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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-03-17
linger. They avowed they wanted to In.
troduce each other TO the President.
President to Push Button.

Representative Sherley of Kentucky ask
ed President Taft to touch a button In the
White House and open the southern cleo
rical exposition at Louisville in April.
The President will do this.
Representatives Tawney. Allen. Camp
bell. Cocks. Dwight. SABBATH. Sparknan.
Richardson, Humphreys. Sisson and Mar
tn OF North Dakota were other callers.
Mr.. Martin told the President he wished
no patronage. although he had old
friend. a former southerner. who would
like 10 be designated as official possum
carver"
The fight on Judge Hundley for renom-
ination as judge of the northern district
Of Alabama was met today by a delega-
ton OF prominent Alabama lawyers. who
favor his nomination. They were John II.
Knox of Admission. David Grayson OF
Huntsville. Col. John w. Tomlinson OF
Birmingham. Sterling A. Wood OF Bir-
mingham and Col. T. c. Bush OF Birming-
ham, They spoke highly of Judge Humid
ley. and asked the President to renomi
nate him. The President said he would
take the matter under consideration.
Elias s. Clark, attorney general OF
Arizona. called on the President today 10
urge the reappointment OF Gov. kibby.
He said that GOV Kibby had the backing
OF 40 per cent of the republicans Of the
state and 30 per cent OF the democrats.
The judge of the court OF claims paid
their reSDectS the President
Charlevoix county herald., 1909-07-03

awakened about four o'clock by his
dog leaping on his bed and frantically
barking and tearing at the bed cloth.
ing. Getting up to see what was the
matter, he saw flames bursting from
the rear of his neighbours home.
Druuet had procured a megaphone to
be used in making announcements at
4 fair. Throwing up his window, he
yelled through the funnel of his in
strument: "Shand, fire!"
This he repeated again and again.
His call was heard for blocks and win
dows were pushed up in all directions
to find out what was the matter. The
next minute some one sent in a call
to the police station for the firemen.
An alarm was turned in and the fire
fighters soon were on the job.
Mr. and Mrs. Shand also were awak
ened by their neighbours call, and
smelling the smoke, instantly realized
that it was their own home that was
burning. The blaze had started UNI
der the stairway and was then sweep
ing upward to the rooms on the sec
ond floor. Just as the Shand family
reached the head of the stairs
to descend a window in the
kitchen broke from the heat and a
strong draft drew the flames that
way, temporarily leaving the stairs
free for the family to descend BY
that time the parlor was the only
room on the ground floor which the
blaze had not reached.
Only one room in the house. the
guest chamber on the third floor, was
not damaged by fire, water and
smoke.
Charlevoix county herald., 1909-07-03

this is not certain. The muskmelon
has never been found in a wild state,
and is supposed to have originated in
India and to have been brought thence
by way of Persia. Melons from seed
brought from Armenia were cultivated
three centuries ago at Cantaluppi,
near Rome, and thence were intro
duced all over Europe under the
name of cantaloupes. whence our pres
ent name for them, which is being
supplanted in the market by the cog
nomen of Rocky Ford; for once the
cantaloupe gets into the hands of the
dealer, it may be raised in Indiana or
any other seaport, but it is always a
Rocky Ford.
The two accompanying photographs
have great interest from two reasons:
They show melons which are new in
this country and which are no doubt
direct descendants from the very
melons which our Hebrew brethren SO
loudly bewailed while traversing the
desert. | found them on the garden
of Martin Doerksen, whose farm is in
Tie loul lsHihB 4hchhohilS Scllichhchl
numbering a half-hundred families,
near the beautiful little city of Meade,
Kan. There are two kinds of melons
shown in the first photographs-wa-
termelons and muskmelons. The
watermelons are in the heap in the
center. They are not strictly peculiar
as compared with our American wa
termelons, except that they are small,
nearly round, very light in color on
the outside and also on the inside, and
very sweet. The three muskmelons
at the bottom of the picture are en-
Charlevoix county herald., 1909-07-03
oeoraian,s Catch of 500 Fish.

