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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-14
CAT SHOW IS CALLED OFF.
Scarcity Of Entries Causes Action
Local Exhibit Planned.

Because Of the failure of eastern clubs
to send in entries enough TO make it pos
sible to comply with the rule OF the
American Cat Association, which requires
a certain number of cats to be exhibited
az basis for winning championship
points, the show which was to have been
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-14
Chamber of Commerce Election.

The annual meeting of the Chamber o.
Commerce and election OF officers il
scheduled to be held at 80 O'Clock to
night at the New Willard Hotel. :,
president first and second vice presidents
and ten members of the board of direc
tors are to be chosen. A buffet supper
will be served.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-14
GIVES STORIES OF THE WAR.
Maj. Gen. Merwin Speaks to New
Hampshire Association.

"reminiscences Of the War" were
given by Maj. Gen. J. B. Merwin before
the New Hampshire Association last
evening. The speaker was with Presi-
dent Lincoln two hours before his assas-
snation by Booth. He also served dur
ing the civil war.
Albert j. Osgood told of several of his
experiences while in China. Musical
numbers were given by Clyde Stryker.
Misses Jennings. Bessie Bean and Mary
SWEET. The next meeting of the associa-
ton will be held February 10.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-14

Mica jah I.eebright. aged sixty. of Lynch.
burg. Va, while crossing the Chesapeake
and Ohio tracks at midnight Sunday, was
run over by yard engine and killed. He
leaves son and Il daughter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-14

While William s. McFadden of Perry
man. Md. was fighting a fire at a school,
house Friday morning the ladder broke
and he fell to the ground, breaking a
wrist and being badly bruised.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-14

An epidemic of typhoid fever prevails
at Westernport and Luke. Nd, and Pied
mont w. va, adjoining towns Many
think the government should send experts
here to ascertain the cause-A
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-14

held by the Washington Cat Club Janu-
airy Is has been called off, according TO
an announcement made yesterday.
1t is expected a local exhibition. which
,, will not be required to meet these con-
ditions. will be arranged soon. Entry
fees for the other show will be refunded.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-14

THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCk-
folders Of the Georgetown and Tennallytown
Railway Company. Tor the purpose of eecting a
beard of directors 10 serve for the ensuing year
aud TO transact such other business may
properly come before the meeting. will be held
~ the Office of the company. 18th and East
capitol streets. Washington. d. o.. Satur-
day, January is. 1913. ut II o'clock noon-
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-04-21
LIQUOR COST IMMENSE
Dominion of Canada Pays $3.50 Per
Capita for Intoxicating Liquors,
is Claim.

Edmonton, Alta, April 17.-Nine
dollars and thirty-seven and a half
cents per capita, estimating the pop
ulation of the dominion at 100000,
or 100000 a year, is Canada's
bill for intoxicating liquors, accord
ing to Rev. Thomas Powell, pastor
of Grace Methodist church of Ed
monton, who also said in a public
statement that a similar amount is
expended annually in caring for the
effects of strong drink. Discussing
the subject to emphasize the urgent
need for a definite practical nation
wide temperance movement, he said
that, in accordance with the laws of
political economy, business is sup
posed to meet some real need in the
community; the public drinking place
could not make such claim. True
it isl he added, "the saloon makes
business, but it is chiefly for the po-
lice and the magistrate and the jail
er; furthermore, to say nothing of
the broken hearts and wrecked
hopes, it keeps taxpayers busy pro-
viding funds for the detention and
support of criminals"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-04-21
WILL HAVE TO STARVE.
If Scientists Keep on All Things VIII
Poison Us.

