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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-08

dante. the major of the 4th Battalion.
who appeared at the designated spot with
sufficient escort and with Gov Curry.
The latter was to accept the surrender in
the name of the civil government,
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Has a Sense of Humor.

After we had gone many miles into the
country and had begun to learn the art
of carrying on a conversation under re-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-08
Filipinos Are Adaptable.

Concerning his little brown friends Maj.
Rowland is enthusiastic. and he has many
good stories to tel of their ingenuity
One of his sergeants was Malay wear
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-08

ROM d reporters job i'm Wash
lngton TO field rank in the Army
of the United States is a long
jump. And when the jump is
made inside Of :. IaraIa tba
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-07-09
UPSET BOAT A SOUND BELL.
Woman's Voice Carried Half a Mile to
Man In Motor Boat.

By most peculiar means were two
women and two men rescued from
drowning in the Susquehanna river at
Millersburg, Pa, the other day. Miss
Maude Hamaker, accompanied by her
guest, Miss Nellie Lehman of Remove,
and two men from Lykens, was up
set at q rowing party. Miss Hamaker
and the two men jumped and held to
the keel, but Miss Lehman's dress
caught on nail, and she came up
with her head in the air chamber form
ed between the upturned bottom of the
boat and the surface of the water
In this supposed death trap she fran
tically screamed for help. Although
she thought the resounding echo of her
voice in the small chamber was only
a mocking death, her voice was carried
by the water and heard by Mark John
son in his motor boat half a mile away.
Fastening to the rescue, he could
not account for the strange female
voice heard SO distinctly amid the
screams of Miss Hamaker. Not until
she appealed TO him to right her boat
did he realize the strangely heroic role
Miss Lehman played.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-07-09
THE CAPTAINS PLAN.
His Rule For Fighting Seasckness
Didn't Work Both Ways.


a young woman who recently made
a trip to Europe decided to consult
the captain of the ship as 10 the best
preventive for seasickness. Having
armed herself with a letter of intro.
duction to the officer, she waited until
the ship had cleared Sandy Hook, says
writer in the Bohemian. and then
approached him She described her
fears and begged for a remedy.
My dear lady" replied the captain,
with an amused smile. you will not
be troubled with any illness If you will
do what l tell you. Most ladies con
fine themselves to their staterooms and
thereby incur the very thing they fear
Now. If you will stay on deck, get all
the fresh air you can, walk up and
down. take good physical care of your.
self and try not to think of trouble you
will never be seasick"
The lady thanked him. She followed
the directions faithfully, and when the
ship ran into the tail end of heavy
northwest gale she never felt a qualm.
She appeared regularly at meals and
enjoyed herself thoroughly.
As the gale was abating she be.
thought her that it was due the cap
tain that she should thank him for his
good advice and. approaching the deck
steward, intrusted him with message
asking for an Interview In due time
the steward returned. saying that the
captain was unable to grant her an
interview.
''Why not?" she questioned. "Why
won't he see me?"
Captains compliments. miss" said
the steward, but he's suffering with a
bit of seasickness which as lasted
two days now, an he amt in shape to
talk to YOU"
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-07-09
CARING For the Nose.

"It's a funny thing" said a doctor,
'that the average man pays less at
tention. TO the most prominent feature
his countenance. Yes, it's the nose I'm
speaking of. We clamp it with eye
glasses that pinch too much or impose
upon it spectacles that are altogether
too heavy. Then we wonder why it In
creases in size or perhaps in redness.
But this lack of care for the nose is
not restricted to those whose vision is
defective. | venture to say that not
one man out of ten washes his nose in
the way that he should. Every other
part of the face comes in for vigor-
Gus scrubbing, but the nose, which
needs 1t most of all, is apt to be pass
ed over gently-probably because it Is
being used to breathe through during
the ablutions. The result is that the
nose gives more and more evidence Of
being neglected. The tissues become
flabby, and the pores are filed up. 4
little massage would work wonders in
such cases, but it is rarely given.
"Notice the men you see In half an
hours time, and then tell me If my
comments are not justified. Then see
what you can do for your own nose
New York Press
"Say, pa"
"What is it?"
"Can n man who IS rounded of at
the corners be called square manf"
what kind of a man is one who is
rounded off at the corners?"
"a bow legged one"
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-07-09
Cauliflower Luncheon the Latest.

