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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-14
TRAINS NOW RUN
TO ADR|ANOPLE
Service Regularly Established
Between That City and
Constantinople.
FEW EVIDENCES LEFT
OF THE BALKAN WAR
Correspondent Of London Daily
Chronicle Describes Journey
From Stamboul.
Foreign Correspondence of The Star

SUrtSpO0uence Oh Inc star.
LONDON, September /. 1913
The Daily Chronicles correspondent at
Adrianople says trains are now running
regularly between that city and Constan-
tinople. and few evidences of the war
are left Describing his journey from
STEAMBOAT to Adrianople the correspond
ent says:
For an hour we passed frequent trains
filled with Constantinople business men
coming in from Makrikeui and San Ste
piano, the popular suburbs along the
Marmora shore. San Stephano of i'll
fame. Here last November the Turks
turned the broad streets and open spaces
into a horror of starving and freezing
cholera-stricken soldiers. We passed an
old Turkish cemetery. barren of cy-
presses. The narrow marble slabs, gray
with time. were standing at every angle.
Such cemetery is always impressive of
desOlation and death, but now on al
most every gravestone was perched a
raven or carrion crow. 1t was a grim
sight.
The train reached Observation-Disclosures
thest west for Turkish railway traffic
during all the tedious. dark days of the
past winter. little further on was the
spot where, one unlucky day in Decem-
Der, Nazim Pasha's headquarters train
stopped, and there was signed the armis-
tice with Gen Savoff. Near at hand, in
the high grass. appeared the sinuous line
of a barbed- ENHANCEMENT, the first
poignant evidence of the recent cam
paign.
I'VE left Stamboul station at q. m. and
it was noon before we had traversed the
forty miles to Chatalja. Ten miles an
hour is good average in Turkey. Our
two minutes stop. as scheduled, was
| heightened here into an hour for no APP
parent reason. The station had been
burned by the Bulgars in retiring. From
| a dip in the hillside half a mile away
appeared the minarets of Chatalja vii
lage. and the village itself seemed a maze
| of pretty tile roofs amid green trees. The
Turkish papers in STEAMBOAT had been fill
| ed with horrors of Bulgarian depreda-
| tons here. but 1t would have required d
closer knowledge to verify, or even to
suspect, such things.
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The hoy sat down In the bcss's chair.
more respectful. Suppose YOU were the
boss and ! was the boy-let me show you
how 7 would ask.
So the boy sat down in the boss chair
and Adams wenS into the hall. Then he
entered the Office, and said in a polite
voice:
Boss l would like very much to go TO
the ball game today. Would il be asking
too much if ] could get off early?'
And then the boy spoke:
"Surest thing you know. kid. like you
and hope you'll get along. HeIe's half
a dollar. Go ahead now"
George Edmunds is a rare old wag. He
noticed that a large number of young
men used a certain one of the private
telephone booths in the House press gall
lery at certain hours of the day with a
certain foolish smirk on their faces. So
he cut out of red paper large heart.
pasted it up on the glass door to the
booth and beside it he stuck this notice:
This is the love phone. Nothing but
sweet stuff over this line. For politics
use the phone on the south wall and for
other business use the phone in the cor
ner'
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Grass and De Kay Snakes.

The prettiest OF all snakes is the little
green grass snake, of which there are
two kinds. one having smooth and the
other ridged scales. This tiny snake
lives entirely on insects and looks like a
bit of jewelry.
4 companion to the green snake I'm
sentleness and size is the De Kay snake.
a little brown, large-eyed snake with
light streak along the back, bordered on
either side by row Of black dots. This
slender little snake rarely exceeds a foo
in length. 1t is fond OF hiding under
stones and cans, in rubbish heaps and
like the striped snake can be found
within the limits of our cities.
The common red bellied or banded
water snake Is the snake oftenest found
in our eastern waters 1t can always
be told by the red blotches and clouded
spots of brown and gray on the belly.
This snake is an ugly. vicious snake
bur not venomous. and is not related to
the dangerous cotton-mouth moccasin.
which Is not found north of North Caro-
lima.
Another slandered snake is the milk
snake or checkered adder. The ground
color of this snake is gray, and IL Ia
checkered with series of dark brown
or dark red blotches, edged with black.
Because 1t Is found near miikhouseS and
stables. where it feeds mice and rats.
ii is supposed to steal milk and to milk
cows. An old negro once told me about
a COW his father owned which used 20
go every day to a woodlot and moo. Al
once a big milk snake would crawl oct
of the woods and milk this COW. When
the snake WAS finally killed. over =
quart of milk was found inside IT, TIL"
COW then pinned away and died. II Mas
very. very sad story. But SNAKE
could no more milk coz than a bird
could, and the stomach of the largest
milk snake would not hold more than
a few SlOODf,IlS of milk.
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aud | have been ashamed of il ever
since. So as a friend of the administra-
ton. why don't you send your freshman
to collect my trash?''
Three inspectors came. Each was more
important than the preceding one. Each
one trembled with fear. Ollie had spurred
them to their work. After this, thanks
TO a far-seeing administration. i think
the trash problem will be settled
2. S.-This was written last week. The
freshman came and said there was wall
paper in the barrels and that ruled me
out again. He was right. There was a
piece of wall paper about two inches
long.
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2fO Acres-S0OO Cash.

