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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-12-14
Driving preparations simply slevel

DryInH prcnnrntIoIlss SIMPLY devel-
op dry catarrb; they dry up the seeretions,
which adhere to the membrane aud tlecom-
pose. clnsihg far more serious trouble
than the osllinary form Of catarrh. Avoid
all drying inhnlants, fumes, smokes aud
snufIs aud uao that which eIeanses, soothes
aud heals Ely's Cream Balm will master
cmarrh or cold ia the head easily and
pleasantly. All druggists sell the so cent
size. Ely brothers. SO Warren Street.
New York.
The Baim IS used without pain. does not
irrifate e. eause sneexing Il spreada itself
over m irYitated and angry surlaee. relic =
inc Immediately the painful Inflammation.
hiys trtWm i5atia eatiialsss svassase,
m9fcurr nor ciher harainl drugs
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-12-14
SEEK BONDS FOR COURT HOUSE

Special to Daily Iea,ler.
Ardm0re. Okla. Dec "A --Blds for
fhe construction of the si25,000
court house will be advertised for at
once.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-12-14

Young lads do not appreciate
Rrowning meetings nor lons discas'
sions OF topics better never resnrrect'
ed from the dead II there Is to be
diversion built boxs club house
and sec that SUCH antusenseHts -
young fellows enjoy az 10 b naaI
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-12-14

The peculiar properties Of Cham
berlalns Consh Remedy have been
Thoroughly tested during ephlemics OF
Influenza. aud when it was taken in
time We have not heard u a single
case o. pneumonia Sold by all deal
efa.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-12-14

Getting polluted With bootleg whis-
key IS ! mighty poor way 10 show
how thankful one Is for fayors be
slowed
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-12-14

bur even the Kansas grasshopper
has his mission-he fatteas q very
..,..... .....l " ..s-s,c..s '''~4s f'sr The
festal day
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-12-14

preaching about wickedness is not
20 difficult as telling the wicked bow
to get good and stay lust that WAY
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-12-14

BY the way who was that fellow
Payne who invented a tariff bill?
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-12-14

when mons religion Is all hot
air the ONLY thing he thinks about Is
going up
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-12-14

ne can htie III ono who does not
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-15

worthy namesake of the classic river to
q common sewer. Except for portion
which extends from Maryland avenue
north. up North Capitol street nearly TO
Florida avenue. Tiber sewer was abau-
doned something above five years ago
This section of the sewer having been
modernized until none of the old insan-
itary conditions prevail, is quite as sat
isfactory as any of the more recently
constructed mains. Many tales of dark
deeds hidden within the depths of old
Ilber arch are told by those who re-
member its history. Dorsey FouItz, sup
posed 10 have escaped through Tiber
sewer. is believed by the police to have
been swept into the river, as the body
of negro was recovered soon after
Another sewer with II past" is the Il
street main. and it has an interesting
history. 1t was the great ambition of
the mighty minds of the eighteenth CEN
fury to connect the Potomac and Ohio
rivers by water and to inausurate this CO.
lossal undertaking there met on the nth
of May, 1875, a congress of able men, with
George Washington as it's president This
has been called WaShington'S great
project, and it is historical fact that it
struggled along until far into the nine
teenth century before II was finally de-
cls.red to be impracticable. This was
only after a railroad had already Joined
the two great waterways by d method
quicker than the canal would have
proved. That portion that ran from the
Potomac along B street south into the
James creek canal is the present B street
sewer. These two canals, forming as they
did complete boundary of water, are
what caused southwest Washington to
be called the Island. a name whic,
still clings to it, Eventually these canals
became an open sewer, the Chesapeake
and Ohio sewer, like Tiber creek, being
later arched over. and upon the COM
pletion of the new sewage disposal works
the James Creek sewer was abandoned
and filled up. changing it from an open
sewer to solid ground This from a sani-
tary point was one of the best moves to-
ward city Improvement that could have
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-15

