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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-07

dark-brown skins had all the luster of
briarwood pipe we'll oiled.
Souipr tho African EoresfS

dark-b brown skins had all the luster of q
briarwood pipe well oiled.
Saving the African Forests.
In coming from the plains over the
mountains into the Great Rift valley. 1
rode for miles through the woods and had
a chance to see what the British govern
ment is doing to save the forests. Con-
trary to the general opinion. this country
has but little woods except in the hills.
and lumber is high. A great deal of that
used at Mombasa and Nairobi is brought
in from Norway and some comes from
the United States. Leaving the Kikuyu
hills there are woods all the way to the
ridge known as the Escarpment and they
extend for some distance down the sides
of the Rift valley. Here in the valley it
self the country is mostly pasture and
there is no timber Of any account. In
the forest region, above referred to, the
woods are thin. and in many places the
virgin timber has been cleared by the
Wakikuyu, who burn the ground over in
order that they may use the virgin soil
for garden patches. The government is
now prohibiting this and is doing all that
it can to save the trees remaining and to
build up new wood lands. l met here at
Nayaisha an Australian who is one of
the heads of the forestry department. He
tells me that the government has estab-
lished nurseries at Mombasa, Nairobi,
EScdrpmenl ana LdnOdlVl. Near MOm-
hasa they are setting out teak trees, and
at Nairobi they have planted a large
number of acacia and eucalypti, which
they have imported from Australia. The
eucalyptus grows well at Nairobi. I saw
trees there which were seventy-five feet
high, and that although they were only
five years of age.
The Monkeys and the Wood Lands.
This forest manager tells me he is la
boring under the greatest of disadvan-
tages in his efforts to raise new trees He
says he has to fight not only the natives.
but also the monkeys, balloons and other
wild animals. The woods are full OF
monkeys. and among them is dog-faced
baboon which grows as big as a ten-year-
old boy. This animal barks like dog
and acts like devil. 1t watches the
planting and then sneaks in at night and
digs up the trees. If seeds are put In, IL
digs them up and bites then in two, and
if the trees should sprout it pulls the
sprouts out of the ground and breaks
them up and throws them away. AS a
result the nurseries have to be watched
during the day by men with guns in their
hands. If the men have no guns the
balloons will jump for the nearest tree
and make grimaces out of the branches,
only to return to their devastating work
as soon as the watchmen go away. II
guns are brought out the animals realize
their danger and run for their lives.
These monkeys also dig up the Indian
corn planted by the Wakikuyu, and they
are said to be far worse than crows and
blackbirds combined.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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sensational propeller. In the photograph
of the De Marcay do not look for this
propeller at the cars rear. as in the
Patrie. or at the cars front. as in the
Vile de Paris" You will find It in the
center Of the cigar-shaped balloon it
self!
In a word 1t obviates vast waste Of
power by ceasing to drag the balloon
through the air by diagonal pull from
the car which is far below. The De
Marcay cigar shaped balloon is really two
balloons-like a cigar cut in half. almost
joined together at the cutting. The pro-
peller revolves In the slender s-ace be
tween the halves
It's eight blades. like a windmill. pro-
trude around the middle circumference Of
the cigar-shaped balloon. Worked by
below, these blades apply the motive
power at the true center OF the atmos-
phere's resistance-that Is, the center
the big balloon.
We know no more than this or the De
Marcay. The moment Inc French army
took 1t as patriotic gift its semi
public trials ceased instantly. Some day.
when France shall go to war. 1t will dash
out of Toul or Verdun. to transmit back
photographs of the oncoming enemy. and
scatter death and terror where it will!
A Practical Performance.
Death and terror from the clouds! While
their arming is state secret, we know
that firing is done with precision. At go
feet altitude Is per cent of the shots
strike within surface TWENTY-FIVE yards
square, At 500 feet the same percentage
strike within 100 yards square. And SO
on, with the airship moving. Still. the
averages are had at twice the altitude.
More exact fire is not necessary. Rifle
fire not injuring them and artillery being
practically unaimable 1900 feet. the air
tt1nfv h fOh m
sives with strange and stampeding de-
vastation. No Hague conference can stop
1t any more than it could stop the blowing
up of the battleships by submarine tor
pedoes.
Death and terror from the clouds!
All this is practical performance, not
theory. The aerial monsters. ready arme-.
exist. There is not a detail of what
have told that is not daily practiced by
them-all except the actual killing.
whiting twenty-four hours after the
breaking out of hostilities. the French
could launch three or four such airships
on the enemy. Within five or ten days
they could have ten or fifteen In the air.
Within six months they will have quite
that number in commission.
Who knows? They may have ten or
fifteen now. inflated, with their compress
ed air tubes for the firing of explosives in
position. When they made the Patrie
cruise hours over Paris. week by week, It
