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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-27
Profit by Old Charter.

In the early '9os Mackenzie and Mann
secured an old railway charter that had
been abandoned and was kicking about.
and In 1896 built their first mile of rail-
way. from the little town of Gladstone.
Manitoba. A few years later they took
over the Manitoba government railway.
which gave them connections south at
the International boundary. The charter
they had acquired provided for a railway
via the Pas Mission to Hudson bay. but.
remembering the rich field of Assinibo,a.
now part Of the province of Saskatche-
wan, the builders, at point some 200
miles north of Winnipeg. headed almost
due west for Edmonton. They laid their
rails through the richest fields OF the
prairie provinces. and In half dozen
yea they reached Edmonton. the capital
OF Alberta, the metropolis of the far
northwest and tho gateway to a wilder
ness from which comes n little lumber
and a lot Of furs.
Many good stories are told of Macken-
zie and Mann--mostly of Mann. Ono is sc
ancient and honorable that I have de-
c!ded to tell IL here. II Is to the effect
that Russian prince, Jealous OF the
giant challenged him to a duel. The
r~cnch second of the Russian prince
asked Mann. the challenged party. Il
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FREAK LETTER" DAY.
All Sorts of Queer Requests Sent to
Post Office Department.

Yesterday was freak letter" day at
the Post Office Department, so-called
because of the receipt of many letters
making strange and unusual requests.
A man in Texas town has dis
covered a postage stamp that cannot
possibly be used a second time. 1t
has a coupon ungummed flap that the
postmaster is to tear off when letter
Is mailed. He says it will save the
government thousands of dollars, and
he would like to have his picture ap-
pear In it instead of Washington.
Franklin, Grant or any other celebrity.
Alfred Budd of Athens. ILL.,. writes to
ask the department to locate his
father, whom he has not seen Tor
twelve years and who two years ago
was said to be somewhere In missouri.
A Mrs. Green" who says she sup.
poses she is green by nature as Well
as by name" because she always gets
mixed up with cranks and snides, "
wants the department to help her re-
cover IAN ironbound contract TO BUY
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES five dollar
piano on monthly installments, pc
cause the Chicago concern with Which
she dealt demanded $50 as a guarantee
OF good intentions after 1t had adver-
tised andnled her to believe no cash
payment Vas required and she would
be allowed to try the piano for thirty
days free OF charge.
Another man, who says he is "a poor
devil of a writer" wants the depart
ment to reduce the postage on writer's
manuscripts to one cent for two ounces
because lit takes years to make
strike" and they cannot afford to pay
two cents an ounce postage until
they do.
He also wants to sell an airship built
like a house to the department to be
used as a travelling post office 1t will
cost $4,000 to build and can travel
at the rate of 100 miles an hour. but
he is too poor to build it. He is will
ing. however. to submit the design foI
a consideration With the airship, he
says. "the country that has it can whil
the armies and navies of the world and
not half try"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-27
DRINK AT UNIVERSITIES
DEPL0RED BY EDUCATOR
Chancellor Avery Says Intoxi.
cants Are Abused at So
ciaI Functions.

LINCOLN, Neb.. September 37.-De
crying the abuse of intoxicants at uni
versity social functions, Chancellor Sam
ue Avery, at the convocation of the Uni
versity Of Nebraska today, declared he
agreed with r. T. Crane of Chicago as
to intemperance in universities:
Il have noticed an attack on the moral
conditions prevailing in American univer-
sities," said Chancellor Avery. MIR
Crane, though he doubtless knows more
about the manufacture of plumbing sup
plies than he does about higher educa-
ton, nevertheless has written some things
that demand more than passing glance
Has Undesirable Features.
1T is true that student life is every
where characterized by some undesirable
features and always will be, since edu-
cation cannot we'll be deferred until the
student has become as stafd as his
parents.
In Russian universities we see ex-
hibitions Of the highest form of ideal
ism mingled with out-and- out material
ism and pervaded by a spirit of an
archy. In German institutions respect
Tor law and order reigns supreme, but
IT is coupled with an abused personal
liberty which too often degenerates
into the grossest forms Of living.
Ihe great institutions of the east
which Mr.. Crane SO fiercely attacked
are far superior in point of morals To
many institutions on the other side OF
the Atlantic.
Denounced by Kaiser.
Mr.. Cranes words are not the voice
of one crying in the wilderness. The
abuse Of intoxicants at social functions
has been denounced by no less a person
than the kaiser himself and in the ma
tive country of Gambrinus at that: and
no less powerful voice Is that OF
David Starr Jordan.
1.-The self-supporting student, however
Is the salvation OF our western institu.
tons, both educationally and morally;
and those unspeakable conditions which
Mr.. Crane describes as existing in some
institutions, oyerdrawn though l think
they are. are largely due to the presence
! of the idle rich. whose influence every.
! where is destructive.
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Southern Railway.

