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OF California, who found HOnEkOug,
China, the one best bet in the hot
weather line.
graceful, though effective. manner that
it has always kept that particular town
in my mind as the hottest place in the
United States. The water front was
sandy and dreary. As party of US
stroled away from the dock. the heat
devils danced before our eyes and
corrugated iron building nearby threw
the fiery atmosphere back in our faces
in burning waves. A lonely-looking per-
son lolled against door post. He
sleepily told us the name of the town and
what 1t was good for-and I'll have TO
confess it wasn't good for much at that
time. An irresistible desire to relieve his
own mind of a certain opinion suddenly
overcame a lanky member of our party.
Stranger said he, addressing the
man in the doorway, it's my honest
opinion that that there bad place the
preachers tell us about is located not
more than half mile from this place
with a yaWn.
ITO this day l never hear of that town
without recalling to mind the remark Of
my friend and wondering whether his
surmse had not been correct"
Representative William A. Oldfield of
Arkansas was at one time one of the
crack batsmen and infielders of the
Batesville, Ark, base ball team. 1t was
his prowess on the diamond that caused
him to be drawn as one of the players
in the first interpolitical party base ball
game to be held at Washington. This
the House were killing time while waiting
for the Senate to do it's share of the
work on the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill.
On a hot afternoon in July picked demo-
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St Mary's.
In another part of his narrative Father
White says of the Maryland Indians:
.rhey are of a frank and cheerful dis
position and understand correctly any
matter when ii is stated to theH. lhey
have keen sense OF taste ana smell ana
in sight too they surpass the Europeans.
They live for the most part on KIND OF
paste which they call pone and ominy.
both of which are made of Indian corn.
and sometimes they add fish or what they
procure by hunting and rowling. Ihey are
especially careful to abstain from wine
and warm drinks and are not easily per-
suaded to taste them except some whom
the English have corrupted with their
own vices With respect to chastity / con-
TESS that ] have not Yet observed IN man
or woman any act which even savored or
levity They marry several wives. yet
keep inyiolate their conjugal faith.
One of the early references to Indian
affairs in Maryland is the following, taken
from the proceedings of the assembly:
Al the house of assembly at East ST.
Mary's, Wednesday. April II. 1854 Pres
ent: Charles Calvert. governor; Philip
Calvert esq.,, chancellor; Baker Brooke.
Edward Lloyd Col. William Evans. Henry
Coursey and Thomas Trueman. Then
came member OF the lower house and
did desire Of this house that they would
be pleased TO admit the lower house. 10
be present at the Piscattaway indian
conference with the upper house, some
members OF that house having divers
things TO object against them. which was
granted and promised to be sent for when
the interpreters are come.
That conference was held ana resulted
in a treaty of defense and offense be-
tween the Governor of Maryland and
Wahacasso, chief OF the Piscataway IN
dams.
There were several Maryland tribes
tributary to the Piscataways. some or
these being the Doags. the Matfawomans
and the Chapticos whose names are pre-
served in the names OF the places where
these Indians lived.
The people claim to be OF Piscat-
away descent and, because OF Indian
features. love of personal adornment and
the possession of old bead necklaces.
bracelets and the like are of considerable
interest to Maryland people living around
them They may be encountered here
and there if one cares to explore tho
fields and woods. big hills and deep val
leys and ravlnes of that picturesque
though little visited country which ex-
tends below the capital. on the east 6de
of tho Potomac river. .s
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hottest place ne has ever been In.
rand demanded by the member and to
the chagrin and humiliation of the lat
ter has good naturally offered to serve
him several times since.
The hot spell had been running for
nearly a week." he said. I'm the crowded
precincts of the Hub the population was
well nigh exhausted. The charity or
CARNATIONS were responding nobly to the
calls for ice. The result was that about
the hardest worked men in town We're
the ice wagon drivers-to say nothing of
themselves. Yes. stree. the wagons them
selves, cool though they ought to have
been, were staggering under the heat.
'One of these overtaxed carriers, on
this particular day, drew up opposite the
law office of Brown. Field & Murray
fused to bulge another inch. Both wheels
were locked tight as drum. and the
brake wasn't set, either. l suspect the
iceman had been too busy to grease the
axles. but at any rate it was fact that
the hot rays Of that summer sun had
together as conpactly as the parts Of
welded cannon
well, don't keep us in suspense! What
did the icenan do?" was the breathless
query of Murray's listeners
Easy enough" replied Murray, with
another grin. HE applied dressings of
cracked ice to those hubs until the steel
lining and the axle cooled off and con-
tracted. Then he went merrily on his
way delivering ice to poor folks. Good
antidote to remember-What?"
Ollie James. the massive senator-elec
from Kentucky, says there is nothing
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drops turned to steam before they
reached the earth. | have seen no hot
weather since compared to what we suf-
fered in that locality"
Let. me see-Baltmore was rather hot
during the recent democratic convention.
but IL occurs TO me that | have been some
place that Was hotter said Repre- senta-
tive Billy" Hughes OF New Jersey. ."Ah.
| have il. 1t was at Philadelphia a few
years ago when the Elks met there III
convention. The day the Elks paraded
that summer in the Quaker city was
about the most perfect occasion of gen
eral, all-around sizzling temperature that
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Tor him. thank you.
has ever had chance to worry an even
disposition such as mine.
Those were brave Elks who marched
that day in the broilng sun. | stood on
the side lines and helped carry away sew
eral who fainted-felled by the pitless
heat Taking 1t all around-the beating
sun, the perspiring crowds. the noisy
hotels and general suffering humanity-it
was about the worst spell of weather /
can remember But. say, that Baltimore
convention hall was pretty hot, wasn't
it,"
Senator Gronna of North Dakota insists
that the city of Chicago can contain more
