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Charlevoix county herald., 1912-09-07
FERNS NEED SPECIAL CARE
Toe Frequent Watering Of This Sensi-
tive Plant, for Instance, Is to
Be Avoided.

Is your fern suffering from summer
complaint?
If it is you have failed to learn the
most important of all facts in the care
Of ferns, which is that too frequent
watering is not good for these delicate
plants. The Boston variety, or short,
curly kind, is generally considered
difficult to keep in a thriving condi-
ton, yet one woman finds the task
comparatively easy.
This housewife, who takes a pecu-
liar Joy in all the beauty pertaining TO
a home, declares the fern should be
kept in front of a window, where 1t
receives the morning sun. 1t must
stand on a soft surface sand in jar
diniere much larger than the fern pot
being one of the best arrangements
This allows it to get plenty OF air, an
essential point in its care.
Do not water the fern more often
than every other day. Now and then
1t is best to wait three or four days,
as a good dryout is most advisable
Take the fern into the laundry or
basement and give it a good bath
once or twice month.
Never let the temperature average
more than 20 in the room where the
fern is kept, a cooler atmosphere be-
ing better Keep the plants free from
dry or dead leaves. If possible, place
the fern in shady place in the yard
for its summer outing, packing earth
well around the pot, a treatment
which increases its growth.
Charlevoix county herald., 1912-09-07
FURNISHING OF CHINTZ ROOM
Thought Bestowed on Decoration VIII
Be Well Repaid in Cheerful,
Homelike Apartment.

There is pleasing homelinAss
about chintz room which gives II a
subtle attraction. Most women at this
time of year are attacked with O
laudable desire to redress their rooms
so that the time of summer and the
singing birds is suggested and win
tcrs sunless cold forgotten.
The most obvious way to achieve
the redressing is to choose a suitable
chintz and to order loose covers for
all the chairs and sofas, ottomans and
cushions in the room. The favorite
colorings this season give a range OF
tulip shades, purple. rose red. deep
buff or scarlet. These have some.
times black ground, as in the days
of Louis Philippe. Huge soft cush'
ions, square or round In shape, are OF
down, covered with silk, and have NO
pendant fiouncing.
A successful room can be obtained
with one of the cretonnes or chintzes
in oriental patterns. and the furniture
or bibelots in the Chinese taste, which
is now so much to the fore, accord
we'll with such designs. An excellent
result is obtained If panels of the
printed linen or chintz are placed on
the wall instead of paper and old
prints show up well with such back.
ground.
Old needlework is now reproduced
in glazed chintz, and fine Italian pat
terms glowing with subdued blues
reds and browns, with that clouded
mauve only seen in italian silks, and
a bed of anemones gives a touch OF
distinction to any room.
A single mauve cushion and one OF
black in soft silk are generally intro.
duced as a daring note. Pomegran.
ates, picotees and peonies figure and
the twisted stems form arabesques.
Charlevoix county herald., 1912-09-07

"SIS TNtsoSNSu ~ S'SS'' o' INhSS'
he received photograph of his
daughter. In the meantime young jill
son learned that the steamer which
carried his father to Alaska had been
wrecked, and, hearing nothing further
of him, concluded that he had been
drowned. The family lived at that
time in Minneapolis, but moved away
before letters from the father arrived.
These letters were never forwarded.
On his second trip to Alaska Jilson
was shipwrecked, and with 100 of the.
passengers drifted twenty-eight days
on an ice foe. Thirteen passengers
lost their lives.
Jilson went to Pribilof Island I'm
1902 and thence to the Siberian main
land, where he and his comrades dis
covered gold deposits. The party was
attacked by Siberian exiles and five.
out of thirteen shot. The remainder.
including Jilson, remained in captivity
for four years before escaping.
Jilson came to San Francisco before
the fire and opened a kennel In Marin.
county. Afterward he became asso-
ciated with a cloak company. Mean
while his family, believing him dead.
sojourned in various cities and the
son drifted to San Francisco.
After the Identification had been
established the youth sent joyous mes
sages to the brother and sister.
Charlevoix county herald., 1912-09-07
Hotel ON a Coral Reef.