was good bluff. We got SO used to seeing
the Patrie half mile above the Grand
Opera that we came to think they had
the Patrie only.
What of the others? Spies of other ma
tions, even, seldom see them afar on.
They have little information of their vital
details or their number.
Much maneuvering is done at night. A
searchlight darts on high in the black
ness, like a meteor. 1t sweeps great
areas-and is gone.
By day the fanatic frontier populations
around Toul or Verdun will mishandle
any foreigner who dares to even turn and
look at the cigar-shaped thing that sails
swift, high up over there. afar of.
STERLING HELLO.
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do now, refitted for the army, may be
only guessed. The Patrie, with a stronger
motor-force unknown-made the straight
Paris-Verdun trip of nearly 200 miles in
six hours. I have heard the Vile de
Paris will be speedier as a war engine
They are true war engines. When the
wind obliges serious struggle three of
the four persons in the car must occupy
themselves with mere aerial maneuver-
fng-the pilot, his second and the mech
anician. In weak winds two persons suf-
flee. leaving the two others to make OBJ
servations-or make war!
The trepidation of the car does not pre-
vent photography. Apparatus fitted with
the telescope attachment get such views
of camps and troops that's samples recent
ly published in ILLUSTRATION caused
alarmed activity at Berlin. You remem-
Der seeing those views in the papers?
They had been taken from the Patrie Just
before its loss during a mock attack on
Verdun-one of the most formidable of
the fortified camps Of the Franco-Ger-
man frontier.
A Sensation.
The last word was not told however, at
that moment. There is something abso-
lutely sensational. The engineer Berjon-
neau, who lives beside me at Neuilly, has
a practical system of transmitting photo
graphs by telegraph. not like Korn over
wires. but by the Hertzian waves
Now. the wireless telegraph apparatus
carried by all French army airships and
fitted on the Vile de Paris only yesterday
includes the Berjonneau photograph trans
mitter-a lightning speed adoption by a
red-tape-bound army board eloquent of
the intense activity of Europe in these
war airship matters.
Two hundred miles away there Is the
Eiffel Tower, with its Hertzian wave
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his ear so stretched that 1t held plug as
big as my fist. l bought the plug of him
for . cents. and the man then took the
two lobes Of lis ears and joined them to-
gather under his CHR ard tied them there
with Il bit of str ng in order that they
might not catch on branch or something
else he went through the forest.
This seccTi man had brass collar
about his neck and coils Of brass wire
about each wrist and over the biceps of
each arm. His only clothing consisted of
a strip of dirty white cotton which was
fastened over one shoulder and fell ITO
his thighs He had pronounced negro
features and where the red clay had worn
off his skin vas as black my boots.
Cattle Sleep With the People.
These Wakikuyu live in small villages
Their towns look like collections of hay
cocks until you come close to them and
when you get inside you find that they
contain as many animals as men. The
houses are matched huts built about six
feet apart il circles around an Enclosure
in which the cattle, sheep and goats are
kept at night. The sheep and goats often
get inside the hrts. and as for the chick
ems, they go everywhere. Each circle Of
huts usually belongs to one family, chief
and his relatives thus living together
The huts have wooden walls about four
ieet hiSl with cOnical roofs. The wood
is chopped cat of the trees with the ma
tive axes. the boards being about eighteen
inches or two feet in width. They are
made hy the natives, a man and his wives
requiring about ten days to build a hut
The Woo! used is soft. and the kind is
regulated by the government which
charges the natives 66 cents for enough
wood to build one hut.
In addition to the huts each family has
two or three .,ranares to keep it's winter
supply of Indian corn. These are made
with wicker walls and wicker floors, and
are raised foot or eighteen inches off
the ground They are usually about as
big around as Il hogshead and six feet in
height. They have matched roofs.
What They Eat.
The Wakikuyu are practically vege-
tarians. They live on corn beans, sweet
potatoes and kind of millet They have
a few cattle and some sheep, but they
consider them too valuable to be killed
and they only eat them when the
co tie ar, sick or become injured in
some way and have to be killed They
rave chickens, and eat neither fowls
nor eggs. The reason for this is that chick
ems crow, and in the past the locality of
village could lie told by the cocks and
thereby brought down its enemies and the
slave traders upon It,
These people have many dishes like ours
They eat roasting ears off the cob. and
they boil beans and corn together. making
kind of succotash. They have also
cruel made of miilet and milk. and IL one
of the family becomes sick they some
times give him mutton broth. In their
cooking they use clay jars, which they
rest unon stones and build fires under
them They use gourds for carrying milk
and water and make bags of woven bark
ranging in size from pint to four BUSH
els Such bags are used for all sorts of
purposes. and the larger ones serve for
| the TRANSPORTATION OF their grain to the
markets.
The Wakikuyu looks upon the females
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Special Correspondence of The Star.


