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Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1914-01-23

Canine Sag ueStoses al Heprp.
ientantbuiet oen iaafnlote slgricuI.
illral grteniion gia ON &egicrings.
biorag iii Spreoning az pibenifnbe.
Zig 9ano6rugsfunoitab peS prattiife
Experimental o. peo Nhiblifationer.
timber benne @ia oiIoe De ioritiel.
lise Staters 9anobrugsbeiifoler er.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1914-01-23

Sortiattes paa Sioe 4.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1914-01-23
Diets Historic % udviklin9.

ltorrehponbaucer til "1ecorob= Noiten" ira Seniamin >. sSin.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-03
The Searchli8ht
Depths and Heights.

While preoccupied with the business of
becoming acquainted with the surface OF
his planet man thoughtfully consigned its
interior to hell and its surrounding blue
to heaven" Quite recently he completed
his first task and has devoted deal Of
exploration and effort along vertical lines.
In a coal field at Czuchow, Upper ST.
lesia the deepest well in the world has
been constructed. 1t reached depth Of
more than 7.34S feet. or extends nearly q
mile and a half beneath the surface.
Here in America are three wells reaching
to a respectable depth. One. some ten
miles southeast of Pittsburgh. is 6,SGU
feet deep. Another in Putnam Heights.
Conn, is 6.O0i feet deep. while a third, in
process of boring. at Derrick City. Pa,
has reached a depth of more, than mile
and is still being driven downward.
In heights the box kite holds the record,
with the balloon, aeroplane and dirigible
In close pursuit. However. as structures
go, the Eiffel tower. in Paris. with its
aS4 feet of coaring architecture, Is a
good beginning. Further. there Is a new
wireless tower in the course Of construc-
ton at Laeken, Belgium, which Is to be
erected to a height of / .O92 feet. 1t viii
usurp for some years probably the honor
held up to now by the Enel tower-that
of being the highest artificial structure
in the world. The new giant Is to be
largely used for scientific investigations
in meteorology. wireless telegraphy and
telephony.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-03
NEW POWER BOATS IN WATER.
Thomas Cheeks Launch and The Bee
Soon to Be in Commission.

A new forty-foot power launch belong
ing to Thomas Cheek and others is on
the railway at the foot of 9th street
southwest to have considerable joiner
work done in preparation for going into
commission. The vessel was built at the
boathouse at the foot of eth street sew
eral months ago. and has been overheard
for about two months She is a roomy
craft. and when ready for service will be
one of the most comfortable cruising
boats on the river. Her engine, fifteen
horsepower motor. is expected to give
her a speed of about eight miles an hour.
The Bee. a new speed boat belonging
to W. H. Leishear. vas put overheard
at the Potomac Fishing and Cunning
Club house, foot of 9th street southwest.
Saturday afternoon. and given trial
run on the river yesterday. She is equip
ped with a sixty-eight horsepower gaso-
line engine that is expected to drive the
craft at a speed in excess of twenty
miles an hour
C. F. Denley has his power boat Betty
OFT at the foot of nth street southwest,
and will put cabin on her and change
her into q cruising craft. The vessel
will be of the water for about two
weeks. and when ready for service Mr..
Denley will make cruise on the river
aboard her.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-03

sputtery old man who was winding a
crowded. grabbed way through con-
gested aisle. Il don't care-he needs some
one
Jennie FASTENED to soothe him. why.
1 don't mind anything like that. He
didn't mean a word he said. Why I dare
say, by the time he's on the street car
he's ashamed of himself" But Jennie
looked at the boy with wide. pleased eyes.
Fancy any one thinking that she could be
annoyed
over the boys sullenness lay a GER
tain Intangible assumption that Jennie
needed protection and that he was there
to give it. Had it been any one else
Jennie would have laughed in mild
amusement But Jennie didn't find it
amusing-she found it pleasant. And she
wondered indignantly how. in the name
of al. that was wonderful, she had ever
f. -. ha>- ".rllen,
i've noticed for a long time he con-
", that you sort of let folks talk to you
any way they want to-.
''Oh. I'm not listening half the time.
Jennie laughed and blushed as she
laughed.
I've noticed that. too he said. smil-
ing What are you thinking of: curl
ously. II bet the other day you had a
picture in mind when YOU were lingering
that Wire
Jennie admitted that he was an astute
Gettc-. And Jennie let five indignant Gus
toners and an .,Stounded !oorman walt
while she learned that he too. liked pic
lures. Would she go over to the art in
stitute some Sundaysafternoon? 1t was
free then.
Absently Jennie listened to the floor
mans justified complaint. but she didn t
hear it. Jennie was wondering if she
could get new lace frilled i'm the neck of
an old waist before Sunday.
THE ENID
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-03
THEEvEN|NCSTORY.
WIRE AND NAILS.
Copyright. 1919. by ". werner.)