A number of business men in Homo
lulu are stated TO be taking up the
project of building a hotel on the
coral reef near Diamond Head. with
n connecting pier to the shore.
1t is further planned to build a sub.
marine tower down to the bottom just
outside the reef. At the lower end of
the tower 1T is intended to have big
glass plates so that those who go
down will be able to see all that is
going on at the bottom of the sea and
the fish swimming about.
The promoters expect that it will
be the greatest attraction the city
has ever held.
Charlevoix county herald., 1912-09-07
BILLIARDS UN|TEl(
FATHER AND SON.
Former Supposed by His Fam
lily to Have Been Lost at Sea
Unexpectedly Returns.
CAPTIVE FOUR YEARS
Missouri Man Who Started for Alaska
In 1898 Was In Shipwreck and
Drfted to Siberia, Where He Was.
Captured by ExiIes.

San Francisco.-Escaping from the
vicissitudes of Arctic winters. ship
wreck and slavery in Siberia. Arthur
F. Jilson, prospector, sportsman and
traveller, after fourteen years separa-
ton, came face to face with the son.
who thought him dead, over the green
cloth of billiard table.
For months the father and son had
seen each other from time to time at
billiard room in Market street,
never dreaming that they bore the
closest blood relationship. The
younger Jilson was seven years old
when the father left for the Alaskan
ice realms and only by a freak of fate
did they become aware of each others
Identity.
Entered In the balk line and cush-
ion carom matches" read the bulletin
board at the billiard hall. Beneath
the heading the name "Jilson" was
chalked. 1t was that Of the elder JILL
son, who, besides being prospector
and merchant. is an expert billiard
player.
The name caught the eye Of the son,
s. G. Jilson, and he inquired for the
man who bore 1t. Neither father nor
son recognized the other, but com.
parison Of names and dates soon set
their doubts at rest. Billiards were
forgotten and for hours the two sat
together recalling events that took
place in the lives of both over a dec
ade ago. The father learned that his
wife and an elder son had died, but
that son, A. F. Jilson, Jr., was living
In New York, and married daugh-
ter, Estelle, in Ogden, Utah.
Jilson left his family at Brookfield,
Mo-, for Seattle to take part In the
1898 rush to the Copper River coun-
try. The majority of the party left
Seattle on the ill-fated steamship Va
lencia. For two years he "mushed"
the trails with horde of fellow pros
pectors. In 1900 he was removed
from the Alaska fields by dog-sled suf-
fering from scurvy, of which scores OF
the party died.
Jilson returned to Alaska In the
summer of 1900, and the last news he
had of his family was in 1901. when
Charlevoix county herald., 1912-09-07
AT TABLE WITH THE CHEFS
Lesser Lights Gathered to Sample
Growing Glory Turned Out by
the King Of Them All.