"circus trust" However,
the "one-horse show many of us
might denominate this recent visitor TO
Virginia. has undergone distinct devel-
opment, too. No longer is interest CEN
tered in one ring. There are two rings
and elevated stage. 'all going at one
time" and hippodrome track with
thrilling races, just like the big shows,
mind you. There is much more of d
menagerie than the average Cldtime
wagon show was wont To carry, and
there are such ambitious adjuncts
herd of trained elephants and the indis-
pensable steam calliope, to give the finish
ing touch TO the monster free street pa
rade.
The performers with a small show,
such this. work much harder than
the ring artists with IA circus of the
first grade-that is. they have much
more to do in providing each days en-
tcrtainment under the canvas 1t is
nothing unusual for a-performer i'll one
of the big shows to double to the ex-
tent of appearing in two or three diff
fercnt acts, but, at that, his lot is an
easy one compared with the routine OF
the performer with the small circus.
who must needs appear in five or six
different acts. neceSSitating as many
changes of costume, afternoon and even
ing, and embracing everything from
ground tumbling to aerial tricks, to say
nothing of participation in the opening
or grand entree and several
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-15
Tits. WISH Our

comical acts by the entire company,
which do not count at all. in the esti-
nation of one Of these general utility
workers. The extreme versatility of
this class of circus folk is attested by
the capacious trunks which are ranged
around the dressing tent, each trunk
having six eight trays. and each tray
devoted to the complete costume for
one distinct act.
In many respects the small circus seems
to stand surprisingly we'll i'll comparison
with the big circus, the daily expense
account of which is three or four times
as great. However. the observdnt lay
man who is at all conversant with af-
fairs in the circus world can readily see
where the country circus saves money
over its big rival. For one thing. the
small circus is pretty short on riding
acts. The bareback and manage riders.
men and women, are the ariStocrats OF
the circus profession, and on an average
their salaries are higher than any other
performers. The small show has com
pa ratively few of these acts. The aerial
lists rank next to: the riders III the scale
of circus ratings and whereas the
smaller show has a respectable showing
of trapeze acts. they do not include any
of the great family acts or expensive
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-15

imported novelties by European aerialists
that help 10 swell the salary list of d
circus of the greatest pretensions.
With small show the performers are
not fixtures throughout the season to the
extent that they are with a big circus.
There is continual coming and going.
and this state of transition seems To be
especially noticeable among the riders
a nd aerialists. Most of the riders are
comparatively young in the business and
arc ever on the lookout for an oppor-
tunity to graduate to the better pay of
a larger circus. On the contrary, the
best aeriaists with the small show are
performers who are getting on i'm years
and have come down to their present en-
vironment from the more tiercely COM
petitive realm of the big shows. For
instance. the star performer of the cir
Gus that has been touring northern Nir-
ginia is a trapeZe performer who gets
credi, for having originated the now
familiar act of head balancing on a
swaying trapeze bar. He to this day puts
up splendid act, but ne is approaching
the age of fifty, and consequently the ira
dition that circus work is game for
young men is slowly but ineXorahly OPP
Grating against him.
Most of the younger performers with
small show are more ambitious than their
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-15
QUEER HISTORY OF WASHIINGTONS SEWERAGE SYSTEM

constituting the District of Columbia.
about nineteen square miles are provided
with sewerage facilities. This comprises
all the thickly settled portions. and those
rapidly becoming we'll populated 1t is
Officially stated that there are 10 miles of
main sewers and 400 miles of pipe sew
ers. the latter standing TO the former in
the same relation that the capillarieS
stand TO the arteries of the human body.
One can form definite idea Of the mag
nltude OF the system when ii is known
that if the 515 miles of mains and pipes
were to be laid out in a line they would
reach from Washington to Portland, Me.
while up TO date the modern sewerage
system has cost sl7,o00oOo. an amount
equal TO the cost of the Capitol
\ *
The most important main, in point of
size, is the boundary sewer. which runs
along Florida avenue northeast 1t is one
of the very largest sewers i'm the world,
having twenty-four foot span-the size
built for double track railroad tunnel
and being about four miles long. or more
than the aggregate length of the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad tunnels in Balti-
more, and something like four times as
long as the Pennsylvania railroad tunnel
in Washington. At the time of the build
ing of the boundary sewer the District
engineers were severely criIlclSed, enSl-
neers all over the country declaring that
II was much too large TO be of practical
value. However, after every period of
heavy rainfall or freshets, the sewer is
full to the top. justifying the questioned
foresight of its founders.
Tiber sewer IS auoUner large one and
probably the oldest in the District hav-
ing been built early in the nineteenth
century by archinS over Tiber creek
For years it received all the sewage ac-
cumulation above 9th street west drain
ing an extent of country of more than
5000 acres. Before Tiber creek was
arched it was used as a means of carry
ing off the refuse Of the small open
street sewers and bcin. but sluggish
stream ii became menace to the pub
lie health. An appropriation was made
for the purpose Of reducing the un-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-15

