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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-11
Made Calendars Popular.

The old Romans. as a matter of fact,
did rot have any calendar at all: so il
used 10 be the custom for the PontifeA
Maximus TO proclaim the month :nc
everything in IL. including the time OF
the expected arrival of the moon. But
PontifeX was out Of town on one occa-
sion and overlooked the matter. There
was terrible time.
There wasn't any month. legally ant
there weren't any days People refused
to pay their debts. notes went to protest
real estate became drug on the marke
and some Of the best known firms in
Rome closed their doors. That ended tn
PontfeN proclamation business and re
suited in real calendar
The peop'e of the other countries aroun,
about thought this pretty good idea. ant
so before long there were Roman calen
OARS and Greek calendars and Egyptian
calendars and Julian calendars and al
sorts and descriptions of calendars. N,
two We're alike. and after a couple o
thousand years OF MISUNDERSTANDING an,
broken engagements and all that sort o
thing everybody, except those Russians
settled on the Gregorian caledar, anc
that's the one in use today. That's VIII,
everybody knows what YOU mean whei
YOU write:
1I-II-II.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-11
Object of the Hearing.

Il i understood that the object OF tho
trades bodies Representatives IN request
ing a hearing before the Commissioners
on their bill is TO ascertain which OF the
measures Is the more desirable. aud. IL
possible to have all interests affected
support one or the other OF them.
According To statement today bv Vii
liam +. Guide, chairman OF the special
Chamber Of Commerce committee which
is engaged I'm drawing up the new bill. IL
the Commissioners insist that their bill
is The most practical! the trade bodies vii!
be more than apt 10 support IL.
There Is considerable room for doubt.
however, as to whetEc. tie District heads
Will take any stand such as hat su2-
2es;ed by Mr.. GUIDE. on the contrary. il
is said 10 be extremely probable that the
Commissioners may come to the Niew
that the federal overnment should con
tribute to the support of the pension iund
rather than that the District should be
burdened entirely with IL.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-11
Two New Phases Appear.

There are two features in the situation
which did not exist at the time the Com
missioners sent the former bill TO Com
gress and which may influence them to
line up in behalf of the trades bodies
measure.
One of them is the fact that certain
members Of Congress are said 10 he IN
favor of doing away with the organic
act OF 1873 under which the haifand- hall
principle is operative. The District heads
would strenuously oppose any effort III
this direction, and to show their thor
ough advocacy OF the half-and-half prin-
ciple they may decide to support the new
pension fund bill
Another feature is the Overwhelming
sentiment among members of the House
District committee in favor of an ade-
quate pension fund. This sentiment L. 50
strong that the belief is growing that
Cc1sress would not hesitate to declare
that the fedsSal government should con-
tribute to the maintenance OF the FUND.
The recent burgsSr alarm sent out from
the Urea sury building. VIII n, though ac-
cidental called a large reserve force OF
police to the scene. is pointed to In sup
port of the contention that the federal as
well as the District government has al
interest in the police force. wi,i.e this ill-
terest is still greater with respect TO tic
fire department.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-11
FLOCK OF SICK TURKEYS,
DOZENS Of MAD BUYERS
Huckster Alleged to Have
SWindIed the Residents of
SherWood's Subdivision.

If the enterprising turkey hucSster who
planted live turkeys in the neighborhood
of 18th street and Rhode Island avenue
northeast should happen to call bac that
way next year with a few more bargains
in turkeys he had better carry with him
a suit of chain mail and a complete ar
senal The residents say they are await
ing the chance to catch that man and
bind him hand and foot and toss him into
the Eastern branch
Made Good Impression.
He was a Incorporating fellow, vita
some fine-looking hive turkeys, and he
offered to sell them at ridiculously low
rates. He was getting about nine cents
pound for them, averaging it all up. and
the people of Sherwoods subdivision were
getting great bargains. they thought. A
wise man who said he knew all about
turkeys bought a sixteen-pound bird for
a dollar and half, and started out to
feed il in accordance with the rules Of a
paragraph on turkeys in a farmers al
manac. The bird would not eat, not even
when the wise man opened the bird S
mouth and forcibly injected hot mush
into it's throat.
Other people in the neighborhood were
also buying turkeys 1t appeared that
Sherwood's subdivision would be the
scene of rare turkey feast on or about
Thanksgiving day. But suddenly gloom
was cast upon the situation when the
wise mans turkey died and a dollar and
half had gone to waste.
Death Reaps a Harvest.
Then. a day later another turkey across
the street died, and another and another.
And SO on. They died in punches and
droves. and when only two turkeys re-
manned out Of the entire flock in the
neighborhood farmer friend Of one OF
the remaining turkey owners diagnosed
the entire situation. This was his verdict:
That fellow had a flock of sick tur-
keys. Every one of them had the pip
So. rather than lose them all, he thought
he would sell them to somebody who
knows more about bargains than BIRDS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-11
III