N B.-FoIlowing schedule figures published only
as information. and are not guaranteed.
For Atlanta Birmingham Mobile. New Or
leans, Ashevile. 900 am. and lo:45 pm. daily
900 am. daily for Chattanooga and Memphis
Dining cars.
For Roanoke. Knoxville. Chattanooga. Birmlnc
ham. New Orleans. 1910 pm. daily. Dining cars
For Roanoke. Knoxville. Chattanooga. Mem
phis, Nashville. 40 am. daily sleeping car
open after 10 PM. Dining cars.
For Charlotte. Spartanhnfs, Atlanta. Annis
ton. Birmingham. 415 pm. daily. Dining cars
Tourist cars for California Monday Wednesday
THURSDAY. Friday. Saturday. 4:15 pm.
For Greensboro. Durham. Raleigh. Charlotte.
Columbia. Charleston. Aiken. Augusta, Sayan-
NAH Jacksonville and Florida points. Go pm.
daily. Dining
Local for Harrisonburg. $40 am. daily. 3.25
pm. and 4:3a pm. week days; for Denv.lle.
1870 am. daily and for charlottesville. 7:so
m. and 4:30 pm. daily: for Warrenton. 80
pm. daily and 4:55 pm. week days. FreGIent
trains to and from Rluemont.
T. BROWN General Agent.
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To Dedicate New Gospel Mission.

The fall jubilee and dedicatory serv-
ices of the new Gospel Mission, at PA
and 21S Az street northwest, is to be
held each evening from October z to
IT. On the Sundays afternoon services
will be held in addition to those in
the evening. The list of speakers will
Charles J.. Pate. Charles +. Steck. w.
r. Wedderspoon and John Reid Shan
non
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RAILROADS.
Seaboard Air Line RY.

SEd WUdFN INIT LINZ KY
1905 AN DAILY-"Seaboard Fast Mall
Through coaches and Pullman sleepers To Savsn
nah and Jacksonville Parlor Jacksonvills
to Tampa. Through sleeper 10 Atlanta. Dining
car.
6.35 PM DAIrY-"Florida-C Cuba Special :"
Pullman steel electric lighted sleepers 10 Savan.
nah. jacksonville Tampa. 81 Augustine and
knights Key tfor HayanHl. Through coaches 10
Jacksonville.
SIS PM. DAILy-"Atlanfa- Birmingham Spe-
cial'' Through Pullman steel electric lighted
sleepers and observation to Atlanta. Rirm-
ingha M and Memphis. Through coaches to Birn-
ingham. Dining
Ticket Office. 141s New York NV.
z. A. HARDWOOD. eta c. PHILLIPS .D.P.A-
RYAN 4 pnrfsnlnrfh Va
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dollars worth has ever been sold Sir
William Mackenzie and Sir Donald Mann
own it all, and have it locked away In
their tin boxes. The road has been
built. equipped and put in operation by
the proceeds of the sales of bonds guar
anteed by the government, and when it
is finished bill and Dan will be the
sole owners.
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Denounced by Kaiser.

Following a quarrel with her husband
at the breakfast table. Mrs Edward Car
DIV of near Clarksburg. W. Va, swal-
lowed a half ounce of paris green. mixed
with water. after he had gone to work,
and died in agony.
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SANITARIUMS.

CHESTNUT LODGE-A WELL EQUIPPED
sanitarium under experienced management for
mild r,.,ttal and nervous diseases. drug addic-
tiups clc. r. l.. BULLAARD. II. D.. Rockville.
Md. b. & O. r. r. and electric Una from
VaShinRtp1.
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FALL RESORTS.
ATLANTIC CITY. N. J.
ST. CHARLES.

Most select location fronting the OCEAN. Thor
oughly modern. Courteous service. Bathrooms
with hot and cold, fresh and water attach
ment. showers, etc. Magnificent porches ami
parlor overlooking the boardwalk am
ocean. Orchestra of solosts. Golf privileges.
Always open. Illustrated booklet
NEWIIN HHNES CO.
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Atlantic Coast Lime.

