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Evening star., 1911-06-04

A FEW OF THE CANES.
has and the many he has given to his
friends These two brought $50 One
was purchased by the son OF a million
aire and he received $2o for 1t. The other
brought him s..
But with no idea of ever vending his
collection, Mr.. Nobel devotes all his time
and energy to the preparation Of natural
canes. No mateer how finely finished or
how beautiful or rare a machine-made
Mr.. Nobel. He is neither a maker of
canes in the strict sense nor a purchaser.
His object is to find canes. and II neces-
sary to aid nature in producing what he
desires.
Mr. Nobel needs no catalogue Of his col
lection. He knows it by heart. He can
tell you the circumstances under which
every cane he has was found and grown
and the spot from which it came.
His early vocation Of forester has stood
him we'll. He knows by name or by
sight every wood with which he has ever
come In contact. He knows their prop
critics and their adaptation to growing
canes. He declares that the best cane
woods are hickory and dogwood, and that
apple wood, IL found straight. and sweet
locust also make excellent walking sticks
While Mr.. Nobel assists nature In model
ing the canes, he really just applies prin-
ciples nature has herself taught him. He
claims to have discovered the method of
growing the twisted cane which is often
seen. and which many suppose to be the
result of steaming and mechanical twist
ing and which in many cases may be so.
Mr. Nobel observed the wild honey
suckle, twining itself about the boles of
small saplings. and growing with the
tree. binding around 1t each year more
firmly until the structure and the flow of
the sap cause the young tree to twist
itself as 1t grows.
So now when he desires to make q twist
ed cane he selects a perfect saplins
growing In the denser and more unfre-
Evening star., 1911-06-04

quented parts of the woods around
Washington. Then he bores a small hole
near the butt Of the sapling and one at
the length he desires the cane to be. Into
the lower hole he inserts the sharpened
end of a piece of copper wire, which Is
flexible. Then spirally he wraps the
wire about the sapling. fixing the other
end Of the wire in the topmost hole. That
is all that is necessary. In four or five
years nature will have sent the sap
coursing and twisting up under the bark.
The bark will have Swelled out over the
Evening star., 1911-06-04

That knot was tied In a moment of idle
abstraction when the now heavy branch
was a twig OF beech tree beneath which
the ILL starred Louis Napoleon III sat a
pY1soner. This Is how IL happened.
II was In the early seventies. Sedan
was over. The star of the later empire
builder was waning. Napoleon had been
taken prisoner in his fight and taken to
hostile Germany, where he was confined
at the palace of Wilhelmshoe. Neider-
hessen, which is now part of Hessen Mas
sau 1t was formerly the residence of
the electors of Hesse. and also the sum
mar residence of Jerome Bonaparte, while
he was King of Westphalia.
Charles Nobel was then seventeen years
old. q young forester. az was his father
Evening star., 1911-06-04

One horribly stormy night I'm January,
way back In the earliest of the nineties,
when all the winds of Boreas were blow
ing the snow through the streets of New
York and the wires were humming with
stories OF snow blockades and stalled
trains and all that sort of thing. a bull
letin reached this city editor. who never
permitted night city editor to take the
desk from him, but worked right down
to the hour the paper went to press,
stating that q big ship was ashore down
at Far Rockaway, L. L.; that the ship
was pounding hard on the beach, with
the crew all in the rigging; that the life
saving crew had pronounced 1t impossible,
SO enormous was the sea, to rescue the
crew. and SO on and on: one of those
bulletins that generally reach news
paper office just about a couple Of hours
before the paper is due to 60 to press.
thus making seventeen different kinds of
cussful panic in the city room.
The bulletin got into the hands Of the
grouchy city editor at about l In the
morning. All Of the reporters had turn
ed in their night assignment stories and
gone home-that is. they had left the
Office for their homes. David Graham
Phillips was the emergency man"
When the crab city editor got hold of
the bulletin about the ship pounding the
Far Rockaway Beach he sort o grinned
and bent his vinegary gaze upon young
Phillips, who was sitting with his feet
cooked up on his desk, reading a pocket
edition of Horace and waiting for some
thing measley to turn up.
Phillips called out the city editor
Phillips uncoiled his long legs from his
desk and numbered sadly over to the city
editors desk
Read this bulletin, Phillips" said the
city editor. handing the emergency man
the slip Of flimsy.
Ship ashore-pounding hard-crew in
rigging-Far Rockaway-Er-uh-w
Far Rockaway-in Massachusetts," in
Evening star., 1911-06-04