The largest catch of fish yet record
ed is that which is reported here to
have been made by Sid Phelan, Jr. of
Atlanta on his fathers plantation near
here recently when 500 fish were
caught at one time.
The Phelan plantation is located on
the Flint river, and there are num-
Der of pools nearby caused from the
recent heavy rains and rapid rise of
the river The other day Mr.. Phelan
saw what appeared to be a school of
fish in one of these ponds. He exam
ined and found that this was true and
that the fish were being herded, as
4 were, by large snake, which was
swimming around them. He got a
bucket and let it down into the pond
where they were the thickest, and
when he pulled it up the bucket was
full of fish. There were over 500,
each about an inch or so long.-Rob-
erta Correspondence, Atlantic Consti-
tuition.
Charlevoix county herald., 1909-07-03
DOG HERO RESCUES CHILD.
Rags" Calls Father When the Little
Lad CrawIs Out on High
Railroad TrestIe.

st. Louis.-Rags, dog hero. was
the center of attraction as he trotted
around Edwardsville at the heels of
Henry Ridgeway, policeman
Rags saved the life of his master,
Milton Ridgeway. three years old.
His yelps and barks prevented the
boy from being ground to death on
the long trestle over Cahokla creek by
the Continental limited on the Wa.
bash.
Rags and his master were play ing
near the track. Millions father was
fishing several blocks away. The boy
started to climb on the trestle and
Rags, apparently realizing his danger,
chung to the child's clothes with his
teeth.
The flyer from the east was due
in a short time. Rags barked and
howled his loudest, and ran to and
fro on the trestle. Henry Ridgeway
heard him. Dropping his line, the
policeman ran toward the trestle.
Rags met him on the bank. barked
louder and scurried toward the bridge
The Continental limited whistled
half mile away. Ridgeway saw his
son midway on the trestle on hands
and knees. Running with all speed
he grabbed the child in his arms and
leaped off the end of the structure as
the limited rushed in sight.
Charlevoix county herald., 1909-07-03
A GLIMPSE INTO THE FUTURE
Az Science Advances There May De-
veIop a New Field for Energy
4 Of Detectives.

John E. Wilkie, chief of the secret
service, gets many letters from men
and boys who desire to become
sleuths and who have no hesitancy in
stating their qualifications.
Most OF them" said Wilkie, re-
mind me of the two men who were
talking about their occupation. One
said he was a detective.
"A detective? said the other. 'Ha!
J will give you a problem. A cottage
in lonely wood. A miser in 1T
counting his gold. A man comes
along, goes in, hits the miser over
the head with club, kills him and
gets the gold. Then he goes through
the wood to a clearing, takes his au-
tomobile and gets away. How would
you catch him?'
That's easy said the other. L
would follow his tracks to the clear
ing and put my bloodhounds on his
trail
But said the other listen: Same
miser, same wood, same man, same
gold. He kills him and goes through
the wood to the clearing. There he
takes his airship. How would you
catch him? Ha!'
It's simpler than the other re-
piled the detective. 4 would follow
his tracks TO the clearing. Then
would put my bloodpigeons on his
trail. Yes.' SATURDAY Evening Post.
Charlevoix county herald., 1909-07-03

KEEP. in dry, cool room or cellar.
where the suns rays do not fall direct
ly upon them. Only clean eggs should
be used for preservation, and these
should be placed in the preservatiye
within twenty-four hous after they are
laid.
If care is taken to select clean.
sound eggs, and proper precautions
are observed in carrying out the de-
tails OF the method of preservation as
above indicated, ii is believed that wa
ter glass furnishes a cheap, reliable
and easily employed preservatiye for
domestic use, and by its use everyone
having a supply of fresh eggs in the
spring can make considerable saving
and at the same time have larger
number Of fresh eggs to use In the
winter.
Charlevoix county herald., 1909-07-03

A new melon in which the seeds are
separate from the flesh, and is prob
ably a type Of the earliest melons
known.
"And the children OF Israel wept
again and said: We remember the
fish which we did eat in Egypt free
ly; the cucumbers and the melons;
And now our soul is dried
away, there is nothing at all beside
this mama. Numbers 11:5.
This is perhaps the first well-re-
corded case of riot over the menu OF
a camping-out party; but that is not
the point of interest SO much as that
this also is the first record of the
melon. Nor, really, can it be won
dered at that there was some disap-
pointment at the loss of the melons,
though we have no real idea in these
days of what mama was, or its tooth
someness.
The melon of Egypt is supposed to
have been of African origin, though
Charlevoix county herald., 1909-07-03
DOC DISCOVERS BLAZE;
SAVES LIVES OF FIVE
MASTER AWAKENED JUST IN
NICK OF TIME AND AROUSES
NEieHBoRs. -

