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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-01
Communication Interrupted.

All Geographic communication with
Tripoli has been interrupted by the Ital-
ians. who have seized the lines and block
AIDED the whole littoral of Benghazi and
Tripoli. In Brusa, Asia Minor. Jo00o Otto
mans are stirred by a fierce fanatical ex-
element
THE Italian hoStilities are reported
from St Giovanni iii Medua. where Turk
ish torpedo boat destroyed by an
Italian warship. most of the crew perish
ing Two Italian warships are reported
wrecked in sight of Tripoli.
"Constantinople is calm but outbreaks
are possible. Some of the papers are
preaching d holy war against the Chris
tians The Turkish tactics in Tripoh VIII
be simple guerrilla waT; as Turkey has no
other alternative.
Passports have been handed to the
Italian charge. who will leave here to-
morrow morning
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Scores Fed at Doorstep.

His larder had been well supplied for
the Sunday dinner and he threw it open
to the less fortunate. Scores of persons
were fed at his doorstep until all the
house afforded had been consumed
Then he drew on a store of crackers he
CHANGED to have, and he dealt out these
to women and children as long as they
lasted. When they We're exhausted he
could do no more than comfort his
neighbors and friends. and he was en-
gagged in this good work when the
whirring machinery of an automobile
engine sounded along the muddy road.
Davis was out in an instant. The
longed- for help from Coudersport had
arrived
1t was an automobile belonging to
Judge Cmpstead of that place. He had
been among the first to move when he
heard of the catastrophe. Hastily calling
the women of his household together. he
asked them to suggest the things most
needed in a community swept by flood
Then he summoned his automobile. and
visiting the grocery stores of the town.
soon had his driver started the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-01
Strong Men Weep Like Babes.

But the most hartrendering sight Of all
was the strong men one met on every
hand Many of them had no power to
act. They cried as did the women and
children. and in one instance a man who
had lost his all. family and property
sat down in the mud of the street and
prayed. No one noticed him. Those who
were strong enough We're about the bust
ness of looking after those whose lives
might still be saved.
But through this wilderness of suffering
appeared the light of charity Harry
Davis led them all. His house. located
far above the flood line, had escaped the
rushing waters
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-12-22
USES OF TALc.

Talcum powder is made from the
soap stone, some grades of which are
produced in eleven statess-California,
Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts,,
New Jersey. New York. North Carroll
ma, Pennsylvania. Rhole Island, YER
mont and Virginia. New York's out
put of tito tons forms nearly half Of
the total production of the country.
Tale Is usually marketed rough from
the mine. sawed into slabs and made
up into manufactured objects, such as
laundry tubs, or ground into powder.
In 1910 90 per cent of the tale was
ground and 81 per cent made into
slabs and manufactured. The product
of New York is practically all ground.
Most of the ground tale is used In
the manufacture of paper of various
kinds. especially building paper, says
Health Culture. 1t finds application,
also in the manufacture of nodded
rubber forms and as foundry facings
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-12-22
AN UNKNOWN CELEBRITY.

Vice President Sherman went to a
New York theater some time ago.
Between the acts the party. which
occupied one Of the boxes. went out
into the lobby. One of the friends Of
the vice president spoke to the door
keeper.
See that man over there-that
stout one with the flord face?'
yep"
That's the vice president of the
United States"
You don't say!"
Yes; that's the vice president, Now.
were in box A. Send back word that
the vice president is in that box and
have the comedian kid him a little.
Sure" said the doorkeeper. Zine
idea! Now let's see-whats his name?
Oh. yes l remember now-it's Fair
Enthusiastically Evening Post. &C..
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-12-22

and paints. 1t readily absorbs grease
and is used in removing spots from
silk and to bleach cotton goods.
On account of its slipperiness it is
widely used to lessen friction. and for
this purpose it is busted into gloves
and shoes and blown into conduits to
ease the introduction of electric wires
or other conductors. One of its widest
applications is in toilet powders.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-12-22
THE VERY BEST MAKE.

In the course of an after-dinner
speech in praise of woman, Samuel I'm
termeyer the famous New York law
yer, said in Pittsburg:
"A commercial traveller remarked
the other day to a storekeeper.
Make yourself Christmas pres
ent of a cash register. 1t will keep
strict and accurate account of all you
receive and all you disburse. 1t will
show what you save and what you
squander, what you spend foolishly
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WILLING TO STAND.

