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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-19
TWO KILLED IN FIRE.
Number of Persons injured in Terre
Haute, Ind, Blaze.

TERRE HAUTE, Ind, December 19.-
Two persons were killed and a number
injured. three of them seriously, in a
fire which yesterday destroyed a
large rooming house known as the
"Hayloft." A lighted lantern which
hung in the hallway to light the way
OF late Corners. and which either fell
or was knocked to the floor, is believed
to have started the fire.
The dead-Lucius Alexander, a Grip
pie, smothered to death In bed.
Chester Rowley, eighteen, son Of
rooming-house keeper.
The seriously injured-Mrs. Lena
Rowiey. Clifford Rowley, another son;
Will Gentry. a roomer.
The three injured were hurt in jump
ing from the second story of the build
Ing, a frame structure
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-19

Shooting upland game in nearby
Maryland will cease the day before
Christmas, the state law providing for
an open season for such shooting be-
tween November 10 and December "a
In Virginia such shooting east of the
Blue Ridge mountains will be permit
ted until February 1, while west OF
the mountains the season closes the
last day of the year.
Disappointed because OF the long
spell of wet weather, many Washing
ton sportsmen have made arrange
ments to spent part of next week in
the nearby counties of Maryland, and
later they will seek sport in Vir-
ginia-
DR.. A. A. Snyder enjoyed a cunning
trip in Virginia not long ago and an
ticipated the enjoyment of quail on
toast when he reached home. A game
warden met him at the railroad station
however, and gave him 20 understand
that the bag of eighteen fine birds he
had could not be taken from the state
Very much disappointed by the state
ment of the warden and not wanting
to violate law of the state, DR.. Sny-
der inquired what he should do with
the birds.
will you take them" he asked tue
game warden, and the latter replied
that he would not.
Then" said the disappointed sports
man. what must I do with them?"
Might send them to the town hos
pital," the warden suggested.
And a few days later DR.. Snyder re-
ceived a letter from the hospital au-
thorities telling of the enjoyment the
quail afforded the sick.
W. Ross Wood and E. L. Embrey had
q Uoh 10 fri IN
Cha 'es county. Md. on u weekend
outing. They reached there Friday
night and put up at the village tavern
getting out early in the morning for a
days pleasure in the open.
Late in the day they went out to hunt
for coons and possums, and were re-
warded with the capture of two coons
and three possums.
We had great sport following the
coons and ''possums." said Wood. "and
had We remained out longer We prob
ably would have caught az many more.
but we rested up for a fox chase the
next day"
The next morning there was a fall of
o'clock, a red fox being trsiled in a
few minutes and the dogs taking up
the trail in quick order.
For three hours" said Wood, I'VE
followed the animal over the hills, oc-
casionally getting in sight of it, but
the staying qualities of Bre'r Fox We're
too much for the dogs, and the chase
was abandoned.
But" he added, I'VE saw enough of
the fox to make the chase interesting
A barrel of Pocomokes. obtained from
a passing schooner, furnished an oys-
ter roast for the sportsmen. and on the
return trip they gathered holly and
mistletoe for Christmas decorations.
Andrew J. Boyer, Congress Heights,
has returned from a cunning trip to
the lower part of Charles county, Nd.
Weather conditions were anything but
propitious for such trip but the
sportsman had made his arrangements
and there was no backing out at the
last minute.
A drive of fifteen miles through the
chilly atmosphere brought the gunner
to the home of Brent Davis, his host,
where his dogs were made comfortable
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-19
URGES "FOLK" SCHOOLS
FOR RURAL AMERICA
II. w. Foght Thinks Danish System
Would Make for Better
Farm Life.