Sleek, well-fed and happy men, who
ate seriously and gravely. and slipped
the vintage wines with the thoughtful,
up-turned eyes of connoisseurs, sat at
the Hotel Cecil In London the other
night around srSw-wbite tables from
which rose bowers of smilax, orchids.
and lilies and fruit-laden silver
epergnes, glittering beneath blue and
red electric lights.
This was the first dinner of the
League of the Epicures-a dinner that
had its counterpart in PARKWAY capt.
tails Of the world, from Amsterdam
and Tokyo.
Great chefs were there. Escofier
himself, surrounded by roses, and Ce-
dard, the chef of the king; Carmier,
of the Waldorf; Stempfer Queen Alex
andra's chef; Viccaro of the Criterion,
Malley of the Ritz, Allestur of the Ce-
ell, Garog of the New Gallery, and
others who would shudden at the
mention of boiled beef and carrots,
although the music Of "boeuf la
princesse" would please their ear.
Escofiier had produced a wonderful
dish, greater than the Peche Melba,
which was TO be submitted to the pal
ates of all these mighty knights or
the ladle. It was called Praises Sarah
Bernhadt, and the divine Sarah her
self had christened 1t with long and
an ardent telegram.
Here are the Praises Sarah Bern
hardt Each plate was a sunset or
cream and amber clouds, with the faint
rose-color of the fruit splashed across
the horizon. Strain the strawberries
so that you get the tone of a sunset"
says NJ. Escoffler.
To the left mound of ice gave a
hint Of chill spring evening, and to
the right small lakes Of liqueur called
up the memory of dew on the mead
ows
They tasted. oh, the wonder OF
that subtle, exquisite flavor of cream
and pineapple and orange chat was
the curacoa) and rich Strawberries
perfect harmony of fiavors, with just
an elusive minor note of tartness in
the pineapple ice, counterpart to
the melodious sweetness OF the dish.
1t was a triumph, an ecstasy. The
diners closed their eyes so that moth
ing external should clash with the In
ward joys, and only opened them
again when a smacking ,of lips pro-
claimed that the Praises Sarah Bern.
hardt had melted away in the evening,
Just as the sunset they resemble.
Charlevoix county herald., 1912-09-07
When is
Girl Old
Enough
to
Marry?
by Mrs. c. kuyser, San Francisco

follow with quick order meals attract
attention When hubby home she to the
gets ready meal 1t is in her opinion the easiest to
keep house. But when hubby becomes dsp she will really find out
what trouble IS
girls ambition and than Others but girl in
opinion should till she is twenty old and the
five older Life all sunshine be married single When
her troubles like Trojan and
herself She should learn laugh good hearty laugh
is better than medicine.
Laugh and the world laughs with and generally cry
smile that bubbles from heart that
men, drive away the clouds of gloom and the
again.
To the young wife, If hubby is leave him aone just smile
and be patient. he cannot help loving you in return.
Charlevoix county herald., 1912-09-07
Love VIII Find a Way.

The young couple FASTENED into the
station. 1t was very patent that they
were not married. They were alto.
gether too chummy for that. They
went out on to the platform and
stood and talked for a minute, when
he took her in his arms and kissed
her fondly and again hurried away
toward a train.
What do you think OF that?" in
quired one Of the attache, OF the sta.
ton.
THAT looks all right. Why?"
They do that three or four times
a week. They think that everybody
else will think that he is going away
on a long journey, but he has never
got on a train yet He simply walks
around back of the train and dis.
appears. He gets his kiss all right
though"
Charlevoix county herald., 1912-09-07
In This MoneY-Makina Acc.

NO" said the plain citizen, 81
can't see this argument about money
being the one great and powerful con.
sideration at the present time"
What causes you to doubt it?"
You hear tell of a candidate who
has millions of dollars at his disposal"
Yes"
We'll, If money was the only thing
worth going after he wouldn't put all
that cash into politics. He'd start a
bank"
Charlevoix county herald., 1912-09-07
All Now Swattlna Cats

Wilmington, Del.-Because they are
kept awake at night by the yowling of
cats, which also devour their young
chickens, residents of Milton have or
ganized youngsters into a Swat the
Cat" club, and each. night the boys
are abroad in the land. The result is
that from is to 20 felines have been
permanently disposed of each night
Those who have pet cats are seeing to
1t that their animals are kept in the
house.
Charlevoix county herald., 1912-09-07

A certain writer is much exercised over
the difficulties that will be experienced by
"a man of forty raised in big city, en-
ployed as clerk on a moderate salary, used
to comfortable, steam-heated flats, theaters
and similar excitements, going to the coun-
try and raising fruit"
Thousands of such men are doing this
work and making good at it, doing far bet
ter than they could ever have done with the
extremely moderate incomes that they
earned in the city.
Modern farm homes have running wa
ter, steam or hot water heat, telephones and
Charlevoix county herald., 1912-09-07
Not Ireasured.