prototypes with the top-no ch tented az
2regation, and almost every one of them
is diligently understanding the act of
somebody else. For instance. the wife of
the ringmaster of this southern show
who is already skillfu in balancing and
aerial ac.S, is acquiring mastery Of
tight-wire Walkna-an accomplishment
that will materially expand her earning
capacity-and the young woman whose
stunt is to put q high school horse
through his varied PAGES adds to her pin
money by presenting a bag-punching act
as side line. Glowing acts are the
especial fore of the performers of the
small circus. Such acts help to prolong
the program to its prescribed length with
out necessitating additions to the salary
list, and the management claims that
these displays of elementary humor please
the country folk quite much as the
most daring acrobatic offering. In the
show that lately invaded the enyirons of
Washington all the male performers wer
drafted several times ii the course pf
each performance TO cooperate in com
pany Glowing ac'S. as, for instance, Il
concert by a burleSque brass band and
the antics OF satiricai base ball nine.
X
A few days Of travel with "A show such
as this will convince any person of the
happy. healthful and in many respects
ideal domestic life Of the circus perform
ers. OF course. any person who stops to
think must realize that person who
twice every day risks life and limb in an
occupation that requires perfect physique,
clearneSs of eye and Steadiness of nerve
cannot indulge in dissipation. hut seem
ipgly large share of the public never
does stop to think, and ii has gone OH
from time cut Of mind believing that cir
folk are hard lot As a matter
of fact, the one .nvariable rule of this
particular show is against drunkenness.
Instant discharge is the penalty of its
violation, no matter who the offender.
With one exception every woman with
the circus is married to husband with
the show. and the exception is girl con-
tortionist whose father and mother
performers, and who is more carefully
chaperoned than many a Washington So
cety girl. As indicating the simple
tastes of these nomads Of The Sawdust
ring. 1T may be noted that the ringmaster
has amateur photography as fad. and
during the wanderinGs of the show up
and down Virginia he has taken the
keenest interest in making "A collection
of photos of the historic battlefields of
the civil war. Meanwhile his Wife. out
of pure Kindness IF heart, has constituted
herself volunteer school mistress, AMI
every pleasant afternoon after he con
clusion of the performance She may be
found in the rear of the dressing tent.
book in hand. teaching the rudiments of
the three RS to the children Of the cir
Gus, whose opportunities for "A attending
the public schools arc, of course, very
limited.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-15
COncelf,inu
Well-knOWn peODIp
Soon Felt at Home.

Mt AT GOODWIN, the brilliant comedian
~ was talking in New York about the
superb eighty five horsepower motor car,
with its drawing room nearly twelve feet
square, in which he would tour Europe
with Mrs. Goodwin.
I'VE shall avoid hotels" said Mr.. Good
win. 1.-The car will afford ample accom-
mediation for sleeping. bathing and so
forth. Well have fine time
But a tragedian objected, you'll find
II difficult to get used to such gypsy
life
oh, no. said Mr.. Goodwin. I've stage
folk very quickly get used to things For
example,
He laughed
In one of my comedies there. was lit
tie girl he said. She sat on my Jap in
the last act A pretty little thing she
was-eight or nine years old-not more.
We'll. it happened, about the second or
third appearance of this tiny novice, that
spied her in the wings one night. and
thought she looked. at that late hour.
bit peaked, bit pale. So. pinching her
cheek. | said
Little one. can't l get you bowl Of
bread and milk?
Thanks, old fellow. she answered,
smiling. but I've just sen. out. you know,
for a sandwich and glass of Stout
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-15

