty sets of false hair.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-12
Story Of Tirnovo.
From the London Chronicle.


If past history and present geography
alone counted. Tirnovo. where Bulgarian
independence has been proclaimed, should
have become the capital OF the Bulgaria
created by the treaty of Berlin. 1t was
the ancient capital of the Bulgarian tsars
for 200 years, from 1885 until 1t was
captured by the Turks In 1894: and a
glance at the map will show that II is
about the most central town of Bulgaria
proper. If population had counted, Rust
chuk. one Danube, should have been
chosen, since 1t was then twice as big
as either Tirnovo or Sofia. But the choice
fell upon Sofia. tucked away in a corner
of the principality though 1t was. be
cause the future also was borne in mind.
Sofas proximity to Macedonia has been
very important. The refugee population
from Macedonia alone is twice as great
now as the entire population of Sofia was
In 1878
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-12
ALEXANDER Is DYING.
Grand Duke Of Luxembourg Reported
Rapidly Sinking.

TREVES, Prussia, November 12.-
Grand Duke William Alexander of Lux
embourg is today sinking rapidly, and
the chambers have decided to request
his wife, the grand duchess, permanently
to accept the regency which she took
over temporarily last April. The grand
duke. who was born in 1852 is completely
paralyzed on one side, his power of speech
is gone and he Is mentally incapable He
has been i'll for several years
The grand duchess was an infante of
Portugal, Marie Anne, a daughter Of the
late Dom Miguel. She is forty-seven
years old and has been described as an
exceedingly brilliant and handsome wom-
an. The heiress to the throne is Princess
Marie, her eldest daughter, who was
born in 1894
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-12
Reflections of q Bachelor.
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
No other people have to meet such keen
and so much competition as liars.
The average person can get more gem
uine joy out of a grievance than out of a
blessing.
A woman would rather a man made
love to her without meaning IL than mean
1t without making love to her.
If the place where woman keeps the
sheets and pillow cases Is only an old box
she can respect it by calling it the linen
closet.
When a woman has a son it's sign
she is going to make her plans before he
is out of his cradle, for the day when he
becomes President.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-12
Unique Barometer.
From the London Globe.

A Frenchman Is the possessor of a
unique barometer. It consists of the fig
ure of q general made Of gingerbread.
which the Frenchman hangs by q string
attached to a nail. Gingerbread, as eyery
one knows, is easily affected by changes
In the atmosphere. The slightest moisture
renders 1t soft, In dry weather, on the
contrary. it grows hard and tough. When
the general Is flabby the owner takes
his umbrella with him when he goes out.
but if the general Is hard and unyield-
ing, the Frenchman sallies forth arrayed
in his best, with no fears for his spot
less suit or his new hat.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-12
SPENT NIGHT OF TERROR.
Crew of. Ten Men and One Woman
Rescued from Wrecked Steamer.

CLEVELAND, Ohio. November r.
After spending a night of terror fearing
death and suffering from exposure. the
crew OF ten men and one woman of the
steamer John {. Pringle of Detroit In
charge of Capt. t. +. King. was rescued
today by the life-saving crew
The Pringle left here yesterday and was
driven ashore ten miles east by the high
wind. 1t is thought the boat will pound
10 pieces upon the shore. although a tug
is trying to rescue her. The veshel, owned
by Burns Bros. OF Detroit, is built of
wood. Is 173 feet long, and, it is said, Is
not insured
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-12
Colinton, a Stevenson Home.

Colinton. the suggested site for the new
cavalry barracks near Edinburgh pos
sesses interesting literary associations
Much of the boyhood of Robert Louis
Stevenson was spent in its manse. which
was the birthplace of his mother. When
the soldiers occupy the spot. ancient and
modern encampments will be in close con-
junction for vestiges of an extensive camp
can still be seen In the neighborhood.
close by a massive block of whinstone.
which serves to mark the burial place Of
a Danish chief.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-12
JOHNS HOPKINS MAN DEAD.
DR.. VIM. X. Brooks Succumbs at Bal
timore After Prolonged Illness.

