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The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-05-22
Poker in the Grog Shops

"In addition to the railway COM
pany's supply stores, there are stores
of several other reputable merchants.
Then follows line of 'grog shops and
poker is pastime in the. evenings and
on rainy days. 1t is now one of the
hot seasons Of the year and it fairly
reeks in daytime, seldom cooling off at
night, and one feels Shiny half an
hour after a delightful shower bath.
But once in while, from June to
September, cool wav> sweeps down
from the Andes. Then the inhabitants
shiver and turn blue. The country in
general is unhealthy for Americans and
Europeans, and the physician s advice
is to take ten grains of quinine daily
as long as they remain. Many follow
the advice religiously. Some others
disagreed with the doctor and in time
cultivated an appetite for alcoholic
beverages. They are convinced that
alcohol is the only sure thing to ward
off malarial fevers and the hosts of
winged and creeping insects in the Bra
lillian tropics.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-05-22
Americans at Santarem

"In comhing over my note book, 1
must drift down stream and tell you Of
an American settlement at Santarem,
at the junction of the Amazon and
| Tapajos. Shortly after the close Of
our Civil war a colony Of people from
the Southern States, who could not be
reconciled under a Northern regime,
emigrated to Brazil and settled at San
tarem. Their first years promised well,
but as time rolled by in the muggy at
mosphere near the equator the vim and
vigor of northern country gradually
left them and many by this time had
passed the meridian of the world s use
fulness and found the easy life of the
Brazilians preferable to following the
plow or welding the ak, and now San
tarem is grass and weed grown, pain
fully quiet and on the decline. The
inhabitants are mostly of liquid
brown from long exposure under ver-
teal sun in the low lands of the ANA
zon valley. The little clearings are
fast growing up in thicket of tree
and bush and with but few of the orig
inal colony alive. Santarem is on the
road to oblivion. Pacantins, further
down the Amazon, is pleased to be
known as the Gibraltar of the great
State of Amazonas. Just back of the
little hillside town on still higher eleva-
tions may be seen the Notifications
whose big guns command the approach
by river and from the ramparts floats
the beautiful Brazilian flag.
I. w. COPELIN."
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-05-22
ENRICH TBE BLOOD
Hoods Sarsaparilla, Spring Tonic
Medicine, Is Necessary

Everybody is troubled at this sea
son with loss of vitality, failure OF
appetite, that tired feeling, or with
bilious turns, dull headaches, indiges
tion and other stomach troubles, or with
pimples and other eruptions on the face
and body. The reason is that the blood
is impure and impoverished.
Hoods Sarsaparilia relieves all these
ailments. 1t is the old reliable medicine
that has stood the test of forty years.
that makes pure, rich, red blood-that
strengthens every organ and builds ur
the whole system. 1t is the all-the
year-round blood-purifer and health
giver. Nothing else acts like it, foI
nothing else is like it. There is no real
substitute; so be sure to get Hoods s.
Ask your druggist for it to-day, and
begin taking it at once.--Adv.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-05-22
Savage Tribes of Indians

Gin the nearby country, to the west
ern end of the Madeira Mamore rail.
way, along the foothills of the Andes
in Peru and in the Grand Chaco in Bo.
livia, I am told by travellers there are
found the most savage and uncivilized
tribes of Indians in all South America.
But the Brazilian and Peruvian govern
ments have introduced first step in
civilization in constructing telegraph
lines and wireless stations in the great
forests. And wireless messages can
now be sent from station, epeeially
along the ,Ucayali river to Iquitos,
thence relayed to Manaos and from
there by telegraph and cable to Para.
There are many wild animals in this
upper jungle country, such as the spot
ted tiger, small black bear, deer, etc,
and, with many poisonous reptiles, make
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-05-22
sCRANToN's TEACHERS BALK