quired Phillips. He really did not know
where Far Rockaway was.
The city editor tore off a lot OF dis
gusted gutturals in his throat.
Dye mean to tell me you don't know
where Far Rocksway is?" he growled
horrifically at Phillips
Il seem to remember vaguely that II s
up somewhere around Cape Cod" mildly
replied Phillips, shifting to the other leg
as he stood by the city editors desk.
More deep and dark and terrifying gut
turals
Far Rockaway's down on Long
Island" said the city editor. his eyes
splitting green sparks, "and YOU are to
hustle there right away. Get that story.
It's now o'clock. We want early copy.
Make a feature story of 1t. We want II
for the first edition. On your way, now.
Write all you want of it-well use II for
d lead
How dye get to Far Rockaway?" in
Quired Phillips.
Now. that's an insane. not to say fatal.
question to ask a city editor. If a CITY
editor tells you TO go to Tibet or Tim
buctoo you're supposed to know all about
how to get there at the earliest possible
moment-ln time for that obsession OF
the city editor. early copy"
Take a train: If YOU can't do that.
walk; If you can't walk, swim; If you
can't do that fly: but. by blazes. get out
little reply of the city editor
Phillips got into his overcoat and things
and beat it out into the wild storm for
the Brooklyn bridge. which wasn't far
away. He told the ticket man at the
bridge entrance that he wanted TO make
Far Rockaway at once. The ticket man
grinned.
Evening star., 1911-06-04

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Do Something
BY: Herl
Your work won't be done unless you do It. Aladdin dead
and the SLAVES Of the Lamp out of business
Wishing Ring caused much trouble that the fairies
unanimously decided destroy it in the of P>ogres
All the uzards have migrated They've accepted contracts
to dig canals Mars
aron Rascd has visited this side of the Atlantic,
little likelihood that he'll make SPECIAL voyage
shores complete your undertakings while you Sleep
You're saddled with certain allotment of toll You
contribute your share of effort another That's
competent perform you can't be excused from the ob
leaue your of duty you'll in time before the
of Destiny don't proportion
Of labor you'll eoentuay hunger for essential peace
You can't shirk your responsibility In way you
pay for day which enjoy the protection of
lied society," accept the benefits of its endeauor eat of its loaf
and partake Of fts advantages.
Praps you haze gotten off Fate usually busy
and your be the blacklist She has quite number
of such agsads deal WITH but the
calendar will be called for consideration before you and
depend you'll be charged full and compounded from
the moment that fell short.
Evening star., 1911-06-04

be, and sometimes are, reasoning ana
reasonable human beings.
This peculiar idea aroused such large
commotion and caused SO much excited
and excitable conversation and pcrsifiage
and badinage in our set that l am going
to do ii again. adducing some more
proofs Sloppy stories generally are not
interesting to the general public But
these two little straight stories concern
Richard Harding Davis and the late
David Graham Phillips, both men who
graduated rather conspicuously from the
newspaper to the literary field; so that
! shall at least have the excuse of writ
ing about one living and one dead celeb
rity.
Dave" Phillips. as the newspaper gang
in New York used to know him when
he was hustling around that town with a
bunch of copy paper in his pocket, was
one of those reporters who was only
good in spots. When he was good he was
very much the class. and when he was
bad the merest cub in the business could
run rings around him.
He didn't Ike the kind of assignments
that are known as hard" but when he
caught one OF the soft big assignments
nobody could do a single, solitary thing
to him when 1t came to dishing ii up with
all of the garniture sauce and embelliSh-
ment.
During the early years of his reporter
hood in New York Dave Phillips was
on the staff of a newspaper whose city
editor was in a class all by himself as
a scowler: additionally. this same scoWl-
ing city editor was the plus merchandise
when 1t came to city editing and to
raking the village of New York with a
fine-tooth comb for the news what was.
But he was one of the old boys who had
been in the business since Hickory James
was a yearlin', and he as sour as
wild crabapple still in the stage of utter
unripeness. His ordinary tone to report
ers was gruff growl, but when he want
ed to make 1t emphatic he could bawl
the starest star reporter out like a fiat
janftor talking to too venturesome
laundryman.
Evening star., 1911-06-04
TWO HISTORIC CANES.

