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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-15
Salt and the Spaniard.
From the Century.

Until few years ago no Spaniard had
on his dining table any other receptacle
for salt than the old-style open cellar
An enterprising Briton saw this, noted
that the salt was always dirty and gum.
my. and determined to introduce a Ger.
tain famous salt-shaker. from which
clean salt would run freely in the dampest
weather. Bravely he started to tour
Spain for the company.
mo. senior: no est costumbre usar mas
que esto'' Ono. sir: it's not customary
to- use more than that"-the old cella.)
was the answer Of every dealer to whom
he presented the novelty. Again and
again he was rebuffed. He began ia
despair when. standing one day gazing
into q jewelers. window. a brilliant idea
struck him. He entered. Realising the
childlike curiosity and impressionabl bic
character OF his quarry. he persuaded the
3eweler to display . shaker In his win
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-15
SOLE SURVIVOR OF CREW
WITHOUT FOOD FOR HOURS
Theodore Anderson Tells Story of
Hardship After Swimming
Ashore From Derelict.

VICTORIA, B. c., December 15.-After
drifting six days without food on a dere-
lict. Theodore Anderson swan to shore
on the west coast of Australia. He told
thrilling story of the disaster that had
brought death to every other member
Of the crew. News Of the tragedy was
brought here last night by the steamer
Moana, from Brisbane
The derelict was a pearling lugger of
two hundred tons, the Hugh Norman.
She was sailing down the coast from
Broome to Freemantle, when she struck
a reef. The dingey was launched and
all members of the crew except Ander-
son and the captain boarded her. The
little boat drifted away and was swamp
ed. All her occupants were drowned.
Fear Of Sharks Deters.
The captain ordered Anderson to jump
in after the dingey, but seeing three
sharks cruising in the vicinity he re-
fused. Later the lugger drifted OF the
reef and the captain leaped overheard
and tried to swim ashore, but he was
attacked and devoured by sharks.
Next day Anderson decided to risk all
in an effort to reach. land. It took him
one hour to swim ashore and he was
pursued by sharks. but escaped them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-15
How to Select Q Private Secretary.

From the Louisville Courier Journal.
Gov. Pothier OF Rhode Island says he
selected his secretary without knowing
anything much about him ana largely
en- his face value. He said the young
man applied to him for the position and
did not have any specially strong back
ing. Il just looked At him, and his eyes
looked good and he looked alive. 20 I
made him my secretary right there with
out considering any other applicants"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-15

Luther James Anderson. sixty-tWo
years old. OF Amherst county. Va. died
Wednesday 1t the Lynchburg Sanitartum
Of heart disease.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-15

allow for evaporation and infiltration We
have 135.O00 liters. or 29.53l gallons. OF
rain for distribution daily. The rain tree
for 1t seems Indifferent as to the soil In
which II grows. The tree increases rapid
ly and resists both extremes OF climate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-15

1t is said that the decision may have
an appreciabie effect on the argument as
to what weight should be given the acts
of the corpoI alton before the Sherman
anti-trus. law was passed. In the first
arguments Of the Standard Oil case coun-
sci for that corporation commended that
the alleged rebates and alleged unlawful
exclusion Of competitors from the trade
were not to be considered at all because
they could not be violations Of a law not
In existence. On the other hand, the rep
resentatives of the government argued
that these allegations were very ma
terial. that they showed the continue
ton" Of the allie ged conspiracy formed in
1870, and brought it down to the time Of
the operation Of the act.
1t has been suggested that the court
may have completed its consideration of
the Kissel case with more than ordinary
speed In oder to get the holding before
the country for the guidance of counsel
in arguing the big corporation cases i'm
mediately after New Year. This applies
particularly to the statement in the opin-
lon that conspiracy is constituted by an
agreement. to be sure. but the conspiracy
rs the result of the agreement rather
than the agreement itslf, just as q part
nership. although constituted by a con-
tract. Is not the contract. but is the re-
suit of it,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-15
Students Who Do Not Study.