Scholars may brag all they please about
airsh.ps and open plumbing and all the
other conveniences OF modern civilization.
but, just the same. the ancients. who lived
500 years ago to this very day. put it
all over over us. When a man wanted
to write letter that happy November
slice of parchment, put down il-11-1111
and start in.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-11
MAN WITH WOW|VES
Up AGAINST THE LAW
John B. Nicrasto's Reno Di.
vorce Ignored and He Gets
$500 Fine.

1t is not at all usual to see a man in
court accompanied by two wives, but this
spectacle was afforded yesterday after
noon in the case of John B. Maestro. a
waiter. whose wife No. /. Mrs. Nellie
that he had failed to provide. for their
four-year- daughter. During the hear
ing of the testimony quiet little woman
in black had been sitting in the court
room. When Judge DeLacy sentenced
Maestro to a observation-disclosures fine or
six months in the workhouse that quiet
little woman turned out to be another
Mrs. Maestro.
Comes to His Defense.
She stepped briskly to the table which
does duty as bar of justice and quietly
said:
Il am Mrs Maestro. John and l We're
married in Reno last year. and we came
here few days ago for the express pur-
pose of making some provision for the
child OF this former marriage. In the
light of our marriage there is no law TO
punish my husband in this fashion.
Mrs. Maestro No. | looked as if she
was ready to faint Judge DeLacy ques-
toned Maestro and Mrs. Maestro No. ..
The latter said she had met Maestro in
Reno, where he had gone to get a di-
vorce from Mrs. Maestro No. |.
Divorce Not Valid Here.
Maestro said he had mailed a notice Of
the suit TO his wife No. I, but the judge
held the divorce not valid in the District
nj he rriS
ers room and Mrs Maestro No. went
down to talk to him through the ars.
She said she would raise that three-hun-
dred-dollar fine II possible.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-11
Declaration by Petitioners.

1t is set forth in the petition that for
ten or twelve years prior to 1910 persons
riding through Tenleytown were carried
free from the District line to the switch
at Somerset. a distance of about one-half
mile The Maryland legislature i'm 1910
passed a law dividing the Washington
and Rockville road into three fare zones,
instead of the four previously existing.
The southern fare zone was prescribed as
being from the District line to keiser' S
crossing. a distance of three and one-half
miles.
June l. 1910 the railway company be-
gan charging cash fare of > cents for
carrying passengers from the District line
TO Somerset.
This tax of a full fare is held by the
complainants to be excessive and an
lawful
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-11
Goose a Handy Thing.

II he didn't have a quill he could knock
over goose and whittle lot. II he
was shy on parchment he could assassi-
nate u sheep and prepare as much he
wanted. II meant something to date a
letter in those good old days. and the
private secretary who spoiled a sheet
usually lost arm.
But dates mean great deal more now
than they did in bygone times. Nova
days business man all over the world.
except Russia. where they are eleven
days late. knows when he see Hill
that it means November II. 1911. Even
If he lives in Russia a little figuring
Will straighten him out. But formerly
there were anywhere from six to a dozen
calendars in use Whenever a new king
or emperor came into power. whether by
conquest or the sudden death Of all his
relatives. he didn't think he had perform
ed according to HOyle unless he revised
the calendar
sometimes he made q brand-new one
but usually he just fixed the old one up
VI course, this gave the Calendar Re
Visers' Union something to do. but il was
rough on the general population For
instance. if George II. Decimus who kept
a delicatessen shop on the Appian way
wrote letter TO his wife's mother who
lived at s27 Falernian street, East Ath-
ems. inviting her to spend the second
week in December with him, the dear
lady was just likely to arrive on the
18th of September. George. you see, was
inviting by one calendar and she was
accepting by another. Trouble usually
resulted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-11
Railway Company's Contention.