81 hope you are not bringing up
your children TO worship money, Haw-
kins," said Dubbleigh.
mo, indeed" sighed Hawkins.
why, Dubb, my children despise mon
ey so much that the minute a dollar
comes their way they get rid of it as
fast as they ."-Harper's Weekly.
Charlevoix county herald., 1912-09-07
Talking for the Lungs.

Bill--The capacity of the normal and
unrestricted lungs is said to be about
27.3 per cent more than those which
have been compressed by the corset
Jill-That's strange, when you think
how much more a woman gets out Of
her lungs than does a man.
Charlevoix county herald., 1912-09-07

When is girl old enough to marry?
When she has sense enough to know that
she honestly loves the man she is going to
marry; to stay with him in sickness and
trials. Above all, she must be able to
cook a good meal, see that the house is
kept clean, tend to his bodily comforts, be
contented and happy, be she eighteen or
forty years old. There would be fewer d.
vorces if those directions were honestly fol-
lowed.
q. great number of girls, who marry,
learn to cook after they marry. If the
husband can't agree with the meals, trouble
Charlevoix county herald., 1912-09-07
He Rememhers IL.

do you always remember your
wife's birthday"
Eyes. indeed, she never let's me for.
Get it"--Detroit Free Press.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-31
Passing of Romance.

From the Chicago Journal.
One by one the wildernesses of romance
are being transformed to the suburbs of
business.
A little while ago, comparatively speak
ing, the romancer had half the atlas in
which to pasture his Imagination. He
could stick strange monsters and lost
cities almost anywhere outside the white
mans lands, and none could say him
nay.
He could people half continents with
swart kings and dusky princesses, and
no one knew enough about the country
to question his census returns While
now
Now, King Solomon's mines are listed
on the London Stock Exchange. The
VOLTS long howl from Oonalaska's shore
is cut off in the middle by the mill
whistle The Great American Desert, of
which Webster acclaimed so eloquently,
has become a mining center and health
resort. Timbuctoo the mysterious has
regular steamer service, and gets daily
news by telegraph.
And now even Siberia has become mat
ter of fact. That land of frost. where
George KEENAN, and the car sent con-
victs for punishment, has become
region to which tourists go for pleasure
or curiosity, and the Transsiberian rail-
road issues prospectuses telling the
traveller why he should go round the
world by the northern route.
Geographical romance is dying-for lack
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-31
Derby Hats and Sombreros.

From the Cincinnati Times-Star.
The American exporting house that en-
deavored to unload consignment of
derby hats upon the ranchmen of Argen-
tina must be lacking sense of humor.
Had that sense of humor, which among
Americans is usually SO we'll developed,
been at all in evidence such a mistake
would never have been made. The derby
hat is all we'll enough in its place, but
it's place is certainly not upon the head
of South American ranchero engaged
in the exciting occupation of rounding
up bunch of cattle or roping steer.
The plug hat may be useful article of
trade on the African gold coast in spite
of its incongruity. but the same reasons
that induce traders to send plug. hats to
Africa should not have induced these ex-
porters to send derby hats to South
America. The people of Argentina 49,
not savages: on the contrary, they are
a civilized and highly enterprising peo-
pie, who are making their presence in
the world we'll known to all. They know
want, and one of the things that they
don't want is the derby hat when they
are out on the range.
Sombreros would be far more to the
purpose. and 1t is sombreros that the
German exporters, who always take
pains to find out exactly hat the trade
desires are sending to the Argentina cat
tie country. AS a matter of fact, We
have many things to learn from the
in foreign markets, and 1t is high time
that we learned them. for the surplus
products of our mills and factories are
increasing in value every year.
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COTTON MARKETS.
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK. May 31.-The cotton mar
ket opened steady at an advance of / to 3
points. and sold about to 5 points net
hlgner during the early trading on some
scattered covering and in sympathy with
the relatively steady showing of Liver
pool while the local market was closed
Yesterday. Trading here was very quiet,
and the market showed little feature I'M
I'll after the publication of the western
belt forecast for unsettled weather and
showers This was considered favorable
from a new crop standpoint, and the
market eased off TO a net loss of about
> to points late in the.first hour
Trading In May ended at noon today
and some scattering liquidation of that
position impaired a relatively easy tone
10 the near months late in the forenoon
with prices selling off to net loss of
about TO points. The offerings were
not aggressive, however, and the market
at midday was duh with quotations only
a point or two under the final figures Of
Wednesday. A private crop report issued
at midday made the condition of the crop
$50 and the acreage per cent less than
last years.
Spot quiet; middling uplands, 1150
nominal
Estimated receipts al all the ports to-
day, 5000 bales, against 6,322 last week
and 9,54S last year. For the week 1000
against 1918 last week and 41.51S last
year. Today S receipts at Galveston
l.:sO. against $50 last year; at New Or
leans, Ills, against Ais last year and
at houston. 3sS, against 100 last year.
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WHOLESALE MARKET REPORT.