and reStfu, Slumber that a performer
would get ioltng over these country high
ways throughout the night hours III cir
Gus wagon with, mayhap. an occasional
stalling in the mud. requiring the ele-
plants to be brought up in order to get
the painted chariot to solid ground. Now
that the aggregation has graduated to the
prestige Of railroad show the artists"
sleep in comparative comfort aboard the
cars. and as short jumps are the rule
never more than 1eO miles and often not
half that dstance-they really fare better
in the matter of uninterrupted sleep than
the performers with the bigger shows
which travel greater distances between
midnight and dawn.
The Westinghouse who saw this
southern show during it's Virginia tour
and who had gained their ideas of cir
cuses from the big shows that annually
visit the capital saw much TO interest
them by way of compa arson. For all
that. the Washingtonians whose memories
carried them back to Child hood days in Il
small town or on a farm had to admit
that this smaller circus had much more
OF the elusive fascinating atmosphere that
made the od-time circus the supreme
event of the year than is to be found in
the monster tented exhibitions OF the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-15

been accomplished Also, like Tiber, the
4 street sewer had dark and unsavory
reputation in the old days.
x x
Though only twelve years old, Easily
Point sewer has had an exciting time at
intervals, and in one case, at least, worked
a reform IN the government. 1t runs from
Easily Point, back of the White House,
up 18th to + and along f, and is one of
the very large modern sewers.
1t is perhaps ten years ago that a
horse which was taking it's patient way
along f street, thinking possibly of the
vacation it would never get, no matter how
hard it worked to earn it, stepped on Il
manhole and without warning Slid down
into the depths of the sewer. Luckily,
there had been no heavy rainfall and the
sewer was almost dry at the sides, so he
found himself transplanted to a cool.
dark spot, which was most grateful after
the upper heat and glare Every effort
was made to lift him to the level of ordi
nary events. but this proving a physical
impossbility, he was fed and looked after
for several days, when il was decided
that the only method of delivery was to
take him down to the outlet and remove
him that way, and this was finally done.
1t is thus that providence sometimes deals
with its creatures. and it is safe to say
that the horse had the time of it's life.
*
BY no means the least part of the work
of providing sewerage for the District is
the work of maintenance-that is, the
labor involved in keeping the sewers clean
and in perfect repair. In fact, this is
quite as important the original build
ing of the sewers. for neglect would be
followed by ruin, and the work of years
be as nothing. Therefore the District
sewage department keeps several gangs
of, men whose work consists entirely of
cleaning the sewers and at regular inter-
walls the inspectors go through for tle
purpose of ascertaining their condition.
Being well ventilated and the water hav
ing conSidera BILE velocity, the sewers
are comparatively fresh and clear, though
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-15
For the Final Fire.

A UGUST BELMONT in the smoke-room
of the Lucania told. aproIos OF
luxurious motor cars, a story about the
young Marquis of Anglesey. who died in
Monte Carlo some five years ago
Lord Anglesey's cars were the most
luxurious then known" said Mr.. Bel
mont. This young man went to eX-
tremes N everything. He was very in
tel'igent, though.
Once. at his historic castle In Wales.
there was slight fire. So. lest the price,
less pile burn down, he ordered an enor-
i-ous quantity of hand gTenaGes, or ex-
tinguishers, from London.
When the grenades arrived they We're
hung all over the castle; but, though it
was an enormous place, there were still
several dozen grenades left over at the
end of the hanging.
And what shall | do with them. my
lord?' the butler asked
Lord Anglesey couGhed--he was AL
ready in a pretty bad way-ard said dry
ly to the butler:
You may put them in my coffin. A"
Stoute-It's very depressing to have .
wife who is an invalid.
CINE what i: is. then. to
have one that is perfectly healthy.-Lifs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-15

M AIN Sewers Are
1vA Among Largest in the
World Nineteen Square
Miles in the District Provided
With Sewerage Facilities
System Is One of the Finest,
and Work Was First Started
a Century Ago-Boundary
Sewer Has a Twenty-Four-
Foot Span, Being as Large
as a Railway. Tunnel-Each
Underground Line Has Story
Connected With It.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-15

