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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-02

Marye. Capt. Donohoe is not a candidate
for reelection. preferring to retire al
the end of his term. going to his home
and resuming the editorial conduct of his
paper.
Against Mr.. Booker.
Marshall B. Booker of Halifax. for some
time clerk of the Virginia state senate
was about month ago nominated for the
position Of attorney for the common.
wealth. Since that time he has decided
to offer again for the senate clerkshir
and is at work along that line.
But the papers of the state are very
much opposed to Mr.. Booker and his in
tention to retain both positions, and they
have begun in no uncertain manner te
direct attention to the fact that such q
procedure is not to the best interests OF
the party. and that he ought to step aside
and give the position to some other per-
son. So far. however. he has not retired
from the contest and he Is presumed to
be very much in the race, though 1t Ii
believed that he will retire before the
legislature convenes in January next.
Looks Black for Redd.
Richard Redd. the negro who tried to
brain Police Capt. Wright a few days
ago when his arrest was attempted as a
fugitive from justice. is in a bad way
He was wanted for stealing a horse in
Lunenburg county. and i'm effecting his
escape from the deputy sheriff he nearly
beat that officer to death The lawless
| element in that county applauded the
negro for getting away and approved OF
the way in which he served the officer.
Redd in order to prevent being sent
back there for trial, confessed stealing q
horse and buggy in this city. Judge Will
of the corporation court, on being inform
ed that Redd was wanted as fugitive
from justice from Lunenburg at the time
of his arrest, ordered that he should be
sent back there for trial before being
tried here. in order to have the benefit
Of the moral effect on the negro popula-
ton. which had shouted pleasure at his
attack on the officer. Then he will come
back here and stand trial. He is GER
| tain to get the limit of the law in both
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-02

Some of the spirit of last Sunday is re-
fected In the remarks of member OF G
Company, I'd Infantry. who has been a
corporal in the 9Th United States Cav
airy. He took issue with published re-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-02

The LIST and I'd Regiments OF inlahiS
l.cLad MANY Of their men when they en-
camped on opposite sides OF the city last
Sunday, but there was no lack OF enthu,
siasm I'm those who marched out beyond
Deanwood and Cabin John bridge he-
ports made to military headquarters py
Mai g Fred Cook, adjutant general and
Mai Leroy w Heron. inspector general,
indicate that the two camps were OF great
benefit TO the officers and men The LIST
Infantry encamped on the Magrader
farm while the I'd Infantry WAS several
miles 70 the westward near Cabin John
bridge. The men slept In shelter tents.
and despite the rains of Saturday night
the camp was so soldierly and complete
that no. one suffered any discomfort by
reason of the downpour.
X y X
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-02

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles G. Some and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-02

Manager r. 8. Johnston of the Buick
Motor Company has awarded the con-
tract for the remodeling of its showrooms
on Connecticut avenue. Work will be
commenced at an early date. and when
completed the building will. 1t is claimed.
be one Of the best equipped and most up
to-date salesrooms in the city. The build
ing will be completely remodeled, with
extensive display windows. with oflces
: in the rear on the ground floor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-02

DR.. and Mrs. F. r. Geiber. and family
OF Columbia S. c.. arrived in Washing
ton Wednesday afternoon in their Hud-
son touring car. having covered 500 miles
in four days on the road. They are
en- route to Atlantic City to attend the
Elks' convention at that place. They
entered the Shenandoah valley at Natural
Bridge. a short distance below Stanton,
coming up the valley via Winchester,
BerryviiIe and Rockville. They were en-
thusiastic oyer the trip and had not met
with any accidents In the run to this
city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-23