Quotations given below are for large
lots. JobLers' prices are higher.
EGGs-Nearby fresh Virginia, 1sa1s1a
West Virginia ana southwest Virginia.
Trials; Tennessee, 1Iha1S
BUTTER-Elgin fancy, 2Sa2S1a; west
ern firsts. 27l1: seconds. 3O1a; store packed,
ern firsts. 81; seconds 3Oh: store packed.
per h., 1Sa19.
CHEESE-New York state factory. new,
1S.
POULTRY-Hens. per h.. 10: roost-
ers. per h.. 8: turkeys. 14a17; chickens,
winter. 23a2S: chickens. springers, 3Oa34.
DRESSED POULTRY-Hens. cnoiee.
per h.. 15a16: ROSTERS. per h. Gallo: tur-
keys per h., 16a1s; ducks, per h.. 1fa15;
geese. per h., Sa1O-
VEGETABLES Potatoes. old. per sack
. 75a3JO; new, No. 1, per Dbl, 3OOa6 90;
No. 2. per Dbl. 2OOa4.OO; sweet IN. Co.
per bbl.. 4OOa4.5O; yams IN. c.. per
bbl.. 3.OOafOO; onions. per sack. 3.OOa3 %;
Texas, per crate, 1.oO; new cabbage per
crate. local %; eggplant. Florida. per
crate, 2.5Oa3.5 80; lettuce, per Dbl, Local so:
string beans. per basket, JOa1.2J: squash,
Florida. per crate. 75a1.JO; beets, North
Carolina, per 100 lunches. 1.OOa3.OO: kale,
per bbl.. 50al.0O: spinach. per Dbl. 1.OOa
1.25; tomatoes. Florida, per crate. 2OOa
3.25; asparagus, per doz., 1.50a2. % rhu-
barb per 100 punches. 1.OOa2 90; cucum-
bers, Florida, per basket, 1.JOa3 90; green
peas. per basket. 1.0Oa2.5O.
GREEN FRUITs-Appies. per bbl.
3. Joa5.5O: apples. per box. 1.5Oa3.25;
oranges. California. per box. a.25a2. 50;
Florida oranges. 4.Ooa45O; lemons. per
box. 3.25a4OO: grape fruit. per box. 5.OOa
600; pineapples. 2.5Oa3.0O; Strawberries,
per at. CALL cantaloupes, per crate, IJOa
go; cherries, per qt.. GALS.
HAY AND STRAW-Hay, western.
No. l. 29.O0a3O.OO; No. 2. 27OOa2s.OO 90;
mixed hay. 24OOa27.O0; straw. rye,
bale. 1s.OOa1s.5O: machine thrash. 14.0Oa
1900; straw, wheat. per ton. 10. 5Oal !. 90:
straw. oat. per ton. 13.00a14OO.
LIVE STOCK-Sheep. per h., 3a5:
spring lambs, per h.. 3: calves. choice per
Ib, S1z; medium, per h., s.
WOOL AND .IIDES-wool. washed.
free of burrs per h.. 30aS2; wool, un.
washed, per h.. %: hides. dry. per To-,
l5al6: green hides. h.. II; calfskin. green.
each. 1.25al. 80.
SEEDS-Red clover. per bu.. 1l.5Oa
Il. so: alsike clover, per bu., l3.OOa13 75:
white clover. per bu.. 15.OOa22.OO: Grim
SON clover. 60Oa6.5 80: timothy. per bu..
b. 75a6. 30: blue grass. per bu., 3.3Oa3. rs;
redtop grass. 13.JOa17.O0 per 100 lbs; al
falfa, per bu., 7.50alU00,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-31
U. S. Court of Customs Appeals