''The Standard Railroad OF the South
Notice.-Time of departures and connections
not guaranteed.
400 am. daily-'Coast Line Mall" Through
sleeping cars and coaches TO Jacksonville.
4:10 pm. dailv-"West Indian Limited.
Through sleeping cars 10 Charleston. Augusta.
Savannah Jacksonville. Port Tampa. Fla. sfor
Havanal and knights Key (for Havana). Through
coaches to Jacksonville. UNEXCELLED DIN
ING CAR SERVICE
$40 pm. daily-"Palmetto Limitcd"-Through
sleepers to Charleston Wilmington. Through
coaches to Charleston.
Ticket Office l4i9 NEW YORK AVE
GEO. p. JAMES. n. =. A.. Washington, n e.
r. c. WHITE. G.. p. A.: w. b. CRAIG. p. r
NJ Wilmington n. G.
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Baltimore and Ohio r. r
LEANF UNION STATION,
DnvAy nIT-E IINE

LEAVE UNION
ROYAL Blue LINE.
EVERY OTHER HOUR on TIE ODD HOUR
TO PHILADELPHIA AND NEW YORK.
NEW YORK TERMINALS. LIBERTY ST. AND
W. 23D STREET.
100 1900 Royal Special, hours or no sa:os
Limited s hours), 800. $500 pm. and s12 Is
night. 1889 am. Diners and Parlor Cars on day
trains. Sleepers 'l2.15 night open at 1000
pm.
Philadelphia and Atlantic City. 100. 900.
81 90 a m. 81 90. 900. 400 pm.
To BALTIMORE.
EVERY HOUR ON THE HOUR"
Week days. 700 am. to 1000 p.m.)
s25S 1890 1890 100. sI.20. 800. $50.
300: 1880 1000. .l1;oo an. 300 moor on
tl2. O5, 100. sl.15. roo. 400. f3.20. 50 30.
1900. s4.45 800. t5.03. $50 900. 1880.
IL 90 IS 90 1900 80 90. &c. 49, '1130. az Isn't.
WESTWARD
CHICAGO. $40 am. .1.o5. $50 pm.
CINCINNATI. ST. LOFTS and LOUISVILLE.
1910 am. - 10 nm, az. 10 night.
PITTSBURGH. s910 am. q 20, 20. 10 p.m..
.12.40 night sleeper ready 1000 PM
CLEVELAND. 80 lot pm. COLUMBUS, '5.3Op.m.
WHEELING. s9. 10 am, $3.50 pm
Schedules Of local trains at ticket offices.
sDaily. Except Sunday. sSundays only.
TELEPHONES at following Ticket ofices:
l417 St NV, Main 1891: 619 Pennsylvanis
ave-. Main 27s: Union Station. Main $50.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-29
ASKS $4,000 FOR KISSES.
Manicure Who Sues Salesman Also Al
leges That He UNUSED Her Up"

Miss Nellie Etheridge, who owns a
manicuring establishment in Kansas
City, has filed suit against Charles r.
Decker, in which she asks $4,000
damages. Miss Etheridge complains
that Decker forcibly kissed her and
unused her up"
Miss Etheridge values four kisses at
$1,000 apiece, and the $1,000 balance
is for what she described as the
''roughing" Mr.. Decker gave her in
the process. This ''roughing" consist
ed in bending her across the arm of a
chair with such force as to burst her
corset and forcing her chin up with
his elbow. Miss Etheridge says she
was under physicians care ten days,
suffering from strained muscles and
nervous shock.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-29
WHAT AMERICAN SOLDIERS
ARE DOING ON THE BORDER

ment is made plain in the treatment
it promises the American prisoners.
though probably under a strict CON
struction of the suspension act they
are amenable to the short and sharp
rigors of the Roman law.
Meanwhile it is unofficially stated
that with the American army along
the frontier, shutting off the insurgent
source of supplies, General Diaz will
make a great effort to stamp the insur-
rection out. So far he has been unable
to concentrate any large force upon
Chihuahua because of the danger in
other quarters The need of a person
al bodyguard for the aged president
also held several thousand troops idle
in the City of Mexico, while the rebel.
lion in Yucatan and other widely scat
tered points has kept the army from
mobillzing
1t is not believed, however, that Gen.
eral Diaz's move against the insur
gents will mean any overwhelming in
crease in the regular force now in Chi
huahua and Sonora, though the eXpec
tation has been expressed all along
that once the American contraband
ceased to enter the country the fed
erals would not be long in strangling
the uprising.
None of the officers of the various
state militias who are to join the army
in Texas for the purpose of receiving
instructions in military maneuvers are
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-29
CARRIED 13 ON ONE TICKET.
Conductor Objected, but Mother Show
ed Family Bible,

Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Scott of High
land, Kan, are seeking a home in Ok
lahoma. The Scots have been mar
ried not quite ten years and are the
parents of nineteen children, thirteen
of them living all boys under five.
Recently when Mrs. Scott and her
thirteen children boarded a train with
only one first class passenger ticket
the conductor protested.
MADAM, you cannot carry whole
Sunday school along with you on that
one ticket" he said, land you need not
tell me these are all yours"
Mrs. Scott dug down into her valise
and brought out the family Bible, in
which were recorded the names and
ages of each of the children. The con-
ductor had to give in.
The ages Of the Scott children are:
Triplets. four and one-half years:
twins, three and one-half years; trip
lets, two and one-half years; triplets
eighteen months; twins, six months.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-29

the questionable San Pedro district of
MeXicans and negroes live beyond the
little irrigation ditch which bounds
San Antonio's red light quadrangle
and every opportunity offers for some
soldier with his pay liquidated TO start
something. Up to the present there
have been few arrests of soldiers, and
the provost guard, composed of men
of the Twenty second infantry, who
know the town. has had little work
on its hands.
Tho Fourth cavalry has been in
camp mt Fort Bliss. near FL Paso,
where the remainder of ii outside of
the squadron in question will doubtless
remain. From there ii has been doing
patrol duty along the border
Americans Well Treated.
While the suspension of the constitu-
tional guarantees in Mexico amount to
the proclamation of n mild sort of mar
tial law, under which offenses of GER
tain sort are punishable by death after
very abbreviated trial at the scene
of capture, the United States govern
ment Is taking steps to insure not only
the fair trial of Americans already cap
tured by the Mexican federals, but to
see to it that these prisoners are treat
ed according to civilized methods
The truth of the matter seems to be
that the two factions in Mexico are
vying with each other in their efforts
not to antagoniZe the United States,
Every report of the capture Of town
by the insurgents is accompanied by
the official statement that the lives and
property of foreigners, especially Amer
leans, have been scrupulously guarded
The attitude of the federal govern
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India Has Aerial Mail.
Many letters in the Indian mail re-
ceived recently at London bear the
postmark, First aerial post, Allaha.
Dad, 1911" Special mail was carried
by aeroplane from the United Prov
inces exhibition. on the outskirts OF
Allahabad, TO the general postOffice in
that city and then forwarded in the
usual way In future times when the
aerial mail becomes as common as the
telegraph this first aerial post may be.
come one If history's milest9nes.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-29
London's Big Marathon or

London's big Marathon race will
start within the grounds of Windsor
castle at the exact spot where the last
Olympic Marathon was started in
which Johnny Hayes won so glorious
victory. The race will be run May
q. The present holder of the Sporting
Life trophy is II. +. Barrett of the
Polytechnic Harriers of England. The
race was declared off last year because
of King Edwards death. Several
United States and a Canadian runner
are TO take part this year.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-29
Examine Students For Hookworm

Students at WoffOrd college at Spar
tanburg, S. c., who do not pass their
examinations will get medical exam
ination by experts on the hookworm
in order that it may be determined
whether or not they are suffering from
that disease. This plan was decided
on by the faculty after lecture by
DR.. J. L. Ward. member of the Rock
efeller commission for the eradication
of the hookworm. DR.. Ward declared
that the dullness displayed by many
Wofford students was not necessarily
due to mental inefficiency. He said
that students suffering from hookworm
could not be expected to do well in
their studies.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-29

"IE war game" on the Mexi-
can border is now in full
- swing. AT Camp Sam Hous-
ton, near San Antonio, and at
the other camps alongi the border
drills and maneuvers are the order of
the day. One of the first tasks was
the licking into shape of the raw
soldiers, approximately 1000 of whom
reported for duty. Another prelim-
inary was the hardening of the Ameri-
can regulars for field service Gen
eral Carter issued orders that the re
cruits were to have immediate in
struction in target practice, and the
brigadier generals commanding bri-
gadeS were instructed to see to il that
their commands were "in every way
prepared for the field"
A provost guard to see to the proper
department of the troops has been or
ganizcd and has orders to assist the
San Antonio police whenever neces-
sary in preserving order among the
soldiers
A squadron of the Fourth cavalry
has been summoned by General Car
ter to do patrol dut? at Camp sam
Houston. General Carter is not talk
ing amy chnnces on repetition of the
affray that occurred in Galveston re
Gently. when some of the soldiers as
sembed there started trouble.
There are about $1,000 men with
money in their pockets swarming in
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-29
TO PHOTOGRAPH IDEAS.
Workings of the Brain Can Be Pic
tured, Asserts Eminent Psychologist.


