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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-04
Talbot Walker Takes Bride.

Miss Martha Elmer Harrison, eighteen
years old, and Talbot Walker, twenty
three years old, both of Washington.
were married in Rockville this afternoon
by Rev Lewis Watson Of the Presby
terrain Church, at the minister's home
They were accompanied by young girl
friend, the little party leaving for the
city Immediately after the ceremony.
Among the transfers Of real estate
recorded In the Office of the clerk of the
circuit court here during the week are
the following: John w. Walker to Laura
v. woodfield lot In Gaithersburg; Charles
r. Caldwell to Warren D. Fales. lot at
Woodside; Adolph A. Hoehling, jr, to
Emma G. Hager. lot at Chevy Chase:
Herbert L. Smith to William II. Ward,
lot in Rockville; Jesse c. Bowen to Eu-
gen,a II. Goodwin, lot at Chevy Chase:
Somerville w. Beall to Melvin w. Beall.
efghty-one acres; Edward G. Boswell to
Frank Higgins, attorney. lot at Glen
Echo; Lavinia H. Wire to S. Dana Lin
coin. lot at Garrett Park; Remus r.
Darby to Reginald ]. Darby, las acres;
Clinton Mansfield to William B Gladmon
lot at Silver Spring: Earl B. Culley to
Edith B. Culley, two lots at Takoma
Park Ella NJ Drew to Sarah +. Henry
lot at Chevy Chase; George A. Broad
hurst to John w. Huffman. lot at Oak
mont: Garfield A. Street to Voney Eaton
twenty-three acres; Alta Heights Realty
Company to Marcellus B. Micou, one
half acre.
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By Farren

'TAe Auto Bandits Of Parla.s
Today's thriller. Virginia Theater.
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Bedbugs Exterminased. Work Guar
anteed. Write or phone. s. J. Bean S21
John Marshall place. Phone Main 1927.
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Flesh, Fragrant Roses.
Perfectly developed, home grown speci-
mems, SOC per doz., at Guides, 1914 F.
Advt.
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Novel Smoking Plant.

The experimental cigar-smoking plant
has been in operation in the department
since the first Mckinley administra ton,
and it is being continued. even working
on August /. in direct violation of law,
because the continuing resolution had not
been passed by the House and there is a
law against any one working for the
government without compensation. The
cigar smoker in question, which has been
at the mercy of the chief tobacconist of
the department for years. is capable Of
smoking eight cigars at once. 1t is an ar
rangement Of glass tubes with a water
bottle attachment fastened to a spigot.
As bottle fills, 1t overfiows and the
water siphons out creating a partial
vacuum that draws on the several cigars
Then there Is period of rest while the
bottls is filling up. and then it takes an
other inhale
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NEEDS DREDGING AGAIN
Georgetown Channel Is Said
to Be Rapidly Filling
From Deposits.

1t has been only four years this fall
since the dredge General Mackenzie fin
jshed dredging the Georgetown channel.
above the Highway brioge. to a depth OF
TWENTY-FIVE feet at low water, but SO
rapid has the fill been from deposits
brought down from the upper river In
the spring freshcts that recently. when
officials of the United States engineer
office made soundings IN the channel.
they found a section about hundred
feet long off the foot OF 18th street where
only sixteen feet % water could be found
at low tide.
For two years or longer vessels Loading
coal at Georgetown nave had difficulty IN
getting out on draft of twenty feet at
Iip-top high water. with the keel OF the
vessel dragging foot o. more through the
soft mud of Tie river bottom.
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Hard Work for Tugs.

II is said that unless the river IS
dredged again shortly the tuSboats Will
have difficult task to take vessels of
any size in and out of Georgetown when
loaded TO anything like their capacity.
The engineer office. in order to keep the
current from eddyng above the bridges
and depositing the material brought down
from the upper river. has had men en-
pioyed for year in extending the stone
dixie on the Virginia side of the George
town channel.
This wall is TO be brought down within
a short distance Of the Highway bridge.
and ii IS thought will keep the river from
filling as rapidly il is doing.
Stone is being brought on lighters several
times each week from Occoquan to the
dixie So far only about a quarter Of the
material to be used in the work has been
delivered. and several months will be re-
quired TO complete the wall
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q. 8. Standard Pale and Dark Beer, Ale
and porter. The best bottle beer In the
east. Phone Lincoln 1884 for a case at
your home. L. A. Finn, Agt Reading
Brewing Co.
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Phone Your Want Ad to The star.
Main 2440.
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Secretary Has Scheme.