7HE news that our Signal Corps
has asked Peter Cooper Hew-
lit to aid in constructing war
airships makes a profound i'm
preston in Paris.
It is confirmation by the practical
Americans of the necessity of all the
feverish European preparation for war
from the clouds that goes on at this
moment.
When the Patrie was wrecked the
French army had at once choice OF
three airships, as gifts from private par
ties. to replace it-Deutschs Vile de
Paris and the Malecot and De Marcay-
magnificent new dirigibles. And the etat-
majors choice was to accept all three.
Who knows how many more they have,
both built and building? They are al
lady terrible. They carry three or four
N each. with guns and scouting appa-
is until yesterday unknown, as you
see.
many, Spain. Italy, Russia and Aus
Til soon have fiotillas of these new
,ctcal cigar-shaped balloons. All
'etails are kept secret. but France,
st in both number and exports. mas
most facts leak out. Thus it was
pit secret that the patriotic DeutSch.
IT and De Marcay offered their SUI
machines as gifts. although most
las been about the Vile de Paris.
z all dirigibles of the Patrie type,
ed from LIE Jaune-itself a gift to
army from the rich Lebaudys, who
built 1.-THE Vile de Paris goes out
he rain. They compensate the IN
tsed weight of wetness by dropping
pounds ballast Ballast. automatic
YES. compromising interior air balloons
I'd toughness Of material permit the
lille de Paris to navigate almost a mile
Ugh without bursting in the decreased
atmospheric pressure.
We may take the Vile de Paris as the
type of these war airships become terrible
by the one element of greatly increased
motive power. I'll speak of averages
doubtless concealed. To make twenty
two miles per hour the Vile de Paris as
the pleasure craft of NJ. Deutsch con-
sumed thirty pounds of automobile es-
this cost it's speed could be pushed up to
thirty miles per hour,
May Be Only Guessed.
1t was speed through the air! In still
air 1t was distance over the ground.
Going with wind of ten miles per hour
1t covered twenty-five, or thirty miles
plus ten. making thirty-two, or forty
miles over the ground. Against wind of
ten miles per hour 1t would cover twenty
two, or thirty miles less ten-say, twelve
or twenty miles.
This was when the Vile de Paris had it's
original 70-horsepower motor. With four
persons in the car it's normal provision
was 1910 pounds sand ballast and 1870
pounds essence. This permitted six hours
aerial travel and 12i miles distance with
out landing.
Again and again the Vile de Paris made
such pleasure trips with NJ. Deutsch. the
owner, and NM. Surcouf and kapferer,
his NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. What it will
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A. Safe Move.