tured, Asserts Eminent Psychologist
That photographs of human thoughts,
pictures of the ideas that pass through
the brain and are later expressed in
words, may be taken on dry plates or
films, developed and kept as records
of mental processes constitute the lat
est wonder of science, for which
wide and startling usefulness is pre-
dicted by DR.. Max Baff, eminent psy-
chologist of Clark college, Worcester
Mass.
I'VE hear that such experiments
have brought surprising results when
carried on by japanese savants," says
DR.. Baff, land it seems to me that the
next thing is for us to go into the mat
ter in this country.
GAS method of taking such thought
photographs a capital way would be
to expose the film in a vacuum tank
and have the subjects whose thoughts
are to be photographed placed near the
tank, even with their heads against it,
To develop the film roll after it had
been unwound in darkness with q pair
of subjects thinking on a given sub
ject while it was being unwound would
show extremely interesting results. 1t
is a matter for close investigation and
should be taken up in long series of
carefully conducted experiments"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-29
UNWRlTTEN LAW UPHELD.
Vermont Judge Refuses to Hold Girl
Who Slew Assailant.

Judge f. G. Sinnerton of the munici.
pal court of Poultney, Vt, refused to
entertain charge of murder against
Carmela Covino. young girl, who ad-
mitted shooting to death forty-five.
year-old Luigi Vermillo in defense of
her honor.
The judge at the conclusion of "A
five hour hearing declined to hold her
for trial.
Vermillo, who had a wife and five
children in Europe, was a boarder in
the home Of the girls father. Carmela
is in her teens.
what is this charge against me?"
the girl said. "In my country I'd have
the right to shoot a man who insulted
me- America is more free than Italy,
they say. Well, this man attacked me,
so why could l not shoot him? He in
suited me, and shot him."
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-29
AFTER M0T0RB0AT TROPHY.
Two English Challenges For Cup Won
by the Dixie III.


The next holder Of the British inter
national motorboat trophy, now held
In this country, will be decided by
races in Huntington harbor, New York
Aug "a, 20 and &c. This announce.
ment was made recently by Secretary
Morley of the Motorboat Club of
America shortly after he had received
through the mails the formal chnl.
lenges of the Royal Motor Yacht Clul
of England and the British Motorboat
club for the trophy. Acceptances of
the challenges have been forwarded
to England.
1t is expected that not less than
three boats will be built here to de-
fend the trophy won last summer by
the Dixie III. At least two fast craft,
one of them possibly new boat built
by the Duke of Westminster, are ex-
pected to be sent here to compete for
the international honor.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-29

few suggested subjects at which kick The weather
Several people have asked if the fyword letters kicks
o
Whether the of the letter winning prize and being published
the writer's wishes would be followed that Our idea OF the
Sit right and dash off fifty words about anything do
prize The original the subject the better chance
wish
he
let
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-29

to report to the instruction camps be
fore April l. 1t was announced at the
war department that the adjutant gen
erals of the state militias will not
be eligible to take part in the in
structions and that none of the other
officers will remain. Each officer from
the militia will be attached to an of.
ticer of corresponding grade and from
the same arm of the regular service
Every Soldier His Own Doctor.
The medical supply depot of the
army in New York has forwarded to
San Antonio and Galveston 10000 spe.
cial emergency medical kits for the
individual use of the soldiers inde
pendently of the medical staff in the
field, One of these kits will be issued
to every man, and each bears explicit
instructions as to its use.
They are small and compact and
contain medicines, absorbent cotton
for the treatment of wounds, court
plaster surgical plasters and band
ages. 1t is realized that the medical
staff, in the event of an army epidem-
ic, would be wholly inadequate to cope
with the situation, and the emergency
kits are provided for such a contin.
, gency.
The opinion is growing in all quar-
ters that the only purpose of sending
the American troops to the border was
for the purposes of drill and field ma
neuvers, as stated by President Taft,
and for police and patrol duty in pre-
venting American aid from crossing
the line TO support the insurrectos If
this proves to be the only object the
mobilization will yet be worth while.
as it will prove an immense help to
the discipline of the army,
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Clark Sends Seeds to Widows.
Champ Clark, the new speaker of
the house, has sent a consignment of
garden seeds to be distributed by his
friends, especially among the widows
of his home district. He adds that the
names of the widows are not on his
mailing list and also states that the
packages can be remailed without
| postage, as his frank will carry them
| to the widows free 1t is understood
that the new speaker Is doing this with
the annroyal of his better half
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-29
He Beat Her,

A woman said to the railway sta.
ton ticket agent angrily;
Look here sir. I've been standing
before this window twenty-five min
utes!"
The agent. gray, withered little
man, answered gently:
"Ah, madam. I've been standing be-
hind it twenty-five years"