Members of the Scranton Teachers Association
have for some time been resolved not to submit tc
an examination in pedagogy promised to them by
Superintendent of Schools Weber, despite the sup
port of Dr. Weber by the Scranton School BOARD
in his determination to test the professional know
edge of the teachers. Yesterday afternoon was the
time set for the examination Instead of taking the
test, however, four hundred teachers assembled in
the Central High School auditorium and listened
attentlvely to lecture by local physician on
'The Relation of Medicine to Pedagogy" They
had deliberately invited the physician to address
them at the time set for the examination, and it
appears had been so courteous to invite their
superintendent, who supposed to give the ex-
animation, to be present at their meeting and to
profit with them from the medical man s discourse
The action of the Scranton teachers in refusing
to take the ive-question examination on Glow to
Study was open rebellion, yet it was not without
justification. Superintendent Weber of the Scran-
ton schools, it is held, quote no school law to
sustain him absolutely in what he considers his
right to give the teachers examination when
ever he feels like it. He probably thinks that oc-
casional tests in pedagogy would increase the efc-
iency of the Schools something of that Sort vet
if he has the power to do no more than merely to
recommend that the teachers answer the questions
he desires to put to them, he cannot expect that
those sedate persons will make rush to take an
examination every time he prepares one
So long as there is nothing to compel the Scran-
ton teachers to submit to the demands of their su-
perintendent that they take their examinations like
nice little boys and girls, they would be showing
themselves to be very soft were they to act other
wise than they have done. Their differences with
their superintendent are of course, serious ones,
because the points of view are opposite The sug
gestion of Scranton newspaper is good one, that
these differences be submitted to the State Supern
tendent OF Public Instruction, Dr. Schaefer who is
the authorized interpreter of the school laws of
Pennsylvania.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-05-22
Flow Into the Amazon

"Several of the larger rivers have
their origin from the melting of the
perpetual SHOWS in the high Andean
peaks in Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador
and within hundred miles of the
Pacific coast. Southern Venezuela and
Columbia contribute their share to the
COLOSSAL Amazon through the Rio Ne
gro and the Putumayo with their trib-
utaries whose hcadwaters are far in
the interior of Columbia and Vene-
zuela and find their way through
pampa and trackless. forests to help
make the largest river in the world.
Only year ago found me on the east
ern watershed of the Cordillera in
Peru and Bolivia, where it was possible
to reach the head of canoe and launch
navigation on the Mamore and Ucay-
ali 10y muleback within ten days, if
conditions were favorable. The head
waters of these rivers where | have
crossed on several occasions are rush
ing turbulant streams, especially dur
ing the rainy season, and the overland
trip across the South American con-
tinent from the Pacific via the Amazon
is one full of hardships that even tax
the seasoned traveller
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Steamboats, For Sale Cheap

The passengers on these river
steamers spend most of their time
lazily swinging in hemmoeks, fighting
mosquitoes, fees and flies and a variety
of bugs and bees. Since the dull times
set in, scores of fine looking river
steamers that ascend the many rivers
to bring down to Manaos and Para
ruhoer and other freight for export,
are idle and / am told many can be
purchased at mere song. In addition
to the river craft, the Amazon is served
by regular lines of steamships from
New York to Para and Manaos, and
from Liverpool to Para, Manaos and
lquitos While I found the steamer
service very good, would not recon-
mend the Amazon country as a fit
place for the ordinary tourist who
might expect more than they would get
IN the way of comfort and convenience
like they find along the beaten paths
of travel. The climate is hot and
humid so much so that ones Sunday
clothes will mould during the week
and shoes will turn messy green.
That furnishes PLAUSIBLE excuse for
not attending religious services on
Sundays.
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MRS. CARMAN AND THE MOVIES