Montclair, N.J.--A small dog owned
oy Henry Druuet of 7S Hawthorne
Place. discovered fire in the home
Of Arthur Il. Shand in the same neigh
borhood and awoke his master in time
for the latter to arouse the Shand
household by using a megaphone and
save the lives of Shand, his wife, two
daughters and son. The Shand home
was almost completely Quilted, the
flames having gained considerable
Roadway even before the alarm was
given by the dog.
Druuet, whose sleeping room faces
the rear of the Shand home, was
Charlevoix county herald., 1909-07-03
MELONS OF,EGYPT ARE
GROWN in SOUTH DAKOTA
Direct Melons Which Our Hebrew
Brethren So Loudly BewaIed While
Traversing Desert.

tirely different from anything raised
in America. The outside is pale
yellow, and ribbed. In size they are
as large as the usual run OF musk
melons. The flesh is deep orange
in color, very thick, very sweet, and
deliciously fragrant. The peculiarly
of this melon is in the arrangement
of the seeds. They are not spread
through the flesh, as In the American
melons. but are all in hard mass in
the center, looking exactly like nub-
bin of corn. The second photograph
shows these seeds. When the melon
is cut, this core is taken out, stick
thrust through it, and it is hung to
the rafters of the kitchen until melon
planting time Of the following year.
Before planting, the seeds are sep
arated and then planted as any other
melons are planted. Both sorts are
prolific growers, come early and &C
late. They are among the first melons
on the place to ripen, and there are
Charlevoix county herald., 1909-07-03
Statues for Gladstone's Home.

The figure of Aristotle by the emf
nent sculptor, G. Walker, has recently
been placed in the niche prepared for
1t outside the south wall of the resi-
dence. 1t is the gift of Dean Lincoln
and Mrs. Wickham. The four inches
outside st. Deiniols are intended for
the figures of those four great men
who were regarded by Mr.. Gladstone
as his chief Observation-Disclosures, st.
Augustine, Dante and Bishop Butler.
Three are now in position, all of them
the work of Mr.. Walker 1t only re-
mains for that of Bishop Butler to be
given to complete the set.-Hawarden
Parish Magazine.
Charlevoix county herald., 1909-07-03
Government SEXES a Stradivar


The leader of an orchestra in an
uptown hotel and member of a
band aboard a French line steamship
overlooked a little item in their eff
forts to make two commission out of
an opportunity to sell in New York
a violin marked "Stradivarius, 1925"
OF this little item the customs Of
ficers became aware on learning that
a "Strad" worth probably $4,000 was
for sale in this city. 1t is now in the
seizure room at the custom house,
while the two men, who freely con-
fessed that they had brought it in and
had completely forgotten that there
was duty on old violins, are al
lowed the city's freedom on their own
recognizances. The Strad will prob
ably be auctioned off by the govern
ment.-New York Evening Sun.
Charlevoix county herald., 1909-07-03

Sell Nothing But the Best.-If farm
ers will make ii a rule to send only
the best to the market they will get
more money for one-half of the crop
when prices are low than for the
whole. When the markets are well
supplied only the best will sell. Not
only should the articles be selected.
but they should be uniform-of the
same quality-at the bottom of the
basket as at the top. Instead OF re-
ducing the price of potatoes by send
ing the very small ones to the market.
keep those that are unstable. feed
them on the farm and they will then
be more valuable.
Charlevoix county herald., 1909-07-03
PRESERVE THE
SPRING LAID EGG
Hen Product Of This Time OF
Year Best.