A farmer owned a young steer which
and, having no other animal to harness
with it he decided to get into the yoke
himself. giving the reins TO his son.
No sooner had they started than the
steer bolted into wild runaway, the
both hands and keeping the pace for
dear life. over the ploughcd field they
flew, and as he was about to drop for
lack of wind they brought up against
the fence with a mighty thump.
AS the son hurried to the scene the
painting farmer managed TO gasp:
"Unhitch the steer, bub, I'll stand.
National Monthly.
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and what you spend wisely, where you
should spread out and where you
should retrench, what you waste and
how you waste it
but said the storekeeper, I've
already got a cash register which does
all that and more.
Whose make is it?' asked the sales
man, frowning.
Gods make, the storekeeper re-
piled; and with a smile at once rever-
ent and grateful he nodded toward
his handsome wife seated in the
cashiers cage"
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-12-22
ExASPERATlNG.

An old woman entered a savings
bank the other day and walked up
10 the desk.
do you want to withdraw or de-
posit?" asked the clerk.
Nav. / don't Oh wants to put
some in" was the reply.
The clerk pushed up the book for
her signature, and said: Sign on
this line, please"
above it or below it?"
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-12-22

Light Of My Life Has Gone out" The
late Bishop Wilmer Of Alabama point
ed out the memorial to a friend who
read the words and then asked, but
he married again, didn't he?"
yes" replied the bishop, che did.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-12-22
BURNS GETS 5000 REWARD.

Los Angeles, Dec. 21.-A county
warrant for $4,000 was drawn today in
favor of William ]. Burns. This is the
first of the rewards paid for the cap
ture and conviction of the Mcnamara
brothers AS far as the county is con-
cerned, according to District Attorney
Fredericks, no other rewards will be
paid.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-12-22
BY Degrees.

I'VE want our product known from
the Atlantic to the Pacific"
start a big advertising campaign"
"But we haven't much money"
"In that case I'd start at Panama
where It isn't so far from the Atlantic
to the Pacific, and work gradually up"
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-12-22
ANOTHER MATCH.

on the death Of his first wife a lit
erary celebrity of the south erected
an elaborate memorial to her, on which
was inscribed the sentiment THE
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-12-22

"Just above it."
Me whole name?'
yes"
Before OF was married."
mo, just as it is now"
"Oi can't WROTE. Tri-
bune.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-12-22

There are about ten negro officers
in the United States army. one
is about to be placed on the retired
list.
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BY
THOMAS A.
EDISON

theory established the fact that all legislation economical sub
lower grade than the poorest intellect in the body from
which it
believe that when congress passed the Sherman antitrust act it
actually meant to curb the 1t failed absolutely After almost
generation the court decisions that this farce The
dissolution the Standard Oil company and the American Tobacco
company is sham 1t might be called DISTRIBUTION, BUT
NOT A DISSOLUTION, OF MONOPOLIES.
A MATTER PASS LEGISLATION
THAT WOULD FOREVER SETTLE TRUST QUESTION TO THE
SATISFACTION OF THE INTERESTS. ONLY
OBSTACLE WHOM THIS DUTY DE-
Wolves THEY DUTIES.
If they who knew the technique of business the inner
workings of commercial e might expect RESULTS from
their laborous efforts.
FROM NOW HOPE THAT WE WILL HAVE
EVOLVED A CLASS CAPABLE OF eRAsPNo
OF BASIC PRINCIPLES UPON WHICH
OUR INDUSTRIAL UNTIL THIS CLASS OF MEN
APPEARS ON THE NATIONAL EXPECT LITTLE REAL
PROGRESS.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-12-22

You see. he struck another match, as
it were. "-Harper's Magazine.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-12-22

M A spruce tree
u t a p r i n G and
aglow with light--sug-
gests the happy Christ
mas time, just as the
old Dutch Windmill
suggests Van Houten'S
cocoa. Both are typi-
flying emblems. The
windmill stands for the
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worlds Oldest and best
product of its kind.
Va n II outen S is
twice as strong and in
finitely more delicious
than ordinary cocoa.
Add to your Christmas
joy by ordering a can
of your grocer today
for a quarter.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-04-22
BOTH HAD KNOWN HAPPINESS
But the Circumstances Were Not Ex-
actly Alike, That Was All
the Difference.