genuine hot weather than any place in
the country. He locates his particular
piece de resistance in the way OF torrid
climate at the Chicago stockyards.
Back in the nineties.' said Senator
Gronra. 4 had occasion to go TO Chicago
with trainload of cattle. Sitting up
nights with steers is not especially fine
sport at the best, and it comes pretty
near being beyond the limit OF human
endurance when YOU have to perform
such work within the confines of Chi
cago's stock district. It's a hot, every
hot place
\ favorite couplet Of Henderson NJ.
is:
Whether it's wet whether it's hot
We must weather IL whether or not.
(Which reminds me-" lie added. that
people talk too much about the weather
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REPRESENTATIVE w. f. MURRAY
OF Massachusetts. He tells a real shot
weather yarn" from up Boston way.
the cool breezes of the Kentucky hills
and one of those real julep things they
serve down in the blue grass neighbor-
hood. ] hate to embarrass anybody by
talking about the intimacies of personal
affection, but / recall the fact that L
had gone up the river on a steamboat
excursion on the Sunday preceding the
convention We disembarked at a place
called ChautauQua and spent part of
the afternoon lying in the dry grass on
tall. cool bluff overlooking the river.
I'm that grass, unseen to the human
eye, there lurked few million of those
tiny insects known ign common parlance
as 'chiggers.' Well. several of those lit
tie annoyances climbed aboard US and
went back with us to attend the conven-
ton. l suppose that Is why those con-
vention days seemed particularly hot.
You know it is very unsoothing to ones
nature to work fan with one hand and
pry chiggers loose with the other. We
nominated Parker that year at 6:15 in
the morning. Between the chiggers and
the heat. it was to me the most trying
convention / can remember.
The recollections of Edward T. Taylor,
the cool and airy congressman, who halls
from Glenwood Springs, Col, the crisp
est prettiest and cheeriest town in the
Rockies, bounded at once to the Tsthmus
of Panama.
THE Canal Zone may be nearly sur
rounded by cooling oceans. and the mos
quitoes put on the run by Col Gorgas
may be supposed to start breeze. but
that strip is a hot, hot place. said Mr..
Taylor. From 8 in the morning until
noon / am satisfied you can do more elo-
quent and effective perspiring than in any
country of a similar width in the world.
The tropic sun is laying for YOU when
you come forth for breakfast. and it pro-
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family bounds. the story is told to stran-
gers In that country that the recreant
loses caste with the clan.
These folk for many generations before
the civil war and the time of emancipa-
ton We're called .'the Free Proctors." In
all the Years and in that large slave
holding region directly south and south
east of Washington these people never
were bondsmen. 1t Is to be noted that
in the first United States census. 1880
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adjusting his flowing artist tie. Hong
kong, China, Is the edition de luxe, the
star pinch hitter and the one best and
grandest bet when it comes to picking
out a city that is downright warm.
was there In January, 19O1-January.
mind you-and 1 suffered heat that
know would have been torment to the
Inhabitants of his satanic majesty's do
minions. I am not so sure that said
locality was not close by. Although
Hongkong is located on one of the most
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the Proctors, though classified as mulat-
toes, were rated as free persons. 1t
would probably make an interesting story
could one trace it to determine how these
people preserved their status and free
dom during all the generations from the
coming of the whites to the time when
slavery was abolished in Maryland
A number of the men of this race with
whom The Star man has talked claim
descent from Kilamakund and from Wa
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hotter in this world than a democratic
convention, even If Bryan should not be
there.
Yes. the little affair the last of June
in Baltimore was rather heating said
Mr.. James, but it wasn't a marker to
what the weather man served to our
party out in ST. Louis in 1904. l can
frankly say that it was in the old audi
forum building in the Missouri town
that l spent the hottest day of my life.
Never in this world will long more for
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In his hGt-w Gather cOStume-bIack nj.
pa-a coat and seersucker vest. He
recalls a terrible day In the harvest
field.
Of geographical leaps. just try the above
query on few of the present inhabitants
of Washington-say those who wander
in from abroad in the land with the OPEN
ing of the congressional season, and who
leave at its close. They hail from every
where. and there seems to be no spot
on earth where they have not travelled.
Naturally. therefore. many of them are
real judges of weather. and most of them
know hot spell from what ordinarily
turns out to be but z few torrid winks
from Old Sol.
Hottest weather in Washington, D. c.,
do they say? Dear me, no, To nearly
every mothers son of them few close
days of National Capital summer are
as breezy afternoons on Pixies Peak COM
pared to warm experiences they have had
elsewhere in Uncle Sans domain, in
Europe. South America or the orient
To be sure, they say you do need fan
in Washington in July and August. but
what is that compared 10 a low-lying,
shut-in spot of habitation, of which there
are thousands in this world, where to
operate Il wind-stir BY your own hand is
an enervating proceeding downright dan
Serous to life. well as impotent to
bring relief. In those places they say a
cooling drink positively refuses to scratch
the palate: that. in fact, there is only
one way TO live-and that is to get out.
Listen close and mistake me not" said
Representative julius Kahn OF California,
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cratic and republican base ball teams
lined up at the American League Park
and went through a gruelng series of in
nings that resulted in a democratic vic
tory and came near Gripping eighteen or
twenty important members OF the House
for the summer Mr.. Oldfield says he will
always remember that day as the hottest
of mis- experience.
cit was all right as far as batting out
the ball was concerned said he, but
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EOPLE with tawny
skin and straight
black hair, claim
ing descent from
the p 1 S G. a I away
Indians, who ruled
the east bank of
the Potomac be-
fore the coming OF
Europeans. are liv-
ing within a few
miles of Washing
ton. The claim is
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/ ISTEN to Them Tell It

