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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-23

Greeks or Romans. The ancients were
content with wrapping fiber cloth round
the feet of their horses in cold weather.
or when ii was necessary to pass through
miry districts. Instead of troubling about
horseshoes they devoted their attention
to hardening the hoofs of their mounts.
Nero. who ever STROBE to outdistance
his contemporaries. caused his horses to
be shod with silver. while his wife's
were Respondent with gold. but in no case
were nails driven into the hoofs. The
practice Of shoeing horses by driving nails
into the hoofs was introduced into Eng
land by William the Conqueror. but such
a practice did not make any Roadway for
centuries.
The Indians. who had no superiors as
horsemen. never thought of shoeing theiS'
mounts in any way. and Yet they were
capable of performing remarkable jour-
neys over most difficut country. The
Sandown Derby was won by horse run
ming in a natural state. The race was
run twice owing to the fact that three
horses made a dead heat on the first &C.
casion. Prior to the second attempt the
owner Of Marden gave orders for the light
plates to be removed from the hoofs Of
his nominee. with the result that Marden
gained a comfortable victory by three
lengths.
Even at the present day in Japan the
modern horseshoe finds a strong COM
pettor in the old-fa shioned sandals made
of straw which are fastened to the horse
hoofs after the manner of equine Cricket
shoes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-23
AMERICAN BANKERS
TO LOAN s3O,0OO,0OO
Financial Deal Only Awaits
Ratification of Guatemala
Assembly.

\ loan for s3O.OO0O COO. negotiated with
American bankers on the most advanta-
geous terms, Capt. Sherburne G.. Hopkins.
just returned from a visit to Central
America. Mexico and Cuba, explains.
awaits only the ratification of the Guate-
malan national assembly to be available
The loan, be states, was undertaken by a
syndicate composed of two of the largest
banking houses in New York city.
Guatemala never was in a more pros
porous condition, says Capt. Hopkins.
The recent coffee crop has been enor-
nous. coming at a time of high prices in
the worlds markets, and every producer
has protited. Many Americans now are
engaged in coffee production. crowding
out, or at least outnumbering, the Ger
man proprietors. who for many years
were the most numerous.
Americans are highly esteemed in Qua
temala, declares Capt. Hopkins. Conces-
siOns are made accessible to them with
a readiness not extended to other for
eigners President Estrada Cabrera is
not only a. political friend of the United
States, but has sincere admiration for
all Americans, extending invitation to the
presidential palace to all Americans of
any consequence who visit the republic.
The number of Americans in Guatemala
at this time was something exciting the
comment of Capt. Hopkins. All the no.
tells were filed with American travellers,
he said. A trip through Guatemala has
become sort of excursion route for
Americans visiting the Panama Canal
Zone. or returning home from their occu-
pations there. Coming down the Pacific
coast, the line of American travel is
through the republic to the coast. where
steamer accommodations are available
for transportation to the United States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-23
GOOD LUCK IN HORSESHOES.
Talisman to Ward Off Evil-Shoes of
Gold and Silver.
From the London Globe.

From the London Globe.
1t is not difficult to understand why
lovers of horses came to adopt the horse
shoe as a talisman against misfortune.
Horses were considered to be especially
liza BILE to the Vaccinations Of witches.
This fact stands out in all the records of
the Lancashire witches and other evil
hags.
If precautions were not taken these mis-
chievous witches would ride the horses
at dead of night over the hills and when
the owner came to the stables in the
morning he would find his animals in a
lather and utterly exhausted. 4 horse
shoe fastened over the stable door was
believed to ward off such evil.
There is no superstition more deeply
ingrained in all classes of society than
that which is attached TO the horseshoe
As an emblem of good fortune ii holds
pride of place. Nelson did not disdain
10 nail a horseshoe to the mast of the
Victory In the early part of the nine
teenth century, the horseshoe was very
highly priced, and there were few London
mansions where is was not displayed,
while humber folks were at great pains
to fasten IL over their doors.
Horses were not shot either by the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-23
Prelude to War Drama.