BALTIMORE, November 12.-Dr.
William Kieth Brooks, professor Of
zoology at Johns Hopkins University,
and since the founding of that insti-
tuition continuously in its service. led
today after a prolonged illness. He was
born at Cleveland. Ohio, sixty years
ago. DR.. Brooks was distinguished as
biologist and was known as "the
father of the oyster culture" through
his book on The Oyster" He was
member Of the National Academy Of
Sciences and the American Philosophi-
cal Society.
Among the honors received by him
for original research and discoveries
were a medal from the Society d'Accla
nation of Paris the challenger medal,
Edinburg, and a medal bestowed by the
ST. Louis exposition in 1904.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-12
Manila Has New Water Supply,

MANILA November 12-Manila's new
water system. constructed during a period
of three years at an outlay of c2.OO0. 900.
is completed. The water was let loose
this afternoon at the source supply in
the Mariquini valley and sent coursing on
its twenty-mile journey to the city At the
invitation of the municipal authorities
Gov. General Smith turned the wheels
which operate the dam gates and for the
first time the mains in the city's streets
were filled from the new supply.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-12
Attend Humphrey Unwilling

Gen. John r. King, past commander in
chief. G. A. r.: Col. John McElroy. past
national senior vice commander; B. IL.
Warner and Mrs. Isabel Worrell Ball
members OF the national council, w. r.
c.. all of this city. were present as in
vited guests at the ceremonies yesterday
attending the unseiling of the Humphrey
monument at Fredericksburg, Va.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-12
Pin Plant Extends Working Hours

WINSTED, Conn. November 12-No-
tees posted at the New England Pin
Company's plant announce that in the flu
ture the factory will be operated eleven
and one-quarter hours a day instead of
ten hours as in the past. 1t also an
nounced at this time that the company
has taken over four other pin factories
in the state.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-12
Springfield Factories on Full Time.

SPRINGFIELD. Ohio, November r.
The big agricultural implement factories
in this city are running at their normal
capacity for the first time in more than
year. A rush of orders both for do
mestic and export trade has come in
recently Three of the large factories are
working on South American and Russian
orders and a heavy shipment of grain
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-12
Mrs. N. B. Biggs Sues for Divorce.

Mrs. Nora Bell Biggs today sued in the
District Supreme Court for divorce from
Oden B. Biggs. charging cruelty. deser-
ton and infidelity. They were married at
Savage, Md, January 81, 1895. and have
one child. Attorneys d. S. Mackall and
Milton Strasburger represent the wife.
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King Haakon subscribes $4,000.

CHRISTIANIA, November Fixing
Haakon has headed the public subscrip-
ton for Capt. Amundsens polar expedi-
ton, with a donation OF 5000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-12
New Course for French Auto Race.

PARIS. November 1.-THE Automobile
| Club of France has decided to hold the
| big race of 1909 at Anglers, instead of al
| Dieppe. The new course will extend
through the former province of Anjou.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-10-10