TWO HISTORIC CANES.
Napoleon cane on left and staghOrn-
handle cane from stag killed by Ger
man officer ON right.
obtain such a cane it is only necessary
to locate a young tree with two long
shoots rather close to the ground. One
Of these shoots Mr. Nobel twists about
the upright shoot, binding it tightly at the
top so that II cannot unwind itself. The
other shoot he passes through the lower
loops OF the two twisted saplings, carries
IL straight out at right angles and Sc
cures 1t to the ground. A few years pass,
Evening star., 1911-06-04

4 aNES, bent and
I " s I e d, canes
strai ght: canes
grotesoue = liter
ally hundreds OF
them is what has
made Charles j.
Nobel of 34O1 Geor-
gia avenue unique
among collectors.
And yeti whatever
his canes may be.
straight or twisted
q -
Evening star., 1911-06-04
AIDS NATURE TO GROW WALKING STICKS H.

OF so long ago. in this place, L
wrote a little story in which
/ propounded the theory, up to
that time unheard of, that even
oi4.. nditnrc Of new SnanPrS can
Evening star., 1911-06-04

ION a night like this?" he asked.
Il didn't say 1 wanted to go next Tues
day, did -" asked Phillips.
Don't git new wit me. young feiier
The las train for Far Rockaway left
three hours ago. and if they was a train
right now, it couldn't git hunnerd feet
on the way to Far Rockaway with tn
snow banked up eight or ten feet on de
track"
rs there any other way of going TO
Far Rockaway tonight" asked Phillips.
"Th' swimmin's good replied the
miffed ticket man.
Phillips turned away, walked into Andy
Horns. the place by the bridge. and eased
frame, and then he went back to the
city room of his paper. He shook the
snow off his overcoat as he strolled
slowly up to the city editors desk The
copy and didn't see Phillips for q mo-
ment Then he looked up and stared at
the young reporter
Been to Far Rockaway already7" he
growIed.
Phillips large gray eyes were blazing.
He gave the city editors desk a whack
with his large, hamlike Indiana hand
that set the inkpots and pastepots and
pencils and things to dancing. and. plac-
ing his sharp-featured face about two
inches away from the face OF the city
editor he thundered:
No doggone you, I haven't been to
Far Rockaway already. And. what's
more, I'm not going to Far Rockawayi
And, what's a whole lot more than that.
you are the most unreasonable sawed-or
shrimp that ever stuck a pen behind his
ear; and / can lick you and your whole
blamed family the best day you or they
ever sawi''
That's all from you," said the city
editor, resuming his perusal Of his copy
And Phillips took off his overcoat and
went back to his desk and cooked I'D his
feet. He felt sure he was fired. but he
meant to finish out his night OF emer-
gency duty in order TO cop the change for
that final piece of work.
About ten minutes later COPY boy
sided alongside Phillips and handed him
a little slip of paper.
It read:
phillips: / reckon you're right" with
the city editors name signed.
Phillips was the star man on that paper
as long as he remained on It, The city
editor gave him all the fat assignments
and the two men were thicker than
thieves up to the hour of Phillips un-
timely death.
The other little story, concerning Rich
ard Harding Davis and a city editor OF
the same type, occurred in the mid
eighties. when Davis was a pretty starish
sort of a reporter around New York, do
ing crackerjack assignments Of the big
Evening star., 1911-06-04
Rv: Herbert Kaufman

forced while you sang
The soldering offhose often deuds himself with the idea
that his will the brunt of the but
after awe the honest animal and when good long hill
reached the der his of the load
There many slope ahead of you prepare make
FOR lost tne
While you've Lazing you haven't hurt anyone half
badly YOURSELF
Standstll brains and sand MUST abby.
When you're oang of growing ,0eaker,
your losing missing balancing
with occupation leisure with
aboand shortly appreciate the delights Of liberty
When you have done everything want do and the search
for diversion becomes task you're sadded with about the
noeanest employment that a assumed
only enjoyable occasionally The confectioner
quickly loses his appetite for his goods Continued respons
b1Hty is absolute bore.
Get up and get down hardp Do somethingbe
thing-7RY
The uorLd is the back of euery Shrink from its
eg and your tden grows doubly heavy Carry with squared
skS<1Lders sand a Ephfh tandi ride like bubble
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-04-14
DOUBT REPORT
OF AN INVASION
Washington Doss Not Be-
lievs Troops Entered Mex
lean Territory.
REBELS CONTROL TOWN
Leader Says Hs Will Get
ReInforcsments and Will
Follow Up Advantage.
REBELS CONTROL TOWN
specia, bv United Press Wire