They were riding into town. IN g
subway train, these two married men,
says the New York Times. One
seemed occupied with his own
thoughts, the other was engrossed in
his copy of the Evening PifIie, from
which he eventually glanced with a
superior smile. e always read what
Betsy Bnmstuff has to say in her 1TWi-
light TWaddle, column, : he said. She
generally hits us off pretty well, but
she isn't always right. Now, this eve
ming, she gets on the subject OF elope-
ments. She says elopements never
turn out happily. don't agree with
her. Neither do T." said the man
who had been occupied with his own
thoughts. Il am glad to hear you say
it, exclaimed the Evening Piffieite,
II eloped with my wife, and I've been
happy ever since. so have I ever
since some fellow eloped with mine,
remarked the other. Betsy Bumstufi
is away off
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-04-22
FAT MEN ARE NOT CROOKS
lean and Young Men Predominant
the Class That Requires the
Most Watching.

Chicag o.-Few fat men become Grim
mails. or il they do, they are too sharp
for the police force of Chicago In q
recent interview Chief of Detectives
Wood stated that few fat men are ar
rested in Chicago on serious charges.
st can recall only one professional
that would come under that class,
said Detective Wood. He is known
as Big Harris, a confidence man. He
weighs go pounds.
Fat men are seldom arrested Tor
even disorderly conduct. Most OF our
crinipals are young men between
eighteen and thirty, and range in
weight between 100 and $50 pounds.
so far as burglars, pickpockets or
common sneak thieves are concerned,
there are no criminals over 250
pounds and few over ZOO says In
spector of Police Lawrence BARLEY
eMost Of the high-up confidence men
are there with the 'front.' they are in
variably massive and pompous IN ap
uearance--at least the best known
high-class confidence crooks are q
| this build. No, i cannot agree wholly
with the idea that fairness is q guar
| anty of morality IN all cases. It's al
ways safe TO bet, however that. any
/ 3GO-pound man pointed out to you Is
not e. porch climber.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-04-22
PLAQUE Victims Hair Sold.

London, England. The papers print
conspicuously a st. Petersburg report
that German agents in Manehuria are
shipping quantities of the hair of
nTague victims to Europe. Bodies Of
tbe dead found in streets are inVaria,
bly without queues, and 1t is declared
the queues are cut off to supply the
European demand for false hair. It is
said the British local government
hoard does not propose to interiors
with the importation of such hair into
the United Kingdom, believing ger1na
of plague cannot be carried in any
other manner than by living persons.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-04-22

The honest man pays up; the other
kind has to pay down.
1t is nice to be handsome, but 1t is
handsomer to be nice.
The tongue is a small member, but
It makes a heap of trouble, at times,
nevertheless.
There are men who make 1t prac-
tice to treat every other mans wife
well but their own.
Opportunity knocks at each mans
door, but where does the poor fellow
come in who has no door?
The pronunciation of the word
"stingy" depends On whether it is to
be applied to man or bee.
The man who has to stand the
heaviest fire Of criticism is generally
the one who gets the most done.
Why do we take such pride in
long line of ancestors? It's what you
do and not what your grandfather did
that counts.
Few scientists are practical men
but science itself is intensely practi
cal and worthy of study by practica
men and farmers.
A little saved here and there II
buying and selling means many DOL
lars to the farmers Of the country
Try it and prove 1t.
Doon't growl because the farmel
goes to public sale once in a while
AS clearing house for ideas it beat:
the farmers institute.
"a little farm well titled, little
wife well willed, a little pocket vel
filed" is, according to one who knows
the quintessence of human happiness
We have scripture for 1t that TIT
love of money is the root of all evil
but even all of our modern graftin'
hasn't been able to improve the Dual
ity Of the fruit.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-04-22
The PROGRESS of Music.