In every The arship which destroyed cost the
count 100000 and that imperial aid given his
enterprise The entire nation contributed to the new
machine and the emperor of Germany himself made
contribution of five figures
Photographic views of Count Zeppelins new crea-
ton cannot do it justice because of the immense size OF
its construction The vessel is 445 feet in length or
longer than average city block. 1t is 4Sh feet in
diameter and resting the ground could stand on
the top the gasbag look into the fourth story
window of big city building 1t is monster; the
biggest machine of it's kind ever built.
It possesses the strength of 435 horses having three
motors AS to speed the latest machine cut through
ether at rate of so miles hour, this being terrific
rate of speed for airshp.
Count Zeppelin claims that when the trial trip Is
made he will show that he sail 5000 miles without
stopping and that he carry the weight of four men
that distance The is SO years of and he hopes
to live his wonderful machine the that he
has dreamed. It is his only object of living and
every spare moment is put into it.
Santos Dumont of whom heard much rev
years ago, has dropped out of sight in aerial way
but here in America the of aeronauti@ enterprise
was height during the lu in activities the con-
tnent occasoned by the destruction of the Zeppelin
machine and the building of another.
With Herman Farman getting into action in the
part the United States with the Wright broth
ers working hard aeronautcs in France with Capt
Baldwin of Arrow fame also hard at work the
months were well sprinkled with aerial which
drew the attention of America and the rest Of the world
well.
Then the announcement that the Walter Wellman
aerialarctic expedition in search of the north pole will
make another start year furnishes persons with
fascination for travelling with plenty of gossip Capt
Baldwins "Aeronaut" his latest ship, is just one
twentieth the size of that constructed by Zeppelin The
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eddies of and counercurrents have effect
on the Zeppelin machine while Capt. Baldwin must
needs put forth method for counteracting this
difficulty.
Capt Baldwin is 81 years old and showed great
energy in overcoming obstacles in his path The
spulaons provided that his ship be such
that there would be necessity for shifting the weight
the operator maintain equilibrium the in
ventor designed heavy sandbag apparatus which was
made to shift when an keel must be kept
Walter Wel1mans airship is second in size in the
world. He declares that it easily sail from New
necessary. is known the America and according to
Mr.. Weman, has greater fuelcarryng capacity and
larger radius of action than that the count invented The
total lifting capacity is 1880 pounds.
In talking of the efficiency of his machine Mr.. Well
said Of in this country where guide roping ID
mpractcable and there greater variations Of the tenn
in the Aretics 1t was built for just that work and for
ship is the dscoverer of the north pole it will not be
long before the machine becomes OF practical use to
the American people,
Baldwins being little 80 feet in length
which is rs long and into which air be pumped
atmospheric pressure
The machine which the Wright brothers have brought
out and about which there much secrecy when
they made flights in this country is essentially an aero
plane It consists of tailboard which acts as rud
der and which is manipulated BY the operator lying
fiat and steering with his body. Then there is wing
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-10-10
NaiIina Him.

He-It's jolly nice to kiss one yq
like.
She-(No answer.
He-That is, of course, Il a64
doesn't mind
She-(No answer).
He-If she gets mad It's altogothe
another thing.
She-(No answer.
Held like TO steal kiss now
She-(No ansWerl.
He-If 1t would be quite safe.
She-Have you Finished
He-Oh, yes!
She Then how can you make
many fool remarks when you see
/ am alone and entirely at yH
mercy?-Young's Magazine.
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world which has not made its offer known throughout
the land intentions in the airshp line Germany
contracted pay Zeppelin 100000 he could con-
struet dirgibe which would stay in the air "a hours
and around enough to keep up breeze
The United States in its contract with Capt Bald
wn signed to pay him $3.50 for successful machine
If it exceeded all expectations the captain was
scheduled to receive little $4,000 France has
bounty up nearly country has its band
of airship tars who would snatch the purses.
The big nations of the world right now are engaged
arship race which will be equaled in war nor
peace and is being wAged by dipping into
the national budgets heavily More money is contnu
ally needed to carry the work of attempting sue
cessfu flights and is forthcoming Congress at the
last session turned down plan to put more money
the game but the scientists back of the experiments
hope to have more success at the next meeting.
The activity of the French government in promoting
airship tests with view towards using the device
should war between France and its sister pow
ers gave rise to the in other parts of the
world and to-day Germany is perhaps, most active in
the attempt produce servceabe drigble. The Uni
ted States then took up the quest with fair success
having contracted with Capt Baldwin for airship
But this government it is declared by aeronauts
put enough cash into the project to make high quail
ity of success possible. Upon the results of Capt
Badwns tests rested the fate of other plans to
congressional appropriations.
This aeronautic authorities have before them the
proposition of constructing motors of steering
which will stand the rigorous given them in the air
ship and when this plane is reached it is declared that
the airship will become of practical use.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-10-10
AFRAID TO EAT.
Girl Starving on III-se,ected rood

