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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-10
NICK DEMARA IS A
STURDY MARATHONER
Won Many Contests in Alaska
and After More in
New York.

NEW YORK, February 1O.-"Will you
run marathon race for a side of bacon?"
asked a miner at Fairbanks, Alaska, of
a little Greek who had been working In
the camp for some months Evidently the
miner thought that all Greeks were nat
ural-born marathoners. At that time
bacon was mighty precious stuff In the
far north-even more valuable than were
gumdrops.
Nick Demara declared he was a mara
started out to run the twenty-six miles
That was the first bacon that Demara
brought home. but when the miners saw
that they had a distance runner in the
came they sent outside" and brought in
couple of pro" runners. Against them
Nick proved a winner in every race. and
in a short time he was possessed of a
small fortune.
There was a Jap in Fairbanks who
manded and he was matched to run
against the Greek Nick defeated him by
a few miles, and then decided to come
down below and get some races with
the best we have here BY the time he
had reached the decision that he was a
world eater the winter had set in and
there were no boats leaving from the
camp in which he was located. Naturally
there was nothing for Nick to do but
''hoof' it out. To Valdez was 800 miles
over the soft snow, but Demara made 1t
in record time.
The other day he arrived in New York.
looking for the chance to run against the
best in the world. I've gone the mara
thon distance on a track twenty-four
laps TO the mile in hours 81 minutes"
said Demara last night.
Up at Fairbanks we ran on the trotting
track. but it was mud ankle deep. ! can
run all day. On one of your good tracks
there's no reason why | shouldn't run as
well as any of your best men,
The Greek was over to see Sparrow"
Robertson about getting on a race, and
as he was willing to bet a couple of hun
dred on himself to win there is chance
that he will be matched to run against
Crowley, Ljungstrom, Johanson and Pat
Dineen The race. if arranged, will be a
sweepstakes affair.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-10

! the Cleveland club-with eyes extended
| in search of youth-would have no use
for them.
The faults of the young players are
far greater than the spectator in the
grand stand realizes, Catcher Jack
Adams of the Maps has probably as
great arm as any catcher in the major
leagues today. Put him in a contest with
some of the older catchers In the league
at stopping men attempting to go To
second Possibly he would not compare
with them He takes too much time TO
get the ball away.
Adams is merely taken an ilustra,,
ton of faults which might he discovered
by men accustomed to looking for faults
One pitcher may have tendency to De
wild close scrutiny of his system
will reveal that he is too anxious 10
pitch frequently.
Another pitcher may wonder why so
many men steal while he is in the Don.
and wonder how his catcher ever sneaked
through the portals of the big leaSuA.
That pitcher may give the base-runnet
a fifteen or twenty-foot start on the
catcher.
Common Mistakes.
These are not rare examples. Thev
are common among youngsters. They are
faults which might be discovered in time
to make a player, who. If his mistakes
went undiscovered; would soon be shipped
back to the minors, there to remain the
rest Of his days.
The demand for almost perfect play
ers has become so great, the search so
thorough, that it is now evident that none
must be lost, even II lengthy teacning
is required to bring out the skill WHICH
he possesses.
Confidence is recognized as one of the
most important assets of high-class
player. He must have it to succeed
The recruit comes from the bushes often
without having had the opportunity TO
see a major league club In action: filled
with junk about the superhuman skill OF
the men with whom and against whom
he must play. That man must have con-
fidence to succeed.
No system of instruction. no system
for ferreting the lambs from the sheep.
no system for the development Of that
all-important asset, confidence. than that
which the Cleveland club will put into
use this spring, could be conceived.
Perhaps it may not bring a champion
ship team. AT least it will have proven
to be an interesting experiment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-10
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES,
Explosives in Kitchen.