That the Danish folk high schools
for "grown-ups," which have made
possible the recent wonderful develop
ment in rural Denmark. can be success
fully transplanted in modified form to
the United States. is the conclusion
reached by H. w. Foght of the United
States bureau of education in a bull
letin just issued. Mr.. Foght has stud. ed
both the Danish schools and Ameri-
can rural conditions at first hand, ana
he believes that what the folk 49,.
schools have done for rural civilization
in Denmark they can do for the
United States.
The place to introduce the new type
Of school, according to Mr.. Foght, is
the region known as the south Atlantic
ginia. forty-two counties in western
Virginia: twenty-three in western
North Carolina and four in western
South Carolina: Twenty-Five in north
ern Georgia, seventeen In northeastern
Alabama. forty-five in eastern Tonnes
see and thirty-six in eastern Kentucky.
1t is not that these sections are neces-
sarily behind other parts of the coun-
try in education. though much Hitter
acy prevails. but that the peculiar To-
like the Danish schools.
There are already few folk high
schools in the United States, estab-
lished by Danish immigrants While
enced by these schools, Mr.. Foght is
of the opinion that they are due to
certain special causes that could easily
be overcome in a real attempt to adapt
the folk high school to American life
In the mountains.
1.-The folk high school spirit has
emancipated the agricultural popula-
ton of Denmark" declared MT. Foght
1t has at least made country people the
peers of their city brethren. They
have become leaders in affairs, in pro-
duction. in distribution. in politics,
chiefly because they have learned to
think for themselves and to act indie
pendently of the Industrial classes.
I'm the United States there is great
danger of going to the extreme in the
Immediately practical and technical
The work of special schools is in dam
ger of focusing too much on making
two blades of grass grow where one
grew before, on teaching girls to cook
and keep house accor0ing to sanitary
regulations and the like.
These things are all necessary and
must be taught in the schools. but they
really great agricultural nation.
1T was not the local agricultural
schools and household economies
schools that primarily made Denmark
a great scientific agricultural nation,
but the folk high schools. We need
schools that would teach a greater love
for the soil; that would help US to
measure the good in life by spiritual
standards and not by man-made rules;
schools that would help us to rise
above the limitations Of locality and
state and teach an understanding Of
the national and even universal in the
United States"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-19
LUNCHR00M RAIDED.
Forty Arrested in Mob of Unemploy.
ed at Seattle.