<
Several years ago I was actual
starving" writes Me. girl, "yet dara
not eat for fear Of the consequence
! had suffered from indigesEc
from overwork, irregular meals ans
improper food, until at last my ssea
ach became SO weak / could aa
scarcely any food without great
tress.
|. Many kinds OF food were tried, ~
with the same discouraging effects.
steadily lost health and strength uni
was but wreck of my former I'D
Having heard of Gfape-Nuts aE
IT'S great merits, / purchased q pac
age, but with little hope that 1t Wou
help mel was SO discouraged.
found it not only appetizing ba
tnat could eat it as / liked and tt
1t satisfied the craving for food III
out causing distress, and if i ms.
use the expression, 1t filled the bill
For months Grape-Nuts was
principal article of diet. felt fron
the very first that I mad found
right way to health and happine
and my anticipations were fully
allied.
with It's continued use / regafn
my usual health and strength. To-d
| am well and can eat anything Il
yet Grape-Nuts food forms gart
my bill of fare" There's d Reasol
Name given by Postum CO., Ra
Creek. Mich. Read 'sTha Road to
vile" In pkgs.
Ever read the above letter. rsH
one appears from, time 10 tire.
are genuine. true, and fuIl Of h
interest
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-10-10

unity, for from the Gentle point of
view the number that have married
cousins is appalling. OF the five chill
dren of the great Nathan each mar
ried a cousin.
And, coming to contemporaries,
Lord Rothschild is the son of cousins
and the husband of cousin. Re
turning to Nathan, the Sidonia OF
"Coningsby," though his offspring
married cousins, reaction followed
In the next generation, for three OF his
granddaughters, two Of whom have
been already named, married not only
out Of the family, but out OF the
faith.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-10-10
Socialism In ,Ianan.

Socialism has no footing IN sA.
country as yet, nor is there any ina
cation that it will gain b footing
the near future at all events PRO e
the war with Russia small cosa
of men calling themselves social
argued vehemently against the
ing of hosti1ities and published
newspaper organ to propagate th
creed. But they soon dWindled
insignificance, and although pei
ical of so-called socialist views
tinues to be published 1t has DO
fluence, nor does it serve any puF
apparently, except to furnish ma
for occasional comment on the pa
amused readers.--Japanese We
Mail
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-10-10

chance to pick him on. He flung to the horses side
his body covered by the animal this perions nos
ton dashed out of view towards the union camp
Too dumbfounded to fire at the animal the southern
soldiers the count sight in the trees and
goodby as he pulled himself into the saddle
In those days the union boys knew their cavalry lem
tenant as Count Yep"
One bright April morning after the prvates had fin
shed their beforebreakast routine Lieut. Zeppelin was
called into Gen Schurz headquarters where he found
number of brother officers assembled
81 want three officers volunteer to go I'D in a can
tive balloon reconnoter the confederate position and
spend half hour there with the glasses said the
general
Half dozen hands flashed to salute in an instant
and Zeppelin, standing near Gen Schurz made
of the trio because of his fearlessness move
in their power puncture the big gas bag with shells
and rife bullets.
So successful the maneuver that Zeppelin became
the brgades balloon expert and he placed in
mand of other air expeditions until he became fully
yersed in art Before resignng his officers post when
his neriod of enlistment out he made
detrimental trips he became possessed of many IDEAS
acme of which are found in his airshp.
The scene then shifts from the year 1864 to 1908.
thousands of upturned Teuton faces along the Rhine
it cheer after cheer the count sails by in his air
shin declared the successful machine Of its kind
ever invented
II took Count Zeppelin years to perfect the de-
toe of the dirigble which destroyed by bolt Of
Iigbtning recently he looked back when working
mon them his memory filled with visions OF his days
&C balloon expert in which capacity the fundamental
principles of the ideas, now g1ltedged, came TO hln
Count Zeppelin is poor He has exhausted
;s nrivate means attempting to give the world an
instrument of and peace which will be great sld
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-10-10
Populous China,