There are peculiar things about some
of the commonest articles in your kitch-
en-. If the housewife should in some
way scatter the contents of a twenty
fve-pound sack of flour about the room
and then be so foolish as to strike a
match, the ensuing explosion would blow
Up her and the whole building. Pow
dered soap will do the same thing. See
our next Sunday Magazine for further
particulars.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-10
PLAGUE RAGING IN CHINA.
Eight Hundred Bodies Cremated fol
Want of Grave Diggers.

PEKING, February 10.-At Chang
Chun yesterday immense bonfires COM
posed of 500 corpses were burned. They
were last weeks accumulation OF
bodies unburied owing to the fact that
all the grave diggers have died Of
the plague
The epidemic is now at it's most
virulent stage at Chang Chun. Yester-
days total of deaths was 40.
Russian reports are that hundreds OF
corpses strew the roads and fields near
the towns and villages north and east
of Hardin
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-10

The Highlanders will not begin active
work so early, but they will take q two
week boil out at Hot Springs, so as to
relieve them of all stiffness before tao
king the hard work on the diamond.
Chase believes that the boiling-out pro-
cess will be as beneficial to the veterans
as practice on the diamond. THE men
know what to do all right" said Chase,
land the main thing is to get their sys-
TENS in shape to do it. The veterans do
not have to be drilled in the fine points
Of the game like the recruits"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-10

Arthur Allen, the fourteen-year-el son
Of Thomas Allen of Frederick. Md, who
ran away from home last May and ship
ped to West Africa, returned home We'd
nesday night to the joy of his father,
who had searched long.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-10
Woman CompeteS.

The Truth by Mabel Herbert Urner,
IL the third story in our ten-thousand
dollar prize story competition. See the
next Sunday Magazine of The Sunday
Star.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-10
CLIPPING BUREAUS.
By FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

reaus for collections of obituary no
tees of their loved ones. dead and
gone. So with births. weddings and
family histories and anniversaries.
There is practically no limit to the
amount of money which may be spent
on the selection, arranging and bind
ing of these de luxe volumes, dealing
with purely personal matters.
This marvelously simple. yet quite COM
pick. industry Is less than thirty years
old Starting in 1881 with a. very small
force and ii limited number of periodicals
on file. the pioneer agency has lived to see
4,Nn publications read and marked daily
by half hundred experts in its great
establishment. As many more clip the
selected items. Another force attends to
the classifying and distribution. and still
another branch of the office force attends
10 official and special assignments.
1t IS peculiarly remarked that after the
marking and clipping of II newspaper,
nothing but the first page title and head
lines are left Each expert reader carries
about nifty subjects in his head as lie
goes through the piles of eXchanges-no
slght tax on the memory, the Judgment
and the attention when it is remembered
what accomplishes the desired results
with the maximum of speed and accuracy
ana the minimum of expense. Naturally,
the readers are divided into technical,
sclentlnc, nteraryx artistic and general
groups, each reading the periodicals on
these subjects and cullng the matter de-
sired from each for perhaps hundreds of
lhoiVlduai subscribers to the clipping
service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-10

EUROPE ANP ORIENT
30 fine tours. sas5 upward. Frequent sailings
14,h Annual Orient Cruise Feb. l. 1al2, by 5. s.
Arabic: II days. all expenses $500 and upward
r. NJ Hicks 1906 ST. NV; George W. Moss
,17 l4th ST. NV. Washington.
Frank c. Clark. Times bldg. New York
N1RFGl z & WASH, STEAMBOAT CO.
MODERN STEEL PALACE STEAMERS
10 OLD POINT COMFORT, NORFOLK
AND ALL POINTS SOUTH.
Daily, 6:4J pm, from foot Of 7th ct. s.w.
New York and Boston by Sea.
CITY Ticket Office. Bond bldg. 1Ith n. 7. ave
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-10
Men in Wall Street
Find Clippings Valuable.