4 II Z = / Z x ,ze,
A German baker in West Philadel-
phia has a young hopeful who is be,
ginning in youth the study of the VIC
lin He takes weekly lessons and the
parents are sanguine of his becoming
great musician.
A friend strolled into the bakeshop
the other day and inquired Of the
genial German what progress the boy
was making.
HE pretty good gets along, : came
the bakers assuring answer, with an
elevation of the chin and a swelling
chest. He play Home, Sweet Home
with such sweetness that makes you
wish for the Faderland. And, by
golly, you ought to hear him play
that Nearer, My God, to You
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-04-22
HAREM SKIRT IS
4 SURE STARTER
RECENT ATRociTY HAS HoBBLs
BEAT TO A FINISH FOR
FREAklSHNESS
CAUSES a RUMPUs IN PARIS
Mob in French Capital Pelts Trouser,
skirted Woman With Stale Eggs
Garments First Public Appearance
in New York Stops Traffic.

New York.-The hobble skirt was
and is-freakish enough, goouhessS
knows. but at any rate it is really
skirt and being such, has some sllg l-l
claim to femininity. But what Oh .t1e
harem skirt9 Could anything more
atrocious, more utterly ridiculous, pe
imagined? And don't think Tor one.
moment. poor deluded men-folk, that
the thing won't be a go-that II y
only fad taken up by few pafisi a.
actresses who like to see Just now
much excitement they can str up now
and then. No, indeed. 1t already mas
been worn in London-most conseTfa-
tive of cities-to some extent anu
American dressmakerS state most en-
phatically that it is but question Oh
a short time when on the streets OF
New York, Chicago and Los Angeles
women will be seen going their way
unconcernedly, CARRIED in the hareill-
or trouser skirt All over the coun-
try. according to reports, modlsles are
secretly designing harem effects OF
| different kinds and descriptions.
The illustration gives a good idea OF
the garment which has been causing
considerable excitement IN LONDON
and Paris. Not since the famous
American woman, Mrs Boomer, ap,
peared in London in 1851 wearing Ihe
baggy trousers which still bear hef
name has any costume created sucn
an interest as the harem skirt. re
Gently it started riot at the Paris
race track Women wearing this lat
est atrocity were pelted with stale
eggs and were made to seek police
protection Panti-sllirted women nave
! been mobbed in London and upon ITS
first appearance in New York the
wearers were followed for blocks by
i jeering crowd that became so large
as to blockade the street and stol
traffic.
Why is a harem skirt? Nobody
knows. The question cannot be an
swered. It isn't pretty, it isn't grace
full and 1t is said by those who know
to be uncomfortable. Yet, SO we arr
told, this nightmare is to be fact
this harem joke is to become real
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-04-22

place in the long-gone day when they
were masters of all this country.
Trapping and fishing are the main
stays of the Chief John family The
river furnishes an abundance OF pick
erel and carp and not quite all the
mink and muslzrat are gone, SO the
old man manages to make out fair
living in the manner of his people. 1t
was through the kindness of the pres
ent owners of the land that he was
i enabled to return to his tribal home.
For many years, ever since the last
migration of his people, he has lived
In northern Wisconsin. only return
| ing here in the spring and fall to hut
and trap.
His account of the way his people
became dispossessed is interesting.
IN the beginning said Chief John,
| putting reminiscently on his short
clay pipe, 'Injun got everything. No
one to bother him. Then white man
| come to Green Bay and buy Injun's
/ furs Give him muskrat and whisky.
/ Injun# get drunk, shot SO much with
musket that bimeby game all gone
pretty near Then he sell him land
! for more whisky and bimeby trade
away gun for little bottle. Too much
fool Injun, too much bad whisky AL
1 gone now, Just me left and go too
pretty soon.
Johns real name in the language OF
the Pottawatomies is Ah-Wish-Gon-
wa which the aged ehieftain
translates as meaning Man
who lost a lot, which is
not an inappropriate name for him
considering that he is the last OF his
4 people to have a home on the ground
that once maintained thousands Of In
dians.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-04-22