The Maryland road contends il is oper-
ating i'm accordance with the law and the
Washington Railway and Electric Com
pany makes the defense it is not engaged
in interstate business and that the COM
merce commission has no jurisdiction.
The petitioners are represented by At
torneys Charles S. Moore and Blair, Dray-
ton & Hllyer. William IA. Talbot rep
resents the Washington and Rockville
Railway Company and George +. Hoover
is counsel for the Georgetown and Ten
leytown Railway Company and the
Washington Railway and Electric Com
pany.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-11
Rule Issued Against Caulfield.

Chief Justice Clabaugh issued rule on
the defendant. returnable next Monday.
to show cause why the requests of the
brewery should no; be granted.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-01-13
WOULD CHANGE THE RUL.E S
North Dakota Soions Object to Present
RGuuIatj0nS.

Adjustment of the holding appro'
priation bills in the committees, using
them as a club Over members specially
Interested. is the object of proposed
changes in the rules of the legislative
assembly. considered by the rules com.
mittee of both houses. The proposed
rule would compel a committee to re-
port a bill back to the house or sen
ate within a certain number of days,
and failure to do so within Il specified
time would operate to bring the bill
out without recommendations.
Progressive Republicans high in the
councils of that faction declare one OF
the principal efforts during the session
in the matter of appropriations would
be to get them out early, thus follow
ing out the recommendation of Gov.
ernor John Burke that such steps be
taken to prevent a repetition of the
situation two years ago, when the IN
tire grist of bills was passed the last
night.
Minnesota's policy in the matter of
printing bills that are introduced is
likely to be investigated thoroughly by
the house committee On rules before
it takes any definite action on The
question of doing away with the prac-
tice of printing all bills introduced.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-01-13
DESIRES AN INVESTIGATION
North Dakota Scion Wants Expendi.
lures Looked Into.

The first step in the revision of the
state game board of control was taken
in the senate in the request by Senator
]. G. Gunderson of Nelson county for
. legislative investigation into the
manner in which $42, COS. 80 had been
spent the last two years, and to de.
termine whether or not the game of
the state is receiving proper protec.
ton.
In his resolution Senator Gunderson
states that the expenditure of SO large
an amount for the biennial period ap.
pears extravagant and hardly in &C.
cord with the policy of economy that
has been urged for adoption in connec-
ton with the various departments of
state and state educational institu-
lions.
One of the principal features of the
proposed investigation is to. secure
some idea of legislative action that
will remedy any existing faults and
perfect the game laws that better pro.
lection may be afforded. It is pro
posed that three members Of the sen.
ats and two Of the house be named on
The committee.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-01-13
News Of the Week From vari.
Gus Parts Of the State
WORK IS WELL MAPPED out
Programme Of North Dakota LesisIa.
ture Fixed Up by the Repub-
lican Members.

1t is very seldom that a programme
Of legislation has been so we'll mapped
out in ad, ance as the n that con
fronted the legislature last week. TIC
redeem the pledge of the Republican
party will be TO eliminate many of the
points on which the two factions have
differed in the past.
The appropriation bills that will be
introduced will carry an amount far In
excess to that that can be appropriate
ed and the two committees will conse'
quently have a hard task.
Educational institutions are par.
ticularly interested in the fate of the
board of control question. Both old
parties, pledged the adoption OF such
a measure in their platform, but with
posed to the plan, there is likely to be
q spirited contest before the matter is
disposed of. Other educational fea.
lures of interest are the proposed in.
cas- in the appropriation for high
schools and the establishment of rural
school aid.
Amendments to the primary election
law will take up much time. Several
plans will be proposed and it is ex.
pected the White bill of -four and two
years ago, the Cashel bill OF two years
ago, and the Skulasnn primary OF two
years ago, will be found among those
present"
Oregon's second choice plan. favored
by some. will be proposed. while the
plan of the state OF Michigan in en-,
forcing a certain percentage of the
party vote out before a nomination can
be made, will be tried also. The 81
per cent clause Of the present law is
unconstitutional and the Michigan
plan of requiring a declaration of par.
ty principles Il certain stated period
before the day of election, and the vot-
ing Of the primary ballot or that party,
may be substituted. This plan will
very likely have opposition from the
Democratic members of the assembly.
Legislative appointments must be
given attention. The initiative, refer.
endum and recall. affecting both con-
stitutional and statutory measures.
will come up.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-01-13
YOUTH AND ACE