In Leipzig, the professors tell me, the
average attendance upon lectures Is
about three-fourths of the students en-
rolled Usually one-fourth of a class il
neglectful of opportunities and attends
lectures only now and then.
Three or four per cent of every class
cut lectures habitually and spend their
time in the Fruhschoppen. or cafes, and
In other designations Most of these drop
out before the examinations and abandon
their degrees.
At every university there are various
organizations, in which birds of a feather
flock together. as in American institu-
lions. They are characteristic of German
student life. The three chief color-wear
ing organizations are the Corps, the
Burschenschaften and the Christian So
cieties, and between them are several
minor varieties.
The Corps. which correspond to our
Greek letter fraternities. are recruited
from the ranks of the nobility. the aris-
who claim to be the elite of the student
body and the hereditary leaders OF the
nation. German public life has been IA
yorable to these pretensiOnS.
Membership in q university cODpS is
everywhere accepted as a mark Of super.
Tor character and ability. without regard
TO the individuality OF the person con-
cerned- AS a rule. members of the corps
government and adore their sovereign.
Patriotism of Burschenschaften.
The Burschenschaften had their begin
ming during the wars for German indie
pendence. They are made up Of liberal
and in some cases revolutionary material.
and consist almost entirely Of representa-
tives Of the middle class. the sons Of agri-
culturists merchants, manufacturers and
professional men.
They are filled with love for their faith
trland. A fundamental article Of theil
political faith is that the class system
and hereditary nobility are the chief
causes of the misfortunes which have
fallen upon the German people. While, az
body, they are not hostile to the gov
eminent, more revolutionists. socialists
and reformers are found among their
members than in other societies.
The Corps are exclusive and clannish
The Burschenschaften are neither, al.
though they do not admit to membership
students without certain qualifications.
AS one student expressed II:
while every member Of the Burschen.
schaft does not sympathize with social
lists. every socialist sympathizes with the
The influence of the Burschenschaft has
been toward higher ideals of studen,
life and close attention to study. They
deserve the credit OF having done much
toward abandonment Of demoraiixina
customs that used to prevail in all the
German universities and still retained In
several. They have promoted morality,
manliness and culture.
A third class of organisations. com
posed chiefly Of divinity students, are
known rs Christian Societies." They
correspond to the Y. M. c. A. Of Amer.
lean colleges. and have similar methods
and purposes.
In addition tn these ara hicvele roli
and tennis clubs, photograph clubs, liter
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-15
ruling ON CONSPIRACY
AR0USES INTEREST
May Have Effect in Arguments
in Standard Oil and To-
bacc0 Cases.


Coming on the eve Of the reargument of
the dissolution suits against the Standard
Oil and tobacco corporations. the decision
last Monday by the Supreme Court Of the
United States that a conspiracy under the
Sherman antitrust law may be "con-
tinuing onense' has aroused new interest
in the forthcoming legal contest.
The court delivered this decision in the
kissel case. Almost Immediately after
Justice Holmes announced the conclusion
Of the court requests began to pour in for
copies Of the decision. One man wanted
twenty-five copies, another ten. and
enough requests for single copies have
been received at the court to exhaust
many times the fifty copies printed.
While the question of a conspiracy un-
der the Sherman antitrust act being con-
tinuing did not become the leading issue
in either the Standard Oil or the tobacco
corporations. it figured in the argument
in both cases. 1t was more prominent in
the Standard OIL suit. Just what effect
the Kissel decision will have On the pres
entatiOn Of the cases to the court Is a
matter OF much speculation among cor
poration lawyers in the capital. 1t is
known that the attorneys on both sides
are preparing to give close study to the
principles which guided the court in ar
irving at the unanimous conclusion in re-
gard to the continuing character of a con-
SDfracy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-15

airy. debating. orchestral and choral So
cieties. dramatic clubs, and innumerable
other groups Of students who are pur-
suing the same fads and fancies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-15
No Religious Obligations.

There are no ofncial religious influences
Il Leipzig or at any other German uni
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1910-07-28


3 THE THANKING CONGRESS- :
8 MAN.
x II he has a safe or trunk,
8 Some nice heavy little chunk,
@ How does he transport the junk7
g Franks 1t home.
? II he has an argument
4 To make clear what's his intent,
e Quick he follows out his bent
3 Franks 1t home. 4
3 II ball game he attends
q And the baseman grieveSall friends,
z How will he attain his ends?
< Frank him home.
q To the mansion I'm the sky
8 Do not think that he will fly. z
@ For himself he then will try Z
g franking home.
y -McLandburgh Wilson in New York
x Sun.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1910-07-28
NEW YORK 0UT-VENICES
FAMOUS WATERWAY CITY
More Islands, Rivers and Canals About
Manhattan.