Tor the netWofk OF pipes running iHtU ttIe
mains. draining superfuous water and
refuse from the city and carrying it TO
where ii is neither a menace nor an Of
Tense TO the inhabitants. The present
system will be all the more appreciated
when ii is understood that there was a
time when. owing TO defective and insult
ficient sewerage, masma lowered over the
city as pail Interesting. indeed, are
some OF the incidents connected with
these old sewers.
or the sixty square miles of land area
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-15

with what has been aroused by a small
travelling circus that has lately been
touring the towns of northern Virginia.
Any skeptic could have had his faith in
the early return of prosperity bolstered
up If he could have travelled with this
tent show through the territory tributary
TO Washington and noted the almost in
variably crowded tents and the manner
in which the spectators made spendthrifts
of themselves for the inevitable peanuts
and popcorn and lemonade. to say moth
ing of sideshow and concert tickets. In
cidentaily the element of human interest
presented furnished many an interesting
side light on holiday life in the Old
Dominion.
As was but natural, 1t was the colored
people who were thrown into the great
est frenzy of excitement by the advent
of the mighty show. Fortunately for
the farmers, much of the harvesting was
over ere this distra citing influence put in
an appearance in the countryside, for it
is simply impossible to hold the colored
help on the farm when circus is in the
neighborhood In some of the places Wis
tied by the magic caravan the poorer
negroes actually offered their clothes for
sale TO secure the price of the coveted
pasteboards of admission. On the other
hand. the colored folk with money trav-
eled really surprising distances-in many
instances twenty-five or thirty miles-by
wagon road or rail to reach the circus
grounds. and not only did they have
money for reserved seats and all the
other special privileges of the circus but
they showered patronage on the small
army of takers that accompanied the
show selling all sorts of souvenirs from
beads to photo buttons.
However. it is not meant to intimate
that the colored folk predominated in the
audiences that have greeted this old
time circus that has been playing "all
around Washington these past few
weeks. Our Virginia farmer is as fond
as anybody of the circus. and the at
tendance at each stand was swollen
sppreciably by the presence OF throngs
OF summer boarders. The whole terri
tory contiguous to the Blue Ridge, the
Shenandoah and I1oudoun valleys is a
great summer country for Washing
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-15

some peculiar recoveries are made by the
gangs who clean the mains. For in
stance, lot of silver marked with the
name of a Washington hotel was found
and returned to the hosiery. 1t was
thought that a servant had stolen 1t and
becoming alarmed. had dropped it into a
manhole. Articles of jewelry are fire.
quently found and reported to the police.
These are mostly watches or other heavy
articles. as rings, being small. would nat
urally imbed themselves in the mud at
the bottom, are less often recovered
Articles of much value, such as diamond
set ornaments. have been recovered
and claimed, but it is seldom that money
is found, because coin, being heavy and
SMALL. also sinks into the secretion at
the bottom of the sewer
The oldest sewer still in service was
built in 1910. 1t runs under the old
Masonic Temple between 9th and 10th
Streets south under Pennsylvania avenue
to street, where it originally emptied
into the Chesapeake and Ohio canal. 1t
now has it's outlet into the modern sewer
on street which is the outcome of that
canal. Only small portion of this sewer
is in use. 1t is a brick arch of about four
feet span, and from its devious course
there is no doubt that it once was an Old
stream The utilizing of small creeks
seems to have been the original idea OF
sewer construction if one is to judge by
the old sewers of the District.
Though most of the old sewers were
built either of brick or rough stone, other
sewers of curious manufacture are some
times discovered in making excavations.
such as sewers made of logs burned~out
hollow, these being in a remarkable state
of preservation considering the time that
must have elapsed since their use.
:. x
Besides the mains there is the perfect
network of pipes which lie under the city,
each giving into some branch of the maiN
sewers. These are mostly formed of the
err. Gotta sections so often in evidence
along the highways when the repairs to
the sewers are under way. The water
passes through these pipes with great
velocity, but in some places there have
been installed lifts to accelerate its flow
These are formed By constructing per-