States, which has soil of amazing fertility it
posed to the influence of the
One Kansas farmer blasted row of holes across the
lower part of forty-acre swamp his farm,
where the water three feet deep, which drained it
once and the first he raised forty bushels of
to the acre, and since then has been harvesting four
crops of alfalfa year.
The methods employed in the digging of If
rgation bitches, very costly proceeding with and
teams, but vastly cheaper with dynamite And the lat
ter has the added advantage of taking of everything
in its path, whether rocks, trees or hardpan.
One the hardest problems that have confronted agr
cultural students in the last few has been what could
be done with the great of logged off land so full of
stumpS to make cultivation impossible, and seemingly
OF no more value than poor grazing ground for sheep
Dynamite, however, is solving this problem; for it
will tear out the Stumps and shatter them rewood
without any other labor than is required to bore few
holes in the wood and all at oneeghh the cost of man
and team labor. This shown in experiments made
by the Long Island Railroad, which removed hundred
stumps for sixteen cents apiece, which would have
quired three thirty days, average cost
to the stump of over dollar and thirty cents The
dynamter and one helper blew one hundred and fifty
stumps in day.
Even the Douglas fir stumps in the far Northwest,
about the toughest of ordinary commercial woods, OF
four feet in diameter, have been blasted out at
cost of dollar and fifteen apiece Instances
shown where land worth twenty dollars
cleared of its sumps for twenty-five dollars and then
sold tor one hundred dollars
Indeed, loggers using dynamite to a consid
cradle extent in telling timber particularly in the
cypress tracts of the South where the water prevents
choppers from getting at the trees Other lumbermen
say this method is much cheaper all ordinary cases,
and preferable that intelligent insertion of the
dynamite cartridges into the base of the tree enables
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-23
BY GEORGE NUMANN

them to make it fall in any direction desired The blast
lifts the entire tree foot or two above ground.
Farmers also getting nd of huge bOulderS in their
fields by shatterng them with dynamite, and then car
rying off the pieces. boulder weighing tons
be removed with single pound of the explosive
One of the rather effects of using dynamite to
make the holes for planting fruit trees that these trees
bear far quickly and procaly than those put into
holes dug with shoves One fruit grower planted three
peach trees in blasted holes and six the customary
bushels of fine fruit; but the other SIX practically
dead, owing the dry weather. The dynamite had
loosened the soil for considerable radius round the
hole which permitted the tender young roots expand
Since this has been learned fruit growers cutvang
their orchards with dynamite using just sufficient charge
to stir the soil about the roots with valuable results
And SO other farmers actually plOW1ng with dyna
mite planting the sticks their land enough to-
gether shater the soil literally upside down depth
subsoi with practically disturbance of the surface,
creating increased water reservoir, making easy
path for roots to the plant food the hitherto undS
turbed subsoil thus retaining land that had become
and practically worthless that banner crops
followed. One watermelon grower in Georgia, whose
crops had become poor to be almost unmarketabe
read somewhere about exploding the SOIL and spent
dollars for enough dynamite cartridges to
His crop the best known his locality.
Fortunate indeed would be the farmer that could re-
claim his wornout land, by means of fertilizers and
diversified planting, for greater outlay than ten dol
lars acre. and then he would be leaving the sub
soil as dormant as before.
Subsol blasting increases the fertility OF the soil,
because the blasts aerate it and open up rich store
houses of natural fertilizer located below the depth to
which the plow reaches field whose top soil has been
worked out will take on new life when the underlying
plant food is made available.
And SO, it seems, dynamite is blazing the way into
era of farming
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-23
v. THE REPORTER OF THE ITEM"