49,
Jennie got - "eeh III seiie A."'
ware In the basement OF department
store and lived in dingy hall bedroom.
That a tired aunt was her landlady did
..iouy for be;np
~. "e'p "ei iiuen No -
ner aunt she ieit Tree 10 ASH hei - W
many errands that a casual roomer coula
have refused to do. but which Jennie
cou,dn.t And IN view of the fact that
-, ..,,r 20
Feh' - rent anu Hhshes iiau ee -
corral in these days of high prices she
didn't see her way clear to letting Jen-
ME have tho room i. cent cheaper than
" "
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-03
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

Strange chickens often roost in family
trees
Judge woman by her questions; a
man by his answers.
wise man never poses as the hero
Of his own anecdotes.
The best some people can do is express
secondhand opinions.
In helping the poor actions speak
louder than words
Only strong-minded woman can con-
vince herself that she is homely.
An innocent-looking banana peel is
often the first step to a downward
career.
Almost any man can look back and see
how. he missed getting rich by not fol-
lowing his own advice.
A woman's tongue Is her weapon-yet
few women are arrested for carrying
concealed weapons. The reason is OBJ
vious.
There are very few rich doctors"
Gays a writer in one of the medical
journals. Also the country 10 overrun
with poor 9nes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-03
TRAVELETTB.
BY NIKSAH.
VII

Where the bamboo sweeps the SKI and
the stars dive for pearls is the Island Of
reylon. and amid her tea and her rub
Der plantations is set a jewel in gar
den. and they call the jewel Handy.
Handy is high in the hills. cool (consid-
ering it is near the equator. and as
quiet as if it really were the place where
God walked with Adam in the cool Of
the evening.
1t really is the Garden of Eden. you
knew. for everybody there knows it, and
besides YOU can see Adams footprint in
mountainside for miles and miles.
That is. it is Adams footprint if you
are talking with a Mosiem the Hindus
say it was left by Krishna and the Sin
galeSe, who are the natives, know 1t for
that of Buddha. You have your choice
Of religions here. and If you wish to be
converted to Buddhism there is an
American colony and school with
teacher who used to be a clerk in the
Post Office Department at Washington
But in Randy you will be so delighted
with that limpid lake and the fringe of
houses and shrines around it that you
can forgive anybody their religion and
worship beauty with them.
You will see model of Buddha's tooth
that looks more like mules tooth than
a mans. and you will see many relics OF
the Kandyan kings that for three cen
turtles beat off the Arabs ana the Dutch
and the English who came up to possess
their lands.
You also will buy some bananas. pay
ing for them in coins of value so low
that you will be hard put to 1t to trans
late them into cents, and you will take
your bananas and go to the stream
where the sacred elephants lie. They will
arise to greet you and get down on their
knees to beg for the bananas.
Before YOU leave you will go to the
most wonderful botanical gardens in the
whole world, and revel in the beauty and
mystery of the tropic trees Walking
through the spice garden, surrounded
with trees and cinnamon and nutmeg
and pepper and cloves you viii believe. as
the natives believe that this is. indeed.
the veritable Garden OF Eden.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-03
Mrs. Nicholson Dies in Baltimore.

BALTIMORE, August 3.-After a brief
illness. Mrs. Mary C. Nicholson. 66 years
old. one Of the most prominent church
workers in the city. died at the home
of her brother. Mark C. Grafton, in this
city. Death was due to hardening of
the arteries. She is survived by her son
byron Nicholson of Washington D. CO
a granddaughter Miss Cora Katherine
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-03

Nicholson OF WASHINGTON and two
brothers tMarl c. and Samuel IL Graf
toni Born in Baltimore she was the
daughter of the late Mr.. and Mrs. Sam
uel H. and Mary L. Grafton. Funeral
services We're held this afternoon. con-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-03
WASHINGTON To PHILADELPHIA.
ATLANTIC CITY AND NEW YORK.
ERICSSON LINE STEAMERS"
ATTRACTIVE WATER ROUTE FROM
BALTIMORE TO PHILADELPHIA.