If the scientists keep on there will
soon be nothing left for man to do
bue die, and then he will be mem
ace to the living. That soda water
is poisonous is the latest fad. The
Portland Telegram takes it off in the
following:
The dear young sweet thing who
chortled that she could just die
drinking soda water" may do it yet
if she keeps on.
Drug store proprietors and bosses
of those marble top fountains of
fizzy waters are buried in melan-
choly over brand new swat which
a bewhiskered scientific guy named
DOC" Lederle has just handed out
in an interview back east. Word of
the sad blow has just filtered into
Portland and it begins to look as if
it is back to the old style plain, un-
vanished, uncolored ice cream for
the summer girl.
The latest jolt from the realm of
science is that you mustn't drink
anything that foams or froths or has
suds on top of it.
With one exception, and that is
what comes out of keg and is made
in Milwaukee, st. Louis and Olympia,
Wash. Namely, beer.
But soda water, that soft, cooling,
Kissing, sputtering stuff that cools
the parched tongue and throat mere
ly at the sound of it's purling from
the nozzle of the marble fount-that
stuff is poison. You mustn't touch
it. There is death at least twice in
every bubble that sizzles from the
nozzle.
This highly suspicious savant is
dubious about everything that car
ries a bead" save as aforesaid, the
amber brew.
Life is getting to be risky these
days. complalned SODA water Jug
gler Here we go to work and in
vent thousand new drinks year
with nice pretty colors with cherries,
fruit and all sorts of junk on the
top to give the proper scenic effect
and now some laboratory shark dis
covers that summer girls mustn't
touch the stuff.
Tell you what I'll do. I'll bet
this talk about foam, froth and suds
being poison will be big boost for
business. I know lot of girls who
will drink the stuff just to see
whether it will kill 'em.
Another thing, I'll bet that wise
guy of a professor is under salary to
the breweries."
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-04-21
Giving Away a Country.

Abdul Aziz was very eager to. ac-
cept Napoleon III's invitation to visit
the exposition at Paris in 1867. But
between his desire and it's attain
ment stood the law of the Koran,
which he could neither disobey nor
set aside.
1t is rare that privilege enjoyed
by the subjects of country is denied
to it's ruler, yet by law of the
Koran the sultan may not leave his
realm unless he goes sword in hand
for the purpose of conquering new
provinces.
His ministers advised him to come
to an amicable understanding with
Napoleon, and after announcing that
war had been declared upon France
to journey to the exposition sword in
hand. This scheme, however, seemed
of doubtful advisability, and finally
a simpler plan was adopted, says Das
Buch fur ALE.
One day the morning papers of
Constantinople contained the start
ling news that Napoleon III had
made the sultan present of France.
Abdul Aziz was, of course at entire
liberty to visit his new province and
he decided to do SO at once. Paris
and France were greatly amused at
the subterfuge that their guest had
practiced and offered no objection to
his approach.
After a very pleasant visit to Paris
Abdul Aziz returned to Turkey. But
before he left he magnanimously
gave France back to Napoleon III.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-04-21
MICE ARE A MENACE.
Linn County Farmers Forbidden TO
Poison Find Themselves in a
QuandaTy.

If Burns were living now and fol-
lowing a plow in the fields of Linn
county, the chances for poem like
that beginning with "Oh, sleekit,
cowerinlittle beestie" would be far
from favorable.
In certain portions of that county,
so it is reported by John Wills, a
farmer living near Albany, the field
mice nuisance has become one of
proportions that make it comparable
to the grasshopper scourge that hit
Kansas years ago, the chinch bug
ravages in Minnesota and the boil
weevil ruin wrought in the Texas
cotton fields in recent years.
Mr.. Wills says that in the Knox
Butte country east of Albany, in the
Brownsville districtand elsewhere the
little rodents within the last year
or two have so multiplied and over
run the country that in many cases
clover, grass and grain crops have
been all but ruined, and 10 many of
the farmers who have suffered as a
consequence of their ravages, the
outlook is almost hopeless.
Wills tells of one farmer who in
plowing a field of 19 acres had his
boys follow the plaw, and as the
share turned the nests to the surface
the youngsters killed the rodents
The boys in that field, he says, killed
over 1000 mice, and even then made
but small dent in the rolent popu-
lation of that field.
The farmers, he says, for a time
tried poisoning the mice, but the
state game authorities soon discov
cred that the China pheasants of tina
district, which are protected by law
were dying by hundreds as a resul
of eating the poisoned bait set TO
the mice, and they at once put al
end to this means of dealing will
the rodents. Forbidden to poisol
the mice, and having no other mean
of reaching them, the farmers of tina
part of the state are facing prob
lem for which there appears to b.
no solution.
Last year immense stretches o
grass, clover and grain field wer
practically wasted by the mice, ant
this year, it is said, the prospect il
for even greater destruction.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-04-21
THE CALIFORNIA VIEW
Congressman Kent Asserts the State
Will Exclude Japanese Despite
All Opposition.