Present: Presiding Judge, MONTGOMERY
and Associate Judges Smith, Barber. De
Vries and Martin.
The following decisions were handed
down today:
No. 7S6. Koechl & Co. agt United
judge wool grease was assessed by the
collector at % per cent as medicinal
preparation not specially provided for.
the importers claimed it to be dutiabIe ar
Y per cent per pound as refined wool
grease: the board of general appraisers
sustained the collector and the decision
of the board is reversed
No. sd Theodore Ascher Company, ct
al. agt. United States: opinion by Smith
associate Judge; cardboard boxes and
paper wrappers were assessed by the
collector at an ad valorem rate eouiya-
lent to the compound rate upon their con-
tents Oewelry); the importers claimed
them to be duitable at % per cent: the
board of general appraisers sustained the
collector and the decision of the board is
affirmed.
No 7sS. United States agt German.
Hoffbauer & Helm Company; opinion by
Barber, associate Judge; a shipment of
gloves was assessed by the collector at
an additional or cumulative duty of 40
cents per dozen pairs as being stitched
or embroidered with more than three
single strands or cords; the importer
protested against this additional duty;
the board of general appraisers allowed
the claim of the importer and the deci-
sion of the board is affirmed.
No S53. lingo Maddaus agt. United
States; opinion by De Vries associate
judge: on reappraisement, before one
general appraiser, the value or certain
machinery was increased II per cent over
that fixed by the local appraiser; the i'm
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-31
LOCAL FINANCIAL NEWS.

The buying of the preferred stock Of
the Washington Railway and Electric
Company at today's meeting of the stock
exchange made that stock the principal
trader of the day. Its course was up
ward the prices being on a slightly
higher level than has prevailed for several
days. After one hundred shares had been
sold at 9434. the balance brought 941s and
%, seventy-fve shares being sold at the
former figure and one hundred and eighty
five at the latter.
couple of twenty-five share lots of
Washington Gas stock sold for S6A.
Several lots of LanstOn were dealt in
at 92N and 93 The stock was offered
at the close at %.
AS soon as the necessary change can
be made in the building at the southwest
corner of Rhode Island avenue and 7th
street northwest, a branch of the Con-
tinental Trust Company will be opened
there.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-31
Penalty on Buttons.
From the London Chronicle


There was a time when most foreigners
travelling to England had to visit a tailor
on arriving in order to have their buttons
changed. According to a law passed in the
eighteenth century. any person in Eng
land wearing buttons made Of cloth. serge.
drugget or frieze was liable to a penalty
Of 4Os. The author OFF, one of the earliest
Of gu,debooks. lie Parisien a Londres."
warns visitors of this law, adding; Some
people cal! II an iniauitous regulation, but
in my opinion II is both just and wise.
since 1t prevents the button makers be-
ing ruined by sudden changes of fashion
and encourages the manufacture and ex-
port of their wares A foreigner wearing
a coat with cloth buttons made in his
own country Is not fined when first
charged with this breach of the law.
He must. however. hasten to obtain
proper buttons. or he may be arrested
again on the following day."