However, the Secretary found that the
earlier brand of smokes had their uses
Some of them he called Protectorinos He
always kept and still keeps a box in one
side of his desk. and sometimes when he
IS busy and has a verbose caller he mo-
tons him TO chair that is fastened to
the floor near the window gives him
Protectorino and turns the electric fan
pointing out of the window II Is said
that this method is always effective
More lately when the American grown
tobacco had developed as well as the
dexterity OF the cigar makers. they pro-
duced some cigars that really could be
smoked by hard. II is possible this is the
sort Representative Akin is inquiring
about. ii is said. but the supply of them
Is not large. and there is no distinguish
ing mark on the box so that an outsider
can distinguish them
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Rcisinger's lee Cream.
Special during August, ooc e salieia'
Main a16I, 235 q NV.
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Dinner Guests Of Col. Jones.

AS has been his custom for many
years at the annual meetings, Col. Jones,
Immediately upon adjournment, entertain
ed his comrades at dinner. after which
the veterans spent several hours relating
"reminiscences and swapping anecdotes.
Capt John w. Holland of Dickerson.
one Of the two surviving officials that
prisons during the war, being an inspec-
tor of private boxes from the north, at
tended, and others there were Judge David
Griffith, George r. Rice. Francis s. Kill
gour. James T. Moore, David H. Horner,
besides the officers.
This afternoon the committee in charge
Of the collection of funds for the erec-
ton at Rockville Of a monument to the
Confederate dead of the county held a
meeting. The committee is composed Of
George r. Rice. chairman; Miss May
Sellman, secretary: Francis S. Kilgour,
Col Spencer c. Jones. John w. Holland
and Igar L. Tschfffely. Miss Sellman
reported about $1,000 had been collected
and another $1,000 pledged. There is the
feeling among the members of the COM
mittee that the monument should cost not
less than So. 600 or 81 600. Another meet
ing Of the committee will be held August
II. when bids will be received. 1t is the
in shape for the erection Of the monu-
ment within the present year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh c. Townsend OF
Unity. this county have announced the
engagement of their daughter. Miss Agnes
L. Townsend, to Leon Trussell of Pur-
cellville, Va. The ceremony will take
place in Washington August %.
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Effect Is in Doubt.

Just what effect this continuous and
excessive smoking has had on the ap-
paratus has never been scientifically de-
termined, that being a question that
comes properly under DIR. Langworthy In
the office OF nutrition Investigations. 1t
can be said however. from general OBJ
servation, that the glass tubes carrying
the smoke have turned a sickly yellow
from the deposit of nicotine. Probably
the smoker has an acute case OF tobacco
heart. II certainly cannot run up a. sin
gle flight of stairs. never having done
such thing since it has been in the
department. 1t has no appetite either,
for it has not beer seen either to eat or
drink for an interminable time.
IN the early days of the tobacco ex-
periments The clerks of the department
We're used in the smoking experiments
This plan was approved by their wives
as leading to a great economy in food
consumption. but the proprietor Of the
lunchroom at the department complained
to the Secretary that the clerks who
smoked the experimental cigars never
bought any lunch. After that the ma
chine was devised
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During July and August q Special so
cent lunch will be served from noon till
pm. at Harveys. 18th st. and Pa ave-
Phone Your Want Ad 10 The Star,
Main 2440
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AND COUNTY
NEWS ITEMS AND NOTES
RidgeIy Brown Camp of Con-
federate Veterans Meets.
Talbot Walker Weds.
Special Correspondence of The star.