Washington, April 17.-That Cali
fornia is absolutely determined upon
exclusion of the Japanese, that Cali
fornians are set like steel for a
white mans state and why they are
so set, was explained here today by
William Kent, congressman of Cali
fornia, in a lengthy statement deal
ing with conditions now agitating
the Golden State. He said.
Chinese exclusion was based on
economic and social reasons. The
economic reasons were fallacious.
If the Chinese did our work without
demoralizing our democracy, there
was no reason why he should not do
it. But in working he kept out
white labor and thus demoraliZed
our social status.
THE same reasons were cited as
objections to the Japanese. He was
found to have a much less valuable
economic quantity than the China
man. He did not have the same
ideals of commercial integrity and
his social attitude was more often
sive.
''The exclusion laws undoubtedly
would have been passed against the
Japanese if their government had
| not entered into treaty to provide
against issuing passports to its la
boring classes coming to America.
"The practical effect Of Japanese
land tenure is shown by japanese
settlements in some of the most fer
tile portions of California. The
white people shun these sections.
This may and may not be due to the
prejudice of white neigEbors, but
California, thus far, has been white
mans country and it is the inten-
tion of the people of California to
keep it so.
''It is a curious fact that the Jap.
anese persistently deny that, in theiI
case, a race problem is involved and
refuse to recognize this as a vita
element in the whole contention. Tc
thoughtful student of the situation
there can be no assumption of SUI
periority as lying back of the racia
question. We may admit, if W.
choose, that the Japanese are, il
some particulars, our superiors. w,
cannot deny, however, that, takel
racially, they are different from th'
white race. They cannot be assimi
lated into our population. Introduc
tion of permanently defined group
of non-assimilable population mus
necessarily create bitterness and mis-
understanding and hamper the devel
opment of democracy.
"The privileged classes in Califor
nia-the land owners and great EN-
ployers of labor-may clamor TO
this cheaper labor, but the vast ma
jority of Californians look forwar
to a great state wherein similarit
of population will make an enlight
ened democracy possible"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-04-21
Fire Alarm System.

We print below the city fire alarm
signals. Readers of the Tidings are
urged to cut out this slip and paste
it in the telephone directory or in
some other conspicuous place. A re-
print of the signals will appear from
time to time in this paper:
8 @ O. O. O. O. o. cn O. O. .a a a a a a a.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-04-21
Too Much to Expect.

"Whut I been tryin' to tell you,"
said Erastus Pinkey, sis dat de office
ought to seek the man."
II done heard you," replied Uncle
Rasburry. But dat sount to me
bout de same as sayin' spring
chicken ought to go out an meet a
hungry gemman jes in time to be
cooked foh Sunday dinner. Wash
ington Star.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-04-21

A safety gas meter invented in
Holland is said to prevent the pos
sibility of asphyxiation and to indi-
cate the loss of unconsumed gas by
leakage or otherwise.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-04-21
Some Cubist Verses.

Since the new French school of
Cubists, or Futurists,- is depicting
everything in art as grotesquely
cube-shaped, why not a school of
Cubist poetry, something after the
style of the following?
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-04-21

SUNSET MAGAZINE and Ashland
Tidings one year s2.75 to old or new
subscribers. Regular price of Sunset
Magazine is $3.50 per year
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-04-21
civic Improvement Club.

The regular meeting OF the Ladies
Civic improvement Club will be held
on the second and fourth Tuesdays OF
each month at 1880 p. M, at the
Carnegie Library lecture room.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-04-21

The PORTLAND EVENING TELE-
GRAM and Ashland Tidings one year.
$500.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-04-21
L. X. SHEPHERD
Factory Piano Tuner
Phone or write c. F. Shepherd &
Sons, 658 Boulevard, or
PHONE 326-J.
CHAHTAuOUA PARK CLUB.

Regular meetings Of the Chautau-
qua Park Club second and fourth FIJI
days of each mouth at 1880 p. m.
MRS. F. r. MERRILL, Pres.
MRS. JENNIE FAUCETT, Sec.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1913-07-30
MILWAUKEE HAS GIRLS CLUB
Simple, But Comfortable Rooms and
Wholesome Board Provided
viii Accommodate Forty.

