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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-05-09
, NCLE SAM Is not entering a
new field of work in taking up
his recently imposed task OF
constructing and operating 500

q = NcLE SAM is not entering a
new field of work in taking UP
III his recently imposed task of
~ constructing and. operating 500
miles of railway in Alaska. Although
It Is not generally realized. he comes
to the job as seasoned railroad
builder.
Aside from his work on the Panama
railroad through the army, he has
faced, with other of his workers. prob
lens of railroad construction under
such varied conditions as the heat of
his southwestern summers and the icy
winters of his northern Rocky noun
tain states. Having grappled with
these problems and solved them, he
has laid down solid tracks of steel
through mountains. over barren desert
wastes. and even on the shifting, pow
derry silt of a delta
Secretary of the Interior Franklin X.
Lane. to whom the Alaskan job Is in
trusted, took up his new problems as
the builder last year, through the rec
Iamation service, of twenty-three and
a half miles of railroad from Yuma.
Ariz-. to the Mexican border, and is the
operator of this line and thirty-two
miles of railroad previously construct
ed by the same arm of the government
in Idaho and New Mexico.
Over these railroads of Uncle Sam s
puff his own locomotives, bearing, in
stead of the name of commercial
transportation company, the initials
of the United States reclamation serv-
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out extra cost materials consigned to
its nearest main line station.
In the latest of his railroad building
projects, that in the Yuma valley of the
Colorado river in Arizona. Uncle Sam
found job which, though not spec
tacular. presented some of the most
interesting difficulties that he has en-
countered The chief problem was to
prevent the Colorado river from eating
away the railroad embankment as fast
as 1t was built.
The material with which the engi-
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SPARROWS FIND A DEFENDER

things they have treated the informa-
ton with good deal of indifference.
There was a time when much was ex
pected of the sparrow. He was import
ed to clean up the insects in the parks
and to make himself generally useful.
He was acclaimed by press agents as
a bird who would attack caterpillars
without thought of the consequences
to himself. He was fearless In the
face of bugs. While he would prove
himself terror to the forces of tho
insects, he would be brotherly and
sisterly bird to his American cousin
birds-if such a relationship could be.
But. in the opinion of many Americans.
he has not lived up to his advertise
ment.
Not many weeks ago distinguished
ornithologist, James auckland. wrote
an article on birds which was included
In the annual reports of the Smith
sonian Institution. In this report he
said: The remarkable instances of the
service of birds to man include the In
PRODUCTION of the English sparrow into
New Zealand with the resultant elimi-
nation of the thistle and caterpillar,
which we're running the land and
crops"
insist that the bird has conducted him.
self with more propriety in New Zea-
land than in tho United States, and
that the Anglo-American sparrow
should be sent to the antipodes for a
course of training in the duties of
birds toward men. However, up in
Michigan. state game warden says
that his deputies have examined the
stomachs of sixty-two English spar-
rows. and found in every stomach in
furious seeds and insects. Some per-
sons who claim to know the habits of
the English sparrow may say that the
reason that injurious seeds and insects
were found in the stomachs of sixty
two English sparrows in Michigan was
that In Michigan there were sixty-two
English sparrows that could not ind
anything else to eat.
1t is hard to convince anybody who
has had business relations with the
English sparrow that he il q valuable
bird.
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Alaska Not Uncle Sans First Work of That Sort

equipment. The total value Of all OF
the equipment is between $4,000 and
100000.
railroads that are continental in ex-
tent. In mileage alone the govern
ment lines might seem unimportantl
but when the problems that have been
solved in pushing them into waste
places are considered, and when their
Importance in the economic life Of
thousands of families is kept in mind,
they may well be classed in value with
ordinary railroads of many times their
length. And they show the successful
work that may be expected of Uncle
Sans civilian engineers in the some-
what larger task that they are taking
up in Alaska.
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neers of the reclamation service had to
work is a fine. powdery silt that seems
almost to be dissolved by water. When
the river rises against an unprotected
embankment of this soil great blocks
send pillars of impalpable dust stream
ing of like smoke. 1t Is upon this I'M
substantial foundation that the engi-
neers have laid down permanent road
that might be called a double purpose
line. It's bed serves as q levee to check
tho inroads OF the food waters on the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-05-09
The Victoria Cross Way.