If accurate information is conveyed in New
York dispatch published here yesterday Mrs. Flor
Conklin Carman, acquitted two weeks ago or
the murder Of Mrs. Louise d. Bailey, is about to
enact before the motion picture camera the story
of that sensational tragedy so far as it was revealed
in her two trials i'll the court of Freeport, L. L. 1t
is ntimated, too, that DR.. Carman, her husband,
in whose office Mrs. Bailey slain, also will
appear i'll the same motion picture production.
Mrs. Caman s venture will be the first conspicu-
Gus of person who has gained widespread
newspaper potorety through sensational murder
investigation, endeavoring to profit through 1t by
acting trying to act for the movie There
have been number of cases in which women, who
have figured as defendants in trials for murder and
been acquitted, have subsequently appeared i'll per-
son on the stage, but in the comparatively recent
cases of that sort NOTABLY the case of Nan Patter
sOn,--their endeavorS to commerciaiZe such unde-
srable publicity have usually proved financial
failures
Persons who nowadays pay out their money to
see people on the stage expect to real acting in
return for what they hand in at the box office
While they may possess less natural
curiosity to get glimpse of woman whose name
has long been coupled in the newspapers with a
longer is so strong to make them willing to part
with very much good money to see that woman
stride onto the stage unless they are satisfied that
she can do some acting after she gets there. Per-
haps if such woman were to appear in booth
at sideshow they might be willing to invest
jitney for glance at her, but hardly any more
than that in this enlightened age.
However, assuming it is true that Mrs. Carman is
actually to venture before the public as movie
poser, it is of course possible she may meet with
more financial than did Nan Patterson when
she appeared In person on the stage. We don't
know whether Mrs. Carman can act nor do we
KNOWN case she cannot,-whether she is capable
of learning how to act in way that would be at
all worth the price of admittance to motion pic
ture house. Perhaps it might be that the movie
enthusiasts, inasmuch it only costs them dime
or nickel to see film show might be willing to-.
invest that small amount to get a glimpse of an
animated photograph of Mrs. Carman, even if she
cannot act at all and they know it. However it
must be admitted the financial success or failure of
Mrs. Carman s debut movie actress cannot
accurately be foretold, for it will be an experiment
of kind seldom if ever attempted before in the
motion picture field.
One thing, however that can be said with all
positiveness, is that if Mrs. Carman actually does
intend, as the New York dispatch said she does,
to reenact the repelling Freeport tragedy for the
motion picture screen and if an effort is made to
show the pictures in this state it will present an
excellent opportunity for the members of the Penn
sylvania Board Of Censors to show whether they are
earning their recently very much increased salaries
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-05-22
Types of River Steamboats,

II was agreealbly surprised with
the river steamers that are fashioned
like those on the Ohio and Mississippi
rivers, but instead of having a big
stern wheel, they are propelled oy tur-
blnes. Yet in the shallow upper reach
es of some rivers the stern wheeler
finds place. Wood is used for fuel
apd at many of the little clearings
along the rivers, wood stations may
be seen where a rickety and delapidat-
ed sort of runway is built of poles out
to deep water. Sometimes little
thatched hut and at others a white
washed one-story building answers for
the office, the trading post and resi-
dence of the proprietor, and in one
case sign in royal blue is placed
above the door that reads Bonn Jar
den, BON Future, etc.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-05-22
Two Railroad Lines

In all the vast country in the
States of Para and Amazonas, extend.
ing from the Atlantic to the high ia
bic lands in Ecuador, Peru and Boliv-
"a, there are but two metre -guage rail
ways in operation. One line of eighty
miles runs eastward from Para to Bra
ganca, on the coast, and the other line.
the Madeira Mamore railway, begins at
point on the Madeira river, over sew
enteen hundred miles from the mouth of
the Amazon. Construction of this line
was begun by the Collins expedition,
away back in the late sixties, and after
score of miles had been built and a
good deal more graded, financial troubles
overlook the enterprise and all work
was suspended, leaving hundreds of
men without money and with scant pro.
visions to shift for themselves in. the
wilderness of western Brazil. To add
to the unfortunate laborers' and me-
chanies pitiable condition, deadly
tropical fevers became epidemic in
their camps, and | have been told by
an acquaintance who was one of the
survivors of the Collins expedition that
the great majority found their last
milestone in the jungles near the foot
of the rapids of the Madeira river.
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pany have their general offices and
stores, and have built quite comfortable
bungalows for their employees on lit
tie ridge overlooking the Madeira. They
also maintain a hospital.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-05-22
METAL FURNITURE NOW ADVISED