From the Catholic Tribune.
Said man who had been detected
cheating at cards: They threaten to kick
me downstairs. What am l to doT'
The friend appealed to offered this time
ly counsel: play on the ground floor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-07
Copyright. 1908. by Frank G. Carpenter
Special Correspondence Of The Star.

SDeCial Correspondence OF uC SlaI
NAvAISHA.
g r AVE you ever heard Of the
4 wakiisuyu?
There are more than mil
T. lion of them IN this part OF
Africa. They live on the high
lands just east of here and about Mount
Kenia, which is more TO the north.
reached their country shortly after leaV-
ing Nairobi, the capital of British East
Africa. That town is at the end OF a
series OF highlands. 1t is on the western
edge Of a plateau and the land rises be-
yond it. We mounted over 1900 feet in
twenty-four miles and then found our
selves among the villages of these curious
people. We could see their little farms
everywhere They take up patches of
woodland and burn off the trees After
that they work the ground to death for
few years. and then go off to take up
patches somewhere else Some of their
farms are no bigger than a bed quilt.
others cover a quarter OF an acre and
some twice as much. The fields are not
fenced and now and then rhino or
hippo gets in and wallows while near the
woodlands the monkeys pull up the crops.
The chief thing raised is Indian corn. l
see the women everywhere working the
fields Half nude, they bend low, pull
ing the weeds and digging the ground
over with hoes. In most places the men
SQUAT around on the ground and keep
them up TO their work. The more wives
a man has the richer he is; and the more
lie drives his wives the better his farm
Indeed the cheapest cattle here are human
cattle.
Grease, Clay and Telegraph Wire.
The chief dress of the Wakikuyu con-
sists of grease, clay and telegraph wire.
The grease makes their brown skins
shine the red clay gives il a copper hue,
and the telegraph wire loads their ans,
necks and ankles. The grease is usually
mutton fat and the clay is the red soil
found everywhere. The more rancid the
fat the better they seem to ike IL. The
average man or woman smells high 10
Heaven and one can distinguish IA ma
tive's existence before lie gets TO MIN.
They soak their hair with this grease, and
under the tropical sun you can almost
hair with clay SO that it can be put up in
all sorts of shapes. making their headgear
q pale brick-rust color. L examined one
mans head the other day. 1t was COW
cred with something like 10000 individual
curls which stood out over his pate like
the snakes of the Medusa. Each curl
was an inch long and il had been twisted
by a professional hairdresser
Pipe Stems as Ear Plugs.
This man had three long pipe stems in
each ear. Each was big around as
lead pencil and of about the same length.
1t was fastened through hole made in
the rim of the ear by kind of brass
button, and these three stems standing
out on each side his head looked almost
like horns, save that they projected from
the ears He had beads In the lobes and
lone OF the men with him lad the lobe OF
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AVE YOU ever heard of the
Waki!luyu?
There are more than a mil
lion of them IN this part OF
Africa. They live on the high
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1908-12-05

Attorney Cary D. Lands. of De-
Land. is in the city.
TIVE are giving free $3.50 worth
of ware at our store next week. See
advertisement in Gazette News for
particulars. Gruber- Morris Hard
ware Company.
J. Glass and daughters, the
Misses Matte and Josephine, Of
Minneapolis, Mimi, arrived Thurs
day and are guests of the Ivy Lane
Inn. Mr.. Glass is a personal friend
of W. f. Blodgett and Asa Paine, Of
Ridgewood avenue.
A pleasant party consisting OF
Miss Martha Brown, of this city, and
Miss Helen Burgman and Messrs.
Jerome and Leo Burgman and B. B.
Baggett, of Seabreeze. assembled at
I. NJ. Mabbett's, on Palmetto avenue,
one evening recently.
! Owing to the bad weather. the
meeting of the various committees
from this city, Port Orange, Holly
Hill and Ormond, in regard to the
drainage plan for the hammock land
did not take place Thursday night
q scht duled.
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Robert Jarling, chef of tue Des-
pland. and crew arrived Thursday
Mr.. Jarling, who is from Boston,
held the same position at this popu-
lar hotel last winter.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1908-12-05
A NEGRO
CAUGHT IN
RUNAWAY.
Gets Pretty Badly Used Up And
Is Carried To q Phycian
for Repairs.
RACE BEGAN ON RIDefVOoD AVE,