1t was an afternoon of profound though
restrained public emotion. for there were
few who did not feel that the tragedy of
the funeral honors to the victims of the
wrecked warship was the prelude to the
drama of war that had been certain to
unfold and now could not long be de-
layed For days thereafter these re-
Elections were kept alive by the recovery
of other bodies and their interment with
Father Chadwick in unwearied attendance
1t was of moment then in the shadow
of what was impending and it is of mo-
ment now to recall that if Capt. Sigsbee's
magnanmous message for the American
people to suspend Judgment did not fully
allay the popular passion. the government
ment and through it's proper agencies
conduct dispassionate inquiry. The
naval court of inquiry. the Sampson
board. reached Havana. on the lighthouse
tender Mangrove within a week after
the explosion. The Fern. under Capt
disaster. The Montgomery. under COM
mand of Capt. Converse arrived early in
March.
The poise and serenity of the presiding
officer of the naval court were manifest
in all the PROCEEDINGS. Admiral Samp-
light than in this inquiry. Besides Capt.
Sigsbee. Commander Wainwright and the
officers and members of the crew of the
Maine, the court examined Capt. Con-
the wreck and the probable action of eX-
plosives. No one conversant with naval
progress needs to be told why Capt. Con-
verses opinion in regard to torpedoes
would have great weight with any naval
board. \ submarine mine containing a
large amount of the lower explosives. he
testified, would have produced wreck
| like the Maine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-23
What Amundsen Really. Did
According to Irish Philosopher

9TH biggest thing he done I've saved
FIR tn last says MIR. Dooley' in The
Sunday Star, in speaking of the discover
err Of the south pole. "Afther thravelin'
thousands iv miles over ice an snow,
climbn' mountains an battlin' with TIL
tempest. he reports that he took observa-
tons with TIL theobylite, tn artyficyal
horizon, tn fryn' pan. an the appytte
an discovered that a dog is good to eat.
Dogs discovered this about me long ago.
but l niver suspected that whin wan iv
these frinds Nv man took me be tn leg
I ctd bite him back without indigestion.
To tell ye TIL thruth, av IN now that /
know. nawthin' looks less like supper to
me thin me little Carlo. But III wrong.
An firm now out whin | hear We whistle
f'r Fido I won't know whether we're affc-
tomato or ony hungry, an whin / hear
We say. Down. Fido, down. I'll he afraid
to look"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-23
Sardinia.
m Chronicle.

I rom Inc LONDON Chronicle.
The resemblance Of Italy to booted
leg ending in q pronounced toe and
heel is familiar to everybody. But how
many, even of those who have glanced
at Sardinia on the map in connection
with the Franco Italian trouble, have
observed the likeness of the island to
a footprint? Yet two of it's oldest
Greek names were Icbnusa from
"lchnos, "A footmark) and Sandaliotis
tfrom "sandal0. If these names had
not yielded to Sardinia tsaid to be de-
rived from Sardus. "A son OF Hcrcules)
what should we he calling sardines to-
day" And what of the ''sardonic
laugh. which commentaries that island
herb which distorted the features into
a grin?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-23