splendid. big. Participating farm thrown on
market because aged crippled owner cannot .
FOR Il: chance of lifetime for worker: every
hing ready for business; six cows. four heiferS.
IL la. ducks, geese. turkeys AMI all machinery
thrown IN: only J. mile 70 store. pest office,
= hto- etc: 40 acres machine worked fields.
prln.-uatercd pasture fgr 50 COWS. 1000 cords
wood. 10000 II. timber, 1Ino sugar naples.
~ apple trees, other fruit: s-roon house. 4G-
II. bara. With ranulng spring water 10 both
&c T. horse barn with basement; other outbuild-
fHEs; II taken cyprythin; goes for So 100:
only 5000 cash. balance easy terms Complete
description OF this and hundreds Of other good
farms from $500 up. page ~. ''sirouts Farm
t3iaicEh" &c write today for free copy. Y. A
STEottT FARM AGENCY. Station 49, Land
INN lIlac nhtla Ia
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An Efficiency Enthusiast

From London Punch.
'T shouldn't mind, meseif, il thew
closed the pubs a couple o. hours
sooner. Wot ! SEE is, IL man ain't
full by 'alf-past ten, e amt trying"
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MANY GOOD SNAKES
Black Snake Not as Bad as
His Reputation. ~
RATHER RUN THAN FIGHT
Facts About the Numerous Harmless
and the Few Venomous Rep
tiles Of This Region.

Samuel Scoville. jr.. in the Sunday School TfnaA
Most boys and girls hate and fear
snakes. These disagreeable feelings como
from knowing so many things about
snakes which aren't so. For example,
boys believe that all 'addsrs'' or spotted
snakes and water snakes are venomous
There are really only two poisonous
snakes found I'm the eastern states
These are the timber attlesnake. the
king OF the dark places OF lonely forests.
and the copperhead. All other snakes.
whether they are called adders. vipers
racers or moccasins. are harmless. You
can live long life and never meet a baA
snake. Snakes never attack. They are
only too anxious TO get away. They are
never Shiny like cells. They cannot charm
birds or anything else. No snake has .
"stinger' in the end Of its tail. nor il its
forked tongue sting. There are no such
things as hoop-snakes. A snakes tail
won't wiggle until sunset after its owner
Is Killed. Cows are never MIXED by milk
snakes. nor VIII any snake drink milk n
II can get water. Blacksnakes can't kill a
rattlesnake. nor wind around a boys neck
and choke him. A snake never commits
suicide by biting itself. although the puff
adder pretends to do SO. No poisonous
snake can hurt itself or any other snake
OF Its kind. or the king-snake. All other
snakes die IL bitten by a rattlesnake or
copperhead Whisky will not cure a
snake bite. and should never be taken I'm
large quantities.
Both the rattleSnake and the copper hes q
are pit-vipers' and have a deep pit or
hole between the eye and the nostril The
pupil or the eye OF a ven0mous snake il
oval, and that Of harmless snake round.
The rattlesnake. OF course. can be told
by It's rattle. The corperhead has dark
and light brown markings shaped like
durnbbells and light. sometimes coiorea.
heao. III you ere bitten by either, at one
tie n string or handkerchief as tightly :
possible between tie bite and the heart
This string should not be left on for owe
ten minutes. Then cut a cash the depth
of the fang marks and through them. and
suck out all the blood possible. ne cut
should then be kept covered with a wet
antfseptic dressing.
OF all the snakes the most common il
| the garter or striped snake 1t is the
earliest snake out in the spring and the
| last to go into winter quarters. This
snake can be tod By it's three light
stripes. one on the back and two on the
sides. 1t lives entirely on toads, frogs
and earthxorms. and is % no specia,
| value to the farmer.
The black snake has reputation az
| dark as its skin, and is supposed to chase
boys. charm birds and 10 be an all
around bad snake. The fact is, its one
| idea is to get away as rapidly as possi-
| BILE. 1t is the sprinter of snake kind.
| raced big one down hill for fifty yards,
and was a bad second at the finish.
which was stone wall. where the snake
lived. There are rare cases when a big
| male black snake, instead Of running.
will turn and fight.
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wondrous qualities of the water. Even
Marse Henry joined in the praise:
Two drops of this water" he an
nounced, added to a barrel of good
Kentucky whisky. would make the finest
drink In the world"
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City Reached by Boulevard.