Recent Investigations show that
eggs laid in May and early June keep
better than those laid at any other
time of the year, and for that reason
eggs laid at this particular time OF the
year should be preserved.
II has been found that water glass
when properly made seals the eggs
and prevents further infection when
kept at comparatively low tempera-
ture. Water glass can usually be OBJ
tanned through druggists at from II
to $1.25 a gallon, a gallon OF the water
glass being made into ten gallons OF
nreservative by simply dissolving ii in
nine gallons of water which has been
boiled and cooled before use. The pre-
served egg should be kept in cellar
or room of even temperature, which
does not go above 60 degrees.
IL has been discovered that eggs
NAV be infected with bacteria of de
cay in the oviduct before the egg is
laid, and through pores and defects
in the shell after the egg is laid
Much can be done to reduce the
chances Of infection and to reduce or
prevent the injurious effects of in.
lection, thereby greatly improving the
keeping quality OF the eggs.
In the first place the hens should be
keur in as nearly perfect health as
possible and should be given enough
shell forming food to enable them 70
make strong shells of uniform thick
ness. Clean nesting places are neces
sary to prevent infection in the nest
The eggs should be gathered daily and
Charlevoix county herald., 1909-07-03
Falls IS Feet Without Waking.

Colorado Springs, Col.-Carl Erick.
son, 81 years old, while asleep the
other night, walked out of the window
of his apartments ard fell 20 feet to
the ground without awakening. He
slept more than three hours after fall
ing.
When he was aroused by a vivid
dream in which he imagined himself
freezing to death he found himself
clutching the grass in the yard, be
lieving it to be wool coverlet. He
received a few minor bruises.
Charlevoix county herald., 1909-07-03
For Woman SUFFRAGE.

w. d. Howells, Booth Harrington.
Elizabeth Robins, Agnes Laut, Mark
Twain, James Lane Allen, Charles
Battell Loomis, Ernest Seton Thomp-
son, Jesse Lynch Williams and hun
dreds of others, well-known writer's,
are on the list called the writer's" list
of those asking for woman suffrage.
Most of the writers said that they
had already signed other lists, but
were only too glad to sign their
names to the writer's list.
Charlevoix county herald., 1909-07-03
Is a Phjlanthropist.

Mrs. James A. Patten, wife of the
wheat manipulation, is a woman of
the most practical kind, believing
that struggling genius will achieve
all the more readily If it has the help
Of money. She has assisted more
than one struggling musician and on
the day that her husband was most
worried recently with his wheat deals
she took him in the automobile to the
police court, where he signed the
bond of boy accused of some crime
Charlevoix county herald., 1909-07-03
Microbes in schoolrooms.

In the course of a report on the
disinfection Of school rooms w. H..
Marsh, an English science teacher, as
serts that tests made of samples of
school room dust showed the number
of heterogeneous therein to be from
$4,000, 900 to 100000 an ounce. On
some days as much as one and one
quarters pounds of dust was swept
from a room 400 square feet in
area, which, on the basis of the fig
ures quoted would yield from 1900
100000 to 1,600,000,00o micro-organ.
isms.
Charlevoix county herald., 1909-07-03
4''||||||||||Il|D
The Seed.

brought from the shores of the Cas-.
Kluemelon.
1t requires very little research,
when the history of the Mennonites
is considered, to connect these melons
with the most ancient and historical
forms of this fruit of the vine; and
the popularity of the arrangements OF
the seeds in the Kluemelon would
make it very attractive to the house
wife because they are not "mussy"
to serve. The eater would enjoy the
absence of the seeds also. Properly
cultivated it would probably produce a
melon which would be in great de-
mand.
AJTENN
Charlevoix county herald., 1909-07-03
DANGERS
of Both
Sexes i'm
Schools
By WILLIAM LEE HOWARD

DIR. William Lee Howard the Housekeeper. This
injury growing boys and girls in trying educate TO-
gether well known physicians psychologists doctors have
tried to carefully explain these important parents
but wrongly impressed the
past that physicians Gave given disgust
have lost patients by attempting to tell the truth
Ideas changing truths forcing themselves surface
and the parents
have the doctors tell Of the false method this country followed
mixing the aoescens in CLASSES the public high
countries know BETTER
Charlevoix county herald., 1909-07-03

melons on the vines until frost comes
All the melons shown grew on two
vines, and very many had beer
plucked from the same vines.
Mr.. Doerksen stated that he brought
the watermelon seed from the
province of Taurida, in southern Rus.
sia; and that it is there called the
Astrachan. The muskmelon seed he
Charlevoix county herald., 1909-07-03

himself disappointed and hurt at conditions.
Idealism in business largely is unstable. 1t
is always handicap TO money making efforts.
Business is business" That is the business mans
definition of his calling. Relenting from the harsh
Of the dctum always is tax upon the profits.
To measure idealism, then, against money becomes
an impossible comparative absurdity.
Charlevoix county herald., 1909-07-03