every morning before the business of
clippings from the financial columns of
every daily paper In every great none
tary center. home and foreign, rejecting
the tone and the temper of the local mar
kets
Society people-those who have ''ar-
rived" no less than the climbers
to know what is being said about them
and their doings, especially the lavish en-
tertainers at Newport. Bar Harbor. the
Berkshtres or NarraganSett The man or
the woman who has written d book may
have all the reviews thereof collected
Actors, vaudeville artists, singers and en-
tertainers are all avid for notices"
since to them publicity is as the breath
OF life. An engagement may depend upon
good notices Here again some clipping
bureau will do for them what they. NOV
ing frequently from place to place, can
not possibly perform for themselves.
The clipping agencies will keep real es-
tate operators informed as to street open
ings, civic improvements or the breaking
up Of large estates: manufact urers of
monuments or tombstones and builders of
cemetery vaults are kept posted concern
ing the deaths Of possible wealthy pa
irons; publishers of technical journals
get clippings from all over the civilized
world respecting their specially: archi-
tects receive notices of public structures
planned by various municipalities or of
private individuals who may be in the
market for plans and specifications. In
short, nothing escapes the clipping agency,
and 1t has been we'll remarked that for
the busy man or the specialist it per-
forms the work of private secretary or
OF a press agent at a mere trif1e Of ex-
pense.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-10
Famous Novelists
Collected Clippings.

and fling them away. properly indeXed.
The library of the first-named novelist
contained scores of volumes filled with
clippings OF every imaginable description,
dealing with fancy. fact, or fable. Some
Of the most striking incidents In his nov
els were based on actual happenings in
real life. and when the author was on
more than one occasion, charged with
unduly taxing the credulity Of his readers
he was able to confound his critics by re-
ferring them to some newspaper cutting
stored away on file in a scrapbook Clark
Russell, the nautical writer, did the same
thing on two or three occasions. thus
proving the correctness Of the adage that
truth Is stranger than fiction
Nearly every great modern daily journal
has Its librarian. whose duty it is to file
away for future reference. biographical
data, stories of great discoveries or
curious happenings in various parts of the
world, all of which and more. are indexed
ana preserved in case of need. 1t was
owing to this system that the New York
World at the time of the Panama libel
case, was able to collate and print whole
volume of clippings relating TO the matter
cuiled from its contemporaries.
Of the making Of scrap books there is no
end-to paraphraSe a Well known proverb.
Children delight TO paste up fugitive
pictures, and are never SO happy as when
busy with scissors and brush, making lit
ter enough to drive the housekeeper fran
tic. Then. too, children of larger
growth, both men and women, keep and
file away all sorts of clippings, according
to the individual taste-poetry, old and
new; jokes, curious facts or strange hap
penings. Women, too, collect clippings
relating to cookery. household recipes and
the like. while many a good cook book
has been made in this way. In time scrap
books such as these may come to possess
a value far beyond the intrinsic worth of
their scissored contents. To settle a date
or confirm an occurrence a book of clip
pings has more than once figured in
courts of law.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-10

In the field of sports, nowadays, the
clipping agency is Indispensable Every
aviation meet,
Clippings Of Sports yacht race. au-
=; n.,.x n.1 tomobile contest,
balloon voyage.
foot ball match or worlds champion
ship base ball series is very apt to
have several volumes of clippings pre-
pared for divers enthusiasts. So with
golf matches on the various links by
players of international reputation;
not only the clubs interested, but the
individual contestants. champions and
runners-up alike, are apt to want to
see how their performances appear in
print.
Many clipping agencies maintain
branches in our large cities and in
capitals of Europe, and they will con-
tract to supply clippings by the hum
dred. thousand or ten thousand. For
example on the death of E. H. Harri-
man and Of Russell Sage certain of
these agencies engaged to collect and
cOllate the newspaper comment on the
career and demise of each of these
great financiers. The results were ar
ranged and bound in scrap books, the
aggregate number of clippings run
ming into many thousands and form
ing an inValua bile record for the re-
spective families. SO, likewise, at the
decease of King Edward VII a Euro
pean. clipping bureau was ordered to
secure everything that was printed in
the newspapers and magazines of the
period. The results were embodied in
ten great folio volumes and are among
the most treasured possessions of
Queen Alexandra. 1t is stated that the
work is still going on.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-10