ROCKVILLE. Nd, August 8, 1912.
The annual meeting Of the Ridgely
Brown Camp of Confederate Veterans Of
this county was held in the courthouse
here today. The membership of the
camp. which at one time numbered half
a hundred. has been greatly depleted.
and the roll now contains the names of
but nineteen, twelve of whom answered
the roll call today.
The meeting was presided over by Col.
Spencer c. Jones. The principal business
transacted was the election of officers.
which resulted as follows: Commander,
Col. Spencer c. Jones OF Rockville; vice
commander, Capt. John W. Holland of
Dickerson: adjutant, Edmund L Amiss
Of Gaithersburg: treasurer, Elgar L.
Tschiffely of Rockville; chaplain. Frank
B. Horner of Rockville. The commander
was authorized to appoint delegates and
alternates to represent the camp at the
national and state encampments. James
H. Loughborough and Ambrose B. Riten-
our were admitted to membership.
Resolutions upon the deaths of Col.
Augustus Dorsey. Capt. Thomas Griffith
and Richard P. Hays were adopted
The Press., 1912-04-03
Snake Bites In Siam.

Great numbers of Siamese die every year of snake bites. On being bitten the victim simply lies down and sue cumbs. The deaths are most numer- ous during the rice planting season, when the people are working in the fields, for the season is coincident with the nesting time of the cobra, which will then attack human beings without hesitation if they happen near the nest. The cobra will also bite un- der water. There are fifty-two varfe- ties of snakes in Siam, the majority of them being venomous. In size they range from the thirty foot python to the deadly little earth snake six inches in length. The following is Siamese prescription for snake bites, on the theory that like cures like, it is to be presumed: Bone of goose, tail of fish, bones of domestic pig, bones of wild boar, bones of a peacock, the head of a venomous snake Pound to a pow der, mix, dilute with plenty of water and take in quantities.-GoOd Health.
The Press., 1912-04-03
MADE HIMSELF BLUSH.
Trick by Which an Actor Achieved a
 Realistic Stage Effect.

Trick by Which an Actor Achieved a
 Realistic Stage Effect.
 Daniel Frohman in his Memories of a Manager" tells of a muscular trick by which MT. F. F. Mackay achieved an astonishing stage effect It was in Bronson Towards ''One of Our Girls" MT. Mackay was playing the part of a French count, who, in one of the chief situations of the play. is slapped in the face with glove by an English officer. MT. Towards idea was that the count should become violent and furious at the affront, but MT. Mackay contended that as he had been shown in the play to be an expert duelist and accustomed to danger he was not likely to lose control. of him. self.
 MT. Howard saw the point. The re suit was that the Frenchman received the insult without the movement of a muscle. He stood rigid. Only flash of the eye for an instant revealed his emotion. Then the audience saw his face grow red and then pale. This was followed by the quiet announce ment from the count that he would send his seconds to the Englishman. This exhibition of facial emotion be- trayed by the visible rush of blood to the actors face was frequently noted at the time. It was a muscular trick. MT. Mackay put on tight collar for that scene and strained his neck against it until the blood came, and when he released the pressure and the blood receded the effect was reached.
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who would dare all on the battlefield would corrupt government, thus sap. ping the very roots of 8 democracy. Graft in politics 20 years ago was the rule in many places. The conditions developed relative honesty, of which he cited amusing incidents, ranging from the man too honest to sell to both sides to the one who sold his vote to both sides and voted against the republicans, on the ground that they paid him more for his vote and were therefore more corrupt. He said there had been an awakening of the public conscience all along the line. The majority of the people every where are honest and clean. Where they can be led to bestir themselves for good government they are bound to win. The speaker favored the commission form of government and 8 short ballot as giving the people a more direct voice, with fewer com plications. He also spoke i'll favor of the referendum, referring to the fact that Connecticut has had a ref erendum law in regard to amend ments to the constitution for years. The speaker said that a grafteT was neither a republican or dem- ocrat, but a rascal No govern ment is better than the average decent people make it. He said that pub licity is the best cure for corruption, and that embezzlement of power was more to be decried than the embezzle- ment of money. He concluded a very inspiring address with an earnest ap- peal for each to work for the highest ideal in the matter of government
 The general committee have re- ceived many compliments for the man, ner in which the details were carried out, as we'll as for pronounced success of the program as a whole. The committees are all entitled to much credit and were as follows: General committee, R w. Ellis, R. H. Fisk, K. 0. Adams, WE. Hanleyi reception, Major o. B. Pinney, F. F. Patten, J. Carl Converse, o. F. liar. wood, c. F. Beckwith, William Park, M. D. O'Connell, A. l. Mitchell, O. B. Brown, Christopher Allen, Anders Jacobsen, Lewis Mclaughlin, R. w. Smith, F. G. Sanford,' H. F. Cady, F. H. Baker, Fred Wildey; music and entertainment, Dr. c. Percival Bard; decorations, David Bissett, J. M. Leach; tickets, w. H. Heald.
 The following were present from out of town: Col w. H. Hall of Willington; W. E. Titus, Boston; E. Van Rippley, Springfield; l.. w. Reed, Boston; Francis P Blake, Bos- ton; Frank Whitcomb, Springfield !; George Gordon, Hazardville; w. O. Langford, Providence; Senator P. B. Leonard, Mayor L. T. Tingier, Arthur T. Bissell, D. L. Hondlow, M J.. Cullen, all of Rockville.
The Press., 1912-04-03
SENSE OF DANGER.
Developed to a Marked Degree In Men
 Who Work In Mines.