-
Washington, April 14:-The war
department was today officially in
formed by telegraph that the Mexi-
can insurrectos are In full possession
Of Aqua Prieta on the United States
border, after battle in which three
Americans, non-combatants, were
killed and nine wounded. Army Off
GERS here discredit. however, the re-
port that American soldiers crossed
the border to end the engagement
between the Mexican federal and the
rebel forces.
Most specific > instructions have
been given all officers commanding
United States troops along the bor-
der that they must not, under any
circumstances, cross into Mexico
without orders from Washington.
These Instructions have been re-
peatedly impressed upon officers and
men who have been Informed of the
serious consequences that might at
tend any invasion of Mexican terri
tory.
Insurrecto Leader "Red" Lopez
today declared that Madero will send
him a thousand reinforcements and
that he will push the advantage gain
ed through the capture of Aqua
Prieta and force the United States
to recognize the rebels as belliger-
ents.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-04-14
Report of Battle.

Aqua Prieta. Mexico, April 14.-Dur-
ing battle which lasted several hours
and resulted In the capture Of this
city by Red" Lopez, American troops
crossed the border and stopped the
fighting.
This action was taken after three
men had been killed and several
wounded in Douglas and the continued
firing was endangering the lives OF
Americans on United States territory.
Douglas was under constant FIRE for
three hours.
Douglas, Ari1., April 14.-Two Amer
leans were killed and third wounded
in Douglas by stray bullets from Aqua
Prieta, Just over the boundary In Mex
leo, where the federals and insurrectos
fought for the possession of the town.
Thousands of Americans fastened to
the bounAery sAne -<s-s>~ ta>> -ats1t, haat
SO many bullets fell among them that
they sought shelter behind adobe
buildings and In bitches.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-04-14
WATCH VESSELS FOR
TRACES OF PLAGUE

Steamship Crown, of Grenada,
now discharging asphalt at the Bar
Der Asphalt Paving Company's plant
here, will be fumigated, as soon es
unloaded, for the determination of
disease bearing rats.
A case of bubonic plague was re-
ported at Trinidad, from which port
it sailed on April and the United
States authorities are taking due
precautions to prevent the convey
ance of the dreaded malady to any
part of this country. For this rea-
son foreign steamships are being
watched. They are inspected before
entering any port.
Federal Health officer Dr. c. w
Naulty, Jr., will fumigate the vessel
as soon as the cargo has been re-
moved.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-04-14
RUN CARS To
CREEK BRIDGE
Jersey Central Traction Com
pany Make Statement To-
day--WiIl Start Monday.
ONLY PARTIAL SCHEDULE

Beginning Monday the Jersey
Central Traction Company will run
Its cars out State street to Wood
bridge creek bridge on part sched-
ule, was the statement made by Vice
President G. l. Brown, of the com
pany, this morning. Yesterday af-
teFnoon an official test was made by
the employees of the company to
ascertain whether or not their spec
tally constructed cars we're able to
pass under the bridge of the Lehigh
Valley Railroad Company in State
street. The test was satisfactory in
every detail and as result the COM
pany will begin to run cars on Mon
day morning.
AS yet full schedule to the
bridge will not be adhered to. Only
the early morning and the evening
cars will go to the bridge, but in a
short time complete schedule will
he adopted.
New Type Of Cars.
The type of cars running from
this city to South Amboy over the
county bridge are of a more massive
style than those used by the Public
Service in this city. For this reason
the regular cars were not able to
pass under the bridges in State
street. When the officials of the Jer-
sey Central Company learned the
reason they at once gave orders for
cars to be built SO the State street
line could be used. Yesterday the
new cars were found to be construct
ed to avoid all trouble which was ex-
perienced before in passing under
the bridge.
Convenience of Workmen.
By running their cars to the
bridge the traction company is great
ly conveniencing workmen from
South Amboy and surrounding
places who are employed at some of
the plants in Maurer Up to this
time they We're forced to change at
the ferry, or at State and Smith
streets, to one of the Public Service
ctsrr. ny the new u1etnuc or -tI.sV q
this difficulty viii be eliminated.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-04-14
GREGORY CASE
OUT OF COURT
Recorder Discharges Prison
or When Complainant Be-
GENES Heated In Demands.
SARCASM AMUSEs CROWD