1t is not new to have a certain fruit
served in many forms at Il luncheon
and bestow the name of that fruit upon
the meal. Thus the stra wberry lunch
con and the cantaloupe luncheon are
old friends. But to use that idea in
connection with vegetables seems new.
Has anybody heard of a spinach lunch
con? Miss Newberry, daughter of the
assistant secretary Of the navy. struck
out along that path recently when
she gave cauliflower luncheon. Cauli-
flower was used even as Il center
piece, white and dainty looking and
surrounded by noddisg clusters of
white sweet peas. Every course intro
duced the same vegetable, and the
cakes and ices We're miniature heads
of the patrician cabbage. Miss New
berry wore white organdie, much be-
frilled and suggestive of cauli1ower
The idea does not seem poetic, but is
novel
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-07-09
THRILLING SPORT.
Rafting Down the Canyons of an Un.
mapped Glacial River.

With provisions for only ten days a
party of explorers in Alaska found one
September that they must build rafts
and take their chances of letting the
swift river carry them to settlements
wise Ice and snow would shut them in
from all hope of rescue. In "The
Shameless Diary of an Explorer" Rob
ert Dunn tells of the journey on the
roughly made RATS.
"At IL O'Clock today began the most
thrilling sport know, rafting down
the snaky canyons of an unmapped
glacial river.
Erred and captained the Mary Ann
IL, the other three the Ethel May. We
rasped and hauled them over the gravel
shadows of our tributary, shot out
between the main walls of the stream
and seized upon that boiling current.
I'VE reached silently from cliff to
cliff, Jammed pike poles into the slate
shelf overhead, twirled out of eddies.
We bumped and grounded. We dashed
overheard and on the run eased her
across shadows. We tugged half an
hour to make an inch at each shove
through the gravel, suddenly plunged
In to our necks, and she leaped free as
we scrambled on.
'Bowlders rose through white ruffs
of water in midchannel We might or
might not hang on them for perpen
dicular minute.
''You must be very handy with d
pole. You must have a hair fine eye
for moving angles, the strength of an
eddy, the depth of foam ruffling ovel
n stump. You must be surer of the
length of your pole than polo player
OF the reach of his mallet. You mus
be quicker than a Siwash dog. You
must know the different weight OF
each log down to ounces, the balance
of the duffel piled high like a dais
covered with the tent and the bean pot
the mackinaws and the AK lashed t
all the lashings. It's a pretty game"
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-07-09
SIGN OF A BEATEN MAN.
Runner Who Looks Behind Almost
Sure to Lose the Race.

Sure to Lose the Race.
"There are many more good distance
runners now than in my days." said an
old time champion after watching u
three mile scratch race at the New
York Athletic club games. But the
habits of the runners have not changed
any, for 1 noticed one little trick in
the race that bore the significance that
used to attach to it
ITO the casual onlooker there was
nothing to choose between the two
leaders when they were beginning the
last quarter Of mile. Right from the
crack Of the pistol they were running
almost stride for stride with the low,
graceful, easy action of the real loug
distance runner.
Neither had called into use the re.
serve power which must be utilized in
the final sprint for victory when they
turned into the stretch for the final
lap. Then one of them slightly turned
his head to see where the third man
was.
"'That man Is BEATEN was the
thought which occurred to me at once
and it proved true, as always, for when
the dash for the finish began he allow,
ed his rival to get lead of five yards
before going after him In earnest pur
suit.
From that point to the finish there
was no perceptible difference in the
speed Of the men, but the man whc
had turned his head to make sure that
he would get second place, instead OF
bending every energy to win, of course
landed where his thoughts placed
him."-New York Sun.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-07-09
Need and Needs.