''rhe city proper, two miles away, is
reached by a boulevard unique I'm all
Turkey-a broad well paved road, with
an undertaking vista Of Il mile shaded
by willows of enormous girth. The
road then crosses the broad Martha by
an eleven arched stone bridge, and a few
PAGES further on, the Tunja by five
arched bridge Adrianople is enriched
by no less than seven old stone arched
bridges OF Turkish construction, each
picturesque and charming in its way.
To-day the road from the station to
the minaretted city is one continuous
going and coming of an army and all
that pertains thereto. But somehow it
does not seem like an army making his
tory or about to make history-still less
the remnants of the army SO thorough
ly smashed by the Bulgarians nine
months ago. 1t is more like an army
confusedly overrunning town during
very much bungled maneuvers. AS
made, much of it consists of the
troops poured in fresh after the debacle
OF ober-November. and now season.
ed by the winters training.
bulgarian money still does service,
but no longer at it's former value; the
Turkish Tobacco Reggie has not yet es-
tablished the sale of it's wares every
where in the city, and SO the poorer
bui6hTidH clSdFelteS are SIlll III vogue.
White crosses still mark many of the
houses and shops and the Turkish con
querors' don't seem to mind this bit of
Bulgarian influence. \ few shopkeepers
have taken care to efface the sign of
the recent holy war as proclaimed by
King Ferdinand, but it is doubtful
whether such a tell-taie measure is
worth while. A few days ago Slavic let
ters abounded everywhere on the shop
keepers windows and signs: today they
only ia found nv careful scrutiny
Bulgaria and the Bulgarians have dis
appeared.
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Ten Hours to Reach Chorlou.

AT the end Of ten hours we had reach
ed Chorlou. Here the Bulgarians had not
had time. SO the Turks insist, to burn
the large new Turkish barracks on the
plateau above the station. A motor car,
much the worse for wear. had been left
by the Bulgarians at the railroad sta
ton Chorlou was one of the few places
where the Turkish lettering Of the name
or the station had not been whitewashed
or blackened out during the occupation by
the ''savages' or the wolves as the
Turks are wont to call their northern
neighbors. Slavic letters adorned all the
stations until few days ago, and their
existence can still be seen under fresh
Turkish wflitewash.
"At 3 o'clock In the morning the train
started from Bahia Eshi toward Adri-
anople. and at 1:3O the minarets of
Turkeys first European capital stood up
like magic city across broad green
meadows 1t took another half hour
past the cruel defiant barbed-wire entan-
clement. ruins of mud villages, an i'm
mense encampment of Koordish horse
men, wonderfully picturesque in the
morning activities. long camel train of
army stores-before we pulled up at the
ruins of masonry which, until some weeks
ago, had been the station of Adrianople.
Il left the train unchallenged. There
was no hamal to offer to carry my light
luggage. l found a narrow exit from the
station inclOsure, and walked past in
different soldiers on guard to a hotel, not
even decently clean, but still the best
which Adrianope offers. The proprie-
tor. very unlike those during most of
the last thirty years in Turkey, did not
even care to know my name. let alone
my profession and my last place of
residence. 1t was enough that I occu-
pied a room. No policeman or military
functionary bothered his head about
newly arrived guests.
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WANTED,
FARMS.
FOR SALE

ll5-ACRE MTG. CO.. MD. FARM-FOR \
farmer; L.: under cultivation. balance in tim.
Der; 1-room dwelling. outba''d iiss. orchard: IA
miles Washington: hae roads: easy terms.
Price only 500
ARTHUR VI. COMMON,
"a Oxford bllg.. lita and y. Y.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-14

Marse Henry Watterson was at one
time at a picnic at Estill Springs, Ky.
and every one was raving about the
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VIRGINIA.
HARPERS FERRY. Nv. VA.