BALTIMORE TO PHILADELPHIA.
Through the Chesapeake and Delaware canal
10 PHILApELPHIA." stopping at the crest
Aehing ground BettertoD also Chester. p
From Washington by p. and o. or w. B.. A. B.
Ry to Baltimore. thence Ericsson line to Phila.
Steamers sail daily except Sunday pm. Fast
day boats daily and Sundays am. Tickets to
Philadelphia sale at r. ard o. and w. b. A.
z. Ry. ticket Offices: also c. SpLIEDT. Ticket
Agent 1895 + st. W.. for New York. Atlantic
City. Cape MAY. Ashuly Park. Ocean Grove. Long
Branch. Albany Trey. pouts north. Meals s6c
Write for guide CLARENCE SHRIvER. G. ?. A..
Light snd "rats sts.. Baltimore. Nd.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-03
Pocket Picked of $50 on Train.

e. A. Fenstad 7O6 Columbia road north
west, complained to the police last night
that his pocket had been picked of so.
He said he was robbed while aboard a
train returning from Chesapeake Beach.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-03

trying to spool him. The best thai
can be done, therefore. is to deduce thai
there is some kinship between spool
ing and kidding and that blood is
thicker than water.
'Swank" is even more difficult. The
possession by nut" of the quality
denominated ..swank" is taken to mean
that the young gentleman in question
has a STAGGERING body inside of his
smart clothes, and that his conversation
is perhaps more boastful than modest
The word has a variety of meanings.
but perhaps is nearest akin to what rural
America used to mean when it said
somebody was stuck up.
If British slang is based upon the three
Rs. ''rippin'," rotten ard "iight-o.
it unquestionably is crowned by the two
BIS. bloomin' " and bloody" Bloomin
is a word thrown into every sentence
somewhere. without any particular care
1t is ornamental simply
Now bloody is a perfectly horrible
word. 1t is so horrible that almost every
EngliShman you, meet uses 1t a halr
dozen times in a half hour, and yet it
is not fit to be printed in an English
dali. newspaper. Scholars say that it is
contraction OF the medieval oath. By
our lady and that it really has no
significance.
A few weeks ago it was introduced
into the lines of a play written by
George e :
Use of the Word nard shaw
Causes Quite Stir. sir Herbert
Tree and Mrs, Patrick Campbell. Mrs
Campbell, in. the part of the heroine.
was made to say: Not bloody likely.
The next day the newspapers were ter
ribly shocked. Not one of them would
print the word. but used dash in their
reports, and for week the reading
public was excited to find out what
horrible swear word Mrs. Pat Camp
bell had said. Finally, one very bold
paper, in the interest of the public
peace. announced that the word was
bloody Therea fter the other papers
referred to it as the "sanguinary ad-
jective."
The sense of outraged decency was
such that even G. B. S. could not with
stand the storm. and the word was
eliminated from the play after it had
that almost everybody used the word
almost every day.
Even the thieves jargon of England
prisoner recently before a police judge
in London was asked how he had
spent some money which he admitted
having stolen. He replied:
81 'ad point o mahogany, two door
steps and a stinker:-that was a steever;
and then London mystery and a
slice of spotted plain-and that's how
spent the sprat.'
Literally translated this gentleman
said:
Il had pint of stout, two slices OF
bread and a penny cigar that cost 3
pence. some sausage and a slice of
current loaf-and that's how l spent
the loot
No interpreter was needed and the
Judge gave him seven days"
Very often one meets an American
who deplores the decadence of Ameri-
can speech and views with alarm the
increasing use of slang among the ris-
ing generation. Usually. such a per-
son, if he has never been in England.
wonders why we can't use correct
English as the English do. If ever he
goes across he will find that there is
also slang across the sea.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-03
SLANG ACROSS The SEA-.
By Frederic ]. Haskin.