Milwaukee, Girls club has been
established by the Milwaukee branch
OF the Collegiate Alumnae association
and is patterned after the Eleanor
Homes.for working girls in Chicago.
The house has been completely re.
modelled. and well ventilated and
lighted. The furnishings are simple
but in good taste. New plumbing
has been installed and laundry has
been fitted out in the basement The
third floor which was originally an
attic. has been partitioned off into
rooms. There are two dining rooms.
The board includes three meals a day.
whether the luncheon is taken at the
clubhouse or carried.
The management is in the hands of
a superintendent. Miss Anna Rice.
formerly superintendent of Green
Gables sanitarium. and housekeeper.
There are accommodation for forty
girls. The project is calculated to
mean a great advantage for girls who
are working for small wages. The
venture is not money making
scheme.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1913-07-30
FEAR ANTI-AMERlCAN
REVOLT IN CHINA
Picking Charge d'Affairs Asks Marines
TO Guard United States Citizens
Natives Flee.

Washington. July 24.-To protect
American citizens imperiled by the
revolutionary movement in the south
ern Chinese provinces, Charge vii
liams ct Picking called upon Rear Ad
miral Nicholson Tuesday for a guard
OF marines from the Asiatic squadron
to Kuling in Kiang.si province.
Martial law was proclaimed in
kiang-Si and Kiang Su provinces. &C
cording to state department reports
Kuling is filed with Americans and
other foreigners. The principal city
in Kiang-su province is Shanghai
which threw off its allegiance to the
Picking government last week.
II has become necessary to exercise
extraordinary police powers in Picking
to preserve order Hsiung Hsi Ling
has been appointed premier of the
Chinese cabinet. to succeed Chao Ping
Chun, removed by the constituent as
sembly.
Canton. July "a great many peo-
pie have left the city in junks and
others have gone to the north on foot
Thousands more have tiocked into
the Portuguese colony of Macao and
into Hongkong. Among the latter are
many officials who have retired from
their posts. carrying with them mil
lions of dollars in silver and paper
money.
Several Chinese war vessels are ex.
pected in Canton. The British fleet
has been strengthened by the arrival
of several ships.
II is the general belief that a fight
will occur on the arrival of General
Lung. The 10000 secessiorlst troops
are poorly trained and probably will
not offer much resistance. 1t is felt
that 1t will be impossible to resist
President Yuan-Shi Kai long. as he
commands a large trained army, pos.
sesses money and has the support of
the great powers.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1913-07-30
WATERPOWERB|LL
GOESTOGOVERNOR
ASSEMBLY coRcURs IN MEASURE
AFTER SENATE ACCEPTS
OTHER AMENDMENT.
NEW PARTIES GO ON BALLOT
Measure Conforming to Platform
Pledge, Killed in Senate, Is Passed
When Brought 5aek-mInin1
Wage and Wedding Bills Passed.

Madison-The assembly, sy a vote
Of 76 to is, concurred in the Husting
BILL providing for state regulation Of
water powers.
An amendment was adopted. after
being once rejected, providing that
any existing public utility corporation
may be granted franchise under the
act In the same manner and under and
subject to the same terms, provisions
and conditions as corporation organ
iSed under the act After concurring
in the bill, the assembly Immediately
messaged to the senate to enable that
body to act on the assembly amend
ment while 1t had a quorum present.
: The senate later concurred in the
assembly amendment and added
slight amendment of it's own, which
the assembly Immediately concurred
in. The Dill now goes to the governor.
The senate has concurred in the
Axel Johnson bill which provided a
means whereby a new party miNlt
get the names of its candidates on the
official ballot.
The bill had been nonconcurred in
by the senate. This brought from
Gov. McGpvern a scathing arraign-
ment for not carrying out a platform
pledge though the plank which carried
1t had fallen out of the platform. Fol
lowing the message the senate asked
the assembly to return the bill. This
was done and the senate reconsidered
its former vote and then concurred in
the bill
The senate concurred in the Mahon
minimum wage bill, with only one dis
senting vote, and also passed the
Richards bill requiring that all men
applying for a license 10 marry shall
present to the county clerk salts.
factory health certificate, signed by a
licensed physician
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1913-07-30
Doctors Yarns.