BRACKETT HOUSE, HARPERS FERRY, W.
Va, Camp Hill: oyerlooks river; pure water;
mountain air; ample grounds; airy rooms; oul
own garden; family style Special rates.
Sept and Oct. Mrs. G.. NEWCOMER.
HILL TOT HOUSE.
Now ready to accommodate guests the entire
season. Rooms with private bath. Scenery IN
eaualed Former patrons speak for table.
Rates $40 to SIS Der week. T. S. LOVETT.
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n his shop and he is not required to

in his shop and he is not required to
do the cutting in the refrigerator. II
he will take the necessary precau-
tons to keep it from exposure to
flies and dust, he will have very little
trouble with this department of our
inspectors. So far as smoked meats
are concerned, we understand that q
great portion of these products are
going to be covered with paper. Until
such time as all these products GO
out with some kind of covering. II
parties will be reasonably careful in
not exposing them to dust, dirt or
flies, they may be kept in almost any
way that will insure their protection
from contamination.
1--WE are making the same require
ments of the market people that we
are of the stores and there is no rea-
son why they should not comply with
| the law the same as the merchants.
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Cocktail Anniversary.

WASHINGTON July 15.-This is
the anniversary of the American
cocktail, that we'll known ante-prandial
concoction being in It's seyenty-eighth
year. 1t was born in rustic tavern
on the edge of Washington, and here
is the way the story of its birth goes:
One fine old southern gentleman,
John A. Hopkins, of Fairfax, Va,
iourneyed over to Bladensburg, Md.
On July Is, 1886, to fight a duel and
thereby satisfy long standing grudge
with an enemy. The sword of his
enemy pricked him severely and Hop
lIins becoming weak and faint, was
taken to the Palo Alto Inn, where
Jack Henderson, the jovial inn-keeper,
was called upon to minister to his
wants.
On the spur of the moment Hender-
son invented the cocktail. 1t was his
conception of what real "bracer"
ought to be. It's high success in bring
ing Hopkins back convinced some
of the habitues of the Palo Alto that
their good host had invented some
drink, and though none Of them was
4 injured, they demanded some of the
excellent beverage Enough for al
was made and they named it the cock
| tail,
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How Some Fat Feop e
Eat Then1selDes Thin
(From Pilgrim Magazine. }

When it is remembered we require
but three ounces of fat daily and that
most persons eat ten times that,
the wonder is that most people aren't
corpulent. Some systems are able to
burn up the surplus fat, while others
keep storing away pound after pound
of useless oils In the tissues Just be-
meath the skin. II fat folks could
find something that would absorb or
expel these oils from the body.
they'd have the long-sought obesity
remedy.
If they only knew 1t, there is q
remedy which acts in just these ways
dispensing oily and other unwhole
some secretions. absorbing and elm
mating them. This valuable remedy
is found, not In nasty pill or liquid
but in palatable, harmless candy
drops, known by druggists as "boran
iurn jujubes.' In these days of wide
ly-advertised obesity remedies, tht
humble jujube seems to have beer
relegated to the back shelf. But the
wise ones know what these wonder
/ full little jujubes can accomplish, l
but three or four are eaten every do.
! for awhile.-Adv.
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Doc Trainers.

ToWNER, N d., July 15.-steps
were taken here today by professional
hunting dog trainers to secure special
permission from state authorities to
begin training their dogs in the field
on August 1, for the American prairie
chicken field trials which are sched-
uled to be held here on September 2.
Under the law, the running of dogs in
the field is prohibited until August Is.
The trainers believe this is too short
a length of time to allow them to get
their dogs into shape for the contests
In which scores of eastern and Pa
cifc coast sportsmen have entered
dogs. The trainers will suggest pay.
ing special permit fee and also the
expenses of the deputy warden who
would be assigned to oversee the
training.
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SAYS SANITARY
LAW NOT SEVERE
Commissioners Barney Says That Pro.
visions of Law Will Not Prove
Hardship on the
Retailer.
Law is misunderstood
Law Applies to Market People al
Well as to the Retailers and
is Being En-
forced.