Office buildings in which the rooms are furnished
with wooden desks, card cases, rows of files filed
with paper, and waste baskets overfowing with
the refuse of days business, are, even though
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with East Indian and Malayan culti-
waited rubber, which rubber, on account
OF the cheapness of oriental labor and
transportation, can be produced and
placed on the market at less cost.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-05-22
RICH AND POOR

'You must remember, Miss Banks-just think mo.
ment."
'Oh, the rich girl"
"Yes she's engaged to Jack Cadley."
"Oh. the poor girl!'-Boston Transcript.
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ECONOMICAL

She cuts her expenses each night,
AS she sits with her regular beau,
Promptly ats nine she turns out the light,
She needs but one fame, you know.
Harvey Peake, in Ginger
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Railroad Project Revived

g After lapse of thirty-five years or
more, a newly ly-organized company re-
vived the project and few years ago
the road was completed from Porto
Velho to Guajara- -Mirim, on the Mamore
river, which at that place is the boun-
Diary line between Brazil and Bolivia.
No great engineering feats were to be
met with, as the country the road passes
through is comparatively level or slight
ly rolling, with the exception of some
low wooded hills, where moderate cuts
were made. There are several steel
bridges spanning small rivers and
creeks. Telephone service is in use
and when the line was completed and
equipped from Porto Velho to Guaiara-
Mirim, a distance of 225 miles, it is
said to have cost approximately $52,-
100000 in gold. The object in build
ing the line was to furnish transporta-
ti0n to and from the rich virgin rubber
country beyond, for beginning few
miles above Porto Velho there is a
long series of rapids in the Madeira
river, which obstruct navigation as far
up as the mouth of the Madre de Dios.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-05-22
BORN TO THE PURPLE

First Moth-'Is she arstocratic in her fastest"
Second Moth-"Oh, very! She will never eat anything
but sik."-Ginger.
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HIS PEN NAME

"What is his names"
Convict 499."
"You mean that is his pen Ginger
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IN TWO WAYS

Miss Gush-"1snt your wifes Easter hat little deara'
Mr. Fush-"I thought so when 1 paid the bil"-
Ginger.
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One Train q Week

At the present time on account OF
the dullness of business but one mixed
train week is sent over the road
which is being operated at loss. The
freight rate on rubber from the most
westerly points on the line is rs mil.
reis, equal to about $23 in gold, per
ton, fuctuating some according to ex-
change, and on other commodities still
higher, and the passenger fares are
close to 25 cents a mile. At Porto
Velho, the eastern terminus, the COM
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Again the Harrisburg police have landed fugitive wh
euded the crack New York coppers.
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FASHION NOTE

Maud-"Caroline is great of fashion"
Beatrix-"Does she neglect her childrenq"
Maud-"Oh, no! She hires to do it."-Life
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a journey inland from the rivers dan.
gerous.
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The jury in the New York libel appears to be able
to distinguish between boss and leader"
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TOLD IN LIGHTER VEIN
OH, NO

she-"An extremely bright men conceited anyway.
He-"Oh don't know; I'm not."-Ginger.
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The Legend of La Paz

"While the line of thought is back
to my travels in Bolivia a year ago, it
might be interesting to tell you the
legend of La Paz, which is the capitol
city built on the roof of the world,
more than twelve thousand feet above
sea level, yet down in the bottom of
great canyon, nearly two thousand
feet deep. The legend dates far back
to time immemorial and has been
carried down through the once prosper
Gus Inca race for hundreds of years,
and is told to-day by the Cholo In
dians thus: Where the city of La Paz
is situated, at time in the remote
past there stood side by side the vol
canos Illiman and Sorata that were
continually in eruption and at war
with each other, which proved to be a
disturbing element to their good neigh
boH nearby. So persistent were they
in their frey warfare that the god of
the mountains finally became weary
of the turmoil, and, in order to end tt @
strife, widely separated them, where
they could smoke in peace, thus leav-
ing a great hole or rift in the earth.
Hence the canyon in which La Paz,
the City of Peace now stands. The
snowy summit of Illimani that reaches
an altitude of twenty-one thousand,
three hundred feet, presents fas-
cinating picture as l saw it in the late
afternoon when the sun IS rays had
melted the clouds that frequently hang
over its majestic peak.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-05-22
IN MOVIES