Perhaps many persons have wonder.
ed why we are taught to say "He need
not do that" instead of He needs not
do that" as the singular pronoun. he
requires under ordinary conditions the
singular form of the verb. The reason
is that in a sentence of that kind, O
negative sentence, expressing require
ment or obligation, need" becomes ar
auxiliary and takes no change of termi
nation In the third person singular
This exception is laid down in the
grammars.- News.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-07-09
A NATIONAL DANGER.
Or. DarIington's Warning as to
Cause of Heart Disease.
MENTAL AND BODILY UNREST.
Equanimity Need of the Times, Says
Health commissioner-Cardiac Dis
ease Mortality Increases, While That
From Other MaIadies Declines


That the effect produced by high
strung nervous tension induced by
modern methods of social and business
competition must be regarded as a
functional and ultimately organic car
diac disease was the point made the
other day by DR.. Thomas Darlington,
commissioner of health of New York
city, at the twenty-fifth annual meet
ing of the American Climatological as
sociation, which assembled at Boston
under the presidency of DR.. Thomas D..
Coleman of Augusta, Ga.
During the early years of our ma
tional life," said DR.. Darlington, phys
ical labor was the rule and essential in
the upbuiiding of the country, but with
it, hand in hand, went the normal and
wholesome conditions of living i'm
posed by the limitations of Il young
country and the yirile qualifications
inherent in the hardy settler.
Then, with the advent of what we
are pleased to call the concomitant
attributes of civilization, came the age
of social and mental unrest, vast com
mercial opportunities and competition
We are paying our prices for our so
cial and material advancement.
"Out of 2TJ0O0 children examined in
the public schools of New York city
more than 20 per cent were found to
be suffering from some physical abnor.
mality-all handicapped at the very
beginning of their life struggle-and
of these children nearly $500 had heart
disease in some form. There is a wide
gulf between the three RS which were
taught in the country school fifty year,
ago and the extensive and overbur
dening system of education now placed
before the children. Economic condi
| tions today are also bearing hard upoI
their physical well being.
"Children acquire by subtle inference
the thought that tne ultimate measure
of gain is the acquisition of the al
mighty dollar With such a goal thi
race starts early in life and competi
tion is the relentless pacemaker.
In this connection we must take &C
count of the modern tendency to over
indulgence in athletic sports. 1t is wei
known that oyeracdvity In this direc
ton, with the physical strain resultin;
from keenly contested games. leaves
its imprint on the physical status o
the immature or under developed youth
Insurance companies consider athlete
| poor risks and this attitude is wei
grounded. 1t would seem that the med
ical profession might well take cogni
zance of this matter to ascertain wha
bearing it has, if any, upon this ques
ton of the increase in the prevalence
of and death rate from heart disease.
"Osler, the master mind in medicine
has given to his profession its maste
word. and in it is held, If not entirel,
at least partially, the solution of on
difficulties.
'Equanimity' is the need of tn
times and the need of the people. lie
us teach it; let us live according TO it
law. In calmness of mind and evennes
of purpose we may find the panace
the world is seeking to combat, the Ill
arising from mental and physical III
| rest "
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-07-09
The Gun Barrels Grew.

In the early days in the northwest,
when the Hudson Bay company laid the
foundations Of great fortunes by trade
with the savages and n gun paid for o.
many beaver skins as would reach to
the muzzle Of it, the skins packed fat
and the gun held upright, it was alleg
ed that the barrel of the weapon grew
and grew with each successive year
until the Indian. after he had bought
it with the peltry, had to borrow file
and cut off a foot of useless metal
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-07-09
OBJECT LESSON FOR FARMERS
Secretary Wilson's Plan For Showing
How to Make Denatured Alcohol.

TOW TO wake Denatured Rlcohol.
Secretary Wilson has decided to give
the farmers of the country a practical
demonstration of how to make dena-
tured alcohol.
He will establish at Washington, in
one of the buildings of the department
o. agriculture. a model station, or
plant, where farmers and others inter.
ested in the subject will be shown how
to make alcohol out of the various
waste products of the farm, such as
decayed fruit, corn, potatoes and the
like, which cannot be used for any 9th.
er purpose.
The farmers have been slow to take
up this matter, and Secretary Wilson
wants to instruct and encourage them.
The management of the corn eXposi,
tion which is to be held at Omaha
next fall wants Secretary Wilson to
establish a station there and give dem.
onstrations. The secretary would like
to do so, but won't unless congress
makes the necessary appropriation.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-07-09
SaIutina the Quarter Deck.