Developed to a Marked Degree In Men Who Work In Mines. There is something about mines that appeals to the superstitions of man. kind, writes T. Lane Garter in the Mining and Scientific Press. One o1 the most marked effects he has noticed in men who have spent most of their life in mining is sense of danger that suddenly comes over them.
 Some would call this faculty the sixth sense" he writes. eff you asked a miner how he knows there is some thing wrong he will reply that he feels It. I had remarkable illustration of this few years ago.
 T was walking along main drift with a mine captain, a man who had been working in mines for over forty years, having started as lad in the mines of Cornwall. Suddenly he stopped and exclaimed that something was wrong.
 "For the life of me I could not see a thing amiss. The timbers seemed solid, and the drive pillars looked se- cure. But the captain was not satis- fled and insisted on climbing into the stope to investigate. There he found large crack, running for hundreds of feet, indicating a movement of the strata of serious proportions.
 Had this discovery not been made in time there would have been seri- ous accident in the mine. with a prob able loss of life. I dare say the years of experience in the mine had develop ed a power in him which the men called superstition. but which was real ly the faculty of accurate observation, which to him seemed unconscious.'
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would lessen the opportunities for
 hand labor Experience shows quite the contrary. It takes human hands
 to tend any machine and to dispose of
 it's products. The greater the product,
 the more the men employed. It was once thought that water power was and must always be the cheapest.
 Stafford was we'll supplied with water privileges, but they were scattered.
 One good, steady source of power,
 right at hand, is worth ten that can only be availed of by ten different es- tablishments and that vary in volume from one season to another. Railroads
 have come in to haul coal to Stafford at freight rates low enough to make of steam the most reliable force to move your mills. But manufacturing is risky business. The profits are small percentage of the receipts. It must be run on large scale to pay under modern industrial conditions. New York recognized these truths a hundred years ago by passing in 1911 general incorporation act for manu- featuring purposes. Connecticut soon followed her example. More than any one other thing has the privilege of freedom of interpretations for manu- facturers built up Connecticut. It has offered an easy way for getting the necessary capital and lessened the risk by releasing the shareholders from any liability except that of pay
 ing for the shares they subscribed for
 The cry of the street just now is that the corporations are danger to the people. But it is they that have made our people prosperous. They transact nine -tenths of our heavy trade. They are simply few men associated under 8 common name with a common fund to trade on. The more there are of them in active busi- ness, the better for the state, for the more business will there then be. The corporation is the life of manufactur- ing, and manufacturing is the shape in which the business life of our state and of this town is mainly cast. Our business men and our business mems associations will kill the goose that lays the golden egg if they do not stand by the business corporations, as when honestly managed (and most of them are), main source of the pros perity of Connecticut. '' .
 Introducing the Hon. Charles Phelps of Rockville, the toastmaster told the story of the Buffalo judge ar rested in Toronto and brought before the court. He was not used kindly, and returning to his own city and presiding in his own court one of the first cases brought before him was one of intoxication. Said the judge, ''Where is he from?' The reply was Toronto. . Said the judge, "Give
The Press., 1912-04-03
A Joke That Went Aatrax.