TAe population of the Chinese
plre Is largely matter OF estiu
There has never been such cenaua
the empire as that which
taken every decade in this coun
But the estimate of the Almanacn Z
Gotha for 1900 may be taken as fal
reliable. According to that estiaa
the population of the empire e.
round numbers, about 46O,OOO,0O0.
Is probably safe to say that II
human beings on earth were stood Z
IN line every fourth one would ba
Chinaman,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-10-10
pOTHsCHILDS ONELARGECLAN

Nathan, founder of the London
branch, also was so convinced of the
business capacities of his wife,
Cohen, that he not only left the huge
residue of his fortune at her disposal,
but. says the Ladies' Realm, added
instructions that his sons were to en-
gage in no undertaking of moment
without her consent.
How far the instruction was OBJ
served one is not in position to say,
but it is certain the Rothschilds have
done their best to live in family
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-10-10
Sufferer Describes Agonies Endured in
Russian Penal Settlement.

Horrid is the picture of existence In
the penal colonies of northern Siberia
given in a book just published in Ger
many by L. Tame, who returned to life
after a burial of eight and half years
in the living grave of Kolymsk. In
that time, he says. he saw one after
another of his fellows succumb to sui
eide, hunger and insanity. They were
all young men and all were sent away
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-10-10
TELLS OF SIBERIAN HORROR

for terms ranging from five to ten
years for political offenses.
The trip to Kolymsk takes 16
months. 81 was 20 years DID," he says,
when | was convicted for harboring
liberal convictions. In our party were
a 16-year-old boy and another a year
younger. All told we were so politi-
Gals" The writer describes the ag-
onies of hunger which the deported
tpolitica1s" had to endure. Mail was
received three times year.
I shall never forget one mail day"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-10-10
: General Denls

u the Well-Informed Of the Wos
o,u,ovs been for simple, pleasans
efficient liquid laxative remedy u
,,al,,e. a laxative which physician o5s
sorction for family use because III
ponent parts are known to then
wholesome and truly beneficial d
acceptable to the system and genae
prompt, in action.
In supplying that demand with IL
ceIlent combination Of Syrup Of Figs
r,;v,r Of SIENNA, the California Fig ,.
Co. proceeds along ethical lines and
On the merits Of the laxative FOR its rem
able success.
That is one of many reasons aEls
Syrup Of Figs and Elixir Of SIENNA i
the preference by the Well-Infosns
To get its beneficial effects always hss
the genuine manufactured BY tie c
fornia Fig Syrup Co., only, and fos /.
BY all leading druggists. Price City
per bottle.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-10-10

he says. 'In IS months certain one
of our number had not heard from
home. This mail brought him a letter.
1t was last greeting written in an
uncertain hand by his mother on her
deathbed. In desperation he did what
so many of our party had done before
him, and which others did after we
had laid him away"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-10-10
DEEP CRACKS FROM EczEaA

Could lay slate-Pencil in One ss6
in Dreadful State-:Permanen
Cure in Cuticura.
Il had eczema on my hands
about seven years and during SnM
time / had used several so7called
edies, together with physicians aAH
druggists prescriptions. The dises
was so bad ON my hands that cog
lay sIate-penci1 in one Of the cracks
and rule placed across the h
would not touch the pencil I
using remedy after remedy, and wa
some gave partial relief, none relieg
as much as did the first box Of OK
cura Ointment / made purchase e
Cuticura Soap and Ointment and
hands were perfectly cured after t$a
boxes of Cuticura Ointment and un5
cake of Cuticura Soap were used
II. Dean, Newark, DEL, Mar. 20. 1871