Venice. the queen OF the Adriatic.
with her 157 interlacing canals that
form 11S islands. is less of water
city than is the metropolis of America.
for New York has a greater navigable
water front than any other city in the
world. The waters within the bound
aries of Venice could be swallowed
up by the currents that ebb and flow
within New York and make no per-
ceptible addition to them. New York
has just as much mOonshine and lots
more water, and, though the guitar
and musical voice of the gOndolier are
not heard, other voices, less romantic,
are heard on almost every sort of craft
that floats in water.
New York's islands are more in num-
Der than those of Venice, and in ia
maica bay alone are as great possibili-
ties as the lagoon Of Venice ever pre-
scented for a beautiful city-still re-
manning possibilities. If Venice were
placed in the center Of that bay there
would be more expanse of water
around IL tnan there IS now In the
entire lagoon of Venice.
In New York city are 204 miles of
navigable water front. from the unpre-
tentious kills of Staten Island to the
great Atlantic that washes the Coney
Island shore and beaches of Rockaway.
Much of the city is islands, and what
is not are great peninsulas more than
half surrounded by water.
Richmond alone has nearly forty
miles of shore line. and Manhattan has
thirty more miles where bows Of the
greatest ships that float can reach over
the land. Queens and the Bronx have
fifty miles. which embrace the wester-
ly end of Long Island sound, and the
winding shores of Brooklyn. with the
great Jamaica bay, make up the rest.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1910-07-28
SOBER CONGRESS IN ANDORRA
Parliament of Tiny State Ruled by
Tradition.

The parliamentary procedure of An
DORA, the tiny Independent state
which lies sandwiched between France
and Spain, is of the quaintest kind.
Parliament having been called for a
certain day. the honorable members
arrive in groups on horses or mules
shod with the usual Andorran foot
gear-white corded sandals.
The Sasa de la Walls serves at the
same time for palace, parliament and
prison. not TO mention stables for the
members steeds. After stabling the
animals on the ground floor the men,
bers ascend to the hall of deliberations,
change their sandals for shoes and put
on the official costume-a long black
sort of robe and a huge three cornered
hat. These when not in use hang in a
row on pegs at the bottom of the hall.
The next proceeding IS mass in the
chapel. tiny and bare. dedicated to the
Holy Ghost: then comes q meal served
on an oaken table without a cloth and
eaten off antique pewter plates. Be
tween every two members stands a
huge porron, and each drinks in turn
out of this pitcher. In this home of
archaicism everything is done accord
ing TO tradition. Even the daily menu
Is the same today as it was centuries
ago
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1910-07-28
Toy Balloons Long Journey.

A toy balloon that had been seven
teen days in the air and had travelled
all the way from Cincinnati was pick
ed up on farm near Three Bridges.
n. j. by Abram Shonek. He found
pinned to the frail craft the card of
Miss Zeba Goldstein of 241 Shielto
street, in the city named. and he wrote
her letter. In reply received the
other day Miss Goldstein wrote that
she had sent many of the toy balloons
into the air and heard from some of
them, but never from a distance of
500 miles as the crow flies.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1910-07-28
DREAMED THE BATTLE HYMN"
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe's Birthday Re-
calls Incident.


The recent celebration of the ninety
first birthday of Mrs. Julia Ward
Howe, the famous American lecturer
and authoress. recalls the fact that she
actually dreamed the words of her
stirring song. Battle Hymn of the
Republic"
In 1861. when the American civil
war was at its height. some one sug-
gested to her that she should write
some new words TO the tune of John
Browns Body" which they had heard
the soldiers singing. Mrs. Howe re-
piled that she had often wished TO do
so.
That night she went to bed and TO
sleep. as usual. but awoke suddenly
in the early dawn to find, to her as
constituent. that the wished for lines
were forming themselves in her brain.
Rising hastily. she secured scrap of
paper and pencil and scrubbed down
the verses, hardly conscious of what
she wrote.
Then she returned to bed and i'm
mediately fell asleep again, not with
out a feeling. however. that something
important had happened to her. With
in a few days the Battle Hymn" was
on the lips of every supporter of the
northern cause.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1910-07-28

kokumin Shinbun to Have Ono, So
Chief Circles Globe to Study Meth
ods-New York and Berlin Papers
Local, While London and Tokyo
Journals Are General In News.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1910-07-28
is EASY
ON TROLLEY Line
No Smoke, Noise, Dust or Tips
h Illinois.
CORN BELT CARS ARE MODELS