 To illustrate the fact that some per sons are devoid of the sense of humor this story was told at a downtown luncheon club: ''I forgot to pay my newsboy last night and when saw him this morning gave him the cents due him and said, I thought every minute last night you'd send collector for this.' Nav, not on your life; not if you owed me twicst as much An hour later the boy came to my office, where he had never been before, wait ed for me and when came said: Say, I'm awful sorry you thought I was sore about de nickel. Ye needn't pay me never till ye want to, and about sendin' for it-nix.' I thanked him, and now for trying to crack joke 1 have secured long line of credit."-New
 York Tribune. (
The Press., 1912-04-03
MoNsoN.

Mrs. Follis Gould is i'll with diph. theria at her home on South Main street and the house is quarantined.
 George Ellis, who has been in Lynn attending the funeral of his uncle, Dr. William Holbrook, has returned.
 F. H. Johnson has an otter skin, taken recently by two boys between Wales and Stafford. They had dog with them, which attacked the strange animal. The boys took part with a club and killed the otter after a brisk battle. The pelt is of fair size and in good condition.
 Miss Emma o. Peterson, 16, died at the home of her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Johnson, at North Monson, Thursday morning at g o'clock of tuberculosis. Miss Peter son had been ill for several months. She leaves, besides her grandparents, one brother and one sister, Walfred Peterson of Palmer and Esther of Monson. The funeral was held at the home Saturday afternoon at B o'clock. Rev. G. A. Andrews will conduct the service The burial will be in No. cemetery.
 Mrs. Martha A. Underwood, 89, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. George A. Harvey, on South Main street Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock, from asthma and bronchitis. Mrs. Underwood was born in Wester- ly, R. l., in June, 1922. She mar ried William o. Underwood in South bridge in 1844. MT. Underwood died in 1900, and since that time she had lived with her daughter. Be- sides her daughter, she leaves one brother in Sturbridge The funeral was held at her late home this morn ing at 12 o'clock Rev. Abram Conk- lin of the Universalist church ofici ated. The body was taken to Wales for burial
The Press., 1912-04-03
Iokina Eriends In old paxs.

In a romantic and picturesque old hall in Derbyshire, in England, is one of those curious relics of bygone times which carry the mind back to the hab- its and customs of our great-great- grandfathers A handcuff looks a strange thing to be fixed to the screen of the banqueting hall of a baronial mansion, but one is there. When the banquet had advanced toward its Ze- nth, if any gentleman among the guests refused to drink the full Quan- tity that was deemed the proper thing at that time he was merrily carried to the oak screen and placed with his arm upraised and secured and locked in that position by the iron ring. His sleeve, then wide open, offered tempt ing receptacle for the wine which he had refused to drink, and the contents of the goblet, with as much more as the roisterers thought fit, were poured down the unlucky victims arm, and woe be to him if he did not take the joke in the spirit in which it was giv- en.
The Press., 1912-04-03
It's So Easy to
 End Catarrh.

Go to Anders Jacobsen's and say want HYOMEI outfit : take it home - open the box pour few drops of HYOMEI from the bottle into the little hard rubber inhaler breathe it for five minutes and note the refresh ing relief-breathe it four or five times day for few days and catarrh and all it's disgusting symptoms will gradually disappear.
 HYOMEI contains no opium, CO., caine or other harmful drug and is sold on money back plan for catarrh, asthma, croup, colds, coughs and catarrhal deafness Complete outfit $1.OO- extra bottles if needed 50 cents at Anders Jacobsen's and drug gists everywhere. Simple instructions for use in every package can't fail to banish catarrh if you follow instructions.
The Press., 1912-04-03
Disease and Cold Air.

Diseases cured or improved by cold air are specified in American Med icine as malaria, tuberculosis diges- tive disturbances, yellow fever, tetanus and organic troubles affecting the blood pressure. Cold air contains more oxygen. requires fewer respira- lions and less heart energy-vital mat ters when the heart is affected, as is the case in levers and wasting dis eases. American Medicine hints that a study of arterial tension in cold climates would yield the "key to much which is now locked from us," in ex- blaming the benefits of cold air.