SsN We talked" said a war correspond
ent, with a number of Victoria
Cross and Iron Cross and Medaille
Militaire men.
These fellows are not usually over
strong. As rule. in fact. they are
little and thin. I asked them how 1t
was then. In hand-to-hand fighting.
that they didn't get killed by their big
ger opponents.
"Well. their answer to this question
was pretty much tho same thing in
every case. A composite of their an
swer would be:
when two men come together In
dead earnest with the bayonet one of
them always funks, and l never do.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-05-09
A Sure Thing About Wives.

W who captained Carranza's flying
staff in Mexico, said In New York i'm
terview:
Successful? I should say We were
successful. Aeroplanes are Just az sure
to be successful in warfare as wives
are sure to be Jealous.
II know Rochester man who said
warmly to his wife one evening:
"T saw Mrs. Brown today. By lingo.
what a beauty! She doesn't look thirty
five, does she"
"'No. not now his wife answered.
coldly. though I guess she did once
back in the '90s, say"
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service extends northward from Yuma.
Ariz., to Potholes. Cal, a distance OF
less than ten miles, on the western
bank of the Colorado river. This road
was built for use in the construction
and maintenance of the Laguna recla-
nation project. 1t stands on an en-
tirely different footing from other
roads built by Uncle Sam, being oper-
ated by the Southern Pacific Railroad
Company under contract.
Altogether the United States has built
seventy-eight miles of railroad in con-
nection with its reclamation projects
and now operates f1fty-five miles 1t
owns eleven locomotives, more than
200 stone and dirt handling cars. sew
eral passenger coaches and railroad
motor cars, and much miscellaneous
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Not Enough Sides.

VIZ B. TRIES. the novelist. said at
W. a tea in Chicago:
Writers have a hard time al the he
ginning. but, on the other hand, after
they arrive .hey live In clover.
But the beginning is hard indeed. I
met in the park yesterday a beginning
poet.
MY dear boy I said, reproachfully,
that coat needs turning
"'Ah. go on said he. DO you think
it's got three sidss2'"
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MYSTERIOUS WHITE RACES

shun strangers and speak a language
all their own"
Various thories have been propounded
to explain the fable, but probably the
rative of a journey made to Oman in
1876 by Col. S. B. Miles. a British off,
Ger. Col Miles. in the course of his
travels nearly forty years ago. came
heart of the Green mountains. This
strange place was perched like an
eagles nest on the top of a great cliff,
and was inhabited by people of lighter
interior. They rarely descended to the
plains and refused to mix with or inter-
marry with the Arabs.
Col Miles found they were descend
ants of a portion of the Persian army
that invaded Oman in the fifth century.
The isolation Of the town and the curl
Gus behavior Of its people gave rise TO
exaggerated stories in the bazaars on
the distant coast. and in this case the
origin of the fable may be regarded as
fairly certain.
Unfortunately for the romance Of the
world. 1t seems practically impossible
for stories OF this character to have
the origin novelists would wish. The
world is comparatively small today.
The trail Of the explorer is over every
land from Paraguay to Tibet. Forbid
den lands are entered, hidden cities
exist only in the Imagination of the
fiction writer. In a period when trains
run to Bokhara and the great African
lakes: when the tourist appears at
Khartoum. and Lhassa itself is en-
tered. there is no room for mys-
FERROUS white race. Even the dark con-
tinent is no longer allowed to have its
mysteries. The photographer sits on
the battered walls of Kano: the Flu
One may no longer believe in the eX-
istence of a strange white people i'm
the heart of equatorial Africa. Rider
Haggard's splendid race is probabl,
only the Bahima, originally discovered
by Spoke in southwestern Uganda AT
least Sir Harry Johnston claims to
have discovered in them the clue To-
many of the mysterious white race leg
ends found in the dark continent. He
was engaged in nothing more thrilling
than a tour of inspection of Ankole
when he came across them. They are of
a very light complexion and are the
aristocrats of this region. Sir Harry
holds that they are obviously descend
ed from a Gala. Somal or other Ha-
mitic stock. and adds that some OF
them are more like Egyptians than is
the case with CALAIS and Somalis. Ro-
nance disappears before the tread OF
the explorer. The dark continent is
dark more.
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Proposed Railroad i'm Alaska

