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Erwin; two~-'base hits-Herring,
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balls--off Penny /. Passed ball
by Waters 2; Erwin l double play
Coleman, Schooler and MeCarty.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-22
Old French Bulldog
Again All the Rage

THEY are coming home from Europe u
hundred thousand strong. Gossip Is
rife. 1t is in the man personal. People
no longer come back and talk of cathe-
drals and pictures, but dukes, duchesses,
dogs and didoes. Let us take up dogs
first and ignore the didoes.
The proper dog is again the bat
cared. French bulldog, with screw tail,
and he shouldn't weigh more than TWEEN
ty-two pounds. He was the proper dog
a decade ago, and has come back into
fashion through the efforts of those two
exceedingly smart and active young wom-
en-. the Queen of Spain and Crown Pgin-
cess Ceciie of Germany
The Schipperkes, Japanese poodles.
wire-haired Scotch terriers, AirdaleS. and,
last and most expensive of all, the SOM
nolent and drowsy Chinese elbows, are all
pushed aside in favor OF the snappy and
CHUNKY little .Frenchman.
He should be really chunky, by the way,
according to the dog sharps. with short
legs, short body, broad chest and not
too undershot. The forelegs must be set
wide apart, but straight, not bowed Bs
right about this. though the nat on itself
rocks with the mighty import of 1t all.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-22
Farmers Who Harvest Their Crops in the City.

families with vegetables all summer
speaks for the efficacy of their labors.
The Department of Agriculture also
takes an active interest in the school
farms, and keeps track of the industry
and energy exhibited on the part Of in
dividual boys. Their reward. while not
remunerativc, takes t9e form OF a cerI
tficate of Endorsement Of worthy achieve
ment. and may he used as a recommen-
dalton should any of the young farmers
continue working in the winter
The land on which the Speedway farm
is located has been given for this year
by Col. Spencer Cosby. He hopes to have
it filled to the level of the driveway and
permanently donated by Congress for
school gardens. The farms Will now be
abandoned until next spring, perhaps not
visited In the meantime except by TIE
boys for crop which has hitherto been
ungathered.
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the bunch before they aref brought IN,
for a leopard will come and take COW
on the first night after any native omlts
to do this.
Queerer even than these things, now
ever, was the account TINS explorer gave
of the native bel eff that the souls OF h,l-
man beings can inhabit the bodies OF ami
mas. and vice versa.
Eight years or so back" he said. the
natives k He'd an elephant which they de-
cIared had a human foot. A few months
ago, too, one of my hunters shot fine
bull elephant that had for tusks two nat,
ribbed. gnarled pieces of ivory about IL
foot long and half an inch thick. The
hunter swore that the beast had had
enormous tusks. but that they dwindled
to these abnormalties he lay dying
This was considered proof positive that
the elephant was no ordinary beast, bul
one possessed by the soul OF man
And strange as it seems, the son Of u
chief long suspected as 'efumi,' or of be-
ing the owner OF an elephant body, eX-
pired at the same time.
81 knew, too" Talbot went on, "a head
chief, a very gifted man named Awaw
Anjanna who was a buffalo soul The
last time l went to his village, after be-
ing absent and replaced by another dis
trict commissioner for a time, he was not
there, and native told ME that the tenn
porary D. c. had shot Awaw.' The D. c.,
i'm fact had shot a buffalo in his station
garden-for buffalo often came into the
gardens-but had not killed it at once.
Awaw was in his house, some twenty
miles away. and at the time, approx
mately, of the shooting was heard to cry
out, White man has shot me for sta
ton He died few hours afterward, at
the time, approximately, at which the
buffalo died, though on the previous day
he had been in Oban In perfect health. l
make 10 attempt to explain these things.
but / can't shut my eyes to the fact that
they happen
according to this explorer, a diet of
human flesh can't be an especially nOur-
ishing one: however tasty ii may be. near
~ all the cannibals of his acquaintance
are as lean and hungry as Cassius in
Julius Caesar" One tribe of cannibalS,
who reside in southern Nigeria, he found
living in houses entirely of ebony.
The side of our tent" he said, "al-
most touched a little ebony hut built over
"A large and gIuesome looking pot, the
sides Of which were Ornamented with
iron hooks. while In front Of our tent
door was a tall. carved pillar, ornament
ed with human skulls. The people all
had the thin, shrunken appearance which
characterizes those who practice cannibal
rites. and, although they one and all
stoutly denied any knowledge of anything
of the kind, every one of our carriers
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-22
For Sheer Audacity Behold
the Real American Girl