Jack Spratt could not get fat,
His wife could not get lean;
That's why they got good. fat job
In comics on the screen.
w. K. Stuart, in
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Perhaps Italy has just been marking time to complete
her preparedness.
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The Boom Days In Para

"But | must return to the valley
far below and tell you in a general way
something about the transportation
lines and other interesting things in
Northern Brazil. Ten years ago rub
Der was in great demand and brought
very profitable returns to the producer,
the dealer, and steamship lines. Money
was plenty and a veritable building
boom soon settled down on Para. Ex-
tensive stone docks and enormous steel
warehouses were built, the latter be-
ing quite similar to those in New Or
leans, in anticipation of the needs of
a city which it was believed would
soon have population of a half mill
lion or more-with the increasing pro-
duction of rubber from the up-river
country which in itself is large enough
for great empire-but the promoters ;
dreams have not yet come true. Ma
naos, nine hundred miles further in
land, followed suit with Para, but on
less extensive scale, where many un-
finished buildings are to be seen to-
day. The hundreds of steamboats, fair
ly swarmed on the rivers and did a
rushing business, but the time came
for the boom to subside, which was
primarily caused by the competition
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-05-22

Now that the Colonel is vindcated, what of 1916'
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-05-22
WEATHER FORECASTS

Harrisburg and vicinity: Partly
cloudy tonight and Sunday.
Eastern Pennsylvania; Partly cloudy
tonight and Sunday. Cooler tonight in
eastern portion. Moderate winds, most
ly west.
YESTERDAYS TEMPERATURE IN
Highest, 5S; lowest, 80; 5 a. M, SO
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Saturday, May -, 1915.

M A Y
Sun. Mon. Tues. Wed. Thur. Fri. Sat.
z 8 4 5 6 7 s
9 10 II IL 13 IA Is
Is II 18 10 20 81 %
% "a Is 26 q % 20
MOONS PHASES
Last Quarter, 9th; New Moon, 18th;
First Quarter, 21st; Full Moon, 2Sth.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-08-02

REV. JOHNSTON MYERS LAUDS
JOHN D.-AND Is ANSWERED
Many Chicago people disagree with
Rev. Johnston Myers of Emmanuel
Baptist church. He was in Cleveland
yesterday preaching in Euclid Ave
nue. Baptist church.
John D. Rockefeller was listening.
And the Rev. Johnston Myers from
Chicago, right to Rockefeller's face,
so that Americas Millionaire could
know just what Rev. Myers opinion
is, said this:
John D. Rockefeller is one of the
greatest men living. No man lives
who has done as much good in the
world as that man."
John D. Rockefeller ought to be
Classed as Americas greatest butch
er of labor and the foremost prOmOt-
er of the gunman trade" said Aid.
VIM. Rodriguez to The Day Book to-
day.
John H. Walker, President Illinois
Federation of Labor: "The greatest
living enemy of democracy in citizen
ship and decency of human living in
this country is John D. Rockefeller.
The Rev. Myers must be looking for
a fat job in the Rockefeller $780,
100000 foundation"
Mary O'ReiIly, Executive Board,
Chicago Teachers Federation: ct is
true that John D. Rockefeller is
great, but he is great chiefly as a
master corruptionist, working
through a thousand secret sources to
defy every principle of a free re-
public. We have uncovered his work
at enough points to understand how
his system works. If the Rev. Myers
has read the testimony before the U. /
S. industrial relations commission he
knows Rockefeller is great as a killer
Of men and robber of labor rather
than as a philanthTopist"
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children is great then John D. is
great"
Edgar Lee Masters, Attorney Wait
resses' Union CAS- an executive
genius of mastery cunning, John D.
Rockefeller must take high rank. If
a great man is also a good man, then
the Rev. Myers is talking slush."
Congressman Frank Buchanan: 81
am going to ask congress to call for
a complete investigation of the meth
DDS used by the Rockefeller interests
in Colorado to convict John R. Law
son for a murder Lawson was eight
miles distant from. 1 believe the facts
will show a type of greatness which
is vicious to American government"