SEATTLE, Wash. December 1.-TWO
hundred unemployed men terrorized the
patrons and proprietors of dairy
lunch at I'd avenue and Cherry street
Thursday night by marching into the place
and forcibly taking all the food in
sight After this raid they paraded the
downtown streets and made an on
slaught on a market, seixing everything
edible within reach. Forty men were
arrested.
The mon said they had agreed not to
go to the Hotel Liberty. the municipal
thew would be required to cut WOOD
mop the floors, cook and perform other
service.
The men arrested offered Industrial
Workers of the World literature to the
patroImen.
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with the CANNES of his host, and where
the Congress Heights sportsman settled
for a weeks visit.
Host and guest braved the rain and
snow and killed a number of birds.
I'VE were not after rabbits said
Boyer. leaving them to others; but we
were anxious to get birds, and We got
| fifteen of them.
Just before the close of the week
Boyer went on the river and killed two
canvasback ducks.
"And I bought hunting dog" said
the sportsman, land brought it home
with me-"
Sergt. O. c. Ryan of the fifth pre-
cinct, one of the most enthusiastic gun
ners in the police department.. and IT
gunner. have returned from their last
! cunning trip of the season.
i've had four trips this season., said
sergt. Ryan, land will admit that
have not done as well as formerly. The
birds were not to be found"
The sergeant and his physician friend
went to the lower end of Prince Georges
county. Nd. the former home OF Mr.
Ryan. and did their cunning near Not
tingham and croome. killing seventeen
I'VE didn't get much game" said the
sergeant. but we were there after hog
killing time and had plenty OF spareribs
and country sausage"
Frank Hurd, former sheriff Of Prince
Georges county, Md. says 1t is an easy
matter for people in the county to get
rid Of the high cost Of living.
"All they have to do" he said, rs to
shoulder gun. go out and hunt rabbits.
ITS true" he said, that when a fell
low sights a rabbit he stumbles over two
or three others before he gets the one
Good night" shouted John w. Hurley
in tones loud enough to disturb Ward
Savage's collection Of bass and trout.
Down in Prince Georges" said the
former sheriff. there is about the smart
est rabbit in this country. ] have been
cunning several times and witnessed the
rabbit entering a spring branch and re-
naming long enough to throw the dogs
off the trail
"And there's not a gunner in the en-
tire county who will kill that particular
rabbit
McIntire, A. White and Winfield Car
Isle have returned from trip down
the river. They spent a week aboard a
launch during the period when there
was wet weather almost every day. but
they were sportsmen enough not to be
driven home by the storm.
STORMY weather is what a fellow
wants when he goes after ducks" said
Sterick, before the party started away.
land II we have such weather we will
load the boat with ducks
The five sportsmen stopped in several
Of the creeks where they thought they
would encounter ducks and catch fish,
but there was very little doing. although
they did manage to buy fish enough for
their table.
"And we shot two ducks one day."
was the story told by one of the party.
Austin Savage is telling a story of
how he managed to return from duck
ing trip and make oath that he shot
two ducks, although he did not have
the ducks to prove his assertion.
He had been on the river two days
and had not killed as much as a Grow"
duck. Il was time to return home, and
On the homeward trip he suggested that
he could not return without shooting u
duck.
I'll have to shoot something" he said,
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"even if 1t is a domestic duck"
He explained that two domestic ducks
were purchased, weights tied to them
and they were dropped in the water
some distance from shore.
you know" he said, there's a way
to kill a duck without chopping its
head off. and away I blazed at the
pair"
AS soon as the ducks were wounded
the weight carried them to the bottom
of the river.
And I had no ducks to bring home,"
said the sportsman.
It was not until a thick coating of
ice formed about the edges of the tidal
basin this week that the scores of
faithful anglers deserted their posts
about the shore and permitted the fish
to enjoy the freedom Of the basin with
out danger of being caught.
Until the ice interfered with them, it
is stated, the anglers Remained about
teresting catches were made. Anglers
expect to renew their efforts as soon
as the ice leaves the basin.
There is one place about the city
where the ice does not put a stop to
throughout the whole winter" re-
marked Joseph Baur. land that place
is near Benning bridge"
Hot water from the electric light
vents ice from coating the Eastern
branch at that point, and anglers catch
catfish and carp when there is skating
only few feet distant.
Fishing there in cold weather." said
Bauer, lis not the most comfortable
sport imaginable, but many Of the
anglers are willing to remain there as
long as the fish are biting
H. B. Polkinhorn, a prominent mem
n ha fnf ne Yva
habitants, returned from a cunning
trip in the vicinity of stanton, Va,
few days ago, bringing with him the
skin of big black bear as a token
of the hunt. The skin will be pre-
pared for a rug.
Mr.. Polkinhorn did his shooting on the
farm of Samuel McMenaway. He killed
a number of pheasants, quail and rabbits,
but got shot at only enc bear. The
bear was $50 yards distant. it is stated,
and both charges from Mr.. Polkinhorn's
gun lodged in its neck
Ellwood Andrews has done his last
fishing and cunning in the vicinity of
He enjoyed the sports during the time
he was stationed there and had hoped
to remain there for another year, but
Uncle Sam ordered him away.
He has surrendered his quarters and
come to the city with his wife as guests
OF his mother-in-Iaw, Mrs. E. A. Hart,
preparatory to sailing for his new post
at Guam.
dogs recovered was the welcome
news received in a dispatch received by
Policeman W. E. Owens, who is sta
toned at Emergency Hospital.
The message came from the police
mans brother at Fredericksburg, Va
His hunting dogs, Romeo and Juliet,
disappeared the day before Thanksgiv-
Ing. when the policeman was cunning on
his brothers farm. They are splendid
hunting dogs, he said, and he was not
surprised when he discovered they were
gone.
Everybody in the country wanted to
go cunning Thanksgiving day." remark
ed Owens land the dogs probably were
borrowed for the occasion"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-19
Dana. Ind. Has 500. 600 Fire.