A FLAMBOYANT and prismatic young
lady OF the operate stage has
brought back from Paris letter from
living king. He's not much of king,
but, on the other hand, she's not much
of a prima donna, except III exuher-
ance of spirits. She met King George
of Greece and sat next to him at lunch
con. where she noted that the tranquil
and quiet little man drank only water
and would not smoke a cigarette that
day And she drank champagne freely.
I'm America said the young lady,
casually. your majesty would be known
by another title
WHAT" asked the king.
a tin-horn sport" she said COM
posedly. lone who's loudest toot is
made on a tin horn
"Whats a toot?"
ION. Lord moaned the nineteen
year-oId singer. you'll never do. You
must blow up and come across. You
wouldn't understand if l told you.''
TIE king smiled and was amused. The
girl ratified on. The following day she
sailed for home. but before she left a
small pendant in the form of golden
horn of plenty with a wreath OF emer-
aids around the rim arrived at her hotel.
with the following note on the paper of
the Ritz Hotel:
My Dear Young Lady: / have memo
ries Of most entertaining afternoon.
and send YOU souvenir for Your voy-
age which is the nearest thing / can
find in Paris to typify Unborn sport.
May you return soon. GEORGE.
So that is the way king writes TO
a young lady. If any one wishes to know.
The letter is literal copy Of the kings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-22
Emgish EXPLORER Found Men With Animals @S@gS" and

first fair one they lead to the altar, who
is the boss Of all the future wives.
''Gong out to dinner in Ekoiland is
taking a big risk Talbot continued.
because, as like as not, the invitation
is inspired by an amiable desire on the
part Of the host to poison his guest
What the Ekois don't know about death
dealing drugs isn't worth knowing, anu
their favori.e pastime is to try a new
one on a friend. Every house stocks at
least dozen antidotes to poison and
the Ekoi diner out takes care to have
several of the strongest about him. Quite
often he takes one before he goes. 1t
is the universal belief in witchcraft
which is responsible for all this poison
ng-the natives believing that it is their
duty to send to better world anybody
whom they suspect of being afflicted with
the evil eye.
Its bad thing to be suspected of
practicing Witchcraft,' added the explor-
err "as nobody will believe you are all
right until you have either taken poison
and survived. or gone through the ordeal
of having boiling oil poured on the palms
Of the hands Another ordeal too. con-
sists of having peppercorns stuffed into
ones eyes. but both this and the boil
ing oil ordeal are dreaded less than the
most common one of making the lln-
lucky person eat 'esefe. poisonous
bean which kills in nine cases out of
ten.
Talbot says that when his native bear
ers discovered he was on his way to the
Lake of the Dead Cor rather the part of
the Oban country in which the explorer
believed this supposedly haunted spot
must be locatedD, they begged to be ex-
cused and were left behind, but no ca
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-22