Run From Peoria and ST. Louis and
Have More Convenienees Than Are
Found on Pullmsns Nine Foot
Blankets and Sheets a Comfortable
Feature of Service.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1910-07-28
WOMEN DEMAND
SENSATIONAL|SM
Japanese Editor Solves Amer.
lean Newspaper Secrets.
STUDIES AFTERNOON EDITION.

kokumin Shinbun to Have Ono, SO
Chief Circles Globe to Study Meth
ods-New York and Berlin Papers
Local, While London and Tokyo
Journals Are General In News.
Women are responsible for the SEN
sationalism of American papers. The
! fact has been divulged after a world
study of the principal journals by G..
Date, editor of the Kokumin Shinbun.
Tokyo. Mr.. Date is shrewd, pains
taking observer. His paper is morn
ing publication. 1t contemplates start
| ing an evening edition.
Wherefore Mr. Date started around
the world TO find out just how other
countries made afternoon papers He
went across Siberia to st. Petersburg,
thence to Berlin, London, Zurich, PO-
land. the Danube district in Austria,
Vienna, Paris and back to London.
After studying papers in these centers
he came TO the United States recently,
and he has been an exceedingly busy
man during that period.
English Papers Not Local.
"The papers in London" said he.
differ from the papers in New York.
They have general circulation
throughout the kingdom. You have so
many centers that your papers are To-
cal and pay little attention to anything
outside Of your own neighborhoods.
Berlin is like New York. The papers
are confined TO local matters because
the government is a confederation like
yours and there are many centers.
"Our situation is more like that Of
the English We have the second cir
culation in the empire. printing $780,
600 copies day. OF these more than
100000 papers go outside of the city
into the provinces. We are copying
the American papers largely.
II find that your papers are not
daily papers-they are hourly papers.
This makes it hard for you to verify
all of your stories and accounts for
many mistakes. but you can always
correct them in the next edition.
"Your papers appeal more to women
than TO men as compared with other
countries. Women are sensational in
their nature. and that makes your pa
pers little more sensational than
those of other lands. think.
Women Cause SensationaIism.
women in your country are very
much more active than in any other
place. and so your papers must be
more active and enterprising in pro-
viding for them, and therefore some
times more sensational.
1.-The policy of our paper is imperial
ism. 1t is political paper. But we
have been friendly to the United
States and have received many evil
dences of the favor of the people. |
President Taft visited our Office when |
he was in Japan. and when your feet |
came to visit us an officer did us the |
favor to send us a wireless report of |
the fleets whereabouts when there !
was much speculation about it in |
Tokyo.
I'VE have four correspondents in |
in New York. one in |
Chicago. one in Washington and one
in San Francisco. We have not as
vet telegraph wires in our offices, but
expect TO have them this year.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1910-07-28
AERIAL FREIGHT LINE HERE.
Arizona Aviator to Haul Machinery In
Monoplane.

DIR. ]. ]. P. Armstrong has contract
ed with Arthur Williams. an aviator
Of Douglas, Ariz., to convey placer
mining machinery from Douglas to a
property in the chihuahua mountains.
in Mexico. The distance is about 800
miles. The machinery is such that it
can be carried only in 100 pound lots.
Williams owns and operates a mono
plane. This is probably the first con-
tract calling for the commercial use of
q heavier than air machine.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1910-07-28
AUSTRALIA FIGHTS HERB.
St. Johns Wort Spreads Over 10000
Farming Acres.