i ISTEN to Them Tell It
l. and You'll Find You're
Not So Badly Off After ALL
Hongkong, China. for In
stance, Makes Washington
Seem Like a Cold Storage
Place Beside It-Even Up
Boston Way 1t Is Some Hot,
According to Representative
Murray-And Norfolk, Va,
Holds Its Own, Too-What
a Number of Prominent Men
Have to Say About the Hot
test Places in Which They've
Ever Been.
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night and continuing oFef-SuHuaS Pieee VI
hot weather known to body torment, just
where would you go to carve out and
fetch what YOU claim to be the outstrip-
ping champion selection of atmospheric
discomfort among all the varying tenn
peratures of this world?
II you desire to project yourself men
tally through a most astonishing series
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settlement at a point SO high up the
river. 1t was not well placed Tor stra-
tegic purposes, should the Indians ever
prove unfriendly. He sailed back down
the river, near the mouth entered
smaller one, came to the town of faoco-
micoes. concluded treaty. bought the
land-thirty square miles-giving In pay,
ment axes. hatchets, rakes and several
yards Of cloth. and founded the city OF
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HERE on this ter
restrial sphere have
you experienced the
greatest heat? II
the management of
the Umville county
fair suddenly an
nounced a prize Of a
million dollars-all
exhibitors welcome
for the m o S t
perfect specimen of
e cry ID a y, all
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intention of communicating to them the
advantages of distant countries. he gave
us to understand that he was pleased at
our coming.
Then. they went on from this place
to Piscataway, where all the inhabitants
few to arms. About 800 equipped with
bows had stationed themselves on the
mails OF peace were made. the emperor,
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ONE OF THE PROCTOR HOMES.