WITH the approach of the cool au-
w tumn days and the accompanying
change in the coloring of the
country landscape. the realization that
summer must be relegated to the things
of the past is complete. While the early
fall means to the average city dweller Il
return to town and the renewal of actiyi-
ties, to the farmer it means reaping of
oning of the quality and quantity of the
same.
1t is not necessary to take an extensive
trip to the country to find a farmer in
happy recapitulative mood. Right here
in the city are 1O6 boy farmers, whose
industry during the summer has brought
such splendid results that in the bestowai
of the prizes judges felt uncertain as to
the Justice OF Their rewards.
These boy farmers have worked June,
July and August at the three farms main
tanned as part of the public school sys-
TEN of the District. The farms are sit :
uated at the Speedway and Goth street,
the Rosedale playground and the Waliach
School BY far the most successful in
amount and quality OF produce IS the
Speedway farm. This may be partly eX-
pldtne0 Dy lie positioA VI tHc AAi ~ W
ing along the river front, and by the re-
markable attendance of the boy farmers
on their work. The rate of attendance
was 9S6 per cent for July and 81 for
August, both these months running far
ahead of the percentage of an average
school during the regular term.
In explaining the special avidity the
boys have manifested for strenuous farm
labor, Mss Susan y. Sipe. in charge of
the summer garden department of the
schools, says that. aside from the none
tary prize which has been an incentive
for special activity. the boys have been
given all proceeds from the sale of their
produce. Also the immature farmers have
so much pleasure into their labors that
the latter have been somewhat d sguised
The close proximity Of the Speedway
garden to the river affords opportunity
for the display Of diving and swimming
accomplishments Of individual boys, the
anticipation of which during working
hours will explain the allurement which
hoeing. raking and digging would hold
for healthy young boys during the heated
term. At the Rosedale garden the farm
ing is considered a playground activity,
and again work and pleasure are related.
However, at each of the gardens. while
the pleasure is necessary consideration,
it is by all means u secondary one.
The farm preparation. plowing and har-
rowing is begun in April by sixth, seventh
and eighth grade boys. This work is re-
garded as form of manual training.
and is engaged in once q week until
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-22
CHAMPION Prisoners of

CHAMPION Prisoners of
~ the World and Dusky
Amazons, Whose Husbands
Are Original "Mr. Henpeck,'
Also Among the Discoveries
of P. Amaury Talbot, Who Is
lust Back From Africa
Spent Six Years Among Can
nibals and ,'Juju' Worship
ers-Only Survivor of the
Expedition Led by Lieut..
Boyd Alexander, Who Was
Murdered Near Lake Chad
Man With a Buffalo Soul
Died at Identical Moment
Buffalo Was Shot Twenty
Miles Away-Juju Charm
That Freed a District From
Man-eating Leopards-Scars
as Payment for Food in the
Hereafter Secret Societies
of Native Women Regulate
Price of Food.
pccial Correspondence OF the Star.
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given by the Peoples Garden Association
to each of the three gardens the Speed
way, the Rosedale and the Wallach.
Prizes of So were given for the best plot
of 5 by 81 feet. when worked by one
boy and of $50 when the same size p IT
was worked by two boys. The attendance
Of individual boys during the entire sum
mer counts in the award of these prizes
AT the Speedway garden the prize WIN
ners were Walter Cavanaus'h and Percy
Waltzman. The awards at the Rosedaie
garden We're made to Granville Pearson
and Lee Schultz and at the Nallach gar
den to Wallace Frazier
These boys were present every day
during the summer and maintained a
very high standard of excellence i'll their
work. Their gardens We're always free
OF weeds and we'll worked. While an &C
count Of individual production was not
kept, that these boys have supplied their
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-22
MRS. TALBOT,