DANA. Ind, December 1S.-Ten busi-
ness houses. including the opera house
and a small hotel. were destroyed by
fire here yesterday. causing an esti-
mated loss of 100000. The stores were
stocked with Christmas goods, and
practically all were destroyed. The
fire started in the lunchroom in the
opera house building. No one was
injured.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-19
NOT ENTITLED TO USE AUTO.
Col. Harris to Depend on Travelling
Allowance in Visiting Arlington.

The use of an automobile is denied,
by decision of the controller of the Treas
ury, to Col. William w. Harris. as ex-
ecutive officer of the Arlington memorial
amphitheater commission. because he is
an army officer detailed to the duty by
the War Department.
The law fixes his travelling allow
ances, and he will be entitled to regula-
ton mileage for trips to and from Ar
Iington in connection with supervision
OF the work of construction
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-19
Turkish Barracks Destroyed.

PARIS December l9--The Havas
Agency has given out a dispatch
from its correspondent at Athens.
who quotes a message from the Island
of Tenedos to the effect that the re-
cent bombardnent by a British fleet
in the Gulf of Saros, immediately
north of the DardanelleS, completely
destroyed the Turkish barracks on
shore and seriously damaged the FORTH
fcations. The Turks, panic stricken,
fed to the interior.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-19
Archibald R. Colquhoun Dies.

LONDON. December 19-Archibald
Ross Colquhoun, well known as a Jour-
nalist and explorer, died yesterday.
Archibald Ross Coiquhoun was born
In 1913. He spent much of his time
In the far east and explored some of
the most remote parts of the orient
He was the author Of several books on
travel. His home was in London.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-19

long growing season being very favor
able to the production of forage cropA
The decrease in hog-raising In the
south was due IN large measure to the
obtained of the packing industry. The
southern farmer found himself too far
from the larger markets to make hog
raising readily profitable. The result
is that the south does not now produce
enough meat for its own consumption,
and millions of dollars go from that
section to the west and middle west
fble for southern farmers to raise
enough hogs to supply their own needs
and tho local demand.
Sheep also afford a splendid opportu-
nifty for the production Of meat in the
south, with wool as a by-product.
land In that section which could be
used as pasturage for these animals,
and ranging them over the fields after
the crops had been harvested would en-
rich the soil. Farmers should not at
tempt to raise sheep in large numbers,
but should keep only a small flock as
a side line. ranging them alternately
sites which may infest them will not
gain hold upon the farm.
The great slaughter of horses in the
European war has created large and
profitable market for both horses and
mules. and one which will last for
many years after the war. Southern
farmers are advised to raise as many
colts as they can conveniently handle.
and to keep stock Of the best blood. 1t
costs no more to raise horses and mules
OF good blood than to raise scrub
stock, and good animals for work and
for army use are sure to command
fancy prices.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-19
To Allow Departure From Syria.

LONDON, December 19.-Teiegraph-
'ng from Athens the correspondent
Of the Exchange Telegraph Com
pany says the Turkish government
nss yielded to the combined repre-
entations of the United States, Italy
nd Greece and removed the inter-
lotion on the departure from Syria of
he consular representatives and citt-
Gems Of neutral countries.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-19
Big Red Apples for Newspaper Men.

Upon the suggestion OF Capt. A. b.
Williams of Senator Simmons Office,
the United Fruit Growers Association
of Western North Carolina. with head
quarters at North Wilkesboro. sent to
the Senate press gallery barrel OF
bea utiful red mountain apples.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-19