THERE instants hush when Fenton
finished. His charm and personality had carried
his hearers along with absorbed attention; but he
had little practice in impromptu and his tale
could scarcely convince the crowd of before him.
who used to all of picturesque narratives
So Fenton sat down, gust of laughter applauded
him. They had been well entertained by his freak of
fancy; but enough to contribute the funds he had
hoped might be his reward. He made another tentative
appeal but cynical laugh his only answer, and the
company began to break up Men and yawned
started to look for their hats, and began talking with
another. The president forward and laid his
massive hand on Fenton's shoulder.
"Very good, Lad You nearly got going, and that
Joke for a beginner. Wen have to have you round
again. Nothing like blood. Well, goodnight, Kid
Come round whenever you feel like hitting the pipe
"But how in the world am | to get out of here?'
Fenton asked anxiousy. a can't go this way. If
can't borrow any money, might at least get pair of
trousers"
ooh, guess Gerrish will fix you all right" said the
president easily and he began to turn out the lamps.
The cab driver had already joined them. Il got an
old pair of overals if that'l do you any good he
suggested.
Fenton jumped at the proposal for indeed it would
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-23

DYNAMITE, still the terror of the uninitiated, and
supposed by them to be useful only In the tr1ghtul
havoc of war; else in big blasting operations under the
management of experts, at last finding its greatest
purpose in the humble arts of peace. The American
farmer has discovered that instead of being the awful
menace to life and limb, and good for nothing but to
wreak useless destruction, it has most wholesome
in blowing out the stumps and bouders that burden
his land as well as digging his bitches for irrigation
draining swamps and Transforming these wastes into the
most productive soil in his property and actually plow
ing his ground and cuvating his orchards. If there
other condition farm where labor alone
to be the only of surrounding it, 1t is pretty
tain that before long ingenious student of the values
of explosives will discover that dynamite will do it far
better and more cheaply than under old methods.
Yes, dynamite does all these things, and furthermore
it brings under control of the farmer land that he
couldn't possibly reclaim otherwise For instance the
swamp land on the average farm cannot be drained by
ordinary methods except the almost prohbtve cost
of constructing elaborate bitches and drainage systems
and this is not practicable unless there natural
descent carry off the water Even erWard the land
is often full of brush and trees that there is further
great expense before it is finally ready for cultivation
But along comes the man that knows how, sticks
few innocent looking dynamite cartridges into auger
holes below the water blows the everlasting stung out
of the hardpan which the water floats and behold the
sinks of sight and the land ready for clearing
Or else, if this sufficient he plants his cartridges
in a running away from the swamp, touches them
off, and he has ditch that will accommodate a good
sized creek And in all this the farmer has probably been
to less than oneourth the expense of drainage by ord
nary means, and with incalCulaby less labor Indeed
such development likely to cost than five
dollars acre, unless there unusual conditions.
All this makes easily possible the reclamation of the
seventy million acres of swamp land in the United
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enable him to kill two birds with stone. If he could
get the cab driver alone he determined to gain
the ocket and when he might restore 1t to its
and then discover if possible, the secret of his old
memories of the rnket. He accepted Gerr1shs offer,
therefore, and, after farewes to those of the club who
had not already gone he left and went down flight of
stairs, with the cabby.
He had already measured his with his eye. Ger
IRISH gin soaked, obese wreck and Fenton felt
of being able to him in fair fight. He had
watched carefully and knew that the driver had slipped
the locket into lower vest pocket 1t should be easy
to gain possession of it. First, however the overas
must be secured.
They went down into stable next door, now tenaned
only by few sorry nags and two disreputable looking
cabs. 1t was lit by oil lamp bracket. Gerrlsh
went to locker in the rear, beside small door in the
wall, and drew the garment The overalls of
but they would least his bare shins. Fenton
drew them on, watching his sharply. When he
clad he unanswered toward wagon stave that
lying the floor seized it, and whrled suddenly upon
the cab driver.
@Now then!" he exclaimed harshly "Give me that
1ocket! It's mine"
Gerrish looked up him through bleary eyes. "Well,
you of plumber!" he calculated and then, with
remarkable agility and force his foot shot out caught
his opponent in the diaphragm, and Fenton dropped
doubled up, with the wind knocked out of him. Before
he could recover the cabby had fallen him and
throttng him. He began punch with ervor. Fenton
stars, then everything black He grew faint.
HE opened his eyes, to find Richmond the chubby
- porter who had been elected from the club, sitting
keg watching him curously. Fenton sat up on the
Continued page IS
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pink Englishman out game like this I'll be darned
if don't marry the Briton for he's the cleverest of
the twol like you, Claude and in times of peace you
seem make good but the is on, and m going to
marry the victor. Well get married the thirtieh of
April and Il give you this last chance am aware that
Mr. Mudde may have cooked up good one this time
to put you of business but if you can't defend YOUR
self after being warned, you re good to hus-
band. | can't that kind So III give you till mid
night to show up. When the clock strikes twelve If
YOU re visible to the naked eye, I'll become Mrs.
Nude and begin to train for high society Surrey and
that town house in Park Lane Goodby, Boyo-Ill
always be sister, if he wins. But do hope you won't be
lost in the shuttle again.!
WEDDING NUMBER THREE: All goes well
in three dress suits, small gents furnishing shop,
man and each had magazine pistol ready At six the
telephone bell rings and Ma Peach out her siren
song. Daisy, she said had cold toes something.
Would | right to her, else the match
would be off She had sent the limousine See the
game? Yes? No?
what could l do? Disobey the summons of the
Queen of the Solar System, my brave sweet Daisykrs?
Not so. fell for it. | walked through my barrcades,
jumped into the limousine. The minute was in, two
large adult men jumped in after me- each side.
l had time to put up fight before they got to my
nose with choroform-and-we1l | woke up in
friends ranch with my trousers gone. quick finish?
By Juno! Yes!
"Now, Gents, 1 put it up to you! Are you going to
allow to lose twenty-sx-carat bride at the last
moment for want of twenty cents and pair of trousers!
Seriously, my friends, I'm in hole ask you, to
man, help out! can make it yet. Are you willing
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know how nervous man isl believe, honest I've
temperature of hundred and four this blessed minute
For Cupids sake, give lift If had hat I'd pass
it around need only pants and taxi. What do you
say?"
Fenton paused and looked anxously around at the
members of the Liars Club.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-12-17
4srofrssiunal IscIp luanten