school Closes The boys who are interest
ed to continue the work and compete for
the prize are enrolled for the entire sum
mer.
Their crop includes all of the market
vegetables and is most repletc. During
July and August the boys gathered Go1a
pecks of string beans. $50 lunches of
radSheS OBJ heads of lettuce, ~ punches
OF parsley, II lunches of carrots, Soi .
pecks of tomatoes. 61a dozen ears of corn,
1 dozen peppers, J1a pecks of turnips and
9Ia quarts OF shelled lima beans. There Is
still quite an ungathered crop, Which VIII
be taken off some time in September.
One boy reports having provided family
of six with string beans and tomatoes
all summer from his garden plot. He
has also sold some tomatoes and his
mother has canned enough tomatoes Tor
the winter.
These individual plots distributed among
the boys are by 80 feet Each boy is
given one plot. except in the case of very
small but energetic boys. when two are
put to work together. They have lessons
in gardening by special teachers every
day.
A new experiment was completed this
summer with five enthusiastic young boys
who desired to have and work a potato
farm. The Peoples Garden Association
furnished them with pillow and the pota-
toes for seedlings. The boys cared for
their crop very carefully, and while the
potatoes have not yet been harvested.
they expect SO large return that the
proceeds from the sale will reimburse the
donors of the pillow and the seedlings and
provide each boy with a goodly return
for his labors.
In some cases the material is raised on
the farms for use in the schoolrooms
during the winter. This is especially
true of the peanut crop. which has re-
ceived special consideration this year.
The plants with the full-grown peanuts
are eXhib ted to the school children who,
paper bags in which they purchase them,
are very much interested and surprised.
This summer was the first year that pea
nuts We're raised at all extensively, and
the results have been so satisfactory that
there Will be plenty to sell. AS in the
case of the potatoes. the money from the
sale VIII be turned over to the boys who
are respons BILE for the crop.
The work OF gardening has not been
without some acknowledgment. Potato
bugs have infested the gardens, and IA S
have expended their energies in the dis
placement of seeds and plants. The most
young farmers have been confronted is
the malicious action of individuals who
have entered the farm at night or dur
ing the day in its deserted times and
Nagrantly pulled young and growing
plants, to toss aside with no other pur-
pose than to destroy. The boys have con-
tinued enthusia site through all their hard-
ships, however
The prizes awarded last week were
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constant libations of human blood poured
over them"
He visited another tribe whose arms
were covered with queer. raised circular
scars. evidently souvenirs of self-infllct-
ed wounds, and discovered that these
were made with an eye to the future
the idea being that. after death, these
scars can be taken off and given to the
ghosts in payment for food. None of
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ALIVE prisoners
who would make
Catherine de Med
lei and Lucretia
Borgia look like
amateurs, human
beings with the
> souls of clio
plants and buna-
loes. dusky Anna
IONS to whom men
ave but slaves, and
ma gicidns who APP
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ern Nigeria to Lake Chad, which took
eight months, that the Talbots started on
their year of wandernss in southern
Nigeria that resulted, amongst other
things, in the discovery OF the Lake of
the Dead, which giant python guards,
and the strange Ekoi tribe, whose women
rule the roost'' and who have reduced
the use of poisons to fine art.
The Nigerian district, of which Talbot
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independence Illustrated.
ftT RACKER is in bad again. =

<fL/ RACKER is in bad again. /
h What now?
.'He heard the joke, IF the moon
had a baby would the sky rocket: and
he sprung it at the club something like
this II the man in the moon had -
son would he shoot pinwheelsr I"
What did the fellows do?'
what could they do but fire krack,
er2''
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is commissioner, is in the heart of the
Juju country, where a firm belief in
witchcraft and the power of strange
deities rules the native mind and perhaps
even more striking than the strangest of
his adventures was this matter-of-fact
Englishman's confession that he believes
that those people do know things that
we don't know" As instances, he told of
almost incredible examples of the efficacy
of ''juju"-this deity's representative be-
ing generally either a mixture of herbs
or small fetish figure-all of which
he saw with his own eyes.
"A native" he said will not buy
iuju unless he has seen 1t tried and
knows that ii is a good one Nigeria is
the great land of thunderstorms, and
therefore there is a great lightning juju
II man goes to buy some of this juju
the owner will point out to him some
tree that the juju, as test of its ability
will sacrifice to the storm. and In the
course of two or three storms the par
ticular tree usually is struck by lightning
Then the purchaser is satisfied and the
deal is completed. The remarkable thing
is, though, that the test hardly ever
fails.
"a few years ago." he went on, "a town
in my district was infested with leopards.
They used to climb the housetops and
even enter the houses at night. The
townsmen, therefore, purchased strong
juju' to see them through the trouble.
The next time / went there not a leopard
was to be found, and not a goat or COW
had been killed since the new juju had
been installed That juju has native
name meaning The leopard knocks its
foot Since it came into the town,
though, palm Eats must be picked from
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AN AFRICAN JUL FIGURE IN FULL
CEREMONIAL DRESS.