When Recorder Kehoe last night
set Monday night for further hear
ing In the case Of Andrew Solmossi,
twenty-five years old, Slav, of 479
State street, charged with threaten
ing the life of John H. Gregory, Of
High street, the complainant showed
much dissatisfaction and insisted up
on instant disposition Of the case
So warm did Mr.. Gregory grow In his
demands of what the court should
do In the case that Recorder Kehoe
discharged the prisoner and told him
to 90. Mr.. Gregory informed the
court that he would take the case
higher. The court replied that he
was privileged to do SO. Mr.. Greg
ory, with sarcasm, thanked the court
for the earnest consideration 1t had
given the case. The recorder said
that thanks were unnecessary. AS
Mr.. Gregory left the room applause
was given by the spectators who
seemed satisfied with the disposition
Of the case.
Had to Discharge Man.
MIR. Gregory In giving his side OF
the case at the preliminary hearing
explained how 1t had been necessary
to discharge Solmosst, one of the en-.
ployes of his old boat yard at the
foot OF Brighton avenue. The man
he said, refused to leave the
grounds upon being told According
to Mr.. Gregory, the man drew q
knife and threatened him with It
Upon Mr.. Gregory's complaint Sol.
mossi was arrested by Patrolmau
Wood, who searched him but found
no knife.
Prisoner Tells His Side.
With the assistance OF Rudolph
K1sh, who acted as court interpreter
Solmossi related story to the ef
feet that he was working with some
other men, when one of the bosses
came up, asked for his number, and
told him that he was discharged
Solmossi said he would not leave
without the money he claimed was
due him, however, although Mr.
Gregory, he addcu, came up ana tolc
him to go. Solmossf said that ht
had some bolts in his hands at the
time and that Mr.. Gregory stopped
down and picked up an iron bar. Mr.
Gregory said that he had picked uI
the iron bar to defend himself from
an anticipated attack from Solmossi
According to the complainant, the
man then drew a knife and threat
ened him. Solmossi denied making
any threats.
Witness For Gregory.
Mr.. Gregory had witness with
him who said that Solmossi had 8
knife but that 1t was not open. Mr.
Gregory asserted that the nav dow
at his place was Monday and that
the man knew 1t when he went tc
work.
Solmossi desired to bring wit.
nesses at further hearing to prove
his side Of the case. Recorder Kehoe
just paroled him for further hear.
ing in the custody of Interprete,
Kfsh when Mr.. Gregory made his OBJ
jections to the proceedings, which
resulted in the mans discharge.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-04-14
PAYS S5 FINE
FOR LOITERING
Recorder Determined 10
Break Up the Practice.

Recorder Kehoe imposed a fine of
So upon Thomas Burns, eighteen
years old, OF 377 Oak street, this
morning. Burns was arrested yes
terday by aPtrolman Tonneson,
charged with lettering in front of d
Greek pool parlor at LAP Smith
street. With about a dozen other
young men, officer Tonneson said
that Burns has been hanging around
the place for some time; He said
that he has frequently ordered them
to move on without any apparent eff
feet.
Yesterday he had occasion to ap-
proach them again and on accosting
Burns in particular, was met by the
rejoinder. 20, l don't know" The
youth was at once taken In tow and
arraigned at police headquarters, be-
ing released on parole until this
morning.
Mother In Court.
Burns appeared at court this
morning with his mother, who made
strong objection TO the proceedings.
She said that her boy was a local
youth and was of the impression that
mistake in identity had been made
by the officer. Burns said that he
did not hang around the pool parlor
in question, but Officer Tonneson
said that he had often seen him
there with others Burns said that
his only business there WAS to drop
in the place for an occasional game
of pool. His mother affirmed that
her boy did not drink and that he
had to go somewhere to put in his
time, as he was not working.
Recorder Kehoe said that he had
much better drink than hang around
pool parlors and imposed a fine of
IS, which was paid by Mrs. Burns
under protest. The recorder an
nounced that all similar cases
brought before him would be dealt
with accordingly.
Both Patrolman Tonneson and
Calvin, who are on the Smith street
beat, have had repeated trouble with
loiterers in the locality in question.
They have frequently warned them
without effect. Yesterdays arrest
was merely the elimination of re-
peated efforts on their part to break
up the daily gathering of youths.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-04-14
BODY FOUND
ON MEADOWS
May bs Anton Hognestad
--kear Port Reading.

Coroner Ferd. Garretson was call
ed this afternoon to view the body of
man which was found this morning
on the meadows about mile below
the Port Reading coal docks. The
body was found by Andrew Vette, of
Kreischerville, s. l., about fifty feet
from the shore as though 1t had
washed up at some high tide. 1t was
left in the position where 1t was dis
covered pending the coroner's exam
nation.
To reach the body 1t will be neces-
sary for the coroner to secure a boat
Of some kind as 1t is in an almost in
accessible spot. 1t Is thought that
the body may be that of Anton
Hognestad, who was drowned by the
upsetting of a boat opposite this city
several months ago.