ONE OF THE PROCTOR HOMES.
laying aside all apprehension, came on
board the pinnace, and when he heard of
our friendly disposition he gave us per-
mission to dwell wherever We pleased in
his dominions"
The Maryland Pilgrims would have
below Washington, but for some reason,
says Father White, the governor did
not consider 1t advisable to make his first
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OF North Dakota. The Chicago stock
yards are the hottest place in which
he has ever sweltered.
ceeds to beat a tattoo that has a person
laid out and gasping for breath ere the
small sea breeze springs up shortly
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OF Kentucky. Democratic convention
Of 1904, In st. Louis, the hottest he
ever saw.
of fifty years when it met the query:
What is the hottest place you've ever
been in?"
There is one experience with the heat
in this life of mine which l shall never
forget" said the senator. land that was
in the battle trenches in Louisiana away
back in 'S. Fighting is not pleasant,
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1912-03-15

question it may
help them to fore
cast in a measure
what his attitude
will be on that
question, if he
should be nomin-
ated and elected
governor of I'LL
nois.
Last week we
said IN our paper
that Mr.. Wayman
had the support of
the liquor interes S
in his campaign
for states attorn-
ey; that we had in
our possession the
official sheet of
instructions issued
by the United So
cieties in the cam
paign Of 1908.
This w e e k w e
give here a photo
graphic reproduce
ton of this cam
ieties. The reader
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1912-03-15
United Societies Endorse Wayman

Play of August 8, 1908 The Champion of Fair Play in
its own language is "a Journal devoted to the inter
ests of the Retail Liquor Trade" On the first page
of this edition we find the following:
John E. w. Wayman Republican candidate for nomina-
ton for the states attorneyshp addressing meeting in the
Exchange Building the Union stock yards pledged him
SELF if elected uphold all laws but said State Attorney
Heays Interpretation of the Sunday closing law was err
roneous.
Il state now, however, there may be msunder-
standing about it, Mr. Wayman said that do take
oath to enforce the Sunday closing law"
Previous to that primary campaign States Attor-
ney Heay had attempted to get convictions of saloon
keepers for violating the Sunday closing law. That
the main issue in the fight between Mr.. Wayman
and Mr. Heay. Mr.. Wayman took stand against
the enforcement of the Sunday closing law in Chicago
The supreme court of Illinois has since said that the
Sunday closing law is still law. and that it applies to
every part of the state. Mr. Wayman does not agree
with the supreme court. He has made no aggressive
attempt to enforce that law after the decision of
the supreme court referred to handed down.
1t is reported that Mr.. Wayman has said in public
in the present campaign that he will sign a county
option law if should be passed by the legislature
It is also reported that he has said he will sign bill
repeating the present township local option law In
other words he is quoted taking the position that he
will sign any bill the liquor question that goes
through the legislature. But nothing has been said
by Mr. Wayman so far as we have been able to dis
cover, to whether his influence as governor would
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1912-03-15
Title page of United Societies Leahet giving
endorsements of candidates.
GEO. L. pFElFFER, President
4. j. cERMAK Secretary

endorsements of candidates.
ton
paign document Of the United Societies
will please notice that the document
declares on its face just what it is
the recommendations of the United
Societies and the Liberty League with
respect to candidates for office. The
larger cut contains the names of the
men who were endorsed in that cam
paign. We are concerned particularly
with the first name that appears upon
the st,-the name of John E. w. Way
man. We wish that the reader would
scan this Photographic reproduction
carefully. If he does so he will notice
the following words "For States At
torney. Both are acceptable. Vote
For One Only" Then appears the
name of John E. w. Wayman
This is the proof that the United
Societies and the Liberty League were
we'll satisfied with Mr.. Wayman in
1908, and that they recommended him
to their constituency in that campaign.
Champion of Fair Play Endorsed
Wayman.
We bring still further liquor tes-
timony before you. We have before
us copy of the Champion of Fair
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1912-03-15