these tribes, however, interested him or
Mrs. Talbot SO much as the Ekoi, among
whom 1.-The rights of women" are recog-
nized to an extent that would rejoice
the heart of Mrs. Pankhurst or the soul
of the ate Susan b. Anthony
IF the English suffragettes could inn
port enough Ekoi women" said Talbot,
they would get the vote in no time, Tor
the servants Of the fair. The local
legends nearly all end in the same way.
that although a woman is married to
her husband, she does not belong to him,
but he to her. and she has a right to de-
mand from him any service she may
choose. To begin with, prospective
bridegroom has to serve his loved ones
family for three years as newer or
wood and a drawer Of water. and. more
over, has to bring valuable gifts to them
and service and then, at the end of two
wears or so, says calmly, oh, I. didn't
know you were thinking Of marriage-1
thought it was just friendship. Then
she gets engaged to somebody else. who.
in his turn, serves for three years. Nat
ura'ly enough. the old folks, who stand
to gain by it, encourage this kind of
fickleness on the part of their daughters.
1.-The Ekoi women form secret socie-
ties Talbot went on. land woe betide
for her society will be on his track in
no time. while ago the women raised
the price of produce to men only. women
being allowed to buy at the usual price, -
'Do these women do the work Of men ~
was asked.
mo-" said Talbot, oddly enough, they
don't. There is a strong line drawn be-
tween mems and womens work. Men
build q house. for instance, but women
apply the clay to the inside walls 1t
would be considered most serious thing
if the men did this. 1t is also the
womens job to smooth the floor. Hen
pecked as the Ekoi men are, most of
them have several wives, being egged
on to marry again and. again by the
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tie hut meant for the sacrifice of human
victims, but the two hdeous mud figures
of a god and goddess in another shed
on the further side of the carved pillar
had had their heads worn away by the
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Ills" and Wizards Who Ruled the Lightning

THE surface of the lake was absolutely
still, and round about were bushes ten
feet high. The place is sanctuary for
all wild things, for no hunter would dare
to penetrate the bush to this dreaded
spot. AS We stood at the edge. gazing
out over the water, its quiet suddenly
was broken by broad ripple and little
the surface. great python was cross
ing. and this, we learned. shared with
crocodiles the guardianship of the sacred
lake. Nothing, We were told. must be
allowed to touch the water, or even to
touch its outer edge, or famine and pes
thence would enSue
Here, according to popular belief. come
by night the ghosts of long-dead Ekoi. to
drift in sad companies, hopeless and
wailing. over the surface of the water
Even in the bright sunlight the place
has an uncanny look and one can easily
imagine that at Midnight, when the white
mists simmer ghostlike in the light of
the moon. people with the terror and
mystery of the bush in their blood
would rather sit chatting round the fire
or dance by torchlight in the open spaces
of the towns than seek out this uncanny
spot on the chance of holding communion
with the spirits of their long dead kim.
Mr.. and Mrs. talbot when "at home"
near Oban, are keen botanists. and they
have brought back a lot of African
flowers that are new to the experts at
the South kensington Museum. \ good
many of them Talbot shot. The explana-
ton of this rather surprising statement
is that these flowers grow in the bark Of
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lear able 10 make lightning strike whore
they please-these were among the strange
people and things described the other day
by d big man with keen eyes and
skin tanned brown by the African sun,
who sat in the study of his home at
-Abbots Morton, Worcestershire, which
means in the heart of rural England.