Similar collections of clippings have
been made for other crowned heads,
notably the
Collections of Clippings Emperor of
for Crowned Heads. $3.50 orai-
nary people resort to the clipping bu-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-10

Another proof of American ingenuity
is found in the clipping bureau. an in
stitution that is almost much a part
of our everyday life as the trolley, the
telephone and the electric light. 1t is i'm
portant. and almost necessary, for people
in all prominent walks of life to know
what is being said about them in the
press, and the clipping bureau assemblies
and delivers these clippings almost as
quickly as the telegraph companies de-
liver their messages
During the great tariff debate in Con-
gress recently the leaders on both sides
standpatters, insurgents and democrats
kept in touch not only with their imme-
date constituents but with the nation
wide constituency by means of hundreds
of thousands of newspaper comments
both news and Observation-Disclosures by the
clipping bureaus. This is only one of
the larger fields of effort covered by
what has been termed the song of the
shears. AS matter of fact. there is
scarcely minor activity which does not
at some time find profit and advantage
in good clipping service.
Take the politician or the statesman
swinging around the circle" or stumping
the country. He knows what he said at
any given stopping place or from some
rear platform. But what he is more
vitality Interested in knowing is how he
was reported-correctly or incorrectly
by the local scribes. and how his utter
ances have impressed the country at
large Some clipping agency will garner
Tor MIN or his secretary every atom of
news and comment, and engage to for
ward the same to him at various points
en- route.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-10

Great authors, such as Charles Reade
and Wflkie Collins, to name only two,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-10

Again, the financial magnate or the
member OF the stock exchange finds the
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-07-14
SPRINGER CASTS OFF
HIS UNFAITHFUL WIFE
Denver Banker Divorced Be-
cause of Revelations in Won
Phul Tragedy.

Denver. Colo. July 3.--John w.
Springer was granted a divorce today
in the district court from Isabelle Pat
terson Springer. The charge was men
tai cruelty. The trial today was in
chambers. 1t was brief, no notice OF
the hearing having been given.
Mr.. Springer appeared with his at
torney and filed an amended complains
in which he alleged only mental cruel
ty. Daniel b. Ellis, representing Mrs.
Springer, filed a general denial OF the
allegations, and then the hearing was
begun, Mrs. Springer not being pres
ent.
Mr.. Springer testified that recent
publications concerning the relations OF
Mrs. Springer. Won Phul and Henwood
and the evidence at the trial or Hen
wood had greatly Inundated him, caus-
ing him much agony OF mind, and that
he believed the testimony at the trial
was true.
The question of alimony was NOT
raised. the S~pringers having effected
a private settlement. Mrs. Springer re-
ceives $4,000 In cash, diamonds and
other jewellery. Mr.. Springer also
agreed to use his influence with the
district attorney to have turned over
20 Mrs. Springer the letters she is al
legged to have written to Won Phul.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-07-14
MORAN IS KNOCKED
OUT IN THIRTEENTH
Ad Wolgast Successfully De,
tends the Lightweight Title
in Fight With Engl,shman.

San Francisco, July 6.-Ad WolgaFi
Is still the lightweight champion Of
the world. He successfully defended
his title yesterday by knocking out
owen Moran, the Englishman, in the
18th round.
Ii was a clean Knockout and the
decisive victory was clearly earned by
the rugged strength and terrific pun
ishing power OF the champion.
Right uppercuts to the stomach fol-
lowed by u left hook TO the Jaw, forced
the game little English fighter TO ta.e
the u for the first time in his IL
years in the ring. Moran came up
undistressed for the uniucky 18th
round, although IT vas plain he was
firing. Wolgast met him with a well
timed rush and forced his way to close
quarters. Moran checked him with a
left jab. but was backed against the
ropes In his own corner. Suddenly
Wolgast whipped his right arm free
from the clinch and swinging from his
hip sent his glove crashing three times
10 the pit OF Moran's stomach. Moran's
face whitened and twisted with agony
under the smear of blood from his cut
lips. He CROPPED blindiy to smother
the smashing blows; then his knees
gave way under him and he slipped
from Wolgast's grasp to, the brown
canvas that covered the ring.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-07-14
PRICE or CORN IS
SAILING SKYWARD
Gloomy Reports From Middle
West Show Dry Weather
Has Hurt Crops.