of diversified
Negro Farmers Record farming in
of Successful Efforts. mes ,ns s0u'r ,,, are
trated by the experience Of a negro
farmer in Alabama, who was recently
discovered by specialists OF the De-
partment Of Agriculture. Although
wholly uneducated, without capital and
doing all of his own work. this man
has succeeded in producing ten times
as much cotton and grain upon his lit
tie patch OF cultivated ground as his
Weather neighbors produce on better
land.
enty-five years old, and an ex-slave
When he gained his freedom Mccall
determined to become 4 landowner. He
started as a tenant upon the plantation
Of his former owner, and by working
hard and saving money he succeeded,
in the course of years, in buying 1853
acres of very poor land, of sort that
had been abandoned by many farmers.
Only small portion of 1t was tiliable
at all. For fifteen years Mccall worked
all OF the land upon his farm that it
was possible to cultivate. raising only
cotton and corn, and getting very small
crops. He then arrived at the con-
clusion that intensive farming of a
selected two acres of the best land for
the experiment. This land was the
best on his place, and was then pro-
ducing one-third of bale of cotton to
the acre. Mccall enriched his land by
blowing under leaf mold from adjacent
woodlands, cornstalks. weeds and all
of the other organic fertiliser that he
could obtain. In a few years i.e was
producing seven bales of cotton an
nually upon his two acres, which had
formerly never produced one bale be-
tween them. He then began a study
of seed selection, and further increased
his yield in that way. He also per-
fected special strain of cotton, which
is locally known as the Mccall strain,
and all of his surplus seed is in large
demand among the neighboring farm
ers.
During the last few years Mccall has
heard much of the system of DIVERSE
fed farming, and has practiced it upon
his own land, in order to maintain the
fertility. He uses a rotation of corn,
oats and cotton. and in one year he
produced $50 bushels OF corn upon his
two acres, raising two crops in the
long southern growing season.
This man has had only the crudest
equipment, he has done all of his work
with the aid of one horse. and he has
used no commercial fertilizer except a
little cottonseed meal. His little patch
is considered shining example of
what southern farms might be if they
were scientifically managed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-19

Red Top Rye is sssii;:siss :.s &c. e
its absolute purity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-19

'-rhe high school has an impressive
situation. but its students have no gym
nasiun or athletic neid- Their club and
society meetings may be held In the high
school building. but dancing parties
therein are forbidden, so that for all
functions which include social dances the
boys and girls are forced to resort to
public halls and hotels. Over 40 per cent
Of the boys and 80 per cent Of the girls
attend the movies seven or more times
month In 81 per cent Of the boys
homes and in 4S per cent Of the girls
homes parties for young people are not
often held. but over so per cent of the
young people attend the theater once a
week, and in the majority Of instances
with persons outside Of their respective
families.
Most OF the twenty public school
buildings have accommodations where
evening entertainments are feasible.
but they are used for such purposes
only once every nine or ten weeks
There are no social centers in SPRING
field The ten movies on the other
hand. are filled twice a day and their
aipueemenfs cost the people over 50 900
a week. The churches provide little
recreation for their people, but the
theaters and movies run Sunday aft
ernoons and evenings. as we'll as weeI
days. to crowded houses. Springfield
population is only about $500. but IL
10 esttmstea that they spend about
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$6,o 900 a week at the movies and the
aters. OF the four theaters only one
offers anything more serious than vau-
deville, and, in that one, out OF eighteen
offerings only two were devoted to
straight drama, while in another the
alter conditions were found which no
community could afford to tolerate.
Such are some of the things which were
found in city where the young peo-
pie were considered SO fortunately
blessed that they needed no attention
at all.
Community Plans Recreation.
'Tf recreationaI standards of the up
to-date type had not emerged in
Springfield, they we're nevertheless po-
tentially present. Hardly had the rec
reational survey been completed be-
fore the people began to change things
The ministers association got after the
vicious theater and the glazing red
lights. The local Y. NJ. c. A. was re-
organized, and the school board estab-
lished a department of physical train
ing and play. These things were all
done before the report was made.
THE findings now published are ac-
companied by constructive recommen-
dations upon all the points at which
munity concern. They include model
layouts for school yards, suggest meth
DDS of developing recreational activ-
tiles which will touch all classes and
provide for a city committee on recre-
ton to see that this side of the cityS
life shall have adequate and proper ex-
preston"