One of the oldest customs In the
navy and one that is often puzzllng to
the landsman is that of "saluting the
quarter deck" Many have the hazy
idea that The national colors are its
object and that it is merely a naval
fad. While to certain extent 1t is o
fad, it is one of hoary antiquity, be.
Ing a survival of the days when a cru.
citix was placed on the stern of a ship
and was always saluted as a matter
of course. When the cruclfix was taken
away the old feeling still remained
and men continued TO salute the place
where 1t had been. The younger gen.
Grafton initiated their elders, and the
salute became habit and continues
until this day.-Los Angeles Times.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-07-09
Sprinq Doq- qerel.

Oh. listen close for the voice of spring!
Though faint and fine, It's the fairest
thing
That ever assailed the ear.
Chilly winter may do for frs,
But wait till the pussy willow purs
And the cows lips lap the sap as IL
stirs-
delicate thing 10 hear.
But, truest tone of them all to me.
love the bark of the dog-wood tree.
With marshes Haunting a hundred flags
While every delicate cat-tail wags,
What care l for city news?
Each blossom blows like a faroff flute.
And the wilder flowers their pistils shoot.
While all the trumpet vines tendrilly toot.
Earning their honest dews.
From a litter of leaves comes a sound
All, me
The shrill bough-wow OF the dog-wood
tree
Burgess Johnson in Good Housekeeping
For April
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-07-09
Three Grnat Riuara

The three rivers which fiay be re-
garded from a commercial point 6f
view as the most important In the af-
fairs Of the world are those on which
the three greatest cities are situated.
The Thames, on which London, with
its 100000 of people, is located, has a
length of 215 miles. The Hudson, at
the mouth of which is New York, with
100000 of people, is about $50 miles
long, while the Seine, on which Paris
stands, with her 100000 inha bitants,
Is 497 miles long.-New York Tribune.
Silence and blushlng are the clio
quence Of women.-Chinese.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-07-09

The iron crown of Lombardy. sc
called from the narrow iron band with
in 1t supposed to have been beaten out
of one of the nails used at the cruel
fxion, was probably first worn by
Aglluph at his coronation in sol. The
historic crown after gracing the brows
of such sovereigns as Charlemagne
Henry of Luxembourg. Frederick ".
Charles V. ard the great Napoleon was
in 1sff ii up to Victor Emmanue
-ow preserved with great care
JnZa, near Milan.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-07-09
sielovitoka Forest, Lithuania.

In the great park Bielovitoka forest,
in Lithuania, which is about $50 miles
in circumference, the primeval forest
still stands, and all the wild animals
native to central European forests are
found there except bears and wolves,
which were eXterminated some years
ago. Except for the roads which pass
through it. the forest is unchanged. 1t
Is visited by few people except the for
esters.-Forest and Stream.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-07-09
One State Short.

"Jedge," said the old darky, ''you
been married man a hong timer
"Yes."
"An' you experience Is jest an
wise?"
81 hope so. WhyG"
"weI, sub, got oman ter say
she'll marry me- one dat's willin' ter
rise airly an make livin' fer de oil
man, dat's why"
"But-you are a very old man. Were
you never married"
"Oh, yes, suh." was the reply "in
Tennessee an Alabama. but both er
'um tried to rule me, an so left 'um
'fo' got experienced good But I'll say
dis much, 1 hez never yit tried de mar
ried state In Georgyr'-Atlanta Consti
tuition.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-07-09
Sweetnote's Vocation.

81. a. Sweetnote, Chicago" That in
scription on the register at the Coates
House in Kansas City excited the curl
osity of one man the other morning.
and when he suggested to the owner Of
The name that it was euphonious one
Mr.. Sweetnote grinned. But there's a
funny connection between my name
and my business he said 'I'm a
travelling salesman for a boiler fac
tory"
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-07-09
ENtravaaance.

This is your little sister, Tommy,
said the father, showing him the baby
'You will love her dearly, will yor
not?"
"Yes, of course" replied Tommy, in
specting the latest arrival. "but it'l
cost Il great deal to keep her. won't it?
81 presume So"
Yes" said Tommy, with a lonl
drawn breath, "and when l asked yo
the other day to buy me a white rat
bit you said you couldn't afford It."
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-07-09
First Electric Furnace For Steel.