Chicago, July 6.-COntinuance Oh
witheriug heat over the corn belt was
reflected in an excited corn market
here today. the market selling early
60 an extreme advance of 4& cents as
compared with the close last Satur-
day.
Buying orders flooded the pit and
quotations varied as much as 2h cents
ir different parts at the opening. July
corn closed Saturday at G0A cents and
advanced TO 65 cents today. Septem-
her rose to GG cents, compared with the
previous close of 81 cents. Oats shared
In the excitement, advancing an eX-
IRENE 21G cents.
A private telegram from Kansas City
says:
been no records like these. Tempera-
lures on Saturday and sunday in the
IieIds were from LOG TO lis degrees.
Private advices from all over he corn
belt tell the same story. Oklahoma
burned to a crisp: Kansas scorched
from one end to the other"
II is reported here that implement re-
sailers have cancelled many orders.
The best known OF the crop experts
here renorts that the condition of oats
.and hay is the poorest ever known. He
places the July condition OF oats at
,f7 . as compared with 1873 last month,
and that OF hay at 66.4. against 80.2 in
June. His report puts the present con-
siition OF corn at 1874, as compared
with S3.1 q year ago.
WORD from southern Illinois hat the
neat had turned corn tassels from
green to white, and a inflicted heavy
damage, gave prices another hard twist
ipN ard. Before trading ceased. the
.September option in corn had touched
ssTa cents, and in the end was strong
vi C62 cents, an advance OF Az cents
FOR the day. Oats also showed a fur
tber rise on top OF the early bulge.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-07-14
SEVERE EARTHQUAKE
SHAKES CALIFORNIA
Golden State Frightened by
Threatened Repetition Of
Great Disaster.

San Francisco, July 1.-Two earth
quake shocks. the heaviest since the big
shake of 1906 and separated by only a
few seconds, Jared the central portion
of California and western Nevada Sat
urday. The first sharp shock. expe-
rienced approximately at go O'clock,
was followed within a few seconds by
one Of similar intensity. each lasting
about five seconds. Only trivial dam
age has been reported from any Sec
ton, but in San Francisco n other
cities in the affected area panic seized
upon crowds in stores and restaurants
n there was a pellmell o from
the large buildings.
one peculiar feature OF the earth
quake was that it did not ppear TO
follow the old fault In the earth's
crust which has been the playground of
tremblers in the past, but extended
from the s~eacoast eastward to the
Sierras, including hitherto exempt
mountain areas. 1t was felt to the
mento valley, southwark as far as Fres-
no, n To the east at Carson and Reno.
New, the latter place experiencing the
heaviest shock in its history.
Some slight damage was done to
buildings in a Francisco. Heavy
stones in the cornice of the Merchants
Bank building were moved slightly out
of alignment; superficial cracks were
made in several large office buildings;
cornices OF the new postoffice building
were disarranged. m minor damage
was done to the interior walls OF a
number Of old buildings.
within Il few seconds after the first
shock many downtown stores were de-
populated in a rush TO the streets. Tele-
phone n telegraph service was sus-
pended because because of the opera
tors deserving their keys. Herbert
Hadley, a lodging house inmate, fell
dead of fright, and some cases of hys-
terra or Of cuts or bruises suffered in
the semi-panic were cared for at the
Emergency n other hospitals.
The deep booming reverberation
which usually marks disturbances of a
widespread character accompanied the
first tremor. In San Francisco the
grooming and creating OF the strained
steel structures played a larger part in
frightening people than did the tre-
morS.