lAlr: Pepper was the correspondent Of The Star
In Cuba before and during the Spanish American
war and was thoroughly familiar with conditions
and events which led up to that conflict His
letters from Havana were everywhere regarded
as authoritative expositions Of conditions as they
really were. and President Mckinley had the
utmost confidence in Mr.. Peppers opinions.I
The burial of the last of the Maine
victims in the Arlington national ceme-
terry brings back as of yesterday the
first 1nterment of the other victims in
the beautiful cemetery of Colon at Ha-
vana. The years that span the interval
are few, yet. brief as is the period. many
of the circumstances are forgotten or
only dimly remembered.
The deep sentiment of the American
people found expression a week ago. when
the battered hulk of the wrecked war
ship was towed from Havana harbor out
to sea and consigned to the waters of
the gulf rather than that it should be
the desecrated prey CT relic hunters 1t
again finds expression in the honors paid
by the nation through the observance
of President Taft's proclamation for the
memorial service. Those whose bodies
were recently recovered now sleep beside
their comrades, whose remains, in defer
ence to patriotic national feeling, were
oohSio'i Gu iioih IoIelSu W udtlFe SUI.
Navy Is INDICATED.
In the shadow Of these ceremonies and
with no embittered memories it is not
uniting to review their historic signifi-
canoe. / therefore venture to state, what
may not be fully appreciated that the
engineering ingenuity which made posi-
bic this interment at Arlington and the
consigning of the hulk of the Maine to
the ocean depths is a vindication Of the
American navy. That the destruction OF
the battleship was not the cause of the
war with Spain also is the truth of his
tory. though the error that it was has
found Judgment in many minds.
To one who on that January morning
in 1893 saw the Maine sweep past MORO
Castle and to her anchorage in Havana
days after the explosion there were the
impressive funeral honors to those whose
bodies were recovered, the half-ma sting
of the flags and the draping of the public
buildings, the pomp and pageantry of
official mourning. the special eXercies of
the Havana municipality. the silken
crown laid on the collins by the council
with the inscription THE People OF
Havana to the Victims of the Maine"
the tribute from the Spanish navy in
Spanish colors with the simple words
The Navy Department to the Victims
of the Maine" and the spontaneous
ernoon the sumber cortege took its way
through the streets to the cemetery where
at sunset the bodies wre committed to
earth,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-23
Real Causes of War.

The heroism of Admiral Cervera and
his companions of Santiago and the gal
lantry of the Spanish soldiers at Ell Caney
and San Juan were the proof that when
Spain did lose Cuba she would lose with
honor. If the price was bloody one
that was not the fault of the United
States.
After President Mckinley became sat
isfied that war was inevitable he still
hoped il would be a bloodless one. His
hopes were frustrated, but at least it was
brief The beginning of that war dated
from the collapse of the recommendation
relief movement by Spain in December
and the admitted failure of: autonomy in
January, and not from the destruction
of the Maine in February.
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TRIBUTE TO BILL ANTHONY.
Mate Writes of His Sorrow at Death
of Maine Hero.

Today's ceremonies in connection with
the burial of the Maine dead will bring
to the minds OF many brave "BiIl' An
thony. the marine who was on duty out
side Capt. Sigsbee's room when the battle
ship was blown up and who calmly re-
ported to the commander that the ship
was blown up and was sinking.
The following verses were written by
an old comrade, several years later, al
the time of the death of Anthony, and
were first published in the Army and
Navy Journal>
Bill Anthony. old friend Bill,
The news I read today
SMUT Gods sll-blessed sunshine out
And drapfd the earth in gray.
To learn that you were dead, Bill
In this. your native land
10 Woe and want. with mercy srant
ABd-desd by your own hand.
Bill Anthony. old friend Bill,
] loved you brother
We crossed the plains together.
All, why did you not write. Bill.
That things were looking blue?
You know, old parJ, would have shared
The last red cent with you.
There's something out of joint, Bill,
In this, our land. You bet.
Where aliens clink the gold and drink
The sweet and eat the fat.
While Won a hero proved. BILL
American blood and bone,
You looked for sheltcr-there's grave;
For food-there is stone.
It's hard tn think the men. Bill.
Who nohly fought and blcd
Al Calnoran San Juan,
or where brave Dewey led:
Who stemmcd the press of fight Bill,
Dn land and ocean blue:
Whose vaIor draws the worlds applause,
should die the death of you.
Republics are ungrateful. Bill,
To all the lucklcss brave.
And now there gapes ah. sad, sad taps,
For you paupcr's grave.
Far better had your bones. Bill,
That night Of terror lain
Low in the deep. in drramless sleep.
Your sepuleher the Maine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-23

frlend-AithouGh your husband has been
dead for three years. you still wear
mourning.
Young Widow-Wel ell, you know. really !
can't forget my late husband: and. an
other thing. my fance likes me in black
so much,--London Opinion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-23
Very Eccentric.
D the London Chronicle