Just thirty years ago woman at
Bright, Victoria. planted in her garden
a few seeds of St Johns wort sent her
from the old country. The woman's
intention was to have one or two Of
the plants at hand for medicinal pur-
poses. The hardy weed, however, soon
spread beyond the garden, and before
any one had grasped the magnitude of
the evil it had been carried by cattle
along all the main stock routes and
jumped the Victorian watershed into
Gippsland
1t has now completely taken posses
sion of something like 10000 acres of
agricultural land. and the agricultural
department of Victoria is spending
thousands of pounds in the endeavor
70 eradicate it, some of the methods
ried costing nearly ESQ an acre.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1910-07-28
LONDON USING TELEWRITER.
Users Write Message Instead of Talk
ing Into Phone.

London has beaten New York in one
feature of up-to-dateness. 1t has the
first "telewriter" exchange in the
world. which was recently opened.
The telewriter is a device for writ
ing by wire. One subscriber 20 the
service calls the number of another
through a telephone attachment on
the new machine and then sits down
md writes what he wants to say, the
message appearing on a roll of paper
at the other end of the line.
So far London has only forty sub
scribers to the new system, confined
to a small section of the business cen
ter, but before long it is hoped to ex-
tend the wires all over the city and TO
make the service as general as the
telephone.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1910-07-28
Sparrow Hawks Kill sparrows.

With a pair of sparrow hawks at
tached to long cords so that they
can't get away Thomas Champ of
Salisbury, Lancaster county, Ia, is
clearing his place Of the pessg spar
row.
Barbour County index., 1910-10-12

w HETHER the high price of food
w is causing the public to take an
uncommonly keen interest in domes-
tic problems now, or whether the
cause is something else, the officials
of the Department of Agriculture do
not undertake to say. The fact re-
mains that there has been a greater
run up to date on the so-called social
science" series of bulletins than on
any other pamphlets the department
has ever produced.
Up to the present there has been a
total of 16,672,000 bulletins distribut-
ed. Some now out of print have been
applied for so often that it is prob
able the estimates for next year will
include provision for reprinting.
This government is the only one In
the world that has gone into the busi-
ness of printing cook books. 1t was
Barbour County index., 1910-10-12
al Thieves Comparatively Few

Circumstantfal evidence does not 90
at any time with u.s. 1t is an estab.
lished rule that the evidence must be
positive and direct. In almost every
case an arrest means conviction.
From one point of view it is won
derful that there are so few thieves
among the many thousands of clerks
who handle the mails first and last
for greac temptations surround them.
as they handle millions of valuable
parcels. 1t is known that these clerks
soon learh to tell by the very touch
Of letter whether 1t contains money
If so inclined 1t would be an easy mat.
ter for the dishonest clerk to slip
letters into his pocket and open them
In the privacy of his room. That the
cases OF dishonesty are comparative
ly few is a high tribute to the moral
qualities Of the postoffice clerks.
There are but two successful ways
to catch a postoffice thief-constant
watch and decoy letters. With these
and large supply of patience. the
game viii be landed, though 1t often
requires months, and sometimes years.
1t is one of the most annoying and DIFF
ficult lines Of detective work, and re-
Quires the most earnest application.
Not a single circumstance or detail
must be overlooked"
Barbour County index., 1910-10-12
Hall of Fame Statuary Not Artistic

Webster, whom everybody knows was
not large man, but the statue makes
him a regular giant. There Is a
statue of John ]. ingalls,, the only one
as yet sent by Kansas, and excepting
that it is like line, has neither
breadth nor thickness, which was a
good description of ingalls,. 1t is the
limit for ugliness. There is a statue
of Frances Willard in a basque and
ill-hanging dress, which bears not the
slightest resemblance to that dainty,
sweet-faced woman. There is a statue
of Phil Kearny in bronze, which Is
very pretty to look at, but has very
little artistic merit, and there Is one
OF Shoup, Of Idaho, which looks as
though it might have been sandpa-
pered out of piece of marble. And
then there is Washington, a dapper-
little darling with sloping brow, as
fashioned by Houdon.
The Washington newspapers some
time ago began a crusade to have
the law placing statutes in Statuary
hall by the states repealed. 1t is to
be repealed on the ground that the
hall Is already jammed to overflow.
ing, and If any more statuary is pre-,
sented 1t will be necessary to make a
second and inner row.