Undertaking of and Operating 500 Miles Railway by No Means
the Venture Uncle Sam Has Cped With These Problems Before and Has
Through Recma
Srhe Railroad Mexican BerThe Governments
CoacesDnut Problems
Railroads Already Built and Now
OatonOdest Railroad of Reclamation Svhe Latest PrectHaung Pas
senges andBu ding
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been printed in black, and it Is run
through the machine in order to print
the back, we are asked how it happens
that the sheets go in black and come
out green
The other day a young girl asked
where the money was masticated
(macerated). That sounded sensible
compared with that of the woman who
asked where the money was 'chewed,'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-05-09

R1HERE exists in the minds of many
civilized peoples a curious fasct-
u nation with respect to the idea
that in remote parts of the tropics.
amid the dark-skinned races. there
flourish mysteriously isolated white
tribes bearing a strong resem blance to
the civilized branches of the Caucasian
race.
The early adventures in Central and
South America brought home many
tales Of extraordinary cities beyond the
mountains, and vague stories ahoat in
South Africa some forty-ive years ago
furnished Rider Haggard with
theme for one of his novels.
Legends like this are met in almost
all the less explored parts of the world.
and they have always certain features
in common. The isolated white peo-
Piles almost invariably inhabit a noun
famous region in a vague interior"
always lust beyond; they hold aloof
from the surrounding races; they are
stated to be more civilized and better
educated than the darker masses
whom they avoid.
Who they are and whence they came
no one knows: native fables afford no
explanation. Once 1t was thought that
forgotten white explorers might have
built up unknown kingdoms in the
wild places of the earth, but upon
examination these theories vanish as
rapidly as do the white tribes them
selves, and the ultimate explanation
is almost prosaic.
Yet SO strong a hold has the idea
gained that even in the beginning of
the twentieth century the possibility OF
the existence OF. genuine white races
is not altogether scoffed at. Less than
twelve years ago an American officer
engaged in the operations against the
Moros in the Philippines collected APP
parently substantial evidence relating
to a mysterious white tribe in the Is
land of Mindanao. The mountainous
district in the center of this island has
never been explored and even the coast
is not we'll known.
But along the seaboard many stories
are told of the fierce white people who
have their home in the forest-clad
mountains of the interior. Eyewit-
nesses depose to having seen a strange
fair-complexioned girl, who fled toward
the hills as soon as she was addressed.
Other men and women of light-com-
plexioned race are said to have been
seen by more venturesome natives who
were bold enough to approach the wild
mountain district. The American Off
Ger was SO impressed that he deter
mined to conduct an exploring party
across the center of the island. But
apparently the mysterious white folk
had vanished, for the world has as yet
heard nothing of his search being
crowned with success.
Arabia, however, can with more rea-
son boast of white tribe. For years
stories of such race have been told
in the Persian gulf, and an American
missionary stationed at Muscat alluded
some years ago to coffee house babble
in eastern Oman concerning a mystic
rious race of light-complexioned people
who live somewhere in the mountains.
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art Of Their Work to Answer Foolish Questions