A negro driver for ]. L. Pattillo's
Port Oran &c grocery store had q close
call for his life about noon Friday BY
being mixed up in runaway. It is not
known what started the race but Il 4
thought the unhitching of one end Of
the trace is responsible for the mishap.
The horse made wilo dash up Ridge
wood and out Cottage avenue. leaving
the wagon, driver and most of the har-
ness behind.
1t was caught on Cottage avenue bv
Vim. Fox, of the Rix livery. The negro
was picked up and given medical atten.
ton, and is not thought to be seriously
hurt.
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Tn Ftsse aaeurains Paper.

Tho OLDEST known letter written on
black edGed note paper - sign Of
mo1En1ng appears 10 b one dated Jan.
3 ION. In Addioou's comedy Of ''rhe
Drummer" 1716. reference Is maize to
IL 1ashloa n The words. MY lady's
mourning paper that = BACKED Mt the
.sdeee.s A few years later Allan Ram.
say. who disd In 1853. speaks in one
q hi poems Of ''the sable borderel
sheot" - Z messenger Of sorrow
Mann, writing from Italy to Horas G
Walpole In 1716. says that it was uni
veroally used In Florence at that time
The superior elegance Of this Italian
note paper, with it, narrow margin Of
black. explains its ready acceptance II
this country. where It superseded tin
Quarto sheet with Z black border some
times Z quartet Of IN inch wide. Ii
this way Il probably gave an impetu
to tho fAohio0. But Il II q mistake I,
suppose, - some have done, that tn
fashjon Was introduced from Italy
london Answer
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Assume In adversely a countenance
Of prosperity and In prosperity moder-
ate thy temper.-Livy.
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Spelling . Tragedy.

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III you don't marry me-" he said des-
perately, Il shall kill myself"
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it7'' oueried the maid.
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other handr'
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and IN borrow pas pistol for you
Ny, but won't It be romantic:"
But he faded.
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cauaht Alive.


A New Yorker, Z big game hunter
Of many years. experience, was lion
shooting In Uganda. He had excel.
lent luck. Nearly every day he posed
h . complaeent attitude beside a
freshly killed lion. and his photog
raphee snapped him for the maya
xlneo.
One afternoon the photographer
who Was taking . nap In the hut. was
awakened BY q loud noise. He ross
and looked out speinting toward hin
from the jungle. hat gone and coat
tatle flying, came his chief. and. will
terrible roars and growls. q huge liol
bounded ct his heels.
The photographer gazed spellboun'
ct the strange and exciting picture
His chief. percelving him. shouted:
''Qulck. quick! Open the door
| George! I'm bringing him hom
| alive!'-Washington Star.
The Prescott daily news., 1908-01-23

The Marshall Entertainment Go.
 The Marshalls are rom Jack son, Mich
 Full line of butter cup candy at Geo. J. Terry & Go.
 We use our fountain the year around.
 Geo. J. Terry & Co.
 The sick of the town are said to be improving, ..and very few new cases of grip are being re- ported.
 Hon. J. H. McCollum arrived this morning from Hope, to be ready for the joint speaking with other candidates for Congress, at p. m. today.
 The third number of the Ly- ceum Course at the Opera House tonight. Don't miss it. Tickets at Terry's News Stand. Don't get the date. Tonight.
 J. E. Horne returned this morning from Hope, where he went last night in the interest of the capture of the slayer of Mar shal Hamilton, of Hope.
 E. A. Short the Jeweler with long experience is now prepared to test and fit your eyes at his new Jewelry store in the McRae block. Eyes tested free and fit guaranteed.
 For Sale Cheap-3 Floor Cases s-bevel plate glass top; 10 feet long. 2 8-foot counter cases and one cigar case. Will sell one or all. Tei ms to suit buyc--'.
 WESTERLY DRUG STORE.