The dear ones gone to the homo above
Are ours 40 when they trod
Loyal and loving beside 10 here,
On the paths Of the hills Of God.
Tho words they said, and the touch Of
their hands,,
And their smiles, are with us yet;
We can never be robbed Of U past de-
light,
For our souls can never forget.
Sweet 10 the thrill Of the hermit,
thrush,
AZ no chants his evening tune,
And sweet In our souls 10 the evening
hush,
In the light Of the silver moor.
An, there's nobody old while life 10
sweet, !:
And hope looks ovs the bar
TO tho coming day when twill be com
plsts
In tho land whore the dear mes arel,
-Everywhsrs.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-01-13
CAT GIVES THE ALARM
Saves Mora (Minn.) Man From Per.
ishino in Fire.

Mora, Mimi, Jan. 11.-F. A. Nc
Pherson, proprietor of the Mora Drug
company, who has living apartments
over his drug store, was suddenly
awakened from his slumber by his
faithful house cat jumping onto his
bed and scratching his face.
Upon awaking Mr.. Mcpherson
found himself nearly overcome by suf-
location; the room and building a
dense with smoke and only by a mira
Gle was he able to grope his way to an
outside stairway and, slightly clad,
with the mercury registering 20 below
zero, he ran a block to give the alarm
of fire.
The stock of drugs and merchandise,
although not burned, r worthless
from smoke and heat.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-01-13

There never was aught that troubled W
In the days when we were young,
We were light of foot and light OF
heart,
And gay was each tripping tongue.
But we've reached the years when the
step 10 slow,
And the years when the shadows
fall.
And the vesper song 10 heard In the
tree,
And We list to the night winds call.
Vet even now There 10 Joy 90 deep,
In the hearts that have not grown
old.
We would not change Il meath whlten.
cd hair.
For tho wealth Of the summers
We have had our treasure, we hold Il
fast,
And none can take u away;
We are warders Of memory, love and
trust,
And tho past 10 our wealth today.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-01-13
SEVENTEEN Men
ARE DROWNED
Three Barges Wrecked Off
Massachusetts, Coast
HAWSER PARTS IN STORM

Vessels Were Proceeding Up the Coast
In Tow Of Reading Railway TuR
When Disaster occurred-Two Mem.
bers Of Their Crews Make Desperate
Effort to Reach Shore but Fail in
Attempt.
P~rovincetown, Mass, Jan. 11.-Sev-
enteen men were drowned In a wreck
of three barges of the Reading rail
road tug Lykens, according to officers
of the three lifesaving crews that
made a frantic effort to reach them.
They declare there were seven men
on one barge and five on each of the
other two.
The lifesavers state that all seven
teen men of the three crews undoubt-
eddy have persisted.
The last two survivors dashed them
selves in the rigging of the third
barge and the only one that was still
above water in the raging sea, but see
ing the lifesavers were unable to get a
line to them or to launch a boat they
took to their own dory, evidently pre-
ferring to face almost certain death in
the heavy e than to be bathed con.
stantly in the icy waters and frozen
by the cutting winds.
Almost instantly the little craft cap
sized and was smashed to bits. Moth
ing further of the two remaining men
was seen The lifesavers declared
that there were no more men on the
barge.
The tug Lykens of the Reading rail-
way fleet, with the barges Treavorton,
Corbin AMI Pine Hill, coal laden from
Philadelphia in tow, was en- route up
the coast when the towing hawser
parted and the barges went adrift.
The T%reavorton and Corbin labored
a short time in the heavy sea and then
sank.
The Pine Hill was swept by the tide
ON the bar near Peaked Hill and hung
there. Lifesavers from High Head,
Peaked Hill and Race Point tried for
hours to launch their surfboats but
the waves each time drove them back.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-01-13
Fishermen Carried Out to Sea.