State Food and Dairy Commission
er w. B. Barney is addressing COM
munications to various cities Of the
state with regard to the new sanitary
laws which became effective July
Fourth. He writes that the provisions
Of the new laws should not work a
hardship upon retailers, adding that
the latest edicts of the lawmakers
were not so stringent as to prove
severe.
No little misunderstanding has re.
suited from the new laws, especially
in regard to furnishing proper recep-
tacles for foodstuffs. Barney points
out that in some instances it is not
necessarily compulsory to place edi
bles in glass cases, or alright places
His communication explanatory OF
the sanitary laws follows
1--WE are not requiring that such
fruits as oranges, apples, bananas
and lemons with other fruits that
have to be peeled before used be
/ kept in a case. All the protection
J.
that we feel is necessary for these
/ fruit is to keep them from flies by
mosquito bar. This is especially true
of outside displays.
Now as to berries and products Of
{ that kind, we are not requiring thai
/ they be kept in an absolutely airtigh'
place, because we understand thai
4 their keeping qualities are great.
lessened In this way. Therefore, i
parties SO desire, they may put
screen in some portion of the case
SO as to give the proper amount o
/ ventilation So far as possible, We
think that fruits of this kind shoult
j be kept in cold storage, except those
that are out for display for the Gus
toner.
There will be no objection to thu
butcher cutting his meat on the blocl
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ORIGINAL NOTICE.

State of Iowa, Lee County-ss.
In the District Court OF said coun-
y, September term, 1913, at Keokuk.
Mae Purcell Kennedy, plaintiff,
Versus Leo ]. Kennedy, defendant
original notice.
To the above named defendant:
You are hereby notified that on or
before September ], 1913, a petition
Viii be on flle in the clerks office OF
the District Court aforesaid at Keo-
kuk in behalf Of the above named
plaintiff, against you and claiming a
decree of divorce from you on the
grounds of desertion.
And unless you appear and defend
before noon of the second day OF the
next regular September term OF said
court. TO be begun and holden at keo
kilk Oh the 22nd day of September A
D, 1913. default will be entered
against you and Judgment rendered
thereon as prayed for in said petition
=. NJ. BALLINGER,
Attorney for Plaintiff
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st. swithin,s Day.

WASHINGTON, July 15.-Although
being scientists they scorned the
superstition, some of Uncle Sam S
best weather sharps curiously enough
marked down today's brand of wealth
er for reference during the next two
score days.
This is st. Swithin's day. Ancient
English legends have it that il 1T
rains today there will be forty days OF
rain to follow, and if it remains clear,
there will follow forty days of clear
weather There was a ST Swithin all
right, back in the days of long ago
and the legend is older than the hills.
That seems to be as far as 1t goes,
for one of the ruthlessly unromantic
weather bureau sharps today looked
up the dope for the same day for
twenty wears back, and had this to
say:
st. Swithin falls in month In
1 which more rain falls here in Wash
4 ineton than during any other period Of
the year. Nevertheless, the records
chow that, taking the average fol
twenty years, of the forty days which
follow July Is, the greater part Were
rainy when ST. Swithin's day was
4 fine old day. There never have beer
4 forty consecutive days of rain o.
clear weather following st. Swithini
|day, as far as can learn.
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q Good Investment.

w. D.. Magli, we'll known mer-
chant Of Whitemound, Wis, bought a
stock of Chamberlain's medicines so
as to be able to supply them to his
customers. After receiving them he
was himself taken sick and says that
one small bottle of Chamberlain's
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy
was worth more to him than the cost
of his entire stock of these medi
cines. For sale by all dealers. ADV
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Tennis Court.

The new court across Blondeau
street from the association building
is now showing a very enticing ap-
pearance, being prettily graded and
leveled off, with back stops in place.
The other necessary touches will be
added at once and the new court will
be ready for the anxious and enthus-
tic players. 1t is destined to prove
one Of the most popular features in.
stalled by the associations active and
alert management.
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Causes Of stomach Troubles.

Sedentary habits, lack of out door
exercise, insufficient mastication OF
food, constipation, torpid liver, wor-
nv and anxiety, overeating, partakine
of food and drink not suited to your
age and occupation. Correct your
habits and take Chamberlain's Tab
lets and you will soon be we'll again
For sale by all Dealers
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