TEACHERS NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
drawing. $1,000; plant pathologist,
$500 ;i. $500 for science sci Gnsii 81.
50o-s $1,000: for chemistry, $1,000
$1,000; commercial teachers. Special
terms for membership. THE INTER-
STATE TEACHERS AGENCY, Ma
checa Building. New Orleans.
TEACHERS IN GREAT DEMAND FOR
emergency calls in public and pri-
vato schools. Many good openings
K. w. CRIDLIN. Manager Virginia
Teachers Bureau. Manchester. Rich
mond. Va.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-12-17
gplirttprs anp Statesmen

CALENDAR SALESMEN.@iN THIS
city and neighborhood: also finc side
line for travelling statesmen; largest
and finest line calendars and wall
pockets; imported and domestic; fans,
leather goods. aluminium, celluloid,
ctc.; liberal commissions your ter
rtory protected. Deal direct with
Headquarters Oldest house in Amer
lea, known by everybody. Address
AUGUST CAST BANK-NoTE AND
IlTHo. co, st. Louis. Mo.
LISTEN! TAYLOR PORK ROLL is so
easily cooked.
Statesmen WANTED FOR 4 STRONG
must give exclusive time. If our line
and proposition Is satisfactory; ex-
elusive territory open, Virginia and
T Mss! HtrSt9ia CO. N NsStG6 ,o MANU
SALESMAN. EXPERIENCED IN ANY
sinta; Vacancy January !. Unex-
celied specially proposition. Com
mission contract: $40 weekly for eX-
EI.RY CO., Cleveland. Ohio.
WANTED. CAPABLE SPECIALITY
January !. Permanent position to
right party. Staple line. Contract
containing liberal weekly advance
clause. References required. MILES
w., N'leNelaHu, Onlo.
CAPABLE SALESMAN TO COVER Wiz
Einia with staple line; high commits
siohs; 500 monthly advance and per-
manant position to right man. JESS
II. SMITH CO., Detroit, Mich.
WANTED. AT ONCE, Statesmen TO
handle our line: salary or Commits
sion; prefer men who have acquaint-
ancn with harness and hardware
trade Line full of specialtios Mt at
tractive prices First-class refer
6nos must accompany application
Applications must be In by Decam-
her "a. UNITED STATES WHIP CO.,
Westfield Mass.
Statesmen TO HANDLE OUR COM.
plete line of imported and domestic
Advertising calendars and novelties
We also havo an especially attrao-
tive side line proposition to sales
mer, carrying other lines. State ter
ritory, lines and full particulars
oLMsTEAD BROS. CO., Adv. Dept.
Wheeling, w. Va J, FL
sALEshTBN, DO YOU WkNTr- $40 "a
day side limo deal7 Shappiest propo-
Rition4excr! sprung. VIII sell every
where. Strong enough for main line.
AMDRICAS Il CToR les Co. st.
Lou lei, 40, " ~.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-12-17
Business Opportunities