Astrakhan, Russia, Jan. 11.-Eighty,
five fishermen were carried out into
the Caspian sea on an ice foe. A.
steamer vas requisitioned at Baku
and sent to the rescue of the men,
but the chances that any Of the num-
her will escape death were consid-s
cred poor.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-01-13
sts.s. s..ths for Editors.

gSecrstayy Of State Norton declared
sthat hs would appoint John Andrews.
editor Of the Lidgerwood Broadaxe.
q his deputy. with v. G. Anderson,
editor Of the Rugby Tribune. - his
chSef clerk. Nj. Norton succeeds Al.
ma Blaisdell o. secretary Of stats.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-01-13
ENTIRE TRAIN DESTROYED

Passengers Escape III Scahty Attic
at Chattanooga, Tenn. =
Chattanooga, Tenn, Jan. 11.-Fire
of unknown origin, starting in the
mail car of a Chattanooga-Nashville
passenger train standing under the
shed of the Nashville, Chattanooga
and st. Louis railroad station, de-
stroyed both the train and the shed.
Passengers aboard two sleeping
cars of the train were forced to make
a hurried exit, some Of them only
partially . clothed. The loss will
amount to about 1926, 900.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-01-13
senator ou,y,s widow Dead.

Pittsburg. Jan. ll.-Mrs. Agnes b.
Quay, widow Of Senator Matthew
stanisy Quay. vxAo died in 1904, Il.
dead q her home. Oak Spur Read.
shields station. near here. l(fs. ouay5
waSaborn u Beaver. Pa, and was mar
fis1f 70 asnatef sQaay IN 1854:
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-01-13
LANDSLIDE KILLS FORTY
GANG Of Spanish Laborsrs Buried BY
Earth and Rock.

Castro Urdiales. Spain, Jan. IL
Forty persons were killed and i've in
iured when a landslide overwhelmed a
gang of laborers. burying them all be-
meath a mass of earth and rock.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1911-01-26
MARION COUNTY
HIGH SCHOOL

JASPER, Tenn, Jan. 14.-School
opened Monday of this week with one
hundred and eighteen High School
scholars. There are also twenty pupils
in the preparatory department
There are enrolled thirty pupils who
live in Jasper. Also thirty in the
Boarding Hall, which can accommo-
date as many as six more boys. Twen
ty-one of the students come in on the
trains, and the same number come by
their own conveyance.
Whitwell furnishes fourteen, Victor
ia nine, Sequachee eleven, Kimbal1
eight, Battle Creek nine, Inman six,
Sweeden's Cove five, and Richard
City two.
The County High School is repre-
sented from all parts of the county.
Those living fartherest away are from
Monteagle, Orme, Shellmound, White
side and Whitwell, which is we'll rep
esented.
Marion County High School Athletic
Association has been formed for the
promotion of physical skill and cul-
ture, and a committee of nine has been
appointed to draft constitution and
bylaws. We hope to have the hearty
co cooperation of all who are interested
in athletic sports.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1911-01-26
LUKE LA
ELECTED SENAT OR

The deadlock in the legislature was
broken Monday by the election ..oi
Luke Lea, publisher of the Nashville
Tennessean, and lawyer of that city,
to the Senatorship.
Twelve Senators, including Hon. D..
T. Layne, of this county, and 56 Rep
resentatives, including s. H. Rauls-
ton, of this county, voted for Lea, q
total of 69, while McMillen received
18 in the Senate and 30 in the House,
fetal of 48.
This was the eleventh ballot of the
deadlock, which has continued for two
weeks, and cost the state nice sum.
When the Senators and Representa-
tives met in convention, Enloe, who
had reached within one of the neces-
sary number to win, was withdrawn
and LEAFS name announced, and he
was elected by the almost total vote of
the fusionists and the assistance of
several members of the Shelby delega-
tiOn