We have reached that point in human
knowledge, or, in other words. we are get
ting back TO common sense, where even
the inexperienced must acknowledge that
change is needed in our educational
method of mixing the adoIescents of both
sexes in the high schools. We are now
fully awake TO the great mental and psy-
Geological variations at this age due to the
differentiation Of the sexes.
The past hypocrtical denials of the
great psychologist and physiologic changes
and moods which are constantly surgine
in the adolesccnts, have done much harm
Charlevoix county herald., 1909-07-03

Potatoes from Sprouts.-The British
agricultural colleges have been testing
the growing of potatoes from sprouts
with great success. A Daily Scotsman
forwarded by Vice-Consul Charles
Drysdale of Dunfermline says that the
yield and quality have both been i'm
creased and the disease-resisting pow.
ers strengthened.
Charlevoix county herald., 1909-07-03


down the line of amulations from business and professional
efforts "Wha medium line shall fix upon the choice of LIES
work ~ to-day Of the greatest questions which the young has
for himself.
Ordinarily be settled fact that the young entering
the field Of merchandising money
He has decided to work for only He have the merchant
stnct but if promised reward questionable if he would
it, That deciding manufacturing his occupation
greater personal that will feed ambition
mechanical and talent Yet the
If he become family the luxury and of the times
will be further nducement to the concession.
Yet the basis Of the law comparatively few of
the business of the country succeed money getting Fngg tastes
and ideals to the winds and becoming wholly cond the accumua
ton of riches by far the greater number of these workers fail With
ideals and with the hope Of wealth destroyed what is left for them
Compare with this type of man the worker who choosing his
occupation comedies everything for the privilege Of doing his chosen
work He this opportunity privilege 1t is invitation
his particular antpeaps genius. Naturally he expect
compensation which will enable him follow the work. He will
that chance. 1t is incidental to the main question
Yet from whatever high, dea point his
choice of life work anticipate the time when his heart he
may question decision Almost inevitably expect
competitions Men with less of the ideal in them will be following
chosen occupation As these lack deam, they will be
money getting. Ways and that end will collision
with the mans dasm, but later in life when he have
family dependent him and seek for them the material
things with which his family social competition
Charlevoix county herald., 1909-07-03
Use Machine to Train Recruits.

In training its cavalry recruits, the
German army is making use of a ma.
chine driven by electricity in which
all the movements of horses are simu.
lated.
Charlevoix county herald., 1909-07-03
College
Is But
Part of
Life

studies at
university has thrown years that to work
which descended him from his pogentor
himself with finds
that he ready his faculties
formation is limited and he college he not
trained educated 1t is singular unver-
standing upside hcad-whch might be not
altogether bad tngbu the business and
himself
and society his brain such it. and
certainly function of university show applicant whether
he has brains Men ready they can
educated, that they have brains.
Charlevoix county herald., 1909-07-03

To man who spends the greater part
of his waking hours on the gridiron or en-
joying comradeship, his study, popularity
so called, is really his pastime, his recrca-
he does longest and hardest, and everything
else is of minor Importance. So after a
hard afternoon singing songs on the camp
us, our tired student sits down to refresh
himself with few logarithms or little
Greek syntaX His real energy, his fresh
enthusiasm, his initiative have disappeared
Business has occupied SO much time and
strength that there is very little left for
Charlevoix county herald., 1909-07-03
Modern
Ideals
Great Question
for
Young Men
by JOHN A. ROWLAND

OF every young is going TO make at money
getting Inevitably that young who tries hardest to dc
and who by the law of inevitably fails must be
most grievousy disappointed.
These facts that unacceptable when society
far simpler basis and when the accumulation of 100000
represented fortune They facts to be multiplied by ten
in this age when million dollars does not make rich
in the accepted term. Virtually the ratio exists all