WATTED. Mas WGo CAN T1KE
Iuli charge OF office and finances of
business pnyinsfsl2.5oO no. an
nually and invest sl:.5oo for practl-
and conservative. Address ID 1870,
care Times Dispatch.
WANTED. SEVERAL PARTIES TO
join mo. invcsting $1,000 to $4,000
each In clean business. paying so
per cont. net annually. Your. money
secured. This Is exceptional. Ad-
dress b ITO. care Times- Dispatch.
HAVE a BUSINESS PAYING OVER
30 per cent. net annually. Witch has
ontSrown my present facilities, I
$4,000 to $1,000 each. giving them
preferred stock and make them di-
rectors. Unusual opportunity. Ad
dress 9 500. care Times Dispatch.
CAPITAL FURNISHED FOR MERITO-
rious enterprises; stocks and bonds
cooperating and reorganization OF
companios For particulars. JOHN
SON & CO. Bankers. Madison and
La Sale. Chicago.
TRAVELLING Statesmen W AN TIE d
by well-known furniture factory;
straight salary and eXpensEs; small
investment required. Address P.-O.
Box 1851, Richmond. Va.
SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS MAN WISfI-
Ing to invest capital with services
tllHtI w uOicShlc, retail OF EndnuIaC-
turing. Address l. 775, care Times
Dispatch.
WANTED, FINANCIAL BACKING ON
idea to patent and manufacture u
useful Implement This Is great
opportunity for the right party. y
u. caro- Times Dispatc ten.
oppoRruNITY TO boRRoM MoNEY
GENT. PER ANNuM EoU1rAbLEs
LOAN SOCIETY. INC, EIGHTH AND
BROAD STREETS.
SOMETHING ATTRACTIVE.-oPE A
savings ,sa account ,ms,rd, and md, you sc.
unique method practiced just at
Christmas by one of the banks of
the city, which has declared Its thir-
Is represented by Mr.. II. u. Reid. ut
IS North Ninth Street. The saving
proposition appeals to the thrifty,
and IF the people OF the city only
knew what n good proposition it Is
they would surely take advantage
of 1t Booklets and calendars free.
Make MONEY SPARE TIME MANU-
featuring candies. toilet goods and
extracts; ten valuable formulas and
BAihY sUPPLY CO.. 7o7 Nortl, Ave,
Richmond. Va.
IN ORDER TO TAKE CARE OF OUR
rapidly growing business 1--WE have
just closed contract for the construc-
ton of vault for bank in this city.
largest contract ever let In the en-
tire South. require approximately
half a million pounds of steel in It's
construction). We wish to get into
touch with capable business man
who can invest from $4,000 to Sl5.-
600 with services. TO such Il party
an exceptional business connection
will be offered a small amount OF
the S per cent. preferred stock Of
the company offered to the conscrva-
/ tive investor. Full particulars given
TO the Interested party. Inquire at
once OF the Offices OF the r. l.
BARNES SAFE AND LOCK COM
PANY. INC, 1911 South Eighth
Street Richmond. Va.
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agents Juanten