What is claimed to be the first cleo
lrical furnace for the production of
lteel in Belgium is approaching COM
pletion at the works of the Societe des
Acieries Liegeoisez at Brussels. 1t is
If the Notwithstanding type.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-07-09
Ptomaina Pnisoninn Cure.

Professor Wassermann of Berlin has
succeeded in finding a serum which
he claims brings about the cure of pto-
maine poisoning
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-07-09
a Vast Difference,

Don't l give you all the money you
need?' her husband complained.
"Yes," she replied, but you told me
before we were married that you would
give me all ! wanted."- - ~
Others Whenever.
Some people make happiness wher-
ever they go.-Success.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-07-09
PLAN TO BUILD NEW ALPS.
Miniature Switzerland to Be Con-
structed of Cement.

miniature oWtlZCTldnO TO DC NOn-
structed of Cement.
A young Alsatian engineer, M. Weiss,
suggests that an artificial range of
mountains should be built some fifteen
miles north and northeast of Paris, In
France.
According to the scheme, which he
explained, be would create sort of
miniature Switzerland within easy
reach of the French cor by taking
n strip of territory by five
miles in length artifi-
cial range rom 5000
to 500
-sserts, be quite possi-
x .nese mountains from huge
cement, which would be cast
on spot. Landscape gardeners
would arrange valleys and precipices
Streams would be artiicially diverted
and caused to fall In cascades. Cog
wheel railways would carry the visit
ors up to picturesque looking villages
He estimates the scheme would cost
S25,000,000, providing labor for 10000
workmen for ten years, and that it
would be of national utility, placing
Swiss scenery almost at the gates of
Paris. Moreover, ii would form n sort
of summer pleasure resort, in which
thousands of people would build coun-
try houses to enjoy the>air of the arti-
fetal mountains. while being able to 20
into the city to business every day.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-07-09
The Good Old DAYS.

The richest man in King Charles
lis England could not get so good
a dinner as tens of thousands will sit
down to today. Cattle were of far
poorer breed. vegetables were few and
bad and the commonest conveniences
of the table were unknown. Fish
knives. for instance. are hardly con-
Fidered an extravagant luxury. but Mr..
Gladstone could remember when they
were not to be found on any table,
London Telegraph.
Possibly the idea has got abroad
among poets that the sea waves are
sad because the ocean Is so very blue
at times.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-07-09
Ice Water Poem.

Lieutenant Governor Henry B. Gray,
the best judge of whisky and the
strongest supporter of the prohibition
law in Alabama, has composed poem
dedicated to the cause of temperance
in the south. At an ice water banquet
in the Country club Of Birmingham,
Ala, the other night he reclted part of
it. The first stanZa is as follows:
The mint bed makes a pasture;
The corkscrew hangeth high.
AL is still along the still side;
The south is going dry,
The Professors Wife-You haven't
kissed me for a week. The Professor
(absently)-Are you sure2 Then who is
1t have been kissing life.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-09

the kittens had six-course fish dinner.
There was pompano a la Montrose,
sand dabs, rock cod, fish balls, F1nnan
haddie and shad roe. What more could
even such eminent cats wish?
Naturally there has been considerable
speculation during the past few days
regarding the choice of a successor to
Manager Sparks Berry of the Auditor
ium theater. Rumor has connected
with the house the names of two men
now in Los Angeles and who represent
widely divergent managerial policies. 4
am informed, however, that nothing has
teen done and that the trustees, who
will appoint the new manager, have not
even considered the matter as yet. Mr..
Berry remains at the house until June l,
and that is still some months away.
"way out Vest had an unusually
big week at the Auditorium, and l I'M
derstand Dick Ferris has taken this to
rIean that his patrons want melodrama.
That may be true, but at the same time
l believe the authenticated managers
reasoning is faulty. The success OIL
Way Out West" in my opinion, doesn't
so much bespeak a desire for melo-
drama as it does a desire for Dick Fer
ris. Every play in which Ferris has APP
peared has done WE'LL and yet lie seems
to have overlooked this fact in his
reasoning anent Way Out West.
That play, moreover, was announced
as his farewell, which doubtless served
further to increase patronage. What
ever the cause, the box office statement
was eminently satisfactory to Dick
Ferris. manager, who is a much more