From the london CHRONICLE.
Vienna can boast a curious eccentric.
who turns life upside down. a rich
young Pole, who lives in sumptuous
style, but always summons his serv-
ants by bugle call His fayorite pas
time is driving an omnibus, attired
like an ordinary busman, and, though
he is said to spend a fortune each
year in clothes, he wears no garment
until it has been worn by his valet He
has astonished the guests at a ball by
appearing in a costume OF pure white,
save for the shirt and tie which were
black. To complete his oddities. when
dining. which he invariably does alone
at table dhote, he reverses the usual
order. beginning his meal with the
sweets and ending with the soup.
He-J think her mind is made I'M
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-23
Testimony Guarded.

There also were the divers, who. with
IA few exceptions. were enlisted men. The
testimony of officers and the impressions
of members of the court were guarded
beyond the possibility of disclosure and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-23
Situation Recounted.

The events which led up to the war are
still fresh enough to he judged and veri-
fled by the knowledge of the situation
fourteen years ago.
One assumption has been that the yell
low press and the political jingoes, by eX-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-23

The council of Holy Trinity Lutheran
Church. Lynchburg. Va. thinks Rev. f.
c. Cooper, the young minister recently
called to that church, will accept. Mr..
Cooper lives near Salisbury, ~. c., and Il
just finishing his theological course.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-23

course would lose the boy king. Alfonso.
his throne. The only way out was by
war to lose Cuba with honor and take
the chance of saving the throne.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-23

n. retired: Medical Director l.. G.
Henneberger Lieut.. Commander David
+. Boyd and Lieut. Commander j. ii.
Holden.
chiefs of bureaus of the Navy Depart
ment and Maj Cen W. p. Fiddle, COM
mandant of the Marine Corps.
Foreign officers and other distinguished
persons.
The United Spanish War Veterans.
Ladies'. Auxiliary of the United Spanish
War Veterans.
Junior Order of American Mechanics
and other civilian organizations.
The line of march was from the south
front of the State, War and Navy build
ing. via nth street, to Pennsylvania ave
nue.: on the Avenue to Aqueduct bridge.
and thence TO Arlington.
Over the graves in Arlington the SIM
pie exercises will include burial services
by Chaplain Bayard and Father Child
wick. With the firing of three volleys of
musketry by a company of marines. a
national salute Of twenty-one guns from
a battery from Fort Myer and the sound
ing of TAPS, the dead will be given to the
earth.
The Names Dead at Arlington.
With the interment today of the bones
Of 81 men of the Maine the total number
of Maine victims buried there is in
creased to, 30. OF these 63 have been
identified: the remaining 166 are num-
bered among the unknown dead.
The crew of the old L. S. S. Maine
consisted of $50 officers, sailors and ma
rines. OF this number two officers and
2o1 enlisted men went to the bottom when
the explosion wrecked the ship the night
of February IA. 1895, and lO2 of the crew
We're saved.
OF the dead. 63 known and 102 unidenti-
fed were removed and reinterred in Ar
lington cemetery December 2S, 1899
When the wreck of the old fighting
machine was raised from the mud of
the harbor bottom at Havana few
weeks ago IS additional bodies were
taken from it. OF this number identifi-
cation was possible only i'm the case of
one. Engineer Merritt, whose bones were
sent TO his former home for interment.
The remaining Ga were buried in Arling-
ton today. 49,
The bodies of nineteen of the Names
men are buried at Key West, Fla, leav-
ing four victims of the disaster un-
accounted for: they stand on the
records of the Navy Department AZ
missing. In Rear Admiral Sigsbee'.s
book the number of missing is given. as
two. In the fourteen years during which
the hulk of the old battleship has lain
in the harbor CT Havana their bones
have been scattered or dsnteg -ated until
no trace of them was found
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-23


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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-23
Old Liberty Bell Tolled.