1t is said that an Englshman and an
american never agree in a conversation.
but that they always agree in the first
sentence they utter when the CONVERSE
ton is ended He is so slangy." This
would seem to warrant the conclusion
that Americans and Englishmen orna-
ment their conversation with a great deal
of slang. and that they use it in about
equal proportions. The fact that Eng
lish is the common language and that
slang is different makes every English
man quick to detect the Americans
lapses from good usage and. at the same
time, causes the American to believe that
an Engishman can't speak his own Ian
guage correctly
The Englishman's slang. as rule is Il
slang of vocabulary. the employment of
single slang words. whereas the American
slang is more usually slang of phrase
ology.
"Rippin.'' rotten and ..right-o' are
the three standbys of the great empire
that centers in London, whereas the
Americans can boast no such three RS in
their lexicon of slang. Il should worry
says the American graphically, and the
EngliShman says. "Rotten!"
Not only do the two countries employ
different vocabulary of slang. but they
assign different meanig to the same
words and phrases. If gentleman meets
another gentleman in Piccadilly and says.
Jack is pulling your Leg" he means
quite different thing from what gen.
tleman meeting another gentleman on
Broadway would mean. In London he
means that Jack is telling his friend
some sort of marvellous stories that are
not true: but are designed to deceive, not
for the purpose of profit, but for the pur-
pose of making the man appear ridicu-
lous. An American attempting to ex-
press the same thought would say: Jack
is kidding YOU On the American side
of the Atlantic. leg-pulling means to ex-
change counterfeit fairy tale for some
real money.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-03
Meaning of Nut
in United States.


:. n.;+.l c4.4 belfry, or. in other
IN united States. words, to imply
that there is nobody home upstairs. In
this land Of the free and home Of the
brave. nut" is lunatic.
Not so in Britain. Over there to call
man nut" especially If he be a
compliment. for an English nut is a
young gentleman who knows what the
latest styles in dress are and wears them,
who knows the latest steps In the dance
and dances them, and who is in every re-
spect an all-round. up-to-date sport. II
such nut owns a racing motor car,
or perhaps has his own aeroplane, he is
automatically promoted to be a super
nut" Nut In Britain has completely
taken the place that one finds in old Eng
lish books represented by such words as
dandy" buck and beau word that
we Americans formerly rendered dude"
Your Englishman takes his slang much
more seriously than we take ours. and
he does not exercise individual rights
of sovereignty in coming new slang
phrases to fit the ever-changing emer-
gencies of life. There are more new
slang phrases on the sporting page OF
than the entire English nation evolves
in year. For this very reason Amer
lean slang is usually based on a per-
verted meaning of an ordinary word
English slang, on the other hand, in
vents new words for its need. such as
"spoofing" and "swank."
1t is utterly impossible to explain to
an American the exact meaning Of the
verb Ito SPOOL"
Spool and kidding for If the at
n.,.- tempt were made
NV AL OASsAnAA11' the auditor would
reach the conclusion that some one was
Kidding him. 1t would be equally i'm
possible to explain to an Englishman
what kidding" meant, for the English
man would believe that some one was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-03

IL you want work. READ IN, MATT col
GnlnS of The Star.
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HOUSE WILL DEBATE
KEMP PARDON FULLY
Volstead's Minority Report Declares
President Should Reveal Reasons
for Executive Clemency.

With majority report recommending
that unfavorabie action be taken on the
Mann resolution asking for information
as to the papers in the case of the
Presidents Communication of sentence on
DR.. Thomas j. Kemp, son-in-law of
Senator Fletcher, and minority report
recommending exactly the opposite. the
House may expect to have full discus
sion of the matter at an early day. The
majority report written by Chairman
Webb of the House Judiciary committee.
declares that Congress has no power to
interfere with the pardoning function of
the executive. lie argues that the
power of the Presicca. IL granting par
dons is derived from the Constitution.
that it is unlimited. rests entirely Within
his discretion and cannot be controlled,
regulated OF limited by Congress"
Argues for Publicity.
The minority report written by Repre-
sentative Volstead of Minnesota. in. tax
ing the opposite view. says:
Can any administration under the bald
claim of autocratic power afford to hide
a public record upon which it has acted
officially and thus treat with contempt
the representatives of the people asking
in respectful manner for this record?
The House and not the President is en-
titled to determine what value this in
tor nation may have The majority re-
70 is a humliating surrender of right
always commended for by the House and
the resolution Of inquiry should pass
1T is clear from the very nature of the
power intrusted by the Constitution to
the two houses Of Congress that either
house must have at all times the right
to know al that officially exists or takes
place in any of the departments of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-03
,stor

Quoted IN Rev. {. ". E.:tmorc. .astor
Of ST Agnes chapel. Wash'ustnt,
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NO Precedent, He Says.