A candidate should be Judged in part at least
perhaps for the most part, upon his record. In politics
as in other things factions speak louder than Words
The people of the of Illinois should know exactly
what Mr.. Wayman's attitude has been on the saloon
, 1912-01-20

DOth "lnouS tue grow iJP III ven rs Inc &QulE
population. In the first instance ali teachers
III charge Of elementary schools were taken
through successive courses of LECTURES aud
demonstrations in agriculture. They were
afterwards supplied with school readers aui
n book of Nature Teaching specially pre-
pared for. use IN the tropics. Jamaica may
be regarded ms having taken the lead in
teaching agriculture III elementary schools,
and by establishing annual courses Of iu-
s~ttuction to teachers in theoretical and prac-
teal agriculture ut the Mico Institution and
the provision of a staff OF travelling agri-
cultural instructors it has laid the foundation
for an efficient scheme of agricultural edd-
cation throughout the Colony.
In. reviewing the considerable progress
that has been made in other C0'onies, it wus
recently reported that in. British Guiana over
nifty schools have started small gardens ana
earned so per cent. of the grants otfere /.
At Trinidad BOB schools were examined IN
practical agriculture, and school shows for
plnnts and produce raised by the pupils are
regularly held. At Barbados forty four
schools presented children for examination
in object lessons connected with agric nltural
subjects. About oue.third Of the schools
had small gardens, or showed plants under
cultivation in pots and boxes. Iu the WiuI-
ward and Leeward fsiunds fair progress Inns
been made. The chief drawbacks there are
the want Of carefully trained teachers aud
ne S'i''''l encourages" ~ on 7foH ~ Iho cot,
O"'o"" '"'eN i't 'o'' LUIS agriculture '"'
maintaining school gardens.
III me case o. St"h'S ohife' ny 'Ne Pe-
p"t'"l""' 60 "SrHc"l'uI" ) o"S' II "A' SUI
puIaCeo ina" Sp'cH'' cHss slo"Id De pro,
ViaeI Tor pants and produce grown ny
chlidteh ia Tue elementary schools. The
result OF TINS mas b zen generally satisfactory.
The establishment OF agricultural training
schools by tn Department at st. Vincent
-. Lue''' IN Dominica, where selected boys
OF 'ne lS''coI"tN 'i"SS were ooHfde" ana
framed 19I a pell2d OF lhFee years, has cleat-
" demonH'Iated the value OF such practical
framing III raising the standard OF rn't'y'-
ton ana III spreading sound knowledge OF
the treatment OF crops. About seventy stu
dents trained ut lheS" schools have already
Obtained ompIo'ment as torcmcn and over
seers, or are otherwise engaged IN "8rIcul-
tural work,
At Jamalcl a somrwht similar institution,
known as II farm school, has lately been a.
tAhli>hed under the auspices of the newly
created Department OF Agriculture. 1t ii
, 1912-01-20

Vice Governor and Mrs. Helweg- Larsen
entertained a large company Of ladies and
gentlemen of the town aud officers of the
Ingolf and cruiser Vineta at a dance last
night. 1t was a nice affair, of course, and
very much enjoyed by eyerybody-&. Tho
~ IS Bulletin, ION Ian.
, 1912-01-20

"A strange flag seen in town Sunday at
tracted attention and not a few questions
were asked about it. 1t was the new ensign
of the Republic of Portugal, displayed for
the first time from the residence Of the Con
sul, our well-known townsman Mr.. Max IRE
ruk. The colors are green and red, with
the nations arms iu the middle.-Hjd
, 1912-01-20

We understand that after the 31st March
proximo the Agency of the Gle. Gle. Transat-
lantique here will be closed, all the en-
ployees having been notified to that effect:
Only the Cos intercolonial boat, it is said,
will make one call monthly. Thus comes
practically to an end the long connection be-
tween the Co. and St. Thomas, which, once
important and lucrative, gradually dwindled
until it will now all but disappear. We are
sorry, as, however reduced, it still meant a
gain to the island.-I6id