PHILADELPHIA. March 23.-Mayor
Blankenburg has issued special proc, l.
nation directing that the old Liberty
Bell in Independence Hall be tolled at
minute intervals during the ceremonies
today, and the measured clans of the
old bell will notify the people of the
Quaker city that the final honors are
being accorded in Washington to the men
who went down with the Maine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-23
REAL CAUSES OF WAR
Destruction of Maine But One
of Several Events.
PEPPER CITES SITUATION
Collapse of Spain's Relief Move
ment Start of Conflict.
AUTONOMY ALSO FAILURE
Writer Recalls Incidents Leading Up
to Struggle to Right
Cuba's Ills.
AUTONOMY ALSO FAILURE
By Charles M. Pepper.

lAr. Pepper was the correspondent Of The Star
In Cuba before and during the Spanish American
and events which led up TO that conflict His
letters from Havana were everywhere regarded
really We're. and President Mckinley had the
utmost confidence in Mr.. Peppers opinions.l
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-23

Hell think her mind is made up
She-Well. ! know the rest of her is
London Opinion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-23
TRIBUTE OF NATION
TOMARTyRED SONS
Continued from First Page

President Taft paid tribute ia the men
who went down in the wreck of the Maine
and in whose honor today's ceremonies
were held.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-23
Settlement Sought.

1t is true that after the explosion, as
before strenuous efforts were put forth
to obtain settlement as between Spain
and Cuba. The enormous influence of the
Vatican was exerted for peaceful ar
rangement. The project of Cuba assum-
ing part of the Cuban debt of Spain.
possibly $500, 100000, which would be
guaranteed in some form by the United
States, WAS favorably considered. This
was not distasteful to President McKin-
ley. His opinion was that 1t would be
cheaper than war. This plan. however,
met with the insupera5le obstacle that
it conceded the independence OF Cuba,
and to this no Spanish ministry would
consent. One reason was that such a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-23
Begins Tomorrow

Leaders Of an expedition that reaches
land where still survive the huge mon
sters of prehistoric ages with whom the
four men fight for their lives.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-23

Prof Challenger, the great scientist,
and Sir John Roxton, the mighty hunter,
two of the most remarkable characters in
fiction
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-06-28

worked for Kendallville and the
Sox liked his style of serving.
They made five home runs, one
triple, a pair of doubles and II
singles.
Fournier and Mattick are some
batters against rube pitching.
The Frenchman poled two hom-
ers and a single; while Mattick
got to Cook for double and two
singles.
Gals pitchers are due to earn
their salaries when they strike St.
Louis Monday. Five games are
scheduled in three days.
Giants made it nine straight.
yesterday, winning from the Phil
lies in a driving finish.
They tied the score with three
runs in the eighth and put the
sugar point over in the ninth.
Crandan was outpitched by
Brennan in the early part of the
game, but the, Quaker hurler
weakened in last two frames.
Hall, sensational pitcher of the
Boston Red Sox, who trimmed
the White Sox with ease here,
was driven from the box by
Washington.
Pape was just as easy for the
Nationals and they rolled up II
hits.
Hughes was hit hard, but he
kept the Red Sox bingles far
apart.
Milan of Washington pasted
two doubles, two singles and
cfO1e n boca s,1e0 occSc4;.,o- -.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-06-28

New York o; Cleveland 4, De
troit 3.
Ed Reulbach caused rejoicing
among Cubs by swell game he
pitched yesterday.
This is the second four-hit
: game he has pitched against the
Reds this series. He was unlucky
in losing the first one.
As in first game of series, Bes-
cher was only Red to score on the
ex-Notre Dame star.
Joe Tinker led attack of the
Cubs with pair of singles and
slashing triple.
Sheckard, Zimmerman and
EVerS each kicked in brace of sin
giles and Schultz pushed over two
runs with a long triple.
Hank O'Day is about as popu-
lar in Cincinnati now as a mana
ger as he was as an umpire. The
gate receipts have shrunk since
the Reds fell into a losing streak.
Only trouble with the Cub ma
chine is its failure to steal bases.
The men are woefully slow on the
paths.
White Sox stopped off in Ken
dallville, Ind, on their way to De-
troit yesterday and trimmed |
small town team Is to 2.
Jordan and Peters stopped rur-
al gents with four hits.
Some unknown named Cook