Until now there is scarcely an in
stance of refusal by the head of a de-
partment, or even the President himself.
to communicate official facts and infor-
nation to either House when uncondi-
tionally demanded.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-03

In the United States. to call man a
nut is to imply that he is afflicted with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-03

A few weeks ago it was introduced
into the lines of q play written by
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Washington d. c.
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RECORDED LEASES.
Manhattan.

Az u, %. ne cor An ST, str and b'mt-.
Bahetta WaChsnian and ano to Bent
Rubin. % "a av, yrs from Jan l. 1915.
atty, l. ! Schwartz, 3.0 BNay ..... $50
GREENWICH ST. SO. n cor Christopher
-, sl,--Ccntrai Brwg co 20 Matthew g
oFlynn, on premises 10 Yrs from Nov
stTHi 81 a. and !, ". mozlarine noor-
Monolith Realty 60 to Louis Solomon.
35S Riverside Drive, ~ we from Aug !,
1914; attys. Price Bros Ell Rway s:i5oo
20 Peter McEutee and ano. $50 W 5is'
~. . yrs from oct /. 1914; attys Fitch NJ
4 q. 32 Nassau st .......,........,2 .7oO
HOUSTON ST, iss 2, ALVIN Weiss to
WIN Zoller, iss II Houston So yrs from
May !. 1914 atty. Lehman sons Brwg
60. 80 Forest 81. Bklyn......... $4,000
GOERCK ST, 55 and 81, all--Jacob Burk
hardt to Max Burnofsky, So Cedar st,
Bklyn. 10 5-l2 yrs from Dec l. 1914; atty.
Max Sheinari. 3Os Bway ...,,.,,.-, 81, 100
DUANE ST l1s and 100, all--Daniel =
Morse to Emil Fried OF al, - W sith -.
.-l2 yrs from Dec !. iait. attys, Eir-
man. l.. e & L. las Bway ..... .... $4,000
9Th Az, n " cor :sth IT, str and part bsn,
Harris MandNibsum ct al TO Patrick J
kenny SIS 81 ay, 10 yrs from completion
Of BLDG. attys, Hirsh l.. 10 william
p6wNING ST. rs. str and brmt-Miche .
p'A.essandro and ano TO lgnazio Blgglo
and ano. SO Downing St gle yrs from
st;LfiIVvAN 'SST,, $50 and 2:. SIR moor ana
bsmt-S averio Loguardia to lgnazio Cata-
lano and auo, eco sullivan 81, yrs from
July l. 1914. atty. A J Disher' 1903 Br.ai
way WV
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change Co W 3tth st............N,oo
lelST ST B37 W tReed Housen cor
Rwav-FAnny l. and u n Chapman 20 +
II Wood, " II Dolson CO, ?!to Bway;
aftys Graves g. Mies, Ill Bway III 20. 80
MADISOS Az. cor SD st. 2ox1o, apr
il Iell-Man-Oux Estate Corpn to Jas y
rrow bridge Noroton. Conn; ATTY. NY
iosTu - Sri Ssa5} = 5. as: = "a ay. :SslOo.
FEB a. l9iO--Cors.slia Arbo.lno TO Go.
vanni and Amalle Tts.iiore' atty, kteoo
lasD ST ISL ". n o. ilS ith av. sOxsg II.
Feb Ii lsit-Jno 4 and Minnie Meyer 10
Ami. Gunner ct a.. trus. stiys' B.wers
- IeaAy iar . Ams.erdam av
'iiTnsxs7's Aug az. isCs--duide Rait, CO
10 4 Z 4 IL ~ Hall Realty co. atty. T. G
Ennever. i3e Nassau 81 ....-. ~.
% ST, ,s.sl E. mort on fixture. May ;. lPlt
- II Taylor const co to Quincy E'e,Nsit"oaa
BAILEY ~. e. u! 3as,h St Is s;lS:Cs
Gg Mar IS. lgli-Tessier Bag 90 20
Nad,'eins + Clsussen. 23S W TOOTH =,
atty IT &C. isG sT "a, sk,ioo5. be- '.;VV T.
iail-Marie II Clemens TO Otto II Kahn
Morristown. y J at,ys. stewart ~ ~
E1NI'woop ST. at / $50 Nssie av, ,iooSx
i3O May 2. is05-DsvId JACK 20 nark
Mort GO. Attys seyhel 4 r. " ,ps-ss