that used in other parts Of the United
States
Il was also obliged to inform several
visitors that the face and back OF Dill
sumed. hut that bill was hut one
sheet of paper, printed on both sides in
two colors.
Many men and women have shown
through the building undoubtedly are
still wondering why we should ever
money being ground out through the
ma chimes. view the piles of bills all
over the place, and are dazzled by the
sight of so much coin of the realm. ap-
parently so easily made. They cannot
comprehend why 1t cannot be distrib-
uted freely"
While the guides were comparing
notes. laughing over some of the aues-
lions they had been obliged to answer.
showing extreme annoyance over 9th
ers. the director of the bureau had his
little joke at their expense,
Even though the visitors do ask
foolish questions. they sometimes get
the same sort of answers" he said.
why. just the other day a woman
said, How horrid and dirty these men
look with their faces all smeared over
with ink and. quick az Hash came
the guides enlightenirg reply:
Madam. you ought to see them
when they're all cleaned up for the
street. They look just like gentle
men,"
After which narrative by the chief
the guides quickly scattered. going TO
the roof garden to Knit up the raveled
sleeve of care" <rd get back in pleas
ant humor to meet the afternoons sup
ply of silly questions.
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and Printing Must Reply Hundreds Odd Queries
Good um-Sme the Foolish
Sans Money Visitors Know That One
Paper Money Willing
With Cdored Lights Used the BuEven the Elevator
Comes In for IS of Strange Questions
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Nm HE English sparrow. or the An
II glo-American sparrow. has found
. a friend. A man has risen in his
place to say that. although the spar
row may not be blessed, yet. in his
opinion, denunciation Of the bird has
been carried too far This strange
man has declared in emphatic and in
scientific tones and terms that the
sparrow is good for something. Mil
Hons of Americans will believe that a
man who can take such an attitude
toward --ae English sparrow has a
very small understanding of birds or
is a great discoverer.
1t requires nerve to say pleasant
things about the English sparrow, or
IL argues that the man who says such
things is in possession of facts which
have been denied other men. 1t is
not the fashion to speak well of the
sparrow. and when it is not the fashion
TO speak well even of sparrow few
men or women have the temerity to
make themselves disagreeable and un-
popular by running counter to tho
fashion. Somebody set the fashion of
speaking Ill of this bird. and everybody
follows the fashion. II is as easy to
set a fashion of speaking Ill of SPAR
rows as of speaking i'll Of nybody,
and it is fashion which finds ready
followers.
The sparrow seems never to have
much concerned himself or herself
with the charges made against them.
They have gone their way, fighting.
auarreling. chirping and eating. az
though perfectly conscious of the recti-
tude of their course. They seem never
to have troubled themselves very much
about conciliating public opinion. They
may have heard that it gives offense
TO certain persons to build their nests
in the rOof-gutters and the rainspouts
to hold mass meetings on the porch
ratings and to engage in riotous and
tumultuous controversies at am
just under or over the windows of late
ciee2crs, but il they ever heard of such
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seen inaugurated? he asked. casually.
though with fendish cunning.
II said: oh, quite a few I'd like to
see any man find out my age IL didn't
care to have him know it,
Many of the visitors become extreme
ly curious regarding the printers and
their assistants. One asked:
Are the printers married to their
aasistanta2
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who did the chewing how long it took
to do it, and If it didn't make the
'chewers' ill.,"
Sometimes a personal note creeps
into the queries. The visitors become
interested in the private lives of their
guides.
Don't you get awful tired walking
over these balconies?" q sympathetic
sightseer asks. How many miles do
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-05-09

you walk each day? How many persons
do you take through the building?
Do you memorize the speech you make
to U.S." etc, etc.
"One man asked me how long I had
been employed in this line of work.
said one guide, her eyes twinkling.
time
"How many Presidents have you
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1915-10-28
THE FLYING SQUADRON.
Gospel Team Covers Much Ground
on Sunday.