ity ct will make even the finest and
most feminine creature resemble the
clown in any circus" says a writer
who has seen the real thing and
therefore knows whereof he speaks.
Then think of the little inconveni-
ences a feminine person would meet
wearing the harem garment on the
street Think of the surprise if she
suddenly got slap on the back and
should hear voice say: I SAY, old
top, give me match. Hey? What?'
Moreover, you wouldn't have any
more pockets by the new arrange
ment You can't cross your knees
with any degree of grace-in fact, you
can't cross them at all; the skirt
won't let you; it Is tight and the
crossing would interfere with the
hang Of the trouserettes.
Think of the men you know who
have for years SO trained and order.
ed their steps they can advance, re-
treat, sidestep, back up, slow down
at the sight of a feminine train, How
will the harem skirt affect them?
Can you dance in a harem skirt :?
! Would you if you could? Can you
play tennis2 Your muscles would be
bound where they need freedom
! Golf? Mercy, no. Basketball? Al
wrong. Bridge? Well, possibly. Fol-
sitting-in qualities the harem has it:
/ virtues. But be cautious. Don't lei
the skirt bag at the knees.
.fThe poetry is dropping out silent
ly-the fearful prose of the skirt re
mans.
who wants prose every day
Haven't we enough of that already
Aren't we burdened with it?
Surely it is up to the girls to saw
] the nerves Of the nation!"
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-04-22
OLD INDIAN CHIEFTAIN
RETURNS HOME TO DIE
PoTTAWAToMIE BRAVE PITCHES
HIS TEPEE ON LAND WHERE
He ONCE HUNTED.

Hayton, Wis-Indian John, last
chief of the PottaWatonies, has re
turned to the ancient home OF his peo-
pie here to spend his days. Although
we'll past 10 years he is a splendid ex-
ample Of the aboriginal Indian, dis
daining to adopt wholly the garb
of civilized man. Living with him IS
his granddaughter and her children.
The old chief has built tepee on the
shores of the ManitoWoc river s11ve
miles below here, where he lives with
his dependents in much the same man ian
ner that his race. did at the same
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-04-22
TO ORGANIZE FOR BUSINESS
Farmers Must Cease to Compete With
Each Other as individuals and
Know Market Demands.

In one of our exchanges published
in one of the greatest states OF the
middle west, introducing a lengthy ar
ticle on "Organized Agriculture" we
flnd the following:
"In certain sense every farmer is
the competitor Of every other farmer.
He raises the same kinds Of grain,
live stock. poultry and orchard prod
ucts, and sells them in the same mar
ket. Unless his products are better
than those of his neighbors or are
prepared with more care, he receives
the same prices.
"The farmer lives an isolated life.
His time and attention are occupied
with the management of his great
manufacturing machine. He has ample
time for thought and is keen think
er. He desires information and is an
earnest student both of the condi-
lions with which nature surrounds
him and of the facts which are pre-
sented to him by others.
These facts have made for the gen
eral benefit Of the individual farmer,
but have prevented his close associa-
ton with his fellows in organization
for their mutual good Business men
in the cities have their Organizations
for mutual benefit, as do the Iaborers
their unions. Farmers, however, do
not organize In this way for business
purposes"
The writer then goes on to speak,
says the Up-to-Date Farming, with
very proper commentator, of the va
rious associations of farmers for spe-
| cial purposes-Sor the exhibition of
! products, the fairs; for the improve
ment Of live stock and poultry, the va
rious stock and poultry associations:
the organizations to discuss better cul-
tural methods, the schools and insti.
tutes, ETC.; all good and making for
progress.
But why not organize for business
| Other business people do, as is ad
mitted. Is not farming business
Would not the adoption of business
principles make it more successful as
business? Truly the farm and its
| operation is the management of {
great manufacturing machine" Wha1
manufacturing business could exts
without strict observance of business
principles? EVERY farmer is the com
petitor of every other farm err" AMI
sells the articles he manufactures
his products, in the same competitiv,
markets, and at prices made by tn.
buyers.
Put other manufacturers, the pro
ducers of artificial commodities, o.
this method of making and selling
and again we ask. how long could the
do business? But business men i
the cities have their organizations 70
gutual benefit.
Is it any wonder that farmers S
often find themselves at a disadvar
tage In the business world? Their il
come depends upon what they receiv
for their products and that does nc
depend SO much upon the quantit
they have as upon the price they n
ceive. Hence to be successful and t
occupy position at all equal with til
manufac turers of other things, the
must organize for business The
must cease to compete with eac
other as individuals. They must GU
! dumping ON glutted markets. The
must know what and where the d
nand is, and how best to get to il
and they must then sell at prices ths
insure remuneration. They must o
ganize for business.