SALES MASAGERS. DfSTRfBGfiNG
agents for q new hand-operated va
has the ability to handle exclusive
territory to manage our proposition
In your own county or city that Will
make him $50 to 300 per week; u
our successful selling plan helps
sales managers. a small working
capital viii get you the territory.
formsti e. onf9 i9T pyosf SHd fgi n
CO. Pennsylvania Building, Phlladc.-
phia.
CREW MANAGERS AND CLEVEl;
agents, piece aluminium cook
ing set, si.9s. with certificate scheme.
only ~ cent?: miniature samples
free to earthenware men. ALuM1-
NUN PRODUCTS CO. I4aGrange. I'll.
AGENTS. OUR GOODS ARE USED IN
million homes: every housekecper
buys and Keeps buying; sells ut Toe. ;
fesss y Sad ic sampie and p9rtisuis1
FRANKLIN St. Buffalo, N Y
AGENTS, WE HAVE THE LATEST M
proved mantle burner. fits all lamps,
100 candlepowcr: burns.with or with
0nt mantle: Samples FREQ to hust-
York.
FREE sAMPLE-NEw NO SPLASH"
Patented 1911. Not in stores. Every
beginner makes s. daily easy. Send
&C. for postage. SEED FILTER CO.,
New York.
AGENTS wANTED:--AGENTs. MAKE
800 per dsnt. profit selling Novelty
Sign Cards" Merchants buy 10 to
100 on sight. 500 varieties. Gaia
lognc free. SULLIVAN co, 1894 Won
Burcn street. Chicago Ill.
WE PAY $50 a MONTH SALARY AND
furnish zig and all expenses to in
troduce orr guaranteed stock and
poultry powders: money back guar
antec; OUTFIT free; new plan: steady
work. BIGLER Co, X os9, Spring
field, III.
ENTS WANT l. D.--MAKE BIC;
money selling photo pillow tops. o5c.
bromides, sc; portraits, 35c.; oil
cites. zoe. We produce works of art,
guaranteed; lowest prices, largest
studio, prompt service. credit given,
loBuc free. DANIEL II. RITTER CO.,
1918 Madison. Chicago. III.
AGENTS, C.ANvAsSERs STREET MEN,
believe US, VIC have the quickest SELL
ing Csc. article out. Patented and
salals m@ NJ ss MF!0 6 5eF a55
Main Street, Stepney, Conn.
OUR ATTRACTIVE. sELF-DEMoN-
strating canned paste specialties are
big repeat order sellers. Tremendous
demand created wherever shown; 100
to 400 per cent. profit; samples. loo.
to cover postage. LaRUE SOAP CO.,
Dept. D., 5S4 Niagara Street, buffalo.
n. Y.
DON'T SLAVE FOR WAGES EARN
So to $40 daily. Be your own boss.
Particulars free. CECIL II. TAEEN-
NI5R, 1921 Lamont ST.. y. w, Wash
ington. ID. c.
AGENTS ON SALARY OR COMMITS
sion. The greatest agents seller
ever produced; every user OF pom
and Ink buys 1t on sight; 200 to 500
per cent profit; one agents rales
amounted to $500 In six days: an
other sac in two hours. MONROE
MFG. CO., ~ SO. La Crosse. Wis.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-12-17

SPLENDID CHANCE TO SECURE ONE
OF THE BEST SITUATED, EQUIP
PED AND PAYING RETAIL DRUG
STORES IN RICHMOND. OWNER
RETIRING AND LEAVING CITY.
TERMS CAN BE MADE REASON
ABLE. Address \ 81, CARE
TIMES DISPATCH.