On Sunday afternoon, according to
arrangements an interesting expert
ment was tried out in connection with
Revival and Gospel team work. From
all points of view the event was q
decided success and special services
were held in localities about Oskaloo.
sa as follows Hawkeye school house.
group /, in charge of w. c. Wilson,
leader Bloomfield church, group 3,
with w NJ, Owens as leader; Union
Chapel church, group 6, Sam Hhdrlx,
leader, Elm Grove school house, group
5, o. F.. Wickersham, leader; Beacon
NJ, L. church; group 4, DR.. G. w.
Whitehlll, leader and Mahaska Cen.
ter church, group 2, A. F. De Witt
leader. '"" ~ -
AS Indicated a Union group Gospel
team was in charge of the services at
each of these points and then follow.
ed in relays, the Flying Squadron"
of special singers and speakers, who
went to all of. these points, contribut.
ed their portion TO the program and
then was off to the next. point. The
first detail was q Ladies' Quartette,
comprising Mrs. Thomas, Mabel Ware
Ora Victor and Lottie Blake, with
Miss Bernice Miller as accompanies.
Following these, came in rapid sue.
cession, Rev. G. s. Farley and Rev.
Thomas +. Paris, the, evangelist and
brief talks of a forceful character
were given by each, and last the male
quartette with Prof. w, G. Dennis, ".
Il. Dieteriek, William Shelton! and
Roger Hickman. At practically every
point representatives of the ladies'
teams from the Christian church, the
Central NJ f.. church and the w. @.
r. u. we're present. These points were
from three to six miles apart and
there was some little delay in the
schedule but that was through no
fault of the managers of the event
Secretary w. NJ. Robinson of the I'm.
ion team movement, went over the
route in connection with the other
details, to see that all was worked
out in good order. ~... =. az
Among those who went from Os'
kaloosa to Beacon with group 4 vera
DR.. G. W. Whitehill and Rev. w. Fl
Perdew. Wiffred Whitehill accompan
list, NJ. d. Parks; A. w Burdick, Ear
nest Caldwell, L. l.. Porter, w. w. Dill
Henry Van Ve1soh, Mrs. Crookham,
Mrs. Buell., Mrs. Larimer, Mrs. Pow
ell, and Misses Colvelle and Holmes.
The entire plan was great success
and repeated requests were made for
a return visit. g.. .. a
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1915-10-28
QUAIL SEASON NOV. |.
Hunters Will be Allowed to Shoot
Is Birds per day.

With the quail season opening with
in short time, it is well that the
hunters should find out about the Law
governing the shooting Of game birds
The Iowa game law limits the
number OF quail killed by man in
one day to fifteen and no one is al
lowed to have in his POSSESSION at ONT
time more than twenty.fiy In Mis-,
souri, the limit on quail to be killed
inc one day by one person is ten and
the hunter is allowed to have only
fifteen in his possession. The Mis-.
souri, law absolutely prohibits the
shipping of quail from the state for
any purpose. -..... 49,. 49,. .,s
The resident hunting license in
Iowa may be obtained for 81 while
the nonresident is Obliged to pay
$1,000. In Missouri a resident license
costs IS and a non resident license
S26. ..,
The open season in Iowa for quail
ruined grouse or pheasant and Wild
turkey is from November to Decem'
Der 15.. Squirrel, gray, timber or fox
may be hunted from September to
january / and prairie chicken, ran,
coot or gallinule can be shot between
September / and December 1. Black
breasted and golden plover, Wilson
or jacksnipe, yellow legs, duck, goose
and brant have an open season from
September | TO December 16. There Is
no open season for deer. elk. English
Monaghan, Chinese or ringneck
pheasant, turtle dove or wool dnck.
Hungarian partridge may be hunted
after October l, 1917.
The open season, for quail in Mis-
souri, is from November 10 to January
/ and for squirrel. gray, black, or fox
the season is on from June 1 TO Janu
airy l. Duck. goose and brant may be
hunted in Missouri from September
Il TO February. and rail, coot and
gallinule can be shot between Sep
TENDER Is and January l.. Deer (bucA
and wild turkey can be hunted
from November / to January l and
dove from August l 10 November IL.
There is no open season for doe,
fawns under one, year OF age, ruffed
grouse tpheasant), prairie chicken
(pinnated grouse). imported pleas
ants, woodcock and other game birls.
In Iowa a nonresident may take
from the state not more than twenty
five game birds or animals, if carried
openly for inspection and if hunting
license be shown on request. In Mis-.
souri, game may be exported under
resident or non resident license ii
carried openly as baggage or express
or in owners possession and accom-,
panied by him. Game for scientific
or propogating purpose may be taken
under permit. g..