An anodyne." said a well-known
physician, explaining things to lady
patient. lis q cheater, in a way.
mean to say that medicine that
soothes pain has this drawback--it
relieves the attack, but the next at
tack come so much sooner
Understand what l mean? tn
cure your headache, but you're bound
to have another headache in day
or two"
Il know just what you mean. doc
tor, interrupted the lady patient.
I've noticed it about my husband.
A doctor prescribed whisky for a
cough of his.
MY husband says II cured his
cough quicker than anything else ever
did, but I notice that he gets new
cough almost every week now"
This same doctor tells us of a
friend and professional brother.
HE was saved from horrible fate
by the direct action of Providence.
He had willed his body o medical
college, but he went to the South Sea
islands and was captured and eaten
by cannibals."
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1913-07-30

that VIII correspond to that Of the
grooves In block E Gig. y.
The trigger Gig. 81 is notched on
top so the staple in block F win catch
on it, and the lower end has a notch
IN one edge to receive rubber bands
Pivot the trigger between the barrel
pieces d with a small nail or brad
adjusting the top end so the staple
will catch lightly when the trigger is
cooked. and slip off easily wien the
trigger is pulled. The rubber bands
extending from the lower notch in the
trigger to a small nail driven into the.
under side of the barrel, must be
strong enough to hold the trigger
against the pull OF the bow string.
A barrel hoop forms the bow of the
gun. Notch each end or the bow
Gig. 81. and nail it at it's center to
the end of the barrel Tie the bow
string to the nails in block f and the
ends of the bow
The arrows for this form OF cross
bow must be of the right length to
extend from block to trifie beyond
NASSh f. tOi the iOINdiu emu iSStS
In the groove in f, and the rear end
sticks into the hole In block F. The
shaft of your arrows can be cut out
of laths, and excellent arrowheads
can be made out of thread spools by
first saving spools into halves and
then tapering them to blunt points
Gig. 1O). The ends of the shafts
stick into the holes of the spools. as
shown in Fig. 9.
Copyright. 1912. by A. Nicely HalI)
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1913-07-30
A NEW WHIP SOW AND A NEW
cROSS-BOW.

Homemade hreless firearms can be
productive of much fun in the back
yard or vacant lot, and with home
made targets to shoot at boy needs
but practice to attain an accuracy OF
aim that will make him expert in the
handling of them.
The whip bow and the cross bow
are two harmless weapons that are
popular among boys, and in the illus.
trations you win find new form of
each which / have devised for you.
The whip bow which the boy is
shown using in Fig. differs from the
ordinary kind in the whiplash This
is made elastic by inserting several
rubber bands as shown Ia Fig. 2.
which makes it possible to sling the
arrow at greater distance than can
he done with the cord lash, as 1t
gives to It the qualities of an elastic
Sling shot"
For the whip handle take any
springy stick about feet long-a
small tree branch will do, and notch
it near one end as shown In Fig.
to receive the whip lash. Any stout
cord will do for the lash. Fasten two
or three rubber bands together by
looping them end to end. and tie
about two-thirds of the length of the
cord to one end and the other third
to the other end. After tying the
cord to the whip handle tie a hard
knot at the free end.
Arrows can be cut of any straight
grained wood Fig. shows a good
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1913-07-30
FIRE TOLL IN N. Y.
FACTORY REACHES SIS
Twenty-Six Bodies Recovered From
Rulns-Only Five Are Posi-
lively Identified.

Binghamton. n. Y, July 25-After
several estimates had been made as to
the number OF lives lost in the 20
minute fire that razed the BiDghamton
Clothing factory plant, the list of prob
able dead was increased TO So Wednes.
day.
OF this number only Ave have beeu
positively identified. Twenty-six bodies
have been recovered from the runins.
One of the charred bodies is be
lieved to be that OF Nellie Conner. the
forewoman. who sacrificed her life
In an effort to save those In her
charge. A diamond ring and diamond
earrings worn by Miss Connor were
found.
State and local authorities promise
thorough investigation into the cir
cumstances which made possible the
death toll Coroner Seymour of
Whitney Point announced he would be-
gin an inquest today at the court
house. Representatives OF the state
labor department, the state fire mar
shall and the state factory investlgat-
ing commission arrived here prepared
to aid in the inquiry.
AT least Ill persons are said to
have been In the building when the
fire broke out. and OF these nifty
seven are known to have survived
Albany. n. July 25.--Governor
Sulzer, after characteTizing the Bing-
hampton FIRE as terrible catas-
trophe." declared. in statement. thu t
the people Of the state will hold
Mr. Murphy of Tammany Hall respon.
sihle"